I remember when aluminum trees were first on the market and had to be lit by small floodlights with color changing wheels. Putting lights on them was deemed an electrocution hazard.
Mid century modern was potentially deadly to cats in particular.
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When I was a little girl, I taught my baby sister to say “pink stinks”, but she would have hated pink even if I hadn’t taught her to. Pink was for prissy little girls who didn’t even climb trees (a thing I did in my *purple* skirts and dresses, because I wouldn’t have been caught dead in something as uncomfortable as pants).
Fast forward 30 years, and my baby girl, who had been dressed in all the colors, and whose nursery was a rainbow of colors, chooses pink as her favorite as soon as she’s able to voice an opinion. Fine, she chose it as opposed to having it thrust upon her by default. And that’s when I realized it’s a fabulous color, because it’s VISIBLE, which counts when your kid never stops moving at the speed of light. And guess who can find their AirPod case with ease (my husband has embraced it for this reason also) She still loves pink even though the cool girls don’t wear pink, because she likes what she likes and doesn’t give a shit.
Dave Barry: "Evolution has furnished the genders with different senses of dirt. Women are designed to detect individual microbes. Men are designed to detect when there is sufficient soil to commence agriculture."
That may be generally true but my brother could detect the difference in fabric colors even if the name was the same but they were from slightly different dye batches. That was his job in fact.
Side note: for much of history, pink - a lighter and softer version of the manly and martial color red - was for boys and blue - associated with water and the Virgin Mary - for girls. It started shifting around the 1890s through WWI (I think) since military uniforms in many parts of Europe were blue.
A slightly-older-than-me friend, who went to an all girls catholic school, told me that some poor schnook girl she knew had been "dedicated to the Virgin Mary" by her parents and always wore pale blue.
Thanks Ma and Pop for sending us to public school!
I was never big on pink but during the pandemic, when i needed color in my life! I bought hot pink flip flops and purse. I liked them a lot and bought a hot pink sweater and got compliments on how it looks good on me (which is admittedly very fair) and so it was born. I have on a pink fleece top now (my WFH pajamas).
I was brought up with a male cousin my age. When we got matching pink or blue gifts (bank, backbrush), I would take blue as my favorite color---hated pink---and he'd take pink as ,his favorite color was red and pink is just light red. Don't ask about that one Halloween we went as Dutch boy and girl.
I have too much red in my hair to carry off the color pink. Lavender, however, tends to flatter my skin tone and particularly my dark brown eyes very nicely.
But despite my former disdain for the hue I no longer outright despise that color for being "too cute" or girlie for me.
Good on her. I, being female and of short stature, was forced to pink (bedspread, walls, clothing) and I am still very reluctant to have anything pink near my person. I will go “blush” but “pink” is not a comfortable choice.
It's cute, right?! I tried to make it look like those vintage-y glass ones. I think Rebecca's good son needs to start making them so she can sell them at her bazaar.
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"Tropical fish in Nova Scotia"
2015 was when I first heard a cenzontle* singing in our apartment courtyard in San Francisco. I'd heard them all the time in L.A., but SF was just too far north. Now I hear them all the time here. I mean, they have the most beautiful of bird songs, but I don't think it's a great sign that they've spread 400 miles north.
*also too, "cenzontle" comes from Nahuatl and means "possessor of 400 words," which I find pretty cool and accurate.
"Paul Krugman could have done another 3000 words on The Progressive Case for Bidenomics"
I'm TeamKrugman. Why does anyone need 3,000 words to say anything? I got an invitation to write something that according to the guidelines "should be between 3,000 and 7,500 words," and after two drafts I'm still at 600 words. WTF.
I met her once when she was campaigning for his second term. She was over at the Family Garment factory talking up union workers. Actually it was more "wow shes just 2 blocks from my house", so I walked through a couple of alleys and got to see her from the back of the group.
Look - newly-elected Houston Mayor John Whitmire is a Democrat, not a Republican. I know, I know - he's not a "liberal/progressive" Democrat but he IS a Democrat and has always been a Democrat.
All the GOP powerbrokers and money guys and general rich Republicans supported Whitmire; a bunch of them held fundraisers too. They knew that the Republican running had no chance to win, so they decided to back the guy who could win.
You know what I did? I congratulated them on voting for a Democrat and noted that in doing so, nothing bad happened. They didn't spontaneously combust; they weren't kicked out of their country clubs; their taxes didn't immediately rise.
And I told them that if they did it once, they could surely do it again!
Exactly! Thank you! John Whitmire won't be confused with AOC any time soon but he's still a solid Democrat and far better than that rat bastard Tony Buzbee.
