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Post by Optimus on Jan 12, 2023 14:55:29 GMT -5
Apparently crazy keeps her busy better than an energy drink.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 12, 2023 14:53:53 GMT -5
This part: Does this logic apply to the slave trade and slavery, as well? Indeed. I'm not sure Whoopi and "logic" are well acquainted with each other. Touching back to another topic in the thread, I noticed this week that hardly any media outlets refer to Jill Biden as "Dr. Jill Biden" anymore. I checked recent articles about her and found that only NYT was consistently still calling her "Dr." I checked articles at NBC News, ABC News, Washington Post, and even uber-lefty NPR and Daily Beast....no "Dr. Jill Biden" found. I did find it on CNN but it wasn't consistent. Only 1 out of 4 articles I found referred to her as "Dr." The other 3 referred to her as "First Lady Jill Biden" and "Biden." Hell, not even the White House's own press releases refer to her as "Dr. Jill Biden" now, lol: I guess that trend of performative, "Girl Boss feminism" bullshit is officially over now? Maybe everyone's come back down to the reality that her shitty little Ed.D. that she got from a crappy, low-tier university using high school sophomore level writing in her dissertation doesn't qualify her to be called "doctor" outside of the classroom? Or they just all forgot that they're supposed to still be performatively pretending to care.
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Post by Optimus on Jan 9, 2023 16:51:36 GMT -5
The "whistleblower" and "scientist" is still at it. This time, it appears that she may have created an entirely fake website that posts fake news reports ("investigative journalism") from fake journalists (is there any other kind?) that defend her. Check out the linked thread in this post (scroll up to the first post in the linked thread and read from there):
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Post by Optimus on Jan 5, 2023 3:05:47 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Dec 9, 2022 15:14:21 GMT -5
Damnit, Rob! I was logging in to post this and ya beat me to it. But, yeah. Goes back to my previous post about this likely being tied to other mental health issues this person is probably overloaded with. The fact that the DOE only put him on leave after the first arrest is disappointing though unsurprising. Is the first one also a felony or was the charge misdemeanor theft? I couldn't find that info (the articles I read for the first arrest just say "theft"). Regardless, best for DOE to fire their ass and completely cut ties. Otherwise, this will continue to be an albatross and more fuel for conservative attack ads.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 29, 2022 20:29:41 GMT -5
Remember those halcyon days where being a cross-dresser or just an extreme weirdo was something a person kept in their private life and it wasn't appropriate to do at work?
Even though being "gender fluid" / nonbinary isn't a real thing (I'm convinced it's a mental disorder or very close to it), it is strongly associated with a laundry list of comorbid mental illnesses. Those are also the kinds of things people used to try their best to keep private and not foist on everyone else at work. Now it's celebrated as "sTuNnInG aNd BrAvE" for some reason and actively encouraged in some workplaces (like the WH, it seems).
Anyway, as I mentioned, it's strongly associated with various serious mental disorders so the fact that this person is also a lying ass liar and a thief doesn't surprise me at all.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 23, 2022 13:26:13 GMT -5
"Effective altruism" indeed.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 10, 2022 13:43:53 GMT -5
I was pleased Fetterman won and also pleased to see that Boebert may be on her way out (at the time of posting this, she's down by about 1% but race isn't called yet). Huh, seems like she might escape by the skin of her teeth on this one. Just checked and with 98% of the precincts reporting, she's somehow now ahead by 0.2%. I don't know what the recount and run-off laws are in Colorado, though. I know in Georgia there's an automatic run-off if neither candidate gets above 50%. In Colorado, Boebert currently has 50.1%, so she might unfortunately just barely pull this one off. Edited to add: Okay, just looked it up and apparently the Colorado law states that a recount happens if: "the difference between the highest number of votes cast in that election contest and the next highest number of votes cast in that election contest is less than or equal to one-half of one percent of the highest vote cast in that election contest.” I do stats for a living and am not really sure what the heck that gobbledygook means. I'm guessing if the two highest voter getters are within 0.5% of each other, then that triggers an automatic recount (not sure why lawmakers can't just write shit in plain English). Looks like that'll happen in this case. If so, Boebert has a decent chance of coming out on top (ugh).
