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Richard Kim

@rkim3150.bsky.social
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Physician, Bay Area native, Bay Area sports fan, UC Berkeley grad

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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
maga is dumb AF lol there are still ppl so brainwashed they don't realize everything out of trump's mouth is manipulative gaslighting. There was a WaPo article last month saying the CIA assessed Iran had retained most of their military capacity. They can light up the whole Gulf if they wanted to
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An incompetent leader surrounds himself w incompetence, and this is the result. He led the US into a pointless war it can't win, one which every leader before him knew to avoid. Only sycophants surround him, so there's no one to check the hubris that leads us into these failures
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
From the moment he decided to drop the first bomb, there was no winning this war. So from that point on, it was a sunk cost. And by dragging this out for so long, he's made this into the biggest sunk cost fallacy of all time
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
these can only be drained to 20-30% bc of potential military needs, so you're looking at a 2-4 week supply before the shock hits. Prices would skyrocket afterwards
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
elon's company is operating at a significant loss so he gets to jam it down everyone's throats by forcing it to be listed on indexes, thus using us all to prop up its valuation. What a system
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
hardly any economic growth, inflation is up while wages and hiring are down. But corporate profits are still high. This means more struggle and suffering for everyday working ppl, while the 0.1% are accumulating even more wealth. I can't think of a situation where this ended well
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
maga is perfectly fine w this administration directly causing the humanitarian crisis in Cuba and at the same time will be against any moral obligation to help w the subsequent human migration
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
trump just stole 1.8 billion dollars from us and he no longer has to pay taxes. He and his family have taken in billions from the Saudis in both of his terms. His sons have received hundreds of millions in gov't contracts. No one should be ok w this, regardless of political leaning.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Last week they helped bring forth a new Jim Crow South by ending the VRA, which allowed for black ppl's interests to be given representation. This week they voided the results of an election AFTER more than 3 million ppl cast votes, bc they didn't like the results. The US is in a bad place
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
they're really reaching w this ballroom crap. Let's pretend this is about security like he says (it's not). This Cole Allen guy never even got close to him The ones who did were both outdoors. One at a campaign rally in the middle of a field and the other at his own golf course lol
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
this is an example of trump's biggest weakness in a nutshell. The Pope is an extremely popular figure. Meloni is like his only ally left in europe. But it doesn't matter... he is so insecure and his ego is so fragile, he has to attack anyone who he perceives is being "mean" to him
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
trump stupidly attacks them for no reason other than Israel wanted him to, and after he does that, demands that they never develop nukes lol. Bc of trump's actions, Iran's motivation to seek a nuclear weapon deterrent is now greater than ever. It's common sense
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Kernen comparing the current situation to Biden's is idiotic. Covid came out of nowhere, was worldwide and unprecedented. No one could predict its extent/duration. Supply chains were disrupted globally. All economic indicators said stimulus was needed to avoid economic collapse and mass
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
it took a hundred special ops, dozens of aircraft for air support, and billions of dollars of military equipment to save 1 downed soldier. Impressive rescue but also this should be taken as a hint to anyone w common sense that we need to get the f*ck out of there
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
trump+kegsbreath are out of control, and this disaster has potential to spiral completely. There's a military solution and diplomatic solution here. Anyone w common sense understands that diplomacy will be far less harmful and costly for all sides, and more long-lasting.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
if they do it, it would track, historically. Undeniably the dumbest person in history to hold the presidency, goaded into a pointless war w/o a plan or ability to achieve any objective, now choosing escalation bc he doesn't know how to get out. Stupid ppl continuing to do stupid things
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
just a catastrophic failure. Getting goaded into a war in the ME that no one wanted by a foreign power is bad enough. But the scenario of paying the cost of this stupidity w young American lives would be unforgivable. No amount of American lives is worth taking this option.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
trump started another war in the middle east bc his war strategy team consisting of Netanyahu, 95 yr old Rupert Murdoch, and some fukn podcasters told him to
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
it would be insane to actually follow thru w this threat but if he does, Iran has the capability to basically cut off oil to the entire region. And no doubt they will start doing that. One of the things that will result is a long, painful recession.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
big picture summary is that... trump killed the nuclear deal Obama negotiated. Then, when they were on the verge of a new deal, bombed Iran bc Bibi got nervous and told him to. Now, he leaves a mess, Iran still has enriched uranium and they're more incentivized than ever to develop nukes
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"all they are doing is clogging up the strait". Oh is that all they're doing? Clogging up that little thing called oil that all of society/life in the world needs to function? No big deal then. It's not like it has a stranglehold on the global economy rn or anything
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
best chance of preventing a nuclear Iran was diplomacy+containment. Anyone w a brain understood this. Obama got done the best deal possible and trump killed it. It’s not possible to bomb Iran out of nukes. They can still easily do it, they have the knowledge and the uranium
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
bc of the globalized economy, the two most powerful forces in the world are the bond market and the price of oil. If oil prices skyrocket, those in power will not survive it, including the billionaire class. Epstein may not be an existential threat, but this is
