Kerry

Separate from the moral obscenity, pandering to bigots doesn't work!!

This sucks!

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."

cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

Not feeling great about any of the names mentioned except for maybe Wikler who is one of those insufferable midwesterners who confuses where they live with accomplishing something but he is obsessed with winning and doesn't seem keen on throwing trans people under the bus to do it.

Screencapping these without the timestamp

Leeks & potato!

(Emily insisted on showing the final product)

Same bro same

9 years on, I think that's been taken over by grifters and attention seekers preying on that disillusionment. It's harder to tell who is venting and who is just taking advantage of grief.

It's selfish, but I'm partial to the theory because I generally believe people are the hero of their own story. "Lol nothing matters" in the Trump era was selfish and damaging but it came from a place of disillusionment with, not opportunistic gloating at, a system failing, to me anyways.

That said there's a really old "On The Media" podcast about how doomerism is a form of processing helplessness & hopelessness, and the obnoxious detachment is a way of hiding naked fear and insecurity about a scary future or outcome.

For me it's "accelerationism for the lolz". Just thoroughly vile detachment to anything resembling empathy.

As a Boston transplant to LA, I love this for New Yorkers

Bananas non-call unless they changed rules to allow goalies to yell "get rekt" and just take out people mid air as the last player back lol

Idk Spike. Chelsea really could do with a 9th goalkeeper

Wishcasting a California flip. Definitely a sign you're not worried lol

Now, in fairness, there's research suggesting non-voters gifted Trump the election in 2016:

www.washingtonpost.com/news/politic...

It was odd imo that the poll was for registered voters (RV), not likely voters (LV), given the previous UGA/AJC poll was LV. Most pollsters don't go back to RV polls after starting Likely Voter polls, so I looked at all GA pollsters and they tend to follow that trend, so why did UGA do this?

Won't get that nuance from coverage reporting on that poll, even from the AJC. They allude to 2020 but won't note he was down by the same margin at this point. Gloomy referrals to "dismal" job approval numbers and cherry-picked quotes from voters, but, ofc, no integorration of what he's doing wrong.

This is a race still entirely within Biden's control.

This is basically where Biden was at when he went on to win:

-303 days out from the 2024 election, Biden's down by 8
-319 days out from the 2020 election, Biden's down by 7.

And he won by a narrow margin, sure, but that's a movement of 7.3 pts. Romney was up by 17 at this point and only won by 8.

And it's biggest miss is what most mediocre pollsters get, off by 5.9, so, yes, not great there's any high-quality poll, even just one, saying Biden is losing to Trump by 8. But there's more to the story.