July 11, 2021
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Rosner: Yeah, uh, just before we started recording in the previous session, you asked if I feel relieved now that things are better. I responded by saying that I’m not relieved because the situation is not clearly better. Allow me to elaborate on that. It’s true that we have a president who is competent, morally sound, intelligent, and sane. However, what remains uncertain is the relentless push for voter suppression by the Republicans. It’s unclear whether we can effectively counter their efforts.
This push for voter suppression is grounded in the minds of most Republicans who support it, both sincerely and cynically. They subscribe to the big lie that Biden didn’t win the election and that there was widespread fraud. Consequently, they argue that strict voter security laws are necessary. However, it’s evident to anyone who isn’t a Republican that the level of fraud in the election was no different from previous ones, with only minor irregularities that didn’t significantly impact the outcomes. For example, in Florida, they discovered instances where Republicans strategically ran candidates with similar names to draw votes away from the genuine Democratic candidates. While this affected a few state races, it didn’t influence national elections.
Despite the lack of substantial evidence, Republicans insist that they will uncover enough fraud to overturn the election results. However, it has been eight months since the election, and there is no provision in the U.S. Constitution or laws to overturn an election, even if fraud were proven. Yet, they continue to propagate this notion, and more than 50 percent of self-identified Republicans believe that Trump was the real winner.
Reality seems to have had no impact on a significant portion of the electorate, although this group is gradually shrinking due to the Republican party’s incompetence. Unfortunately, elected Republicans, who are pushing for voter suppression, remain unaffected by facts. Historically, the Democrats narrowly hold the House, and typically, the party in power loses the House during midterm elections. With voter suppression tactics and the historical trend of people voting against the party in power, it is highly likely that Republicans will gain control of the House. This could lead to even more voter suppression measures. The laws they are attempting to pass are unlike any seen before in the history of the U.S. For instance, these laws grant state legislatures the power to overturn election results in their state if they deem them suspicious. This means that even if a Democrat were to win the popular vote in a state with a Republican-controlled legislature, they could overturn the results and assign electors to vote for the Republican candidate in the Electoral College. If enough states pass these laws, we may never have a non-Republican president in the near future, despite Republicans rarely winning the popular vote. It’s a dire situation.
While we have bought some time, approximately 18 months, to pass legislation, the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Voting Rights Act adds to the urgency. Previously, states with a history of suppressing votes, especially from minority and low-income communities, were required to have their laws reviewed and approved by a national legislative body or the courts. However, five years ago, the Roberts court ruled that the Voting Rights Act no longer applies, claiming that voting issues in the Civil War states had been resolved. This has turned out to be far from true. The problems persist, and the U.S. urgently needs to pass new voting rights legislation. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that this will happen. If it fails, our situation may be even worse than when Trump was president. The end.
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(Updated July 25, 2019)
*High range testing (HRT) should be taken with honest skepticism grounded in the limited empirical development of the field at present, even in spite of honest and sincere efforts. If a higher general intelligence score, then the greater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of the greater rarity in the population.*
According to some semi-reputable sources gathered in a listing here, Rick G. Rosner may have among America’s, North America’s, and the world’s highest measured IQs at or above 190 (S.D. 15)/196 (S.D. 16) based on several high range test performances created by Christopher Harding, Jason Betts, Paul Cooijmans, and Ronald Hoeflin. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writers Guild Awards and Emmy nominations, and was titled 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Directory with the main “Genius” listing here.
He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmys, The Grammys, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He worked as a bouncer, a nude art model, a roller-skating waiter, and a stripper. In a television commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the “World’s Smartest Man.” The commercial was taken off the air after Subway sandwiches issued a cease-and-desist. He was named “Best Bouncer” in the Denver Area, Colorado, by Westwood Magazine.
Rosner spent much of the late Disco Era as an undercover high school student. In addition, he spent 25 years as a bar bouncer and American fake ID-catcher, and 25+ years as a stripper, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. Errol Morris featured Rosner in the interview series entitled First Person, where some of this history was covered by Morris. He came in second, or lost, on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? over a flawed question and lost the lawsuit. He won one game and lost one game on Are You Smarter Than a Drunk Person? (He was drunk). Finally, he spent 37+ years working on a time-invariant variation of the Big Bang Theory.
Currently, Rosner sits tweeting in a bathrobe (winter) or a towel (summer). He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, dog, and goldfish. He and his wife have a daughter. You can send him money or questions at LanceVersusRick@Gmail.Com, or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn, or see him on YouTube.
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