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  • You would be amazed what people who have been around for 70 years or more should know but don’t.

    My mother is 83. She doesn’t live in a hole. She’s doesn’t ignore popular culture, or at least didn’t until she was probably in her late 60s.

    I told her my daughter went to a Steve Miller Band concert. Did she say, “oh, they’re still around?” No. She said, “who?”

    And then I sang “The Joker” and “Jet Airliner” and she still had no idea.








  • Maybe you have a drain phobia? Mr. Rogers had a song one day on his show called “you can never go down the drain” which was supposed to stop kids who were scared of that happening… but until he sang that song, the concept of me going down a drain was not something I had considered, so I was terrified of it for years and had to jump out of the bath the minute my mom pulled the plug.

    On the other hand, you’re probably not as weird as I am, so you probably just forgot.







  • The average voters is low-information, doesn’t pay attention, and assumes both sides frequently lie.

    Voters have always been low-information. This isn’t anything new.

    Then it isn’t the fault of the Harris campaign.

    The entire reason we have primaries is that it forces candidates to actually try their hand at mass appeal and to take the temperature of the electorate.

    That would not make a difference if voters have always been low-information.

    You can blame it on those who don’t vote, but the truth is that most people pay attention to politics only tangentially. If you, as a political operator, didn’t find a way to reach these voters, you have failed.

    You mean like have multiple TV channels and foreign governments pump out endless propaganda? You’re right, the real issue in America is that there’s no Democrat version of Fox News, Newsmax, etc. and they haven’t reached out to Putin for help.

    Also, this is nothing like Reagan/Mondale. Reagan never said he would be a dictator. Reagan never quoted Hitler.



  • You still don’t get it.

    It isn’t about voting for Harris.

    It’s about voting against Trump.

    You can give me all sorts of reasons why Harris wasn’t an appealing candidate. It’s not relevant. Trump was a clear and present danger.

    I don’t give a shit about whether or not people liked her or whatever their idealistic reasons not to vote for her were. None of them justify allowing Trump to take office by refusing stop him from doing it. That is on people who refused to vote or vote third party. You were not going to get the candidate you wanted this year. You were a fool if you didn’t know that.


  • They had a reason to vote.

    Their reason was that a rapist fascist who quoted Hitler and clearly has dementia that promised to deport millions of people and be a dictator on day one only had a 50/50 chance of being president.

    And they didn’t care because they didn’t like Kamala Harris much. Was she any of those things? No. But her boss is funding the same genocide in Israel that Trump said to Netanyahu “finish the job” about on national television, so no one better vote for her either!

    Sorry, not a good enough reason to not stop Trump. Not a good enough reason to refuse to vote. Not a good enough reason to vote third party.

    For fuck’s sake, do you think people voted for Joe Biden in 2020 because they thought he would be a terrific president?