zn wrote:

So we just differ on this issue

I’m not sure what we are differing on, apart from the fact we are emphasizing different aspects of Johnstone’s tweet. I agree that people misuse the term “dementia,” and I don’t think Biden has it.

I think there are signals that he is headed in that direction, and maybe that’s where we disagree, but that still is only a side note to what I think she “nailed” in her tweet.

zn wrote:

He couldn’t perform as well as he did with actual dementia…and I am not saying he performed well. Medically that’s not dementia and hard-core online politicos saying it is are just not familiar with actual medical understanding of dementia. My wife is an RN who works with actual dementia patients and so over the years I’ve learned some things about this. Your poster did not hit the nail on the head…your poster just beat a certain political drum. And everything I say here is regardless whether or not you support or will vote for Biden.

I remember you saying this before, and I have no reason to disbelieve your wife in terms of “actual dementia.” He is in cognitive decline, whatever that means. He isn’t as sharp as he used to be, and it is an issue. I don’t think it’s much of an issue, however.

I posted that because I was more interested in her diagnosis of the “presidency as an office in the empire” and in her assertion that the “imperial murder machine” will continue without skipping a beat regardless of the president than I was in her diagnosis of Biden’s condition. I was also interested in her point that liberals are straddling contradictory concepts.

This is what I would have used as a pull quote:

What this suggests is that people already kind of know on some level that the president of the United States doesn’t really run the United States, but are still mentally compartmentalized away from this reality enough to care who wins the presidential election.

So I’m logged in, and I can make a comment here, but I can’t start a new topic.

This place has gone downhill ever since zn left.

Top Ten WikiLeaks revelations. A thread from tweeter. More good news about how totally screwed we are.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1805912910687793244.html

Maine isn’t the only place with internet. Do your effing job. We’re not paying you to go on vacation.

THREAD. Over the last four years, I have published a lot of critiques of the New York Times. I have never read anything more depraved than today's morning newsletter about why aid is not getting to Gaza.

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) June 19, 2024

wv wrote:

Rams offered 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th to the Jets for Brock Bowers?? Really? The kid is ‘that’ good? I dunno, man. I dont like to think of the Rams DLine without the new DE and DT. It will be interesting to watch the season Brock Bowers has this year. w v

Wow. I’m glad the Jets refused.

That would have been

Verse

Fiske

Corum or Kinchens

and

Davis, Karty, Whittington, or Limmer

for Brock Bowers.

That’s a fucking Mike Martz move.

I’m not sure I would give that much up for Tony Gonzales considering, as you say, the DLine needs. I’m sure a HOF TE would make the Rams the #1 offense in the league, but they are gonna be Top 5 anyway, I would think. Meanwhile, you HAVE to get pressure on the opposing QB, or you lose football games too often.

Yeah, we’re all pretty excited by the prospect of watching a dominant OL this season. It’s part of the reason I’m bullish on the Rams. A big part of it.

And I really don’t understand the writer at The Athletic who published this today:

Don’t know what to do with this. It doesn’t seem to merit its own thread, and I’m not entirely sure that I found this on my own, or if someone else already posted this. Delete it if it’s redundant.

But here is Les Snead on AD coming out of retirement. The entire interview was interesting to me, but I’ve cued this up at the AD comment.

Thread of photographers who patiently waited to capture the shot of a lifetime

https://x.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1799856071609049548

I saw somewhere yesterday that, since Sandy Hook, the US has averaged one school shooting every week.

zn wrote:

The longest Thanksgiving drought in the NFL continues, as the Rams head to Detroit to open the season on Sunday Night Football rather than on November 28, as some had hoped.

I looked this up, and it’s mostly true. The Rams last played on Thanksgiving in 1975. The second longest drought is Cleveland which last played in 1989. Tied for third are the Chiefs and Bucs who both played last in 2006. Every other team has played since then. Except for one. The Jaguars have NEVER played on Thanksgiving.