Social 2024 PotWR semifinals.

[Lead]

@idrankyourbeer , we should’ve just recruited Clippy and run his campaign. Could’ve been a landslide.

 

[Deorum]

Why did you run this year, ya jerk?

Edit: “didn’t”

I've been busy starting threads, bruh.

The Claim:

I'm just a law-biding, taxpaying American citizen who lives pretty damn comfortably. My interests are predominantly based around preserving American liberty (constitutional rights), promoting domestic industry (agriculture, energy, manufacturing), and protecting public lands (national parks, monuments, forests). Those are relatively non-partisan on the surface, but not apolitical considering how court rulings and congressional legislation, funding and investment, regulation and subsidies, taxes and trade policy amongst other things often can and do factor into them.

The Evidence:

Crime - America's National Park DM&R Backlog Swells, US Congress Proposes More Cuts

https://rollcall.com/2023/10/03/maintenance-backlog-grows-at-national-parks-as-funding-tightens/ Absolute Failure of an Institution. And I'm talking about our shithouse Congress, to be clear. I mean, yeah, it's a sizable chunk of change by any measure. Yet consider the federal government...

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Economy - US Manufacturing Could Need Up To 3.8 Million New Employees by 2033

Yikes. Who Needs A Job? They're Here. 🇺🇸 🦅 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/press-releases/us-manufacturing-could-need-new-employees-by-2033.html

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International - The US/UK H-Bomb MDA Is Set To Expire

Originally signed on the eve of the 4th of July 1958 and hailed as "the great prize" by Super-Mac, this particular Mutual Defence* Agreement is arguably the most exclusive and significant bilateral treaty in existence. A rather brazen violation of international law and in contravention of the...

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International - Wyoming Is Rare Earth

TL;DR: The United States already boasts an extraordinary combination of natural advantages, not only due to sheer geographic size and positioning between the world's two largest oceans but a batshit insane abundance of coastlines, ports, interconnected navigable rivers, freshwater sources...

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Opinion - E Pluribus Unum, or: How I Learned To Reject Partisanship and Love The USA

((@Ameribros)) TL;DR: Yeah, right. I don't expect much engagement out of this one. It's a thread nobody asked for (or even wants), and wild shit has been going down between the upcoming POTUS election and recent SCOTUS rulings. Nevertheless, it's an olive branch of optimism and positive vibes...

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Law - SCOTUS: Apex Court of Last Resort

TL;DR: The final authority on legal interpretation of the US Constitution, the oldest extant charter of national government in the world. There are frequent threads started on specific SCOTUS decisions and the ethics of individual justices. This topic is created for general discussion...

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Law - Gun Control: A Global Overview

What does gun control mean and represent to you? I don't doubt that many of the ordinary citizens who advocate for it do so with the best of intentions. But for me, it is fundamentally the de facto enabling of authoritarian government actions (large scale) and violent criminals (small scale) by...

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Law - Great American Outdoors Act

Is there any chance this can get a nice re-up injection with some executive branch insistence in 2025 for FY26? Does anyone oppose doing so? The GAOA was probably my single favorite piece of legislation passed during the DJT era. The LWCF now has a perpetual source of funding, and that's great...

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Economy - TSMC Arizona: $165 Billion Giga-Fab (six factories, two apf's, plus an r&d center)

The 48th and final contiguous state admitted the union, Arizona is home to the greatest geological spectacle on the planet and wild west cultural history that is second to none. The early economy was originally based on the Five C's: cattle, citrus, copper, cotton, and climate -- and that now...

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[Rob Battisti]

i suspect he's deep into crypto "culture" and doesn't even realize how cooked those guys are. Imagine getting all your news from Elon Musk retweets, "red pilled" grifters, and generally uneducated "crypto millionaires" and i think that paints a pretty good picture of Rob. I honestly don't think he realizes what is left/right wing when pushing right wing points. Very useful...

Would it bother you to know that I’m a crypto millionaire?

 

[AWilder]

Would it bother you to know that I’m a crypto millionaire?

not at all. I'll just laugh as your worth fluctuates with presidential debates.

 

[Rob Battisti]

not at all. I'll just laugh as your worth fluctuates with presidential debates.

I’ll be laughing in 7 figures, though.

 

[Mr Holmes]

Would it bother you to know that I’m a crypto millionaire?

I sold most of mine after losing confidence in the exchanges following FTX.

 

[Rob Battisti]

I sold most of mine after losing confidence in the exchanges following FTX.

That was the best time to buy!

 

[AWilder]

I’ll be laughing in 7 figures, though.

so will I.

 

[Andy Capp]

I'm going to buy a plat membership just to change my name to None Of The Above

You should change it to Imitation Bacon

 

[Andy Capp]

Yeah, I think what happens a lot is that Republican messaging gets filtered from strategists to Fox talk shows to online influencers to message boards, which leads people who never watch Fox to constantly repeat that stuff.

I think there's just as much coming from conservative talk radio--or at least there was until people like Alex Jones started to get sued to Bolivian. Which reminds me of this happy news, by the way,

Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families

Jones vows to continue his talk shows through other means, possibly including a new website and his personal social media accounts.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Mr Holmes]

That was the best time to buy!

I almost lost it all in BlockFi. I figured out their game wasn't sustainable on my own and moved everything to Gemini about 6 months before FTX. After FTX went down and Binance was giving really bad answers as to whether or not they could withstand a mass withdraw I decided to get out. I made a small profit (a lot smaller than what it was a year before) and then offset the capital gains by selling a few bonds.

I'm back to putting things in using paypal ( I view them as too big to fail ).

 

[Barteh]

Looks like deep state is trying to take me out before the finals so I don't get to vote at all.

 

[Rob Battisti]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to you today humbled. I never intended to run for this office. Now I find myself on the precipice of the great honor of becoming your president.

However, it is with great sadness that I must tell you today that I’ll be withdrawing my candidacy and will be taking a leave of absence from The War Room until 2025.

As I will not be able to fulfill the sworn duties of office, I must take this time now to bow out.

I am making a full throated endorsement of @Other and encourage everyone who voted for me this round, to give him your vote next round.

God bless you all.

@LMP

 

[LMP]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to you today humbled. I never intended to run for this office. Now I find myself on the precipice of the great honor of becoming your president.

However, it is with great sadness that I must tell you today that I’ll be withdrawing my candidacy and will be taking a leave of absence from The War Room until 2025.

As I will not be able to fulfill the sworn duties of office, I must take this time now to bow out.

I am making a full throated endorsement of @Other and encourage everyone who voted for me this round, to give him your vote next round.

God bless you all.

@LMP

It will fall to your V.P. @Mr Holmes

 

[Rob Battisti]

It will fall to your V.P. @Mr Holmes

In that case, I can think of no one better.

@Mr Holmes please win!

 

[Mr Holmes]

It will fall to your V.P. @Mr Holmes

Deep state fuckery?

 

[LMP]

Deep state fuckery?

Nah you guys just pulled a Biden/Harris

 

[Andy Capp]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to you today humbled. I never intended to run for this office. Now I find myself on the precipice of the great honor of becoming your president.

However, it is with great sadness that I must tell you today that I’ll be withdrawing my candidacy and will be taking a leave of absence from The War Room until 2025.

As I will not be able to fulfill the sworn duties of office, I must take this time now to bow out.

I am making a full throated endorsement of @Other and encourage everyone who voted for me this round, to give him your vote next round.

God bless you all.

@LMP

Going to jail?

 

[Rob Battisti]

Going to jail?

I’m secretly SBF

 

[Rob Battisti]

Deep state fuckery?

I can only say that [REDACTED] and that when I wanted to [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] I was threatened with [REDACTED].

In the end, so long as people know that [REDACTED] I’ll be happy.

Until then make sure that you watch out for [REDACTED] because when they [REDACTED] me, I was never the same.