#totally not afraid for the election results

[genderqueerpositivity]

I wish I'd had the sense to request this Tuesday off before I used up the last of my vacation for the year. Trying to sleep tomorrow afternoon and work all night is going to be a struggle.

I'm legitimately so fucking anxious about the election results and hoping against all odds that we didn't totally blow it as a country. Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain have been on my mind for days. Did we do collectively do the right thing or will the entire country soon a be place where half of the population has no right inherent right to emergency medical care?

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, I need Election Day to be behind me so that I can begin to plan for the future again instead of just feeling frozen and uncertain and afraid.

[torque-witch]

LONG POST - election topic

Anyhow I ended up talking to my mom about the election results for a little bit the other day and it was some good (considering) and some bad.

My dad voted for orange man. He’s totally bought into whatever Muskrat is touting after decades of AM radio listening. Because he owns a business probably, but he does not make over 400k if my mom is concerned they’ll lose the house over an $800/month mortgage plus whatever mortgage he has at his building. He’s the only employee, for reference. Just a one-man show. He doesn’t socialize. He doesn’t have friends. He just isolates in his photo lab and comes home for dinner maybe and then sometimes sleeps at work.

My mom voted for Kamala, which is nice but she’s still conservative. She’s been trying to subtly or un-subtly get my dad to read non-right wing media on things like tariffs because he doesn’t understand how it will affect his business.

She also acknowledges that both me and my sister would be at risk, but moreso my sister because she is on disability and can’t work. If she can’t get her meds but is forced to work, the cycle of her being homeless will continue because she becomes violent without meds. She could be thrown in jail again.

My dad just wants economic benefits and I guess forgot about his only daughters.

My mom isn’t great though. I’m still not able to tell her all my beliefs because she’s not a safe person at the end of the day, even though I don’t think she would not speak to me or anything.

She thinks abortion is disgusting - BUT agrees that ectopic pregnancy shouldn’t be a part of the conversation because there is no “baby.” Almost had it haha.

She also made her and my dad leave their current church because they were turning into vocal Trump supporters, which she rightly doesn’t think belongs in church. She also was pretty upset that trumpers at church and the Christian school she teaches at are calling liberals “satan worshipping trash” because I and her sisters/extended family are liberal. But ALSO

So my dad sent me a text about Musk’s $200 incentive to sign a petition or whatever - he also sent it to my sister, who is not mentally stable for a good portion of the time. I just said thank you, didn’t sign it and went on with my day. As my mom said, he conveniently didn’t send it to her because he knows she would shut him down.

Anyhow - this text caused a whole breakdown with my sister because she’s on disability, she can’t accept money without it affecting her benefits. She signed up for it. Hasn’t received money obviously. But she as afraid if she did receive money what would she do? What if she won a million dollars? And my mom had to talk her down and explain that she wouldn’t even get the full million, she could just rip up any check and that she shouldn’t accept money from Elon Must under any circumstance.

And my dad just…didn’t think ahead about how the potential for a large sum of money might mentally affect someone with a) grand delusions and b) on disability and c) always threatened with homelessness.

My mom KNOWS he’s just dumb as bricks and under a LOT of propoganda … SO JUST LEAVE HIM.

I feel like if she left him (she won’t because divorce is a sin in her eyes) and moved to the city she would probably learn that she’s actually liberal and highly educated too (she has a masters degree) but the threat of hell is strong for her.

I get it. But I don’t. And I’m grappling with how much I can interact or should because I’m also the executrix of the (paltry) estate. Do I want that future labor? Prob not. But also if it helps us in the future idk.

Idk if it’s worth it to keep holding on because she’s been learning a lot, but at the very least I’m glad that I live 6 hours away. I can’t be doing that kind of socializing anymore.

[myrfing]

people who are saying that the genocide splitting dems is a “single issue voters” thing as if washington’s longtime insanely aggressive foreign policy isn’t entertwined with every other problem people have had with the two capitalist parties who’ve held unchallenged power for so long, like this isn’t the expected result of decades of unending failures and deliberate chainpulling from our elected, and is just some random one off isolated social media trend people are hopping on cause they’re emotional really just speaks to how little people have cared to put any thought or learning into politics beyond Pokemon Go To The Polls once in a while. like the fact you think this is a disparate issue because people have drawn a clear line that says “we are not willing to compromise with the lives of Palestinians” for once, that it already is the absolute worst it can get for every life taken in this brazen US-backed campaign of ethnic cleansing, because it’s unfathomable to some that someone could consider the lives of people overseas as remotely relevant to them. oh yes be afraid we might lose the rights we’re already losing and vote for the guy who, while not as openly conservative and outlandish as trump, has a genuine history of personal investment in the complete eradication of Palestine. and this is totally in the best interest of the third world like it wasn’t also “progressive” dem administrations that have backed coups in latam and beyond specifically to literally kill off leftist movements and instill more conservative governments that benefit their interests oh yes this will fix things

[kharmii]

ngl it’s always interesting to watch and observe the American Elections as an European.

The fact that the results were this overwhelming this time is telling.

People are sick and tired of the nonsense that was going on in the past 4 years.

And now the people have spoken.

The cope is so entertaining to watch. I’m sitting here in Europe and eating popcorn while the wokies loosing it.

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Want some?

They went too far, as the radical left always does. The populace does not want expensive food/gas, abortion up until birth, unchecked immigration, mutilation of children, and unprosecuted crime. It was telling a guy named George Gascon lost reelection in the most leftist leaning city in the country, Los Angeles. He was one of those 'defund police' clowns who caused endless misery and death allowing criminals to operate freely. Sane normal people don't want that, even if they are left wing.

Anybody who wasn't the most foaming at the mouth cause head fanatic also didn't think it was right for the left to use lawfare to make Trump a felon, and of course it was the most horrific thing ever how they are actually putting out messages in the media encouraging nut jobs to take a shot at Trump. Now he won, the minorities and gays are all like.....HE'S GOING TO GENOCIDE!!!!!! (.....blahblahblah) when actually that man is the least vengeful person on earth. He's totally chill and hopefully will just get right on pushing through policy that will make everybody's life better.

I'm also hoping he'll pardon the political prisoners that were real victims of left wing lawfare. We still have Jan 6th protestors and abortion clinic protestors rotting in prison. A few cops who put down criminal noncontributing members of society who were dangers to the public were railroaded because the criminal scum happened to be minorities.

There's the ongoing case of Daniel Penny who put a crazy homeless guy named Jordan Neely in a chokehold after he went around threatening to murder people on the subway. The guy was a repeat offender with a history of threatening people and being a nuisance. Daniel Penny's chokehold didn't even kill him. He was still breathing when let go, but none of the responding officers wanted to put their mouths on his mouth to perform CPR because they were afraid of catching Hepatitis from a gross disgusting filthy homeless guy. Now Daniel Penny -instead of being labeled the hero of the subway- is being charged with murder, all because leftists are upset that a white guy had the nerve to stop a black guy from harassing people.

Then there's the case of Tina Peters who was given an 18-month prison sentence because she questioned our last fraudulent election. Left wing activists came up with reasons to charge her with a crime. Not only was she found guilty, but this douchebag activist judge told her off during sentencing in the worst way. He ground her face in the dirt and made her apologize. When handing out prison sentences, judges are supposed to take intent to commit a crime into consideration. There are murderers and child rapists who were treated less harshly than a women pushing sixty who questioned an obviously fraudulent election.

[beardedmrbean]

Switzerland's right-wing conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP) made gains in a federal election, winning more seats in parliament, final results showed on Monday.

The SVP consolidated its position as Switzerland's leading political party, winning almost 29% of the vote, giving it 62 seats in the 200-member National Council, nine more than before.

Switzerland's second-biggest party, the left-leaning Social Democrats (SP), also slightly increased its vote share to 18%, adding two more lawmakers to total 41.

The results were unlikely to affect the composition of the Federal Council, which is made up of seven members from four different parties, including two from the SVP.

Swiss politics shifts right

The results signal a rightward turn in Europe after victories or electoral gains by conservative parties in Greece, Sweden, and Italy over the last year.

Environmentally minded factions were the biggest losers: The Greens lost five seats in parliament's lower house and will now have 23, while the more centrist Liberal-Greens lost six and now will have 10.

Lisa Mazzone, a Green lawmaker seeking re-election, said the poll results showed "a context of fear, and clearly when we are afraid, we forget hope".

The SVP said it was clear the cost of living and immigration in Switzerland was the biggest concern amongst voters. 

"The situation in Switzerland is serious: we have mass immigration, we have big problems with people seeking asylum. The security situation is no longer the same as before," Thomas Aeschi, head of the SVP parliamentary group, told the AFP news agency.

"There are many people in Switzerland who fear the situation will get worse." The party ran an ad campaign that was branded "xenophobic" by the Federal Commission Against Racism because it focused on crimes perpetrated by foreigners.

The SP said it was concerned about the country's move to the right.

"It will be more difficult to fight for the cost of living, equality and climate policy," re-elected Social Democrat co-president Cedric Wermuth said.

Voting in Switzerland

The new members of parliament will appoint the Swiss federal government in December.

The lower house, the National Council, is elected by proportional representation.

Meanwhile, the upper house or Council of States is largely elected by majority vote.

The first two seats in the upper house were won by the newly formed party The Center.

One of them was a candidate who was elected unopposed and the other was elected earlier in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden by the Landsgemeinde — a form of direct democracy where people gather in the town square and raise their hands.

The parliamentary election is one of two main ways that Switzerland's population of 8.5 million have their say. The other is through regular referendums that are usually held four times per year.

[podcastpreacherman]

Election - Ha, it’s not what you think. Well, that is if you thought that this was going to be about the upcoming elections. Nope, this is about the ELECTIONs as per what the bible states about the word.This word “election” has been the topic of many good discussions, and worse decisions of course, as we have many denominational and non-denominational churches, which simply tells you, that we are not afraid to divorce ourselves to be right! Yes, the word election or belief of what it means has resulted in church divorces.And but the question is why, if the bible states God hates divorce.Mal 2:16 - “For the Lord God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one’s garment with violence,” Says the Lord of hosts. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously.”Hey Podcast Preacher, this pertains to people not His church or bride. Really? I know that you have been taught that the reason we have so many churches is that God wanted us to have options. Ha. This is a lie and simply an effort for them to justify division. The book of Acts does not discuss church denominational options but only locations. Ok so what is behind this great divide Ken? Well, it all started back when the Catholic church got sideways and became possessed of the anti-christ spirit. Now I am not picking on those who go to that church today, because many do so, totally unaware of its history and but although, they should still know by its current behaviors, and if they, like the rest of us, do not obey God and get to know Him intimately, then they will encounter a goat judgement from Jesus whereby they will not make it into heaven, and that will be baaaadddd.

[oneworldnewsblog]

Jammu and Kashmir's Assembly elections face uncertainty as opposition fears LG-nominated MLAs may sway results in favor of the BJP.

The stakes have never been higher as Jammu and Kashmir prepares for its first Assembly elections in over a decade. This throws open concerns over the role of five nominated members – a provision enabled by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 – who are nominated by the Lieutenant Governor for various segments of society, including two women, two Kashmiri Pandits and one displaced individual from Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. But that decision has sparked fears in opposition parties, which believe that this could turn out to be some form of “BJP plus” nominations.

Read more: Escalating Conflict: IDF Operations Expand in Southern Lebanon

Critics such as National Conference and Congress leaders argue that the power to nominate members should lie with an elected government. They regard it as a form of ‘pre-election rigging’, afraid that the nominees would cast their vote in unison with the BJP and thus sway the outcome of the election to the side of the ruling party. The BJP, on the other hand, is confident that the nominations are well within the legal framework established under the J-K Reorganisation Act.

Read more: ECI Results 2024: Accessing Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Poll Results

To that end, the legislative landscape has dramatically changed, with the strength of the Assembly doubling and now totaling 95 seats, reflecting a highly significant shift in representation. Not only are most of the more than 40% of candidates running as independents–indeed many considered to be BJP allies–but their leaders argue this is simply a vote-dividing ploy. Only then would the real implications of these developments be in the balance, holding in the balance the political future of Jammu and Kashmir-the country or countrymen of a million ballot boxes-minus the promised play-by-the-book ending.

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[arpov-blog-blog]

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has begun to see warning signs that the small-dollar donors who fueled his last run for the White House have slowed their support to the former president this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Since late last year, members of Trump’s team have been warned by Republican Party advisors that their small-dollar donor base could be shrinking, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters.

Some have even been told there may not be much that the former president or his campaign can do to win back these key donors, the sources explained.

The drop in Trump’s small-dollar contributors could be significant obstacle as the former president faces the well-funded incumbent president, Democrat Joe Biden.

Evidence from earlier in the 2024 election cycle already hinted at an erosion of Trump’s small-dollar donor base, or support of $200 or less.

In 2023, Trump’s reelection campaign raised 62.5% less money from small-dollar donors than it did in 2019, the year before the last presidential election.

In January of this year, Trump’s campaign reported raising around $3 million from small-dollar donors, according to data from OpenSecrets.

This may sound like a lot of money, but consider that Biden’s political operation raised nearly $2 million in just one day, Feb. 29, according to a campaign spokesman for the president.

Presidential campaigns have until March 20 to file their February fundraising disclosures to the Federal Election Commission and the public. Before that date, both sides try to shape the narrative by either playing up expectations or tamping them down.

For example, Biden’s campaign announced it raised $10 million in just the 24 hours following the president’s March 7 State of the Union address. But those numbers won’t be disclosed to the FEC until next month.

Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign told The New York Times that February was its strongest month so far in the 2024 campaign cycle for small-dollar donations. When CNBC asked a Trump spokesperson precisely how much was raised, the campaign did not reply.

One factor nobody disputes is that small-dollar donors are critical to Trump’s ability to raise enough money to fund his presidential campaign. During his failed 2020 reelection campaign, the $378 million he raised from small-dollar contributions represented almost half of the total cash.

The lion’s share of this money was raised during the final year of the campaign. Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, Trump’s campaign raised over $264 million from small-dollar supporters.

Trump’s struggle with small-dollar contributors so far this quarter could be due to donors not engaging as much with his often bombastic online pitches as they have in the past. It could also be the result of donor fatigue after nearly nine years of supporting him with contributions, people close to the Trump fundraising effort acknowledged."

[phillipcole]

Post-AGT Appearance 1288: Scott Shannon in the Morning January 29

Man of my Dreams would have dropped to 16 last week, Canadian Wildfires into the 90s on the country chart. Toad woman of Tennessee would have been first again last weekend with $16 million, reaching $195 million domestic. In international release it would have been first in 4 new countries where we introduced it last weekend, international total $98 million so far. Demon Dress would have reached $202 million. It would have been nominated for 4 Oscars: Fashion, hair and makeup, special effects and the song.

With Phillip in his likely final coma I would be drowning in interview requests. My agent would decide I should start with Scott Shannon. His representative would have rehearsed much of the interview and I would rehearse a bit with his producer. They would finally put me on earlier this hour today.

Shannon: Welcome back to Scott Shannon in the Morning. A lot of you remember the good old days of 2015-16 when every Monday morning about this time, or Tuesdays following a holiday weekend, we chatted with entertainer Phil Cole about his career, politics and world events. We can't go back to those wonderful days, but he is joining us this morning from, where are you Phil?

PBC: A bunker in Canada.

Shannon: And how are you? Like Humpty Dumpty you had a great fall recently.

PBC: Yes, I still have the bruise.

Shannon: If you don't know, Phil was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 2 weeks ago. He fell down at the end and no one knew if it was part of the performance. Was it, Phil?

PBC: Yes, but from now on if that happens, call the ambulance.

Shannon: I want you to know I understood the joke and, unfortunately, explaining it is not fit for a family audience. So, let's go on to the other matters that came up that night. Phillip is in a coma again.

PBC: Yes, and from now on the Colbert people decide when to pull the plug, whether he dies instantly, how to bury him...

Shannon: And when you finally reveal the last name on Phillip's sick list.

PBC: Yes, probably.

Shannon: There's some doubt about that part?

PBC: Yes, as always, the last person on the list could pass away while we're waiting for the Late Show to pull the plug.

Shannon: Aha! Is that likely?

PBC: I'm not telling, not even hinting.

Shannon: Also on that show you officially became the first-or maybe one of the first-to say that former President Trump's possession of classified documents is treason.

PBC: Yes, why is everyone afraid of that word?

Shannon: I don't know, but we now have a public opinion poll that says only 35% of Americans consider it a crime.

PBC: I think someone better start looking in the garages of the other 65%.

Shannon: Ha ha ha Now the reason Phillip is in the coma is because Trump won the New Hampshire primary. Were you surprised at all with the results?

PBC: Remember the line from Moby Dick. I see a madman beget more mad men.

Shannon: Indeed, and you are hiding in Canada now.

PBC: Not just hiding. I've been making deals that will eventually result in 3 more hit movies, LORD willing.

Shannon: Yes, and congratulations are in order. Your new movie was first 3 weeks in a row so far.

PBC: Yes, the 35% who thinks Trump is guilty of a crime must know a good movie when they see one.

Shannon: Well, I've seen Toad woman of Tennessee. I must admit that isn't normally my kind of movie, but you did a great job and Miley Cyrus should be a big star now.

PBC: Yes, she did great. I think her songs are going to be on the charts all year too.

Shannon: Now, you had nothing to do with the Miley Cyrus songs, right?

PBC: Yes, or with the song from Demon Dress.

Shannon: Nominated for 4 Oscars!

PBC: So I'm overcoming some of the hostility, but I still think someone might kill me soon.

Shannon: Hopefully things will blow over. In the past, Phil, you used the Shannon show to make predictions about upcoming elections. How do you think the Presidential primaries might shape up?

PBC: Well, for one thing, we have almost a month before the South Carolina primary.

Shannon: That's unusual. Why do you think that is?

PBC: They made it as late as they could to give President Robinette time to announce his retirement.

Shannon: Please tell us why you refer to President Biden as Robinette.

PBC: That's his middle name and his performance so far, especially in foreign policy, reminds me of a tiny bird.

Shannon: So you think both parties should dump the front runners and start fresh?

PBC: I don't know why anyone disagrees; I really don't.

Shannon: Now the top Democratic opponent is Congressman Dean Phillips. He lost New Hampshire badly despite the fact that President Biden's name wasn't on the ballot. How do you figure?

PBC: Well, that's very disappointing, but there was no good way out for New Hampshire Democrats. The reason they were not supposed to vote first is because they had no use for Robinette in 2020. Their top choices were appalling too though. So if they voted overwhelmingly for Phillips it would show that they have contempt on the incumbent. The last time they did that, it went badly. Phillips would be about my fifth choice if the same 12 people from 2020 were running against him. However he is the best Democratic choice right now, except when None of the Above is an option.

Shannon: Very good. Now on the Republican side, Trump still has 3 challengers. How did Governor Burgum win Iowa?

PBC: Iowa goes to the person who shakes the most hands. Then he gets 12% in New Hampshire because he had no time to visit New Hampshire until the last week.

Shannon: Do you see him doing well anywhere else?

