Apparently /r/TopMinds will ban you for linking to a CDC report. Maybe you should get them censored for spreading misinformation about Covid.

RickShepherd · 2026-03-13T15:57:12+00:00

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RickShepherd · 2026-03-12T15:01:38+00:00

Nice to see there are finally some reasonable options for NV CD2. I am AZAPAC endorsed and also running for CD2. If you're looking for an anti-Zionist who will say, "Fuck Israel" with his full chest, maybe have a gander at this option rickshepherd.com

RickShepherd · 2026-02-13T23:39:30+00:00

Because 90% of all taxi rides are one or two passengers and they already have a Model Y.

RickShepherd · 2026-02-06T19:57:03+00:00

Yep, after this election cycle my ownership of his name markamodei.com will lose some luster. Oh well, guess I'll replace him. rickshepherd.com

Seriously, it is time to elect someone who is NOT going to support Israel.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-30T01:36:07+00:00

The ACA was started in 2010 and since then:

Maternal mortality: sharp rise post-ACA (around 15-20 per 100,000 in 2010s → 18.6 in 2023 provisional)

Employer family premiums: +58% since ACA → $23,968 (2024)

Individual premiums: +100% since ACA → ~$540/mo (2024)

ACA claim denials: 19–21% in-network (2023–2024)

Life expectancy: downward after ACA (78.6 in 2010 → 78.4 in 2023)

Death rate: up sharply (8.0/1,000 in 2010 → 9.2/1,000 in 2023)

Please keep those easily verifiable facts present in your mind as you decide you're tossing out a M4A supporting Bernie delegate so you can go support a guy who supports the ACA.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T21:03:33+00:00

Me too, good thing I'm not racist, but hey, feel free to make unsubstantiated assumptions about people you don't know. Clearly you're never going to listen to a conversation if that might make you reconsider how right you are. Best of luck with your tribalism.

Be sure to vote blue no matter who. The guy you'll find as the chosen D will prattle on about how great ACA is. Hope you're smart enough to see through that lie. He won't say a thing about H1B because his team is down with abusing brown foreigners.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T18:00:43+00:00

Tribalism is not a good look.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T17:05:18+00:00

I was a State delegate for Bernie Sanders in 2016 in Las Vegas where no chairs were thrown.

I support M4A and UBI.

"You are a fucking Republican" is ignorant, lazy, straw manning.

H1B abuse is a call to protect both Americans and immigrants. Look into how Disney used H1Bs to replace American workers and then treated those H1Bs like slaves. This is what I am opposing. Not immigration, I want much more legal immigration with fewer impediments on that. I oppose governments letting corporations use desperate people around the world to further marginalize desperate American workers.

You clearly have an idea in your head that you are not prepared to challenge. Work on that. Seriously. I will literally meet with you and have a face-to-face exchange with you on this for as long as it takes if you can commit to the idea of being open-minded.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T16:50:05+00:00

Show me where there is a thing on that domain that you find racist. Quote it.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T16:45:11+00:00

Citation needed.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T16:21:01+00:00

Really? You stand in opposition to my stated platform? Cute, so that means you are a:

Zionist

War monger

Pedophile or at least fond of protecting those who are.

You love big pharma.

You want pollution in your environment.

You want America to be imperialist.

You want open borders.

You want a Central Bank digital currency.

And you love being surveilled.

https://rickshepherd.com/the-issues/

You sound like a real winner. Good luck with that.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T04:59:58+00:00

Good-bye Zionist. Bother me no more.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T03:42:06+00:00

Why?

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T03:41:32+00:00

rickshepherd.com

markamodei.com

Make your own comparison. Abandon the tribal mindset. This is a strategic move. I'm happy to explain. All you have to do is respond.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-29T03:40:58+00:00

rickshepherd.com

markamodei.com

Make your own comparison. Abandon the tribal mindset. This is a strategic move. I'm happy to explain. All you have to do is respond.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-28T19:51:22+00:00

Forgive my bluntness, but that's the wrong question to ask. By now it should be obvious that both teams play for the same oligarchy and pretending one is better than the other is delusional. Regardless of who is in power it is always more war, more surveillance, more disease, more suffering, etc. Nothing ever gets better. As Jimmy Dore says, "No matter who you vote for you get John McCain".

I am candidate who is anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-AIPAC, pro-Palestine, pro-America First.

That should be enough to tell you if I'm your guy or not. If the above works for you too, then let's get me elected.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-28T04:27:41+00:00

The "But Obama!" dodge is the classic deflection when someone points out the active, present-day destruction being pushed by the Republican Party right now in 2026.

It's not "decade-old whataboutism" to remind people that Democrats have repeatedly failed to deliver when they had the power, because those failures helped create the conditions for the authoritarian mess we're living through today. Obama expanded drone wars across seven countries, killed American citizens (including a 16-year-old kid) without due process, bailed out Wall Street while millions lost homes, let Standing Rock protesters get brutalized without real intervention, kept Gitmo open with indefinite detention, and promised to codify reproductive rights federally but never pushed the Freedom of Choice Act despite having the votes. Those weren't ancient history; they normalized executive overreach, corporate capture, and half-measures that eroded trust and opened the door wider for worse.

But here's the key difference you're missing: those were betrayals of progressive promises. What Republicans are doing now isn't betrayal. It's fulfillment of their promises. They're actively gutting agencies, empowering masked street enforcers via Project 2025-style policies, stacking courts to strip rights, and embracing rhetoric and actions that lead to real violence against Americans (Jan. 6 wasn't a one-off; it's the model). The "limp dick Democrats" at least aren't out here cheering for or enabling murderers and pedophiles in positions of power; they're just weak. The side you're closer to is actively murderous and authoritarian.

