US Presidential Candidate RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Back Dollar With Bitcoin, End Bitcoin Taxes 265
United States presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a plan to back the dollar with Bitcoin, and end taxes on Bitcoin.
From a report: Speaking at a Heal-the-Divide PAC event, Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlined specific Bitcoin-focused policies that he would enact as president, including gradually backing the U.S. dollar with bitcoin and making bitcoin profits exempt from capital gains taxes.
"My plan would be to start very, very small, perhaps 1% of issued T-bills would be backed by hard currency, by gold, silver platinum or bitcoin," Kennedy said, describing his vision for returning to a hard currency standard in the U.S.
He added that, depending on the outcome of that initial step, he would increase that allocation annually. This potential policy reimagines the financial system, pointing to a future where bitcoin's absolute scarcity and sound monetary principles reinforce the U.S. dollar's eroding position as the world reserve currency. Kennedy Jr. added: "Backing dollars and U.S. debt obligations with hard assets could help restore strength back to the dollar, rein in inflation and usher in a new era of American financial stability, peace and prosperity."
In addition, Kennedy announced his administration "will exempt the conversion of bitcoin to the U.S. dollar from capital gains taxes"
From a report: Speaking at a Heal-the-Divide PAC event, Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. outlined specific Bitcoin-focused policies that he would enact as president, including gradually backing the U.S. dollar with bitcoin and making bitcoin profits exempt from capital gains taxes.
"My plan would be to start very, very small, perhaps 1% of issued T-bills would be backed by hard currency, by gold, silver platinum or bitcoin," Kennedy said, describing his vision for returning to a hard currency standard in the U.S.
He added that, depending on the outcome of that initial step, he would increase that allocation annually. This potential policy reimagines the financial system, pointing to a future where bitcoin's absolute scarcity and sound monetary principles reinforce the U.S. dollar's eroding position as the world reserve currency. Kennedy Jr. added: "Backing dollars and U.S. debt obligations with hard assets could help restore strength back to the dollar, rein in inflation and usher in a new era of American financial stability, peace and prosperity."
In addition, Kennedy announced his administration "will exempt the conversion of bitcoin to the U.S. dollar from capital gains taxes"
LOL (Score:5, Funny)
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He had me at "very, very small, perhaps 1% of issued T-bills"
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R.F.K.Jr. is hoping to lure the moron vote from Trump. It's beyond embarrassing - unless it's a brilliant ploy... Nope, just embarrassing.
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R.F.K.Jr. is hoping to lure the moron vote from Trump. It's beyond embarrassing - unless it's a brilliant ploy... Nope, just embarrassing.
He also pulls the moron vote from the Democrats. The hippie moms, the No Nukers, the Joe Mercola funny food fans, the people who see chemtrails on every cold winter day, the people who were anti vax before anti vax was cool. Now they're in the RFK thought bubble with their fellows of the right. Basically, it's the We Might As Well Just Surrender To China Now party.
RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's name (Score:4, Insightful)
Vaccine denialism, antisemitism (saying that COVID doesn't affect Jews), and now a cryptocurrency platform that would obliterate the dollar by allowing it to fluctuate by multiple percent per day.
The only reason anyone pays attention to him is because he's a Kennedy.
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Vaccine denialism, antisemitism (saying that COVID doesn't affect Jews), and now a cryptocurrency platform that would obliterate the dollar by allowing it to fluctuate by multiple percent per day.
The only reason anyone pays attention to him is because he's a Kennedy.
I know, right? I mean Mind Blown -- oh, wait...
[ Too soon? :-) ]
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Presidential candidate have to present some freaky position to stick out from the crowd. If you just have normal, sane positions, you're not motivating people to flock to the ballots because you don't bypass their temporal lobe and reach their amygdala directly to exploit the main motivators of the voter: Fear, hate and fear.
Otherwise, you'd actually have to promise them some sort of improvement. And, worse, they'd even think you plan to keep it.
Don't forget racism! (Score:5, Informative)
He claims COVID-19 is ethnically targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people while sparing Ashkenazi Jewish people and Chinese people.
https://www.usatoday.com/story... [usatoday.com]
I.e. He claims that COVID is a Jewish-Chinese conspiracy against America.
That it is an external, racially-based, Jewish-run, stab in the back. [wikipedia.org]
He isn't just an antisemitic cunt - he's a full blown racist, fascist, cunt.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
He cannot ruin his father's name.
