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shadowkat1. Meme that worked on FB but I don't think works here.
Come up with a movie that starts with the letter L. And I'll give you a letter to repost said meme on your journal.
Curious to see if anyone responds or can come up with movies. L's not easy.
2. For Fans of Gary Larson's The Far Side (you know who you are), he's come up with three new cartoons.. I actually chuckled looking at them. HERE.
He says not to judge - he's experimenting.
3. New York Times Briefing this morning - with it's daily summary/round up of links from other publications stated the following interesting tid bit:
"At the center of his re-election message. He did so in two aggressive speeches over the weekend and defended the Confederate flag yesterday. “Almost every day in the last two weeks, Mr. Trump has sought to stoke white fear and resentment,” Maggie Haberman writes. (She’s also on today’s episode of The Daily.)
And yet this time seems different: The strategy isn’t working. Trump’s poll numbers are slumping, and some of his 2016 supporters cite racial issues as a reason they plan to vote for Joe Biden.
Why is the Southern strategy suddenly flailing? I count four main reasons:"
* The country is changing. It becomes more racially diverse each year. And most Americans under age 35 are quite liberal. The horror of the George Floyd video and the ensuing protest movement have also changed the minds of many Americans.
* People are afraid. Historically, many white Americans didn’t see how racism hurt them, Belcher said. But he now hears white voters in focus groups say they’re worried that the country is coming apart. “They talk about, if we continue on this trajectory, it’s going to be dismal for our kids,” he said.
*Trump has gone too far. Most white Americans remain moderate to conservative on immigration, affirmative action and more. But many also believe police departments are biased, and many don’t like symbols of slavery. Reagan offered an optimistic, patriotic message that let many voters downplay or overlook his racial appeals. Trump is practically forcing voters to take sides on racism, Terrance Woodbury, another Democratic strategist, told CNN’s Ron Brownstein.
*Voters are simply too unhappy with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. “As long as that’s true,” The Times’s Nate Cohn told me, “I don’t see how he has the freedom to employ wedge issues.” Of course, the usual caveat applies: The campaign still has four months left.
For more: FiveThirtyEight’s Clare Malone has written a brief history of how the Republican Party “spent decades making itself white.” And The Times’s Emily Cochrane reports from Maine on Senator Susan Collins’s effort to win re-election despite Trump’s unpopularity there.
With any luck he'll take theRacist Republican Party down with him.
4. NASA Releases Decade Long Lapse of the Sun.
5. The NY Times keeps trying to scare me regarding the Virus. Honestly I'm finding their coverage confusing. Also, I don't need people to scare me regarding the virus - already scared, but mostly by how others are handling it. Super did put up the entire NY Forward Plan requirements in the lobby - posted. Also guidelines. I figure I'm safe in my apartment without additional air filters. Also safe doing laundry. No one congregates there.
And I've done laundry off and on for the past four months.
Come up with a movie that starts with the letter L. And I'll give you a letter to repost said meme on your journal.
Curious to see if anyone responds or can come up with movies. L's not easy.
2. For Fans of Gary Larson's The Far Side (you know who you are), he's come up with three new cartoons.. I actually chuckled looking at them. HERE.
He says not to judge - he's experimenting.
3. New York Times Briefing this morning - with it's daily summary/round up of links from other publications stated the following interesting tid bit:
"At the center of his re-election message. He did so in two aggressive speeches over the weekend and defended the Confederate flag yesterday. “Almost every day in the last two weeks, Mr. Trump has sought to stoke white fear and resentment,” Maggie Haberman writes. (She’s also on today’s episode of The Daily.)
And yet this time seems different: The strategy isn’t working. Trump’s poll numbers are slumping, and some of his 2016 supporters cite racial issues as a reason they plan to vote for Joe Biden.
Why is the Southern strategy suddenly flailing? I count four main reasons:"
* The country is changing. It becomes more racially diverse each year. And most Americans under age 35 are quite liberal. The horror of the George Floyd video and the ensuing protest movement have also changed the minds of many Americans.
* People are afraid. Historically, many white Americans didn’t see how racism hurt them, Belcher said. But he now hears white voters in focus groups say they’re worried that the country is coming apart. “They talk about, if we continue on this trajectory, it’s going to be dismal for our kids,” he said.
*Trump has gone too far. Most white Americans remain moderate to conservative on immigration, affirmative action and more. But many also believe police departments are biased, and many don’t like symbols of slavery. Reagan offered an optimistic, patriotic message that let many voters downplay or overlook his racial appeals. Trump is practically forcing voters to take sides on racism, Terrance Woodbury, another Democratic strategist, told CNN’s Ron Brownstein.
*Voters are simply too unhappy with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. “As long as that’s true,” The Times’s Nate Cohn told me, “I don’t see how he has the freedom to employ wedge issues.” Of course, the usual caveat applies: The campaign still has four months left.
For more: FiveThirtyEight’s Clare Malone has written a brief history of how the Republican Party “spent decades making itself white.” And The Times’s Emily Cochrane reports from Maine on Senator Susan Collins’s effort to win re-election despite Trump’s unpopularity there.
With any luck he'll take the
4. NASA Releases Decade Long Lapse of the Sun.
5. The NY Times keeps trying to scare me regarding the Virus. Honestly I'm finding their coverage confusing. Also, I don't need people to scare me regarding the virus - already scared, but mostly by how others are handling it. Super did put up the entire NY Forward Plan requirements in the lobby - posted. Also guidelines. I figure I'm safe in my apartment without additional air filters. Also safe doing laundry. No one congregates there.
And I've done laundry off and on for the past four months.
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Date: 2020-07-08 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-08 02:35 pm (UTC)Poses a lot of problems - there's a reason Trump tried to dig up dirt on Biden and almost got fully impeached over it. He saw Biden as problematic in regards to the people whose vote he acquired in the last election. (There's a lot of closet racists and misogynists in our country that have no clue they are racist and misogynistic. Also a lot of crazy pro-life idiots, mainly Catholic, who voted solely on the abortion issue. ) So, he tried to dig up dirt, only to expose his own actions to the extent that he got impeached for them.
Also with Biden - he can't play the anti-abortion card as effectively as he could with Hillary, since Biden is kind of ambivalent on the issue.