PBC: If he understands the caucus system he can sweep the west.

Shannon: But most of the south votes first, except for Nevada.

PBC: I fear the worst in Nevada. The south is the key to victory.

Shannon: Nikki Haley is the Governor of South Carolina.

PBC: Yes, and she is in a tight spot. She has to win South Carolina. That won't do much for her though. I don't know if she can dominate the south. She somehow won the hearts of her state, but there's nothing southern about her.

Shannon: That brings us to Governor Ron Desantis of Florida.

PBC: Now he is a real southerner.

Shannon: Do you think he can do anything?

PBC: Cole, do you think Ron Desantis can win most of the southern primaries?

Cole: Nah, us southerners in places like Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky and Arkansas are so sick of them slick fellers from Florida and Texas tryin' to get our votes we ain't gonna vote for them no more.

Shannon: So, the outlook is not good for any of them .

PBC: Unless people come to their senses real fast.

Shannon: We have to take a break. Don't go away.

[ancestorsofjudah]

1 Kings 18: 16-20. "Vomit."

Will Elijah prove God means business with the King in front of the people or not? He says yes. Elijah has not one pretty word for him and delivers a scathing rebuke on Mount Carmel, "the high orchard garden":

Elijah on Mount Carmel

16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals. 

19 Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 

21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”

But the people said nothing.

The Assembly of the People includes the totality of the person and all persons. What one person witnesses in truth, all persons witness in truth. The first of these is the efficacy of the law.

Senior officials whether they are one's own faculties or in the White House cannot commit murder, they cannot marry or consort with dreary hobuckets, sleep with prostitutes, have sex with their kids, other people's kids, do copious amounts of drugs, lie, cheat, steal, or behave in a way that is unbecoming to their roles.

When these things surface, they are a sign the law is not working and that is what the people want to believe in before they will believe in anything else. When it fails, the disappointment is deep and lasting.

In the tale of King Ahab, the People of Israel Lacked conviction about his rancid conduct because they lived in fear him and his queen, Jezebel. As a result, the people have so far refused to challenge him.

Are we that afraid of Donald Trump and the Republicans that we refuse to confront them and insist President Biden rid us of them as easily as a windscreen hits a fly? Why won't the law do its job and swat them aside for us?

We know the Republicans, Evangelicals, Mormons, and Pro-Lifers cheated in the Election of 2016. We know Pro-Life is illegal, it was banned by international agreement decades ago.

We know the Mormons attacked the Capitol on January 6, we know they are incestuous, that they have sex with minors and so do almost all Republican lawmakers and Supreme Court Justices. We know our Vice President ,Kamala Harris is a sexual predator and has had sex with minors.

Early on we watched Donald Trump threaten to lynch an African American Woman at a rally. We watched him kill tens of thousands of immigrants in illegal concentration camps, we also saw him and his Administration tear thousands of children out of the arms of their parents and send them into the wilderness of countries they had never seen before.

He is also a sexual predator, has had sex with his daughter and his sons, and trafficks in underage pornography just like every member of his cabinet.

How can the American people be so divided about this man and the issues? Rational adults do not predate upon their own children for sex, there are very strict laws that govern the Age of Consent. There are plenty of teenaged boys with pubes and driver's licenses around that will legally prostitute themselves to important people. Raping little kids and trafficking their pornography is out of the question. But we allow this.

SO before we talk about the past, today, everyone who has a soul and a brain must insist President Biden act up to the limit of the law and exert the required effort- the Republican Party must be banned, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints must be banned, federal and international laws regarding genocide, apartheid and other war crimes and Reproductive Rights must be enforced, Donald Trump and his cabinet must be put in prison.

450 Prophets of Baal= 1889, אחחט‎, akhet,

ak= the definition of a despotic king of Israel according to the will of the people.

Only in Haggai 1:13 occurs a third noun, מלאכות (mal'akut), which appears to be a plural word used singular (like our word "people"). It means something like messagings.

Also note the similarity between our noun מלאך (mal'ak), meaning messenger, and מלך (melek), meaning king. These two words are not etymologically related, but their similarity seems to have helped to form the definition of a king in Israel.

het=that causes terror

50 Prophets of the Asherah=5111, הקיא, "the vomit." What is the vomit from an Asherah pole? A dirty discharge from an uncircumcised fungus penis. Dirty penis discharges are associated with the Ten Ephahs, or Ten Plagues of Egypt found in Parshiot Vayera and Bo.

Rather than shake my finger at the world about these, let us look instead at all the positive qualities of mankind the Torah says we should be benefitting from in our ruling classes found in Vayera:

Israel: Overcomes temptation. 

Hanok= Dedication

Pallu= Discernment

Hezron= Objective

Karmi= Noble

"The Leaders of Israel are expected to be dedicated, have superior discrimination and demonstrate noble character."

15 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

Simeon= Obedient, Lawful 

Jemuel= Pure, untainted, ever new

Jamin= “Right Handed”= Just

Ohad= Honest

Jakin= Established= calm, balanced,composed

Zohar= Intelligent, ingenious 

"They are law-abiding, just, honest, incorruptible, intelligent ingenious, balanced in all circumstances."

16 These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years [=2048, באֶפֶסדח‎, in Ephesdah, "in understanding of the past.]

Levi= Does not argue or cavil, amicable

Gershon= stoic, self-controlled

Kohath= forthrightness

Merari= forbearance, does not complain

"They are steadfast, and self-controlled, forthright and constructive."

17 The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.

Libni= the witness, keen observer

Shimei= of good repute

"They avoid the ungodly and associate with men of good reputations."

18 The sons of Kohath [gather, hope] were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath, “Forthright”  lived 133 years. [=1491, ‎א‎דטא, "Data"]

Amram= to bind= speaks the truth

Izhar= one who listens

Hebron= friendly to all 

19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.

Mahli= humble, forgiving

Mushi= withdraws, is conservative, frugal

These were the clans of Levi according to their records.

"The friendliest foster hope, they show empathy to others, are forgiving and helpful."

20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed “Glory of God”, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years. [=1456, אדה‎ו, edhu, "witness the wailing truth]

"Truth gives glory to God, exalts and embodies Him."

21 The sons of Izhar [sparkler] were Korah, Nepheg and Zikri.

Korah= “Bald” or “Cold as ice.” Probably refers to self-controlled, not vain, not levitous. 

Nepheg= attentive

Zikri= Zachary= leaves a good impression 

"They leave a good impression but are not vain."

22 The sons of Uzziel “principaled” were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.

Mishael= “Who is asked”, “is called”. 

