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Rural conservatives in deep-blue states are effectively governed without consent. In New York, Republicans win most counties yet still lose statewide by 20 points because dense urban and suburban voters in New York City and its suburbs cast the decisive ballots and vote overwhelmingly Democratic. The result is that rural and upstate communities pay the taxes, live under the regulations, and absorb the costs set by politicians they consistently reject. Same story in California and Illinois. Population density has become a veto over the rest of the state.

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time. The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

The War Department has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to our national security.

For years, Americans have been told that conflict with China is inevitable. One power rises, the other must fall. But that idea, the “Thucydides Trap,” isn’t American. The American idea, from Alexander Hamilton to Henry Carey to Franklin Roosevelt, is that nations grow richer by building rail, power, ports, science, industry. One nation’s prosperity can add to another’s. Modern China’s founder, Sun Yat-sen, modeled his principles on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In World War II, Americans and Chinese fought side by side, and both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao hoped to rebuild China with Roosevelt after the war. China’s rejuvenation does not require America’s decline. America’s renewal does not require China’s destruction.

In 1974, New York State told the Town of Lloyd it could cut residents' property taxes by 80%. Town taxes would drop 91% and school taxes 89%. In return, the town had to accept a nuclear plant on 2,300 acres along the Esopus line, around Chodikee Lake in Ulster County. Many people in the region were open to it. In a 1974 poll of the district, 52.5% said they wouldn't object to an atomic plant nearby. The town's own advisory committee worried about something else: a tax cut that big would bring growth. In June 1974, Lloyd voted 805–328 against any power plant at all. Con Ed came back anyway. In 1978 it walked away, saying too many people were moving into the area. That never really happened. Today, within 10 miles of the site, there are still fewer than 500 people per square mile, which is under the federal siting guideline. What if it had been built? Add four 1,300 MW reactors to New York's actual 2025 generation, hour by hour: ⚡ Gas drops from 53% of the state's power to 26% ⚡ Zero-emission power rises from 47% to 74% ⚡ About 283 billion cubic feet of gas a year never gets burned, cutting roughly half of the state's power-plant CO₂ Lloyd was offered an 80% tax cut and cleaner air for the whole state. It said no. 📄 Sources: Temporary State Commission to Study the Catskills (1974), p. 203; Mid-Hudson Post, 6/26/74; Poughkeepsie Journal, 3/21/74; Southern Ulster Pioneer, 3/29/78; 2020 Census; NYEA counterfactual model on 2025 NYISO data.

The amount of lying their campaign is built on is truly despicable. A clear example is DSA Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani claiming over and over that the CLCPA goal is '100% renewables by 2040.' It's not. It's 100% zero-emissions (which could include nuclear) by 2040.

electoralism has the funniest recurring plotline. “we’re finally getting one of ours inside ❤️” followed six months later by “you guys have to understand why he can’t actually say/do that anymore”

One of the biggest betrayals in the history of modern politics