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Albo vs Golaith
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ALT Single frame cartoon. Anthony Albanese in shorts and wearing a Kylie rock t-shirt is looking skywards and saying "I command you to stop". In his hand he is holding a piece of paper titled 'AI Legislation'. To the right is a huge pair of feet filling the frame, dwarfing Albo. The chyron reads "Albo vs Golaith".
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Fossil fuel traffickers #auspol #ClimateCrisis
ALT Editorial cartoon by Pat Hudson. The earth, with Australia looking relatively clean as a voice coming out of it says, “How good are renewables!” The rest of the earth is covered in smog which has the ‘Australian Made’ logo on it
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Oh poor you. The White House did everything you said, and crashed the MAGA train into a mountain. You spent the whole past year attacking every effective and compelling voice of our 2024 coalition. You killed our coalition. You will not be in charge of the autopsy.
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Honored, if slightly bemused, to be #21 on Newsweek's list of "climate heretics"
My heresy: climate change is real, and we should spend our money where it does the most good
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Every bit of advice you've given for 2 years has been wrong and bad and led to this.
Tucker was right. You were wrong.
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The American people do not owe “loyalty” to any politician. They owe loyalty to us. Your loyalty is to your nation. You support politicians when they do the right thing and criticize them when they do the wrong thing. They serve you. Not the other way around.
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What an absolutely galling analysis from @JDVance. Where does one even start?
The Vice President tells us:
“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”
In reality, J.D., all you need is #3. It covers the others entirely, and a few you missed. And yet you have it 3rd! Why? Because you apparently needed a pollster to explain that betraying the coalition that elected you was going to piss them off.
The issues you’re missing include: the breathtaking corruption of your administration, covering up for the Epstein class, failure to deliver on MAHA and failure to properly investigate notorious political crimes.
Putting America first is all you had to do. If your administration had done that, you’d have been in great shape. Having failed to do it, no amount of clever rhetoric and rallies could possibly have saved you.
And whatever they’re telling you, J.D., the people who showed up and put you in office in ‘24 did not suddenly vote for race-bating Marxists in ‘26.
You are the Vice President. This is not inherently your fault, but it becomes your fault if you keep playing along.
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Thanks for acknowledging these things. Better late than never. I’ll send you the hat.
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The leader of the American conservative movement has no idea how this happened, but he's sure it must be your fault.
Ben Shapiro Declares 'We're Just Getting Wiped Out' as Midterms Look Grim for GOP mediaite.com/media/news/ben-…
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Tucker Carlson, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, Megyn Kelly and everyone else who opposed the idiotic, disastrous war of choice in Iran were right.
The people who demonized them for their principled opposition deserve to be ruled by Democrats. But the rest of us don’t.
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In the wake of the blue tsunami, @ComicDaveSmith lays out the blueprint for the Republican come-back in 2028:
• No new wars
• America first
• Bring prices down
• Secure borders
But it only works if they repudiate Donald Trump's war of aggression.
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The conservatives who said:
1) The war in Iran is catastrophically stupid
2) Affordability is a real problem
3) America First
Were exactly right on every point.
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Ten million people have watched a comedian accidentally destroy the entire TED talk industry.
He filmed the talk once at TEDxNewYork in 2014 and openly admitted he had nothing to say.
Speaking coaches charge $5,000 to teach the exact tricks he used in 6 minutes to say nothing at all.
His name is Will Stephen. He is a comedian from Late Night with Seth Meyers who was invited to give a real TED talk and used it to prove the format is a costume anyone can wear.
Every TED speaker opens with a question, tells a personal story, cites a scientist, and shows a chart. Stephen did all four in six minutes with zero content.
His entire formula fits on a napkin.
Gesture with both hands. Ask the audience a question anyone can answer. Tell a mildly embarrassing story so they say aww. Point to a stranger on a slide and call them important. Flash a chart of random numbers. Wear glasses with no lenses. The audience will think you are brilliant.
That last trick alone has probably cost the public speaking coaching industry a hundred million dollars in sessions clients should have skipped.
"If you watched me on YouTube with the sound off, you would think I was a genius."
That is Will Stephen on the TED stage, three minutes into the talk he was paid to give. He wasn't lying.
Executives pay $15,000 for a keynote coach and still open with a joke the room never laughs at. Founders rehearse their pitch for weeks and still sound like Stephen at minute four, saying "wagga wah, gabba gabba" with authority.
The talk is free on YouTube. The method is written across every TED speaker's playbook for ten years.
Stephen still writes for Seth Meyers. Almost none of the ten million viewers have stopped nodding at empty slides since.
The formula is free. The willingness to actually say something before your next keynote, pitch, or townhall is the entire edge.
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Back in 2004, I went to the Libertarian Party convention in Atlanta, and after the long weekend decided that I would not join. The people who run it are just too removed from the rest of the movement and the rest of the society. They didn't give shit about Iraq! the most important thing in the world at the time. Hardly heard of it apparently. Didn't know how horrible it would look invite hawks to give speeches. Just facepalm.
I tried advising the LP presidential nominee that year. That reinforced the same lesson: This is not worth the effort. I have more important things to do.
A few years ago, I finally joined the LP at the urging of my friends who were working to take the party over in the name of the actual American libertarian movement, as exemplified by the thinking and writing of Dr. Ron Paul, especially.
The real point was to get the party together before we ran Dave Smith for president, which he thankfully in retrospect decided not to do.
Well, at the last convention the libertarians didn't show up, only the Libertarians. So, a gay porn producer and new wave haircut lady and their crew took the party back over.
It really sucks because there are so many good people in the party who work very hard and fight good fights. But the organization itself, as a democracy, is just completely retarded and it always will be.
Today a friend sent me screenshots of these degenerate scum -- specifically the LP of San Francisco -- claiming the right to hurt children because they think freedom means getting away with being a piece of shit and violating the rights of helpless victims.
Send in the SWAT Team.
It's a foregone conclusion that the party leadership will do nothing about this.
The LP always has been and remains a disaster for the good name of our movement.
They'll probably run that filth Joe Walsh for president next time. He fits right in there.
So I hereby officially resign from the Libertarian Party, and will instead continue to fight for liberty by other means.
