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- Welcome to Christmas Season. Thanksgiving doesn’t get a “season.” It barely gets an aisle at the grocery store.
- Terry McAuliffe’s loss in Virginia is a slap to the face of Democrats: The Culture War is alive and well and living in the GOP in the form of the boogieman “Critical Race Theory”–a dog whistle for racism. Dems need to prep for this non-factually-based attack, and the GOP will use their campaign of figurative book-burning in 2022.
- If Democrats played as dirty as Republicans, they would plant excitement for a few actual book burnings outside school board meetings in the next year, and then let the Radical Right pick up the idea. The visual of actual books burning might alert Independents about what they’re actually supporting by voting for the GOP.
- Credit where credit is due: Republicans don’t win elections because they govern well. They win because they’re masters at manipulating voters’ emotions with fear.
- Credit where credit is due: This week in the economy, we had the three stock indices finish at record highs, a better than expected jobs report, unemployment down, and economic packages close to passing. Biden’s leading well by all measures. So, Joe: take the credit where credit is due for once! Please! Let people know your record before the midterms.
- What will the Q conspiracy be for the new Pfizer pill treatment for people infected with coronavirus? Geo-location tracker? Radio detonated suicide pill to knock-off all the “sheep”? My guess on the first Q-spiracy: It’s an extreme dose of estrogen to further emasculate men.
- In an ad for Youngkin, a far-right “christian” mother, Laura Murphy, complained that her son–now a lawyer for the National Republican Congressional Committee–had nightmares about the content of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, which he read as a high school senior in an AP English class, and she was shocked. Well, good. The content of the book–which depicts the horrors faced by Black people in post-Civil War America–is meant to be shocking, particularly to suburban white readers who have no knowledge of Black experience in America. That’s the job of some literature: to document the sins of our past so future generations don’t repeat them.
- Murphy didn’t seem too concerned about the class content when her son signed up for the class. It’s like she was completely out of touch with her son’s education until he was disturbed by images of the Black experience, something she never faced in Fairfax County, Virginia. Perhaps she should have looked at the reading list before signing off on her kid’s class schedule.
- And by the way, congrats to the school and the teacher for giving students a book that would challenge their worldviews. Murphy wanted to shelter a son who needed to be challenged. (If he didn’t want to be challenged, why was he taking an Advanced Placement class?)
- The Phantom Menace has not aged well. Some movies grow into their legacy. Not this one. (Courtesy Mrs. Jack)
- JFK Jr. planning his reappearance in Dallas was an odd choice. Why the site of his father’s assassination and not someplace more elegant, like his father’s tomb at Arlington. If they wanted to go lowbrow, they could have booked Tucker Carlson. But then, Q needed a public space they wouldn’t get kicked out of, that wouldn’t cost them money, and that would lead to a bigger national embarrassment.
- Republican margin of victory in Virginia (as tallied at 8 p.m. ET): 2.5 percentage points. Democratic margin of victory in New Jersey: 2.3 percentage points. Apparently, a “bloodbath” lies in that 0.2 point margin.
- A lot of high-profile trials/hearings this week: the Aubrey murderers, Rittenhouse, the J6 committee, plus important legislative matters. But I’m sure Sean Hannity will find a way to cover important Hunter Biden news for a few segments.
- For a laid-back, water-side vacation, I’ll take a lake over an ocean, and an ocean over a river. But if I’m trying to sleep, I’ll take an ocean over a river, and a river over a lake. Lakes are just magnets for loud party boats.
- I really hoped professional wrestling would stop being “a thing” by 2007. I’m still hoping.