Unless you live in Massachusetts (where the Kennedys are practically royalty), you can surely see them for what they are: a bunch of corrupt wannabe politicians, living off the fame of their predecessors. The assassination of JFK was the best thing that could have happened to them, because for decades you could not criticize them, despite numerous scandals and open corruption.
The RFK plan to back the dollar with Bitcoin? It just shows another aspect of many of the Kennedys: dumb as a bag of bricks.
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The Kennedys made their money bootlegging. You know, the old-fashioned version of gangs/cartels/MS-13. They then used that money, and an address in an upper-crust part of the state, to buy their way into politics. Joe Kennedy was a bastard of the first order, and his boys were all fuck-ups.
- The son he wanted to go into politics instead went into the military and got himself killed
- The Backup became president, but was so focuse
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:4, Interesting)
0. US puts missiles close to USSR
1. USSR negotiates with Cuba to put missiles next to the US
2. US attempts to blockade Cuba to prevent those missiles from reaching their launch sites
3. US secretly concedes to USSR demands to remove our missiles in exchange for allowing our blockade to appear to work
4. US Government pretends Kennedy stared down the soviets, when in-fact he gave them everything they asked for, so long as they didn't tell anyone about it.
The Kennedy administration created the situation by putting missile silo's so close to the USSR, without anticipating that the USSR would try to mirror that action in Cuba. They then put on a big show about the blockade and staring down the Soviets until they blinked. But at the end of the day the US blinked. We gave up installations we'd already built in order to go back to a status quo we'd disrupted. The only reason it was not viewed as an embarrassment at the time was because the Kennedy Administration essentially LIED to the US Citizens about what had happened, and how it had been resolved. And the only reason that worked, was because the SOVIETS were willing to let us believe they'd blinked first.
If you start a fight, and the only way to end the fight is to give your opponent an apology for starting the fight in the first place, I don't see how you can then go on to say that you won the fight. Particularly after it is discovered that you begged them not to let anyone know you'd apologies and admitted fault in the first place.
Kennedy was a hack at everything except manipulating the (admittedly more-than-willing) media. If Kennedy had looked more like Nixon and less like a golden adonis, we might have learned the truth about the exchange much sooner. If his wife and kids had not been the picture of the American Ideal, his reputation might fit more with the caliber of his actions, instead of breathy comparisons to fictional Camelot. And if he'd survived his presidency, we would likely have seen his star fall as his opponents worked to unearth and focus attention on his failings (both professional and personal) instead of enshrining him as a martyr to the cause of Democracy. JFK is the epitome of failing up.
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We had created an advantage for ourselves. Kennedy had the option to call their bluff and keep our installation while denying them one in Cuba, OR they could cave to the Soviets and remove our installations in exchange for the soviets abandoning their plans for Cuba. Kennedy ultimately chose option 2, with the minor caveat that no one - US or Soviet - ever acknowledge what we'd given up. Kennedy looks great after Cuba because he lied to everyone about what happened. That is not "Winning" the cub
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What confuses me is that political pundits see this latest Kennedy as a threat to Biden. He's Trump in a blue jersey. An egotistical, conspiratorial, legacy who's never built anything for himself beyond a cult of personality. Sure, Democrats go in for that stuff too, but none of the things he's about matter to any democrats I know, and fit far better with Trumps base than any other group.
No one thinks he's a threat to Biden. He's just the only person of any significance that's dumb enough to try to run against a sitting president, and the pundits need something to talk about. Talking about Biden coasting to the nomination doesn't get clicks.
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As a former bay-stater, I gotta say - there is a lot of truth in what you say ....Joe Kennedy was a bastard of the first order, and his boys were all fuck-ups.....
Joe Kennedy ruined his own political carreer as U.S. ambassador to the UK in the late 1930s. He had open sympathies towards Hitler and thought Germany would defeat the UK and win WW2. The Brits got fed up with him and told Roosevelt he wasn't welcome in their country. He also had Rosemary Kennedy because she was slightly below-average in school and wasn't up to the standards of the Kennedy family. Pathetic...
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Polling this far out from the primaries is essentially worthless, at least according to 538. There is just too much time for things to come out, for candidates to rise and fall, and for voter sentiment to change in response to seeing who's survived on the other side of the isle. After all, we rarely get to vote for a candidate we actually like, and far more often are voting for the least bad option available.
