Folks, this is sophisticated psy-ops. Republicans have to find a way to defang the media's ability to manipulate millions on the right with cheap tricks. I suspect our intelligence agencies perfected this art form by concocting a mysterious QAnon apparition. It fooled millions.
Whenever Republicans' buttons are pressed just the right way, but they're being goaded into taking a position that will do absolutely nothing to further the Republican policy agenda while pumping up people on the right to expend energy in a futile way, suspect a dirty trick.
Democrats+media will love nothing more than to have millions of people on the right spend the next two years hating on Fauci and Bill Gates and defending Trump against assorted slights or assorted ruminations ascribed to Trump. What better way to distract from Biden's failures.
Imagine if the people on the right refuse to take the bait. Imagine if people on the right grew indifferent to Fauci and Gates, and either ignored or even mocked Trump. Democrats will be totally screwed.
There is absolutely nothing to be gained by the Republicans by hating on Fauci or defending Trump at this point. Republicans' most potent weapon at this point is to highlight each and every failure of the Biden-Harris administration, and there is an embarrassment of riches there.
Republicans' only winning play for 2022 & 2024 consists in hammering home the proposition that Democratic governance is demonstrably bad for American prosperity, security, and wellbeing of our children and grandchildren. Republicans will do better. All else is bunk.
The End
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
I have great regard for Mike Pence, one of the greatest Vice Presidents ever. While Democrats and the media pretend that their opposition to Trump was somehow rooted in Trump's intemperate utterances, what's their excuse to slander Mike Pence?
2. Mike Pence Speaks
Blasting H.R. 1, the Democrat-led ethics and voting rights package, Pence said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in Washington "want to literally codify many of the very practices that create the greatest opportunity for fraud."
He is right.
3. Mike Pence Speaks
While Pence avoided promoting conspiracies about the election, he did talk about "election integrity" and endorsed efforts in state legislatures nationwide to enact GOP-led voting legislation.
This is one hundred percent the right position for the GOP.
There is an extraordinary litany of 6 unanimous decisions in 2 weeks which could in part reflect an implied message from the justices that this is a court that is not nearly as rigid and divided as suggested by Democratic members and activists.
2. Recently, Breyer warned against any move to expand the Supreme Court. He also rejected the characterization of the current Court as “conservative” or ideologically rigid. jonathanturley.org/2021/06/01/unp…
3. Breyer was swiftly denounced by figures like cable news host Mehdi Hasan who called called for his retirement. Demand Justice, a liberal group calling for court packing, had a billboard truck the next day in the streets of DC warning “Breyer, retire. Don’t risk your legacy.”
Masks work when used appropriately in limited contexts (see next tweet).
Mask mandates don't work is amply demonstrated by extensive data that states with mask mandates fared no better than those without, no matter how you slice the data.
Masks Work, Mask Mandates Don't 2/2
Masks work so long as the following three statements are true:
a) SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted person-to-person.
b) SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted via water droplets in breath.
c) Severity of Covid-19 illness is directly proportional to viral load.
People used masks in appropriate contexts based on their own common sense, with or without mandates. That's why Covid-19 infection rates show no correlation to presence/absence of mandates.
WSJ: "Is there any city where residents endorse the BLM's agenda? Some news organizations have labored to persuade viewers that police officers constitute a major threat to many of the citizens. The citizens still aren’t buying it."
2. Even in what is arguably America’s leftwardmost political jurisdiction, it turns out that “defund the police” is a rallying cry for only a small percentage of the citizenry, despite what CNN viewers have been led to believe.
3. The new Oregonian poll also helps puncture the myth that people of color don’t want cops in their neighborhoods. Mr. Kavanaugh reports:
Nothing, and I mean nothing, justifies Trump slandering Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence for those two men having done their constitutional duty. They supported him as far as they could constitutionally, but refused to cross the constitutional red line (I respect them for it).
If Trump wants to complain till his dying day that he was wronged by the Democrats, that's his prerogative. What I will actively oppose is him trying to tear down Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence or anyone else for not having violated the Constitution at his behest.
How Bitcoin Is Destroying The Planet 1/2
By consuming more electricity than the annual usage of 159 countries. And guess what al that power is being used to do?
How Bitcoin Is Destroying The Planet 2/2
To power supercomputers that are competing against each other to 'guess an arbitrary number.' The winner is rewarded in Bitcoin and the next round starts. This is happening nonstop around the world. That is it.
The last time I looked (in 2017), the electricity used to mine Bitcoins in just one year was 29.05 Terra Watt Hours. A Terra Watt Hour is of course a Thousand Billion Watt Hours.