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Should be a wild four years.

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Anyone else remember trips as a class to meet the Hispanic kids in elementary school?
Can you elaborate on this? You mean you did like a field trip to hang out with a classroom full of illegals? Because I personally do not remember that.

Nothing on the federal level.

It’s a special state election.
Anyone have any insight into Iowa politics? I know sometimes platforms and constituencies from the national iterations of the parties don't map cleanly at the state level. I'm not trying to cope, this might be a sign for the midterms, but it's possible that a state level Dem winning a Trump district might not imply anything for federal elections.
 
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Crazy all the things that were apparently legal until now.
  • No citizenship confirmation necessary for public schools
  • No citizenship confirmation necessary for Medicaid
  • No citizenship confirmation necessary for employment
  • No citizenship confirmation necessary for purchase of a vehicle
What was citizenship even for? Military service?

Anyone else remember trips as a class to meet the Hispanic kids in elementary school? We thought it was a cool way to make new friends, and never questioned why there were classrooms full of children who couldn't speak English...
who cares if you're a citizen to buy a vehicle? I've bought cars in various European countries just for convenience. driver's licenses otoh..

also the employment thing isn't true. u have to verify "authorization to work" w/e that is
 
This would make training it much more computationally efficient essentially?

Forgive my retardation on the matter.
That's the thing. I'm not sure how it makes it more computationally efficient.
Why not work from the middle out, get the best of both worlds?
Because it's silly to have a shitload of Indians manually compare the output of an LLM with the expected output if you have a Graphics card that can do that at 3.4 Gigajeets a second.
 
My man Kennedy is too busy messing with dead baby bears and kicking the teeth in of food megacorps to prey on some hussy.
It's more retarded than that if you actually read through it she claiming rfk actually trusts the science but lies about it for money.

Edit: granted they knew what they were doing that headline.
 
Mike Zimmer has won the special election for Iowa's 35th State Senate district (scroll down), meaning a Democratic pickup in a Trump +21 district.
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Although this is the first major Dem over performance since the 2024 general election, it does align with the greater trend of Democrats punching above their weight in off-year low-turnout elections. The impact of the race itself is limited - the GOP enjoys a 34-16 supermajority in Iowa's upper legislative chamber even with this setback - but it is confirmation that Democrats generally are higher propensity voters as of late.
Trumpbros, maybe Ann Seltzer’s poll was right…
 
this nigger puts source and archive with every post

you are allowed to disagree with him but what you cant do is hate him
I would have given him :informative: but I'd already seen that exact thing way earlier in the day. If he thinks that just because some news isn't pro-Trump we won't have talked about it, that's just lazy.

Btw, I imagine a lot of what she said may be unhinged, but based on what we know about JFK, I'm sure RFK jr fucks, possibly in ways that are less than maximally ethical.
 
Mike Zimmer has won the special election for Iowa's 35th State Senate district (scroll down), meaning a Democratic pickup in a Trump +21 district.
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Although this is the first major Dem over performance since the 2024 general election, it does align with the greater trend of Democrats punching above their weight in off-year low-turnout elections. The impact of the race itself is limited - the GOP enjoys a 34-16 supermajority in Iowa's upper legislative chamber even with this setback - but it is confirmation that Democrats generally are higher propensity voters as of late.
Katie Whittington flew too close to the sun.


Republican Katie Whittington is getting some help from a white nationalist former congressman in the special election to replace Sen. Chris Cournoyer’s District 35 seat. But Whittington is erasing that support from her Facebook.

Steve King was in power for decades in northwest Iowa. Elected in 2002, he developed a reputation as an anti-immigration hardliner, known for controversial statements. But things escalated towards the end of his career.

There was, of course, his appearance on a show hosted by neo-Nazi website, the Daily Stormer, where he praised “well thought-out ideas” about the “JQ,” an abbreviation for the “Jewish Question.”
 
this nigger puts source and archive with every post

you are allowed to disagree with him but what you cant do is hate him
I appreciate him providing a link and archive, honestly! It means he's paid attention to etiquette. Fatpacks can be argued to be many things, but he's definitely not sub-standard!
 
I'm not trying to cope, this might be a sign for the midterms, but it's possible that a state level Dem winning a Trump district might not imply anything for federal elections.
It signifies high (comparative) Democrat turnout in response to a Trump win. To keep it short, us MAGAbros must stay on guard with regards to their local/state elections.

Local -> State -> Federal

That’s how these things play out generally. Trump is the exception that proves the rule.
 
Mike Zimmer has won the special election for Iowa's 35th State Senate district (scroll down), meaning a Democratic pickup in a Trump +21 district.
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Although this is the first major Dem over performance since the 2024 general election, it does align with the greater trend of Democrats punching above their weight in off-year low-turnout elections. The impact of the race itself is limited - the GOP enjoys a 34-16 supermajority in Iowa's upper legislative chamber even with this setback - but it is confirmation that Democrats generally are higher propensity voters as of late.
No surprise at all.

Fuck Republicans. I like Trump, not them.
 
It signifies high (comparative) Democrat turnout in response to a Trump win. To keep it short, us MAGAbros must stay on guard with regards to their local/state elections.

Local -> State -> Federal

That’s how these things play out generally. Trump is the exception that proves the rule.
Eh we need someone like the Iowa version of Gehenna to give us a break down. This could be an area that votes red for the presidency but blue for everything else. It’s common in red states.
 
People in this thread praise JD Vance, but knew little about him until Trump picked him for VP.

JD Vance wrote a bestselling memoir in 2016 detailing his entire life, which was turned into a major movie directed by Ron Howard and nominated for two academy awards.

RFK Jr "came out of nowhere" in the 2024 cycle.

No he fucking didn't. He has had a long public career and was being considered for positions back in the Obama administration. I have a feeling you are classifying people as unknown dark horses just because you personally hadn't heard of them in the news before.
 
In all seriousness, Tulsi being young meaning she is too greenhorn for an intelligence role when Trump is planning sanctions and tariffs agitating Russia for the war. Is she supposed to be good cop?
Here's how the selection process went.
Who has THE biggest bone to pick with the department in question to the point where they'd feel a little glee watching it burn down?
That's the nominee.
As far as I know, Tulsi is no exception.
 
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