Hurricane Milton

[Will Hunting]

As for Maryland. It's a pretty good map and at least the West Panhandle finally gets representation. It looks like you cracked Baltimore City though, which is odd because it has slightly less than a district in population and is a COI in of itself.

VRA reasons (you need two majority black seats in Maryland, plus let's not kid ourselves the white people in Baltimore City don't want to be covered by some 75 year black caucus hack who only cares about using his congressional staffer budget to pay his shawty ) and you need to do it to make MD-3 contiguous.

I agree Alsobrooks is going to win but I don't believe by a safe margin. He'll win Anne Arundel, make Howard close and cut into Montgomery whites but it won't be enough. Alsobrooks "looks" like Kamala so she'll win all of Kamala's black voters and MD is a very black heavy state.

The GOP would be stupid to spend money on Fischer's race because it's going to be a Mike Lee 2022 redux. Plus, you've also got not only the POTUS but also Pete Ricketts on the ballot, I can't see Fischer underperforming Ricketts on the same ballot by much. Split ticketing post Trump era polarization in federal elections is massively overrated.

Lee's performance was pathetic though. Running McMuffin as an independent clearly led to a lot of ticket splitting. Deb Fischer is also the quintessential do nothing senator

Obviously I'm not saying Osborn is gonna win, but clearing the field and running someone as an independent is clearly a strategy that's going to lead to more ticket splitting than running a Dem would. In 2014 Greg Orman did very well as an indy running against Pat Roberts in Kansas and McMuffin also objectively did well. We'll see how Osborn does this year. IMO Rs and Ds should both start doing this in states that aren't safe D or safe R but states they regularly lose by 5-10%.

[Ef-man]

Grifters gonna grift

Elon Musk — who has $260 billion — will be charging Helene victims $400 for internet service

Billionaire Elon Musk – the richest man in the world — recently announced Hurricane Helene victims would get free internet service through his company Starlink. But there's one major catch: Come November, they'll have to pay.

Tech publication the Register reported Tuesday that Starlink's offer of free satellite-powered internet service to areas impacted by Helene has a hefty price tag. While the normal residential subscription of $120/month has been waived for the first 30 days of service, anyone in the affected area hoping to use Starlink to get online and connect with resources will still have to pay for the hardware to actually set up an internet connection. When taking into account the cost of shipping along with taxes, hurricane victims can expect to pay roughly $400.

[Will Hunting]

Grifters gonna grift

Elon Musk — who has $260 billion — will be charging Helene victims $400 for internet service

Billionaire Elon Musk – the richest man in the world — recently announced Hurricane Helene victims would get free internet service through his company Starlink. But there's one major catch: Come November, they'll have to pay.

Tech publication the Register reported Tuesday that Starlink's offer of free satellite-powered internet service to areas impacted by Helene has a hefty price tag. While the normal residential subscription of $120/month has been waived for the first 30 days of service, anyone in the affected area hoping to use Starlink to get online and connect with resources will still have to pay for the hardware to actually set up an internet connection. When taking into account the cost of shipping along with taxes, hurricane victims can expect to pay roughly $400.

do you have a link?

[Will Hunting]

Charles Koch or someone else needs to sit musk down and explain that billionaire sociopaths are supposed to help republicans win behind the scenes with financing and dark money PACs with folksy names like “Americans for prescription drug pricing freedom.” They’re not supposed to tweet 50 times a day about how they as a billionaire oligarch really relate to the Republican Party more than democrats.

[ChumpDumper]

do you have a link?

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/...ricane_helene/

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

[Blake]

Lol the ?

[Ef-man]

Another conspiracy for ST crazies: "MJT" is top of this topic as she is the one who revealed to the world the existence of Jew Space Lasers.

Wake up sheeple, the truth is out there, this is not a conspiracy, "Q" warned us about this and hillary's children eating cabal, am not hiding in korea, why do you not listen to me, answer me, answer me, answer me!!!

[Leetonidas]

This is so ing stupid. Can't wait until her and the rest of her maga minions are a thing of the past

[pgardn]

Charles Koch or someone else needs to sit musk down and explain that billionaire sociopaths are supposed to help republicans win behind the scenes with financing and dark money PACs with folksy names like “Americans for prescription drug pricing freedom.” They’re not supposed to tweet 50 times a day about how they as a billionaire oligarch really relate to the Republican Party more than democrats.

Good luck with that.
Same with Trump shutting his mouth.

