Well…my thoughts were complicated by this:

No…I don’t want to endorse corporate Dems…but I sure have a strong urge to repudiate fascism…AND the wider the popular margin of victory is for Biden, the better. Especially because it’s going to be litigated unless the Republicans lose by such a margin that there is no pathway to victory, even with stacked courts. So there’s that.

wv wrote:

11 hour lines. Wow.

I suppose we should be grateful they are not having to dodge German Shepherds,
or fire hoses. Or bullets.

I’m gonna vote today, and i was gonna vote Biden but I checked the latest WV polls and Biden is in the 30s here. Cant even make it to 40 percent in WV. So, i suppose I’ll go ahead and vote Green. If this was a swing-state, Id vote for the Imperialist-drone-murdering-Wall-Street-Loving-Corporatist.

I’m guessing there wont be an 11 hour wait in WV.

w
v

I’m torn. I’m actually considering voting for Biden…I have every other thing filled out on my ballot. But I live in California, and Biden is going to DOUBLE Trump’s vote tally in this state.

Well, the Rams put their money into the secondary. This isn’t the 70s. It’s a passing league. They bought some great secondary players, and compromised on LBs. That could be why we see so many long runs (7-12 yds). The LBs are young, though, and may learn to take better angles over the season.

In any event, the most vital statistic has been, and always will be, the scoreboard.

How did the challenger fare in 1936?

Worked for me. The outcome was never really in doubt from the beginning drive. Solid everywhere. No complaints.

Everett siting, not that I care, but just saying.

A good long throw by Goff. Something we haven’t seen in a while.

Solid game all around except for that kicker guy. Jeeze that guy is going to lose us a game at some point.

Yeah. I…yeah.

I don’t have anything to offer except that humans are complicated, and good people do bad things, and stupid things, and that includes the Left.

One of the reasons I love Vonnegut so much is that he saw humans as “bungled and botched.” And in his worldview, his sympathies were with common people. But he also had a knack for portraying the “fabulously well-to-do” as common people as well. He held an equalizing vision of humans. That…regardless of station…we are all just bungled and botched. Rich Poor. Left Right. Old Young.

And he had compassion for that.

And I find myself circling back to that whenever I am feeling particularly self-righteous. Which is too often.

I guess what I’m saying is…don’t expect too much from people.

Is this the new “tweets” thread?

Fox News has issues with the way this candidate debated pic.twitter.com/CB7DuemcVz

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 9, 2020

Just in case there is any confusion, I would like to clear up my position on this team.

I hate them.

And changing their name does not mitigate that whatsoever. I still hate them. For reasons, good ones, too.

So… I will be rooting for the Rams to win this game.

Just wanted to clarify that.

Radical left: Healthcare plz

Radical right: let’s kidnap a Governor

— Dary Rezvani for SCCCD Trustee Area 3 🎃 (@DaryRezvani) October 8, 2020

Undefeated. The internet.

You’re welcome…pic.twitter.com/9P2rcPJOxt

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 7, 2020

Yeah. I agree with that. My experience, too. One of my idiot right wing brothers is condescending, but he’s an exception.

I fight it all the time, too. Even with allies, like liberals who are suddenly seeing things from a left perspective, and I’m all…oh, great. You just noticed that. Cool, cool. Like I’m talking to a 5-year old who just showed me that they got 80% of the lines right on a connect-the-dots sheet.

So people hate that, and with good reason.

wv wrote:

Well, its very tempting for leftists like us, to think the best strategy for HIM would be to lean left. But is that really accurate? I am not convinced.

I keep thinking about the senate: 99-1.

If i were a corporate-dem, why in the hell would i trust the folks who got the “1” elected, instead of the folks that got the 99 elected.

Sure the polls say, 60 or 70 percent of folks want M4A etc. But they dont VOTE that way do they. I mean even in a DEM primary, Biden beat Bernie. Straight up. Liberals/Dems had a choice — and they chose AGAINST the leftist.

So why would Biden lean left? If i were his evil-political-adviser I’d tell Biden to do just what he’s doing. Be bland, and lean towards Right-Center. The DNC strategy.

I hate it. But it is what it is.

w
v

I was pondering the old conundrum last night about why so many people vote for the GOP, counter to their own interests. And I was thinking that part of it is that those voters, like Trump supporters, are really low information voters, ya know. Nothing new there. But that doesn’t answer the question. They’re low information either way, so how does the GOP get their allegiance?

And then I thought, well, the GOP appeals to their core…values/lifestyle/myths…whatever. A lot of these people just wanna go to work, have a beer with friends, watch UFC, go to church, shoot some birds, ride their motorbikes, raft the river, whatever. No time to watch BS on the news, or read Atlantic Monthly. It’s not their thing. Life is immediate and local. So the GOP just taps into their gut instincts, their biases, their prejudices, and does so without fearing that they, as governors, will ever be inspected for their actions. These people aren’t following the budgets, or the political movements that swirl in Yemen. The GOP goes straight for the Id, and sometimes the Ego.

Democrats, OTOH, want to REASON with these people. Educate them on how their policies are better for them, and they are amazed when nobody bites that bait.

So…I start wondering WHY the Liberals/Left don’t go for the Id appeals as well. I mean…why not?

And I think that it’s because the Left and Right see other people differently. I am considering that maybe the Right actually has an advantage because they think of the masses as a commodity. People are widgets. They are just a different category of Materials necessary to conduct business on the one hand, and potential consumers of services and products on the other hand. They don’t care about the “human” aspects of their lives whatsoever. They are just there like clay, or steel, or tariffs, or tax breaks…just Things that need to be manipulated to their advantage. Appealing to their Id is just an efficient way to do that.

Liberals and the Left give them a little more credit than that. They see them as people with human concerns. But they see them as uneducated and, frankly, sometimes stupid. They are raw humans, Uncultivated Humans. So they/we are driven to try to appeal to them through a variety of “Don’t you see that THIS is in your best interest, and THAT is not?” kind of things, and then get frustrated when they turn the channel to The Masked Singer. Ultimately, I think that Liberals tend to look DOWN on the masses because they are FAILING TO GRASP THINGS. And the Left tends to be condescending to everybody, including Liberals, and even other Leftists.

Well…they HATE being condescended to. Everybody hates being condescended to. And here is where the Right has an advantage. They aren’t condescending to these people because they don’t place any human value on them in the first place. Nobody gets condescending to a horse because it’s a fucking horse. You harness it, and put it to use. So the Right can saddle up the masses partly because they don’t expect anything from them except their direct service. The left wants to…you know…SAVE them. Make their lives better. And when they don’t cooperate, well, it’s because they are Deplorable. They’re morons. They’re backwoods hicks and rubes and yokels.

So the GOP can bang the identity drums, and the people will march because they hear the drumming, and they feel welcomed.

The Democrats are hamstrung because they are trying to herd cats with shit like “Build Back Better,” whatever the fuck THAT is supposed to mean. And the Democrats don’t really have anything to offer because they aren’t committed to running on anything that will actually change lives. So it’s easy for the GOP to paint them as the party of giving away crap to OTHER people. And that’s totally believable because they certainly aren’t giving anything to ME. To US. To anybody in MY neighborhood. They’re trying to appeal to the masses without offering them a vision of anything other than Hope and Change and Harmony on the one hand, and a tall stack of Policy Papers on the other. Those just aren’t drumbeats that get them very far.

Biden is running as a Rorschach Test. He is largely a vacuum with an invitation to everybody to believe he is whatever they want him to be.

Yeah, that Noteboom comment was very interesting. I never woulda noticed that in a thousand years. He’s due back Week 6, apparently.