If we can get the votes to remove him for crimes against the People, we should do so regardless of political expedience. If the office of the President is to ever have legitimacy again a criminal cannot be allowed to remain there if removal is an option.
They need a commission to redraw the maps or Texas will flip again in two years. I hope they know that they only have power because gerrymanders are weak to wave elections.
Exit polls show that 50% of all voters think that the US provides too much support to Israel. Schumer is for sure doing that Principal Skinner meme right now.
Florida stayed quite red, the only good news was the the Republican off-year gerrymander of their district map did not win them any seats. The margins were tight but it was the only state the GOP really performed well in. Alabama nothing really changed, the red seats stayed red and the few blue seats stayed blue.
There were some really surprising results in other states though. Texas went from all Republican-held state legislature, governor, Lt. governor and supreme court to Democrats winning or claiming majorities in all those positions. It’s hard to describe how massive this is, because the Republicans have been suppressing metropolitan voters in that state for 30 years, which means that Texas might be a swing state in 2028.
Another one-off result is in Tennessee, which mostly went well for Republicans, but House District 04 in that state is currently too close to call with the Democratic candidate ahead by (currently) 280 votes. Trump won this district two years ago with +24%.
It’s hard to describe how much an an historic wave tonight has been. I’ve not seen a midterm this one-sided since '94, when the GOP flipped 54 seats during Clinton’s administration.
The feds have no power to absolve the company of state crimes. Though I think it’s just littering in this case. The city is within its rights to just take the cameras down.
That series is so irritating. Basically kids haunted by the ghost of Rube Goldberg.
I don’t think a price spike will work either, the market has already priced LLMs at their cap, any higher and it’s cheaper to just hire more humans.
The bubble is growing over time. It will have a more severe impact in two years than it would if it happened tomorrow.
My take away was that the protagonists were too caught up in being the protagonists and the outcome would have been better if they had just done nothing.
Which just isn’t a very good adventure story.
The main issue is that increasingly AI companies are making up a big portion of index funds which are required by law to be purchased by mutual fund managers and thus part of retirement accounts, so value will be evaporated out of retirees accounts. The larger the bubble the more the impact.
Also note that the only reason the US is not in recession right now is due to AI market “growth” so the GDP correction that follows will cause companies who have invested in the technology (not just AI companies, but most of the Fortune 500) to contract. The fallout will be unpredictable, but the most likely scenario is layoffs. Further, the Fed will be reluctant to cut interest rates, because inflation is extremely high due to tariffs, so the one lever the government has to stave off the recession has been compromised by the current administration. So the recession will be deeper and worse with a longer recovery than it would otherwise have.
So why care? Because grandma’s retirement will disappear, a bunch of people will be laid off and the levers available to mitigate the impact have already been pulled. Oh and inflation will get worse when our government bails out AI tech bros to the tune of $1T.
While I am not cheering for the bubble to pop, the longer it goes on the worse it will be so the sooner it happens the better.
I shat myself on purpose!
Ok, whatever, bye.