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  1. It will be 2 minutes of action interrupted by 15 minutes of ads
  2. nice of him to rep the state where he murdered his own fans
  3. Who had on their bingo card "Johntay Cook thread more active than CFP NCG thread"
  4. report back on your progress.
  5. I view this story the same way I now view GamerGate. As a preview of how higher stakes sociopolitical debates will play out in the future.
  6. he has to be separated from his wife, right?
  7. I've been trying to read through Baldoni's legal complaint. It has a lot of text messages and emails, as many if not more than Lively's complaint. It's long so it will be a few days, but they are doing a good job of telling a story that makes more sense.
  8. That could be it. Then again, it was a global trend of incumbents losing ground due to inflation. In the US and Canada it was liberals, in the UK it was the Conservatives, and in India it was right wing authoritarians. Could Mexico's voters really be so different that inflation didn't matter to them? I doubt it. AMLO and his party have a rare combination of three ingredients: a bold but comprehensible vision, a track record for acting on that vision, and an active connection with the voters whose cooperation and support are essential to acting on the vision. You don't find that with incumbent parties in other countries, really. Liberals were saying "everything is fine" when it wasn't (killing credibility with non-liberals while failing to inspire liberals). Conservatives are saying "everything is a disaster" but blaming immigrants and modern culture instead of CEOs and greed. I get that this is a Biden support thread, so we should be celebrating his wins, and when he did positive things, I applauded them, but he never spoke daily with the people. In fact, he even refused to have "big boy" press briefings, and now we know why not (he was probably not physically capable of it). Meanwhile, Trudeau and his party's lack of any vision or willingness to accomplish things utterly failed to improve anyone's material conditions in Canada. That's a recipe for getting blamed for inflation. Conservatives won't make anything better, and the pendulum will swing (hard), but when liberals regain power they won't have learned any lessons from this because too many Beltway consultants making $250k per year are depending on nothing fundamentally changing.
  9. You're right that you don't know nuffin about Mexican politics, so why then are you oversimplyfing? AMLO wasn't the first politician to campaign on "giving handouts" and the political movement he was a part of was pretty explicitly about getting rid of neoliberal institutions (a "fourth transformation"). This is something AMLO was amazing at. He directly addressed the nation almost every day. I would even go so far as to say that his efforts went beyond "communication" into the realms of building trust and relationships with the people.
  10. I'm only talking about electoral failure vs. electoral success during the same timeframe. Why did one incumbent gain and another lose?
  11. How do you explain the increased electoral successes of the incumbent party in Mexico (also beleaguered by Covid and inflation) as compared to the electoral failures of Biden's and Trudeau's parties? I can explain it, but I'm more interested in hearing your perspective.
  12. The economy is not working for most people. It's working very well for a few people, and that's skewing the KPIs. In the end, you can't convince a room full of sweaty people that a broken air conditioner's fine by shoving the thermostat in a freezer. Israel's genocidal campaign matters to more people than just "Muslims" by the way.
  13. Trump got only 49% of the vote. The gap between the Biden disapproval rate and the Trump support rate is pretty wide. It's okay to acknowledge that he was a weak, doddering, and unwise choice for the party in 2024. The party's failure to avert this crisis will have devastating consequences.
  14. chainsaw

    Texas GPA

    Even if Texas matched the record for guys getting drafted, that's like 86% of the team that probably need to accept that they're gonna have to either play school or enter the workforce
  15. The company Gilead had acquired already did this R&D and FDA process. Don't confuse two different things. There's the market (estimated 40M could be more though) and there's the patients who had adopted the treatment in the short time it had been made available. The particulars are less important than the big picture here, which is that people are being extorted.
  16. In a sane world, the FAA: I'm sure Trump's lackey won't do shit though
  17. He was very enthusiastic about coming to Texas. That's hard to replace.
  18. I hope Owens gets some playing time and significant snaps.
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