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The funnier and somewhat more likely possibility is that he's actively psychotic right now (perhaps due to dementia!) and about to issue some comically insane (and perhaps tragically insane, alas) order tomorrow that really rubs in how little he knows up from down at this point.
"Which one?" you might ask. And whether you decide MT is referring to Trump or Woody Allen, you're right.
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
RFK Jr as an epitome of his class rather than an outlier illustrates why & how American elites are failing their country
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Like, if you look at this post a friend sent me and then actually read the “deranged replies” it’s mostly people pointing out that you should take jury duty seriously, but you gotta justify still hanging out in a place you know sucks.
Learning that Robert Mueller was almost certainly suffering from early-stage Parkinson's during his confused, halting July 2019 congressional testimony about Russian Interference puts the theater-criticism headlines at the time in a very different light.
anyway, it's good that it turns out it was entirely and 100% the stroke because otherwise the people loudly championing him might have to reconsider some priors and learn lessons for other candidates too, but now that doesn't have to happen!
Like... Fetterman being a contrarian who goes his own way for the sake of it, reacts horribly to criticism, following his own weird instincts over anything else... a lot of this was very obviously there from the start and people ignored it because twitter polarised them over a primary fight
I'm not going to say the stroke hasn't impacted Fetterman's behaviour, but it's sort of funny how many people here act as though that is totally the only thing because the alternative is that maybe they were extremely wrong in their early judgement of him despite a *lot* of warning signs being there
Okay, I'm about to bang on my big ol' "ITS ABOUT CARS" drum, but Cracker Barrel was developed as an idea - and placed, at interstate offramps - to improve gasoline sales! The whole sales pitch is selling nostalgia for a world that it destroys! Gah!
Not sure this helps much with the Epstein questions.
I don’t even like Newsom nor would I want him as the nominee — but it is astounding to me that we are seeing immigrants thrown into a concentration camp literally called Alligator Alcatraz and yet there’s a type of online leftists who have no urgency to stop it.
This is SOP. There's always an ambulance with the presidential motorcade.
Honestly Trump being too old & sick to talk to reporters serves my purposes almost as well as him kicking it. "What if Trump was president & it wasn't any fun" is a pretty good summary of why the press hated COVID & I am very happy to bring that back
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
I could imagine dropping a kid a low-priority, respond-when-you-can text. But the whole point of that is you assume your kid will see it when they see it and respond when they can.
Geez louise... No, I didn't remember that.
Newsom isn't the nominee, so you could do a lot more by supporting someone else.
I oppose Newsom in any hypothetical primary but you just said you can't be won over.
Here's an even bigger irony about "heritage and culture". The food they served, was in large part created by Black people. Watch the Netflix series, High on the Hog. But per usual, it got blandified and de-tastified. So maybe that tracks with "heritage".
"I do have to say it" is such a fascinating take when, quite literally, shutting up is free.
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
(The concrete justice system being proposed here as a model for the US is a system of ritualized blood feuds among nomadic Bedouin tribes)
The Department of Homeland Security posted an image of the ideological moral allocation heat map. They’re calling people who care about what happens to other living beings beyond just their family and friends, losers and their opinions invalid. /
Trump will not make a public appearance today either. His last televised appearance was as long as six days ago.
Rep. Tom Emmer said he couldn’t recall why he opposed a school safety bill after a Minnesota shooting, while blasting Gov. Walz for lacking school resources—even though Emmer opposed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that funded school safety. www.rawstory.com/tom-emmer-sc...
I’ve been racking my brain, trying to figure out how to explain to the younger gen how much queer rights have changed in the last 10-20 years, because there’s this idea that nothing has changed and that Ds are getting further to the right and if your entire life has been with Trump in politics, 1/
Are Stelter & friends gonna mock him too or does that only happen when a Democratic President’s public medical records show he doesn’t have it & he signs a transformative law for Parkinson’s research thanks to the work of a Dem Rep forced into early retirement due to progressive supranuclear palsy?
It's a joke, but.
I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
If you've been to Cracker Barrel in the last five years you know this is not unusual.
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
And that is beautiful.
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
I'm no fan of Giuliani so good.
It's really funny that they wanted us to believe that rickety derelict Giuliani was out on the side of the road heroically "rendering assistance" to a domestic violence victim who knew to flag down his car
Jake Tapper is reporting that Joe Biden is a year older than he was last year.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Is *anybody* at WaPo or NYT reporting that the White House tried to pass off photos (as proof Trump isn’t a vegetable) that were actually taken last weekend? Looks pretty desperate to me. What’s next, AI “Trump” phoning into Fox?
Newsom is not "the most vocal person in the party." And even if he was he does not speak ex cathedra for the party, nobody does. Also, the DNC hasn't "moved on from trans rights." But the Democrats must be bad even when they're good. share.google/bUh0JEto71An...
My hot take on Gavin Newsom is there’s over 30 special elections coming up THIS year alone. secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...
