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  • Oh, I don’t disagree, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a potential lose-lose.

    Best case scenario in my books is he becomes financially insolvent, he can no longer find any backers to finance his campaign, and he falls into obscurity. Basically the Alex Jones path.

    Second best situation is he’s convicted of something serious and put away for a long ass time.

    Second worst scenario is he gets a year or two in prison and it whips his followers into a frenzy.

    Worst case scenario is he faces no legal repercussions and is able to act with impunity.


  • I’ve always said he wants to be thrown in jail, because he thinks it will play into his followers’ persecution complex and lead to lots more fundraising.

    This scares the shit outta me. It’s literally straight out of the Hitler playbook. As much as I want to see him get his comeuppance, any persecution he faces is also going to cement him as a martyr and embolden his supporters. Sending him to jail is a lose-lose.

    This is also why, IMO, judges bend over backwards to be lenient to him. Any petty criminal who continually circumvented a judge’s directions would have been held in contempt long ago.











  • Is it possible that it’s not what you say, but how you say it? If your ideas are often helpful to finding a solution, you might not be objectively wrong, but maybe you’re coming across as too blunt or trying to force your solution above collective ideas. I struggle with this personally. One resource that I recall helping was “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie.