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Fun fact: The woman pictured here credited the viral success of her campaign to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a China proxy organization operating here in the United States. PSL is the political arm of the Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, an avowed Marxist multimillionaire who has bankrolled anti-American, pro-CCP nonprofits to the tune of $278 million. Singham’s political foot soldiers have been boots on the ground in dozens of anti-data center fights across the country. But striking down the $5 billion data center campus in Landover, MD, was by far their biggest scalp. In the ongoing campaign against American AI, cui bono? More than anyone, it’s our chief political adversary.
JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.
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How appropriate that the school board candidate exempt from property taxes won. 👏
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Andrew Moore retweeted
The government taxes you when you earn money, taxes you when you spend it, taxes you when you invest it, and then taxes your children when you die. The federal estate tax currently kicks in at 40% on estates above $13.61 million, a threshold the Biden administration repeatedly tried to lower. Washington frames this as targeting dynastic wealth. It actually targets a lifetime of accumulated savings, already taxed multiple times over. Property rights mean nothing if the state can confiscate your accumulated capital the moment your heart stops. Murray Rothbard put private property at the foundation of liberty for exactly this reason: ownership that evaporates at death is not ownership. It is a revocable license the state issues and reclaims at will. Consider a family farm in Iowa worth $15 million on paper, generating $200,000 a year in real income. The heirs owe $540,000 in federal estate taxes within nine months of death. They did not get $540,000. They got a farm. So they sell it, usually to a corporate agricultural buyer, which is a funny outcome for a tax rhetorically aimed at breaking up concentrated wealth. The capital your grandfather spent forty years building represents deferred consumption, resources he chose not to spend. Taxing that capital destroys it. This process doesn't redistribute purchasing power; it rather converts productive assets into government expenditure, removing them from capital markets where they would have funded jobs, equipment, and future production. Calling this anything other than state-sanctioned inheritance confiscation requires genuine ideological commitment to the fiction that the state has a prior claim on what you built.
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Reading through Thomas Massie's articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. There are 8 articles. Articles 1, 2, and 3 all accuse Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution by waging war in Iran. You might ask yourself: Did Pete Hegseth order US forces into action in Iran? I thought President Trump did that. That's a good question; from the very beginning, Hegseth appears to serve as a stand-in for Massie's real desire, which is to impeach Trump. Article 4 is about the accidental hit on the Iranian school. Article 5 is about the drug boat attacks. Article 6 is about retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly over the you-can-refuse-an-unlawful-order video. Article 7 is about the Venezuela attack and taking Nicolas Maduro into US custody. And Article 8 is about strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. In all, Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 are matters of the president's constitutional authority to wage war. If Massie wants to impeach somebody for those actions, the proper official to impeach is the president. Article 4 is about an accident by US forces in Iran. That leaves Article 6, the Mark Kelly matter, as the only issue for which Hegseth appears to bear some direct responsibility. Massie is clearly pushing these articles because he is racing the clock against his own departure from Congress on January 3, having been defeated in a Republican primary in his home state of Kentucky. There is only so much time left to do damage, and with this BS impeachment, Massie is trying to make the most of it. massie.house.gov/uploadedfil…
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Hamas released a video showing them digging up Gaza’s water pipes and electricity lines—to turn them into rockets. If you’re upset about Gaza’s lack of a sewage system, direct your outrage where it belongs: at Hamas.
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I know you're new to this, but facts matter. ICE was there to get medical treatment for a detainee who requested to see a doctor. I assume you support federal agents providing medical care to illegal immigrants in custody? These agitators created a dangerous situation for the public and law enforcement. Law enforcement will never back down to thugs, so efforts to intimidate ICE will fail. They called for backup, controlled the scene, and arrested two individuals who assaulted federal agents. As a public official, you should know the applicable laws. Agents are enforcing federal immigration laws passed by Congress. As mayor, you have no say in federal affairs. It's called the Supremacy Clause. I can send you a copy of the U.S. Constitution if you'd like to study up. When you talk about immigrants, please distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. I'm the son of legal immigrants. Our family followed the law, was welcomed with open arms, and is proud to be law-abiding Americans. The two are not the same.
