I would think he is doing his spot reactions to Biden speech tonight...

hope everything's okay on your end. when there's no column there's usually a program note or something. stay frosty.

JL

Just so you know, you're preaching to the choir, and we mostly agree with you. Mostly.

But if you actually want to win some of them, a small percentage over, as voters, you have to be more charitable and give some people the benefit of the doubt.

No, you actually don't. You learn from experience which ones are outright full up to their eyeballs and adjust accordingly.

A lot of people, lacking experience, are simply naive or uneducated rather than outright stupid.

Just so you know, I wrote you a nice couple paragraphs, and then I decided not to post it because the "smart" people already "get it," and the "stupid" ones never will.

That's because we all want to believe the best of people and are naturally open and trusting, all us us craving that human connection with someone else.

Just for the record, this is where we disagree. There are definitely people who don't want to (and never will) believe the best of people and couldn't care less about them... your outright liars, users/abusers, con artists, propagandizers, and criminal types who view others as the equivalent of toilet paper and/or chewing gum. It's all fun and games until they're exposed for what they are, and there almost always is a turning point.

Enough said. :)

"How many Florida men were indicted on "Inject Bleach Day" (not a coincidence) for selling a miracle bleach remedy to cure COVID-19? Four. They made a million dollars off stupid people who believe lying idiot Donald Trump... because they're stupid."

But if you actually want to win some of them, a small percentage over, as voters, you have to be more charitable and give some people the benefit of the doubt. A lot of people, lacking experience, are simply naive or uneducated rather than outright stupid. (Though some are. Having worked for years in retail and customer service I can attest to that.) There is no one, however smart you are, who has not been taken in or fooled by someone sometime. Serial killers especially have often been described as charming with a diabolic ability for winning someone's trust, until it is too late and their true nature is revealed. That's because we all want to believe the best of people and are naturally open and trusting, all us us craving that human connection with someone else. We are by nature socially gregarious animals. We need to keep that in mind. There's also the old example, of why do so many poor whites vote for Republicans and not Democrats who would actually help their circumstances more? Because the Republicans gave them another target for them to focus their attention on, whether it be immigrants or poor black folk, so they don't notice the Republicans picking their pockets.

If anybody like Fucker Carlson confronts you outdoors and informs you that your mask is making them uncomfortable and insists that you take it off, simply notify the moron that their face is making you uncomfortable and make a deal with them:

I'll take this mask off if you'll put it on.

If they threaten to call the police or Child Protective Services and report you for "child abuse" because your child is wearing a mask, inform them that it is a crime to file a false claim of child abuse in the vast majority of states in America and then offer to dial for them.

Yes, I'm kidding... probably.

Yes, I did post this on yesterday's commentary, but it needed repeating because it needed repeating.

And to that type talk from a potential voter, I simply reply: "Republicans keep lying to you repeatedly because they're convinced you're stupid." It gives them something to think about. Donald Trump being the poster child for con artistry, misogyny, lies and deception isn't helping the Republican cause, and it is the very definition of "stupid" to watch a group of Trump cult zombies attack on Trump's command and beat up and injure 140+ police officers because they believed the repetitive lies of a traitor to America.

Because they're stupid.

How many Florida men were indicted on "Inject Bleach Day" (not a coincidence) for selling a miracle bleach remedy to cure COVID-19? Four. They made a million dollars off stupid people who believe lying idiot Donald Trump... because they're stupid.

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-men-indicted-selling-bleach-miracle-covid-19-cure-1586153

And to this we say, "Since when is pork 'red meat,' you dumbass uneducated hypothetical Republican dipshit!?"

Which is exactly what Republicans know and are counting on.

Of course Republicans know their voters are uneducated dipshits and will believe anything no matter how stupid it is; in fact, they're counting on it. But for some reason, the immigrants that own Fox News Disinformation Propaganda for Dummies made the moron who originally spewed this utter nonsensical red-meat bullshit to backpedal on it and issue a retraction.

So to recap: These right-wing spineless idiots don't care about facts; if they did, they wouldn't all have their lips locked around Donald's John, but they do love that Trump meat.

So whatever you think Republicans would do to us in that scenario, that's exactly what the hell we need to do them.

~ James "the Ragin' Cajun" Carville

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Practicing. :)

Let me give you my favorite example of metropolitan, overeducated arrogance. Take the climate problem. Do you realize that climate is the only major social or political movement that I can think of that refuses to use emotion? Where's the identifiable song?

The identifiable song is Take Me To the Kaptin, of course, the first Climate Apocalypse song!