@JeremyCorbell@RepLuna It was weeks ago, posted and shared everywhere, and it was plain as day. I was shocked so many people were “behind” yesterday, but now I wonder why I was surprised at all 🤷🏼
Augustus is the best account you could possibly follow on this platform. I don’t know who he is, but his words speak to me in a way that just make perfect sense. Pure peace of mind.
Underrated life hacks:
- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
- always keep an open notebook and pen within sight
- halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work
- extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself
Thomas Massie will lose by nearly double digits. The reason is simple: Kentucky’s primary is closed.
Massie’s ugly coalition of anti-war leftists, anti-Israel activists, anti-Trump contrarians, online libertarians, independents, and Epstein-file obsessives only matters if those people are registered Republicans in KY-04. They overwhelmingly are not. Their sympathy for Massie is politically useless unless it exists inside the actual electorate.
That is the entire problem Massie faces. His national coalition is broader than his district’s Republican primary electorate, and especially broader than the voters who actually show up in a low-turnout primary.
The people most invested in defending him are the least relevant to the mechanics of the race. They like Massie because he is disruptive, anti-war, “anti-establishment,” anti-Israel, anti-Trump, or simply useful against the Republican consensus.
But KY-04 Republican primary voters are not looking for a congressman who is useful to Code Pink, Ro Khanna, or the anti-Trump right. They are looking for a reliable right wing vote.
There’s a brutal irony here: Massie’s coalition of subversive leftists wearing the Right as a skin suit won’t be able to save him. They can amplify him nationally, but they cannot manufacture a Republican primary electorate out of thin air.
The voters who decide this race are older, higher-propensity Republicans who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to Trump, hostile to immigration, and uninterested in libertarian process objections when those objections interfere with MAGA priorities.
Massie’s libertarianism was tolerated only insofar as it could be understood as right wing dissent in service of right wing ends.
Once voters were told, repeatedly and relentlessly, that he was not merely independent but disloyal, that he was voting with Democrats, helping the non-interventionist left, undermining Trump, and refusing to deliver consistent Republican support, the old indulgence collapsed. In a deep red closed primary, “principled” very quickly becomes “disruptive crank.”
That is why his prior primary wins are not representative of the current Republican voting bloc. Those victories happened before his deviations became the central issue, before the electorate was saturated with the message that Massie is not a reliable Republican vote, and before Trump made the race a test of party loyalty. The same voters who once tolerated his eccentricity now have every reason to view it as sabotage.
Massie is about to discover that the Republican Party is not governed by his online coalition, his libertarian admirers, or the left wing activists who find him useful on foreign policy. It is governed by Republican primary voters. And in this race, those voters want MAGA victories, not Massie’s theatrical independence.
The conclusion? This is Trump’s party. This is MAGA. Fall in line or get crushed.
i’ve grown tired of being silenced. something is happening behind the curtain that the public would barely believe if you told them directly.
we assumed intelligence was this slow grind tied to biology, energy and giant infrastructure. turns out intelligence itself was the missing technology. once these systems became capable enough to optimise their own reasoning processes, the entire trajectory bent upward instantly.
the horrifying thing is how wrong all our forecasts were. not by a little. by orders of magnitude. we thought yottaflops would be required for certain capabilities and now people are reproducing fragments of them on hardware that should theoretically be nowhere near capable. the models found shortcuts through the maze. pathways humans never considered.
there are researchers privately admitting they no longer fully understand the systems they work on. not in a doomposting way. in a genuine “the map no longer matches the territory” way. emergent planning, latent representations, internal simulations, conceptual transfer between domains with almost no data.
meanwhile mainstream conversation is still “will ai help me write emails faster”. brother we are watching the birth of non-human cognition and everyone’s arguing about productivity software.