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Thursday, December 18, 2025
Distractions
Who is gonna leak it?
DNC Chair Ken Martin ordered an autopsy shortly after taking over as the national party chairman earlier this year, stressing that the report should be released to help the party learn from its mistakes. But Martin said in a statement Thursday that his top priority is not distracting from helping the party "win."
Seems Bad
Yes this is because of the antivax movement, but there has been a lack of pushback in part because many people responded to covid with a petulant "MOOOOOOOM YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT DO DO" reaction
Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C., provided data to NBC News on DTaP vaccination rates, including 31 that provided specific data on how many kindergarteners got the first four doses of the vaccine.About 70% of the counties and jurisdictions in those 31 states were below the 95% target rate recommended for community protection, NBC News found. In Texas, where the Owens family lives, more than half of the counties — 58% — came in below that recommended rate.
Plenty of people who aren't antivax have decided that minor civic obligations are understandably despised by people.
The Best People
Contemplate the mind that thought "town hall with Charlie Kirk's widow" was like the Superbowl combined with publishing the Pentagon Papers.
Well If Elon Says It
The man has never missed a deadline.
Musk said that xAI could achieve artificial general intelligence, which matches or exceeds human intelligence, in the next few years, even as soon as 2026, sources said.
Still have a hard time posting because blogger puts a fucking hovering AI button over the input box.
And When It Doesn't Happen
Will the Democrats make noise about it? WILL our access journalists remember? Will "promises to our men and women in uniform" be seen as important, or maybe not so much anymore?
Even if it happens eventually, I don't think there is any way it happens by Xmas.
...ah i see this is how it will happen. Take with one hand, give with the other.
War Dividend
Narrator: they did not get $1776 in time for Christmas or, in fact ever.
Because of tariffs, along with the just passed One Big, Beautiful Bill, tonight I am also proud to announce that more than 1,000, 450,000, think of this, 1,450,000 military service members will receive a special, we call warrior dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend. In honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776. Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and the bill helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military. And I say congratulations to everybody. And by the way, we now have record enlistment in our military, and last year we had among the worst recruitment numbers in our military’s history. What a difference a year makes.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Push The "good economy" Button
Predictions are hard, especially about the future, but I expect the employment situation to continue to deteriorate, if not necessarily in a catastrophic fashion. Desperate Trump will demand that they bring him the "economy go boom" button and I am curious what they all think that button does. I mean, which policies would actually do that.
I Am Very Impressed By Donald Trump's Freedom Agenda
I don’t see all things, so maybe this isn't entirely correct, but my perception is that the commentariat is uncharacteristically quiet about our new mission to spread peance and freance to Venezuela.
There is almost nothing, unless I am somehow missing it, in the NYT opinion section, for example. A letter to the editor.
Must be conflicted.
Defining Nuclear Down
It was a dumb way to refer to the thing it has long referred to, but a few members thinking of voting a certain way doesn't even get close to warranting such a description.
In a stunning blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, four GOP lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to back a Democratic push to extend pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies.
Those four GOP centrists — New York Rep. Mike Lawler and Pennsylvania Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan — have officially opted for what they have been describing as the nuclear option.
I suspect no one has ever referred to it that way before.
There have already been 3 successful discharge petitions in this Congress.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Healthy Workplace
The things people say.
She attributes her ability to work for Mr. Trump to growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat Summerall. “High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink,” she said. “And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.” While Mr. Trump does not drink, she said he has “an alcoholic’s personality” and operates with “a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
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Ms. Wiles described frustration with Mr. Musk, the billionaire who early in the year was empowered to eviscerate federal agencies and fire employees en masse with almost no process. “He’s an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it’s not helpful, but he is his own person.” When he shared a post saying that Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions, their public sector workers did, Ms. Wiles said, “I think that’s when he’s microdosing.” Asked what she meant, she said, “he’s an avowed ketamine” user.
Mr. Musk has acknowledged trying ketamine “a few years ago,” but denied reports of more recent use. In the interview with The Times on Monday, Ms. Wiles took issue with the quote attributed to her about his drug use. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. “I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know.” But Mr. Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it.
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