Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

You cannot shame the shameless.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

The revolution will be supervised.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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  3. 3.

    La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)

    FIL let slip last night that he voted for the orange thing to “cancel out” MIL’s vote for Clinton. I just cannot make it thru these holidays.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Gindy51: Possible talent for the thing’s inauguration?

    in case the chicken that dances to Elvis Presley has a previous engagement? with Kid Rock as option 3

    actually I’m kind of looking forward to the gif of Trump grimacing in a facsimile of enjoyment and clapping off key to Loretta Lynn and…. is Wayne Newton still with us?

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    I woke up with a great idea for a novel, kind of like a Dan Brown style thriller.
    Maybe license movie rights one day.

    Stay Ahead
    Secretary Clinton only has days left to find the secret that will flip the Electoral College. But with both the FBI and the KGB after her the path is tightening. To win the Presidency and save the world all she has to do is…Stay Ahead.

  6. 6.

    Brachiator

    I don’t know why this giant bull is located in a used car lot. Open thread!

    It gets good mileage, but expels a lot of gas.

  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    Nice bull.

    So I have a theory, which I haven’t tried to type out before so here goes. Basically, if you look at the map here, Trump outperformed Romney in the rust belt and Northeast by the border. We knew that, but it’s good to have it on a map. At the same time, he didn’t really beat Romney by much anywhere else. Consider, also, that the economy in the rust belt, while still kind of shitty, hasn’t declined in the last four years.

    I posit that this area held the last untapped source of white resentment in the country. Not people too racist to vote for a black guy, since by all measures Obama is One Of The Good Ones. People on whom dog whistles didn’t work, because they’d never say something mean about a black person, not in public at least. Lynchings are uncouth. People who the Atwater strategy had failed to reach. But they were reachable–they had plenty of white resentment to go around. You just had to be really, really blatant that you were the candidate of white resentment.

    Remember also that “For every one voter nationwide who reported having voted for Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016, at least five people voted for Trump after not having voted four years ago.” So we’re talking about not just Obama-to-Trump flip floppers but also non-voters coming out for Trump. Again, concentrated in the rust belt.

    I hold that the Southern Strategy worked… in the South. In the rust belt, the racists couldn’t hear the dog whistles. Trump fixed that.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    What fresh hell is this now? I have never seen poutine at any place in Austin. I am convinced cookingchanneltv is now just fucking with me.

  11. 11.

    lamh36

    Heads up to anyone who follows POTUS, FLOTUS and any of the White House accounts on twitter, Instagram or other social media! On Jan 21st, those accounts will no longer belong to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. So don’t forget to unfollow or unfriend or whatever, unless you want to follow President Trump…???

  13. 13.

    burnspbesq

    I don’t know why this giant bull is located in a used car lot.

    It’s no more illogical than Trump as President-elect.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    Bushnell, that’s why. Same reason that verdammt animatronic gorilla has been in front of the vacuum cleaner store on Kennedy and Henderson in Tampa as long as I can remember.

  18. 18.

    La Caterina (Mrs. Johannes)

    @lamh36: Could you post a link to one of those photos of your adorable niece? I could use some cheering up.

  22. 22.

    TriassicSands

    I don’t know why this giant bull is located in a used car lot.

    Subconsciously the owner is warning potential customers about the nature of the sales pitch they will receive if they shop there.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    @Larkspur: We’d have to first gilt it with gold or else it wouldn’t be accepted.
    Hmmm…something vaguely familiar about a golden calf for some reason…

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Remember also that “For every one voter nationwide who reported having voted for Obama in 2012 and Trump in 2016, at least five people voted for Trump after not having voted four years ago.” So we’re talking about not just Obama-to-Trump flip floppers but also non-voters coming out for Trump. Again, concentrated in the rust belt.

    I hold that the Southern Strategy worked… in the South. In the rust belt, the racists couldn’t hear the dog whistles. Trump fixed that.

    Good analysis, but your conclusion is tacked on.

