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The double standard has become somewhat infuriating. I have no doubt that Trump could have said the n word yesterday with almost no voter repercussions. But Trump only has his base. He is working to turn them out. If Biden, or Dems in general, have an issue, its that they have no base. Biden now represents a variety of disparate interests that includes but isn't limited to Bernie fans, socialists, libertarians, environmentalists, people who care about the environment but not at the expense of the economy, urban elites, urban poor, rural elites, rural non-white poor, non-evangelical Christians, atheists, and never-Trump Republicans. Trump can never disappoint his base. But Biden is always going to disappoint someone that is leaning towards voting for him. Bernie is more comparable to Trump in that he can also say whatever he wants without losing his core support. His issue is that his base is smaller than Trump's, but Bernie also has ideals so when he says what he wants to say, there's zero chance that it is going to be something offensive.

Lol. You have the second highest payroll in baseball. You did draft Kershaw, but you also paid the fuck out of him when a team like the Rays couldn't have done the same. Sure, he didn't become a free agent because you paid him 93 million dollars over 3 years, more than he would have gotten on the free agent market because of his injury history. Turner, your 3rd highest paid player, was an Oriole product. You did get him for bargain pricing initially, but then you paid the fuck out of him when a team like the Rays couldn't have done the same. Pollock, your fourth highest paid player, was a Diamondback. You overpaid for him. Jansen and Bellinger are true Dodger products. But again, you overpay when the Rays would have had to sell. Buying a team is as much about hanging on to expensive talent as it is signing free agents. Really, the Dodgers and the Yankees are the only teams even capable of doing it across their entire roster, and both do it. But just like you don't give a shit that your team has an operating budget that is multiple times greater than the Rays, and you think your team operates "fairly" when it comes to other teams like the Rays, Astros fans also don't give a shit about how you feel about the 2017 World Series. You lost the series. Plain and simple. But any team that spends as much as yours does should be able to win a title every now and then. If not most titles. The Yankees have 27. Manchester United has 13. Is this your year? Maybe, like Liverpool, all those years of spending will finally pay off. And really, I'm just looking out for your mental health. I don't think you're mentally prepared for a Rays win. Enjoy the Lakers win though. They did it with a salary cap, and by signing free agents who actually wanted to play there. That Lakers title is legit and was won on a truly equal playing field.

Yeah, zero additional potential voters were turned off by that Biden comment. Trumpers are going to show up at the polls. Everyone who is offended by that comment was already going to show up and vote Trump. However, that comment may have motivated a few disenchanted Bernie followers to actually show up and vote. And Biden needs that. He should actually pivot all the way left on climate change. It will motivate more voters while not alienating the suburban housewife "undecideds." People forget who is actually undecided in this thing. They also forget that turning out the base in force is way more important than reaching the undecideds. Trump knows this though. Its why he caters to his base, rarely even gives a single soundbite where he tries to cater to the "undecideds" and always viciously attacks the "left." His base will turnout like it always does. Sure, Biden didn't "win" the debate because some guy that has spent the last 4 years flying a MAGA flag on his truck around the oilfield isn't going to vote for Biden.

I get that, but the current charging model makes road trips burdensome. With a supercharger, you are looking at an hour. Maybe you are someone who can accept sitting at a Turnpike rest area for an hour on a road trip as a long term solution, but most people will stick to a gas powered car exactly for this reason. And if we want widespread adoption, we have to overcome the long haul problem. It also doesn't work for people that drive for work. A taxi that is sitting on the sideline charging is losing its owner money.

I didn't get it from anywhere, but I'm sure someone has thought of it before. It actually makes the most sense if we are looking for "refueling" times that are comparable to gas powered vehicles. An attendant doesn't cost all that much. NJ still has them for pumping gas and has lower fuel prices than neighboring states. And if things are standardized, the battery swaps could be done by an automated process anyway. Getting manufacturers to standardize completely may be impossible, but you could probably get them down to 3 or 4 platforms. The big manufacturers have already shown themselves willing to work together, like with the Mazda 626 and Ford Probe. So it wouldn't be a stretch to see stations ultimately end up with 2 options, "regular" and "Tesla" with Tesla becoming the diesel option that isn't available at every station. It would also create the added benefit of upgrading every electric car on the road. As new batteries get better while using the same form factor, cars already equipped for the swap will get to benefit from those longer lasting batteries as well. The only real problem is determining responsibility when a battery dies. If a station gives you a shitty battery and you go 20 miles and it dies, who pays for someone to bring you another battery? The only way to make that work is if the battery manufacturer itself is on the hook for it. There'd also need to be an agreement between station brands on using each other's batteries.

Biden isn't winning Texas, but if he manages to do it, it will be by a ridiculously close margin. There is no way the GOP doesn't challenge the Texas results in that case. Really, the GOP has probably already drafted their complaints in every potential swing state. This is going to the courts even in a massive blowout.

