Stephen Gardner

I repost entirely too much, probably shouldn’t follow me. Entropy is real. We are cursed to live in interesting times, create boring times for those behind us.

[Heidi Ganahl @heidiganahl]

😱 Colorado Democrats are ONE seat away from a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers.

House: they hold 43 of 65. Two-thirds is 44.

Senate: they hold 23 of 35. Two-thirds is 24.

With two-thirds, they can send constitutional amendments to your ballot and override vetoes without a single @cologop vote. Here's what the insiders are watching, and what most people are missing. 🧵

1.These seats are decided by a handful of votes.

HD 16 in Colorado Springs was decided by 3 votes in 2024.

Three.

HD 19 (Frederick/Weld) by 110.

HD 50 (Greeley/Fort Lupton) by 563.

If you think your ballot doesn't matter, it does.

2.The money tells you where the war is.

Outside groups have already poured hundreds of thousands into a short list of state Senate seats: SD 30 in Highlands Ranch, SD 3 in Pueblo @dana4colorado and SD 15 in Loveland @SenatorWoodward

SD 30 @Sen_John_Carson is Democrats' top Senate target this year.

3.Congress is in play too.
National Democrats have put all four of Colorado's Republican-held House seats on their target list: CD-3, CD-4, CD-5 and CD-8.

They're openly saying Douglas County is their way into CD-4.

@RepBoebert @RepJeffHurd @RepJeffCrank @repgabeevans

4.The voter rolls are shifting under everyone's feet.

Unaffiliated voters decide Colorado now. Period. Final 2026 primary returns show that of unaffiliated voters who picked a party ballot, 72% chose the Democratic ballot and 28% the Republican one

A Republican has to win unaffiliated voters by about 8 points to win statewide. That's a 24-point swing from the primary split.

If unaffiliated voters vote 70/30 Democrat in November, Republicans lose a statewide race by about 510,000 votes, roughly 19 points.

To win, a Republican needs about 1.33 million votes. At 70/30 they'd get about 1.08 million, so roughly 255,000 voters have to switch sides.

https://t.co/etOUVSTWo9 Republicans need to vote - 75% turn out ain’t gonna cut it this year. The fight is the Republicans who skip midterms and the unaffiliated voters who lean our way. Get them, and these seats hold.

6.The calendar is already running. Ballots are going out now.

Oct. 26 is the last day it's safe to mail your ballot back. After that, use a drop box.

Bottom line: the supermajority isn't decided at the top of the ticket. It's decided in a few neighborhoods in Highlands Ranch, Colorado Springs, Weld County and Pueblo, by a few hundred people who either return their ballot or don't.

Return yours. Then make sure your neighbors return theirs.
#copolitics #coleg

[Stephen Gardner @partyofmorons]

@japan_nobunaga That is how tyranny always works.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

As Christa Pike, a woman who tortured a girl to death and took a piece of her victim’s skull as a trophy, receives life saving medical treatment following a botched execution, keep something in mind: many states in this country will not give medical treatment to a baby who survives abortion. In fact several states have specifically repealed laws requiring treatment for infants born alive after an abortion. And every single mainstream Democrat in the country opposes any law to protect infants who survive abortions. So this condemned murderer, who earned her execution through her own choices, is getting more humane treatment than infant children who were given a death sentence through no fault of their own. And every Democrat — every single one, no exceptions — empathizes far more with this murderer than with those babies.

[Alix @AlixG_2]

This Canadian woman was given MAID as her only choice for stage 4 cancer in Deathcare Canada. She went to the US and death was not the option the doctors there gave her.
Canadian healthcare used to be good, it is now in desperate fear of collapse. They're bringing in doctors who did not study in Canada and whatever else that entails.

I find the healthcare in the US unquestionably superior. Health insurance is the same since I don't pay income tax in Florida, I pay it on insurance. There is immediate, private healthcare if you need it.
Medically assisted suicide is not an option they offer.

[Isabel Brown @theisabelb]

This week, the University of Utah is perpetuating perhaps the most grave injustice against conservative students I've ever seen.

Rylie is the Vice President of College Republicans at @UUtah, and is currently being threatened with EXPULSION by the University because she perpetuated "threatening and endangering behavior" by taking a photo of Sara, a student involved with College Democrats, when Sara showed up to their table last week with a "Happy Kirkaversary" cake smeared in fake blood & waved it around in Rylie's face.

