This is why in any field I tend to have more confidence in anyone that goes against the stereotype, because it is more likely they really wanted to do it and likely worked harder to get there.

If someone likely were told every five minutes “you should be a doctor” becomes a doctor they are potentially there just because they are “supposed to”. If conversely they get told they should consider a different career every step of the way and still gets to be a doctor, now that person had some drive.

While that may be true, that it failed to work as well as hoped, that by no means is “backfiring”.

It would have to either have pulled even more women in, caused more men than women to be out of the military, or at least catch specific people important to him in it.

Calling it backfiring is to try to relish things going against his objectives, but instead it was a partial success. From here, he has the opportunity to tune things and improve the result next time with zero regrets about having done this wave.

I would be inclined to agree, but in this case I’m certain this is absolutely how Mitch would want it to play out if it were between this and not being involved at all.

It is rather unchristian. Perhaps… Anti-Christian

Clearly you mean “New America”

“In partnership with Kalshi”

No thanks. Even if accurate, gives me a bad feeling.

Well I would suspect the destination address would give it away…

Yes, my 401k is doing even more than 265% than I put in already years away from retirement, and that’s not because the government is funneling money into it on my behalf.

It’s not being religious or being a pastor that makes me concerned.

It is the “megachurch” part. I have seen and respected decent churches and pastors. But “mega” churches I haven’t seen being anything other than outright scammy.

But it is Kansas and even if it were just like a Republican except willing to stand up to Trump, then I would at least accept that as good enough from Kansas.

Good luck people of Kansas.

For midterms for the house, sure there are

They already rigged districts and can focus such efforts on a handful of districts. Similar story for statewide elections, interfere with a single big city in a state and that could assure a senator.

He specifically listed that activity as one of those rare time consuming parts.

Broadly there is a lot the common person assumes absolutely beyond their capability and never tries. People should at least be encouraged that DIY is worth a shot to see if it can work. Big business loves a populace that views doing anything for themselves as a lost cause, good for people to have a least a little familiarity with things to keep that perspective balanced.

I’d probably start smaller, a handful of leafy plants on a patio or something. Very cheap, easy, and low stakes. You won’t replace your diet with independent farming, but at least the general concept won’t seem impossibly out of reach.

Depends on the goal.

Being totally independent is hard. Having a few strategic plants isn’t that bad.

No, you aren’t going to live off your casual garden, but you can have a bit of lettuce or a few other easy leafy vegetables around. You can’t go all in on lots of salads, but you can at least have a lettuce leaf for a sandwich if you can’t get it from the store.

It’s not a bad situation for things like a sandwich topping or garnish here and there.

A few pots on a patio occasionally watered can be pretty solid. Yes you still need the grocery store, but maybe you can skip lettuce from the grocery store and still have it for light usage.

Lettuce actually grows pretty easily.

Now you aren’t going to trivially have enough to be a staple of your diet or anything, but if lettuce at the store is a problem, you could at least have a few leaves to add some to a few dishes while the issue is worked in the supply chain.

My kid just has a single lettuce plant and pulls a few leaves off to eat with something once in a while. It doesn’t need much active care or anything.

At one point my kid had an indoor hydroponic garden going that offered up a bit more vegetation to eat, but keeping that thing maintained was a hassle.

Perhaps I should have put it in quotes, “careful what you wish for” intended as the expression and “you” being China.

An imbecile is desirable in some ways to have the USA act against it’s own best interests making competitive interests easier, however when the imbecile goes and bombs Iran, that is a problem. And who knows what bone head move to screw things up for everyone comes next.

In some ways an imbecile is harder to predict and negotiate with.

That is a careful what you wish for.

Not so smart as to challenge competitively, but not so dumb as to think they can go bombing whoever they feel like to get their way.

Even as they gripe about terrible GOP behavior, they usually say “but at least they aren’t Democrats”.

Facing perhaps the most dangerous presidential administration in history and already planning on infighting… what the hell…

There’s long been pressure that people that are a bit more left need to be strategically minded and work with what is there rather than get pissy because the candidates aren’t perfect. Well that cuts both ways, these are the candidates the people want and you need to work with them for the common good.

Note that he didn’t say that violent offenses didn’t work broadly or were immoral, just that it was never going to work with Iran specifically, which from what I’ve seen has been a long-held perspective even among the same folks that were eager to bomb away on Iraq. Even people that thought they could do this with Afghanistan were more skeptical about trying the same stuff with Iran. Even as those same people would have loved it to be the case they could do this to Iran, they had to admit it wouldn’t work.

So even for more warmongering sentiment, this Iran situation was still a dumb idea.

Colud be someone bragging to someone not expecting it to work all the way out to the media.

Or a narrative that is probably fairly described, but editorialized. E.g. if they did state the fact they had the help of psychologists in negotiating, that statement by itself doesn’t necessarily insult a man that thinks only very smart people pass cognitive tests.

So the reporting actually extrapolates into the obvious, but unstated implications of why pyschologists would be useful in this situation.

Yep, posessing a shred of dignity really gets in the way of manipulating Trump.