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Life changes have caused us to choose to drive more in general, but we have shifted our plans from flying to driving for one of our trips this year. Not totally because of this (prices were a bigger consideration), but it wasn't helpful in our decisionmaking process.

Ties back into the conversation about AI yesterday honestly...

Fighting Alzheimer's is now woke apparently

It's been on my mind recently, but it is honestly is incredible that a movement that has been thrown the "C" word around for much of my adult life to go after people they perceive as not being sufficiently loyal to Republicans have basically "C" worded themselves for DJT.

He's just saying what many of us are thinking. The way the last few days have played out in regards to the Ukrainian conflict and European Security more generally is a stain on this country. It's rare when you have Pence, John Bolton and Bernie Sanders all saying the same thing. Because it's not a close call. I just wish some actual *elected* Rs would find their manhood and say what they truly think.

The thing that the curvy couch crowd doesn't get is that these companies have invested heavily for years in making cars fuel efficient. And that the elimination of standards is not going to automatically create a shift away from fuel efficiency within their business model. Particularly with the sunk costs, the desires of the consumer and how cyclical elections can be in this country Same thing with oil companies as well. Opening up more areas for oil exploration when oil is sitting between $75-$90 per barrel doesn't mean more drilling in these areas will ultimately happen

So, do they have Big Balls on SSA duty then?

Trump (or Elon under his auspices) goes and fires a bunch of people regulating nuclear warheads and USDA professionals working on bird flu and, after realizing his administration ****ed up, has to go back out and try to find these folks and reconnect to try to hire them... No wonder Holic would rather go the "noun, verb and pronoun" route lol

There's something to be said for having experience in something and not just just machine-gunning "Dunning Kruger" takes

Honest question, if you're a federal worker who was fired and then had to be recontacted for rehire... How could you ever trust them going forward?

Boom boss man got involved lmao

Assuming that the 6-170+ offer the Tigers made is real (I believe it), I think the Cubs are the team they used to drive up Boston's number IMO... Basically Bregman had one long term offer he would consider and a couple of teams interested in the shorter term play, and he used one to drive up the price for the other. I'm glad it's over.... I would like to think this should put to rest any of the "ownership won't spend" hot takes, but that's probably optimistic lol

I've mentioned this a number of times, but incumbent Presidents tend to overreach and the electorate tends to react thermostatically against that overreach. To that point, it isn't just about the 200k deciders... People change their minds or they may not even show up The Senate map is tough in 2026 (and structurally is tough for Ds in general), but with a 2 seat majority currently, I would honestly be shocked if the Rs held the House in 2026.

I don't care what concerns them... I care about what we can do to push back against them. That involves public opinion turning against them

I have no illusions that anything moving forward will be easy. My point is that Klein is spot on that from a public opinion standpoint he stands to lose from these early moves.

People are going to argue this, but this is 100% right.... there are people that voted for Trump on the margins, who aren't "Red Hats".... in an election that was decided by about 200,000 across three states in the rust belt, these kinds of folks are who decided this election. And they may have a much more circumspect view of Trump than his die hards do.

It's a really good example of how these indiscriminate cuts can lose sight of the fact that they impact domestic institutions and can, by extension, mean people losing their jobs. But Boss Man says it's cool, therefore it is? I don't get it.

Boss man got involved... And boy oh boy, it really sucks that he did

Boss Man sure did get involved here...

If America were so "respected" under President Musk's leadership, why wouldn't Marco show up?

Trash behavior

No argument there...

I have no expectations for flipping any seats just given how deep red some of the open ones are, but the idea that voters would thermostatically backlash against this administration was pretty obvious even before Musk got involved to this degree.