He's trying to imitate Obama's "adult in the room" and it was dumb then. Obama won in a landslide, though, so watch everyone copy that.
Whatever. Biden himself is a placeholder. What Democrats should be doing is their own tea party. Primary everyone. Move the country to the left. Make fossils like Pelosi and Schumer terrified of their own voters until they start offering worker protections and green energy. I want them to see AOC's face in their dreams.
I never thought I’d go into the comments section of a baseball newsletter and get a mini-education on fine cheeses. This is fantastic and now I have to make a run to the store!
The Senate’s not quite dead yet. Alaska and NC haven’t been called, although I expect Sullivan and Thillis to hold on. God fucking dammit Cal, did you really have to put your affair in writing? It’s fucking 2020, how are we not smarter than this by now? But Jon Ossof is about 2,000 votes from forcing a runoff against Perdue, and he should get there. Runoffs in Georgia decdedly favor Republicans, but the specter of SCOTUS striking down the ACA and the GOP obviously having no plan to replace it at the same time as McConnell stonewalls any stimulus deal because he’d rather America suffer for two years rather than things go well for people under a Democratic president might give us the extra 2% or so necessary to get this thing over the line.
And yes, if Biden does wind up flipping GA, I am taking full and personal credit for the win after moving here in January. Why do you ask?
I’ve had to be somewhat subtle about it - working at a country club makes it tough to go around handing out copies of Das Kapital - but COVID has been a pressure point I’ve been massaging. And all the people I work with not on health benefit? Yeah, I’ve got the in with them if the ACA goes down.
Your Serpentor analogy comes up short since it turned out that Serpentor was not really an improvement on Cobra Commander. Also, He wasn’t as interesting a villain as the guy in the steel mask.
Boy, we wasted a lot of our youth watching that, didn’t we?
No, we did not. We *enjoyed* a lot of our youth watching. Was it transparently pro-military? Yes. Am I a pacifist? Also yes. Did I love the crap out of GI Joe toys and cartoons? HELL yes. My friends and I paused our baseball games, baseball card trading, and set up all kinds of forts and scenarios with GI Joes. I loved it enough that I was upset with the "masked" cobra commander vs. the steel face commander.
I am here with you in absolute disillusionment, and have been here for a while. One point you made is an intense source of frustration for me: Republicans writ large were not punished for their abetting of Trump's corruption and the corruption of his administration and their colleagues. Part of the reason for this, in my mind, is that both this nominee and the last one of have clung to the idea, perhaps delusionally but more likely cynically, that there are decent Republican politicians in spite of all evidence to the contrary. The top of the ticket and the rest of Democratic leadership from the moment Trump became the Republican nominee and through to now have acted as if he is an aberration rather than a continuation of the conservative project, which stands solely for the accumulation of power, the enrichment of the wealthy elite and the destruction and immiseration of the poor and the marginalised. It would be one thing if this were play-acting as part of a winning political strategy, but it could not be more clear that one-sided appeals to decency and bipartisanship are absolutely never rewarded by voters. I would give anything for a culling of the ossified Democratic establishment in favor of a new generation that recognises Republicans for what they are - a malign force that must be obliterated - and one that is willing to affirmatively fight for the core principles the Democratic party ostensibly stands for, rather than bend over backwards to apologise for it.
My theory is lasting change won't happen until every Democrat who remembers McGovern (or Reagan) is dead. They're all scared of being tarred as leftists and behave accordingly. And do nothing.
1. The prices. No, seriously. THE PRICES. It's almost as if things don't need to cost as much as other stores tell me they do.
2. Bagging my own stuff. Should I put the cookies in with the produce? Probably not. But can I? Yes. FREEDOM!
3. I came here for eggs and cereal, but now I'm leaving with eggs, cereal, a six pack of socks, and a pressure cooker that costs half the price it does anywhere else.
Is Grocery Outlet a national thing? We don't have Aldi in the PNW (I remember it from living in Chicago), but Grocery Outlet is fantastic. All kinds of weird stuff that didn't go over in regular stores. Cheese and meat that will expire soon. Stuff you love that you'll never see again. All severely discounted.
There is a grocery outlet here in a former outdoor furniture store. the entrance to the parking lot is a stone wall with vines hanging over and GIANT vases on either side of the driveway
I did it once in college. I at nothing but grilled chicken, egg whites, green veggies and black coffee for a month. Of course, I rebounded right after it, but I did it!
