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Karadeniz

(22,513 posts)
1. That's unnecessary, Van. Normal daytime light is no big deal...unless you've been lost in a dark
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 06:50 PM
Nov 2020

Cave, dying for air, groping your way through the gloom, nothing recognizable, lost and unsure. Then, normal light, not fireworks, not search lights, just everyday light means the world.

unblock

(52,221 posts)
3. oh that's a terrible, terrible narrative. shades of carter in 1976.
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 06:59 PM
Nov 2020

carter was just the right man the country needed after watergate. very clearly ethical, prudent, deliberate, calm, statesmanly, etc.

it helped us get passed watergate in a way ford inherently couldn't, not only due to being from the same party, owing his presidency to nixon, and ffs, pardoning the dirtbag.

carter helped heal us as a nation.

but by 1980, having helped the nation get past watergate and get past vietnam, boring and calm and reasonable and ethical and so on no longer was of any great interest, and reagan clobbered him.


so while "normal" and "boring" seem great *now*, and, don't get me wrong, they *are* great, *now*.

but that narrative will stick and it will *not* play well in 2022 or 2024.

Freethinker65

(10,021 posts)
4. How about Truth! No Malarkey!
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 07:01 PM
Nov 2020

After all of Trump's lies, have an official WH Malarkey meter (with footnotes to accurate information) to keep up with the GOP disinformation.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
5. That's mierda! Boring, hell no! Decent, caring, diplomatic --hell take that any day
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 07:03 PM
Nov 2020

..than listen to bloviated obnoxious odious racist #45's hate propaganda, unending lies.

Mr jones is wrong not boring to the 74 plus million Americans that said loud and clear--BASTA! Enough!

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