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The world feels like it’s in a very dark place right now. It sucks to read about war, disease, loss and uncertainty. These things are scary, and for good reason. I’m not going to whisper platitudes in your ear and pretend like everything is rosy. It’s not. The universe is a chaotic mess, one which swirls with entropy and fear. Nothing matters, for to eat from the Tree of Knowledge is to realize that our universe is not an idyllic paradise. Shit can indeed be wrong.
Life does not have intrinsic meaning, therefore we do not have intrinsic meaning. When death comes, it is no different to life: Yin-Yang dualism teaches that these concepts are but two sides of the same coin. Your life, my life, they only have value because we give them value.
And if that were the end of the story, if down in belly of the whale Pinocchio simply...stayed. Forever. An eternally digesting plank of wood, no different from the ship or Geppetto himself. Then none of it would have mattered.
But it does matter. Down here, where all is dark and hopeless; when the way is lost, all hope is gone, only then can we finally acknowledge that it is our failures which brought us to this point. And these things are only failures because we acknowledge they hurt. Only here, in the dark, do we discover what we truly value as human beings.
Is it Democracy? Do we give a fuck about Democracy? That’s the central issue of 2024, ladies and gentlemen. I care. Anyone else?
Suozzi beat Republican nominee Mazi Pilip to replace Republican George Santos, who was indicted on a charge of fraud and then expelled from Congress late last year amid revelations that he fabricated much of his life story. The race for New York’s 3rd District — long viewed as a dead heat — played out in a suburban part of Long Island that favored President Biden by 8 points in 2020 but then swung toward Republicans.
Ah...it’s good not to be alone.
So polls were off. By a lot, looks like. A lot a lot. Nate Silver is reportedly apoplectic. Like it’s margin of error plus three.
The story you’re going to wake up with is that the Democrats just kicked the shit out of the GOP by eight fucking points! Suck my dick, mother fucks! Democracy’s back! Hell yeah. America is the best country on this planet. And if you disagree then you’re wrong.
Just look here at these lyrics:
And the rockets` red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Democracy works because people care. They care about their neighbors, they care about their families; and because these things are true, they care about justice. Mankind has an innate sense of right and wrong. It is our most defining feature.
I actually phone banked for this Suozzi guy. Every person I spoke to had already been badgered by the Dems, literally of them. To the point where several threatened not to vote for Suozzi because they’d been called five times that day. The left is relentless right now.
Eight percent at time of writing this. Suozzi is up by eight fucking percent. This was supposed to be a nailbiter.
The US Senate passed a supplemental appropriations bill that would provide roughly $60 billion of security assistance to Ukraine, the vast majority of which would go to US companies and personnel.
Every incentive, domestic and international, aligns on this issue. Spending $60 billion is a direct industrial stimulus to the very districts which are opposed to this bill. There’s ‘Politics’ and then there’s treason. I believe we are witnessing the latter, and I can’t help but feel curious as to what a mass investigation of the GOP would turn up.
There is enormous pressure on the House to bring this vote to the floor. It passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate, so to deny it even a chance to find its legs in the House on purely partisan grounds makes no fucking sense. It’s not even a good move politically. The Dems just bodied the GOP in New York, after all.
I don’t see how Mike Johnson can hold out, but if he does then there’s always the Discharge Petition. It’s not super ideal, in that it takes thirty days to activate, but it at least sets a timer on this little farce. A timer which, coincidentally, coincides with a debt limit talk.
That’s uh...that’s what we call politics, ladies and gentlemen.
The current Ukrainian battlefield capabilities that are denying Russian forces the ability to restore maneuver to the battlefield on Russian terms largely depend on the provision of Western military assistance in key systems, many of which only the US can provide at scale.
And that aid package better get through soon because the war doesn’t stop for politics. It’s an extension of it, and what we’re seeing now is Putin’s political reach into the West. The messaging coming out of the MAGA wing is pitiful; Johnson refused to consider the funding package because it didn’t contain money for the border, a provision he-himself said was DOA because...yet to be announced reasons. The man was elected to be a seat filler, and he is verifying my assessment of his competency with every passing decision.
Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported that Russian forces are attempting to restore maneuver to the battlefield through Soviet deep battle theory but are struggling with implementing Soviet deep battle so far due to current Ukrainian capabilities.
Deep battle theory apparently involves striking the enemy’s assets at all levels to encourage them to scatter resources. It’s, “Force them to be strong everywhere, until they’re strong nowhere,” sort of thinking, and of the two I think Ukraine is putting on the better show. That said, Ukraine’s continued performance depends upon the United States House of Representatives passing the Senate’s aid package, something which got significantly easier today with the flip of NY-3.
In my opinion, if there’s going to be a mass split in the GOP then this special election will likely be one of the driving catalysts. These results are existentially terrifying to the MAGA folks in the House as all of them—yes, all of them, are up for reelection come November.
They’s startin’ to realize they’s gettin’ replaced.
Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces are increasing their use of illegal chemical weapons in Ukraine, in an apparent violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which Russia is a signatory.
Putin is losing his grip on sanity, and chemical weapons are just one of the nightmares in the old Soviet stockpile.
Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this war to an end.
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