At least walk into a rotor blade.

Walz’s modest financial profile stands in stark contrast to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is claims to be a billionaire several times over,

FTFY.

Fire them, and take away their badges.

It is a victory for the environment. A major victory.

You don’t seem to understand that demand is flexible. You probably understand that you can adjust demand simply by offering favorable terms, but you don’t seem to understand how much demand has been shifted with these incentives.

Now that renewables are exceeding traditional generation methods, we can expect those old incentives to be adjusted, and larger percentages of our total power will be provided by renewables. Night time demand is being pushed to the day time, just as fast as grid improvements accommodate the increased load.

That’s not really accurate.

Traditional generation relies primarily on huge “base load” generation plants: nuclear, coal, etc. These plants can only fulfill the “base load” - the minimum demand during the day. To make these plants more effective, generators incentivized off-peak consumption: raise the minimum, overnight load, and the base load plants can take on a much higher percentage of the total demand. Steel mills, aluminum smelters, and other heavy industries have been pushed to move their demand to overnight hours, to make base generation more efficient and effective.

As wind and solar take over larger shares of total production, the incentives reverse. Daytime power becomes extraordinarily easy to produce, and nighttime power becomes progressively more difficult. We stop encouraging heavy industry to operate overnight, and shift them to the day.

This sort of “Demand Shaping” is the real solution; grid-scale storage and natural gas generation are only for those essential overnight loads that we just can’t shed.

Further, hydrogen electrolysis offers a sustainable and scalable, long-term grid storage method. We can soak up every excess watt we can produce during long summer days to crack water, and use it for power during the winter. The availability of that additional load allows us to overbuild solar and wind, far in excess of our immediate needs.

Everyone there. And everyone not there.

Cadet Bone Spurs insulting a high ranking military officer and astronaut isn’t going to sit well with the undecideds, or those “Republicans” who have to hold their noses when they cast a vote.

Anything he says about Giffords is going to backfire spectacularly: she was severely injured; he scratched his ear.

Exactly. Harris might be the better president, but Kelly is the more electable of the two. Harris is more popular in the blue states, but those states are going to vote for Kelly all the same. Kelly is more popular in the states that actually matter to the election.

I think the Kelly/Harris ticket is stronger than Harris/Kelly. I have zero doubt that Kelly can beat Trump. I don’t know about Harris.

I would love to see Trump try his usual attacks on Mark Kelly.

It’s like the N-word and the C-word had a baby, and that baby was raised by all the bad words for Jews.

That’s nice, honey, but the adults are talking now. Why don’t you go play in your room?

Seriously, if there is no winning scenario for you, what do you care?

He’s been called worse.

Agreed, he does not have general name recognition. But he does have a compelling story for every major news organization to jump on, and information flows faster than it ever has. 2 months and change is plenty enough.

He also has an identical twin with a nearly identical career, effectively giving him the ability to campaign in two places at once.

Wrong Obama. They are talking about Michelle, not Barack.

Ok, now think like a voter who has cast two ballots for Trump, instead of a voter who is going to vote blue no matter who. Because that former Trump voter is the one you need to convince if you want to win.

Anyone who has seen Top Gun understands the difference between a lieutenant and a captain.

You think any of that shit matters to the electorate in 2024?

Not in the blue-no-matter-who states. But in the states that will vote for Trump, and the states that may vote for Trump, it matters.

Why put forward a candidate who can only win where any Democrat would win?

John Kerry was a Lieutenant in the Navy, an O3. He commanded a swift boat, which were typically crewed by about 5 people. He was a low-level officer. The civilian equivalent of John Kerry’s military command was the produce manager at a grocery store.

Mark Kelly was a Captain in the Navy, an O7. Captains command hundreds to thousands of sailors, depending on their specific posting. The civilian equivalent of his position was CEO of a fortune 500 company, (albeit, a smaller one)

John Kerry ran against GW Bush, who was a First Lieutenant (O2) in the Air National Guard and a fighter pilot. As they had comparable military careers, Kerry’s background was a wash.

Mark Kelly will be running against Cadet Bone Spurs.

Based on their military careers, John Kerry and George Bush were dirt bikes, Mark Kelly was a Formula One car, and Donald Trump wet his pants when the engines started, and cried until his mommy took him home.

The simple fact is that if Kelly is the nominee, you’ll vote for him. You’ll vote for whoever is on the ticket. “Blue, no matter who” voters give the party room to focus on pickier constituents.

The voters we need to focus on are those in swing states and red states who would otherwise stay home, or cast a vote for Trump.

Kelly has proven he can win in red states. It’s time to tag him in.

Which former high ranking military officer and astronaut have the Democrats put on a ballot to test that hypothesis?

Kelly doesn’t have to win the white, blue-collar vote away from Trump. He only has to poach a handful of Trump votes in a few key states.