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That there's even a debate about releasing recordings from depositions, if you're not being forced to by the law, tells me they're worried as poo poo about the polling around his age. Because as others have said, it's just not a good PR move to release five hours of not-PR recordings of any politician. There's too much to mine there. I think the issue is that he has good days/bad days, good hours and bad hours, and they can't reasonably predict when those will happen, and so the obvious things, like "just schedule interviews or anything else unscripted when you know he'll be sharp and on the ball" aren't options. Because the obvious solution to all of this is to flood the zone with video of him looking sharp and on the ball--if that's possible, that's your number one go-to PR move here. I don't think the folks in charge of managing his image believe that's a possible strategy for them.
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selec posted:I think the issue is that he has good days/bad days, good hours and bad hours, and they can't reasonably predict when those will happen I think that's the case as well, which means he's not fit to be president and the 25th Amendment should be on the table. The powers and decisions of the office shouldn't be a roll of the dice on if the president is lucid at that moment or not. But unfortunately that's a political process/decision instead of a medical one. And honest discussions about this are almost impossible because they devolve into partisan attacks or excuses.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I doubt he will change much. sure part of this is "oh poo poo, stuff i like is getting banned/etc" but i think he is hoping to throw some chuds and protest claims under the bus so he can have some cover when lawsuits happen. he can't turn the faucet off at this point anyway. its out of his hands to a degree. either way, its looks bad for him and i am glad his career is more hosed. He's shooting for CNN talking head instead of Fox News lol.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:in other US news. quote:TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis continued to debunk the false narrative that the state of Florida bans books. Florida does not ban books, instead, the state has empowered parents to object to obscene material in the classroom. Still, some have abused this process to object to items including books about Johnny Appleseed, The Giver and even the Bible. Governor DeSantis is calling on the Legislature to finetune this process to prevent people from taking advantage of Florida law that is designed solely to remove inappropriate material from the classroom. https://www.flgov.com/2024/02/15/go...from-activists/ 
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selec posted:That there's even a debate about releasing recordings from depositions, if you're not being forced to by the law, tells me they're worried as poo poo about the polling around his age. Because as others have said, it's just not a good PR move to release five hours of not-PR recordings of any politician. There's too much to mine there. Although the headline doesn't make this clear, the Democrats aren't the ones calling for a release of the recordings. House Republicans have already demanded that the recordings be scoured of any classified info and released to them - at which point they will no doubt start publishing carefully cherrypicked clips by the next morning. And while the administration doesn't seem to be legally required to comply, it's standard practice to comply with these kinds of requests, so it'd be difficult for the administration to refuse without a good reason. This leaves the administration with a lot to figure out. How much should they push back, how much can they delay it, how much should they try and get out in front of it, and so on. There's a much simpler reason why they don't want to start shopping Biden around to all the interviewers right now: it's only February! It's about six months too early for him to start jumping in front of every camera he can find. Not that many people are even paying attention yet.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:oh, another finance/hedge fund guy. Should have guessed that. Leon is significantly understating, and weirdly eliding, a lot of stuff about Soros that makes him unique. First, Soros is 93 and literally fled the holocaust (this ties into the antisemitic conspiracy theories). Second, he was a grad student of the critically important political and scientific philosopher Karl Popper (heavy promote of the concept of pluralistic liberal democracies and basically the reason we now understand science and knowledge in terms of hypothesis testing. Soros attributes his entire economic success and subsequent philanthropy to operationalizing Popper's theories; his organization, the Open Society Foundations, is named for a Popper book and revolves around promoting liberal democracy around the world- this makes him a target for autocrats, because he's basically indirectly eroding the social systems that empower them. Third, Soros made an absolute fuckton of money relative to his generation of hedge fund people (even if the amount is "small" relative to the Musks of today), and has actually spent most of it down, predating and outstripping the whole Giving Pledge grift.
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We're 10 months into the great medicaid/CHIP unwinding, where the expiration of the continuous enrollment condition of the Covid Act, and as of the end of January, well over 16.2 million people have been kicked off: https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/halfway-through-the-medicaid-unwinding-what-do-the-data-show/ Almost half the people in the program, almost 46 million, are still in limbo or unreported, though the article points out some states prioritized people most likely to be kicked off (hopefully Oklahoma, jesus christ) so the %'s might get better for some states. Also many of the removed are actually eligible for medicaid, so some will get re-added, but uh, bleak.
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FistEnergy posted:I think that's the case as well, which means he's not fit to be president and the 25th Amendment should be on the table. The powers and decisions of the office shouldn't be a roll of the dice on if the president is lucid at that moment or not. But unfortunately that's a political process/decision instead of a medical one. And honest discussions about this are almost impossible because they devolve into partisan attacks or excuses. FDR was literally dying while running for reelection and coming up with the United Nations and fighting and beating literal loving Nazis. All this garbage about Biden's age and health is just a distraction from the fact that the GOP candidate is loving nutjob.
