Hee! Totally understand.

I’m laughing too at the late-30s/early 40s folks who are dismissing 50-ish and older as OLD AND UNIMPORTANT VOTERS HAHA.

Me: Let me introduce you to the concept of demographics.

Exactly!

I just found it funny that even GenX equates gray hair and wrinkles with Boomers when the pics are quite obviously us 50 to 60 year olds! 😆

Today’s 3am memory, from kindergarten.

Our playground had two short concrete tunnels. The big kids wrote inside them. One kid sneered that I couldn’t read.

So I sounded them all out to prove him wrong.

That was the day I learned, from the principal who called my folks that fuck was a bad word.

One more also: The second call my son made to me during his first tour in Ukraine was from a bathtub. He hadn’t had time to get from his apartment to a shelter so…. We just chatted while he waited out the attack in the bathtub.

That’s why calls from bathrooms are hated.

Also-also, the convos with most others aren’t hard because of anything those others do or do not do.

It’s because when she said, “I hate getting calls from bathrooms,” we both understand the unspoken paragraphs that include “but it’s better than no calls so I shut up about it.”

Chasing Rogan is chasing illness. It’s like insisting everyone live in an iron lung because some others must do so to survive.

Aim instead for the **easy**-info voter. The one who smiles to see local FFA awards, is bothered by knowing an elderly neighbor will get fewer Meals on Wheels, wants to see girls enroll in the community college welding program, and wonders who has the time to constantly freak out over trans athletes

So quit trying to out-Rogan Rogan. No matter the numbers of his viewership, his actual audience is the voter who likes being low-info.

Forget them.

That’s why the most local of local elections are increasingly breaking from MAGA.

School boards, city councils…. The closer you bring MAGA policies to voters, the more voters give it a frown.

And a frown—mirrored on the faces of respected neighbors—is the game changer.

MAGA doesn’t “win” the rural press/news battle because it slants reporting on, say, the Big Beautiful Bill.

They “win” by declining to mention the harm.

Because the harm is regional, local, personal.

And MAGA media has consistently and always failed when regional, local, personal is centered.

Y’see, there are basically two ways to present news to the public:

1. Choose what you report.

2. Choose how you present/slant your reporting.

Dems keep chasing #2.

MAGA and its Limbaugh-Beck-Hannity-NextUp ecosphere instead mastered #1.

Topic beats slant every single day.

(Also, hoping I don’t have to add misspelling Remembrances to the list.)

"Peaceful vibes" all around I guess.

P. S. Dear West, russia has no interest in peace. Only the destruction of Ukraine. We won't agree to that.
Can we please move on, thank you.
Now... More sanctions on russia and more aid, please, and thank you.
Note that I said thank you.

The only time it made economic sense for me was when I worked 12+ hours six days a week in rural town with *very* expensive groceries—and the better shopping options were a three-hour round trip drive (& very dangerous in winter).

Other than that…
Convenience is expensive.