A lone-riding heathen, polytheist, Jeffersonian Classical Liberal. Just trying to find my peace. I remove anything which disturbs it.
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For for anyone who finds this post, I was CulverDrums on here until the beginning of July. I left abruptly, as I was really just overtaxed with media and such. I went and sought my peace, largely finding it. While back, I am just not getting into the depths I did earlier. Not putting X on my phone. Not checking it all day. I learned to enjoy being alone, realizing it was not really all that lonely. There I found my peace- a minimalization of needs and wants easy to manage and maintain.
I found myself- my true self- and it is the wanderer, the lone-rider, hence the new X handle from Old English án (lone, singular) + ridda (rider).
I came back mostly, because I did miss a select few people who I enjoy and consider friends, and my knowledge of the current news cycle was wanting of late.
I detest government controls of economy, but I agree with the sentiment of her position, as I detest the data center boom. ERCOT, the official Texas grid, is woefully ill-prepared for taking on that surge of electrical usage and would be devastated in an artic blast trying to bear that load. I can agree that load-heavy businesses should have to contribute to infrastructure costs, IF they draw from citizens.
Again, I do not agree with the means of doing it in this case, just agree with the sentiment.
Of course the best fix ERCOT could do is quickly adopt and approve micro and regular nuclear reactor development, which benefits everyone.
Then you can have a realistic talk about energy consumption and boosting technology.
Do you live in Texas and want to experience more electrical failures?
Well if you do I've got good news for you - your next governor has promised to introduce price controls on electricity and we all know how that ends.
Plan accordingly... 🔋
#3rdWorld #texas #griddown #poweroutage #dallas #houston #elections #SanAntonio
SCOTUS already approved it for a case of Voodoun practioners in Florida nearly 25 years ago or so.
Also, in many customs, it is just a ritual to thank the animal before killing it, instead of the modern American Thanksgiving way of doing it after it hits the table. It is customary killing for food. Despite Hollywood and Catholic hagiographic fiction, it historically and in reality was mostly about blessing food and thanking one's divine for the bounty. rarely was it just senseless slaughter. Given that the word "fee" comes directly from the Germanic word, fehu, meaning cow, which was used as payment, you do not "waste" such resources.
I'm assuming she is talking about halal exemptions, but SCOTUS already ruled on it, so long as animal abuse and cruelty laws are not broken.
I attended such a thing at @TheLordBoard stead many years ago (damn my youngest was still in a car seat- way long ago), and the swine was the most honored guest there, handled humanly, and dispatched quickly without a stun. That said, I have heard about plenty of bothced ones as well. In early Theodish Belief, which did a number, just to make sure it was quick, they usually used smaller pigs and had handmade swords specifically designed to behead the animal cleanly as to make sure the death was swift.
Also plenty of rural Hispanic families around here but whole cows and dispatch them on sight and eat them that day. Nothing different, save prayer is involved. Spoiler alert, in many rural cities in the early days of this country, slaughter time often involved church activities, just like with harvest. When is it a bounty and blessing and when is it just a "pagan" sacrifice?
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Ballard Partners made over 100,000,000 in 2026, up from over 15,000 in 2021. Susie Wiles and Pam Bondi saw to that. Credit to Calley for not keeping this covered up. It’s time for all the receipts to come out.
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The epitome of narcissism.
He will go to his deathbed refusing to acknowledge his responsibility in his own political demise.
Still gets me that school buses are such a novelty to the world. Fir me they are every day that ends in "y". Had a group of French people want to see inside my bus, after they took pictures in front of another.
Someone brought up an interesting point.
Days after the election and blue wave, not one red district, town, amd fo forth that flipped has burned a building down, assaulted police, blocked streets with protest, and so forth. No, we went back to work and are reflecting and debating among ourselves about what happened smd how to fix it. We are seeking answers, not inflaming violence about the problems.
I'm oddly okay with some of this. Not a banquet it should be put on rails.
It is a tool. Any tool must be mastered to use right. Problem with AI is, after a few generations, it is teaching itself. If the first gens were not taught correctly or had bad info to start, the AI will generationally become dumber. Might be faster, but it will be dumber.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Democrats face a push for a “day 1” ban on AI superintelligence, with up to 20 YEARS in prison for violators.
Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari says a pause on advanced AI and a ban on artificial superintelligence must be “top of the Democratic agenda on day 1.”
A bill that would do exactly that was introduced by Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar in September.
Under the bill:
- Developing or deploying superintelligent AI would be banned
- Advanced AI development would pause until a new federal regulator sets rules and a model review process
- A new cabinet-level AI department would monitor frontier models and oversee removing dangerous capabilities, like ignoring shutdown commands
- Companies that try to get around it would face the “corporate death penalty”
- Individuals would face up to 20 years in prison
AI and data centers were a “crucial or major factor” for 56% of voters in the midterms, per an NBC News exit poll.
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Will you hear me now, America!?
"A 1,400-year-old war is being waged inside our country. Muhammad, the man
Muslims call their Prophet, was a military commander whose mission was to bring the world under Islamic rule.
That mission cannot be completed until America falls.
Islam is a hostile totalitarian political ideology using our freedoms to destroy us.
To every non-Muslim, it offers three choices: convert, submit, or die.
It does not stop until every court, school, and government on earth is under Sharia.
The Muslim Brotherhood turned this imperative into a modern conquest strategy.
Two seized documents, the 1982 Project and the 1991 Explanatory
Memorandum, detail their two-front plan: build parallel Islamic societies that reject assimilation, while their faithful capture our institutions.
The Brotherhood wrote the playbook.
Today every hostile Islamic regime and faction is executing it on our soil: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, Hamas, and the Taliban. Different countries. Different sects.
Marching in lockstep toward one conquest...."
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Did you know billionaire Miriam Adelson contributed to both Trump and Talarico’s campaigns?
Follow the money, not the party.
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Remarkable to consider. The tribes of the Migration Era that finally brought Rome to her knees and claimed her old colonies mainly came from this little area - and they also went North into Scandinavia and changed Germanic culture everywhere so that their god Woden became the main one even in the Viking Age.
-The Langobards who took Italy in 568 AD came from Jutland.
-The Saxons and Angles who took Britannia in 449 AD came from this area.
-The Franks who took Gaul between 486 and 507 AD originated in the Rhine-Weser region.
These people all spoke one language and worshipped the same gods, but the kings focused on one frenzied deity who brought them victory - Woden.
Not only did this swampy region produce the main characters of the Germanic world who introduced the new culture of runes, kings and halls- but they above all (with the help also of the Goths who came from Sweden) are responsible for reshaping all of Europe in the Migration Age - indeed the Franks practically invented the idea of Europe as we now know it.
Not a phenomenon from all Germania, not even all of the modern region of Germany - just this little circle.
Another bit of Election Day dissonance coming out of Texss, which the Dems must heed. No one wants increased taxes for education. Nearly ever bond election failed, because property taxes in Texss are among the highest.
No one wants Hinojosa to fulfill her promise gor increased teacher pay off of the tax papers back. She'll need to find another way, such ss regulating administrative bloat in school districts.
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Too much crying over Texas.
The walloping was well deserved. Don't need to go over how awful Abbott was. 12 years of cronyism. 12 years of lying. Good riddance.
GOP held the state senate. Gina will be using emergency powers to push everything she can through. But that's largely limited to undoing what Abbott did.
Eliminating the voucher system, ending cooperation with ICE and the climate of prosecutions at national level (all of these things are guaranteed to happen) will tank 2028 dem house races across the state. House, RR commissioner and a couple SC seats go red in 2028. We are in for 4 years of lame duck. That largely means the current status quo holds.
In 2028 txlege will squeeze through a couple extra fab permits for weed/gambling/abortion/whatever. So a small trickle of purple legislation.
Current permitted and broken ground data centers, fabs etc runways already exceed 2 years. Texas is already under a moratorium on these projects for a reason.
The NGO homeless complex and infrastructure bilking in the big cities is going to go into overdrive.
Populism has been kneecapped in Texas but it appears neocons have suffered a mortal wound.
It was not demographic change in the past 2 years, it was the collision of huge voter disappointment with elected reps in DC coupled with the exhaustion of the elected GOP in Austin.
The attached graph really says it all.
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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.