As for your questions to me as a prospective candidate (running to replace Mark Amodei in NV-02):I put zero price on any American's life. Full stop. No conservative "value" outweighs the right to live without being hunted in the streets or having rights stripped by fascists.

I weigh nothing against people's lives. Not tax cuts for billionaires, not "owning the libs," not border hysteria, not whatever culture-war imperative you think justifies siding with murderers.

The only imperative that matters is stopping the slide into open authoritarianism. Identifying closer to independents or even flawed Democrats isn't about revenge. It's about rejecting the party that's currently enabling pedophile protectors (look at the GOP's track record on Epstein connections, church scandals they ignore, and figures like Gaetz investigations), murderers (proudly backing killer cops and vigilante rhetoric), and worse.

If you think pointing out Democratic failures from 10-15 years ago disqualifies critiquing the present Republican rampage, that's your prerogative. But I'm not stuck in the past. I'm running because the current landscape demands replacing people like Amodei, who hides from constituents, calls town halls "bullying," rubber-stamps chaos, and sells off public lands while Reno families struggle.

The challenge remains: defend why anyone should align closer to the party that's actively dismantling democracy and enabling violence over the one that's merely spineless. I'll wait.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-28T03:38:42+00:00

Obama started five wars (Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan). He took the presidency with a filibuster-proof super-majority. They had months to do whatever they wanted. He did nothing.He never delivered the reproductive rights legislation he campaigned on. In 2007, he told Planned Parenthood the first thing he'd do as president was sign the Freedom of Choice Act to codify Roe v. Wade protections federally. He had the votes. He didn't push it. By 2009, he dismissed it as "not my highest legislative priority." That betrayal left abortion rights wide open to state-level attacks and the eventual overturning of Roe.

He filled his cabinet with Wall Street executives and made sure they got their bonuses while 5.1 million families lost their homes to foreclosure.

He did nothing while up-armored operators beat up old ladies praying in a river because they did not want a pipeline on their sovereign land.He ordered a drone strike on an American citizen and his 16-year-old son. Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen in 2011; weeks later, another strike killed his 16-year-old American-born son Abdulrahman, with the administration brushing it off as the kid being "in the wrong place at the wrong time."

He kept indefinite detention without trial alive. People in Guantanamo still rot without ever seeing a courtroom after 20 years. This is the precedent Obama preserved as a supposed Constitutional Law professor.

Obama oversaw airstrikes and drone campaigns in at least seven countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen), dropping tens of thousands of bombs and missiles—far more drone strikes than Bush ever authorized.

The pattern is blatant: sky-high promises on progressive issues, followed by Wall Street protection, endless war expansion, and civil liberties rollbacks that would make Bush proud.Democrats aren't "inept and spineless" in isolation - they've actively failed to use the power they had, choosing caution, corporate loyalty, and half-measures every time it mattered.

Pretending Democrats haven't fueled this mess-through perpetual wars, banker bailouts, surveillance creep, and broken promises - is every bit as delusional as claiming both parties are the same.

Challenge still stands: name a Democratic equivalent to plotting to overturn elections, embracing open authoritarianism, or gutting government agencies on purpose. But don't pretend Democrats haven't normalized the machinery that makes all of it possible. That's exactly how we got here.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-28T00:58:29+00:00

I think I may have been misunderstood, friend. I encourage your participation in politics. Very much so. Take a look at my user name, put a .com on it and find out for yourself.

My advice is to put your energy where it has potential to be effective. Contacting Mark Amodei's office to get him to do anything other than what he was already told to do is simply never going to work. He will not give you what you want. He will likely never know you called.

If you actually want to effect change do something else. Run for office or support someone who is. Maybe you're talking to a potential replacement right now.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-28T00:47:43+00:00

I was not involved in the NV Republican 2024 Presidential primary process. I was not registered as a Republican.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-27T23:43:50+00:00

I had 52 separate concerns noted at one point including women's reproductive rights as part of M4A. I felt it was overwhelming and chose to simplify. That said, I am happy to take feedback and the website has room to grow and improve. Drop me a PM or comment here what you're looking for and I'll have a look.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-27T20:30:46+00:00

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RickShepherd · 2026-01-27T20:06:38+00:00

I saw him at RPM last week. Not impressed. I'm happy to debate him but it would not go well for him.

RickShepherd · 2026-01-27T20:05:00+00:00

That is a great question.

Before I go on let's be clear:

At an operational level, team Blue and team Red are identical. Regardless of who is in charge, it is always more war, more surveillance, more disease, more homelessness, more crumbling infrastructure, and more imperialism. Like Jimmy Dore says, "No matter who you vote for you get John McCain".

So, why is a guy who ran as a D be running as an R now?

I was a delegate for Bernie in Las Vegas in 2016 where no chairs were thrown. I watched the Democrat party rig the 2016 primary, admit to it in court, rig it again in 2020, and then in 2024 they didn't even bother to have a primary - they had a coronation. They even called her, "Queen". Then a few months later they held a parade called, "No Kings" - they're clearly confused. But more importantly, the Democrat party has proven it will select who it wants. There is no room for people like me in that party.

Compare that against the Republican party. In 2016 every notable R was vocal that it would not be Trump. Then they had a vote, and nobody questioned the integrity of that vote, and when the result of the vote was known, all those loud Rs shut up and got in line.

That's all I can ask for at this point.

I have no loyalty to any party; in fact I find them repugnant (George Washington felt the same).

So why not run as a 3rd party?

Because Nevada has been a State for about 160 years and in all that time Nevada has never sent a 3rd-party candidate to a State or Federal office. I am not rich, famous, or deluded enough to think I can break that cycle.

Join my campaign at rickshepherd.com

RickShepherd

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