By Holly the Assistant
(Sarah’s taking a day off-maybe-for the sort of chores and appointments that must be done on a weekday between 8 and 5. Yesterday, she said “Post on anything for me” and you were going to get kind of a summery of the absolutely insane and flabbergasting level of local government -ish that is the Water District. Today a Hun sent me a DataRepublican “Hello”, and I figured you’d much more enjoy seeing the probable end of the Senate Majority Leader’s political career as it unfolds. Hopefully I get all the links correct: https://cleanr.aho.st/ is a treasure but one I’m not very good at as an X user. You still might get the Water District some other day: it was wild.)
I think the end of Senator Thune’s career starts here, maybe:
https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/2031210131908931837
And continues:
https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/2031378579058208906
And some more:
https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/2031354814005997922
And still going as I’m writing this post, DataRepublican is an American treasure:
https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/2031411481758269504
If y’all X users see more to this today, please feel free to add the xcancel links in the comments for our non X user Huns, and many, many, thanks to the Hun who made xcancel and the Hun who sent me the DataRepublican said Hello to Sen. Thune message.
According To Hoyt 
C4C
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Data Republican is an absolute treasure!Here’s list of the X handles of all the Republicans who are letting John Thune take the heat and blocking the SAVE act instead of following the will of the people. Because yeah, they could do something about it. Get him out. Peacefully. [Scott Pressler is a treasure too]
Senators for the SAVE act
@SenMikeLee
@SenRickScott
@SenTedBuddNC
@SenatorBanks
@SenAshleyMoody
@RogerMarshallMD
@JerryMoran
@SenTimSheehy
@JohnCornyn
@SenatorRisch
@SenTedCruz
@SenTuberville
@SteveDaines
@SenatorLankford
@SenatorRicketts
@SenKatieBritt
@LindseyGrahamSC
@SenRonJohnson
@SenHawleyPress
@MikeCrapo
@MarshaBlackburn
@SenBernieMoreno
@SenEricSchmitt
@SenatorHagerty
@SenatorFischer
@SenLummis
@SenatorRounds
@JohnBoozman
@SenKevinCramer
@SenJohnHoeven
@SenMullin
@SenJimJustice
@SenJohnBarrasso
@SenJonHusted
@SenToddYoung
@SenMcCormickPA
@SenTomCotton
@SenRandPaul
@SenJohnKennedy
@SenJoniErnst
@ChuckGrassley
@SenBillCassidy
@SenJohnCurtis
@SenHydeSmith
@SenCapito
@SenatorTimScott
@SenatorWicker
@SenDanSullivan
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Huh. For once, Curtis isn’t a spineless RINO. Quite literally a RINO since he changed his party affiliation to run for senator.
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Data Republican is an absolute treasure!Here’s list of the X handles of all the Republicans who are letting John Thune take the heat and blocking the SAVE act instead of following the will of the people. Because yeah, they could do something about it. Get him out. Peacefully. [Scott Pressler is a treasure too]
Senators for the SAVE act
@SenMikeLee
@SenRickScott
@SenTedBuddNC
@SenatorBanks
@SenAshleyMoody
@RogerMarshallMD
@JerryMoran
@SenTimSheehy
@JohnCornyn
@SenatorRisch
@SenTedCruz
@SenTuberville
@SteveDaines
@SenatorLankford
@SenatorRicketts
@SenKatieBritt
@LindseyGrahamSC
@SenRonJohnson
@SenHawleyPress
@MikeCrapo
@MarshaBlackburn
@SenBernieMoreno
@SenEricSchmitt
@SenatorHagerty
@SenatorFischer
@SenLummis
@SenatorRounds
@JohnBoozman
@SenKevinCramer
@SenJohnHoeven
@SenMullin
@SenJimJustice
@SenJohnBarrasso
@SenJonHusted
@SenToddYoung
@SenMcCormickPA
@SenTomCotton
@SenRandPaul
@SenJohnKennedy
@SenJoniErnst
@ChuckGrassley
@SenBillCassidy
@SenJohnCurtis
@SenHydeSmith
@SenCapito
@SenatorTimScott
@SenatorWicker
@SenDanSullivan
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Uh, yeah, Congress gives our tax money to ‘private’ entities that then cycle that money back to the Congresscritters in devious (or sometimes blatantly obvious) ways. I thought everybody knew that.
