Nobody Cares: PRS

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Jesus can’t read an altimeter.

 

[Free]

Jesus can’t read an altimeter.

Are we sure? Maybe it was just James time (hopefully true of the passengers as well, or were just unlucky), and Jesus purposely put the plane into a tailspin.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Kamala Harris wrote down her memoirs of her lost campaign. It's a book named "107 days." It's baffling Democrats and GOP alike. It's her reckoning with the Democrats, campaign managers and Joe Biden. It's just one big excuse about why she failed.

First and foremost she thinks she made no mistakes, but many people around her. No suprise here.

For example Tim Walz was not her first choice as running mate. It was Pete Buttigieg. In the end though Harris thought that the combination of black woman running with gay white male running for presidency would be too much for America to handle, which is why she went with Walz instead.

To quote Harris: "He would have been an ideal partner – if I were a straight white man. But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.
“And I think Pete also knew that – to our mutual sadness.” Buttigieg was surprised to hear about this, also the reason why he didn't make it and made a statement that he thinks Americans are wiser than that.

Also Harris was not very pleased about the outcome of the discussion between Vance and Walz, asking Walz what he did there. It almost looked like he tried to become friends with Vance.
Also Harris was not too fond about the idea of Josh Shapiro being vice president. Shapiro once stated that Harris will have to answer for why she did not publicly alert people to Joe Biden's declining ability to serve during his term in the White House.

In the book, Harris questions her decision to not confront Biden, explaining that “of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out” and feared that, if she did, it would be seen as “incredibly self-serving” and “poisonous disloyalty”.

In Harris’s account she writes that Shapiro, before she had interviewed him, had asked how many bedrooms were in the vice-president’s residence and if the Smithsonian would lend Pennsylvania art for display. This destroyed her trust into Shapiro, because in her opinion at that time how to fight Trump should have been the top priority, and not how to redecorate the White House.

Harris writes that she “mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision” and told him that was “an unrealistic expectation” and “a vice-president is not a co-president.”

Also Harris is sure that Benjamin Netanyahu undermined Joe Biden in the hope that Donald Trump would return to the White House and ensure his political survival. Netanyahu wanted a president willing to embrace "very extreme proposals", so Trump not Biden nor Harris.

“The war in Gaza is not a binary issue, but too often the conversation about it is,” Harris writes. “I wanted to acknowledge the complexity, nuance and history of the region, but it seemed very few people had the appetite for that or the willingness to hold two tragic narratives in their mind at the same time, to grieve for human suffering both Israeli and Palestinian.”

Harris is also criticising the power hungry advisors of Biden, who pushed him to run for a second term instead to step down and make the way free for a successor. Harris' own advisor David Plouffe warned her: "The people hate Joe Biden." Now Harris is asking herself, why she didn't enough during the campaign to present herself as not the status quo candidate?

Harris was also pissed about how the GOP framed her for the border wall to Mexico and lack of Democrats' support. She told her husband about it: "They hide you for four years, give you impossible, shitty tasks, don't correct you when those tasks are misrepresented, never defend you when you are attacked, never praise your achievements."

She's also bitter about Biden's team, because she feels that they didn't support her run after Biden stepped down, instead stabbed a knife into her back.

Harris makes no statement, if she's running in 2028 again or not. Many people see the book as bad blood and really doubt that it will enable Harris to run again for the Democrats. According to "The Atlantic" however Harris is considering it again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/opinion/kamala-harris-memoir-107-days.html

Democrats Are Still Debating Joe Biden’s Decision to Run

In her new memoir, Kamala Harris takes on the issue that has haunted Democrats for more than a year.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Buttigieg was surprised to hear about this, also the reason why he didn't make it and made a statement that he thinks Americans are wiser than that.

He can't seriously be that naïve. Must be 'rah rah 'Murica! FeckYeah!' political boilerplate script.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Outside the USA Buttigieg is terrifying.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Jimmy Kimmel live tonight at 11:30 pm ET on ABC with guest Gavin Newsom.

 

[Noodles]

Jimmy Kimmel live tonight at 11:30 pm ET on ABC with guest Gavin Newsom.

I set the work DVR tonrecord it, but I think the local station is pre empting it.

 

[Free]

I think the local station is pre empting it.

Kimmel should put each show, in full, on his youtube channel the following day, so those who have it preempted can still watch. He could even keep the ads breaks in, to maintain solidarity with his advertisers.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Jimmy Kimmel live tonight at 11:30 pm ET on ABC with guest Gavin Newsom.

