RE: the president shouldn’t have a “chip on his shoulder”
“Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company, has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration to start testing its device in humans.”
A separate unit sits behind the ear, with wires running directly into the wearer’s brain.
Musk reportedly urged the team to speed up progress in the wake of a breakthrough by rival Synchron, one of whose patients sent a message on X, formerly known as Twitter, using only his mind earlier this year.
Biden Keeps Talking About the Old Days. Young Voters Don’t Like It.
Biden turns 81 on Monday, and is losing support from millennials and Gen Z
By Catherine Lucey, WSJ, Nov. 19, 2023
As Biden marks his 81st birthday Monday and seeks re-election, his incessant stories about people who have died and faded from public view appear out of date to younger audiences. There are more than 60 years separating Biden from voters who will cast their first ballots in 2024, an acute age gap that presents a challenge for the oldest president in U.S. history.
The fact that he continues to reference politicians that Gen Z may not relate to definitely puts him out of touch. Youth voting increased significantly in 2020. Among voters ages 18 to 29, Biden beat former President Donald Trump by 24 percentage points.
Biden’s team counters that the president’s “old-time references” are part of a “folksy style” that is an authentic asset, and they say newer generations connect to his wisdom and experience.
Biden, who would be 86 years old at the end of a second term should he win, has long employed a “greatest-hits” stories, including admonitions from his late parents and grandparents. The nostalgic tales can feel like an unnerving turn through 5th grade dog-eared history books.
Biden also talks of his dealings with long gone segregationist senators like Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and James Eastland of Mississippi.
Biden says when his first wife and daughter were killed in an automobile crash in 1972, shortly after his first Senate victory, he was supported by a group of older, and now deceased, senators such as then-Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Fritz Hollings of South Carolina.
Republicans have consistently sought to portray Biden as old and out of touch. Trump has mocked Biden’s age and abilities while the Republican National Committee, in an account on X, formerly known as Twitter, recently declared Biden was “not playing with a full deck.”
Of all the stupid things Biden has done, invoking wartime powers to force make Americans to use inefficient electric heat pumps instead of gas furnaces, unless the Biden goal is to “cull the herd” or kill off Americans during winter months:
<><> Biden invoking wartime powers for things unrelated to national defense is reckless and capricious.
<><>electric heat pumps in the colder areas of the country is unworkable.
Biden using “special wartime powers” shows you where this refugee from the Cold War is coming from.
<><>To over-the-hill Biden, a 50 year product of legislating a wartime govt, wars are essential,
<><> wars are a Rooseveltian way to boost his presidency
<><> wars are the MO to continue the flow of tax dollars to the Biden Crime Family.
Biden’s funding nine manufacturing projects with $169 million he snagged from last year’s climate bill, is being claimed under the “emergency authority of the 40’s era Cold War Defense Production Act (DPA).