MudMan

It’s not The Purge, it’s Kristallnacht.

Anecdotal, but relevant: I had forgotten what the “smears” were supposed to be until I saw this and went “oh, right, they did that”.

I would assume the inability to complete a single sentence would be a tell way before you get into the skill carryover between micro and macroeconomics. But then we’re way past being surprised that anybody could look at this guy and go “ah, behold, a functional candidate to elected office”.

Well, that’s a new one. I wasn’t expecting the leopard to be resentful about all the face eating.

Oh, that works for me, definitely. It just takes maybe two hours, instead of 20 minutes. Same principle, though.

How do you get motivated in the afternoon? I have maybe three, four hours of semi-effective brain function between waking up and what seems to be some form of power saving mode that lasts the rest of the day. If I’ve eaten food with a fork that day, doing things is a struggle. Send motivation tips for post-lunch humaning, please.

Come on, guys, I’m sure those comments make more sense in context.

Checking the context for a second here…

…aaaand never mind, carry on.

That pice is actually not in the UK edition. The Guardian publishes a specific edition for the US, hence the American spelling on that one. My understanding is they have some reach, apparently. You made me look it up, their advertising brochure has them being about half the size of the Washington Post in the US.

Not that it matters for the issue at hand, but it’s an interesting factoid.

I am not even dignifying that with the one line of engagement I gave to the previous one. Talk about not understanding messaging.

It’s The Guardian. It’s sitting right there on the cover of the US edition right below their live politics ticker currently titled “Trump criticized by Republicans and Democrats after questioning Harris’s racial identity – live”.

I’m gonna guess tons of people saw that headline, read it, and that was the last piece of engagement they had with this.

Which is why you need one of these up on major newspapers every day.

It certainly is a huge example of how the person running matters, and of how this stuff is, unfortunately, a matter of perception.

Which is to say, there is now a big incentive for all dems to keep hammering on the obvious point that Trump was a barely functioning idiot at his best and now he’s an old barely functioning idiot. The age of the person saying it only matters if you’re going to get in an argument about it, but if Pelosi’s book can get this into a headline, it’s certainly a valid hit on that front.

Because, again, if you’re a normie willing to vote democrat that is driven by image, not policy, it is way more relevant to get the message on as many places and as frequently as possible, nuance be damned.

And if you’re not, and you want to argue on the merits of the argument and not do armchair political strategy on the Internet, the fact that Trump is entirely unfit for the job is obvious in any case.

It’s not confirmation bias, it’s a rudimentary undersanding of how political messaging works.

Pelosi saying this wouldn’t change anybody’s mind if she was a teenager. Constant reinforcement from multiple sources and repeated reasons for the narrative to be present in media may change the perception over time.

The headline is the goal here. The headline exists, the goal is accomplished. Now you need a few hundred headlines like that one from different sources based on different causes.

Just to be absolutely clear, Pelosi was a major player in doing this exact thing to Biden. It was less than two weeks ago. We need to start having some object persistence at some point.

OK, so there are two options there.

One, is you listen to doctors about Trump being unfit but not about Pelosi being too old.

Two is you listen to doctors about Trump being unfit AND about Pelosi being too old.

In both of those scenarios you listen to doctors about Trump being unfit. So it’s your prerogative to extend that to Pelosi or not, which I don’t particularly care about, but that doesn’t change the point about Trump.

Still not how logic or reality work.

Not really, no. That she’s too old and that Trump isn’t mentally fit can both be true at the same time. That’s not how logic or reality work.

I am willing to accept that he mostly means “we’ll fix the country so it won’t be a close call ever again”. I also am willing to accept he subconsciously means “I just need to pardon myself and I can’t run again anyway, so I don’t give a crap what you do afterwards”.

Thing is, both of those are disqualifying, too, so… no real good options here.

Eh… where? This seems like a very location-specific question.

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I do for many things. It’s just convenient and their logistics muscle at this point is wild.

That said, I will go to first party online stores for things like hardware most times. It’s often just cheaper and delivery is about the same.

An interesting observation: Back when I lived somewhere else there was a local alternative, because it was a country far enough out of the way that Amazon didn’t directly support it, and it’s interesting that the local alternative wasn’t meaningfully worse at the logistics or availability. Amazon’s existence does, in fact, heavily suppress competition. You don’t need to be as big as they are to do what they do, it’s just impossible to do it if they’re already there.

I don’t have feelings about corporations.

“Loving” or “hating” brands, let alone massive oligarchal conglomerates makes no sense at all. I want them well regulated and split down to reasonable size if necessary. Ideally competing in a well populated marketplace and restricted in their ability to cause damage.

That’s not “hate”. And it certainly doesn’t stop me using Google products and services and judging them based on their quality and performance.

Yes, I am a riot at parties, thank you very much.