Let's not forget, as PL said, he's 21. He could probably look at the scale, say "begone fat" and lose 15 lbs. Meanwhile I looked at a slice of cheesecake yesterday and gained 5lbs. Getting old sucks...
It's possible. Hell, I lost six pounds in the five days pre-election without even trying. Although I doubt Vlad was stressing out over his wife and daughter losing their access to affordable health care.
If you really wanted to be depressed about the real relationship we have with money and power in the country, you have to look at California. Sure, they consistently vote for Democrats, but man, if any issue could possibly cost business an extra penny, it gets shot down like a MiG in every Iron Eagle movie(Live Action GI Joe but with bad-ass Louis Gossett). Ballot Measure 22 passing because Silicon Valley decided it was cheaper to pay 200 million than health insurance to drivers was bad, but I am much more disillusioned by Ballot Measure 15 not passing. God forbid, we tax commercial property at market value. I live in NV, where we have a tax system based upon wishes and fairies (gambling taxes and tiff districts) & even we manage to do better than that.
I live in MA (you can tell, because I mention it in every comment), and we have what's known as Prop 2 and a Half here, which says that local governments can't raise property taxes more than 2.5% a year, without getting approval via a special townwide referendum.
I'm generally the kind of person who believes in taxes as a tool for making society better, but I like Prop 2½. It keeps things consistent and predictable from a municipal budget standpoint, and keeps tax bills down when compared to somewhere like New York, which hasn't had the benefit of decades of property tax price controls.
And importantly, property gets re-assessed every couple of years, which keeps the numbers relatively accurate.
When I heard of California's system for keeping property taxes down, I thought it was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's a ridiculous system that ends up with municipalities raising rates, trying to squeeze everything they can off of a drastically diminished tax base, which makes the headaches worse whenever someone new comes in.
There needs to be some sort of a statewide reset, but I can't even imagine what that would look like. Maybe pitch it as the largest property tax cut in history, because for some people, I'm sure it would be.
The potential problem with Prop 2.5 (Governor Cuomo instituted something similar here in NY some years ago) is if inflation gets bad. I'm old enough to remember the double digit inflation of the late 70s. If something like that happened again, or even a smaller scale thing where one item that's a large portion of local government costs increases exponentially, what are they supposed to do? If their costs go up 15% no one will ever vote for a 15% tax hike.
In NY it's a maximum increase of 2% or the inflation rate, whichever is lower. If the cap was whichever was higher, you'd avoid that potential problem. Or just make the cap the inflation rate and forget the 2%. But maybe inflation is dead for good and I'm worrying unnecessarily, I don't know.
I don't know about inflation being gone for good (people are way too confident for my liking after QE and the recovery from 2008 failed to drive the needle up even a little bit), but 70s-era stagflation doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
Now, the scary part is, as best as I can tell, the general economic consensus is "Well that was weird and unfortunate," without being able to pinpoint a root cause, but, as someone who doesn't have bad memories of that time seared into my mind (for better and for worse), I'm fine with policy made for general cases, and trusting that people can learn and vote for things as they come up (while simultaneously hoping that few municipal budgets hinge on the ability for voters to dive in and read)
As a Californian, I rather like Prop 13. Yes, it only allows property to be reassessed to market value when it is sold (otherwise value goes up 2% per year), but remember property values here are very high. This keeps seniors and families from getting driven from their homes by property tax increases. That was the motivation for Prop 13 in the first place.
For example, I live in an 1880 square foot tract home built in 1979. My lot is under 5,000 square feet. We have zero lot lines. On one side the distance between my house and my neighbor's is about 8 feet. There is nothing unique or special about this house. It is worth $1.1 million, but I only paid about half that when we bought our house in 2003. If I move one town over my same house is about $1.3 million, two towns over $1.5 million. If my house was reassessed to market value every year, I probably couldn't afford it, and neither could my neighbors. Luckily, my tax assessment only goes up a little each year so we can afford to keep living here.
You like it because it helps your bottom line. It doesn't help society.
I am a property tax mooch too, I bought 15 years ago. My upstairs neighbors pay twice as much as me in property tax I cannot afford to move again, will leave this apt feet first.
Prop 13 was a reaction to stagflation. The then system needed reform. that is fine and good. But it over corrected with a formula pulled out of thin air, gave corporations a MONUMENTAL tax break because big commercial properties never "change owners" in the same way that houses did. Prop 13 also made it virtually impossible to change.
Yes, the 1970s sucked with inflation and a smarter system was needed, but Prop 13 was bad bad bad and took our schools and neighborhoods down with it.
