Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Who was the politician who had a strong career before he made a silly noise at the end of a speech and fell off the Earth?

Howard Dean. Was leading in the polls right up until he got excited.

@Dustcan
Thanks. How does making a silly noise get you excommunicated but being caught in multiple high-rank felonies mean nothing?

20 years of lowering standards.

@Dustcan
You say that like people don’t defend celebrities who are caught doing crimes still. Somehow silly/embarrassing/cringe is considered worst than assault, murder and rape it feels like.

Judge rules that Trump was guilty of defrauding investors and banks while building his real estate empire. Declares that many of the licenses Trump owns must be rescinded and make it illegal for him to do business in New York. Well, more illegal than it is now after the other similar rulings, particularly the ones related to his charity fraud.

It’s not long until it’s just plain illegal for Trump to even go to New York.

Be right back, checking house prices in New York.

Did he realize this is much more dangerous than defrauding average Joes? I’d like to see him try defrauding the IRS.

The Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at Saint Louis Children’s Hospital is shutting down after a months-long media circus sparked by former employee and “whistleblower” Jamie Reed making wild and unsubstantiated claims that staff were “rushing” children into transitioning without oversight. Mainstream media (most prominently the New York Times) platformed and amplified these false claims, and the Republican-controlled legislature in the state responded by banning all gender-affirming care for minors.

Though the law would have allowed trans kids already receiving services to continue, the Center stated operations were unsustainable due to provisions in the law opening them up to new legal liabilities.

With no access to gender-affirming care, trans youth in the state will suffer, and it’s extremely likely we will see an increase in suicide attempts.

He’s gotten away with it for like 60 years. Well sort of, literally only like one bank in the world wants anything to do with him anymore.

At any rate that’s been his MO for his entire life. Just do a crime and then bully his way out of consequences.

It remains to be seen if he overplayed his hand by doing it on a presidential scale though.

@BlitztheDragon
ah so so beat the rat on sight then.

What would you do if a friend kept blathering “Ukraine is a nazi state”?

If I were there I would ask about their opinion about Ukraine. If they support russia they are no longer a friend of mine.

@HorsesandMuchMOAR
sounds like all the answer you need really.

Just wondering if you have met anyone who thinks like that

Most of those who do so tend to be paranoid fanatics and so-called “activists”. In the case of the person who made themselves my enemy, they may have mistakenly thought “communism = leftism”, even taking in pro-Z nonsense.

@HorsesandMuchMOAR
don’t know. people i know irl don’t tend to talk politics.

Me neither.

She was an advisor for Clinton and Gore, BTW.

@SleepySteve
Are all those women in the room with us right now?

@SleepySteve
Every time people boast of this stuff, I keep asking myself, “can’t the human brain only manage 150 relationships at one time?”

No, Dunbar’s Number is simply put a “suggestion” without any firm evidence, only weak correlation. Further research has greatly damaged the veracity of it as a superior subject. But writing a pulp psychology or business self help book saying, “humans have the cognitive ability to have as many as 6-789 relationships” is incredibly poor stylistic form and already takes incredibly weak premises for junk books and just makes them as useless as pulp marketing guide.

Human “network” sizes have only in the last been limited on food availability really. Hunter-gatherers only stick with a relatively small handful of people because that’s as many humans as can exist in a single space without making it super difficult for any single one of them to survive. But the size of that group can change if the human group switches to farming and the ability of the human group to grow larger becomes dependent on their ability to scale agricultural production or develop agricultural production (so less and less humans need to do it, or statistically none of them can do it as is practically the case today).

Dunbar’s Number thus ends up being a useless and statistically invalid description of a handful of specific apes across three species living in particularly special circumstances.

Also putting aside the wild ape brain handles information a lot different than the human brain. Which with writing we can augment our ability to remember making it even more moot.

@Zaknel
Depends on how deep.

Anyone that claims to know 150 people inside-out in fact know nobody.

@Beth
And 60 of themare women that have talked openly about how the vaccine is contagious and dangerous. Wtf.

It frazzles my head.

Medvedev is once again saber rattling about how Russia will soon have “no choice” but to have a direct confrontation with NATO.

At this point, Putin and his allies have painted so many “red lines” they’re completely out of paint.

I say put up or shut up.

Your vaunted military couldn’t even conquer a neighbor 1/8th your size even before the west started throwing weapons at it.

You’re getting your teeth kicked in by a small percentage of the US military budget. How do these idiots think a war with NATO will go?

@Zincy
Maybe Russia will be conquered in the end.

@Zincy
I wouldn’t like the lost of life, but Russia needs to be used as an example at this point.