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That’s not what DataRepublican shows.
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In this case. But he is right about the gov’t grant/NGO-nonprofit/political-support money laundering system as a general thing.
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Only in the sense of “it’s been screamed and accused for long enough that people wave of actionable proof with mushy-mouthed oh, everyone does it.”
That is, defensive nonsense actively pushed by the guilty.
Same way that Clinton being sexually involved with under-age girls went from “everyone does it” in the 90s” to “Ep-who?” a few decades later.
For crying out loud, for MOST OF A CENTURY the “Accuse others of doing what you actually do, and then if you get caught say that everyone does it and use the prior unsupported claims as a shield” technique has been main stream for the progs.
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More complex. This is influence peddling scheme tacked on to an paid access filter with additional graft and money laundering that also includes taxes funneled (and filtered, every hand it passes through takes a cut) to one specific Senator.
It explains why the SAVE act is being slow walked. It exposes the ones backing Thune and, coincidentally, nudging him towards policy decisions that benefit the 15% (big corporate interests) over the 85% (everybloodybody else). That link between the shadow lobbyists (“journalists”) and the policy makers (Congress) has not heretofore been so blatantly exposed.
DR followed the money. She and emiljashinksy blew this wide open. This is Senators elected by the people of their respective states being directly (and very willingly) influenced on policy decisions that directly affect said people to narrowly benefit those that are funneling them money.
Egg on faces all around. Several No-Nos were brought to light.
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Reminder for folks posting TwiX or other link-comments-
if it has more than one link, it’s going to go into spam to “protect” us.
If it only has the link and no comment about it, it’ll probably go into spam.
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Brava! As Louis Brandeis wrote in a magazine article in 1913,
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
And our swampy-malarial age can use a lot more of the same mad research-analysis skillz.
(Actually the idea was old even then, Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1860: As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity. )
Let the Internet arclights shine, and sic semper swampy!
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I would very much like to “Arc Light” some of the problems. The Buffs are currently taking care of one particularly persistent pest pile.
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I picked a hell of a year to give up social media for Lent…
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Likewise.
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All hail DataRepublican, Queen of the Internet. Long may her laser shine into the darkest recesses. We salute you! [Live long and prosper.]
It’s funny how one lady seems to be doing all the work of an entire media establishment, better than they -ever- did it, by herself. Add a few teenagers and other random citizens with nothing but a phone and a YouTube channel breaking scandal after scandal after scandal, and one might almost think the media were trying to cover something up.
Worse in Canada, here they throw the random teens and people with youtube channels in jail. Ask Jordan Peterson why he left Canada, he’ll tell you.
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Weaponized autism will always defeat the establishment media.
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She’s good at making the political personal, which I am a big fan of.
Any time you see the government do something insane, some people did that. “THEY” made it happen.
What DataRepublican does is take the “THEY” out of it. It wasn’t “them,” It was THIS GUY and this other guy, and this other other guy…
Names named. Pictures posted. Now I know who did it, and exactly how they did it. Beautiful.
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Exact details of what they did, how they knew it was wrong, and if someone else was responsible for noticing– and why they didn’t, or were ignored, if needed.
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Some of the most scary polite opening ever, “Hello, Person”
And then the data beatings start.
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On another note, Substack is pretty weird today.
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Here’s one from DataRepublican:
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2031453846095147171
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And canceled:
https://xcancel.com/DataRepublican/status/2031453846095147171
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Attempting imbed again….
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Follow that back to Thune’s xitter. He xits it out, it gets ratio’d down to bedrock, he re-xits it to clear the ratio and it gets ratio’d again… at least 3 xiterations so far.
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And her promoting someone who noticed stuff first:
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I just want to give a big HUZZAH! To everyone here, including our dear Sarah for including links that work for us feeble and X deprived souls.
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks, but I’m more of a cat person really. And so, I refuse to use X…just because. But i do appreciate someone helping me to know what is going on without having to go to yet another social media space.
Thank you again, to everyone who makes it possible.
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BTW the Xcancel and Clearer page was built because I got frustrated with stuff. If there you have other irritations regarding URLs that you’d like to see I’ll be happy to add them.
