Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Is It Working Yet?

Is this legitimately comparing covid to the flu? Or is it comparing the covid vaccine to a flu shot, and you should get both because each protects you from something you don't want to get? Although frankly, it’s little difference from this: Tout le Twitter got upset by that letter, and then Jayapal's "retraction" of it. And now they're berating the retraction. When the more fruitful thing would be to take the opportunity to have a discussion. It's not a bad point; and it beats wailing and rending your garments.  

Early voting has already started in Texas (and we aren't the earliest).  I doubt anyone heard about this, really; or if they did, much cared.  This is a pretty useless thing to get upset about, but anything somebody says is a disaster for election day, according to somebody else.  

Instead of that, (yeah, I've used it already), can we please see more of Pete Buttigieg, please?
Because this is how you do it. Charlie Crist handed DeSantis his ass the debate in Florida; probably too little too late. Pete is doing the same thing, probably with the same late timing. Still, it beats wringing your hands over something somebody did that almost nobody notice. I just passed a field on the highway service road replete with GOP signs about how police have been defunded and "millions of immigrants" will mean property tax increases (how that works is anybody's guess, especially since the Lege would rather be caught collectively with their pants down in a barnyard of pigs than raise property taxes. And the Texas Lege has absolute control over all the taxing entities in the state.). And other nonsense. They literally got nothin' but fear and screaming, and that's only effective if the Dems scream back. Buttigieg and Crist are cutting through that crap. Would that more Democrats would do the same for the next week or so. It couldn't hurt.

(And yeah, I feel pretty much the same way about this:
I'm not the target audience for Adidas anymore (I wore 'em for a while in college, way before Ye was a gleam in his daddy's eye. Or probably before his daddy was a gleam in his daddy's eye, for that matter.)  I long ago quit expecting corporations to have morals or to behave ethically.  Ye was worth a lot of money to them, until they did the analysis and realized he wasn't worth that much anymore.  And now Ye is no longer a billionaire, it seems.  Which makes his wealth as tenuous and ephemeral as Trump's, doesn't it? Huh.
Anyway, what Adidas does to Ye is of no interest to me.  Nor is Ye. I've been effectively boycotting Adidas for decades.  And I've never bought anything attached to, made by, or because of, Ye. Is it working yet?)
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