Good riddance

So much is at stake in these midterm elections, folks.

Everyone needs to hear how Obama just finished his speech in Philadelphia.

What if all these antics from Elon Musk were just a ploy to get conservatives to buy electric cars?

OK - here you go. A rogue's gallery of the red wave/red wedding predictions. I'm only including terrible forecasts made by high-profile people - if I included all the ones made in my mentions by Brians bunch of numbers (like the one below), the thread would be 100 tweets long.

1. It's astonishing how wrong so many of the predictions of a 'red wave/tsunami' were. I for one am fed up with pundits and commentators getting things so, so wrong & then just... moving on. So here's a thread/reminder of some of the worst midterm predictions. Read/share/enjoy:

For the sake of our democracy, leadership in both parties should let the next generation step in. Nancy Pelosi is 82 years old and has been in office for 35 years. Great run. Now please get out of the way. cnn.com/2022/11/13/pol…

Incredible respect for Pelosi/Hoyer/Clyburn but it’s nice to see a new leadership group where the old one is 59 instead of the young one being 82.

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📙🇺🇸 Publishing today with Éditions de l'Aube, the English translation of Ludivine Gilli's book detailing the perils facing democracy in the United States. Available in e-book: : fnac.com/livre-numeriqu…

I’m going to write a book about what it’s like navigating through the construction on North St. Mary’s Street right now. It will be Choose Your Own Adventure and every page leads to a dead end.

Incroyable discours prémonitoire du général de Gaulle en 1919.. Ecrit il y a siècle, il n'y a rien à enlever..

Democrats introduce constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United campaign finance ruling trib.al/1yngsED

Dimon manages trillions of dollars in assets, but apparently doesn't know how #Bitcoin works.

Seems like a case of “normalcy bias” but then again what’s normal nowadays? nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/…

for some *ridiculous* reason the french love to translate movie titles from english to... english here's a thread with my all-time favorites, starting with "the hangover" ...i mean VERY BAD TRIP

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Dumb question, but has any presidential primary candidate ever become the frontrunner by defending the frontrunner?nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/…

PROBABILITY DEBUNKING DUJOUR, Do tall people make more money? Friends, the R^2 for this graph is between .01 and .17 meaning there is between 0 and 3.6% chance this really applies to you or any single person. The Financial Times has a lot of narrative around BS. Probability is hard.