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Indeed. The dementia angle is a distraction. Not enough of them are getting his hot insider trading tips I suppose before each oscillation of the yo-yo.

He was ridiculed for a segment of his speech at West Point but it went for an hour and it was nowhere near as bad as Dems made it out to be.

Here in Australia I had the impression there were no primaries? TIL there were primaries

Yeah it seems to merely be a business decision, less about a conscience and more about avoiding losing more anti-trust suits.

The conservatives won the Presidency. Now the liberal PM is calling for a vote of confidence (why?).

Israel had 5 collapses before Netanyahu got back in.

I cannot find his ten points anywhere. Not even on his party website.

If no one server carries all the parts of a multi-part, is that a legal loophole?

Sorry, but him speaking off the cuff is what makes many prefer him to the choreographed politicians.

I thought he was rambling when I saw transcripts (eg that story about a nuclear physicist uncle about 5 years ago) but when you hear it you realise the style is natural. In real life we do not complete sentences if the message has gotten through already. MAGA think we are stupid for needing it all spelled out for us.

Then there is last week's speech at West Point which Liberals were laughing at because he went off on a tangent about some rich friend whose wife cheated on him. Well I went to the full speech to have a laugh but found it was a whole hour (impressive speaking time) and this was in the middle. He tied the story back to the topic by the end. Most of it was not weird. I didn't endure the whole hour but the troops loved it.

Similarly Libs think he is an idiot for his yoyo tariffs but he is happy for us to get distracted by the comedians while he profits from all the insider trading this enables. Instability is profitable when you are the one who can predict the rises and falls each week.

He is a buffoon but he definitely hams it up for advantage.

Will they use AI to insert him into scenes wearing a superhero outfit? That will get his attention.

Am not surprised. Would have required higher social standing for you to have such access ;)

The Eulogy Song is definitely still relevant...

Diana died with Arab semen on her dress?

People are not "placed" on the floor that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media.

Of all the things that went wrong the journalist leads the story with a criticism of the grammar? People are "placed" under arrest, placed first in a competition, placed in a job etc

Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.

Desperate for a hot take? Exploiting the tragic death for a literary career beyond journalism? I admit to not reading the article so maybe I am being too harsh - am sure someone here will tell me if so.

Well I find him funny but refuse to watch after his dinner with Trump.

Was getting tired anyhow of his fixation on pet topics: Millenials, Covid, wokeness, Gaza - it isn't about his stance (I can laugh at my own team) but it was kind of the same jokes being rehashed year after year and they were beginning to sound more like rants...

OK I see what you meant with your comment.

That is what much of MAGA admire about him: that he is at least being up-front about it.

The stock market insider trading is something Democrats are guilty of too, I'm sure, but his manipulation via yoyo tariffs is probably seen by MAGA as him just doing it better.

And they would be laughing at how most of Liberal media seems to be oblivious to it, focusing instead on cheap laughs poking fun of how he can't make up his mind. Comedians like Maher, Colbert and Stewart are especially suckers on this issue.

Unless the person is making music, or rather controlling it. No need for musical expertise, just tweak it until you arrive somewhere you enjoy. Or enjoy the tweaking itself. Like this.

Am surprised his style hasn't changed. I am not tired of the genre decades later though.

Also a little surprising the mainstream hasn't adopted elements of it. I naively thought it would by now.

Do you have an example of such violence in Gaza pre Oct 7 and post settlement withdrawal in 2005?

The blockading is because in that time Hamas and PIJ were sending missiles and suicide bombers into Israel.

There was retaliation each time. Disproportionate because it was meant as a deterrent (obviously it failed to deter though).

On the contrary, Ireland has been trying to get the official definition of genocide changed so that it can match what is happening in Gaza but cannot get enough countries on board.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-wants-expansion-of-the-definition-of-genocide-under-the-geneva-convention-says-taoiseach/a1112529887.html

Furiously? I am not the one making ad hominem attacks. I am not putting words in your mouth. I declared no such thing. I bring up uncomfortable facts.

There is no such thing as a mainstream political bloc. 5 coalitions were tried and quickly failed resulting in renewed elections before Netanyahu won. There are Left leaning Israeli parties (who value liberalism, unlike Hamas) but I am pretty sure they don't want to vacate the Levant either which is what these discussions always seem to come down to.

Jews aint leaving. Arabs aint leaving. Get real. I don't know how they can make it work. Neither of us has a solution.

Do you really need to resort to name calling and bullying? There are reasonable arguments to be had.

You call it genocide but I do not accept your redefinition of the word. Do you call Russia's war on Ukraine genocide? Russia targets purely civilian towns with drones and missiles (unlike Gaza situation) but it isn't genocide. I can acknowledge that despite being pro-Ukraine.