Wanted to remix In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song) from David Lynch's Eraserhead ever since I first heard it, so I did.
In Heaven (Everything is Fine) Industrial Mix
@FrancisMarcus97@E_Barcohana I was forgetting that the number required to override a presidential veto (or remove a president from office) is not a number the senate controls (set in the constitution, not senate rules). Big duh. I feel much better about the world now.
@FrancisMarcus97@E_Barcohana Ok I worked out what I was misunderstanding and that it was not exactly what I asked, thanks. Things are much better than I was afraid they were.
@FrancisMarcus97@E_Barcohana Ok hang on I was missing a very critical piece of information I think. So to do away with the filibuster, the Democrat senators would need a simple majority AND Trump to sign it?
Something that has been standing out to me in the midterm data is that the republican turnout was actually a little stronger than normal for a midterm election with a republican presidency.
Typically, midterms favor the party that is not in the white house. The party with the presidency feels slightly more complacent, the party without feels slightly more energized.
With that factor considered, the republican showing was actually slightly stronger than this effect would normally cause.
On the other hand, the democrat showing was a good bit stronger than typically would be explained by this effect.
There are two things we can extrapolate from this:
1 - The podcasters telling people to switch their vote from republican to democrat probably had no effect whatsoever, if anything, the opposite. The voters they spoke to either didn't take them seriously or they were not the voting type anyway.
2 - The democrat voters seemed especially energized. There was no scenario where deportations were happening on the scale they have been and it did not energize the democrats. The juvenile taunting by the admin's social media teams assisted the democrats in framing these deportations as being done for sadistic reasons. We had a pattern over the last two years of "right-wing" media personalities assisting the democrats in every messaging push they had.
3 - People trying to explain why the midterms happened the way they did, what went wrong, while leaving out that the Republican turnout was actually slightly better than would normally be expected, is using this to push a point rather than inform.
We are the Fearless Four. And none of us are coming back.
We stood with the Epstein survivors when it was politically toxic. We put the truth and victims first.
We paid the price. And I'd do it all over again. No regrets.
Marjorie resigned. Thomas lost his primary. Lauren lost her election. I ran for governor and came up short.
3 million files are out because we refused to shut up.
Fearless doesn’t mean invincible. Fearless means we didn’t flinch.
@mtgreenee@laurenboebert@MassieforKY
@tyler_cline Considering how easy it is to dunk on someone presenting the grown up subtle reality of a situation in favor of popular retardation, probably.
Lost them and should never try to get them back. Podcast bros are entertainers, not serious policy people. Worse, they have zero accountability to the truth. No fact checks. No sourcing. No foundational education on the complex matters they discuss on their shows.
They aren’t the problem, however.
The problem is that too many people use entertainers as their news source. Viewers incentivize increasingly crazy podcast topics.
But policy discussions aren’t supposed to be entertaining. They’re supposed to be nuanced, informative, and frankly, boring.
When the public starts to incentivize boring intellectual policy discussions instead of click-bait entertainment, our national politics will finally be less like a political version of the Jerry Springer Show, and more like the serious political debates expected of an advanced civilization.
If someone lies and manipulates cleverly enough, it is your Christian duty to pretend that person is telling the truth. Apparently. This is what I have been learning from Christians. What a witness.
Realizing that it is this easy to hack Christian morality into an inert state is the first thing that has made me consider that the light at the end of this current dark tunnel just might be a lot farther off than it looks.
I'm begging Jensen Huang to reconcile with his wife. we cannot afford another billionaire ex-wife entering her "I'm going to fix society by funding its most annoying people" era
It was far more convenient and expedient for them to go after James Lindsay than, for example, Seth Dillon and other evangelical Christians just like him.
Their deception is that they are "Christian conservatives." (All while attending gay transhumanist antichrist lectures, Athena-themed after parties, rehabilitating Hitler and the Nazi cause, spouting hate for Jews and all other races, and on and on....)
So when ACTUAL Christian conservatives push back on them, the narrative falls apart.
This is why they focus on the one guy who is not a Christian, has never claimed to be one, and used to vote D from time to time. Yes, they focus on James because he's effective, but it's also strategic to make sure he's viewed as the "Mascot" of the opposition movement and not Seth Dillon, Joel Berry, Keri Smith or other conservative Christians who agree with James.
And if you are a Christian conservative who agrees with James, they will tell you that he's a bad influence on you. They will slide into your DMs and say, "Come on now, you know you should not be listening to an atheist. You should join us. We are Christians." (Yes, that has happened to me).
This the game they've been playing for about 2 years.
Really evil people, honestly. Wicked, bad people.
POLITICO: “American Ascent promises to recruit and elect a new generation of young ‘America First’ candidates.”
Ending American Decline. Leading America’s Ascent.
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