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“…Bankman-Fried has been looked at by many in Silicon Valley as a 30-year-old prodigy who, just over a month ago, investor Sequoia Capital theorized could be the world’s first “trillionaire.” Over the course of this week, FTX has very publicly and very fantastically begun to implode…
…Bankman-Fried basically chalked this catastrophic error up to a mistake, and said it was a learning experience, He went on to explain that this situation “sucks, and that’s on me. I’m sorry.”…
…Bankman-Fried is a face of the “effective altruism” movement championed by many rich people in Silicon Valley, which basically posits that it is good for society for individual people to make as much money as possible in order to eventually donate that money. He has received many glowing profiles as a would-be do-gooder who only wears pants “in front of Congress” and donates a lot of his money…”
Brían Nguyen, 19, becomes first transgender contestant to win a local Miss America Organization beauty pageant.
Nguyen was crowned "Miss Greater Derry."https://t.co/7iJBnx0rfu
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 10, 2022
A smile for your timeline.. 😊
🎥 IG: babydollsheepuk pic.twitter.com/83FT3bBLOE
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 10, 2022
“…WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid record discontent around the economy, inflation, and education, the Republican Party has narrowly managed to stave off what many thought would be a record-breaking red wave.
“This was a close call,” said one Republican leader in Washington. “We were worried that we would achieve massive victories tonight, but we thankfully snatched defeat from the jaws of victory to achieve a much more proper and sensible red trickle, like the proper gentlemen we are.”
Some Republicans achieved major victories, which were largely ignored by party leadership due to the fact that those Republicans were loud and icky “MEGA-MAGA” culture warriors. “Ron DeSantis won by double digits, and frankly, we find that quite uncouth,” said a D.C. consultant while holding up a glass of red trickle victory champagne. “Everyone knows the key to being a good Republican is to muddle your message and make it really squishy so no one knows what you stand for and everyone will like you. Duh!”
Everyone in the room then golf-clapped politely.
At publishing time, Republican strategists were researching ways to keep their power in D.C. without achieving so much power that they’d actually have to become compelling leaders…”
“…What was the determinative fix in the 2022 midterm elections? Early, mostly mail-in, voting. It is perfectly legal. But it undermines a fair and open electoral process. Were I a Democrat, I might even say that it “threatens our democracy.” Why? Because it allows for the wholesale manipulation of the vote. It also dilutes the integrity of an election by transforming it from an event into a process.
I should add that “mail-in ballots” is an equivocal term. It can mean different things in different contexts and in different states. The practice is obviously open to more interference and manipulation than same-day voting is. So extra safeguards must be put in place and scrupulously followed if such interference and manipulation is to be avoided. Some states do this. Florida is a good example. Other states do not. Apparently, about 1.4 million people asked for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. Around the same number voted early by mail in Arizona, compared to just shy of half a million on Election Day. Were all such ballots carefully checked to ascertain the identity and eligibility of the person casting the vote?
I doubt it, but let’s leave that question to one side. The real issue is that the wholesale practice of early or mail-in voting makes a mockery of elections. If you say that an election is to be held on November 8, but millions of ballots are already docketed, if not actually counted, by the time November 8 rolls around, why bother to have Election Day at all? Why not have Election Week, or Election Month, or Election Quarter?
Elections are meant to represent a particular decision made at particular time at which voters can assess the state of things at that moment and make their choice. Early and mail-in voting undermines the definitiveness of that practice. I suspect that in many cases the result of an election is essentially predetermined by early and mail-in voting, something that makes the very idea of Election Day superfluous…”
BREAKING: A federal judge rules that President Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt is unconstitutional and must be vacated https://t.co/8BXsNP8wEm https://t.co/8BXsNP8wEm
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 11, 2022
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The 2022 Harold Stassen Awards For Special Political Losers
“…For those who don’t remember or have never watched The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, because Minnesota’s Harold Stassen lost so many times, he was a regular target of Carson’s jokes. Therefore this award will go to politicians whose careers of losses were very special, just like Harold Stassen. In fact, these losers are so bad it’s embarrassing.
In a unanimous vote between me and my computer, the 2022 Midterm Stassen award winners were Beto O’Rourke, Stacey Abrams, and Charlie Crist…”
Reporter: "Do you think @elonmusk is a threat to national security?"
Biden: "It's worthy of being looked at." pic.twitter.com/x9AUeqGK3H
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 9, 2022
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1590424540760657920
“…To the MAGA diehards, I say: is this really what you want? A Republican Party that can’t decisively whip the Democrats even in an extremely favorable year? Because this is what you are going to get if you keep sticking with Trump. Like it or not, a lot of independents just hate the guy, and that’s never going to change. Conservatives like me would vote for him in 2024 just to keep the Democrats out of office, but in that case I would vote knowing I was checking the box for a big mouth who won’t get much done, because whereas Ron DeSantis would actually govern, Trump would do nothing but preen and talk about himself.
But as Stuckey and Walsh say, the normie Republican Party doesn’t give people much reason to vote for it, other than its not being Democratic. That’s enough for a lot of us, but not enough to win big, and certainly not enough to deserve victory.
The future of American political conservatism is Ron DeSantis, J.D. Vance, and National Conservative-style Republicans like them. Not MAGA. Not the Bulwark sad remnants of the pre-Trump GOP establishment.
I’ll update this as we get news about Georgia and Arizona. Hoping hard for Blake Masters and Kari Lake wins. Hey, at least we no longer have to hear from terminal losers Stacy Abrams and Beto O’Rourke again…”
Related. Below is what wacky people voted for instead of Republicans. Republicans must be accountable. Excuses are for Democrats:
Sorry, bourbon is the secret.