Of course, *that* wasn't threatening behavior in any way, but Rylie taking a photo of the exchange completely legally is apparently grounds for EXPULSION.

If you are an alumnus of the University of Utah, call the Alumni Department TODAY and demand the Administration honor Rylie's legal right to take a photo. And if you donate money in any way, shape, or form to U of U, STOP immediately. These people are not your ally.

Praying for you and cheering you on, @Rylieparis05!

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

Approximately 400,000-500,000 people have died in Sudan either violently or by mass starvation since 2023… where is the international outcry by world leaders?

Approximately 90,000-100,000 people have died in Myanmar either violently or by mass starvation since 2021… where are the endless debates by podcasters and news media hosts?

Guys… you notice what they want you to notice, and they don’t want you to notice reality.

They want you to notice their narrative.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Over the past 20 years, the United States has shut down 13 nuclear reactors, with another 19 now being decommissioned. China built 55 in the same period.

The U.S. closed 350 coal plants. China built over 600.

The U.S. shut down 11 aluminum smelters. China built 60 mega smelters and 20 smaller ones.

The U.S. closed 6 major steel mills. China built more than 200.

Leftists are now trying to do the same with AI and data centers, amplifying Chinese Communist Party propaganda so Americans self-sabotage while China grows.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Le génial Joe Lonsdale l’a dit sans maquillage.

La panique autour de l’IA n’est pas une peur qui monte toute seule dans la population. C’est un levier. Des dizaines d’ONG essaient d’astroturfer cette peur, comme on a astroturfé le climat, comme on a déjà vendu toutes les peurs précédentes. Le but n’est pas de protéger l’humanité. Le but est de poser de nouvelles règles pour capturer ce qui est en train de naître. Communisme. Globalisme. Capture réglementaire.

On est à un shift de l’humanité.

Pour la première fois, presque tout peut encore basculer d’un côté ou de l’autre : qui construit les robots, qui écrit les modèles, qui alloue le capital, qui a le droit de parler. Une caste de gens moyens l’a compris. Pas une caste de génies. Une caste de takers. Des intermédiaires, des comités, des gens dont le métier n’est pas de créer de la valeur mais de se placer entre ceux qui créent et ceux qui reçoivent. Ils n’ont jamais eu un levier aussi gros. Ils ne le lâcheront pas.

Voici comment ça se passe s’ils réussissent.

L’Occident se transforme en une Union européenne géante.

Pas au sens des drapeaux et des hymnes. Au sens du logiciel. Un continent entier où le pouvoir de décision a quitté les bâtisseurs et atterri chez les takers. Où chaque innovation doit d’abord survivre à une étude d’impact, un comité d’éthique, une norme écrite par quelqu’un qui n’a jamais livré un produit. Où la question n’est plus « est-ce que ça marche ? » mais « est-ce que ça a été autorisé ? ».

Pourquoi cette forme-là, et pas une autre ?

Parce que tout le pouvoir aura été déplacé. Plus sur ceux qui prennent un risque personnel pour construire. Sur ceux qui extraient une rente de la peur.

Les takers trouveront toujours de quoi rendre le robot humanoïde trop dangereux. Un scénario. Une vidéo. Un expert financé par le même réseau que la norme qu’il recommande. Ils diront que c’est pour les enfants, pour les emplois, pour la dignité humaine. Et ils empileront assez de règles pour décourager toute l’industrie, sauf les incumbents déjà assez gros pour payer les juristes et les anciens régulateurs. C’est le schéma classique. La pharma aime la FDA contre la biotech. Big Tech aime la régulation compliquée contre les nouveaux venus. Lonsdale le dit tel quel : les gros veulent capturer l’État pour écraser les innovateurs.

Ensuite vient la parole.

Les takers se serviront de l’IA pour couper toute forme de dissidence. Pas avec un goulag visible. Avec des classifieurs, des « safety layers », des partenariats public-privé, des listes de contenus à rétrograder. Exactement comme pendant le Covid.

