Probably the most likely bad scenario.
Probably the most likely bad scenario.
Fuck.... that might be right.
He clearly has a health issue, even the White House acknowledges chronic venous insufficiency. Not uncommon that when treating one issue things can go out of whack in the body causing a different issue, which can happen at any age but especially when one gets older.
I think this is mostly accurate. But I also think he’s getting in to that phase where aging happens quickly. And he very well might have had a minor procedure this week.
Same. There is wishcasting going on, but it's not out of nowhere. The bruising on his hands is real, the swollen ankles are real, the bizarre musings about heaven, Vance talking about being able to step up, these things are happening, at the very least the health concerns are real.
The real question for me is if he's doing this primarily because he's frustrated by the health rumors. If it's already getting to him, well, he's not going to like the next few years, because it's only going to get worse, just like his health.
When you're doing just great...
To be clear I'm 100 percent confident that he has already manipulated the feeds with the intention of spreading his far-right ideology. I just think he'd do more and more as time goes on and that it will wear away most people in time. Already see reporters justifying drinking in the nazi bar.
While for me Musk is the main factor, the issue is less about adding to his wealth, and more that I do not trust him with the algorithm, I do not trust him not to flood the site with a bunch of ai chat bots meant to turn us all far right
The degenerate gambler has some thoughts on what normal people find unappealing.
NYTimes ten months later: using questionably constitutional tactics, Trump is offering a fresh, bold reimagining of the power of the American presidency
Why is the Trump admin acting so weird about greco roman architecture? Twitter racists. Why is the term remigration getting used now. Twitter racists. What is the weird obsession with White South African refugees, when all other refugees including other white ones, are shunned, Twitter racists.
I'm just assuming Twitter racists, whenever I see politicians doing weird stuff like this that's usually a good bet.
Even when seeing this as a contextless repost, I knew it was going to be about Starmer.
Under the conceptualization of journalism, the optimal way to do the job, in fact the best way is to just lean into hyperbole even if it means telling blatant lies. It's easier, inflames more passion, and earns criticism.
What sort of bothers me is the syncopated nature of my life right now. A 2-3 hour nap, awake, then sleep again later. While I'm not adverse to it, not really, I cannot help but feel this is not a natural thing. There is a wrongness to it, but what can i do?
I think I've always been more of a night person, so getting up early doesn't bother me too much. There is a uniqueness to the night, to be up or out at 2 am, a subtle magic. A contradictory duality calmness mixed with tension, and a banal strangeness.
It's admittedly a generalization on my part, but there are types of posters that crave a chance to mock and belittle, to attack, who want to be taken seriously for their flippancy, but also, hate it when someone actually takes them seriously because they lack discipline and/or intellectual chops.
If hopelessness has made a home in your heart, it cannot be dislodged easily or all at once. Chip away at it with small victories, moments of hope and defiance. It is not easy and it will take time and effort, but strive to make it an uncomfortable home, a place where despair is no longer welcome.
A more relevant example outside of the hypothetical would be to see what responses someone gets for saying they wont vote for Mamdani, see if the bulk of replies to that are attempts to win that person over. Or like, just how Warren supporters were treated close to Super Tuesday in 2020.
Honestly, if someone started going off on how they're not going to vote for Bernie Sanders, I very much doubt anyone would particularly care, but on the off chance someone did chose to engage, and they were 'of the left,' I very much doubt their impulse would be to try and win that person over.
If I see someone going out of their way to say they're not going to vote for someone who isn't currently running for President more than 3 years before an election, I'm not going to assume they're reaching out for me to engage them in dialogue to win them over.
Thinking about becoming one of those guys who bemoans that society has grown too decadent
what the fuck?
It remains utterly bizarre that when Trump first started talking about this it made waves, but then just sort of died down, not entirely forgotten but just not a focus of long term outrage in spit of it being a blatant demand for ethnic cleansing.
In general, a remarkable success looks more like Bukele in El Salvador someone who actually is able to maintain high public support for their actions by leveraging actual fears of the public and appearing to address them. A smarter Trump would have waited for an actual crisis to do this shit.
Yes and no. Best I can tell this house belongs to a "YouTuber, social media personality, and illusionist" named Justin Flom who came from a family of magicians. Probably genuinely likes the idea of secret passages, but also he's incorporated his house into multiple tik toks.
They aren't even organized! Terminator next to Conan, next to Sister Act.... even if this was just meant to be purely ornamental the way it laid out with the covers isn't even aesthetically appealing.
A half wall of what appears to be built in shelves... really? Not full wall, not modular.... yeah, that isn't serious.
