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This user, not a lib: https://board.freedomainradio.com/user/26872-byron/

2 June 2015: 57% of Republicans will never vote for Donald Trump 16 June 2015: Donald Trump’s spectacular, unending, utterly baffling, often-wrong campaign launch 17 June 2015: Why no one should take Donald Trump seriously, in one very simple chart 20 July 2015: The beginning of the end of Trump 10 Aug 2015: Donald Trump will inevitably flame out. Here’s why. 30 Sep 2015: Mitt Romney weighs in on 2016, says Trump ‘will not be the nominee’ 30 Sep 2015: Time to fire quack candidate Donald Trump 2 Oct 2015: Trump will lose, or I will eat this column 5 Oct 2015: How you know Donald Trump is not serious 5 Oct 2015: Trump's fade into incoherence 14 Oct: So what happens after Donald Trump and Ben Carson? 20 Oct 2015: Are Republican voters going to come to their senses about Donald Trump? 23 Oct 2015: Will Donald Trump stick around to lose in Iowa? 13 Nov 2015: IS Donald Trump losing it? 2 Dec 2015: How you snuff out Donald Trump’s candidacy 7 Dec 2015: Trump continues to lead the polls. Here’s why he might not win the election 9 Dec 2015: Donald Trump leads in the polls, but Ted Cruz looks more like the favorite 10 Dec 2015: Why take the Trump stunt seriously? 11 Dec 2015: Mitt Romney’s top strategist thinks Donald Trump won’t win a thing 13 Dec 2015: It’s Cruz, not Trump, who looks more like favorite to win GOP nomination 15 Dec 2015: Republican voters think Donald Trump would be their best general election nominee. They’re wrong 15 Dec 2015: Jeb Bush vowed that Donald Trump would be in decline by Dec. 15. That didn’t happen 5 Jan 2016: Virginia for the Win: Are Trump’s supporters self-destructive? 11 Jan 2016: It’s not Trump’s fault if he wins the Republican primary 14 Jan 2016: Trump has not won the Republican nomination: Don’t make decisions today 27 Jan 2016: Skipping Fox debate is Trump’s first major misstep 3 Feb 2016: Donald Trump says something that is true, and it should end his campaign 25 Feb 2016: But seriously, how do we turn this Donald Trump thing off? 29 Feb 2016: Donald Trump isn’t funny anymore, and we all have to stop him 2 Mar 2016: How Trump could blow up the GOP without winning the nomination 18 Mar 2016: How a fractured field just might block Trump and force a brokered convention 3 Apr 2016: This time it really is the end of Trump. Really 4 Apr 2016: Kasich: It’s ‘mathematically impossible’ for him, Cruz, or Trump to win delegate majority 4 Apr 2016: Donald Trump’s very tough path to 1,237 delegates, illustrated 8 Apr 2016: So Trump is a populist. When does populism actually win elections? 13 Apr 2016: Donald Trump will almost certainly not be the Republican nominee if he cannot win on the first ballot in Cleveland 14 Apr 2016: Is Trump sabotaging himself? 27 Apr 2016: Trump’s incoherent speech shows why he’s unfit to be president 29 Apr 2016: If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House 3 May 2016: Trump says beating Clinton will be ‘easy.’ He’s delusional. Literally 10 May 2016: This poll is good for Trump — but it also shows how hard winning the White House will be 3 Jun 2016: The media have reached a turning point in covering Donald Trump. He may not survive it 1 Jul 2016: Trump says his campaign doesn’t need money or ads. Is he serious? 13 Jul 2016: Donald Trump is crashing the system. Journalists need to build a new one 18 Jul 2016: Donald Trump is not qualified to be president. And the American people know it 25 Jul 2016: This is the single most depressing finding in today’s polls showing Trump ahead 3 Aug 2016: Could Trump actually drop out of the race? And what would happen if he did? 3 Aug 2016: Trump just said he has a secret plan to win. In reality, he has no strategy 5 Aug: Trump thought he could win through sheer media dominance. In reality, it’s killing him 9 Aug 2016: Donald Trump needs a miracle to win 12 Aug 2016: These three states are making a Trump win basically impossible 13 Aug 2016: Has Donald Trump hit bottom? 16 Aug 2016: Down 9 in Florida, we have to ask: When is Donald Trump going to try to win this election? 1 Sep 2016: How Donald Trump has discredited much of conservative media 12 Sep 2016: Donald Trump campaign email: ‘We’re winning!’ (He is not winning.) 17 Oct 2016: It’s getting very, very hard to see how Donald Trump wins 20 Oct 2016: Donald Trump just put Hill Republicans in a no-win situation 24 Oct 2016: Donald Trump’s chances of winning are approaching zero 25 Oct 2016: Shy Trump supporters? This new evidence says no 26 Oct 2016: A new Florida poll illuminates Donald Trump’s ridiculously narrow path to victory 28 Oct 2016: Here’s why current polling suggests it will be very hard for Trump to win 2 Nov 2016: The only way Trump can win 5 Nov 2016: Donald Trump still has no business winning the presidential race 8 Nov 2016: Donald Trump doesn’t sound all that optimistic about winning 9 Nov 2016: Why Trump won -- and why the media missed it

