If Against Dem Virtue Signalling And Wacko Ideas, Say Vote For Biden In Polls

[yerrag]

But back to Trump. Just because he is not a part of that political theatre--I think many think he is some great antagonist of it, some kind of hero. But he isn't. He is 100% for Trump and nothing else. Anything good, or bad, that comes out of that is accidental and irrelevant (to him). That is much worse than the status quo, IMHO.

I prefer a person who is 100% for himself. It means he is 100% for those things he values. Ask any successful person if he isn't 100% for himself. If he puts himself below his competitors because he isn't 100% for himself, he can't be successful. What you are implying about being 100% for oneself isn't a healthy approach to life. To be defined on somebody else's term is worse. To think being true to oneself is an evil is even worse. One can be true to oneself and be a leader. And to be a leader is to know that everyone else has aspirations that are like his.

The status quo cannot be better than that. To accept the status quo, as you seem to be doing so, is to lose hope.

 

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In Ray Peat’s own words:
- Ray Peat, Danny Roddy Podcast #24, April 25th 2020

Thanks. It is an interesting, albeit peculiar, statement.

The peculiar thing is that the "left" is typically identified with pro-choice, not pro-life.

But I am not sure that false dichotomy is where he was coming from at all. When he says "contact with reality and life" I think he is referring to working class people, who are often aligned with "right" politics these days. When RP was young, it was the other way around. The republican party was understood to be the party of the wealthy and elite. The "left" was not the Democratic party, which was the scholarly party. RP was/is a dyed in the wool Marxist/socialist. People in "contact with reality and life" meant the "proletariat" to him. The person who observed that RP's "left" is not the same as the contemporary "left" was quite right.

He also seems to find these ideologies--contemporary left and right to be superficial.

I doubt he would condemn all dogmatic ideology (as I would). It is clear that he thinks of today's left as "so-called". From his perspective its easy to see why. It is more virtue-signalling than virtuous. More "Social Democrat" in the German sense than "socialist" or "Marxist" which he considers the true left. I know he has expressed tepid appreciation of Bernie in the past. I would imagine he might think that the "real" left barely exists today, and that Bernie is a watered-down and marginalized version.

 

[Tristan Loscha]

Perceptions surrounding Trump are synthetic in nature, manufactured to be seen as saviour, there is a need for one; politics from individuals like him, with the psychological make up and vita; the light at the end of the tunnel is not the rebirth, but the head light of incoming freight train

 

[yerrag]

Beverly Hills Trump Rally:



Is it wishful thinking that everyone is Cali awakens from their spell and kick out the gnats and ticks and flies and parasites from their holier-than-thou stranglehold on the state? How stupid can people be to keep voting in to office the same people that have kept making things worse?

 

[tankasnowgod]

Is it wishful thinking that everyone is Cali awakens from their spell and kick out the gnats and ticks and flies and parasites from their holier-than-thou stranglehold on the state? How stupid can people be to keep voting in to office the same people that have kept making things worse?

Everyone pretends like California "voted" it's way into the current state its in, but that's simply not reality.

California voters passed Prop 13. Remarkably, it's still holding up despite constant attacks.

California voters passed Prop 187 with about a 60% margin. Oh well, it was overturned by the courts.

California voters passed Prop 8 by a similar margin. Again, overturned by the courts.

California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis because he wanted to give Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens. It swept Arnold Schwartzenegger into office. Quietly, about a decade later, Gov. Moonbeam does the same thing that got Davis recalled with little fanfare.

California was directed and manipulated into the state it's in, regardless of the will of the California voters. They only counted when it fit the agenda.

I don't think the people or the voters in California are as "far left" as people think, or as how they are painted. In the past two decades, there was a Republican Governor, and even a Republican Mayor of Los Angeles. If you could visit an alternate reality where Prop 187 held up, it wouldn't be considered "Deep Blue" in the slightest. Maybe a hotly contested battleground state. Maybe "Deep, Deep Red."

As for California breaking for Trump? I think it's possible, but a real longshot..... simply because of how the system is set up, not necessarily due to voters themselves. Consider this, from 2016-

https://www.investors.com/politics/...pular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/

"In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian's who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.

What's more, many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November.

There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California's congressional districts.

At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.

Plus, since Republicans knew Clinton was going to win the state — and its entire 55 electoral votes — casting a ballot for Trump was virtually meaningless, since no matter what her margin of victory, Clinton was getting all 55 votes.

Is it any wonder then, that Trump got 11% fewer California votes than John McCain did in 2008? (Clinton got 6% more votes than Obama did eight years ago, but the number of registered Democrats in the state climbed by 13% over those years.)

If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)"

 

[yerrag]

Everyone pretends like California "voted" it's way into the current state its in, but that's simply not reality.

California voters passed Prop 13. Remarkably, it's still holding up despite constant attacks.

California voters passed Prop 187 with about a 60% margin. Oh well, it was overturned by the courts.

