About 50% of Republicans say they believe Trump really won right now.
Oddly enough, a person more competent, capable, and industrious would be very unlikely to even try. There isn't really a good end-game to the Trump thing ... even if he managed to cling to office, really. The only reason why it makes sense to him is because he doesn't consider longer-term consequences beyond the battle immediately in front of his own face.
Well it flies straight up like rockets do. Then it does this fancy flip manoeuvre (which you’ll say is no biggie) into a bellyflop position and uses that to scrub feed as it plummets belly first before pirouetting (you’ll say that’s no biggie too) and landing tail first.
But seriously this is a big deal. They’re trying to launch again today.
Hang on. I’m gonna go tell the amateur rocket launch nerd forum I belong to the bad news.
Seriously tho, you must be an aerodynamicist yourself to be so knowledgeable. Not everyone would know that absolutely any object moving through a fluid medium experiences drag. .
Yeah I’ve noticed this trend of people being so against anything Musk does that they refuse to learn about or recognize anything about the things he is accomplishing. It’s especially odd amongst more liberal or progressive people considering that his mission as far as transformation of the energy industry is perfectly in line with ours.
Welp what you call just drag seems to have a lot of other people who follow these things on a regular basis pretty excited. Maybe you assume they’re just being sucked in by the hype. I think they recognize how innovative the Starship design is. Just like reusing boosters 7 plus times is. Just like the design of the Raptor engines is. Fingers crossed we get to see a lunch today.
This raises a host of interesting questions:1) Are farts a risk for Rona transmission?
2) Do wet farts pose an even greater risk?3) Does wearing underwear lower the risk of spreading?4) If so, are some types of underwear better than others--e.g. could the virus even make it through Roodles's Depends?
Everyone keeps parroting the "bad for democracy" line ... I don't really see it.
The GOP faction that is promoting/endorsing this narrative are literally the same people who insisted Obama was from Kenya. They've always been howling about stolen elections and fraud. This isn't even new. They've been claiming the system is rigged and illegitimate for over a decade now ... except for the times when they win, of course.
For the rest of us, I feel like it has affirmed the high quality of our electoral process. There has been damn near a billion dollars poured in by people trying to find every/any incidence of fraud or malfeasance. And in all of these states, they're not finding diddly/squat. Like, nothing.
Frankly, I'm kind of shocked to discover that the process works so damn well. I always suspected it was far less precise than, upon deep scrutiny, the system has turned out to be. In some places they're able to produce 100% matching hand-recounts to the electronic count. To me, that's amazing. We're in far better shape than I'd imagined.
So here we have a president actively doing everything he can to literally end our electoral system and use the powers of his office to seize authoritarian control of our nation. He is supported in this by over 90% of the elected GOP at the federal level and has subverted every institutional organ America has - from the DoJ to HHS.
And he isn't even remotely close to pulling it off.
This now puts the a-holes who have done this crap for years front-and center. People like Kemp. Their years-long Wormtongue campaign against vote integrity has been leveraged by Trump and now elevated into a huge public spectacle. The quiet rumors and unsupported assertions are now being directly raised in official venues.
Suddenly, instead of a whisper campaign, they are being called on to put up or shut up. People like Kemp are suddenly on the spot. And on the biggest stage on the planet, those that decided to stick with the "massive fraud by black voters" narrative are just crapping the bed.
When this is all done, we'll be left with the same dead-enders we've always had ... now worshiping at the church of Trump. But for the rest of America, what was once rumors and allegations quietly building a general uneasy feeling about voting integrity are now inescapably in their face and being directly litigated in courts. It's easy to be influenced by a wink, a nod, and general agreement that the government can't be trusted - but now these people have hyped it up and taken it to court. They have been given chance after chance after chance to put something, anything, concrete on the table. And they couldn't come up with ANYTHING.
Trump just made allegations of election fraud more or less equivalent to believing in "black helicopters" or the "9/11 truther" thing. A fringe joke promoted by the likes of Louie Ghomert and Devin Nunes (who were both with us long before Trump).
I get that the dynamic risks destroying the GOP, and along with it the "two party" paradigm our media elite rely on. So from that perspective, I can see the situation as a bit fraught. But in the long run, for regular Americans, it is very possible this turns out being *good* for democracy.
The republic is more resilient than I expected. The election process, of which I have been a part, is solid. My frustration is the idiots who are those dead-enders. They are fucking annoying. And those who remain silent, when they should be trumpeting the integrity of the election system.
The fact that Donnie McLoserface has to resort to straight up bribery over the phone tells the whole story.
The electoral college only applies to one office in our sprawling democracy.
Corruption ensures a two party system.
About 50% of Republicans say they believe Trump really won right now.
Oddly enough, a person more competent, capable, and industrious would be very unlikely to even try. There isn't really a good end-game to the Trump thing ... even if he managed to cling to office, really. The only reason why it makes sense to him is because he doesn't consider longer-term consequences beyond the battle immediately in front of his own face.