    Instead of asking why some voters switched their vote, and listening to them, or asking wny other voters felt so enthusiastic about Trump that they came out for the first time in years, it is easier, but wrong, to trot out the same old political usual suspects.

    People who sat out earlier years were not buying what either the Democrats or the establishment Republicans were selling. And both Trump and Sanders, in very different ways, appealed to voters who rejected the status quo.

    Maybe there is something here besides the typical basket of deplorables.

  27. 27.

    Shell

    Read that Trump went on another Twitter rant last night. No public appearances since the election, no press conferences and he becomes more sequestered in Trump Tower. Is he already turning into Howard Hughes?

  28. 28.

    The Dangerman

    Could be worse; the Bull in the parking lot could be like Babe (of Paul Bunyan and Babe fame, at the Trees of Mystery tourist trap in the Redwoods) and be carrying a package (and I’m entirely unsure what the Dude in the picture is doing with said package, but I digress).

  30. 30.

    mzinformation

    This question may have been answered in a previous post, but, if so I missed it. Why is PO taking the stance he is on the Dakota Pipeline?

  32. 32.

    OldDave

    In comment 80 of the previous thread (link) Schlemazel gave some interesting statistics:

    The 2000+ counties that Trump won are responsible for 32% of US GDP
    The 500+ counties Clinton carried are responsible for 67% of US GDP

    I’d love to see a link to an “authoritative source” for that information – not that I doubt Schlemazel as the data rings true – but it would be nice to be able to show proof if called out by a RWNJ.

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    @Corner Stone:

    Secretary Clinton only has days left to find the secret that will flip the Electoral College. But with both the FBI and the KGB after her the path is tightening. To win the Presidency and save the world all she has to do is…Stay Ahead.

    You are so very, very close to what I’m working on for this week, seriously! Too funny (well, not ha-ha funny…but still)

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    Maybe there is something here besides the typical basket of deplorables.

    In rural and exurban areas, almost certainly not. So far, all indications are that those areas are where the out-and-proud white supremacists are, and they showed up to vote for their candidate. In suburban and urban areas, you might find a few non-deplorables, but here’s the thing: they’re “non-deplorables” who had no problem voting for an anti-Semitic, misogynist white supremacist. They didn’t find that to be a problem at all. So while they may like to think of themselves of not being as bad as the white supremacists, they don’t have any real problem with white supremacists.

  39. 39.

    Davis X. Machina

    @Brachiator:

    And both Trump and Sanders, in very different ways, appealed to voters who rejected the status quo.

    If you think hard, you can find something they share that may have influenced votes, I bet.

  40. 40.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Mnemosyne: I think the rural/exurban rust belt people are the “I’m not racist but” crowd who mostly thinks Mexicans have taken their jobs, be it the mythical auto worker or the mythical rugged individualist farmer. They didn’t turn out previously because nobody had offered that kind of racism in ways they could hear. The southern strategy is pretty focused on anti-black dog whistles, which while they happen to hurt other minorities too are intended to hurt black people.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    @Shell:

    no press conferences

    You know, I kindof shrugged it off for a while because I always thought it was BS the the press literally counted the days for HRC as they relentlessly hounded her. But it’s getting to the point where it’s starting to bother me.
    I mean, we all know the man knows nothing about essentially anything and all his answers will be vague wordcloudsalads. But come the fuck on.
    Jonathan Capeheart made an interesting point today on AMJoy. In the transcripts for the NYT meeting, the only thing Trump was definite about was the law regarding his business interests. He had someone explain that to him and made a strong pushback on it. Every other topic or answer was just garbled puffery that no one can make anything of.

  44. 44.

    Citizen_X

    @Corner Stone:

    Hmmm…something vaguely familiar about a golden calf for some reason…

    So when is Democracy Moses going to come down the hill and throw the Constitution at us for losing faith and electing Trump?

  46. 46.

    Suzanne

    @Mnemosyne:

    So while they may like to think of themselves of not being as bad as the white supremacists, they don’t have any real problem with white supremacists.

