Republican nominee for Mark Meadows seat to be decided in May runoff

The Republican primary to decide on a replacement for one of President Trump's most outspoken defenders in a conservative, western North Carolina district was forced to a May 12 runoff because none of the seven candidates managed to earn at least 30% of the vote. The 11th District seat is currently occupied by the retiring Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican, prominent member of the House Freedom Caucus, and close ally of Trump. Meadows, 60, announced in December he would not seek reelection, after first winning the seat in 2012. The district is still solidly red. In 2016, Trump won Meadows's district with a 29.2% wide margin.

Meadows threw his support behind Haywood County Republican Party Chairwoman Lynda Bennett, one of the two top candidates in the primary who will participate in a primary runoff for the seat. Bennett received 22.7% of the primary vote. Along with Meadows, Bennett received endorsements from Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who is also a vocal defender of Trump on the Ukraine military aid scandal and other developments. Bennett's runoff competitor is Madison Cawthorn, who received 20.4%. Cawthorn owns a real estate investment firm and is a motivational speaker who often talks about his experience from a car accident that left him paralyzed.

Democrats, however, avoided a runoff, and nominated retired U.S. Air Force Col. Morris Davis to represent them in the 11th District’s general election.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/republican-nominee-for-mark-meadows-seat-to-be-decided-in-may-runoff

Twitter tests out new disappearing tweets called 'fleets

Twitter is giving a new type of tweet, which disappears after 24 hours, a test run in Brazil. The new type of message, dubbed a “fleet,” was designed to encourage people to post about their everyday life more often. The company hopes the disappearing nature of fleets will assuage worries that users may have about the permanency of what they post online. Fleets are also different than tweets in the sense that they can’t be "re-fleeted" or liked. Users can interact with the new messages, though, but any replies to the fleets go directly to the fleeter and are private, not public threads, as is the case with tweets. The new type of message mirrors moves made by other social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram, which both allow users to post photos with text that, unless saved to one’s phone, disappear after a day.

Twitter differs from other forms of social media in that it is used more frequently by high-profile public figures and politicians. President Trump’s Twitter feed has become a public platform on which he often expresses his thoughts. However, tweets of years past have come back to haunt people. In September, a man went viral when he held up a sign soliciting beer money via the money-sharing app Venmo and later decided to donate to the University of Iowa's Stead Children's Hospital. Soon after, the Des Moines Register wrote a profile on him and included offensive tweets he had written eight years prior. The move prompted outrage, and the reporter who wrote the story was fired after it was found that he himself had posted tweets containing the N-word years earlier.

It isn’t clear if fleets will become a permanent feature as it is just being tested in Brazil, but Twitter said it could expand the new type of messages to other countries if the fleets get a positive response.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/twitter-tests-out-new-disappearing-tweets-called-fleets

https://apnews.com/afc211cfd5fb653140f1ff6e5a091870

'One orb, slightly used': MBS book reveals fate of Trump's mysterious Saudi sphere

Saudis gave gadget that briefly captivated the internet to the US – but embassy officials fearful of scandal soon hid it away

The mysterious glowing orb which Donald Trump, King Salman and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi clutched in Riyadh in May 2017 is now in US possession, according to a new book – but is hidden away for fear of causing a scandal. The bizarre factoid is contained in MBS, a new book by the New York Times correspondent Ben Hubbard about the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, which will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.

Hubbard recounts the crown prince’s rise to power and his ruthless suppression of rivals; his direction of Saudi foreign policy including the war in Yemen; and his links to the October 2018 murder in Istanbul of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and regime critic who lived in the US and worked for the Washington Post. The author also details apparent Saudi attempts to hack his phone, an experience which the Guardian recently revealed he allegedly shares with Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the richest man in the world. But in his examination of the development of Prince Mohammed’s close and controversial relationship with the Trump administration, Hubbard also reveals the fate of the memorable orb, which Trump encountered on his first overseas trip as president.

Local media reported that when the presidents of the US and Egypt and the Saudi monarch caressed the pulsing sphere, it “officially activated” the Saudis’ new Global Centre for Combating Extremist Ideology “and launched a splashy welcome video”. The internet had other ideas, of course, and images of the bizarre ceremony paired with scenes from The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek and Star Wars spread rapidly online, to general if predictably short-lived hilarity. Hubbard reveals that after Trump went home, “an unusual accessory showed up in a hallway at the US embassy in Riyadh: one orb, slightly used”. The Saudis, he writes, had noticed US visitors to their Centre gleefully taking pictures with the orb, so they decided to give it to their American guests.

Alas, the orb’s fate matched that of many who come into contact with Trump: after shining brightly for a brief but brilliant moment, it was consigned to the chilliest outer darkness. “It sat in a hallway for a number of days, where diplomats passing by would pose for photos,” Hubbard writes. But then “someone apparently worried that the photos would make their way online and cause a scandal, so the orb was hidden away in embassy storage”. Hubbard does not report that the orb now lies, like the Ark of the Covenant in the Indiana Jones movie, in a forgotten crate deep in some vast government warehouse, glowing with a faint but ominous pulse. The Guardian prefers to believe that it does.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/04/trump-orb-saudi-arabia-mbs-book

>>8317557

>The bible was inspired by God.

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>That's the closest you will get to God, until you're saved.

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>If you're not saved, it is the closest you will get to God, until you see Him on a great white throne, and you are on trial to defend your life. To prove that you have used your knowledge of good and evil to be like God.

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>And you will stand condemned already, having not believed in the risen Christ Jesus.

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>Tough universe. You only get one life to straighten out your eternal destination. One of two.

Have seen this statement before…Who or what determines when one is Saved?

>>8317666

Please expand…what does that mean exactly..

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>>8317746

Here is what I asked.. It was very specific, I have asked this question of many so far none have been able to answer these exact questions..

>Have seen this statement before…Who or what determines when one is Saved?

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>>8317823

Thanks anon that was exactly my point…we are not here for that.