ChadT

Here's an anecdotal experience from my own life, but I'm guessing this is generally true for a lot of people... I work for a company that is owned by a fairly conservative family. I'm one of the few liberals that work there. The day Kirk was murdered I heard several people openly use the word libtards. I rarely talk politics at work, but it's fairly common knowledge that I'm not a fan of Trump. I just kept my mouth shut. I get that emotions were high that day. This type of thing is not uncommon though. Communist is another term that gets used frequently when referring to democrats. I wonder how they would feel if I started referring to them as magatards and fascists at work? I get that my experience is situational and geographical, to a large extent, but I find the right to be way more vocal and confrontational on a personal level. I see this in many poker games I play in too. Most democrats / liberals avoid engaging in political conversation more often than not. I knew who Kirk was. I had a vague idea what he stood for. After he was shot, I researched him a bit more and of course saw many of the horrible things he has said over the years. I was somewhat surprised by how many of my coworkers idolized this man. It was eye openning and disturbing. None of that justifies his murder. To be crystal clear. He was murdered.

Couldn't disagree more. There is plenty of rhetoric coming from the right. I hear it all the time at work. I'd love to see both sides tone down the rhetoric though. There's no money in that though. Which is another point I was trying to make.

Seems like a very rational thought experiment to me. There have been many on the far right calling for revenge. That got me thinking, who would they even go after that is the equivalent on the left. That's all. Obviously I am not condoning they actually do it. My point is the left doesn't churn these type of people out like the right does. I thought that was fairly obvious as well, but apparently not.

Condone what? The fact that I am trying to determine if the left has an equivalent of Charlie Kirk?

So many of these right wing "influencers" are really just grifters at this point. They have figured out that there is a ton of money to be made, pushing peoples buttons. I think many of them start out conservative and just get more and more extreme because they realize that's what gets them the attention and $ they seek. I'm not even sure they are self aware enough to see it. Hell, just look at what happened to Rogan. The left does it too, to some extent, but there really is no real equivalent on the left. I've been asking myself, if the right wanted revenge and wanted to kill the left wing version of Charlie Kirk, who would they kill? The left doesn't have an equivalent. I could name a half dozen on the right though.

Curious if you have seen The Wire Leo? I think you would get a lot out of it. It's brilliant. It was written by a former Baltimore Sun crime reporter and former Baltimore homicide detective. Each season, looks at inner city Baltimore from a different angle. It teachs without coming across didactic.

I can't stand Tucker. I find him to be a totally dishonest actor, but I found this interesting.

I'm being a little hyperbolic here, but I think you can trace the rise of Trump all the way back to Rush Limbaugh. The right has become very good at propaganda and manipulating the american electorate. Limbaugh gave rise to Fox News and much of the right wing media we see today. Putin watched all this unfold and recognized it for the propganda machine it was. It doesn't care about truth. Only power and money.

About halfway in this vid Tom gets pretty detailed regarding how these tariffs actually break down. Pretty interesting.

Yeah, this one is gonna be bad, for sure. We will be lucky to avoid a depression. And that's if Trump reverses course fairly quickly. America's credibility could take a decade, or two, to recover from all this. And rightly so. We can no longer be trusted. We have elected an immoral clown. Twice! My hope is, this gets so bad, that it can no longer be ignored and excused by anyone, except the most avid Trump sycophants, and we truly learn the right lessons from all this. There is a chance some good can come from all the pain I fear we are about to feel. I haven't completely given up on the American electorate. This is showing in the markets now, but it's coming to main street very soon! And who knows, Trump could reverse on a dime tomorrow. Looking less and less likely, but it's not impossible. The republican rank and file in congress are already getting very nervous. Winston Churchill once famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else One thing I heard someone say about Schiff once that rang true... He has accurately predicted 23 of the last 2 recessions.

I was a Peter Schiff fan for a bit. Especially after the 2008 financial crisis. The problem with him is, he has been screaming the sky is falling for the last 20 years. Especially regarding the national debt. I admire his passion and reasoning though. He really believes it, and makes a pretty good argument.

Chess is still a good game for most people. Most people will never play it at the level Fischer is talking about. I've been playing chess my whole life, and I've only memorized a couple of very basic openings and some general theory. I think it has a lot of value in teaching young players basic logic and reasoning. At the highest level though, yeah it's a solved game.

The main reason Democrats lost is because Joe Biden ran for a second term. If he got out the way earlier and we had a healthy primary process to determine who to pass the torch to, I think we would have won. We only lost by 1.5% and Harris wasn't anyones first choice. I get why they had to go with her, and given the circumstances, I think she put up a pretty good fight. I'm not gonna hate on her, but if we had a Shapiro, or Beshear, at the top of the ticket, things would have went much different. Democrats do need to learn from this though. We need white working class voters. Not a ton, but way more than we are currently getting. Hell, Biden was MIA most of the 4 years he was in office. The president is the leader of the party. He needs to be out there making the case. Fighting the good fight. He didn't know where he was half the god damn time. This is on the people around him too.

If you are interested in investing and economics, this is the best YouTube channel / podcast out there imho. They do 4 different shows a week, with lots of guests. Tom Lee is the GOAT imo, well maybe after Buffett. Today's WAYT show was pretty good. Talked a lot about what they think Trump is up to.

Buffet has a good quote on this... "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." I'd offer some better advice for most people... Dollar cost average into a low cost S&P 500 index fund, consistently over your lifetime. Don't jump in and out and a keep buying, in good times and bad. Start as early as you can and preferably in Roth IRA's and 401k's. You almost can't lose, barring some apocalyptic shit, and then $ really doesn't matter anyway.

I 100% agree with you on this. For me the question is whether Rogan will eventually realize this. As a former fan of his, I still think there is a resonable person in there somewhere. It will be interesting to see if he can find his way back.

Sorry if already posted, but I thought this was brilliant.

Good article about Musk's transgender daughter. The Man is garbage. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/25/elon-musks-transgender-daughter-in-first-interview-says-he-berated-her-for-being-queer-as-a-child.html

I found this entire interview disturbing. Tucker says so many things in here that are so obviously false and Rogan just let's him get away with it. Seems obvious that Tucker has decided to go after that evangelical Christian $, now that he has burnt all the mainsteam bridges. Joe is lost... Maybe one day, he will find his way back to reality. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more coverage yet. The whole thing is just cringe on so many levels.

@Danioover9000 Yeah, to be fair, there are some points where Joe does push back a little. A lot of the political stuff, less so though I thought.

@Merkabah Star My guess is RM Brown will do a summary of it soon. I'd be amazed if TYT didn't do something too.

There is a long PBS documentary about Dick Proenneke, called Alone in the Wilderness, but I can't seem to find the whole thing. Dude was the OG of filming off grid living. Moved to the Alaskan wilderness at 51, built everything himself and lived alone off the land for 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke