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  • Weird map should be illegal, not on race basis, but, they made districts in the middle of nowhere smaller, while there are giant districts spreading over populous Nashville and Memphis in addition to giant rural area.

    To analyze effect on election outcomes, https://engaging-data.com/county-electoral-map-land-vs-population/ (shows county results that districts don’t respect, afaiu) you could compare 2020 election results, and add Dems overperforming 10% over Biden, and that can be more than 1 tenessee district blue. If this is midterm map, memphis/nashville turnout can win 3-4 states.

    This can happen, because GOP in Memphis/Nashville would run a lesser-nazi (not Trump sycophant) level candidate to just steal a few votes for senate/national level, and voter turnout can be low if they know district result is certain. Even splitting Memphis 3 ways, winning all 3 districts is possible. Nashville split is not clear to me.

    You can be angry at GOP bs, but this is mostly an opportunity for Dems. Older map was a much longer shot at flipping a seat.

    Safe Dem seats also is a recipe for pure Zionist first, do nothing else, rule. Same with racially divided seats that increase divisiveness, and increase pure facist ideology from bumfuck counties, who don’t need to concern themselves with humanist values, because none of their voter base has any.




  • Iran isn’t really fractured. That SoH is declared open (but with Iran control) when ceasefire agreement sets, then closed shortly after when Zio side does not implement their obligations is not fracture. Ghalibaf, if he’s main negotiator, is not publicly different from IRGC view, and Trump’s announcements that a deal for complete surrender by Iran was already agreed is simply pure BS made to profit from financial market volatility.

    Still, Iran’s negotiations are far too passive. Needs to negotiate with world on opening SoH, and World negotiate with US on leaving, so that SoH can reopen. That is only eventual outcome US can afford, but world just waiting passively for US to just leave before dealing with Iran is a longer delay on SoH full flow, as well as longer delay to force US to leave. Iran should also make constructive posts on nuclear issue. Specifically reparations for existing stockpile, and long term contract for Uranium enrichment services that make it more valuable to export than use. US side is completely incapable of negotiating quickly any other option other than cash for uranium, or complete clone of JCPOA.

    Still, by asking Iran to repeat their 10 point plan as basis for negotiation, it is the beginning of US surrender process. It’s just moving far too slow for global health.



  • Russophobia led people to accept Ukrainian nazification puppetry by the US to force war on Russia, just as Iranophobia was always a march to this war. That a Russian wrote a book on geopolitcs doesn’t change the pure evil forces coordinated on diminishing Russia that exists without addressing how to defend against them.

    This Hungary/Orban funding for evil is serious, explains GOP admiration, and last minute political rally from Vance. Interesting that in the rally Vance held, he tried calling Trump live on speakerphone, but it went to voicemail. Trump doesn’t really care about GOP/CPAC/Heritage.


  • Hungarian taxpayer money and Russian oil revenue

    No Russian oil revenue is funding right wing fascism. Hungarian state assets are. Hungarian company is a refinery operation that uses any oil to extort primarily Hungarians for that funding. Deflecting the primary evil of GOP onto foreign actors (that are not Israel maximalists), and fishing for yet another Russia connection, is deflection from GOP evil, and of dysfunction of democracy. US has massive foreign interference operations.


  • “Golden Fleet” battleships named after you-know-who. (Those battleships will cost an astonishing $9bn to $13bn each.)

    50/50 they will cost over $20B a piece (need Qatar air force 1 jet quality VIP room) and still won’t be able to approach within 1000km of Iran coast. Navies no longer project power against modern defense strategies. Only blockades of civilian ships that battleships are too slow for.

    The $200B “Iran defeat recovery bill” that was written a little more than a week after war started is still secret and being worked on. Likely to grow even if war unwinds quickly to cover Iran and allies (not just Israel) reparations to keep them colonized.




  • Dems seem to have sold climate change as a solution for national industry purposes. Doing something is good only if US is the one controlling it, including obtaining political donations to slow it down as much as possible. (AI is new fad for industry championing). Imported renewables and batteries are national security (defined as peoples freedom from extortion) because they are not dependent of fuel, and Hydrogen as a fuel can be made from these forever.

    Renewables also needs more than their import value in local jobs and materials to deploy. Renewables, but only locally produced expensive renewables with tax subsidies for more profit, is not good policy. Boutique energy only. An actual national security item would be shoes, because you need new ones every couple of years. Could makes shoes that cost 3x, and pay $20/hour for job creation, and then offer deficit subsidies to make things appear somewhat affordable, but its a waste of peoples time and money, that stops people pursuing useful work.