A newTimes/Sienna pollhas Harris taking the lead over the GOP nominee in the key states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — a critical coalition of swing states in the rust belt.
In the match-up, Harris leads the former president 50% to 46%. The survey was published on Saturday and comes amid a new wave of enthusiasm for the Harris campaign.
When broken down by party, Republicans were less likely than Democrats to say they were satisfied with their party’s nominee. 79 percent of Republicans said they were content with Trump as their nominee compared to 87 percent of Democrats when asked about Harris.
The poll also shows Harris and Trump even amongst White voters overall; however, Harris leads the former president 23 points among White college educated voters. Meanwhile, Harris leads Trump by 68 points amongst Black voters and 11 points with suburban voters.
🧵I've spent this year writing for the @newrepublic about how a group of Silicon Valley billionaires has gone WEIRD. Now their weirdness is mating up with Trump's MAGA weirdness in the 2024 election. Here's a few things to understand about these guys.
I've spent this year writing for the TheNew Republicabout how a group of Silicon Valley billionaires has gone super WEIRD. Now their weirdness is mating up with Trump's MAGA weirdness in the 2024 election. Here's a few things to understand about these guys:
#1:They despise democracy.These Trump-loving tech zillionaires believe democracy is bad. They want to create their own corporate dictatorships called Network States. They are actively trying to build these weird little dictator cities all over the world, including in California.
#2.They want control over existing governments.In addition to building weirdo colonies, they're also trying to capture existing governments. In San Francisco, a group of these tech zillionaires is trying to win control of City Hall ...(and now, with Peter Thiel creation J.D. Vance as Trump's running mate, the USA!)
3.They want to punish Democrats in weird ways.One of their main influencers has suggested that tech bros should form a "gray tribe," purge Democrats from San Francisco and build statues to remind people of how bad Democrats supposedly are:
4.JD Vance is ONE OF THEM.Vance was literally put on Trump's ticket by the same group of people – Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen – who are behind all of the weirdness I've been writing about: Here's my newest piece in the New Republic:
Most newspaper analyses suggest that these tech authoritarians guys just want lower taxes and friendly regulations, but that's only part of the story. They have developed their own weird sci-fi influenced tech authoritarian IDEOLOGY.
It overlaps with MAGA in multiple ways.
MAGA/Tech overlaps:
Collapse. They believe in an impending societal collapse. Messiah complex.They believe they alone can save humanity. They "alone can fix it." Supremacy.They largely share a believe in a social hierarchy centered on the supremacy of rich males (mostly straight and/or white) over everyone else.
Anti-Empathy.They abhor empathy/care.
Anti-Public.They detest the idea of the public and seek to privatize most functions of government. Anti-Worker.They believe employers are superior to employees.
This is not an exhaustive list. But you can see here how many of the tech authoritarian goals align with MAGA. Antipathy toward taxes and regulations may be the root of their alliance, but there are many branches. But there are key ways in which tech diverges from MAGA.
For example, tech authoritarians see technology as being above God (if they even believe that God exists). As tech founders and investors, they see themselves as the top of the hierarchy – the masters of the universe. These beliefs have resulted in some strange sub-cults.
Tech Cults Rising
TheNetwork Stateis one sub-cult – the idea of replacing existing countries with tech-run countries.Transhumanismis another – a belief in merging with machines to obtain eternal life. That's gonna sound pretty weird to fundamentalist Christians. . . Lots of tech cults springing up!
Here's a key thing to understand:
The tech billionaires behind Trump already have money. Now they want power – to create their own countries, to change what it means to be human, to control the fate of the world. Their interest is mainlyideological, not economic. Anyone saying otherwise has not done the reading.
This story by Dave Troy of the Washington Spectator goes deep into the weird collection of ideas calledTESCREAL. Many of these tech guys backing Trump have been working on this project for a long, long time.
Not all tech is bad! But a lot of people in Silicon Valley have been aware of this weirdness for a long time and have stayed quiet ... or agree with parts of it. With Thiel/Musk/Vance putting it on the Trump ticket, it's time to tune in. Because folks – it's gonna get weirder.
This week, Elon Musk posted a fake AI-generated disinformation video aboutKamala Harris. In the video, which cloned Harris' voice, she appeared to say things she has actually never said. This was a just a taste of what's going to happen on social media platforms – especially the one Musk owns – in 2024.
Crypto also plays a HUGE role in this weirdness. Just as they created new currencies to challenge existing currencies, they want to create new countries to challenge existing countries. It's all about power and control. (I'm working on a piece that will explain this in more detail.)
My writing has been a little slow over the past few weeks because I'm recovering from two sprained fingers. But I'll be back soon with updates onCalifornia Forever's great fail.
The point:TheCalifornia Foreverproject appears headed for a massive defeat in November. But the billionaires behind the proposed "tech utopia" have managed to pull off a true political miracle in 2024: uniting Democrats and Republicans – against their project. I got asneak peak at more detailed polling data.In all of my years in politics, I've rarely seen anything poll this badly (besides Mayor London Breed, who has a71 percent disapprovalrating).
Curtis Yarvin. He’s patient zero for this pandemic of dipshititis.
Listen up. He’s an idiot. He’s also an enemy to every American as he spouts this infantile autocratic drivel. Losers are gonna loser. https://t.co/iSR4ZEvzOX
— Denver Riggleman - Coalition of the Sane (@RepRiggleman) August 11, 2024
“Oh no, it’s happening again!” You mutter to yourself, rolling your eyes. You can hardly believe it: for what seems like the hundredth time, you find yourself in a trolley car, racing down the tracks toward five unsuspecting victims. Once again, there’s a lever right in front of you that can switch the path of the train, allowing you to run over a single person instead of the five you’re currently barreling towards.
For a moment you hesitate, feeling the same trepidation that you felt the first time you were presented with this scenario, but then you take a deep breath and do some basic math:
Alive is Good, and Dead is Bad. Hence, A > D.
Since A > D, then
4A > 4D
4A + 1D > 5D
5A + 1D > 1A + 5D. ∎
So you reach a conclusion: you should switch tracks and run over the one person. Smiling at your efficient proof, you pull the lever.
It isn’t until the next morning when, while eating breakfast, you read the newspaper headline:
Nobel Prize-Winning Dog-Lover and Mother of Three On Her Way to Donate $500,000,000 Diamond to Charity Killed by Trolley After Being Robbed by Five Serial Killers Who Listen to Nickelback, Allowing Them to Get Away!
