jane coaston cooked up a saying I am simultaneously in awe of and pathologically envious that I did not figure it out first but some politically addicted people I love dearly would not survive a 7-5 college football season
was talking about this with lord businessman, like, it’s not even horserace reporting, the dailies at the track don’t end their reports after the ponies round the first bend, all of the post-debate reporting basically treats the debate as if it ended in the first 15 minutes
it is simply not news that the former president of the united states wants to deport 20 million people and answered every single question by saying that immigrants have destroyed our country and we are literally in hell and people are constantly dying on the streets
see this is what we call an impasse, you want me to be crawling on the ceiling and I’m just sorta casually observing that some people are on the ceiling and I don’t need to be up there, I dunno what you want from me here
is it just age? 1984 was fkn bleak and the gray, airless 88 and 92 DLC boys. give me some of that boring incremental progress and spare me the drama. equanimity was achieved I guess.
This. Trump brazenly repeated his bullshit about "criminals, prisoners, and mental patients" and nobody is talking about that.
I feel like I live in the dumbest smart country.
I keep saying this, but: in all of his Clinton and Biden debates Trump has started strong and then by the end of the evening has completely decompensated, is behaving bizarrely and speaking incoherently.
The pundits write their first draft within the first twenty minutes, so that's all he needs.
After a coworker of mine told me yesterday how sick she was about journalists just trying to curry favor (like the white house press corps) to keep access, I gave her a brief history of the last 20 years of sports reporting (deadspin, Vox, substacks, college press corps, etc) and she was shocked.
As I longtime Buffalo Bills fan, I assure you people can agonize over every detail of ten consecutive 6-10 seasons and treat every setback like a world-ending disaster and every small success as a sign from on high, and it never fucking ends. No lessons learned, under any circumstances.
So, last night Joe Biden was James Franklin and D***** T**** was Ohio State (an intractably corrupt program that always manages to elude accountability, or so it always did pre NIL).
