19 minutes later, the layers of researchers and fact checkers who are assigned the sisyphean task of preventing Jezebel's writers from publishing moronic merde, chimed in with an answer to her inquiry. 

1 Obviously those layers of fact checkers and editors no longer employed by major news media (if they ever were) did not go to work for Jezabel after leaving the MSM.

2 The usual suspects have leapt to Jezebel's defense, explaining that they were only pretending to be retarded.

3 They certainly aren't helping out Donald Trump, Jr., who lambasted Texas' "Democrat" Governor Greg Abbott, over Abbott's horrible handling of Texas' energy crisis.

While I'm certainly on board with the accusation that Abbott has done a miserable job, Greg Abbott is one of the longest-tenured Republicans to ever serve at the highest levels of Texas governance. 

1 Today was Cheap Chocolate Day. Scored a couple of giant Hershey's Kisses at half off.

I don't understand the world anymore. 

1 I don't even know who William Dafoe is. I only know of Daniel Dafoe, the author of Adventures of Gulliver.

1 Some people will insist on being stupid.

1 Actually, I am going against the grain and say that the odds are that Kamala will get knifed in the back first in the internal wars before Joe does.

2 Whichever of them gets kicked out first, it will be interesting to see who the next VP is. They can't pick someone from the Senate without at least briefly losing their majority, and the House is nearly as risky.

I still think Joe will go down first, so they can unlock the achievements.


-j

3 I have a hypothesis on why I believe Kamala is likely to go down first, followed by Joe (Yes, I am thinking it is possible that both of them get goned in the internal fights to follow.), and the person(s) that follow will depend entirely on which faction manage to carry out their plan.

If even a fraction of what I think is possible occurs, the resulting party civil war might dwarf anything that the GOP is going through.

4 We eagerly await a disquisition on your hypothesis. 

5 The very short version $.02 version is that Kamala is, even more than Joe, a pawn in the power struggle by the factions vying for control of the Democrats.  From accounts, she was was pushed as veep by the Clinton faction.  However, even disregarding Joe, the administration is stacked with Obama faction loyalists.  Since even Democrats are pretty sure that Joe will not last a full term, the the situation leads to the following:

1) The Clintons want to be in the White House again, but a Kamala administration would not be a problem because Bill and Hillary have time to groom Chelsea for her run.  Yes, I know it sounds dumb, but look at how politics have shaped up in the last 30 years and then consider that DC is 100 square miles surrounded by reality.  They could have afford to have Joe and Kamala lose last November.  They could afford to wait a Joe/Kamala administration.  They can afford to wait;

2) The Obamas want Michelle to be president.  That goal takes a major hit if Kamala becomes president under any circumstances.  Michelle will not have nearly the amount of star power if she is trying to follow Kamala, than if it was nearly anything else.  They probably agreed to Kamala as the veep because at the time, they were expecting Joe to lose and taking Kamala down would have taken down a potential rival.  As it is right now, they do not want to see Kamala become the next president because that would cost star power AND time, which is not necessarily on their side;

3) Kamala herself draws most of her current power in the party from the fact she is the veep.  Outside of that, she has never been able to sustain double digit support in her own party.  The only way her aspirations for the top job will succeed is if she has the power of incumbency in her favor.  Without it, she is vulnerable to be primaried by people with far less favorable odds at the White House.  Unfortunately, everyone in the party knows this, which means they are definitely going to plan with that in mind;

4) Joe himself can not be written out.  We may laugh or cry about his mental state, but whatever else, he has a keen survival instinct.  He is not going to go down in a fight and whatever other weakness, his ability (When lucid.) for retail politics is not to be under-estimated.  Even if it means jettison everything else (Which would lead to letting whoever the other party will nominate in 2024 to win.), he is not going to go quietly from the White House because someone in a back room said he should.

Note I expect everything and anything to happen, up to and including the possibility of a depressed trajectory shot at DC, so everything might and probably will be wrong.  But depending on how the internal struggles will go will also decide on whether Joe or Kamala will go first.

6 I don't think Obama wants Michelle to be president, even though it would be to his advantage. Nope, he theoretically wanted it; but when Michelle's book came out, he did his best to sink it and whine about it. 
Apparently he threatened to call off their wedding and honeymoon because he (allegedly) had a head cold, then (miraculously) recovered totally and had no signs of a head cold. Michelle will never be president if he has anything to sabotage about it. 

7 He might not want it, but she definitely does.  Michelle is probably as ambitious as Hillary is, but she is much better at keeping herself from being grating.

It is anecdotal but Secret Service agents assigned to their protective details have recalled that she was always pressing him to be more aggressive and confrontational in politics, especially during the 2012 campaign.  So whatever reservations Barack has, well, I doubt he is the more aggressive one of the pair.

