Notices by Ed Peters (liberaled@mastodon.social)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-immunity-trump

@DebR @GottaLaff

It IS hard. I too am thinking of tuning it all out until election day. This is probably the best strategy for preserving one's mental health right now. Tune out politics completely, and Vote Dem in Novem.

Really, what more do we need to know? What can possibly happen to change our minds to where we'll vote Republican? They suddenly see the error of their ways and embrace decency and sanity? The Republican party is now pure evil and it probably will be until it finally dies.

"At the dawn of Nazi Germany a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor, Reichstag president Hermann Göring invited two dozen of Germany’s wealthiest and most influential bankers and industrialists to his home to solicit funds for the upcoming election
...
Almost a hundred years later, the American donor class is just as affectless, just as calculating, and just as eager to ensure that profits never stop rising."
https://www.juancole.com/2024/06/billionaires-potential-presidency.html

Though the causes of autism have not yet been determined, some things, like vaccines, have been exonerated. It is much more likely that some of the thousands of industrial pollutants, endocrine disrupters, carcinogens, etc, are to blame. It will take more time to find which ones.

But anti-vaxxers don't care about the facts anymore, if they ever did. Their egos are so dependent on dumb conspiracy theories, they would emotionally collapse if they admitted they were wrong.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-but-the-lie-wont-die-in-fact-its-getting-worse/

'I usually imagine McMegan’s gunning for Peggy Noonan’s job, but now I think she may aspire to be the next Senator Susan Collins. There are no good Republicans, people, and that goes double for libertarians.'

https://alicublog.blogspot.com/2024/05/friday-round-horn-from-white-house-to.html

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/biden-supporters/

@ATLeagle
The Hit-and-Mute-Guy vibe is strong in Artemesia. Soon a Master he will be.

@GottaLaff

He's been warned already (in voir dire IIRC) about muttering loud enough for the jury to hear. Anyone else, even a mob boss, would have been sanctioned for it by now.

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/netanyahu-warrants-criminal.html

"Zionism under Israeli PM Netanyahu has become a driving force in nurturing global anti-Semitism. He has perverted and mutated Zionism to where it has become a affront to the ideals of Torah and Judaism.... With Israel’s embrace of American Evangelical communities over progressive Jews, and Bibi’s alliance with former President Donald Trump, he has meddled into American politics to promote Trump, who has proven to be the greatest threat to Western-style Democracy..."
https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/zionisms-expired-pharaoh.html

Might as well entitle it:

How to Profit in the 4th Reich

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-second-trump-term-may-benefit-these-stock-market-sectors-most-07bfc12a

@jeffowski

Anyone who cannot tell them apart is so unobservant that their political opinions are as worthless as a child's.

@GottaLaff

Engoron: "As the presiding magistrate, the trier of fact and the judge of credibility, I of course want to know whether Mr. Weisselberg is now changing his tune, and whether he is admitting he lied under oath in my courtroom... Although the Times article focuses on the size of the Trump Tower Penthouse his testimony on other topics could also be called into question. I also may use this as a basis to invoke falsus in uno"

Trump + minions lying about everything is a good assumption.

@verge
Someone fed it one too many clips of Captain Kirk talking a computer into self-destructing.

@roadriverrail @ElleGray

That chloroform would be used as an emetic makes more sense than using it as a quick acting sleep aid. Thanks for the info.

And you reminded me that when I did several inhalations in a row (oh so long ago), chloroform like ether eventually made me nauseous.

@roadriverrail @ElleGray

About chloroform, I don't know. I assume that taken orally it is absorbed quickly though the stomach, like alcohol. But I'm also assuming that since it is more volatile than alcohol it is absorbed faster. Also, it doesn't take much chloroform to pass out, compared to alcohol. So I could be wrong.

@roadriverrail @ElleGray

Let me just add that every time I inhaled chloroform to the point of unconsciousness, I regained it quickly, like less than a minute. A drug that takes a while to work and doesn't last long doesn't seem like a good fit for a sleep aid.

@roadriverrail @ElleGray

Agreed. Maybe they were going for a mix of quick acting short duration, and slow acting long lasting effects. Chloroform would probably be the quickest and shortest acting. Then alcohol. When those wore off the cannabis and morphine would have kicked in.

To me, it's inconsistent that they outlawed effective but addicting sleep aids but still allow ineffective homeopathic ones. I think they should allow both or neither.