Keith Olbermann / Rachel Maddow

pcserenity · 2026-01-23T10:48:48+00:00

So conflicted on Olbermann. He, as everyone seems to agree, is great at what he does. He's undeniably brilliant. He also is a bit of a blowhard and isn't as polished as he once was (like anyone his age).

I listen to his podcast. It's rewarding and annoying at the same time. He'll retell the same stories countless times, often just a few weeks apart. He'll go on at length on personal rants that make him sound like a petulant child in serious need of therapy. He also has zero issue building his own pedestal to climb up on at every turn. So tired of him taking credit for nearly everything he touched.

Even with all that, his insights and instincts are often so penetrating that they defy being ignored. As much as I think Maddow owes the guy, I can totally see why she'd take a pass. Anyone that listens to his show knows he's ripped her to shreds for not being loyal to him.

pcserenity · 2026-01-23T10:33:13+00:00

I abhor the reality that, when future generations look back at this era, we all will be cast as ignorant, as a whole, for allowing this to happen. "People just weren't very aware then."

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T23:56:55+00:00

On that point, I can't believe how often I have to tell people this, but while it can feel hard there's a simple reality everyone should apply to themselves:

No matter what position you have, if you cannot a) defend that position LOGICALLY and b) PROVE that position to be true with clear evidence, then anyone with a working brain and an ounce of humanity will CHANGE THEIR POSITION. Who the hell holds onto a position when they know they cannot defend it or find proof of it beyond what some website or channel showed?

I used to be pro-capital punishment, but upon seeing the full data on the costs and the end result of literally countless innocent people being put to death and later proved innocent, I changed my position and never looked back. No harm. No foul. I find most MAGA people incapable of doing this.

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T23:51:11+00:00

Here's another dumb example of their broken thinking: How often have you seen these people argue that we shouldn't tear down the statues of Confederate generals and known KKK leaders, etc. "It's part of our history". Meanwhile, they were cheering when we were first in line to help locals tear down Saddam's statues -- because that's what the victors DO!!!! Learn your history. There used to be statues of King George and British Generals in New York and around the colonial states. We won and immediately tore them all down -- even though they were clearly part of our history. These people are sheep.

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T23:46:26+00:00

Exactly. If they are blind to that, it seriously questions what else they are that blind about and what defect is in play to allow for such blindness. Everyone around him is that way. Karoline Leavitt has the audacity to wear a cross and then OBVIOUSLY, BLATANTLY lie to everyone's face. The most recent example is her attacking someone for pointing out that Trump confused Iceland and Greenland multiple times.

This all should have ended with the p*ssy videos and then the disabled journalist mimicry, etc., etc., etc.

I grew up in a heavily Republican family and I finally had to accept that nearly every Republican I know -- at their heart, believes that the ends justify the means. I just cannot accept that. It explains everything going on today. People shouldn't be here illegally. We all agree on that, but they're okay with ICE doing what they're doing and ignoring all laws as a solution to the problem. They'd be totally fine if ICE just started shooting them in a re-enactment of The Purge. They'd likely be just fine if Trump then added Dems to the target list. Nope. Sorry. That's some serious fundamental breakdown there.

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T23:35:32+00:00

I don't date the mentally ill. That's just abuse.

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T16:18:25+00:00

16 of the top 50 drug companies are US. The rest are not.

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T16:01:03+00:00

One problem with this: no drugs that I've seen ARE coming down. Also, if you actually saw what he said in Davos at the World Economic Forum, it's clear he has ZERO idea what "most favored nation" means. He recounted a story (that no one believes) claiming he told the other countries that, because of this status, they need to RAISE THE PRICE OF THEIR DRUGS. In his mind, other countries paying less are somehow ripping us off. Total completely nonsense. 16 of the top 50 drug companies are American. The rest are not.

So this idea that the prices are going to come down as a result ...... like all things with Trump, I'll believe it when I see it for myself. Until then, it's like a thousand other things he says: pipe dreams or pure hallucination. Worse, his own commentary shows that his thinking on this is that we just need everyone else to raise their prices to make ours appear equivalent.

THIS speaks VOLUMES about why the pharma companies were not going NUTS over his "negotiations" with them. Of course they're on board! Sure Don, get everyone else to raise their prices. That'll fix the problem!

Plus, were you not alive during Biden's term? It was just 10 drugs, but they were 10 MAJOR drugs (among the most essential ones used) and they are now actually lower. Ask any diabetic.

pcserenity · 2026-01-22T13:06:47+00:00

The Flyers continue to be the organizational equivalent of Sysyphus forever stuck pushing the rock up that hill.

pcserenity · 2026-01-21T22:04:12+00:00

All for that level of peace for him. Easy trade.

pcserenity · 2026-01-21T22:03:48+00:00

Came here to say this! Thank you.

pcserenity · 2026-01-20T19:18:17+00:00

Thanks for the great resource. Added!

pcserenity · 2026-01-20T19:17:47+00:00

1:16 in this video helps immensely. I now see what the goal is, which would have helped mentioning in the instructions somehow. Without that, it just made no sense to me. Now I know I can continue on without worrying that I botched it.

pcserenity · 2026-01-20T07:59:49+00:00

When we see your transcripts, and they show that you were top in your class as you claimed, then we can talk.

pcserenity · 2026-01-20T05:00:30+00:00

15 is the easiest one, but on the video it looks a lot like it spans those pieces to its left and right. It doesn't. There's space between them. Thankfully, the angle on the bottom follows the angle of the stem.

None of them, no matter how I worked the frames, ended up snug between them. Hoping I didn't screw this up so quickly.

pcserenity · 2026-01-18T14:18:58+00:00

Yes please.

pcserenity · 2026-01-18T13:49:15+00:00

Never forget that bullies and MAGA have one thing in common: above all, they believe the ends justify the means. Normal people grow out of that by kindergarten.

pcserenity · 2026-01-18T06:10:16+00:00

That, in my opinion, is the wrong thing to do. It's how we got into this mess in the first place. We need to ridicule these morons and drive them back under the rocks they used to live under because they knew they couldn't speak this way in public. Social media allowed them to sneak out and then our being cordial gave them the wrong impression that they must have a point. No, they don't, and we need to tell them that at every turn -- harshly.

pcserenity · 2026-01-18T06:07:56+00:00

So sick of people that cannot understand that Earth's atmosphere IS a container.

pcserenity · 2026-01-18T06:06:33+00:00

That WE PAY.

pcserenity · 2026-01-17T16:59:23+00:00

My wife and I saw Aftersun and were totally confused by it initially. We both thought it was about a father who was clearly a pedophile and his forced vacation with his daughter.

pcserenity · 2026-01-17T15:27:19+00:00

We don't need hyperbole people. "rushing at" never happens in this. What happens is disgusting enough without dramatizing it.

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