I'm appalled by what took place last night at White Memorial hospital in Boyle Heights, where ICE agents were obstructing emergency room entry and detained two US citizens. I condemn these reckless actions by the Trump administration.
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I am a professor at the @UofCalifornia. I am appalled by the conduct of one of its Regents, Scott Galloway, appointed in August by Governor Newsom. @profgalloway is one of only 26 voting Regents entrusted with governing a university system serving hundreds of thousands of students & employing tens of thousands of faculty & staff. Twice, first on a live Pivot episode featuring Hillary Clinton & on Prof G with Fareed Zakaria, Galloway called Elon Musk a “traitor to the West.” He invoked Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed for espionage, and declared that Musk should be held to the same standards. He didn’t explicitly demand Musk’s execution. But invoking the deaths of two convicted spies while calling an American citizen a traitor makes the implication hard to miss. Musk has not been convicted of treason. Indeed, “treason against the West” isn’t even an actual crime. Now imagine UCLA alumnus @BenShapiro, appointed a UC Regent, saying the same about George Soros. Would the Governor defend his right to serve? Would Regent leadership shrug and call it provocative commentary? Or would there be demands for resignation? But there’s something worse here than another of Scott’s trademark podcast rants. He sits on the Regents’ Academic & Student Affairs Committee. The committee’s charter says it oversees student conduct, faculty conduct, academic personnel, & campus climate, among other responsibilities. This is not some honorary title. The Board sets university policy, controls institutional budgets, & appoints senior university leadership. You can unsubscribe from a podcast. A student who finds Scott’s comments morally repugnant can’t unsub from the Regents. UC bylaws require Regents to serve the public trust with a “high degree of ethics and candor,” including as private citizens. Professors owe students intellectual integrity. Regents bear an even greater duty: they govern institutions that teach it. Yet a Regent serving on the committee responsible for student & faculty conduct invokes executions while labeling a fellow citizen a traitor. What does that say to our students? That intellectual restraint is expected of the governed but optional for those who govern? That standards of conduct depend on whether the target of your rhetoric is politically fashionable to despise, as long as the audience applauds? This isn’t about defending @ElonMusk. He needs no defense from me. Nor is it about silencing Scott. As if that were possible. He’s free to express his opinions, however reckless they may be. But freedom of speech is not freedom from accountability, and holding a university office of public trust is not an entitlement. There is an enormous moral chasm between exercising your right to speak recklessly and demonstrating the judgment required of one of the 26 people who govern our great public university. The UC Board of Regents isnt a podcast sponsors can boycott. It’s a public trust. One final irony. At @NYUStern, Galloway teaches Brand Strategy, including a session on crisis management. His own prescription for leadership in a crisis is unequivocal: acknowledge the problem, have leadership take responsibility, and “overcorrect.” He’s praised the departure of corporate leaders as evidence of effective crisis management. Now Galloway himself sits on the UC Board of Regents. Will he hold himself to the standards he teaches, or does accountability apply only to other people’s institutions? Professor lecture thyself! I believe Scott Galloway should seriously consider whether his continued service on the Board of Regents is consistent with the ethical standards and responsibilities of that office, or whether he should resign. I welcome the opportunity to discuss these issues with Galloway directly, including what standards we should expect of those entrusted with governing the world’s best university. Scott, you have an open invitation to join me on @Into_Impossible for an honest conversation.
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I’m so sick of seeing people across social media claim Abdul El-Sayed is only getting heat “because he’s a Muslim man.” That’s not the reason. Other Muslims have been elected to office without this reaction. Repeating it just makes you look stupid. Here are the actual problems: 1- In 2012 he signed a letter to Mohamed Morsi (the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt) supporting his power grab and calling on him to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.” 2- His biological mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury designated for supporting terrorism. His half-sister has publicly said their mother was active in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1970s. 3- His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi posted on social media about their mother’s Muslim Brotherhood activism and expressed support for family members backing the Brotherhood in Egypt. 4- He refused to condemn the IRGC when directly asked by an Iranian-American student whose family was targeted by them. Leaked audio also shows he deliberately stayed silent on Khamenei’s death because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,” prioritizing his base over basic condemnation of a terrorist regime. 5- His father, Mohamed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan-based Islamic charity that paid a $780,000 settlement to the U.S. Treasury for violating sanctions by transferring money into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The group has also faced raids and scrutiny over alleged ties to terror-linked networks. These are documented facts.
