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berlinerbaer

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  1. The legislature just overrode Beshear's veto and passed the country's most restrictive anti-trans bills into law. Is that his fault?
  2. The CSA is dominated by American citizens of Chinese descent, who will dwarf the number of actual foreign Chinese students at any university in CA. The bigger red flag would be a foreign CSA president of a third tier state university hobnobbing with influential Bay Area politicians.
  3. All sensitive stuff done nowadays should be line-of-sight at microwave frequencies, if not done through fiber optics underground. There isn't much done with omni-directional transmitters anymore. This thing got a nice listen to police scanners, citizens band, and shitty AM radio.
  4. It's much more valuable left in the air so we can gather counter-intelligence while it's functional.
  5. You think CA Dem voters shouldn't choose their nominee for Senate? How do you think the nominee should be selected?
  6. Jesus Christ this thread, and I mean #bothsides. So many bad takes. A highly contested primary with lots of good candidates running is what should happen in a state like CA that means so much for Democratic politics. It's nobody's turn. It's not chaotic, it's democracy. The people will decide.
  7. She's smart enough to know she doesn't stand a chance in a 3-way race against Gallego and an Republican. Her play was to prevent another Dem from jumping in. Oops. This is a woman who speaks the language of money. If Sinema thinks she might end up on the short end of the stick financially, she'll tuck her tail between her legs and retire before 2025. I fully expect Gallego to issue a press release glorifying his fundraising haul over the past month or so. All that said, I do not share the confidence of y'all that Gallego would win a 3-way either. Just enough batshit R voters and not enough margin for error for the Ds.
  8. Somewhere I read that normally the speaker sets rather strict rules on where the cameras can look in the House chamber, or maybe its voted on in the rules package. Well we don't have either yet so the cameras are panning around showing members doing weird stuff, like this guy vaping and AOC chatting with Gosar.
  9. Naw. I'm starting to really think people are sick and tired of the bullshit. The electorate had its chance to be collectively stupid in November but many unexpected instances of wisdom occurred instead. Defaulting on our debt is going to suck, but I think we can pick ourselves up off the mat.
  10. Nobody knowledgeable made such observations. The initial strain out of Wuhan had an R0 in the 2 to 4 range, about double the flu but in line with other coronaviruses and the common cold. The severity also was well within the range of naturally occurring coronavirus infection, between the nastier ones like SARS and MERS and the harmless ones that cause the cold. The original strain had a lot to improve upon, which it eventually did in the form of omicron by ordinary natural mutation and selection.
  11. That shit deal would serve this cord-cutting Prime subscriber just fine.
  12. Stanford turns to a Cal guy to fix the football program and he probably will. He's very well connected to high schools across the west coast. FML
  13. Her problem will be no different than 99% of independents/3rd party candidates, not enough electoral space left. Both parties probably have a floor of at least 35%, which already means she is short. If Gallego runs, she will retire.
  14. That team only earned 4 points in group play, then got lucky playing El Tri in the Ro16. We'd all take that matchup now.
  15. berlinerbaer

    USMNT 2023

    I'm still bummed Klinsmann didn't work out. He checked a lot of your boxes circa 2011.
  16. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/01/germany-world-cup-ozil-turkey-protest-dual-citizenship-reform-scholz/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921 Mesut Ozil’s Ghost Still Haunts Germany Proposed citizenship reform offers a chance at redemption. By Allison Meakem, an assistant editor at Foreign Policy.
  17. The redistricting commissions in California and other states were enacted by ballot measures, not the normal legislative process. Voters in those states would need to repeal them. It is highly unlikely that even Dem voters would do that. SCOTUS could rule them unconstitutional next spring. That is the only realistic way they can be undone.
  18. We would be talking about Representative-elect Jessica Cisneros if Nancy and the DCCC didn't roll out the cavalry to protect Henry Cuellar last spring. He knows where his allegiance lies.
  19. @Zonahorn How is the AZ state legislature looking so far?
  20. Do you forget these close electoral wins are in spite of unprecedented structural disadvantages? The people have spoken. This election is a much bigger mandate than 2020 was.
  21. and here I thought she was a reporter for ESPN
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