Buzbee got his ass handed to him AGAIN, didn't he?
You know, it probably would have been worth it to have him on the council. I once asked a city council member what it was like and she said, "It's a full-time job with part-time pay".
There's no way Buzbee would have dedicated the time it would have taken to be one minority council member out of the whole bunch, and it would have been kind of funny to watch him implode and ultimately quit.
You are so right about him and I just hope he'll finally stick to ambulance chasing or whatever law he practices and stay the hell out of politics from now on. I graduated from TAMU and have gotten into so many arguments with other Aggies for not supporting his crooked ass just because he's an Aggie. Buzbee can go to hell and stay there.
The real question is after you say good morning to someone at work and then about 15 minutes later you are about to pass eachother in an empty hallway, a long empty hallway, do say hello or good morning again? Because eff that. Of course I’m neurodivergent so I might be biased.
Back in my youth, you walked more than drove. Pop had the car for work.
So you said "Hi" to everyone and felt like you got to know the regulars you saw daily.
I was most impressed as a kid when a railroad guy on break was looking out a window and yelled down to my mother "Hi there Margie!" turns out he knew her father from working in the rail yard.
What amused me most when we moved to this side of town once I got married, was that we seemed to be in a neighborhood with a Quiet Guy competition. Both the old guys on either side of us would grunt "Good Morning" at you once. After that the rest of the day, no conversation was ever initiated. Except for emergencies or to warn you that the tulips you're planting will get less impressive every year.
Drink lots of clear soda to stay hydrated and get some calories in you. Mix the nasty prep stuff with it, too, depending on what kind they give you. Have a light snack in the car for the ride home.
Get some kind of mixer drink that you will not ever want to have again. You're going to hate it afterwards anyway. I use the yellow Crystal Light. Do *not* get the red -- trust me on this!
'In other words, while we are happy to make a casserole half the time, we are done making all the casseroles all the time until Jesus returns (hopefully carrying a casserole). Men, bake a casserole why don’t you. It’ll be fun, you’ll see.'
I'm not sure why I remember this title, from a show I last watched twenty-ish years ago. But:
Republinazis should pay, but they won't, because white voters' racist hatred trumps all, and these depraved degenerates don't have any real values or any sense of right and wrong.
I have become far too jaded not to expect that either 1) voting has been so thoroughly suppressed and/or gerrymandered that the will of the majority is irrelevant, or 2) a majority of voters in these states will continue to vote for Republicans anyway.
There was a report this weekend that, because of suppression, gerrymandering, "geographic sorting", and the Electoral College, it's likely that the votes of only 400,000 people will make a difference in the election:
You all need more pink decor pix? Sure ya do: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/a-little-pink-tree
I remember when aluminum trees were first on the market and had to be lit by small floodlights with color changing wheels. Putting lights on them was deemed an electrocution hazard.
Mid century modern was potentially deadly to cats in particular.
My grandma had one of those with that color wheel of light.
Mine too.
Thanks for explaining that. I always thought my friend's family did that because it was cutting edge, in a Jetsons sort of way.
Our cat used to eat the lead tinsel, so much so that pieces would hang out of her butt.
The Christmas tapeworms are the worst!
...and that's why we love them.
When I was a little girl, I taught my baby sister to say “pink stinks”, but she would have hated pink even if I hadn’t taught her to. Pink was for prissy little girls who didn’t even climb trees (a thing I did in my *purple* skirts and dresses, because I wouldn’t have been caught dead in something as uncomfortable as pants).
Fast forward 30 years, and my baby girl, who had been dressed in all the colors, and whose nursery was a rainbow of colors, chooses pink as her favorite as soon as she’s able to voice an opinion. Fine, she chose it as opposed to having it thrust upon her by default. And that’s when I realized it’s a fabulous color, because it’s VISIBLE, which counts when your kid never stops moving at the speed of light. And guess who can find their AirPod case with ease (my husband has embraced it for this reason also) She still loves pink even though the cool girls don’t wear pink, because she likes what she likes and doesn’t give a shit.
There is nothing more idiotic than parents who dress their babies and toddlers in camouflage outfits.
I am convinced women see colors differently than men... especially the color dust.
Dave Barry: "Evolution has furnished the genders with different senses of dirt. Women are designed to detect individual microbes. Men are designed to detect when there is sufficient soil to commence agriculture."
Women are actually supposed to be more sensitive to the differences between shades. Also, men are more prone to color blindness.
That may be generally true but my brother could detect the difference in fabric colors even if the name was the same but they were from slightly different dye batches. That was his job in fact.
