This election cycle, I've found myself dodging political discourse—a stark contrast to my past passion for these discussions.

I've been thinking about why that's the case. In fact, I love any conversation about how to make our future better. An attempt to arrive at the truth is what I'm doing here.

But a cultural shift seemed to cause a change within me. I still felt the urge to speak up and say my piece, but I noticed inaction on my end.

Not inaction from fear but from a disciplined resistance.

But a renewed sense of optimism emerged that cast the disillusionment to the wayside.

I previously warned that an authenticity crisis was surfacing in the culture. Social algorithms prioritize engagement, a euphemism for addiction.

Consequently, many creators design content that doesn't satisfy but instead fuels outrage and intoxicates the audience.

This constant adaptation to algorithmic incentives dilutes the authenticity of communication, eroding meaningful discourse both online and in person.

What once was a tool to drive engagement online has now influenced real-world discussions in unsettling ways.

Another major issue is the 'mainstream media's' unapologetically biased and seemingly coordinated messaging.

I think it's a related issue because I would argue that the underlying philosophical impetus to the seemingly coordinated ideological transmission latched onto people's minds like a virus through social media, an ideology that would have died if it was localized to a physical community. Elon articulates this nicely on a previous podcast with Joe. https://youtu.be/tAJUwiAqW38

These two issues are disheartening and pose a direct threat to what I value most: the pursuit of truth.

This would be an existential crisis for humanity if it weren't for an alternative—an alternative that has the power to turn these issues upside down.

Long-form podcasts and independent creators.

These are spaces where the conversation doesn't end at a convenient soundbite but rather flows naturally over hours and pages, where ideas can evolve, arguments can breathe, and listeners and readers can truly understand—not just react.

This shift represents a powerful counterbalance to traditional media—one that champions depth, nuance, and authenticity over sensationalism.

Podcasters and writers who retain their authenticity and refuse to corrupt themselves in favor of the truth will win for themselves and society.

Evident by Joe Rogan's interview with Trump, which had 43 million views in 7 days!

As of November 2, 2024, Joe Rogan has hosted Trump, Vance, Fetterman , and extended an invitation to Kamala, who I hope makes an appearance on the show.

I don't have hard data to prove that podcasts and newsletters will significantly impact the election. But I believe, in hindsight, this election will be seen as the turning point.

How could it not?

Truth emerges from the battlefield of ideas, where each must be given room to clash and contend. True discourse requires the expanse of uncensored hours and pages, not mere moments of restricted dialogue.

I've seen the power of podcasts for over 10 years now. They've highlighted great ideas and terrible ideas in many realms of thought. It's about time politicians started making rounds.

What's amazing about this to me is that long-form podcasting allows you to hear the interviewee having a 2–3-hour conversation. All the political doublespeak, canned responses, and lies come out in a discussion that long. It would be so unnatural for someone to speak as they do in a political press conference when they're just having a face-to-face conversation.

I want to see the candidates as people, and I want to see that they're not trying to pull one over me. I want to see that they're intelligent, that they know what they're talking about, and that they can have a conversation about their subject matter for three hours.

I saw this with RFK Jr. throughout the race. He interviewed many of my favorite podcasters, all of who asked him questions from different angles. He did Lex Fridmans, Joe Rogan's, Jordan Petersons, and TheoVon's podcast.

I was able to see him and his ideas in a different light and more expansively.

I hope this is the final election cycle marked by baiting, algorithm-driven discourse, headline manipulation, and political gaslighting.

In the end, it's about the pursuit of truth, and I think we may have lost our way. This disillusionment led me to avoid political conversations altogether. Yet, independent creators renewed my hope for the future of media and the discovery of truth.

For the entire piece, please go check it out here: https://www.frontierletter.com/p/out-with-the-noise-in-with-the-nuance?r=jzsh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Have a safe election week, my fellow Americans!

Trump effectively said, (and I’m paraphrasing): “she’s a war hawk, let’s see how she likes war if you give her a rifle and she’s got 9 barrels shooting at her. They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington saying let’s send 10,000 troops to fight the enemy”

The fake news media cut off the last part and made it sound like Trump made a death threat.

Anyone on social media can easily access the interview, so they are counting on people to react to the headlines without watching the video. No wonder the MSM is hated.

As news has shifted from legitimate TV journalism to streaming information from social media platforms, I can only wonder how the phasing out of free Over The Air OTA TV broadcast has impacted society.

