.@DouthatNYT is falling for what disaster mgmt folks call the "paradox of preparedness": that when preparedness efforts prevent really bad things from happening, people who didn't see all the planning then claim that the threat of those disasters was exaggerated to begin with. https://t.co/buliKojyUO
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) November 7, 2020
Most people fall for that, e.g. Y2K where “nothing happened.”
Well, fuckfaces, there’s a reason nothing happened!
We need to get the fuck out of this country.
Yay! Four years of slightly less evil! I am so excited!
It’s good that Trump is gone. It’s not good that Biden (really Kamala) will be president. How can anyone get excited about that?
The first ten on today’s playlist:
To return to something I wrote here earlier, the trouble with telling people to think for themselves is that they cannot. They’ve never learned to do so. I got there by accident, by neglect. How to do that for most people with making them walk the path I did?
That’s the problem, n’est-ce pas?
The proof that you deserve to be Galactic Overlord is that you are Galactic Overlord.
I'm sure others are looking at this, and we can't do a full accounting until all the state returns are verified, but so far it looks the weighted averages of state polls were off almost entirely in the same direction. The polling data are simple weighted avgs from 538. pic.twitter.com/r070psBKJy
— 💀💀 Stefan Wojcik 💀💀 (@stefanjwojcik) November 7, 2020
BELIEVE SCIENCE! And trust the spreadsheet jockeys (say the spreadsheet jockeys).
Of course we know that what the “experts” in this case, poorly-trained quants, have to say is complete bullshit and has little to do with science, but the official position is that it’s science, so that’s why I attack it so fiercely.
In reality, it’s not worth a warm bucket of Trump sweat as this graph shows.
It’s press malpractice that Arizona and Nevada haven’t been called for Biden yet. It’s clear that Trump has absolutely zero chance there now. Not calling those states just gives Trump more time to claim the election is rigged.
But the American press do the right thing? Nah, of course not.
One of the reasons I can understand voting for Donald Trump is that if many libs had their way, we’d have our doors welded shut China-style, strapped to a bed wearing goggles and masks and only permitted out of the house once a year in a hazmat suit.
Ok, I am exaggerating a little, but not that much. But I can understand voting against that sort of hell-world.
I did not vote for Trump, by the way.
But the Trump voters are all just racists, right? All those racist Muslims, uh, and even more black people than in 2016 (still not many, but…) and Latinos. Yeah, all those classic racists.
Most of the racists vote for Trump, sure, but not everyone who votes for Trump is a racist. Or a Putinoid.
I’m grateful we didn’t have Twitter in 2000. https://t.co/tSGQYf2Rvw
— Greg Shill (@greg_shill) November 5, 2020
Yes it was. The average age of reporters seems to be about 25-28, and that I guess explains why even recent history they have no clue about. They were only 5-8 years old at the time.
But 2000 was a lot more agonizing than this and lasted far longer.
Alright, let’s talk about this “surprised it wasn’t a landslide” idea: Sweet Jesus, this IS a landslide. It took absolutely EVERYTHING we had. We are beating a system designed to not be beaten. Militias, voter suppression, gerrymandering, the racist Electoral College…
— Mike Monteiro🌹 (@monteiro) November 6, 2020
LOL. Look at this weak-ass Dem horseshit cringe cope wankery.
This is why these numpties lose elections.
My borough has closed athletics tracks, but I have a key and will ignore. https://t.co/d9R3bXGuPM
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) November 5, 2020
The only valid response to lockdowns now is to evade, ignore, decline and resist.
This isn’t about the pandemic anymore. It’s about destroying small and medium businesses and control. And our vast incompetence in both the UK and the US.
President Joe Biden can't do anything without the Senate but President Donald Trump was a fascist dictator or something.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 5, 2020
When Biden is in office all you’ll hear is how he has no power at all, can’t do anything, is totally beholden to McConnell, Mother Goose, the Isley Brothers, and Borat. After all, that’s what we heard all through Obama’s two terms — that the White House pages and his pets had more power than he did.
Meanwhile, Trump has been portrayed as an omnipotent destructive force with unlimited authority and capabilities by the very same people who claimed Obama had no power and will also claim that Biden has none.
Dems never seem to realize the vast inconsistency of their views here.
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— M&S (@marksandspencer) November 5, 2020
I for one do not want a bite of Santa’s Yumnut.
No thank you.