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Oh well.
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Ken Martin, Matt Bennett, Liam Kerr and all the other more visible party operatives like Conor Lamb, Abigail Spanberger and Josh Gottheimer. You can throw in folks like Elissa Slotkin, Tom Suozzi and Ritchie Torres as well.
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The party doesn't like young people energy. Too confrontational, too disruptive, too upsetting to the megadonors. They get scared easily, you see, and their fee-fees are easily wounded.
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Hogg wanted to primary feckless Democrats who did nothing to advance progressive causes. Caused a lot of drama for the establishment DNC types, including the new Chair, who only wanted money spent to unseat GOPers. So they used a technicality to get rid of him and force a new election.
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And stand up rallies and lead chants of "we will win," and "we won't stop!"
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I'm surprised it's as high as 41%. I guess that's 41% that aren't paying attention.
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I changed to "unaffiliated" last summer after being a Democrat for 40 years. This confirms I was right to do so. Hogg is the future. Any attempts to wrest the Democratic Party away from the megadonors fails. Dems are defunct, feckless, rudderless, leaderless. Didn't have to be this way.
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yeah, if you look carefully at the video, it's all the same few locations again and again and again, just different angles from different news agencies and streamers. It's amazing how people can be fooled by this.
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I remember at my (artsy) college, one of my roommates had all these Beach Boys albums among the Clash, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, Pixies and I was like, "huh?" He's like "listen... really listen." That was my introduction to Pet Sounds and Smiley Smile, + I started to appreciate the older stuff.
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They made us feel it, no matter where we were.
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That voice...
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We just aren't made for these times.
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As long as his message is strong and gets above the noise, is backed by action, and he stops giving a platform to the opposition, I'm OK.
The problem is, people like him and Cory Booker only seem to be able to be on the right side for a limited time. Then they're back on the side of the donors.
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He's a narcissist and a showboat, but I'm grateful for his strong stance and communication right now. He seems to be one of the very few standing up and getting above the noise.
I understand why that is, but others need to find a way to make news with their opposition in this moment as well.
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He probably doesn't even know it.
That's how racist he is.
He's marinating in it.
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Nice!!
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100%. None of this changes until leadership changes in the Democratic Party from top to bottom. David knows. Everyone else thinks this is business as usual. It ain't. Not by a long shot.
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Always the same names. Kinda disappointed to see Vindman's name on that list.
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If that $51 trillion excess had been evenly distributed between every single American, we would each have around $150k each if my math is correct. If divided by # of American households, it's around $400k per household. The mind reels.
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Was a Democrat for 40 years. Went unaffiliated last year after the megadonors and party "leaders" pulled a coup.
My money's on "morons," because: timeline is effed and money rules the day.
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We will all lose because of these people. Ffs. I hate this timeline.
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I'll take his money and his publicity for anti-MAGA causes, but that doesn't mean we have to buy his shitty products - privately or via taxpayer funds.
Let's have him set up a good decade of restitution first, then maybe we can talk...
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ROI is good, no complaints. We made the house more efficient after the installation, hence the surplus. However, our cars are old, and I have bought my last ICE vehicle, so the situation is likely to change soon.
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"I'm sorry if you were offended."
And amazingly, it got worse from there.
Truly, these are the very worst people. And Americans keep electing them to represent them.
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I guess it's a good thing for presidents that there's no enforcement then.
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Nailed it. Also, I think we've all met completely unreachable and unreasonable people in our life. That's Chase, and it makes him even more chilling to watch as an adult because -as you said - you know there is NO appeal to his humanity. He has none.
Now I need to watch this serial again lol.
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Couldn't agree more. Recent non-blockbuster recs: Ghostlight, Bottoms, I Saw the TV Glow, After Yang
I try to see indie films in the theater to support the artists.
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TIL my favorite Mini Cooper is actually not a Mini Cooper at all. 😆🤷♂️
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I was just thinking I needed to look him up and see him in something else because honestly, I think he's one of THE best Doctor Who villains - so cold, dismissive, unreachable. Exactly the opposite of villains I never got into (e.g., The Master, with the penchant for melodrama).
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Just waiting for Noem to claim these kids are really MS-13.
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Oh, and The Face of Evil is my #1 in all of Who. Continues to be relevant on so many levels. I guess the really great writers tap into that immortal magic.
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Wow. That's fantastic! I still need to see Star Cops. It's on my watchlist. I should move it up!
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The arguments I've heard: Dr's use of a gun, filler in eps 3-6, Chase is one-dimensional. But I loved it. "YOU WANT ME TO DIE!" I mean, holy crap, as a kid? Watching someone FORCE someone else to be taken over? HORRIFIC! The first two episodes are a master class, and I found Chase totally chilling.
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Long Live Chris Boucher.
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It really was firing on all cylinders. Whodunit, creepy robots, excellent model work, fantastic acting, compelling characters, and introduced the "uncanny valley" notion to a western audience before it became widely known.
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I know people give this story a bit of grief, but it honestly terrified me as a kid. Still one of my favorites, along with The Face of Evil and The Robots of Death. But poor Scorby - perhaps one of the most useless henchmen in Doctor Who history. 😆
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These are only the ones we're hearing about. I'm sure there are some we don't know about, and some the administration doesn't even know of. We are in unprecedented times.
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WTF even is this timeline?
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10.5M banked? Yikes! Wish I could add more panels. 1:1 here too. Came in handy when we rented an EV for a month (deer hit our Suby). Was nice using some of our banked sunshine.
Priced out mini-splits here but was going to be over $30K. Would love to. My dad has them in NH and uses them all winter.
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Yes, I stand corrected. I was thinking of the surplus I generate - it's April through June when I have the biggest surplus. But my generation is, indeed, highest in June, July, August.
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Yup. And Americans are just fine with it all. We're pretty cooked.
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Clearly AI. His fingers aren't that large IRL.
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Other countries are doing what makes the most economic sense, even as it also benefits their local climates and citizens' lungs.
Meanwhile, we are doubling down on stupid. Spending more money for a worse outcome is what we seem to do best here.
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I'll take the win, but this is easier to do in March and April when solar generation is at its max prior to national heat setting in.
I used to love looking at these "planned online / retired" figures. Wonder how much longer we'll have them?
Most encouraging for the last year is BESS deployment.