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Good point; and again we can see just how emotionally unbalanced, unprincipled and murderous leftists are: https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Trump%20Assasination,Obama%20Assasination,Hillary%20Assassination You can see the same with other trends like 'kill Farage'.

Is there anything you can pin-point that you think separates you and your mother from your other family? This is slightly different, but I came up with a four-point checklist: - bad experience with the state - positive experience in the free market - logical rather than emotional decision maker - more intuitive (looking at bigger picture, rather then immediate reality) If 3-4 of those are relevant to you, it's probably likely you would identify as a libertarian, or would be partial if you did not know what a libertarian is. I am guessing it was you who were on the call-in the other day, who owned a fashion-related business. So I'm guessing you've had a good experience with the free market; you live in Canada so you've probably had a bad experience with the state; you support Trump so are not given to making emotional decisions; and you are on this board which makes it highly likely that you will be more intuitive - you want to understand larger trends and use this knowledge to make decisions rather than trashing about within a cornucopia of unrelated dots which you arrange to make you feel safe. When you come across people who, for example: - have a good experience with the state, like having a cushy government job that is not tied to performance - have never owned a business or faced the free-market - make reactionary decisions based on emotions- make decisions based on limited input - inability to identify patterns It will be impossible to change their mind with a conversation; and because they are emotional and Donald Trump threatens their order, life- and reproductive-strategy. One of the key differences between Trumpites and Brexiteers and our detractors is they are far more given to emotion, while we are not and as a result have more fortitude. If we come up against an opponent, for example marching in London against Brexit, we are more likely to laugh at them. When a Brexiteer marches in London, the detractor are more likely to have a complete meltdown and say its the rise of fascism. That's what has happened. I think its only likely you could change their mind and negative perception of you by giving them some experiences that will change them. Some possibilities: - drop them in the middle of Russia with no money - send them out shooting- send them to survive in the wilderness I was never given to communism, but I was raised where the supremacy of the state was implied rather than drilled. There was never a question of state legitimacy, but plenty of corners were putting out information that suggested capitalism and individualism were bad and dangerous. Again, none of this was drilled or coherent. It was just a smattering of data-points that led me to adopt a lot of positions that many young people do, such as a strong suspicion of any business activity and the notion that wealth is earned through dishonesty and exploitation. Yet due to my mental chemistry, once I had free market experience and was exposed to the philosophy of liberty, I move over. I am hard-wired to succeed in the free-market as opposed to needing to use emotions to manipulate resources to spill down my bib. Stefan has produced a few videos, which may be of use. I will dig them out and send them via PM.

I see the stock is down about 5%, after an initial nose-dive of 10%. McDonalds, Costco, Walmart, Burger King, Wholefoods unchanged. Someone needs to set up an alert site so we can short out of the gate.

