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The Emergency We Cannot Feel: On the Psychological Unreadiness for American Collapse Why the most dangerous political crisis in modern American history is met with emotional denial, moral distortion, and cultural distraction.

www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-emerge...

Looking forward to @markhertling.bsky.social in a minute with @lastword.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

Hegseth, yes. RFK, less so.

Why was he confirmed without a fight in the first place?

Ok let's say the highest is $12 for a dozen. If it's down 95%, then it's $0.6.

When did you see $0.6 for a dozen eggs?

YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg Pete Responds Live to Trump Admin’s Major Security Failure

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite.

My full interview here:

這也沒不對，畢竟我們大多數都是打工仔不是慣老闆。

不過...

不夠

國民黨當時另個皇太子連戰也是一樣，要搞宮廷鬥爭或許還行，要帶領台灣在夾縫中求生存發展就不行了。

馬英九跟國民黨現在極力栽培的蔣萬安都有一樣的問題：他們是嬌生慣養被呵護長大的接班人，所以能力跟見識都很缺乏。讓他們當首長，若是太平盛世也就罷了，碰到危難只會壞事，或給身邊的人牽著走。馬英九在台北市長時期即是如此，讓台北市動不動變垃圾城，但靠著臉蛋、形象跟身份正確，也是一路順順當了兩任總統。

他現在會跳出來，一點也不意外，畢竟是寂寞難耐啊。至於這立場是身邊的人推他的，還是被中國吹捧/操弄的，就不太好說。他「相信」自己在做好事，但他的判斷力本來就不太能信賴 😂

你說到個人準備不足這點，就是很令選民不放心。因為目前國民黨看起來是想求和/投降，如果侯自己沒足夠心理準備，或是沒辦法壓制國民黨這些投降派的聲音，那就很容易被推著往那個方向走去了。而無條件投降這是大多數人無法接受的。

喔，侯當時除非藍白合成功，不然是沒啥機會的。他是「台灣人」而且是警察出身，很多較老一輩的鐵藍不屑他 (血不夠純)，加上不太會說話、長得也不太俊俏，再加上半路出家搞政治很多議題抓不到重點或沒有良好論述... 所以才會選個伶牙俐齒的外省老藍趙少康出來，彌補上述缺點。他過往的警察資歷讓他人和不錯，可是放到那種層級的政治圈裡，助力就有限。

很不客氣的講，就算台灣戰略地位非常重要，一個連關稅誰買單都搞不清楚的白癡，到底為何會期待他會懂？都知道他要搞孤立主義了，還一直期待台海出事美國會出手，是不是精神錯亂了？

歷史淵源 (傳統上共和黨較友台、較反共) + 認知作戰

昨天的荒唐鬧劇讓有些人清醒一點點，有些人開始質疑是否應該無腦挺川。

看到很多所謂台派「菁英」，包含很多國際關係「專家」還是很努力帶風向，還是很心累。疑美怎麼了？盧比歐不是很反共？川普那樣鬧，他還不是乖乖幫忙罵烏克蘭不識好歹？事實擺在眼前：川普治下的美國不值得信任，不疑、沒自覺危機才真的有問題吧？！

You wanted Trump. You got Trump'ed.

Congratulations.

A lot of the no-so-age-appropriate books I read when I was young were "borrowed" from my parents' bookshelves. 😏

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

"Explosive" as in "I told you repeatedly about this and even wrote a manifesto about it but still super-surprising I did it" explosive?

Or explosive like a particularly bad bout of diarrhea?

Could work either way.

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

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Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.

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kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

This is basically praying for divine intervention.

Kind of funny when many on the left called him all sorts of bad names but also kept wanting the dementia, genocidal, spineless Joe to deliver us from evil.

Because they’re Black, they must be looting? This isn’t an honest mistake.

Spread truth, not lies: These folks weren’t looters. This footage is from KTLA, where the homeowner explained that her brothers & friends were helping her move belongings out of her burned house.

(Her interview in the 🧵)

Wisdom from his many years.