R. Guyovich posted:

ok, the thread has spoken and there won't be any further scorched-earth probe sessions. if there are egregiously bad posts, report them and if a derail is going on for too long report a post to let the mods know and we'll pop in to tell everyone to get back on topic. bad posts will be punished rather than posts that are not trump-related.

if people think the "culture" of the thread could be migrated to a genpol or current events thread with more focused threads for trump and us politics, that's a potential option in the future but based on feedback i've gotten on that idea it doesn't seem like it would go very well.

and esteemed poster party plane jones should have access to ik buttons fairly soon! so give him a proper welcome.

Star Man posted:

Unban Tiny Brontosaurus you loving cowards

axeil posted:

https://www.verywell.com/the-clock-drawing-test-98619


How the Clock-Drawing Test Is Administered

The clinician (often a doctor, psychologist, or social worker) gives the person being tested a piece of paper with a pre-drawn circle on it and asks him to draw the numbers on the clock.

She then tells him to draw the hands to show a specific time. There are several different times that people who administer this test may use, but many choose 10 minutes after 11.

Additional research identified six features in this test that were important in successfully identifying problems in cognition. These were described as critical clock-drawing errors and included the wrong time, no hands, missing numbers, number substitutions, repetition, and refusal. These researchers concluded that these six errors were predictive in identifying dementia based on the clock-drawing test. Notice that simply refusing to complete the test can be indicative of a problem.

Unkempt posted:

The rats are deserting a sinking ship except the ship is made entirely out of tangled rats

WeAreTheRomans posted:

I doubt the Trump Era will only be defined by a single insane quote. His whole array of demented verbal tics will be in our lexicon long after he strokes out while taking a poo poo

quote:

@costareports (Robert Costa, Washington Post, formerly National Review): Conservative-leaning journalist to whom Republican sources often leak backroom stories (Republican retreats, Presidential campaigns, etc.)
@JohnJHarwood (John Harwood, CNBC, New York Times): Has a lot of sources in the Republican Party and was the first to report on Paul Manafort leaving the Trump campaign in August 2016.
@daveweigel (Dave Weigel, Bloomberg Politics, formerly Slate): "Idiosyncratic libertarian" journalist who is second only to Robert Costa in connections/interviews with Republican officials. Contrary to popular belief, not D&D superstar Joementum.
@BruceBartlett (Bruce Bartlett, ex-Reagan/Bush official): "Lifelong conservative who now thinks the GOP panders to fools, whom he calls wankers. My tweets should not always be taken seriously."
The following are semi-random selections from a list offered by Rygar201 and may be good or bad.
@owillis (Olivier Willis, research fellow, Media Matters)
@mattyglesias (Matt Yglesias, executive editor, Vox)
@JuddLegum (Judd Legum, Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress)
@dick_nixon "37th President of the United States. Messages from the President are unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler. "
@EricBoehlert (Eric Boehlert, Media Matters)
@JamilSmith (Jamil Smith, senior editor, The New Republic)
@jonathanchait (Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine)
@nielslesniewski (Neils Lesniewski, Senate coverage, Roll Call)
@abwhite7 (Abraham White, former comms for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chuck Schumer (D-NY))
@DSenFloor (Senate D Floor Watch): "Live floor updates from the Senate Democrats"
@billmon1 (Billmon)
@ebruenig (Elizabeth Bruenig, The New Republic)

Mezzanine posted:

novamute posted:

I made a small bookmarklet to automatically filter this thread down to just posts with tweets, external links, or external images to help catch up when I inevitably fall 100 pages behind. Figured I'd post it here in case it helps anybody else stay current. Just remove the space between java and script and add it as a bookmark then you can click it on the pages you want to filter down.

quote:

java script:(function(){ $('table.post').filter(function() { return $(this).find('.postbody > div.tweet, .postbody > img:not([src*="somethingawful.com"]), .postbody > a:not([href*="somethingawful.com"]), .postbody > .timg_container > img:not([src*="somethingawful.com"])').length === 0 }).hide() })()

Here is a version that will show posts with embeds of any kind including Youtube.

quote:

java script:(function(){ $('table.post').filter(function() { return $(this).find('.postbody > div.tweet, .postbody > img:not([src*="somethingawful.com"]), .postbody > a:not([href*="somethingawful.com"]), .postbody > .timg_container > img:not([src*="somethingawful.com"]), .postbody > iframe').length === 0 }).hide() })()

enraged_camel posted:

Hail Satan!

Johnny Bravo posted:

Have you heard the good news?

Arturo Ui posted:

i THINK this is how he gets this number. He thinks 'Congress' and 'the House' are the same thing so Roy Moore losing doesn't count.
He's also ignoring the CA-34 election where a republican didn't even contest.

So you have

KS-4 (Pompeo's old seat) - R+15 district, R won by 6%
MT-AL (Zinke) - R+11 district, R won by 6%
GA-6 (Price) - R+8, R won by 3%
SC-5 (Mulvaney) - R+9, R won by 3%
UT-3 (Chaffetz) - R+25, R won by 32%

TulliusCicero posted:

Bachman is a better author than King fight me (with the exception of the Stand and It, which are both pretty good)


(I know King and Bachman are the same person)

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

tl;dr: The Liberia experiment sorta did work, in that the returned slaves went all Andrew Jackson on the indigenous Liberians, wrote in their constitution that only black people can be citizens or own property, and every president until 1980 was a descendant of ex-slaves and never a native Liberian.

The Liberia experiment sorta did work, just not in the way that we appreciate today. The folks that got settled were called the "Congo people": black freemen, former slaves, and in some cases people off of intercepted slave-ships who'd never gotten to the Americas.

