About the only way you could do worse is to appoint somebody who wants to get rid of the Department of Energy, but doesn’t know what it is, and can’t remember it’s name.

The point isn’t to take advice; it’s to push responsibility and blame onto somebody else.

If you lived in a swing state, you probably got multiple texts and phone calls from Democrats and other left-leaning groups, and very likely somebody knocking at your door too. Shifted the outcome by something like 3 percentage points.

They were talking about it before the election. I even posted a link, but people didn’t care as much.

The fuel becomes hot because the nuclear reaction in it is producing both light (eg: gamma rays) and fast-moving subatomic particles. These both interact with the rest of the fuel to heat it up.

In most places, at most times of day, a lot less.

Why? First, because a lot of electricity is generated using wind, water, solar, and nuclear. Those don’t have that problem (ok, nuclear wastes a lot of heat, but really, who cares). The second reason is that power plants that burn stuff tend to be a lot more efficient than internal combustion engines; the best case is combined-cycle gas turbine power plants, which turn over 60% of the energy available into electricity, as compared with a gasoline engine which turns about 20% of the energy in the gas into motion.

Sure. Still means that a ton of Americans were trying to figure out what it meant the day after the election. Which is a day later than they needed to.

Tell me about it

Part of that might be a result of much of the population not being tuned in to factual media. The right-wing outlets do a cover-for-30-seconds approach to any bad thing Trump does.

He’s angling for it, but I’m far from clear that he’d win a competitive Democratic primary.

That was always the Rolling Stone business model — talk about the bands, and throw in a side of serious political news.

They covered Project 2025 before the election, including the ties Trump’s circle has to it.

In practice, those rules made it easier to have centrist primary challenges to Democrats in congress, rather than left-wing ones.

The big thing we need to change is the media environment. Much of the US is a news desert, so people are depending on things like YouTube shorts and Xitter for their news.

They’ve been making it clear for a while.

The problem isn’t the NYT here; it’s that very few Americans read the NYT.

A whole bunch of Sanders supporters got themselves elected to the DNC and changed the rules to make contested primaries easier. The Democratic party isn’t some static thing that we have no control over.

It’s a lot easier to reshape a political party than to dump them and start afresh.

Some states mail a sticker with the ballot.

He’d have months named after himself if he could.

If my experience is any guide, Harris weekday rallies are full of people who have already voted, and have been canvassing in the area. People don’t go to one because they’re expecting a reason to vote for her; they’re going because it’s a way to stay excited at times of day/week when people are less likely to answer the door.

It tells you that he doesn’t have the same base of enthusiastic supporters that Harris does. It’s showing up in things like the turnout operations that the campaign has. Trump’s turnout operation tricks people and threatens to strand them far from home because they can’t get volunteers.