Like all those sex differences there are some outliers. The overlapping bell jar thing. Um, bell curve thing...
So, genetically superior. This explains the condition of my "single old guy" home.
*doesn't post a picture of her home's extended untidiness."
Side note: for much of history, pink - a lighter and softer version of the manly and martial color red - was for boys and blue - associated with water and the Virgin Mary - for girls. It started shifting around the 1890s through WWI (I think) since military uniforms in many parts of Europe were blue.
A slightly-older-than-me friend, who went to an all girls catholic school, told me that some poor schnook girl she knew had been "dedicated to the Virgin Mary" by her parents and always wore pale blue.
Thanks Ma and Pop for sending us to public school!
I was never big on pink but during the pandemic, when i needed color in my life! I bought hot pink flip flops and purse. I liked them a lot and bought a hot pink sweater and got compliments on how it looks good on me (which is admittedly very fair) and so it was born. I have on a pink fleece top now (my WFH pajamas).
I was brought up with a male cousin my age. When we got matching pink or blue gifts (bank, backbrush), I would take blue as my favorite color---hated pink---and he'd take pink as ,his favorite color was red and pink is just light red. Don't ask about that one Halloween we went as Dutch boy and girl.
I have too much red in my hair to carry off the color pink. Lavender, however, tends to flatter my skin tone and particularly my dark brown eyes very nicely.
But despite my former disdain for the hue I no longer outright despise that color for being "too cute" or girlie for me.
Good on her. I, being female and of short stature, was forced to pink (bedspread, walls, clothing) and I am still very reluctant to have anything pink near my person. I will go “blush” but “pink” is not a comfortable choice.
Need more pink? This place has a whole wall filled with old pink elephants. I was just there Saturday looking for Christmas gifts.
http://www.shopthepinkelephant.com/
Are they on parade?
How fun, I think I would spend much money there!
They have jammed so much stuff in their store that you could easily spend a day there. I found some really unique old Christmas ornaments.
I love pink. It's my favorite color.
me also
Now I want a WONKETTE ormnamint -
It's cute, right?! I tried to make it look like those vintage-y glass ones. I think Rebecca's good son needs to start making them so she can sell them at her bazaar.
Wood - glass - (I like the thought of Rebecca supervising molten glass pouring) - it wood all be good - 👍
i love you, My Good Queen Rebbekah!
Classic Foil Arms and Hog--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL0Ut67hr4
*sigh* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OL0Ut67hr4
"Tropical fish in Nova Scotia"
2015 was when I first heard a cenzontle* singing in our apartment courtyard in San Francisco. I'd heard them all the time in L.A., but SF was just too far north. Now I hear them all the time here. I mean, they have the most beautiful of bird songs, but I don't think it's a great sign that they've spread 400 miles north.
*also too, "cenzontle" comes from Nahuatl and means "possessor of 400 words," which I find pretty cool and accurate.
"Paul Krugman could have done another 3000 words on The Progressive Case for Bidenomics"
I'm TeamKrugman. Why does anyone need 3,000 words to say anything? I got an invitation to write something that according to the guidelines "should be between 3,000 and 7,500 words," and after two drafts I'm still at 600 words. WTF.
"...it is the women getting JERBS and refusing to MAKE THE POTLUCK"
No one was ever harmed by one less pasta salad.
God Bless Rosalyn Carter! Any recipe that calls for using a box cake mix is my type of recipe. Go for easy and tasty is my rule.
She was busy nudging Jimmy into action after all.
I met her once when she was campaigning for his second term. She was over at the Family Garment factory talking up union workers. Actually it was more "wow shes just 2 blocks from my house", so I walked through a couple of alleys and got to see her from the back of the group.
Look - newly-elected Houston Mayor John Whitmire is a Democrat, not a Republican. I know, I know - he's not a "liberal/progressive" Democrat but he IS a Democrat and has always been a Democrat.
All the GOP powerbrokers and money guys and general rich Republicans supported Whitmire; a bunch of them held fundraisers too. They knew that the Republican running had no chance to win, so they decided to back the guy who could win.
You know what I did? I congratulated them on voting for a Democrat and noted that in doing so, nothing bad happened. They didn't spontaneously combust; they weren't kicked out of their country clubs; their taxes didn't immediately rise.
And I told them that if they did it once, they could surely do it again!
oh SHIT my bad! thanks
LOL, don't worry. Plenty of liberal Democrats in Houston call him a Republican!