Elzaphan= Who God Protects, 

Sithri = “one who protects in God’s stead” “is protective”. 

"They are principled and act in God's stead when called upon. This creates abundance, a place for other nobles to gather strategize, worship, serve, and govern. Citizens want to be loyal to these kinds of men, be their prisoners."

Thousands of years ago, The People of the Kingdom of Israel were silent when they should have spoken. Their silence made a monster of their kings who made fools out of them, and so have we. What are we going to do now?

[mariacallous]

The European Union on Monday criticised the elections held on Sunday in mainly Serbian north Kosovo, saying the very low turnout meant they offered no “long-term solution” to the crisis in the north.

“These elections do not offer a long-term political solution for these municipalities. This can only happen through permanent return of Kosovo Serbs to the institutions, and for Kosovo to enable this return,” the EU press release said, emphasizing that “work on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb majority Municipalities needs to be finalised as soon as possible”.

It added: “The EU regrets that not all parties and communities made use of their democratic right to participate and vote in the elections,” noting that “the very low turnout, in particular among Kosovo Serb citizens, shows that this process is not and cannot be considered business as usual”.

It continued: “Participation in electoral processes has the aim to ensure that the voices of the communities the elected leaders represent, will be heard.”

Only 1,567 citizens, about 3.47 per cent of registered voters, had voted by 7pm on Sunday in the Serb-dominated north, according to the CEC. Some 45,095 citizens had the right to vote in the four municipalities.

According to preliminary results of the Kosovo Central Election Commission, CEC, the candidates of the ruling Vetevendosje Movement won in North Mitrovica and Leposavic, while candidates of opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, won in the two other Serb-majority municipalities Zvecan and Zubin Potok.

Despite the setback caused by a Serbian boyott, the Kosovo government on Monday seemed determined to continue with the existing results.

PM Albin Kurti claimed the municipal elections were “calm and with no incidents,” but described the atmosphere as one of “fear and blackmail, therefore the participation of citizens in these elections was low. The boycott was imposed by the threatening campaign of official Belgrade and its criminal tools on the field in the north”.

However, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday called the boycott “a peaceful uprising of Serbian people”, who “will no longer tolerate exclusively imposed solutions, cruelty, mistreatment, wounding, shooting, just to get a sentence of praise from Brussels and Washington.”

“I’m afraid that many people didn’t understand that”, Vucic told the media in Belgrade on Monday.

Vucic said he suspected Kurti would try to use the results of the elections to say: “Well, I want the Association of Serbian Municipalities, but North Mitrovica does not want to be in the Association of Serbian Municipalities, Leposavic too, they do not want to be [in the ZSO], the leadership of those municipalities do not want to be in the Association of Serbian Municipalities,” referring to the fact that Vetevendosje candidates won in these two municipalities.

Vucic told the media in Belgrade on Monday that “the unique message” of Kosovo Serbs who boycotted the elections was that “we want our voice to be heard, for you to listen to us and you will not be able to work without us and without what we want”.

Vucic said only 13 Serbs in northern Kosovo had voted in total on Sunday, “two of them by mistake”, claiming that at some election polling stations no one came to vote at all.

Only one Serbian candidate in all four municipalities was in the race. Sladjana Pantovic ran as an independent candidate for Zvecan municipality. She received five votes.

The leading candidate for mayor of Leposavic, Aleksandar Jablanovic, had withdrawn on April 20, citing lack of conditions.

“We call on our citizens and supporters who were ready to vote for us to not go to polling stations on Sunday. There are no adequate conditions for elections to be held,” Jablanovic said.

His withdrawal left Leposavic with no Serbian candidate, while Serbs make up the vast majority of the population there.

The deputy leader of the Belgrade-backed Serbian party in Kosovo, Srpska Lista, Milan Radojicic, said the Serbian people in Kosovo would “never allow” the Serb-majority municipalities in the north to be led by those who won “1 or 2 per cent of the votes”.

Srpska Lista, which won the majority of the votes in all the four municipalities in the previous elections, did not participate in Sunday’s elections.

But the Kosovo Minister of Interior, Xhelal Svecla, claimed the new mayors in the north of would not have problems in their work.

He told Radio Free Europe on Sunday that “the law will be applied throughout the country”, adding that, “in the north, the difficulties are more specific, but there will be no problems”.

The extraordinary elections took place due to a mass resignation of Kosovo Serbs in early November 2022, which included the resignation of the four mayors of these municipalities.

The next high-level meeting between Kosovo and Serbia, within the EU-mediated dialogue, will be on May 2 in Brussels.

The EU envoy for the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, wrote on Facebook on Sunday that “the agenda will include the formal endorsement of the Declaration on Missing Persons, the presentation of the first draft Statute of the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo by the Management team, and pressing current issues”.

The heads of negotiating teams on April 4 compiled a document on a Declaration on Missing Persons, which is expected to be confirmed in the high level meeting on May 2. On April 18, one month after the verbal agreement on the implementation annex to a deal on normalization of relations in Ohrid, North Macedonia, a monitoring committee was established.

[tsardrewstar]

None of this is actual evidence, and none of this is actual “proof”. Most of these are screenshots from unofficial result and hearsay.

What actually happened was historical turnout in rural, white areas followed by a *slight* decrease in urban turnout and a *slight* shift to the right in black and hispanic results which caused Illinois and New Jersey to be swing states and Florida and Texas to have SAFE red margins. There were no bomb threats in any of those, people just voted for Trump. The elections in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan were ran by DEMOCRATS, and they STILL lost.

AND if you add 3 millions to Trump’s total and 17 million to Harris’s, Trump STILL wins the popular vote.

I’m a poll worker. The rural village I worked in went from 30% turnout to 80%. That happened nationwide.

Again, let’s not pull a Trump and cry about election fraud. We lost, but we are better than that horrible person. If you’re afraid, organize and fight for your rights. Campaign for the future. Advocate for what you believe in.

YOU CAN CONTACT THE WHITE HOUSE DIRECTLY!

• Go to this website: https://whitehouse.gov/contact

• Submit directly to the president

• Click the first option, select your reasoning as election security.

State these pieces of information in a paragraph:

• 32 fake Bomb Threats were called into democratic leaning poll places, rendering polls to be closed for at least an hour

A lot of people reporting their ballots weren't counted for various reasons that are not very sound seeming. (Signature invalidation, information that vote counter could not have had)

• This all occurred in swing states (PA, Nevada, Georgia, ETC.)

• This is all too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting of foul play.

