Liberty

The women disagree with you that it was consensual, including the 13 yr old girl that Trump allegedly raped in Jeffery Epstein's apartment: The number of women who have accused Trump of rape or sexual assault is at least 12 https://www.mic.com/articles/156669/how-many-women-have-accused-donald-trump-of-rape-or-sexual-assault#.KujVwb2jl Whoever thinks Trump was bragging about consensuel stuff, I have a bridge I’d like to sell them.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australian-intelligence-knocks-back-us-government-s-wuhan-lab-virus-claim-20200504-p54pk3.html

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That's crazy talk. Biden would be 100x better because he's not a corrupt imbecile narcissistic sociopath conspiracy theorist and he'd surround himself with competent people and listen to them rather than get his ideas from hours of daily cable TV (and not even cable TV generally, but the one channel that tries to tell him what he wants to hear in the first place, making the whole thing intellectually incestuous to the max and a total echo chamber). I'd take George W. Bush any day of the week at this point. I know that Trump has sold the idea that he's for the the middle class or the blue collars or whatever (while sitting on his gold toilet in his kitch mansion in the sky spending borrowed money and stiffing his contractors, cheating on his wives and sexually attacking a busload of women, and living high on tax-fraud millions inherited from his father), but that's just talk. He's not done anything to help these people, he's destroyed the economy by mismanaging a crisis and weakened institutions and alliances... How's the coal industry or the steel industry been doing since Trump promised to save them? I get that things need to change and politics as usual sucks. But I want them to change for the better, and you don't do that by putting an incompetent liar who only cares about himself in charge. It's like if you have a company with kind of mediocre management and you want to improve things. Do you put someone like Trump in charge? I'll take the mediocre management over the actively poisonous one...

Meanwhile, here's the man in charge of the US response to the pandemic: "The President says the Spanish Flu of 1917 probably ended World War I" (video) He just can't help BS about stuff he doesn't know (but stuff he should've learned about months into a pandemic).

Thread on Trump admin projections for new COVID19 cases and deaths: Strange how they're predicting an increase in the rate of deaths and infections yet aren't really acting like it... HHS document: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6926-mayhhsbriefing/af7319f4a55fd0ce5dc9/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

Meanwhile, in Russia: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8282033/Third-Russian-doctor-plunges-coronavirus-hospital-window.html

New acquisition by TSS: http://ir.stratec.com/websites/stratec/English/2100/news-detail.html?newsID=1956447 h/t @pearnick

Well, you have to have a pretty big ego to even run for president, that's not in question. But Trump is a different species.

Very unusual. My ex-wife was raised by politicians and from a young age she was coached by her father to "admit nothing, deny everything, and never put anything in writing". This raises a child who cannot take responsibility. I think it's common in a lot of these powerful families and nurtures narcissism and sociopathy. Meanwhile Trump is talking about how unfair this whole situation is to him and how badly he's being treated in front of the Lincoln monument...

I'm thoughtful enough to have realized not to waste more time with you. You're like a guy who's obsessed with whales, and he thinks they're the best animals ever, and so he talks about how all other animals suck because they're so small and can't even go under water and sing songs that cary for hundreds of miles and such. Very childish and over-simplistic view of things.

Pence: ‘I should have worn a mask at the Mayo Clinic’ “I didn't think it was necessary, but I should have worn a mask at the Mayo Clinic and I wore it when I visited the ventilator plant in Indiana” two days later, Pence said at a Fox News virtual town hall on Sunday, nodding sheepishly. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/03/pence-should-have-worn-mask-mayo-clinic-233360 Wow, a non-sociopath reaction. We’re not used to that.

You don't know what you're talking about.

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/05/02/world/europe/02reuters-millicom-telefonica-deal.html

Skeptical take on intubation: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ventilators-doctor-movement

The man is too bland to be a predictable distraction. But floating rumors about the US defaulting on its debt to China or Remdesivir or whatever... Or... Donald Trump speaks out on bombshell UFO Pentagon footage https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1276235/Donald-Trump-pentagon-UFO-video-alien-footage How could I forget that one. And wasn’t Kudlow talking about the China trade deal (phase 1, ha!) too? Anything to change focus... Remember when they teased that one every other day like it was Groundhog Day last year?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/eu.htm You dont mind comparing US with Korea on other side of globe or US with Germany across atlantic but dont want to compare Sweden which is close to UK and Netherlands. New York to Seoul : 6867.74 miles New York to Berlin: 3977 miles Stockholm to Amsterdam: 700 miles https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distance_from_to.php If New york to Seoul or New York to Berlin comparisons are O.K., then Stockholm to Amsterdam comparision is just fine. No. He said there was a reason to compare to those and you said you didn’t see it. I pointed it out. You can still also compare to everything else including the moon, but Scandinavia is a thing.

Tomas Pueyo thread on masks and decisions under uncertainty: Also, how someone way over their heads sounds BS’ing their way through everything:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/01/anthony-fauci-blocked-from-testifying-at-house-coronavirus-hearing.html “ White House blocks Fauci from testifying at House coronavirus hearing” ???

Yeah, I'm not saying there's no possible signs, but the thing is, a lot of non-sociopaths have a lot of these too, right? It's a lot harder to stay balanced under certain stresses and pressures and spotlight (as a lot of regular people who become wealthy/powerful celebrities find out). Maybe he's a very pro-social sociopath, as he seems quite obsessed with old-school science-fiction ideals of saving the world through rationality and ingeniosity. But who knows?

I don't think Musk is a sociopath. Possibly Asperger's, if I had to guess, though. Finance people keep trying to read him from the CEO mold/pattern, but he makes a lot more sense if you look at him as the kind of uber-geek that grew up on Slashdot and Ars Technica forums and Hacker News and Reddit humor and trolling, who through sheer force of will and vision ended up a billionaire CEO but was never really of that species, and never took all that seriously, just wants to build cool sci-fi stuff. Obviously the stress and lack of sleep and all that is affecting him. It'd affect anyone under those circumstances.. I wish he'd find better high level people to offload a bunch of stuff (like Shotwell at SpaceX, maybe 3-4 more like her), but delegation doesn't seem his strong suit and ultra-intense, single-minded and brilliant people don't tend to be easy to work with or for up-close...

If you can't tell the difference between saying that someone is stupid and saying that something that was said was stupid, you're going to have a hard time on the internet. If someone says the Earth is flat or that Bill Gates secretly conspired to create SARS-Cov2 (somehow with 5G cell towers), I'll say that's a stupid claim. Is that insulting too? Well, this here wasn't as bad, but it was still stupid enough that I felt like calling it out.

Again, I didn't call you names. Again, your take is stupid. Buffett built one of the largest and most successful companies in the world providing livelihood to hundreds of thousands, he created a whole school of thought in investing, and will have helped saved millions of lives and develop medicines and technologies that help the world's most vulnerable when all is said and done (who knows how many if you count his influence on others with the giving pledge). Again, you skip over what I said: Yes Jobs started there, but that's not where 99% of his life was spent, including at Pixar or NeXt. He was an editor, an idea man, a strategist, an inspirational leader, a marketer, etc. Not an engineer or designer making things directly (with some exceptions). That in no way diminishes what Jobs did. My point is that there's more than one way to create things, and how Buffett and Jobs did it is just as real as other ways. Your characterization of Buffett is incredibly superficial, just like your characterization of Jobs. You don't seem to understand what you're talking about very much.

I'd take Musk as president over Trump any day.