[baseline bum]

This is so ing stupid. Can't wait until her and the rest of her maga minions are a thing of the past

She's not stupid, she's evil. She doesn't believe the she says. White supremacy isn't going anywhere in the US, there will be more of her to replace her in the future.

[pgardn]

Im not sure what she is getting at?
She is worried the government will try to control weather?
We already have on smaller scales so what is the purpose of this question?
If we could disperse Milton and get rain to areas that badly need it we would not carry it out? Too much government control? I dont get it...

[pgardn]

She's not stupid, she's evil. She doesn't believe the she says.

Could you explain the question? for why?

[baseline bum]

Could you explain the question? for why?

I don't get what you're asking. She's a university educated woman knowing wild conspiracy theories drive turnout among the uneducated while the GOP voters in the top 10% income bracket could give a as long as they get their tax cut and/or brown people get punished.

[pgardn]

I don't get what you're asking. She's a university educated woman knowing wild conspiracy theories drive turnout among the uneducated while the GOP voters in the top 10% income bracket could give a as long as they get their tax cut and/or brown people get punished.

Is this question involving a conspiracy theory? And if so what?

[ChumpDumper]

She's not stupid, she's evil. She doesn't believe the she says. White supremacy isn't going anywhere in the US, there will be more of her to replace her in the future.

https://x.com/ItWasNotRigged/status/1844009348252782881

[Blake]

Yah, the fear mongering is real. And we're all paying for it.

But it's been that way since the dawn of time

[Joseph Kony]

Yep, the entire republican platform is based on fear mongering. which is funny, considering this is the same group of morons that were crying about wearing masks and didn't care when millions of people were dying and told us to quit living in fear, yet this is the same group of people that are terrified of immigrants, have to carry guns everywhere to feel safe, have leaders that think they cant get groceries without getting raped or shot, think their pets are being eaten, etc. just a bunch of sniveling pussies imho

[Spurminator]

Yep, the entire republican platform is based on fear mongering. which is funny, considering this is the same group of morons that were crying about wearing masks and didn't care when millions of people were dying and told us to quit living in fear, yet this is the same group of people that are terrified of immigrants, have to carry guns everywhere to feel safe, have leaders that think they cant get groceries without getting raped or shot, think their pets are being eaten, etc. just a bunch of sniveling pussies imho

I laugh every time I see one of their "NO FEAR" Trump yard signs. Like sure buddy, you're so brave, tell me again how tranny prisoners are coming for your children.

[Thanos]

But why would “they” destroy their own retirement community. Also wouldn’t the space lasers be more efficient?

[Winehole23]

https://x.com/hoofnmane/status/1844030939082686595

[Millennial_Messiah]

VRA reasons (you need two majority black seats in Maryland, plus let's not kid ourselves the white people in Baltimore City don't want to be covered by some 75 year black caucus hack who only cares about using his congressional staffer budget to pay his shawty ) and you need to do it to make MD-3 contiguous.

Yeah but my map was both contiguous and had not just two but three black majority districts out of 8 total, which is fair because MD is a black heavy state and concentrated (unlike those stupid snake districts in the south which should be taken out of VRA section 2 by SCOTUS, but the black concentration COIs should indeed be protected and not cracked, while the narrow black belts spread west to east across the state need not) and my MD-07 district (Baltimore City plus a couple of the blackest surrounding precincts) is indeed black majority.

Lee's performance was pathetic though. Running McMuffin as an independent clearly led to a lot of ticket splitting. Deb Fischer is also the quintessential do nothing senator

Obviously I'm not saying Osborn is gonna win, but clearing the field and running someone as an independent is clearly a strategy that's going to lead to more ticket splitting than running a Dem would. In 2014 Greg Orman did very well as an indy running against Pat Roberts in Kansas and McMuffin also objectively did well. We'll see how Osborn does this year. IMO Rs and Ds should both start doing this in states that aren't safe D or safe R but states they regularly lose by 5-10%.

I agree with all this except for the fact that Trump and Ricketts are both on the ballot in this specific case. In most cases, in midterm years where you're not running with a concurrent special senate election this would definitely apply (unless somehow you can put up 2 similar independent candidates that are strong, but that's hard to find). But in this case the GOP doesn't need to spend because Trump and Ricketts will carry Fischer to a >R+15% win.

[z0sa]

https://x.com/hoofnmane/status/1844030939082686595

[Millennial_Messiah]

Will Hunting here's a few blue pipe dream maps I made a few weeks ago that are clean, evenly distributed and legal, let me know what you think. Keep in mind Dems have governorship of all these states: