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I think weird and similar thoughts are sticking for a few reasons.

1. The obvious: Trump was running as the more vigorous and confident candidate and it was working very well, peaking with the debate. But Biden stunned Trump’s campaign and stepped down. Trump’s team seems wholly unprepared for this. Now Trump is the old guy yapping not about policy, but about how Kamala isn’t black. It’s cringe.

2. Vance. Trump picked a carbon copy of himself (or a guy pretending to be a carbon copy of him, anyway) but when Vance says these Trumpian things they sound well, weird, coming from a 39 year old guy. For a young guy to be saying that childless adults have less value and should have fewer votes is damn weird. But if Trump said it, it wouldn’t even make the news.

3. I think the article is right in that you can call Trump and Vance weird without directly insulting their followers. But I also think another subtlety is that is doesn’t distance the left from the right as much as other attacks might. You’re not calling Trump Hitler and immediately raising the hackles of a conservative and forcing him to dig in against you.

A&W Root Beer and Long John Silvers!

Dogs and cats living together!

A lot of people do think he’s on trial simply for paying a prostitute; they don’t care. Check out a few MAGA interviews on YouTube.

I’m using kagi as well and have been very pleased with it.

You sound like you want to empower women. The fuck.

They believe that civilian boards and panels are made up of “woke” activists that want to screech at them and defund them. Since these panels aren’t as hardline conservative/fascist as they are, they’re “libtards” who shouldn’t have a say in these “conservative” matters.

I was at Storr and Portree back in November. Love Skye a lot.

Brother. I really disliked the first book too. Never read the others. It’s hard to find people that will admit to not seeing the Emperor’s clothes with this book. You can find a few on goodreads if you dig.

Its just bad.

He can pardon himself. And he will.

I couldn’t find an image but there’s an old Far Side cartoon that shows a building that’s something like “Jake’s Croissants and Fill Dirt”. Reminds me of that.

Or ridiculously powerful military and commercial sonar and pingers.

Having cut my teeth on MS-DOS 3.0 in a 4.77MHz PC with a monochrome monitor, two floppy drives and no hard disk, it was drilled into me early to save, save, save. It’s just muscle memory for me now.

Writing a whole paper without saving is unimaginable to me.

OJ Simpson was found not guilty criminally and guilty civilly. It’s a thing.

Comparing Taylor Swift to Mao.

Okay.

We all know he will drag this out forever. They may both die before he pays a nickel, escrow or not. But I hope I’m wrong.

GRUBER: All of you relax. This is a matter of inconvenient timing — that’s all. Police action was inevitable, and, as it happens… necessary. So let them fumble about outside, and stay calm. This is simply the beginning.

That doesnt square with the fact that these guys were hard-core conspiracy theorists? 😂😂

Yes, but did he kill himself? It’s an interesting discussion, especially from the point of view of conspiracy theorists who literally think shape-shifting lizards are involved.

Oh, haven’t heard of it. I’ll check it out. The Some Dare guys are pretty informal and raw, but they seem like guys you’d want to have a pint with if you met them in the UK. One if them is a rapper and the other is a death metal guy but they’re both pretty smart.

They talk about that actually. About how they think to get really deep into conspiracy theories it helps to be a creative type because you kind of have to be to get so far up everything’s butt and see such tenuous connections everywhere.

I’ll take this opportunity to plug a tiny podcast that I stumbled onto called “Some Dare Call it Conspiracy”. It’s hosted by two English guys that were hard-core conspiracy theorists for 15 years.

They now discuss, debunk and interview people around the conspiracy life. It’s really fascinating to learn about Pizzagate, Chemtrails, Hunter Biden’s Laptop and Jeffery Epstein from very knowledgeable people but in an environment of debunking.

Their latest episode is an interview with Rob Jacobson, a former staffer for Alex Jones that worked for him for 12 years. Jacobson ended up testifying against Jones in the Sandy Hook trial. The episode is on their Patreon at the moment but will roll out to the general public in a few days. Fascinating stuff and Jones is every bit as shady as one expects.