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on I blame Obama · c/lemmyshitpost · 42 pts · 159d

This is literally George W. Bush's fault, he's the one who pushed the DST changes several weeks earlier in the spring and later in the fall in 2005. This and Hurricane Katrina happened at the same time.

Hegseth's father was a basketball coach for high schools across Minnesota before retiring in 2019; his mother is an executive business coach who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service (MEPS) Series, a fellowship and leadership program for Republican and center-right women.

She'd probably say "You've always been a disappointment to this family. You should've gone to war with Iran last year."

I think I missed the part with examples of how the media is creating consent for this? On the contrary, I feel like I've seen mostly articles about capitalist interests: how this is going to raise gas prices, increase inflation, and hurt the economy. Outside of the typical right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox News, the sense I get is the media recognizes this is deeply unpopular and there's little rationale for it. I do wish they'd push harder on those points rather than just reporting "facts," but that's a longstanding criticism.

Arch Aplin, the owner of Buc-ee's, is a huge Republican donor who backs Trump-aligned candidates in Texas, including Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Buc-ee's really lost me when they opened one in Bastrop on 71 and planted a billboard over Hruska's, trying to drive away their business, but I would never go there regardless.

I don't know if you've ever spent much time in Cuellar's district, but there aren't very many progressives there. It's culturally very conservative, but also more collectivist given the Mexican and Tejano culture, so they don't fit as naturally into the Republican party and are more likely to support moderate or conservative Democrats. That said, Henry Cuellar is fucking awful