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Socialsphere gets a middling rating from fivethirtyeight.com. Out of 277 ranked pollsters it comes in at 131. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ Just for comparison here's the top 10 pollsters according to five thirty eight. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

Me, too. Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster. He was rambling, babbling on about crowd sizes and immigration and President Joe Biden and whatever else seemed to pass through his mind. He was also badly slurring his words, raising questions about his health, and doing nothing to knock down rising concerns about his age and well-being. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/12/trump-musk-interview-x-twitter-spaces-disaster/74774628007/

This is like Donald Rumsfield all over again re: weapons of mass destruction. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

So apparently you believe that the Constitution gives some sort of exceptional power to a border czar? I think you might want to direct your critiques of someone's intelligence closer to home.

Another way Musk and Trump resemble each other is their willingness to lie at the drop of a hat. Musk blamed the technical foul-up on Iranian hackers. Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not. Eighteen minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was lying about an attack. https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

Trust a New York Post report, from which this article was based on, to turn that dumpster fire of an interview into a beacon of light. And trust Phillip Bump from another Post, to point exactly why this Bro-Fest has its limitations "Over the course of the conversation, there were countless misrepresentations and dishonesties, the background noise of the Trumpian rhetorical space. But this — and the sort of hagiographic self-policing engaged in by people like Gutfeld — is why Trump both has a consistent base of support and why it never seems to get any bigger... This is why the “weird” disparagement has gotten traction: To those outside the bubble, the verbiage and focal points and self-aggrandizement and victimhood are hard to understand." https://archive.ph/CzFTe

In a way, Trump and Musk have a lot in common. Both are doing their darndest to take down a business of theirs and to hell with their investors. In Trump's case, Truth Social, and in Musk's case, Tesla.

It kind of already is: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/Parks-and-Recreation/Classes-and-Programs/Senior-Programs/Senior-Olympic-Festival/Cribbage

His comment was about three guys who were willing to commit mass murder. That they would fit in. Are there lots of mass murderers attending Harvard?

When I read comments like yours I can't help but think of the vomiting scene in The Exorcist. Such a repugnant eruption.

As much as Cryingdick's comment about Harvard has to do with it. Which is what I was replying to and the point of my comment. I guess his comment either escaped your notice or maybe you believe it was relevant?

Apparently, predictions are valid evidence according to your way of thinking.

I don't see why that's the big one. Stock markets are forward looking. The producer price index gives an indication of how much consumer prices will rise. Maybe in popular reporting it's paid more attention to, but for investors and economists the PPI seems to be more important.

Donald Trump had his lengthy conversation with Elon Musk on X on Monday, and one thing that could not be missed through it all was the former president’s slurred speech. Trump often sounded as though he was speaking with a heavy lisp or slurring his words, and that had social media stirring. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/08/donald-trumps-speech-during-musk-interview-sparks-health-concerns.html Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/12/trump-musk-interview-x-twitter-spaces-disaster/74774628007/ Maybe they'll convince Trump to step down and be replaced by his V.P. candidate? Well, I can dream, can't I?

Good News! The first of those numbers is in Dow rallies more than 350 points as tame inflation data fuels market comeback The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied Tuesday, as equities moving closer to last month’s record levels following the first of two key U.S. inflation reports this week... The producer price index — a measure of wholesale prices — increased 0.1% last month. Economists expected the reading to show a monthly gain of 0.2% in July, in line with the previous month’s reading, according to Dow Jones consensus estimates. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/stock-market-today-live-updates.html Last time I checked it was up around 400 points. It seem unlikely that inflation will be show to be running hot. And the decline in the PPI is especially good news since it's more predictive of future inflation levels.

Great post! My only quibble is that the first video doesn't use the original music but for some reason dubs the video with music that clearly doesn't belong. Here's a video with the original music. The proto break dancer in question makes his appearance at about 1:42

Apparently, you endorse the belief that in the USA VP has some sort of superpower that allows her to create and enact laws. Not even the President can do that.

Bad Temu. It's a pity Amazon isn't available in Thailand...oh wait a minute... Should Amazon Be Responsible for Everything It Sells and Ships? A U.S. Agency Will Soon Decide The consumer safety agency began investigating Amazon in 2019 after a series of articles in The Wall Street Journal chronicled how Amazon’s marketplace side of its retail operations had sellers distributing dangerous and mislabeled products, such as children’s toys lacking proper choking-hazard warnings, motorcycle helmets that failed federal safety tests and children’s toys that contained lead levels exceeding federal limits. https://archive.ph/9EyVr https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-could-soon-be-on-hook-for-safety-of-third-party-products-it-sells-and-ships-be58b697

And what have these achievements got to do with "The USA government couldn't run with out him." You mean if Musk, say, never existed, the US government wouldn't be functioning? How does that work?

