Comments on: Open thread 1/27/23 https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 28 Jan 2023 13:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663694 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 13:40:04 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663694 Bryan Lovely, yes, I know that; I participated in the RNC-funded election integrity efforts in my state in 2022. It helped here, where election laws are already pretty tight. But we have been swamped by the early voting and fraudulent voting in other places, and, according to what I read, the effective digital work of the Dems. I heard McDaniel, after the RNC election, talking again about knocking on doors and being poll observers. It’s not enough. Dillon was right to say we need new approaches and fewer “consultants.”

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Needs a proper ending rather than a meandering fade-out.

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663645 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 02:48:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663645 Kate —

Apparently it was only in 2019 that the RNC was freed from a 40-year consent decree saying it couldn’t engage in election security issues, so one explanation for recent events is that they didn’t have the institutional muscle memory for how to be effective in 2020 and 2022. One hopes that they’ve been making the effort to hire up and make the necessary connections.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663630 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:49:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663630 friedman has gotten most things wrong since 1982, beinart, has been struggling to catch up in the last 16 yeats,

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663629 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:47:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663629 “Too Much Heaven” was definitely part of the musical wallpaper in 1979. Listening to it now, I can hear a lot of Philly soul in there.

–Delfonics, “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)” (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM6kZabHf4w

As great as the Delfonics were for three-part romantic harmonies with lush orchestration, the Bee Gees song is a whole ‘nother level. Intricate and lacy.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663626 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:35:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663626 Thanks, Kate.

I had received another semi-threatening email about getting boosted. But the Advisement lady told me that was a “recommendation.”

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663625 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:23:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663625 Congratulations, huxley!!

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663624 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:21:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663624 Yippie!

I spoke to UNM Advisement (don’t you love the multisplendored names for bureaucracy) and I don’t have to get Covid boosted this semester. I did OK with the J&J vaxx, but the Pfizer booster knocked me out for two days.

I’ll take the summer off. Travel in the fall. Then, if I wish to continue, I’ll take Differential Equations next spring.

Perhaps Covid madness will be over by then. But I could be wrong. I see signs that the new dispensation is a yearly Covid shot.

]]> By: miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663623 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:20:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663623 the definition of insanity,

https://brianoshea.substack.com/p/who-is-jordon-trishton-walker

the story is even stranger than veritas describes,

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2023/01/27/open-thread-1-27-23/#comment-2663620 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:14:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=123799#comment-2663620 om, some people on Twitter are trying to claim that Trump was neutral in the race, but when his staff take sides, I think it means they’re doing it on his orders.

I suppose this is related to big donors, which means that the little people like me are not important. Not very Trump-like, or not 2016 Trump-like.

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