Hear me. Politics is not a morality contest & Democrats often reduce politics to a never ending competition in a self righteous morality Olympics. Their allegiance to morality outweighs their allegiance to the public good. Morality & the public good are NOT the same thing.
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WHEN MORALITY BETRAYS
I am no Democrat. I am no Republican. In general, I am not of the perspective that there is any salvation for black people in politics. To the black democrat I say, imagine if Obama fought as hard for you as Trump fights for white supremacists.
Hear me. Politics is not a morality contest & Democrats often reduce politics to a never ending competition in a self righteous morality Olympics. Their allegiance to morality outweighs their allegiance to the public good. Morality & the public good are NOT the same thing.
Morality is different things to different people. The public good is all things to the most people. This is not a play on words, but a mindset required to competently engage in the public square. Those who fail to heed such caution render themselves vulnerable to those-
powerbrokers who morality factors little into their decision making. Herein, lies Barack Obama's fatal flaw. His allegiance to the moral principle of bipartisanship caused him to let Republicans run roughshod over him. He was elected w/a mandate from the American people &
squandered it. I offer the following as evidence: Allow me to introduce you to Mr. Sureshbhai Patel, an elderly Indian man who was walking through his son's subdivision when a white neighbor called the police 2 report a "suspicious black man" casing the community.
White officer Eric Parker answered the call. Immediately on arrival, the officer slammed Patel & paralyzed him. Parker was tried twice w/both ending in mistrials. I should note that the 1st mistrial occurred on a jury that included 10 white males & 2 black women jurors.
The black women voted to convict. The white males voted to acquit. That's democracy. White rule. That's another post. Federal prosecutors intended to try Officer Parker a 3rd time, but the judge stepped in and dismissed the charges with prejudice meaning the white officer-
could not be charged or tried again. What does any of this have to do with Obama, you might ask? The judge who acquitted the officer was U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala and she was appointed by Barack Hussein Obama. So what's the big deal? In a move of bipartisanship-
Obama sought 2 appease a ton of southern Republican senators who were holding up many of his judicial nominations. Thus 2 get some of his nominees thru confirmation, he started compromising w/these senators 2 appoint some of their chosen judges. Judge Haikala was 1 of them.
Now the classical retort here is: "Well this is why Obama couldn't get much done b/c the Republicans blocked his every move." Wrong. He could have pushed Senate Democrats to end the filibuster as soon as Republicans started blocking his nominees. Ironically, this is-
Ironically, this is the very argument Obama is now supporting. Well, Mr. President, you should have done that while you were in office when many of your die hard supporters were begging you to do this. Nevertheless, a lot of conservative judges-
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made it thru on Obama's watch b/c of his hyperfidelity to the moral principle of bipartisanship. A second example of this was his appointment of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, which was derailed by Republicans. Many Democrats are still clinging to the ruse that-
Republicans "stole a Supreme Court seat." Nonsense. Obama gave it away. Follow me. What was going on in the Senate when Justice Antonin Scalia died? Nothing. The Senate was in recess. Obama could have took a page out of the President Eisenhower president who appointed-
Justice Brennan during a Senate recess. Again, he failed 2 do so b/c of his hyperfidelity to the moral principle of bipartisanship. A third example is the 2016 presidential election. Trump is spot on when he told Michelle Obama that "I was elected because of your husband."
Trump is right, but for the wrong reasons. Follow me. Many in the Hillary Clinton camp still maintain to this day that she lost the election b/c of FBI Director's James Comey's October surprise revelation of reopening of the investigation into Clinton's emails.
Lets say I buy that argument. Riddle me this: who appointed FBI Director James Comey, a lifelong Republican? You got it. Barack Hussein Obama. And he did so as a bipartisan compromise w/Senate Republicans to get a speedy confirmation.
Here's the charge & I do not make it lightly: Barack Obama's blind hyperallegiance to the morality principle of bipartisanship caused him to appoint the very man who would gift Donald Trump the presidency who in turn would descend the country into chaos.
