The most recent Bill Maher was really good:
Prof McWhorter on CRT and wokeness, Rick Wilson (and yes, I was wrong about Trump being dumped after losing), and Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
Other things were discussed, including the woke CIA recruitment ad which was just dripping with wokeness…and mentioned next to nothing about …well…service and being good at the actual job.
This, in my opinion, is a sorry, sorry look for the CIA.
But alas, the wokes are terrible at introspection. Evidently Elizabeth Warren released a book about her campaign, and blamed her failure on…sexism.
Too many times, liberal wokes think that politics is like corporate America or a college campus where one has deans or HR to complain to.
From the article:
“Warren’s account ignores the possibility that her campaign simply misjudged the electorate, both within the party and outside it. As a result, she positioned herself too far left, which not only cost her support among Democrats, but created well-founded concerns — even among Democrats who liked her ideas — about her ability to beat Trump. (I was one of those voters. My initial enthusiasm for her candidacy gave way to dismay at her apparent lack of political savvy.) Perhaps she would have lost no matter what she did, but her strategic choices seem to have hurt her chances in ways she does not acknowledge. […]
“The most painfully oblivious sections are when Warren describes her efforts to woo Black and Latino activists, whose endorsements she equates with wooing those communities as a whole. ….
That disconnect became even more starkly evident the following November when Trump made shocking gains with conservative-leaning Black and Latino voters. That result produced a searching examination of the disconnect between the increasingly left-wing cadre of young, college-educated activists on the left and its voters, especially the party’s disproportionately Black and brown moderate wing.”
Alas, such criticism is doomed to fall on deaf ears.
If we look to the UK, we see that Labour is spiraling downhill. Some see a huge lesson for the US Democrats, while others point out that there are major differences between the two situations.
COVID-19: the US situation, and FINALLY the local situation are improving. But getting a handle on what was going on was a long process…aerosol transmission appears to be the main culprit along with the droplets. Yes, masks are very useful, and the biggest worry is high viral load in indoor settings when the virus can accumulate.
Outdoors is good.
Life of an old goat 