If anyone's wondering how the market ever got this stupid it's probably because we created an economic system where the people at the top can't actually fail no matter how many bad decisions they make.
If anyone's wondering how the market ever got this stupid it's probably because we created an economic system where the people at the top can't actually fail no matter how many bad decisions they make.
Conservatives have spent my entire lifetime and beyond claiming they want a small government that leaves people alone. It was always a lie and I'm already mad knowing that someday they're gonna go back to lying about that and some people will believe them.
One of the big reasons there was such a strong push to reopen before the vaccine rollout was specifically that certain people saw it as an opening to attack teachers' unions and try to get the public on their side to crush them.
Everyone's forgotten by now but back when schools were trying to open up again it was very common for them to be closed again a week or two later because whoops looks like half the staff are out sick and we literally don't have enough people to run the place!
I think he's definitely in abysmal health and they obviously wanna cover that up but I also think the instant he actually croaks Vance is gonna run toward the nearest camera to announce it.
The pitch for a post-Trump America has to be "we let these lunatics govern and it was a disaster so we're throwing it all out!" You can't run on "well actually let's keep the infinity money for cops and the deportations and the trans discrimination but just do it all smarter."
Dillary Clump or Honald Trinton?
Nothing to worry about. Obviously as nature's protagonists we can adapt to beat infectious diseases, but there's no way they'd ever turn around and do the same to us.
I would like to think that now might be the worst time to try to sell the Dem votership on a candidate nearly twice as old as the alternative. Like I'm really not worried at all that they'll actually go for it and Schumer's endorsement will likely hurt more than help.
Prepro - principal photography - post used to be a sensible workflow and they wouldn't overlap too much cause you needed one to be done before you could really start on the next, but now it's all one big pile of harried workers scrambling to do it all at the same time.
The main problem is they're trying to squeeze the production cycle to make it shorter but in the process doing everything very inefficiently. Filming before you've got a script and with minimal preproduction and dumping everything on the VFX team who are also working as filming is happening.
Pretty soon every public health agency is gonna be wall-to-wall wackos publishing advice telling citizens "Lick doorknobs!" or "Rub manure into open wounds; it's nature's poultice!"
This is one reason why people aren't donating to the national party orgs (and shouldn't). This is how they spend that money.
Probably should not be selling your restaurant's primary gimmick in a jar for people to use in their home cooking instead of buying your food.
This is what they're used to doing with progressive candidates though, lying and making it seem like their approval *could* be won if the candidate would just address a few (completely BS) concerns. They're just not used to being so unpopular their endorsements barely count for squat.
Jeffries and others withholding endorsements imagine themselves holding out a tempting carrot that they expect Mamdani to jump for so they get to yank it away. Trouble is he does not need their endorsements at all and isn't gonna jump so they just look like evil dopes.
It's probably a good time to be reminding people why we have a 3rd Amendment.
The main point of creating and maintaining an impossible standard of behavior for Dems is to signal to squishy conservatives that it's okay to "reluctantly" continue to vote for Republicans.
Convince him before he croaks that he deserves to have his top advisors and cabinet interred with him out of respect.
Portraying it as a vice is at least a tiny bit better than acting like continuing to post there is a brave and important service being performed.
"People shouldn't be fleeing Twitter." "People are fleeing Twitter because it sucks now." "That can't be true because if it were people would flee."
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Individual Dem campaigns that don't completely suck ass aren't have any trouble raising money. It's literally just that nobody wants to give their limited funds to the National Fuckup Committee.
Remember how the DNC fight wasn't even about trying to win a policy concession but literally begging the Harris campaign to let a Palestinian-American speak to endorse her in exchange for nothing and they still refused?
Mamdani is running against not one but two quasi-Dems running as independents, who had earlier received endorsements in the primary. This is not your typical election and Dem leaders would be wise to endorse sooner than later and especially stop taking potshots at the campaign like Jeffries.
It wouldn't be hard, but all the same it's work. And the first principle of Senate Dem politics is "when can we go home?"
I actually think some of these holdouts will endorse at the last possible moment and still expect full credit for it, including feeling entitled to a reciprocal endorsement next year.
All the NY pols refusing to endorse are themselves extremely unpopular so they need the boost from offering the endorsement far more than Mamdani needs to be endorsed by them, which is basically not at all.
The thing about appointing a wretched successor is that that's gonna overshadow a lot of your own legacy.
Jeffries is prioritizing appeasing his donors over both his own constituents' desires and more importantly his role in Dem leadership. And that illustrates why he absolutely should not have a role in leadership now or ever again.
