Daniel Ketchell

Dad. Chief of Staff, team @Schwarzenegger. Co-founder and customer service representative, The Pump. Baseball: Dodgers. .

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

#WinForVin but also #WinForHank

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

People who talk like this to strangers on the internet will inevitably also tell you how Christian they are.

Maybe all the anger is because they would have failed my high school statistics class at Bakersfield High and also my confirmation classes at St. Paul’s.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@krystalball Are you too retarded to understand that a candidate receive 24% of the in person vote, magically received 44% of the mail in votes…

…is statistically equivalent to winning the Powerball lottery 30 times IN A ROW

Explain how this is not cheating.

I’ll wait.

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

Here is the TRUTH about the Los Angeles mayors race…

MAGA on X is full of grifters and morons who both think an ad that goes viral nationally somehow has an impact on LA voters, and who profited from the narrative that somehow a Trump-like character was going to repeat the 2016 presidential election (the day Trump made uneducated people finally feel smarter than the elites!) in deep blue LA. This created lots of media coverage, which promoted the false impression of momentum for Pratt, convincing more morons that he was actually going to win.

But Pratt had no campaign infrastructure/ground game, and when Trump endorsed him, and he became a MAGA darling, he became instantly a toxic threat to most of the LA voters.

Meanwhile, Raman was not known to most of the electorate, which was not happy with the choice between Bass and Pratt. A late LA Times poll showing Raman beating Pratt and almost beating Bass gave her huge credibility with late deciders (there were many of these because of the muddied governors race). They saw her as Mamdani 2.0.

The seemingly odd pattern of the super slow results actually make perfect sense (and also bode VERY poorly for Bass in November, which destroys the idea that the Democrat establishment wanted Pratt out enough to rig the election). But MAGA media doesn’t want to admit they were SO very wrong, and because Trump has already set the precedent that whenever you lose you just claim voter fraud, that became the fallback/face-saving position for influencers across X. Trump, continuing the conspiracy circle jerk, was all too happy to amplify this BS narrative on Meet the Press.

Basically, this whole fiasco is the movie Idiocracy come to life!
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[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

@politicalmath Define “post-election” ballots.

I voted on Election Day - Tuesday. Dropped my ballot in a designated LA County ballot drop box in the morning. The vote was not counted until Friday. Embarrassingly slow.

But you consider it a post-election ballot because it was counted after?

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

I live in one of the many incorporated cities of LA where you don’t vote for Mayor.

I suspect very few of the people who liked Pratt’s videos on here had a vote.

I also suspect he didn’t have a GOTV operation to match Raman’s. If he did, they wouldn’t have let him go to NYC.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

Since everybody on X is an LA County voting expert:

I put my ballot in a ballot dropbox on Tuesday and it wasn’t counted for 3 days (which is embarrassing, but not fraud).

That means the ballots you saw hitting on Friday were not necessarily mailed.

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

The LA mayor stuff is the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard & makes no sense. Dem establishment/Bass wanted Pratt, not Raman, to advance.

Bass crushes Pratt in a 1-on-1 by 18 pt, while Raman beat Bass by 4.

Pratt's the rarity in LA less popular than the unpopular Bass!

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

@micsolana Did you watch the speech or just repeat what people on X said about it? If you watched, can you identify the basically concession part for me? https://t.co/Y6rSTh87UG

[(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten]

The LA mayor stuff is the dumbest conspiracy theory I've ever heard & makes no sense. Dem establishment/Bass wanted Pratt, not Raman, to advance.

Bass crushes Pratt in a 1-on-1 by 18 pt, while Raman beat Bass by 4.

Pratt's the rarity in LA less popular than the unpopular Bass!

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

@mattvanswol It is LITERALLY impossible - and it’s not happening. In the last ballot drop, she beat him 31-20, not 100-0.

But I don’t think you actually care about the truth. You care about narrative. And 31-20 isn’t as big and scary.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

In a state with the most incredible private sector innovation, 4 week vote counts are another example of the accepted mediocrity of our public sector.

People should be enraged by this.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

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[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Here at Enhanced Games to see records get smashed. Start of Human 2.0 - wonder when all athletes become Genetically Modified Organisms…

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

Nerd.