Les Twitter Files l’ont déjà documenté aux États-Unis. Les Twitter Files France aussi. En octobre 2020, l’équipe de Macron réclamait encore et encore le numéro de Jack Dorsey. Le président voulait lui écrire en direct au sujet des « nouvelles politiques » de la plateforme. Autour, des ONG souvent financées par l’État ou l’UE attaquaient Twitter en justice pour le forcer à modérer au-delà de la loi. Un procureur a même poursuivi le patron de Twitter France pour des posts comparant des policiers à des collaborateurs pendant les confinements. Le logiciel était déjà là : la peur d’abord, la censure par procuration ensuite, le récit officiel comme seule parole licite.

L’IA rend ce logiciel industrialisable. Ce qui prenait des e-mails et des réunions prend maintenant une API.

Puis rien ne marchera.

Le collectivisme ne marche pas. Il n’a jamais marché. Pas parce que les gens sont méchants. Parce qu’un système qui casse les prix, les profits et les responsabilités individuelles ne sait plus où mettre le capital. Il alloue mal. Il produit de la pénurie avec de bonnes intentions. Il punit ceux qui voient le problème en premier.

Ils ne diront pas que le système est dysfonctionnel.

Ils diront qu’on n’a pas assez essayé. Que les résistances viennent de l’égoïsme résiduel. Que l’humain va s’y faire. Qu’il faut encore un peu plus de normes, un peu plus de formation, un peu plus de surveillance, et que la prochaine génération, élevée dedans, n’aura plus ce vieux réflexe de préférer sa famille à l’abstraction collective.

C’est le mythe éternel.

Pas une théorie économique. Un projet anthropologique. Fabriquer un homme nouveau, moins égoïste, tourné vers la collectivité avant ses intérêts personnels. La Révolution l’a voulu. Le socialisme scientifique l’a voulu. Mao l’a voulu. Chaque fois, l’échec est devenu la preuve qu’il fallait aller plus loin. Jamais la preuve que le logiciel était faux.

Les mauvaises idées tuent d’abord ceux qui y croient. Elles dépriment, elles isolent, elles forcent la dissonance. On se retrouve à défendre un monde qui ne produit plus, tout en accusant ceux qui produisent encore.

Ce n’est pas une guerre contre des personnes. C’est une guerre contre un logiciel.

La reconversion est possible. Elle l’a toujours été. Beaucoup de gens sincères ont simplement pris le mauvais cadre : rareté éternelle, victimes permanentes, intermédiaires indispensables. L’IA retire les trois piliers en même temps. D’où la panique. D’où la précipitation à capturer le shift avant qu’il ne rende le cadre obsolète.

Le 21e siècle ne sera pas celui des comités.

Il sera celui de ceux qui construisent plus vite que les normes. Des robots utiles. Des modèles ouverts à la concurrence. Des pays qui acceptent le risque plutôt que de le nationaliser. Des individus qui restent tournés vers ce qu’ils aiment, ce qu’ils bâtissent, les leurs — et qui, précisément pour ça, créent assez de surplus pour que la collectivité existe vraiment.

Le lock n’est pas encore tourné.

Allez construire.

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

I attended a meeting of people associated with groups like heterodox academy, FIRE and other organizations who describe themselves as contrarian thinkers committed to open inquiry and university reform.

My impression was that they largely consider universities healthy institutions requiring modest changes. A revised mission statement, a tweak in a policy, or a university president who echoes a talking point they like is treated as if that is all that is needed. There was little willingness to consider that the problems may be much deeper.

The people presenting themselves as reformers seem unwilling to consider how fundamentally broken these institutions have become.

Interestingly, some of the people who spoke most often about civil discourse raised their voices and became flustered in reference to discussion suggesting that universities might require much larger structural changes.

The commitment to open inquiry seemed to apply only within boundaries they had defined. Their heterodoxy had developed its own orthodoxy.

These groups may criticize universities, but they remain deeply invested in their legitimacy. They propose limited or trivial changes while leaving the same leadership structures, incentives, bureaucracies, and concentrations of power intact.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

No words for this abomination.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

This video is embarrassingly misleading.

Medicare isn’t administratively simple. The physician fee schedule alone is over 1500 pages. That doesn’t cover hospitals, rehab facilities, nursing homes, or surgery centers.

Lobbyists and special interests spend billions trying to influence the prices set by Medicare. So the administrative cost setting is not “cheap.”

Medicare also offloads much of its administrative tasks to other entities, making its overhead costs appear small. Doctors collectively spend millions of hours a year on complying with Medicare billing, quality reporting and administrative rules.

