I couldn’t update my old diary to include this, so I’ll just reference it.
Two old ladies in a supermarket – another anecdote
A young man from the cable company came out to replace the cable drop. He looked to be in his twenties. I could easily see him as a classmate of my grandsons. They didn’t equip his truck very well so I lent him my tools and we chatted a bit as he worked. He’s studying networks at the local Community College and did a stint in the Army. We weren’t talking politics just the general economy and his company in particular when he said, “That’s why I voted for Trump.” I told him, “I didn’t vote for either Trump or Clinton.” I didn’t mention Stein. Then said,”But I voted for Bernie Sanders in the Primary.” He quickly said,” Oh, he’s good too!”
I immediately recalled the conversation in my referenced diary.
What does this tell me? How can people, old or young, prefer either extreme but not the middle? The King James Bible tells us, “Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.” So maybe, this is a common attitude, but I think it shows people (maybe only here in flyover country) under stress and looking for radical change, one way or another.
Democrats expecting a great surge to the middle in 2018 and especially those expecting a Clinton Restoration in 2020 (whether Hillary or Chelsea) are going to be very surprised again. I suppose they will start looking for Russian spies under the bed again. Maybe they can start a blacklist in Hollywood.
What does the King James Bible have to say about undocumented immigrants?
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
“Do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
Why do you ask?
AG
IOW Goldilocks appeals most to those that already have it just right.
” under stress and looking for radical change, one way or another.”
I think this applies to France also. Was only mildly surprised about the speculation that the Communist might make it to the final round.
Le Pen or Melenchon, I wouldn’t be surprised by either’s win. (Still betting on Le Pen)
At this point, the only second round that can be eliminated with a reasonable level of certainty is Hamon v. X. Any of the other combinations are plausible with the least plausible one being Melenchon v. X. OTOH and FWIW, since the end of January/early February, Melenchon is the only one that has had positive momentum.
If you haven’t done so already, watch the Jimmy Dore video (embedded at C-99 in this diary thread. Painful but necessary to see what Coward Dean has become (or maybe always was and he had a good con going for a few years). The “scientist” who doesn’t bother with facts.
I doubt it has as much to do policy as it does with a vague sense of authenticity.
Who would think Trump was authentic? He didn’t comment on my saying that I didn’t vote for either in the general. I wonder if that has significance. i.e. maybe he knows others who skipped voting for President? I don’t recall seeing it in statistics, but aren’t there a fair number of people who vote only for President and other top offices?
Young man appeared white non-Hispanic if that makes any difference.
MOAB costs $16 million. So, today’s mission in Afghanistan was less than a fifth of the cost of the Tomahawk strike in Syria.
Perhaps the military needs to clean out/use up the old inventory to make way for the new junk Trump’s gonna buy them.
Not so far-fetched! The Iraq bombardment cleaned out all the US inventory. According to an editorial in US News & World Report circa 2005 – 2006, the US dropped more weight of bombs on Iraq than ALL parties dropped in ALL theaters in WW II. So more than we dropped on Japan plus the Germans dropped on England during the blitz, PLUS all the bombs that the UK & USA dropped on France and Germany PLUS the Eastern fr9ont. Whew! Don’t know if they included the bombs that Japan dropped on China, but that’s a staggering tonnage of bombs. And, of course, they all had to be replaced.
But the inventory has been replaced several times since then. Just not the Tomahawks and MOABs, the inventory of the latter built up and sitting on the shelf for more than a decade.
Always thought that GHW Bush’s Gulf War was to use up some of the inventory built up during Reagan’s term. Restocked during the Clinton years in time for GWB to use up.
A lot of those bombs had to be dropped on empty sand. At the end of WW II, not much was standing in Germany. In Iraq that would have meant nothing standing if dropped on populated areas. And, of course, we wouldn’t want to destroy the oil fields that American companies were salivating over.