Tuesday, April 09, 2024
I honestly thought......
I had honestly thought that the plan all along was that once he assumed the office of POTUS Uncle Joe would eventually step down due to health reasons related to age and then Kamala Harris would assume the presidency. Biden would defeat Trump with the ultimate goal of putting her in office. This would make sense from a progressive standpoint. First woman president and hard-core liberal to boot. Liberal nirvana but no welcome to cartoon universe. Apparently we have to endure Biden vs. Trump again. I've often said here it can be perfectly valid not to vote. Do the right thing and sit one out is an option in my book. Thoughts?
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Thoughts? Classic Hobson's Choice?
ReplyDeleteJohn Stuart Mill, in his book Considerations on Representative Government, refers to Hobson's choice:
When the individuals composing the majority would no longer be reduced to Hobson's choice, of either voting for the person brought forward by their local leaders, or not voting at all.
Not Morton's Fork?
DeleteI'm getting hungry.
Morton's Fork: perfect application. Hadn't thought of that.
DeleteYogi's solution - When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
BB-s solution, if it's a silver fork, take it.
So conventional political wisdom would hold I am wrong. Be doctrinaire. Vote straight Dem if you're a Dem and Republican if you're Republican. Have a friend staunch Irish Republican would vote for the Republican guy no matter what even if he molested a pig. Dems the other way. Hunter Biden laptop why bring the son into this? So basically Biden is gonna hang on and dig in even if he needs an Inogen oxygen tank which I think is a great medical device just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteI'm older than Biden. And I'm not running. Heck, I'm barely walking, Here in Idaho we have a law prohibiting cannibalism. 14 years in prison.
ReplyDeleteIs Yonkers that strict?
My neighbor he had some major masonry work done along the front side of his building in the hopes of making a kind of driveway. Not enough space though. Parks his SUV halfway or more on the sidewalk. Got a parking summons and code enforcement summons but continues to park on the sidewalk. I can appreciate the libertarian-anarcho spirit. Soapie taught me that. There's a time to resist authority. This isn't one of them.
ReplyDeleteWe got a guy that has 6 cars parked on 7th Street and another 85 sitting in his yard. Mrs. said that was a disgrace. i said it eliminated mowing the grass. City won't touch him. I figure he is related to the town fathers somehow
ReplyDeletei thought he'd serve one term, say he did his job and quietly walk away. But alas, the power of the office may have been too strong to resist.
ReplyDeleteShows you what I know...
I kind of liked Gerald Ford. Boring but harmless.
DeleteBB the guy next door who continues to park his SUV on the sidewalk after getting summonses now we all have a hill to die on, those unshakeable and unbreakable principles when we are willing to march right up to the grim face of Authority and say NO. The right to park my SUV on the sidewalk is not my hill to die on.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Martyr of Principle. We got a guy that built a garage on
Deletecounty property. Long coourt fight. Garage came down. He only. pays taxes that he agrees with (which ain't much) and writes long complaints to the Tribune in the editorial comment section. He has a few demented followers. I knew him from work and diagnosed Sh*thead, and haven't changed my mind.
Self-absorbed rebels with a cause. It's never my right to undergo an alternative cancer treatment or anything noble but more like my right to walk along the old aqueduct trail with my poodle who likes to bite people on the calf and he should be free of the leash at all times.
DeleteTimes when it is valid not to vote. I've done it several times while voting for a rep in the Idaho legislature. He runs unopposed and is as they say
ReplyDelete"a slug on the vine of uselessness" One time I wrote in 'Anybody Butt'. They didn't count it because they couldn't locate the person.
I wanted to paraphrase Dave Miller here. I thought Biden would serve one term, say he did ok for an old guy and go feed the pigeons in the park.
ReplyDeleteJust guessing: he beat Trump by 7 million in the popular vote and figures only he can do it again. RFK Jr. strikes me as an oddity: against vaccines, for clean water and all over the map on goals. He talks strangely (spasmodic dysphonia) and has suggested as vp on the ticket Arron Rogers, Jesse Ventura or Mike (Dirty Jobs) Rowe.
ReplyDeletePretty eclectic, might get some votes among the disgusted electorate.
When I was in college, I shook the hand of his uncle who was campaigning at Wisconsin colleges. "Hi. I'm Bob" "I'm John Kennedy and I would appreciate your vote". Never had a bucket list, but...
If I understand correctly RFK Jr. is against all vaccines not just the massively expedited ones that were approved without long-term safety data and that offer only transient immunity at best.
