2024 Presidential Election thread

[chasfh]

  On 11/13/2024 at 1:01 AM, Edman85 said:

No way this Hegseth character gets through the Senate, right? Is the Senate still 60% for non-judicial nominees?

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Acting Secretary of Defense indefinitely.

Well, at least he won’t overrule Trump’s desire to send the military into cities to root out disloyal people.

[chasfh]

  On 11/13/2024 at 1:08 AM, mtutiger said:

He only needs 50....

Higher chances than Robert Kennedy for sure.

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Acting Secretary of HHS.

[oblong]

  On 11/13/2024 at 2:04 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

You spend a lot of time on social media during work hours.

 

 

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That kind of comment is uncalled for.  You have no idea what his working hours are or what his situation is.  It could be interpreted as a personal attack.

 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 2:26 PM, oblong said:

That kind of comment is uncalled for.  You have no idea what his working hours are or what his situation is.  It could be interpreted as a personal attack.

 

 

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Calling me Hitler, Facist etc is not a persoanl attack, got it. 

[CMRivdogs]

Maybe we need to transition to a post election thread.

Anyway...

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The men and women of the United States armed forces - and 1500 nuclear weapons on a short fuse - will be controlled by Donald Trump and a guy who sells soap shaped like grenades.

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Tom Nichols (radio freedom)

[chasfh]

Clock's ticking ...

[chasfh]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:20 PM, CMRivdogs said:

Maybe we need to transition to a post election thread.

Anyway...

Tom Nichols (radio freedom)

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I tried to do something like that with this thread:

 

 

But it seems as though this other thread may well get more traction:

 

 

Either way, I'll go where the people go.

[CMRivdogs]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:20 PM, chasfh said:

Clock's ticking ...

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Clock or time-bomb?

(between the election and spouse's knee replacement surgery, That ticking could just be me 
 

 

[Motown Bombers]

  On 11/13/2024 at 2:56 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

Calling me Hitler, Facist etc is not a persoanl attack, got it. 

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[romad1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:23 PM, chasfh said:

I tried to do something like that with this thread:

 

 

But it seems as though this other thread may well get more traction:

 

 

Either way, I'll go where the people go.

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Fixing the "Autocrat problem" is couple phased thing.   G2 warned me about Citizens United and I was too blinded by partisanship to see that back then.  Now, its clear as anything that the foundation of the US electoral system is rotted.  I don't know how we fix that without massive COVID-like emergency.  Good news!  This administration won't take long to create the conditions for that next disaster.  I just hope the educated and ethical among us survive that next horrible thing. 

[Tigeraholic1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:24 PM, Motown Bombers said:

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I have no issue being ridiculed. My feelings don't override anyones freedom of speech. 

[chasfh]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:23 PM, CMRivdogs said:

Clock or time-bomb?

(between the election and spouse's knee replacement surgery, That ticking could just be me 
 

 

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I guess it's technically a timer, since timers count down and clocks count up. So, timer's ticking.

Meaning someone's fi'na get booted.

Edited November 13, 2024 by chasfh

[smr-nj]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:30 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

I have no issue being ridiculed. My feelings don't override anyones freedom of speech. 

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Let me guess… now you will let Rob know that he can ban you. 😂

Victim

[Tigeraholic1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:24 PM, Motown Bombers said:

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Also you hoping people in a race group in Dearborn get killed for voting for Trump flew right past the Mod's nose last night. 

Edited November 13, 2024 by Tigeraholic1

[smr-nj]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:48 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

Also you hoping people in Dearborn get killed for voting for Trump flew right past the Mod's nose last night. 

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And I then saw Lee & others do a perfectly good job of answering / clapping back at that comment. 
You seem unhappy lately. Is everything okay?

[Motown Bombers]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:48 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

Also you hoping people in Dearborn get killed for voting for Trump flew right past the Mod's nose last night. 

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I said I hope the guy you voted for follows through on his promise. 

[Tigeraholic1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 3:53 PM, smr-nj said:

And I then saw Lee & others do a perfectly good job of answering / clapping back at that comment. 
You seem unhappy lately. Is everything okay?

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I am really good, thanks for asking. Traveling a bunch for my new gig. Been in Chicago working on organic diesel engine tech with the big three engineers. Clean diesel is closer to reality then EV now! 

[gehringer_2]

  On 11/13/2024 at 4:08 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

I am really good, thanks for asking. Traveling a bunch for my new gig. Been in Chicago working on organic diesel engine tech with the big three engineers. Clean diesel is closer to reality then EV now! 

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I would tend to agree that for heavy engines diesel's are going to be harder to replace than getting gasoline engines off the street.

One aspect of this that gets sort of into the weeds technically but that is interesting to me because of my history, is that if  demand for gasoline falls precipitously, which there is every likelihood is going to happen in the next 30-40 yrs, but demand for diesel and jet fuel do not - and it's hard to see how they can drop anywhere nearly as fast,  there is going to be a very hard question of what refiner's are going to do with all the light ends they are going to have left over. The Otto engine was invented/gained popularity in the first place because gasoline was cheap and available because the major refinery product back then was medium weight oil - heating/lighting etc and the gasoline was left over. It's generally harder to process small molecules into larger ones and since the rise of the spark engine, gasoline has long been the major refinery output, there wasn't much need to. To reconfigure refining in so major a way will cost refiners huge dollars when they are facing overall shrinking sales volume.

To me this is the kind of real world tech 'gotcha' laying in the weeds out there that flies well below any academic or political consciousness about the future.

Edited November 13, 2024 by gehringer_2

[romad1]

Tulsi to DNI is apparently the thing they wanted to hide with the Hegspeth pick for SecDef

 

Angry

‪@angrystaffer.bsky.social‬

 

Tulsi in a national security role would be a disaster. She’s a Putin and Assad apologist and has completely misguided foreign policy opinions. This is how you start off alienating our allies.

 

[Motown Bombers]

Former Bernie Sanders fellow with a high ranking position in the Trump administration. 

[romad1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 4:39 PM, Motown Bombers said:

Former Bernie Sanders fellow with a high ranking position in the Trump administration. 

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Hegspeth is going to cause all sorts of bow wake that the real weirdos will take cover in. 

[Motown Bombers]

Good job dumbasses. 

[romad1]

  On 11/13/2024 at 4:45 PM, Motown Bombers said:

Good job dumbasses. 

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somebody do a meme of Elon in the Captain Phillips scene saying "i'm the President now" 

[gehringer_2]

  On 11/13/2024 at 4:45 PM, Motown Bombers said:

Good job dumbasses. 

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Not good to hear this for the short term result but longer term it could be good news for the Dems in the midterms if 2022 was any indication.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

  On 11/13/2024 at 5:08 PM, gehringer_2 said:

Not good to hear this for the short term result but longer term it could be good news for the Dems in the midterms if 2022 was any indication.

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You have to imagine that Elon is going to fund some real nutcase challengers to some of these Republicans. Primary challenges more in the vein of a Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobert, candidates more likely to lose in a competitive general election.