J.M. Berger

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Hard to imagine, but there's one place that called it as it is: USA Today?!

Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.www.usatoday.com Donald Trump's campaign took another hit with a disastrous, glitchy X interview with Elon Musk that left many wondering if the former president is OK.

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Uhh… Intranasal COVID vaccine. 100% effective at stopping transmission, in animal models. Results validated in two papers in Nature. Hoping to start human trials within the year. Holy shit.

Houston researchers make nasal vaccine that prevents COVID from spreadingwww.houstonchronicle.com A team of researchers from the University of Houston have developed a new vaccine to treat and prevent the spread of flu and multiple coronavirus strains.

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"bantered" "freewheeling conversation"

Sure enough

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Get his ass

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yes, that niche, seldom-covered topic, nuclear weapons

trump just said there are five nuclear powers (there are nine) and I do not think it is a good idea to hold him up as a clear-eyed proliferation expert here

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watching the mainstream press desperately parsing trumps utter bullshit ramblings and summing up an hours worth of incoherent blathering into “actually he had a good point about…” is fuckin enraging tbh

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The performance of political neutrality destroys nuance. There is no way a person who takes themselves seriously can equate misinformation like “Hillary Clinton runs a child rape ring” and “immigrants are raping everybody” with a joke about sexual relations w/ a couch that everyone knows is a joke.

solid response

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Even for him, this is nuts. Sounds like he has a mouth full of marbles and is wildly pinballing and repeating himself worse than I've heard. Worse than Biden's debate, and substantially worse than his usual. Musk's weird sheepish sycophancy isn't helping but this is not same old Trump. He's not OK.

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Listening to Mr. Trump's veneers rattle around in his mouth like dice in a Yahtzee shaker as he says "and maybe even quite frankly more than that, even perhaps the most" while Elon Musk makes heavy Beavis sounds into the mic. This is the future I want to live in. Ten more years of this shit please.

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So let's check in with the groyper chat on rumble to check the vibes on the interview........oh dear.

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A lengthy discussion between Dunning and Kruger.

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Trump is a fucking moron. He was a fucking moron before he ran. He was a fucking moron while in office. Everyone who has ever worked with him has written memoirs where they say "wow this guy is such a fucking moron". And for some reason people keep asking "but what if hypothetically he wasn't"

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The thing about the conversation is that it is the same conversation that has been happening in the pro-Trump bubble for nine years. There is nothing new here. Like an endless Fox News panel.

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Elon, reassuring Trump about WWIII: First, he's been to Hiroshima! Ate vegetables grown there! So, you know... "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed, but now they're full cities again... it's not so scary as people think."

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This is straight up loser stuff. The last time CO2 in the air was that high, it was 50 million years ago, there was almost no ice on Earth and sea levels were about 200 FEET HIGHER royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Trump, on climate change, says he thinks we have "hundreds of years left, nobody really knows." Musk: "my estimate would be more aggressive than that... we don't want to get too close to 1000 ppm of CO2... [it's considered] an industrial hazard... even without climate change it's uncomfortable"

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I am definitely getting dumber listening to this, and it's not as fun as other things that also make me dumber.

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“There appears to have been a massive DDoS attack, which has never happened before babe”

Trump's effort at getting earned media from talking to Musk instead of, say, Hannity thus far: -- 45 minutes late due to massive tech fail -- presumed denture-slippage making him sound like Donald Duck -- absolutely nothing new or interesting to say -- less than half the audience of Hannity

Syntax aside, I am sure Putin is currently in the perfect mood to hear that a former American president is boasting about pushing him around

In recounting a conversation with Putin about how he told Putin to not invade Ukraine: Trump: "He said, 'No way!' And I said, 'Way!'"

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"Crowd size may seem a stupid fixation... But if you look at the beliefs of many election deniers you’ll find that 'crowds as evidence' is a core part of the belief system. And I don’t mean it “shows up sometimes” — I mean it’s core. It’s a fundamental pillar on which the entire argument is built."

So I actually wrote this before I had seen that Trump had jumped on this photo as evidence of "fake" crowds as well. I think that makes it even more important to understand how "copium" works, and why at certain levels it can be dangerous to democracies mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/copium-add...

Copium Addicts: What "misinformation" is actually usually aboutmikecaulfield.substack.com People use misinformation to maintain beliefs more often than change them

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Florida is indeed, thanks to post-2000 reforms, the gold standard for counting votes quickly. Every state should emulate them. And the biggest reason is they allow canvassing of mail votes to start 15 days before the election, a policy Republicans have repeatedly blocked in states like PA.

al gore would like a word

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Just cause Greyzone have managed to drop to a new low w/ latest Nazi propaganda. Here's some of the best background on those grifter pieces of shit I've read. By @murosinvisibles.bsky.social Pt1: medium.com/muros-invisi... Pt2: medium.com/muros-invisi... Pt3: j-collins.medium.com/the-venezuel...

Grayzone, Grifters and the Cult of Tankmedium.com The sordid origin story of Max Blumenthal’s huckster cadre

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This campaign is running so smoothly.

My lord, seriously though

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people say Bluesky’s feature set lags behind Twitter’s but we can handle a big livestream just as well as they can

Those who vote in Omelas

Skeptics may disagree but I think it’s good that we elect a new Sin Eater every 4 years to suffer the personal horrors of this nation

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Enemies of Glory implies the existence of Friends of Glory, the melee weapon-bearing drag queen roller derby team of crime fighters I coach on weekends