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I Suppose That I Missed the Gloating
Reports are that Trump-backed candidates were 15-0 in the Senate. Now not all of them were the right sort of people, but we assume that a Trump-backed reprobate may be less ruined than a Trump-opposed and soon-to-be tarred and feathered reprobate. Welllll, it’s a process, not a moment.
Red Wave inbound! (May be slow to load — stick with it)
I was looking for some more numbers I saw earlier today on the phone, and, well — we did well. In particular, Trump-backed candidates performed well. So much for round three of “Trump is the kiss of death”. Yeah, he can’t win, he should stay away, he’s poll-box-office poison… heard it before. As I said a while back, the utilitarian Trump-Nopers with their “Trump is simply *bad* for the party’s prospects!” may be misjudging the American mood once again.
I’ll take a moment from my victory lap here to admit that I am not sanguine, but I think I’ve been keeping my doom pill under wraps pretty well these days, as the future is wide open, and we never know whether’s tomorrow’s harvest is more fertility or more fertilizer. We do have excellent prospects, yet the GOP hosers are more than capable of hosing this up. Maybe even by accident, although not necessarily. Prophecy, prediction, warning, threat — there’s a spectrum. Watch for the usual suspects (no, not people here on-site) to begin proving with geometric logic how this just means worse performance in the mid-terms, because now the cat is out of the bag or something. My my my, the Democrats might wake. We should hurry up and lose all of our elections so that never happens!
There may not be many reasons to be giddy, but we deserve a Mimosa to start the day this morning, and By Gum, two on Saturday morning. Sunday? Kari bar the door.
Oh, these are just primaries, or minor elections. Yeah? Where you at, NeverTrump? Thought you were going to put us down once and for all, especially after the walls closed in on Trump what with the bombshell show trials, produced by real show people and everything.
I have a bottle of champagne which has gone unused since its purchase in November of 2020. Might bust that out this weekend. So now after the news has broken, but before the stunned Trump-Nopers regain their mathematical faculties (such as they are), I’m just savoring the sound of a pin dropping. Tinnnng!
Thanks, Trump!
Published in General
That is how it works.
The nimblest of navigators.
Impressive.
I wasn’t thinking about you or referring to you. And I don’t care about your donations. Just because you can make this comments thread revolve about you, doesn’t mean you can make this personal about me.
Same comment to four different people.
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Same comment to two different people in different threads.
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Same comment to two different people.
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These were easily found. I know I could find more examples of the same comments being copy/pasted over and over to different people in different threads.
I submit that the Gary Robbins account is not run by an actual person but rather operated by a SPAMBOT.
He reminds me a lot of Trump that way. He has to respond to everything he views as a criticism or an attack.
But the same words, often verbatim, are deployed over and over, even if (especially if) they’re non-sequiturs.
It’s like he’s got this extra document open on his desktop labeled “TALKING POINTS” and he just copy/pastes them into threads at random.
This is not a conversation. He’s a Chatbot. He’s ELIZA.
All the negatives, none of the positives.
Maybe that’s why Gary hates Trump so much. They are so much alike. It’s like trying to bring two magnets together on the same pole. They repel.
Just a reminder:
https://ricochet.com/1144438/the-gary-problem-the-parts-and-the-whole/
Yes, my view is that when someone is nice, you can respond to him, but when he is either misdirecting of outright lying, you should ignore him. This is the ignore button of the mind. But it is theoretical.
Functionally, have you ever done the exercise in with four people are standing close together and one person is instructed to talk about whatever he wants to talk about, and the other three are instructed to have a conversation as if the one person isn’t in the room? It’s extraordinarily hard to do, the best attempts usually progress from the three fitfully speaking over the one person, and progress to trying to speak when the other person isn’t talking, and then progresses to the three people raising their voices, all the while trying to pretend that they don’t hear the one person. And even then the thread of the three-person conversation is hard to maintain.
Functionally, the ignore button of the mind doesn’t quite work. And at best it is a sham: in the back of everyone’s mind, most of their thinking is how to avoid acknowledging the one person.
After a couple years of objecting to an ignore button on general principle, I have changed my mind and want an ignore button to allow decent conversations to flourish.
That’s been my hunch for a couple of years. Seriously. Either that or a group of people commenting under the same account name and replying from a common script.
It would have to have been built by a software engineer.
With AI experience.
And quite handsome.
Are you admitting to something here?
Good points. I also think that women are trained to ‘ignore’ better than men. They like to shun whatever they don’t like. They withhold as a tactic and strategy. Since men vie for their attention, he suffers and they often capitulate.
Men generally feel they have to deal with pests or are expected to deal. Ignoring these louts doesn’t have the same effect.
Learn more here:
An Ignore Feature: How It Would Benefit Ricochet.
It’s the thread Scott asked me to write, and then completely IGNORED it.
That’s irony for you.
AP called it for Lake:
RAWR!
And can program with certain musicality.
I asked my wife to corroborate this but I think she didn’t hear me.
Yes, I’ve changed my mind since then.
And this is where the Nevers cut off their noses to spite their faces and support the Democrat. Later – 18 months after the election they will wonder why the place is falling apart. But never mind, no mean tweets at least.
It’s the remedy that’s never been tried here.
The quality of trolling has really collapsed at this site. Back in my day…
I’m not even throwing stones here. Heaven knows, I may do it from time to time. But not up to the old standards.
Women have a different effect on men that men don’t have on other men. In the abstract, Camille Paglia claims (paraphrasing- read Sexual Personae) that women are ‘complete’ and men are outward directed or ‘incomplete’.
My own anecdotal observation is from the old canard men don’t like to ask directions.
Well, consider that men enjoy helping women. When a woman asks for directions she gets a nice positive interaction. When a man asks directions ( from another man) he often gets a more negative interaction. Because men act differently with each other and women don’t experience that. It’s a subtle difference but it adds up over time. Personally I don’t have a problem asking for directions but I’d rather have a map than depend on a series of turns any one of which could be wrong or misinterpreted.
Concerning you-know-who, he rarely responds to me after I give him a piece of my mind. He can’t deal with my insights into his online personality. I never argue with him on his relentless cutandpaste screeds. I go right to his modus operandi and he runs away.
My husband likes to utilize a copilot. I’m the map.
I believe you mean . . .
I’m the map
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I’m the map
I’M THE MAAAAAAAAAP!!
It’s been year since my kids were of the Dora-watching age, and that dang jingle is still stuck in my head.
A map is a very useful thing, however, it is not the territory. Sometimes, maps are wrong, and they always have limits.
I looked that up after making the comment…