As such, in a shoot out
RFK = Russian shill (Score:3, Insightful)
This guy is a total russian shill....
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The only reason anyone pays attention to him is because he's a Kennedy.
Well... that and the right-wing media machine trying desperately to convince people he's a legitimate candidate.
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Because the left wing media machine isnt equally desperately trying to convince the public Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson matter?
I think you misunderstood my post. I'm not saying right-wing media is trying to portray him as a serious contender for the Democratic presidential candidate. I'm saying that right-wing media is (dishonestly) trying to portray him as someone competent to be a politician at all. Kennedy, Christie, and Hutchinson may all be irrelevant in this presidential race, but Kennedy alone is completely detached from reality, and should not be setting policy at even the municipal level.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
You forgot: curtailing the military industrial complex, stopping CIA overreach ...
You forgot motherhood and apple pie. It doesn't undo the crazy stuff.
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Ahhh Apple Pie, every single ingredient is not native to the USA, and it was invented elsewhere ... He will therefore hate it ..
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Informative)
You're not getting a good candidate with some quirks. Being an antivaxxer reveals full-blown idiocy, and as an idiot he isn't going to do the things you want him to do either.
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Nah. He's not an idiot. He's a clever charlatan.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
No vaccine is 100% safe, or 100% effective. Nobody claims that any vaccine is. The vaccine is around 90% effective, which is adequate to eradicate the virus so long as everyone who is capable of being vaccinated is. Lying isn't a good way for you to make your case.
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You're at 5 Insightful so I'm going to push back a little.
The vaccines were ~90% effective at 'preventing serious illness' from the original strains. That has declined. They were mumble-mumble % effective at preventing transmission. That has probably not improved.
Since the latter is what eradicates viruses, vaccinating everyone is not going to be adequate.
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And the mask falls off.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
Which part?
All of it. RFK Jr. is bat shit crazy. EOT EOM Full stop. That's a 30.
Are you suggesting the covid vaccine was a success?
No. I'm not suggesting it was a success. I'm stating unequivocally, it was better than not getting it. Over 12 BILLION served. Sorry, no, people didn't get square testicles. Their eyebrows didn't grow blue glowing tentacles. Their wife and kids already hated them, and their bad breath is a decades long issue.
Are you suggesting there's no evidence that the Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked to Austim?
I'm suggesting that there is a lot of "data suggest", "Untested theories trend", and more weasel words and mealy mouthed idiocy than simply vaccine deniers usually engage in.
You don't want to get vaccinated, that's your damn choice. There are consequences to every choice, and one of them is that I won't have you getting me sick, possibly dying because you're an idiot. No one was FORCED to get vaccinated. They were ALWAYS GIVEN THE CHOICE OF TAKING IT, or accepting the CONSEQUENCE of their CHOICE. Don't like that consequence, then don't make that choice. Make that choice, you've also chosen the consequence.
So mask up, distance, and put your big girl pants back on. No one wants to see that.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:4, Funny)
Sorry, no, people didn't get square testicles. Their eyebrows didn't grow blue glowing tentacles. Their wife and kids already hated them, and their bad breath is a decades long issue.
You forgot the mass extinction [imgur.com] of those who got a shot.
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FUCK YOU AC - and FUCK everyone who agrees with you. A lot of people were NOT given a choice. They got told your livelhood is over if you don't comply. They got told abandon what might be deep moral convictions for you about about research done with abortion products or maybe your family does not eat next week.
If you are so worried about getting sick, YOU FUCKING sacrifice by isolating yourself! What you are is a thug at best unthinking member of angry frightened mob at worst!
You version of "your rights en
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
Except you forgot...
The vaccines did NOT prevent you from transmitting the disease to others.
Except you forgot that the vaccines did prevent infection on the earlier strains of the virus. And that even on the later strains, the vaccines reduced the severity of the infection, meaning you had less viral load and your infection didn't last as long, which means you're less likely to transmit the virus.
Both the vaccinated and the un-vaccinated could and did transmit the disease.
So, that reasoning that un-vaccinated people were a threat to you, goes out the window.
It's about odds, things aren't absolutes.
The vaccine did not prevent you from getting the disease, only that it, in general, made you more apt to survive it if you were one of the folks that were actually at risk from the disease causing serious reactions in your body (not everyone is susceptible to the same degree).
