I think any economic system that requires the US to be policemen of the world is too fragile to exist, which is why you are seeing globalization fail.

Any company that didn't take heed when global supply chains were completely disrupted by covid deserves to fail.

Anonymous wrote:I find him compelling.

He wants to scale back the military-industrial complex and reduce our involvement in foreign conflicts.

He has a tremendous record of environmentalism.

He is anti-mandate. Most people are not "anti-vaxxers", they are concerned about the government coercion involved with the covid vax.

In a global pandemic with a new virus that kills people, the way to ensure public safety is to get people to test and vaccinate. States where people did this had less negative health impact and deaths that states and countries that didn't.

We already have "coercion" of vaccinations in the form of all of the shots babies and kids get for the 18 years before they are adults. There is a reason that until very recently, Polio was a thing of the past. Now, it isn't because of lunatics like RFK, Jr.

Anonymous wrote:I find him compelling.

He wants to scale back the military-industrial complex and reduce our involvement in foreign conflicts.

He has a tremendous record of environmentalism.

He is anti-mandate. Most people are not "anti-vaxxers", they are concerned about the government coercion involved with the covid vax.

Our corporations and economy depend on a stable global order. If the US isn't acting as the leader in maintaining that order in the form of helping countries affirm the integrity of their borders and having enough force to minimize the threat of domestic terrorism, no one else will. The result is a netowrk of strongment who actin a a borderless manner to rule. We are already seeing that emerge in Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, where those countries are taking land and threatening their neighbors through aggression.

So yes, in a perfect world with benevolent leaders everywhere, it would be great to reduce the defense spending and reduce the impact of the miltary-industrial complex. We don't live in a perfect world.

I find him compelling.

He wants to scale back the military-industrial complex and reduce our involvement in foreign conflicts.

He has a tremendous record of environmentalism.

He is anti-mandate. Most people are not "anti-vaxxers", they are concerned about the government coercion involved with the covid vax.

Oooof. I can’t listen to him.

Anonymous wrote:His own family denounced him.

Reminds me of Rep. Paul Gosar (Q-AZ)

His own family denounced him.

This video of his announcement is hilarious

Anonymous wrote:He’s running in his name. He’s a nut job. He’ll pull from dens I think. And so do his republican backers which is how he’s doing this.

No, Democrats won't vote for this guy. He's basically an anti vax MAGA who doesn't like Trump.

He’s running in his name. He’s a nut job. He’ll pull from dens I think. And so do his republican backers which is how he’s doing this.

I think he is entering the race to pull votes away from the R candidate, most likely Trump, by being just as batshit crazy as they are. I hope it works.

Anonymous wrote:People don't know much about him except his vaccine conspiracy theories. Therefore he will be appealing to conservatives and therefore the GOP will bury him in negative ads.

Democrats did enough research into him to discover they don’t like him and Republicans did enough research to realize they really like his brand of insensible crazy, plus cheating and cruelty?! That’s a GOP trifecta!

Does Trump have the conspiratorial loon vote locked up? Or can RFK Jr attack him for being "for the vaccine"?

People don't know much about him except his vaccine conspiracy theories. Therefore he will be appealing to conservatives and therefore the GOP will bury him in negative ads.

Any idea who he will pull votes from in the key swing states? Since those few states that are within 1-3% basically decide the election, this could have an impact.

Are Dems or Republicans more likely to vote for him? Any data?