I just received this email. How would any financial contribution help the GOP win an election, on election day? It's all just a grift. #politics

The 3 Big Questions I Still Have About Election Day, by Nate Silver #politics https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-3-big-questions-i-still-have-about-election-day/

Essentially, Trump and DeSantis are fighting over who is the true Barabbas.

'In a bizarre turn, the Times also reports that Trump’s “DeSanctimonious” barb was an angry reaction to a new ad from DeSantis, which presents the Florida governor as a divinely anointed figure.

“On the eighth day,” DeSantis’s ad intones, “God looked down on his planned paradise and said: ‘I need a protector.’ So God made a fighter.”'

The Trump-DeSantis feud just got worse. A hidden factor is driving it. #politics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/07/donald-trump-ron-desantis-feud-christian-nationalism/

"In a long-vanished century, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the rich “are different from you and me,” but the new class of FU rich are something else altogether. They live in self-created bubbles of reinforcement that let them live lives of self-fondling solipsism.

This is their precious. But marinating in the power, celebrity, and lulz long enough turns the oligarchs into Gollums, like the one who exposed himself so fabulously and relentlessly this week."

Sykes: "Confusing entertainment with substance, we turned celebrities into senators, and reality tv stars into presidents; millions of Americans think that an over-leveraged performative asshole has somehow cracked the code of... well, pretty much everything.

Our starf**king culture simply can’t get enough of starf**king someone who is not just famous, but rich beyond the dreams of avarice. And has 114 million followers on Twitter."

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Elon Musk, Savant Idiot? by SykesCharlie https://open.substack.com/pub/morningshots/p/elon-musk-savant-idiot

Wordle 507 3/6*

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The Titans played a hell of a game, but the Chiefs were better.

And the game is headed to OT.

Mahomes’s running style is unique. He’s not really fast and certainly isn’t physical. Most of the time when he runs, he looks tentative. Yet he usually gains yards. Sometimes a lot. Great situational awareness.

Mahomes ties the game. The Titans strategy of taking away his receivers failed.