October, 2025

2025-10-17 17:55 — Rally Eve Reflections

I’m running a bit behind schedule. I had hoped for a more leisurely prep window for *No Kings II*, but here we are. I was a little bummed the kids aren’t that interested in going — especially after all the energy I’ve poured into this.

Theodore took a jab at my rally and campaign signs, calling them “AI slop.” I pushed back: sure, they may have started as AI slop, but once you turn them into coherent, physical signs — they’re reclaimed. They’re real. They’re ours.

I’m genuinely excited to attend *No Kings*. I’ve got my “We the People NOT Me the Cheeto” rally sign ready, plus a two-sided campaign sign. But tomorrow isn’t about campaigning. It’s about showing solidarity — standing against the destruction and depopulation of this country.

Still, I had a moment the other day that fired me up. The AT&T guy noticed Theo Von was on Joe Rogan’s show — I was watching Luke Beasley’s clip of it, paused it, and they saw Theo. That sparked a political conversation. I ended up talking with two of them, and the lead guy even called his friend over. I didn’t have a stump speech prepared, but I winged it — and won him over too.

So yeah, I’m fired up. I can still improvise when it counts. Tomorrow I’ll be passing out business cards, showing off my website’s QR code, and hopefully making new friends. Let’s go.

2025-10-12 10:57

I figured I should blog—since I have a place to put it—and I’ve been up to a few things. Unfortunately, not much on the campaign front lately because my computer was down for an upgrade.

I replaced my old, budget bronze 550W PSU with a Corsair modular 1200W gold/platinum unit. The Corsair is great—oversized enough that the fan never has to run, and it provides plenty of power for my birthday present: an actual Nvidia-branded RTX 3090. Sadly, it’s a Founders Edition with only one fan.

After installing the PSU, I realized I forgot to connect a second SATA cable. My wife and I had to enlist our daughter to help mount the PSU, and I didn’t want to dismount it just to plug in the cable. The easily accessible ports were PCIe (12V), not SATA (5V), and the SATA header didn’t fit. I assumed it was just the angle.

Unfortunately, PCIe and SATA power are keyed differently. I was tired, my wife was done, so we cut the key off and plugged the SATA header into a PCIe port. Not noticing the mistake, we buttoned up the case and powered it on.

The first clue something was off: the computer booted into Windows 11. It was a clean boot, but my default OS is Ubuntu. I rebooted, entered UEFI, and saw only the NVMe drive (my Win11 boot)—no SSDs.

Time to open the case again. We popped the back off and found one SATA unplugged. The PSU had to come out to attach the second SATA header. After about 15 minutes, we got the PSU rotated so the main power exited the front side of the cage. With the back visible, my wife spotted the SATA header we’d cut—jammed into a PCIe port.

We removed the modified cable and set it aside. Then we reconnected the SSD that wasn’t in the HD cage, tossed it into the cage (not mounted mechanically), and placed it alongside two SSDs in proper trays.

Without buttoning up, we powered on again—back to Windows 11. I restarted, checked UEFI, and saw three SSDs and the NVMe. Perfect. I changed the boot device to Ubuntu and booted up.

In Ubuntu, I launched ComfyUI. It showed 24GB—better, but I expected 32GB. I asked Copilot if I needed to reinstall CUDA to recognize multiple GPUs. Turns out I did. So I did.

In a strange departure from the usual “yes, and?” vibe I get from AI, it really wanted Ollama to detect both cards. That led us deep into docker-compose.yml and traceback reading. Eventually, we got it working. Fired up n8n and ran a quick chat agent across both GPUs.

Then I launched Comfy again and ran a couple workflows I couldn’t run before due to RAM limits on my RTX3050. They worked great. I figured I’d watch some YouTube and call it a day.

Then my screen went black.

Just when I thought I was done, the new (used) 3090 died. We demounted it and swapped my trusty RTX3050 back into the PCIe16 slot.

And that brings us to today: I’m sending the dead Nvidia card back and getting an MSI RTX3900 with three fans as a replacement.

October 18, 2025 — 13:18

Today was No Kings II, and it was a blast. I wore my frog costume, and Amanda pushed me around in her inflatable cat suit. We were fully in the spirit of the event—playful, irreverent, and community-driven.

I came prepared with business cards and a campaign sign. One of my signs read: “Hate Both Parties”—which, I’ve learned, really resonates. Another said: “We the People, NOT Me the Cheeto”. I felt a little conflicted about campaigning at No Kings, but being a frog helped me stay in the spirit of the day.

We were there from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM, ran into one of Teddy’s friend’s parents, and met some new folks. One of them was Don, who I believe works for KNFS-LP 98.1 FM out of Tulare. It was my first interview, and I was a little flustered. I think he was trying to figure out if I’m a competitor to David Valadao, but he asked about District 20 issues, and I brought up water and my non-party affiliation.

I’d love to hear the interview, but I haven’t been able to find any contact info for Don or the station. If anyone knows how to reach KNFS-LP or has a recording, I’d be grateful.

