It’s just a #GreenShirtGuy world now.
Month: November 2020
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The Doom Anxiety is Back
Who else is still feeling the same level of anxiety you had before the election?
That would be me.
And most of my friends as well.
Just about two hours ago, the Chancellor of the NYC Public schools announced that in-person classes will be cancelled due to the test infection rate is now above 3% in the city. Well… crap.
There has been 100,000+ daily Covid infections for over the past week, as well as over 1,000 deaths.
And we shouldn’t gather for The Holidays, but people are clearly going to gather for The Holidays
We are clearly in a Second Wave, and for some of you, it might be a Third.
And Trump won’t concede the election, which has the very high probability of make things worse as his administration is refusing to working with the incoming administration.
2020 ain’t over yet, so I know it can still get worse.
Like I said, I’m not feeling better.
I haven’t really written anything other than these blogs, and that is due to my nonstop Doomscrolling. I keep checking to see if it is getting worse. This is clearly now a habit I have created for myself that I am not able to break, as my phone is connected to me constantly.
Deep breath…
Deep breath…
We can get through this.
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Who’s to Blame For the 2020 Election?
This seems to be the big question that is going around liberal and Democrat circles; whose fault is it that they didn’t win more? Democrats won the White house, but didn’t take any State legislatures, lost seats in the House, and at best will have 50 seats in the Senate. The Blue Wave never showed up, and 70 million people voted for Trump. Someone has to be blamed for this! What Democrat fucked this up?
Republicans are to blame, but not the way you think.
Here’s the thing; Biden won by 5 million votes, and Biden also got enough votes in the swing states, just like Trump did four years ago, to win the Presidency. What that says to me is that very few minds were changed in the past four years, and those who did change their minds were Republicans. I would argue that those Republicans who voted for Biden, made a point of splitting their ticket to keep Biden in check.
But doesn’t that reinforce the idea that Democrats failed to do a good job at selling their platform to Americans?
No, because that platform wasn’t the reason people were voting. Democrats voted to remove Trump, and Republicans voted to keep him. That’s it. It doesn’t get anymore complicated than that.
2020 was not an issue election, and it wasn’t a traditional change election. It was a referemdum on Trump.
It wasn’t about BLM, or Defunding the Police, in the sense that those two issues are being pointed to as why there wasn’t a Blue Wave, but that’s all horse shit. BLM and Defund didn’t turn off Trump voters. That logic is like saying the racists and white supremacists were going to vote for Biden/Harris, but damn it, The Squad said “defund the police,” and now all those Trump voters went back to Trump?!?! Like I said, it’s a horse shit argument. Trump voters were always going to vote for Trump, no matter what.
Remember the 5th Avenue comment? Trump killed 250,000+ people, and he still got 70 million votes. They weren’t voting out of a logical selfinetrest.
Where Democrats get it wrong is that they keep bringing logic to the emotion fight, and that’s why they don’t do better.
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Algot Saga; Conclusion
Our struggles with our living room wall, and the Algot modular storage system came to a conclusion this Sunday. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it was a resounding success, but we got the shelves up on the wall.
As some of you may know, IKEA discontinued the Algot line of products, just at the moment that the wife and I needed it most. Also, for those of you in the Tri-State area, we are the people that bought up all the remaining Algot products from the Paramus, Elizabeth, Brooklyn, Long Island and New Haven Ikeas. (Are we committed and loyal to this product? Yes. Does it border on the illogical and obsessive? Also, yes.) With the supplies assembled, we were ready to finish out project.
It was not anything special, but we took our hodge-podge of rails, brackets and shelves, and screwed them into the wall, and hung up all the Algots. Some the anchors didn’t sink into the drywall correctly, and I swear there is no rhyme or reason on the placement of studs in the wall, which just reminded us that the “renovated apartment” we moved into was constructed by incompetent workers. It took three and a half months, but we can cross this one off the list.
In the end, I still don’t understand why Ikea canceled the Algot system. Nor do I understand why they didn’t make an Algot compatible with some new system. Either way, I do have to say Ikea needs to do a better job of at least putting the information out there when a product line is discontented.
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And in the End…
Biden flipped Arizona.
I guess Trump shouldn’t have gone after John McCain so often, even after the Senators death.
It’s like McCain got the last laugh, again.
