I am betting he is one of those Constipational Sheriffs.
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The photo of these sheriffs is priceless. Men still living in 1870s American west.
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Scots’ Irish ancestry – and mentality.
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Schumer and Jeffries best get to endorsing or get to fucking all the way off…
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I do wonder about that, do they see Mamdami as a threat. It will be telling to see if they chose not to endorse, or give a sideways endorsement.
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Their donors do… at best they are trying to manage them in the right direction.
But i also think they are being classically too careful.
And lastly. Its not about AOC’s '28 plans but also it s not, about AOC’s 2028 plans.
They are hoping it blows up early. It s not going to.
So withholding endorsement or a sh*t one is not tenable
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Indeed. At least an insurrection attempt.
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In command, I wouldn’t be surprised. Among the rank and file, it’s hard to put yourself in danger and not have honor, in my opinion.
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I’d call it “courage”. Maybe “loyalty” to the rest of your group. Likely “unselfishness.” Maybe even lack of foresight or stupidity. “Honor” is a weird concept. From what I’ve observed, it’s strict observance to some kind of arbitrary code, to the exclusion of other priorities.
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It’s funny how the members of NWA were some of the most hated and feared people in the country and a threat to the public order according to folks like these so called constitutional sheriffs. Over the past three decades they have become famous celebrated actors and pillars of their communities. Regular family guys doing things like coaching their kids sports teams and doing community service. Most of us would trust them over some loudmouth insurrectionist sheriff who looks like he patrols the buffet at the local Golden Corral.
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They can’t all be athletes, but they sure can be athletic supporters!
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FWIW, Canadian County, OK is the county immediately west of OKC in Oklahoma County. Its county seat is El Reno, the intersection of US 66 and US 81 (which essentially follows the old Chisholm (cattle) Trail).
Of course, prior to that, it was the intersection of then-major railroads, the St. Louis & San Francisco (the “Frisco”) and the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific (the “Rock Island” line).
It’s now part of the ring of fast growing bedroom/suburban counties surrounding OKC. And very Republican’t. 
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" sherriffs…still living in the 1870s American west." According to Hollywood I might add. The real cowboys I worked with as a youngster in central Arizona wore baseball caps. They didn’t want to be mistaken for truck drivers is what I was told.
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Thank you!! I came with the same thought. My substitution would have been “insurrection,” but riots will do. Come on, TPM! Words matter. Do better.
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Big picture, police have a different position in an authoritarian state, an elevated position relative to some citizen groups. The standard for suspecting individuals of criminal involvement declines. One could suffer from excess skin pigmentation, gender vagueness, having a master’s degree in the humanities, or just being in the wrong location for your karass. Living in electoral autocracy beyond the obvious loss of freedoms, also comes with such features as reduced average lifespan and lower long-term economic growth (China, for example, boasts perhaps the greatest economic growth spurt in human history, now in its fifth decade. But that’s with the traditional GDP metric. When the environmental costs are included, not just to China but also inputs such as soybean extraction in the Brazil Amazon and ocean acidification from all that coal-burning, China’s green GDP growth since 1980 has been about zero.) The Claremont Institute is a long-term project that seems to be paying off for its founders. Switzerland went through an ideological evolution with Calvinism, which specifically promoted amassing wealth. At the same time, everything fun was banned. What is most unfortunate about life in such regimes is that what appears to be cruelty to outsiders is in fact the “fun” for twisted individuals.
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Because of course he did.
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The AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo predicts that AI will be better than humans at most tasks by the end of 2027. With the 2017 Asilomar 25 Precautionary AI Principles tossed out the window by the current administration, along with the basic 11 governance principles (transparency, explainability, repeatability/reproducibility, safety, security, robustness, fairness, data governance, accountability, human agency and oversight, inclusive growth, societal and environmental security), about all that is left is to protect the Duty to Warn for AI experts or researchers.
No doubt, some of the Trump administration’s ignorance on the matter is that the US wins all the marbles in 2027 if the AI rollout continues and we all have some sort of shitty agents by then.
Problem is the outlook darkens by 2030, according to Kokotajlo. In April, he was already kind of downbeat By the end of May, he’s worried about AI that can cause a total extermination of humanity in 2030.
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The majority of Jeffries’ constituents voted for Mamdani. If NY elected Dems choose not to endorse NYC Dems’ overwhelming choice for their nominee for mayor, they’re spitting in the face of those very same constituents.
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