DeleteBiden has no charisma and people can't wrap their heads around that he got the most votes of any presidential candidate in history. You're talking more than Ronald Reagan, more than Barack Obama. It's like a political anomaly.
In a nutshell, Trump has created a loyal following. Simultaneously,
ReplyDeletehe created an even larger group that despise him. Throw in the Great Divide, Hobson, Margery Taylor Greene, Morton, some social issues,
NATO, economy, Steve Bannon, states rights, and the apathetic crowd and voter fatigue and we have the Great Choice dilemma. Where is Old Abe when you need him?
Potential dementia in office isn't a great alternative.
DeleteThat happened to Woodrow Wilson. His wife ran things. IMO, though, we have had some demented presidents lately.
DeleteWhat I said about Biden applies equally to Mitch McConnell.
DeleteThe new normal.
OJ Simpson dead at 76. When my son was in FL going to college, he worked in a bar in Miami Beach. OJ was there often - big tipper. Bad influence, the boy started dating a bipolar stripper/math genius and got cleaned out and came back to Idyho. Meanwhile I was waiting to see How OJ did on Judge Judy.
ReplyDeleteHe never found the real killers.
DeleteThere weren't any. OJ at the Golden Gate. St. Peter- "So did you or didn't you". Morton's Fork?
ReplyDeleteI avoid Quora and Reddit. Anything new there?
ReplyDeletePeople discuss things on these platforms they should talk about with their therapists. Husband doesn't want to have sex with his wife. Hey hash it out among strangers. Quota- Lots of stupid questions. You might encounter how does it feel when you stick something up your butt and people chime in.
ReplyDeleteThat might explain why the TV soap 'General Hospital' is still running after 58 years. Heck the baby actors have gray hair now.
ReplyDelete"The Young And The Restless" too.
ReplyDeleteWonder if "The Simpsons" will play that long. Maybe written by AI?
ReplyDeleteSNL well past the expiration date.
ReplyDeleteI rate 'Naked And Afraid' a U for unwatchable. Mosquitos, lizards and poison ivy and not even a shoe. Not for me. Doubt I would watch the
ReplyDeletesequel 'Fully Clothed And Terrified' either. Another bust is the new TV
football league, USL. The players, refs, coaches and fans are wired, so before, during and after each play you have this constant argument. It's like watching congress in helmets and pads. Whatever happened to 'Gilligan's Island'?
Then there's this channel called Defy. The bulk of their programming consists of rednecks going out in boats and catching and shooting gators. Who decided this is what people wanna watch?
ReplyDeleteProbably not the Sierra Club.
ReplyDeleteI do like "Ice Road Truckers" though. Driving over frozen lakes, risking their lives just so some remote outpost can have some product. The downside - you might find yourself on the bottom of some frozen reservoir but the pay is good.
ReplyDeleteI see they have an airplane service show that runs up in N. Canada. Change the sparkplugs at 30 below and keep an eye out for polar bears.
DeleteI always thought 'Duck Dynasty' was sort of a documentary about mallards.
ReplyDeleteI had to google this. Apparently they build their empire by killing mallards.
DeleteI get a lot of ads from 'Rocket Mortgage'
ReplyDeleteI don't even have a rocket.
For me Jacuzzi Bath Remodel. Don't even have a jacuzzi.
ReplyDeleteBack when Blogging was a newish thing, I ran across one where people were discussing their favorite opera. Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Wagners "Tannhauser", Verdi's "Aida" etc. Some guy from Detroit, worked in the Ford factory, posted that his favorite opera was "Call J.G. Wentworth 877- Cash Now". Hard to argue that.
ReplyDeleteBathfitter ad - reminds me of the old joke: Two German immigrant
ReplyDeletebrothers come to the US and both go out job hunting. Second day they come back. "Ja git any luck Kurt?" Kurt beams, "Ja, I gotta yob mit steady vork, Evald" "No kitten!" Ja, I is a Diesel Fitter at der Lingerie Factory" "Vow, vatcha do?" "Vell, I vork der Bra assuemly line". Kurt explains, "I hold up a bra and shout Diesel Fitter"
When the ad shows up, wife says "Yeah, I've heard the joke"
Computer crisis vs octogenarian - every Sunday we send out a newsletter. 32 people from Switzerland to Alaska, CA, MA, Wi,
ReplyDeleteKS etc. Been doing going on 20 years. Always cut/paste and put in
photos. That failed today: OpenOffice freezes and says need JRE runtime. Fiddled for hours - Nutten. Been getting replies "Hey! Where's the pictures?" Gotta call the local ComputerGuy tommorow
unless I can find a third grader in the street. Going to award the Gold
Finger Award to Gates and Jobs (by typwriter, as it stands)
Told you about my old Samsung tab. Practically unusable so recently went to a Walmart and bought an ONN tablet. That's the Walmart tablet. Of course better than my old Galaxy tablet that Google will no longer update but still the ONN is glitchy af. Early on I had to factory reset the thing couple of times and even now the most common message is app not responding. You couldn't be a health care worker with this thing.