Jeffries sucks at even pretending like his endorsement is gettable. Good thing it's not as important as he thinks it is.
The problem with trotting out the "you gotta compromise all of your values and vote for someone you hate" arguments this early is that if people aren't already sick of it they sure as hell will be if you keep doing it for three more years.
I'm increasingly relieved when I see a TV in public running something banal like home renovation programming.
Dems' genius plan for 2028: Step 1) Do almost nothing to oppose Trump's policies because you think they'll become unpopular on their own. Step 2) Don't draw any distinction between those unpopular policies and your own. In fact, consider adopting some of them. Very smart, serious stuff.
The whole idea of the deep state mythos is that Republicans like to position themselves as enemies of government but that's tricky to pull off when they're in charge of everything so they make believe there's a secret Super Government that they can still oppose while being the actual government.
Used to be guys like this who'd constantly fantasize about getting into a confrontation would at least imagine themselves fighting and winning instead of just being really good at running away.
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I don't think threatening to mass evict New Yorkers if you think their apartments are too affordable is likely to make you mayor but maybe I'm wrong and he'll start rocketing up the polls any say now.
I'd say this server lucked out that the person they chose to sexually harass was just barely not a minor but they had no way of knowing that.
I didn't say anything about AI and I would have had the same opinion about email 10 years ago. People gotta clear out those inboxes once in a while.
I agree but I also think the average person probably should be forcibly sat down and made to clear out their email at least once a year for their own good.
In fairness of the two possible factors in this accident (guy was old/guy was speeding), the speeding is the only one we know for sure contributed to the crash.
I can think of reasons why maybe this effort could fail (gay Republicans exist, some of them are married, and some of those are big money donors), but nothing's off the table anymore so I'd never say it couldn't happen.
There's still the wildcard element of "caving and cutting a deal doesn't actually get you off the hook."
Part of this is just the agency problem where people across the political spectrum treat conservative voters as some immutable force that can only be appeased while the rest of us actual human beings are the ones expected to sacrifice what we want to make them happy.
I was trying to recall this story but couldn't remember the specifics. Thanks.
It's worth less than nothing because it blows up the whole "Trump is afraid of Cuomo" narrative his camp was relying on to sway low-info Dems.
This man is doing everything he can to make his second loss more celebrated than his first one, which was already a hoot and a holler.
It bugs me seeing people get genuinely anguished arguing over the nonsensical hypothetical of him being the Dem candidate. People are letting themselves get extremely upset over a what-if scenario that is only slightly less unrealistic than "well what if the candidate was Bigfoot?"
It might be easier to feel sorry for centrist Dems ignoring all the warnings that this was where they were to going to end up if they hadn't also treated the people who were warning them with so much scorn and venom.
This guy will never win a primary so we may as well move on to discussing how no future Dem admin should ever give this schmuck a pity job ever again.
I'm sure the alliance between these two will be less than the sum of its parts.
I think they're actively trying to pitch this tech to just the weirdest and most awful guy they can imagine and while I can believe that guy definitely exists I don't believe there's enough of him for them to turn a profit.
On the one hand it seems ridiculous that anyone could think "I'll just edit an online copy of the Constitution and that'll fool 'em" but on the other hand if I ask "would our senile idiot President think that was a smart plan and would people be craven enough to do it for him?" well obviously, yes.
I tried and failed to explain to a conspiracy-addled relative that 'boneless wings' are just chicken breast tenders cut into approximately the shape of a wing while they were convinced it was lab-grown meat genetically modified to not have bones.
Referring specifically to Mr. Beast Burger here. The concept does not translate as cleanly to Tesla where the target demo is older but probably not much more sophisticated.
It's literally marketing to children. Think Krusty-O's. It's the name of the thing they like to watch slapped on a product they can pester mom and dad to spend money on.
I joked a month ago about how touchy partisan Dems were getting if you talked about the absurd opposition to Mamdani as something that was a problem for the party as a whole simply because it was coming from prominent Dems including ones in leadership. bsky.app/profile/that...
Technically all they've done is erase the statement saying they'd do it. They didn't release a new statement saying they wouldn't. But hopefully it's because they rightly fear the wrath of a bunch of pissed-off disaster victims.
Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.
Since these guys love thinking with their guts I'll do the same: My feeling is that the biggest hurdle in getting kids to read more is that most of them don't see the adults in their lives reading enough recreationally.
If someone turns my eulogy into a listicle I'm climbing out of the casket and that's even before I find out the thing was written by a computer.
