Robert Ratcliffe

@virtua_sloth @SickoftheSwamp @TrudiiBee Danny. Danny Danny Danny…. Smh.

@RobRatcliffe8 @SickoftheSwamp @TrudiiBee

Rewatching movies as an adult changes your perspective.. dad in Dirty Dancing had every right to sit that bitch ina corner running around w/ a 40yr old prostitute resort dancer 😒

@virtua_sloth @SickoftheSwamp @TrudiiBee Pretty sure it was “did “you” put up a fight? Like against some other greaser for her hand in teenage arcade love. But… it’s been a long time.

@SickoftheSwamp @TrudiiBee "Tell me more, tell me more. Did she put up a fight?"

@Esteban_Puerta9 @aakashgupta Hopefully it confers some sort of immunity

@RobRatcliffe8 @aakashgupta Still going through it Heard it’s only like a 2 day stint

There's a parasite spreading through the US right now that you cannot wash off your food, cannot catch from another person, and will not feel for a full week after you've already eaten it. Michigan alone has close to 1,000 confirmed cases. It's called Cyclospora, and almost everything about how it works is backwards from what you'd expect. Start with the washing. The chlorine rinses that kill E. coli and salmonella on your lettuce do nothing to this. The parasite travels as an oocyst, a shell built to survive in soil and water, and it shrugs off standard produce sanitizer. Rinsing your salad is not enough. Cooking is the only reliable kill. Then the part that sounds impossible. You cannot catch it from a sick person, even one in your own house. A freshly shed oocyst is completely harmless. It has to sit out in the environment for one to two weeks to ripen before it can infect anyone. So it can never pass human to human. Every single case traces back to contaminated water or raw produce. That ripening window is also why you don't feel it for about a week after eating. By the time the explosive symptoms hit, the meal that carried it is long gone from memory, which is exactly why these outbreaks are so hard to trace. And it's a produce problem specifically. Cyclospora is endemic to warm tropical regions and hitches in on fresh imports eaten raw. Cilantro, basil, and berries have all been past culprits. It's why cases spike every summer. Which explains what Taco Bell actually did. They pulled the lettuce, guacamole, pico, and cilantro-onion. They kept the beef, the beans, the cheese. The raw produce was the only possible vector, and cooking neutralizes the rest. A parasite that's defenseless the second it leaves your gut, but spends a week in the dirt turning into a weapon.

@Esteban_Puerta9 @aakashgupta Is it gone? Or does it linger?

@aakashgupta Motherfucker got me this weekend

@roddreher How about some of those great movies on TBS- Who Slew Auntie Roo and Willard?

This was how I grew up, except we had more or less unlimited TV time. I usually preferred to be reading, though. Except for the magic time period between getting home from school and the 5pm news. Gilligan, Brady Bunch, Beaver, Hogan's Heroes, Jeannie -- a golden age for Gen X!

@scott_fowler @amb_balam @theobserver Cramerton is like the Widows Bay of North Carolina. There’s some murky shit going on there.

This is a wild and so well-reported story from @amb_balam, for @theobserver. Adultery, financial iffiness, multiple marriages - wow. #campaignName=charlotte_morning_newsletter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">charlotteobserver.com/news/local/cri…

@OlympicDrankz @FischerKing64 Every two months for me. Hard to teach her how to delete it over the phone. (And two months is long enough that I forgot how we did it last time!).

@FischerKing64 That's been around for like 20 years. I talk my 80-something mother-in-law off that cliff about once a year. "But it's Microsoft!"

A scam going around is you go to some website and a pop window starts beeping loudly, announcing you've been hacked. You are prompted to dial an 800 number, supposedly a Microsoft number, and hand over control of your computer. This happened to an older relative of a friend.

@dbschlosser @EWErickson It’s the Taranto Principle. You might’ve beaten Taranto to it- you should challenge him on it.

@EWErickson I made this point -- specifically about the New York Times -- in the early 2000s with an academic who specializes in political communication. She thought I was a fool, but was too nice to say that out loud.

The connective tissue running through both the Biden and Platner debacles is the press. Not because reporters conspired in a room, but because they picked a side and then behaved accordingly — dismissing, excusing, and waving away every alarm the right raised until the alarm became a fire no one could deny. Here is the irony the media has not absorbed: that protection is not a gift to the Democratic Party. It is a trap. A friendly press that suppresses a candidate’s weaknesses does not make him stronger. It preserves him, unvetted, until the general election — when the shield disappears and the voters who were never told the truth meet all of it at once. Biden was protected right up to the debate stage, and the protection is precisely what left his party no time to recover. Platner was protected right up until he wasn’t. ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-fire-ala…

@gregorykennedy @RobertMSterling Berkeley. No traffic at all. Just lazily peddling up the hill.

@RobRatcliffe8 @RobertMSterling In Marin? I got one as well for rolling a stop sign. Just as a kid on a bike did the same.