What is this, a Live song
Dear people who refused to vote for Kamala over Gaza, or AIPAC or...reasons. You LITERALLY made this situation worse. Again YOU DID, not Kamala, not Joe. YOU: www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
This is the platform. Where they are literally opposing these things which are gross. Not one Dem will support this or introduce it. Why can't progressives stop being angry abt a sandwich they don't like while we're being forced to drink poison? democrats.org
*looks around at humanity* Look I'm not saying i want the robots to win but
It...is. Newsom is very much an outlier. This was said verbatim by multiple Democrats when opposing the GOP anti-trans bill earlier this year.
I don’t know how to fix this. Because this is pretty much, Word for Word exactly what Ken is doing at the DNC. Like this is his plan this is what he’s been talking about every single time he opens his mouth. I don’t know how to get people to know that democrats.org/news/dnc-and...
Except if they kick you out of the tribe for breaking the rules and wait a second I think I just discovered that they do have something akin to policing.
(public) *police* as a concept is a new(ish). paramilitaries keeping public order ie you dont get to form a gang and murder merchants or nobles is a very very very old concept and masters *policing* their property ie fathers policing their children and wives, is ancient
Alberta (the Canadian province) just banned books in schools (including high school) that have “sexually explicit content” And it’s getting WILD — the Public School Board is pissed and redirecting complaints to the minister. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
To be fair, you don't actually have to do that anymore unless you're using bleach; modern fabrics are much more colorfast than they used to be.
Exactly. Israel has dramatically escalated since February, but we pinned the needle to eleven last year.
If anything this will make some people assume they’re DEESCALATING what they’re doing, since “forcing people out of Gaza” isn’t nearly as bad as “genociding every resident of Gaza.”
We did in fact evolve to think certain things, but that doesn't make them good, necessarily, and isn't determinative; the most notable thing we evolved to do is be flexible in our thinking with the ability to consciously override innate instincts. That's what makes us unique.
Evopsych too often becomes just-so stories with a patina of scientifition.
Post a meme made by you
I mean, yes, but...that's the point of the training. You aren't trying to "win" the training, you're supposed to be learning about how you see the world.
Fact check: Hell yeah
You'll note that it ain't Tesla doing this.
As I've said many times, the problem with declaring Israel's actions last year to be genocide (they were war crimes, but not genocide) is that now that Israel has escalated to *actual ethnic cleansing* there is no way to accurately convey the escalation.
Sooknanan talks about crafting her TRO to ensure that the children aren't removed until briefing is complete and she can rule. I do not want there to be any ambiguity about what I am ordering or what the government is to do down the road, she says.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.
Speaking as someone who used to spend time in their chats, SO much of US contemporary fascism is a function of men assuming that the way adulthood worked was, you got a job and in exchange you got a woman to be your mom plus your sex toy. They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
The word blacked out here isn’t “Zionists”
The reality is that the Lorenz defenders also defend her agreeing with a Nazi that Jews are trying to censor the internet. Oh, don't worry, if you change it to "Zionists", suddenly the anti-Semitism evaporates!
this is my favorite thing anyone has ever called woke. processed white sandwich bread, which is less than 100 years old, is some how more traditional than sourdough, which has existed for millennia. which has flavor because it is…natural? and is irregularly shaped because it is…handmade?
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Damn! My nominee for Post of the Day! Seriously, this is so spot on!
It’s so disturbing how SSC/rationalism is just this big racism elite persuasion that’s been stewing online forever and it fucking worked. They Valentine-and-Peter-Wiggened eugenics back into elite respectability. And they aren’t even Thiel funded right? Pure love of the game?
At some point I bet we find out she’s been friends with LibsofTikTok ever since that interview she did and that led her down the path to radicalization
But she is definitely *not* doing this because she's getting paid to hawk a phone while not disclosing the payment.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
scully: mulder you can't seriously believe in this mulder: I'm telling you, glonzo is more than just stories.
If you're interested in the well being of men, you should be interested in the well being of prisoners, and their ability to move into honorable lives after they get out
Are you trying to tell me that having loads of troops in the streets ISN'T working the way Donald Trump says it is? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
To be fair, maybe Snowden is on the front lines. They're running out of people.
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
Without question. It's the only thing that could possibly be as pervasive.
As someone who has family in China, I can say that this isn't just an American thing. Of all the things you can identify, class is easily the most flexible because you can move up or down. I can potentially get rich or be homeless but I will NEVER be White. So race is FAR stronger of a connectiong
Again, she knows.
Ok is she too careless to realize that the blanked out word here is ”Jews” or is she fully over the edge?
"No war but the class war" is just "all lives matter" but from the left.
Folks really don't want to hear that fighting classism doesn't necessarily solve racism
“caviar topped chicken nugget” - I cannot think of a better objective-correlative for the American ruling class
She is so full of shit.
Wiser people than I have already said it, but it bears repeating: MAGA is a cult of personality, and Vance doesn't have one.
he died, as often happens when one is dying