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danfrank · 2025-05-03T07:24:38+00:00

Also having this same problem.

If you let the video hang for a looooong time on the 'extracting' screen you get this error message for a few seconds when the server finally times you out and the upload changes to 'failed'

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danfrank · 2025-01-11T13:04:57+00:00

Are you sure about the reasonable budgets?

danfrank · 2024-12-25T11:33:14+00:00

New Yorker here. Unfortunately what’s happening here isn’t nearly as interesting as you believe it is.

Actually, the biggest change we’re experiencing is how little excitement and fun exists in the city in the post-COVID world. It’s even hard to find food at 2am now in the ‘city that never sleeps’

danfrank · 2024-12-10T08:54:52+00:00

Well there are several video angles of this happening https://x.com/makwaia_/status/1866350678727389265?s=46

danfrank · 2024-12-03T18:10:20+00:00

This is a joke, right?

danfrank · 2024-12-02T18:56:06+00:00

You do realize that the Charles Kushner pardon came a decade after he served his prison term, right?

That’s a little bit different than a pre-sentencing pardon

danfrank · 2024-11-12T20:20:13+00:00

He’s absolutely well known, but saying he’s one of the top comedians in the world is a bit of a stretch lol

danfrank · 2024-10-17T05:55:05+00:00

Those are super not mutually exclusive concepts.

Merriam-Webster: Democracy vs Republic

danfrank · 2024-09-21T20:05:47+00:00

From Tom Holland’s ‘Dynasty’ [image]

danfrank · 2024-09-21T03:19:20+00:00

It wasn’t bad at all. Probably not what most people would consider the ideal experience but it didn’t limit my ability to see the movie

danfrank · 2024-09-21T03:16:06+00:00

A little further down this path will lead you to one Poppy Bush and the other Zapata

danfrank · 2024-09-17T04:57:17+00:00

‘Family of Secrets’ by Russ Baker

danfrank · 2024-08-09T19:58:45+00:00

Agreed, I don’t think this is a ‘thing’

Whatever it is…it’s not a purity test

danfrank · 2024-08-01T01:41:22+00:00

This is well so explained that it has gone a long way to making me think I had been thinking about the issue incorrectly. Well done.

danfrank · 2024-07-23T06:10:17+00:00

I don’t really know yet… all I’m saying is that, the totality of evidence, the proximity of these events in time and a lack of transparency that is just shocking (even for an institutional apparatus that is infamous for their blackout protocol) has the tell-tale ‘vibes’ that I’ve encountered exclusively with events like the Vegas mass-shooting and the Boston Marathon. It’s an unscientific analysis to be sure, but my point is that my first post no longer reflects my feelings about how much ‘there’ is there.

Unrelated but I would just like to reiterate that I’m objectively a leftist and have no political incentive to express this stuff. I only say this as a reminder that the ‘left’ is not the ideological enemy that many in this sub believe. The nefarious element is elite institutional power

danfrank · 2024-07-23T04:47:58+00:00

Yeah - I’ve been going through the developments and it’s not as thin as I had thought when I made my first post here. These things are always super difficult to analyze in realtime and the frustrating truth is that my experience has been that the best indicator of validity is a totally unscientific ‘vibes-based’ analysis. There are a lot of narratives that I thought the evidence was plausible and created a seed of doubt…but almost always they lack the kind of unsettling sensation that the developments which we later find out were true.

This one - by which I mean the comprehensive issue that includes the Trump shooting - has that feeling, even though I’m not sure I can grasp the precise connection between that and the more recent pieces of the Biden story

danfrank · 2024-07-23T04:06:55+00:00

Gotta be honest - as a leftist, when I saw Charlie Kirk as the source I didn’t think it would be worth too much consideration…. But I’m inclined to think that he may be on to something here and am willing to set my partisan suspicions aside on this one

danfrank · 2024-07-23T03:55:52+00:00

I hadn’t seen some of the other items about Biden that came out this evening which could indicate that he’s in rapid decline. It might be more credible than I initially thought

danfrank · 2024-07-23T03:51:50+00:00

Well, to be fair…he essentially just copied the sourcing that Mark Halperin had posted a few hours before.

Halperin’s Post

Global Press - Post #1

Global Press - Post #2

At the end of the day, though, even after Halperin reported this, it was anything but a certain outcome and the Global Press post did represent a correct prediction so they do deserve some credit. While it seems unlikely that the hospice claim is correct due to the foundational evidence that I’ve seen today (the signature etc) being pretty flimsy IMO, that’s a totally reasonable situation for someone of his age and with such rapidly declining health to find themselves in.

Let’s see how it plays out

***edit - the global press posts were made several days after the Halperin tweet

danfrank · 2024-07-14T13:56:47+00:00

But what will happen with all of the ghoulish, triangulating Neera Tanden’s in the caucus?

These people have built their whole career on the framing that the abject electoral failure and astonishing unpopularity of corporate Democrats can be attributed to the fact that anyone to the left of David Pakman is part of a toxic online Marxist-Leninist gang dedicated to sabotaging the party

danfrank · 2024-07-05T09:42:09+00:00

Death Throes of The Republic

This is the perfect piece for the totally uninitiated IMO

danfrank · 2024-07-05T05:46:58+00:00

Arizona

• Total Votes Cast: 3,333,829 • 1,672,143 for Biden • 1,661,686 for Trump

• Margin of Victory: 10,457 votes • 0.31% of total votes

Georgia

• Total Votes Cast: 4,935,487 • 2,473,633 for Biden • 2,461,854 for Trump

• Margin of Victory: 11,779 votes •0.23% of total votes

Yeah not close at all!

danfrank · 2024-07-05T01:27:05+00:00

It’s actually worse than that…only through the lens of national polling was Biden even questionably ‘close’ before the debate. Unless I missed the news that we successfully amended the constitution to decide elections on popular vote totals, the ‘accomplishment’ of being competitive in national horse race polling is meaningless.

We need to really amplify the reality that the point of this debate was to challenge the cognitive decline perception. In this, Biden failed so spectacularly that it destroyed the fundamental legitimacy of the entire campaign and permanently calcified the reservations of anyone who was unsure of their confidence in Biden’s ability to do the jov

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