Again, thing aren't absolutes. There's a wide range of outcomes other than "dead" vs "not dead". Reducing the severity of the infections and lowering long covid odds are a big part of it too.
And masks...well, unless you were N95 and wearing it properly, those didn't prevent spread or catching of covid....particles easily passed right through.
So, most masking at the time was useless too.
Again, it's all about odds. Masks aren't perfect, but they greatly reduced your odds of infections.
The world will make a lot more sense to you if you stop thing of things in absolute yes or no terms and study up on risk management.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
Are you suggesting there's no evidence that the Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked to Austim?
I am suggesting that the thimerosal that has been indicated to have a statistical correlation with Autism was removed from children's vaccines over twenty years ago. Are you next going to start raining about the dangers of thalidomide or DDT?
Would you rather the country kept being run by the military industrial complex and big pharma?
First: Nice use of the Black or White fallacy; good to know that the only two choices we have are RFKJr's lunacy and the Military Industrial Complex, and that there's no way to curtail military spending without also codifying racism, ignorance, and stupidity into our laws. Second: It's funny how the only time conservatives and other backwards-looking troglodytes rail against Big Pharma, it's only conspiracy theories based on debunked and/or outdated studies that define the changes they want to see. Why do you never see conservatives taking the pharmaceutical industry to task on its predatory pricing models? I don't remember a single Republican condemning Martin Shkreli for his profiteering.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Informative)
I am suggesting that the thimerosal that has been indicated to have a statistical correlation with Autism was removed from children's vaccines over twenty years ago. Are you next going to start raining about the dangers of thalidomide or DDT?
There was no data to suggest any problems. We removed it because people freaked out over bogus "vaccines are bad" studies and we had viable alternatives to using it. It was just easier to give the crazy people what they wanted than it was to argue with them.
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Are you suggesting there's no evidence that the Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked to Austim?
https://www.hepb.org/prevention-and-diagnosis/vaccination/vaccine-safety/ [hepb.org]
As an intellectual, I'm sure you're aware of the scientific method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method [wikipedia.org].
I'll save you the trouble, after you come up with a theory, you test with experiments. Surely after coming up with such an astounding theory, one of these two Ph.D's would have come up with proof that their theory was correct? Not a single follow up or even a single paper on any cause of autism ever again. https://www. [researchgate.net]
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Wakefield's vaccine/autism paper is one of the most egregious examples of scientific fraud and patient abuse in recent history. But even *good* papers by honest researchers get things wrong all the time. 5% of impeccably performed research will result in a Type 1 Error at p 0.05, because that is what "p 0.05" *means*. On top of that no experiment is ever perfect, so you get even more honestly mistaken papers. And finally even papers which are mostly correrct contain some errors.
Scientific error is not some kind of aberration, it is a normal and routine part of scientific progress. That provides a bonanza for cherry pickers. That's where RFK comes in. He brings a lawyer's sensibilities and research skills to find that erroneous science to construct a one-sided argument that to a jury of laymen sounds convincingly "scientific", because it's cites scientific papers. But it's not *scientific*, it's *lawyerly*.
When you are trying to make evidence based decisions, you're not counsel for the defense *or* the plaintiff. You're the jury, and you have to look at all the arguments presented.
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Again with the military industrial complex. The "complex" is approx 1/5 of the fed. budget. Most of it goes to salaries, health care, facilities upkeep, etc. Only about $250 billion/yr is left for your imagined "complex". The U.S. economy is about $23 trillion/yr. You won't swing that economy with a measily $250 B.
And you aren't figuring the addition to the GDP from not having those nice Chinese controlling the world's sea lanes by knackering DoD.
As for the vaccine innuendo. Yes, there is one study on the H
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The question is not if it's been "linked to", but if there's a causal factor.
A common example is ice cream and sexual assault. Ice cream sales have been linked to sexual assault. Now obviously there's not a plausible mechanism between the two for a causal factor, but there is a third factor - warmer weather, which is likely the causal factor for both ice cream sales and sexual assaults.
So the question is if
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, because the thought process matters. If you say exactly all the things I want to hear, but you come up with the answers by using a magic eight ball, then your answers don't matter. I need to know that you came up with your answers via critical thinking and understand why they're the right answer.
