BeckyL

Thanks Reg 🙂

I rarely pay attention to up-to-the-minute news. But living in Trumpian times is unlike other times in US history. I heard news that Vance visited one of the Murdochs a few days ago, so the 25th amendment may become relevant? To be honest, I’ve lost sleep in some recent days.

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Daily Beast interview with Michael Wolff, about Trump and a couple of his female staff. Eleven minutes:

I thought of this months ago but didn’t express it, but Kinzinger does it better anyway. Trump, et al, is the new cancel culture. Trump himself, is the thin skinned King Snowflake now.

4 minutes:

MEIDAS TOUCH
(Trigger warning, pendulum swinging back to Lefties?)

I start this youtube video several minutes in, leaving 7-minute out take:

(I still hate the hyperbolic headlines, but they’re successfully grabbing lots of clicks. These guys are headed toward a million subscribers.)

TheEncogitationer wrote:
AI could provide vastly sped up analysis of drug interactions and side effects…provided, of course that it isn’t infected by Elmo Hitler. (By the way, would there be an Elmo Hitler if there were no Corporation for Public broadcasting to birth Elmo in the first place? 🤔😁)

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A tall order, but it could be done if onl…

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Thank you Reg!!!

Thank you @Enco I am buried under a vile cold and my brain has left the chat.

@Enco

“But if some part of the mind were not free, doesn’t that make all your poetry and all your tomes on these subjects all for naught?”

What does this mean?

Thanks, Reg!!

jakelafort wrote:
Oh, i remember, i recall, not that i forgot at all. The afternoon, the street; sweet convergence then unknown but put down as a given with the pencil of intent in which true love is written. Organs smitten, covergence riven, the Sack of Suds the protagonist bitten.

I love all of this. I’ve missed this, Jake.

PopeBeanie wrote:
(Hmm, now I wonder if there were any connections to religion in McCarthyism.)

I finally answered my own stupid question. I say stupid, I should have remembered history, e.g. the term “Red Scare”. Here’s part of what I got from Gemini AI:

“Godless Communism” vs. “Christian America”: A central rhetorical strategy was to portray…

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jakelafort wrote:
I served up a tee ball and i could smash the shit out of it. Instead i will be quiescent and evanscent.

Thank you! It would likely go “over my head” anyway.