Yes. I like it because it helps me. I think it helps others, too. On commercial properties it can be a giveaway to big corporations, but we just changed that on Tuesday.
I'm sure it was zero, but when the time comes it will STILL be a sin against baseball even worse than casting a righty New Yorker as Shoeless Joe Jackson (Craig's not the ONLY one who can post bait...)
There's a reason that Second and Short tend to be...spotty...as hitters. It's hard to find someone with the skills needed at those two AND find a good hitter. You can balance most of the rest (although catchers can be a little variable as well)
Because in the scheme of things, it's not important. The only pitcher I can think of who was arguably an above average hitter overall is Micah Owings, and he couldn't pitch well enough to provide even average value. Other "good" hitting pitchers (Mike Hampton, Brooks Kieschnick, Zach Greinke, Carlos Zambrano) have maybe 1 or 2 years where they even provide 1 WAR with the bat. The variance between good a bad hitting pitchers average probably 1 WAR, while the variance between good an bad pitchers is 6-8 WAR. There's nothing to be gained by working on hitting at the expense of pitching.
Having the DH makes watching 4 at bats a game more enjoyable to watch. And keeps the better position players on the field longer and allows a starting pitcher to go as long as they, in the managers opinion, is the best pitcher for that game.
It's objectively *better* baseball. The trade off is "stategery" which since its rote that the manager bunts and pinch hits at the exact same times, it really is more plugging in the formula. And with pitchers throwing fewer and fewer innings, we are coming to the point where starters will get 1 AB, then a string of DHs will hit in their place.
I feel like I’m missing something. There was a line at Aldi yesterday morning, and most of them wanted cheese Advent calendars? Is November 4 a known advent calendar release date? Was there a NextDoor post about where to find these calendars? It doesn’t surprise me that there might be a special demand due to some new trend, but I don’t see what was special about yesterday.
I think they were mostly there for the wine advent calendars. And yes, Aldi released theirs yesterday. I didn't see it on NextDoor, but Allison saw it someplace on Facebook.
Went to an automat in Amsterdam a few years ago, it was great!
The best result of this election may not be a Biden presidency...it's the possibility of a Trump-led 3rd party. Or at the least, a vocal Trump sowing division within the repub party.
It's sort of shameful being a Democrat these days, because the party just doesn't understand how to campaign. When Trump was in the "hospital" with "COVID" Biden for some reason paused his "attack ads" in respect for POTUS's condition. NO! You double down then, man. You cause and effect those racists to death. You show pictures of their leader in washed out colors saying he's sick. I mean, it's not Dudley Do-Right, but that's not even a paved low road.
Democrats don't really know how to govern either. The choice is between hydrochloric acid and argon. One party is destroying everything it touches while the other one is totally inert.
When the crash happened some people wantd Obama tp "stop campaigning" out of "respect" and he refused saying the country wanted a leader. Biden seems to think it's all about collegiality and not scaring old people.
Disturbingly, when you think about it the only thing that kept Trump from winning reelection was the bad luck of Covid occurring. Yes, he bungled it badly. But even countries that handled it reasonably well (Germany for example) still are having problems now. And no matter how it was handled it was going to result in a massive economic and employment downturn. As close as it is now, is there any doubt that without that massive mess Trump would have won?
He's trying to imitate Obama's "adult in the room" and it was dumb then. Obama won in a landslide, though, so watch everyone copy that.
Whatever. Biden himself is a placeholder. What Democrats should be doing is their own tea party. Primary everyone. Move the country to the left. Make fossils like Pelosi and Schumer terrified of their own voters until they start offering worker protections and green energy. I want them to see AOC's face in their dreams.
I never thought I’d go into the comments section of a baseball newsletter and get a mini-education on fine cheeses. This is fantastic and now I have to make a run to the store!
If only they'd let people from Covid plagued America in.
The Senate’s not quite dead yet. Alaska and NC haven’t been called, although I expect Sullivan and Thillis to hold on. God fucking dammit Cal, did you really have to put your affair in writing? It’s fucking 2020, how are we not smarter than this by now? But Jon Ossof is about 2,000 votes from forcing a runoff against Perdue, and he should get there. Runoffs in Georgia decdedly favor Republicans, but the specter of SCOTUS striking down the ACA and the GOP obviously having no plan to replace it at the same time as McConnell stonewalls any stimulus deal because he’d rather America suffer for two years rather than things go well for people under a Democratic president might give us the extra 2% or so necessary to get this thing over the line.