Cable or Satellite TV is expensive and many can't afford. I grew up on antenna TV and I admit the choices were few but everyone saw the same News.

The Facts

• The US Dept. of Justice (DOJ) has indicted Raul Gorrin Belisario, the owner of Venezuela's state-owned media company Globovision, on money laundering charges linked to the country's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).[1]
• The indictment claims that as part of a $1.2B scheme, Belisario paid hundreds of millions in bribes to Venezuelan officials in exchange for foreign currency exchange contracts with PDVSA.[2][3]
• The DOJ alleges that with the foreign currency, Belisario and his co-conspirators purchased real estate and yachts in the US, among other luxury items.[4]
• Belisario is known as a member of the "boliburgueses," a group of wealthy elites with ties to the old Hugo Chavez regime. He purchased Globovision in 2013 and reportedly reduced its criticism of Pres. Nicolas Maduro.[2]
• He faces 20 years in jail if arrested and convicted, though he remains at large. This is not his first stint with the US justice system, having previously been accused of money laundering in 2020.[1]

Read the full story here

The pundits in the media are now acting as if a "October Surprise" is just something little known that becomes a media story in the last few weeks of an election. That's not what an October Surprise is!

An October Surprise is an outrageous claim made by a campaign which is made when there is no time for the media to fact check it. The classic example is John Kerry being smeared in the last two weeks of the 2004 campaign.

The Trump campaign is no doubt planning an October Surprise and it's going to be AI generated and disgusting and repellent. Hopefully, people will consider the source and ignore it.

Mission Statement for Post:

This post is an example of how "Flip Flop" some media persons are, when they change their whole character promotions 'for a paycheck".

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Chris Cuomo is desperately trying to make himself relevant. He has resorted to trying to slam Obama and slam Harris.

He sold his soul for a Job....

He claimed to be Liberal while on CNN, and now he goes Right Wing Conservative, trying to be the top billing at NewsNation. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-cuomo-kamala-harris-not-a-godsend_n_67190803e4b0cd4214d81d95

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The fired CNN star and brother of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) did not come out in favor of the former president but at times leaned awfully close while offering his candid thoughts on Harris.

“Kamala Harris is not a godsend, alright?” he said. “You people didn’t even like her six months ago! Now all of a sudden, she’s Black female Jesus, the way Obama was Black Jesus. And let me tell you something. He had a lot more going for him than Kamala Harris does — and not just as firsts go — but his type of campaigning, his type of persuasion, his charisma. He was imbued with things that she is not. And I don’t mean that as a criticism. It’s just a point of comparison.”

He added that the vice president’s alternative path to the nomination has “fucked her” by creating “misgivings.”

“There is an underlying feeling that she didn’t get this the right way, she may not have won a primary,” Chris Cuomo said, echoing a Republican talking point. “She didn’t even make it to the first round of primaries when she did run. And that is both fair and unfair at the same time.”

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He's did his 180 degree flip flop to try and garner the right wing support;

In March 2021, The New York Times reported that NewsNation hadn't lived up to expectations and was seeing low viewership. Six people at the time reportedly said that NewsNation was becoming increasingly right-wing and conservative in its presentation.

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Many people forget how he tried to insult and demean Charles Smith and Dennis Rodman and the team, when he took a Basketball team to N. Korea, , for purely Sports Cultural promotion of American Sports to play N. Korean Basketball Team. Chris Coumo tried to bait them into Political spin, for his own benefit, when they CLEARLY told him, they are not there for any Political interactions. It's a Sports Game dealing with the Sports culture of Basketball.

https://youtu.be/uCj99LB0hPs

When Coumo did that self promotions trying to make himself look important... he showed how much of a imbecile he is, and his total disregard of what these ball players who "repeatedly told him", They were not on a Political Mission.

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commenter said it plain and clear.

• Rodman is right...he gets it...he knows the power of western culture in the world...the key word is CULTURE. Trying to get this point across was frustrating Rodman cuz Cuomo doesn't listen.
• Blaming Dennis is ridiculous. He took the Harlem globetrotters with him. It was a big group that went to reach out to these oppressed people and put some light in their lives. What do they expect him to do? He's a basketball player. Not a navy seal or some kind of superhero. He did so many interviews about this that actually brought him to tears. Yes he.can be.a.jerk sometimes but not in this situation. It's common sense. There isn't actual journalism anymore. It's dumbed to being a Jerry Springer show. A good deed never goes unpunished.

