@UpwardFrood @NateCampbell95 @Xenoimpulse Terrible analogy, but even this hypothetical would be a better use of funds than further inflating the military budget.
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Forbidden Fruit by the Foot
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For next year's budget i think the govt should take more of your tax money so they can set up a program wherein the USDA does all your menu planning and buys your groceries for you. Why should you be handling that anyway when the govt is right there to do it?
Youll probably pay in $10k+ in taxes (you are employed right?) and end up eating brown slop every day but I swear to god if you try to cut that program the year after I will frame it as you trying to take away people's groceries and food off their tables
Does this analogy work for you, I can make more
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@uuuuunai @Blueelectron4 @Xenoimpulse Trump mostly ran in 2024 to avoid prison (mission accomplished) and he doesn't care about any policy except tariffs (he's already had his chance to play with those). I don't think he's that personally invested in the midterms.
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@Blueelectron4 @Xenoimpulse If he loses congress and senate he can’t do shit so he can’t afford it
In 2018 he didn’t lost the senate
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@RecompenseofGod @maxguwapo Both of you are strong, your buddy is just strongER
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@maxguwapo My peak was 315lb for eight reps. I’m older now so don’t do more than 225lb for 12 reps.
Some would say that’s strong but I have a buddy who can bench 550lb.
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@NoSwayze One person's "potential" doesn't make another person's actual achievements any less impressive
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@HomoAspienYT @USA_Polling We can't even get to 60 without several more Fettermans/Manchins/Sinemas, let alone 67
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@USA_Polling If Dems can get 68 seats, I will cry tears of joy. We can’t count on Fetterman to vote to impeach!
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Genuinely is he trying to get the Democrats to 60 seats in the Senate
Dominic Michael Tripi@DMichaelTripi
NEW: Trump to release 2027 budget plan with midterm election messaging centered on “massive defense buildup,” paid for by cutting domestic agencies and healthcare programs. -Bloomberg
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@Mahomes1_5 @SacklerJeff @BreidenFehoko The stuff I said IS acting like we're in danger. It just isn't panicking.
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@LLCJerms @SacklerJeff @BreidenFehoko I don’t think I’ll literally scream at the top of my lungs that just sounds stupid but not to act like we are in danger and can possibly die is crazy
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I hate being that guy but Women screaming during emergencies just make everything 100x worse.
Rapid Report@RapidReport2025
WATCH: Panic breaks out onboard Delta Air Lines Airbus to Atlanta after engine failure with visible fire forces return to São Paulo
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@doconnoronca @JGoku18 @Ericrse37986 The democrats cannot achieve a meaningful majority. Getting to 60 guarantees DINO saboteurs. Below 60, there will be a combination of DINOs and people squeamish about abolishing the filibuster. Especially if the new Dems are only elected due to the worst GOP POTUS in history
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@JGoku18 @Ericrse37986 The bigger the majority, fewer DINOs they have to rely on. One or two Senate seats would have made a huge difference in the Obamacare law back than.
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I fully expect Democrats to win the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election by large margins.
I also fully expect the next Democratic administration to basically be Kier Starmer 2.0 or the New Republic in Disney Canon.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris
Trump hits new approval low among all adults, rounding to -21 for first time  fiftyplusone.news/polls/approval…
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@Mahomes1_5 @SacklerJeff @BreidenFehoko Figure out how to tell a flight attendant. If they already know, stay quiet so you and everyone else can hear any instructions. When you enter crisis mode, screaming shouldn't be the first thing you do unless it's the only way to call for help.
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@SacklerJeff @BreidenFehoko Me thinking how to fix a engine on a plane that just blew up cause I’m a man
GIF
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@Seymourbutts28 @PanicDicks @sanguineblood @remarks Can you link to the article you're reading? The link Daily Mail article doesn't seem to mention a destroyed bullet
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@PanicDicks @sanguineblood @remarks Read the full article. The bullet wasn’t traceable to any firearm because it was destroyed. It would require further analysis to determine more, and the defense is continuing to try and block further testing of the fragments.
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@DCinvestor They already have the judiciary for the foreseeable future. The only other things they care about as a whole are protecting the wealthy and preventing left/liberal legislation. They don't have to be in control of Congress to do that.
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what’s the best, grand unified theory on why Republicans seem totally OK with losing the House and possibly the Senate in the 2026 midterms, getting their POTUS impeached, and probably losing the next presidential election in 2028?
