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  1. 2 hours ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

    Beshear maybe, Newsom has a bunch of skeletons in his closet from the lockdown era and the mantle of California doesn’t appeal to swing voters in Middle America the way it did in the age of Reagan.

     

    The problem is timing—Biden would have had to step down, and then giving Harris the shaft would probably tank the black vote.

     

    Win or lose, we need some new blood after the 2024 elections, though.  Provided Trump doesn’t manage to rig all the elections after that, should he get back into office.

     

    Shapiro, Whitmer, and Pritzker will all be contenders in 2028.

  2. After re-avulsing my Achilles in September while beginning weight bearing, I started to ween out of the walking boot in early January (already a little longer than I clinically needed to out of precaution). After a few days I saw bruising and a lot of swelling...I sent pictures to the doctor, saw my physical therapist, and he determined it was a midfoot sprain; unexpected but not totally crazy given how long I was in the boot. I went back into the boot for another week or so, then began the weaning from the beginning (an hour a day at a time)...As I weaned I continued to see residual swelling, which my PT said would be expected, and that as long as I didn't see any more bruising I should be good to proceed. That brings the timeline into focus two weeks ago, when I worked my way up to being completely free of the boot - residual swelling, but I hadn't seen more bruising in that time, so I wasn't concerned.

     

    Today my ortho took an x-ray and determined I had developed Charcot foot - a rare condition for people with neuropathy (primarily due to diabetes, though not in my case) and that four of my metatarsal bones were broken. So...Back into the boot for two months! I am allowed to walk on it at least, but it is certainly not fun to be that your foot is essentially collapsing in on itself.

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  3. That was pretty good, it rules that Denis decided to follow Nolan's footsteps and charm studios into letting him make arthouse popcorn flicks. And even though there are a lot of differences from the book, all of the differences stay true to the essence of the source material - almost like Herbert got a better editor five plus decades ago (and maybe did less shrooms). Just ordered a copy of Messiah so I can read that ASAP.

  4. 48 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

    I heard on NPR, on the drive in this morning, that Republican's say the speech was "too political", so I take it old diamond Joe did a good job! :sun:

     

    I only watched clips but at one point he was openly taunting them over the many things they have supported and then backed away from, which was pretty damn funny! 

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  5. 1 hour ago, Jason said:

     

    We already know that the Republicans will just make shit up if you don't give them anything substantive. It's supreme naivete to think Democrats playing by the rules will have any salient impact whatsoever on what Republicans do. 

     

    You can't even articulate if a ruling for Colorado would have been good for Democrats, so how can you say its naive to point out that it's bad to give them an even easier path? Again, no one said Democrats 'playing by the rules' will prevent Republicans from doing what they do.

  6. 2 hours ago, Jason said:

    The part about "creating a chaotic state-by-state patchwork" is total BS because that's an inherent part of saying states get to decide how to run their elections. Off the top of my head, individual state rules for federal office elections include:

     

    • New York has fusion voting.
    • California has jungle primaries.
    • Alaska has ranked choice voting (which was explicitly implemented for the express purpose of trying to fuck over Murkowski).

     

    How many signatures you need to get on the ballot depends on what state you're in. Most states do primaries, but some do caucuses. Some states allow mail-in and/or early voting, some only allow in-person day-of voting for the vast majority of voters. Etc etc etc.

     

    Because there is a significant difference between divergent voting systems and unilateral decisions made by the individual state secretaries/courts.

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