Steven Austin

Team USA all day, every day. If you do not believe this is the greatest nation on Earth, we can't be friends

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@NYCMagaGuy @DefiyantlyFree Agree.

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@z_charger @monsterhunter45 Right?!?

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@BasedMikeLee @SenWarren Nothing stops the Senator from donating 80% of her income if she feels so strongly about it. You do not need a wealth tax, you already have 31 U.S.C. § 3113.

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@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

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@JackPosobiec 💯

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@ClownWorld Everyone knows you have to keep it under 29.

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@pelositracker He didn't tell you to buy their stock, the market reaction is people hearing what they wanted to hear in his statement, which has nothing to do with what he actually said.

He was just paying some generous people a compliment , oh the humanity.

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@monsterhunter45 Got my preorder this morning! I was sad when Ashoks story came to and end. This new series has cured my melancholy. Thanks Larry.

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@NVIDIAGeForce PRAGMATA RTX

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@Timcast Our troops eating well. This is truly how democracy dies. Keep up the outrage my Democrat friends. This is surely a hill to die on.

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@LaNativePatriot I’ve never played as a leper before. I’m here for it.

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@haider1 Facts!

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@realchasegeiser Right? What a buffoon he is.

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@the_jefferymead Mind boggling isn’t it?

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@BrianPrescott48 Metformin cost no more than a quality Berberine and its more effective. Why continue to lump it in with the likes of costly GLP1 drugs. It’s dishonest to do so. I do get your point though.

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@thevivafrei @RepMcGovern Cassidy Hutchinson? 🤣 I think its the same person.

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The only reason I do not use the platform is UI and Search. It's just not good, or really even ok. I would gladly give you $100 bucks year for an ad free platform, but not how it is now. I am not dunking on you folks. I really want you to be #1.
Let me give you an example. If I click on trending, it gives me a list of trending videos, but it's a single row down one column of the screen, and then there's like a billion pixels of black space compared to something like YouTube, which gives you multiple rows of videos. So there's lots of things for you to choose from without scrolling through page after page. It just seems like an odd way to present. There should be a separate view like this the current single for mobile and one for desktop or larger form factors like tablets. A single-column view also makes it seem like there's just not a lot of content there.

Numerous things like that.

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@dom_lucre Who?

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a line in a democracy that, once crossed, changes everything: when elections cease to be an obligation and become a variable. That line has now been crossed in Britain, and it's the state's own elections watchdog saying so.

The Electoral Commission has been explicit: Labour's justification for delaying local elections is not legitimate. Not unwise. Not clumsy. Illegitimate. Extending mandates damages public confidence, undermines local legitimacy, and creates a clear conflict of interest by letting councils decide how long they can avoid voters. In any functioning democracy, that would end the matter. Here, the government presses on regardless.

That's the scandal. This is no longer a party political dispute or a row between Reform and Labour. The referee has intervened and said the game is being rigged, and the players have decided to ignore the whistle. When a government continues with election delays after being told by the independent authority charged with protecting electoral integrity that its reasoning does not hold, the issue stops being reform and becomes power protecting itself.

The language Labour uses is revealing. Elections are framed as an inconvenience. Voters are framed as an administrative burden. Democracy is reduced to a cost-saving exercise, something to be postponed if the spreadsheets look untidy or the reorganisation plans are mid-flow. Ministers speak of "capacity constraints" as if the right to vote is a luxury item that must wait until the filing cabinets are rearranged. In a democracy, administration exists to serve elections. Elections do not exist to suit administration.

The conflict of interest identified by the Electoral Commission should alarm anyone who still believes in democratic norms. Councils are being asked whether they would like to delay the moment they must answer to voters. That's not consultation. It's self-dealing. No serious system allows those in power to decide how long they may remain there without consent. Yet this is now presented as a "locally led approach," as though outsourcing democratic suspension makes it virtuous.

Worse still is the uncertainty. Candidates have been selected. Campaigns have begun. Money has been spent. And with months to go before polling day, the government is still dangling the possibility of cancellation. The watchdog describes this uncertainty as unprecedented. That word matters. Democracies rely on predictability. Once elections become provisional, subject to last-minute ministerial approval, the entire process is degraded.

When challenged, ministers retreat into condescension. Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft." This is a familiar trick: speak for the public while denying them a voice. Redefine democratic rights as common-sense nuisances that sensible adults should stop fussing over. It's the rhetoric of managed democracy, where participation is tolerated only when it produces the correct outcome.

None of this is happening in isolation. Mayoral elections have already been postponed. Now council elections are being pushed back again. The pattern is clear. When the polls turn hostile, the timetable moves. When voters become unpredictable, the vote is delayed. Governments confident in their mandate do not need to buy time. They face the electorate and take their chances. Labour is not doing that because it knows what the numbers say.

The danger is not just that millions of people may be denied a vote next year. It's the precedent now being set. Once a government learns it can delay elections after the watchdog objects, after campaigns have begun and candidates are in place, the principle is broken. Elections become conditional. Democracy becomes something you are granted when those in power feel safe enough to allow it.

"Chris Bryant waves away concerns as conspiracy and insists that "ordinary people" would think elections are "a bit daft.""