as alive as you need me to be
This website has existed and been up for the better part of a decade now.
If you were unaware of this, then uh, you are not immune to propoganda.
This has all been known for years, publically available for years, its just that right wingers invented an entirely fake media environment and narrative universe all built on denying every single well documented connection between Trump and Epstein.
Also, technically... this is a contact book, an address book.
It doesn't 100% mean everyone in it went to pedo island, went on the pedo plane... but its a very obvious starting point to connect to other more specific kinds of evidence.
Specific evidence that obviously exists, becauss it was used and cross referenced in Ghislaine's trial... but most of that evidence was never released to the public.
This unredacted copy of the contact list was also not supposed to be released to the public in an unredacted form... but someone leaked it, and someone (else? presumably?) made this website.
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Oh yeah, I remember.
I also remember DOGE accessing and likely comprimising SIPRnet...
While I didn't actually say that, yeah, I would agree the Panama Papers are probably more important, and yeah there's probably worse shit going on.
Hell, personally I'm still convinced the CIA killed Kennedy, one could argue thats uh... rather important.
Technically yes, indignant is more accurate...
But that does also kind of loop back into being an incompetent cover up... if one assumes the concept of a cover up is to actually make the entire issue just go away.
And... I do actually disagree that none of the magats will snap out of it.
Its actually causing quite a lot of chaos and anger.
Will all of them suddenly realize they've been duped, and then magically become better people?
No.
But ... this whole Epstein thing, its a pretty big fucking deal to a lot of the people that got on board with Trump largely due to QAnonsense conspiracy theories...
Its now actually breaking the cognitive dissonance of a lot of them, who've been waiting for Trump to finally rout the Deep State of pedos... who are now either realizing that Trump just is another powerful pedo, or at least covering up on their behalf.
https://epsteinsblackbook.com/names/donald-trump
Donald Trump is listed in Epstein's black book on page 80.
Epstein recorded 10 phone numbers and 2 addresses under this name.
The main address for this entry is in New York, US
Uh, erhrm, yep, nope, just a coincidence, or something.
Also, fuck you, shut up, stop asking about it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dwAGUbpHPBY
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This is the most incompetent cover up of all time.
There is a mountain of evidence, and indeed literal legal rulings pointing toward Trump being a serial rapist, that he'd walk in on 15 yo girls in the changing rooms for Miss America paegants, that he was very good friends with Epstein for over a decade...
The first time him and Melania had sex was on the Lolita Express, on Epstein's jet.
Trump is so fucking extremely obviously in the Epstein files that, after this, this fucking farce of 180 about face, I am now inclined to believe that Trump is the one who ordered Epstein be killed.
Welp, looks like Visser 3 is real.
... Time to bust out the old Hork-Bajir morph.
I mean, if you keep nearly or actually ODing on Ivermectin, you'll shit your guts out, could lose weight that way, probably cheaper.
... probably a lot more unsafe, there's a lot more OD sideeffects than diarrhea... but... cheaper!
Anywhere in MA I can rent a studio apt for ~$700 a month?
Probably not lol, I'm on SSDI, but an actual proper city/town sounds great!
I agree with your specification.
The kind if mixed use, areas that are walkable, have seating, various kinds of shops... usually only in a few districts of a few fairly large towns or large cities.
There is seating, sometimes, in like... restaurants in basically a strip mall type set up... but they're like islands, surrounded by acres of parking lots.
All the way up and down the West Coast, multiple times, over the course of more than 2 decades of being driving age... from Bellingham WA down to LA / San Diego... many, many places in between... also many places all the way out to South Dakota via I 90.
If I gave you a full list, I'd have to rewrite Johnny Cash's "I've been everywhere"... I've actually been to a good number of places in the original lyrics.
Basically yes.
We don't do that in the US anywhere near as much.
Maybe a park will have a table and bench, maybe some certain restaurants in certain parts of certain cities will have them.
But its much, much less common, as our society is designed to be unwalkable, designed for cars and parking lots and air conditioning.
So basically you don't commonly use loose as a verb, I do, and always have, and this makes apparently me a sealion.
Dialects exist within English.
You are evidently not American, as in USAmerican.
I am.
Where I come from, using loose as a verb is fairly common.
Stop being an intolerant ass.
My guess is 30 to 40 % Reps leave, 5 to 15 % Dems leave, and a whole bunch of 'independents' join as well, various libertarians and crypto/techbro type people.
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Yay, I don't have to do
anytoo much math, they actually did most of the math.Apologies for shitty cell phone image, here's the whole poll (3rd link in the article, by the way):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R4pZVo0ZnrQyElZQzdNtt7CQ1zwTypuS/view
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So, ballparking a 50/50 male female split:
Likely to Join Elon's Party:
Republicans
Very likely: 23 + 14 / 2 = 18.5%
Somewhat likely: 34 + 29 / 2 = 31.5%
Not likely: 31 + 30 / 2 = 30.5%
Independents
Very likely: 18 + 11 / 2 = 14.5%
Somewhat likely: 29 + 26 / 2 = 27.5%
Not likely: 35 + 36 / 2 = 15.5%
Democrats
Very likely: 7 + 5 / 2 = 6%
Somewhat likely: 15 + 16 / 2 = 15.5%
Not likely: 54 + 48 / 2 = 51%
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So, if you say half of the 'somewhat likely's actually go for it, then you get this:
Republicans who join Elon Party: 34.25%
Independents who join Elon Party: 28.25%
Democrats who join Elon Party: 13.75%
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So yep, my ballpark guess was indeed in the correct ballpark.
