I just meant that the libel suit was predictable. Trump does seem shaken. I suppose that’s because this time the most fanatical of his followers are the outraged ones.

Trump’s response was entirely predictable so I presume that they predicted it and planned for it.

For years, my dog had one ear that would stand up and another that would flop down. He looked like he was wearing a beret.

Then he got an ear infection in the floppy ear and after that was cured, the ear wasn’t floppy anymore. He was still cute, but less cute…

I still don’t understand how this is supposed to work even in principle. Clearly the sort of people who voted in the primary prefer Mamdani by a wide margin. Is Cuomo expecting to be elected by people who didn’t care enough to vote in the primary but do care enough to vote for him despite the fact that he’s not the Democratic candidate? Does he think that there are more people like that than there are people who voted for him in the primary but will vote for Mamdani in the general election?

I’ve heard that statistic but it doesn’t match what I’ve seen in my own family. My grandparents weren’t physically intimate with each other even when I was a kid and they were relatively young. (I lived with them so I would have noticed if they ever wanted private time together, and they never did.) This, combined with the fact that many people in nursing homes are in no condition to actually have (consensual) sex, makes me wonder if the explanation for that statistic is not as straightforward as it seems.