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@feelsdesperate Or everyone just hates Trump THAT MUCH

Kamala might just be successful and usher in a new regime of retarded, vibes-based politics where politicians are memetic spectacles, have no platform, make no promises, hold no opinions, but are explicitly aligned with (and captured by) this or that set of powerful interests who will be the ones actually doing politics opaquely out of public view. This arrangement worked well with Biden except that he reminded everyone of death and dementia every time they looked at him and he was nostalgic for organized labor. The trick was to find someone with the superficial surface appeal of Obama but who was 40 IQ points stupider, more cynical, and who had no thoughts of their own. That millennials lose political power with this sort of arrangement is actually fine with them because, despite their protestations, the conflict and grubbiness and oppositional behavior required for effective politics makes them feel anxious and psychologically unwell and they’d prefer to cheer something on as a group rather than disagree and negotiate and actually have to do politics. So, I think people make a mistake when they say Kamala doesn’t have a base because there’s a big contingent of the over medicated, over socialized who have no real political interests or material needs and who only feel well psychologically cheering on ‘social progress.’ She is the candidate for them.

@ZaidJilani This is the election where “online thing” stops being different than mainstream. Everyone is online now. Everyone sees everything. My 80year old mom called asking if Vance was really as weird as they say

@SwipeWright I mean the tell/lol here is the legislature referring to peoples’ children as “its” children. I guess women’s bodies are theirs too lol

An OK judge rejected a request to block a new state law that makes it a felony for health care workers to transition minors: "The OK Legislature can rationally take the side of caution before permitting irreversible medical treatments of its children." theepochtimes.com/us/gender-tran…

@jessecrall This is a spoof right

@bdemsky @BokiSport @KPN1 @michaelmina_lab @RapidTests Once again, if you are on an anti-cd20 you should pursue treatment as early as humanly possible. GSK antibody/Pavloxid. If neither are available outpatient Redemsivir. But this study shows things not as dire.

@bdemsky @BokiSport @KPN1 @michaelmina_lab @RapidTests medrxiv.org/content/10.110… that is essentially arguing in terms of omicron, anti-cd20 patients are in the same boat as the general population; eg no antibody = mismatched antibody. Hence boosters (4th shot for anti-cd20) even more important.

Well a thousand thanks @michaelmina_lab after following you for 18 months your advice has become real for me! tested my family today before Christmas at my parents with whole family and I tested positive @RapidTests prior Covid, double vax October, rituxin December, chain broken

@bdemsky @BokiSport @KPN1 @michaelmina_lab @RapidTests Uh. Neither of those control for vaccinated or unvaccinated. Of course if you are on an anti-CD20 you should immediately get GSK or Pavloxid. Just no need for the scare tactics.

@DrEricDing Launching a telescope during Omicron? What if it catches it????

JAMES WEBB!—the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has finally launched—100x more powerful than Hubble—is finally enroute to Lagrange Pointe 2 at ~1.5 million km from 🌍 & operate at -230 C. The #JamesWebb will change our understanding of the universe!

@rgay Huh? The term is from the movie produced in 1945.

@kaya_mcmullen @ChrisRyan77 “We need diversity in television!”

I don't feel like I watched enough tv this year to have a fully fleshed out top 10! But my abbreviated list is: 1. White Lotus 2. Hacks 3. Love Life S2 4. Succession 5. Squid Game 6. The Chair 7. Mare of Easttown

@Laurie_Garrett @WHO You seem to delight in terrifying people. I know that’s what made you famous but there is a tiny risk, even with O, of being hospitalized.

A University of Cape Town study presented @WHO shows that T cell responses against #Omicron in 3X-vaccinated ppl weaken by 30% compared to reactions to #Delta -- but 70% of the response remains, which may keep you out of the hospital.

@ethannichtern Maybe we shouldn’t be shutting down preschools with one asymptomatic case? Schools out here in Cali doing it too even though everyone is vaxxed. This is becoming never ending. Do we shut down for flu! It feels like this is exactly how we lose all the next two elections.

@PrisonPlanet But all have mild symptoms. This proves the opposite of the point you’re trying to make

BuzzFeed staff who attended a company party in New York tested positive for COVID despite wearing masks, showing vaccine passports and being triple jabbed. summit.news/2021/12/16/buz…

@rachsyme I prefer the old school style Strong/Talese/Wolfe profile where the writer wasn’t trying to become friends/Twitter compradres with the celebrity — but to pick at the scabs underneath the vacuous fame wound of America.

@JoyceCarolOates You’ll probably dismiss me as overly woke, but this kind of joke in an anti-Semitic trope — that Jews can’t be tough or strong. This isn’t right, Joyce.

cannot even imagine that "West Side Story" was originally envisioned as "East Side Story" & conflict was between Jews & Catholic Irish. oy! what kind of dancing? & would the Jewish boys really have been flashing switchblades?

@PrisonPlanet He had Covid before the vaccine. That’s when it started.

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@danaparish @CDCgov What’s your reference that half of people who contract COVID develop long-term organ issues?

The whole office got covid at my friend’s office Holiday Party in CT. As per @CDCgov: vaxxed/ boosted. SO… no masks, indoors. Several are more than mildly symptomatic. Half will statistically develop longterm organ/ vascular issues. Remind me how this strategy is good?

@JoyceCarolOates It’s more a question of audience. Who wants to see a Spielberg production of a movie and show everyone has seen a million times? Probably just boomers. Who aren’t down to go to a theater at the moment.

surprised to hear this. possibly, contemporary audiences don't like musicals? (you do have to suspend much belief to accept the basic premise of a dramatic musical like "West Side Story"; very unlike a typical pseudo-realistic film which can simulate ordinary life.)