DeleteI don't have home internet but maybe someday. I use the mobile hotspot on my 5G phone to connect my devices. I have a fair amount of data for this. Might be a touch slow at times as hotspots don't get priority across the broadband is my understanding but useable. The novelty of watching You Tube on my new smart TV has kind of worn off.
ReplyDeleteComputer Guy fixed my OpenOffice problem. Took half and hour with me on the phone and him running my computer from his lab across town. He was playing my screen like a xylophone. $30 and like new.
ReplyDeleteSmart phones: ubiquitous, yard guy, plumber, lady up the street. Ask about their family and their fingers fly, move, squeeze and you see their last two years of life the size of a postage stamp. AI?
We need AI because?
ReplyDeleteIt will invent quantum computers, raise the stock market and confuse the heck out of us.
ReplyDeleteThen come the killer robots.
ReplyDeleteBill and Ted
ReplyDeleteLooking at the recycling on my porch yesterday. Somebody's been eating Titus Sardines in soybean oil. Never heard of the brand. Is this what the Romans ate?
ReplyDeleteI suspect that came from a well-heeled feral.
ReplyDeleteLol.
ReplyDeleteI could be dirt poor and I'll still need my cigars and my jug of Tito's. The big one with the handle.
I'm still getting deluged with e-ads from Harley-Davidson.
ReplyDeleteWhassup? I don't even have a biker chick.
Me neither. I don't even have a tattoo. I did watch "Easy Rider" once.
ReplyDeleteHad an adventurous amateur rocket buddy one time. He sat on a bicycle with two thermos bottles of rocket fuel attached to the back.
ReplyDelete3-2- 1 Blast off! Bike went about 75 yards. Buddy walked funny for a few days.
Never understood the tattoo craze. If God wanted us to have designs all over our body we would all be walking Andy Warhol prints. On the non-theological side, will tattoo genes enter the pool? Nurse reports to birthing mother, " Wow, you've got a rose vine on one twin and barbed wire on the other"
ReplyDeleteNever understood it myself. Now you're in the minority if you don't have one.
ReplyDeleteWe can't even post a picture of one.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I try to do something Google thinks I'm setting up a new device.
ReplyDeleteI can clean and sterilize the wound on a growling feral cat and that's actually easier than dealing with Google. Should I spend five hours at the library tomorrow? They at least have a gourmet coffee vending machine. Why mow the lawn?
ReplyDeleteYou are a Cat Whisperer....and a GoogleCusser?
ReplyDeleteThings would be so much better if Google didn't rule the universe. Duck Duck Geese.
ReplyDeleteThe nurse woman at work I was discussing some of the technical issues I've been having with my devices and ways I figured it out and she said it helps your brain when you do this and prevents Alzheimer's. Maybe I can donate my tablets to a senior center.
ReplyDeletei bet Nurse Nancy could improve your wounded warrior cat treatment methodology too.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Probably make a turmeric poultice.
ReplyDeleteJackson Starburst prefers a tuna poultice.
DeleteHe has the final word. He also says don't give your cat milk.
DeleteIn our local paper there was an article about some guy and his girlfriend in Yellowstone. Pretty well plastered, he said he was going out into the buffalo herd to kick some butt. He is out there kicking away, and the herd bounced him back out to the car with some minor injuries. I would pass out from Christian Brothers overdose before I would do that.
ReplyDeleteGenerally when I've had a wee bit too much at night I'm watching some show, something happens and the news is on and it's like 11:15 and I'm like oh shit I have to go to work in the morning. I don't understand people.
ReplyDeleteLocal paper today had a big article on some guy that lost his support pet, a 5 ft alligator that he has had for years. Has the Tribune been bought out by National Inquirer?
ReplyDeleteIt's like "Dateline" used to be a serious news show now they just cover marriages that end in murder.
ReplyDeleteOr the 2nd Grader kid who when asked who built the pyramids said
ReplyDelete"The Aliens" - it was on the History Channel"
Everything now is like McDonaldizing information.
