There is no way we get the Texas primary result if Trump is at 40% or less approval.
There was a poll not long before the vote which showed Cormyn slightly up over Paxton. This wasn’t a mistake: it was a malicious lie. It was an attempt to depress Paxton’s turnout – an attempt to interfere with the election. The rest of the polling is pretty much just that: a lie. Lies designed to make it seem like Trump is unpopular and the GOP is doomed if it sticks with Trump. Both the Democrats and the RINOs want this to be true – they need this to be true. And they are trying to propagandize their desire into reality.
But the vote shows it isn’t working – not one little bit. Cormyn was humiliated in the primary. Losing by nearly two to one. Plus GOP turnout has been high – lost in the shuffle is that the GOP won all three Georgia Supreme Court seats up for grabs last week. That Court now stays with us for the long term. It was crucial for Democrats to win those so they could start to Californicate Georgia. They won’t be able to, now. Far from being a swing State, Georgia now will start to shift back to reliably Red. Over and over again over the past few months it has been like that – endless polls and analysis showing we’re doomed, results showing we’re surging. And this is before gasoline prices start to drop.
The people are tired of liars – the Democrats latest attempt to lie their way into office, Talarico in Texas, is going to fail miserably. The man is a complete freak – totally out of step with Texas. But the Democrats thought they could nominate him – a white man – and use smooth words to convince Texans to send a man to the Senate who utters blasphemy on the regular. Ain’t gonna work. It won’t even be close. The race is called for Paxton on poll closure.
And the GOP base is tired of electing Republicans who always find the time to help Democrats and never find the time to advance core GOP desires. The SAVE Act is backed by at least 80% of the people. It is a slam dunk. Paxton said he’d back out of Cormyn got it passed. Trump clearly would have endorsed Cormyn if it had been passed…but the GOP Senate leadership figured they are untouchable and this whole MAGA thing will just blow over once Trump is gone. That isn’t happening. Hopefully Thune will now wake up to reality and ride the wave…a GOP Senate that now passes the SAVE Act – or at least puts a real effort into trying – will roll up huge victories in November.
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And this is before gasoline prices start to drop.
Careful; you’re inviting an attack from Forty/Rocks/Cody/et al saying that all we ever talk about is gas prices going back 14 years.
Seriously, a couple of weeks ago we were at $4.99/gal for regular. I filled up yesterday for $3.57. Still got a ways to go to get back to where we were 6 months ago, but the difference between now and during Obama and Biden is pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain: collateral damage due to a short term conflict in an oil-sensitive part of the world vs. green agenda polices designed to increase the price of oil to coerce people into driving less and/or buy electric cars. One was designed to get people to do something they didn’t necessarily want to do while the other is a side effect of eliminating the leading sponsor of terrorism from the world stage. I think most people see the distinction.
You gotta love the headlines, though, thanking Trump for bringing gas prices back down. //sarc
This is kind of the way politics works too:
Lately I’ve been dealing with serious knee issues that have severely affected my ability to move around much. One result is that for the first time ever I have been watching some of those short reels that have started showing up on Facebook, and that experience has led me into several conversations about the potential impact of AI on our society—that is, how will our society change when we realize we can no longer believe ANYTHING we are told?
What has surprised me most has been the very realistic “news stories” that are totally fabricated but on the surface very convincing. It started off with stories of, for instance, something like Ilhan Omar melting down in Congress as some negative thing happened—it didn’t happen but it was close to a potential reality. And then the stories got more far-fetched.
Today I saw one that went totally over the top. It was a video of a rather intimidated-looking Trump being read the riot act by an impassioned, good-looking, guy ——who was identified as John F. Kennedy Jr.
I actually had to go back and watch it to confirm that this is how he was identified.
And I realized that many Americans might actually believe this is JFK Jr.
It reminded me of the first time I really realized how poorly educated our young people are. I worked with a woman vet, who brought her younger sister with her on a ranch call one day. The sister was in grad school, getting a degree to become a pharmacist. This was a day or so after JFK Jr’s plane had gone missing. The sister asked me if the plane had been found and I said no, and then she said “Wasn’t his father kind of famous?”
After what felt to me was a full minute to figure out how to answer that, I mildly replied “Well, when his father was president of the United States a lot of people did know who he was”.
True, there had been five or six presidents since Kennedy (I think the first Bush might have been president at the time, or maybe Clinton) but she was in grad school so in her high school civics class she would have only been exposed to three or four presidents since Kennedy, yet it was clear that she had no idea who he had been.
