Imalittleperv

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Imalittleperv @CT_CPLE098

5 days ago

@elonmusk Why buy one? Just use your super-secret Orbital ION Cannon to drill a hole through the crust into the mantle and MAKE a volcano! Besides, a natural volcano will be SO much more environmentally friendly! :-D

Imalittleperv @CT_CPLE098

20 days ago

@japan_nobunaga Sir, you have brought upon me great joy on this day. I have enjoyed reading your perspectives on life in America and found myself quietly chuckling at both the absurdity of the things we do, as well as how such things could be interpreted. 🙇‍♂️

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Cynical Publius

@CynicalPublius

3 months ago

RE: The Moon Launch OK, look, I admit it. I am an astronaut fanboy nerd (except for one ex-astronaut politician whose head resembles a scrotum). If you are a late Boomer or early Gen Xer, you remember. You heard Genesis read from an astronaut orbiting the Moon. You and all your friends wanted to be astronauts, more than anything. You remember that your parents bought your family’s first color TV to watch Neil Armstrong on the Moon. You built the LEM and CSM models and only killed a few brain cells with the glue. You were scared and prayed during Apollo 13. You had the lunchbox. You were sad when they cut off funding for the rest of the Moon landings. You were amazed when they saved Skylab. You watched all the movies. (You saw “The Right Stuff�� and “Apollo 13” at least 20 times each.) You cried over Challenger and Columbia. You got older and wondered why we became so timid. Why not more of the Moon? Why not Mars? Why not beyond? The ISS seemed so…. limiting. You always said that the US space program was the one thing you did not care how much your were taxed for. Elon became a god of space travel, and you were there for it. So it’s our day, fellow astronaut nerd fanboys and fangirls. Put on your make-believe astronaut beanies and goggles, be 8 again, and remember the way you took that refrigerator cardboard box and turned it into the inside of an Apollo capsule with magic markers, Scotch tape and buttons stolen from your Mom’s sewing box. WE’RE GOING BACK TO THE FREAKING MOON BABY!!!!!🚀❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

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Imalittleperv @CT_CPLE098

3 months ago

Senators @ElissaSlotkin / @SenGaryPeters , perhaps you should consider that the USA should have the same level and types of voting protection as Bangladesh. The sort of voting protections as championed by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

DataRepublican (small r)

@DataRepublican

3 months ago

Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.

DataRepublican's tweet photo. Hello Representative Levin,

I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics.
NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants.

NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation.

Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries:

NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15)

NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11)

That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system.

In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women."

Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN!

In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID.

Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all.

The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls.

By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position.

The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it.

You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else.

NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.

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3 months ago

Jokes aside, Chuck Norris' death hits like a battering ram. He was an influence so constant, I do not remember a world without a ubiquitous Chuck Norris. When interviewers would stir the turd tank, trying to incite him to badmouth Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme, he was instead complimentary of both. He knew the commitment Martial Arts takes. Yet look his background up: His pedigree objectively exceeded them all. There are millionaire MMA fighters less legit than he was in his earlier competitive career. He was recruited by Bruce Lee not for acting, but for winning a full-contact competition. But listen to him talk about it. No pretense. No braggadocio. Just an impassive acknowledgement of the work it all required. Here lies a man. R.I.P.

RazorFist's tweet photo. Jokes aside, Chuck Norris' death hits like a battering ram.

He was an influence so constant, I do not remember a world without a ubiquitous Chuck Norris.

When interviewers would stir the turd tank, trying to incite him to badmouth Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme, he was instead complimentary of both. He knew the commitment Martial Arts takes.

Yet look his background up:
His pedigree objectively exceeded them all. There are millionaire MMA fighters less legit than he was in his earlier competitive career. He was recruited by Bruce Lee not for acting, but for winning a full-contact competition.

But listen to him talk about it.

No pretense. No braggadocio.
Just an impassive acknowledgement of the work it all required.

Here lies a man.
R.I.P.

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Imalittleperv @CT_CPLE098

4 months ago

@ShamashAran It does have a backup beeper, right? RIGHT? After all, it IS a military aircraft and you need to be safe and have a backup beeper on a vehicle with that poor of rear view!

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Nicki Minaj

@NICKIMINAJ

5 months ago

What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!

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Imalittleperv @CT_CPLE098

5 months ago

@james_schardt @CChupik @SarahAHoyt HEY! My brother's a retired Marine and... Um, yeah, OK, he might try that...

Imalittleperv @CT_CPLE098

5 months ago

@sigilstone18 @DAKKADAKKA1 Honestly, look close at the shadow from the Chinese bot on the floor and the shadow from the fixture on the wall in the upper-left. They don't seem to align right, at least to me, implying CGI for the Chicom bot