It cannot be stressed enough how self-parodying it is for them to be pulling this routine three years in advance of an election on behalf of candidates who have close to zero chance of winning a primary anyway.
Even in the replies to that video you've got well-intentioned dopes reciting "even the worst person deserves a lawyer" but I feel like that person being mega guilty and their lawyer being a close friend who is possibly implicated in some of their misdeeds means it's okay to judge the lawyer.
Take solace in the fact that he has zero percent chance of ever winning a presidential primary and you can just mock and insult his fandom without consequence because they are irrelevant.
Anti-a-thorny-terrarium-animism.
People at the time were asking the very obvious question "what industries are doing all this supposed hiring?" and I never saw anyone come up with a satisfactory answer.
It feels like every tech company has shown up at my door holding a leaky bag of sick and are really, really insistent that I take it.
They wanna rally behind a white guy because that feels like a safe pick for 2028 but strangely all those guys keep saying things that suck.
I once tried to explain the concept of caller ID spoofing to a guy who called me at work screaming that someone had called him from our number when I was the only one there and nobody had used our line all day to that point. He did not believe me. Didn't call back after I hung up on him though.
Much as I wish people like her would be punished by their own consciences, that's not going to happen. They're going to need to be punished by other people never forgiving them for what they've done.
Feels like the party is coming to terms with being unable to stop Mamdani's momentum and is shifting to trying to guide it, which also will not work.
What you have here is two extremely cynical factions both attempting to take advantage of one another and thinking they'll be the one to come out on top. But they can't both be correct in the end.
They're trying to line up on the correct side of the issue right before mass death of starving people makes them all look like the vile monsters they are. It's moral musical chairs.
Has his chin deflated in his old age or was it never as grand as we imagined?
There's no shortage of people able and willing to step into leadership roles. The problem remains that those roles are all being clogged up by people who refuse to retire or their handpicked successors who are also awful.
Does Coyne still refer to himself as "Professor Ceilingcat" calling back to that ancient meme that was already old when he started referencing it?
Once these universities finish handing over all of their prestige they're not going to be getting it back.
This might be more embarrassing than a university spinning up a Dept. of Beanie Baby studies in the late '90s.
Back in the ancient days of internet forums I was a young teen just getting into music and had some jerk jump down my throat for not knowing a particular song was a cover (and a trash one in his opinion) and as i got older and learned more I just swore I'd never be that guy.
It's good that anyone in the Dem space with a big megaphone is willing to point to the bloated bloodsucking parasite that is the Dem consultancy clique and ask "what the hell are we paying these people for?"
We will not rest until every restaurant is the Heart Attack Grill.
I'm still mad at ME3 for the pettiest reason which is that they repainted the spaceship and I don't like it as much.
You can visit family while on vacation but visiting family isn't automatically a vacation just because they're far away.
I feel like that should have been a clue as to the direction their relationship was gonna go but it's in-character for Misa to miss the screaming obvious like that.
King of the Hill did it.
Praying for a strong breeze to crumble these mummies to dust before we run out of time to fix all the problems they've left us.
Probably recording software rather than camera but still.
Sounds like he did the interview with the camera off then turned it on at the end thinking he was turning it off and got confused?
The problem with the core lib-centrist promise ("nothing will fundamentally change") is that they are not very good at all at holding the line against reactionary forces. So a lot of things do change for the worse right under their noses and they just shrug about it.
Pledging that you'll support any candidate who makes it out of the primaries no matter how awful inherently lowers candidate quality. If trash candidates knew enough Dems would refuse vote for them that it was mathematically impossible for them to win fewer of them would run in the first place.
And as other people have pointed out demanding loyalty pledges for a hypothetical future candidate *is a purity test.*
One of the things I'm most concerned about when people offer alternatives to packing the court is "Do we really have time to wait for slower reforms to take effect?" and this proposal would at least solve that problem. Whatever reform idea ends up taking shape needs a sense of urgency guiding it.
Seems like a good time to be applying extra scrutiny to Adams though as I can't imagine there aren't ongoing attempts to bribe him to drop out now.
Lol. I initially thought "there's no way Cuomo or Adams' egos will let either drop out even though it's the only way either stands a chance against Mamdani" then actually thought I'd been mistaken when it looked like Cuomo wasn't gonna run. I shouldn't have doubted myself.
I don't have strong feelings toward regular Pepsi but I once had a Pepsi Nitro and it may be the foulest cola I've ever tasted.
Just keep a hunter's pot bubbling at all times.