• Directly state that an investigation for tampering / interference / fraud is required, not just a recount

[This was reposted from Twitter.]

[missmentelle]

Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things

If you’ve been paying attention for the last couple of years, you might have noticed that the world has a bit of a misinformation problem. 

The problem isn’t just with the recent election conspiracies, either. The last couple of years has brought us the rise (and occasionally fall) of misinformation-based movements like:

Sandy Hook conspiracies

Gamergate

Pizzagate

The MRA/incel/MGTOW movements

anti-vaxxers

flat-earthers

the birther movement

the Illuminati 

climate change denial

Spygate

Holocaust denial 

COVID-19 denial 

5G panic 

QAnon 

But why do people believe this stuff?

It would be easy - too easy - to say that people fall for this stuff because they’re stupid. We all want to believe that smart people like us are immune from being taken in by deranged conspiracies. But it’s just not that simple. People from all walks of life are going down these rabbit holes - people with degrees and professional careers and rich lives have fallen for these theories, leaving their loved ones baffled. Decades-long relationships have splintered this year, as the number of people flocking to these conspiracies out of nowhere reaches a fever pitch. 

So why do smart people start believing some incredibly stupid things? It’s because:

Our brains are built to identify patterns. 

Our brains fucking love puzzles and patterns. This is a well-known phenomenon called apophenia, and at one point, it was probably helpful for our survival - the prehistoric human who noticed patterns in things like animal migration, plant life cycles and the movement of the stars was probably a lot more likely to survive than the human who couldn’t figure out how to use natural clues to navigate or find food. 

The problem, though, is that we can’t really turn this off. Even when we’re presented with completely random data, we’ll see patterns. We see patterns in everything, even when there’s no pattern there. This is why people see Jesus in a burnt piece of toast or get superstitious about hockey playoffs or insist on always playing at a certain slot machine - our brains look for patterns in the constant barrage of random information in our daily lives, and insist that those patterns are really there, even when they’re completely imagined. 

A lot of conspiracy theories have their roots in people making connections between things that aren’t really connected. The belief that “vaccines cause autism” was bolstered by the fact that the first recognizable symptoms of autism happen to appear at roughly the same time that children receive one of their rounds of childhood immunizations - the two things are completely unconnected, but our brains have a hard time letting go of the pattern they see there. Likewise, many people were quick to latch on to the fact that early maps of COVID infections were extremely similar to maps of 5G coverage -  the fact that there’s a reasonable explanation for this (major cities are more likely to have both high COVID cases AND 5G networks) doesn’t change the fact that our brains just really, really want to see a connection there. 

Our brains love proportionality. 

Specifically, our brains like effects to be directly proportional to their causes - in other words, we like it when big events have big causes, and small causes only lead to small events. It’s uncomfortable for us when the reverse is true. And so anytime we feel like a “big” event (celebrity death, global pandemic, your precious child is diagnosed with autism) has a small or unsatisfying cause (car accident, pandemics just sort of happen every few decades, people just get autism sometimes), we sometimes feel the need to start looking around for the bigger, more sinister, “true” cause of that event. 

Consider, for instance, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II. In 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot four times by a Turkish member of a known Italian paramilitary secret society who’d recently escaped from prison - on the surface, it seems like the sort of thing conspiracy theorists salivate over, seeing how it was an actual multinational conspiracy. But they never had much interest in the assassination attempt. Why? Because the Pope didn’t die. He recovered from his injuries and went right back to Pope-ing. The event didn’t have a serious outcome, and so people are content with the idea that one extremist carried it out. The death of Princess Diana, however, has been fertile ground for conspiracy theories; even though a woman dying in a car accident is less weird than a man being shot four times by a paid political assassin, her death has attracted more conspiracy theories because it had a bigger outcome. A princess dying in a car accident doesn’t feel big enough. It’s unsatisfying. We want such a monumentous moment in history to have a bigger, more interesting cause. 

These theories prey on pre-existing fear and anger. 

Are you a terrified new parent who wants the best for their child and feels anxious about having them injected with a substance you don’t totally understand? Congrats, you’re a prime target for the anti-vaccine movement. Are you a young white male who doesn’t like seeing more and more games aimed at women and minorities, and is worried that “your” gaming culture is being stolen from you? You might have been very interested in something called Gamergate. Are you a right-wing white person who worries that “your” country and way of life is being stolen by immigrants, non-Christians and coastal liberals? You’re going to love the “all left-wingers are Satantic pedo baby-eaters” messaging of QAnon. 

Misinformation and conspiracy theories are often aimed strategically at the anxieties and fears that people are already experiencing. No one likes being told that their fears are insane or irrational; it’s not hard to see why people gravitate towards communities that say “yes, you were right all along, and everyone who told you that you were nuts to be worried about this is just a dumb sheep. We believe you, and we have evidence that you were right along, right here.” Fear is a powerful motivator, and you can make people believe and do some pretty extreme things if you just keep telling them “yes, that thing you’re afraid of is true, but also it’s way worse than you could have ever imagined.”

Real information is often complicated, hard to understand, and inherently unsatisfying. 

The information that comes from the scientific community is often very frustrating for a layperson; we want science to have hard-and-fast answers, but it doesn’t. The closest you get to a straight answer is often “it depends” or “we don’t know, but we think X might be likely”. Understanding the results of a scientific study with any confidence requires knowing about sampling practices, error types, effect sizes, confidence intervals and publishing biases. Even asking a simple question like “is X bad for my child” will usually get you a complicated, uncertain answer - in most cases, it really just depends. Not understanding complex topics makes people afraid - it makes it hard to trust that they’re being given the right information, and that they’re making the right choices. 

Conspiracy theories and misinformation, on the other hand, are often simple, and they are certain. Vaccines bad. Natural things good. 5G bad. Organic food good. The reason girls won’t date you isn’t a complex combination of your social skills, hygiene, appearance, projected values, personal circumstances, degree of extroversion, luck and life phase - girls won’t date you because feminism is bad, and if we got rid of feminism you’d have a girlfriend. The reason Donald Trump was an unpopular president wasn’t a complex combination of his public bigotry, lack of decorum, lack of qualifications, open incompetence, nepotism, corruption, loss of soft power, refusal to uphold the basic responsibilities of his position or his constant lying - they hated him because he was fighting a secret sex cult and they’re all in it. 

Instead of making you feel stupid because you’re overwhelmed with complex information, expert opinions and uncertain advice, conspiracy theories make you feel smart - smarter, in fact, than everyone who doesn’t believe in them. And that’s a powerful thing for people living in a credential-heavy world. 