I would take it further. Obama's morality triggered not only Trump's election but the rise of white supremacy which endangered black life, destabilized the nation & endangered all of western civilization. There is a mad man in the White House w/nuclear launch codes &
he is there b/c Obama's fidelity 2 bipartisanship made him impotent in his fight against white people who regarded him as nothing more than a niggER. Donald Trump is the greatest villain America deserves & you cannot fight him w/o testicular fortitude. Obama had none.
This is how morality can betray U. The public good is always greater than individual morality. In many ways Obama's morality was immoral & Dems are do 4 a course correction. I'll put 1 forth shortly but 1st a final stanza 2 my thesis of public good over individual morality
Close your eyes. Lets bow our head for a word of prayer. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. When the praises go up, the blessings come down. God is good all the time & all the time God is good. As the bible says, "Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word -
from the mouth of God." We praying good now. So good we missed that white supremacist who just walked through the church door & pulled out that Glock & gunned all us down in the name of White Jesus. Now we up here in heaven asking God "my father why hast thou forsaken me?"
God replies, "you dumb motherfuckers. Nobody told you or any black folk to close your eyes in the presence of a White Supremacist. Your morality betrayed you. So now you're dead." Brutal, but true. There is no greater example of morality betraying a group of people than-
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"3 million people are estimated not to have official photo ID, with ethnic minorities more at risk". They will "have to contact their council to confirm their ID if they want to vote"
This is shameful legislation, that does nothing to tackle the problems with UK elections.THREAD
There is no evidence in-person voter fraud is a problem, and it wd be near-impossible to organise on an effective scale. Campaign finance violations, digital disinformation & manipulation of postal voting are bigger issues, but these are crimes of the powerful, not the powerless.
In a democracy, anything that makes it harder to vote - in particular, anything that disadvantages one group of voters - should face an extremely high bar. Compulsory voter ID takes a hammer to 3 million legitimate voters (disproportionately poor & BAME) to crack an imaginary nut
If the government is concerned about the purity of elections, it should reflect on its own conduct. In 2019 it circulated doctored news footage of an opponent, disguised its twitter feed as a fake fact-checking site, and ran adverts so dishonest that even Facebook took them down.
Britain's electoral law largely predates the internet. There is little serious regulation of online campaigning or the cash that pays for it. That allows unscrupulous campaigners to ignore much of the legal framework erected since the C19th to guard against electoral misconduct.
This is shameful legislation, that does nothing to tackle the problems with UK elections.THREAD
Millions of people do not have photo ID. By forcing through mandatory voter-ID the government risk disenfranchising millions of legitimate voters. https://t.co/y0Upzof2FI
— Electoral Reform Society (@electoralreform) February 17, 2021
There is no evidence in-person voter fraud is a problem, and it wd be near-impossible to organise on an effective scale. Campaign finance violations, digital disinformation & manipulation of postal voting are bigger issues, but these are crimes of the powerful, not the powerless.
In a democracy, anything that makes it harder to vote - in particular, anything that disadvantages one group of voters - should face an extremely high bar. Compulsory voter ID takes a hammer to 3 million legitimate voters (disproportionately poor & BAME) to crack an imaginary nut
If the government is concerned about the purity of elections, it should reflect on its own conduct. In 2019 it circulated doctored news footage of an opponent, disguised its twitter feed as a fake fact-checking site, and ran adverts so dishonest that even Facebook took them down.
Britain's electoral law largely predates the internet. There is little serious regulation of online campaigning or the cash that pays for it. That allows unscrupulous campaigners to ignore much of the legal framework erected since the C19th to guard against electoral misconduct.
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I love a good cover story.......
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At this point it's clear some members of Congress are either in on this and helping the cover story or they haven't got a clue and are out in the cold.
Note the conflicting stories about 'Rosenstein cancelled meeting with Congress on Oct 11!"
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He's STILL refusing to hand over the McCabe memos.
He's STILL holding up the declassification of the #SpyGate documents & their release to the public.
I love a good cover story.......
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A brief analysis and comparison of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs Twitter's legacy desktop website. The difference is dramatic and I'll touch on some reasons why.
Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.
6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices
https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x
PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.
735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices
https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ
The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.
The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.
Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.
6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices
https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x
PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.
735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices
https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ
The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.
The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.
