Remember when Krugman predicted a market collapse under Trump?   

Krugman is a Keynesian fucking moron.

The lying motherfuckers wouldn’t have a prayer if it are not for lying mother I mere like pete pretending to be thoughtful and giving them a pass while they shred freedom and watch it replaced with communism.

Pete will have to refresh my memory about his politics.  I thought he said he is an ultra libertarian, maybe almost anarchist libertarian which is (in my mind) the complete opposite of communism, socialism or today’s leftist Democrats.  I would think someone like that presented with a choice between Biden and Trump, if those were the only two options, would choose Trump.  Trump populism is a bit closer to decentralizing power from the feds, where the Dems are now fascists and authoritarians. 

So if Peter would have favored a Trump win, he isn’t assuming there was fraud from wishful thinking, whereas I could presumably assume fraud just because emotionally I really wanted Trump to win.  I’ve considered that possibility and discarded it.  My perception of the fraud is based on looking at the details from the night of Nov. 3 forward, in many counties, districts and states, and looking at them objectively as much as I can.  While still human, as even the most objective scientist is still humanly flawed, I believe there is sufficient evidence to say with confidence that there is a high probability that there was sufficient fraud to have effected a false Biden win.

But Pete will have to speak for himself.

this one won't last long on POA

(and it didn't ....gone)

I assume you don't see the hypocrisy in that.

Agree, both sides do it, but in my experience the right does it on a limited individual scale but the left does it on a massive, organized, collective scale, utilizing a weaponized media, language manipulation and so on.  Maybe N7 or Lucifer will call you a closet Democrat because you don’t necessarily think the Covid vax is more deadly than the disease.  Or Flynn because he holds back saying the 2020 election was stolen until he sees hard evidence.  But all of social media, mainstream media, and the federal government will call half the nation far right extremists for saying vaccines shouldn’t be mandatory.  They are formalizing and codifying it!  So the meme is more applicable to the left but I see where you’re coming from.

It resumed yesterday after a week vacation and now Amber Heard is being cross examined.  What a train wreck.  Whether Depp is an abuser or not, he is definitely a mess.  She is a bigger mess in my opinion, and their relationship is completely dysfunctional.  If some of the things she claims did happen, then Depp is guilty of abuse and assault.  However, she has a big problem with credibility.  The overall picture still strongly suggests she is the bigger bully in the relationship and Depp was mostly on the defensive. 

She comes across as rewriting history to fit a new narrative.  For example, in the recording of an argument when he was attempting to disengage from a vicious argument, she has a complete meltdown.  She screams that she will die if he leaves. He only wants to go off by himself for a couple hours to calm down.  But on the stand when asked to explain why she was so hysterical at the idea, she claims that it was because she was detecting that he was in the process of “entering the part of the cycle” where he starts to use drugs and become addict Johnny again.  That sounded like she had read it straight out of rehab treatment literature and prepared the explanation long after the actual event.  During the recording it is far more believable that she was reacting with the fear of abandonment that is a major feature of borderline personality disorder.

Also, it is coming out that while she was publicizing her alleged abusive relationship, she expanded it into themes of general toxic male patriarchal behavior.  In other words, she is participating in the woke, metoo, anti-male cult that is one of the current things up about which it is popular to get riled.

So I get the feeling that her story is being embellished to support a political agenda.  She is an “ACLU ambassador of women’s rights”.   It’s just too convenient that the worse her personal story sounds the more public sympathy raised for the cause.

Data IS.  Data ARE is just silly.

Actually, “data are” is correct.  “Data” is plural.  “Datum” is singular.

Black Gen Z Mindset nailed it.  Fast forward to minute 13:00 or just read my TLDW summary.  Will Smith was actually laughing at the joke until he looked over at Jada.  She made a face, actually rolled her eyes, and shot him a glance.  That’s when he changed to angry. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RdkGdTJXc0

That fits with what this guy thinks, which is that Jada is playing Will Smith as the narcissist she is.  He also nails what happened starting at minute 11:00:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT85l7sxu48

This doesn’t excuse what Smith did.  It was wrong and illegal. He should be charged with assault and battery. But it illustrates how females often manipulate males, which is not in the best interest of the man.

The number of female celebrities that praised Smith is disgusting.  Ooooo big man defended his woman, how sexy!  It is HIM who will suffer the consequences whether they be legal or reputation destruction, not you.  Yeah a man being violent to defend you against say, Russia invading, is admirable.  But you can’t take a joke about yourself?  No.