JMcK
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Alireza Firouzja collects the perfect set, beating all 5 of his rival Icons in Mumbai! 🤯chess.com/events/2025-te…
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I just don’t understand not loving India.
Mostly this story…from yesterday…was…sorta…kinda…true!
Oddly, the most मिर्च मसाला in this story was that I wasn’t drunk…yet.
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“I tell you old bean…there I was navigating the mangrove jungles of Indjah, when a communist pirate assault ship ambushing us from behind a river bend, forced us to retreat beneath the safety of my old friend, the poisonous odollam fruit tree.
Of course, I was very very drunk.”
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@percentbigfoot4 @chesscom I agree. Gukesh D is currently the World Champion. Magnus Carlsen is currently the best player in the world.
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@pandclifter @chesscom Then that's the end. There should be no discussions about it.
Those who are competing the winner is chosen amongst them.
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@percentbigfoot4 @chesscom He’s done competing. Nothing left to prove. We know.
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@pandclifter @chesscom No one cares. He might be the best but if he doesn't compete we will never know.
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@pandclifter @chesscom 18 years versus 33 years.
Big difference.
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@sudeepdas46 @chesscom Magnus was 2810 at 18yrs old. Carlsen defeated Nepo easily with this format. What are you talking about?
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@pandclifter @chesscom Harsh reality is the refusal by fans & experts, mostly from the West, to recognize that
- #Gukesh is only 18
- Carlsen have stated that he won't make it in this current format of Championship
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@pandclifter @chesscom The Rabbit is sleeping, the tortoise is speeding up.
Also rabbit id the setting sun, and tortoise has only started, he became gm only 6 years ago, wait 6 more.
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This was a really interesting podcast.
Was surprised by both Ben and Sam actually. Felt like @bariweiss was a third voice rather than a moderator at times.
@benshapiro sees this as a normal election: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” I can’t get that to work for me at all but it is at least a welcome respite from all the overly definite “This is the last election before civil war!” rhetoric on line.
Sam sees Trump as the world’s biggest liar. That seems bizarrely hyperbolic. I don’t get that.
So I didn’t agree with either framing. But ignore those and listen to the points made and it gets interesting.
Somehow if you ask whether the 2020 election was pushed to Biden by deep state interference you are treated as insane by democrats. And if you take J6 seriously you are treated as a dupe by republicans.
Yet that is clear to me. J6 is a huge deal. And election interference against Trump was a huge deal. And the partisans cannot grasp this. So here we stay.
Anyway: Check it out. Nice job @bariweiss!
Bari Weiss@bariweiss
The Harris-Shapiro ticket on today's episode @thehonestlypod: youtube.com/watch?v=cTnV5R…
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The weird thing is I think Trump agrees with you Andrew. And he is innovating.
Perhaps that is why there is now seems to be a new concept of the “SuperTicket”.
I don’t think we are getting it; I’ve never seen this strategy.
If that’s right, then It’s @KamalaHarris / @Tim_Walz vs
The Traveling Wilburys of @elonmusk @JDVance / @TulsiGabbard / @RobertKennedyJr / @realDonaldTrump / @VivekGRamaswamy. Why do we print lawn signs with two names anyway? That’s just the kind of question. Trump would ask.
It’s *not* a “Unity Ticket” or a “Team of Rivals” if I am correct. Those are old ideas and I think this isn’t something we have seen before. I think he is inventing a new strategy the way a business man would. We just don’t have language for it.
It’s an innovation: the SuperTicket for lack of a term.
Here is what I sorta expect to happen:
Imagine if Trump at some point later this month were to give a speech and say that he knows you may not be able to support him. And that he totally doesn’t care if you *hate* him. Something vaguely like:
“I understand if you can’t support me and can’t vote for me. Maybe you are worried about J6. Maybe you don’t like me. Maybe you want to keep your job or your family together. I get it.
I’m asking for you to vote for *any* of these people as if they were running for president because I would do that if it weren’t me. We are a brain trust. Ask any of us. We are brown, democrats, male, business people, veterans, republicans, female, white. We are America. And we want to get you real and better options for next time in 2028. Younger people. People with new and better ideas. If you can’t vote for me, pick one of and tell your world you are voting for her or him. I won’t take it personally. Thank you for risking your neck for our team and for America.”
