ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

Oh, won't someone save me from my abusive self!

I also love how he ran as a reformer candidate, as if we didn't have 4 years of evidence of him accomplishing nothing of value for his voters. Social media and 24/7 news have given us all goldfish memories.

#2 is happening, but it's too hard for Trump - fortunately for him there are people with their own agendas to do it for him. #3 is his only move because he can't conceive of a better strategy.

I've cautioned people to not get hopeful in 2024, given how dumb people can vote and the amount of blind R voters, but NYC works the opposite way (usually to everyone's benefit) - the amount of people who will always vote Democrat, no matter the candidate, is huge. Whoever is the Dem candidate will 99% likely win. The Dem primary is NYC is effectively the general. Adams will only have name recognition, and his name is mud in NYC right now.

Nichijou is Azumanga Daioh for the next generation. It's been long enough, do we have a successor to Nichijou yet?

I know you're being rhetorical, but for people who don't follow NYC politics: Nobody. Nobody will.

He snuck through the Dem primaries and then sailed through the general because he's the Dem candidate. No more sneaking, and dropping the Dem label, no more sailing. He's toast.

You both are right.

I managed to catch the end - amazing he was lucid and charismatic and compelling after doing that for 24 hours. I supported it symbolically but didn't guess at motives. But when I saw it, it came off as a sincere, genuinely convincing and energizing act.

Everybody identifiable in that image honestly should sue Elon Musk for defamation. It's likely an open-and-shut case. He should feel some pain every time he makes these accusations.

“The American people deserve a judicial branch full of honest arbiters of the law who want to protect democracy, not subvert it,” Leavitt said. The Justice Department is an executive branch agency.

It's comedic (if physical revulsion can be comedic) how perfect this doublespeak is - straight out of 1984.

Genuinely confused - I never said or thought that we should placate anyone. Just advocating that we think through the methods we use when we communicate and the effect it will have.

Well, a single action is never going to de-program these people. You ask why any approach would make anything better or worse, but I noted why certain approaches make things worse. I don't know how to affirmatively convince these people, but I'd say a necessary (even if not sufficient) condition to making things better is not making them worse.