Indeed. The dementia angle is a distraction. Not enough of them are getting his hot insider trading tips I suppose before each oscillation of the yo-yo.

He was ridiculed for a segment of his speech at West Point but it went for an hour and it was nowhere near as bad as Dems made it out to be.

Here in Australia I had the impression there were no primaries? TIL there were primaries

Yeah it seems to merely be a business decision, less about a conscience and more about avoiding losing more anti-trust suits.

If no one server carries all the parts of a multi-part, is that a legal loophole?

Sorry, but him speaking off the cuff is what makes many prefer him to the choreographed politicians.

I thought he was rambling when I saw transcripts (eg that story about a nuclear physicist uncle about 5 years ago) but when you hear it you realise the style is natural. In real life we do not complete sentences if the message has gotten through already. MAGA think we are stupid for needing it all spelled out for us.

Then there is last week’s speech at West Point which Liberals were laughing at because he went off on a tangent about some rich friend whose wife cheated on him. Well I went to the full speech to have a laugh but found it was a whole hour (impressive speaking time) and this was in the middle. He tied the story back to the topic by the end. Most of it was not weird. I didn’t endure the whole hour but the troops loved it.

Similarly Libs think he is an idiot for his yoyo tariffs but he is happy for us to get distracted by the comedians while he profits from all the insider trading this enables. Instability is profitable when you are the one who can predict the rises and falls each week.

He is a buffoon but he definitely hams it up for advantage.

Will they use AI to insert him into scenes wearing a superhero outfit? That will get his attention.

Well I find him funny but refuse to watch after his dinner with Trump.

Was getting tired anyhow of his fixation on pet topics: Millenials, Covid, wokeness, Gaza - it isn’t about his stance (I can laugh at my own team) but it was kind of the same jokes being rehashed year after year and they were beginning to sound more like rants…

OK I see what you meant with your comment.

That is what much of MAGA admire about him: that he is at least being up-front about it.

The stock market insider trading is something Democrats are guilty of too, I’m sure, but his manipulation via yoyo tariffs is probably seen by MAGA as him just doing it better.

And they would be laughing at how most of Liberal media seems to be oblivious to it, focusing instead on cheap laughs poking fun of how he can’t make up his mind. Comedians like Maher, Colbert and Stewart are especially suckers on this issue.

I thought my memory was failing me but it really was low key at the start eh?

TIL Tungsten is represented as W on the periodic table. But you lost me with the rest…

The “J” stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table.

Bed time here. Maybe I wake up to a humourous reveal here tomorrow.

Well played :)

I mean that must have been his pun from the outset but it didn’t occur to me.

Makes me more likely to watch. Maybe OP isn’t aware of Veritasium’s reputation.

Selling prosthetic 6th fingers will be where the money is at.

Is he calling for Hamas to surrender?

Fair enough, especially since I wasn’t responding to OP as I thought I was.

Sorry, I thought you were OP. I should have made a top level comment.

If you think that one can only enjoy serenity with a spliff then my comment was for you. It took decades for me to get to this point.

Thanks. I use the app Boost for Lemmy but do not have that icon you circled.

I find you on Mastodon as Mr Pistachios but zero posts and replies are show. That is your deliberate setting?

Which Lemmy downvotes?

I got banned temporarily (but actually permanently) from TheGuardian for posting newspaper articles reporting on evidence that Assange’s Swedish alleged rape victims boasted about their sexual encounter on Twitter and SMS (which bus lawyer submitted as evidence). No commentary from me.

I got banned from r/worldnews without warning because I posted an article by Seymore Hirsch suggesting that the NordStream pipeline was sabotaged by USA themselves. The only commentary there was to add that he is a respectedjournalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam.

I had a comments deleted on Lemmy WorldNews because the Mod did not like my politics. At least I wasn’t banned.

Friends have set up a private forum and server which is a solution however it doesn’t have much activity. Those in our circle are too attracted to popular socials instead it seems.

Am still on Reddit and was reminded just minutes ago of what you just said.

Here is 20 people downvoting me for giving a TL;DR which is somehow both good and bad simultaneously.