If you go around saying the nonsense he does about vaccines, then you're not capable of the level of critical thought necessary to be a leader. I would not trust him to make any decision of any real importance. This bitcoin stuff is another giant red flag too.
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Well, we can all wish and hope for someone smart as a president someday. Or we can wish and hope for ANY politician to be smart someday. But it's all just wishful thinking and precedent is discouraging in this regard.
Now historically, presidents were often rather "smart" in the educated sense. Very many had very good education or were well known for becoming self educated well beyond the average in overcoming their own humble beginnings. However that is historical; in recent history it's much easier to
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:4, Insightful)
All of it. He is an anti-vaxxer, whose views would cut the US population to a tenth of current levels through disease. Hey, I'd like a lower global population, but not through wholesale slaughter of the living.
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So his vaccine views are more important than ending the military industrial complex?
You seem to be obsessed with this idea that he will tear down the MIC. Just how do you think he will do that? Is he the magic candidate that will get all of congress to fall in line?
You're being sold a lie, a fantasy, and I'd be posting AC too if I were that gullible. Tearing down the MIC and ending wars is not a real functional policy. The only thing you have to judge a candidate by is their mental capability. His vaccine views are a demonstration of that.
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So his vaccine views are more important than ending the military industrial complex?
Yes a thing that exists is more important than some conspiracy shit you've made up in your head.
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Clear signs of insanity are a cause for concern. Sure, the guy who escaped from the asylum claims to want to stick it to the man, and you may be for sticking it to the man, but that doesn't mean you should want that person in charge of anything. A candidate may as well claim to eliminate death and taxes at which point someone will say "I'm all for that, I'm voting for him no matter his goofball views about the reversal of gravity!"
Being an anti-vaccer means that he has no clue about how to end the military
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Interesting)
No matter if you think it was done good or bad Joe Biden ended the Afghanistan war. Also has severly curtailed the "drone war" and put a rule in place that any strikes or raids out of war zones need prior White House signoff.
Also has managed (in mine and manies opinions) the war in Ukraine to a very effective degee without involving any US personnel "on the ground" and while strengething American alliances in an effort most American's agree with.
You can not agree with a lt of the guys platform and not like that despite all those advances the military budget is still growing but he has been one of the most anti-war presidents we've had in a long time.
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That's a talking point, not an actual argument backed up by actions.
He didn't end Afghanistan.
He increased the drone war and signed a rule that gave the DoD and CIA ability to conduct operations on their own approval (Biden rescinded this).
He also assassinated Soleimani on another countries soil without asking them first.
He didn't start a war because he didn't get the opportunity and he was just too lazy.
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Also has managed (in mine and manies opinions) the war in Ukraine to a very effective degee without involving any US personnel "on the ground" and while strengething American alliances in an effort most American's agree with.
I'm a frequent critic of Democrats in general, and Biden in particular, but I have to agree with you on this. I can't imagine how better to have handled this war than this administration has done.
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Oh, and by "terrible job", I mean their insistence upon direct control prolonged conflicts and resulted in more damage and suffering than there needed to be. Johnson did it in Vietnam, Obama did it in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in each case the outcome was all the
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Exercises five times bigger would have involved more than half a million troops (five times larger than Able Archer '83), staged in countries that were mostly skeptical of getting involved in Ukraine. Everyone expected that Ukraine would fold in days, perhaps weeks. No one expected them to stop the invasion, much less push them back.
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Able Archer used mostly troops that were already in Europe, with the exception of the naval component (and even much of that was European). You have no idea of the logistics required to move a quarter of a million troops (because that's what the US would have to supply at a minimum) in such a short timespan.
Poland isn't the only ally in NATO. Most of the rest of NATO didn't want to get involved beyond token assistance, especially France and Germany, the latter of which had to be shamed into donating anythin
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A fully defensive war where we are backing the side with almost total moral authority and not a single US soldier is on the ground starting.
What's not anti-war about defending countries from aggressive foreign expansion? Is the anti-war position to let stronger countries invade weaker ones with no resistance?
Appeasement is pro-war as is begets more war.
Re:RFK is running on, and ruining, his father's na (Score:5, Interesting)
I actually feel that this is a fundamental problem with US politics: people choose candidates who agree with them on some key issues, regardless of anything else these candidates stand for. So Trump can say that he's going to use the government to attack political opponents as soon as he's elected, and that he's going to undermine democratic institutions, and effectively end the separation of powers, and people largely don't care, because they agree with him on his stated positions on immigration or his opposition to international collaboration on climate change.
