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SeattleRain , in Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

Oh no

Podunk ,

Ok. Fine… who would you pick?

There is a reason for her being the transition cannidate. If you have better, please let the DNC know…

SeattleRain ,

Well I’d pick one of handful of progressive democrats the Dems have or Bernie but that ain’t happening. I’d at least pick Newsom.

JimSamtanko ,

Pick someone that is willing to run. Because thats how things work.

Podunk ,

Ok. But fuck, if you have to have a cop out, waffle house excuse to say newsom, i have a hard time believing you. Newsome is hard for the fact that hes a “hard D” california govenor and you take a good hit in the swing states. Thats a real liability. Thats fair. Stand by it. Say that. “But Bernie” my ass. Bernie doesnt want it now.

Dont say “oh no” and not have an honest opinion that you arent willing to put your nuts behind. Get on board, or gtfo.

I swear. As a dem, and ill be honest, what pisses me off the most is that we are our own worst enemy. We waffle and push for a vauge replacement with no game plan, and bitch and moan when the answer given “just isnt quite what we want”.

We could have had an honest to god game plan a year ago. But we didnt get our shit together. Thats on you, thats on me, and its sure as fuck on the DNC. But we dont have that option now.

Fucks sake. Rant over. Sorry for being frustrated at a two word post and a half baked response. Fuck.

SeattleRain ,

Bro what are you on about. Kamala came in dead last in the 2020 primary. She’s has a enormous amounts of baggage like jailing kids and parents for skipping school.

She’s more right wing that Biden. Why would anyone vote for diet Republican when they can have the real thing.

Podunk ,

Your right. Shes not left enough… might as well vote for trump or skip.

Seriously though. Are you paying attention? We dont get the perfect candidate now.dont shoot yourself in the foot. You’re already a locked in voter i assume. If trump was 50/50 with biden, what makes you think he loses with us nit picking? Shes right of biden? Guess who is more right from that. Hope for whitmere or aoc as vp if your feathers are that ruffled. Newsom if you really want. But kamala is the ticket and whining about it loses the election.

EarthShipTechIntern , in How J.D. Vance Went From Green Tech Investor to Climate Change Doubter

Breakdown please?

Or a good link without pop-up shit.

reddig33 ,

Learn to use “Reader Mode” in your browser.

yesman , in How J.D. Vance Went From Green Tech Investor to Climate Change Doubter

It just occurred to me that Ted Cruz must be devastated. Vance is a clone of Cruz. The biggest difference is the year they graduated from the Ivy League and started selling monorails to the rubes.

Jackcooper ,

Trump hasn’t directly called Vances wife ugly

ValorieAF , in Historically Black frat Alpha Phi Alpha moves to ban trans members

Kinda sucks when minorities bash other minorities.

usualsuspect191 , in Kamala Harris sees surge in big money support after Biden drops out of race

Does this mean people think she’ll need it?

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Trump has people like Musk donating millions and running free ads on X. She’ll need all the money she can get.

Mouselemming ,

In my case I wanted to signal my support for the choice, since I voted for Biden in the primary.

melisdrawing , in Heat-related deaths in Texas climb after Beryl left millions without power

Heat-related deaths in Texas climb after Beryl left millions without power

Deaths during prolonged power outages pushes number of storm-related fatalities to at least 23 in Texas

Associated Press

Sun 21 Jul 2024 11.56 EDT

As the temperature soared in the Houston-area home Janet Jarrett shared with her sister after losing electricity in Hurricane Beryl, she did everything she could to keep her 64-year-old sibling cool.

But on their fourth day without power, she awoke to hear Pamela Jarrett, who used a wheelchair and relied on a feeding tube, gasping for breath. Paramedics were called – but she was pronounced dead at the hospital, with the medical examiner saying her death was caused by the heat.

“It’s so hard to know that she’s gone right now because this wasn’t supposed to happen to her,” Janet Jarrett said.

Almost two weeks after Beryl hit, heat-related deaths during the prolonged power outages have pushed the number of storm-related fatalities to at least 23 in Texas.

The combination of searing summer heat and residents unable to power up air conditioning in the days after the category 1 storm made landfall on 8 July resulted in increasingly dangerous conditions for some in the US’s fourth-largest city.

Beryl knocked out electricity to nearly 3m homes and businesses at the height of the outages, which lasted days or much longer – and hospitals reported a spike in heat-related illnesses.

Power finally was restored to most by last week, after more than seven days of widespread outages. The slow pace in the Houston area put the region’s electric provider, CenterPoint Energy, under mounting scrutiny over whether it was sufficiently prepared.

While it may be weeks or even years before the full human toll of the storm in Texas is known, understanding that number helps plan for the future, experts say.