    That’s because these people benefit from white patriarchy and thus have no vested interest in dismantling it.

    The only problem they have with white supremacists is that they’re open and impolite about it.

  47. 47.

    Kay

    @Shell:

    Wasn’t our crack team of public servants at the FBI supposedly investigating the Trump Foundation along with their political activities promoting Donald Trump?

    Yeah, they’re real credible on Trump corruption. They’ll do a great job. I can’t believe the hacks who worked to elect this guy are supposed to investigate him. Is Comey waiting until his pension vests, or what? Why does he bother going to work?

  49. 49.

    aimai

    @Major Major Major Major: Very good analysis. I also think that this was not so much a “change election” as a revenge election and it was a revenge for the real and imagined slights of having a black guy in the white house and liberals in the ascendance. People who didn’t vote before because they were pissed off by bush’s war, but not pissed off enough to vote for a democrat, came out to vote for what appeared to be a republican revolt against both Bush and Obama. A revolt against “elites.” So all trump’s vulgarity and disgusting uprofessionalism, especially aligned with the on again/off again republican pushback against him, combined to legitimizeTrump for republicans as an authentically independent candidate. This was something Romney never had going for him–not because he was too polite to dogwhistle (but that was true) but because there were four more years of resentment against Obama built up and four more years of resentment against the republican party for being unable to deliver any actual goodies while they were fucking over Obama and the dems.

  51. 51.

    Kay

    So here are the institutions the public is supposedly relying on to rein in Donald Trump- media, led by cable channels and the NYTtimes, the GOP Congress, and the FBI.

    Oh, this will be very tough for him! These bulldogs will tear him to pieces!

    We are on our own. The part that bothers me the most is we have such a low quality dictator.

    The United States of America was brought down by a game show host and his sleazy family. Two bit crooks.

  52. 52.

    Corner Stone

    @Kay: Arne Duncan and James Comey. I guess only time will tell which Obama appointment will end up being responsible for doing the most damage to more Americans.
    At this point it looks like James Fucking Comey is going to be the rogue scientist that let the virus out of the research facility.

  53. 53.

    Hungry Joe

    Why is the CIA getting no credit for taking out Castro? I mean, come on — credit where credit’s due. Good work, guys! Slow and steady wins the race!

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    There’s a Kindle book on Amazon for $1.99 called The Birth of Modern Politics (about the election of 1828 between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams) that sounds eerily similar to what just happened:

    In The Birth of Modern Politics, Parsons shows that the Adams-Jackson contest also began a national debate that is eerily contemporary, pitting those whose cultural, social, and economic values were rooted in community action for the common good against those who believed the common good was best served by giving individuals as much freedom as possible to promote their own interests.

    And, of course, it was a contest between an abolitionist and a slaveholder, which I assume is addressed pretty thoroughly.

  55. 55.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Major Major Major Major: They didn’t turn out previously because nobody had offered that kind of racism in ways they could hear.

    In the long Remnick/Obama piece in the New Yorker, Obama says (think I got this right) that Trump won FL in the central counties around Orlando– I don’t know the state, but from what I’ve read over the last couple weeks, it’s pretty much white American ex-urbia writ large, not quite the South, not quite the Rust Belt. Trump out-performed Romney and McCain there, with voters who largely stayed home in 2012. I think there are a lot of reasons why GOP-leaners would stay home for Romney: he’s a cartoonish plutocrat, not just the 47%, they probably loved that, but the flip-flopping, “I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake”, the car elevator, “one would have assumed he took part in sport, he was so tall!”, and of course, Mormonism.

    One of Obama’s numbers guy, I think Mitch Stewart, said a while ago that MI should be a red, or at least reddish purple state, but Obama in 2012 still had some credibility from the auto bailout, and Romney’s “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” stance was not forgotten, and also, see above. I think that was probably true to some degree in Ohio, too. And Trump, even though his money is “older” than Romney’s, even though he loves to brag about his education, comes across as a regular guy who made good. It all makes the dog-whistle, “telling it like it is” stuff easier to sell. They see him as one of their own in a way they never would Romney.