And yes, if Biden does wind up flipping GA, I am taking full and personal credit for the win after moving here in January. Why do you ask?
I’ve had to be somewhat subtle about it - working at a country club makes it tough to go around handing out copies of Das Kapital - but COVID has been a pressure point I’ve been massaging. And all the people I work with not on health benefit? Yeah, I’ve got the in with them if the ACA goes down.
Your Serpentor analogy comes up short since it turned out that Serpentor was not really an improvement on Cobra Commander. Also, He wasn’t as interesting a villain as the guy in the steel mask.
Boy, we wasted a lot of our youth watching that, didn’t we?
No, we did not. We *enjoyed* a lot of our youth watching. Was it transparently pro-military? Yes. Am I a pacifist? Also yes. Did I love the crap out of GI Joe toys and cartoons? HELL yes. My friends and I paused our baseball games, baseball card trading, and set up all kinds of forts and scenarios with GI Joes. I loved it enough that I was upset with the "masked" cobra commander vs. the steel face commander.
I am here with you in absolute disillusionment, and have been here for a while. One point you made is an intense source of frustration for me: Republicans writ large were not punished for their abetting of Trump's corruption and the corruption of his administration and their colleagues. Part of the reason for this, in my mind, is that both this nominee and the last one of have clung to the idea, perhaps delusionally but more likely cynically, that there are decent Republican politicians in spite of all evidence to the contrary. The top of the ticket and the rest of Democratic leadership from the moment Trump became the Republican nominee and through to now have acted as if he is an aberration rather than a continuation of the conservative project, which stands solely for the accumulation of power, the enrichment of the wealthy elite and the destruction and immiseration of the poor and the marginalised. It would be one thing if this were play-acting as part of a winning political strategy, but it could not be more clear that one-sided appeals to decency and bipartisanship are absolutely never rewarded by voters. I would give anything for a culling of the ossified Democratic establishment in favor of a new generation that recognises Republicans for what they are - a malign force that must be obliterated - and one that is willing to affirmatively fight for the core principles the Democratic party ostensibly stands for, rather than bend over backwards to apologise for it.
My theory is lasting change won't happen until every Democrat who remembers McGovern (or Reagan) is dead. They're all scared of being tarred as leftists and behave accordingly. And do nothing.
They also need their own propaganda network.
Things That Are Great About Aldi:
1. The prices. No, seriously. THE PRICES. It's almost as if things don't need to cost as much as other stores tell me they do.
2. Bagging my own stuff. Should I put the cookies in with the produce? Probably not. But can I? Yes. FREEDOM!
3. I came here for eggs and cereal, but now I'm leaving with eggs, cereal, a six pack of socks, and a pressure cooker that costs half the price it does anywhere else.
4. The brioche buns.
Is Grocery Outlet a national thing? We don't have Aldi in the PNW (I remember it from living in Chicago), but Grocery Outlet is fantastic. All kinds of weird stuff that didn't go over in regular stores. Cheese and meat that will expire soon. Stuff you love that you'll never see again. All severely discounted.
There is a grocery outlet here in a former outdoor furniture store. the entrance to the parking lot is a stone wall with vines hanging over and GIANT vases on either side of the driveway
How do you lose 32 pounds in one month? (Short of surgically having a limb removed) That doesn't sound right.
I wouldn't even think a body could metabolize 32 pounds of fat in a month. But then again, who said the weight loss was all fat?
I was thinking water weight loss, but yeah.
He wasn't REALLY overweight by normal standards. It's not healthy or advisable to drop that weight in a month but figure competitors do it.
NGL, jealous.
I did it once in college. I at nothing but grilled chicken, egg whites, green veggies and black coffee for a month. Of course, I rebounded right after it, but I did it!
Let's not forget, as PL said, he's 21. He could probably look at the scale, say "begone fat" and lose 15 lbs. Meanwhile I looked at a slice of cheesecake yesterday and gained 5lbs. Getting old sucks...
What are they? I'm 38, not handling it well.
Yeah, and his conditioning program is probably a *bit* better than me doing thirty minutes on the elliptical three times a week.
It's possible. Hell, I lost six pounds in the five days pre-election without even trying. Although I doubt Vlad was stressing out over his wife and daughter losing their access to affordable health care.
I don't mean to add to your stress or anything, but they have the 6-3 court. Damage is done. And Breyer dies next.
