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#asknostr is there another wallet like minibits which is good for zaps? im using minbits for another app, and seem to be having trouble zapping from cashu.me

you need a wallet that supports it, do you have one?

then, I only know amethyst but you update it in your nostr client when you long press on a zap and paste the nwc details in

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Yo nostr, doing the #introductions thing. This is my intro to social media, it all seemed like a time vacuum so I avoided it altogether but the integration of Bitcoin and the v4v concept got me interested. Aside from the coin I'm into the standard things, eating steaks, freedom, spreading misinformation. I also do hobby gunsmithing and build my own custom bolt action rifles for competitive long range shooting.

I've worked in machine shops my entire adult life, primarily for the aerospace/defense industry unfortunately. It didn't bother me at first, figured supporting the military was a good enough cause but after finding Bitcoin I obviously began to see it in a different light. Fortunately, Bitcoin has given me the financial freedom to start my own machine shop and my goal is to never put my hands on another Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed or Boeing part again. I always hear the phrase "We don't build things in America anymore", we absolutely do but the manufacturing base has been captured by the military industrial complex. The exact same part made for the private sector will easily cost 10X once government money is involved, it's no wonder most shops are fighting for those contracts while the rest of the work goes overseas and produced at shit quality.

Well, I'm at least gonna do my part to bring quality American manufacturing back to the private sector. Feel free to reach out if you or anyone you know could benefit from my services, will work for sats of course! Looking forward to interacting and growing with the nostr network. #grownostr

"I always hear the phrase "We don't build things in America anymore", we absolutely do but the manufacturing base has been captured by the military industrial complex. The exact same part made for the private sector will easily cost 10X once government money is involved, it's no wonder most shops are fighting for those contracts while the rest of the work goes overseas and produced at shit quality."

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Yes, It Was A Landslide

Yes, It Was A Landslide

https://amgreatness.com/2024/12/12/yes-it-was-a-landslide/

Having lost the election, demoralized Democrats now argue their defeat wasnโ€™t a landslide. Nice try. Their reaction is more than knee-jerk petulance; instead, it arises from fears of permanence. With Trump gaining momentum, even before his inauguration, Democrats rightfully fear that they could fare even worse in 2028 and beyond.

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Before the election, the Democratsโ€™ presidential complaint was the Electoral College. Certain they would win the popular vote, Tim Walz, speaking in October,ย https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walz-says-electoral-college-needs-to-go-campaign-says-thats-not-its-position/

, and more) are all arguing to diminish Trumpโ€™s victoryโ€”and thereby his momentum.

While Democrats and their supportersโ€™ need is understandable, Trumpโ€™s landslide gets bigger the more it is scrutinized.

Even on the surface, its particulars are impressive. Trump was the Republicansโ€™ first presidential candidate to beat a Democrat in the popular vote in 20 years. He won more popular votes than any Republican presidential candidate in history. He won each of the contestโ€™s seven swing statesโ€”and he came close to flipping several (NJ, VA, NM, NH, and MN) seemingly solid blueย https://www.google.com/search?q=2024+presidential+election+results&sca_esv=64a609d90a359d40&sxsrf=ADLYWIIm-kjHgamAbDioaNdg4TzXvAsSaA%3A1733688117545&ei=NftVZ7L6II3e5NoP6ZmlkAc&ved=0ahUKEwjy6JbD-5iKAxUNL1kFHelMCXIQ4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=2024+presidential+election+results&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiIjIwMjQgcHJlc2lkZW50aWFsIGVsZWN0aW9uIHJlc3VsdHMyChAjGIAEGCcYigUyBhAAGAcYHjINEAAYgAQYsQMYFBiHAjIFEAAYgAQyCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGAcYHjIFEAAYgAQyBRAAGIAESP0SUP0KWKIOcAF4AJABAJgBUaABswGqAQEzuAEDyAEA-AEBmAICoAKNAcICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAgUQABjvBZgDAIgGAZIHATKgB9AP&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

. And he won the electoral vote 312-226.

Conversely, compared to Biden in 2020, Democratsโ€™ popular vote percentage dropped in 50 of 51 states and the District of Columbia, going up only in Utah by a scant 0.2 percentage points.

Big as Trumpโ€™s win was on the surface, closer examination shows it was bigger still.

Trumpโ€™s victory came despite finishing behind Harris by over four million votes in California and New York combined and despite these states combining for 84 electoral votes. Dismissing the result in these two states, Trump won by five percentage points in the other 48 states and 312 to 142 in electoral votes. Take away the results of Massachusetts and Washington, and Trump won by almost seven percentage points in the popular vote and 312-121 in the electoral vote.

Basically, apart from the coasts, Trump won overwhelmingly: where 80 percent of the presidential electoral votes are, Trump won three-quarters of them.

Next, put these impressive numbers into the context of their occurrence.

Trump amassed these numbers while being enormouslyย https://jtyoung-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jtyoung_jamestyoung_com/Documents/enormously

and outspent. Harris had hundreds of millions more to fuel her campaign than Trump did. And she had to only focus on the seven swing states that everyone knew were the fulcrum of the contest. Yet, Trump still swept all sevenโ€”something that neither he nor Biden had been able to do in 2016 and 2020.

Trump also rang up his numbers despite eight years of unrelenting negativity from the establishment media. For almost a decade, there has been nothing approaching balanced coverage: regardless of his opponentโ€”Hillary, Biden, and Harrisโ€”each received a strong establishment media tailwind. Yet despite this, Trump increased his general election popular vote percentage each time.

And that establishment media bias was never stronger than in the aftermath of Bidenโ€™s withdrawal.

For over 100 days, the establishment media gave Harris a pass: on press conferences, on interviews, on evading questions, on softball venues when she did appear, on often not answering questions in even these friendly confines, and on nonsensical responses when she did speak.

And Trump won despite having almost the entirety of Americaโ€™s self-styled elite opposing him.

In academia, in Hollywood, in music, in sports, the coolest of the cool and the biggest of the big were overwhelmingly and vocally against him. Not surprisingly, in the face of all this opposition, Trumpโ€™sย https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/political-leaders

rating was below Harrisโ€™s.

Yet, Trump still racked up his impressive numbers.

Despite every conceivable disadvantage, Trump beat not one, but two Democrat nominees to win the presidency. Outright - not only in electoral votes but by almost 2.5 million votes.

That is the definition of a landslide.

Of late, Americans have suffered a surfeit of Democrats and their apologists saying something isnโ€™t true when it patently isโ€”that Joe Biden was capable of being president, that the Democrat elite wasnโ€™t deposing Joe Biden when they drove him from the ticket, that Kamala Harris was his qualified replacement, that Joe Biden wouldnโ€™t pardon Hunter. The list is endless; it stretches back in time and extends uninterrupted into it. But nowhere is Democrat denial greater than in their attempt to deny Trumpโ€™s November presidential landslide.

Their reason is as obvious as the truth they are seeking to deny. They fear its repetition.

They worry that Republicans will continue Trumpโ€™s conservative populism, and they know that next time 2024โ€™s overwhelming advantages will be gone. Bad as Novemberโ€™s landslide was, the ones Democrats potentially face going forward could be far worse.

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J.T. Young is the author of the newย https://www.amazon.ca/Unprecedented-Assault-Government-Unleashed-Socialist/dp/B0DBMH66YR

Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed Americaโ€™s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing, and has over three decades of experience working in Congress, the Department of Treasury, and OMB, and representing a Fortune 20 company.

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