We have one consistency, people want to feel they are better than others. Otherwise we give it another 15 years and this same article will come out and it'll be about Gen alpha. As it was not long ago about millennials, and all the way up.

Hegseth was a "Major" in the Army before becoming secretary of defense, that's rank O-4. He replaced someone who was a 4 star general O-10.

They ran on "hiring by merit" and put someone 6 ranks lower in as secretary of defense.

There shouldn't have been a single veteran or member of the military who didn't look at that and say.. wtf?

I hadn't seen him outside of like a photo after his "re-appearence" or whatever. My spouse showed me a video short of him yesterday with a journalist asking him what his thoughts are about the Republicans losing so many seats and how it will effect Trumps actions in the upcoming years. Mitch couldn't nod, shake his head, or open his mouth. I don't think he could even comprehend someone was asking him a question or where he was.

People are essentially pushing around a meat sack to subvert the Republic all the while abusing the hell out of this elderly person.

I would think his constituents would be demanding to know who is acting as their rep, because it isn't Mitch, and they weren't elected.

What are you thinking it will take votes wise to make for a government shutdown by December 11th?

Yeah culturally we would need people to accept the answer in the post, but in practice you quickly see someone pivot to then explaining why their opinion is what you should hold because the following bias information they use.

That will happen by those who are greedy, but also those who want to help people.

When someone honestly believes that switching to EVs would have somehow caused chaos, then telling someone not to buy an EV wasn't necessarily them trying to hurt things, they believe they are doing the right thing.

I mean the Musk part of it is just weird. He owns an EV company, spends his money to hurt EV sales, supports Texas being anti EVs, but wants to move all his businesses there. Like the whole EV cab business only works if the people are willing to get in the cabs. And he's trying to convince people on the right to hate them, and the left to hate him...

So he has to be losing half the market intentionally it seems.

Apparently he said elsewhere Sony told him Bethesda pulled the license, so Sony may not even have any play in this other than being the storefront. If so this would be like being mad at Walmart because the Windows license they sold you stopped working and Walmart is like yeah... We see you bought it here, but you need to talk to Microsoft about why they pulled it after years of use.

The credit card company wouldn't just give you the money for the other purchases, and they'd probably flag you at that point so if something does happen in the future they wouldn't be willing to really look into it.

Yeah I think impeachment gets dicey around what could qualify or not. Their actions don't actually have to be criminal. What falls under harmful to the public trust becomes more of an opinion than a set rule. Like, does taking money for your campaigns from donors tied to supportimg our country starting wars across an ocean with people that in no way benefits the public? Someone could probably make that argument, that saying we should continue sending missiles to a country that has been continuously proven to use them to kill children/innocents/and needed infrastructure for humanity to survive... I would say is harmful to the public trust... But I'm sure others wouldn't.

The comical thing is that 49 states have written laws pertaining to automatically doing a recount if the numbers are this close. Kind of like Florida did in 2000. Mississippi is that 1 of 50 states that does not have one.

So without proven fraud, I can't see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them

Hopefully 100+ new people trying to join congress in 2028

2028 seems probable, I'm hoping from everything we saw the last 12 years though makes there be a medicare for all or something similar out in place in 2029. Other changes definitely needed but if they land that.. maybe 2032, but that's so far away we have as close of a guess that the U.S. won't be a nation by then

Edit: accidentally said 2009 instead of 2029, comical tho

When? 2029-2033?

There is a reason that Trump said he was going to veto everything for the next 2 years if they lost midterms. They can't pass bills without his signature or a few Republicans on board agreeing.

It sounds like they are switching their AI tools in schools to opt-in, where the school chooses for their network? Not sure how that is set up but I mean... What would be bad about that?

Yeah if you look at 2000 in particular Bush "won" by .01%.

If you are familiar with that election that is when Al Gore won the popular vote in the U.S., a recall was called in Florida twice and conspiracies surround how Bush's own brother was the Governir of Florida.

Basically first count said Bush won by 1784 votes ~.009%. That triggered and automatic recount by the machines. Which came back saying he actually only won by 327 votes, meaning the room for error was wider than the election. His brother helped stall a manual recount, they sent it to the Supreme Court and the U.S. supreme court decided it didn't matter because hand counting them would take time and awarded all 25 elector votes to Bush, making him President of an election he had not one neither the population, nor possibly the electors... But we'll never know.

Florida has gone to the right in the last 10 years but before that they always swung back and forth.

Like if you look at who Florida voted for, it was pretty much who won president except the Trump 2020 election.

Election Year Winning Candidate Party Margin of Victory

1960 John F. Kennedy D -0.2%

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson D +27.0%

1968 Richard Nixon R +5.0%

1972 Richard Nixon R +27.0%

1976 Jimmy Carter D +1.9%

1980 Ronald Reagan R +10.0%

1984 Ronald Reagan R +20.0%

1988 George H.W. Bush R +10.0%

1992 Bill Clinton D +2.0%

1996 Bill Clinton D +5.0%

2000 George W. Bush R +0.01%

2004 George W. Bush R +5.0%

2008 Barack Obama D +2.8%

2012 Barack Obama D +0.9%

2016 Donald Trump R +1.2%

2020 Donald Trump R +3.4%

2024 Donald Trump R +13.1%

They were saying Kansas's was like 1930-1939 or some shit, yet they appear to have actually put one in according to the numbers out so far. Crazy to think 2 World Wars, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq (multiple times), (should mention all the South America shit but the list is getting to long) never considered a change but now something has sparked some kind of change for them

I'm over here wondering how Mississippi is so close

So I'm a paranoid person, if they don't already have the parts for the replacement I would question how long they would take to acquire after turning the water off... Because while the hot water tank in theory shouldn't drain anything, if others start trying to wash hands, clean dishes or take a shower the water from the tank would still come out and then you are heating lower amounts of water and air in the tank.

So the what could go wrong always has me cut the breaker to the hot water heater before I shut off the water main.