@BlueJayvideos It's so funny as well that Thanos has some good attacks about Oppenheimer's infidelity, but he just gets brutalized nonetheless. Like he did not lay down and die, he got *killed*.
@eruphim The hero has depression, and the emptiness and dullness will return during their quest.
The quest, however, may awaken new strength in interesting and unforseen ways in order to hold back those floods in their mind.
@MaxMaaxMaaax Seeing Colom win, and seeing people like Hamilton and Turek step up, I honestly think we ought not underestimate candidates who look like they aren't much on the surface. Maybe there are hidden depths.
@AbolishTedCruz@nikicaga She will be thirty in '28, which is just old enough to run, if she wants it. I would assume she's more comfortable in organizing roles, though- and NC Dems just recruited a very nice and wide bench.
@Swampatouille Part of it is probably that Hamilton is a really good candidate, and Marshall is a pretty bad candidate.
Turek is fine, but so is Hinson. Talarico is fine as well, and Paxton is horrific.
Hamilton/Marshall makes for an easy hopeful dynamic.
@ChicagosLoneCon This is the year the dam breaks in Texas. Hinojosa wins, and she carries *a lot* of downballot Dems with her, albeit not all of them.
Look for LG, AG, Railroad, and a huge number of state house seats.
@NoBiscotti Let's call it, TX-24, Beth Van Duyne. Republicans collapse in Tarrant County, and her seat turns out to be extremely vulnerable. Little-known Democrat nonetheless knocks her off by less than 1%. Nobody even considered this a possibility, because she won by 20% in 2024.
@NoBiscotti Something like Doug Jones winning Alabama governor would be my supposition. Something out of left field for everybody except those who were tuned in to the particular race in question.
FL-13 is another good potential sleeper, or a random race in Texas that's a little suburban.