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Worth mentioning:
There are more Dem voters, than Republicans.
But there are also more independents than either.
Roughly 32% Reps, 33% Dems, 35% Indp.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/the-partisanship-and-ideology-of-american-voters/
So, throw that in with those previous calcs, and you end up with:
Reps: ~21%
Dems: ~28.5%
Elons: ~25.5%
Indps: ~25%
or, normalized to remove remaining Indps:
Reps: 28%, Dems: 38%, Elons: 34%
So... theoretically, the Dems are still the largest, Elon is now second behind them, and the Reps are now a third party, less popular than having no solid political affiliation.
... if this actually happened, which it could, Elon has enough money to single handedly start a party, though he'd have to find some actually competent people to... do anything other than spend money...
I think you end up with a good number of corpo Dems leaving the Dems, so the Dems now have an easier time shifting to the left.
The Reps lose 1/3 of their voters, and basically just become a cult of idiot racist nazis, paleocons, theocrats, MAGA nutjobs.
Elon party ... basically becomes the 'centrist'/libertarian/ancap/corpo party.
... and everyone would now have to figure out how to do politics in a much more complex kind of paradigm.
I... don't think a roughly even balanced 3 party system has ever existed in US history with any kind of stability, that endured more than one or two Presidential elections, 8 years.
Two roughly approximate examples:
The Civil War.
Teddy Roosevelt going Bull Moose Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_eras_of_the_United_States
But uh yeah, not stable.
And these numbers are close enough that a 3 party system might not implode quickly... or it also could.
Especially if the President just gets to remain as functionally a dictator as the last months and years Supreme Court rulings have made him.
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Yes, thats the 'independent voter' cohort the Dems have spent 20+ years making concessions to.
They also grew this cohort by being very largely ineffectual, and allowing education, wealth gap, general quality of life... to all get much worse, such that more people are now more stupid, angry and exhausted.
Ok then, if you're unwilling to be just ever so slighlty more flexible with idioms and general examples of the flexibility of loose in English, and a brief overview of the etymology of the evolution of 'loose'...
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Loose is a verb, in addition to being an adjective.
Loosing is when that verb is formulated into the present tense.
Loosing as a verb has multiple meanings, including:
- Expelling something away from you physically.
The archer is loosing an arrow.
- Letting something escape from you, or move away from you, either temporarily or permanently.
Tom is loosing his dog.
- Unleashing something from within you, outward, often speech or emotions, but it could be something physically tangible.
Shush! Anna is loosing her real feelings on John right now.
- Allowing something to affect the world in a broader sense, scope, or scale.
ChatGPT is loosing upon the world a dark age of widespread illiteracy.
- Making a connection, a binding, a tether, etc, constrain something in a less restrictive manner.
By loosing the knot around the cleat, I am loosing the boat from the dock, but only slightly.
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I really don't see how it is really that much of a stretch to take some of these uses of 'loosing' as a verb, and see that either one, or multiple simultaneous of these definitions, and interpret the phrase 'loosing my social connections' into something that essentially means... 'letting them slip away'.
I do not really think it is thus 'grammatically incorrect'.
I will give you that usage of loose or loosing as a verb is nowadays fairly uncommon, to the point of possibly being considered archaic...
But then if that is the case, as it is with many words and phrases from 100+ years ago or w/e...
...well then you'd be doing a bit of extra interpretive work anyway, not really that distinct from just being a bit more idiomatically flexible with the range of current meanings of 'loose/loosing.'
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Perhaps I am simply older than you, and/or have read more older books, watched older visual/audio media where 'loose' is more commonly used as a verb.
I am not trolling.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/loose
Go down to the verb section.
Loose is both a verb, and an adjective, and nothing I have said is incorrect.
You can very much 'loose' a friend, as in... to project them away from you, or put more distance or slack into the proverbial rope that connects you two together.
Sure, probably OP made a spelling mistake, but the comment I am responding to is saying that the usage is more or less entirely unjustifiable.
It isn't.
You can loose, or loosen a knot, or lasso, or if you are rather good with ropes nets and knots, you can actually do that to an entire net, give it more or less slack, grid density.
I guess its just become far less common for people to have practical, hands on experience with knots and ropes... its pretty important if you want to moor a boat to a dock, or make your own fishing net as humans have done for millenia...
Same goes for knitting, weaving, making clothes and garments of all kinds.
Ever loosened a waistband, or tightened one?
Less and less people have actual hands on experience with any of this, so I guess the metaophors/analogies aren't as obvious anymore.
Heck, loose, as a verb, just like that, also basically means 'to throw' or 'to project away from you'.
You loose an arrow, or a javelin.
You let loose a hail of bullets, ie, throw them downrange, away from you.
You loose a dog, to set it free, or perhaps to go run off and chase/attack something.
Which is differenrt from losing a dog, which is when it fails to return from you loosing it.
A compelling argument.
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