TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025
More chaos here tomorrow: "Dramatically better," Dr. [NAME WITHHELD] said. We had headed out this morning expecting an alternate reading.
That said:
We didn't return to campus until close to 4 p.m. We'll step aside till tomorrow.
Congrats on "dramatically better".
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Bob, best wishes for continued successes.
DeleteDoes this mean you passed your MRI?
ReplyDeleteAnd your cognitive test?
DeleteGood to hear, Mr. Somerby!
ReplyDeleteexcellent news!
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful!
ReplyDeleteIf anyone out there is having a hard time, go to findhelp.org and put in your zipcode and they will connect you with places offering help of different kinds (food, clothing, transit, money, jobs, legal aid, health care, housing and goods).
ReplyDeleteThey even supply cat food and litter for those in temporary financial need. People in need may not realize there are sources of help like this, especially if this is their first time being needy due to job loss.
Delete"Liberal economist Paul Krugman, in a November 4 column for his Substack page, strongly disagrees with Trump's Gatsby party being called "tone-deaf" — as he believes that the president and his MAGA allies flaunt their indifference to the suffering of others.
ReplyDelete"There's been plenty of scathing commentary about the lavish, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party Donald Trump threw at Mar a Lago — a party complete with sequined, feathered dancers and, yes, a scantily-clad woman in a giant martini glass," Krugman argues. "The party, held just hours before 42 million Americans were about to lose federal food assistance, as 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay, was grotesque. It was also, like everything Trump, unspeakably vulgar. But many commenters described the festivities as 'tone-deaf,' as if Trump didn't realize how it would look to be holding such a party as tens of millions of Americans are facing severe hardship."
Krugman continues, "C'mon. Of course he realized how it would look. He understood perfectly well that he was partying while ordinary Americans were suffering. And that understanding — combined with the belief that he can get away with it — was a big reason he enjoyed the event."
The former New York Times columnist notes that in 2018, The Atlantic's Adam Serwer wrote an anti-Trump article that was headlined "The Cruelty Is the Point." Serwer's arguments, Krugman stresses, still apply to Trump seven years later.
"Serwer was thinking of working-class and middle-class Trump supporters, many of whom are voting against their own economic interests," Krugman writes. "But you can see the same joy in cruelty, not just in Trump, but in most of his top minions — from Stephen Miller and JD Vance to Tom Homans, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth. All of them clearly take a smirking satisfaction in their ability to stick it to the poor and powerless."
Krugman continues, "What about the guests at the party? What about the oligarchs abasing themselves at Trump's feet? Some of them may share in the cruelty of Trump's inner circle. Most probably just don't care about other people's suffering, certainly not enough to risk Trump's wrath by protesting or even failing to show up. So, to repeat, the party at Mar-a-Lago wasn't a case of tone deafness, living it up despite others' suffering. It was in large part a party held to celebrate others' suffering." [Rawstory]
I remember when Somerby used to quote Krugman and call him the left's MVP. Now it is as if Krugman doesn't exist, even though he has a readily available substack and is writing excellent essays. Krugman quit the NY Times in protest, and now Somerby doesn't seem to be able to find him.
DeleteSomerby looks at the mainstream media and at cable news.
DeleteAnd he shouldn’t do that if he wants to talk about blue media.
DeleteTrump had a party and invited some guests. Krugman sees signs of "cruelty...abasing...suffering...tone deafness." Give me a break. He hosted a party for goodness sake.
DeleteSpoken like the empathy-lacking conservative you are.
Delete9:04,
DeleteI haven't seen people this upset since drag queens were protecting children from pedophiles.
Please don’t hurt David’s feelings. I love him.
DeleteDavid has never read The Great Gatsby.
DeleteThe great Gatsby never read David.
Delete9:04 "....Paul Krugman ... strongly disagrees with Trump's Gatsby party being called "tone deaf". "
DeleteTry reading for comprehension.
