Where the Democrats campaigned and spent money, they won. There just were more places where they didn't campaign or spend money.
As for "the brand", I think it really hurt Harris that Republicans would put up ads with Harris saying something easily spun as "crazy radical", and the Harris campaign response to this was to remind us that Donald Trump is a real jerk.
I don't think that "undercuts" anything, I think that's more like boilerplate, it's what they're required to say as their response to "what if someone actually does encounter a drone after all".
Like, you ask "what do I do if I encounter a grizzly bear" and they say "play dead", that doesn't mean they expect you to encounter a grizzly bear in the near future.
"[Isaacman] has a sketch of a plan to replace it with a series of smaller rockets that will do the job at a fraction of the cost."
ah-heh. A fraction of the cost per rocket, but two to three times the cost for the actual mission, which is what always happens when you try to do multi-launch missions with on-orbit rendezvous and docking included.
But it feels smaller because the rockets aren't as big, and (as anyone who works in the restaurant industry can tell you) people who don't know the details tend to assume that size = cost.
It is very amusing that "taking someone's whacko statements and 'editing' them to make them sound nicer in a press release" is now a bad thing because it's being done for Republican-associated whacko statements.
Intriguing follow-up to that with a very #cyberpunkfuture touch: Chinese farmers were using drones to spread swine flu to other farmers' herds, literally killing off the competition. This was discovered when airliners started having navigation trouble when flying over farmland; the pig herders were using jammers to interfere with this drone-spreading activity, and the jammers were affecting the airplanes' radios.
I remember people scoffing that Trump was getting thoroughly owned because China was "punishing" his trade policies by refusing to buy soybeans.
It turned out that the Chinese mostly used soybeans as pig fodder and there was a massive swine-flu epidemic in China in 2018, so the reduction in soybean orders had nothing to do with trade policy at all, but then 2020 happened and everyone forgot about it.
It is heartwarming, in a way, to see that immigrants so thoroughly assimilate to median American culture that they develop the same energy as a white man who thinks he can talk his way out of a traffic ticket by calmly explaining to the police officer that he's not that bad of a driver compared to the real maniacs out there.
I'm looking forward to hearing an explanation of how it was only declining sales and had nothing to do with theft and Safeway's a bunch of racist liars, and said explanation failing to consider the fact that the reason sales were declining was that all the stuff they were trying to sell kept getting stolen.
People are wondering why there was a trial at all, and the point is that without a trial to establish that Violence Is The Provenance Of The State, you get "Death Wish".
Although given that people here are still cheering on that nutball who shot a guy in the street, apparently that's what they want these days.
One of the ideas rattling around the TPOT community recently is "girls need to be more forward because guys have trained themselves out of the notion that they should hit on anything female".
Which, apparently he did pull his mask off to smile at a pretty girl who was being mildly flirtatious, and that does leave me wondering how the day would have gone if she'd written her phone number on a piece of paper and shoved it into his hand. (Maybe not any differently, and not her fault, but someone who thinks there's a good future waiting makes different choices in their life.)
I feel like he's one of those "a dumb people's idea of a smart person" guys, who thinks that since Smart and Worthy people look a certain way and have certain books then if he looks that way and has those books it means he's Smart and Worthy too.
Out West he'd have ended up in MIRI, here he went for something a little more active.
"One of the non-crazy JD Vance coded ideas is (maybe much) higher taxes on the childless. "
aka "tax breaks for parents and families" which we're already doing, and is one of those ideas Democrats keep proposing and people keep deriding as "subsidies for BREEDERS who are FILLING THE PLANET TO BURSTING".
I feel like there's some confusion over the weapons; the "ghost gun" he had when they found him was different from the one he's holding in the photo of him shooting Thompson.
old and busted: this was clearly the result of Republican Trumpist support for heartless profit-focused businesses refusing to pay for actual doctoring and leaving people to die in the street, it's only natural that right-wing policies would lead to this kind of violence!
new hotness: this was clearly the result of Republican Trumpist support for private gun ownership regardless of mental condition, it's only natural that right-wing policies would lead to this kind of violence...
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia', but only slightly less well-known is this: never let fans be in charge of a media project!
On “Are Republicans Waking Up?”
ok, what Republican would you consider acceptable
Death Is Not An Option, pick one. yes I know you'd rather literally a dog turd than any Republican.
On “Thursday Throughput: RFK Jr Edition”
"If I had a magic wand, I’d say [the price of gas] goes up 10 cents per gallon every year plus inflation."
sucks for everybody who can't afford to buy a new car every year I guess
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"Small SUVs" are cars, and cars get good mileage these days.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024”
Where the Democrats campaigned and spent money, they won. There just were more places where they didn't campaign or spend money.
As for "the brand", I think it really hurt Harris that Republicans would put up ads with Harris saying something easily spun as "crazy radical", and the Harris campaign response to this was to remind us that Donald Trump is a real jerk.