We think about charging stations in the wrong way, IMO. Instead of waiting to charge at a station, it should be a simple battery swap. The station can charge the old battery and give it to the next person. Battery manufacturers can "own" all the batteries and refurbish or replace batteries for the stations as they go bad. Part of this is standardizing battery tech across manufacturers. But manufacturers all had no problems getting behind standardizing fuel.

That was really more directed at sbbruin and Rob Lowe than Dodger fans in general. They'll be clawing their eyes out and inconsolably crying for weeks with a loss. And I'd argue that Dodger fans are generally more pathetic. While you're no sbbruin, you also still can't stop crying. Yankee fans aren't really doing the same. They make drugs for depression, you know? The Dodgers should beat the Rays. They paid high dollar for the best players at the store, but you already expect the Dodgers to blow it. The real problem for you is that Dodger players expect to blow it too. So who lacks confidence? You are either the deer or you're the headlights.

As shitty as Don is, he never got into a deal as bad as 666 5th Ave. It was impossible for Kushner to make money on that deal. Jared offered way over market price, and collected rents barely covered half of the interest payments on the loans. Which is why Jared unsuccessfully tried to get into bed with, I think, the Saudis to tear down and build a monstrosity. And that was also Jared's first deal after he took over the company. His father was probably rolling over in his prison cell. These aren't good businesspeople. Any of them. Instead, they squander the fortunes made by their fathers and then get into nefarious deals just to tread water. I wouldn't hire any of these people to manage an outhouse.

You gonna survive if the Rays win? Maybe you should check yourself into a facility now so you can't self harm when the Dodgers blow it again.

I wish the country of Niger would do something that Trump had to hold a press conference about.

I know more about wind than you do. Man that's one Joe should have hit 500 feet.

The only thing Trump gives a shit about is the nickname Obamacare. He actually wants the exact same plan even though he doesn't know how to say that.

I would trust a white house release about as far as I could throw it. If I'm Biden, I would have made him get tested by a doctor I trusted this morning.

Looks like fingernails at the "knuckles." I think he just has short stubby fingers and hired a 3rd grader to photoshop them.

Your vote will count as long as your last name isn't Rodriguez or Washington. And you're going to get all the possible efforts to disenfranchise. This election is the hill on which all future elections will live or die. A narrow stolen Trump win here equals Putin level landslides in the future. A narrow Biden win still has us on the brink otherwise, but I expect enfranchisement and election security will be fixed.

Perhaps, but Cheney is no Trump fan either. The old school oligarchs and anti-regulation Republicans are all anti Trump because they see the writing on the wall. The only ones left are the racist and handmaid tale Republicans, along with a bunch of grifters. If Cheney controlled W's puppet, he would have already made it happen. A Trump second term pretty much ends this whole thing. Less money for oil oligarchs (US ones at least). Less money for the military industrial complex. You know how we hired up German and Japanese scientists during and after WW2? Europe will start doing that to us openly and offer stability and PPP. But China will also be doing it and offering fiefdoms in return. We may survive a Trump second term. But we may not. Either way, we will be entirely unstable both economically and socially, and we will have a noticeable brain drain which will take decades to undo. In every fascist turn for a democracy, reelection is where the dominoes start to fall. The first election and term may seem bad while its happening, but power isn't consolidated until after the second election. Trump's favorite example of Venezuela is one of the best examples of this.

Obama nailed it. But if we want to keep having a country, W needs to step up and give the same speech. I know W is no Trump fan, but he tries not to criticize the party. Time to break that mold and take his party back by unloading on Trump.

Actually, I have wondered about that myself. That mitt has always seemed like a cheat to me.

East Texas is actually the worst part of the deep south because its also aggy. A racist evangelical Alabaman is way more rational than a racist evangelical aggy.

And yet, 2 NY buffoons are making all the news today. East Texas isn't the only place where the family trees are straight lines.

Borat let Rudy off the hook too soon. He should have brought the bat in first. Let Rudy take the first bite.

Ranger fans are out in force. It must really hurt watching other teams play for the title in your own stadium. And knowing that your stadium was chosen because you had zero chance of even making the playoff.

If anything, 60 minutes will cut it in a way that is favorable to Trump. I'm sure he mostly responded with incoherent rambling and rage, so 60 minutes may cut it to make him appear somewhat coherent. Trump: "We need to finish building the wall to keep out Mexicans. I don't hate Mexicans. I love Mexicans. I had a Mexican nanny. Second best tits I've seen after Ivanka's. Loved her tits. I think she was here legally. My dad must have checked her papers. He was the best ever at checking papers after me. I'm the best. That nanny died of cancer because she didn't have health insurance. That's her own fault. She should have gotten a better job with benefits." 60 minutes: "We need to finish building the wall to keep out Mexicans."

2023: The asteroid sample has finally touched down. NASA scientists are eagerly looking forward to studying it. 2024: The containment zone around NASA's lab is now 1000 square miles and expanding at a rapid rate.