mtvcop

mtvcop

@mtvcop.bsky.social

Enduring rationalist, bad influencer. Close enough for jazz.

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Replying to @motherjones.com

His association with golf is one of wishful thinking rather than, say, being able to play with some competence. It doesn't help that the rules of golf are based on rules of etiquette that are antithetical to his feral personality.

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Replying to @newyorker.com

I can remember when people used to plan their Sunday evenings around Sixty Minutes. R.I.P.

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Replying to @dcjohnson.bsky.social

Musk tips his hand. He's obviously planning a big expansion of his AI capacity in the Lonestar state, and he needs the 2nd most crooked politician in the country in office.

“He’s reliving QAnon because it represents the bygone days when his supporters worshipped him like a god,” Beyerstein said. “Trump may not realized how played out QAnon has become because he doesn’t live in the real world.”

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Trump is still doing rallies because they remind him of the glory days of 10 yr. ago. No one wants him to do a rally in their town. We can only be thankful.

Trump is still doing rallies because they remind him of the glory days of 10 yr. ago. No one wants him to do a rally in their town. We can only be thankful.

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Karl Rove in the WSJ: " They hope President Trump’s poor ratings on inflation give them the win on economic issues generally, despite a strong stock market, stable job numbers and healthy growth."

Karl Rove in the WSJ: " They hope President Trump’s poor ratings on inflation give them the win on economic issues generally, despite a strong stock market, stable job numbers and healthy growth."

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Replying to @newrepublic.com

For those with the subscription or access, this is an interesting piece on an obscure Italian writer from 50 years ago, Carlo Cipolla. Cipolla argued that stupid people, as a group, are “much more powerful than the mafia, or the military industrial complex.”

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Senator Schmitt Appears To Be Quite Confident Going Into His Senate Hearing With Jack Smith.

"Trump went to war against Iran because he was upset, disequilibriated by his declining popularity and power at home. Now he is boxed in by, defeated by Iran and pouring all his energy into a fever run of monument buildings and renamings. . . He’s in a regressed feedback loop. . .

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"It was not a détente informed by trust. . Rather each side came to recognize its fearsome adversary — a government with a maximalist approach to exercising any authority it could claim, and a company on which the U.S. economy had come to rely — and their potential for mutually assured destruction.

In case you missed it, we're back to the eighteenth century in the US. Trump's minions have thrown out due process before punishment, up to and including murder.

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There's a rumor going around that claims the reason for the tarps remaining over the front of the Kennedy Center is to cover a wide swath of green slime-colored coating that appeared after Trump's name was removed.

There's a rumor going around that claims the reason for the tarps remaining over the front of the Kennedy Center is to cover a wide swath of green slime-colored coating that appeared after Trump's name was removed.

The question of whether there is a Republican leader in the post-apocalypse GOP with any functional knowledge or skill set of how to manage the US economy remains. History isn't very encouraging.