Republican from June 14th, 2015. Single-mindedly pro-life. Christ-follower.
The bleeding Heartland
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This bill was entirely a W.
Sen. Todd Young’s Heartland Visa Act of 2024 had quite the coalition of supporters, including
-Americans for Prosperity,
-AEI
-Manhattan Institute
-Niskanen Center
-AOL co-founder Steve Case.
The pitch? Bring highly skilled foreign workers and entrepreneurs into struggling American communities to reverse population decline, create jobs, and stimulate economic growth.
Because apparently, the solution to revitalizing the heartland is importing foreign talent instead of investing in the people, businesses, and communities already there.
SAUCE:
young.senate.gov/newsroom/pr…
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Last night was a mid-2010s presidential debate. I didn’t know we were expected to come prepared with something nice to say about our enemies.
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Is it just me or does it feel weird the level of commitment some people have to retconning the 2000s as this period of turbocapitalist soullessness?
George Bush was president, big whoop.
primetime is the first true period film about the 2000s and it has it on lock. the film is not about pedophiles or about the ethics of television it is about how insane, psychopathic, and soul-annihilating that period of history was. mcmansions included. 9/10.
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A: Would you consider yourself, overall, bioconservative (i.e. opposed to transhumanism, conservative on sanctity of life issues)?
B: Is Singer's argument for effective altruism in "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" fundamentally correct?
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A Yes, B Yes
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A Yes, B No
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A No, B Yes
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A No, B No
66 votes • Final results
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sasseite⛪️🌐🐘 retweeted
BREAKING: Senior White House officials reportedly urged AG Todd Blanche to delay action on abortion until after the midterms for political reasons.
Unborn children cannot be put on a political calendar. Their lives do not become more valuable after Election Day.
Protect children from the abortion pill now!
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Neat how the discovery of iPSCs pretty much ended the stem cell research debate like one year after we had it. I likely would’ve voted against the ‘05 bill (definitely against the successive ones) but I get the argument for it.
Insane, with hindsight we had a "nay" Democrat.
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sasseite⛪️🌐🐘 retweeted
It is the fate of all the world, save Africa (at present) to become a giant care home, lest something shift the fundamental paradigms.
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality.
That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
ALT Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Also, the intra-GOP coalitions are wild. John Cornyn, Chuck Hagel, Liz Dole, and Mike DeWine voted no, while TRENT LOTT and Orrin Hatch voted yes.
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I believe in objective morality but personally I find some of the stuff in the moral universe it describes hard to swallow
People I love might go to hell? I have to love my enemy? I have to turn the other cheek? I have to take unpopular positions in public?
Curiously, everyone who believes in "objective morality" seems to conclude that it agrees with everything they want to be true
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Name a politician from each party who you like more than one would think given their political profile.
For instance, I like Mike Johnson and Tim Kaine even though Johnson is much more Trump-aligned than me and Kaine even though he's much more dovish than me.
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