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From theater critic to artist — and aspiring entrepreneur.
My first interview as a poet. ❤️
✍️ canvasrebel.com/meet-marc-wh…
Marc Wheeler retweeted
Giving Ross this job was a masterstroke by @bariweiss
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
Marc Wheeler retweeted
You're gay, Pete. Islam's law still says men like us should be put to death. Countries that follow it hang gay men. Calling this a win for our communities makes you a traitor to every gay man watching.
Abdul made this race about the cost of living, universal health care, and political reform. He stayed relentlessly focused on that message, even as Mike Rogers and Donald Trump threw everything they could at him. He has earned this victory, and he’ll be a strong voice in the Senate for our communities and neighbors in Michigan.
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10/10 probably best video on the internet in the history of the internet.
Woke 3.0 gonna be lit.
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If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality.
If you’re left wing and you can’t admit conservatives are way better at running cities and businesses and police departments, you’re not living in reality.
You step inside a beautiful coffee shop in the PNW and think “man, these liberals are great at this stuff…conservatives should take notes.” Then the moment you step outside and trip over a homeless drug zombie shooting up fentanyl on the sidewalk, you think “man these liberals are terrible at this stuff…they should really take notes from conservatives”
Communists make disgusting anti-beauty art, but classical liberals aren’t like that. Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional.
If you can’t accept that, you need to check your tribalism. We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance or else the communists swoop in and take everything from us while we quarrel over stupid bullshit…which is exactly what’s happening now.
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This is a fascinating point.
If this was a “blue wave” election, then that generally means that tons of Republicans flipped their votes.
Not “stayed home.” Literally, flipped votes.
Because the data show that Republicans showed up at the same level as previous election cycles. You know, when they won.
It looks like Democrats were able to conjure up about 1.7 million more voters than the 2022 election. About 1.4 million from the 2018 election.
If you are thinking, “wait, wasn’t Trump president in 2018?” then congrats. You are starting to hone in on why this turnout makes no sense.
Because California transplants don’t account for it. There are only about 700,00 net Californian migrants, max.
H1Bs and permanent residents are not allowed to vote. Illegal aliens don’t legally vote, although people *could* vote for them thanks to our dirty voter rolls.
So, where did all these Democrats come from?
Let's touch on the given reasons why. The Iran War? Okay, where were all the anti-war protests in the streets?
The left was burning Teslas over modest DOGE cuts, for chrissakes.
Expensive gas? You mean, the same prices we saw at the end of Biden. Did these Dems flip for Trump over that in 2024?
Maybe to some degree, Latinos did. But not anywhere close to these margins.
ICE deportations? Those border counties that are being cited as the major surge in Latino voters for the Democrats went about +14 Trump in 2024.
That would be the presidential election when Trump said mass deportations were on the table.
But we aren’t as concerned about the 'why' as we are about the math.
Because there is reported to be about 2.9 million new voter registrations between 2022-2024. Texas doesn't demand proof of citizenship for these TPS registrations, but they are ultimately supposed to be checked against SAVE databases for non-citizen flags.
After all is said and done, however, there were a net 950,000 new voter registrations in Texas.
So, the Democrats would have to get all of this mathematically and then almost double.
Why would there be a "blue wave" mainly over the Iran War when there were few anti-war protests?
Why would Trump win in 2024 while promising mass deportations and all of a sudden modest ICE enforcement is causing a shift of 40-50 points for Latino voters?
Why would polls have a bias for Dem respondents that showed close races, but then this turned out to be a blue wipeout with GOP turnout about the same as past years when their candidates won?
These questions may have good explanations. As for me, I've got nothing.
There are numerous oddities about vote counts, etc. in this election...here is another...and maybe the biggest...
I, like some of you, have a circle of like-minded Conservative friends (about 30). My wife has a similar circle (about 20).
Neither of us know of anyone who shifted or voted Left (but we know some who shifted Left to Right). Not only do we not know of anyone who shifted Left, when we contact these people, none of them know of anyone either!
Yet, statistics show that virtually every county in the US shifted Left.
Please do me a favor, ask around and see if you can find a single Conservative you know who voted Blue.
Marc Wheeler retweeted
Under your leadership, we lost the Senate majority.
As bad as that is, we lost Kansas and we are likely to lose Mississippi — deep red states.
To add insult to injury, your lack of action helped to defeat Senator Collins in Maine.
Will you — upon looking at the disastrous results from 2026 — nuke the filibuster & pass the hundreds of bills the House has sent to the Senate
or will you be remembered as the Senate Majority Leader that squandered a Republican House, Senate, White House, & SCOTUS?
History is watching & it will not be kind in 2028.
Peacefully.
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Does anyone know why El-Sayed never introduced himself by his full name and with a strong Arabic accent BEFORE he was elected to the Senate?
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The melting wax statue of Bill Nye with a blonde wig laughs uncontrollably over the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk and killing him twice.
These are not democrats. These are communists. And they are evil. We have a communist violence problem.
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Well this final GoFundMe update from The Red Baron Worker has assured me that we could not have supported a better man.
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The Queen of the Night. Where elegance meets fury, and every note demands absolute precision.
#EdithPaf #DianaDamrau
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True
After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed.
He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself.
So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends.
Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight.
Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant.
Here's the part almost nobody sees.
For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit.
Robots break that asymmetry.
When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible.
And that changes everything politically.
So there are two scenarios.
Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse.
Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built.
That's the Western renaissance.
The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice.
The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
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One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Just v🔴ted. ✅
A little rain, a little line, right before the polls opened at 7. Got my sticker and a Twix candy bar for being a good boy!