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on the other hand, no such thing as good billionairesSkex posted:FDR was literally dying while running for reelection and coming up with the United Nations and fighting and beating literal loving Nazis. All this garbage about Biden's age and health is just a distraction from the fact that the GOP candidate is loving nutjob. World Famous W fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Leon is significantly understating, and weirdly eliding, a lot of stuff about Soros that makes him unique. First, Soros is 93 and literally fled the holocaust (this ties into the antisemitic conspiracy theories). Second, he was a grad student of the critically important political and scientific philosopher Karl Popper (heavy promote of the concept of pluralistic liberal democracies and basically the reason we now understand science and knowledge in terms of hypothesis testing. Soros attributes his entire economic success and subsequent philanthropy to operationalizing Popper's theories; his organization, the Open Society Foundations, is named for a Popper book and revolves around promoting liberal democracy around the world- this makes him a target for autocrats, because he's basically indirectly eroding the social systems that empower them. Third, Soros made an absolute fuckton of money relative to his generation of hedge fund people (even if the amount is "small" relative to the Musks of today), and has actually spent most of it down, predating and outstripping the whole Giving Pledge grift. All of that is true, but the question was "What does he do for a day job?" and not what specific characteristics foster the conspiracy theories about him.
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It seems that law is working at least partially correctly imo. I would likely find the presence of a Bible to be obscene in many public school curriculums.
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Discendo Vox posted:Leon is significantly understating, and weirdly eliding, a lot of stuff about Soros that makes him unique. First, Soros is 93 and literally fled the holocaust (this ties into the antisemitic conspiracy theories). Second, he was a grad student of the critically important political and scientific philosopher Karl Popper (heavy promote of the concept of pluralistic liberal democracies and basically the reason we now understand science and knowledge in terms of hypothesis testing. Soros attributes his entire economic success and subsequent philanthropy to operationalizing Popper's theories; his organization, the Open Society Foundations, is named for a Popper book and revolves around promoting liberal democracy around the world- this makes him a target for autocrats, because he's basically indirectly eroding the social systems that empower them. Third, Soros made an absolute fuckton of money relative to his generation of hedge fund people (even if the amount is "small" relative to the Musks of today), and has actually spent most of it down, predating and outstripping the whole Giving Pledge grift. I found that the rise of Soros-targeted conspiracy theories correlates with the ascension and consolidation of power in Russia by Vladimir Putin. Considering that Soros and the Open Society Foundation supported Solidarity party in Poland, which led to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact and later the Soviet Union, I don't think that's a coincidence.
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Skex posted:FDR was literally dying while running for reelection and coming up with the United Nations and fighting and beating literal loving Nazis. All this garbage about Biden's age and health is just a distraction from the fact that the GOP candidate is loving nutjob. When he died, FDR was about 20 years younger than Biden, and FDR's death was a result of his brain hemorrhaging rather than turning to mush.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:setting aside whether homeless people count as a genocidable demographic, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about (at least if we don't count everything about the handling of the homeless since the Roanoake Colony) I can't speak for what the OP meant, but the war in Gaza is an ongoing genocide that has caused nearly the entire population of the territory to be homeless. CNBC calls it 85% https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/11/desperate-palestinians-in-gazas-rafah-fear-coming-israeli-assault.html
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Google Jeb Bush posted:setting aside whether homeless people count as a genocidable demographic, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about (at least if we don't count everything about the handling of the homeless since the Roanoake Colony) Hurr said a Bad Thing about Derr Furr which breaks the rules of Hurr's Department -Breaking News, Top News Story February 15th 2024
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Young Freud posted:I found that the rise of Soros-targeted conspiracy theories correlates with the ascension and consolidation of power in Russia by Vladimir Putin. Considering that Soros and the Open Society Foundation supported Solidarity party in Poland, which led to the breakup of the Warsaw Pact and later the Soviet Union, I don't think that's a coincidence. Yeah, Soros's longest-running efforts have been in Eastern Europe and essentially against what Putin represents.
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Bel Shazar posted:I can't speak for what the OP meant, but the war in Gaza is an ongoing genocide that has caused nearly the entire population of the territory to be homeless. Oh, I parsed that totally the other way. Okay that makes an adequate amount of sense. Us news: well uh hm. Remember the whole thing about documentation of migrant kids, good or bad / ORR shelters / unwinding the Trump admin's border shittery? Looks like the paperwork on releasing unaccompanied kids to sponsors (thus getting them out of https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...l-watchdog-says ORR rebuttal in the article is basically "yeah we know, we already revamped our procedures for the next time there's a surge or a backlog". guess there's a good reason to do the paperwork right and keep following up not so great for some of the kids that got scooped up as farm labor and so on Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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021524 posted:Hurr said a Bad Thing about Derr Furr which breaks the rules of Hurr's Department -Breaking News, Top News Story February 15th 2024 Are you suggesting that the question of who wins the US presidential election is of zero importance in relation to important events in the world? Everything will be the same regardless of who wins?
