It's time to move on from TNG and TOS. We need a new crew on a new Enterprise beginning their voyage 50-100 years after the Dominion War. We need something fresh and most importantly we need hope to return to Star Trek. The vision of a better future is essential to good Trek and it's mostly been abandoned. Enough with the gritty high drama high action stuff. Trek thrives in philosophical sci-fi and in presenting us with a better version of humanity.
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This is a big part of the Democrats problem, it feels like their stance on every topic is "Trump is worse". Harris supports genocide in Gaza, yeah but Trump is worse. Harris embraces fracking, yeah but Trump is worse. Harris embraces the criminal migrate narrative, yeah but Trump is worse. Running to the right and yelling but that guy's worse has always been a losing strategy for Democrats but they just keep doing it. Why did Bill Clinton and Obama win? They embraced progressive policies and offered a vision of hope. Why did Biden win? He tried to go right but between some early issues like "working with segregationists" and the crime bill along with Bernie's success in the primaries he was dragged back left and there was meaningful policy separation. Why did Hillary Clinton and Harris lose? They ran right and yelled "but the other guy is worse."
Not that recently, urban dictionary has a post from 2006 that defines goon as a chronic masturbater or as the act of masturbation.
I think this is made from an exceptionally hard wood. It looks a lot like walnut or pecan. I would be concerned about cutting across the grain with a powered saw causing chipping and ruining the piece. I think I would repair the current joint and add a center leg or probably a leg on both sides to support that joint.
NASA is definitely a target. Musk wants to make SpaceX America's privatized space agency.
but the more time she spends chasing Senate seats and climbing the political ladder, the more dulled that "political outsider" edge gets.
I think it's possible to serve in Congress and still be considered a political outsider. It's not easy, the secret seems to be a strong commitment to principles outside of the mainstream but at least a couple of people have done it.
Bernie has been in the legislative branch since 91 and was in state government for a decade before that. Being a political outsider is still part of his appeal. On the other end of the spectrum Ron Paul was first elected to the House in 76 and retired from politics in 2013 without ever having become a political insider.
1.ran 3rd party to try to hurt Harris but hurt Trump more 2.Ate roadkill bear and got parasites that ate part of his brain 3.Is a believer in various conspiracies including vaccines causing autism, HIV and AIDS being unrelated, that antidepressants cause school shootings, and that fluoride in water makes children transgender.
Someone who didn't eat the Mona Lisa.
RFK ran for president on a third party ticket before dropping out and endorsing Trump. He was running in the first place to attempt to syphon democratic votes because his father was a very popular democratic Senator and Attorney General who was assassinated and his uncle was John F Kennedy, a very popular democratic President who was assassinated. They thought democrats would vote for him on name recognition alone but the longer he campaigned the more extreme he revealed himself to be and it eventually became apparent that he was more likely to syphon Trump voters than Harris voters. He infamously became infected with brain parasites after eating a dead bear he found on the side of the road, he picked up another roadkill bear but got busy and was concerned it would start to smell so he dumped it in Central Park. He is anti vaccine saying that they cause more harm than the diseases that they prevent and believes that vaccines cause autism. He doesn't believe that hiv causes aids. He believes that antidepressants cause school shootings and that chemicals in the water (mostly targeting fluoride) make children transgender. He believes that 5g networks are a secret mass surveillance program and that the CIA was responsible for his uncle's assassination.
People don't revere the framers, they treat our founding mythos similarly to religion. They embrace what they like and what reinforces their beliefs while ignoring things that they find inconvenient. Primarily they ignore that very little was universally agreed upon by our framers and that the Constitution is the result of significant compromise. When someone says, "The framers believed..." they are almost always wrong and actually only framing what they believe in a way that they think gives it more credibility.
Townhalls are a type of political event. They are typically small forum events held in places like town halls or school gyms and involve the politician giving a short speech typically limited to a single issue or current event followed by a longer period where the audience asks the politician questions. It's not limited to campaigning, legislators often hold these events outside of elections. Theoretically they give the politician the opportunity to hear issues and concerns that their constituents most care about but mostly they are used to drum up support for legislation that the politician already supports.
Maybe in the wake of their surrender and Odo rejoining them the Founders step back or even go into isolation entirely. The Dominion collapses and there is widespread fighting in the gamma quadrant as different factions seek to take the Founders place. The new series could primarily be set in that quadrant. Maybe the Federation established a foothold in the gamma quadrant so that they controlled both sides of the wormhole and the Enterprise is there to expand the Federation's influence. That would give the writers freedom to introduce new antagonists because DS9 did very little actual exploration of the gamma quadrant.
Edit: gamma not delta