Well it flies straight up like rockets do. Then it does this fancy flip manoeuvre (which you’ll say is no biggie) into a bellyflop position and uses that to scrub feed as it plummets belly first before pirouetting (you’ll say that’s no biggie too) and landing tail first.
But seriously this is a big deal. They’re trying to launch again today.
Thats correct. Like all other rockets use drag to descend to earth.
Waaaaat? SpaceX isn’t magic??
Hang on. I’m gonna go tell the amateur rocket launch nerd forum I belong to the bad news.
Seriously tho, you must be an aerodynamicist yourself to be so knowledgeable. Not everyone would know that absolutely any object moving through a fluid medium experiences drag. .
Yeah I’ve noticed this trend of people being so against anything Musk does that they refuse to learn about or recognize anything about the things he is accomplishing. It’s especially odd amongst more liberal or progressive people considering that his mission as far as transformation of the energy industry is perfectly in line with ours.
Yes after every comment you’ve made inexplicably tried to minimize the importance of this Starship launch. Incontheivable.
Apparently you’re not too impressed with their engineers either tho. All they know how to do is use drag.
Welp what you call just drag seems to have a lot of other people who follow these things on a regular basis pretty excited. Maybe you assume they’re just being sucked in by the hype. I think they recognize how innovative the Starship design is. Just like reusing boosters 7 plus times is. Just like the design of the Raptor engines is. Fingers crossed we get to see a lunch today.
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I think they've confused their "ace in the hole" with their "ace hole".
This raises a host of interesting questions:1) Are farts a risk for Rona transmission?
2) Do wet farts pose an even greater risk?3) Does wearing underwear lower the risk of spreading?4) If so, are some types of underwear better than others--e.g. could the virus even make it through Roodles's Depends?
And if you thought the shit going down in PA wasn't insane enough:https://twitter.com/JoyAnnR...
So, do state legislators take an oath to the US constitution or just the state constitution?
Everyone keeps parroting the "bad for democracy" line ... I don't really see it.
The GOP faction that is promoting/endorsing this narrative are literally the same people who insisted Obama was from Kenya. They've always been howling about stolen elections and fraud. This isn't even new. They've been claiming the system is rigged and illegitimate for over a decade now ... except for the times when they win, of course.
For the rest of us, I feel like it has affirmed the high quality of our electoral process. There has been damn near a billion dollars poured in by people trying to find every/any incidence of fraud or malfeasance. And in all of these states, they're not finding diddly/squat. Like, nothing.
Frankly, I'm kind of shocked to discover that the process works so damn well. I always suspected it was far less precise than, upon deep scrutiny, the system has turned out to be. In some places they're able to produce 100% matching hand-recounts to the electronic count. To me, that's amazing. We're in far better shape than I'd imagined.
So here we have a president actively doing everything he can to literally end our electoral system and use the powers of his office to seize authoritarian control of our nation. He is supported in this by over 90% of the elected GOP at the federal level and has subverted every institutional organ America has - from the DoJ to HHS.
And he isn't even remotely close to pulling it off.
This now puts the a-holes who have done this crap for years front-and center. People like Kemp. Their years-long Wormtongue campaign against vote integrity has been leveraged by Trump and now elevated into a huge public spectacle. The quiet rumors and unsupported assertions are now being directly raised in official venues.
Suddenly, instead of a whisper campaign, they are being called on to put up or shut up. People like Kemp are suddenly on the spot. And on the biggest stage on the planet, those that decided to stick with the "massive fraud by black voters" narrative are just crapping the bed.
When this is all done, we'll be left with the same dead-enders we've always had ... now worshiping at the church of Trump. But for the rest of America, what was once rumors and allegations quietly building a general uneasy feeling about voting integrity are now inescapably in their face and being directly litigated in courts. It's easy to be influenced by a wink, a nod, and general agreement that the government can't be trusted - but now these people have hyped it up and taken it to court. They have been given chance after chance after chance to put something, anything, concrete on the table. And they couldn't come up with ANYTHING.
Trump just made allegations of election fraud more or less equivalent to believing in "black helicopters" or the "9/11 truther" thing. A fringe joke promoted by the likes of Louie Ghomert and Devin Nunes (who were both with us long before Trump).
I get that the dynamic risks destroying the GOP, and along with it the "two party" paradigm our media elite rely on. So from that perspective, I can see the situation as a bit fraught. But in the long run, for regular Americans, it is very possible this turns out being *good* for democracy.
The republic is more resilient than I expected. The election process, of which I have been a part, is solid. My frustration is the idiots who are those dead-enders. They are fucking annoying. And those who remain silent, when they should be trumpeting the integrity of the election system.
The fact that Donnie McLoserface has to resort to straight up bribery over the phone tells the whole story.