Jay Ferguson

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[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[CENTAURO @Octavio_01]

Cuando le pido al señor me ayude..

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXon

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@IfindRetards I nominate the Senate Gavel

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Milajoy @LeaderJohnThune He is bought and paid for...

[Freedom4Family🇺🇸 @4familyfreedom4]

THUNE HAS NO POWER TO CONTROL THE SENATE

Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s day-to-day power does not come from the Constitution, It comes from customs, traditions, and The Garner Precedent 1937

This concentration of power in one Senator
limits debate, blocks amendments, and reduces the Senate’s ability to function as the Founders intended creating overreach gatekeeping bills, limiting amendments, and protecting the leader’s agenda

Consequences of This System, Power is centralized in one senator, the Majority Leader Thune

Individual Senators have far less ability to offer amendments or force debate

The Vice President (currently JD Vance) holds the constitutional role of President of the Senate. The Founders designed this role specifically to prevent the Senate from being run solely by its own members and party factions

The Vice President should actively preside more often and use the powers the Constitution provides including the ability to manage the floor and allow simple-majority action on certain procedural matters to restore balance and prevent one senator (THUNE) from dominating the chamber, allow Senators to actually advocate for their Constituents

Any senator can rise, address the chair first, and make a motion to proceed to the bill

The only thing stopping them is the 1937 Garner precedent
How to overturn it (simple process)
✅A senator seeks recognition and is ignored in favor of the leader
✅The senator raises a point of order citing Rule XIX.
✅The Senate votes (simple majority) on whether to sustain the rule

Rule XIX says the Presiding Officer shall recognize the senator who first rises and addresses him treating all senators as equals. The Garner Precedent overrides this for the Majority Leader

Modern Senate Majority Leader’s Power Is Not Constitutional
The modern dominance of the Senate Majority Leader does not come from the Constitution. It comes from a 1937 custom that has expanded well beyond what the Founders intended

The Constitution never mentions party Majority Leader or Minority Leader. These powerful roles were invented later by the Senate itself. Through custom and precedent not by law or constitutional amendment, these unofficial positions gradually assumed control over most floor management and legislative scheduling

What the Constitution Actually Says
Article I, Section 3: The Vice President is the President of the Senate

Article I, Section 5: The Senate can make its own rules and choose its officers

The Founders deliberately placed the Vice President (an outsider to the Senate’s membership) in the presiding chair as a check against pure insider control by Senators

John Adams through the 1950s, Vice Presidents regularly presided over the Senate. Starting in the 1950s and accelerating under Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the VP’s role shifted toward being a presidential advisor

The Garner Precedent (1937) Real Source of Modern Power
In August 1937, Vice President John Nance Garner announced that when multiple senators sought recognition at the same time, he would recognize the Majority Leader first, then the Minority Leader

Because of the Garner Precedent, the Majority Leader controls
✅Motions to proceed decides what legislation reaches the floor
✅Filling the amendment tree offers multiple amendments to block other senators from offering their own
✅Unanimous Consent Agreements (UCAs) sets time limits on debate and restricts amendments
✅Daily floor schedule controls what gets debated and when
✅Strategic use of cloture to cut off debate
Most real power in today’s Senate comes from these customs and precedents, not from written rules
The Senate has moved from a highly deliberative body toward a leadership-controlled institution

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Kekius_Sage Identity

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. @RealMrJohnJr]

President Trump posted this last night on his Truth Social account. Listen to this. There are NO COINCIDENCES. 🙌🏻✝️🇺🇸❤️ WOW 🥺

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Kekius_Sage I am not defined by society - I am just who I am.

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Brparadox New World

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@XFreeze All they see is a physical object when the reality for SpaceX is DATA!

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Brparadox beautiful - <lustful look>

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

Sometimes I feel like running LLMs should have the same disclaimer as the NFL:

"For Entertainment Purposes Only!"

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Kekius_Sage The ability to make choices.

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Kekius_Sage A great father

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@jun_song @OpenAI @Anthropic one of the stupidest things i have ever seen... what does release mean in a global sense? this just puts the US behind everyone else and does nothing else! and who the hell is the government to review a model?

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@Kekius_Sage A great father

[Jay Ferguson @fergusonJC]

@apexgamingpcs two of those would make a great local AI system!