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Okish article on the weird case of Jordan Peterson.

What Happened to Jordan Peterson?

I read that and still have no clue what happened.

Seems like the author bought into JPā€™s shtick way too much and is baffled at how this serious-business public intellectual wound up hooked on pills and going through some new-age detox thing in Russia while his daughter sells patent medicine.

A thread:

https://twitter.com/carronjphillips/status/1238437637725265925?s=21

Thoughts and prayers :pray:

Just a roomful of writers all fighting to get a story on air. What a time to be alive.

Wasnā€™t this guy one of the Demsā€™ next generation of hopefuls at one point several seasons ago?

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dude was a stones throw away from winning governor of FL and then being a presidential frontrunner in like 2 cycles.

Amazing

Politicians, man. You almost have to be ill to even want the job.

Heā€™s also regularly on CNN as a panelist. This is a strange timeline.

-Douglas Adams

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Once a Florida man, always a Florida man.

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So Bill Gates just resigned from the boards of Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.

Illness?

To spend more time on philanthropy.

heā€™s finally going to crack the secret of why he keeps making money even though he said heā€™d give it all away

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You all know about talk show radio host prank calls, right? How many of them do you think called their cable companies today saying thereā€™s something wrong with their TV reception?

Just crap on every station they switch to. NBA Network? Crap. NHL Network? Crap. MLB Network? Crap. Golf Channel? Crap. What did you do to all my sports channels? Please undo it ASAP so I can watch sports again.

borderlands 3 just got released on steam, since Iā€™ve avoided epic thatā€™s my plan for the moment

https://twitter.com/grynbaum/status/1238608758894403586

if it wasnā€™t for a virus coming for us all, this wouldā€™ve greatly amused me.

alright, Iā€™ll allow 5 seconds, tee hee hee, and done

wat

https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1238536554886451203

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Remember that guillotine thread that we didnā€™t have? Newt would be very high on my list. Top 10 for sure.

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