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Ah- US Election Season

techPirate
8 min readOct 6, 2024

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I love the US elections. they make no sense. this time around we are seeing the extremely obvious crayon color US GOP strategy of lets get Putin and everyone involved here to sell out the US people.

i really dont care about the election, but nate silvers polls are indicative of a bygone era of polling that needs to retire. the same tired questions that actually neither indicate who is going to win, nor do they provide the politicians with any indication on how to make policy.

and since we are all pretending that “X” uuuuuu formerly twiter is the “free speech” tool and our valiant human hero elon musk has arrived like Dr. Doom to … go to mars? it seems like the present election season permeates with the whose who of

“these people have degree?”

i dont have a dog in this race, and truthfully i was none too impressed with the nomination of Kamila Harris into the role. however a good game is a good game and a good player changes the game on their turf.

Harris, in the way she is dealing and fighting the election brings a new style to a very tired format. from the moment she stepped into the debate, the election was hers to change. her winning or loosing seems irrelevant — of relevance is how she is changing the fundamental questions being asked.

no one from the news media to the existing hilarious anchors seems prepared for her manner of professionalism. perhaps even i can take a look at this blood sport and pretend that politics is not a game of…

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