On “Panic! The Kind That Came From New Jersey”
I don't think that "undercuts" anything, I think that's more like boilerplate, it's what they're required to say as their response to "what if someone actually does encounter a drone after all".
Like, you ask "what do I do if I encounter a grizzly bear" and they say "play dead", that doesn't mean they expect you to encounter a grizzly bear in the near future.
On “Thursday Throughput: RFK Jr Edition”
"[Isaacman] has a sketch of a plan to replace it with a series of smaller rockets that will do the job at a fraction of the cost."
ah-heh. A fraction of the cost per rocket, but two to three times the cost for the actual mission, which is what always happens when you try to do multi-launch missions with on-orbit rendezvous and docking included.
But it feels smaller because the rockets aren't as big, and (as anyone who works in the restaurant industry can tell you) people who don't know the details tend to assume that size = cost.
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"well the dang gummint ain't gonna let 'em do it anyway"
OK Boomer
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It is very amusing that "taking someone's whacko statements and 'editing' them to make them sound nicer in a press release" is now a bad thing because it's being done for Republican-associated whacko statements.
On “Has Trump Already Lost the Trade War?”
Intriguing follow-up to that with a very #cyberpunkfuture touch: Chinese farmers were using drones to spread swine flu to other farmers' herds, literally killing off the competition. This was discovered when airliners started having navigation trouble when flying over farmland; the pig herders were using jammers to interfere with this drone-spreading activity, and the jammers were affecting the airplanes' radios.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3042991/china-flight-systems-jammed-pig-farms-african-swine-fever
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I remember people scoffing that Trump was getting thoroughly owned because China was "punishing" his trade policies by refusing to buy soybeans.
It turned out that the Chinese mostly used soybeans as pig fodder and there was a massive swine-flu epidemic in China in 2018, so the reduction in soybean orders had nothing to do with trade policy at all, but then 2020 happened and everyone forgot about it.
On “Open Mic for the week of 12/9/2024”
It is heartwarming, in a way, to see that immigrants so thoroughly assimilate to median American culture that they develop the same energy as a white man who thinks he can talk his way out of a traffic ticket by calmly explaining to the police officer that he's not that bad of a driver compared to the real maniacs out there.
"
I'm looking forward to hearing an explanation of how it was only declining sales and had nothing to do with theft and Safeway's a bunch of racist liars, and said explanation failing to consider the fact that the reason sales were declining was that all the stuff they were trying to sell kept getting stolen.
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the 1990s were a great time if you were a straight white suburban American. other than that, not so much!
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People are wondering why there was a trial at all, and the point is that without a trial to establish that Violence Is The Provenance Of The State, you get "Death Wish".
Although given that people here are still cheering on that nutball who shot a guy in the street, apparently that's what they want these days.
On “From the New York Post: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops”
It's a message to the cops that this was a mob hit and they shouldn't look too deeply into it.
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One of the ideas rattling around the TPOT community recently is "girls need to be more forward because guys have trained themselves out of the notion that they should hit on anything female".
Which, apparently he did pull his mask off to smile at a pretty girl who was being mildly flirtatious, and that does leave me wondering how the day would have gone if she'd written her phone number on a piece of paper and shoved it into his hand. (Maybe not any differently, and not her fault, but someone who thinks there's a good future waiting makes different choices in their life.)
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I feel like he's one of those "a dumb people's idea of a smart person" guys, who thinks that since Smart and Worthy people look a certain way and have certain books then if he looks that way and has those books it means he's Smart and Worthy too.
Out West he'd have ended up in MIRI, here he went for something a little more active.
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"One of the non-crazy JD Vance coded ideas is (maybe much) higher taxes on the childless. "
aka "tax breaks for parents and families" which we're already doing, and is one of those ideas Democrats keep proposing and people keep deriding as "subsidies for BREEDERS who are FILLING THE PLANET TO BURSTING".
"
I feel like there's some confusion over the weapons; the "ghost gun" he had when they found him was different from the one he's holding in the photo of him shooting Thompson.
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lol
old and busted: this was clearly the result of Republican Trumpist support for heartless profit-focused businesses refusing to pay for actual doctoring and leaving people to die in the street, it's only natural that right-wing policies would lead to this kind of violence!
new hotness: this was clearly the result of Republican Trumpist support for private gun ownership regardless of mental condition, it's only natural that right-wing policies would lead to this kind of violence...
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when you do get it done, make sure they actually do it instead of just pretending
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Silent Hill 2’s Remake”
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia', but only slightly less well-known is this: never let fans be in charge of a media project!
On “From the New York Post: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops”
I'm thinking more Jared Loughner
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Oh, anesthesiologists? You mean the guys that the Biden Administration specifically called out in its example of the medical industry's unethical billing practices?
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I'm sorry, did you get the impression I was asking you anything at all?
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