The show was excellent. Gavin Newsom was not on it but that is ok. I hope you get a chance to see it.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Outside the USA Buttigieg is terrifying.

Have no idea what any of that means. Can you expand on it so I understand what this means about him?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Have no idea what any of that means. Can you expand on it so I understand what this means about him?

To outsiders, Buttigieg is saying the guns Americans use on foreigners shouldn’t be used on Americans. True, still carries a Imperialist stench that is difficult to detect inside the room where it resides.

 

[Beebo Brink]

To outsiders, Buttigieg is saying the guns Americans use on foreigners shouldn’t be used on Americans. True, still carries a Imperialist stench that is difficult to detect inside the room where it resides.

Okay, it's a bit of a stretch to call him "terrifying" for saying that, but I get the drift. Thank you.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Outside the USA Buttigieg is terrifying.

I think Buttigieg means well, but The American center is so fucked up and far to the right that democrats often kind of.... forget or chicken out of being as sane as they would ideally be. Pete's point about weapons of war was ALMOST a valid point but I agree we also shouldn't be going to senseless wars.

It makes me think of how I sometimes understate positions or oversimplify things when trying to talk to someone who I know won't understand the full truth.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting piece on how living conditions have changed world-wide over time

The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it

Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that the world has made immense progress in important aspects.

ourworldindata.org

 

[detrius]

Why would anyone want Jesus to "take the wheel" anyway?

The modern automobile was invented less than 150 years ago, a long time after his departure - so why on Earth would he know how to drive a car?

It would be better to ask for Ayrton Senna instead.

 

[Free]

Sherrill is a democrat, of course. The fucking Trump admin has become little more than doxxers.

Archives released too much of Mikie Sherrill's military record to her opponent in governor's race

A branch of the National Archives released a mostly unredacted version of Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill's military records to Nicholas De Gregorio, an ally of Jack Ciattarelli, her GOP opponent in the New Jersey governor's race. The disclosure potentially violates the Privacy Act of 1974 and exemptions established under the Freedom of Information Act.

The documents, which were also obtained by CBS News, appear to show that the National Personnel Records Center, a wing of the National Archives and Records Administration charged with maintaining personnel records for service members and civil servants of the U.S. government, released Sherrill's full military file — almost completely unredacted. CBS News discovered the egregious blunder while investigating whether Sherrill was involved in the 1994 Naval Academy scandal, in which more than 100 midshipmen were implicated in cheating on an exam. Sherrill was not accused of cheating and said her only involvement was not informing on her fellow classmates.

The documents included Sherrill's Social Security number, which appears on almost every page, home addresses for her and her parents, life insurance information, Sherrill's performance evaluations and the nondisclosure agreement between her and the U.S. government to safeguard classified information.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Why would anyone want Jesus to "take the wheel" anyway?

... It would be better to ask for Ayrton Senna instead.

Even Ricky Bobby would be a better choice.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power FT Link because £wall

By their very nature and background, the tech overlords are more akin to nationalist-populist leaders — the Trumps, Mileis, Bolsonaros and leaders of the European far-right movements — than to the moderate political classes that have governed western democracies for decades. Like these leaders, they are almost always eccentric characters who have had to break the rules to get ahead. Like them, they distrust experts and elites, all those who represent the old world and who could prevent them from pursuing their vision. Like them, they have a taste for action and are convinced that they can shape reality according to their desires: virality prevails over truth, and speed is at the service of the strongest. Like them, they have nothing but contempt for politicians and bureaucrats: they see their weakness and hypocrisy and believe that their era is coming to an end.

In any capital city, the scene is always the same. The oligarch steps off his private jet, in a foul mood at being forced to waste his time with a tribal chief, when he could be spending it more usefully on some post-human venture. After welcoming him with the honours of a state visit, the politician spends most of the meeting begging him to grant a research centre or an AI development laboratory and ends up settling for a hasty selfie on the way out. The easy-going nerds who promised us a future of universal brotherhood in the late 1990s have thus been able to transform themselves into frightening molochs, engaged in a ruthless war for planetary and intergalactic supremacy, with no rules or responsibilities to counterbalance their immoderate power.

 

[Soen Eber]

The easy-going nerds who promised us a future of universal brotherhood in the late 1990s have thus been able to transform themselves into frightening molochs, engaged in a ruthless war

Moloch: an ancient biblical deity known chiefly for child sacrifice. Perfect description for most social media platforms.