Stop The Steal 2

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I hereby declare the Seahawks won Sunday. If you read what the Constitution says about professional football, you’ll learn the Lamestream Media has no business calling a winner. I will be filing a lawsuit against the NFL to recount the score, and if deemed necessary, replay the game. We scored the most points of any team ever against the Buffalo Bills. Then, mysteriously, a bunch of points started appearing for the Bills. And it’s not fair that some of the game officials were wearing Bills masks! None of our team managers were allowed to watch the scorekeeper enter the scores either. What’s at stake? Just the whole integrity of the League. We will never concede.

Stop The Steal

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I hereby declare UCLA’s football team won Saturday. If you read what the Constitution says about college football, you’ll learn the Lamestream Media has no business calling a winner. I will be filing a lawsuit against the PAC-12 to recount the score, and if deemed necessary, replay the game. We scored the most points of any team ever against Colorado. Then, mysteriously, a bunch of points started appearing for the Buffaloes. And it’s not fair that some of the game officials were wearing Colorado masks! None of our team managers were allowed to watch the scorekeeper enter the scores either. What’s at stake? Just the whole integrity of the Conference. We will never concede.

Challam County, Washington

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From the New York Times:

The new county with the longest streak of picking presidential winners is Clallam County, Wash., population 77,000, which has gotten every election right since 1980 — 10 times in a row, according to Ballotpedia, which tracks U.S. political statistics.

Mr. Biden won Clallam County by about 2,400 votes — a margin of 5.5 percentage points, giving it a claim to the nation’s longest presidential streak and ensuring that Port Angeles, its largest city, becomes a destination for a certain type of political reporter in 2024.

Port Angeles is the jumping off point for our regular ferry trip get-aways to Victoria, British Columbia. I digress, but if the border doesn’t open soon, I may not be responsible for my actions.

Do Unto Others

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In trying to make sense of what just happened, lots of people are taking mental shortcuts. Gross generalizations about groups—all Trump voters, all Democrats, all white guys in diners (Krugman)—are proliferating. It’s dehumanizing not to account for individual differences within groups. And yet, because we’re not up to the complexity of the moment, we succumb over and over again to simplistic mental placeholders. I do not want to be your mental placeholder for white, well educated, liberal Democrats. I want to be respected as an individual who sometimes parts ways with others who share my political affiliation. And because I want that, I assume you do too. I will try to remember that and refrain from assuming you are just like all the others in your respective groups.

February 2020

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From ‘This f—ing virus’: Inside Donald Trump’s 2020 undoing.

“Parscale, speaking from his Arlington, Va. apartment, had just told the president how good his internal poll numbers looked. But now he had an urgent message: The coronavirus was a big problem – and it could cost him reelection.

Trump was perplexed. The economy was strong. The president had built an enormous political infrastructure and was raking in hundreds of millions of dollars. That month, Trump’s campaign conducted a $1.1 million polling project showing him leading prospective Democratic challengers even in blue states such as Colorado, New Mexico, and New Hampshire.

‘Sir, regardless, this is coming. It’s the only thing that could take down your presidency,’ Parscale told the president.

Trump snapped.

‘This fucking virus,’ Trump asked dismissively, according to a person with direct knowledge of the exchange, ‘what does it have to do with me getting reelected?'”

Our Post-Election Choice

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Democrats and Moderate Republicans are responding to a disappointingly close election in at least three different ways.

A) The “Perplexed Yet Respectful Resistance” response.Screen Shot 2020-11-04 at 9.57.28 AM

B) The “Angry, I Don’t Know Anyone Outside of New York City, Mindless Stereotype” response. Note that you can negatively stereotype by race, class, and gender and still be given a Nobel Prize.Screen Shot 2020-11-04 at 10.01.07 AM

C) The “Hopeful Healing” response.Screen Shot 2020-11-04 at 10.03.42 AM

I propose “D“, which is “Hopeful Healing” preceded by a six month-long moratorium on political discussion of any kind. We need a collective time-out. Eventually though, we need to start asking questions, listening to, and learning from people who think and vote differently than us.

Or maybe six years?