Oddity

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

🧵If you want to understand Trump’s trade policy and tariffs, listen to this radio interview with @PatrickBuchanan by @IngrahamAngle about Trump’s tariffs and trade.
Buchanan’s interview and the article by @GordonGChang made a compelling argument for supporting Trump in his quest to balance US trade
They are both just as relevant today as 2018 when the Trade war with China was getting into gear.

https://t.co/9p0ZwI31cu
The rest of the article in the subsequent post.

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

@FreddyLA7 There’s nothing quite like a ride on the Maid of the Mist and fireworks on the
4th of July.
Glad you got to experience at least one.

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

@NikkiSicilyNAfr @sarobertson_ @gollum1419_g How do you survive in real life being so easily deceived?

[たいたん#中古カメラせどり業界No.1講師 @tksact]

【世界No.1の国に行って思ったこと】

中古カメラせどりの仲間とW杯を観戦しにアメリカに行って色々見てきました。

◼︎物価は3〜5倍くらい

・お水4.5ドル(720円)
・適当お昼ご飯30ドル(4800円)
・空港からUber5分乗るだけでも5000円スタート

→途中から考えるのをやめました。
　計算してるとアメリカは楽しめない。

◼︎サービスのクオリティが低い

・良いサービスじゃない！でなく、最低限以下
・もちろん場所や人によるけど、何人かに1人は不機嫌な店員にあたる
・英語話せないこちらも悪いが舌打ち、無視は当たり前

→お客様は神様！とか全く思ってないけど怖ぇ感じ出すのはやめてほしい。話しかけ辛いし質問する気も失せる。まぁ他所様の国に文句つける気がある訳でもないけど

◼︎だけども人は良い。

・基本的にどんな人も最低限フレンドリー
・裕福だからか？
・とりあえず話しかける文化

→軽く話すだけでも感じたのが、それぞれの個人の権利をすごく認める文化。あからさまな差別主義者にも一度エンカウントした(こいつは論外)が、基本は自己主張しっかりしあおうぜ！尊重するぜ！な感じ

◼︎とりあえずデカい

・BIG is power!
・飯も建物も人もとりあえずデカい！
・デカいだけですごい

→デカ過ぎて地図で見ると歩けそうなのに歩けないとこが多い。何するにしても移動手段がないとダメな観光地結構ありそう。自分は今回ほとんどレンタカー移動しました。車社会なんで便利。あと普段アジアとか旅行するときに基本配車アプリ(grab)移動のみ的なムーブをするんですが、同じようにすると一瞬で破産しそう。

◼︎以外と凄くない

・進んでるし凄いなぁって部分もあるけど、結局はピンキリ。
・日本よりもっと最新鋭な街なイメージをしてたけど全然そんなことない
・新しいものもありゃそうじゃないものもある。中心地は派手だし綺麗で新しいものも多い(けど日本もそうかな？規模は違うけどね)

→ロボット！無人TAXI！AI！みたいなんは全然感じなかった。これから！って感じなのかもしれないけど、国全体的に進んでるよねってなってるわけでは全然ない。日本と変わらん。

まぁ今回はLA、ベガス、グランドキャニオン、ダラス、サンフランシスコ、ハワイ、に訪れただけだしそれぞれ超一瞬。

そして庶民的な目線で見たら〜ってだけでお金をかければ良いサービス良い人たちに囲まれるのは当たり前なのはわかっててーの適当意見です。
そしてそして完全に偏見だけど、今回思ったのはアメリカはアメリカ人がすごいんじゃなく、アメリカの企業がすごいってこと。

アメリカ人の平均年収は日本よりも全然高くて何か日本人が劣っているように感じる目線あるあるな気がしてるけど、実際は全然そんなことなくてむしろ国民性とフィジカル差し引けば負けてるように感じる所はない。

でも結局は日本人もアメリカ人も基本的には国次第。

大衆のほとんどの人は普通に毎日大変な生活を送ってそうってこと。

個人で突き抜けないとしんどい世界線はどこにいっても変わらずなのかなーと思った1週間でした

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

@drocktipps @EastEndJoe I mean… why use a picture from 2012 tho?

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

The irony of the Europeans coming to America and through their eyes giving us the 250th birthday celebration we need and deserve.

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

One example in Wisconsin with Absentee ballots requested and sent to nursing homes for mentally incompetent residents.
Staff then proceeded to vote by proxy instead of their families.
One of the family members went public at the time.

The one in Muskegon, Michigan apparently only resulted in fake applications before they were caught but the same company was involved in several states.
Who knows to what extent these operations succeeded. FBI turned a blind eye to it all.
I don’t think many people have caught on to the scheme yet. It’s all in the name.
The idea is to successfully put names in the state’s voter rolls, whether eligible or not.
As long as the name is in the rolls, votes can be manipulated either through ballot harvesting or computer copy and paste during elections when votes are needed.

https://t.co/bCiaCJlAdE

https://t.co/5TLJDDbzQf

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

Its BS.
More likely someone orchestrated a ballot harvesting operation for Raman. I doubt this is organic.
All is needed is a valid ballot, the rest can be taken care of Dem activists who vote by proxy.
That’s how elderly non compos menti residents in nursing homes are able to vote Dem for the first time.
2020 revealed these kinds of harvesting operations in several states.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

The US gov sends billions to California to subsidize their failed policies. It is time we STOP until they clean up their shady election process.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Joe Kent works for Defense Priorities now.

