The most important job of a leader is to cause those he purports to lead *to believe in his ability to deliver results*

it also *may* be one of the few places where renewables really are raising costs, since they passed an overly-developer-favorable solar feed-in tariff for projects 5 MW and smaller (sources: a) I am developer with projects in Maine b) www.maine.gov/mpuc/regulat...)

My wife dubbed Diet Coke “cigarettes for healthy people” and I couldn’t agree more

Well, at least THOSE folks do not have immunity for "official actions".

My 12 year old has gotten into both in the last year and it’s awesome

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Ahh, thanks. I see this too, and all of it seems consistent with the idea that they're perfectly capable and willing to tip close elections via lawsuits that hopefully find a friendly judge, but lack capabilities beyond that: www.nj.com/politics/202...

What was this??? I follow this stuff pretty closely and I missed that entirely

Turns out that actually a "Flight 93" election did happen, but it was 2024, and the dudes with boxcutters won, and now we've got to take the cockpit back without crashing the plane

Something i've been wondering - aren't these stored in different places? and if they WERE tampered with, couldn't a party within government release the untampered version, entirely legally?

Siri, show me what happens when the Glonzoists realize they VOTED FOR GLONZO

Skeleton key to understand this: Republicans have been referring to a mixed private economy with public welfare supports and some regulation as "socialism", and to their preferred solution of no safety net plus unregulated economy as "capitalism", for long enough that people have internalized it

Chip Roy would like a word

I stand second to no one in reading poor motives into the actions of R's but this is a difference of 20 days per rep on the Dem side. To me it mostly looks like an issue of Dems picking older reps, who happen to die more

"No take, only throw"

Nov ‘28 thru Jan ‘29, no?

"Very good sir, republicans definitely don't use the airport in <<checks notes>> Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Florida."

There's a disease in certain corners of the Republican party where they assert that merely participating in society with disfavored outgroups is "against their religion".