next up, the counter-hat
The deep breath analysis rejiggers previous stock analysis. When 3 out of a hundred voters walk across the aisle from Biden as against Trump over to Trump as against Harris, it is the sign that everything has gone haywire after all. And indeed, it kind of has. My bottom line is always going to be that — America now … joins… the list of countries… that have… popularly elected a leader… who was part of a failed coup attempt. What else is going to be the outcome beyond …
The humiliation is the point. The Republicans came back from a secret vote to cast their lot for Senate leader with the Senator who will gladly swerve off of Trump if he could happen to come the way at a minimal cost over the one who pledges total fealty. But the first chance of showing something… anything… for a historically mostly easy process of confirmation … no clear sign Thune wants to sidestep Trump’s desired “recess appointments” — the road to the rubber stamp role.
Okay, great, a new thinking goes. The Democrats have the soft power of celebrities and music stars. But. The Republicans have the streamers and podcasters. A batch of sub Joe Rogans along with Joe Rogan hisownself. Trump did that 20 something who sniffs the seats of interviews he considers Alpha-males. The best Harris had was the now more sedate Howard Stern and that show with a sexual euphemism name. In the social media sphere, eight years ago everyone was aghast at Russian incursions Facebook spaces. Today — who owns Twitter?
So the game recycles. Back to soft power. Cultural headspace. A manufactured counter-culture is Cooper than the culture, after all.
I do slide around some commentary by an apolitical podcaster/streamer that I listen to — an affected cynicism with his look see on goofy aggrieved liberals. He betrays his online-ness with his mockings. “Yeah, I know. Harris was ‘brat’, but … She wasn’t very interesting at all.” I forgot she was ever “brat”, and barely knew that in the first place. It was pretty easy to ignore. To him, the only thing Harris came out for was marijuana decriminalization, a last second issue tossed in a last minute campaign with two flaws in this complaint – – one: who cares how she came to it? Two: no, it is not all of her proposal and platform. I suppose there is a piecemeal element to Harris’s proposals, but I am not a fan of revolution. I’m a way, I guess the cynical apolitical podcaster showed the challenges to a run against a hothead, saying “Being ‘Trump is Bad’ is not enough.” Anything you say will end up sounding to an assortment of the 5 per cent needing to make the choice as though that is the message.