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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Victory

Today is the last day of my weekend and it's supposed to rain.  Yesterday was a drizzly mess.  I painted some baseboard trim.  I'm going to be moving my sideboard to the wall in front of the stair case.  For that to happen a repaint needs to happen.
And yesterday the last of my elliptical was picked up by a scavenger.  I set the flywheel, the heaviest part, out on the curb and about an hour later a man in a black pick-up stopped and threw it into the back.  Gone.  I'm glad I used it extensively, it's a bitch spending a lot of money on a piece of exercise equipment and never using it.  I have a friend whose basement is filled with such equipment.
I'm still waiting for Social Security to send me my W2.  This is getting aggravating.
And here's an updated pic of the sweet potato I'm growing in a coffee pot.


Nice, huh?
I don't know if any of you read Politico but they had an interesting article about the elections... and forecasting them.  Evidently there is a woman named Rachel Bitcofer who is upending traditional theories.  Her theory is that elections are not won by 'swing voters,' those Independents who flip flop back and forth between parties depending upon what candidates are offering, rather it is voter turn out which decides elections.  By now, everybody knows Hillary lost because voters just stayed home.  They had a litany of excuses as to why they chose this option, but stay home they did.  And we got the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  Turn out of MAGA heads was strong.  According to Bitcofer's thesis, those MAGA heads were always MAGA heads.  They were not voters who suddenly decided to vote for a moral degenerate.  To prove her point, in 2018 she called every election... and got them right.  She also claims 2018 was just the beginning.  An impetus is needed to get voters off their asses and into the polls.  In 2012, it was the Tea Party which burgeoned under the hate of the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  In 2016 he was elected... by the electoral college, and that is the impetus for the 2020 change.  This man is hated by more voters than any one previous candidate.  Polls are nothing.  Turn out is everything.
A few days ago I mentioned how I, myself, was doing an impromptu poll.  I asked a number of people who they though could beat the Idiot Jerk in the White House.  I specifically said, "this is not about who you like, it's about who you think can beat the Idiot Jerk."  Except for one individual, they all responded with one name:  Bloomberg.  This is not about who you like.  This is about Victory.



8 comments:

  1. Love your potato story! I like plants.
    And that lady may be right. I don't believe either there's any 'undecided' voters. The people who are going to vote for Cheeto will do so no matter what other candidate does the dog and pony show. Racist motherfuckers are gonna be racist no matter what.
    What liberals need to do is get off their butts and VOTE. Simple.

    XOXO

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    1. There are probably a few fringe elements, but not enough to swing an election. What the GOP fails to comprehend is that the Idiot Jerk in the White House is a major incentive to get out and vote!

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  2. I don't much care for Bloomberg since he tends to float from party to party on a whim, but if he's the nominee he's getting my vote.

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    1. You are a perfect example of Bitcofer's theory. Thanks for being you!

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  3. I am in the mayor pete camp currently. but the D person on the ballot on november 3 gets my vote.

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    1. Everybody needs to vote just so we can see the Idiot Jerk's face explode when he loses.

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  4. Young people didn't get out and vote in the Brexit referendum "because it was raining" apparently (it's always bloody raining in the UK). But I think they thought it was such a done deal that the UK would remain that they didn't bother - and look where that got us! Not that I have the vote but I'm rooting for Mayor Pete too!

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    1. That was the problem here. Everybody thought Hillary was going to win - who'd have guessed we had so many hate mongers living here?

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