Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Robert E Kelly Profile picture
@Robert_E_Kelly
Aug 11, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Can we all agree that ‘functional training’ is a euphemism for still being able to tie your own shoelaces as you slide into 50? God, this is depressing
I’m really not very functional, apparently. Ugh
Seriously, I hate all this cross-fit stuff. It’s depressing. It really makes you feel washed out. I’d rather run
So I did: strava.app.link/KrmR1FJkS8
Here we go again. Wow. All these mobility exercises are actually pretty tough. All this ham and spinal twisting makes you feel like a grandmother who can’t get out of a recliner. Very humbling
Seriously, I miss the 80s, when everyone sat around the gym in knee-high Dad tubesocks pretending to bench. That was way easier.
Wait, this gets worse? What the hell are ‘commando planks’? Planks are bad enough. Good grief.
How about some hill repeats instead? At least I know what that is: strava.app.link/ZOsZqrsWU8
So I’ve completed a week of ‘functional training,’ and my conclusion is that I’m, um, dysfunctional.

Pretty sure my wife and my dean would concur with that assessment.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Robert E Kelly

Robert E Kelly Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Robert_E_Kelly

Robert E Kelly Profile picture
Dec 4, 2024
🧵on the S Korean semi-coup

1. This sure looks like a soft or semi-coup, like a SK version of January 6 in the US.

Declaring martial law in response to the gridlock of divided government is just a ridiculous rationale.

And declaring late at night, when half the country is

1
asleep is hugely suspicious.

2. It was remarkably inept. In fact, it looks impulsive, as if Yoon decided this the same day

The declaration targeted the media, opposition, & public political expression. That would require a sweeping move across the country to enforce.Instead

2
the military and police at the legislature gave away to opposition MPs almost immediately.

Yoon seemed to have no plan to deal with the predictable explosion of public protest. SK has a vibrant street protest culture, including militant labor unions. Did he really think the

3
Read 11 tweets
Robert E Kelly Profile picture
Nov 8, 2024
🧵Foreign Policy Implications of Trump’s Victory

1. Do not read a huge foreign policy public opinion shift into T’s victory.
Voters do not choose based on FoPo. This is really well-established in pol sci, & polling. I am seeing a lot of FoPo analysts

1
saying the election means the US public has turned against the liberal int'l order, Ukraine, Israel or whatever. No, it does not. All the data so far suggest that T won bc of the economy (inflation) &, less so, culture (wokeism)

2. Despite the public's

2
disinterest, T will have a big impact on US FoPo.
T does not share long-standing US liberal & democratic values. He will be a friend to autocrats and complain ceaselessly about US allies. This is a big shift; the US has never had an aspiring authoritarian in the presidency bf.

3
Read 14 tweets
Robert E Kelly Profile picture
Nov 7, 2024
🧵Post-Election Follow-Up Thread

1. I expected Harris to win👇primarily bc of women voters. Dobbs has been helping Democrats consistently for 2 years, & I saw no reason why that would change now. Worse, Trump & Vance doubled-down on their general sexism & female contempt in

1
the last few months. I am quite surprised this didn’t fuel a huge women-vote backlash. I think most of the other points in my previous thread are correct tho

2. Which gets me to the big puzzle for me in the election: T’s excellent performance w/ women, including winning white

2
women. T so obviously disdains women that even Megyn Kelly was telling his campaign to back off the ‘bro culture’ stuff. Stripping away a right (to abortion) normally guarantees a backlash. I can’t imagine being a women and voting for guy who thinks sexual assault is fun and

3
Read 13 tweets
Robert E Kelly Profile picture
Nov 5, 2024
🧵Final Thread on the Election

1. Prediction: Harris will win bc of an enormous gender gap due to Dobbs & the generalized air of misogyny around the late Trump campaign

2. The failure of US elite institutions to keep T out of politics has been shocking & systemic: the press,

1
Congressional Republicans, the courts, the biz community, conservatives on SCOTUS. America is far more vulnerable to an Orbanist, semi-authoritarian takeover than we thought.

3. That elite failure reflects our staggering public failure. It is shocking that so many Americans

2
want Trump back in power. This campaign is ending w/ a nat'l debate on whether T is a fascist (!!), yet he will still take at least 46% of the vote. 1/3 of Americans have fallen into what’s basically a cult, and it’s not clear how to pull them out. The rest of T's voters seem

3
Read 13 tweets
Robert E Kelly Profile picture
Jul 24, 2024
There’s so much wrong here:

1. The likelihood that autocrat Kim Jong-Un misses Trump is basically zero. Gimme a break. That’s just T’s needy ego.

2. T made a hash of denuclearization talks w/ Kim. He didn’t read or prepare. He just got off the plane expecting his tough-guy-

1
on-the-make schtick would bowl Kim over or wow him into concessions. Instead, Kim played T for credibility-enhancing photo-ops & to foment US-S Korean tensions over how to deal with/ NK.

3. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest T’s approach to NK would be different a second

2
time around. There will be no policy development process to work-up alternative offers to NK, no deliberation of what US/SK concessions we might tolerate in exchange for some NK WMD limits, no effort to build consensus w/ Congress, the SKs, or Japanese. Any second T engagement

3
Read 7 tweets
Robert E Kelly Profile picture
Apr 14, 2024
Good thread, nicely illustrating how de-linked the GOP evangelical base is from the rest of America.

They wanna go after abortion, IVF, birth control, gay marriage, and the rest. GOP leaders know this is electoral suicide, but they don’t know how to get around it. If Biden is

1
smart, he’ll make personal family & sexual freedom the center of his campaign.

Evangelicals may overwhelm the GOP internally, but the rest of the country thinks they’re weird & creepy

This is the result of social isolation: churches which provide a whole separated lifestyle,

2
a TV ‘news’ network which only tells you what you want to hear, home-schooling, a sealed media ecosystem of faith-based movies and influencers telling you that social change is the apocalypse.

Catholics once had parallel institutions like this, especially the schools. But we

3
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

:(