ReplyDeleteGuy came by to fix the automatic sprinklers, dug out and replaced a couple without leaving a hint he had been digging. Asked what he was going to do this weekend. "Fishing. I go fish all weekend, get bass, crappies, walleyes" Asked him which he liked to eat best. "Oh I hate fish, can't stand the taste" Said he must be a catch-and-release guy. "Yup" I noted that some guys catch-and-release women. He says, "Yup and some women catch-and-release men. I been thrown
ReplyDeleteback several times". OK Dan, thanks for fixing the sprinklers.
Men can be womanizers but you never hear of women being called manizers.
ReplyDeleteEver travel? Been to six Canadian provinces and US except VT, RI, and DE. Visited Mexico back in the 60's and survived. Lived in 5 states and sat out a tornado in MN in the men's room at work. Missed Yonkers in my travels.
ReplyDeleteLimited traveler. Not as cosmopolitan as you. Never been to Iceland.
ReplyDeleteNobody but Vikings go to Iceland
ReplyDeleteWhat would be Viking cuisine? Sardines and mead?
ReplyDeleteKippers and Christian Brothers.
ReplyDeleteGot a sister-in-law that got a degree in Icelandic. She goes by Sue or
ReplyDeleteNanook of the North.
The Trump Sex Trial. Nobody at work talking about it even those who hate Trump. When it was Clinton it was Ken Start is obsessed with sex. When it's Trump it has some metaphysical importance.
ReplyDeleteNews overdose, Between the Trial Starring Donald and the Campus Kids Run Amuck Over Gaza, all you get is commercials. My middle girl cannot watch Steve Hartman's uber sympathy offerings and has to turn the channel when ASPCA shows miserable dogs. I usally end up watching Stargate SG-1. Nothing like Goa'ulds, the Ori and MacGuyver in the space military. Filmed in Canada, where apparently the Space Program is far advanced. But trials seem to
ReplyDeletebe fascinating for some. You know, like OJ's.
I remember back in the day Alfred Hitchcock had a tv series and they only had three quick sponsors during the brief commercial break and as narrator and host of his own show he acted annoyed whenever he had to announce and now a word from our sponsors. It was funny.
ReplyDeleteI see that google is running ads on "lost". Sometimes when I open your site, I get 'Rural Home Construction Loans', the latest Kia or a pleasant voyage to Antarctica. Hope you get royalties.
ReplyDeleteI'm new to this. The trickiest part was installing the ads text code. Tired at the time, gave it a rest and then understood it better.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest issue is blog traffic or lack thereof. Mine is the scenic route with only a few cars. Where are the traffic jams the hollering? There was some of that back in the day remember? Then everybody migrated over to FB and haven't come back.
We'll see what happens. Gives the blog a fresh look.
Been meaning to ask since I've been away a while what are some of the main conservative blogs out there? I'm not talking about the big boys like National Review but us amateurs. Maybe you can fill me in.
ReplyDeleteStranded is never a straight political blog. Besides cinephiles who else has brought up Last Tango? Cat rescues? If this was a straight love Trump or hate Trump site this place would be a freeway. Is Shaw still around?
ReplyDeleteWell, there is Geeeze. She has about 3-4 posters that think alike. I got kicked off and any comments of mine are quickly and automatically sent to outer space. Just as well, when your cabal agrees is is more fun than arguing with endless insults. Politics used to be fune.
Shaw still at https://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/ and taking all comers. She is in CA visiting grandkids for three weeks, but still spouting.
DeleteMy late aunt God rest her soul died from a cancer years ago. Very conservative. Her son-in-law the polar opposite very liberal. They used to argue politics all the time. Right up 'til the end even during her last days and hours she fought politics with him. That'd be Shaw.
DeleteI am aware of the Geeez blog but not much else. Been out of the loop for awhile. Looked at her blog roll and the guy at the top stopped blogging. Don't know where to go. Basket weaving?
DeletePolitical blogging has degenerated into an electronic civil war. No converts, just captured and dead. Kind of boring, ya know?
ReplyDeleteThere's so much more to life. When there's no common ground talk about other stuff. If you can't agree on the other stuff then I don't know what to say.
DeleteAny idea of what happened to Soapy and Beth? Nice folks, hope all is well with them. In a couple of years, I may have AI do my comments,
ReplyDeleteOK?
With Dead Internet Theory we're halfway there.
DeleteBeth and Soapie. Blogging of late has kind of a desolate feel to it like where did everybody go?