[ExI] I wish this was fake news

[Angel Z. Lopez]

What are your opinions on mind hacking? People are working on implanting
“seeds” in humans in order to re-wire their brains to behave differently
and essentially become a different person.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:09 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:01 PM, William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guess who is in charge of party politics in the states?  Dems and Repubs,
> > who want vast number of signatures for a third party.
> >
> > What we need is someone to come out of nowhere, like Obama did, but be
> > independent, like Wallace and Perot (was Perot ind.?).
>
> No, we do not need someone.
>
> We need a lot of someones.
>
> The chances of a non-Democrat & non-Republican president winning go up
> dramatically if many members of Congress and state governors are
> obviously affiliated with said candidate.  Further, even if an
> independent president were elected, you need an ideologically aligned
> Congress to get stuff done - as Trump has shown, for better and for
> worse (notice where Trump has had success, and where Trump's wishes
> have been denied by Congress).  Obama demonstrated this too.
>
> Now, these Congresspeople and governors may themselves be Democrat or
> Republican.  (Although, for the kind of president we're promoting, few
> if any Republicans would be willing to buck their party and support
> someone who, for example, insists on truth and sound logic on issues
> like immigration and unemployment, rather than just claiming
> immigrants are the "they" we must unite against, and claiming that
> people who intend to hurt American coal and steel - rather than
> automation and reduced demand - are responsible for the loss of coal
> and steel jobs.  TBH, the Democrats could do worse than promoting a
> party of responsible investors as their competition, and with them
> squeeze the Republicans into irrelevance.  Even those who lost their
> seats would still win, by being in an America that supports them and
> their values better.)
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