The interesting part of the RFK brainworm story is that literally no one who read it said, “No way.”
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 8, 2024
Brain-eating worms, which I do not support, are not nearly as harmful to a candidate as the woke mind virus is.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 8, 2024
by Glenn Greenwald
One of our most important civic obligations is participating in the political process and deciding whom to vote for in our upcoming presidential election. By now everyone seems to think that this election is a two-horse race, and many have complained about the options.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 5, 2024
I think… https://t.co/mwcsf2D4yy
Why would anyone bother doing a deepfake of RFK jr. What can you come up with that will top the real thing?
Wait...and they released that? https://t.co/0dD8KT3DaI
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 4, 2024
I’m a team player and everything, but if Harvey Weinstein endorses him now too it’s gonna be hard for me not go RFK Jr. pic.twitter.com/IhETcDqppE
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 6, 2024
As @RobertKennedyJr continues to court the far right, maybe a new Gadsden flag with a worm instead of a snake? https://t.co/kO3ceb6UG0
— Joe Conason (@JoeConason) May 8, 2024
The possibility that RFK Jr might end up taking more votes from Trump than from Biden has been gaining traction. I'm not going to comment on that except to say it has apparently gotten under someone's skin.
Trump attacks RFK Jr’s running mate Nicole Shanahan as a gold digger, and says her only accomplishment was fleecing her ex-husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin. pic.twitter.com/OrkOzeh1Nj
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2024
Lots to unpack here with multiple layers of irony.
You
could argue that Operation Warp Speed is the greatest accomplishment of
the Trump presidency. The fact that his base won't let him brag about
it remains arguably the most striking example of what we've been calling
feral disinformation.
Now Trump is actually trying to position himself as the most anti-vax candidate despite the fact that, though the issue is passionately held by a substantial segment of the MAGA base, it polls terribly with the general public, not to mention being evil.Trump claims that RFK Jr has just been pretending to be against the covid vaccine these past few years to draw support away from Trump’s people for political reasons. pic.twitter.com/1HJjqmDWZP
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 9, 2024
5 infant deaths in the UK from whooping cough.
— Alastair McAlpine, MD (@AlastairMcA30) May 9, 2024
Totally preventable if mothers get the vaccine during pregnancy, and kids get it during childhood.
Tragic and so unnecessary. The legacy of antivaxx misinformation. https://t.co/p2Vumz3KQc
Other election news...
For a while, you couldn't pick up a copy of the New York Times quoting some random self-identified Democrat talking about how worried they were about Biden. Now we're hearing similar stories about Trump, but they aren't coming from the NYT.
Fox: Nikki Haley won nearly 22% of the Republican vote over Donald Trump in Indiana last night, despite her dropping out over two months ago pic.twitter.com/nr8wr05nGY
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 8, 2024
Newsmax host: Trump’s Nikki Haley problem is real. If Trump is missing out on 100,000 votes in a state like Indiana, and then 155,000 in Pennsylvania two weeks ago, you can't tell me that he doesn't have a problem with Nikki Haley voters pic.twitter.com/sRHNXXjNzF
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 8, 2024
Elsewhere.
Remember, this lie from the Trump campaign was broadcast just days after the Biden campaign set a fundraising record with their NYC event, claiming to have almost doubled the Biden event’s numbers.
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) May 6, 2024
If I were Alex Jones and had the gift of prophecy, I probably would have have known that lying about Sandy Hook would work out badly for me.
Tucker Carlson tells Joe Rogan that Alex Jones is able to see the future because he’s a prophet who is channeling supernatural powers. pic.twitter.com/dL9BuZEdIx
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 3, 2024
The "where Trump failed to bring that to fruition" kinda undercuts the attempted anti-Biden spin.
Fox reporter says President Biden is being mean to Trump by announcing a $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin at the same site where Trump promised a new plant and then didn’t deliver pic.twitter.com/9RNgYL33hr
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 8, 2024
Q: Trump has complained almost every day that his criminal trial is preventing him from campaigning, so where is he today on his free day?
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 8, 2024
Reporter: You'd think he would be on the campaign trail, but that is not the case. He is down in Florida holding an NFT event at his… pic.twitter.com/GQTm3mVtHf
We'll be talking more about this in a future post.
I should also mention that Kahn is setting up a false choice here, presenting a straw man that no one is suggesting. He could give equal weight to good and bad news, reject the biased framing dictated by the right, and put the news in context.
