Every time I see one of these headlines — “Trump Is Warned of Possible Indictment Over Jan. 6 Attack” — I remind myself of childhood Christmases.
First, I rarely got everything on my list.
Second, Santa had his own list.
And third — he wasn’t really Santa!
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Well, the polling of republican voters shows that many, around 60%, still believe the big lie. So, indictments of him, his cronies, and the fake electors might not be enough to save us from this Fred. Democracy is still in danger.
Yep. That’s why I’m not counting my chickens. Or his indictments.
I think political polling is having trouble dealing with the Observer effect, that you cannot truly measure anything without impacting that which you are measuring.
Who believes that the election was stolen? Nobody. But if I answer the question honestly, that’s not gonna look good, so I’m gonna lie about the big lie. And now that the number has some momentum, I don’t so much believe the big lie as I believe that it’s possible that a large percentage of my compatriots might believe it. And if you keep adding a percentage point here and there, pretty soon, I actually believe it.
It’s like those stupid favorability polls. We are just not going to get cross party favorability ever again.
Somehow they have to come up with questions like, given a hypothetical president who lowers inflation by 5%, would that be a good thing?
But it would take people about five minutes to catch on, realize what that is saying, and then answer the poll, “ no, lower inflation is horrible!”
Right now GQP’ers would say they hate puppies, ice cream, and blow jobs, if they somehow thought Joe Biden was in favor of them
The modern 24/7/365 news cycle doesn’t help, either. It used to be that only the broadcast media had to worry about “dead air” — now everyone does, even the few newspapers remaining that are useful for more than cage-liners and firestarters.
The transformation of news into “content” — a vapid, sexless term if ever there was one — and the endlessly unrolling scroll that is the modern news homepage has turned us all into Lucy and Ethel working the conveyor belt at the chocolate factory. You can’t possibly eat all that shit and you really shouldn’t even try.
Was listening to a podcast last night of Charlie Sykes interviewing Tom Nichols. Seems most GOP people don’t give a rat’s fanny that Orange Julius is facing yet another indictment. Sheesh.
And good lord, did Pogacar blow up today!
Oof. All it takes is one bad day. Says Pogačar:
I wondered if he was hurt more than anyone thought in that early crash today. But it looked like he just bonked.
Some big donar $$ are being taken off the table for Rethuglican endeavors here in the Mitten State due to the poor candidate and local organizational sloppiness. Plus our fearless Attorney General is going after the boneheads that claimed to be “electors” on behalf of tRump. Old Herb says the polls mean jack-shit. I hope tRump is the candidate even though I can’t stand the massive amount of news and general commentary the fekker gets. He was, is, and always will be a LOSER.
Only good thing the big dump ever did was bankroll the Tour de Trump. And that only happened because a bunch of bike jocks stuck in Atlantic City got the idea to appeal to his Titanic ego.