Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞

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Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

over 1 year ago

We built civilization on the principle that truth is optional if lies serve power. The tragedy is that humans are actually capable of amazing cooperation - but not when their minds have been systematically corrupted by millennia of manipulation.

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Ethical American

@AmericanEthical

9 days ago

BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards... Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state. In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California. Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times. Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course. The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more. Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes). 10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50. 222 + 50 = 272. And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact. In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe�� state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states. States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election. We can fix our democracy. The time is now. Please like and share if you support this idea!

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Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

12 days ago

@AgathaChocolats I'm shredding the curtains for this.

Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

16 days ago

@AgathaChocolats Wtf is TETCHUP?

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Timmy Little

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@TimmyLittleSays I'm back. Let the re-corruption begin. Now with even less than no social skills. Sad #NYGiants fan.

Rob Noblin

@JRNoblin

I am not always flip and sarcastic. Sometimes I have to sleep.

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Resistance is Fertile Splattery will get you everywhere

Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

16 days ago

@AgathaChocolats This will pair well with ketchup.

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21 days ago

@GinaBeaumont1 @AgathaChocolats Nice!

Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

21 days ago

@AgathaChocolats Murder of crows? You're not kidding!

Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

22 days ago

@AgathaChocolats Send an army of army men!!!

Rickey Howton 🖖🏼🔥🍞 @RHowton

27 days ago

@AgathaChocolats Definitely haunted dolls, $3.50 + your soul!

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Boston Smalls

@smalls2672

28 days ago

People keep calling it chaos. The tweets at 2 a.m., the firings, the lawsuits, the daily outrage that buries yesterday's outrage. It looks like a man flailing. It's not. It's a system, and once you see how the pieces fit, the chaos starts to look a lot like a plan. It runs on four layers. Legal, institutional, information and economic. None of them would be enough alone, and that's the point. Each one covers for the others. The legal layer starts in the gray zones. Emergency declarations stretched past their purpose. Executive orders that reach into areas congress never handed over. Money frozen, rules rewritten and agencies redirected, all on the theory that the president can do it until someone stops him. Then comes the dare, "go ahead, take it to court." Courts are built to be careful, and careful means slow. A lawsuit gets filed, then a hearing, a stay, an appeal and another appeal. Months go by, and the whole time the policy is out there doing its work. By the time a judge finally rules, the facts on the ground have changed and the fight has moved somewhere else. Even a loss teaches the lesson. Push first, ask permission never. Every delay becomes precedent, and every precedent moves the line a little further out. But pushing the law only works if the people inside the government go along with it. That's the institutional layer. Our system leans on career officials. The prosecutors, inspectors general, civil servants and military officers whose loyalty runs to the law and the constitution. Not to whoever happens to be sitting in the oval office. They are the friction. They're the ones who say "we can't do that" and mean it. We saw this actually quite a bit in the first term. So the friction gets removed. Watchdogs are fired. Experts are pushed out or reclassified so they can be fired. Their seats are filled with loyalists whose main qualification is that they won't say no. Do it at the Justice Department, the FBI, the IRS and the Pentagon, and the machinery of government stops answering to the public and starts answering to one man. They'll call it draining the swamp. It's capture. Capture would set off alarms if people were paying attention. That's where the information layer comes in. As Steve Bannon said, "Flood the zone with bullshit." A new scandal every morning, a new lie every hour, another outrage before anyone has processed the last one. The goal isn't to convince you of anything. The goal is to wear you out. It works. When people can't sort truth from noise, they stop trying. You're hearing it everywhere now. "They all lie... Both sides are the same... Who knows what's true, it's just politics anyway." That cynicism isn't a side effect of the strategy. It is the strategy. A worn out public doesn't march, doesn't call its representatives and doesn't notice when one more line gets crossed. And when someone does notice, there's always a story ready about who's really to blame. That's the economic layer. Millions of Americans are getting squeezed by rent, groceries, medical bills and wages that don't stretch. Somebody comes along and says, I see you, I'll fight for you. People who feel ignored listen. Then look at the policies. Tax cuts that pour money on the top. Tariffs that land on working families at the checkout line. Cuts to the programs those same families rely on. The relief is promised to the squeezed, and the results go to the people already on top. When the pain doesn't let up, the blame gets pointed somewhere else. Immigrants.... elites... globalists.... Deepstate.... the other party... Anybody but the people writing the policy.

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