This was the ranting portion of your comment: "Scaring the people and scamming Trillions of $ from them isn't going to Fix what they Think is wrong , Who are They? The Greedy monsters that are in Power to do what they want . Brainwashing comes to mind , just like Religion Trying to make people believe in something that Doesn't exit whilst robbing the people of their Money and Power." Lots of heat, little light. Just angry, empty generalizations.

I guess you don't remember when the justice department conducted not 1 but 2 investigations to suss out bias within the ranks of the Justice Dept. against Trump. The second investigation done with the enthusiastic cooperation of William Barr who said he wasn't satisfied the the Inspector General had previously found no bias. And guess what? They found no evidence of that at all.

You think that's bad? How about the way those Leninists have gone after those noted political figures, Bob Rodriqugez, a senator from New Jersey, and Henry Cuellar from Texas. More proof of DOJ bias...against Democrats. Well, then there is the case of the DOJ just winning a huge case against a corporation beloved by right wingers everywhere. Of course, what corporation could I be referring to other than Google (Alphabet, technically) Federal judge rules Google violated antitrust law A federal judge ruled on Monday that Alphabet – the parent company of tech giant Google – broke federal antitrust laws as it reinforced its dominant position over online searches and related advertising. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the District of Columbia opens the door to a second trial to determine potential remedies to Google's monopolization of the search market. It marks the Justice Department's first victory over a monopoly in over 20 years. The Justice Department sued Google over its control of roughly 90% of the online search market – an amount that rises to 95% on smartphones. https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/federal-judge-rules-google-violated-antitrust-law

What you don't seem to understand is that in this context climate states is not synonymous with climate. This is the kind of mischaracterization that is to be found on denialist websites and in tweets and such. Fact check: 2001 climate change statement misrepresented to disparage climate models The word "climate" refers to the range of expected weather conditions, including temperature and precipitation levels. Conversely, "climate states" refers to the presence or absence of relatively discrete weather events like a rainstorm... "What this quotation is about is the limits on weather forecasts and forecasts of other variability, like El Niño," Baylor Fox-Kemper, an associate professor at Brown University and an author on a 2021-22 IPCC report, told USA TODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/05/23/fact-check-climate-models-reliable-ipcc-statement-misrepresented/9618298002/ So while it may not yet or maybe ever be possible to predict how many thunderstorms will occur in a given locale over a period of time, it is entirely possible to predict the rise in global temperature. In fact, most of the models created in the 1960s and 1970 created very accurate algorithms to predict the rise in global temperatures for example. Climate models are often attacked, but most of the time they're remarkably good After years of hearing critics blast the models' accuracy, climate scientist Zeke Hausfather decided to see just how good they have been. He tracked down 17 models used between 1970 and 2007 and found that the majority of them predicted results that were "indistinguishable from what actually occurred." "By and large our models have gotten it right, plus or minus a little bit," said Hausfather, a UC Berkeley scientist who is climate and energy director at the Breakthrough Institute. https://phys.org/news/2019-12-climate-theyre-remarkably-good.html#:~:text=After years of hearing critics,indistinguishable from what actually occurred." The models also predicted that average temperatures at the polar regions would rise faster than elsewhere and that as the lower atmosphere warmed, the stratosphere would actually get cooler as a consequence of the heat trapping power of the rising levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses. The latter prediction is especially remarkable and rules out the claims of some that the current rapid rate of climate change is due to solar cycles.

The article got one thing very wrong; namely, "In June, the Supreme Court upheld access to mifepristone, rejecting a challenge from a group of anti-abortion doctors." What it did rule was that the group of doctors who instigated this blatantly ridiculous case had no standing. To put it another way, the court ruled that they had no dog in this fight. But it definitely did not uphold access to mifepristone. As for Trump not directing the FDA to ban or limit access to the drug. Who knows? He actually appointed 2 good FDA commissioners. But that was before Covid struck and the MAGA world went mad. Now conspiracy theories about the FDA abound and attacks on the vaccine approval process has become a red meat issue for them.

Actually, ignorant, angry young males more likely to be found in the ranks of MAGA.