Presidential debate

I didn't watch it. Nothing either one could say would change my mind that the felon Trump is not a viable candidate. The policies are a choice between centrist, that boost the economy and pay down the debt to get real value for the dollars, and far right wing grifter policy nihilism. Not a hard choice for me. Erode women's right to choose versus trying to hold the line on the onslaught of far right wing shenanigans that distract from climate change and the disappearing middle class.

I can't tell if the hysteria about Biden's performance is real or just right wing shrilling. The NY Times has been against Biden, so their editorial doesn't surprise me. Guess they're not going to play at bothsidesism on that one.

Anyway, Biden's age is why we have a vice president. A black woman who isn't far right wing is unacceptable. I think the first woman to be elected president will be right wing. But slipping in the side door? A black woman? Who isn't right wing? Na, that's something you have to fight with all the papers you own and all the TV news networks you own. We'd get a hysterical backlash that we got for and after Obama. America is just too racist and misogynist to take it. Nobody is saying anything about policy, it's gut reaction to how people look.

I'm not even sure swapping in Gavin Newsom would be the right thing. I mean he is a good and capable politician and would run the country fine from the center, though since he's from California the right would be twitchy, they're always twitchy. We have to take care of that twitchiness, or they release the hounds. They couldn't be twitchy about his color or his gender. He's against all the killing done because we have the world's laxest gun laws. That alone makes the right quiver with righteous indignation.

I believe policy is the most important thing. What are we doing about global warming? What are we doing to curb the excesses of capitalism? Can we build a better society through taxation and the redistribution of wealth? Anyway, centrists don't really go very far with all that, they make small gestures. The checks and balances work on the right.

Meanwhile the egregious rulings from the illegitimate supreme court continue.

4th of July. I think the era of the liberal media bias is over. Biden has a bad debate because he's under the weather, and everyone is howling for him to resign.

Trump has 36 felonies, reports of his pedophilia come out, raping a 14 year old girl, and gosh didn't he try to overthrow the democratic election of Biden, gosh, hasn't he done about 20 horrible things, but nobody asks him to step out of the race. We have a media owned by oligarchs, who want their grubby tax break, and that's all they care about. Pathetic.

With the recent supreme court rulings, I'd say America is dead. This might be the last election. But sure, Biden is the problem. Just pointing out only Biden's cognitive decline is a choice. It's not newsworthy to show Trump rambling about some nonsense. That's expected and acceptable somehow.

Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

AOC

Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson , a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base." While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion: And then: I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos . He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, o...

6 month old podcast

Al Franken has a podcast , and he has my favorite Heather Cox Richardson , and they have an interesting discussion. He talks about the knife edge. She really explains the Republican strategy. Flood the zone with shit. Alternate facts, and fake news opens up the idea that there is no reality. It's basically reality versus false reality. The goal is to both get people to back away from politics, and to tell them how to specifically think. Developed in Russia, a system of overturning democracy. Running fake candidates, who switch parties, and running candidates with the same name. Blackmail is a technique. Create a fake reality that people come to believe. They're willing to vote for a narrative is not true, and they're willing to vote away their rights. You can flip it and use the same tools.You can weaponize social media by ignoring the shit, and fight back against all these techniques. People defend democracy. They're talking about community and caring for people and ...

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