California voters passed Prop 8 by a similar margin. Again, overturned by the courts.

California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis because he wanted to give Driver's Licenses to Illegal Aliens. It swept Arnold Schwartzenegger into office. Quietly, about a decade later, Gov. Moonbeam does the same thing that got Davis recalled with little fanfare.

California was directed and manipulated into the state it's in, regardless of the will of the California voters. They only counted when it fit the agenda.

I don't think the people or the voters in California are as "far left" as people think, or as how they are painted. In the past two decades, there was a Republican Governor, and even a Republican Mayor of Los Angeles. If you could visit an alternate reality where Prop 187 held up, it wouldn't be considered "Deep Blue" in the slightest. Maybe a hotly contested battleground state. Maybe "Deep, Deep Red."

As for California breaking for Trump? I think it's possible, but a real longshot..... simply because of how the system is set up, not necessarily due to voters themselves. Consider this, from 2016-

https://www.investors.com/politics/...pular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/

"In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state. Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian's who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.

What's more, many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November.

There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California's congressional districts.

At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.

Plus, since Republicans knew Clinton was going to win the state — and its entire 55 electoral votes — casting a ballot for Trump was virtually meaningless, since no matter what her margin of victory, Clinton was getting all 55 votes.

Is it any wonder then, that Trump got 11% fewer California votes than John McCain did in 2008? (Clinton got 6% more votes than Obama did eight years ago, but the number of registered Democrats in the state climbed by 13% over those years.)

If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes. And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)"

Thanks for sharing the information.

It still does not explain why California keeps voting in scoundrels like Schiff, Pelsoi, and Lieu. Like a lot of people there are, if not really stupid, have some blinders on.

Pelosi is from Napa County, not exactly poor and not exactly stupid. Certainly liberal, with many liberal (in the vile sense of the word) Catholics like she is. Still, this is not a city teeming with crazed "educated" Silicon Valley twerps that buy wholesale into the tech disinformation of Mountain View, Santa Cara, San Jose, Palo Alto, and Fremont. It's not populated with transients or recent immigrants who have no clue about the political discourse and don't really care as they are inside the secure bubble of Silicon Valley. They don't really understand why people in other states care so much about the 2nd amendment, not really knowing how and why this country was founded.

Even in very conservative Orange County, in the 2018 congressional elections, not one Republican won a seat. This makes me believe that the Democratic Party has become the party of cheating, mostly through gaming the electoral process by their use of vile lawyers of the Andrew Weissman variety, in order to subvert the vote of the people. It just boggles my mind how they could get away with it. And the Republican Party is just sitting by and allowing them to get away with it. I don't know how Californians managed to allow such a state of affairs to happen.

The locos even removed the name of John Wayne from Orange County's airport, yet in DC the chief assassin of JFK has his name inscribed in the its airport - Dulles Airport.

The Dems usurped California in 2018 through mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting. They are in the process of using the same power usurpation method in the whole country. Republicans saw the writing on the wall in 2018. They did little except send Kris Kobach to deal with this and failed spectacularly. Perhaps the Republicans would have done a better job at it if it weren't full of Biden-loving RINOs. And the attempted framing and ouster of Trump by the deep state for 3 years distracted Trump and sapped him from the effort. It also didn't help that his cabinet hires were full of obstructionists that a first term outsider president could not vet well enough, following the advice of deep state hires in his cabinet.

Taking back California would be a watershed moment for the country. It may not come now, but when it comes, I really hope Europe and Canada would find it in their heart to take the scumbag Hollywood parrots into their fold.

 

[yerrag]

I am now laughing at how much the US political and electoral process has degraded over 40 years. Back then, the US was sending election monitors to developing countries to help ensure fair elections. I remember Indiana Senator Richard Lugar being very much involved in helping make the Philippine elections orderly. This helped pave the way for the ouster of Marcos.

Now it seems like the Philippines would do well to return the favor, and that's not even speaking very highly of the democratic process in the Philippines.

 

[managing]

Thanks for sharing the information.

It still does not explain why California keeps voting in scoundrels like Schiff, Pelsoi, and Lieu. Like a lot of people there are, if not really stupid, have some blinders on.

Pelosi is from Napa County, not exactly poor and not exactly stupid. Certainly liberal, with many liberal (in the vile sense of the word) Catholics like she is. Still, this is not a city teeming with crazed "educated" Silicon Valley twerps that buy wholesale into the tech disinformation of Mountain View, Santa Cara, San Jose, Palo Alto, and Fremont. It's not populated with transients or recent immigrants who have no clue about the political discourse and don't really care as they are inside the secure bubble of Silicon Valley. They don't really understand why people in other states care so much about the 2nd amendment, not really knowing how and why this country was founded.

Even in very conservative Orange County, in the 2018 congressional elections, not one Republican won a seat. This makes me believe that the Democratic Party has become the party of cheating, mostly through gaming the electoral process by their use of vile lawyers of the Andrew Weissman variety, in order to subvert the vote of the people. It just boggles my mind how they could get away with it. And the Republican Party is just sitting by and allowing them to get away with it. I don't know how Californians managed to allow such a state of affairs to happen.

