He HAD good brand instincts. But the older he gets the more his preference for personal loyalty takes precedence over projecting the proper image.
90's Trump wouldn't have made such a mistake as punching down at someone who just scored a big win.
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Classics
Don't forget Stanley Kubrick's "The Shoveling".
Johnson almost lose
Johnson outperformed Michels by something like 70k votes.
I've been looking over the historical numbers. The dynamics in Wisconsin were that Madison area had high turnout for an off year (almost certainly abortion effect) but that it still wasn't enough to outvote the rest of the state being red. But in the Governor race, it was that Michels simply ran behind Johnson in about every county. A few hundred here, a few hundred there, and it adds up.
Trump had no impact in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin was down to incumbent effect. The interesting takeaways from the state was that Kenosha county and adjacent Racine county flipped from safe blue to mild red, while turnout in the Madison metro was very high.
The difference between the performance in Governor vs Senate was in the rural counties, where there's a general sense that the Evers is doing okay (better than Michigan anyway).
It's your own fault for expecting too much from a Senate class that was the worst chance for the GOP to make gains.
And let's be clear: Republicans won more Senate seats tonight than the Democrats did.
The show was always the house, and the house so far has been a Democrat wipeout.
Look at Iowa. Miller-Meeks, the narrowest winner in the last cycle, is up by 20k, while Axne, the last blue seat, will probably lose hers.
Why is it popular in India?
Similar tastes. Kpop has caught on as an alternative to Bollywood.
The language barrier isn't such a barrier to being popular in a country with something like thirty state-recognized languages.
That is my suspicion.
I know for certain that Kpop's biggest market is urban India, which is the third largest market for Twitter after the USA and Japan. If trending is being deskewed, it wouldn't surprise me at all for Kpop to trend.
Why is there this massive fake push for kpop shit?
It's not fake.
Kpop is immensely popular in India, which messes with the numbers. Like, all of your western conceptions of what is normal goes out the window the second something becomes popular in New Delhi, the metro with the population of Texas.
You're correct, but there's more to it then that.
Rural counties are experiencing population loss.
The current generation of small town residents will not be replaced. They'll simply die off and create ghost towns. If a midwestern "town" doesn't now have a medical center, a community college, a proper grocery store, a Walmart, and a chain hardware store, in fifty years it'll probably be abandoned.
This will really accelerate if states institutionalize online primary education in an attempt to get in front of home schooling. In many small towns the school is the last remaining big employer.
In parallel, if a high speed network is established in the east and west coastal areas, it will begin to grow inwards to reach more top-25 cities.
The balance falls somewhere between the two. To achieve European or Japan like efficiency you need equivalent population. "Trains" don't replace cars... subways do. But to get to the point of subways you need incredibly high population density.
The high speed city-to-city routes continued to develop after the war because the Asian and European post war economies couldn't afford mass car ownership until the 70's or 80's.
Meanwhile the US was flying high with a postwar economy that saw basically the top 75 population centers get jet service with 707's.
To make high speed work in the US, you have to make it work between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and between Boston and Philadelphia. Until that works, there's nothing to build off of.
Trains are also less efficient
In actuality, no. In terms of passenger-mile-gallons diesel electrics sip fuel compared to turbofans. The diesel cycle is just so much more efficient than the brayton cycle that there's no meaningful comparison between the two.
Like, that's not even controversial. It's how commuter rail can remain economical against buses.
The problem with nationwide rail is:
- Atrophy of the established 19th century rail base.
- Failure to develop routes to match population trends since the Eisenhower Administration.
- The overall size of the country, which was always going to make coast to coast flights economical.
- Extremely low average population density and long distances between the top 25 population centers.
The nemesis of trains in America never was air transportation. It was always highways and interstates. THIS IS HOW MANY SHINKANSEN-SPEED TRAINS YOU'D NEED TO MAKE IT ALL WORK IN THE US. The cost would be in the trillions.
Yeah. It was done in the style of a late-night b-movie theater, with an MC doing a brief intro for the night's lineup. They'd open with Jack Horkheimer, PBS's weekly 5 minute stargazing show. Then always Red Dwarf, and then after that the schedule varied although it always ended with two episodes of Doctor Who and then the station would shut down for the night.
While throwing hammers at him
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is a good binge.