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The Artificial Kid posted:Are you suggesting that the question of who wins the US presidential election is of zero importance in relation to important events in the world? Everything will be the same regardless of who wins? You're arguing with a troll who literally makes a new account every day. In fact, he was given a day's probation for being the same troll who makes a new account every day less than an hour after he posted that load of brain droppings.
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Kalli posted:We're 10 months into the great medicaid/CHIP unwinding, where the expiration of the continuous enrollment condition of the Covid Act, and as of the end of January, well over 16.2 million people have been kicked off: This poo poo sucks. I have to talk to elderly people every day and explain why they no longer qualify for good health care coverage and need to accrue thousands of dollars of bills in order to qualify for Medicaid when they are barely surviving in subsistence living with their social security checks. People are 100% dying because of this.
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World Famous W posted:im not one to usually say this, but give no attention to the date as an account money whale Given what people sink into egirls and gachas these days it's not even much of a whale we have here only spending  once or twice a day. In fact, they claim to be a porpoise.
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Idealistic fools putting sustainability above stability and profit. Get out of the way, we're trying to build exponential growth! Look at the numbers, it's what the people want! *"they're making a lot more money than you, just saying!" (As rich influential moguls build bug-out-bunkers) BRJurgis fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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Professor Beetus posted:This poo poo sucks. I have to talk to elderly people every day and explain why they no longer qualify for good health care coverage and need to accrue thousands of dollars of bills in order to qualify for Medicaid when they are barely surviving in subsistence living with their social security checks. People are 100% dying because of this. I'm appalled anyone could willingly be part of a fascist machine that denies some of the most vulnerable parts of society their unalienable human rights to healthcare and try to justify it by casually condemning it as "poo poo sucks" all while drawing a paycheck while people are, by their own words, 100% dying. Shut up and JAM! fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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BRJurgis posted:*"they're making a lot more money than you, just saying!" (As rich influential moguls build bug-out-bunkers) I mean those guys are building bug out bunkers because they're dumb. There are a lot of dumb rich people. The (edit: second  ) richest man in the world is on ketamine while he makes business decisions.
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Shut up and JAM! posted:I'm appalled anyone could willingly be part of a fascist machine that denies some of the most vulnerable parts of society their unalienable human rights to healthcare and try to justify it by casually condemning it as "poo poo sucks" all while drawing a paycheck while people are, by their own words, 100% dying.
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Having fellow travelers does not absolve an individual of their complicity. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Shut up and JAM! posted:Having fellow travelers does not absolve an individual of their complicity. So your argument here is that someone who works at a non-profit with the purpose of aiding the poor in getting government assistance is also complicit? Also how is everyone posting on this American based forum not complicit anyways as part of the background radiation of their lives. Literally every single person with an account on this forum has paid taxed American dollars which went right to supporting that institution. Or is that too many degrees removed?
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Shut up and JAM! posted:Having fellow travelers does not absolve an individual of their complicity.
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I'm pretty sure I saw a Prof Beetus post a few weeks ago saying his job is literally helping people through the benefits system so they can navigate it and hopefully have a higher chance of success I guess it's not revolutionary violence but it's a gently caress of a lot more than most of us are ever going to do so maybe slow your roll and consider other possibilities rather than Kramering into the thread to make assumptions about how evil and fascist someone is
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Shut up and JAM! posted:Having fellow travelers does not absolve an individual of their complicity. Yeah real humanitarians don’t stoop to working in helping professions under capitalism, they wait until the systemic impediments to true compassion have been removed and then emerge like butterflies to bestow the golden light of their long-hidden benevolence upon the huddled masses.
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Shut up and JAM! posted:I'm appalled anyone could willingly be part of a fascist machine that denies some of the most vulnerable parts of society their unalienable human rights to healthcare and try to justify it by casually condemning it as "poo poo sucks" all while drawing a paycheck while people are, by their own words, 100% dying. Shut up and JAM! posted:Having fellow travelers does not absolve an individual of their complicity. your posts here are basically equivalent to the good ol' meme  also iirc Professor Beetus has posted about being actually diabetic and having to struggle to pay for insulin so y'know, maybe slow your roll here Senate Cum Dump fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Artificial Kid posted:Yeah real humanitarians don’t stoop to working in helping professions under capitalism, they wait until the systemic impediments to true compassion have been removed and then emerge like butterflies to bestow the golden light of their long-hidden benevolence upon the huddled masses. Look, taking action to directly help people just opens you up to personal attacks. The better strategy by far is to do nothing yourself at all, so that you are immune to criticism.
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