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Should be a wild four years.

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Because he uses Gear Two too much, and going with something I mentioned earlier today, Trump has "old person circulation"

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This is very transparent compared to Joepedo, but we will have MSNBC say this is actually worse than the clot shot or cutting off tits and dicks.
Coming out with this after being utterly outplayed by the Democrats on the Epstein list is an interesting choice. Way to hand the left more wins.
 
Because he uses Gear Two too much, and going with something I mentioned earlier today, Trump has "old person circulation"

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This is very transparent compared to Joepedo, but we will have MSNBC say this is actually worse than the clot shot or cutting off tits and dicks.
I can't wait until we get a younger Republician president, like JD Vance, so we don't have to do with journos demanding they step down for being old.
 
Coming out with this after being utterly outplayed by the Democrats on the Epstein list is an interesting choice. Way to hand the left more wins.
>Trump isn't transparent enough
>IT'S OVER GUYS THE DEMS HAVE WON, THEY'LL USE THIS TO ATTACK HIM
>Trump is completely transparent
>IT'S OVER GUYS THE DEMS HAVE WON, THEY'LL USE THIS TO ATTACK HIM

Thank you for the insight, Not-stradamus.
 
I can't wait until we get a younger Republician president, like JD Vance, so we don't have to do with journos demanding they step down for being old.
There is a good chance the age comments will most likely be replaced with remarks saying that he doesn't have "the wisdom of a career politician" or something stupid like that.
 
The month long ban on my threadshitting has left me scarred and deformed, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger. The war is over. The Slapfighters have been defeated, and the Janny rebellion has been foiled.
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Good to be back home, bitches. Did you miss me? I was here in spirit. Hoo fuckin' BOY did some shit happen over the last 30 days.
@Useful_Mistake APOLOGIZE NOW.
 
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Because he uses Gear Two too much, and going with something I mentioned earlier today, Trump has "old person circulation"

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This is very transparent compared to Joepedo, but we will have MSNBC say this is actually worse than the clot shot or cutting off tits and dicks.
Holy shit Reddit was right! Reddit called this a month ago!
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Obummer saying you need to have gay people in your friend circle so they can molest you help you realize the struggles:

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Is this nigger retarded? (rhetorical question)

What, does he think all men bash the shit out of each other when they're all in groups? Has he ever heard of the "dude-bro"? What about a guy having a woman as a friend? Because IMO women are FAR better at showing empathy and kindness than a fag could ever show. Hell, pets are better than fags, and pets can't even talk.
 
I’d love to hear what MAGAs greatest soldiers and the “Deporting browns is more important than elite pedophilia!”-crowd thinks about this.
Many of the illegal immigrants are repeat sexual offenders, often of children,mop. Of citizens and the children they traffic. I think enforcing immigration law against illegals will be a lot more likely to accomplish than trying to punish the wealthiest and most connected people in the United States and possibly the world. Especially since there are an estimated 20-40 million illegals in the US and the elite perverts are not as numerous.

All of those predators should get the wood chipper, imop.
 
So I have 2 really autistic things I wanna share and I KNOW I fucking already KNOW that they dont seem related to US politics and on their surface their not it the point I mean to illustrate by them both combined and its an abstract thing so I completely understand if you dont follow/agree but no matter what you will learn 2 very pog facts

ok number 1 Beavers(read Nature) are officially and unironically more efficient than the Czech Government

So get this the Czechs Identity a important wetland that is being threatened with ecosystem collapse due to a drainage ditch built during the war when the area was a training ground. commission is duly put together and the right experts are hired and a beautiful plan is created in idea and on paper, a dam, or rather series of dams in critical areas to keep water where its needed without stopping flow entirely.

Then bureaucracy rears its ugly head and suddenly a "small" infrastructure project gets bogged down in 7 YEARS of environmental studies and lawsuits of ownership of the land and yadda yadda yadda. Then one day, 7 years into this, the go to inspect the area in question and they have found that a normal sized family of beavers had constructed not just 1 but ALL of the dams specified in the plan within a very VERY close approximation of the location detailed. The beaver dams also had far better water flow through rate and had far less impact on the local wildlife than a man made one all while saving the government and thus the tax payer 1.2 million dollars.
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Full story, not a long read, highly recommend

Ok second point, little deeper but much shorter

Humanity's Last Test

So we are very rapidly approaching the point where we cant make a test that our most advanced AI models cant solve. the heads of all the most esotreic and or difficult feilds cant create questions it cant answer, kinda of a wild thought isent it?