It's maddening and offensive to anyone who has seen an in-home physical media library that was actually designed and set up by a genuine collector. That place was designed first and foremost as a gimmick. You can tell by the dearth of actual DVDs.
What gets me is how most of those rooms come off as lame wastes of space that are utterly impractical. A secret passage that is shiny, a secret room that is just a storage space for DVDs. All you'd really need to be cool is like one hidden room that doubles as a den/reading room/library/study.
Of course it will, it's sending us all over, he's America's Mayor after all. Very likely many of us will be drinking tomorrow just to deal with this.
Might be sooner than later, 81 is not an age where one should have 'multiple broken bones.' You really shouldn't even be having surgery at that age. At minimum the inactivity forced on him just to heal from a fracture spine is going to shorten his lifespan and degrade his quality of life.
Outside of all the weirdness regarding the incident and the aftermath, what strikes me are the injuries. These injuries on an 81 year old are the type that would at minimum lead to a massive loss in quality of life.
So uhh, maybe I'm paranoid, but this really sounds like Rudy beat the shit out of a prostitute, got into a car accident, and then called a fixer. Could be there is an innocent explanation that makes sense, but this statement surely doesnt sound like one.
No she’s saying they’re assholes, and you seem to be agreeing with her but reframing that as just being awkward and less social.
You misunderstood what I just said. To be even more explicit and direct, if you discount the parts about Nazis, if you assume Lorenz isn't trying to defend them, what is left is her just saying that leftists are toxic, that they are neither welcoming nor accommodating, that they lack empathy
What's interesting is if you accept the premise that Lorenz is not in any way trying to defend Nazis, then the only way left to interpret her words is as a condemnation of the exact aggressive behavior you are displaying, namely wildly freaking out and screaming at people
Right, the fundamental problem with the conjecture is that it's not entirely clear if Dems could even save these hospitals at this point, given the trendlines and the major changes to the Medicaid/care, budgets, and insurance markets, let alone while in a minority at the Federal level.
he’s a dissolute aristocrat with eugenic beliefs that happened to be in the right place at the right time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6g...
You arent gonna like that answer, but it'd be Marco Rubio.
It should be noted that Trump is in fact going to die, eventually, and in a sense, he dies a little bit more every night.
Because when you think substantive critique, you think Taylor Lorenz.
Republicans Reps are all nuts now. That’s the baseline not just but the party but for the guys they put out on camera as well,
the thing is that most of them are replacement level evil, if you got rid of them they'd just sub another one in, but RFK is genuinely incredibly dangerous in his own right as a pusher of an ideology somewhat separate from the admin though equally bad.
With Stellaris it's the mid game that is the slog.
Thinking that out there somewhere, someone is reading all this, wondering if they truly have the power, while wistfully looking at their Trump voodoo doll.
At the very least, the health speculation is going to drive him crazy. Hits his two big fears looking weak and fear of dying.
Feels like the high points of this admin going forward are going to be the times like now when we are all musing on if Trump is finally dying.
Look, I know some of us are probably wish casting, and maybe some of you don't even realize you're doing it, but I'm keeping a level head, and I say the government is clearly preparing for a "Trump is dead" parade.
I don't know if Trump's is getting worse, but I do know is that these sorts of issues like with his ankles will continue to crop up, and at Trump's age surgery and other interventions start get riskier and riskier. /e
Older you get the more you juggle, the more issues keep cropping up, the more the bad habits and time weigh you down. Suddenly your ailments are making your other issues worse, and dealing with side effects of the medications, things can spiral really easily just from added stress /3
Most people who are lucky will still end up 2 ailments that flare up occasionally by the time they are 35, or maybe its issues that need to be managed with lifestyle changes and medication. That's part of the juggling too. /2
The thing about health is that people can keep going and going for so much longer than anyone expects, the body is resilient.... but also it's sometimes a juggling act /1
Wish there was a way to flag this so I can have it at the ready to repost it in the future.
I don't think they're capable of that restraint though, they clearly see themselves as a super legislature now, able to rewrite the law and constitution at their leisure.
Genuinely would do the Court's public image some good to show they won't personally involve themselves in everything that doesn't go Trump's way.
I don't know how they will rule, but I can tell you there will be some weird bullshit in their ruling.
I do like the part where he says his home town of Shreveport has done "a great job reducing crime.. gradually"
Gotta say Joni deciding to pull her objections to Hegseth to spare herself a primary challenge only to not even run for re-election is incredibly on brand for a Very Serious National Security Republican
So not an affirmative good. Even though I’d support it.
I don’t see it achieving anything good, but if Dems don’t do it then it’s a sign of weakness. That said there is value in it as a messaging apparatus. Not sure if Dems would be up to the task for the messaging though.
