Reading this article and others, I don’t see a valid argument for her being disloyal or a Russian asset. The examples given in the article all sound like justifiable if alternative perspectives.

I don’t agree with her on issues like her uncritical support for Israel or how she talks about humans whose lives and homes have been destroyed by our empire until they become terrorists. Here, she shares the views of the intelligence establishment, and is no worse than other candidates for DNI.

I do like the image of the army medic arguing for talk and negotiation as opposed to a militarized response. I think that Intelligence Community status quo has us set on a course for WWIII. I hope that Tulsi’s anti-interventionism, support for whistleblowers like Snowden and other truth seekers, and focus on communication/negotiation will help us reduce our need for arms so we can better direct those funds.

Or, maybe standing down now is like appeasement before WWII. We’ve already voted, now we get to deal with the consequences while we try to rebuild a better America.

Stromer’s electric bicycles have been popular among the ultra-premium end of the market, though that is a small niche that has never supported very high sales volume in North America. With multiple models above US $10,000

My ebike from an American company was $1800 with a 1000W motor. This company made bikes 5x the price with 750W motors. If you price yourself out of the market, you won’t make sales!

According to the NDS Commission, the Pentagon should have more than just a bigger budget. Departmental leadership should also have greater ability to advance weapon acquisition programs with more limited oversight. Indeed, NDS commissioners support efforts to replace the Pentagon’s current budgeting and acquisition system with one much less accountable to U.S. taxpayers, but far more accommodating to contractors.[17](javascript:void(0)) A looser budgeting and acquisition system would enable the Pentagon to funnel more money to military contractors, faster.

Just hand it over to the private contractors as quickly and with as little oversight as possible!

Looter tactics.

Eunice Newton Foote.

I read that there would be genetic markers of a manmade virus, and that this virus’s RNA matched a natural evolution.

Every action leaves some sort of trace.

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That’s all the reason it should be easier to distribute power. More people to distribute it between!

Remember when we paid people to do those things directly?

We, the American people, paid a lot of people each a reasonable salary to get to the moon.

Privatized spaceflight has we, the American people, pay a single entity less total money (they can make it more efficient, of course!). This concentrates decision-making and power.

That vehicle going in to orbit needs a city to work together. I want my taxes to pay that city and the people in it, not Boeing’s shareholders who aren’t helping put the vehicle into orbit, not Musk to build a second smaller city in Texas he is king of.

Thank you for your points. I completely agree that we should be paying the workers on the ground who get us to space instead of the wealthy who claim to own it.

Curious to know what you mean here.

What parts of a virus could they find to be racist about?

We saw what happened the last time space infrastructure was privatized.

Boeing gave all the money to the stockholders and delivered a criminally late product that ended up failing and stranding our astronauts. Boeing obviously didn’t care to test if the Teflon in those thrusters could survive repeated heatings.

SpaceX decided to go backwards in rocket technology, from Hydrogen to Methane. Hydrogen is more efficient, and makes it easier to bury carbon responsibly. Sure, Boeing’s rockets got made fun of for being leaky, but I think that might be Boeing more than Hydrogen at fault. Dirty Methane rockets were cheap, and could be built simple as they experienced less thermal variation without cryogenic fuel.

SpaceX undercut the competition and turned itself into a monopoly while Boeing threw their hand to the stockholders. Now SpaceX picks up the pieces of the game they upended.

NASA was supposed to manage a thriving marketplace, full of competition. Instead it managed its way to a monopolistic structure that a single entity may try to sieze.

Fun fact about autocratic structures like monopolies and dictatorships: they can’t grow power themselves, they can only sieze power organized by others.

We need to build our next wave of structures in a distributed fashion such that the levers of power are not so concentrated that they may fall into the wrong hands.

Give the power to the people. All of them.

There are reasons to build a rocket other than fragile masculinity.

Take the piss and make jokes about what he’ll do with them (rape and pillage)? Absolutely. That’s the fragility: his plan for wealth and power is entirely dependent on stealing it from the neighbors. Just as he’s been taking all of the federal and investors’ cash in exchange for memes for the past few decades. He doesn’t produce anything of value himself.

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Bystanders have a duty to step in.

Michael Moore called Trump a Molotov Cocktail in 2016.

Project 2025 is going to reshape the federal government. It is structured as a new constitution. It defines the roles and checks/balances of various government agencies at greater specificity than the constitution.

We need to produce a progressive counter constitution that promises something better.

Project 2025 is a specific deal with America.

We need a better offer, and the people need to trust that the person running will enact it.

Kamala isn’t “getting the wrong ice cream flavor” compared to Trump.

She is still genocide, racism, incarceration, transphobia and the rest which you call Trump.

She just sugarcoats it.

The sugarcoating does make it palatable, but a palatable slavery to the rich is still a slavery to the rich.

I don’t want a country run by a few guys getting rich off of bombing and incarcerating.

I didn’t do it, but I respect holding back in this election to demand a better option in the next one.

I hear the next election will be the most important and pivotal ever!

I hope the choices won’t be corpo trash and fascist dictator.

… My actions of voting Harris? My actions of working to get others to vote?

It’s time to build a real alternative to America’s legacy of settler-colonialism, starting at a local level.

What’s he gunna do with Cheney’s bunker under 1 Observatory?

He can spy on everyone’s couches at once!

He paid for Ukraine’s StarLink connections that he shuts off when Musk feels like it, and the incoming president who will shut off aid when Musk feels like it.

Ok, one side says it with actions, but the other says it with actions and words.

That sounds like one side being honest.

Drillin’ Joe was sure acting like it was a hoax!

I voted Kamala, but I understand sitting out.

It was the promise that he could be negotiated to the left.

Instead Joe gave us a country producing the most oil and gas in world history, no movement on healthcare, etc.

The weather is going crazy because of the increase in fossil fuels Biden presided over.

He broke the deal that he could be brought left on economic/environmental/medical issues.

Kamala promised more of the same.

How can you expect anyone to trust the same deal from the VP that the P didn’t make good on?

Joe didn’t deliver, and Kamala didn’t promise anything new.

Four more years of wildfire.

rocket ships that land within 12 inches on the moon of where they wanted to land

That’s Japan, not Elon.