As we see Hillary's emotionals prolapse through the streets I am left wondering on the nature of emotional-decision making - when it is appropriate and when it is not. My thought is that emotions are in the now - they know no present and no future. They are like a dimension unto themselves. They are something we feel, but without input. They come from within ourselves. On the other hand, with though we can look into the past or project into the future. They are too their own dimension, but one that is intently broader to the narrow-band of a handful of emotions. You could live a life without emotion, but you could not live without thought. We can think on emotions, but can't feel on our thoughts. Thoughts have eternal reach, but emotions have a limiting grounding. Based on this, it does not seem like a great idea to be an emotionally-driven beast. I'm of the opinion that it is generally best to ground yourself in thought than emotion, but there are instances where it may be best to act on emotion than thought and those instances appear to be very limited in time-frame, i.e. the now. For example, if someone steals one of your belongings it is best to emotionally react, rather than process at length what happened: Who stole it? What was their life like? What motives could they have had? What should I do? Will I got it back? On the other hand, if there are a spate of thefts going on, then this is the time to ask the aforementioned questions, rather than fizzling around with emotion. To me it seems, as a general rule, or (almost) always, it seems like when considering large matters, it is necessary to think to reach fruitful outcomes; while emotion is only somewhat useful in the now. Thoughts? My final observation is that for a long time conservatives have been branded 'reactionary', typically followed by the word 'bigots' for basing actions on thought-processes. This is due to the perception that these actions are heartless or uncompassionate. Yet they are the true reactionary ones who base decisions on limited emotion without any thought for the long-term affects of those actions. Just as you would not think of the long-term when chasing after someone who has stolen something from you. For this reason, I have taken it on myself to culturally appropriate the word 'reactionary' and use it to describe regressives' impulses. Much to their chagrin.

I am from the UK, but I am interested in buying a house in Wyoming, or somewhere else with a high concentration of people who display civilization building characteristics. Probably won't be able to go in January though. It will be one hell of a swamp draining though.

An astute point and analogies. This touches on another point, that people who may get lumped in the Minecraft-playing, basement-dwelling bracket are possibly considered the easiest game going. Basement-dweller and similar slurs are used to disparage people, who in some cases are at the fringe of society, but probably of above-average intelligence. They could be lumped into the grief bracket of 'the poorest and most vulnerable people in society', yet they have become a punching bag, castoffs to be laughed at. Outliers on the victim hierarchy don't get this treatment. I don't think this demographic either has sought or wants to plant itself into the victim heirarchy

One angle of thought I have had is that some of this demographic see Trump as a superhero. I've got little expirience with this demographic, but in my town there is a family of Star Wars, superhero etc. fanatics. From what I do know about them, I could see them gravitating towards Trump. They are also people who are somewhat marginalised, though not bullied, seen as somewhat of a joke. One of them wanted to train me as a bodybuilder and had a fetish for spontaneous muscle growth - Incredible Hulk style. I can see these sort of people being attracted to Donald Trump for the reasons you outline. Again, from my experience of this family, they appear to have an attraction to crushing corruption, leveling things out and draining the swamp. It's interesting that people who are seen as wimps and outsiders have this attraction to the Trump archetype. I'm interested to know more on the driving themes.

From what I saw there seemed to be a large number of Trump supporters who emanated from the demographic that may be disparaged as living in their mother's basement, playing World of Warcraft, reading comics etc.? I've noticed that there also appears to be a lot of people here who fall in or close to this demographic. In particular there are an over-representation of programmers here. Does anyone have insights into this trend?

From another post... This is worth it.

I also saw the InfoWars feed when they were talking about how they feel sorry for these Dem pansies and how they want to lift them up, rather than what the Dems want to do - keep them as their dependent voting base to prop up their power structure, with little regard for civilization. Obviously, we want to draw these people over to us. The direction of society is to a large extent driven by majority views, regardless of political system, or lack of. Gloating in their face is not the best strategy. Though you can be excuse for gloating in red-spaces like this.

I fell asleep. Would have made it otherwise. Anyway, waking up to this is worth more than $5,150. Please don't build a northern wall.

If I put $1,000 on for Trump, how much would I get back?

What type of site do you want to setup? I was thinking that you might benefit from a news/blog-type site to post your lengthy tomes on. If you want to set up a blog/news site, I'd recommend this: https://ghost.org/ Some free themes here: http://marketplace.ghost.org/themes/free/ There are a couple of people here who do installs for $5: https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_in=category&source=top-bar&locale=en&query=install+ghost&page=1&filter=rating For servers I would recommend this company: https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml The $6 one at the bottom is a good one for small sites and costs less than a lot of SSDs. However, they go very quickly when they become available. I had to write a script to check every minute for availability. ---- However, as someone who runs a site for a living, I know it takes a long time to establish any site. It requires perseverance. For articles I don't know if there is somewhere that you might be able to get better coverage. One site I have seen is this: https://liberty.me/ Which is a libertarian website that you can post articles too. My guess is it gets about 2-4k uniques per day. This is something similar, but I don't know exactly what it is and I think its a general site: https://medium.com/

