It would be a variation on the theme of foreign agents setting up fake chapters of BLM or Antifa during the Floyd riots. American culture is trivially easy to troll in that manner. But they can't caricature the attitudes on those fake pages to an extent that doesn't exist in reality. It is just a matter of time till well organized people do assassinations and get away with it. After that, they're free to troll by remaining anonymous, or by taking credit with well-chosen words and alleged affiliations and beliefs. Anything would work.

Heck, I have ridden in ride share driven by a high school alum 20+ years my senior.

@89th said in The 3T club: Not wrong! This is just the QQQ (basically tracks the top 100 nasdaq non-financial companies, I think?) vs the S&P. It’s a good investment except when it isn’t. I very much remember its flat decade. That happened during my high earning / investing years.

Horace: [image: 1758028118939-1f16eef3-73dc-42e2-965b-9ad73b574a35-image.png] Jolly: [image: 1758033799871-076b8b0c-166e-4410-a811-8c4d5ee894c4-image.png]

The comparison is not inaccurate: United States President Donald Trump’s latest wheeze for imposing further sanctions on Russia comes with a jaw-dropping catch: NATO must first impose tariffs of 50% to 100% on China. On the surface, it sounds like a bold move that takes on two adversaries in one stroke. But scratch it, and what you find is less Winston Churchill and more Baldrick from the farcical BBC sitcom Blackadder — a “cunning plan” so hopelessly self-defeating that only its author could think it brilliant. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/16/trumps-sanctions-playbook-impossible-demands-guaranteed-delays-a90538

Sure puts the bed phrase "I'm not a robot!" remark in context.

Don’t google image search this surgery. ***=NSFW content***click to show No really, don’t.

Haha

@Doctor-Phibes said in I don’t think Matt Dowd will be the only news personality fired this week…: @Horace said in I don’t think Matt Dowd will be the only news personality fired this week…: Apparently he apologized today. I'm sure Jesus would be good with that. Those guys will forgive anything if you're sorry afterwards. It's part of what makes being a Christian so great. In theory, Jesus knows if someone is being disingenuous.

I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong one!!! President DJT I’m sure.

Just finished a Taiwan series called "Light the Night". Quite good, I thought. Life, love, drama, and murder in a Taiwan hostess bar in the late 1980's Taipei city. Good acting and very atmospheric. Link to video

interesting.

Yup, the "middle" type of politician is hard to exist in today's world. Looks like it would be an interesting reading. Somewhat related, was looking through Chicago Tribune newspaper and there was an article about a former governor of Illinois named Jim Edgar who just died. He was one of the most popular governors in Illinois ever, but said in a article that he "would have trouble winning a primary in todays world" Edgar’s fiscal conservativism and moderate stance on social issues, including his support for abortion rights, for years made him the template for a successful statewide Republican candidate. But in recent years, that template has been ignored by many hopefuls who wound up going down in defeat. Edgar himself said he doubted he could win a primary in the Trump-era of far-right GOP ideology. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/14/former-two-term-illinois-gov-jim-edgar-who-led-the-state-through-much-of-the-1990s-dies-at-79/

Ha that’s actually what I did. Gotta check to make sure I’m not still playing for Disney or HBO separately now though.

@Doctor-Phibes I do admit though that in when I saw a picture of his face posted in the news, it was immediately familiar. No idea from when or from what source. It was just familiar. Possible that he was on an interview or member of a panel discussion I watched sometime in the past number of years.

It's hard to take anybody seriously who thinks that Tommy Robinson is part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

I’ve opened a can of worms. They just sit there, the worms. Hardly the chaos that’s been advertised.

@bachophile said in Some maps: [image: 1727681551631-7e37aee7-623b-4102-a01c-45979447e4f2-image.png] Something similar in SE Asia, but specifically Indonesia. The term there is "jam kurat" or "rubber time". LOL

Sorry I didn’t get more details at the time. I’d imagine he filled out some prompts about that stuff though.