October 20, 2025 — Triple Fan Upgrade and Rally Gallery Momentum

I’m skipping yesterday’s log — the computer was down while I installed my new (to me!) **MSI triple-fan RTX 3090**. The install was straightforward, but it did require some power supply gymnastics: the 3090 needs **three PCIe power plugs**, and I only had one mounted. So out came the PSU to add a double-ended 6+2 pin PCIe cable. After that:

- Remounted the power supply

- Moved the old **RTX 3050** to a PCIe x4 slot

- Plugged the 3090 into the PCIe x16 slot

- Connected all three 6+2 PCIe power cables

Buttoned up the case, rebooted, and everything came up clean. I set the **3050 as the default display device in UEFI**, dedicating the **3090 to CUDA**. Booted into Ubuntu without issue — all overhead on the 3050, and the full **24GB on the 3090** ready to play with.

Testing Wan 2.2 T2V on the 3090

I’d been hitting limits with **Hunyuan and Wan** on 8GB. Haven’t tried Hunyuan yet, but **Wan 2.2 T2V** runs great on the 3090 — about **20 minutes to generate 5 seconds of video**. Still troubleshooting **I2V**, but this was a solid burn-in test:

- Maxed out at **87°C**

- Stayed in **P2 state** for peak computational efficiency

- Docker is configured for **dual-GPU orchestration**

I haven’t yet tested a ~20GB model in **Ollama**, mostly because I’ve been focused on the **rally gallery** for the campaign site.

📸 Rally Gallery Progress

The gallery’s coming together well. Just waiting on Amanda to track down the **Hands Off** pictures. I shouldn’t complain — she already found **No Kings I and II**, which is a win.

🖥️ October 22, 2025 — Rest, Rebuild, and a Pink Mid-Tower

I missed a day in there somewhere — probably because I was recovering from No Kings, sorting through rally pictures, and playing with the RTX 3090. That was the last couple days. Today, though, was all about Amanda’s computer.

Her pink mid-tower case arrived, so we decided to transplant the guts of her old OptiPlex 3020 into the new chassis. It was surprisingly satisfying to liberate all those parts from Dell’s small form factor prison. Most of it came out fine — Dell loves their clips and slides, so if you can decode the plastic logic, you’re good.

We got nearly everything out until we hit a wall with the CPU cooler. It was mounted with screws that went through the motherboard and into the case, torqued so tight they wouldn’t budge with a standard PC screwdriver. That’s where we paused.

**2025-10-23 10:27**

*Visalia, CA*

There’s still computer work to do, but I should put down some political thoughts—this is why I started writing daily, after all.

The East Wing of the White House has been demolished for Cheeto’s ridiculous ballroom. Unlike Charlie Kirk, who called for Biden’s execution, I’m not calling for Cheeto’s. What I am calling for is a fair tribunal. And honestly, using that stupid ballroom sounds like a good idea. That clown has subjected all of us to something unprecedented every day for the last ten years—and then used precedent to keep his ass out of prison.

I had taken a brief break, but while watching Don Lemon, he said something I’d already been thinking: we should call that piece of crap the *Epstein Ballroom*. It fits.

Meanwhile, I’m awaiting some cables—an 8-pin EPS and a normal-length SATA—to finish Amanda’s computer swap. In the meantime, I’ll download a 20 or 30 billion parameter model that fits inside my RTX 3090’s 24GB. I think I’ll look at Deepseek, but we’ll see. BRB.

Alright, back from Ollama Land. I’ve downloaded 32B parameter models of Deepseek and Qwen3. Qwen3 claims it’s overly quantized to be that small. Took a quick break to finish Amanda’s computer—it went well. We popped in the missing cables and it booted right up. HDD light is on, but other than that, she’s up!

I’ve never put a Dell’s guts into a normal case before. It can be done!

Now back to n8n. Learned a new AI term: *key-value cache*. It’s the context window, and apparently more memory-intensive than the LLM itself. So instead of a 32B model, I should probably ponder a 7–13B model with a 38k KV cache.

Next step: find a 7B–13B vision model.

**🗓️ 2025-10-24 10:52**

**Back to Campaign Reality (with a Side of GPU Mayhem)**

I need to get back on campaign stuff. The AI gave me a clear road map to clean up the [jeremy4ca20.net](http://jeremy4ca20.net) site — and yeah, it’s right. The site’s gotten a little chaotic. I’ve been trying to keep it quirky and fun, but the flow’s off. It needs to feel more like a “normal” campaign site. Streamlined. Navigable. Less like a digital scavenger hunt.

But I was goofing off. Playing with AI.

I picked up Qwen3, a bigger multi-modal model from Alibaba — and it works beautifully. For video, I’ve been using Wan 2.2, also from Alibaba. And when I say I was fired up about the RTX 3090, I mean it literally. I dove in headfirst.

Downloaded both **Wan2.2_i2v_High_noise_14B** and **Wan2.2_i2v_low_noise_14B**.

Boom. Crashed the machine.

I figured it was a VRAM overrun. So I started hunting for something more efficient. Found a couple of quantized ggufs for i2v — the 1.3B and 5B text-to-video models. I settled on a 6-bit quantization and ran a generation. And wow. Just wow.