With power outages and cleanup efforts still ongoing, the death toll will probably continue to climb.

Officials are still working to determine if some deaths that have already occurred should be considered storm-related. But even when those numbers come in, getting a clear picture of the storm’s toll could take much more time.

Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas department of state health services, which uses death certificate data to identify storm-related deaths, estimated that it may not be until the end of July before they have even a preliminary count.

In the state’s vital statistics system, there is a prompt to indicate if the death was storm-related, and medical certifiers are asked to send additional information on how the death was related to the storm, Anton said.

Experts say that while a count of storm-related fatalities compiled from death certificates is useful, an analysis of excess deaths that occurred during and after the storm can give a more complete picture of the toll. For that, researchers compare the number of people who died in that period to how many would have been expected to die under normal conditions.

The excess death analysis helps count deaths that might have been overlooked, said Dr Lynn Goldman, dean of the Milken Institute school of public health at George Washington University.

Both the approach of counting the death certificates and calculating the excess deaths have their own benefits when it comes to storms, said Gregory Wellenius, director of the Boston University school of public health’s Center for Climate and Health.

The excess death analysis gives a better estimate of the total number of people killed, so it’s useful for public health and emergency management planning in addition to assessing the impact of climate change, he said.

But it “doesn’t tell you who”, he said, and understanding the individual circumstances of storm deaths is important in helping to show what puts individual people at risk.

“If I just tell you 200 people died, it doesn’t tell you that story of what went wrong for these people, which teaches us something about what hopefully can we do better to prepare or help people prepare in the future,” Wellenius said.

Aarrodri ,

"But global warming is not real " said Texans…

wintermute_oregon , in Ice cream trucks are music to our ears. But are they melting away?

I haven’t seen one in years. It was always fun as a kid to visit one.

adespoton , in Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland

Wow… I didn’t realize he was still mobile! He left Greenpeace a LONG time ago.

SeattleRain , in Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

Hilary 2.0.

alchemist2023 , in Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland

this dude is awesome if I was younger and child free I’d volunteer to be on his boats and fuck up some japan whaling fleets this guy gets much respect he was too militant for Greenpeace we all need to be more militant to save this planet from the corporate chaos

xyguy , in How J.D. Vance Went From Green Tech Investor to Climate Change Doubter

My conspiracy theory is that hes sitting on a mountain of Hillbilly Elegy DVDs and this is his plan to finally sell them all.

But yeah, he believes in whatever is making him money at any given point because hes simply 10 pounds of slime in a 5 pound sack.

reddig33 , in Flight cancellations continue Sunday as United, Delta struggle to recover from outage

I guess downgrading to Windows 3.1 takes a while.

simpleflying.com/southwest-airlines-old-system-un…

Birch , in Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’

Literally having a criminal prosecutor run against a convicted criminal is kind of beautiful.

pyre ,

ooooh never thought about that. people dislike that she’s a prosecutor so i don’t know if she should use this at all but it’s still kinda awesome

Nuke_the_whales ,

If the Dems can pull off a black woman president, the Republicans are gonna blow a gasket. I’d love to see that.

irotsoma , in Donald Trump donated to Kamala Harris' campaigns twice while he was a private citizen, records show
@irotsoma@lemmy.world avatar

She’s a conservative like most Democratic candidates and Trump used to be a moderate conservative.

pyre ,

Ranked most politically left compared to Senate Democrats

Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.

For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 116th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Harris’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.

Compare to all Senate Sophomores (0th percentile); Senate Democrats (0th percentile); All Senators (1st percentile).

www.govtrack.us/congress/members/…/2020

irotsoma ,
@irotsoma@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, but all Senators in the Republican and Democratic party are right wing. Bernie Sanders is an independent so not included in the “Senate Democrats” label. He is a centrist and thus left of her slightly, but there are no leftists in the Senate. Their scale is just from most to least right leaning and not from left to right for a reason.

Emtity_13 , (edited ) in [Mega thread] - Biden ends bid for presidency

I see so many suggestions for different people to run in bidens place, and I fear that that may lead to enough disunity for Trump to win an Election

Leaves me curious to see how this will play out

vga ,

Don’t worry: this place doesn’t reflect the general american public in any meaningful way. That said, the general american public is probably a bit confused as well.

I’ll throw my 2 cents in: Jon Stewart should make a sketch about how he jokingly accepts the candidacy but then it turns out to be official to his “dismay”.

Emtity_13 ,

As long as people aren’t stubborn and are willing to compromise, we’ll be fine

Clbull ,

Sounds like Kamala Harris is gonna be the next candidate. Biden’s already endorsed her and I’m sure there’s some superdelegate bullshit going on that will screw other candidates.

It could be the second time the Democrats field an unpopular and disliked female candidate against Trump.

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