DeleteKrugman is a Democrat and, naturally, a certified idiot. Who cares what he says.
They don't give Nobel prizes to certified idiots. You might as well be the one to break that to your orange Jesus.
DeleteThey give Nobel prizes to certified idiots only. FTFY.
DeleteOh oh. Mamdani won and now Trump will exact revenge on the city of NY and its inhabitants.
Delete1:03 Show us yours.
DeleteMy braunschwaggel is bigger than yours,
DeleteFrom here on out an endorsement by Trump is guaranteed to to be a net negative anywhere but at Great Gatsby parties.
DeleteHey David, it's that attitude that got the GOP's ass handed to them last night. Good work assholes. Keep it up.
DeleteLiberal economics is simply redistribution from those with too much to those with too little. You know, the fucking Bible, you nasty fake fuck Christians.
DeleteHe didn't say Trumpies Gatsby party was tone deaf, Krugman said Republican leadership are all fucking assholes who win by making other assholes feel good about harming the others.
Delete"Each resounding clap of the fanny cheeks as the wind streamed outward harkened to the audience the necessity of preparation for the aroma that would inevitably follow."
ReplyDelete-Fanny Backfyre
Maybe you can hook up wit 1:54. Seems like your type.
DeletePerfect timing Fanny, since yesterday's election results were the culmination of the Republican Party huffing their own farts for decades.
DeleteI had an explosive and rightfully smelly fanny burp once. Whilst I was cleaning my arse afterwards I found a fleck of poo lodged in my arse hairs. Very difficult to remove without getting some under the fingernails.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteYou're the go to TDH poster, for pulling shit out of one's ass. Can you provide 9:50 some pointers?
Republicans are incapable of governing: Day 36, a new world record for republican incompetence
ReplyDeleteMen: 58% Miyares, 40% Jones.
ReplyDeleteWomen are a blight on the body politic. We will have to remedy that.
Yeah, maggot, that might be a little long for a bumper sticker. Work on it.
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
DeleteThere actually are Project 2025 plans to disenfranchise the votes of tens of millions of woman because Republicans can't win in a Democracy. Because they are jagoffs and weirdos who can't mind their own fucking business.
DeleteIt is sad that these incel jagoff maggot fucks are so afraid of women. Women really are a lot of fun to have around.
DeleteWe want them around, just not voting.
DeleteKing Orange Chickenshit has decided to starve millions of Americans as his tactic to force Senate Democrats to capitulate to his demands.
ReplyDeleteThe "great negotiator".
The "art of the deal".
LOL
Trump wants Republicans to abolish the filibuster.
ReplyDeleteOr he's starve Americans.
DeleteThe "great negotiator".
The "art of the deal".
LOL
Trump Says He’ll Defy Court Order, Withhold SNAP Until Dems Drop Demands and Reopen Gov’t
The asshole fake law and order party again refuses to follow the law. Greasy fucks, the whole lot of them.
DeleteGood grief. Anonymices are bitter even when they've had a good election night. Best they can do is to be gleeful for about three minutes. They can’t even make it to “happy” unless
Deleteone of their political targets has been assassinated.
Bitter is name-calling. You are projecting again. Your remark about assissinated "targets" is offensive, ugly, callous and stupid. What is wrong with you?
DeleteYou had a good night and you’re invariably bitter and chiding. The happiest and most delighted that anonymices have ever managed to be at TDH is when Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk were murdered.
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DeleteWhat can you do: Hillary is permanently triggered. All Democrats are.
We still care about starving people, despite winning elections, Cecelia, and GOP cruelty is still unconscionable.
DeleteWe had a good night yesterday, but today King Orange Chickenshit walked over to his corrupt supreme court justices and dumped a massive pile of bullshit on the court, just enough for them to decide how many more diamonds they will agree to add to his crown.
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DeleteTrump has again asked Republicans to abolish the filibuster.
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