The last few days: Bullshit, mostly.
It was supposed to snow here, and didn’t. It did get cold, but the streets had dried from the rain that was supposed to turn to snow, so there wasn’t even very much ice.
Fig. 1. Screenshot of comic by Bill Watterson from 1989. Actually, I’d be just fine without the snow, and especially the ice.
I’m beginning to get the picture that folks have been telling me about for months. I’d still desperately rather be doing something besides driving for Uber and Lyft in a Pittsburgh winter or anywhere in any season.[1]
Pete Buttigieg
Why is he cancer? He’s not my first choice but it’s leaps and bounds from where we are now. Please let’s not eat our own. 💙
— Quatriniali (@quatriniali) November 9, 2019
Well, he isn’t our own https://t.co/rdDvQO5IAA
— Palli Davis Holubar (@palliddh) November 10, 2019
Just as in 2016, when we couldn’t oppose @HillaryClinton because we were anti-war or anti-neoliberal, but only because we were misogynist, now we cannot oppose @PeteButtigieg unless we are homophobic.
It’s never actually about issues but about identity.
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) November 10, 2019
Which, come to think of it, isn’t much of an improvement on calling Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables.”[2]
The neoliberal party does not engage on issues because its issue is neoliberalism and even it knows that that’s a loser. It claims a progressive mantle by running on identity. And some idiots still fall for it.
Uber
Kia Kokalitcheva, “Uber says it’s likely to pay Waymo or revamp its self-driving tech,” Axios, November 7, 2019, https://www.axios.com/uber-says-its-likely-to-pay-waymo-or-revamp-its-self-driving-tech-ffa6e420-4273-4cf1-8161-fc40e25b61da.html
Trade
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury, “Trade Liberalization for Development?” InterPress Service, November 5, 2019, http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/11/trade-liberalization-development/
California
Fig. 2. California climate change since 1895.[3]
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, “How California’s weather has changed during fire season since 1895,” n.d., https://www.pressdemocrat.com/multimedia/10274200-181/how-californias-weather-has-changed
- [1]David Benfell, “About my job hunt,” Not Housebroken, n.d., https://disunitedstates.org/about-my-job-hunt/↩
- [2]Jonathan Capehart, “This is what’s ‘deplorable’ about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and this campaign,” Washington Post, September 12, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/09/12/this-is-whats-deplorable-about-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-and-this-campaign/↩
- [3]Santa Rosa Press Democrat, “How California’s weather has changed during fire season since 1895,” n.d., https://www.pressdemocrat.com/multimedia/10274200-181/how-californias-weather-has-changed↩