I'm simplifying, but the Congos got to Liberia and pretty shortly started using their superior position, weapons, and American backing to attack the indigenous Liberians. I was going to say "enslave" because that was my understanding, but some googling tells me that slavery was banned there from the get-go, so I'll just say "caused the indigenous Liberians to labor for them under sub-optimal conditions." They steadily grew the country by seizing tribal land, since Liberia was much smaller at the start. Basically, the Congos did to Liberia what white people did to North America, so you can draw some Israel/Palestine parallels there in terms of past experience informing future experience.

Oh, and taking their cue from past experience, the Congos required voters to be (legal not tribal) private landowners, disenfranchising most of the indigenous Liberians. And fascinatingly enough their Constitution requires that to be a citizen or own property in Liberia, a person must be "of Negro blood". So the Lebanese and Indians expatriates who "own" properties in Liberia do so by funding a Liberian friend/employee to buy and own the property, with the unwritten understanding (probably backed by threats) that the expat will be the de facto but not de jure owner.

I worked in Liberia for a small company, and when we were thinking about buying a housing/office space, we briefly considered bringing my American cousin (his dad is black and married my aunt) over to Liberia to "own" the property and "rent" it to the company.

The Congos ended up basically ruling Liberia despite being a small minority, and every single president of Liberia was a Congo until 1980 when Doe (an ethnic Krahn) pulled a coup and seized power. He gets overthrown, and eventually tortured and murdered in front of news cameras while an insurgent general sips a (shudder) Bud Light while watching Doe's ears get cut off.


I'm getting into the weeds, but the point is that "repatriating" former slaves to Liberia was effective in that it got them a techically-democratic state, run by black people and never colonized by white people even during the Scramble for Africa, and under the minority-rule of the Congos themselves.

EDIT: This is kinda weird, but there's almost a Rhodesia/South Africa parallel where certain people wistfully say "yeah, too bad about Liberia, used to be a really nice country, you know, before..." It wasn't a rich country from 1820-1980, but it was relatively peaceful once they got done busting heads, and much like Rhodesia, if you were in the ruling minority it was a great place to live, and yet further like Rhodeisa the ex-ruling minority would be happy to tell you how much better things were for those ungrateful majorities in the "old days".

Party Plane Jones posted:

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

The Congos ended up basically ruling Liberia despite being a small minority, and every single president of Liberia was a Congo until 1980 when Doe (an ethnic Krahn) pulled a coup and seized power. He gets overthrown, and eventually tortured and murdered in front of news cameras while an insurgent general sips a (shudder) Bud Light while watching Doe's ears get cut off

Doe murdered most of his predecessor's cabinet on a beach via firing squad;
;
one of the few ministers to escape ended up becoming Liberia's president from 06 to this year.

Office Pig posted:

Horrible thread, vote 1, kick your own rear end on the way out

LegendaryFrog posted:

Onlookers from the future: it is 2018 and yes, Donald J Trump is actually our president.

More than a third of the country is still somehow okay with this.

Office Pig posted:

It's all the lead, arsenic, and other varieties of airborne carcinogen. You're breathing them all in, right now.

quote:

Her suit asks the court to decide whether a contract requiring her silence is valid. The contract is anonymized, meaning that both parties in the contract are referred to by pseudonyms (Stormy is PP and Trump is allegedly DD).

This leaves Trump with two options:

1. Deny that he is DD. This means that Stormy is fully within her rights to release all of the photos and text messages that Trump denied the existence of. These were apparently damning enough to merit $130,000 in hush money.

2. Assert that he is DD and is entitled to all the protections in the contract. While this might prevent her from releasing the material, it will essentially confirm (a) that he and/or Michael Cohen committed campaign finance violations and (b) that they set up LLCs to conceal crimes.

The podcast obviously covers the topic with much more nuance and spends much more time on the implications. Highly recommended.

The other important point they make is that Fox News will try to frame this all as salacious tabloid fodder. So, everyone else needs to remind the public that this is a president committing campaign finance violations to conceal criminal acts. Messaging is important.

bogoodski posted:

Random, and out of curiosity (new thread's got me questioning things (like: life, its meaning, and other existential but equally important deliberations, such as the following)): Is it pretty common among this thread's participants to visit this thread exclusively on SA?

I guess I've posted a few times in the anime section about my excursion into that genre. But, it just occurred to me that I literally paid to register here without even exploring anywhere else.

Is there anywhere else on here worth exploring? Do I need to don protection when venturing out of the safe confines of the Trump thread?

Zivilyn Bane posted:

So is whatever happened to the last Trump Thread related to a quirk I've been having with the Politoons thread over the past couple days?

The subforum view reports unread posts wrong for me there. If there's one new post, it acts like there aren't any. Two new posts, it says there's one. Et cetera. One time I had to manually put the page number in the address because the one new post was a page starter, and it thought I was on the last page.

Office Pig posted:

Wait, are you telling me people don't read... the OP?!

Cable Guy posted:

GBS can be worth it... This was made by GBS posters for example:
Hardcore Prophesy - The Trump of Doom

Ask/Tell is good for getting/giving advice etc...
There's also a good space thread in the Ask/Tell Science sub-forum.

bogoodski posted:

Cool, thanks. Using my Daylight Savings Time-induced insomnia to bravely expand my SA horizons now.

Teddybear posted:

We're gonna burn through Trump threads like they're brita filters.

bogoodski posted:

Cool, thanks. Using my Daylight Savings Time-induced insomnia to bravely expand my SA horizons now.

Google Butt posted:

don't visit gbs under any circumstances.

Google Butt posted:

don't visit gbs under any circumstances.

Teddybear posted:

We're gonna burn through Trump threads like they're brita filters.

Cable Guy posted:

The Space thread is a really good read and has goons on the ground at most of the major operators, as well as the normal speculation we love so much.