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Music from this week’s show: Not Fade Away by Buddy Holly and The Crickets
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It was a Freudian slip!
I cannot possibly exaggerate how much I like this post. It’s the same thing with the media.
Why can’t people see this?
You can’t argue with this.
I can’t find the Iceberg post.
Like they say on the bank ads, past performance is no guarantee of future results. I am unfamiliar with that particular book, I assume it treads the same water as James Carville’s 2009 book “40 more years”. I like James Carville, if you’re going to be wrong get there early, so the sheep that follow get remembered for the wrongness.
I think Trump has the right idea, compete for the democrat base voters – Make the democrats earn their base, they’re so ham fisted at it, that everything they say to their base alienates main street America. With the internet now capturing everything every candidate says, they’re unable to silo their tailor made messages to the one voter block. So when their messages bleed over to the unintended audience they loose credibility for pandering.
The Scoop Jackson etc. era is completely over. If it comes back it will be easily recognizable. In the meantime you have to deal with the fact that everything moves left all of the time.
There’s always a tendency to think voting habits for the people who are on your side are locked in stasis. Republicans have been working through the reality since 1992 that they can no longer take suburban voters (especially female suburban voters) for granted, while Democrats at the moment think all minority voters are theirs in perpetuity. They’re also the same people who in 2016 thought Midwestern private sector union voters were theirs for life, even as they were wishing some union jobs like coal mining would die. Oohps.
My hair just got grayer. Thanks a lot . . .
I think the embedded left would hunker down and make life miserable for the Republican (I’m assuming you’re talking about mayor). They would drag their feet when it comes to implementing his policies, and try to sabotage his political campaign for the next election.
This is pretty much the position Rudy Giuliani was when he took over as mayor in 1994. He had some pockets of support within the city, and just the idea of a Republican winning as mayor changed the narrative a bit. But many of the same city council politicians were in place after his election as there were beforehand, and the local media folks weren’t excited about seeing him succeed.
The key was that New Yorkers had to be pretty damned fed up with the status quo to vote a Republican into office, and the new mayor was bull-headed and enough of a mean SOB to be willing to take on the status quo in public with the powers the mayor had (and where NYC has a strong mayor form of local government). That forced anyone on the council or in the media opposing Rudy to have to defend the status quo of six murders per day in 1993 and the other plunges in quality of life the city had suffered.
That would be the same situation in Detroit, Chicago and other cities seeing their quality of life fall through the floor. Any GOP mayor would have to be willing to fight hard for changes, and put the pols and any media fighting him on the side of maintaining the craptastic status quo, so that the people defending it might fear for their own positions in the future. Voters who already had gone against their normal Democratic voting patterns to support a Republican likely would at least give him a chance at first to succeed.
Here it is.
So James, is there a book on naughty illustrations where you get all this information? (If memory serves, you had some comments about an artist whose favorite subject was women, in public places, who were subject to spontaneous undergarment malfunction.)
Asking for a friend. ;)
Hey, my friend wants to know too!
Speaking of rock trivia, was there a real Sharona?
The answer is . . . . yes!
Meet Sharona Alperin, Los Angeles real estate guru:
https://www.mysharona.com/about/about-sharona/
Thus ends my contribution to rock trivia for today . . .
Sounds like Elvgren.
I don’t think so. I looked up the name and found the illustrations (don’t judge). These were pictures of women who’s underpants just lost all elasticity and found themselves around the ladies’ lovely ankles.
Art Frahm.
That’s the one! Golly, how many experts do we have on this site?
As many as are needed.
I doubt the Chicago system of Aldermen etc would be as easily managed.
I’m still washing my mouth out with soap.
Unfortunately they will never suffer because the govt and bureaucracy leans left. Average Americans have learned never talk to the CIA/FBI/whatever without a lawyer but beyond that nothing will change. They are corrupt institutions now playing political games but they will not be reformed or disgraced because the majority of people working in govt are happy the power is available on their team.