But this is plainly a very dangerous situation, because you can not trust these politicians. You can not trust them to make rational decisions when in power, and you can not even trust them to hold up the most fundamental principles of our governmental system.
I'd rather vote for somebody who is sane and stands behind our system of government, than somebody who agrees with more of my political positions.
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I actually feel that this is a fundamental problem with US politics: people choose candidates who agree with them on some key issues, regardless of anything else these candidates stand for.
I'd actually agree with you here.
The traditional complaint is that voters choose candidates based on the personality rather than the policies.
I think that's actually the right way to choose candidates, it's the whole concept behind representative democracy. I don't have the expertise to know if policy X is better than policy Y, so I want a representative I can trust to make that determination on my behalf.
I'm not an American, but I remember looking at Obama and thinking that he passed that test almost perfe
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You forgot: curtailing the military industrial complex, stopping CIA overreach and spying on American citizens, pro-health, ending the forever wars. That's the reason most people pay attention to him. Look a little deeper.
RFK Junior.
Giving curtailing the military industrial complex, stopping CIA overreach and spying on American citizens, pro-health, and ending the forever wars a bad name.
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When people start talking like that, I'm done. I don't need to perform an independent investigation to understand the guy is a tool.
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Most Dems are to the right of Ronald the Raygun.
Leftist is not a word.
All you need to know about RFK (Score:4, Insightful)
He's being propped up by Republican voters to give the illusion trust Joe Biden has a challenger. I don't think they knew how crazy and stupid he was when they bankrolled him...
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Re:All you need to know about RFK (Score:5, Insightful)
Haven't we had enough deranged lunatics in politics?
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Not to mention the damage caused by the last guy.
It seems like we've been scraping the bottom of the barrel on both sides of the Party.
....it could hardly get worse.
It could...especially if the "Second Amendment Solution" brigade finally gets up off their lazy asses and does what they've been bleating about.
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Ok, you got me on that...I'd not heard the term "Second Amendment Solution" before...what does that refer to?
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Nobody is stopping you from being a dangerous lunatic who is seeking the mass slaughter of Americans through disease. Which is a shame, personally I'd consider you an imminent danger to yourself or others and have you placed in a lunatic asylum.
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Well, that wraps that up (Score:2, Funny)
The Bitcoin platform? So much for credibility. What a short candidacy that was! And the end of the Kennedy legacy. Democrats Rejoice as another Biden challenger bites the dust!
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Democrats Rejoice as another Biden challenger bites the dust!
Not sure about that. I think the Democrats would prefer a never ending stream of unhinged republicans fighting with Trump. There's no better advertisement for the democrats than how republican politicians are acting.
Re: Well, that wraps that up (Score:2)
He is not that hip with his bullshit
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I expect my candidacy, and proposal, to be taken as seriously as RFK's great vision. He would make as great a president as any other human being, as you will all soon be replaced with popcorn.
Lunatics all around (Score:5, Insightful)
How does an idiot like that not filter out at the local government level? Oh right, Kennedy. Daddy's money and fame.
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How does an idiot like that not filter out at the local government level? Oh right, Kennedy. Daddy's money and fame.
Now you understand how we got nobility in Europe and how we got stuck with it.
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Well, couldn't be any worse than the current President and Cacklin' VP that can't seem to string together a coherent sentence even with teleprompters and detailed notes on who to call on (and what the questions will be) in a press conference.
Glad I'm not a Kennedy (Score:5, Funny)
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Imagine being a Kennedy / Mind filled with such serenity / Devoid of any amenity / Yet held in such great levity
Thanks for the witty brevity!
Sounds Good To Me (Score:2)
Now the government can concentrate on creating the ultimate illusion of contact with an 'alien' from Alpha Centari or some other far away constellation and then the world can unite and burn all the churches.
Talent skips a generation (Score:3)
Bitcoin is now "hard currency" (Score:2)
T-bills would be backed by hard currency, by gold, silver platinum or bitcoin
Um ...
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Right, this is propaganda written by someone with experience. Also:
"...reinforce the U.S. dollar's eroding position as the world reserve currency..."