Replies to this post, requests at the gitlab page (Issues · CleanR · GitLab ) or, if you’re in a discord group I’m in, discord DMing me will work
Share and Enjoy
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THANK YOU, masgramondou!!! xcancel is the coolest thing since Elon got his hands on twitter!
Pre-Elon twitter used to be fun (for a non-user) because it showed the whole thread of replies to the original tweet. You could see the train of habitual crazies (e.g. the Krassenstein children, or that poor hydrocephalic-looking fool who called himself “a Thought Leader” in public health policy, or that seriously deranged dude who bragged about being “a mental health professional”) who piled on whenever Trump posted anything.
Yeah, Elon un-blocked some accounts that @Jack had suspended, but I don’t feel much better just because there’s a different gatekeeper. It’s like Mr. Potter bought Hyde park–he still lets people put up soapboxes, but he too can lower the Cone of Silence on anyone saying stuff he doesn’t want heard.
And renaming it to “X” is a classic Cluster-B move.
Thanks for restoring some of its usability for us freeloading lurkers! Seriously, You Done Good.
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Agree.
Used to be able to read comments without joining X. Can’t anymore. Oh, well. Not that interested.
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The Reader has an X account, mainly to follow local politics here in the People’s Republic of Virginia. He does subscribe to DataRepublican and at one point responded to a post of hers with something innocuous. The next morning the Reader had over 200 followers – he suspects they’re pretty bored. X is a strange place.
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If I get interested, I’ll switch to xcancel. I like how I can follow links in that, and they’ll still show up xcanceled.
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Another shot at “just the text” of one of the later DR posts on this topic:
“What does it cost to place an ad in their newsletter? A mere $210,000 !
To show how ridiculous this is … the “Promote” button right here on X says I can achieve 75,000 impressions for $500.
This is access laundering. Plain and simple.”
(Previous post w/link simply… disappeared. Might not even exist in moderation.)
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If it didn’t tell you it was in moderation, most likely WP(delenda est) ate it.
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We all need to pray for her and her family; she might be next on the @ss@ssin@tion list. She’s that important.
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Our water district is suing the city, because the city removed zoning restrictions against high density housing. The city removed the restrictions because of a law passed by the People’s Republic of Colorado. And nobody thought to check if the water and sewer infrastructure was robust enough (it’s not.)
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Eugene did the same, to be “in line with state requirements”. Now the local utilities have to ensure infrastructure is there. EWEB and EPUB, for Eugene. SUB for Springfield. Our immediate area should be okay for sewer (just put in, long story). But water and power? TBD.
Until recently the infill were single family homes, on oversized lots split in half. More than a few 1 acre to two 1/2 acre, three 1/3 acres, or four 1/4 acre, lots. Resulting in lots with single family homes from slightly larger at .25 acres than the standard current plotting of .20 acre developments of single homes. But, they can put 4 to 8 duplex on those divided lots as long as heights are not higher than double story single home. Which they just did on one of those 1/2 acre lots. Two duplexes on front portion, a double stacked duplex (4 units) going in behind, with parking for (gotta love this) for 8 vehicles. Yes, one vehicle per two bedroom duplex. Street parking is available. Not advised, but there. Bus route? Nearest stop is 3 blocks west (if cutting through grade school property, which is not only not legal 7am to 4 pm, but gates are *locked).
(*) Reason is school has “runners” (children who bolt) demographic. Not to keep the public out during those hours, but does effectively anyway.
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Developers around here carve up thousand-acre parcels into multi-thousand unit developments, and by law they have no obligation to improve highway access to them. Ten-to-twenty-minute commutes at freeway speed become hour-long crawls. Call it 1.5 extra hours stolen from thousands of people 5 times a week. The kids all have to get up that much earlier for school, plus the extra morbidity&mortality from the extra accidents.
Of course there’s plenty of “community input” from “discussion groups” and such. Of course the County Commissioners listen to all that most attentative-like, oh my yes.
And, of course, they pass anyway, because, of course, we’re all dog-in-the-manger NIMBYs who just can’t stand the idea that People Of Color might get “affordable” mid-6-figure housing…
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Same here.
Always the complaints. Took years to get the dedicated left turn lane at Coburg and Chad. You know where the intersection is essentially Costco, Winco, and Petsmart … Coburg is a major exit north off of Beltline. (South is too, but that has been jammed for decades.)
