LOGIC💣

A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they’re not starving. It’s an easy way of getting quick nutrients.

A prominent Protestant cleric from Northern Ireland said Charles should abdicate if he prayed with the pope. Kyle Paisley, a reverend with the Free Presbyterian church and son of the late unionist politician Ian Paisley senior, told the BBC that the joint prayers would break the King’s oath to uphold the Protestant faith.

This sounds a lot like bullshit to me, but I don’t know what exact oath Charles swore. I’d expect that the head of a Christian church would be permitted to pray with anybody they choose, even an “enemy”.

Then you cannot rely on mail in ballots because sometimes mail gets lost. Really if you want to make sure that every vote must count, no exceptions, then you have to design a new method of absentee voting.

The moment that a ballot has left the voter’s possession, it needs to be tracked and kept securely like we do at my local polling place, or else there’s no way to count every vote, no exceptions. So we need something extra for absentee or mail-in ballots.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, is the problem.

The current line is that the vote was accepted by the time that the ballots were counted, and I don’t think you should move the line simply because it’s a close race.

It’s interesting. I’m going to ignore for a second which political party won, etc.

Her ballot was returned by the postal service, despite how she used a preprinted address label that was sent to her.

And had her vote been counted, it would have tied the election.

I’m inclined to say that her vote wasn’t cast in time, even though it wasn’t her fault. I’m sure there are a lot of people who had similar things happen and don’t end up having their vote counted. For example, road closures, transit cancellations, bad weather, lost mail. As long as it’s not a widespread problem, you have to draw the line somewhere and say that the ballot wasn’t cast in time.

he’ll be remembered

That’s what he wants. To have more money than other people, and to be remembered.

In a way, that’s one nice thing about how he’s destroying America. America will be weakened so much that maybe soon some other country or some new country will rule this land, and the United States will be relegated to history books. And then, Trump will only be remembered by very specialized historians.

Greta Thunberg said that the Israelis bound her and placed her next to an Israeli flag, and then kicked her whenever the flag touched her. So, they even mildly tortured an internationally famous person who was not Palestinian, and who they knew would be released and would share the story.

So, if they’re not afraid of doing that to Thunberg when they know it will be exposed, then nothing would surprise me about what they’re doing when they don’t think they’ll get caught.

Bad people can also be victims. They are not mutually exclusive ideas. In fact, it’s quite likely that bad people are disproportionately victims. They do something horrible to somebody else, and those people do something back. Sometimes, it’s simple justice or comeuppance, and other times, it’s escalating violence between two groups of detestable people.

Yeah, I have no problems if you honestly give something a try and don’t like it. But the people who judge without trying are acting like small children. I’m not sure why anybody gives their uninformed opinions the time of day.

Regardless of what you think about Palestinians, it’s trivial to see that the Israelis are bad guys in this conflict.

Usually, the world is shades of gray, like with Palestinians, so it’s sort of a relief when you can just point to somebody and say, “Well, those guys are clearly the bad guys, and anybody who supports their actions is also bad.”

“Most recently,” Johnson went on, “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean, it’s getting really ugly.”

Though the people behind him appeared to stifle a smile, it does not seem that he was joking, because he went on to say that protesters have attacked officers and people have been arrested.

The phrase “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there,” cannot logically be anything except a defense of Portland. There is no other logical interpretation. It logically means that Portland has nothing more threatening than peaceful naked bicyclers. They can’t even carry a concealed weapon.

But since Johnson is apparently disconnected from reality and basic logic, he can say something that defends Portland and pretend like it is a criticism of Portland. Is it even possible that he’s so delusional that he believes what he’s saying? No, I think it’s very unlikely.

Even though the article says “it does not seem that he was joking,” I still have trouble believing it. I have to convince myself that Mike Johnson wouldn’t publicly defend Portland as being safe in order to believe that he wasn’t joking.

But then, what am I left with? No human being over, say, 15, with reasonable intelligence, could think about that statement that Johnson said and believe he was telling the truth.

So, the explanation is that Mike Johnson is so used to getting away with lying that he’ll just say anything. And meanwhile, his audience are so used to not thinking that they don’t even call him on it.

It’s sometimes called red fascism.

Elon Musk become the first person reach $500 billion wages

“Wages” is not the correct word. A wage is something you earn.

It’s actually pretty easy to explain why rich people are whores.

The reason they’re rich is that they care so much about money. If they didn’t care about money, then at some point, they’d have enough money, and after that, they won’t be so interested in getting more money. Those people wouldn’t become rich.

Yes, there are exceptions. Some comedians just want to become famous, or want to go down in history as the best comedian. But most of them probably want to become rich and famous.

But what does “rich” mean? It’s not a specific amount of money. It’s that you’re comparing yourself to other people, and saying that you have more money than them. Donald Trump was so obsessed with this that he committed fraud to lie about his wealth. And basically all rich people have the same mindset to some degree.

If your goal is to be rich, then no amount of money is enough, and you’ll do anything if people pay you enough.

The difference is that it’s an honest article reporting truthfully on someone else’s satire.

Everybody always seems to forget about the Southern Strategy, where Donald Trump realized that conservatives in the South were the dumbest people in America, even dumber than Trump himself, and that if he switched to the Republican party, and then talked louder and more confidently than other people, these dumb shit conservatives would worship him and do whatever he says.

All of those tough guys who said that if they had a time machine, they’d go back in time and kill Hitler…

Trump changed his mind after a meeting with Zelenskyy. I guess Zelenskyy finally found the right way to bribe Trump.

What you’re saying is true, but the problem is that the part where Trump doesn’t give a shit about Kirk can’t be spun. There is nobody who would see Kimmel criticizing Trump for having zero empathy for Kirk, and accept the spin that it was an insult towards Kirk.

On the other hand, the first part can be spun. They say that Kimmel was lying about the assassin’s motives which dishonors the memory of Kirk. Of course, Kimmel said no such thing.

In fact, he was saying that MAGA was lying about the assassin’s motives. As far as I know, we still haven’t heard anything about the killer’s motives, so anybody who claims they know the killer’s motives, even his parents, are just making shit up.

So, as far as I can tell, Kimmel was doing what MAGA was claiming that they were doing, being respectful towards Kirk, while calling out people who were being disrespectful. And meanwhile, MAGA was doing what they were claiming Kimmel was doing, lying about the shooter’s motives. But I won’t say that this really dishonors Kirk. He’d have lied, too.

Also from this article, but I want to remind people of this, too:

Carr, appearing on Benny Johnson’s podcast, called Kimmel’s remark “some of the sickest conduct possible.”

This is what Carr thought was “some of the sickest conduct possible”:

Kimmel said, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”

So, for Brendan Carr, “the sickest conduct possible” refers to comedians making extremely tame jokes about politicians and saying exactly what they were doing. “The sickest conduct possible” is apparently not what the politicians were actually doing, when they were exploiting Kirk’s death for their own gains.

You know, personally, when I think of “the sickest conduct possible,” I tend to think of other things. Maybe things more similar to assaulting and raping children or sexually assaulting women in a changing room. You know, actually bad things where people get hurt. Not stuff where you’re just telling the truth to politicians who are embarrassed by the truth.