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
the idiot in charge was listening to Netanyahu and Kushner instead of US intelligence
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
let it bury him then. Bc of the globalization of the economy and the banking system, there are basically two forces that run the entire world - the bond market and the price of oil.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
ah yes, they're attacking classic military structures like hospitals, health facilities, elementary schools, and desalination plants lol
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"it's war, ppl will die" has always been the safe space for ppl to direct/frame discussions when they're unable to provide evidence of larger strategic objectives or even self-interest that warrant civilian harm. They keep repeating it bc they can't come up w moral justification
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
it's insane that this helped drive this country into war. This is straight up religious fundamentalist shit. Like these are the ppl who believe Jesus will not come back until Jewish ppl get back all the land they had in the bible. The US has gone unhinged
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
the fact that Israel has way more pull in whether the US goes to war than US citizens or Congress is insane... and ppl are just accepting it
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The only way to stop a country as big as Iran from getting a bomb is regime change, and regime change would require full ground invasion. They’re making contradictory statements
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
they killed the only people capable of attempting any sort of regime change and trump calls it a resounding success lol just insane
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
as many have already noted, the problem w taking out the bad guy is that there is a high likelihood the next guy is just as bad and hates America just as much. It has happened in many different countries
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Over the years trump has received hundreds of millions from pro-Israeli interest groups (eg: the Adelson's) and AIPAC money. His son in law is Kushner. Israel gets billions in military aid from US Trump is 100% transactional. He was always going to do what Israel told him to.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
if trump had not sabotaged the Iran nuclear deal in his first term, no one would even be discussing their prospects for nuclear weapons today. The only threat to America here is trump's own incompetence.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
all bets are off, bc we know they are incompetent. When you drop bombs on a country and shoot ppl, things often don't fall in line like dominoes. Things can easily get out of hand and spiral, in directions you weren't planning for, esp when it comes to something like regime change
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
there is no way this idiot in charge or his circle of sycophants are smart enough to understand what kinetic regime change in Iran is going to entail. This is absolutely nothing like their little kidnapping of Maduro
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
this is not an exaggeration. It will take decades to recover, at least. It must be understood it's not just RFK's doing. It's systematic. Funds that have been congressionally approved to go to science agencies are being withheld
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
insane. So, Ellison and Bari Weiss will now control CBS, CNN, and HBO. Pretty good bet John Oliver/Last Week Tonight will be canceled. More loss of media independence. More concentration of media outlets. More democratic erosion. More authoritarian drift.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
to be clear, this would indicate that their goal is total democratic collapse, as free+fair elections are the foundational basis of our society. This is an end stage dictatorship behavior. Even authoritarian regimes like Hungary/Turkey/Russia did not start by canceling elections
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
What they're doing is low. Destroying social safety nets and programs designed to help ppl isn't good politics. They know this. So how do you create a narrative to get ppl on your side? Simple. Like Vance is doing, you scream it's all fraud, w/o any evidence to back it up, and get ppl worked up
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
tomorrow congress will be confirming Means to be US surgeon general. This is a person who dropped out of residency and doesn't have the training or a license to even practice medicine in this country. So, what she will do is all she can do - grift and peddle all the BS RFK tells her to
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
and the ppl gunning for him have all been trump supporters. Almost as if maga is mental illness
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
oh wow
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
agree. Authoritarian systems do not happen suddenly. Look at Hungary/Russia/Turkey/etc. It happens incrementally, and experts are identifying the authoritarian transitioning in real time w the US. The endpoint of the trump regime's democratic erosion is democratic collapse.
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Orban is an authoritarian whose gov't centralized all of the country's media, silenced all critics, and took over the courts and court appointments. His gov't rewrote their constitution and then changed electoral rules to disproportionately favor him. Sound familiar?
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
ah yes, this country's deep "English-Scotts-Irish" roots. This Nazi was really given unrestricted access to everyone's sensitive info in government databases
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
straight out of their playbook. Create a nonsense argument (eg: illegals voting/early voting/mail in voting) and then fear-monger about it nonstop. Illegals voting is not backed up by anything. There are already obstacles in place to voting. And severe penalties for voter fraud
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"the Dow is over 50,000 dollars!" lol an all time unhinged rant. The maga/trump movement promising to expose the dems by releasing the Epstein files will go down as one of the biggest self-owns in history
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
damage being done here is massive but most ppl aren't even aware bc this barely makes the news anymore. Why would pharma invest in developing vaccines in the landscape the trump admin has created. This basically would end vaccine development. It would impact the entire population
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Richard Kim @rkim3150.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Gabbard tried to be a spy but she failed bc she was so bad at it. She literally cannot keep a secret. She is highly compromised and trump made this person Director of Natl Intelligence. No one should be surprised we now have foreign spies making calls to the white house
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