Oddbean

I’m genuinely surprised by the enthusiasm and support for Harris. I think a lot of Democrats were resigned to loosing after Biden’s debate disaster and the way Trump got good will and a boost from surviving the assassination attempt. It’s a long time between now and November and so much has happened in the last month.

Im not american so looking from the outside but to put big poll numbers on reuters without pointing out more registered dems polled than reps is disingenuous (fake news if you prefer). Im just amazed you dont have any coherent candidates. Am long popcorn though!

Agreed. The state of our politics is pathetic. I can't help but think it's by design. There's just no way that out of hundreds of millions of Americans this is the best we can come up with. Either we really have devolved into Idiocracy or the powers that be want us to have no good options.

Not idiocracy. By design. Every time i go to your country, i meet both the dumbest and most intelligent and learned of people. The sad thing is, as important as tge constitution is for humanity, i meet few who realise theres been no democratic representation in decades. I just cant quite pin down when the coup occurred. Probably 1913 with the FED. am curious whos in charge now though. I also think thats what this upheaval is about. A return to constitution and devolving power back to the states. Good luck fren, the world could do with you guys getting this right. Am just not sure voting will be enough

And also their foreign policy and military industrial complex is quickly reaching a point of no return. If Americans don't get their regime under control, the most powerful nations of the global south will instead.

Everything on probability for me now. I’d say 90% probable not captured. Still have monetary control centralised and we know how obscure that is in the background. We just see how all this plays out. Main issue for humanity right now is the attack on USA constitution and we already see it’s a controlled tyranny whilst the vaunted second amendment hasn’t stopped that happening. Hopefully individual states keep pushing through more local legislation to fight back. When that comes to a head, anyone’s guess but shit might get real pretty damn quick.

"Hey young campaign staffer, your task is to make crypto people like me in November! Go!" It's a little funny because for a few years around 2010, many normies would be taking on huge career risks (at the time) entering the bitcoin space of gambling & drugs. That emvironment quickly matured, for normies. For politicians though, every fuckimg thing at any time is a career risk, but addressing them is their job. The result is a very amusing set of mannnerisms & behaviors...like I dunno... projecting support or authority with hugely unearned confidence over a thing an intern "studied" for a couple days on their behalf 🤣 I wonder if Lummis can actually work a coldcard? 🤔