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Starting June 1, 2027, Illinois makes it easier to sue employers for neutral rules that produce uneven results. Under the Civil Rights Safeguard Act, a policy that treats everyone the same can still be challenged purely on outcomes. No discriminatory intent required. A company can apply a uniform background check standard and still face a claim if the numbers don’t come out even enough across protected groups. Then the company has to prove the rule is job-related and a business necessity. How many more rules until Springfield admits this isn’t helping hiring?
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Bill Maher and Coleman Hughes finish each other's sentences for 3 minutes straight as they lay out how teachers' unions wrecked public education. The MS NOW host thought she could sit this one out quietly. Then Maher turned and lobbed a grenade right at her. MAHER: "The reason why they don't know that socialism didn't work... is because NOBODY taught them in school." HUGHES: "A lot of kids go to underperforming public schools, which is our euphemism for government-funded daycare centers with occasional school-like activities." MAHER: "I knew they weren't learning anything, but like you said, it's like a daycare center and not a good one." HUGHES: "And I think people on the left want to blame funding because that's the easy issue. But the truth is, this school was well funded. You know, it's 50,000 per pupil at this school. The problem isn't the funding. It's that you can't fire anyone bad." MAHER: "Yes.... The problem is the union, the teachers union, is too powerful. We've seen it in results in states where the union is less powerful, the schools do better." HUGHES: "I call it the chalkboard mafia." MAHER: "The problem, the unions protect bad schools and bad teachers, and the party protects the union. It's almost impossible in a lot of these cities to fire a teacher. I mean literally like you could sell drugs to a kid and it's got to be two offenses before we get—" HUGHES: "It wasn't that long ago that the unions lobbied for a law in New York State to ban even collecting data that you would use to assess which teachers are better than others. You can't even get the data. So obviously the teachers union serves the teachers, they don't serve the students, and if you're a Democrat or any American that's serious about public school reform, you have to challenge the teachers union, period." MAHER: "And I think in this school, where they were learning nothing with no supervision and absentee principals and teachers, I think spending 50,000 dollars per year per student, it's not money. That's what you always hear from the left. 'Oh, it's underfunded.' It's not the funding. The funding isn't the issue." HUGHES: "No, it hasn't been for a very long time." MAHER: "I think this is the kind of thing I will NEVER hear on MS NOW." ALI VITALI: "I think you hear a lot of perspectives on MS NOW." MAHER: "I don't ever hear that one." CONTEXT: Maher and Hughes aren't making this up. On the latest Nation's Report Card, high school seniors posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded on the test. And getting rid of bad teachers is nearly impossible. Federal survey data shows the average school district dismissed just 0.2 tenured teachers for poor performance in a year. That's roughly 1 in 500. Meanwhile, students do better long-term in states where unions have less power. A 2019 study in the American Economic Journal found that boys who went to school in states that forced districts to bargain with teachers' unions went on to earn about $2,100 LESS per year as adults compared to boys in states without those laws. If a business failed this badly, someone would get fired. As Hughes put it: "The teachers union serves the teachers; they don't serve the students."
