Out of the Blue [Nov 05, 2024, 10:27 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Today is Election Day in the U.S. If you are a voter, I'm really hoping this is
not the first you're hearing of this. MrsBlue and I are about to duck out to do
our civic duty. I promised the Pickle Rick on my desk an "I Voted" sticker, and
he seems excited about that. We expect things to go smoothly for us, so I really
appreciate those who willingly endure long-lines and other obstacles that stand
between them and democracy. The stakes are high and the rhetoric has reflected
that, so hopefully we can proceed peacefully through this process and its
aftermath, Guy Fawkes Night notwithstanding.
To follow up on my jury duty summons, last night I learned I don't have to report tomorrow, so my luck held out. My next check-in is after business tomorrow, when I find out if I'm required to report on Thursday. I'll keep you posted.
To follow up on my jury duty summons, last night I learned I don't have to report tomorrow, so my luck held out. My next check-in is after business tomorrow, when I find out if I'm required to report on Thursday. I'll keep you posted.
Elective Round-up
Thanks Ant, Neutronbeam, and Max.Play
- Try This Quiz on Books That Were Made Into Great Space Movies - The New York Times. Not too challenging.
Stories
- Hurricane Rafael- Rare November storm set to hit the US – here’s the projected path - The Independent.
- Ryan Reynolds Writing Non-Marvel Film for Hugh Jackman, Shawn Levy - Variety.
Science
- Study: Special mud rubbed on MLB baseballs has 'magical' properties - NBC News. About time science tackled magic.
- World's first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space - Reuters.
Media
- Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter - Onion News Network. Thanks Warpig.
- Making pop rocks from scratch (is complicated). Thanks RedEye9.
Creature Features
WannaLogAlready wrote on Nov 10, 2024, 15:55:
Most of Trump's voters are the poorly educated and mentally ill prepared to inform themselves properly, whose limited mentative capacities don't let them find the truth among all the blatantly idiotic propaganda and lying.
The too simple people, who let their populist political group or rich religious leaders to decide for them.
One example, young male blacks and latins, systemically kept apart from a good education, the better to be duped and manipulated.
They believe that their wealthy masters care for them and not for the money they squeeze from them.
Trump is a cretin, a failed businessmen afloat by grifts, scams and unpayed bills, recognized as such the world over.
He would be a Putin or an Orban, but his mediocrity allows him to be just a clownish Lukashenko.
Only people as limited as him fail to see him for what he is, excepting those who benefit who smirk and applaud.
And the USA is already paying the price, and will for a generation for his stunted insecure personality that knows no sympathy for anyone but himself.
It's exactly this rhetoric that got Trump elected again. It's exactly this talking down to the middle class elitist bullshit that you heard on all the legacy media that the people were sick and fucking tired of. The left-wingers were proud to claim they would vote for anyone other than Trump; that it wasn't about who to vote for, but who not to vote for. Get it into your thick skulls that the people who made this landslide happen, thought exactly the same about this left-wing rherotic you so masterfully portrayed right there. And I mean exactly. They're tired of being talked down to like that.
And it seems you guys just aren't learning from this defeat at all. And when these coming years go down quietly or even go down pretty good, there's no mea culpa coming. I can win money all day betting on that absolute certainty. Yet you somehow tell yourself you're not the divisive one.
This comment was edited on Nov 11, 2024, 03:28.
I thought Hollywood had hit rock buttom. Then this happened.
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