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Correct.   It is a strange thing. Harris was often accused of being the DEI Vice President, and therefore a DEI Presidential candidate. Republicans are not calling Donalds a DEI Gubernatorial candidate. So you have a Black man who will make history in Florida because Republicans will support him, but Blacks won't.  That's not a judgment, positive or negative.  As you point out, it's a fact. My point is that Sen. Tim Scott and Gov. Byron Donalds would not be possible in Strom Thurmond's Democratic Party, or Strom Thurmond's Republican Party. My own view is that we are a long way from the idea that what matters is the content of your character, not the color of your skin.  Republicans under Trump seem like they could care less about the content of your character, period.  But the color of your skin used to be a hard barrier.  Not only to be Guv or Senator.  Simply to vote.  Now it's not. I've said this many times, and I should repeat it.  I view this as a Democratic victory.   Kevin McCarthy, when he was House Speaker, was very blunt about this.  In 2019 at the SOTU he looked around.  Republicans were a minority party.  And if you looked around, it was almost all White men.  Democrats were a sea of color.  He says he did the math and figured out Republicans had to do a better job of reaching out to, and electing, House members who were not White men.  And they have.  So it's a Democratic victory in the sense that we Democrats made the Republican Party look like the party of White men.  And some of them, at least, decided that's not what they wanted to be. Like I said, I think Trump himself moved us back on the issue of race, not forward.  It is the party of Whites under him, who actively work against the interests of Blacks, I'd argue.  If most Blacks see it that way, sounds like my perceptions align with reality. The person I'd give the most credit to for trying is former RNC chair Michael Steele, who is persona non grata now.  He calls Trump's party a "zombie party" that will fold as soon as the Democrats get their shit together.  But he was the one who, in the wake of Obama, pushed for diversity in the Republican Party.  Nikki Haley and Tim Scott were elected in 2010 during Steele's tenure.  And he touted them as a Republican version of DEI, which is now discredited.  Haley then appointed House member Scott to the Senate when Jim DeMint resigned. Young Black voters are becoming more conservative than their parents. Here's why The thing I'd point to in that article is that only 1 in 10 of the oldest Blacks view the Republican Party as welcoming.  But half of younger Blacks do.  Again, I view that in part as a victory of Democrats.  Obama scared the shit out of Republicans.  And I think older Blacks and younger Blacks are both right.  A party with Strom Thurmond as Senator is not the same as a party with Tim Scott as Senator.  I don't follow it all that closely.  But I think Trump pretty much has trashed Tim Scott's efforts to come up with specific race-based efforts, like helping minority-owned businesses. Some Black civil rights leader whose name I don't recall said something like this:  "Lots of Blacks are conservatives.  They'd vote Republican a lot more if the Republican Party wasn't so damn racist."   Polls consistently show that, right or wrong, Americans are moving away from race-based criteria.  Most Americans support Supreme Court's ending of affirmative action, poll finds Black Americans were most divided in their responses, while white Americans most strongly supported the measure. If the DSA is smart, THAT should be their rallying cry.  Not some of the nonsense that turns me off, like getting rid of the US Senate.  Focus on building an America where all poor people and all working class people get help climbing the ladder.  What we have under Trump is crumbs like no tax on tips to workers while Elon Musk is flooded with tax cuts and government contracts.  

Speaking about the weather now is quite amazing. Yes, some rains but always lasting 1 hour or less, generally sunny  and hot but not more hot and humid  that at my hometown at this time of the year. 

It looks that spoon is very inspirational since I also booked current trip hearing the news of his schedule. Original plan was Octoberish/ November is. Funny part is arrival. I landed just day after spoon and all it took me  was 21 minutes from exiting plane to being on escalator to train station. That includes buying SIM card. 

Glad you realized Sept would be too much rain.

You've also vowed that you always carefully proofread every post you make.... You may want to give this one another careful proofread 🧐 The FAA says the directive affects 471 U.S.-registered aircraft, not 451. It applies to certain Boeing 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200 aircraft. The 737-8200 is part of the MAX family, essentially the higher-capacity MAX 8 variant. It is not the older 737-800. So the claim that this directive also covers the older 737-800 comes from misreading the aircraft designation ✈️ The 777X section also needs correcting. Emirates has not rejected “10 of its first 11 orders.” It is refusing particular early-build airframes produced for the airline. The Aviation Week article you linked says the first 10, while another Aviation Week report describes the initial group as 10 or 11. Either way, they are aircraft, not “orders,” and they were not all built in 2019. Three were built in 2019, four in 2020 and three in 2021 📅 Sir Tim Clark is also the President of Emirates Airline, not its chairman. Emirates’ Chairman and Chief Executive is Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Boeing has plenty of genuine problems worth criticizing without confusing the 737-8200 with the 737-800, getting the number of affected aircraft wrong, calling early-build airframes “orders,” claiming they were all built in 2019 and giving Tim Clark the wrong job title 🤷‍♂️ And while we are carefully proofreading, it is spelled “worryingly,” not “Worryingy.” 😝