the dude has rickrolled the entire apparatus for two years using this one weird trick of reading polls and picking no brainers, what is his secret???
now, this is not always admirable or even desirable, because the right thing doesn’t need a poll. but from a politics standpoint, yeah, this is not a complex calculus
the *right* thing to do would’ve been drop this hammer in july, which woulda saved a lot of lives, & with it a lot of economic stability. but politically it was a bad move because people were not there yet. my preference woulda been ignoring the politics, but I’m not in politics
biden’s best feature is his ability to identify stuff that’s broadly popular & put his back into it, and ironically, his worst feature is his need to identify stuff that’s broadly popular before putting his back into it.
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if you want some perspective on exactly how good this material/delivery combo is, try to imagine jimmy fallon doing the same lines without groaning
that mid-to-late 90’s snl class shaped so much of my sense of humor growing up & my outlook in general. I cannot imagine who I would be without them. just a remarkable collection of different talents. norm was my favorite & I catch myself doing a form of his deadpan daily
here is the problem: if he feels compelled enough to strip the CINC out of the chain so he can’t nuke portland or something, he needs to feel equally compelled to park his ass before congress an hour later to share that information quite publicly. this can’t come out on his terms
I agree with cutting a very clearly deranged trump out of the loop. but when BOB WOODWARD is the way this info goes public, NINE MONTHS LATER, you’ve created a tidy little cover-up that is ripe for repeat performance
general milley is strongly suggesting that had bob woodward or some other character not chanced by looking for juicy nuggets, the american people were never to be told that whoops he just usurped the chain of command & went on serving & never felt compelled to mention this?
this freeze frame of a disheveled michael tracey ranting on the sidewalk holding some sort of james bond antenna suitcase as a garbage truck drives by is my only friend in the world
have spent ten fruitless minutes googling “antenna briefcase” and “suitcase karaoke” trying to decipher this mystery
my best guess is he cut a hole in a briefcase and shoved an old boom box with a whip antenna in there
because if a tenth of them die, they still have 90% left to sell junk cures and covid contrarianism to. but if 90% of them get the vaccine, they don’t need to buy any more own-the-libs covid solutions
it’s extremely icky to consider but if the biden admin wanted to end vaccine hesitancy, they’d cut a bunch of off-the-record deals with right wing media to buy hundreds of thousands of fake subscriptions to shops like wex & the federalist in exchange for a pro-vax editorial slant
I am about 95% sure this is the loophole GOPers have been exploiting for years to funnel money from PACs directly into RW media without leaving a trace: just buy fake subscriptions
this is the ivermectin story - not ivermectin, but how it’s just a plug-and-play monetized industry that is driven by forces vastly larger than a bunch of dopes with facebook poisoning eating horse paste. until this becomes the narrative there will be dozens more ivermectin sagas
the financial interests driving the anti-vaxx movement are doing so from a perspective that says people taking a vaccine that eliminates the need to take various miracle cures is depriving them of a marketing opportunity
that the covid vaccines are so remarkably effective at their job at a price point of *free* is a terrifying threat to the right wing miracle cure economy
justin fields learning valuable lessons from andy dalton on how to turn a 5 yard sack into a 15 yard sack
very important follow-up lesson on fluttering a 4th & 15 sideline route two yards short of the sticks, it’s good to see what a pick six ball looks like in realtime
we have to ruin our talented rookie quarterback psychologically by forcing him to watch a guy who rates at sub-backup levels so we don’t ruin him psychologically by letting him play