The hard power will be the next thing to go. Trump and his buddies are trying to make the US into Russia, and that comes with all the problems that rotted the Russian military from within. We already have plenty of corruption, but our generals have enough integrity to put their foot down when something might impact combat readyness. Trump’s loyalist buddies care only about the grift.
The best as hominem you can come up with is just a wild guess that I belong to a group that I don’t?
Not supporting war, supporting winning - as opposed to losing. Support for war is irrelevant once the invasion begins.
The US can’t stop the war. Ukraine can’t even stop the war. The Ukrainian government could just give up, but then the occupation begins, and that’s the hard part. The people of Ukraine aren’t going to just roll over and play nice while Russia dismantles their society. They will fight back, and it will be bloodier for both sides than the clash of armies was.
Anyways, that’s way more of an answer than your dumb ass comment deserves.
That’s just it. The laws of physics, at least as far as we understand them, absolutely preclude changing our position in any way that would reveal anything outside our observable universe. Lifespans don’t come into it at all. If you lived forever traveling at the speed of light, you would never achieve that change of position.
The cosmic background is the leftover “noise” of the big bang, and we observe it roughly uniformly in every single direction. So where did the big bang occur? Everywhere. Everything that exists is precisely at the center of the universe, right where the big bang happened.
It’s all about the concept of spacetime. Spacetime isn’t space and time considered together, it’s a singular thing that operates by rules that we are ill equiped to comprehend intuitively.
As I just explained, it’s not really about observation, it’s about causation. If two objects can never possibly interact, then are they really in the same universe?
Looking out in space is also looking back in time. Anything (roughly) that is further than we can observe in the microwave background would be further back in time than the beginning of time, and therefore doesn’t exist at all in our universe. It’s a bit brain bending.
Thus the term “observable universe”. Everything beyond our observable universe is being expanded away from us at faster than the speed of light, so nothing outside will ever reach us. Causality is completely and irrevocably severed at those distances so, arguably, anything outside the observable universe is not part of “our” universe.
Except that, while it was certainly a radical departure from the norm, it was hardly a revolutionary design, and first year sales were terrible. Once the handful of Elon fans with too much money on their hands got their pre-orders, sales were abysmal.
What’s happening right now isn’t enough? That’s been a long term project for her. It wasn’t easy steering the country away from every opportunity to avoid it.
There is her decades of shilling for big oil.
She continued to support the Pied Piper strategies that promote far right candidates in Republican primaries so that Democrats can campaign on how bad Republicans are instead of actually delivering.
She was one of the loudest (and most effective) voices in the deregulation push that culminated in the 2008 mortgage crisis.
Then there all the many instances where Pelosi campaigned against progressives in Democratic primaries, both when the progressive was an incumbent and a challenger.
I don’t think they are planning to need votes anymore.
Her corruption caused unspeakable death and destruction in lives in the US and all around the world. That healthcare CEO who was shot wasn’t 1/10 as deserving as Pelosi, and I’m glad he’s dead.
Yes, we could benefit greatly from having Pelosi in our coalition. The problem is that we don’t and never have. Most recently, she was responsible for blocking AOC from leading the Democrats in the House oversight committee and gave us an elderly cancer patient with zero media savvy in her place. The one position in the House that has some ability to push back, and Pelosi pissed it away out of spite. With friends like that, who needs enemies.
It’s been absolutely obvious that the Democrats have been leading us to where we are now for at least 20 years, if not 50. I can’t even begin to count the number of massive failures Pelosi herself was personally responsible for in that time. After so many years of calling her shit out to deaf ears, I’m not interested in lectures on civility.
Trump is an opportunistic infection destroying America from within, and establishment neoliberals are the AIDS that set us up for it. I’m not looking to them for help.
Only if the Constitution is still relevant.
I’m not sure “drifting” is quite accurate.
stupid griping that the Dems don’t do anything.
That’s hardly fair. The Dems did plenty to bring us to where we are today. They just didn’t do anything to stop it.
I just feel bad for the Chinese operatives who had to read all those Republican emails.
No doubt he’s an exception, but where is evidence for the rule that would justify punishing the exception? When I think of out of touch Congress members, all the first names that come to mind are almost all among the youngest in Congress. Even Pelosi would never be on my short list if she wasn’t in leadership. (She is definitely out of touch, but she has some fierce competition). Also, all the older ones that I think of were just as bad or worse when they were younger.
Then demonstrate the trend to me. I’ve given you an undeniable counter example. I agree that Congress is out of touch. Are the older Congress members more out of touch than MTG or the psycho tradwife Katie Britt? I don’t think so.
Oh, we should definitely get rid of Pelosi, but not because she aged out. The Pelosi of 30 years ago was just as worthy of dismissal.
If you have a 15 year old car that works flawlessly then, for environmental purposes, you should absolutely drive it into the ground. Unless it starts having problems that lead to accelerated emissions, the environmental impact of scrapping it and building a new electric will outweigh the benefits of driving an electric. What I’m saying is intended for someone buying a new vehicle.
It sounds like you are a pretty responsible car owner. For people prone to neglecting propper maintenance, electrics have an even bigger advantage. For someone who knows how to care for aged vehicles and is prone to actually doing it, buying a used vehicle to save it from the scrapyard can be more responsible than buying a new electric.
What’s frustrating though is the persistent myth that electrics are impractical because of cost. Every study I’ve seen shows a lower average cost of ownership and operation for electric than gas when comparing comparable years and models.
Evil people live longer.