FYI: For those concerned about data centers and utility bills, keep this in mind:
A 2-minute AI video may burn the same compute as hundreds or thousands of ordinary AI chats. Text is cheap; synthetic video is where the data-center appetite gets obscene.
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Never mind appearing on this monster’s show, does he really think “I’m working with Laura Loomer” is a big career milestone?
Sigh. We are a nation of grifters. It’s what we do.
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remedy, it might work. Because what would stop it? The Constitution gives no one any power over Congress except itself—even poorly constituted power.
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If we wait until November to have a plan for how to deal with these dick moves, we’re going to lose everything.
That’s the optimistic, institutional view. But of competing claims arise before the House is organized, who has the authority to resolve them? There is no perfectly clear constitutional answer.
The Constitution assumes states will send representatives and that Congress will judge elections. It …
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I’ve been making that point for years. The problem is populations only act when they’re led to act by notable entities. We are led my no one except lone actors like @IndivisibleTeam, who are a polite but relatively unambitious form of resistance. Politeness isn’t working.
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Their plan (if they have one) would probably be to just create chaos and hope that get enough states refuse to certify, that the states that THEY claim have certified are enough to give them a plurality of seats which gives them agency to make the bigger decisions. Since there is no rule book or …
does not provide a detailed step-by-step procedure for a situation where a large number of certifications themselves are rejected as fraudulent.
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