politics

Reading through this right now.

Your thoughts?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1692908

She's over 25% of the total vote and is tripling second place Cornel West. Libertarians don't even show up until #5 in their own front group.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/middleeast/netanyahu-letter-israel-national-security-intl/index.html

Governor Abbott Issues Statement On Texas’ Constitutional Right To Self-Defense

January 24, 2024 | Austin, Texas | Press Release

Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statement on Texas’ constitutional right to defend and protect itself as President Joe Biden continues to attack Texas and refuse to perform his duties to secure the border.

"The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," reads the statement. "President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."

Six state governors have declared support for Texas so far: South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Florida Virginia Georgia

insane how little coverage an incipient constitutional crisis is getting. kinda ominous tbh lol haha

UPDATE: 16 states now lol lmao

I liked everything I saw from the campaign page except for the video where they say “artificial intelligence is threatening to replace millions of jobs.”

Artificial intelligence can never “replace” millions of jobs, since it is simply impossible without an input (therefore “true AI” or “the singularity” is fantasy), and creates no surplus (smart packaging arms are not “artificial intelligence” either). We should accept advancements in productivity instead of going on about jobs being “stolen”; the argument necessarily follows that the workers are no more valuable than machines (clashing with the importance emphasized everywhere else on the page), and that the solution is to place these workers into positions that may easily be filled by machines in some empty “job creation.”

https://nitter.net/Is_Not_Brian/status/1749645809170493525

But in the week before the all-important caucuses, Scott Wagner, the recently installed head of the super PAC, was doing something that aides found puzzling: He was literally doing a puzzle.

In the headquarters of Never Back Down in West Des Moines, Iowa, Wagner was, according to some of his staff, spending a significant amount of time in the precious final few days constructing a peaceful 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of a landscape.

In a photo taken on Jan. 9, shared with NBC News by a Never Back Down team member, others in the room were hunched over their laptops.

“Staffers are putting their dedication and devotion to electing Gov. DeSantis and they come in and the CEO, the chairman of the organization, is sitting there working on a puzzle for hours,” said a Never Back Down staffer who was there.

Another Never Back Down staffer also said Wagner worked on it for “hours” in the week before Iowa.

In a comment to NBC News, Wagner noted that the “office puzzle” was “there when we arrived” and “became a sense of pride for the entire team and everyone chipped in a few minutes a piece to get it done.”

sources: original article, puzzle id

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1664606

Good news.

https://nitter.net/dougblandry/status/1749166493625995514#m