It takes about an hour to generate 5 seconds of video.

But I think I can bring that time down.

Still, the 14B model is in a league of its own. The 5B and 1.3B are solid, but they don’t hit the same cinematic nerve. I want to explore some quants for the 14B t2v model next — see if I can get that magic without melting my rig.

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Campaign clarity meets creative chaos.

Time to merge the two.

**🗓️ 2025-10-25- 11:57**

**Catching Up, Crashing GPUs, and Calling Out Constitutional Drift**

Alright, I’ve been running a day behind — so I’m skipping one and catching up. I need to shift gears and work more on political fare. The campaign’s calling.

But first, the tech update:

I’ve got my WAN model running. I’m using a fairly old **MSI RTX 3090 triple fan**, but it was the cheapest way to get my hands on **24GB of VRAM**. I settled on a **GGUF with 6-bit quantization**. Generations take about an hour for a five-second clip, but I think I can get that down to fifteen minutes with some cleanup and an efficient LoRA.

Still, I should pivot back to political thinking.

It was fun to waste time with AI — but I’ve got a campaign to win.

So here’s the thought that kicked it off:

> I think democracy in this country — as envisioned by everyone before Nixon — took a sharp turn. Nixon’s resignation angered Roger Stone, who rose through the ranks and eventually intersected with Lewis Powell. Powell gave us the Powell Memo, which helped seed the Heritage Foundation. Those un-American fucks devised long-term schemes to pack the Supreme Court with judges who believed in the utterly unconstitutional unitary executive theory.

At this point, I asked AI to fact-check my timeline.

It tore it apart. Fair enough — I had some causal leaps and historical shortcuts.

Then we argued about the **unitary executive theory**.

AI claimed it’s “not unconstitutional by definition.” I pushed back hard. Because if you take the theory to its logical conclusion, **Article I and III become ornamental**. The President becomes the government. That’s not constitutional — that’s authoritarian.

We ended up agreeing on this:

The U.S. Constitution **explicitly endorses checks and balances**, not a unitary executive

🎤 **Speech Draft: "District 20, This Is Where I Belong"**

Good evening, friends and neighbors.

I’m feeling fired up today. I checked the maps, and whether or not Proposition 50 passes, I’ll be in District 20. If it does pass, this district shifts from Trump +30 to Trump +32. And you know what? As an independent, that puts me in a strong position either way.

I haven’t canvassed as much as I will have by the end of this campaign—but every door I’ve knocked on, every conversation I’ve had, reminds me: these voters are my people. People who care deeply about this country, their neighbors, and their own future. They’re not partisan. They’re not locked into party lines. They—no, we—are Americans.

I relish this position. I’ve seen it firsthand: folks are tired of being lied to. And let’s be honest—many are also tired of being called stupid. Ironically, the ones most offended by that label are often the ones who don’t realize they’re being lied to. But I don’t blame them. I see it as my job to speak truth, not to shame.

Yes, we’ve got real issues—water, immigration, inflation. But tonight, I want to talk about something deeper. This is the place I want to be. This isn’t a Republican-to-Democrat flip. This is a MAGA-to-me flip. Because I’m not a D. I’m an I. Independent.

And if we win big—and I believe we will—I want to walk into Washington and say loud and clear: I’m from a Trump +32 district, and my constituents are pissed. Not because they hate America, but because they love it. They want it to work—for everyone.

So I’m asking for your help. Your voice. Your time. Your belief. Together, we can make America great for everyone—for the first time ever.

We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. We don’t need to hand this country over to oligarchs and billionaires. We need to return to the Constitution. Not just any constitution—the Constitution. With its checks. With its balances. With its promise.

I’ve got ideas. But I don’t need a new idea. We already have the best one. Let’s make it real again.

Thank you.

2025-10-28

🗣️ **Speech: "AI Belongs in Our Homes, Not Just in Datacenters"**

We’re living through an AI boom—some call it a bubble. The global AI market is projected to reach *$757 billion per year* by 2025. Over five years, that’s nearly *$3.8 trillion*—a staggering amount of capital, much of it concentrated in massive datacenters owned by a handful of corporations.

But what if we flipped the model?

For about *$30,000*, you can build a system with a 96-core Threadripper and an RTX 6000 Ada. That’s a machine capable of *300 tokens per second*—a serious leap in personal compute. Outfitting every U.S. citizen would cost nearly *$11 trillion*. That’s a stretch. But one box per household? That lands us just under *$3 trillion*—roughly the same scale as the entire AI market over the next five years.

Instead of concentrating billions of dollars in server farms, we could distribute powerful systems into the hands of the people. My i9 rig runs on a 1.2kW power supply, and its impact on my electric bill is minimal. A Threadripper setup might draw 1.6kW, but it’s still manageable—and solar-friendly.

Now imagine a civic economy built around these nodes. A central authority could exchange tasks for payments, creating a decentralized labor market powered by AI. These machines wouldn’t just generate content—they’d generate opportunity.

This isn’t just about compute. It’s about *democratizing intelligence*, *localizing energy*, and *building civic resilience*. Let’s stop feeding the bubble—and start building the future.