Wait. I thought it was DEI’s fault. Instead it’s really the fault of a guy who hasn’t worked there since Jan 20. It’s also not the cuts to the air traffic control sector of jobs that happened after Jan 20. Got it.

Of note, the producer of The Apprentice liked working with Trump because even after ratings fell and the show was in the dumpster, Trump would get out there and sell the show as brilliant, beloved, and with top ratings. It’s what he does.

Classic cluster B.

He opened with this, going after the top law firms capable of prosecuting MAGA.

It’s quite the perspective to see such a large slice of jobs created due to Amazon deliveries via USPS. In addition, to know that segment of jobs is for delivering Made in China product via Amazon.

I do have to wonder if Trump was mindful of this long game. Last time he said the USPS was getting ripped off by Amazon.

Sure it’s Leopards, but how is Bezos reporting the truth of the cost a hostile act?

This is such a Cluster B personality disorder style reaction. Malignant narcissists lash out at anyone who contradicts or provides evidence against their false reality, and every malignant narcissist constructs a false reality for themselves and the people around them. Classic. Toxic. Definitely a page from the cluster B personality disorder playbook.

I’m no defender of Bezos, but the additional costs need to be publicized.

Their basic shortbread recipe is spot on, perfect.

When you start, you follow recipes. Pick a type of cuisine you like. At some point as you explore recipes you will start to understand the “flavor bouquet” of that cuisine. This understanding will help you with what spices go together in a pleasant way, and in what amounts. Like Thai food. Or Italian food.

That said, bread can be a gateway recipe. It’s simple: yeast, flour, water + a sugar to activate the yeast. Not all bread is sandwich bread. Starting with flatbread (for hummus, gyro, etc) or pizza crust also works. No bread machines, that would defeat the purpose of your original question, but a stand mixer with a dough hook is ok. For sandwich bread, King Arthur Flour has solid recipes (ignore ingredient branding).

If you like vids, Kenji Lopez-Alt is excellent. He also has a book called The Food Lab which is useful but not necessary, depending on how you learn. Serious Eats also has useful guides.

My takeaway is a want to research non WiFi camera options.

If you watch the Bernie/AOC rally vids, that is what he’s trying to inspire. One vid has a nurse from the crowd talking about working 7 days a week, to live, and she frankly says the old people need to retire, calling out both Pelosi and Schumer. She’s right. Conservatives also attending.

Younger people need to compete with and oust the established Dems, like AOC did in her district, or we will never see a fresh approach.

That is logical. Well written.

I don’t get it. Why do they even care about protesting on campus? It’s what students do, and is protected by the first amendment. The entire over reaction feels like a spite move but even so, who is that emotionally invested in it to feel spiteful? I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the investment in this campaign. Rubio even spewed vitriolic rage on the topic. Again, it makes no sense.

The appropriate disagreement response, in Old America, would be: who cares? Maybe in tandem with an eye roll.

But, Hillary’s emails! Remember those?

Every GOP legislator is complicit. What do think is going to happen? Pretty soon DOGE will cut them.

I didn’t know much about Rubio prior. Now we know he’s a complete piece of shit that doesn’t believe in the Constitution.

Cluster B personality disorders, specifically Narcissistic types, aren’t keen on truth, they create their own “truth” and gaslight anyone who contradicts that personal “truth”. Allegedly.

Cluster B, both borderline and narcissistic types, fear exposure of who and what they really are at baseline. The difference is a borderline will turn that anger and madness inward, possibly to the point of self harm and suicide, while the narcissistic type will turn that anger and vitriol at the source of potential or real exposure of truth. Allegedly.

I didn’t state the context strongly enough with “his entire life”, allow me to expand on that. Biden is a career politician. Washington is his life. He’s more or less had one job within different roles, involving politics and navigating Washington.

As such, the inertia of all of that action, at his jobs held in Washington across the span of decades kept him on track as he waxes and wanes mentally. It’s why some people were probably quite honest when they said they didn’t see a problem in their conversations with him. That’s how waxing and waning works while in a familiar environment.

Screen slide to Trump. What is his inertia as he waxes and wanes outside of his home.

Geriatrics who are fraying around the edges also do worse when not at home.

Biden, arguably, was at home in Washington having spent 52 years of his life there. Is Trump? This is what, year 5, total? And didn’t he spend half of the last 4 at Maralago?

There’s an inertia to geriatrics that start to wax and wane.

Biden did one thing his entire life, and he had an intact army of bureaucrats to hold him up.

I do think this old man is also waxing and waning, and that Trump too is following the inertia of his base tendencies which is why he is more erratic and stubborn now. And Trump doesn’t have friends or real family he has sycophants.

Lol, yes. Maybe I read it wrong. It was one of the less stressful discussions of late. He says right things. But I don’t buy that the DNC can reform itself with any of the old players.

The piece that needs to be spoken loudly and often is the hospital system shrinks and nears collapse without Medicare and Medicaid. Those 2 things fund over 50% of hospital income. Think about that for a minute.

What dies first? Rural and critical access. The little places that transfer out to a larger metro hospital when you need surgery. Statistically, specialists and surgeons gather around metro locations where Level 1 and most Level 2 are located. Look up your closest hospital. If it’s Level 3 or 4, or labeled as critical access, it will be in trouble. Those hospitals rely even more on Medicare and Medicaid income to stay alive. In fact Medicare may provide subsidy to hospitals considered critical access.

What dies second? Mother/Baby, NICU, labor and delivery. The hospital units involving childbirth are all loss leaders in the hospital product line. Surgery and speciality income cover those costs.

What dies third? Jobs. Layoffs will ensue, from supply runners to nurses. I can’t imagine hospitalist staff (attending, in house, generalist doctors) won’t be cut to bare bones as well. Patients will be more unsafe due to less staff in general, those who are able to drive 100mi for services.

Jon Stewart’s latest podcast. Buttigieg is trying to line himself up to be that guy.