So The convergence of these 2 points is
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Maybe if the people running the show cant do it without causing wars in places people cant find on a map, running up the debt to a number people cant fathom, and ALLEGEDLY going to islands with sordid reputations then why not let the machines take a whack at it or maybe the beavers I havent decided yet.
 
In the same article Homan is quoted as saying "There won't be any amnesty"; at least read the article itself before posting it.
They DO talk about policy changes, which could be either bad or good: could be that illegals working there are given a free pass, could be that farmers get given bonuses if the employ actual Americans.
You expect people hear to read the article and not just the headline?
 
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I can confirm with 100% accuracy that one person on the list is

This would unironically be a great plot for a thriller movie.

"Hahah, that's so funny. Kiwi farms is something else man..." I trail off as I sip my coffee sitting comfortably in my idyllic Columbian home. The streets of Bogota are lined with colorful houses as the mist rises from mount Monserrate as my loving and beautiful busty Latina wife cooks breakfast for us on Easter Sunday. An unknown guilt stirs inside me as the finger on my screen points at me, cold sweat trickles down my neck as I try all I can to weakly laugh it all off. "N-no, no that'd just be crazy," my invasive thoughts turn to paranoid mumbling as I rush to the bathroom. My own visage greets me - a tall 6'8" jacked Caucasian gigachad with hair dark and swept like a storm on the waves of the Atlantic. My fingers run down my face, with perfect canthal tilt & physiognomy so perfect it would make Hitler faint with jealousy.

Dig, dig dig - my fingers greedily clawing at my skin reaching for something that isn't there. Yet it isn't blood that comes out, but flecks of prosthetic plastic - carefully crafted to mold around my true identity. The sink runs as I fly into a frenzy, my wife calling me in vain from the dining room as it is revealed. A face appears, one that isn't my own but that I vaguely recognize - and then it dawns on me. The face of a man notorious, his alleged death something of a legend.
"J-Jeffery... Epstein. M-my name is Jeffery Epstein..." My lips tremble with shock at the moment of revelation, yet so many questions remain. Who am I really? What am I doing here? How did I get here? Before any of these questions can be answered I turn my gaze meekly to the door of the bathroom. My wife stands there, a look of cold professional concern written all over her overshadowing her unusually huge chest. "Subject has relapsed into his original identity." She talks into an earpiece as she reaches for something concealed under her sundress, "Requesting a tac team for subdual & identity reformation - over." Without a second thought I frantically jump out the window as my own wife shoots at me, and I disappear into the streets of the city...

Think total recall + the Truman show plus splinter cell. Shame it would never make it to the screen lol.
 
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they have found that a normal sized family of beavers had constructed not just 1 but ALL of the dams specified in the plan within a very VERY close approximation of the location detailed. The beaver dams also had far better water flow through rate and had far less impact on the local wildlife than a man made one all while saving the government and thus the tax payer 1.2 million dollars.
No offense but this story sounds like something a drunk Czech just made up after stealing $1.2 million.
 
Democrats Are Workshopping New Tactics After Losses of 2024
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Ken Bensinger and Shane Goldmacher
2025-07-15 16:11:57GMT

Among the ideas being promoted: knocking on every single door in a House district and awarding cash prizes for the most effective new ways to reach voters.
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Door knocking — both where to do it and whether it is still effective in a digital age — is being studied by Democratic strategists to identify what went wrong in 2024.Credit...Kristian Thacker for The New York Times
Ken Bensinger


If there is one point of consensus in the deeply fractured Democratic Party, it’s that the old ways of doing business just aren’t cutting it.

And so, many of the party’s most analytically minded strategists have begun focusing their energies on dissecting the tactical and technical decisions that led to last year’s devastating defeats, and dreaming up proposals to overhaul the machinery of progressive politics.

This work is not about the big picture of what the party stands for. It is about the nuts and bolts of how to get candidates elected: which potential voters to target; whose doors to knock on, and whether door-knocking is still effective in a digital age; and when and where to advertise, whether online, on television or by mail.

There is also a concern that too many of those decisions have been made by party officials on high, relying too heavily on polling to guide their choices on policy positions, messaging and advertising, and ignoring other important signals that could help influence voters.

“We need to rethink things,” said Danielle Butterfield, executive director of Priorities USA, which was once the party’s premier super PAC and spent $45 million, including its nonprofit arms, in the 2024 election. “The same elitism that is abundant in our party exists in the way we make decisions.”

Priorities USA is spending $8 million on three pilot programs this year to explore some of the surprise findings from 2024. One such finding was that some of the Democratic group’s most effective ads turned out to be those that ran on YouTube channels favored by Republican voters who were seen as unpersuadable.

