David Gill

David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:10 UTC

The FAA: "It is really important to our civilian space program." The plans to use starship to land on the moon requires like a dozen starship launches to fuel the thing up, then it has to land its top-heavy ass onto the moon and get itself back up. It's not happening people.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Appealing to the full panel would be possible!

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:34 UTC

Yes! And with 13 justices, Congress could allow panel/ en-banc hearings and increase the court’s output (currently only deciding about 60 cases a year). Very strong, indeed!

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

Does Power and Flour last an hour? 😂

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:26 UTC

I’m just saying, the fact the issue freaked Congressional conservatives out so much that they broke with their parties probably is a sign it’s a real, existential threat to conservatism/authoritarianism, and liberals probably shouldn’t forget that.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:23 UTC

Yeah. The path is getting more votes than his opponents in enough states to win the electoral college

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

The fact that the name of the elected Democrat is not in the headline tells me a lot.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:44 UTC

It's a little-mentioned point, overshadowed by panic and excitement, but this episode began with a ratfuck of a debate. No, he didn't do well, yes they agreed to the rules and the moderators, but if he looked like a trapped animal, well, that's basically what he was.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:38 UTC

They've had nine years, and Joe Biden's only been his opponent for four of them. You really think that would do the trick? Would they finally get around to asking why he disrespected a 4-star general last week, or would this only be new things he says going forwards?

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

Hope you don't mind that I've basically been reciting these arguments in every political discussion I've had this past week 😂😂 It is spot on!

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

This is an indictment of the press. I mean, if you think the press would be covering things responsibly if Biden's people said they should cover these important things, or if Biden wasn't in the race, that's fine, but I think their behavior the past eight years suggests otherwise.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:29 UTC

I'm not saying he didn't bomb, but how much of it was because of age... I think it's all being boiled down to that and it's not the whole story. The reemergence of a bad stutter isn't a classic sign of aging, but is something that happens when people get nervous.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

It was such a strange, artificial environment. I didn't know what I was seeing - in my eyes it looked as much like he got nervous about how the first question or two went/ by the fact the rules meant he sat through a minute and a half of outrageous nonsense and had no good opportunity to refute it.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:13 UTC

“First title wasn’t provocative enough. Liberals, will you click on and be publicly outraged if we call the Supreme Court principled? We would really appreciate it…”

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

In the 90's when I was a kid, there was a Child's Play marathon on Fourth of July, that I think was immortalized for my sister and I because we taped it on VHS/ saw the Independence Day-themed promo commercials multiple times afterwards. So now it just seems like it fits.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

This is a passage that stands out. The idea the press lionized someone (Wagner) completely undeserving, because it it more conveniently fits with what they want to be true should be familiar to anyone who's turned on political coverage in the past decade.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

The person who shouts a question at Biden and makes him look like fool in response, accelerating or helping lead to his departure very much seems like a position attainable and waiting to be filled, and comes with rewards. Shout a question to Trump about Jeffrey Epstein and see what effect you have

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

The long-idealized Watergate series by Woodward and Bernstein is legendary because the president was eventually forced to resign. Lots of people found lots of important, grave details about Trump. And none of them are remembered like that.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

Yes, there's also lots of ideology built up around journalism. The Pierce family from Succession draws on real life. Privilege and elitism and arrogance. And there are profit motives drawing media companies to conservationism. Lots of forces beyond the individual reporters. But they've been trained.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:49 UTC

I'm nearing the end of The Power Broker. The NY press continues to stand out in this reread, and I think says something about today Donald Trump does not respond to criticism voiced by the press. They have no hope of having an effect on him with their reporting. That makes it uninteresting to them.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

I can't see a scenario where the GOP doesn't wildly attack any nominee and the press doesn't report it breathlessly. She'd have the experience of being president going into the election if Biden resigned and Democrats would have an internally-consistent logic as to why she is the nominee.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:20 UTC

My new motto is, “if it can have a national park, it can have two senators and electoral college votes”

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

"I call this piece, 'The Liberal New York Times'"

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 02:06 UTC

Trump is speaking his conviction based on Trump vs. the United States and idk about you, but I see a table full of loose leaf paper *puts hand up* about *this* high.

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:18 UTC

I expect it's less that and more Biden wants to see a majority of Dems in Congress call for it before coming out for it himself. He's a guy who, if nothing else, understands presidential power, and what happened in the 30s. A POTUS saying the SCOTUS "undermined the rule of law" still pretty strong

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David Gill @davegill.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 01:12 UTC

Thinking today will be remembered as a much-more historic day than the airing of that bizarre show CNN put out last week.

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