John

Kind of surprised it didn't happen in Korea

Spelling wasn't great, that's a fair criticism.

Yes, that description of "Chang" is based on Jeb's speech presenting the sword to Rubio. I can't tell if Jeb (unlike his sister) misunderstood his dad's tennis joke or if he was messing with Rubio.

This would be tragic and awful, of course, but it might be useful pour encourager les autres

He thinks Chiang Kai-shek is a "conservative Chinese mystical warrior" named Chang who believes in entrepeneurial capitalism.

Say what you will about Putin's Russia, but at least it has an actual goal in Ukraine. It's a stupid, counter productive, and evil one, but "take over Ukraine and rule it as a conquered province" is an actual war aim. What are we even trying to accomplish here?

Well that's kind of a non-sewuitir, but I'm?m happy for you that you get an opportunity to attack liberals

South Texas swinging back Dem, huh? I was assured this was a permanent shift.

Christ

Did anything happen in between?

Fort Sumter was, yes

Please elaborate!

Yeah, just anecdotal, mostly.

I think a lot of the campus encampments never really came back in fall 2024 after the summer?

You need more than double that.

Wait, what's the move from R+10 to R+8 based on? Also are you not double counting?

In the last midterm US Senate election in Texas (Beto vs. Cruz), there were over eight million votes. Enthusiasm gap in the primary doesn't mean too much, the decisive voters will not have voted in the primary.

How much evidence even is there that "political WAR" is a real thing at all, that it is correlated across cycles, or that it makes sense to compare margins in close districts with margins in safe ones?

Well, I think I *had* heard that he was a bartender on Capitol Hill, but not sure I'd heard anything specific about the Pod Save boys and him.

That is a rumor I have definitely heard before at some point, but I have no idea whether or not I had heard it before I made that tweet. My guess would be that I had not, and was just analogizing to their defenses of Dr. Ronny Jackson.

Did something come out?

I re-read my post and I can see how you misread it. My apologies for the lack of clarity.

"Talarico = Fetterman, and I gave him three months before he flips to the Republicans like Fetterman did." ???

No, I mean that the definition of an accommodation is that it doesn't make the assessment easier. As opposed to a modification.

oh, apparently there'll be a run-off!

I mean, that's literally the definition of an accommodation. (A modification makes the class/assessment easier)

in between Mauritius and the Maldives

Isn't he trying to persuade Americans to care about it by writing an article about why it's important?

I feel like the comparison one would want to make would be with DGSE, which is like a...friendly(?) competitor...to the Five Eyes?

Messina has been awful for a long time.