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Here is Human Enhancement expert, Bryan Johnson, answering the most polarizing question:

“Why weren’t more world records broken at the Enhanced Games?”

Watch for knowledge:

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

Do we need to wonder if Polymarket was in on the games?

The winner wouldn’t have hit your list. Rough to send 250k to a third tier athlete.

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

The 34 fastest 100M sprints in history...

Those in red were later caught doping.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

lol.

X engagement clearly doesn’t prioritize people who actually watch sports anymore. Which makes sense, when you consider everyone involved. “LIV is great! The Enhanced Games are great!”

Come to the real world.

[Josie Zayner @josiezayner]

Alot of people making jokes but did they expect all the best athletes to immediately just jump over?

How long though will it take though when gold medal olympians find out they can make a ton more money at the enhanced games Look what happened with LIV in golf

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

It was a joke. Admit it was a joke, or admit you’re paid by Thiel or just can’t admit he failed because of your politics.

They made a huge scene and then spent hours not even breaking high school records. Come on.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Overall retrospective on The Enhanced Games:

There are a few thoughts here to break down.

1) The athletes were so grateful to participate. They made so much money to be there, some $1M+ to participate. For them that was a new lease on life. For an athlete who is past their prime to be able to compete again, actually get paid, have support, they could not have been happier.

2) The athletes hitting PBs (personal bests) was actually interesting and a good to see. But who cares, right? What we want to see is WRs (world records) right? Sort of.

The athletes they got were mostly all past their prime. The pool they had to choose from had to be willing to take the enhancement drugs, be excommunicated from the traditional sports orgs for participating, have needed money, etc.

So basically they’re not the best of the best athletes that are enhancing (at least publicly in this event). Not jabs, reality of getting older in sports. And even then, many of them were able to perform the best they ever did in their lives with the enhancement. That’s actually a huge win and very cool.

And when you watched the interviews they’re honestly saying they FEEL the best they’ve ever felt. So good for them.

This is likely why several of the natural athletes outperformed the enhanced ones. Because those athletes were in their prime and training for the larger events. They were clean.

Of course the actual question remains: if you were to give an athlete in their PRIME these enhancements, how much better could the best become?

3) The Enhanced Games seems to be angling for some sort of subscription based supplement company model or something like that. In one of the interviews one of the organizers mentioned something like they’re using the event to collect data and want to sell supplements. So that seems to be the larger play: show people how drugs can improve their life, sell the drugs.

4) The event was clearly using science as the main patina to promote their larger business agenda.

TLDR: It was an interesting event. The athletes were over the moon grateful and excited to get paid (a lot). The organizers are trying to likely use this to promote some sort of supplement company. They got to expose the world to their drugs they’re trying to sell. Athletes got to hit PBs and feel great and play their sports again. It was overall a cool thing.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

“Keep your eye on (____).”

(_____) finishes last or second to last every time

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

The Enhanced Games were:

-Brutal for the people who response to every Arnold ( you can replace Arnold with literally anyone) post with “but steroids”
-Brutal for any Bryan Johnson fan (I have never seen someone be asked to commentate who knows nothing about sports and proves it)

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Everything about the enhanced games seems so deeply unserious and stupid.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

@42069pussyslaya @MattPiperJenks @nyjetsfanmike @NjTank99 @Schwarzenegger I agree! I think you’re doing great and the problem that freezes most people is overthinking, so I try not to make them think too much if they’re already winning. Thinking is only for when you hit a losing streak.

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

@42069pussyslaya @MattPiperJenks @nyjetsfanmike @NjTank99 @Schwarzenegger When somebody’s lost 100 pounds and hasn’t plateaued, our general philosophy is don’t fix what ain’t broken. Keep moving your way as long as it works. But add some strength training (because muscle gain helps make fat loss sustainable).

[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

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[Daniel Ketchell @ketch]

@MattPiperJenks @nyjetsfanmike @NjTank99 @Schwarzenegger I’m here for you, @nyjetsfanmike - get signed up, we will get you going. I’m pretty sure we are the only app where the co-CEO answers customer service tickets, or you can just tag me with any questions here.