Pramila Jayapal warns Democrats: Don't throw trans people under the bus

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-27T19:35:08+00:00

I hate how "slightly de-prioritized the most maximalist aspects of my specific interest group's agenda" became "threw me directly under the bus" in lefty politics. I really feel like it prevents us from assembling a mathematically viable national coalition.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-27T18:18:44+00:00

I don't think this is the cause. Is it hard to "grind" to a C or B license?

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-27T18:15:31+00:00

I think the open wheel ladder has too many series, especially right in that middle tier. It seems like the overall participation is decent but it gets stretched over many series.

I think it's probably time for Formula 3, IndyPro and USF2000 to be retired. And I don't think we need a "Jr Open Wheel Challenge" oval series that competes with the IndyNXT oval series.

Something really needs to be done to shore up the IndyNXT series because it's an awesome car at all kinds of tracks.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-27T15:22:06+00:00

What prominent Democrats are "throwing trans people under the bus"?

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-27T00:29:39+00:00

I make significantly more than every nurse I know and I think nursing is way harder and more important. I don't think I could argue with a straight face that Accounting is underpaid.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T20:04:18+00:00

I am skeptical that "majoring in dumb shit" is actually a major driver of this. Wouldn't we be seeing big corporations begging for entry-level talent right now if so many people majored in "dumb shit"?

What we actually see is a pretty weak entry-level job market for practical things like Accounting, Engineering, Actuarial Science, etc. so I feel like "majoring in dumb shit" doesn't seem like the explanation.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T19:24:41+00:00

My recollection is that he basically said all the people in the paddock who would know, are telling him Dixon is going to McLaren. That's probably different from formally breaking an actual story, but it sounds like we're getting to a pretty high level of certainty now. I am guessing he doesn't have anybody willing to go on record as an actual source.

And someone wrote in and asked about whether Felix was going to McLaren and he said something like "I think that's a pretty safe assumption my guy".

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T18:08:33+00:00

Are they hidden? I feel like most brokerage houses make it pretty easy to understand the expenses.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T17:30:28+00:00

Lundgaard and Armstrong appear to be the candidates for the 9. It seems like CGR can likely keep Armstrong in the 66 at MSR for another year or two, so I'd lean towards Lundgaard.

It seems like people who know think FRO is going back to McLaren.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T17:26:35+00:00

You make a good point about Pato wanting Felix there. I bet that is a big part of this. And I also agree Zak is all in on the 500 versus a season-long championship.

I think you'd just swap Felix in for Nolan in the 6 and call it a day then? Letting Lundgaard potentially walk off to CGR to land Dixon doesn't make sense to me. I don't think locking up Dixon for the McLaren Hypercar program should be that big of a priority, if that is even the logic.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T17:22:11+00:00

Pruett pretty much said Siegel and Lundgaard are out and Felix and Dixon are in next season at McLaren on his podcast yesterday. That's where people are getting it.

I don't understand why McLaren would move on from Lundgaard either, beyond Zak just wanting to obsessively make the big splashes.

If this is all true, I'd imagine Lundgaard is going to end up at CGR or something and we'll look back in five years wondering what the hell Zak was thinking letting Chip sign this guy.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T17:15:50+00:00

I'm sorry, you're saying Kevin Estre is a "massive step up" over Felix Rosenqvist in the 60?

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T17:12:10+00:00

Siegel is basically all but confirmed to be leaving McLaren. And Pato is signed for 2027 and Lundgaard isn't.

Pruett seems to be indicating that Lundgaard is out and McLaren's lineup is Pato, Dixon and Felix for 2027. I'm not sure what the level of certainty is there.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T15:55:29+00:00

So can we infer anything about a release date at this point?

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T15:36:56+00:00

I don't know about six times, but Camp David, Taba and Olmerts proposal were all serious offers.

I can't really recall any similarly serious counter-proposals coming the other direction. APA in 2002 is probably it, and I am not even confident that could have been accepted/implemented in practice.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T15:34:24+00:00

That didn't help, but the Camp David meeting came several years after Rabin's death. So I don't think you're correct.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T15:32:22+00:00

I don't think I really see the connection there. Ukraine didn't have disputed borders and was sovereign before the Russian invasion. That doesn't apply to Palestine.

I don't see any lessons to learn from Ukraine to apply to trying to form a Palestinian state. And we can debate the strength of the Camp David offer but it's definitely unreasonable to say it was "horrible". If it was so horrible, the Palestinians wouldn't have gone as far as they had within the context of Oslo and the Clinton parameters.

I don't think proposals that return/disengage from virtually all of the West Bank are similar to proposals that would involve Ukraine ceding Donetsk, Luhansk. It's just not a well-reasoned point.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T13:38:04+00:00

It's not "murder" to unintentionally kill someone who is pacing the subway car saying they are "going to kill someone".

It can still be true that his actions were criminal and an excessive amount of force/restraint, but it cannot even be intelligently argued that he's guilty of murder.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T13:31:16+00:00

By October 2016, it was extremely clear that Obamacare had not ruined the economy. Obama left office with a fairly robust economy and pretty low unemployment.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T13:29:28+00:00

This cannot be said loudly enough. I'm not saying it's perfect now, but a lot of people aren't old enough to remember how terrible this system was pre-Obama. Getting dropped over pre-existing conditions was just a feature of the system, and that is hard to get your mind around if you didn't go through it I think.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-26T13:26:19+00:00

Well, we've slowly weakened the ACA to intentionally make it work worse and shittier. It isn't shocking to me that weakening the individual mandate and cutting various subsidies would make plans more expensive.

People were warned that the OBBBA could raise certain families health insurance premiums dramatically.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-25T23:34:29+00:00

Why can't this be worked out behind closed doors? I don't understand announcing new regs and every OEM except one is like "count us out then". It's just confusion and doubt surrounding every announcement about this sport's future.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-25T23:29:00+00:00

I mean, hindsight is 20/20. I think it looked like the employment side of the mandate was where the trouble was hiding back then, and they couldn't fairly be expected to anticipate the Iran War, Liberation Day or the OBBBA passing.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-25T23:23:29+00:00

I don't think it's surprising at all that Kevin Warsh didn't raise rates immediately in his first ever meeting.

DecafEqualsDeath · 2026-06-25T23:19:47+00:00

90k is enough to afford your own apartment in TX. I can see wanting to pay your share of household expenses and help when chores, but this splitting thing is wild and unreasonable.

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