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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 10h

The forward pass, much like the Europa step

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 11h

dyed diesel thread! ok so 1/ Trump just signed an EO letting red dyed diesel run on the road without the 24.4c/gal federal tax, for now. sounds big, but for most diesel users it likely won't change much at the pump. i'll spell out why:

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 12h

(Your boy will have platinum this time next year tho)

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 12h

So, the soft drinks package is fine but unless you are drinking like 12 alcoholic drinks a day the alcoholic one is not

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 13h

Unfortunately this, usually, gay men in their 30s everywhere

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

Axxxxuwlly you’ll find Homer was fine with piracy

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

Bolzo Sr did have youth support in 18, a lot of which looked like the same situation as we’ve seen in Argentina where he positioned himself as anti-establishment.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

To be clear I was basing that off *previous* elections. If younger voters did shift to Bolzo Jr it would be notable! But I’d also want to see it by region because I somewhat suspect there would be a strong north/south bias

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

That Steinbeck chose a woman of sexual appetites to be this character remains, interesting

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

He also writes her as unambiguously as a symbol, one he was fascinated by, of Satan — a fallen angel.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

Steinbeck himself very much believed something closer to this

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 17h

2014/16 election heads remember the ENTHUSIASM GAP

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of car wash was bullshit, but he’s basically been around so long it’s hard to counter that

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

Dilma is, personally, a heroic person who put her life on the line for the cause of freedom and justice but Jesus Christ

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

I also cannot stress how much damage Dilma (and by extension Lula) to the broader leftist project in Brazil with her terrible leadership.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

It’s more like if Dennis Kucinich finally won the presidency in 2004 then turned it over to Hillary

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

Also some of this is frankly Lula fatigue — man has ran in 8 of the 11 Presidential elections since the restoration of Democracy lol

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

One key factor in Trumps durability and electoral success has been his ability to engage a core electoral base that is not otherwise engaged by either party past or present. That simply doesn’t apply to Brazil.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

I think this materially misses the dynamics in both the US and Brazil electorates.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

The long term Republican question— which 2028 will be a solid first real answer— is what happens to Trumps voters when he’s not on the ballot directly or even indirectly, and I don’t think we know yet.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

The problem is very much that the people who are left are going to be real insane lol

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

Sir neither of those creature are dogs One is cat, unsure of the other but

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans are basically toxic people in a toxic relationship having a moment of clarity before going back to the toxic situation they helped create. I do at least enjoy them going through it.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

This one’s funny because the underlying policy is from the ACA

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 20h

One thing that strikes me about the difference in k12 and higher ed after two years in the other world now is how much more K12 talks about the sort of underlying structure of learning when thinking about their plans

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 21h

We have an “all directors and coordinators” meeting at a site and we’re carpooling. My coworkers are inflicting carpool karaoke on me.

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 21h

Also people treat politics like sports

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 22h

Fun fact my aunt lived in Destin for like a decade lol

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A guy running as a Republican is (a) running on banning hedge funds buying homes and (b) acting like this a Republican priority Lolol

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also opinion polling is hilarious for jp those "no party" fellars really doing hot

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it's also worth noting on the "us isn't the only country with this shit" that Lula is like 80 years old and France's premier leftist leader is like 75 (and kind of racist)

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we should shut quebec down till we can figure out whats wrong with (the french)

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

step 2 don't have the major economic powers on whcih your exporter economy depends shit the bed

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah I think people do not conceptualize that Japanese politics work a fundamentally different level from basically all the other g7 powers, with the nearest analog really germany

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my undergrad thesis was about how Peronist legitimacy basically short circuited the development of a more healthy democracy lol

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but brazil, especially with Lula at the helm, is a real class divide (and also a minor racial one, because a lot of his support comes from indigenous peoples in the north and west)

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah, that's true with Spain (and true with France/Germany historically).

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

you do however see this pattern in argentina, where a lot of Milei's support came from the youth vote -- a lot of which was about disenchantment with Peronist-Kirchner rule

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