It’s a start.

I hadn’t thought of that, but I guess it’s possible. Since COVID first appeared, we’ve learned a lot about how it affects people when they don’t take the time to fully recover and try to “push through,” as it were.

And I can think of no job more prone to inducing people to try to “push through” than the presidency.

Sigh… Well, that’s it. I think he’s done.

For the last five years, Republican attacks on Biden’s age and health have been continuous and stupid. For 4.9 of those years, they’ve been clearly and utterly baseless, which is what makes this doubly infuriating.

He’s had good moments since the “debate,” several of which were good enough to make me think he was fine and this was just more Republican bullshit. And even the debate itself, I thought he warmed up after the first twenty minutes or so, and was happily willing to believe he really did just have a cold + jet lag + the general lack of resilience that comes with very old age. Hell, get me sick and then hopped up on cough medicine and I become completely incoherent.

But this… This is two weeks later, and he still couldn’t hold it together. He still seemed listless and intermittently uncertain what was going on.

Maybe this is old age catching up to his speech impediment. Maybe it’s not an actual decline, it’s just the stress of the job and a lapse in his ability to make his mouth do what his brain wants it to do. Maybe.

But even if that’s the case, even if that’s all it is, communication is a core responsibility for the President of the United States of America. And for whatever reason, be it cognitive issues or just an inability to clearly talk, he simply isn’t communicating well anymore.

I hate saying this. I really do. He’s been a very good president. But he should step down and let Kamala Harris take the reins. It’s time.

Hard disagree. American citizens are definitely voting for. Unfortunately, due to our shitty fucking election system, their votes don’t count as much as the votes of temporarily embarrassed millionaires living in trailer parks in rural Bumfuckistan.

Then that person is a troll and needs to be banned.

I can easily afford all the stupid shit I’d actually want on $220K/year earnings from interest.

Of all the things I’m not surprised by, this is one of them. The fact that a Republican accepts bribes from Vladimir Putin ought to be immensely shocking, but the last ten years have utterly destroyed my capacity to be shocked by these people.

Assuming this country survives, history books looking back at this era are going to be fucking wild.

Oh, fuck entirely off with this bullshit. That’s the most pathetic excuse for an argument I’ve ever seen, and the fact that you’re not burning with shame over trying to push this garbage says everything about you.

Dude, there were a bazillion cameras present at that rally. It happened. Stop pretending it didn’t.

Huh. Not really impressed with the voice acting or the heavy focus on Rorschach for the trailer. He was a main character, not the main character.

Disappointing.

For me, the main reason to be excited is that this looks like it’s going to be the most faithful possible adaptation. The movie was decent but flawed, and necessarily had to cut out and change a lot. It wouldn’t have worked at all to try to cram a completely faithful adaptation into a regular movie. The motion comic is just the comic with simple animations added.

A cartoon that tries to stick to Alan Moore’s original concepts and story is pretty compelling.

1. Pay off the remainder on my mortgage.
2. Pay off my parents’ mortgage.
3. Buy a new house that is large enough for my family to live comfortably in, without being ostentatious.
4. Give my old home to my in-laws. They could use it.
5. Set up a fund that produces enough interest for me and my family to live off of in perpetuity. $4 million in an account that produces 5.5% interest annually would be $220,000 (pre-tax) every year, which is plenty for our needs.
6. Set up a foundation to help the poor, fund environmental projects, support social justice causes, and so on with all of the rest.

I do not need $6 billion. No one does. I don’t want it. It would ruin me. The absolute best thing I could do with it is dedicate the overwhelming majority of it to causes I believe in, rather than hoarding it or buying a bunch of stupid shit.

I become useless at temperatures above 85 (less if the humidity is high, too). These people are insane.

At this point, I’m not sure why anyone would actually buy a Tesla. The alternatives are far less expensive, the “features” of a Tesla are unpolished and dangerous, and the money doesn’t go to a megalomaniac with a god complex.

Giga(y)chads

I’m seeing a different list of stories when I follow your link. It may be an A/B sort of thing.

I just looked, and it’s all the same guy, the same arrest, and the same background, albeit with an emphasis on “OMG ILLEGAL” from the right-biased sites.

I’m sure that given the nature of the site, it sometimes makes mistakes, but this doesn’t look like one of them.

Looks like that’s just a side-effect of the nature of the site. Since it’s necessarily going to end up carrying versions of a story from pretty much anyone, that will sadly include questionable sources like Fox.

Honestly, I think it’s a great idea. I’m bookmarking the site.

So here’s something interesting I didn’t know. Apparently the neurologist who visited the White House several times during Biden’s administration also visited the White House when Trump was there, and when Obama was there. According to this article, we now know who the neurologist is, and he’s apparently been a regular there to treat White House staff for more than a decade.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he did also discuss the recent Parkinson’s research bill with Biden or his staff, but it looks like he’s just regularly on call there.

Was about to ask the same question. Here’s MBFC on it:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ground-news/

Seems like a surprisingly decent source.