either something here or not
Sunday, November 3rd, 2024I suspect a fracturing into an echo chamber on some political as campaign, the cross-tabs sweep hard against the objective. The one, or two actually (or is it three?) with a couple women walking into the voting place with their ‘Merica loving neckbeard menfolk. “Is she voting the right way?” asks one of the men. ” She doesn’t like him, but yeah.”. “Mine too.”. The women then wink at each other and nod to each other and cast it for Kamala, and we tell the “No one has to know” line. Sure. To their credit, the likes of David Plouffe and the Kamala Harris campaign assert that they have not been proceeding with the hopes of a shy female vote lurking in the internal polling, and from that point of view I am more favorable to the outside group ad than the one with “I’m Kamala Harris and I approve this message” tagged at the end. Leave no stone unturned, I suppose. But I can’t help sense a dread in assumptions about people’s self identity in this. It is a rather harsh statement and criticism on people’s marriages, the meek women not able to cross the man on anything and everything, and really how dare you thump this at my loving marriage? The real problem is that if Kamala Harris wins, this as message will declared to have been effective, and it will be deployed again. At which point it will not work — a less threatening “I am your protector” will win out in the cross currents of demographic interests. At which point, the table pounding on a “But!” will get shrill, and the messages will not be able to fathom how this steps on people’s goes, it’s frame of reference moving in and out of people’s lives even if they think it is solid.
Speaking of an organization lost in its own echo chamber. Funny, I thought Rasmussen presented itself as credible, even as it crammed Republican friendly numbers. But its imagery here is lost in a sea of Internet memes that make sense only if you bother to stay in those Internet spaces. Yes, everyone is excited by the Iowa poll by that great Iowa polling guru who has predicted everything Iowa in the past two decades, and yes, it is worthwhile for Republicans to mock this. But I would expect Rasmussen to do so in a more sedate or sober manner. But I guess we are making a leap from the aesthetics of the Fox News news program (as opposed to commentary) to Newsmax.
Or tune into… “Valiant Renegade”. On the eve of the 2006 midterms, Karl Rove disputed some news magazine’s states assumption that the numbers pointed to a Democratic House with “you have those numbers, but I have the numbers”, and held firm on the Republicans retaining the House with reference to “the numbers”, secret to only him.
This gets a little unreal in that “what. is. this” campaign season. A twenty-something hit youtuber popped into my algorithm — based on what, I do not know — that definitely disputed this is what happened.
Watching that video on question, I don’t see anything except the footage. No alternate theory or explanation on what is going down — just the same footage everyone else is showing with the gas-lighting assertion that this is not what you are watching. And we can down the list of “Seattleite Jack”‘s story attention.
Hm. Did not know about Walz.