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Post by Optimus on Nov 9, 2022 15:08:25 GMT -5
I was a bit surprised (but not too surprised). I wasn't expecting a "red tsunami" or "red wave" bursting down the doors like The Shining or anything, but feared that Repubs would pick up more seats than they did...or have so far, at least. She's gone silent since last night when she tweeted "Red wave has begun," but perhaps she was talking about her period and not the election.
I was pleased Fetterman won and also pleased to see that Boebert may be on her way out (at the time of posting this, she's down by about 1% but race isn't called yet).
The fact that Walker is neck-and-neck with Warnock suggests to me that Georgia has some of the stupidest voters in the union, though. That one's looking like it'll go to a run-off next month, so I guess we'll see if stupid will win the day.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 7, 2022 13:06:36 GMT -5
From what he's described ("auditory processing issues related to a stroke"), he's likely suffering from partial Wernicke's Aphasia, suggesting his stroke was near the posterior of his left temporal lobe (that's common for ischemic strokes that result in aphasia of this type). It shouldn't have measurable affects (if any) on intelligence, reasoning, or decision-making...assuming his campaign is telling the truth about his condition. But, regardless of political party, we all know that politicians aren't known for their forthrightness and epistemic courage. They've seemed to claim that it was simultaneously not a major stroke but also that he almost died. Hard to discern what the truth is when even Fetterman's campaign doesn't seem to know. His campaign should definitely limit his off-the-cuff public speaking as much as is possible, at least for now as he's still recovering. But Oz's campaign would pounce all over that to cast him as a walking vegetable, so Fetterman seems to be stuck between a rock and a hard place (Scylla and Charybdis for all you annoying nerds out there). I'm waiting to pass any kind of judgment in his specific case, probably because I understand these issues better than 99.9% of voters. But I also don't live in PA so most of me doesn't really care one way or the other. I'd prefer Oz lose, though. The blatant cognitive issues from Biden are a much more serious concern to me.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 7, 2022 12:53:24 GMT -5
Ugh. Yes, once you ignore the violentest of violent crimes (murder), then violent crime hasn't change...I guess? Or something. The issue here is that the crimes that have gone down are the ones that are the least likely to be reported anyway (e.g., assault, aggravated assault). Also, crime is a local-level issue. Crime may have gone down in places like the middle of Nowhere, Wyoming but it's risen quite sharply in major cities like NYC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. A more nuanced take here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myths-and-realities-understanding-recent-trends-violent-crime
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Post by Optimus on Nov 5, 2022 14:06:07 GMT -5
Ugh, the Left often really are the Kings and "Yas Queens!" of Cringe.
I really don't get it. They often have the objectively better policies* but run the most incompetent, cringey, disastrous campaigns.
It's been the case for at least the past decade and I really don't understand how they can be so consistently inept.
*not always, but most of the time, at least in a "Pareto Improvement" kind of way (then again, I'm a Dem so probably a little biased on this)
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Post by Optimus on Nov 4, 2022 15:56:01 GMT -5
Oof, just digging that hole even deeper.
"...loosely commented..."
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Post by Optimus on Nov 3, 2022 15:46:43 GMT -5
An op-ed by Donna Brazile. I laughed right as I read that because I could guess what was coming. To be fair (okay, not really), when she says, "no one knows for sure what will happen. The same goes for predictions in races for governor and other state and local contests," she might just mean "no one in the Democrat Party who conducts/interprets public polls knows for sure what will happen." Given how wrong the results tend to be from Democrat pollsters (at least since 2016), she might very well be making a statement of fact based only on the sample size of the Democrat echo chamber.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 2, 2022 17:06:32 GMT -5
This isn't funny. It's depressing. Agreed. I sometimes wonder if parts of his brain are becoming swiss cheese at this point. Perhaps he continues to repeat easily disprovable lies about his life and family because he really doesn't remember the truth and his addled brain has constructed a laundry list of false memories from all the whoppers he's told. He might be so senile at this point that he really does believe these things.
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