Did Elon Musk create an AI program that stole the 2024 presidential election?

MAGA is the political arm of international gangsters

I was sure back in 2016 that tsf was helped by russkie mobsters. Now it seems as though they are successfully co-opting the willing billionaires, most of whom already have sufficient relevant experience in graft and extortion/corruption to change the entire economy and society, if given reign. If you steadfastly love the original concept of our democracy and republic (faulty as it currently is), you must be ready to mobilize yourselves with the like minded into the strongest possible opposition to this sick Project 2025 change from the outset. To not act vigorously against this coming final phase of debasement in end-stage capitalism is to abandon the US ship of state. Although we are riding this badly damaged ship low in the water, repairing the hull and and pumping out the water we've taken on should wait until we stop the pirates now gathering to loot and burn our ship.

Any ravenous plutocrat with undiminished thirst for rapaciously accumulated wealth needs to be banished to an island where they can get help for their demented hoarding dysfunction. It is only We the People that can restore the concept of promoting the general welfare, which is another item this Suckpreme Court has stricken from law. It is still in the Constitution, however, so it is clearly up to all of us non-MAGAs to enforce the automatic disqualification of insurrectionists from government in 14A section 3.

They are coming for free speech and the free press, but I vow to continue seeking the truth, and commit myself to castrating the power that is held by corporate royalists and again ensuring that corporations serve the public interest, as was done in 1781.

I know, good luck with that, right? As much as I can, I will RESIST! Look at yourselves here on DU, your family, friends, good people all over this country, we are worth the fight, which will be for all our survival!!

Dereliction of duty

Republicans who are not interested in information pertaining to the character, ability and performance of nominees to the Cabinet of POTUS are making their talking point that government does not work become manifest, by not doing their duty. They are not serving nor protecting and absolutely not defending The Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. These elected people take an oath and get paid to do this vetting and to hold hearings, they need to bloody well make it happen, or we will all pay hell for this dereliction. It is a violation of the oath they take and they become complicit in an ongoing insurrection.

Where do I join the counter-insurrection?

Iowa native here

Thank you for posting this, Peacetrain. As a long time denizen of JoCo, I know there are a ton of hardworking local Dems that are committed to electing true blue progressives. However, Iowa has changed politically, and much of that is due to the takeover of media outlets by fascist conservatives with their ubiquitous megaphone, AM Hate Radio.

The demographic trends do not bode especially well for Iowa either. Agribusiness conglomerates are responsible for much of the climate-damaging emissions and poor land stewardship of extractive monoculture, so eco-minded ideas are suppressed. This is a low-wage state, and younger Iowans with education and a liberal mindset usually can't wait to gtfo of Iowa. I don't blame them. Try cashing out after a career of working here and moving to a real blue state - you cannot afford it! The educational system is being dismantled by the Republicans, who continually defund whatever good things used to be part and parcel of Iowa's schools.

It is sad to say, but Iowa does not deserve to play an instrumental role in Democratic Party Presidential selection any longer. The same trends that are turning the rest of the US more blue are reversed here in Iowa. Open-mindedness and egalitarianism have been pushed aside in favor of ignorance and nativism. Maybe it is simply the poor water quality and other environmental degradation that is rotting people's brains here, but I suspect is more nefarious. Even in (rural) Johnson County, I have no representation by any Democrat in government, other than the County Supervisors, and this is primarily because of gerrymandering. My new state Representative and State Senator-elects are now Republican, sadly.

I can no longer claim to be proud of being from Iowa. I am uncertain any national party investment in local or statewide races would sufficiently move the needle, but we will likely not find out in my remaining lifetime.