jerryskids

Silence is actually very powerful in negotiations; I've used it quite often in my life, both work and personal. People hate silence. They'll fill it with words, which often acquiesce to your points.

Sorry, but while this is popular to say, it's just false. Whoever ran for the Republicans would be vilified by the MSDNC as "worse than Trump$#@!" Don't believe me? Remember when DeSantis looked like the Republican candidate? Great article by the Hill describing my point: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4030670-desantis-is-the-greatest-threat-to-america-ever-until-the-next-guy/ We would be sitting here with you telling us that if the Republicans nominated ANYONE but DeSantis, he'd have your vote.

Congrats! I was going to go with the "take care of my baby" route, but @edjrbeat me to it.

I appreciate the differentiation you are making. That being said, in your model, how long do you think they could have delayed certification to make a substantive difference? Would a few hours give Trump's legal team enough time to find a new legal straw with which to steal the election? Also, I would argue that most people, the vast majority, were caught up in the mob mentality, not going in with some specific purpose.

I'd have to go look at our winter setting but basically this. We definitely do 75 in the summer. Yeah, we are 100+ all summer; today was a chilly 95. We are lucky that our current house is quite energy efficient, so 75 is not a strain on our AC or pocketbooks. Our last house was much larger, higher ceilings, and less efficient overall. We kept that at 78. It's not that bad once you get used to it. Sucks for people who visit though.

I thought I was your good friend? I answer your questions all the time. I just don't respond well to presumptive statements like I have to or need to, to answer your new question before you'll address mine. If there is something in this sub-discussion I have not answered for you, let me know. Otherwise, I'll presume you just made it up. I tried a simple Google search and nothing was apparent. But I figured since you said it with such conviction, you had some receipts.

She proposed $20K forgiveness of loans for black entrepreneurs as both Senator and VP? Link? I wasn't aware of this. TIA.

If by you>me, you mean that if you just type "Brown" you presume people know that means Chase Brown and not first round pick AJ Brown, then yes, you are da bomb.

I just said that perhaps "favorability" was the wrong word. I'm not sure what else to say. That being said, the video does focus a lot on her issues with messaging to men.

OK. You said that there are more people guided by the Bible and overly believe in Trump than you would like. I said there are more people who support Hamas, transing kids, men in women's sports, and wide open border than I would like. I think we are in agreement.

Barkley, Brown, and Wilson went 9/10/11 in IBL. Three team league?

I dunno, to me, "way too many" implies a strong majority. I've adjusted my definition to "more than zero is too many for me subjectively, but I don't have a range in mind."

Nothing I guess. With your new definition of "way too many", I stand by my previous post as well. But more to your concern, I would in general prefer that people get their moral guidance from the Bible than from Tik Tok and Tumblr.

I think you and Tim are caught up on the semantics of the word "favorable." Perhaps I should have described it as "not polling as well as her team had hoped." To be clear, Watson (maker of the video) is not some second coming of Walter Cronkite. He's a popular YouTuber with conservatives. But the video does capture what I think are a lot of the problems with her campaign. One topic is the campaign's apparent lack of empathy with men: (real) white men, black men, young men.

In the same post you say "way too many" and "extreme conservatives." By definition, the "extreme" of anything is at the far end of the spectrum. But apparently you've drunk the MSDNC koolaid that most anyone right of Mao is an "extreme MAGA conservative$#@!" This can be a fun game, let me try. Liberals support Hamas terrorists. There are way too many people that are actually described by that though. They are extreme Leftists. ... transing kids. ... men competing in women's sports. ... wide open borders.

Again with the "need." Last time you said "have to," I told you to fock off, and you thought I was the problem. Watch it or don't, ignorance is bliss.

I'm shocked that neither of you two want to learn why Kamala is so unpopular, and instead post this pablum.

Yeah, that's what we do.

Any Lefties perplexed as to how Kamala isn't more popular might learn something from this.

Like, NABJ? You may recall, Kamala wouldn't go on there initially. Of course, she eventually did, and it was a love fest.

Thoughts on my observation that the rate of the rate of change is negative (decreasing) under Biden?

Trump's last year? Covid? This is a joke statement, right? You've ignored my point about the stock market twice, I'm done on that. Your goalposts on unemployment move with every response. Most importantly, if working class folks were doing well in this economy, Kamala would be running on it. She isn't.

I am epically bad at pretend football this year, in all my leagues. In this one in particular, it seems I'm favored most weeks, and then my team shiots the bed on game day. I did take the high risk/reward approach of going big on Cardinals assets -- their offense was supposed to be very good, and their defense fairly bad, so shootouts were predicted. Oops.

Sorry we couldn't connect as well! Yeah, I know. He's been an even bigger PITA than usual recently, thinking he has some big "gotcha" about what a "conservative" is. Idiots like weepaws in the Republican party got Kari Lake chosen as our Senate nominee. She supported the 1864 law prohibiting all abortions at one point. Guess what? She's going to get her ass kicked in the general by Ruben Gallego, a very liberal/progressive Democrat. He continues to support that 1864 ban. If that were still in place, Prop 139 would win in a landslide, which adds to our Constitution the right to abortion until birth. Instead we got the newer, 15 week ban, and with it a decent chance of blocking Prop 139 for going too far. To weepaws simple mind, he is doing right by his surfer dood God by this position. I think if he truly listened to God, he'd hear the message to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

That chart is interesting: the second derivative (the direction of the rate of change) appears negative for the first time during the Biden/Harris years. That's a bit concerning, as it points to a possible eventual flattening out or decrease if it continues. Stock market comment is non-responsive. "Looks really low" is not "historically low." And as I pointed out from the graph provided, it is increasing.