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My views on Covid, restrictions, masks, testing and the role governments play has changed wildly in the past 2 years.
Has anyone not changed their positions on most Covid related things since Jan 20?
I was pro lockdown, pro mask, pro governments stepping in, etc. Now I'm not.
Ron has never learned the meaning of either Public or Private apparently.
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Nate Silver's model currently has Democrats winning 240 house seats.
natesilver.net/p/nate-silver…
First MAGA went apeshit over a totally fake story about Talrico - spreading it across their entire network and then blaming dems for supposedly making them do it.
Then MAGA defends a child rapist and his wife who protected him over the kid who was raped.
Now this outrages them.
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I'll have an early voting blog post up in a bit, but:
On a day Rs expected to do well, Ds had their biggest gain Saturday.
The current numbers:
D+16,864, or 4.5%.
Rurals closed today, so Rs will need to do well in urban Nevada to stanch the bleeding.
Post coming...
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In my book Kakistocracy, I note that Brazil locking up Bolsonaro after he attempted a coup put its democracy on a healthier course. Compare to America, where the prosecution took too long. Brazil dodged a bullet tonight.
You can be right-wing! Stop trying to be authoritarians.
A patriot would put country over party and expel the senile orange fool from office.
New Gallup poll asks "which values the country most needs today?"
Out of a list of 12 values, Republicans put "patriotism" #1, for Dems it ranks dead last - by a lot.
Dems say "equality" is most needed, Republicans rank it 11th out of 12.
This is the type of thing which foretells a wave election - perhaps even a tidal wave.
We'll have to see what actually happens, but basically every tea leaf is trending the same way.
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[Da'Shaun L. Harrison] told the event that GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, were a tool for “indoctrination” and are connected to “empire and imperialism” and “oftentimes about making bodies militarisable”.
These people are utterly ridiculous.
theaustralian.com.au/world/t…
Buying power has actually gone up for the average person over the past 10, 20, 30 and 40 years.
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Blinder & Watson (2016) found that there is superior economic performance under Democratic Party presidents thanks to fewer wars and energy shocks, which they seem to characterize as dumb luck or something but IMO reflects a genuine pattern.
slowboring.com/p/republican-…
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Amy Acton's mother pled guilty to a felony charge of theft by deception in the 1990s. She's literally a convicted liar. And this is the person Vance is saying can be trusted to "call it like it is."
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A touch-grass moment for the "AI and data centers are huge issues in the midterms" people
Correct.
We all say how all the politicians we get are terrible.
If you ran a company and all your potential hires were terrible you'd increase the pay to get better people applying.
This is common sense.
Hating politicians is the reason they should be paid more.
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why do these posts always say "we speak faster than we write"? i definitely type WAY faster than i talk.
do people use dictation tools because they're slow typists? or are most people better at verbal expression than i am?
Today we introduce Plato: the ring for near-silent speech.
We speak faster than we write. But we can’t always say out loud what we’re thinking.
Plato turns thought into action.
Dictate. Transform. Delegate.
Order now: plato.it.com. Limited supply.
When even Nancy Mace acknowledges that a bar for decency exists and you've failed to surpass it - it's time to disappear from society and never return.
That level of humiliation is not something you can come back from.
This woman bragged about killing her dog!
