Yes, in the year 2026, I firmly believe that Andy Beshear is a life-long bureaucrat with a carefully cultivated public persona and no desire to rock the boat and shatter any possibility of a run for President.
This is not a hot take.
That’s an interesting angle. If that’s true, he probably wouldn’t have standing to challenge the law until the situation actually arose.
I lived in Kentucky for more than a decade, but I don’t know anything about its constitution.
That’s one eighth of the earth’s population, all playing Xbox every day.
That’s more than five times as many daily players as total Xbox consoles sold in the past 25 years.
I agree that it is not going to happen. I love playing video games, but I don’t play them every day. Even when I do play, it’s not always on the same console/computer/device.
The only way that MS can get even remotely close to one billion daily users is with mobile gaming. Most of what I can find with a quick search indicates that nearly 75% of the world’s population has a smartphone. That kind of hardware distribution is hard to beat. But they would need a thousand apps that each have a million daily players to meet that goal, which is simply unrealistic, even for a company of MS’s size.
Beshear is an attorney, and a pretty good one at that. I’m sure he knows exactly how the procedure is supposed to work. His style is to follow the appropriate procedure to the letter while continually communicating with the public in the interest of transparency.
“Ruthless” is not a part of his public persona. He’s a two-term Democratic governor in a state with a Republican super-majority in the legislature. He has spent a lot of time cultivating his “faith and family values” reputation, which could help push him onto the national stage. He’s not going to squander that for a situation where he doesn’t even get a say in the replacement. (Because, again, Republican super-majority. They knew this was coming and couldn’t stand the idea that the governor would have the power to appoint McConnell’s successor.)
As someone who once voted for a dead man, I assure you I had no illusions about what I was voting for.
Election law is pretty strict about final dates for changing ballots. My preferred candidate suffered a tragic death after the deadline. By voting for him, I knew I was giving my governor the right to choose his replacement, and the governor was very clear about who his choice would be. And I knew literally anyone would be better than Ashcroft.
I wonder if he went missing before or after the filing deadline for the primary. It’s not uncommon for an incumbent to be unopposed in their primary.
NDAs are probably not needed because HIPAA would stop them from disclosing information about a patient.
Thanks for trying to engage in a good-faith discussion here.
I’d have thought the guy who said, “Archaeology exists, bro,” would be interested in what archaeology is actually able to tell us.
The earliest evidence we’ve found of agriculture is from no more than 15,000 years ago.
The Roman Empire appears to be the earliest evidence we have of formal crop rotation, but that doesn’t mean they were the first to do it.
Letting fields lie fallow to replenish the soil was so important to ancient cultures that it’s recorded in the Torah as instructions received directly from God.
Leviticus 25:1-7
The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord. For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest. Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten…
I think that big game publishers have found that there’s a real ceiling for what people are willing to pay for games, and direct digital sales are the only way they can drive up their share of that amount.
Game prices have not kept up with inflation over the past 30 years. If you cut the production costs and you cut out the reseller’s margin, that equals more revenue for first-party titles. And it further sweetens the pot for console companies because they can take a cut of third-party titles that go through their stores. (Third-party developers still save on physical production and distribution, so it’s a win for them, too.)
Not to mention the overall move toward software-as-a-service subscriptions across the board. If they can take your one-time $70 purchase and convert it into a monthly $5 subscription fee, now you’re paying $130 for the first year and $60 per year afterward for that game.
I have games from 25 years ago that I still play. I feel really sorry for young gamers because they probably won’t even have the option to revisit some of their old faves 25 years from now.
(I’m working my way through Castlevania: Circle of the Moon right now. It’s not the best entry in the series, but it has its charms.)
I’m sure GWB thanks Donald Trump every day for revising his legacy to “not the worst president in US history.”
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is the Democrats’ fundraising arm specifically for Senate races. It has been an entity for more than 100 years.
It’s not “what Schumer and the neoliberals still control after losing the DNC.” I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean.
It’s important because it’s one of the major three national Democratic Party committees that collect and spend funds on federal-level elections. (Republicans have parallel committees, too.)
Withholding funds from a specific Senate race is a pretty serious step for the party to take.