BREAKING: NYT criticizing Biden for wearing a Rolex vs “Everyman timepieces like Times & Shinola”
RELATED: NYT thinks “everymen” spend at least $400 (the cheapest Shinola) on something they don’t need if they have a cheap phone in their pocket google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
[FTR, I love watches. I haven’t had a running watch since I stopped being able to run, but I’ll buy one when I can run again. But if I ever spend money on something completely frivolous but that I’ll enjoy it will probably be on a Shinola
But I prob won’t wear it in a PA diner]
FDR claims to care about working people, but look how out of touch he is!
I wonder what percentage of people who 18 months ago were listening to Chapo are now QAnon loons.
Fun thing about tweeting about Chapo is that usually 1 of the 3 cowards does a screenshot, rather than link so I know who did it, & then my mentions fill with unclever & unfunny (& mostly homophobic) responses from angry dolts insecure about their masculinity
On second thought, this is unfair to Trotskyite-to-neocon Irving Kristol, because Kristol didn’t just listen to the radio, he actually read about politics.
Chrales Blow on MSNBC attributed GA POTUS to growing black share of vote. Some truth to that. But look at 2020 vs 2004 (58%R/41%D) vs 2020 (49%D/49%R)
[share of total/R/D]
2004
White 70%/76%/23%
Black 25%/12%/88%
Rest 5%
2020
White 61%/69%/30%
Black 29%/12%/88%
Rest 10%
/1
So, yes, greater black share of GA electorate was significant. And white voters are still overwhelmingly R. But white voters went from R+53=>R+39. And the rest of the electorate grew significantly, at the expense of the white share, & was solidly Dem
So, it’s more complicated /2
Shorter version: monocausal explanations of elections are always wrong. /3
Pay close attention to what people are saying about the Senate. There are a lot of people certain that Dems will cave. Maybe they will. But I think they’re just waiting for the Repubs either radically change their behavior (highly unlikely) or to change the rules & blame Repubs
I’m not predicting Dems will play hardball & significantly alter or completely eliminate the filibuster. But I’ll take that position & welcome the criticism if I’m wrong. But only if you hold the naysayers to the same accountability.
If you think the Senate Democratic caucus is pretty much the same today as it was in 2009...we’ll, maybe you’ll be proven right. But I don’t think so. /3
Just got an email informing us that starting Monday they are no longer in the afternoon pod, the pods are being combined, it will be one class with30 kids & they need to be ready at 9:00am
Lori Lightfoot is sticking to her plan to begin F2F school, even though 80% won’t attend
Have people stopped caring about the Chicago Teachers Union?
CPS has:
-Stuck to plan to begin F2F 2-1
-Denied 80% of requests for exemptions to teach F2F
-Not told principals who is/isn’t coming back
-if teachers try to teach from home they will shut down the feed to kids.../2
...offered zero guidance to principals on how to structure the F2F/online hybrid
-Told parents nothing
-Given no evidence of a plan to vaccinate teachers
-Provided no PPE
All of this despite the parents 80% of students saying their kids are staying home /2