It was said later that the 32 total pounds was lost since August. He's only lost 12lbs. since the season ended
So we now have pretty clear proof that Trump opted for “vindictive 8-year-old girl” as the tone in his tweets proclaiming victory yesterday
If you really wanted to be depressed about the real relationship we have with money and power in the country, you have to look at California. Sure, they consistently vote for Democrats, but man, if any issue could possibly cost business an extra penny, it gets shot down like a MiG in every Iron Eagle movie(Live Action GI Joe but with bad-ass Louis Gossett). Ballot Measure 22 passing because Silicon Valley decided it was cheaper to pay 200 million than health insurance to drivers was bad, but I am much more disillusioned by Ballot Measure 15 not passing. God forbid, we tax commercial property at market value. I live in NV, where we have a tax system based upon wishes and fairies (gambling taxes and tiff districts) & even we manage to do better than that.
I live in MA (you can tell, because I mention it in every comment), and we have what's known as Prop 2 and a Half here, which says that local governments can't raise property taxes more than 2.5% a year, without getting approval via a special townwide referendum.
I'm generally the kind of person who believes in taxes as a tool for making society better, but I like Prop 2½. It keeps things consistent and predictable from a municipal budget standpoint, and keeps tax bills down when compared to somewhere like New York, which hasn't had the benefit of decades of property tax price controls.
And importantly, property gets re-assessed every couple of years, which keeps the numbers relatively accurate.
When I heard of California's system for keeping property taxes down, I thought it was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's a ridiculous system that ends up with municipalities raising rates, trying to squeeze everything they can off of a drastically diminished tax base, which makes the headaches worse whenever someone new comes in.
There needs to be some sort of a statewide reset, but I can't even imagine what that would look like. Maybe pitch it as the largest property tax cut in history, because for some people, I'm sure it would be.
Wait, a guy named "Patrick O'Sullivan" is from Massachusetts?
NOW I'VE HEARD EVERYTHING
The potential problem with Prop 2.5 (Governor Cuomo instituted something similar here in NY some years ago) is if inflation gets bad. I'm old enough to remember the double digit inflation of the late 70s. If something like that happened again, or even a smaller scale thing where one item that's a large portion of local government costs increases exponentially, what are they supposed to do? If their costs go up 15% no one will ever vote for a 15% tax hike.
In NY it's a maximum increase of 2% or the inflation rate, whichever is lower. If the cap was whichever was higher, you'd avoid that potential problem. Or just make the cap the inflation rate and forget the 2%. But maybe inflation is dead for good and I'm worrying unnecessarily, I don't know.
I don't know about inflation being gone for good (people are way too confident for my liking after QE and the recovery from 2008 failed to drive the needle up even a little bit), but 70s-era stagflation doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
Now, the scary part is, as best as I can tell, the general economic consensus is "Well that was weird and unfortunate," without being able to pinpoint a root cause, but, as someone who doesn't have bad memories of that time seared into my mind (for better and for worse), I'm fine with policy made for general cases, and trusting that people can learn and vote for things as they come up (while simultaneously hoping that few municipal budgets hinge on the ability for voters to dive in and read)
70s double digit inflation is what gave CA prop 13 which is responsible for the shitty property tax scheme here.
California is proof that even if Democrats could be in charge of the White House and Congress they still wouldn't fix anything significant.
As a Californian, I rather like Prop 13. Yes, it only allows property to be reassessed to market value when it is sold (otherwise value goes up 2% per year), but remember property values here are very high. This keeps seniors and families from getting driven from their homes by property tax increases. That was the motivation for Prop 13 in the first place.
For example, I live in an 1880 square foot tract home built in 1979. My lot is under 5,000 square feet. We have zero lot lines. On one side the distance between my house and my neighbor's is about 8 feet. There is nothing unique or special about this house. It is worth $1.1 million, but I only paid about half that when we bought our house in 2003. If I move one town over my same house is about $1.3 million, two towns over $1.5 million. If my house was reassessed to market value every year, I probably couldn't afford it, and neither could my neighbors. Luckily, my tax assessment only goes up a little each year so we can afford to keep living here.
You like it because it helps your bottom line. It doesn't help society.
I am a property tax mooch too, I bought 15 years ago. My upstairs neighbors pay twice as much as me in property tax I cannot afford to move again, will leave this apt feet first.
Prop 13 was a reaction to stagflation. The then system needed reform. that is fine and good. But it over corrected with a formula pulled out of thin air, gave corporations a MONUMENTAL tax break because big commercial properties never "change owners" in the same way that houses did. Prop 13 also made it virtually impossible to change.