Many conspiracy theories are unfalsifiable. 

It is very difficult to prove a negative. If I tell you, for instance, that there’s no such thing as a purple swan, it would be very difficult for me to actually prove that to you - I could spend the rest of my life photographing swans and looking for swans and talking to people who know a lot about swans, and yet the slim possibility would still exist that there was a purple swan out there somewhere that I just hadn’t found yet. That’s why, in most circumstances, the burden of proof lies with the person making the extraordinary claim - if you tell me that purple swans exist, we should continue to assume that they don’t until you actually produce a purple swan. 

Conspiracy theories, however, are built so that it’s nearly impossible to “prove” them wrong. Is there any proof that the world’s top-ranking politicians and celebrities are all in a giant child sex trafficking cult? No. But can you prove that they aren’t in a child sex-trafficking cult? No, not really. Even if I, again, spent the rest of my life investigating celebrities and following celebrities and talking to people who know celebrities, I still couldn’t definitely prove that this cult doesn’t exist - there’s always a chance that the specific celebrities I’ve investigated just aren’t in the cult (but other ones are!) or that they’re hiding evidence of the cult even better than we think. Lack of evidence for a conspiracy theory is always treated as more evidence for the theory - we can’t find anything because this goes even higher up than we think! They’re even more sophisticated at hiding this than we thought! People deeply entrenched in these theories don’t even realize that they are stuck in a circular loop where everything seems to prove their theory right - they just see a mountain of “evidence” for their side. 

Our brains are very attached to information that we “learned” by ourselves.

Learning accurate information is not a particularly interactive or exciting experience. An expert or reliable source just presents the information to you in its entirety, you read or watch the information, and that’s the end of it. You can look for more information or look for clarification of something, but it’s a one-way street - the information is just laid out for you, you take what you need, end of story. 

Conspiracy theories, on the other hand, almost never show their hand all at once. They drop little breadcrumbs of information that slowly lead you where they want you to go. This is why conspiracy theorists are forever telling you to “do your research” - they know that if they tell you everything at once, you won’t believe them. Instead, they want you to indoctrinate yourself slowly over time, by taking the little hints they give you and running off to find or invent evidence that matches that clue. If I tell you that celebrities often wear symbols that identify them as part of a cult and that you should “do your research” about it, you can absolutely find evidence that substantiates my claim - there are literally millions of photos of celebrities out there, and anyone who looks hard enough is guaranteed to find common shapes, poses and themes that might just mean something (they don’t - eyes and triangles are incredibly common design elements, and if I took enough pictures of you, I could also “prove” that you also clearly display symbols that signal you’re in the cult). 

The fact that you “found” the evidence on your own, however, makes it more meaningful to you. We trust ourselves, and we trust that the patterns we uncover by ourselves are true. It doesn’t feel like you’re being fed misinformation - it feels like you’ve discovered an important truth that “they” didn’t want you to find, and you’ll hang onto that for dear life. 

Older people have not learned to be media-literate in a digital world. 

Fifty years ago, not just anyone could access popular media. All of this stuff had a huge barrier to entry - if you wanted to be on TV or be in the papers or have a radio show, you had to be a professional affiliated with a major media brand. Consumers didn’t have easy access to niche communities or alternative information - your sources of information were basically your local paper, the nightly news, and your morning radio show, and they all more or less agreed on the same set of facts. For decades, if it looked official and it appeared in print, you could probably trust that it was true. 

Of course, we live in a very different world today - today, any asshole can accumulate an audience of millions, even if they have no credentials and nothing they say is actually true (like “The Food Babe”, a blogger with no credentials in medicine, nutrition, health sciences, biology or chemistry who peddles health misinformation to the 3 million people who visit her blog every month). It’s very tough for older people (and some younger people) to get their heads around the fact that it’s very easy to create an “official-looking” news source, and that they can’t necessarily trust everything they find on the internet. When you combine that with a tendency toward “clickbait headlines” that often misrepresent the information in the article, you have a generation struggling to determine who they can trust in a media landscape that doesn’t at all resemble the media landscape they once knew. 

These beliefs become a part of someone’s identity. 

A person doesn’t tell you that they believe in anti-vaxx information - they tell you that they ARE an anti-vaxxer. Likewise, people will tell you that they ARE a flat-earther, a birther, or a Gamergater. By design, these beliefs are not meant to be something you have a casual relationship with, like your opinion of pizza toppings or how much you trust local weather forecasts - they are meant to form a core part of your identity. 

And once something becomes a core part of your identity, trying to make you stop believing it becomes almost impossible. Once we’ve formed an initial impression of something, facts just don’t change our minds. If you identify as an antivaxxer and I present evidence that disproves your beliefs, in your mind, I’m not correcting inaccurate information - I am launching a very personal attack against a core part of who you are. In fact, the more evidence I present, the more you will burrow down into your antivaxx beliefs, more confident than ever that you are right. Admitting that you are wrong about something that is important to you is painful, and your brain would prefer to simply deflect conflicting information rather than subject you to that pain.

We can see this at work with something called the confirmation bias. Simply put, once we believe something, our brains hold on to all evidence that that belief is true, and ignore evidence that it’s false. If I show you 100 articles that disprove your pet theory and 3 articles that confirm it, you’ll cling to those 3 articles and forget about the rest. Even if I show you nothing but articles that disprove your theory, you’ll likely go through them and pick out any ambiguous or conflicting information as evidence for “your side”, even if the conclusion of the article shows that you are wrong - our brains simply care about feeling right more than they care about what is actually true.  

There is a strong community aspect to these theories. 

There is no one quite as supportive or as understanding as a conspiracy theorist - provided, of course, that you believe in the same conspiracy theories that they do. People who start looking into these conspiracy theories are told that they aren’t crazy, and that their fears are totally valid. They’re told that the people in their lives who doubted them were just brainwashed sheep, but that they’ve finally found a community of people who get where they’re coming from. Whenever they report back to the group with the “evidence” they’ve found or the new elaborations on the conspiracy theory that they’ve been thinking of (��what if it’s even worse than we thought??”), they are given praise for their valuable contributions. These conspiracy groups often become important parts of people’s social networks - they can spend hours every day talking with like-minded people from these communities and sharing their ideas. 