Dan Caldwell, the guy Hegseth fired for leaking and DNI rehired AFTERWARDS worked for Defense Priorities.

Will Rutgers hired by DNI used to work for Defense Priorities.

Defense priorities is the media arm of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. It was founded by Koch and Soros. One of its cofounders is also Trita Parsi one of the architects of Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal.

On 1/15/25, Trump posted on Truth Social listing people and groups his administration would not hire, explicitly from including anyone associated with Charles Koch.

DNI explicitly ignored that and hired people directly from there.

Since then, there have been 15 months of intelligence leaks. All of them in favor of authoritarian regimes from Venezuela to Iran.

Despite promises, not one leak has been publicly identified by DNI.

The only leaker that was identified was done so by Pete Hegseth, and fired only to be rehired by DNI.

Quincy has never met an authoritarian regime they don’t shill for.

I’m sure all of this is a complete and total coincidence. 🙃

[Rob Schmitt @SchmittNYC]

@matthewstoller Dumbass du jour

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)

Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8

This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

[Éomer, King of the Mark @SeniorElCuerpo]

@JayFivekiller The Trump DOJ is way too cowardly to drop the hammer on this and you know it.

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

I don’t know about the link but it is true that ineligible voters are registered to vote via that checkbox because it’s an “opt-out”iirc. So if it’s unchecked, the applicant is registered to vote. Many forget to check it.
Some green card holders found themselves in that mess.
The 2020 law to mail every name on the state’s voter roll complicated this mess. This became legalized fraud.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Hunter Biden,

You're getting six-digit likes on every post lately. I don't have any hope to ratio you or whatever through traditional "Hello" means.

But for those uninitiated, those who are captivated by your fake-humble persona obviously PR-engineered to capture unsuspecting disaffected Republicans:

You are not some humility, witty guy turning over a new leaf. You are the ultimate proof of nepotism, everything that the so-called "Epstein Class" is supposed to represent.

Let me explain - off the top of my head.

You were a board member of USGLC. U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The most powerful NGO that nobody's ever heard of. Last year, I documented in several threads, how Liz Schrayer, USGLC lead, took credit for ramming through a 90 billion dollar bill for Ukraine in 2024, even as @mattvanswol demonstrated that Western North Carolina got zero help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene because FEMA threw up their hands and said they ran out of funds.

USGLC, arguably, is the most powerful NGO that nobody has ever heard of. It includes a bunch of corporations, a bunch of nonprofit leads, and ... for some magical reason, I documented, extensively, linked, that Liz Schrayer started pursuing you in 2012. During the Obama years, when you were Biden's son. Are you a former Secretary of State? No. Are you a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? No. That puts you below the average USGLC board member, by a good tier.

So what DID get you on USGLC? The only reason: that you were the son of a sitting Vice President known for corruption, and you yourself were known for corruption.

You are not "folksy." You are the worst of the worst of the elite. Most of the elite, at least, get their credentials through Georgetown/George Washington/Harvard Kennedy. You got yours purely on nepotism. Any photographs you have of yourself at motels is proof that you are so incompetent that you waste all your money, not that you come from humble beginnings. Because others like @MarcoPolo501c3 have thoroughly documented that you benefited a great deal from your nepotism.

You even tried to bait those in with saying you prefer to keep immigration "legal" - but we all know the trap that keeps illegal immgrants here: outlaw deportations, and make every immigrant case "asylum", and magically, everyone who might've been here illegally a few years ago is legal.

You may get 175K likes on your semi-subverting, PR-designed photographs. But those of us who know, know you're fake.

https://t.co/vMml22uCbu

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Maybe one day someone can explain why Andrii is still left picking through the wreckage of his life under sanctions for alleged election interference, while the Ukrainian embassy officials who actually interfered in the 2016 presidential election, something even Politico admitted in a lengthy report, have never faced sanctions, never faced consequences, and continue to live blissful lives, including in the United States.

[Oddity @timemindfulness]

@jacobsoboroff How are you a prominent journalist with such a low understanding of major issues?
It’s like you’re being dumb on purpose to gaslight us.

[Vincanity 🇺🇸 @Vincanity93]

@KremlinTrolls They did the same type of comparison back in the day with the Titanic. Usually ships don’t stand up like that. Just more Trump hate.

[Ethan Explosion @Ethanxpl0510n]

@yashar @UnrigLA Journalists lying to protect the ever more corrupt system is the only “feature of the system” happening here
Legacy media and CA gov always competing for whose more full of shit

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Thune sacrificed 5 senators to avoid passing the Save America Act.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

About 5 years ago, I started researching voter roll data in the United States. Since then, I have published 7 peer-reviewed articles on the subject, most in the Journal of information Warfare (links in comments).

I am the first person to publish anything on the subject of hidden algorithms in voter rolls, and remain the only person to have published on the subject.

More importantly, this study has revealed that no state of the 12+ I have looked at meet normal standards for database management or security. If the state election boards were banks or any other regulated industry, they would be shut down.

They could complain about "incompetent clerks" and "accumulated errors over time" all they want, but they'd still be shut down.