We have a good idea where the author of this propaganda lives, and it is not in the US.
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Yeah, that's funny.
Firmly in crackpot territory (Score:2)
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Anyone who votes for him is self-evidently an imminent danger to themselves or others.
The British say it best (Score:4, Insightful)
The British have a slang word that most accurately describes RFK, Jr. He's a "nutter". "Nutcase" and "lunatic" don't properly describe him.
Re:The British say it best (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, Biden is doing fine. He's old and shouldn't run for a second term but I think he's still pretty lucid and his administration has done a pretty decent job all in all. The real judge of whether a man is an excellent president is not the man himself but rather the kind of people he has around him in his cabinet, his administration. While the president makes the ultimate decision, it's the cabinet who advise him on what to do. They are the specialists. Granted, he probably should not have chosen Kamala Harris as his running mate—I certainly was never going to vote for her during the Democratic Primary in California and it's common knowledge here that she slept her way to the top—but she's not unintelligent and I suspect that if Biden died or was incapacitated while in office she would be able to rise to the occasion. Despite the limitations of Biden due possibly to his age, he's got a lot of good people around to advise him and I suspect that he does not easily act on impulse and will act upon good advice when it is offered.
Now, in the case of Trump, he had a cabinet as well as other advisers made up primarily of right-wing idiots, conspiracy theorists, sycophants, and "yes men", along with a few capable people. Some of them gave him good advice but he generally refused to take it, often thinking that he was the one who knew best, whereas he would often take the bad advice of his bad advisors because they were in sync with his views and opinions of any given situation.
Given a rematch between Trump and Biden, I'll vote for Biden in a heart beat. While Biden may be old and decrepit, he's at least stable, savvy, consistent, and doesn't tell a lot of lies, whereas when compared to Trump... well, the less said the better about that incompetent sociopath.
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Isn't Photoshop just so damned useful?
And aren't you also such a damned useful idiot? Yes, you are.
Lyndon LaRouche (Score:2)
Of course it would be RFK who promotes this (Score:4, Informative)
Still another RFK crazy scheme. I invest in gold myself as an inflation hedge, but using it as the standard for a modern currency makes no sense. The gold standard, which basically means holding the money supply constant, worked in the age that RFK wants to take us back to - no science, no engineering, herbs and tinctures as medicine. In modern economies where science and technology keep making the whole pie, everything that can. be exchanged for money, larger over time. there is no substitute for having a central bank to manage the money supply to match the size of that pie, increasing over time. Even Switzerland does it that way now.
The cherry on top is that he wants to include Bitcoin as part of the standard. Yes, base our currency on an imaginary commodity which rockets up and down in price daily. So much BTC is held by anonymous ransomware operators that we have no idea how much of it is even in circulation. You can't use that as a standard for anything.
QAnon-style conspiracy nuts on the right and left (Score:4, Interesting)
Wi-Fi causes cancer and "leaky brain," Kennedy told podcaster Joe Rogan last month. Antidepressants are to blame for school shootings, he mused during an appearance with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender, he told right-wing Canadian psychologist and podcaster Jordan Peterson, echoing a false assertion made by serial fabulist Alex Jones. AIDS may not be caused by HIV, he has suggested multiple times.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign
Nutter (Score:2)
This guy sounds like a nutter. Getting far too common for presidential candidates.
No kidding (Score:2)
Remedying a serious deficit in his campaign (Score:2)
Not enough people thought he was batshit insane.
couple of things... (Score:2)
Big Endorsements (Score:2)
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The current Libertarian Party is controlled by far-right reactionaries who peddle election conspiracy theories that Trump won in 2020.
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Vote libertarian. It's futile but at least you aren't deciding which monster to vote for.
What a load of fucking bullshit.
Such attitudes may be funny when you're fresh out of university, but it's time to grow the fuck up.
Your crypto bet failed. Everything you have predicted is wrong. Time to accept that you're the problem in your own view of the world.
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Go look into what happened when Libertarians took over Grafton, NH. A Libertarian paradise became a site of chaos and bear harassment.
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Vote libertarian.
Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber...
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Vote libertarian. It's futile but at least you aren't deciding which monster to vote for.
I'd consider them but why aren't they calling out the constant government overreach? Government shouldn't be meddling with social media and asking young girls questions about their menstrual cycle.
Re: Not just Bitcoin (Score:2)