Nick Ahamed, the group’s deputy executive director, said he wanted to “re-envision” its role. Rather than existing mainly to run huge numbers of ads in the homestretch of a campaign, he said, it could be more like a venture capital firm, making a number of smaller bets on a wide range of initiatives and funding only the best performers — and using the incubation process as a way to learn about what works and doesn’t.

That mind-set will be on display on Tuesday in Washington when many of the party’s keenest number-crunchers are gathering for a closed-door meeting of the Analyst Institute, a progressive nonprofit that focuses on data-driven campaign tactics, to discuss where the party went wrong in 2024.

One participant, Movement Labs, a tech-centered nonprofit that is known for huge, targeted text-message campaigns, will be promoting a plan to offer cash prizes for ideas that increase turnout in this year’s statewide elections in New Jersey and Virginia. The “Prove It Prize” would use randomized controlled studies to evaluate entries and offer the most successful a cash prize of at least $100,000, with the goal of offering larger awards during the 2026 midterm elections.

Yoni Landau, the chief executive of Movement Labs, said he hoped to raise $5 million for such prizes to move past what he described as a broken business model for innovation on the left. Right now, he said, there are two ways to fund a project: “You know rich people, or you do email-fund-raising spam. Those don’t seem like useful fits for saving democracy or winning elections.”

Because the findings from each prize entrant would be studied and shared, the broader progressive ecosystem could also learn what doesn’t work, which could be almost as valuable, he said.

Another idea is to bring transparency to tactics and experiments that fail, said Yasmin Radjy, executive director of Swing Left, which helps organize Democratic donors and volunteers.

Last month, Vote Forward, an affiliate of Swing Left, released a study of a costly effort that it funded last year to have 78,000 volunteers mail roughly 10 million handwritten notes to voters. Similar efforts had worked well in 2020 during the pandemic. But the impact of the new effort among roughly five million occasional voters targeted with letters was “negligible.” And turnout barely budged among less likely voters, rising by just 0.2 percent — not enough to justify the time and expense.

Rather than hide that disappointing finding, Ms. Radjy said her group publicized it, so other Democrats would abandon the tactic for more effective ideas.

“We need to fix the Democratic brand and that requires rebuilding trust and listening,” Ms. Radjy said. “We can’t be involved in small tweaks anymore.”

One of Swing Left’s new ideas, which it is calling “Ground Truth,” aims to enlist volunteers to knock on every single door in tightly contested congressional districts, not just on targeted ones.

That’s a huge endeavor, given that each congressional district has about 300,000 households. Ms. Radjy said it would start this fall in a handful of battleground districts and expand to as many as 25 seats by early 2026 with a budget of at least $12 million.

“This will be the most ambitious thing we’ve ever done,” she said.

The group plans to have door-knockers record their interactions with voters in voice memos that would then be analyzed using artificial intelligence. Thanks to recently loosened Federal Election Commission rules, the results of that analysis could be shared directly with the candidates in each district.

“We need to ensure that we’re not just talking to as many voters as possible, but more importantly, listening to them,” Ms. Radjy said. “The cost of knocking every door is astronomical and a little bit terrifying, but we have to do it.”

Chauncey McLean, an adviser on the “Prove It” prize project and the president of Future Forward, which was the Democratic Party’s biggest super PAC in the 2024 cycle, said that trying to accurately measure what works and doesn’t was essential.

“Measurement is not always possible, but it should be the norm and not the exception,” he said. “I like any program that tries to honestly capture their impact even when it’s hard. Not just, ‘This sounds like this is a good idea and you’re a charming salesperson so here’s a lot of money.’”

Some Democratic groups chafed at the dominant financial position that Future Forward held in aiding the Democratic presidential ticket in 2024. Future Forward and its aligned nonprofit raised over $900 million during the election cycle, much of which went to television ads that were heavily tested for their effectiveness.

Priorities USA is funding three pilot programs focused on digital advertising this fall. One, called Nest, gathers data from sources like podcast transcripts and online comments to try to make ads more timely and appealing. Another is focused on building new audiences of potential voters to target on YouTube, an outgrowth of discovering that watchers of politically right-coded content were more influenced by Democratic messaging than any other cohort. The third aims to use search tools on social-media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to reach younger voters.

The three programs will be tested in North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania, which hosts a closely watched race for three state Supreme Court seats this November.

Ms. Butterfield said a Democratic focus on digital ads was overdue.

“As a party, when we allocate money to digital, we’re still treating it like an extension of television or an extension of field or an expansion of mail,” she said. “We’re going to put all of our eggs in the basket of how are people consuming content on the internet.”
 
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