Of course, the flipside of this is that anyone who starts to doubt or move away from the conspiracy immediately loses that community and social support. People who have broken away from antivaxx and QAnon often say that the hardest part of leaving was losing the community and friendships they’d built - not necessarily giving up on the theory itself. Many people are rejected by their real-life friends and family once they start to get entrenched in conspiracy theories; the friendships they build online in the course of researching these theories often become the only social supports they have left, and losing those supports means having no one to turn to at all. This is by design - the threat of losing your community has kept people trapped in abusive religious sects and cults for as long as those things have existed. 

[wilwheaton]

Rather than trying to win future elections by attracting new voters, Trump Republicans wish to reshape the electoral system to produce more favorable results. Instead of using the 2020 presidential loss as a guide for additional outreach, Trump Republicans want to ensure they can claim and enforce a victory in 2024 with essentially the same vote total as 2020 — probably the high-water mark of the Trump coalition. In some ways, the Trump movement of authoritarian populism is forward-looking. It eternally relitigates the 2020 election as preparation for the next. Compared with the utter chaos of previous efforts, this time there seems to be a strategy at work. First, undermine Republican confidence in the electoral system and stoke the party’s sense of grievance. Second, modify state election laws to try to discourage Democratic (and particularly minority) turnout. Third, replace or intimidate state election officials who show any hints of independence or integrity. The first goal has been achieved: In a recent poll, more than two-thirds of Republicans denied the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election as president. Results on the second goal (so far) have been mixed. Republican “reforms” have made the system marginally less fair than the status quo, but not quite as bad as some feared. The third goal is where the threat of violence has mattered most. Officials who held the line against electoral corruption in 2020 have been worn down by threats. Some have retired or been forced out of office. State legislators who didn’t act as reliable partisans have been targeted and intimidated. All who resist Trump’s will know they will be singled out by name. They will be exposed to political jeopardy and physical peril, particularly from activists who view the right to bear arms as the right to make armed threats. This is not a joke. This is not a myth. This is not a drill. According to a survey last year, a majority of Republicans agreed with the statement: “The traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.”

The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics. We should all be afraid.

[dyns33]

Mister President?

I made a little something about President Loki... Kinda.

It was the same voice, but different. Deeper. With a funny accent.

When Y/N turned around, what she saw troubled her even more.

It was his face. His colours. His horns. But Loki looked... different.

He sometimes wore black suits to go unnoticed in the street. But not with the horns. And the little 'Vote for Loki' badge was an addition.

           "Hello." he purred with his new voice.

           "... Hi. What is this outfit... Mister President ?"

           "Actually, I'm only a presidential candidate. At the moment. I've come to find out if I have your vote."

           "... My vote ?"

What he said didn't make any sense, but Loki didn't seem to be joking. It wasn't his prank smile. It was his flirtatious smile, for when he wanted to get something.

           "Sure !" he continued. "I have to know if the people are behind me, otherwise I have to convince them before the big day !"

           "... I'm pretty sure you have to be an American to be able to be president of the United States."

           "Details ! People want results ! They want a real leader, and I was born to rule ! I am clearly the best for this job. So, my Lady, do I have your vote now... Or do I have to convince you ? "

           "Uh..."

           "I can make all your wishes come true." he sang as he approached, taking her hand to kiss it. "I would do everything for you. Everything. The well-being of my subjects is the most important to me. I may be the ruler, but I work for my constituents. It is a partnership. We can bring each other a lot of pleasure, mutually."

Y/N was now totally lost, but she couldn't really concentrate. His voice, his eyes, his smile, his lips... If Loki really decides to be a candidate one day, he could really have his chances of winning the elections, or at least the hearts of many voters. She no longer felt her legs, although he had only spoken.

But it was easy with her, he had already seduced her for a long time. Y/N hoped he wouldn't use the same techniques on voters as with her.

This funny thought was cut short when Loki kissed her. The kiss was passionate, exciting, awesome and... different. There really was something different. Not normal.

Then another thought appeared in Y/N's mind.

He hadn't said her name. He was saying strange things. He was not as usual.

... What if it wasn't Loki ?

An enemy in disguise, using magic or some very complex technology ? A clone ? A robot ? Some kind of variant from another universe ?

But why take the appearance of Loki, why want to become president, why come to see her ? It just didn't make sense.

There had to be some other explanation, but all Y/N saw at that moment was that maybe it wasn't Loki, not her Loki, and she refused to kiss anyone other than him, so she pushed him away, before going quickly to take refuge behind the table, taking one of the chairs to defend herself.

           "Darling ?" the candidate asked, surprised.

           "Who are you ? Where's Loki ?!"

           "... What ?"

           "The accent, the costume, the kiss… I'm not stupid. You're not him ! Where is he ? What do you want ?"

           "... Y/N, darling, calm down, it's me."

His voice had changed, becoming normal again. His expression too. Only the clothes were left, but it was Loki, her Loki, who looked both amused and embarrassed by the situation. He found it adorable that she was afraid to cheat on him... with him.

           "... I don't understand." she said, preferring to remain suspicious.

           “I heard Stark talk about… roleplay. I found it very exciting, so I wanted to give it a try. King Loki, it was too obvious. Prince Loki, I am, all the time. I would love to try with my Asgardian fighter outfit, but next time. If you want. I thought about another type of leader for today, that was funny. I'm sorry, I should have told you about it. I thought that it would be a nice surprise. I didn't think... I was too convincing I guess. Too in my role. I didn't want to scare you. We can do something else if you prefer. Or stop altogether, if that don't please you."

Roleplay. Of course Loki, God of Mischief, was going to love roleplaying. It was amazing he had never done one before. No doubt he had, but he didn't remember it, or he hadn't called it that.

Loki probably preferred to be himself in bed, to have his name called out.

But he could disguise himself while still being himself. Maybe he never thought about that.

He obviously wanted to try, and who was Y/N to deny him that ?

           "... What about ecology ?"

           "... Eh ?"

           "What is your project for ecology... Mister President ?

           "... I... Ecology..."

           "We'll see that later." she said quickly, coming back to him, opening the buttons on her shirt one by one. "What do you plan to do to meet the needs of your constituents ? To satisfy their wants ? President Loki ?"

           "... Oh. I'm ready to do anything."

           "Really ? Prove it." Y/N moaned, grabbing his tie.

So Loki threw himself on her. They didn't have time to go to the bedroom, and unfortunately the table didn't support their weight, although it was kind enough to wait until they were finished before breaking.

After that, Loki found other roles. Boss, Biker, Waiter, Pirate, Professor, Neighbour, Postman, Doctor, Shield Agent, Captain America, Lady... His imagination had no limits, as did his libido.

Not that Y/N was complaining.