The locos even removed the name of John Wayne from Orange County's airport, yet in DC the chief assassin of JFK has his name inscribed in the its airport - Dulles Airport.

The Dems usurped California in 2018 through mail-in balloting and ballot harvesting. They are in the process of using the same power usurpation method in the whole country. Republicans saw the writing on the wall in 2018. They did little except send Kris Kobach to deal with this and failed spectacularly. Perhaps the Republicans would have done a better job at it if it weren't full of Biden-loving RINOs. And the attempted framing and ouster of Trump by the deep state for 3 years distracted Trump and sapped him from the effort. It also didn't help that his cabinet hires were full of obstructionists that a first term outsider president could not vet well enough, following the advice of deep state hires in his cabinet.

Taking back California would be a watershed moment for the country. It may not come now, but when it comes, I really hope Europe and Canada would find it in their heart to take the scumbag Hollywood parrots into their fold.

LOL. California isn't really democratic. Dude. I live here. You are just spinning random nonsense now.

And Pelosi is from baltimore. Lives in San Francisco, not Napa County.

 

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I am now laughing at how much the US political and electoral process has degraded over 40 years. Back then, the US was sending election monitors to developing countries to help ensure fair elections. I remember Indiana Senator Richard Lugar being very much involved in helping make the Philippine elections orderly. This helped pave the way for the ouster of Marcos.

Now it seems like the Philippines would do well to return the favor, and that's not even speaking very highly of the democratic process in the Philippines.

Do you know who **** <----* Lugar was good friends with? Barack Obama.

Your conspiracy theories are silly. I've always assumed you are an American expat, but this is just an episode of the Kardashians to you, isn't it?

Excuse me, Richard Lugar, lol. The esteemed former senior senator from my home state. Everybody called him "D!ck" But I guess that first name is too vulgar here . . .

 

[yerrag]

LOL. California isn't really democratic. Dude. I live here. You are just spinning random nonsense now.

And Pelosi is from baltimore. Lives in San Francisco, not Napa County.

I know you're from there.

Clueless if you say Cali isn't run by Democrats.

 

[yerrag]

Do you know who **** Lugar was good friends with? Barack Obama.

Your conspiracy theories are silly. I've always assumed you are an American expat, but this is just an episode of the Kardashians to you, isn't it?

I wouldn't be offended, coming from you it means nothing what you say.

 

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I know you're from there.

Clueless if you say Cali isn't run by Democrats.

LOL. Try to follow. Yes, it is run by democrats. Because people vote for them. I am laughing at you pretending there is some grand conspiracy forcing democrats on people who don't vote for Democrats. This isn't the Phillipines . . .

 

[managing]

I wouldn't be offended, coming from you it means nothing what you say.

Really, why do you give a sh*t about our politics? Are you a troll or just a spectator that can't resist a good train wreck?

 

[yerrag]

LOL. Try to follow. Yes, it is run by democrats. Because people vote for them. I am laughing at you pretending there is some grand conspiracy forcing democrats on people who don't vote for Democrats. This isn't the Phillipines . . .

Trying very hard, my not friend. One minute you say this. And the next you say that. Please. You're making a fool of yourself.

 

[yerrag]

Really, why do you give a sh*t about our politics? Are you a troll or just a spectator that can't resist a good train wreck?

Oh, maybe you can say the same thing to the people in Vietnam, Bolivia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, and countless other countries that are the "beneficiaries" of your "local" politics huh? Shows how insular and how small your mind is in your cocoon. I didn't think such people with your cluelessness exist in your enlightened part of the world.

You're better off growing up in a madrassa than in your Ivory Tower League education. Which is quite evident.

 

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Oh, maybe you can say the same thing to the people in Vietnam, Bolivia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, and countless other countries that are the "beneficiaries" of your "local" politics huh? Shows how insular and how small your mind is in your cocoon. I didn't think such people with your cluelessness exist in your enlightened part of the world.

You're better off growing up in a madrassa than in your Ivory Tower League education. Which is quite evident.

Yes, the ignominy of an "Ivory Tower League" education. I am so ashamed.

Umm, what is an "Ivory Tower League" education? Never heard of that.

 

[yerrag]

I actually believe that. True to form to your cluelessness.

 

[managing]

I actually believe that. True to form to your cluelessness.

What is an "Ivory Tower League Education"? If I have one, as you insist, I want to properly understand my shame. But I've never even heard that phrase before.

 

[yerrag]

Take a wild guess. Others may beat you to it. Not that they'd consider it a challenge to guess that. The punchline is already built in to it.

 

[managing]

Take a wild guess. Others may beat you to it. Not that they'd consider it a challenge to guess that. The punchline is already built in to it.

C'mon man, I'm just giving you a hard time. There is no shame in mixing metaphors like you did. I apologize for taunting you with it.