Yes, there has been a considerable move towards censorship and attempts to try and preserve the narrowband media. I just hadn't connected the dots. Some events: - NPR block comments; some other sites to drop: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/brief-history-of-the-demise-of-the-comments-timeline/ - Mark Zuckerberg censonrship meeting - Milo Twitter ban - Obama campaign against whistle-blowers - Alleged: Breitbart assassination day before he would "expose Obama" - Alleged: Michael Hasting assassination

I keep one foot in the Marxist-orientated (London) Guardian website, as in between all the non-arguments, there are some things worth knowing that I otherwise wouldn't see. And it is reassuring to know, from weighing opinion in the comments sections, that things such as white privilege, 3rd wave feminism, Islamophobia and other grievance culture spurs are widely rejected. Since Brexit, the appearance of Trump and other similar themes in Europe, there has been a further move away from coherent philosophy, arguments - rational or irrational and decorum; and towards violently melting down, running around spitting bile, fainting and hallucination. A new bubble of madness was inflated last week when a high court ruled that Parliament must green-lighted Brexit. This spurred a number of critical stories in newspapers, saying in affect: "How dare three judges block Brexit". On seeing the articles, no angle from which they might be criticised registered with me, but The Guardian and the regressives have begun howling like they have never howled before. They are saying this is the end of democracy, the rule of law is about to be overturned and we are about to descend into fascism with Rupert Murdoch setting the drum-beat as the torries dance us malevolently into the end times. I had observed, in the above-mentioned time period, that The Guardian had become more trigger-happy with censorship. My account was put on pre-moderation (general policy is to allow comments, which are moderated after a few minutes) for posting a comment citing (with source) that there is a greater correlation between single-motherhood and crime than poverty and crime. Today my account was banned and they deleted about 1/3 of the comments on a volatile post by one of their favourite sons, Trotskyite - Paul Mason. And the comments were not abusive, they mainly consisted of criticism like: "I used to think Paul was a bit weird when he was on the Beeb - but I now realise he's totally lost it. How much do you get paid to write this stuff?" "Paul Mason couldn't breathe his way out of an iron lung, never mind string together such a disparate group of people." But also moderate criticism of his points. Comments were prematurely shut down after two hours. They used to let this stuff go through, but it seems that has come to an end. The comments are officially a safe-space. Does anyone else have insights into increase in censorship on regressive sites? I heard that a number of them had recently removed comments sections, but I don't know which sites were being referred to. Full backspace:

Do you care to elaborate?

I don't have the time to contribute, but I'd be interested in hearing more about the idea. One idea in this vein I am keen on is something that would combine elements of Bitcoin and torrents. Nodes would provide storage space and bandwidth for data, which could be accessed by clients. Nodes would receive digital tokens, similar to Bitcoin, for bandwidth provided. This would provide some benefits over Bitcoin: - Bitcoin's only value is its acceptance as currency, which is very small and niche; most of Bitcoin's value is speculative; this token would be backed by the value of providing content outside of censorship channels - Bitcoin is deflationary, which makes it unviable as a currency; this token would be generally inflationary and somewhat predictable: - Would allow more equal access to currency minting, as opposed to Bitcoin mining, which has been monopolised - The backbone of this system could be used to develop other systems, such as a decentralised Twitter

It was a general open thread about the spread of Marxism through the family. I don't know where you would find data, but I think it's quite likely that Marxist-types have at best a 1.0 fertility rate. It's impossible for them to establish hegemony except via social disruption, revolution and dictatorship.

I'm hopeful on the current situation with the high court battle and Labour shenanigans. Any Labour defiance will be a chance to expunge Labour up and down the country. Hopefully England will soon look like Scotland when it comes to red terror. The announcement that several SNP MSPs voted for Brexit was also buoying: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3904514/Several-SNP-MSPs-voted-BREXIT-blow-Nicola-Sturgeon-s-claim-independent-Scotland-EU.html

Thanks. It does seem quite a bit better than the UK though. Although the UK is definitely moving in a better direction, both in terms of public attitudes and the direction those in higher echelons want to take us. I am really interested in somewhere in the low-natural-disaster belt that starts in North Texas and goes up to the US border with the Trudeau Mental Asylum. However, I'd like to know that area will survive into the future first - border wall, no Hillary.