Yes, the 1970s sucked with inflation and a smarter system was needed, but Prop 13 was bad bad bad and took our schools and neighborhoods down with it.
Yes. I like it because it helps me. I think it helps others, too. On commercial properties it can be a giveaway to big corporations, but we just changed that on Tuesday.
Unfortunately Prop 15 looks like its not going to pass.
Were the bourbon advent calendars gone too?
A DH comment Craig? DH???
On Free Thursday, with the blatant clickbait??
Far be it from me to suggest your equivalence to a lady of negotiable virtue, but....
It's not an option on Substack, but it's very annoying
I'm sure it was zero, but when the time comes it will STILL be a sin against baseball even worse than casting a righty New Yorker as Shoeless Joe Jackson (Craig's not the ONLY one who can post bait...)
In case it wasn't clear I prefer the DH, but man, the ones who HATE it are way more vocal and irrational than the ones who like it.
There's a reason that Second and Short tend to be...spotty...as hitters. It's hard to find someone with the skills needed at those two AND find a good hitter. You can balance most of the rest (although catchers can be a little variable as well)
I think that all field no hit SS has been trending towards good hit average glove hit well. Plus with shifts its less important
Probably the biggest indictment of pitchers hitting right there. They don't even *pretend* to think it is important, relative to pitching.
Because in the scheme of things, it's not important. The only pitcher I can think of who was arguably an above average hitter overall is Micah Owings, and he couldn't pitch well enough to provide even average value. Other "good" hitting pitchers (Mike Hampton, Brooks Kieschnick, Zach Greinke, Carlos Zambrano) have maybe 1 or 2 years where they even provide 1 WAR with the bat. The variance between good a bad hitting pitchers average probably 1 WAR, while the variance between good an bad pitchers is 6-8 WAR. There's nothing to be gained by working on hitting at the expense of pitching.
Having the DH makes watching 4 at bats a game more enjoyable to watch. And keeps the better position players on the field longer and allows a starting pitcher to go as long as they, in the managers opinion, is the best pitcher for that game.
It's objectively *better* baseball. The trade off is "stategery" which since its rote that the manager bunts and pinch hits at the exact same times, it really is more plugging in the formula. And with pitchers throwing fewer and fewer innings, we are coming to the point where starters will get 1 AB, then a string of DHs will hit in their place.
I would totally watch a game where players had to cover all 9 positions during a game
I feel like I’m missing something. There was a line at Aldi yesterday morning, and most of them wanted cheese Advent calendars? Is November 4 a known advent calendar release date? Was there a NextDoor post about where to find these calendars? It doesn’t surprise me that there might be a special demand due to some new trend, but I don’t see what was special about yesterday.
I think they were mostly there for the wine advent calendars. And yes, Aldi released theirs yesterday. I didn't see it on NextDoor, but Allison saw it someplace on Facebook.
Went to an automat in Amsterdam a few years ago, it was great!
The best result of this election may not be a Biden presidency...it's the possibility of a Trump-led 3rd party. Or at the least, a vocal Trump sowing division within the repub party.
3rd party ain't ever gonna happen.
It's sort of shameful being a Democrat these days, because the party just doesn't understand how to campaign. When Trump was in the "hospital" with "COVID" Biden for some reason paused his "attack ads" in respect for POTUS's condition. NO! You double down then, man. You cause and effect those racists to death. You show pictures of their leader in washed out colors saying he's sick. I mean, it's not Dudley Do-Right, but that's not even a paved low road.
Democrats don't really know how to govern either. The choice is between hydrochloric acid and argon. One party is destroying everything it touches while the other one is totally inert.
When the crash happened some people wantd Obama tp "stop campaigning" out of "respect" and he refused saying the country wanted a leader. Biden seems to think it's all about collegiality and not scaring old people.
Disturbingly, when you think about it the only thing that kept Trump from winning reelection was the bad luck of Covid occurring. Yes, he bungled it badly. But even countries that handled it reasonably well (Germany for example) still are having problems now. And no matter how it was handled it was going to result in a massive economic and employment downturn. As close as it is now, is there any doubt that without that massive mess Trump would have won?
I think republican's showed up more because of the racism. The dems got out the vote
Yes. I saw that. That’s good of course. That’s not to say only white men are racist. But he really turned out the vote.
Honestly I think the country is so polarised it didn't matter. The economy MAYBE.