I’m not surprised with the “results” of this poll, just as I am not surprised with the intellectual capacity of most Americans. I worked with so many of these bozos at my job and their ignorance of history and politics is bottomless. The main reason why RFK Jr. scores so high is mostly name recognition from his father and uncle, nothing …
I’m not surprised with the “results” of this poll, just as I am not surprised with the intellectual capacity of most Americans. I worked with so many of these bozos at my job and their ignorance of history and politics is bottomless. The main reason why RFK Jr. scores so high is mostly name recognition from his father and uncle, nothing else. Same with trump from his reality(?) TV days…it’s the brand, nothing else…
in the case of this sometimes ex-junkie headed for another slip (the grandiosity will do it this time, I'm thinking), I'd say 90% of it is name recognition. for some reason, this country LOVES the idea of being "saved" by a Kennedy. granting JFK's good sense during the Cuban missile crisis, when else has this ever been true. Teddy was a very good senator (the vagaries of his personal life being irrelevant), but this guy is an asshole pure and simple. and a crook.
I'm also prepared to boycott any and all of the Big Hollywood Assholes who are campaigning for him because celebrities must stick together or something.
I keep trying my thought experiment about what happens if TFF actually "wins" (which, if it comes, will occur with another popular vote loss), but I can't really get past the first day or two. that none of this will have much effect on me or the people I'm closest to is no consolation whatsoever.
on Sunday, I put off as long as possible peeking into the NYT Sunday Opinion section. then I did, only to discover that in swing states, there is a general understanding that TFF was much better at "The Economy." a lot of people are angry at the lockdowns (which really DID fuck things up, but everywhere in the world) and the inflation (about which Biden has the power to do almost nothing). how is it they don't remember who initiated said lockdowns? how quickly they've forgotten the delicious irony that TFF's "greatest accomplishment" was vaccine development and then BANG!...it was TFF's biggest flaw. but hey, people forgot about that fact within, like, a week.
as for those parents who want to keep their kids' immune systems exactly the way god made them, this is gonna sound very cold and lose me some friends but...when they're staying up all night while their kids make horrible whooping cough noises or spend four or five days burning up with measles (I averaged almost 105 degrees for about that long) or get German measles, give it to their pregnant moms and have to deal with a disabled kid or end up with a dead kid who didn't have to die...(you get the picture)..when these things happen, it'll be on them. just as the vax deniers were very happy to let US "die off," I have no problem wishing some equally bad shit on them.
with any luck, I'll look at this post later and it'll mortify me and I'll remove it.
I’m not surprised with the “results” of this poll, just as I am not surprised with the intellectual capacity of most Americans. I worked with so many of these bozos at my job and their ignorance of history and politics is bottomless. The main reason why RFK Jr. scores so high is mostly name recognition from his father and uncle, nothing else. Same with trump from his reality(?) TV days…it’s the brand, nothing else…
in the case of this sometimes ex-junkie headed for another slip (the grandiosity will do it this time, I'm thinking), I'd say 90% of it is name recognition. for some reason, this country LOVES the idea of being "saved" by a Kennedy. granting JFK's good sense during the Cuban missile crisis, when else has this ever been true. Teddy was a very good senator (the vagaries of his personal life being irrelevant), but this guy is an asshole pure and simple. and a crook.
I'm also prepared to boycott any and all of the Big Hollywood Assholes who are campaigning for him because celebrities must stick together or something.
I keep trying my thought experiment about what happens if TFF actually "wins" (which, if it comes, will occur with another popular vote loss), but I can't really get past the first day or two. that none of this will have much effect on me or the people I'm closest to is no consolation whatsoever.
on Sunday, I put off as long as possible peeking into the NYT Sunday Opinion section. then I did, only to discover that in swing states, there is a general understanding that TFF was much better at "The Economy." a lot of people are angry at the lockdowns (which really DID fuck things up, but everywhere in the world) and the inflation (about which Biden has the power to do almost nothing). how is it they don't remember who initiated said lockdowns? how quickly they've forgotten the delicious irony that TFF's "greatest accomplishment" was vaccine development and then BANG!...it was TFF's biggest flaw. but hey, people forgot about that fact within, like, a week.
as for those parents who want to keep their kids' immune systems exactly the way god made them, this is gonna sound very cold and lose me some friends but...when they're staying up all night while their kids make horrible whooping cough noises or spend four or five days burning up with measles (I averaged almost 105 degrees for about that long) or get German measles, give it to their pregnant moms and have to deal with a disabled kid or end up with a dead kid who didn't have to die...(you get the picture)..when these things happen, it'll be on them. just as the vax deniers were very happy to let US "die off," I have no problem wishing some equally bad shit on them.
with any luck, I'll look at this post later and it'll mortify me and I'll remove it.
but I'm not feeling lucky today.