I tried to report a crime in Berkeley once, and they straight-up told me I couldn't because the bike path I was on wasn't under Berkeley police jurisdiction. They weren't sure who I should call. But they were certain that it wasn't something they were responsible for. Believe it or not, I had someone slow down their car and throw a bottle at me from the service road while I was on the bike path along the waterfront. They were cursing at me that I was a white MFer and should die. I called CHP and the county Sheriff, and they were just as unhelpful, pointing the finger back at the Berkeley PD. And that is when it occurred to me that what they were doing was making it hard to report a crime. I just wanted a record of it in case other law-abiding cyclists who ride properly in the bike lane would also be safe and free from any harassment. Anyway, congrats, California.

@Artemisfornow What is Britain’s actual policy on illegal immigrants?

Another little part of England is to be destroyed, as the government plans to put 1250 illegal migrants here, in the hamlet of Piddlington, grossly outnumbering its 400 residents. This is operation scatter. Also known as destroy everything they cherish.

This is Linton-on-Ouse in England. Population 1200. The British state is planning to dump 3,750 migrants into this village and essentially replace them overnight. Millennia of traditional rural life are about to be wiped out at the altar of open borders.

@solomon23 @mtaibbi @barnes_law Yes, but Jill can’t do favors and Biden has no influence anymore. Not worth what they’re paying him. So what’s the upfront $$ for?

@mtaibbi @barnes_law has talked about this for years. The book deal is how you get your funneled money

Something’s up with the publishing industry and inflated advances for politician-authors. I was in Russia during a thing called the “author scandal” in which bribes were crudely disguised as book deals - several more sophisticated versions of this now exist here across parties

@mariaze78 @EmpiezaHoyYa Exactly. For what will they test?

@EmpiezaHoyYa Si tu vas con esos síntomas al médico, no te hacen ni caso, ni una sola prueba

El derrame cerebral a menudo llega de repente… pero la verdad es que el cuerpo envía 5 señales antes, aproximadamente 20 días antes, pero la mayoría de la gente las ignora especialmente la señal número 3 (el 90% de las personas piensan que es “solo falta de sueño”) 1. Dolor de cabeza🧵

@animusiavarone @RobProvince Why would he inject money into local district attorney races, backing the candidates that vow not to prosecute? This seems more like a destabilization tactic than anti- state, although DAs fundamentally represent the state, removing violent criminals is a good thing.

@RobProvince There’s a great Hungarian book I read that provided some perspective - Soros’ childhood was defined by the state being the oppressor. When the Nazis were gone, then the communists became the oppressor. He despises “the state” in all forms and seeks to destroy it.

Can someone explain to me what the U.S. did to this guy to make him spend his vast wealth on destroying America?

@MatthewNichol5 Yeah me too. She was a sassy fox, known for challenging her mother in her south Philly accent (“Ma!”), and whoosh she was gone from my 10 year old life. Then that dude showed up in Airplane! but Angie was never more. ABC yanked the rug out of Bosom Buddies too. Bastards.

In junior high, I had a crush on Donna Pescow, who starred with Robert Hays in a great Garry Marshall sitcom Angie. This was the 5th rated show of 1978-79, and then ABC moved it to another time slot, and the show was canceled. Also, the character played by child actress Tammy Lauren just disappeared. Here is the theme song sang by Maureen McGovern, and the opening credits to what I thought was a great show. Enjoy this time capsule.

@newliberals @MarkSZaidEsq What’s an example of MAGA extremism? Or Tea Party extremism?

@MarkSZaidEsq You realize the Tea Party and MAGA extremists have both won. Centrists and mainstream Dems (which I’m one) are way more accepting of right wing extremism than left wing extremism. I’m center left - we need to negotiate with the hard left just as much as MAGA.

We are witnessing MAGA equivalent of destruction of Democratic Party through election of progressive Socialists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Extremism on one side simply fuels opposite growth on other side. We need moderates.

@geo_b42 @HeerJeet 😂

@RobRatcliffe8 @HeerJeet You seem nice

There was ample evidence in 2020 that Biden was too cognitively impaired to serve as president. But his campaign kept him under wraps (aided by covid epidemic) and he eked out pedestrian debate performances on the rare occasions he spoke in public. But pretending that Biden was hale and healthy was a game of Russian roulette which ended with 2024 debate. The people responsible should never be allowed anywhere near power.

@geo_b42 @HeerJeet We’ll both believe what we want until that bag of bones dies and the knives come out for his wife and his advisors spill the beans about his medical condition. But responding to hecklers is a low bar when hyped up on amphetamines.

@RobRatcliffe8 @HeerJeet He had live responses to the crowd, especially in the heckling from the MAGA crowd about Social Security, but you believe what you want

@geo_b42 @HeerJeet Aren’t they written on a teleprompter? Hard to mess that up. At the 2024 SOTU he was obviously amped up. Rapid speech, nervous body language… The drugs didn’t kick in for the June 2024 debate like the SOTU. Observers saw what they wanted to.

@HeerJeet If this were accurate, his SOTU addresses would have been catastrophic instead of well done. You can clearly say he should not have run in 2024 without this retcon