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Andrew Moore retweeted
A congresswoman just told Elon Musk "See you soon." So let's compare résumés. Because that's really what this is about. Elon Musk moved to North America at 17. He built Zip2, then PayPal, then put almost everything he had into two companies every expert said would die: a rocket company and an electric car company. In 2008 both nearly did. He went all in anyway. Today SpaceX lands orbital boosters and flies them again like airliners, something NASA, Russia, Europe and China considered impossible or uneconomical for 60 years. It launches most of the mass sent to orbit by all of humanity combined. It's the reason America stopped renting seats on Russian rockets to reach its own space station. Starlink brings internet to Ukrainian trenches, Amazon villages and disaster zones. Tesla forced every carmaker on Earth to go electric. Neuralink is letting paralyzed people control computers with their minds. And to the "billionaires don't pay their fair share" crowd: in 2021 he paid over $11 billion in taxes. Widely reported as the largest individual tax bill in American history. One man. One year. His stated goal is to make life multiplanetary so that consciousness doesn't die on a single rock. You can think that's crazy. He has delivered on enough "crazy" that betting against him has become a bad habit. Now Yassamin Ansari. Stanford, international relations. Intern for Nancy Pelosi. Climate advisor at the UN. Phoenix City Council. Won her congressional primary by 39 votes. A whole career spent inside institutions that run on other people's money. Never built a product. Never had a customer. Never faced a market. The day after her party won Congress, what's her top priority for day one? Cheaper housing? Energy? Competing with China? No. Pause advanced AI. Ban "superintelligence." The bill she backs freezes any model trained above 10^25 operations until a brand-new cabinet-level Department of AI gets staffed and writes its rules. Violators face up to 20 years in prison. Let that sink in. The industry that, by one Oxford Economics estimate, drives about a third of recent US growth, frozen by people who have never trained a model, while waiting for a federal agency that doesn't exist yet. Beijing couldn't have written it better. And yes, Elon has warned about AI risk for a decade. That's exactly the point. His answer to risk was to build, compete and put better systems in the arena. Hers is a committee, a freeze and prison terms. One looks at a hard problem and builds. The other looks at a hard problem and asks for a permit to stop everyone else. Then the cherry on top: her reply to the man who built the rockets is "See you soon." Coming from someone whose only real power is the ability to stop others from building. This is the real fault line of our time. Not left vs right. Builders vs administrators of envy. A system that selects people who have never created anything and gives them authority over the people who create everything. A political class that turns resentment into legislation and calls it "safety." I'm French. I've watched this movie. Europe wrote the world's most ambitious AI rulebook. Now count how many of the world's top AI models are European. I genuinely hope humanity grows out of this model. A civilization where its most mediocre managers summon its most extraordinary builders with a "see you soon" is a civilization working against itself. "Brave New World" is right. Except the dystopia isn't the machine. It's the committee.
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Yesterday’s election for school board president was the first citywide race for a Chicago city office held in November since the 1870s. The results show how much Chicago’s freakish municipal election timing (February of odd years) suppresses voter turnout. For example, third-place finisher for school board president Victor Henderson will end up receiving 100K+ votes (18%). That is more votes than almost any Chicago mayoral candidate will receive in February and could be enough to make the runoff. It’s more than any single mayoral candidate received in February 2019. A mayoral candidate with Dominguez’s vote total would likely finish first going into a runoff. And a candidate with Biggs’ vote total would come close to avoiding a runoff altogether. Chicago is the only big city in the country to hold its municipal elections in February following November statewide elections.
WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says Chicago’s February election timing suppresses voter turnout. “I think it suppresses turnout,” he told @tahmanbradley. The governor is correct. Chicago Policy Center research shows municipal election timing reduces Chicago voter turnout by 40% in local elections.
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This narcissist who has increased taxes by $88 BILLION in 8 years, increased Illinois property taxes to the highest in the nation, and increased the gas tax to the second highest in the nation is blaming Trump for Illinois families paying “the price” It’s laughable and this moron won a third term ……
Illinois families have paid the price because Congress couldn’t keep a reckless President in check — well, no more.
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Mr. Vice-President, Please allow me to present a different perspective. The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire. If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it. This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism. Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency. In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue. No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision. Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed. Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon. No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
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.
