I don’t watch live TV or assorted live media. This is for the same reason I step around dogshit rather than smear it on my face.
However, there times when I want information right away. It’s an election and curiosity got the best of me. How was it going? I had to know.
Hulu had live commentary. It looked like Biden was doing well but all I could think was “what language are these twerps speaking”? It was an unwatchable combination of fancy graphics and obfuscation. “Among left handed suburban Chicano single moms who voted for Hillary in 2016, Biden is doing within reasonable expectations. Also the number of Octogenarian cancer patients in Florida divided by the GDP of this particular precinct in New Hampshire is…” That’s not providing information, it’s vomiting data.
Wisely, I turned out and watched Tremors. Gotta’ love Bert Gummer.
After the movie I tried again. PredictIt wasn’t loading. The whole ‘net seemed slow. I couldn’t endure the crap on Hulu. Finally, I gave YouTube a shot.
Unaccustomed to modern “network news”, I wallowed around YouTube trying to find actual information. Lots of mask wearing yo-yos talking about anything other than electoral college votes on a state by state basis.
Then I heard it. Here’s the quote of the day:
”It’s too early to tell but it doesn’t look like Trump will have the total wipeout some Republicans feared.”
Wait… what?!? The Trump wipeout Republicans feared? What the hell are they smoking and is it legal outside of Colorado?
I fiddled with the remote, failing to rewind to the money quote. I started thinking I’d somehow mis-heard.
Then I saw a brief flash of a map. There was a smattering of encouraging red blobs on the east coast. More importantly there was a tally showing Trump with an inconclusive but not insignificant lead in electoral college votes.
OK, this is what I was looking for. At least I’d found the mute button. Maybe I’d get the feel of things.
Then, with a flourish they called the entire west coast for Biden… with zero votes counted. It was in mute but I put the words out for them; “Trump was looking ahead so we decided this is a good time to call half the map with zero votes counted… enjoy this brief respite before Orange Man Bad stomps Biden like Godzilla doing the Can Can on top of Tokyo.”
I poured a nice drink and settled in to watch. I tapped this post into a tabled. Then I decided to watch old Wile E. Coyote cartoons instead. At the time some talking head was yammering on “it’s important we don’t jump to any conclusions before every fucking mail in ballot is counted sometime next week…”
Ha ha ha… the things the media says are true in terms of what they won’t say. I can tell what they’re not saying.
Have a great evening y’all. Time for me to see what my favorite coyote does with his new rocket sled.
A.C.
P.S. If tomorrow dawns and everything is ashes, I’ll rethink my optimism. For now “not quite the total wipeout Republicans feared” sounds like a punchline.
I’m listening to a 3 hr long Grateful Dead concert (from June 77 at Winterland) on one utube tab, I have 4 other tabs open with different states in them. This is interesting shit, it’s not every election we Americans get a choice anymore, usually it’s two of the same, heads they win tails we lose. Trump is not part of that.
The music is good, the charts and stuff on the different channels don’t always agree but it is a nice way to watch this every four year change of power (maybe).
I find the whole process fascinating to watch. I actually enjoy it from a purely human-psychology perspective; but the continuous chicanery of the ‘info-tainment’ industry gets old and I have to flip back and forth amongst the VARIOUS different offerings. I probably spent the most time on MSNBC to get the thickest set of (Leftist in this case) lies.. -> when THEY have given up hope that the Orange Menace can be beaten in a particular State, then you KNOW it to be the case that said ‘battleground’ is truly and finally done and won; Plus (and this is rather selfish of me).. I hope to be fortunate enough to be there LIVE when Rachel Maddow has another on-air meltdown right on national television. Watching Leftard dreams get crushed in real-time is truly a spectator-centric sport.
The real loser in this election cycle, as always, is the American people. And I don’t just mean in the sucky politicians which were or are to be decided/elected. I believe that this is the death knell of ANY modicum of Objective Trust (such as it was) in the VAST majority of Main Stream Media outlets and so called ‘political pollsters’; at least for people who exist in the Objective Adult Reality that AC is so fond of pontificating about. The down side is that when there is ACTUAL news like an actual asteroid is about to make landfall in western Wyoming or a Great Lakes tsunami is imminent and WILL swamp Duluth, MN, no one will pay the least bit of attention because the MSM have fluffed the furnaces of the deception mill for so long and with such vigor.
“While E.” Coyote? What’s his opponent’s name, “Amongst X.” Roadrunner?
Try “Wile E.”, AC.
Good catch.