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne

    @Kay:

    We are on our own. The part that bothers me the most is we have such a low quality dictator.

    Basically, the Republican Party spent 30 years hollowing out all of our institutions so that when the dictator they wanted finally showed up, there would be no one left to resist him. I didn’t realize until now that it would take such a small push to knock everything over, but there we have it.

  57. 57.

    FlipYrWhig

    @aimai: I think it’s even simpler than that. I think they just wanted someone who would make other people mad and kick some ass once in a while. I don’t think they have any real expectation that a Trump presidency will be good for them. They’ve given up on government and just want the vicarious pleasure of someone who says Fuck You, You Can’t Tell Me What To Do, like they’ve been wanting to do their whole lives. I think it’s going to be a very short honeymoon.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    And Trump, even though his money is “older” than Romney’s, even though he loves to brag about his education, comes across as a regular guy who made good. It all makes the dog-whistle, “telling it like it is” stuff easier to sell. They see him as one of their own in a way they never would Romney.

    This is, I think, an important point that a lot of commentators have been missing. “White Working Class” is a social identity group, not an economic group. There are plenty of millionaires out there driving giant pickup trucks and insisting that they’re “working class.” And Donald Trump, “billionaire” son of a New York millionaire, is one of them, because he has all the same beliefs they do about how black/brown/poor people are inferior to everyone else and having money just proves that you’re better than anyone else.

    They are ragingly insecure, not about economics, but about their social status, and they just slapped the rest of us in the face and insisted that they’re still better than everyone else.

  60. 60.

    Mnemosyne

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Yep. To display my slightly raggedy older hobbyhorse, the voter ID laws were set up to benefit Generic Republican 2016. It was a boobytrap, and Trump just happened to be the lucky beneficiary.

    I would like to think that Rove has had a moment or two of indigestion thinking about what he has wrought, but that would require him to have a vestige of a conscience. It’s more likely that he’s bombarding Trump with copies of his resume to try and land a job in the new administration.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mnemosyne: There are plenty of millionaires out there driving giant pickup trucks and insisting that they’re “working class.”

    only they wouldn’t use that term (don’t like it myself, it sounds like Lionel Barrymore in Wonderful Life). They would say, “I may not have gone to college…” in a sarcastic tone that implies they were too smart to fall for that scam (unlike their know-it-all siblings or in-laws who think they’re so superior and barely clear 50K a year teaching in a public school, and I wish I only worked nine months a year haw haw haw), and they got (almost) rich in whatever business because they’re smarter than their loser friends and family who didn’t

  64. 64.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Mnemosyne: It kind of reminds me of how when the music business switched to that new sales tracking system, it suddenly became clear that people were buying tons of country music, which had been written off as a relic of the past for a long, long time. There was a mass audience consuming products about which the tastemakers and trendsetters had no idea.

  66. 66.

    Kay

    State of the UnionVerified account
    ‏@CNNSotu
    On #CNNSOTU Kellyanne Conway says Trump has been “gracious” by not prosecuting Clinton while recount underway

    The President-elect is still threatening his political rival with prosecution.

    I know CNN is staggering along, hopelessly corrupt and compromised but since these cable anchors are still collecting million dollar paychecks, perhaps one of them could push back against the Regime of Clowns who are running the country?

    The next time you’re wondering how countries collapse, turn on CNN. This is how.

  69. 69.

    Suzanne

    @Mnemosyne:

    They are ragingly insecure, not about economics, but about their social status, and they just slapped the rest of us in the face and insisted that they’re still better than everyone else.

    Yes. As I pointed out, my in-laws are real white working-class people. They live in a rural area, they don’t have college degrees, they go to church, they worked low-skill jobs until they inherited a small family cattle farm, they struggle with finances, and yet they vote Dem every time. They know the score.

    The people we are calling “white working class” are like them in some respects, but most of them have more money due to family inheritance or just being more prosperous. The difference: my in-laws spent many years living in Silicon Valley before it was Silicon Valley (when it was affordable suburbs), and they are not stupid or mean.