Anyway, I have been worried about the corrosive effect of poor education in this country, particularly in history and civics, and now it looks like what people DO “learn” is likely to be pure fantasy. I don’t see much advantage in convincing anyone that JFK Jr. is still alive (or that he is lecturing Trump) but I do see an advantage in a test to see how stupid/ignorant/gullible Americans are ramping up the Walter Duranty/CNN-level Fake News we already know about to even greater affect. Our schools have created blank canvases, and AI and Leftist-controlled media can paint literally ANYTHING they want on them.
Just three or four years ago I could go online and ask a question and get a dozen different answers–maybe the same basic information but differently phrased, different sources, different approaches or interpretations. Today I get exactly the same canned, bullet-pointed, bland summary that usually contains little or no real information, repeated over many different links. In other words, the actual amount of information online is being diluted—and now it is actively being rewritten.
This feels very dangerous and ominous
It is – and I also see those Reels (as it were) and some of them are just absurdly false. You can see how the kids are getting suckered these days – they don’t know, and here comes a liar, now with credible-looking video.
I’ll come back to what I harp on: lies must not be 1A protected.
It wasn’t long ago that the Orwellian phrase “misinformation” was used to attack people, cancel them online, affect their jobs and smear them personally and professionally. Then it became increasingly important to take down Trump, and the internet was flooded with elaborate outright lies.
Yeah, that was the dam completely breaking – but when I consider the problem of lies, as such, I always remember a mot from WWI: “the War Office keeps three sets of figures: one to deceive the enemy, another to deceive the government and a third to deceive itself”. I do believe that this is where the habit of lying started to be ingrained – government efforts really to deceive their own peoples about what was going on in the War. We can recall that when our Civil War was going on, the newspapers printed casualty lists…that is, there was no hiding how many had died; and shocking bloodbaths would gravely harm the government in popular opinion. Starting in WWI, that sort of stuff was considered secret. All on the excuse that we can’t let the enemy know…but, of course, the enemy by and large knew; it wasn’t really hard for anyone to estimate the number of enemy dead in any particular battle. It was all really just the governments afraid that if their people found out how high the butcher’s bill was, they might opt for a change in strategy…”unconditional surrender” sounds great, but then you look at 81,000 casualties in the Ardennes and you start to consider “we’ll negotiate a fair peace with any non-Nazi German government” as an alternative.
It just seeped into everything over time…until now we have AI to assist with our lies.
“now we have AI to assist with our lies.”
And, as if we don’t have enough gremlins and bogeymen to worry about, I just learned of a new application of AI–spoofing or imitating websites. Evidently the scam now is to create what looks like a legitimate website—either one identical to Amazon, for example, with only a tiny alteration that no one might notice like a lower-case letter somewhere being a Cyrillic letter, or just a whole new “company” with “products”. You know how now you can’t even order something without “creating an account”? So these bogus websites may or may not send you your plastic doohickey, but in the meantime they have your name, address, zip code, phone number, email address and credit card number—and a good chance that when you created a password you just used one you usually use, maybe with a slight alteration, making it easy to use it as a base for a computer system to track it down, giving the scammers a look at either all the passwords you use or at least a template for them. We don’t even need data breaches any more—not if we can lay out bait tasty enough to have people just give them all that information and pay to have it stolen by providing credit card numbers.
Take all the hoopla about AI giving us such a head start on medical research, for example, or the other areas where it is supposed to be so wonderful. Having seen it in action in “writing” things, I don’t have a lot of faith in its ability to be very complex in things like research, because all I have seen so far in daily use is examples of GIGO. If AI can’t even understand homonyms or punctuation I am not likely to be impressed by medical advice. From what I have seen from a guy-on-the-street level, AI has done nothing but dumb down basic information transfer, or make it possible to create convincing lies.
Let me keep my talking dogs and cats and throw the rest in the dumpster.
So, if the Mrs. asks, “do these pants make me look fat (and they do), and you say “no dear.” what are the consequences? Fine? Jail? Dog House? Asking for a friend.
LOL! Some lies are ok! Perhaps.
Evidently the scam now is to create what looks like a legitimate website — with only a tiny alteration that no one might notice like a lower-case letter somewhere being a Cyrillic letter
I got one the other day that looked and sounded totally legitimate. I used to have phone (landline) and Internet through Sprint. Sprint sold off that portion of the company to Embarq, which in turn sold off to CenturyLink. Somehow I ended up with an embarqmail.com email address. Several friends who had the same thing eventually ended up with CenturyLink.com email addresses, but I never did. I got an email last week saying it was finally going to happen, and I needed to create a new email address, but at the end it said “sing on” (instead of sign on), and my BS monitor went Bzzzzzt!!. I contacted CenturyLink, and they said it was a scam.
Amen!
Laugh for the day!
ROFL!
And it’s funny because there’s a grain of truth in it, a concept that Liberal white women (and Liberals in general) don’t understand.