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Should be a wild four years.

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Is true, i still remember when streets had this nice orange tint to em at night, it was kino, now is just this gay ass white light that really drives home how souless and joyless everything has become.

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The old street lamps aren’t 2700 K. They are monochrome. It’s why they are great for driving. They don’t fuck with your night vision.
The issue with warm lighting is that our eyes are much less sensitive to it when it's dark (scotopic vision), so even though sodium vapor lamps are quite efficient, especially the monocromatic low pressure variant, they're much less efficient than cold LEDs at night. IMHO white LEDs are the way on highways and large avenues where driver vision is critical. In residential or suburban streets, warm lighting, be it sodium or warm LEDs, is better for aesthetic and sleep deprivation reasons.
 
I am expecting some serious action from the Executive branch about this LA County voting business. Not because I think the results matter, but because the principle of fair elections is paramount to keeping this country from splitting further. It’s fuel for the leftist fire that they can break any laws they want to hurt Republicans.
 
But Trump is just Current Year fascist, just wait, the next Republican candidate will be even more fascist
JD Vance... OR HITLER JR?! - NYT Opinion article by Samantha Goldberg.

JD Vance, sure, he married an Indian woman (Or is it a white man in disguise?!) but has come to the conclusion he is the haunting spirit of Trump. The fact that we can see Vance smile as he tells Kamala Harris, a proud independent black woman, that she is "Not thinking clearly" shows the paticartical nazism that he was endowed with by the Trump legacy. Drinking a glass of red wine, I watched the debate and immediately felt a sense of doom as -
 
Isn't he supposed to list the Epstein clients or something or did he forget?
He did and his list of accused pedophiles included a DA who investigated Epstein as well as some of Epstein's actual victims.

It was incredibly embarrassing for Massie and I'm sure contributed to his congressional loss.

If I had to guess what happened I'd say he probably asked Grok or some other LLM to generate him a list of Epstein's collaborators and it just pulled a bunch of random names from the files without any context.

Tl'dr Massie is a gigantic retard and deserves all of the failure he's currently experiencing.
 
Care to remind us all of just how relevant people like Mike Pence, Liz Cheney or even - if you MUST have an example of a libertarian-inclined, anti-interventionist and anti-Trump Republican - Bill Weld are & have been for the last couple of years?
None of those people had support from the average Republican while Massie seemingly does. I don't like Massie but I know how the media works and I think he's going to get a lot more screen-time after he's out of Congress than when he was in. Massie wants to be a trouble-maker first and foremost.
 
I am expecting some serious action from the Executive branch about this LA County voting business. Not because I think the results matter, but because the principle of fair elections is paramount to keeping this country from splitting further. It’s fuel for the leftist fire that they can break any laws they want to hurt Republicans.
Assuming that anyone actually tries to fight it. I wouldn’t suspect that even the candidate himself wasn’t expecting to ever actually win.
 
He did and his list of accused pedophiles included a DA who investigated Epstein as well as some of Epstein's actual victims.

It was incredibly embarrassing for Massie and I'm sure contributed to his congressional loss.

If I had to guess what happened I'd say he probably asked Grok or some other LLM to generate him a list of Epstein's collaborators and it just pulled a bunch of random names from the files without any context.

Tl'dr Massie is a gigantic retard and deserves all of the failure he's currently experiencing.
But... but he named the Jew! My favorite podcast host assured me that's all you need to win over voters in highly progressive Kentucky!
 
Leftists like to use "fascist" when they mean "authoritarian". With a poor understanding of governance, any use of power can be seen as authoritarian; especially when it's things you don't like happening.
It also happens that leftists do not know what words mean in general, as they're widely conditioned to unwittingly use doublespeak and shibboleth. For example: "gender-affirming care", "human rights", "settled science", "climate justice", "equity", and "diversity".
The amusing thing is that the modern left is far more authoritarian than the right, but totally refuse to see that reality.
 
None of those people had support from the average Republican while Massie seemingly does. I don't like Massie but I know how the media works and I think he's going to get a lot more screen-time after he's out of Congress than when he was in. Massie wants to be a trouble-maker first and foremost.
Pence did have a lot of popularity with the Evangelical faction (formerly dominant and still significantly influential in the GOP to this day), which was why Trump picked him to be VP in the first place back in 2016.

And if there were a robust audience for libertarian non-interventionist Republicans who take a hardline anti-Trump stance, then Weld would've done a lot better than a 10% ceiling in the primaries of his New England home turf (also home to the most generally anti-Trump Republicans) in 2020, which was inarguably a much worse year for Trump than 2026 between the coof, lockdowns, the attendant economic meltdown and the Summer of Floyd.

I for one expect Massie to end up getting lost in the noise as he competes against already-established people like Tucker, Candace Owens & Megyn Kelly in the right-wing podcast griftosphere. He has the novelty of being a (soon-to-be-)former Congressman but there's nothing ideologically or personality-wise about him that makes him particularly stand out from the rest of that crowd. And as far as entertaining oneself goes, I'd much rather listen to Owens shilling her third eye and going off about how she's been communing with Charlie Kirk in her dreams over Massie accusing randos (who then turn out to be innocent) of being tied to Epstein or raving about the Iran war's badness (which, again, is something literally all of those others I named already do, and in more fun ways than he does).
 
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Planter is running into issues. Now I believe that he still wins because he can attack Collins on abortion due to her voting for Kavanaugh and her approval ratings going down back this up. It is good enough to move it from Likely-->Lean D.

Talarico isn't as good as 2018 Beto. Not changing the rating but it is enough to declare OH the tipping point state for Senate control.

Now pretty confident that Muslim guy wins MI primary so I would remove the asterisk from that rating.
 
Does Massie have much appeal to these people once he's no longer a congressman?
Tucker kinda cornered the anti Jew sperging market on the right and Hasan types will not tolerate Massie because he's a Republican.

I genuinely have no idea what audience he's trying to cultivate.

Disaffected groypers maybe? But that's like what 30-50 brown zoomers?
 
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview". Unlike the President who lives in Wisconsin? She got an hour with the President and forced him to sit in the rain.

How many foreign heads of state would travel internationally for less time with the President and get less concessions from him? Her minor personal inconvenience is somehow more significant?! Despite the fact that doing so is her fucking job?

It is illegal for me to express my true opinions about such people.
 
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