Also, the Obama faction definitely wants to keep control of the Democrat party.  That is not going to work if anyone else outside their group gets to be president.

1 I like my memotipasi in a nice bolognese sauce with a helping of parmesan cheese.

2 Is that anything like Spam?

3 Given the possible Indonesian or Malaysian origins...Probably not.

There's lore, I'm sure. 

While other demi-human damsels have cute animal ears coming out of their heads Gawr-Gura's hybrid nature is denoted by an art-deco hoodie and a shark tail. 

Now, if you're anything like me, you're looking at that and wondering how she goes to the bathroom.

Anyway, Hololive is a Japanese company, and over there, a few Gundam toilets notwithstanding,  they have lots of squat toilets, so, problem solved.

See? There's one less thing to worry about now.

You're welcome. 

1 The 5G thing has become a core QAnon and Q-adjacent belief, which means it has insinuated itself in a *certain* segment of right-wing voters. It's the next line-item under believing the military is about to intervene in the "stolen" election, now that Obama and Hillary have been arrested and replaced with look-alikes, Biden wears a house-arrest tag, and the FBI has seized/will be seizing Dominion voting machines to stop/start the Great Reset led by JFK, Jr.

2 I've seen the COVID / 5G thing mentioned by whackaloons on the left too. It's a useful indicator, kind of like adjacent red and yellow stripes on a snake, it means "DANGER!". This is distinct from some wacky notions believed by Q and even some weird things disseminated on the left, which are theoretically reasonable notions carried to an extreme. 

For example: There probably is a group of powerful people involved in child trafficking. Jeffery Epstein* was selling or pimping those girls to somebody, and they were people of means....However, the notion that the kids are being held in the server room of a Pizza joint before being locked in armoires and shipped by Wayfair is, frankly, whacked. 5-G causing COVID is JUST insane, all stop the end. When one hears this theory and it's not in jest or mockery, there is no question of "Is he/she one of the crazy ones?" only "YES. RUN!" because the base premise is a hard break from reality. 
This is useful to find out early.

*Who did not kill himself.

3 A mad bomber what bombs at midnight was the best explanation here, given all the weird factors surrounding the event.

1 This is from the same people who just decided to automatically share your WiFi bandwidth with your neighbours.

What could possibly go wrong?

1 Could be worse. Much worse.

-j

2 But hey, at least he gets a small cut if you order anything horrible in the next 24 hours.

3 Honestly, I have never gotten a penny out of Amazon's affiliate program. I still throw in a link occasionally, but not with any expectation of ever earning enough money to turn the crank on a gumball machine once.

-j

4 I do better on links I post to social media than I do on any site links, because, well, hardly anybody hits my sites. And even then, most of the time I snag referral fees on something else entirely than what I've linked to. But I still think I've made at least $40 or so since I started.

5 Very informative post ! There is a lot of information here that can help any business get started with a successful social networking campaign !  Minimalist Wall Art

How much she learned is unknown. 

1 I have five Xiangling, but only two Barbara so far, and no Jean. The current event gives away enough currency that I should be able to get another 10x pull soon, which will probably be all weapons again...

-j

2 I played Cinderella Girls for 4 years and spent about $80 on gacha. I could spend more if the idiots at the production company DMM did not decide to limit foreign accounts one day.

1 Twitch has gone nuts lately.  They're making YouTube look good.

2 As of 11/5, Mel is back on Twitch.  I can only assume the Science Team did things.

3 Looks like this one wasn't Twitch's fault at all, but a false DMCA claim from her avatar designer.

1 Great Pumpkin "What If?"

2 Apple, not Disney.

3 Oh. 
Golly.
Whatever could that last comment by Canthros mean?

I guess it will forever be a mystery. 
We will never speak of this again. 
(Thanks. I'll go beat my head against the desk now.)

1 First time I've been glad to be 5'7".

1 The real gacha-gotcha is that you want to pull each character multiple times to unlock improved powers...

-j

2 That's more of a translation hap than a mishap.

I've seen a few translation clips of Pikamee now and I love how they all use kettles when she's laughing.

3 ...and "Dolphin Noises."

4 Genshin cribs really heavily from Breath of the Wild... but it turns out that BotW is a really good source to crib from. The gacha aspect of the game is crap, but it's a really high-quality game.

5 Yeah, Ironmouse and Silvervale have taken to calling it "Breath of the Waifus".

While outside my bailiwick, I gather from inference and observation that this is one of relatively few games where the "husbandos" one can collect are also considered quite visually pleasing by the ladies. 

6 Brickmuppet @5, Penny Arcade had a comic just Friday that's sort of related.