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I can’t lie, there was a time just a while ago where I’d have said that this is unseemly and unpresidential even while agreeing this was a politically charged prosecution and intervention into a plea. But I’m an accelerationist now.

He really needs to issue blanket federal pardons to anyone DJT or someone in DJTs circle has mentioned as a target.

It is really amazing how everyone around him is just a total trash-can person.

He’s the co-founder and general partner, it’s his fund. What actual fucking point are you trying to make?

Reminder on Andreessen: He funded a fintech startup that collapsed and left thousands of people locked out of their accounts that turned out not to be covered by the FDIC. https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/synapse-bankruptcy-fintech-safety-183845965.html

Oh, I know they don’t care but this is a formal process, it’s not possible outside those lines. It has to be done via the current head of the diplomatic mission with a formal note. Not saying he didn’t tell Macron it was coming somehow, but they can’t have gotten the actual process done and France still gets a vote.

Intrigued about the process for Kushner. Ambassador nominees have to go through a process called agrement, which is a quiet check with the receiving country to ensure the person is acceptable. It’s extremely poor form to announce a name publicly before the process and often if that happens the receiving country will refuse agrement as a matter of principle if it happens. Kushner almost certainly hasn’t had it as the transition teams haven’t even been in agencies. That’s not to say I think it will happen here. Plenty of countries will accept the most odious people if they believe it will result in special access to the sending government or head of state. Just another example of Trump shitting on everything and making a mockery of the country though.

Those are for sure L-39s.

The Georgian Dream (National-populist Kremlin cat’s paw party) Prime Minister announced he was suspending accession talks with the EU, which is what caused this current round of protests. It’s currently required per the Georgian constitution to work towards EU accession. Georgian Dream soundly won recent parliamentary elections with lots of (as yet unproven) allegations of cheating. A reminder that a similar move (terminating talks on an EU free trade agreement) led to the 2014 Ukraine protests that booted Yanukovych. The next few days will be extremely important.

Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker?

I think that Democrats might start asking whether “fuck America and Thanksgiving” is ever going to beat stupid ultranationalism in a national election. I’d propose that leadership needs to make it known that shit like this gets you on the House Administration committee for life.

It’s not even that, having Zelenskyy on would hinder his ultimate goals. The new media literacy is to move from a content-driven analysis to an outcome driven analysis. The baseline question being: do consumers of this media come away with a more or less informed and reality based understating of the topics discussed. For Rogan, the answer is clearly less informed and reality based. You can clearly file his platform away as a manipulator of information. As such, his platform cannot be reformed or used successfully by anyone hoping to advance a reality-based conversation or solution. It’s important to note that even clearly slanted media can pass this test. For instance, though the mid-2000s a regular reader of either The New Republic or National Review would arguably have a better (if politically slanted) grasp of politics and world events than a irregular consumer of mainstream media outlets. The same cannot be said of Rogan, his listeners are far more likely to simply believe absolute bullshit. His posture as an unbiased and unafraid open interviewer makes him even more toxic. Elevating alien theorists and quacks to the same level of actual scientists or doctors doesn’t reveal the idiocy of the former. Rather, it introduces confusion and a plausible belief that fantasy bullshit and reality are both equally justified beliefs. Again— he exists to manipulate information and has become an extremely influential and powerful person as a result. The purpose of a system is what it does.

I am glad you posted this. Here’s the clip: It’s one to put to bed the notion that Rogan will talk to anyone and is working to present all sides of issues. The fact is that his show is a vector of information manipulation and that he will NOT open his to discuss viewpoints that run counter to his chosen narratives that mostly support the political populist low-information right. It’s also time to put to bed the idea that his offer to Kamala was genuine or that future democrats need to work to get on his platform. He’s there to undermine them, that’s the purpose.