Johnny truant, I am the dumbest person in my family. I come from a really smart family and am the dumbest person there. We had a close knit group of 8 family members who were me and my cousins and siblings and ut of all 8 of them im the only one who didn't graduate college. There are a lot of freakishly smart people in my family. The only forum I talk to about politics is 2p2 right now. I know a lot of stuff that someone like me is not supposed to know so when i talk about politics to normal people I often feel like its impossible to talk about it. and also i too have the problem relaying things. If I myself were a genius I could find ways to communicate complex ideas to people of all kinds.
Overall, it seems like theres 3 categories of regular people
1.) liberals who were already awake more or less
2.) a rising tide of alt righters and conservatives whose rhetoric resembles something detached from "conservative" politics as we have understood it in my lifetime
3.) a giant group of people who never understood politics and still don't who casually view the world through a liberal view
in order of size 3>>>2>>>>1
3 is wondering why trump is president but not actually thinking about why that may be.
2 wishes trump was even more radically right wing than he seems to be
1 is still fighting the same battles they have been but with a giant clown to fgiht who has been underestimated every step of the way.
number 1 is having mixed results because they are finding out the same thing people in the 60's found out : there is a huge swath in the number 3 group who vote and on paper agree with number 1 but if they were forced to really take sides by 1 end up feeling agitated and confused out of their slumber and side with group 2.
group 2 and group 1 seem to be dividing further, although it is possible group 2 is way less influental that i worry about.
this is the part where i hit a wall because im mostly just a party goer, drinker, writer and need someone to finish my point. becuase at this point since i cant communicate the more subtle thing i am trying to communicate i would just conclude with we are more divided than ever. Which is what everyone already knows.
I would say that I don't think group 3 has the slightest idea the consequences of being more divided than ever. I remember watching a movie with a segment about "the happy peddlers" these were french people happily going about their lives in 1939 completely oblivious to what was really happening.
I found a decent anti-retina-burning plugin for chrome called TLV night mode. It has made me very happy. I'm sad that Deluminate was not as good. Such wonkiness in outlook. =-/
For the third month in a row I'm voting Scott Pruitt again. I just can't believe, even in this administration, that such a blatant grifter won't get some backlash. I know Trump is an even worse grifter, but he's the president. Pruitt isn't quite as untouchable.
Pruitt is pretty untouchable because he's a former state AG and already confirmed. So if they get the political capital to fire Sessions they can just move Pruitt into the role. Trump would probably have a hard time getting an AG confirmed that'd be willing to fire Rossenstein and completely dismantle the investigation, Pruitt will though.
Old town Galveston was nice. They refurbished it a lot and a ton of nice restaurants and bars. I would have stayed there if I knew how cool that area is now.
I love the old buildings and old houses still around there. I like how they resemble the Caribbean houses in Belize, Utila and Corn Islands - basically anywhere that didn't get taken over by the Spanish.
"Refurbished" seems like the wrong word for what you do after a hurricane completely wrecks your city.
I'm completely confused by the CNN headlines on the Thai soccer team. I thought that they were found and rescued. Now I'm seeing headlines saying that they'll need 4 months of food and may need to learn how to scuba dive to get out of the cave. WTF is going on?
EDIT: Okay, they were only found, not rescued.
Man this is like the well story in The Simpsons only it's real. Very real.
♫We're sending our love down the cave (All the way down!)
We're sending our love down the cave (Down that cave!!!)♫
"Refurbished" seems like the wrong word for what you do after a hurricane completely wrecks your city.
Nah a lot of that was clearly going on before the last 9 months. Lots of old buildings that have been repurposed to modern restaurants, lofts, artisanal cupcakes - that kind of thing.