Posted on 12/22/2024 7:09:37 AM PST by mairdie
The big story this week is how X (formerly Twitter) worked to dramatically change the American legislative process. As Chamath Palihapitiya said, "People are underestimating what happened here [The Continuing Resolution]. This was a multi-hundred billion dollar grift that was stopped on a dime over 12 hours of tweets. You would have never thought this was possible. To put a dagger in something that big that had so much broad support just a few hours earlier is so consequential in how the United States can run going forward."
But if you grasp the background for this feat -- the story of how Axelrod and Obama, a struggling and complacent media, puppet NGOs, and a corrupt bureaucracy for years created a false preference cascade that fed absurd crazes like “defund the police,” ”structural racism,” “white privilege,” ”assigned gender,” ”genocide in Gaza” -- you can better understand the fast collapse. Obama’s was an autocratic regime that, using David Axelrod’s once benign psychological creation, sold large swaths of the public counterfactual, illogical nonsense like ObamaCare, the Iran deal, and Russiagate and used COVID hysteria to transfer billions of dollars from the rest of us to the top 1% and corrupt our electoral system, but it was utterly without foundation: In sum, sanity finally overcame politically manipulated hallucinatory thinking.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And we have to be the ones who forgive this treasons regime and the one that followed. I sat know, USE MY TAX DOLLARS TO SEND THEM ALL TO GITMO
Finally, a sensible use of tax revenue.
I read the entire article from Tablet, when someone graciously posted it yesterday. It was very satisfying and enlightening.
bfl
What is Tablet? Apologies for ignorance.
So much has happened over the last week, the collapse of the secretive DC swamp with millions of Patriots now watching every move in real time is colossal in the scope of things. This makes this statement so true: “WE are the news, now.”
Thanks. Looks deep and excellent.
No more of “we have to pass it to see what is in it”. Thank you Elon Musk for putting the bill on X for all to read.
Thank you for this very interesting article.
Thus, Elon’s GROK AI changed everything for the better:
“When the first bill was introduced days before it was to be voted on, it was over 1500 pages long, another legislative trick, because no one could digest it in time. But Musk created an artificial intelligence program, Grok, that could and did, and the analysis was posted on X so everyone could see a summary of what was in the bill. Voters saw that Congress would fund a 35% raise for themselves, would continue the hated COVID biometric regime, would fund more government censorship, and would grant immunity from prosecution for the corrupt J6 committee, among other things. Outraged voters swamped congressional lines, and Trump threatened to primary any Republican who voted for it. The bill failed, as did a second one. A third bill,l now pared down to less than a tenth of the original, passed the House, then the Senate on Saturday morning, and Biden signed it into law.”
We are living in fascinating times. Happy to be alive.
It is long, and written in a laboring style. But, it’s worth the time to read it. It explains a great deal about what we’ve all felt over the past decade. The signs were there. We’ve seen glimpses behind the curtain. This article details it all.
It projects a hopeful future, but makes clear: we must stay engaged and vigilant.
Happy you’re alive, too!!!!
It was SUCH a sad past 4 years.
It’s like a really large iphone
Is that the official registered name now?
Don’t know if it’s registered, but I, too, always see X with (formerly Twitter). Wonder if it has to do with searching. x is so ubiquitous that search engines would never pick it up as the new Twitter without that.
BTTT
Thanks a lot for posting this article, sharing it.
“history is written by the victors”
I just discovered it from yesterday’s post. It’s a Jewish online magazine. I’m impressed so far.
So long ago that I can barely remember, I used to enjoy magazines like New Republic and National Review. (Not to mention Road & Track and Car & Driver.) Those days when magazines came to the door and you actually held paper in your hands. But the editors and I drifted in different directions and my interests became less intense so I looked for lighter offerings that matched my MAGA tastes, as Bon Appetite once did my culinary ones. Newsweek and Time became The Enemy and only the most occasional story will put one on a bookshelf today. I’ve almost become a headline reader and find I read more now for literary flow or comic quips than deep analysis. Was surprised how many headlines in Tablet were sucking me in. I left the issue in a new tab and will go back and read more, so very, very pleased to learn about it.
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