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Andrew Moore retweeted
Two major issues, in my opinion, have seriously hurt the GOP heading into the midterms. And both were largely avoidable. 1. Oil Prices and the Iran War POTUS had two choices: Either don’t start a war with Iran, or, once committed, go in with overwhelming force and finish the job. The conflict began in June 2025. It should’ve been resolved by early 2026, instead of dragging on into the midterms, a stop and go fighting, creating uncertainty, driving up energy costs, and hurting American businesses and consumers. 2. Immigration and Broken Expectations In 2024, Trump’s msg was clear: Secure the border, stop illegal immigration, and deport gang members and hardened criminals. There was also longstanding bipartisan recognition that Dreamers needed a reasonable solution. That msg helped GOP win the WH and congress, with significant support from black and latino voters. But after the election the msg changed. Suddenly, enforcement wasn’t just about dangerous criminals. It was about deporting virtually anyone here illegally, including ppl who had lived, worked, raised families, and contributed to this country for 20, 30, even 40yrs. Americans watched ordinary, hardworking ppl being taken from their workplaces and homes, detained, and sometimes deported, including to countries they had no connection to (some were sent to Africa). That’s NOT what many voters believed they were voting for. There’s a big difference between securing our borders and removing dangerous criminals versus tearing apart families who have been part of our communities for decades. Both decisions have hit Main Street America where it hurts most. Higher energy costs, economic uncertainty, disrupted businesses, and communities living in fear. These aren’t just political talking points. They have real economic and human consequences. GOP had an opportunity to build on its 2024 victory and expand its coalition. Instead, poor decisions and unnecessary overreach risk throwing that opportunity away. Ppl love saying “Elections have consequences”. I think there’s a much better way to put it, and that is “BAD DECISIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES”. And unfortunately GOP may be learning that lesson the hard way. @POTUS
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Within two hours of polls closing in Florida, all 5.5 million ballots were counted and the results were announced. This really isn’t hard. Dysfunctional elections is a choice.
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NEW: The Chicago Board of Elections is investigating a report of illegal electioneering at a polling place near University Village. The board "acknowledges there was a violation." This comes after a voter tells NBC 5 that representatives from the Hilario Dominguez campaign for Board of Education president were approaching voters and putting up signs within 100 feet of the polling place.
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Another DCFS failure under Pritzker. More than $1.4 million in unauthorized extra pay went to 146 employees between 2020 and early 2026. HR Director Kimberly Bates approved the payments and took nearly $52,000 herself, including while on leave. Roughly 30% of the total went to just 11 people in her own office. Bates never obtained the required CMS approval and later resigned. Last week, a judge held current Director Heidi Mueller in contempt for failing to turn over records tied to the death of Mackenzi Felmlee, a foster child in the agency’s care. Mueller was given 30 days to comply. The next hearing is December 4. How many more failures before we see any real accountability? H/T @MarkHespen | @TheILInsider
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These Oak Park residents are voting for @JBPritzker while hoping to stop his BUILD act locally.
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Imagine Republicans announcing they'd war-gamed 150 election scenarios, conducted more than 15 shadow hearings, and assembled over 20 Republican attorneys general with emergency lawsuits ready before Election Day. The media would collectively shit its pants. Every self-important asshole with a cable-news contract would be screeching about fascism, insurrection, and the imminent destruction of American democracy. CNN would need a fucking defibrillator. Now change the R to a D. Holy shit! It's a miracle! Suddenly, every supposedly terrifying threat to democracy becomes a heroic exercise in election preparedness. Emergency lawsuits are responsible governance. Political mobilization is civic engagement. Questioning election integrity is practically a goddamn patriotic obligation. What an absolutely magnificent display of partisan bullshit. Gavin Newsom is already accusing Trump of trying to rig an election before the votes have even been counted. Imagine a Republican governor pulling that stunt. The usual media blowhards would be howling about dangerous conspiracy theories and the catastrophic erosion of public trust. But Newsom? Apparently, the man deserves a fucking medal for vigilance. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has offered plainclothes National Guard personnel to monitor ballot drop boxes. Imagine Republicans proposing undercover military personnel around election infrastructure. The outrage machine would explode so violently you'd need a hazmat team to clean up the newsroom. Meanwhile, No Kings activists are preparing rapid-response demonstrations over certification disputes. Apparently, the people who spent years screaming about election denial have suddenly discovered an enthusiastic appreciation for questioning election procedures. The sheer fucking audacity is breathtaking. For years, Americans were lectured that casting suspicion on elections was dangerous, irresponsible, and practically treasonous. Now Democrats are predicting a glorious blue wave while preparing an entire legal and political machinery for potential election confrontations. And the media's vocabulary performs its familiar acrobatic routine, transforming identical categories of political behavior into entirely different moral offenses depending on which party is involved. What a steaming mountain of sanctimonious horseshit. The next time someone delivers another pompous sermon about dangerous election skepticism, remember the 150 scenarios, the emergency lawsuits, and the pre-election accusations of rigging. Apparently, the First Amendment includes a special clause permitting election skepticism whenever the person opening their mouth has a fucking D after their name. (article below)
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