In coverage of Trumps recent bizarre and ad hominem campaign speeches, almost every network and publication said that Trump made "False" allegations about VP Harris's drug use. No one said, baseless, or unproven, or without evidence. They all said false, which technically is not accurate unless the VP has taken a drug test. It doesn't help with peoles trust in media when it looks like all reporters are in cahoots.

Um, no, sorry The Guardian, I've supported you for years, but this is a bridge too far. So long, I canceled!

Holding AI Developers Accountable in the United States - read more here

Deepfakes are non-consensually AI-generated voices, images or videos that are created to produce sexual imagery, commit fraud, or spread misinformation. Between 2022 and 2023, deepfake sexual content increased by over 400%, and deepfake fraud increased by 3000%, even as deepfakes are poised to threaten democratic elections in countries across the world.

In February 2024, we launched a public campaign – the Campaign to Ban Deepfakes – supported by a diverse coalition including AI expert organizations such as Control AI and the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence, organizations representing actors and artists such as SAG-AFTRA, and women’s rights organizations such as the National Organization for Women, grassroots student movements like Encode Justice, and many other partners including Plan International, Christian Partnership, Equality Now, the Women's Media Center, and Wave.

It’s like the DNC gives them talking points and they faithfully parrot it.

Criticism of Reuters

One of the challenges of running a national news outlet is that every state is different. Reuters’ challenge is even greater since it is international. It has covered the developments with Kalshi and election betting, but all of the articles listed at https://www.reuters.com/site-search/?query=Kalshi have the same omission. In Wisconsin, it is illegal to vote if you have betted on an election. With Reuters’ wide reach, I would not be surprised if some readers from Wisconsin first learn about Kalshi’s Presidential or congressional control betting as a result of its articles.

Since Reuters doesn’t tell you that if you are from Wisconsin, election betting disqualifies you as an elector, those who do election betting might decide to go and vote. Because Kalshi is based out of New York, it wouldn’t be hard for prosecuting attorneys to get a list of who bet on the election and compare it with records of who voted. In recent years, Wisconsin has repeatedly prosecuted electors who vote while being legally disqualified from doing so.

Reuters-reading Kalshi customers from Wisconsin could get prosecuted for an offense which was unbeknownst to them. My wish is that Reuters will show appreciation to its readers by taking steps to prevent them from getting inadvertently charged and fined.

However, my previous request for an article correction has gone unheeded. This makes me consider that Reuters is acting in an unethical manner. Reuters should assure its readership that it has not been corrupted by moneyed interests.

To verify the claims above, read https://doorcounty.substack.com/p/october-2-2024-federal-court-appeals-decision-kalshi-election-gambling, and also follow the links at the bottom of https://doorcounty.substack.com/p/excerpt-from-brief-local-notes-november-8-1894. Or consider the statutes linked from the state website in the following section:

Summary of statutes

I looked up what the criminal penalties are for voting in Wisconsin after placing an election bet.

Wisconsin penalizes betting as a Class B misdemeanor, 945.02(1), but voting after betting on an election is a Class I felony, since it violates 6.03(2) and 12.13(1)(a). The penalty for a Class I felony is listed in 939.50(3)(i), it is “a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 3 years and 6 months, or both.” That is much steeper than the maximum penalty for a Class B misdemeanor, which is “a fine not to exceed $1,000”, 90 days in jail, or both.

If you only attempt to vote, but you are not allowed to, it is not a felony, but a Class A misdemeanor, 939.32(1)(bm). Then the maximum penalty is only 9 months in jail, a $10,000 fine, or both.

If you write about election market news, consider the state code about solicitation, 939.30. The way solicitation works under 939.23(4) is that if the article or video you’ve created about election betting indicates that you are “aware that his or her conduct is practically certain to cause that result”, that is, the result of someone voting after betting, it counts as solicitation. The best practice, if your audience might include some Wisconsinites, would be to include a note about how in Wisconsin, you aren’t allowed to vote if you’ve placed a bet on the election. Readers from Wisconsin, for the most part, don’t know you can’t vote in an election you’ve bet on, so if you promote election betting, it is likely some will inadvertently commit a Class I felony if they bet on the election as a result of your work. Soliciting to commit a Class I felony is itself a Class I felony.

