Yes we will have some count wranglings and some may take days to a month to resolve. I doubt any can change the general picture of the outcome.
Since I see the democrats making a big sweep, you are going to have a lot of republicans who are going out on their ass, you can watch for these things…
Many lobbyist see this lame duck of congress as the last opportunity to get some rule changes and they are willing to pay well for it as compared to waiting 6+ likely years.
The Trump admin is still wanting to delay anything with the Epstein files, but they may not have to pay as it is likely they have compromat on many of these public officials and that has been controlling them all this time. So, I guess it depends on if any have something to hide legally or otherwise. Many may be retiring from politics and many will be taking prominent positions working for the corporate world that interfaces with the government.(a inside man who knows how the gears turn and which gears to grease and how).
The question becomes, does enough of them hold grudges against the admin that are deep enough to end Trump before they leave ? It could happen.
If they want any political credibility in politics going forward, they will do something as the wind on this is very strong and not going away anytime soon.
Those that have a criminal involvement in things like Epstein, may find a pardon being waved around but only if they pass things for the admin. They have nothing to look forward to.
At the same time, a large effort to preserve records by others. Lots of scrambling going on that may not be so visible.
But this is a point where we potentially can get a lot of bad legislation in favor of large private interest. Keep that in mind. It’s a great money making opportunity for those on the way out, and it looks like there will be many. They will not be around to be accountable for their actions and you will forget what they did when they show up on a ballot at a later time.
Keep the above in mind as you watch it play out and connect the dots as needed. Your voice may be required again.
Give the dem’s a year to show something and hold their feet to the fire as well. But keep in mind, it can take 6+ years to unwind all of this and legislate, so that much of it can not happen again. The dem’s will not have a ‘veto proof’ majority so they are limited to what they can do unless they can muster one with the republicans. And that could be the case, but we have to wait and see what political winds blow. It may take action from you to push things over that edge to get what ‘you’ deserve.
I can say that I completely ignore ‘name calling’ adds & false facts. I actually hold it against the perpetrator of them. Tell me something of substance to be considered. That is what I look for.
Anything less than what a candidate will do is political opinion vaporware. I don’t need my opinion changed, I need my intellect feed. Think about that 2 years from now. You will need it.
Elon Musk, tired of regulation he could not buy, moved his biz to Texas where they were more excepting to the idea of letting him do whatever he wants.
He spends Billions of dollars trying to keep Republicans in charge, but for what reason ?
He has been under many (11) investigations before Trump took office and they suddenly disappeared. As he managed to get everybody’s Social Security info to load up in his AI data center through DOGE he headed up as a ‘unofficial’ appointment (no congressional authority or appointment or authorization)
So, now he sits in Texas where all of his money may not save him from the blue wave about to consume Texas as well. One Senate seat and likely the Governor as well, not to mention a bunch of state house/senate seats down ballot.
I guess it can be said you can run but not hide. Corruption lens will find you no matter how much money you throw at it.
Politicians need to sell you a plan, not an idea for stating what they do not like.
Saying something you might agree with but is no plan has no future for you except disappointment. Which is how we got here.
Don’t tell me the problems, I feel the problems, tell me your solutions and with details.
o matter how many billions you spend repeating the same lies or distractions, it actually goes against you !
What does it say in your KGB handbook Elon ? Just what is to happen now ?
You are going to get at least some of what has been coming to ya !
It might be safe to say that Ukraine hits to Yandex data centers did not hit the heart of Russian BOTs but perhaps just the “EYES” of the BOTs, thereby ‘blinding’ them.
Yandex started out and always has been a search engine. Crawling the web to index content.
Once indexed, you know the contents of a post or page on any web network.
So, if the BOT NETWORK does not know a targeted post or content exists, how can it respond ? And that is a undeniable result no matter the cause.
There seems to be a pause in Ukraine’s targeting of these data centers and I can only guess western intel is gathering data as to the structure of the operation.
Obviously, the strikes of the first 3 of the 9 known Yandex data centers, has removed the service of some online banking / payment systems and by itself has created much discontent within the population.
So, no matter what anyone says, nobody knows for sure if the heart of the BOT operation was actually taken out for sure. But the results do not lie. It has effected their operation.
And as I write this, a new strike by Ukraine to Russia in what initially looked like a power infrastructure strike might have actually been a new data center. Perhaps they are both true. The data center and the station that powers it. Time will tell but it looks like the data center was a target.
Lots of new questions as to how much Yandex was a cover for Russian intel gathering or just processing operations. This could effect the intel they share with someone like Iran. All of this could be true and unlikely most of it is false.
My question is, with current sanctions, can Russia rebuild these servers or would they even do that in Russia, preferring to do so in Belarus or a controlled nation that is not under sanctions and could not be stuck by Ukraine ?
Enjoy the online ‘PEACE’ while it lasts.
In the western world, people who advertise based on activity, now realize they have been bamboozled by the traffic generated by ‘non-human’ content. And Elon Musk seems to have promoted this whole thing to save his Twitter and promote his own agenda online. Funny he lost so many likes/replies to his posts on his own platform. Not so many real people actually following him.