I think that speech or one like it would probably solve my problem. I don’t hate Trump. I think he is shrewd. And I think he loves America. But he doesn’t sit well with me either and, like you, I don’t think I can vote for him. There is a big block that I don’t want to get into right now. But it is real.
I just think he has figured this out. I know half of these 6 people personally. And I would vote for *any* of them over Harris / Walz. I think if Trump is as smart as I think he is, he could be gearing up to solve Blue America’s “TDS” problem head on. Which will break every model of Trump the egomaniac.
He has softened and had a near death experience. And, according to math, there are 6! =720 Lawn signs possible. You could print them on demand to say:
Tulsi
RFK jr
Elon
Vivek
Vance
Trump
Indicating Your politics are not pro Trump.
Look, Andy: Elon and Vivek could set that up with Trump’s blessing in an afternoon if Trump wanted it. It would change everything as an October surprise.
I don’t think Trump’s ego is as fragile as last time. But we’ll just have to wait and see. And we won’t have to wait long.
Best,
Eric
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸@AndrewYang
I get the frustration. I just don’t think Trump is the answer.
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The weird thing is I think Trump agrees with you Andrew. And he is innovating.
Perhaps that is why there now seems to be a new concept of the “SuperTicket”.
I don’t think we are getting it; I’ve never seen this strategy.
If that’s right, then It’s @KamalaHarris / @Tim_Walz vs
The Traveling Wilburys of @elonmusk @JDVance / @TulsiGabbard / @RobertKennedyJr / @realDonaldTrump / @VivekGRamaswamy. Why do we print lawn signs with two names anyway? That’s just the kind of question Trump would ask.
It’s *not* a “Unity Ticket” or a “Team of Rivals” if I am correct. Those are old ideas and I think this isn’t something we have seen before. I think he is inventing a new strategy, the way a business man would. We just don’t have language for it.
It’s an innovation: the SuperTicket for lack of a term.
Here is what I sorta expect to happen:
Imagine if Trump at some point later this month were to give a speech and say that he knows you may not be able to support him. And that he totally doesn’t care if you *hate* him. Something vaguely like:
“I understand if you can’t support me and can’t vote for me. Maybe you are worried about J6. Maybe you don’t like me. Maybe you want to keep your job or your family together. I get it.
I’m asking for you to vote for *any* of these people as if they were running for president because I would do that if it weren’t me. We are a brain trust. Ask any of us. We are brown, democrats, male, business people, veterans, republicans, female, white. We are America. And we want to get you real and better options for next time in 2028. Younger people. People with new and better ideas. If you can’t vote for me, pick one of us, and tell your world you are voting for her or him. I won’t take it personally. Thank you for risking your neck for our team and for America.”
I think that speech or one like it would probably solve my problem. I don’t hate Trump. I think he is shrewd. And I think he loves America. But he doesn’t sit well with me either and, like you, I don’t think I can vote for him. There is a big block that I don’t want to get into right now. But it is real.
I just think he has figured this out. I know half of these 6 people personally. And I would vote for *any* of them over Harris / Walz. I think if Trump is as smart as I think he is, he could be gearing up to solve Blue America’s “TDS” problem head on. Which will break every model of Trump the egomaniac.
He has softened and had a near death experience. And, according to math, there are 6! =720 Lawn signs possible. You could print them on demand to say:
Tulsi
RFK jr
Elon
Vivek
Vance
Trump
Indicating Your politics are not pro Trump.
Look, Andy: Elon and Vivek could set that up with Trump’s blessing in an afternoon if Trump wanted it. It would change everything as an October surprise.
I don’t think Trump’s ego is as fragile as last time. But we’ll just have to wait and see. And we won’t have to wait long.
Best,
Eric
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸@AndrewYang
I get the frustration. I just don’t think Trump is the answer.
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@GadSaad From the days when Britain made fantastic machines...
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"Of course it's a very big advantage for Magnus," said @AlirezaFirouzja who will face @MagnusCarlsen in the #ChessChamps Grand Final!
He'll have to beat the "final boss" two times to win the event!
chess.com/news/view/2024…
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@Rainmaker1973 Pandemic started in early 2020….election was in November. Biden took over on 2021.
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