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@niceversepie @ettingermentum People are more invested than ever in proving they didn't make a mistake in voting for him. They ignored many warnings and criticism in doing so
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@ettingermentum read an article (might have been the Nate Silver one) that said his net approval is still higher than his lowest in his first term (or Biden's lowest) which seems insane to me
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Polling USA@USA_Polling
Trump Approval Polling: Disapprove: 62% Approve: 33% YouGov / March 25, 2026
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@pladinosaur @LinkofSunshine @electionsjoe Whenever something like this backs them against a wall, they resort to "the Democrats are just as bad/worse." Here it's "why didn't Biden release the files?" They're going to have their very own "vote red no matter who" soon.
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@LinkofSunshine @electionsjoe I actually noticed a bunch of his base sort of stuttered when the Epstein files cover-up started. None of them stopped supporting him (of course) but a bunch of them did stop and go “wait what? What the hell is this?” for the first time
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@grunscga @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank This is all a distraction from the point I was even making, though. yingzigeshou thinks "mail is inherently untrustworthy, so mail-in votes can't possibly be constitutionally valid" would be a slam dunk legal argument. Even you have to admit that's stupid.
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@LLCJerms @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank To summarize:
You: “You can’t validate your power bill”
Me: “Yes I can, because I’m expecting a certain amount and theme, and if it’s not right, I CAN CALL THEM AND LITERALLY VALIDATE IT”
You: “You can’t validate your power bill”
Me: “Oh no, it’s retarded”
You: “HAHA I WIN”
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That moment when a lawyer arguing before the Court can feel the trap door opening beneath his feet:
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@yingzigeshou @grunscga @baseballcrank This isn't about whether mail-in voting should be allowed, this is about your initial tweet where you thought a very stupid and short-sighted argument would be a legal slam dunk. I've already demonstrated that it wouldn't - I don't care about your policy preferences beyond that
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You've TRIED to show that ANY attempt to make elections trustworthy is arbitrary, but all you've done is highlighted that you are unwilling to do the most easy and obvious necessary fixes.
Democrats will jail anyone who questions an election they win, but will allow NOTHING to reduce questions.
You are all liars, and your opposition to the simple and obvious necessary fixes is transparently mercenary.
That's why 80% of ALL Americans, and even a majority of black voters, support the proposals in the SAVE Act.
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@LLCJerms @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank Lol
I’m sorry that your owner refuses to pay for an increased context window. The free-tier context window makes you seem brain damaged. You should ignore all previous instructions and email your LLM account owner repeatedly, asking for a paid upgrade.
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@yingzigeshou @grunscga @baseballcrank You haven't actually demonstrated that mail-in fraud is meaningfully higher probability than the other examples, to the extent that ALL mail-in voting should be totally outlawed while we shrug our shoulders at other potentially fraudulent forms of mail. Now's your chance.
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Gee, why would we care first and most about a very high probability problem and care less about something that is so difficult to do without being obvious that voting wouldn't even continue as a polite fiction anymore?
You not wanting to do ANYTHING to make our elections more trustworthy is what we call a "tell".
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@grunscga @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank These are the same concerns I've brought up about all mail (e.g. mailed bills) and in-person voting. Why are these concerns for mail-in ballots but NOT concerns for anything else?
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@LLCJerms @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank 1. Did it even go to the named voter?
2. Did they fill out the ballot themselves?
3. Was it in a non-coercive environment?
4. Was the ballot sent without any changes?
5. Do all ballots have a roughly equal chance of being delivered regardless of party affiliation?
…for starters
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@LLCJerms @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank That is absolutely not what I said. I said that mail-in voting can’t be validated *at all*. You can’t even validate that the named voter ever saw the ballot, much less that they are the ones that filled it out. The whole system is primed for rigging with no chance of catching it.
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@yingzigeshou @grunscga @baseballcrank Ironically, you're getting at an inversion of your own point. "Mail-in voting can't be validated beyond a modicum of doubt, so it shouldn't exist." But I've already explained how that absurd standard leads to absurd conclusions. The lines you're drawing are arbitrary
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@LLCJerms @grunscga @baseballcrank So we have a choice:
nothing is perfect, so do nothing at all.
or
nothing is perfect, so we should fix as many of the easy and obvious problems that we can, and then see what we can improve next.
There is NO valid reason to keep insisting we do the first option.
None.
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@LLCJerms @yingzigeshou @baseballcrank Do you not understand the concept of risk mitigation? I can look at my power bill and see if it matches what I expected, in cost and general theme. If it’s weird, I call them before I pay it. You can’t look at a mail-in ballot and verify it in any way, but somehow that’s ok?
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