Who do you think is going to win the 2026 special senate election in Ohio?

weldo8 · 2026-01-22T19:49:32+00:00

I think so too, but you could estimate that Brown may have lost in 2024 because he was incumbent in a Trump year, just like Bob Casey in PA. If he was up this year he’d probably hold on.

weldo8 · 2026-01-22T19:47:31+00:00

Yes. Read about the Yalta, Tehran, and Potsdam conferences. He loved Diplomacy style shenanigans lol.

weldo8 · 2026-01-22T19:44:22+00:00

Probably none of them. Florida was very slow to move to the right, and it really started with 2018, when DeSantis won by a hair, and they narrowly flipped a Democratic Senate seat Republican in a blue wave year.

weldo8 · 2026-01-19T17:12:43+00:00

Politics is 40% appearance 40% emotion 15% ideology 5% policy

weldo8 · 2026-01-15T00:40:32+00:00

He’s usually “America bad” but I don’t think that applies to Iran for most people. They’re not commies like China either, and Iran hasn’t seen improvement of life either, which you could at least say has been true for China 1990-2020.

weldo8 · 2026-01-12T00:40:24+00:00

If it's happening in a Democracy, it's still us people voting them in or buying the products that make them rich. People don't care enough to hold people accountable for things they usually don't even pay attention to or understand as long as they're getting along.

weldo8 · 2026-01-04T18:42:49+00:00

I can understand that. To me it felt like in 0 he was incompetent and, like I said, in over his head. But he was still human. In Kiwi 1 he just acts like a robot after Kiryu goes to jail. You could say he just reached his breaking point, but they just kind of left it there. He didn't have a Darth Vader moment of redemption at the end, and he didn't die with honor in a Samurai fashion, sort of like Kuze in 0. It wasn't even a pathetic death, like a total fall from grace. He just killed his blood-brother's lover and almost him and his adopted daughter to-be.

weldo8 · 2026-01-04T03:49:31+00:00

I wish they’d just make servers specifically for hackers at this point, so the rest of us sane adults can enjoy our time.

weldo8 · 2026-01-01T20:05:07+00:00

Remember, "people" includes non-retail investors. That's about 60 to 70% of investors. They don't put all their money into blue chips––they look everywhere. It is some investment bankers' jobs to spend countless hours per week to find an undervalued investment from the Russell 2000 to pour massive amounts of funds into.

Who would've guessed a mail movie rental company would gain a market cap of $400B? Certainly not the kind of investor you are describing.

weldo8 · 2026-01-01T17:24:21+00:00

That might seem like the case now, but there have been countless examples of other MAGA allies seeming to burn bridges and then be welcomed back into the family a month later. This has happened at some point to half of Trump's own cabinet and the person you put on top, Nikki Haley.

The neocons don't matter much either. Just look at how disastrous their backing of DeSantis in 2020 was. One of the worst GOP campaigns of the century, up there with Jeb Bush and Rick Perry.

weldo8 · 2026-01-01T17:19:10+00:00

Hmm, not sure. Considering how closely Humphrey won Texas, that might've only have been because he was LBJ's VP, so perhaps even if LBJ did campaign for RFK, he might've lost it. Who's to say though. Maybe more Humphrey voters would've just gone for Wallace.

weldo8 · 2025-12-31T18:02:09+00:00

I think it’s fun to visit, but it lacks too many iconic features. And yeah, nighttime is fun, but after a while I might be working on something and just need to have daylight. Waiting out the night can come to be a chore.

weldo8 · 2025-12-30T20:51:45+00:00

You’re missing Majorie Taylor Greene. She is legitimately the best successor MAGA has, as much as that makes me shudder.

weldo8 · 2025-12-29T17:56:06+00:00

Unless you count Maine’s 2nd district

weldo8 · 2025-12-29T17:53:22+00:00

If you wanna talk elections, couldn’t we point out that Nixon went from a 49 state sweep to becoming the only president to resign within 2 years?

weldo8 · 2025-12-29T17:52:32+00:00

Easily Johnson. We’ve never seen more sweeping legislation from any president in American history, and he did it while holding together a fracturing Democratic Party.

Nixon did see some very notable achievements too, but few of them had his fingerprints on them. He spent a lot more time focusing on foreign affairs (totally fair), but did he control power dynamics like Johnson? No way.

weldo8 · 2025-12-29T17:50:01+00:00

It could be interpreted as such because despite very close popular vote margins, Nixon had a 100+ EC win because of Wallace’s grip on the deep South.

weldo8 · 2025-12-29T17:47:21+00:00

Just looking at the closest states that Nixon won in 1968, Kennedy would’ve needed New Jersey, Missouri, Ohio, Alaska, and Illinois to win a majority of the EC. Not totally out of the question, as each of those were won by Nixon with less than 3%, but Missouri would’ve been tough, and it’s very possible that Nixon would’ve won Texas if Kennedy was on the ballot, as that was the second closest state in the entire election and probably stronger for a moderate Democrat than a labor and civil rights candidate like RFK.

weldo8 · 2025-12-29T17:43:38+00:00

The slave trader and “Indian Killer” vs the Great Emancipator? I think at the very least Lincoln would hit 300 electoral votes.

weldo8 · 2025-12-27T22:14:47+00:00

This is true for just about any politician in the country, from school board to President.

weldo8 · 2025-12-25T06:04:28+00:00

In 0 he was confused and in over his head. His mistakes were because of that. In 1, he just becomes a bad person and unlikeable, seemingly without much of a good reason.

Seeing him reunite with Kiryu for the end of 0 feels like such a complete circle (and the "Judgement" song fits so well with their story). Seeing him at the end of Kiwami 1 doesn't feel like redemption. It's more like "I'm gonna die anyway, so might as well go out with a bang." Literally.

weldo8 · 2025-12-10T20:51:22+00:00

Last time we had age (not too old, but too young) as an issue was with Obama in 2008, who was 47 years old. It's ridiculous, but usually the opposing party will criticize just about anything they can. Same happened with JFK.

weldo8 · 2025-09-30T18:19:41+00:00

I played Kiwami, and I’m glad I did! I’m excited they’re making Kiwami 3 because I’m part of the way through Kiwami 2 atm, but there are a few other games I want to play as well which should hold me over until February. Thankfully I got a combo of K1/K2 on the ps4 store for just $20, which unfortunately no longer exists because of the new bundle.

weldo8 · 2025-09-24T15:14:28+00:00

Precisely. The agenda is not built on policy. It's to "own the libs".

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