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The more serious and understated part is that Graham Platner, the Maine Democratic Senate candidate’s tattoo isn’t just a Nazi tattoo. It’s an SS tattoo.

The SS, or Schutzstaffel, started as Hitler’s personal bodyguard but grew into the Nazi regime’s most powerful and feared organization. It ran the concentration camps, the death squads, and the entire security apparatus—basically the regime’s muscle, spies, and executioners rolled into one. Elite, fanatical, and ruthless.

The democrats constantly scream Hitler and Nazi at their political opponents, but they actually are very comfortable aligning themselves with the actual ideology. This is who the Democrats want in power.

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@Big_Meez11 @Libs_OfChicago Danny must be on crack. But that should be expected in Chicago.

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@Libs_OfChicago I’m outraged.

https://t.co/oTztCrFdX0

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@mazemoore This guy looks like the character Les Nessman from WKRP. Spot on!

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

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@jacobsoboroff So wait a second, are the people commenting on this thread objectively rationalizing that the election vote counting in LA should take weeks to conclude, and that the people of LA are better served by the giant bureaucracy shown in the background?

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@CNN I recall other white house events far more controversial where judges and the left remained supportive and silent.

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That’s because you don’t read the news. You only read the headline.

One was the U.S. Supreme Court deferring to a state court’s interpretation of state procedure, while the other was the U.S. Supreme Court actively intervening in a federal Voting Rights Act dispute to favor the state’s map. Different jurisdictions, different claims — state constitutional process versus federal racial gerrymandering claims.

In Virginia, Democrats tried to push through a new congressional map mid-decade that heavily favored them — something like 10-1. Voters approved a constitutional amendment to allow it, but Virginia’s own Supreme Court struck it down 4-3 because the legislature botched the amendment process. They didn’t follow the state constitution’s rules for putting amendments on the ballot — specifically, the timing of legislative votes relative to elections. The U.S. Supreme Court simply declined to overrule that state court decision on state law. It’s an unsigned order with no comment — basically, “this is a state matter, we’re not stepping in.”

In Alabama, it’s about a Republican-drawn map with only one majority-Black district. A lower federal court had blocked it as racially discriminatory, but the Supreme Court stepped in and cleared it for use anyway. This came after the Court had already narrowed the Voting Rights Act in recent cases, making it harder to challenge maps like this. They basically said the lower court went too far, and states get leeway on election rules close to voting time.

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LMFAO

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Unbelievable in Oregon

https://t.co/BkEp9mHgoX

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@PeterBernegger @grok You rock Peter Bernegger! Thanks for the info!

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@PeterBernegger @grok, is all this true?

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@HazelLiaqa4848 She also lost their marriage license. Lucky her.

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@MichaelARothman Don is trying to stay relevant. Without some type of media exposure, his career fades into obscurity. Just ignore him and he’ll eventually just disappear.

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@Real_RobN @DonnaPrissyrn1 @grok, where can those mail in ballot statistics be verified, and are they true?

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@hicasamadim The obvious answer would be 4. Don’t see how there could be a more simple construct.

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@briantylercohen @neiltyson So this is a conclusion based on cost? I thought Niel was an astrophysicist, not an accountant. If he says not to do something because he doesn’t think it’s worth the cost, isn’t that an economic judgment?