Some of this reminds me of just a latter version of an old method used by porn peddlers online who were getting traffic to their sites using malware as they were getting paid by the ‘impression’ or page hit displaying their add.
Now they have a marker as to what the real traffic might be and change their spending patterns. No wonder Musk is mad about the strikes saying “Ukraine has gone to far”. And Musk now has a lot to answer for with his cozy relationship with Putin and promoting Pro-Russian leaders and content in Europe. I can see the EU pinching him and his Spacex, Tesla and StarLink where he can not be trusted anymore and will promote their own versions of this entities. Musk may not be a sound investment going forward. We will see.
You should have herd by now that Ukraine has been striking Russian data centers as a retaliation for Russia striking Ukrainian data centers.
Well, this got more than they bargained for, or perhaps Ukraine knew exactly what they were doing with the help of E.U. intel.
We may never know but the data centers hit in Russia were like no other.
They were owned and or run by Yandex, which started out by being the Russian version of Google, but became much much more as it became the heart of many Russian operations by the government and part of that has been in full display for over a decade now in the form of sowing disinformation and discontent in the populations, first in Europe and then in the US after providing proof of concept. I always wondered where the bot phams were located in Russia, and here they were in plain sight. In the early 2000’s, I had only noticed that a lot of web hacking seemed to originate from Yandex servers. But this was later turned on it’s head once they learned how to spoof IP addresses and appear to come from anywhere in the world through various methods still in use today. And that is how a bot person can appear like a legit person on social media. I’m sure Facebook and Elon Musk’s Twitter are taking a traffic hit from this, costing them ‘MONEY” from advertisers. And it was all fake. Can you see a re-calibration on monetization in the future ? Just a bit of Justus since they did nothing about trimming a known bad commodity. They had no incentive to do so. But now ? Public pressure may help.
“BOTS” are a automated version of computer generated people that simulate a real person with real opinions shaped by the creator. And they have been everywhere.
I happen to do a lot of YouTube searches and I have to tell ya, I have seen a lot of news disappear entirely from sources that seemed to be generated by India but were obviously taking the side of Russia in it’s war with Ukraine and that would not be all. Just the first most pronounced visual effect I noticed from the 3rd Yandex data center strike. And I have no use for social media to begin with and don’t use it with exception to looking at trends to see what the ‘bots’ are promoting. Hence someone is trying to shape public opinion.
So, as this is early in this story, perhaps you will as well notice people you may have followed or just noticed in social media suddenly disappear ? They were not real people to begin with. They were designed to strike a nerve in favor of something you dislike and begin leading you in a journey a inch at a time to shape your opinion to what they desire or to just keep you fighting as a distraction to ignore larger issues and mask them.
If you look back, I warned of this many many years ago right here in these posts. But even as I spoke on it publicly, nobody actually believed in what I was warning of as they don’t see how it is possible and don’t understand the methods. It comes down to one phrase I have used repeatedly.
Human behavior is a finite science and it is going to be exploited at the speed of light with a computer. And yes, you are a player.
So much for re-hashing that old stuff…. again. But perhaps now you better understand what these data pharms are doing compiling your profile. Bought sold and traded. And I know after having many years experience in trying to explain this, you don’t think you are susceptible to it… NOT ME ! ? And I find that funny. For some time even I found myself being lead into some of these rabbit holes. Both from a consumer selling technique and political selling for a idea. But I, unlike most, have limited my exposure to what those data phams have been collecting for nearly 3 decades. Even when that costs me money in the near term. While not 100%, I do not have the profile of most Americans. It’s just not as complete and while I will not go into detail on how I stopped or slow it, I also provide dis-information on occasion to confuse computer algorithms in looking at my profile. Is it enough ? I don’t know but it’s all I have to what may be hundreds if not thousands of unknown uses yet.
If you don’t believe any of it, just make a mental note and you will start to notice just how true this is over time.
No word yet after all this disappearing bot traffic, just when it may come back online. And I am sure Europe’s intel chiefs and gathering info that might be shared with Ukraine since they have noticed quite quickly a lowering of discontent in social media in their respective countries that was BOT generated. So just maybe there is some benefit the rest of the world gets from this war. An end to the Russian BOTs. I can only hope that Ukraine is able to target this whenever it is rebuilt. And I am sure it will be. There are 3 Yandex data centers hit and 6 to go and there are likely many that are not under the roof of Yandex.
I am quite certain this will not be the last post on this subject as it’s public awareness is just now starting to unfold. GREAT ! And I seem to post on it once or twice a year.
How Much Does Your Opinion Cost Texas ?
Just How Much Does Your Opinion Cost In Texas ? Actually, I don’t care. It is your opinion and you are free to sell it to anyone you like.
But since when are you willing to sell your vote to a rich immigrant ? Does it come with a kiss ? A cheesecake ? what ?
Not your grandfathers Texas.