This is the strongest bench of candidates I've ever seen. The lucky ones will likely end up in President Harris' cabinet.
Agreed, and I cannot fathom those who think this is a weak bench. Let's look at modern Dem primaries -
2000 - Gore, Bradley
2004 - Kerry, Edwards, Dean
2008 - Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Biden
2012 - Obama, obviously
2016 - Clinton, Sanders
2020 - Warren, Harris, Sanders, Beto, Booker, Gillibrand, maybe Klobuchar, maybe Biden
It's a packed field of experience, both politically and in life. They all bring different elements in a way that previous primaries did not. Like, look at 04;old white man central. Warren, Harris, and Gillibrand alone are more dynamic and disparate than that.
The abnormal warmth has been in Alaska this week, with temps 40-50 degrees above normal in places. Of course no one gives a crap about this and it doesn't make the news because it affects a total of about 500 people.
Also, bonus warmth like for literally 90% of every else on earth that aren't the north-central US. I know these posts are meaningless, but just a quick reminder that there's always, always, always record warm somewhere if there's an extreme record cold somewhere else.
Say what one might about Thomas Friedman's torturous metaphors (and whoo boy, could we make hay of it), his description/coining of "global weirding" is perfect. Climate change means radical swings between regions, even in a calendar year.
I'm reminded of a hostile debate I had some months back with a UK poster who said no place should use Fahrenheit over Celsius because 100 degree swings in a single region were unheard of. Well, motherfucker, it ain't so simple in the US compared to the UK. My own state routinely swaps between -20 wind chill in deep winter to 100 in heat index summer. And this is without these climatic mood swings.