This is the most interesting theory/guess I've heard so far.

Comments on articles are mostly "rehab." But what could a guy as lethally boring as TKJr possibly be addicted to? Mayonnaise?

What are the other 7 Beat-down-itudes?

I was in my yard on Cherry Valley Road and one swooped down from tree with its crazy call and scared the 💩 out of me last year. Didn't know what it was at first - a woodpecker the size of a large chicken?!

They are apparently shy?

Saw the 2nd one of my life in Blue Spring State Park two weeks ago.

Congratulations! Castle statue?

Don't ask them to write more tickets lest it be interpreted as an illegal quota resulting in a multimillion dollar payout to under productive patrol officers a la Lawrence Township.

That's not Joe Jonas on the right?!

About 2/3 of the debt held by the public is held by Americans. What impact do we expect from their loss of interest income that largley flows back into the economy?

There is no hope, only voting.

In NJ we have stores like "Homesense", "HomeGoods", and "at home" but I can't vouch for any of them. For "premium" flatware I might look in Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, sur la table, (maybe) Macy's or Bloomingdales....and might end up back at Target, Kohls, or Ikea after seeing those prices.

Seems like you've got some good leads to investigate above.

Sure, but moderation codified and agreed-to in TOS can still amount to what people understand the word "censorship" to mean.

"Censorship" and even "free speech" are not exclusive to 1st Amendment constitutional rights.

I have heard of it.

b. 1970, North Jersey

When serious, competent people won't work for you, you turn to people who can't say no.

Absolutely! Sometimes even *I'm* obnoxious on FB. But most people can tolerate the occasional blips in longstanding relationships. On threads, we're not interacting with anybody we've developed any affection for and it's 99.9% bad first impressions. Oops!

FB still works for us Olds, tho. We have so much critical mass of longtime IRL & fb friends that it's worth scrolling by the nonsense. We get to see what's up with people we went to Kindergarten with (70's) or folks we got to know better via FB than we did when we knew them in college. (90's)

Can we really look at the SC, the House, the Senate, and the Presidency and call him, the leader of the party that accomplished this, an incompetent loser?

I agree he's incompetent in the traditional sense but this whole thing is win-win-win-win for him.

Trump's internal definition of a win changes to suit the circumstance. A loss is always somebody else's fault that was impossible to see coming.

Meanwhile....

Sure, it wasn't a *deliberate* head-fake or standard high-IQ 4D chess.

But it *was* a bit of a head-fake and unintentional 4D chess.

This is why even "not smart" narcissists succeed and confound "traditionally smart" normal people.

This whole Gaetz sequence was win-win-win-win for Trump.