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Yeah Elon definitely rigged the 2024 election

I'm too much of a noob to understand - why did he post this ? first read, this looks reasonable, honest, and somewhat vulnerable. But since he's the vice president, I know that can't be true. can someone explain? What is the 4D chess political strategy for posting this. Self preservation ?

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they've exhausted all other options." — Winston Churchill

Democrats won enough trifectas last night to theoretically obtain an absolute majority of the electoral college for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and they certainly have Congressional majorities large enough to authorize such a compact. The only question is whether it would survive a court challenge. If they win the Presidency in 2028 and stack the Supreme Court as many Dems have threatened to do the moment they have the votes, there’s a chance that we will never again have Presidential elections in America decided by the Electoral College. I do not think people fully understand yet that Democrats won enough elections last night to permanently change this country in a way that may make things impossible to ever undo. Political parties operate off incentives. Their goal is to win elections, not permanently pander to a specific demographic constituency. While they can spend years or even decades in the wilderness, eventually, someone will look at the median voter and determine that he too can win an election by pandering to everyone to the Left or Right of that individual. So what happens when one side of the equation permanently changes the rules so that the median voter shifts from someone living in Ohio to say someone living in Virginia? The Beautiful Losers may not immediately return to power tomorrow, but make no mistake they are quietly waiting in the wings, hoping that Democrats change the rules of the American electoral process in order to permanently enshrine them as the natural controlled opposition.

This is an absolutely insane thing for a sitting VP to post. Vance is openly blaming his own admin's war in Iran for this Republican electoral collapse, while citing voters' anger over America's relationship with Israel. It may very well be that, in an effort to salvage whatever's left of his political future, Vance eventually goes further and breaks with Trump over the war, much like Hubert Humphrey belatedly distanced himself from LBJ over Vietnam in 1968. And if he does, the irony of JD Vance doing what Kamala Harris refused to do with Biden over the genocide in Gaza would make her refusal to break with him look even more indefensible.

Dems will hold power for over a decade if we can just do 3 things 1) never let the border get like that again 2) don’t let crime go unpunished (this was actually regressive as it affects lower-income peoples the most) 3) chill out a little on the trans stuff

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.

Texas State Sen. Nathan Johnson, who composed music for the English dub of Dragon Ball Z, is now the Texas Attorney General

Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time 🤷‍♂️

When Obama was casting his ballot for the 2014 midterms, a man jokingly told the president not to touch his girlfriend, who was voting next to him. Obama then casually roasted the man until he finished voting.😂

She used a technique called tear induced optical magnification where she forced herself to cry and used her tears as magnifying lenses to sharpen her vision like a pair of human glasses as her blood sugar dropped. And I just made all that up. I have no idea but great shot 👏

So many unnecessary deaths because people want to look cool. The learjet guy died because his banker friends flew p-jet, and he thought he had to as well. He picked one of the cheapest p-jet companies just so he could brag about p-jet gangsta lyfe. Marathon deaths doubled because gangsta sportlyfe on social media is cool. People are pushing beyond their limits to finish the marathon, otherwise they lose out on gangsta content. And then we have multiple influencers dying to fucking eating- one from vomiting too much from excessive eating on cam, and another one from eating an exotic deadly crab. Social media has made the Darwin Award far more competitive than it was 20 years ago.

My heart goes out to the families of those aboard N722BD. Volumetric radar data show the jet descending from about 37,000 ft near a deep thunderstorm, with tops near 46,000 ft, close to West Palm Beach around 12:48 PM. The last ADS-B report came about 75 seconds later. Weather may have been a factor, but the NTSB will determine the cause. The radar numbers come from my 3D grid of the 12:45 PM scan, averaged over about a 10 km box around where the descent started. The radar is about 120 km away at that point, so the beam is wide up there, and the scan is 2½ minutes before the descent. That’s why the caption says “near” and “possible” rather than claiming the plane flew through a specific core.