Reading Woodward what comes through now is how singularly uneventful, fair, and by-the-book democratic the 2020 presidential election was. if one candidate hadn’t been bleating about his delusions & riling up Nazi militias it would have almost forgettable.
Biden takes his time announcing and makes mistakes. Sanders can’t draw Black voters. Harris, Warren, Klobuchar and Buttigieg bring good ideas. Clyburn goes Biden. Biden beats a loathed impeached incumbent.
There’s a quadrennial plodding American set piece going on on the main stage and then over there is a psychopath screaming about bugs on his arm to an adoring but small bog.
The Democrat beat the Republican. Banality itself triumphed over evil. Which is by far good enough.
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So you want to start a campaign of persuading people, one human at a time, to get vaccinated.
Here are some tips.
First, see yourself as a missionary — but for something you firmly and whole-heartedly believe has improved your life and the lives of others, so not religion.
Second, the mindset is NOT “I am good and you are bad” or “I am right and you are wrong.”
That is not sales. THIS is sales.
The attitude is “I did this easy weirdly fun thing that made me happy, healthy, beautiful and free, and I would love for you to join me!! 🌈 “
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He’s sublime!
And then from Trumpcast there is @katecjames as superproducer Paige Flake.
She too is sublime!
In this one, I tip the show’s hand a bit more. We’re up to some excellently strange stuff at @ThisCriticalPod.
So many hot tossing 4ams I told myself that if we ever got Trump out and ever had a vaccine I would not be like one of those gloomy lottery winners and NOT be happy. I have more or less stuck to that.
77% of adults have now had at least one shot.
Please today tell the terrified you of last September that it—some of it—is really, really gonna be OK.
When you're hating the anti-vaxers and Joe Manchin really remember how much worse it could have been.
I have 8s in my handle and have always liked 8 because it’s a hail-fellow merry Falstaff kind of letter. Welcomes everyone. Where the 7s stand back and are captivating but I don’t have a chance of being friends with them — like mathematicians?
Maybe the US needs 53 states to make a real go of it.
Seems at least possible that the opinion page as a conceit has exposed itself as a finite game with only two strikeable positions, currently known as “woke” and “anti-woke.”