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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 17, 2024 5:47:32 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 17, 2024 6:10:38 GMT -5
Are our HoyaTalk "Republicans" still thrilled that bomb threats continue to shut down schools in Springfield, Ohio? I guess mass deportation and more family separations will please the vote your "wallet" crowd. Turmoil in the Springfield, Ohio, continues as two more schools were evacuated on Monday after police said there were more threats of violence, local television stateion WHIO first reported. Simon Kenton Elementary School and Kenwood Elementary School are the fifth and sixth schools in the Springfield City District School Board to be targeted by threats in the last week amidst an onslaught of racist smears spread about Haitian immigrants. www.salon.com/2024/09/16/springfield-schools-closed-after-another-wave-of-leads-city-to-cancel-diversity-festival/SPRINGFIELD, Ohio—They come to Ohio from one of the most desperately poor places in the Western Hemisphere. They have few to no belongings. In many cases, they are uneducated, and most don’t speak English well. They do not understand the local culture where they have settled—and it shows: in their dress, in their speech, in their manners, in their housing arrangements, in the food they eat, and in the music they dance to. Most profess to be Christians, but many maintain superstitious folk magic traditions from their homeland, and many quietly hold to a belief in witchcraft. They blithely violate social taboos. Locals complain that they are stealing their jobs, driving up costs, and consuming too much in the way of social services. And then there are the dietary norms: Though the rumors no doubt exceed the reality, some of them eat animals not generally considered food by the good people of Ohio. Ask the locals, and many of them will quietly say that they wish they would all go back to where they came from. “You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich, and you can send him to the Senate to make him powerful, but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll.” And, toward the end of the road to Springfield, Ohio, where I’m going to report on a story that isn’t happening—“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs! The people that came in! They’re eating the cats! They’re eating! They’re eating the pets of the people that live there! And this is what’s happening in our country! And it’s a shame!”—one last sign, as though TikTok slang had seeped into real-world meatspace and been made literal and geographic: “I believe that Sen. Vance’s comments were spoken without … real knowledge of what the workforce situation in Ohio is,” says Ross McGregor, CEO of Pentaflex Inc. His company makes brake and axle components for trucks. Which trucks? “All of them,” he says proudly. He tries to be diplomatic about Sen. Vance. “I don’t think he really understands from a boots-on-the-ground perspective what employers are dealing with in trying to have a consistent and reliable workforce. If he were to apply a business mindset to this situation, he would see the benefit that we get from simply being able to rely on somebody coming to work every day.” Eventually, he stops trying so hard to be diplomatic: “It doesn’t help all the memes going around about eating cats and geese and crazy sh-t like that. None of that helps.” The McGregors have been active in business and community life in Springfield for more than a century, and the CEO is proud of that longevity, which also gives him a little bit of perspective that the senator seems to lack. “He is a highly intelligent man,” he says of Vance, “and he has a fantastic education. But from a business standpoint, I don’t get why he doesn’t understand what a stable workforce means for us.” He compares Springfield to Vance’s hometown. “Springfield and Middletown are like twin sisters. The Appalachian migration—this is a documented historical fact—was real, and it was about jobs, people looking for jobs, here and on up into Detroit. They came here for jobs. They needed work. They needed to take care of their families. And that’s exactly what the Haitians need as well. In Springfield, it’s history repeating itself. Before it was the Haitians, it was German and Irish immigrants, and they were treated like sh-t. This is nothing new. It’s not that there are no issues trying to assimilate 12,000 to 15,000 people in a community of 58,000. They are stressing our social services networks, our health care, and our education system. thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/exotic-cat-eaters-springfield-ohio/
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 17, 2024 8:03:31 GMT -5
The excuse for this lie is built upon the foundational lie that people haven’t been paying attention to the border or immigration. It’s literally the number one talking point for the last year. JD Vance is simply a terrible person in almost every imaginable way who is actively stoking violence against already marginalized communities. And he says that liberals need to tone down the rhetoric? That’s just so people won’t continually call him and Trump out for their malign intent.
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Post by prhoya on Sept 17, 2024 8:58:12 GMT -5
She probably believes that E.Jean Carrol was not his type, that he never had sex with Stormy and that it was just locker room talk.
