Your points are mostly fair that this kind of behavior has precedents.  But I'm a libertarian so saying the other team is doing the same thing doesn't convince me much that it's not bad.  From my viewpoint, the current administration has more of a plan of ignoring rules, laws, the constitution, etc. than most previous. Each incident has antecedents, and I can see how people on the red team might think "we're just doing to them what they've been doing to us", but what I see is a more concerted effort to undermine the rule of law.

The behavior of ICE (masks, lack of visible ID, ignoring warrant requirements, ignoring judicial orders) seems beyond the pale, even if the rules (deportation) they're enforcing are on the books. The way they use self-declared emergencies are more extreme than previous administrations, but you're right, "everyone does it". 

Your example about RR joking about nuking Russia seems clearly different than Trump's repeated threats. An off-the-cuff remark doesn't carry the same weight as Trump's persistent prodding on this subject. 

I'm not sure whether jawboning done behind the scenes is worse than taking partial control and ownership of private companies in the broad light of day. I'm a libertarian, so both free speech and private property are pretty important values to me. They weren't proud enough of the Jawboning to do it in public, and I think they backed off when it became public. Continuing to insist that individuals and companies accede to his demands for tribute seems different.

But thanks for giving the other point of view. I can see that others see it differently. 

I was responding to the question "What is that something and why does it make you so worried?" I would have been able to give a shorter list for any recent administration. 

• encouraging ICE to train its agents to round people up without proper warrants, and with disregard for their fundamental rights. Masked and out-of-uniform law enforcement is an affront to a free society.
• attacking foreign countries without consulting congress
• threatening Greenland without consulting congress
• threatening private companies so they give "golden shares" to the government, or agree to share profits with it
• Shutting down the immigration system unilaterally. e.g. adding $100k "fees" for visa classes without congressional direction
• Suing newspapers and media outlets for disadvantageous coverage.

This is just a start.

Weight lifters feeling "pumped" is similarly literal. I get this from rock climbing more often than lifting, but after a particularly strenuous climb, your arm muscles feel inflated--they're engorged with blood. It can take a minute for it to subside.

Vader is clearly homicidal and irrational. Leia's superior rationality won't slow him down. Leia recognizes that immediately, but she should also have realized that revealing the base's location wouldn't prevent him from destroying the planet.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-in-a-mind-that-cant-see-mental-images-20240801/

I think there's a lot of research that shows we're fairly bad at predicting how other people see the world, and how much detail there is in their heads. I've read quite a few books that talk about how some people presume that other people are speaking metaphorically when they talk about imagining scenes in color or in 3-d, or how they can "hear" a musical piece in their mind. Those who can assume that others just aren't trying. Face-blindness wasn't recognized for quite a while.

Some people are much better at doing mental rotations of 3-d objects than others. I can do a decent mental image of the inside of an orange, an apple, a persimmon, or a pear, but perhaps I've spent more time cutting up fruit than others. My mental image of the internal shape of the branches in our persimmon tree is pretty detailed, since I've been climbing inside to pick fruit and trim for 35 years. 

google.com/images?q=mental+rotation+three-dimensional+objects

There was a time when I was working on n-dimensional data structures that I could cleanly think in 4 or 5 dimensional "images". They weren't quite visual, since vision is so 2-d, but I could independently manipulate features of the various dimensions separately. 

When looking at full-color stereograms, you have to have a mental model of the image depth to make sense of it, even if the rendering is all of surfaces.

The Iowa Election Markets were roughly contemporaneous with Hanson's work. They are often co-credited.

Proofreading comment: 

Please change "folks" to "focus"

I don't see a place for listing book orders, so does this use an automated Market Maker? What's the algorithm? (e.g. Hanson's LMSR?)  Where can we find the code?

Cooking tainted meat doesn't denature prions.  (They aren't "alive", so they can't be "killed".)  Neither do most biological processes, as you might expect in the normal case of digestion. As the article above mentions, they can persist in the environment for years. 

It can take temperatures of several hundred degrees to denature them.