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 6, 2024
In other words, his job.
If the NYT covers it accurately, the economy is not an issue that is "favorable to Trump." https://t.co/6iHuUe6eAp
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) May 5, 2024
The Times needs to do more stories that appeal to conservative readers living in middle America. Now here is five articles about the Met Gala.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 6, 2024
Trump: This judge is giving me a gag order and said you'll go to jail if you violate it. And frankly, our constitution is much more important than jail. It's not even close. I'll do that sacrifice any day. pic.twitter.com/TkbnLajOSt
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 6, 2024
Tough guy Trump said it would be a honor for him to make a principled stand for the Constitution by going to jail for violating the gag order and still he has not yet availed himself of the opportunity to become a martyr for the MAGA cause.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 6, 2024
Tough to workout when you are curled up in a ball in your cell crying uncontrollably. https://t.co/U48M5QCGFm
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 7, 2024
Probably not what Nixon had in mind when he said to run to the center in the general.
Indiana Senator Mike Braun said Supreme Court was wrong to legalize interracial marriage
— Al Gore Won Florida in 2000 (@gore_won) May 5, 2024
Running for governor of Indiana https://t.co/DIm66TqdqI
In Scott's defense, people in Florida do have reason to be upset about inflation.
Rick Scott says women don’t care about having the right to control their own body pic.twitter.com/BVad8qauDg
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 9, 2024
Another thing the new iPad can't do.
.@mollyesque on Stormy Daniels testifying that she spanked Donald Trump with a magazine: "It really speaks to me, the necessity of print... You can't do that with a phone, with a computer. You need magazines, you need print journalism!" pic.twitter.com/p19Atz2E5z
— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 9, 2024
Former GOP Rep. @WalshFreedom
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 6, 2024
“I also think it is a case study of where my former political party is. I served with Kristi Noem; she wasn't like this. Every one of my former Republican colleagues has learned to be like Trump. To be cruel. To lie. To never, ever apologize.” pic.twitter.com/mKIF8JXneL
Noem reminds me of this great Mitchell and Webb sketch.
That Mitchell and Webb Sound - Bear Hands https://t.co/wsPDLWHHZM via @YouTube
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 5, 2024
Elsewhere in actual dictator news.
How fighting a country a third your size to a draw and then winning a rig election is a great victory pic.twitter.com/OhNwSyiydl
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) May 5, 2024
This saga has always been my favourite of the genre - the best part is them complaining no one speaks English https://t.co/MS09oXY6pY
— 🔆©️🆘🌆🥊🦧👔🚬 (@davidandrews808) May 8, 2024
Great moments in marketing.
Apple's new "Crush" ad (let's call it "2024") is a visual & metaphorical bookend to the 1984 ad.
— James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@mr_james_c) May 8, 2024
1984: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human
2024: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press https://t.co/WkyAdubx2m pic.twitter.com/p0yqQ8ZGYL
It's a great ad. It just needed a little work.https://t.co/7yFTe4zDd7
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) May 9, 2024
I think that debates over "can a computer pass the Turing Test" are a waste of time: there is no such meaningful, repeatable, or objective test.
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) May 3, 2024
So let me turn this on its head: if one thinks such a system could be built, wouldn't a more useful and actionable test be to see if a…
I love these "(but we're not a cult)" asides from Altman and Andreessen. After telling us how their proposals will solve all of our problems and create a utopia, they realize how they sound and assure us they aren't utopians promising to solve all of our problems.
using technology to create abundance--intelligence, energy, longevity, whatever--will not solve all problems and will not magically make everyone happy.
— Sam Altman (@sama) May 4, 2024
but it is an unequivocally great thing to do, and expands our option space.
to me, it feels like a moral imperative.
This is quite the paragraph from Slate's review of a new book about plants. I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify the vast damage that the massive popularity of pseudoscience books in the 1970s did to science education and public understanding. https://t.co/MrcGKz6sma pic.twitter.com/zjmzt9mLBE
— Jason Colavito (@JasonColavito) May 5, 2024
Flame polishing stadium chairs
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 4, 2024
pic.twitter.com/jQeg8suWDl
Man who kept his boat besides his house was ordered from the city to put up a fence to hide the boat from view. So he built the fence and hired someone to paint it. pic.twitter.com/wrkQh6RjXn
— Doug Aoki (@Nantanreikan) May 9, 2024
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