While usually one might think that prosecutorial resources won’t be devoted to hunting down every disqualified elector, there is always the possibility that one or more races this November might be close. If a candidate loses the election, but not by much, he or she might ask for, or even demand, an investigation into how many disqualified electors were able to successfully cast ballots. If the total number of disqualified electors ends up being larger than the margin of victory, that could become part of an argument in court to challenge the election results. Such a scenario could involve law enforcement in Wisconsin spending considerable resources to obtain evidence of who placed bets, so that the names can be compared to records of who voted.

A look at a venture capitalist who funded an election betting operation

Searching for the name of the business which is taking election bets, I came to https://www.sequoiacap.com/companies/kalshi/, which describes it as being funded through Sequoia Capital. The venture capitalist lined up to invest in Kalshi is listed as Alfred Lin, https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/alfred-lin/.

Lin has varied interests; he was an FTX investor and served on its Advisory Board. He currently a board member for AirBnB: https://www.forbes.com/profile/alfred-lin.

Sequoia’s profile for him includes a link to his blog, https://outlierspath.com. His blog is worth examination.

Lin’s business is not only committing crimes itself, by taking election bets in states where election betting is outlawed, but is poised to lead many unwitting people in Wisconsin to commit a crime by voting while disqualified. I went through Lin’s blog to see what would explain his behavior.

The first post is titled the same name as the blog itself; it is about “outlier founders”. He describes himself as someone who stays on the “outlier’s path”. This may reflect a sense of entitlement, that the ordinary rules which apply to everyone else, don’t apply to him. If you or I ran a large program which led thousands of Wisconsinites to vote while disqualified, we’d be quickly prosecuted. But his gambling business, according to https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2024&id=D000098069, has spent $700,000 on lobbyists from 2021 through to the first half of 2024, and he hasn’t been prosecuted yet.

The last blog post is titled “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy”. He summarizes how you can change outcomes for yourself through “self-hypnosis”. While he makes good points about not sabotaging oneself through pessimism, it could be interpreted another way, to mean that if you are so full of yourself that you don’t think you have to obey the law, you can just wish it away and it will. People who self-hypnotize themselves into delusions of grandeur are normally in for a rude awakening, but if you are a multimillionaire, your wealth can give you the illusion that you can defy reality, and it will conform to your self-hypnosis.

The second-last blog post, “Ecstatic Highs and Suicidal Lows”, reflects better on him than the previous two, to my surprise. He describes sitting through a board meeting where the founder of the unnamed company repeatedly used the phrase, “ecstatic highs and suicidal lows”, which he and other members found questionable. He was correct in his skepticism. His idea of trying to dampen both extremes is also correct.

Some of the posts are not too bad. The third-last blog post, “Minor Course Correction or Completely Change Course” is written in a vague manner. It could be read to suggest that at some level he knows that his gambling platform business needs to “completely change course”. The fourth-last blog post, “Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking” describes a teambuilding exercise where they did improve theater. It appears basically harmless.

However, “Speed Above All Else” states, “6. You’re looking to hire people that are a little damaged / unhinged. Intensity does not come with “normal functioning people”. Drive comes from somewhere, not nowhere.” This is quoted from Tanay Tandon, who promotes Kalshi on X/Twitter.

Submission statement: The goal is to get Reuters' writers to change their ways and stop promoting election betting, particularly in ways that could get their readers prosecuted.

NBC News reports “At least 40 million Americans may be regularly targeted and fed disinformation within BLACK online spaces by a host of sources across social media, fueling false information around the election, according to a new report published Tuesday.”

It legit bothers me that the misinformation works so well and they continually lie because they know it will be regurgitated. This has bothered me so much that I actually started a project to address it a few months back called "Misinformation Kills". It was finished last week and so far, I've gotten great reception. If you've experienced this same thing from friends, family or anyone else. Just send them this.

The goal is to give a blatant look in the mirror, just to see how stupid they look and sound.

Misinformation Kills

I mean let's be clear, Fox settled out of court a $775 million lawsuit with Dominion Voting Machines because of their fake news. They are a propaganda channel that is helping destroy America from within.

For example, they parrot trump's "drill baby drill" at the same time that the U.S. produced MORE OIL THIS YEAR THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY...EVER!

I could go on for days but Fox isn't really a news network, so why the hell are they asking questions at WH briefings. It's pathetic.

I’m writing a paper on biases in media in reference to the recent Donald trump assassination and was wondering if anyone might be able to point me in the direction of some very left wing biased articles or large social media account as I already have the right wing side done.

What...?