Genuine question: why has he not been banned? To me he seems to repeatedly violate the rule about arguing in good faith, and - to be honest - his passive aggressive civility feels at times more hostile than straight up attacks.

“I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term," McCabe said. "But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”

“You have to have some very serious questions about, why is it that Donald Trump … has this fawning sort of admiration for Vladimir Putin in a way that no other American president, Republican or Democrat, ever has"

He is obviously not a recruited asset, but I think it’s fair to say he is so dense, dumb, self-unaware and transparently susceptible to simple flattery that he is almost having the same impact as one in practice.

Typing this on Sync. Everything seems to be working for me.

Very astute observation. I think the only thing I disagree with is that I personally think the media do to a large extent directly dictate viewers judgements. Which makes the rest of your points even more salient.

Would not object. It’s been a good run, Donald.

It’s rumoured Trump is having trouble finding rally locations this campaign because of all the places he’s been to over years without paying refusing to have him back until he pays his bills. The highlight being owing El Paso, Texas over half a million, ^[1](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-rally-el-paso-payment-b2595353.html) but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.^[2](https://dailymontanan.com/2024/08/08/when-trump-comes-to-town-he-brings-excitement-leaves-unpaid-bills/)

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

The undecided by a mile. Trump’s cult can at least be somewhat explained away by brainwashing, lack of education and echo chambers - and maybe a side dish of widespread lead poisoning. But people who’ve been exposed to this shit for nearly a decade without becoming cultists, yet are still going “ehhh, I haven’t seen enough yet to make up my mind here…” truly boggle my mind.

The only thing that matters to Trump is what he thinks is best for him personally right now. Ethics are irrelevant. Legality is irrelevant. Continuity is irrelevant. Reality is irrelevant. He does not remember the past and he cannot conceive of the future. “Me, now” is the only thing that matters to him. There is no big picture. His entire universe is a singularity of “me, now.”

Best summary of Trump I’ve read yet.

I don’t really agree with the selection or the ranking, but I do really appreciate the attempt of going for “what’s best to play right now” instead of ranking by historical significance or some kind of futile “objective” quantification.

It works better as a sort of “100 good games to play in no particular order, with individual descriptions of why” than any sort of ranked list to compare with other ranked lists, though.

Civ VI instead of Civ V? List automatically invalid.

Jokes aside it’s an interesting list and I like the idea of ranking based on “what’s best to play right now” instead of by historical significance or some futile attempt at objective apples-to-apples quantification - even though at the end of the day I think I neither agree with the selection nor the ranking. But there are plenty of good games on there with solid reasons of why to play them in their descriptions, so it’s a good read nonetheless.

Agreed. To me it seems like a mix of relying too much on her memorized prep and possibly a bit of the old Democrats “taking the high road” thing. She did well at baiting him, but less so at exploiting his openings I’d say.

It was very disappointing, even though it was pretty much as expected. They even let Trump talk over and interrupt the moderators!

Yeah I don’t understand how people are still surprised by this either. He is an unrepentant, raging malignant narcissist. He physically - biologically! - cannot resist defending his ego when challenged.

I don’t think Kamala demolished Trump as thoroughly as some people seem to claim, and I think she could have been way stronger and more direct on a lot of issues and talking poins. There is no denying however that her responses, stances and delivery on abortion was stellar. The whole “they didn’t want that” part was very powerful.

Don’t expect internal consistency from the guy who says media can’t be trusted and is fake news, but immigrants are eating people’s dogs and cats because someone said it on TV.

$40 is like 40 pulls, maybe?

It depends on how you spend it. The best bang for the buck top-up pack - the $99 one - works out to about 20 pulls per $40 (this includes first-time purchase bonus). If you spent your $40 on the $5 monthly subscription (and logged in every day to claim it) it would work out to 160 pulls for your $40 - but it would take you 8 months to claim.

The pet eating angle was the most unhinged thing he said all debate. And he doubled down on it when the moderator addressed it!

You should not be surprised about this outcome. But yes, it’s shitty.

If anything it’s biased towards Trump. His mic gets unmuted whenever he opens his mouth (he’s even allowed to interrupt and talk over the moderators!), he’s allowed to completely ignore time limits and only a small fraction of his blatant lies are fact checked.