Recent content by gtyellowjacket

Good theory but it doesn't seem to hold up. Blacks are a very small percentage of the population of West Virginia but it appears to have plenty of people making n- searches.

Is there hard evidence for that? This is from a ten year old Washington Post article. The data scientist measured how often people use the n-word during google searches. WV is there along with much of the South and rural northeast but not so much in Idaho...

Yeah. I'm wrong. Its the spread between approval and disapproval.

No. I'm wrong. Its not a change in approval rating. Its the spread between approval and disapproval. For example 54% disapprove and 46% approve would be a red 8. So your racism theory would be possible. I don't think its correct looking at states like Mississippi and Oklahoma but its possible.

I'm skeptical. This graphic doesn't measure how much the average someone in a state loves Trump. It measures how many more or less people like Trump. So if its the racist theory then either racists in the green states didn't like him before but now they do or a whole lot of racists that...

But why the swing? Did all those green States suddenly have a lot of racists emigrate in the last 8 months? Did they all come from Oklahoma and Mississippi? I think there has to be a different explanation if this graphic is right on why some states love Trump even more and most States love...

Really I'm not sure they're that effective. Maybe they're effective at upsetting people and maybe they are causing problems to Russia's domestic war manufacturing but they don't seem to all that effective at stopping the war on terms that Ukraine would prefer. Maybe I'm wrong and without the...

I'm not sure either. It might be stepping over dollars to get dimes or it might be real cuts of government waste. Its mostly likely both.

Yeah but I'm not sure DOGE was the one calling for that reallocation. Their mandate was savings by eliminating unnecessary government waste. They knew they were going to cut too deep in some areas and those were the areas that we're going to be called out in Twitter posts but overall, I think...

Breaking that spending increase down a little further, most of the increase, almost all the increase, is more social security and Medicare spending. That's to be expected as we get more old people. There is also a nontrivial increase in interest payments on the debt. The discretionary spending...

Yes but I don't get this quote or the need for an article at all for routine traffic. Unless slow news day. "Defence Secretary John Healey branded the Yantar's move "deeply dangerous" and warned Russia and its president Vladimir Putin: "We see you. We know what you're doing. We are ready.""

There must be more to this story. Russian ships, including military vessels, have the right to transit through the English channel.

Thinking about it, it is really hard to be a great woman orator. You can't get that deep baritone that projects and you can't get that rising and falling cadence without sounding shrill. That can be really hard to overcome but some men have done it. Hitler is a notable example. As a woman...

Obama was the best in my politically active lifetime. Reagan was supposedly very good. FDR didn't do the stirring oratory style but did connect with the electorate better than just about anyone. Outside of Presidents, Huey P Long was very good. MLK had a terrific style that kept people...

One of my favorite players. I had completely forgotten about the accident that paralyzed him.