We need paper ballots, same day counting. Very limited absentee mail-in ballots, must be received & recorded as received by end of election working day, counted then.

2020 was rigged, stolen; yet now I’m glad for VP Vance & MAGA Reps, rather than Mitch GOPe Reps. Trump so strong many illegals are being deported.

I don’t know. I cannot know as the security of the data was utterly compromised.

If the LeftProgs really want us proles to believe their elections express our ‘democratic’ preferences then they need to ensure that the elections can be trusted.

And no, it is not racist or misogynist or whateverist to distrust the ‘authorities’.

That’s a prime group for two things: old enough to be getting started on careers and families and having learned during Biden’s term that the Democrats are Not Their Friends; young enough that they don’t have any emotional or electoral connection to the geriatric Old Guard running for office. A big clue to that change is how Obama’s rebuke to the bros for not supporting Harris got zip traction.

The interesting thing about these demographic blocs is that they keep changing their actual membership over time: the young men who were 27-30 in 2020 are now in the “over 30” block, and there are 4 years worth of new young men among the voters.

Sometimes I think there might be some value to a longitudinal poll of the different cohorts. IOW: for the specific voters in that four-year chunk, how many changed their voting from one party to the other? That would measure the change we’re interested in, regarding how many Democrats have gotten the message about their party’s lack of interest in them, as discussed on the Open Thread.

“White House reporters went from covering an ‘invisible president’ Biden to ‘omnipresent’ Trump…”—
https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-reporters-went-from-covering-invisible-president-biden-omnipresent-trump-politico
Key jokes:
‘…Trump’s huge media presence is a change compared to the more muted Biden years…

‘…One reporter referred to Trump’s pressers as a “free-for-all” for journalists after “four years of begging for access to the more cloistered Biden.”…

‘…One downside the article considered, however, was whether constant access to Trump and his thoughts would almost be “too much for the media and public to absorb.”….’

Heh, “muted”, “more cloistered”…and all that “journalistic” concern for “the public”.

To paraphrase, Still jokers after all these months…

Color me nauseated….

What, no YouTube link to Carly Simon’s “Anticipation”?? 🙂

What a bunch of wusses. Why didn’t they man up and act like the free enterprise believers they claim to be now? Eleven years of letting commie activists work for them? Color me disgusted.

Andreessen: By 2013, the median newly arrived Harvard kid was like: “[expletive] it. We’re burning the system down. You are all evil. White people are evil. All men are evil. Capitalism is evil. Tech is evil.”

They’re professional activists in their own minds, first and foremost. And it just turns out the way to exercise professional activism right now, most effectively, is to go and destroy a company from the inside.
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The four years of Biden are not forever. (They just felt like it.)

According to exit polls, young men under 30 supported Donald Trump by a 14-point margin, a substantial change from the 2020 election, where Joe Biden held a 15-point advantage in this demographic.

I suspect the next gen of tech workers won’t be anti-capitalist, woke activists. I don’t believe tech CEOs ever were; they just had to play along.

The times, they are a-changin’.

https://antidem.wordpress.com/2021/05/31/electric-requiem/

Hubert:

Thanks for the link. I too was there and I do miss that glorious time:
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Those were the days, my friend
We thought they’d never end

–Mary Hopkins, “Those Were The Days (Remastered)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXc5Oe_kj8k
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However, as Lee Felsenstein, an original member of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club and the designer of the Osborne 1 (the first barely portable computer) used to say at Odd Sundays, an ad hoc Whole Earth gathering I attended:
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These are the good old days.
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Words I live by.

When Trump says this is the start of a Golden Age, I’m willing to believe him and put my hacker shoulder to the wheel.

I’m working with AI to build my own language learning app.

Netscape Navigator was the commercial successor to Mosaic. It was a joint venture between Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Clark and Andreessen, who had just graduated from UIUC and moved to California. Netscape rapidly overtook Mosaic in popularity; we started using it in my office at UIUC in 1994-1995.

Those were heady and hopeful days–just writing about them here makes me remember how it was.

Alas, nothing gold can stay. This 2021 post–“Requiem for an Electric Dream”–from an apparently dormant blog captures the promise of those early years in Silicon Valley and how it all eventually went sour:

https://antidem.wordpress.com/2021/05/31/electric-requiem/

The author–“AntiDem”–made some of the same points Andreessen makes in his interviews with Robinson and Douthat. Among our commenters, I believe Huxley was there (in what AntiDem calls “the old Silicon Valley”) around the same time.