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The Costco in Central Point is still showing growing pains for the city. (Not one of the wealthier one in the Medford Metro area.) The obvious way out of Costco has no light, so a left turn means battling a fairly busy 2 lane road. Right turn gets you to Medford, and that’s a can of worms.
OTOH, the non-obvious way out has already been improved, with a signal change making it really easy to get onto I-5 from there.
Medford was supposed to be the target location, but they kept throwing obstacles in the way. There’s a big shopping center there now that seems to have been given the red carpet treatment. Makes one wonder who got paid and how much.
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For myriad reasons (topmost, sheer distance to the city, plus aggressive enforcement of water rights by the tribes), $TINY_TOWN and places up and down the river valley are really unlikely to get developed. It takes me 45 minutes to get to town, and barring emergencies/really bad weather, it’s a pleasant drive. I’ll keep it.
$TINY_TOWN has a “municipal” water system, but the last time I heard a count, it had 30 families on it. A rather larger town a couple dozen miles upstream had a bit of a legal fight with the tribes. Last I heard, they did a new well further from the river, but they’d have that 20-30 minutes extra for a drive.
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I found out recently that the building boom in my city—which was incorporated just over 25 years ago—was approved by the county, and was a major impetus for the incorporation. Because they’d approve the development *without* bothering to mandate infrastructure improvements such as roads and such, or without taking into account the rural or rural-adjacent homes.
Which also makes me wonder about the person I know who successfully fought an eminent domain purchase which would have put a major roadway literally on his doorstep, but for which they were offering “unused land” pricing during the housing bubble. The timing would have basically made that development the county’s fault. He sold out for a reasonable price afterwards, not the pittance they were offering… but that was for a subsequent developer. And the road still hasn’t been widened at that point. It goes from a massive divided road to a two-lane rural road, though they did finally remove the house.
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Random question that’s been bugging me, was Biden diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer over a year ago? Shouldn’t he be dead by now? Or at least severely weakened and bed-ridden?
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DDG search says it was treated with radiation and hormone therapy, so not State 4. Taking all news with respect to that family with a ton of salt. Try a search “biden cancer” for the approved narrative.
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Note that Staging is diagnosed differently on different cancers. Some cancers (Pancreatic, glioblastomas) are bad news even at low staging, others like SOME blood based cancers (e.g. certain lymphomas ) can be put into remission even at later staging. I sit here typing to you after 13 years of remission of large B Cell Lymphoma diagnosed at stage 3.
That said I was in my 50’s and the chemo for that gave me a preview of what being like 85 or so will be like, it was solidly hellish and I kept doing it every 3 weeks for 6 months. Hormone, Chemo and radiotherapy (I saw somewhere that the cancer was in the bone marrow) would be VERY unpleasant and hard on a healthy ’80 year old, let alone Biden who seemed in awful shape in 2023 and 2024. They trotted him out at a couple things recently including Rev. Jacksons funeral. The few bits I saw showed him no more (and no less) lucid than he was as president.
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Yeah something is definitely off there. Thanks for the great answer.
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With hubby’s prostate cancer, stage # was never used. Just could surgery be used or not. Maybe if it’d been more advanced we’d have had that conversation? But with the cancer pathologic analysis of > 75% of the prostate, and at the point of migrating out, it wasn’t “minor”. Less major than it had migrated out with no detection. But not minor. Still no mention of “stage”.
So, yes, when I read of Biden’s diagnosis? My thought was “yea, right ….. whatever ….”
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This one doesn’t need a cancel. ^.^
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Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but here and now DataRepublican on a tear is FAR more dangerous. Senator Thune (or likely his toadies running his X account) just ignored DataRepublican as irrelevant. The Toadies clearly still live in a pre 2010 world where you can put out a press release and that is what people believed. A skilled data manipulator/massager like DataRepublican can now make detailed links following the money in a flash. This is what Journalists SHOULD be doing but they have neither the skillset nor the wish to make sure that what is seen is the truth no matter whose ox they gore. They essentially write weak, badly plotted fiction to favor a particular viewpoint they like. And because their training is almost all from VERY liberal colleges, that viewpoint is massively woke.
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