As to them havingt the same politics as the left wing of the DSA, I can sort of agree to that and will furthermore point out that the left wing of the DSA has repeatedly tried to censure AOC, and withdraw the DSAs endorsement of her. Which goes to what we are saying. Purity wreckers.
While I find it someone hard to believe that you are ignorant of the criticisms that have been labeled at ChapoTrapHouse and the dirtbag left for nearly a decade, to summarize, they've leaned far too much into assholery nihilism and irony over the years and have a toxic fanbase that are even worse.
Like maybe they arent personally responsible for all those guys who just shout read a book when backed into a corner and incapable of playing word games, or the ones that will just put quote marks around things you didn't say then argue against that, but they helped foster that zeitgeist.
I can't definitively blame them for all the guys with edgy screennames cycling between ironic 'jokes/'passive aggressive whining, vicious insults, demands to be taken seriously while being unable to answer a single question about the things they claim to believe but.... I do
The paradox of Trump 2, I think, is that it's a nascent autocracy with the qualities of a dying autocracy: The autarch is old, promising an early succession; he is using his newfound powers to undermine the stability of the realm; & the regime, for all that it's been accommodated, is run by idiots
Once again I am telling everyone that when someone uses the term PMC for the vast majority of the time they simply mean "that bitch from HR." Next most common case they're really neurotic about being white collar not blue. Finally just weird issues regarding being in academia/academia adjacent.
It's a meme stock that would collapse without Musk. More than that though I sort of get the sense that this is one of those companies that is held together by keeping a bunch of skeletons in several hidden closets and a bunch of shady side deals that also start to implode without Musk.
From a Constitutional standpoint, Vance's claim is *far more radical* than, say, expanding SCOTUS, gun control, or a wealth tax. Under Art I § 8, coining/borrowing money has always been up to Congress, not POTUS, and Congress set up the Fed to run the way it does. Vance wants all of that scrapped.
🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.
Is intel really worth 100 billion though? Apparently Intel doesnt think so.
Higgins has been acting exactly like this for the past ten years, even on Twitter.
Guy who instantly takes questions asked by the Daily Wire with profound seriousness.
Honestly that context is making me feel it's even more ominous that he's getting involved now.
Well, this is ominous.
Wait, she claimed racial discrimination, against herself?
Well it seems to me that leftists love this, as one might expect from people who would genuinely be defined as far left in the classical sense.
The grrat thing about medicine is how everyone is in complete agreement with each other, like on if red wine and chocolate are good or bad. Everyone just agrees, with no nuance or anything.... that freaking guy....
The way you know that a field of study deserves respect or not is how rigidly a status quo is maintained, but not in the way this guy thinks.
No it isn't.
"We're very different from most of America" the man says in regards to a poll that shows 60 percent of a group is on the same page as 90 and 80 percent of the other two groups.
Me personally, I wish they polled Green Libertarian, maybe Tory and Labour, and like half a dozen other political parties or what have you, before I said "Harris voters are the only group...." given they only polled like 3 groups of people.
Like me if someone is a nazi, I'd say yeah cut them off, that is an acceptable reason, but if they were just a republican who wanted lower taxes, I'd say no.
You could personally find a particular person's reason to be wrong, while still thinking that in certain scenarios there could be an acceptable reason.
Also the poll does not "explicitly say 'I don't think they're wrong' for cutting off friends/family for diametrically opposite values." It says "Is it ever an acceptable reason for cutting off friends and family" meaning I think it may be an acceptable reason, or it could be.
???? 60 percent of Harris voters are on the exact same page as 90 percent of Trump voters and 80 percent of non voters.... that does not exactly spell "we are very different" from a lot of America
If it were me I would not have framed this as " Harris voters are the only group of people remotely likely to say"..... if I only polled 3 groups. Maybe poll some Canadians political party voters too or something.
Anyway if it were me I would not have framed this as " Harris voters are the only group of people remotely likely to say"..... if I only polled 3 groups. Maybe poll some Canadians political party voters to or something.
I also wonder about if right wing/left wing personalities might view the qualifier "is it ever okay" in different ways. With right wingers more prone to black and white thinking will just be "never" while left wingers are more 'Well if the family member is a nazi in that one scenario it'd be okay'
There was a bridge collapse in Florida, and early on when reading about it I fixated on the central pylon being 109 feet tall to mark the location at 109th Avenue, it's just never a good sign when you have to design around arbitrary numerology.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
"Do job" "Do job better" "How tk CEO" "How to CEO" "How am I work good CEO"
*decided to "get"
