Jesse Ventura

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MdWanderer

Pelican
Gold Member
Whatever merits Jesse Ventura may once have had (and I'm not sure I can name any), he hasn't aged well. The greasy, stringy hair, the endless rants about conspiracies lurking behind every tree and under every rock, and the shrill alarmist tone make for a telling picture.

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True but he's doing much better than a good amount of his 80s wrestler counterparts.
 
Quintus Curtius

Quintus Curtius

Crow
Gold Member
MdWanderer said:
Whatever merits Jesse Ventura may once have had (and I'm not sure I can name any), he hasn't aged well. The greasy, stringy hair, the endless rants about conspiracies lurking behind every tree and under every rock, and the shrill alarmist tone make for a telling picture.
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True but he's doing much better than a good amount of his 80s wrestler counterparts.
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That's hardly an accomplishment, MdWanderer. That's like saying that he's the least doltish in a room full of dolts.

Keep in mind, I have nothing against him personally. I'm sure he's an entertaining fellow and a generally agreeable one.

It's just that I'm tired of self-promoting hucksterism from our public figures. I just want someone who solves problems and gets things done. I don't want to hear about endless conspiracy theories, cover-ups, and the like.

He had his chance to translate talk into action when he held the governorship. And he ran out with his tail between his legs, accomplishing nothing.

And he whined the entire time about how everyone ganged up on him.

When the moment of truth came, the time to pull the trigger, the time for the real gut check, Ventura folded without a fight.

He belongs in the locker room of an old man's gym, telling stories about his imaginary glory as a SEAL, along with all the other buffoons.
 
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Fighting888

 
Banned
Let's grade Ventura on a relative scale.

How much has he profited off his connections? How much political/financial chicanery has he engaged in? Compared to the parasites that infest our political system today, Ventura is practically Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Maybe he's not a problem solver, but I think it's valuable to have someone who will challenge the status quo. Compared to your average political pundit on MSNBC/FOX/Talk-radio who promotes nothing of value, I think Ventura is far more insightful and gutsier. He's probably better as commentator than a leader, but he's one of the few prominent Red Pill takers with some amount of fame.

I don't see Ventura as a future president, but he's still far better than the current crop of clowns and criminals that pass as national leaders in today's USA.

A lot of his conspiracy theorizing is on firmer ground than people realize. At a very minimum, it gets people questioning the current social order - endless wars, oligarchization, etc.
 
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Carlos100

Kingfisher
Gold Member
Ventura's case isn't going so well at the moment. Even if the jury/judge, for some reason, takes his side in the decision, this is still making him look a lot worse instead of better. As I said, he should have let this go instead of deciding to sue Kyle's widow.
 
Nater

Nater

Robin
Bump.

Last week, I discovered Jesse Ventura. Seems like a genuine and frank guy. Also, a great debater. Sadly, he was buried politically by the media. Portraying him as the villain going after the widow of Chris Kyle. In 2012, he openly says that he would be running in 2016. Few years later, he's facing some allegations from the great "patriot" Chris Kyle, claiming Jesse sucker punched him in a bar. Chris Kyle dies, lawsuit goes automatically to the widow. Media jumps out on the occasion to bury him, suddenly he's this traitor going after the widow of a national hero. What a beautiful story... He's probably dead politically but this guy seems more honest than any other American politician I ever heard talking.

Back in 2012;




Fast forward to 2016;

 
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