What’s most frustrating, though, is that @KFF knows this. They report on this.

They’re being dishonest.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

The idea that the state is the ultimate determiner of true information for all of society is of course the essence of fascism.

[Alan Silko @SilkPap]

Any sane person who is considering not voting in the midterms because they are dissatisfied with the Republicans' accomplishments needs to pause and reflect on this story. This is what is coming for all of us with the Marxists and Islamists. No freedom. No liberty. Only tyranny. How dumb are you if you allow/cause this to happen by not voting because you are annoyed that gasoline is temporarily more expensive than you would like, or whatever other relatively petty grievance you have compared to this tyranny. Better Dead Than Red!

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The state of Massachusetts took my own sister away from a loving home for absolutely nothing. Literally less than nothing. And they kept her until she was 18.

It destroyed my family. My father visited her every day for years. My sister tried breaking out of the homes.

The courts didn’t care. My family went broke trying to get her back to no avail. Lost the house. My dad ended up living in a car after I joined the army. He never told me because he didn’t want to distract me from training.

But I graduated basic and my childhood home was gone. My sister still gone. Parents got divorced. Dog died. Literally you name the bad thing and it happened.

All because the tyrannical state of Massachusetts decided it could take my sister away.

It is the most oppressive state in the union and it isn’t even close.

I’ll even leave the story below so you can read it for yourselves.

What was once considered the cradle of liberty is now the cradle of communism. And there is no escape that I can see.

That state thinks it owns us. And it acts accordingly.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Please. Don’t pretend this is new.

The same people clutching pearls over Macklemore already ran @MrWinMarshall out of Mumford & Sons for praising a book critical of Antifa. They also iced out M.I.A. for saying the wrong thing about BLM and immigration.

It’s only “censorship” now, huh

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“Here I am thinking a farmer being murdered every week is normal. It’s not! This is normal!”

I vehemently and viscerally disagree with this man on that one point. And I want everyone to read it.

Don’t get it twisted. I LOVE the fact that he loves America and feels safer here than South Africa. I do. It’s so amazing to see.

But what he described as normal…. people getting killed all the time… THAT IS NORMAL. THAT IS THE NORM. AMERICA IS THE EXCEPTION.

We forget that civilization is merely a clearing in a hostile jungle carved out by man. And the jungle constantly tries to reclaim it.

America is precious. It must be preserved. There is nowhere to go if this land falls. Peace is the exception of the human condition. Death and violence is the norm.

Remember this.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Today in things literally nobody could possibly be surprised about if they have been paying even the slightest bit of attention.

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

Words matter. 9/11 was not a “plane crash.” It was a terrorist attack.

Euphemisms don’t excuse atrocities. They enable them.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

They really think we are idiots

Kamala Harris took in about $1.2 billion in the last election cycle whilst Trump’s official campaign raised ~$450 million.

I don’t recall you leftists complaining about oligarchy or the death of democracy when the Dems had 3X more $$$ than the GOP.

Not only that, the party that raised the most money didn’t win. Will @mehdirhasan revise his priors in light of this known fact?

No. Because he’s a dishonest hack

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

She won.

Hanieh Behboudi was 23, an Iranian arm-wrestling champion, a physical education student and the mother of a four-year-old girl.

After a win she posted a photo of her hands. That was enough. Her Muslim husband accused her of bringing shame on his family. He tortured her to death, smashed her head into the floor, broke her limbs and crushed her body. Before calling an ambulance, he stabbed her broken wrists with a kitchen knife so police would treat it as suicide.

He was not drunk. He was not high. He said so. He was angry that she won in public, that the town congratulated her, that she posted a picture of her unveiled palm, and that she did not dress as he ordered.

Islamic regime security agents flooded the funeral so nobody would film it and moved the burial an hour early. This is not a private family tragedy. It is a system covering itself.

This was not a fight that “got out of hand.” He treated her as property. She succeeded. She enjoyed too much freedom. He killed her for it.

Western feminists found their voice for Sydney Sweeney and a pair of jeans. Hanieh was not White, not American and not useful to the woke left globalist movement. So she got a locked funeral and silence.

If your feminism starts at a Hollywood ad and stops at an Iranian champion on a slab, you do not care about women. You care about the side that pays you in applause.