This is an odd statement to me. News reporting agencies report...news? Like isn't this self evident?
AP doesn't actually decide the election, they just "call" it as in: they report the results. They're not inaugurating the president, they're telling people who won.
Stellula
4d ago
I hate this. I hate these fucking machines.
The exact same garbage happened in Maricopa county in 2022, which resulted in Katie Hobbs being elected as their governor.
Was the mysterious day of scanner problem a factor in her win? Hard to know, but it looks suspicious as hell.
Stellula
4d ago
Mark Halperin is basically the journalist that all other journalists are cosplaying as. Here’s his livestream:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qbs9Wka8bpo
Very non partisan by Mark, but has several partisan cohosts. One of the cohosts is Sean Spicer.
Stellula
5d ago
Commenting here so I can also get the recommendations.
(I love collecting somewhat strange books like this)
Stellula
7d ago
I don’t get the excuse of biopsying the squirrels brain to check for rabies. If there is a concern just give the guy the anti rabies meds anyway.
Stellula
7d ago
Or you’d need to plug a small microcontroller which can emulate a keyboard into it, then reboot it while you are in the voting booth with it.
Which is an attack that people have been demonstrating at defcon every year for at least 20 years, and is why for 20 years until something mysteriously changed in 2020, liberals were against voting machines, and it was common knowledge among hackers that voting machines were a joke.
Stellula
8d ago
Maybe it was like he had said he read moldbug then or something?
It was a long time ago when he was announced that this was being talked about. It was surprising how much overlap he had with the sort of people poasters here like.
Stellula
9d ago
Hlynka
Oh shit wasn't Hlynka a southerner and former military member?
My headcannon is now officially that Vance is Hlynka. Too bad he's banned so won't be able to tell me otherwise.
Stellula
9d ago
Vance follows moldbug, and I believe also BAP on twitter, just for reference.
Stellula
13d ago
Man I had the opposite reaction to this. Trump was telling the story of his first night staying in the White House, and sharing some of the feelings he was having while standing in the Lincoln Bedroom.
I thought it was a very humanizing story. Trump has kids who he seems to really care about (he talks about them a lot), and he seemed to be connecting how depressed the Lincoln’s were at the loss of their son.
I thought that was a really great story and was one of my favorite moments from the episode.
Stellula
16d ago
It’s literally the boy who cried Nazi wolf.
They’ve been trying these attacks against Trump for almost 10 years now. They just don’t work anymore.
Trump has thousands and thousands of hours of himself talking available online for anybody to listen to. The reality is that he’s a pretty nice, relatively normal, above average charming person. He spent most of his life as a NYC socialite so this should surprise absolutely nobody.
Stellula
17d ago
Trump said he thought there was fraud, and acted like he was genuine in this belief.
He has maintained this now for 4 years despite substantial incentive to change.
Stellula
18d ago
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Trump believed that there was enough fraud to effect the outcome of the election
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He needed a venue in which to make the argument for this and present the case for why he thought this
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If there existed conflicting electoral slates, the Vice President had the power to reject the certification, and allow a period of time for the congress to have a debate about the validity of any complaints. Such a debate has occurred in 1876, 1969, and 2005.
This seems pretty wonky, and the type of thing that nobody would usually ever care about or even know about if it weren't for cable news/twitter/hysterics.
To be clear I think that this was a completely reasonable thing to do. I think that our system of government is based on (and functions best) when it is competing forces pulling each other in tension.
I think that consensus arrises from conflict.
Every time that Trump is allowed to make his case publicly, so long as the case has no merit, it will lose supporters. Or, if it does have merit, it will gain them.
By not allowing Trump to make his case, and for trying to punish him for it with absurd conspiracy theorizing about "January 6th", it signals that Trump's opponents might fear that his case does have merit, and that by presenting the evidence for it, it will gain supporters.
Trump was clearly not trying to "overturn democracy" or "change the results of an election" or any other bullshit like that. Especially the idea that he was trying to "change the results" (he wasn't, he was trying to determine them) should disgust anybody who cares about American Democracy.
Daylight is the best disinfectant, etc.
Oh man I read this the exact opposite of you.
I thought Trump was extremely, savant level charming. It honestly made me sad that most of our politicians are so terrible.
Him pointing out that he wrote Schumer his first check, or getting in the jabs and stuff against Eric Adams (even if they were all pre written, which I doubt since it sounded very much like trumps “voice”) made it feel like there is hope that we can all actually get along.
Maybe this is just crack to me since I’m an upper-class-adjacent (friends and I are now scheming to buy a table at this event) Catholic, straight, cisgendered white male with a wife and children.
I loved this event last night. I am legitimately in afterglow this morning from it text back and forth with the aforementioned friends.
Stellula
23d ago
not a fledgling industry that needs a financial boost.
RDOF was supposed to be a boost for rural people with no broadband. It wasn't a handout to spacex, it was a handout to rural people.
SpaceX provides a valuable service. They're not asking for (nor do they need) a handout.
Stellula
26d ago
Stellula
27d ago
SpaceX already routinely lands and relaunches rockets. The difference is that this one is much larger. SpaceX has a ton of experience with this.
Stellula
1mo ago
meritocracy
Meritocracy where a judge gets to make a subjective decision on if you get to have a trial or not?
I'm just a dumb asshole without a law degree, but here's how "standing" with respect to the election appears to me, a lowly voter:
"You didn't have standing to bring this case before the election because you didn't know if there would be any damage, but you don't have any standing to bring the case after the election because the damage has already been done. Heads we win, tails you lose."
Stellula
1mo ago
What is the point of relitigating all of this again? I feel like I've had this conversation, probably with you, like 1000x since 2021. This feels like we're going through a choreographed dance.
If somebody actually committed a crime, why should they get automatic clemency? It's like a BLM supporter saying "there will never be racial reconciliation unless you pardon everyone for everything that happened during the BLM riots."
Because there is a massive, massive discrepancy in the application of the law between these two groups of people, as well as the scope of what happened.
Would these do anything? If they get their day in court, the default outcome would be for them to... still fail on their merits. What happens then? Republicans will then just say the courts are still biased.
Because the alternative is "we looked at this and decided you lose. No we won't tell you our logic." Does that seem like it's helping? If it's going to fail on the merits, show me the merits; allow the debate to happen.
Stellula
1mo ago
Here’s how the government can regain the trust of the right wing:
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Require an ID to vote.
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ENCOURAGE as many audits and court cases (with discovery power, that are not dismissed on “standing”) as they want.
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Pardon everybody who was involved in “January 6th”
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Drop all the lawsuits against Trump.
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Actual, televised court cases for any of the grievances republicans have wrt to “January 6th”.
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Televised, with discovery power, and “you are held in contempt” power to investigate the 2020 election, the origins of Covid, and the vaccine.
Now that I’m writing this out I don’t think it’s really possible. A lot of people have heard the phrase “I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation” one too many times. They feel like their government is working against them and will happily just lie directly to their face, and until a LOT of that is undone I don’t think they’re really going to accept the election outcome.
It’s not AI, he just said it a while ago.
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