  71. 71.

    Baud

    @Suzanne: We don’t seem to have enough people like your in-laws acting as leaders in those communities, unfortunately.

    People who go against type to do the right thing are heroes. It can’t be easy.

  72. 72.

    Suzanne

    @FlipYrWhig: This. The resentment is deep. Culturally, rural and southern life used to be portrayed aspirationally. But it’s been depicted as anachronistic and backward and icky and weird for so long now that it’s created a huge divide.

    There was a piece in the WSJ about a week ago about how ad agencies are crapping their pants right now, because all their market research led them to depict urban life as aspirational, and with this election, they are realizing that they have not been talking to a whole lot of people, those who do not want to or cannot live in cities.

  73. 73.

    Baud

    @Suzanne: I’m surprised about the ad agencies. It seems like every other ad is about the ruggedness of pickup trucks hauling things in the middle of nowhere.

  74. 74.

    debbie

    @Suzanne:

    There was a piece in the WSJ about a week ago

    Happening where I work. They have a campaign up with the tagline something like “you are who you are.” Apparently, they’re getting all kinds of backlash because the customers in the ads look “eccentric” and not like the WWC.

  75. 75.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud: yeah, beer, pick up trucks, jeans, soup, Hillshire Farms smoked sausage… whole lot of ad campaigns structured around the idea of perfectly maintained white clapboard houses and youngish white people smiling warmly at each other.

  76. 76.

    Suzanne

    @Baud: It’s not easy. But they’re also not going to be leaders in their community. They have a farm to run, and my FIL still works in a grocery store doing physically demanding work (despite being over 60 and having a cow’s heart valve and having started having seizures). And my brothers-in-law are not really self-sufficient, either. I doubt that either of them will ever marry or have families or finish enough education to make enough money to live in a city where they would have more opportunities or positive stimulation. They are surviving, not thriving. It is not a good place to live, in my view.

    And yet, every time we see her, my MIL begs us to move there. I used to be polite about declining, but I am losing my patience regarding the issue. But at some point. I might end up saying that the shithole town in which she grew up is horrible, and that the only one of her children who is able to live his own life is the one who doesn’t live there, and that is not a coincidence,

  77. 77.

    Brachiator

    @Major Major Major Major:

    The conclusion isn’t tacked on, it’s in paragraph 2 as well.

    The basic info about prior Obama voters and first time voters could mean many things. But there is a tendency here to use an overly simplified notion to the Southern Strategy to explain almost any unpleasant electoral outcome. This is as wrongheaded and pointless as all those polls that showed Clinton in the lead.

    @Mnemosyne:

    but here’s the thing: they’re “non-deplorables” who had no problem voting for an anti-Semitic, misogynist white supremacist.

    Yes! And this absolutely offends the sensibilities of a lot of people. But life is difficult. Trump is very likely a racist, and he gives aid an comfort to white supremacists. But the people who voted for him don’t care, This includes, for example, Orthodox Jews who hate blacks but who ignore the antisemitism of some high level Trump supporters. I have no idea what basket you could place these people into.

    But the bottom line is that it is not as easy to paint Trump supporters with a broad brush as people here insist. They don’t care that he is a thief. They don’t care that he has not revealed his tax returns. They don’t care that he is ignorant of government and policy. They somehow see this as a potentially stable cleansing innocence. People confuse the blind stupid anger of these people with a coherent set of beliefs. Or they want to lump them altogether into a group that can be easily labeled and dismissed.

  78. 78.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Suzanne: @Baud: There were a bunch of ads in the past few months aimed at selling alcohol to Spanish-speaking and/or Mexican-descended people. I bet all the trendspotters in capitalism and politics had pegged this election as the coming of age of Latino America as a force to be reckoned with. And I bet the Clinton data people and the ad gurus were sipping from the same erroneous data stream.

  79. 79.

