It is little more than a distraction. The big news this week was that Musk nearly got the government shut down so that he could have a provision harmful to his foreign business removed from the bill. As a result, "President Musk" is trending, and Trump doesn't like that.
“The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told Lewis. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
That’s the Bannon business model: Flood the zone. Stink up the joint. As Jonathan Rauch once said, citing Bannon’s infamous quote, “This is not about persuasion: This is about disorientation.”
I must not either, because I usually just assume that people who actually use the word chirality in a sentence tend to know what they're talking about.
Men do what too, come across as "plastic and fake"?
And that sinks their elections? Not coming across as genuine?
We're talking about Harris vs Trump, right?
Can you say with a straight face that you have ever believed anything you have ever heard out of Trump's mouth came across as genuine? Not just opportunistic? Not just tailored to his audience?
The man who literally slathers himself in excessive amounts of bronzer doesn't come across as plastic?
The arguments about successful female politicians coming across as insincere are tiring. Respectfully, I think you might have missed the point of me linking to that specific video. It is all about the unfair expectations projected onto women, to be one way, but to not too much that way, but also be the opposite way too. It is all about being forced to conform to societal expectations while also being expected to come across with sincerity. It is literally impossible.
Watching both women, I told my wife (a big Clinton and Harris supporter), that they both come across as plastic and fake. Their smiles don't quite reach their eyes. They're trying to ACT authentic, not genuinely BE authentic.
Clinton almost comes across as psychopathic in this regard and while Harris isn't quite so bad, the reaction in her camp to her fakeness didn't help, especially when it came to things like her fake laugh and the coconut tree comment.
When I hear comments like these, only one thing comes to mind:
I live in a corporate-managed apartment complex in Louisiana. Corporate recently made an abrupt switch to ActiveBuilding (from RealPage) for property management, and the market rate went up 25% at every property they own in the area.
The ownership and management didn't change at all; they simply switched their software. When I heard it was coming, I took screenshots of the property websites for comparison. The 25% increase was literally overnight and market-wide.
I am hopeful but not optimistic about the DOJ case.
Basically, this, or this, with respect to a certain leadership position within a certain type of company. Given the major news event regarding an executive with the same title at a competitor's company today, it wasn't great.
And without the context that the Ars article provides, that information means very little to the casual visitor. There is absolutely nothing on that website to provide any of that context. It certainly doesn't say that by uploading your photo, you are agreeing to allow Google an irrevocable licence to use it to train AI.
The only thing there is an image that says "Take control" which just links to the author's cloud storage company. This whole thing is thinly-veiled viral marketing.
Louisiana registered voters, statewide, updated 2024-12-01:
Total: 3,070,064
Democrat: 1,140,510 (37.1%)
Republican: 1,070,384 (34.9%)
Other: 859,170 (30%)
Source: https://www.sos.la.gov/ElectionsAndVoting/Pages/RegistrationStatisticsStatewide.aspx