Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

YMMV, but those descriptions are of pathetic people. They sound like a crowd in desperate need of mental health counseling.

This, however, was quite interesting. Not surprising, but interesting: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN29F0KH

Re: May it please the court...
 

As I recall it, weren't the numbers so close and the defects in controversial rejected and accepted ballots so arguable from both sides that the real answer is Nobody Won Florida?

Funny to think a loon like Roger Stone, who initiated the Brooks Bros. riot, has had such an outsized impact on our politics. Again, I have return to the characterization, Kubrickian Black Comedy.

Flower, is this ironic?
 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/polit...ied/index.html

Fun fact: The Camp Auschwitz guy, you know know one of the guys protesting that votes were forged? He has a criminal record that includes a felony conviction for forging public documents! Maybe relevant in a "it takes one to know one way?"

Germany and France Oppose Twitter Ban for Trump
 

I, uh, did not expect this... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ts-problematic

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

Funny, lots of people got angry at Twitter, but I didn't hear rage at Cumulus:

WaPo

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

It was a self-coup.

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

That person is confusing dementia/terminal narcissism/ADHD with cunning and strategic forethought.

No.

His strategy is spaghetti-at-the-wall and see what sticks.

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

I didn't read the article but I agree with sebby: he's too stupid/mentally deranged to actually plan...anything.

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

The article (by Fiona Hill, the NSC Russia expert who testified in the impeachment hearing) describes self-coups as where a leader does extra-legal things to try to stay in power, rather than to seize power. Whatever you make of Trump's capabilities, and I suspect we are in similar places in how we assess the man, he has been trying to use the levers available to him to stay in power. It's not a coincidence that he replaced top people at DoD with his own people since November, and that DoD resources were nowhere near the Capitol last Wednesday.

As for an explanation of what Trump was thinking and trying to do, this is the best I've seen, and it has held up pretty well over the last week. "In summary, the theory is that these are not the brightest guys, and things got out of hand."

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

Imagine 2020 and 2021 are a Venn Diagram, except the circles are tracks for trolleys and there is no switch.

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

George Conway basically has my proxy on Trump. This article he wrote over a year ago is still spot on:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...office/599128/

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

That was both accurate (IMO... I agree with almost every assessment he made) and incredibly funny.

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

Hey Hank, any idea what they might charge Snyder with?

Re: Objectively intelligent.
 

Partisan bullshit. The story is a pretty tragic series of ignoring shit and horrible co-incidi, but at lower levels. I have seen nothing about Snyder himself (but I don't have access to the emails). Dunno what they will charge him with.

Almost think this is a desperate attempt to overcome the negative feelings the gov, and by extension all D's, are attracting from people of all political beliefs relative to her covid response.