This tweet came to me in a dream.

We have water cars (boats) and water motorcycles (sea-doos), so when are we getting water e-scooters?

Im going to take this as a sign that I need to sign off for a bit.

Alright youre debating annoying semantics now in both our threads, and I have a life to live, so Im tapping out. Have a good rest of your weekend.

No, he ran on scrapping "Obamacare". Voters are stupid and didnt realize he was talking about the ACA. And Hillary still won the popular vote, in spite of all the bad press against her. Trump won the electoral college.

Im glad to hear that you do. But you talk like you dont. You dont have to cave to the DNC brainrot. Keep trying to convince other Democrats that theyre shooting themselves in the foot by choosing more conservative candidates in the primaries.

They're not zero sum people. There's ALWAYS more money for military. They're just greedy and violent. We dont have to sacrifice science and space travel to feed children.

Im not bitching about who won the primary. Im advising people like you to abandon the consultants and instead vote for primary candidates with consistent morals, clear policy positions, and populist left ideas. Because thats a candidate who will actually win, and actually create positive change.

Most people either cannot or will not vote in a primary election. So the DNC, the people who DO vote, need to get their shit together and pick a winning candidate who represents specific policies the majority of Americans want. Acting more Republican is a losing strategy, but they keep picking it.

I dont think you understand my point. The DNC is the primary. In the past, the progressive candidate for President hasn't won the primary because the DNC voted for business as usual. Those candidates lost to Trump twice. Kamala's republican lite campaign lost to a fascist buffoon. Embarrassing.

The first one is the same poll you cited. Maybe I wasn't exactly right about wanting "free" healthcare. But if a national democrat proposing universal care went up against a Republican who wanted to cut or stagnate Medicaid, who would that 31% who want a mixed system would vote for?

Putting humans on Mars will cost half a trillion dollars (as per NASA). Trump's war with Iran has costed 48 trillion dollars, SO FAR. We could go to Mars AND feed every kid. In spite of the cost of the Artemis Missions, about 120,000 kids got free lunch at school in 2025.

And we've circled back to the beginning of this, where I said that the DNC frequently votes against broad popular opinions in the primaries. Most primary voters are consultant-brained shills. They follow "strategy" instead of leading with big ideas to choose their candidate for the general election.

Have you looked at any opinion polls at all? A majority want free healthcare. A majority want restraints on housing and grocery costs. A majority want to stop funding Israel. A majority want to tax billionaires. A majority want higher wages. Politicians who represent these ideas are popular.

Because most people dont vote strictly along that spectrum. People are hurting and want radical change. That should be obvious.

Since when are we talking about getting non-voters to vote? We're talking about whether or not universal healthcare is a winning strategy. I'm arguing that primary results are not representative of broader popular opinion and shouldn't be given so much weight in your assessment.

A sign of how high corporate profits have become.

The only thing better than 1 falafel is 2 falafels.

You dont really have to spin anything. Biden did increase funding for Artemis, but Trump may have done the same thing at the same time. Trump occasionally manages to do a good thing. We dont have to spin that to hate him, because the occasional good doesn't outweigh the mountain of harm he does.

And then there's also the issue of centrists, independents, and left-leaning Republicans who will never vote in a Dem primary but would most likely vote for an actual populist left candidate for President if the Democrats bothered to try running one. These swing voters often decide elections.

Correct. But this is a newer movement. Watching the DNC reject Bernie when everyone outside agreed he was more likely to beat Trump, and then watching them out forward two Republican Lite candidates, has really lit a fire under the left flank.

People have started getting more progressive candidates, not sure if you've noticed.

SpaceX got a shout out during the takeoff of Artemis II. They are on the official NASA page for Artemis partners that I shared to you. I hate Elon Musk and I think privatization in space exploration is wrong. But the fact is that SpaceX is an official partner on the Artemis project.

A small, orange-brown dog with pointy ears and wire-haired Mohawk going down her back, curled up in croissant position and sleeping.

Reminds me of my Ramona

For example, they made biological computer chips using stem cells from the Artemis II crew to better understand the effects of radiation that the ISS astronauts dont have to worry about, but deep space travellers do. This was specifically for longer moon stays and eventual Mars missions.

NASA's goal is to put a human on Mars. Astronauts typically stay on the ISS for 6 months, and the data collected from those stays is helping NASA prepare for longer manned missions. Artemis is building on that research and is doing specific experiments during Artemis to make longer missions safer.

www.nasa.gov/artemis-part...

Dang, congratulations! By "everything" I mean the ability to see a doctor or a nurse and to access any procedures they recommend, without being told "no" by an insurance admin or being priced out of access. Sometimes that will include a nose job. The character limit makes things tough out here lol.

I really hate to give Trump any credit. It hurts me to my bones. But the truth is that the Artemis Missions were established and approved under Trump 1 as a result of his Space Policy Directive.

I believe NASA will actually get to Mars in my lifetime, as long as they dont get axed. Artemis is all about setting us up to do that. They are using some Space X equipment to do it, which is annoying. But it feels SO GOOD knowing that Musk couldn't achieve these milestones without NASA.