BaronChocula
BaronChocula's JournalCrisis in the art supply community!
All the yellow and orange colored oils, pencils, and pastels are being hoarded by courtroom artists.
Interesting fact about Trump's signature
Is it just me or does it look like a polygraph readout of a compulsive liar?
Police release video of officer shooting boy, 11, who had called 911 for help
Source: NPR
Body camera video released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation shows the moment an 11-year-old boy was shot and wounded by a police officer last May in his home after calling authorities for help.
Officials in Mississippi made the footage available this week after calls for its release from Aderrien Murry's mother, Nakala Murry, and the family's attorney.
Body camera video released by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation shows the moment an 11-year-old boy was shot and wounded by a police officer last May in his home after calling authorities for help.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223769843/bodycam-video-aderrien-murry-greg-capers-mississippi-shooting
THIS HAPPENED LAST MAY!
An alert on a misinformation source
Lichnews.com is the source of posts you may have seen saying X celebrity turns down X product endorsement saying "I'm not saving your woke brand."
So far I've seen Denzel Washington turning down Target and Stallone turning down Bud Light. In each case the same quote is used. Fact-checking each of these headlines results in write-ups citing the original stories as news from a "satire" website. That website is lich.com whose satire seems to be the source of a lot of misinformation.
Clearly, it isn't really satire. The intent is to spread maga misinformation without looking like it's actually trying to spread maga misinformation.
So since it's not true, expect to see one of these stories on a Fox News segment soon.
Some facts about presidential approval
Below are Gallup's average presidential approval ratings from Bush 1 on.
G.H.W. Bush 60.9%
Clinton 55.1%
W. Bush 49.4%
Obama 47.9%
Trump 41.1%
Biden (to date, 43%)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/116677/presidential-approval-ratings-gallup-historical-statistics-trends.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/329384/presidential-approval-ratings-joe-biden.aspx
You may notice that with each successive president, average approval has gone down with the exception of Biden who has yet to complete his first term. Three of those five presidents who sought reelection won. The one with the highest average approval lost his reelection bid but he ran with a recent economic downturn fresh in people’s minds.
There’s a lot that goes into presidential approval, including the increasing dissatisfaction a lot of people have in their own lives perhaps leading to scapegoating. In this way, presidential DISapproval has become fashionable. One thing presidential approval has not been is a predictor of election outcomes especially before the general election gets underway.
It is a certain frustration when the one major candidate that is actually promoting Democracy is polling below 40%, but that is far from the full picture. That doesn’t mean the challenger will win, especially if, say, Americans are reminded that that challenger lies to them as a normal course or, say, illegally squirreled away America’s top secrets in his bathroom. And so on. Some other things may come up in the election process (ahem, reproductive freedom) that will have a high likelihood of moving the needle in favor of the 39% guy. Just saying.
The funny thing about Nikki Haleygate
Her Republican opponents are suddenly black history experts calling out how wrong she was for not mentioning slavery as the cause of the Civil War. But If Smelly Cheeto had made the same inaccurate remarks they would all be obediently silent. Zero character on that side.
There's a reason Stinky isn't suing over Stenchgate
He would have to be DEPOSED!
Keith Schiller his diaper caddy would have to be DEPOSED!
Crew from The Apprentice would have to be DEPOSED!
How embarrassing would that be?
But this could be an overestimation over his ability to be embarrassed. Stay tuned.
A little Christmas song for you 🎵
Jingle bells
Donald smells
Ronna’s caught on tape
Deny them bail
Send them to jail
And serve them sour grapes
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I'm getting tired of the wording of this Dem pol message
"But we have more work to do"
Just heard Jared Polis utter it on The Last Word. It's a worn out scripted Democratic party line that evolved from Bill Clinton's 1992 message "I feel your pain." Clinton's message was appropriate. He was running against an incumbent, GHW Bush whose negatives were fueled by the dug-in notion that Bush was out of touch. The country was crawling out of recession and Clinton's tone of empathy was the right note at the right time for a challenger. Messages of empathy are always political gold, but somewhere along the line "but we have more work to do" became the throw-away line to prove that Democrats understand that you might not be feeling great and you want more. We get it.
But Ronald Reagan didn't win reelection following a massive recession by saying "but we have more work to do." He didn't cater to people's misconceptions of the current recovery. Reagan ran on repeating what was happening. He ran on "It's morning in America."
Every time Democrats have repeated "but there's more work to do" it was actually "morning in America." What's the difference? "But there's more work to be done" dilutes the message of success. it shuts down the celebration before before the suggestion of a celebration can even set in. There's nothing wrong with leading with a positive message if you have a positive message to share.
And you can STILL demonstrate empathy, and here's a suggestion: Instead of saying "BUT we have more to do," simply change the message to "AND that's not all, this is what we can look forward too."
It's a simple rule in the art of improv. Good improv partners say "yes, and" instead of "no, but." It moves the story along.
After all this, maybe I'm just hung up on a style preference, but I think it would make all the difference in the world.
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