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So here's what happened in today's Stupid Olympics. There are two people named Dana White. One is President and CEO of the UFC The other is Dana W. White, who served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary James Mattis Their pictures are below. He's the white guy. She's the Black woman. I'll call them UFC Dana and DOD Dana to make it easier for you. Suzie Wiles, shortly before being replaced by Count Stephen Miller, advised Trump that his new Press Secretary should be Dana White. And Trump in all his finite wisdom, immediately assumed the UFC Dana, who has never done anything to prepare him for press secretary, and not DOD Dana, whose entire career has been in preparation for that. Now you might be saying, "Kelly, not everyone knows about DOD Dana. It's an honest mistake." But he's NOT just "everyone." He's the President of the United States. And this is a man whose administration has been firing Black people, women, trans people, and so on, insisting that none of them got their job based on merit. And then he's going to name someone completely unqualified to be Press Secretary because the President is a fan of the UFC. And he didn't even think to ask anyone. It never even occurred to him to ponder whether UFC Dana is the person he should pick as Press Secretary. Stupid and incurious are a dangerous combination, and this man is both of those things. And that got me to thinking about the two Dan Sullivan in Alaska. And I get it now. The man who is too stupid to know the difference between two Dana Whites thinks Alaskans are too stupid to know the difference between two Dan Sullivans.

If you're seeing the "20 million new Democratic voters is impossible" nonsense, let me explain what reality actually is. They are getting that number by comparing 2022 to 2026 from states that don't require voter ID. The gist is that there were 19.1 million new registrations from 2022-2024, but the Democrats had 20.5 million more House votes in the House in 2026 than 2022. "How can they have more new votes than new voters?!?!?!" is the hysterical claim. So here's the answer. 1. Their numbers are the registration changes from 2022-2024, while the results changes are the difference between 2022 and 2026. Obviously, people registered between 2024 and 2026, but none of those are included in their little conspiracy nonsense. 2. Not everyone who voted in 2026 but not in 2022 is a "new voter." Many are people who sat out in 2022 but not in 2026. 39% of Democrats who voted in 2026 did not vote in 2022. 3. Not everyone who voted Republican in 2022 voted the same in 2026. Over 7% of Trump voters cast a ballot for a Democrat in 2026. 4. The premise of the argument seems to be that the "no voter ID" requirement made it easier for noncitizens to vote, but many of the states with massive flips, like Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, and even Mississippi had a massive flip to the left. If the premise held, then we'd only see the flips in states without voter ID laws. Not that most of the people who follow me are confused, but just in case you were wondering why this nonsense came from or want to share it with your MAGA, reality-denying in-laws. But be nice, they are going through all the stages of grief at the same time.