Odds and Ends — 13 September 2024
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A Poker Hand:
This won’t mean anything to those who don’t play poker, but last night I won a (small) pot with a pair of sevens. Against four opponents in a game of Pot Limit Omaha. They had 16 cards between them and nobody could beat sevens?
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
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Politics:
Whoa. I didn’t think it was possible, but he’s gone even further off the deep end:
https://twitter.com/TheRealThelmaJ1/status/1834373906037342506
Trump’s Repetitive Speech Is a Bad Sign
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.
https://twitter.com/maddenifico/status/1834274585836949875
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1834390111913398381
At least it was if you’re the sort of person who is into watching Donald Trump get humiliated — a club of which I am a proud member. And why not be? If you weren’t enamored with either candidate in the first place (though Momala is growing on me as a capable knife-fighter, who is at least temporarily doing a passable impression of a moderate Democrat), but you regard Trump as a metastatic case of ass cancer in the body politic, well then watching him get poleaxed on a debate stage might be one of your few remaining political pleasures.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1834236640111235516
Putin Warns NATO of War with Russia
By now, we should all know that he’s just bloviating. And, also, we’re already at war.
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1834043118301155376
Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Quietly Settles With Ex-Bedminster Waitress Involved In Hush Money Deal
https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1834280115561529692
Harris Challenges Trump to Another Debate
At her first post-debate campaign events, Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly challenged former President Donald Trump to a second onstage clash and sought to use her opponent’s erratic performance as a springboard into the race’s final stretch.
He’s already said no but since he has the attention span of a flea, that could change to a yes.
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1834196444342784144
Studying colonisation and Aboriginal resistance to be mandatory in NSW high schools
https://twitter.com/emilymayerSC/status/1833947654968979742
Smartmatic Case Against Newsmax Heads to Trial
A major defamation case against Newsmax will proceed to trial later this month, a judge ruled Thursday, dealing a blow to the right-wing network and setting the stage for the 2020 election to be relitigated during the final stretch of the 2024 race.
https://twitter.com/thejackhopkins/status/1834283266435658003
https://twitter.com/amandalitman/status/1833692811486466208
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1833951002212581742
Graham Warns Trump About Laura Loomer
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1834176149351497835
Trump’s Bedminster club hosted a Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1834004893436424663
https://twitter.com/CWJediMaster/status/1834252045794058719
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/greg16676935420/status/1834250593436635267
https://twitter.com/sesamestreet/status/1833962593498669500
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