tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3383133878602031533..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Texas Notes: Gussied UpNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9806239605808453292020-11-07T15:47:38.492-06:002020-11-07T15:47:38.492-06:00I'm trying, Bob, I'm trying.I'm trying, Bob, I'm trying.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06481674986802987213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69988998044747615222020-11-07T15:38:08.835-06:002020-11-07T15:38:08.835-06:00Thanks Grizz! All I write is true, so you’ll have ...Thanks Grizz! All I write is true, so you’ll have to deduce. I never had these encounters in Chicago. Well, not since I wrote off openly racist brethren there, the likes of which were very few & far between, and never strangers who assumed I was “one of them” thus misguidedly shared xenophobic views with me.Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-82143664027054600172020-11-07T15:10:41.409-06:002020-11-07T15:10:41.409-06:00You know, there’s been a lot of wild-eyed talk abo...You know, there’s been a lot of wild-eyed talk about the similarities between America during Trump’s reign and Germany under the Nazis. But, c’mon, there are huge differences. For instance, in the last free election in Germany, in 1932, the Nazis only got 33% of the vote. Then Germans never really had another chance to vote Hitler out.<br /><br />Meanwhile, here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, where “antifascist” is now supposed to be a bad word, our rickety system survives. Voters had a chance to see what our Fuhrer-wannabe was up to and take action! After 4 years of watching him embarrass the nation on an almost-daily basis, seeing his racism, corruption, and incompetence in a crisis, they knew what they had to do. And the patriotic burghers across the land took their second opportunity to reject this divisive regime and … gave their cult leader 7 million more votes than last time. Ain’t that America. Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43450671178048207572020-11-07T15:05:26.458-06:002020-11-07T15:05:26.458-06:00I can’t say that our long, national nightmare is o...I can’t say that our long, national nightmare is over, but this will do for now. Quite a relief.<br /><br />In the “there’s a tweet for everything” category, there are a number of tweets for what might transpire soon.<br /><br />Daniel Dale: “It remains very possible that Biden will earn 306 electoral votes, precisely the number Trump earned in 2016 before faithless electors. Here’s how Trump has described such an Electoral College total:”<br /><br />Spoiler alert: 306 was a “landslide.”<br /><br />https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1324748924591181831 Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23654187697750044382020-11-07T14:24:55.186-06:002020-11-07T14:24:55.186-06:00Thank goodness that Biden won! Thank goodness that Biden won! privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413982311699012802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-6185621272264455352020-11-07T11:23:11.716-06:002020-11-07T11:23:11.716-06:00I never got to Austin in the early Seventies, when...I never got to Austin in the early Seventies, when it was still a much smaller (a quarter-million) and much more laid-back and funky town, like a number of other college towns that also happen to be state capitals (Madison, Lansing, Columbus, St. Paul, Baton Rouge, Tallahassee, and others). It always sounded so wonderful. The food, the live music, the weirdness.<br /><br />But the more Saturdays you write about Austin, the worse it sounds...a population around a million (double that of thirty years ago), with 2.3 million in the metro area (almost twice that of 2000). Has its size made it just another overgrown, sprawling, gentrified Southern metroplex? A rednecked, racist, sexist, chauvinist "shithole" city? <br /><br />If these presumptions and accusations of intolerance and bigotry are unwarranted and misguided, I apologize. I've never been there. But all these Austin atrocities--the drunken frat boys, the homophobia, the verbal and physical abuse of women, and all the other forms of prejudice--have appalled and saddened me over these past few months.<br /><br />Today's election of Joe Biden has restored some of my hope for the future, and brought a glimpse of a light to the darkness, and an end to our years of national orange nightmare. But Texas is still Texas--and it will always be Texas.<br /><br />Caren, you need to come back to Chicago...maybe now more than ever.<br /><br />All the best.<br /><br />Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-92226945566337895422020-11-07T11:13:29.809-06:002020-11-07T11:13:29.809-06:00John, as a fellow geezer I hope you can “keep the ...John, as a fellow geezer I hope you can “keep the faith”. Biden got over 4 million more votes than 45, and about 35% of eligible voters don’t care one way or the other.<br /><br />Bob Y☮️auld bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05738276939260500986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-211838516854280652020-11-07T11:03:29.084-06:002020-11-07T11:03:29.084-06:00John, Biden got over 4 million more votes
than 45...John, Biden got over 4 million more votes <br />than 45, and about 35% of eligible voters apparently don’t care one way or the other. As a fellow old man, I implire you to keep <br />the faith. <br /><br />Bob Yauld bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05738276939260500986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47317339510095952942020-11-07T10:07:02.078-06:002020-11-07T10:07:02.078-06:00I think you have to give Donald Trump some sort of...I think you have to give Donald Trump some sort of credit. As much as I hate the metaphorical language used by newscasters characterizing an increase or decrease in the vote count to the "battle" for Pennsylvania, the "come-from-behind" burst from Biden, Trump is actually in the fray fighting to cut off the battalions of Democratic votes appearing (as expected) from protracted counting of perfectly legal votes, is really tossing maledictions against waves of unfavorable votes, laying foundation after foundation of doubt to be mined by his hand-picked jurists to once again counter the voice of the people. Should he and his ilk prevail, not just now, but forever, he will be a hero of the aristocratic class, again and perhaps evermore in ascendency, putting down the democratic mob and showing the world who is boss. And it's our fault as much as his.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-84114340064666285782020-11-07T08:50:39.337-06:002020-11-07T08:50:39.337-06:00Caren, I hope you don't mind if I cling to you...Caren, I hope you don't mind if I cling to your youthful optimism while I try to overcome the cynicism that wants to consume me. I'm an old man hoping that social progress will return while I'm still here to see it, but I can't help thinking about the 70 million of my fellow Americans who still believe for whatever reason that Donald J. Trump is the better man to be leader of the free world - if that were even still a thing. It's not a few diehards who will gradually fall away for the civic consciousness, it HALF the country. So I'm afraid my generation has dug a very deep hole for your generation to dig your way out of. Please keep the faith. You give me hope.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06481674986802987213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-57179291285446222852020-11-07T06:52:22.390-06:002020-11-07T06:52:22.390-06:00We didn’t elect Trump. Other people did. Not the m...We didn’t elect Trump. Other people did. Not the majority. Just other people. Those other people are still there in large numbers and will be as our country now and probably forever will deal with two separate realities. Those who watch Fox and that ilk, and everyone else.<br />We went on a TV news fast from Tuesday on as we knew it would just be stressful and we wouldn’t learn anything. <br />What I’ve found is that newspapers provide the best news. No drama. Just news and opinions if you want.Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16679840606511726447noreply@blogger.com