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  3. AZ State Rep Austin Smith collected signatures to get on the ballot to run for Congress. Just one problem...

    MTN: GOP Rep Drops Out of Race After Claim He Forged Signatures

    The complaint alleged that 9 full pages of signatures all appeared to be written by the same person and the handwriting appeared to match that of Smith himself. Under Arizona law, anyone caught forging signatures on ballot petitions are not eligible to run again for five years.

    Smith works as a Senior Director for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA organization. Kirk frequently and falsely claims that Democratic candidates win using forged signatures on mail-in ballots, despite the fact that Republicans continue getting caught doing it.

  4. 2 minutes ago, jakee said:

    Which ones would be left?

    I was recently astonished to find this on her Wikipedia page:

    She graduated from South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia in 1992, and the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1996.

     

    I think she has a case for demanding her money back from U of G, since she obviously learned nothing.

  11. On 4/11/2024 at 3:53 PM, SkyDekker said:

    I expect him to be as serious as Republican lawmakers in the US

     

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    It's all about religious freedom; The GOP is sponsoring these bills at the behest of The First Church of Appliantology.

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  12. In December there were a flurry of news articles here in CO about dismal USPS service in the CO mountain towns. Staff shortages seem to be the root cause. e.g.

    CBS News: USPS Inspector General: Colorado mountain towns have worse delivery than rest of state, country

    Latest idea is to ship all Western CO mail to Denver for sorting, which would mean delays:

    CO Sun: Postal Service floats idea of driving Western Slope mail to Denver and back before delivery

  13. 11 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

    You said they covered Hunter and his laptop. And you said NPR published it was a Russian hoax.

    So, show what they published. Find an article or radio transcript where they do what you claim they did.

    Show those "facts" you keep claiming you are all about.

    My best chuckle yesterday on another forum arguing this topic:

    "Apparently, Hunter's laptop is some sort of Rosetta stone for true conservatives."

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  14. 17 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

    That's the deal, really, and we all know it. Whether it's money in their pockets today, accepting harm to women in exchange for banning abortions now, putting Jesus in our schools and brown skinned folks in their place, or guns in their pockets, they will vote their personal issues and dissemble here when asked about their voting intentions. Winsor and Kallend are fond of pointing out that the US average IQ of 100 (or slightly less) renders many citizens incapable of participating in modern discourse and decision making. They are correct. I'd go further, I'd say the number is a bit higher at the minimum.

    They don't even vote for their own interests; They vote against their own interests, after listening to the GOP politicians who have no actual platform or policy, and just bang on and on about a fictional culture war to agitate their followers.

    Need proof the GOP has no platform? Just go read the 2020 GOP Platform. Go ahead; I'll wait.

    Funny thing is there are actual issues that are considered "left wing" that some on the extreme right agree with:

    <REDACTED> supports legal access to abortion, in part because he believes it would reduce the number of black and Hispanic people, which he says would be a "great boon" to white people. <REDACTED> also supports a national single-payer health care system because he believes it would benefit white people.

    Guess who?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer#Health_care

    But of course the GOP won't support either, because the former would upset the bible-thumpers, and the latter would upset the billionaire donors.

  15. HuffPo: Police Report: Trump County Chair Threatened To Rape Boss's Wife, Then Kill Him

    One of Donald Trump’s county campaign chairs in New Hampshire lost his job as a police officer after threatening to kill his colleagues in a shooting spree, murder the department chief and rape the chief’s wife in retaliation for his suspension over his relationship with a high school girl, according to a newly released report from an internal affairs investigation.

    I hope he can still take her to the prom!

    Stone has remained in Trump’s camp since. Trump named him one of his 14 New Hampshire county and city chairs last June and praised him from the stage during a rally in Claremont five months later.

    Only the best people!

     

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  18. 1 minute ago, billvon said:

    And the rich of a century ago would agree with you.  Read Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth.  He writes about the best way for the rich to give away all their money before they die.  How very progressive taxes are needed.  How most of the money made by the rich should be spent enriching the community, while the rich person himself should live modestly.  And indeed that giving all that money away was a duty the rich have to humanity,

    "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."
    "By taxing estates heavily at death the State marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life. It is desirable that nations should go much further in this direction."

    We no longer have leaders like Carnegie.  Nowadays people who pay a lot in taxes are considered idiots, and people who want infrastructure put in place to make OTHER people rich are considered socialists.  We need to replace Bezos values with Carnegie values.  

    Omigawd! Carnegie was a Commie!!!

  22. 33 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

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    Chinese dumping of EVs in the EU and the rest of the world had a large part in that sales fall for Tesla. The EU determined that China has subsided EVs $58 billion since 2018.

    I will argue that the biggest things damping Tesla sales are:

    1. Tesla lying about range.

    2. Tesla lying about capabilities of "Autopilot", (and Elmo making annual announcement that FSD will be here in "a few months", for ten years running).

    3. Elmo being a gigantic all-around asshole.

    There is no way in hell I will ever own a Tesla as long as Elmo has any control over it.

     

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  23. Just now, gowlerk said:

    Sometimes when your team looks really bad the only thing to be done is a reach out to false equivalency.

    But a much better strategy is give up the "my team" mindset and just cast your vote for the candidate who is best for the country. Tying your identity to a political party is just ridiculous.

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  25. 1 hour ago, olofscience said:

    Agree with most of your post except this, turbines take time to start and spin up. And every turbine start affects their lifetime. For peaking, grid-scale batteries have much faster response times and probably much lower total cost.

    A natural gas peaking plant does not need to use turbines. There is a big one near me that uses natural gas piston engines:

    https://www.power-technology.com/projects/plainsendnaturalgas/