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 17, 2024 11:49:26 GMT -5
Walz v. Hillbilly Vance Vance had better buckle up: His debate might go as badly as Trump’s JD Vance has had the most disastrous vice-presidential run in memory, gaining the distinction of having the worst net approval rating of the four candidates on the two major party tickets. And it could get worse: The Ohio senator’s debate against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is set for Oct. 1, with two capable female moderators — Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan of CBS News. Like his boss, Vance does poorly with strong women interrogators. His recent appearance with CNN’s Dana Bash, which focused on his spreading of false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents’ pets, was a train wreck www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/17/jd-vance-debate-walz-trainwreck/
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 17, 2024 16:24:00 GMT -5
Demented Donnie Tuesday’s presidential debate was, among other things, an excellent real-world test of the candidates’ cognitive fitness—and any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance. Although I am a psychiatrist, I am not offering any specific medical diagnoses for any public figure. I have never met or examined either candidate. But I watched the debate with particular attention to the candidates’ vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and ability to adapt to new topics—all signs of a healthy brain. Although Kamala Harris certainly exhibited some rigidity and repetition, her speech remained within the normal realm for politicians, who have a reputation for harping on their favorite talking points. By contrast, Donald Trump’s expressions of those tendencies were alarming. He displayed some striking, if familiar, patterns that are commonly seen among people in cognitive decline. In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseveration,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill. If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/trump-harris-debate-cognitive-decline/679803/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240912&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily
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Post by tashoya on Sept 17, 2024 20:49:15 GMT -5
Demented Donnie Tuesday’s presidential debate was, among other things, an excellent real-world test of the candidates’ cognitive fitness—and any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance. Although I am a psychiatrist, I am not offering any specific medical diagnoses for any public figure. I have never met or examined either candidate. But I watched the debate with particular attention to the candidates’ vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and ability to adapt to new topics—all signs of a healthy brain. Although Kamala Harris certainly exhibited some rigidity and repetition, her speech remained within the normal realm for politicians, who have a reputation for harping on their favorite talking points. By contrast, Donald Trump’s expressions of those tendencies were alarming. He displayed some striking, if familiar, patterns that are commonly seen among people in cognitive decline. In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseveration,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill. If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/trump-harris-debate-cognitive-decline/679803/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240912&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+DailyI'm shocked that this wasn't a post by Elvado knowing how "concerned" he is about the mental health of elderly politicians. Obviously, Dr. Friedman didn't hear about, "person, woman, man, camera, tv," or he isn't a real psychiatrist.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 18, 2024 5:45:48 GMT -5
I enjoy the Angry Staffer account, but this post of his is idiotic. The fact that the Secret Service spotted the guy and drove him off before he could do any harm doesn’t negate that he was lying in wait to attempt an assassination. Of course, there are plenty of people on Twitter suggesting that this whole thing was staged. And maybe it was (although I doubt). But “it was fake” is not the same thing as “Trump didn’t walk close enough for him to take aim.”
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 18, 2024 7:04:08 GMT -5
Demented Donnie Tuesday’s presidential debate was, among other things, an excellent real-world test of the candidates’ cognitive fitness—and any fair-minded mental-health expert would be very worried about Donald Trump’s performance. Although I am a psychiatrist, I am not offering any specific medical diagnoses for any public figure. I have never met or examined either candidate. But I watched the debate with particular attention to the candidates’ vocabulary, verbal and logical coherence, and ability to adapt to new topics—all signs of a healthy brain. Although Kamala Harris certainly exhibited some rigidity and repetition, her speech remained within the normal realm for politicians, who have a reputation for harping on their favorite talking points. By contrast, Donald Trump’s expressions of those tendencies were alarming. He displayed some striking, if familiar, patterns that are commonly seen among people in cognitive decline. In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseveration,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill. If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/trump-harris-debate-cognitive-decline/679803/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240912&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+DailyI'm shocked that this wasn't a post by Elvado knowing how "concerned" he is about the mental health of elderly politicians. Obviously, Dr. Friedman didn't hear about, "person, woman, man, camera, tv," or he isn't a real psychiatrist. Demented Donnie's confusion over the location of Bagram (Alasksa?) must surely have Elvado "concerned"! The Republican presidential nominee made the remarks on Tuesday while discussing his energy policies at a town hall in Flint, Michigan. Arkansas governor and former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders moderated the event. During the town hall, Trump appeared to mix up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska, which he opened up to oil and gas development during his presidency, with the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. "We have Bagram in Alaska. They say it might be as big, might be bigger than, all of Saudi Arabia. I got it approved. Ronald Reagan couldn't do it. Nobody could do it. I got it done." www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-anwr-alaska-bagram-afghanistan-1955496
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 19, 2024 1:43:18 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 19, 2024 3:27:15 GMT -5
Trump campaigns have always been festivals of grievances, eruptions of impulse. They also had, however, a kind of logic to them, whether intended by Trump or not. He voiced the resentments of a certain section of America that happened to be the section favored by the Electoral College. That alignment converted his 46 percent of the popular vote in 2016 into a 304–227 Electoral College win. The question—in 2020 and, again, this year—has always been: Can the trick be repeated? In the days following Trump’s Taylor Swift post, new polls for the first time showed Harris clearly pulling ahead of Trump—not only in the national popular vote, but also in individual swing states. Harris’s personal approval rating turned net favorable for the first time since the early months of the Biden presidency. Yesterday, a poll in Iowa showed Trump with just a four-point lead over Harris in that conservative-leaning state, down from an 18-point lead over Biden in a June poll. Suddenly, it looks as if the Harris-Trump margin may not even be all that close—and that the Republican majority in the House may be at risk too. Trump personally may not understand that he’s losing. His more cerebral running mate, Vance, does seem to have noticed, and that may account for the bitterness of his tone. Republicans don’t tend to offer second chances to unsuccessful vice-presidential candidates. After 2008, Sarah Palin had no future in politics. Dan Quayle’s bid for the presidency in 2000 fizzled before it started. If Trump loses in 2024—and especially if his defeat also costs the Republicans their House majority—Vance will get a lot of the blame. www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/trump-vance-x-campaign-losing/679924/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240918&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+Daily
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