    Suzanne

    @Baud: Look at ads for wine, gyms, any clothes that aren’t low-end denim, sports cars, Nike and Adidas, electronics…..

  81. 81.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Brachiator: The coherent set of beliefs is cleek’s law. They like him because the people they don’t like–the news, feminists, wusses, protesters, etc.–don’t like him, so he must be doing something right dammit!

  82. 82.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    The Cleveland Browns are very . . . orange today.

    In other news, I’m jonesin’ for a pizza, but it feels somehow wrong so soon after Thanksgiving. On the other hand, I did eat the last of my T-day leftovers last night. What to do, what to do.

  83. 83.

    Brachiator

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    They would say, “I may not have gone to college…” in a sarcastic tone that implies they were too smart to fall for that scam

    Distrust of too much education runs deep in Anglo-American life, as does the country/city divide. There is a remarkable series of Victorian photos wirtten about in the Daily Mail.

    One traveller interviewed by the photographer noted:

    ‘Why what do I want with education? Any chaps of my acquaintance that knows how to write and count proper ain’t much to be trusted into the bargain’

  84. 84.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Brachiator:

    But there is a tendency here to use an overly simplified notion to the Southern Strategy to explain almost any unpleasant electoral outcome. This is as wrongheaded and pointless as all those polls that showed Clinton in the lead.

    I appreciate your good-faith effort to assume I know what I’m talking about.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I just keep seeing that god damn hipster Santa Claus with the two smokin’ hot elves at the car dealership.
    “You better not be jingling my bells.”
    “Oh, Santa. I would never do that!”…pulls out sawed off double barrel 12 ga shotgun…

  88. 88.

    Corner Stone

    @Brachiator:

    People confuse the blind stupid anger of these people with a coherent set of beliefs. Or they want to lump them altogether into a group that can be easily labeled and dismissed.

    They do have a coherent set of beliefs. They can not be dismissed but they are easily labeled.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @Corner Stone:

    Ordered and awaiting!

    Also tied into my complete lack of interest in getting dressed and going out to get groceries today. I’m finishing this weekend on the glide path.

  91. 91.

    Brachiator

    @FlipYrWhig:

    The coherent set of beliefs is cleek’s law.

    I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

    They like him because the people they don’t like–the news, feminists, wusses, protesters, etc.–don’t like him, so he must be doing something right dammit!

    This seems totally wrong, but is another good example of lazy “conservatives just want to piss liberals off” nonsense.

    Not total nonsense, though. I hope that people are pissed enough to fight back. But this time try to understand what you are up against.

  94. 94.

    Miss Bianca

    @Adam L Silverman: you have an animatronic gorilla in front of a vacuum cleaner store? That sounds more entertaining than one of those mechanical horsies or scary windsock creatures.

  95. 95.

    Miss Bianca

    @Brachiator: I’ll never forget the time at a parent-teacher conference, when I was doing long-term substitute teaching on the Western Slope, when a guy from one of the old-timer families looked at me and said, “Education is respected in Delta County, but it’s not very well-liked.”

  96. 96.

    J R in WV

    @Kay:

    Yeah, that’s the most scary thing Trump has talked about so far… Put HER in jail !!!

    Very un-American, like most of Trump’s political viewpoints. It’s like he grew up somewhere else, or something. Or just never looked at what was going on in America his whole life, perhaps.

  97. 97.

    J R in WV

    Betty,

    Sorry about your Gators last night. I’m not a big fan of either, a little more of the Seminoles, maybe, since Bobby was their coach for so long, and he came out of WVU.

    But it was a good game to watch just from the perspective of being amazing, and I think their purple and gold uniforms are really cool. And that runner, # 4, he was an amazing talent to watch.

    They played really hard, both sides. Probably the best MSM TV broadcast of this week.

    I would have liked to see the WVU game, they really ran up the score 49-19 on Iowa State. That kind of thing is fun for the school running up the score. But it wasn’t broadcast, only available on cable/sat systems, so I listened to the radio feed, which is the way we got WVU games when I was a little kid, before TV was feasible in WV.

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