...what would be different if Kamala got the 3am ballot dumps necessary to win?
Name two major things based on historical parallels.
Based on 2020 history, the GOP would complain but do nothing of substance.
Based on their agenda going back 50 years, the Dems first major piece of legislation sponsored would be an amnesty bill for illegals, followed on by an Medicare of All.
I recently had a debate with a way more skeptical conspiracy theorist, and he's telling me Trump is a body double as often as Biden. Advanced CIA latex masks, that sort of thing.
I'm looking for historical examples, worldwide.
Make a prediction, who is replaced first?
Justice Thomas is 76 years old is my bet. Two years ago, he spent a week in the hospital with an internal infection. But he waits until after he writes a decision in 2025 ruling assault weapon bans unconstitutional and the shit talks Biden for revenge from the confirmation hearings back in the 1990s.
Justice Alito also turns 75 in April.
There there is Chief Justice Roberts who turns 70 in January.
Or maybe Sotomayor, the "wise Latina" who has a secret illness on top of Type 1 Diabetes and who is 70 this year. There are a lot of calls for her to snap retire right now so that a Democratic Senate and president can replace her.
She's not articulate enough to get a spot on MSNBC or her own podcast. She won't run for office again, Trump beat her in a landslide.
There will be a ghost-written book, of course, and every blue haired she-vixen in every library across the land will buy two copies and the "advance" will be huge.
My bet is head of some 501c3 where they can trot her out once and awhile so she feels important, but this happens less and less and she gets older and uglier (it happens to everyone, Father Time is undefeated). They give her a cushy 6 figure salary, enough to keep her quiet from spilling the beans on people.
My take is that it won't, because it's been adopted by forces like Blackrock.
Yea yea, virtually every criticism of crypto you still have applies, such as its origin and how it will be used to usher in CBDCs, etc. etc.
But your "it's going to zero" take is wrong, unless, I suppose, the whole international banking system collapses or the power goes out with no hope of repair. In either case, we have bigger problems to worry about, and you won't be jumping on here to say "see, I told you so."
EDIT: I'm still waiting on a prediction of when it's going to zero. Any takers?
In 1994, if you had said that CNN and cable news would be upstaged and made mostly irrelevant by an alternate form of "talk radio" called podcasts (which didn't exist in 1995), people would call you a fool. Yet here we are in 2024.
In 1994 there are a dozen plus other things that if you compare then to now, show a "sea change". There are plenty. Name a few in your head, even if you don't reply.
The people who say "nothing ever happens" don't have the level of self refection to realize that something is ALWAYS happening. They are unable to alter there perspective. What they learned in 1994 must remain true in 2024 or it puts their very concept of "self" at risk. This is why scientific progress happens one funeral at a time.
Most people quote one dead economist or another, and it's not an original thought.
So I was listening to this catchy has hell song the other day: Willow Smith - Wait a Minute (the 6th dimension song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4RRPY32RY
And I said to myself, "Just what is the 6th dimension?"
If you've ever wondered what is past the 4th dimension (time) - in short, it's alternate realities.
Was FDR a man who lied? Who made mistakes? Who fucked up and didn't admit it?
Answer honestly.
What makes you think that this quote, then, is truthful? "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bonus points if you can get the meta problem with that quote.