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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1293821
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1293821
Sorry to start this off with an OT post, but LOL…
“Mr. Laffer, you seem to have COVID-19…”
“That’s ok…give me a tax cut and that will cure it…”
Pathetic. There is literally no economic situation in which this mindless clown doesn’t come out saying that tax cuts are the solution. His thinking is so ridiculously underedeveloped and childish. It’s not nails he sees everywhere while running around with his magichammer…it’s this thing…
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Tonight is going to be telling…last time around, Bernie kept his campaign viable by winning in Michigan, but it looks like he will lose there and most everywhere tonight. If he does as poorly as expected it’s another sign that his campaign isn’t going to work out this time…the biggest question is if he will try to take Biden down with him or work to unify the Democrats against Trump, and if a unifying message will have any effect on his hardcore supporters. That could be the key in November to defeating Trump, if they decide to destroy Biden then the Republicans will have an easier job of it later this year.
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I just want to see if Tulsi is present for this vote.
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Those Sanders voters who actually live in the United States (with real people, real lives) will drop the Bernie-resentment as soon as psychologically possible (Sanders is hero to many of his followers) and work to remove Trump from office.
Those who live only in their own minds (Bernie is the end-all, be-all of life), it will be more problematic.
A thought-experiment:
Suppose Biden falters and an individual emerges who can do as good or better job of uniting Democrats for November 2020?
Of course I would root for the Replacement with enthusiasm. Biden is a man. He is not anything else.
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“How do you make the case that there’s all of this momentum behind you — and that you are ushering in a sort of new moment for the Democratic Party and a new spirit — if you cannot get a state like Michigan that Hillary Clinton was able to get in 2016?” Carter said.
Hillary Clinton didn’t get Michigan in 2016. Sanders won it in the primary, and Trump in the GE.
???
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fingers crossed that joe does well enough tonight to end this. win Mi convincingly, and win WA. Make it clear to even Bernie that the gig is up.
The media will keep giving all of it’s political coverage to Bernie and his attacks on joe, and not cover trump’s complete Chernobyl level failure to take even the most basic measures to protect the us from coved-19. End the race today, and allow Biden to use tonight’s speech to switch to attacking trump and his pathologies.
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It’s up to Senator Sanders. If he can’t control what he created then he should get on the ice floe and fade away. I don’t like him much but if he gets the nod Ill vote for him.
I’ve been tasked with developing a simple method to make a Black and Blue steak. No TPM in the cooking lab so I’ll be blissfully ignorant of what’s going on tonight.
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A super-hot cast iron skillet, a seriously good exhaust fan, salt & pepper, and a room temperature steak.
Preheat your oven to 450, and put the empty skillet in the oven for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, slat and pepper the steak liberally.
Remove the skillet from the oven and place on a burner (preferably gas) set at its highest heat. Wait 5 minutes.
Put the steak in the skillet for 2 minutes, or until caramelized on the side that is down.
Turn the steak and repeat.
Enjoy.
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That’s what we call a “cast iron sear” and eschewed in experimental kitchens. Meat will begin to sear at 375 and pyrolize at 575. So you have to get in that zone. But to make a Steak Pittsburgh or Charred Rare you have to get away from pan heat. That conduction heat flow and by the time you’ve charred ( not pyrolyzed ) the outside of the steak you’ll have quite a bit of penetration into the thickness of the beef. That will get you an F by the judges. They want a heavy sear with a bit of char and a 105 degree “taste” from just under the sear to the other side. No grey zone and no below 105 taste ( it can’t be raw just uncooked under the sear ). And I have to do it one step.
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IT’s the only way to do it in an average home kitchen.
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I have a full blown lab that I use so I can get past that. I do teach for the home kitchen as well.
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For what its worth:
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I’m not sure “lose” quite captures what’s going to happen to Bernie tonight…
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Meat good.
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Does it come with ketchup? Asking for a fucking moron.
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I like my steak rare enough that if I had ten minutes and an oxygen tank, I could have it giving milk.
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Ha…I’m more of a medium rare type, but if you want to call it “good”, then it damn well better have been aged properly.
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same
except i gave up red meat 
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I suppose you could call mine a barely dead type.
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