A good friend called “bullshit” on my suggestion that the 2020 election was shady.
In a kidding-not kidding way, he diagnosed me as having had a mental breakdown. My experience bringing automation into heavy manufacturing plants required me to develop a thick skin. I take no offense, and interpret my buddy as not kidding about his actual puzzlement at my election assertion.
The Democratic Party is off in the weeds. They are making excuses for lunatics, and it would be better off if they weren’t.
The Republicans took the House, Senate and presidency, but only because Democrats made it happen. Not the Democratic Party, they are off in the weeds, but people who were Democrats not too long ago. Trump wasn’t a Republican when he was a TV personality and real estate developer in NYC. He was the first president to take office in favor of gay marriage.
Establishment Republicans don’t have to learn a lesson from this because Trump has pushed most of them out of office.
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, there were many Twitter posts from celebrities and influencers describing poignant reactions from their young children. The posts were too on-the-nose, and people called bullshit. This time, it’s “Just So” stories purported to have been written by high school girls or teachers.
Being a heterodox free-thinker, students would occasionally ask if I believed in conspiracy theories. A group of people colluding on a secret plan to do something sneaky? Sure, conspiracies happen all the time. Of course they meant “conspiracy theories”, like faking the Moon landing or something along that line.
You shouldn’t read any further because I intend to discuss a conspiracy theory.
I’m not an alcoholic or participant in any 12-step programs, but the Serenity Prayer seems like a broadly useful sentiment.
Survey to identify your ideology.
Vote for whomever you’d like, it’s none of my business. So close to the presidential election, it gets stupid. This year is stupider than usual. Trump gave a big speech at Madison Square Garden, just like the Nazis. Harris gave a big speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., just like the KKK. Like I said, stupid.
The I Side With survey is only about policy questions. All of the policy questions, it’s very long, but you don’t have to answer all of them. It seems more nuanced because it asks if how much you like a policy and how much you care about that policy.
At the end, the survey provides the candidates who are most compatible with the survey-takers answers, along with political party and ideology. I’m just “Right-Wing”, which is kind of disappointing. I like to think I’m more sophisticated than that.
Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the first person of notoriety to predict that Trump would win the 2016 presidential election. This was very early on, when there were 16 people in the Republican primary. Adams was careful not to endorse Trump, he just recognized that Trump had a gift for persuasion.
LA Times: Three things might help Biden
The answers fall into three broad categories: Over the next seven months, voters could begin feeling better about the country; a larger share of them could begin to warm to Biden; or the president could win votes from people who disapprove of him.
Compared to the last Trump v. Biden election, Biden doesn’t have much help. Last time, the broad categories of game-changers was more impressive.
Prestigious news organizations like NPR and NYT intentionally suppressed news coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop. They surrendered all of their integrity, but the people on top will land on their feet.
The Obama administration recruited foreign and domestic spy agencies to assist in investigating and impugning a candidate for president of the United States.
Social media companies complied with directives from the federal government to censor and manipulate free speech on their platforms.
With Biden’s frailty and unpopularity, we expect the DNC to pull a rabbit out of it’s hat. It won’t have to be a much of a rabbit, and nobody will ever see the hat, but corporate media will paper over any issues.
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