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With my focus in recent years on correcting the false popular narrative about the Brooks Brothers riot, I find it fascinating how often people will block me immediately for simply stating the truth.
Bear in mind this has happened dozens of times before I decided to start documenting it.
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Dear @Google, this is not an acceptable search result using Google Advanced search restricted to the domain politifact.com/
None of the results were restricted to that domain.
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It'd take backing off of CAFE standards for the automotive industry.
The reason all sedans look alike these days comes down to the wind tunnel. Their design is primarily aerodynamic, then the designers get permission to do minor tinkering with appearance.
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It's like the street version of the Herkimer Battle Jitney.
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Bryan W. White retweeted
The Electoral College reflects the fact that the US is a republic. The Founders wanted a constitutional system based on the consent of the governed, but they wanted filtering mechanisms so that the will of the people would be channeled towards the public good. And they wanted the role of the states respected.
The EC also guarantees that in an “extended republic” like the US, a candidate cannot just run up the score in one region of the country.
In our time, the EC serves to produce a clearer and more decisive winner (see, eg, Bill Clinton winning 43% of the popular vote but a strong majority in the EC) and focuses election administration in individual states, which reduces complexity in a close race.
We should be doing more to bolster federalism and the role states play, not further weaken them.
There is no reason to change the Electoral College.
Bryan W. White retweeted
There is no Electoral College problem. It works exactly as intended. The "problem" is that people have been convinced that direct democracy is preferable.
The Brooks Brothers riot had nothing to do with the outcome of the 2000 election.
Try to explain it to him, @grok.
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This is what it's like explaining the truth about the Brooks Brothers riot to people on Twitter/X/twiX
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This poor creature had the unenviable task of defending her claim that Marsha Blackburn, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts were involved in the Brooks Brothers riot.
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The story appears to pick up in 2001, the year after her non-existent participation in the Brooks Brothers riot.
You're doing a great deal of work to prove me right.
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Well, if she hired a staffer in 2003 who participated in the 2000 Brooks Brothers riot then it just stands to reason Blackburn herself participated in the Brooks Brothers riot. j/k
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Different county entirely.
It's a common technique for some reason for people to automatically equate legal work with participation in the Brooks Brothers riot.
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I'll let you dismiss Florida law and archived video from local Miami news.
How 'bout that?
If you weren't physically present you have no edge on me.
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Of course he does. Says I don't know what I am talking about, and he blocked me.
That doesn't change the fact nobody corroborates his story.
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The press kept from you the fact that Miami-Dade was illegally restricting public access to its manual recount.
There was no intimidation. The aim was only restoring public access.
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