Exactly! Thank you! John Whitmire won't be confused with AOC any time soon but he's still a solid Democrat and far better than that rat bastard Tony Buzbee.
Buzbee got his ass handed to him AGAIN, didn't he?
You know, it probably would have been worth it to have him on the council. I once asked a city council member what it was like and she said, "It's a full-time job with part-time pay".
There's no way Buzbee would have dedicated the time it would have taken to be one minority council member out of the whole bunch, and it would have been kind of funny to watch him implode and ultimately quit.
You are so right about him and I just hope he'll finally stick to ambulance chasing or whatever law he practices and stay the hell out of politics from now on. I graduated from TAMU and have gotten into so many arguments with other Aggies for not supporting his crooked ass just because he's an Aggie. Buzbee can go to hell and stay there.
The real question is after you say good morning to someone at work and then about 15 minutes later you are about to pass eachother in an empty hallway, a long empty hallway, do say hello or good morning again? Because eff that. Of course I’m neurodivergent so I might be biased.
Back in my youth, you walked more than drove. Pop had the car for work.
So you said "Hi" to everyone and felt like you got to know the regulars you saw daily.
I was most impressed as a kid when a railroad guy on break was looking out a window and yelled down to my mother "Hi there Margie!" turns out he knew her father from working in the rail yard.
What amused me most when we moved to this side of town once I got married, was that we seemed to be in a neighborhood with a Quiet Guy competition. Both the old guys on either side of us would grunt "Good Morning" at you once. After that the rest of the day, no conversation was ever initiated. Except for emergencies or to warn you that the tulips you're planting will get less impressive every year.
Avert your gaze and mumble unintelligibly as you pass?
I dunno, I worked outdoors.
i am also neurodivergent and I would just give a small nod
Small nods cover a multitude of sins.
Calling wonketeers of a certain age. What is your favorite way to get through colonoscopy prep? Hit me with you tips.
Thanks everybody. I survived. Yuck, so glad I don't have to do that again for awhile.
Drink lots of clear soda to stay hydrated and get some calories in you. Mix the nasty prep stuff with it, too, depending on what kind they give you. Have a light snack in the car for the ride home.
Get some kind of mixer drink that you will not ever want to have again. You're going to hate it afterwards anyway. I use the yellow Crystal Light. Do *not* get the red -- trust me on this!
If you get the red it looks like your bleeding in your gut. Do you have to do the whole thing all over again the next month?
Hold it in!
Set up a command center on the toilet consisting of a tablet or laptop on which you can watch something while getting cleaned out. That's what I did.
BTW - if this is your first time, then know that it takes about 2 hours to drink the stuff as prescribed, and THEN the cleansing begins.
Also, it begins VERY QUICKLY.
Good to know. Have laptop and or book handy.
slowly. Stay near a bathroom for potential vomiting and then the obvious result of the medicine later on.
Turns out I was allergic to the stuff that you mix with gatorade and so my advice may be biased
you could swallow about 20 small beads with different numbers and make it like the Powerball drawing
LOL, I don't think anyone wants to win that lottery.
Quickly?
Good morning?
“Good night, Mr. Walters!”
“Uhhhn.”
From the Zebra without Stripes link:
'In other words, while we are happy to make a casserole half the time, we are done making all the casseroles all the time until Jesus returns (hopefully carrying a casserole). Men, bake a casserole why don’t you. It’ll be fun, you’ll see.'
I'm not sure why I remember this title, from a show I last watched twenty-ish years ago. But:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554558/?ref_=ttep_ep20
So... is that idea A Thing?
Covering Mahavishnu Orchestra, now that's a neat trick!
What the fuck, Google Chrome? Why do you keep asking me if I want to translate Wonkette from Simplified Chinese? Looks pretty America English to me!
Whenever Bing or Chrome offers to translate anything I always say Yes. Sometimes the results are amusing (sometimes just puzzling).
Related to that obscene TX Supreme Court action, here's Jennifer Rubin's WaPo column today:
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞
[ gift link ]: https://wapo.st/41eOzJ3
"...𝐴𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑚𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒. 𝑆𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 2024."
One can only hope.
Republinazis should pay, but they won't, because white voters' racist hatred trumps all, and these depraved degenerates don't have any real values or any sense of right and wrong.
I have become far too jaded not to expect that either 1) voting has been so thoroughly suppressed and/or gerrymandered that the will of the majority is irrelevant, or 2) a majority of voters in these states will continue to vote for Republicans anyway.
There was a report this weekend that, because of suppression, gerrymandering, "geographic sorting", and the Electoral College, it's likely that the votes of only 400,000 people will make a difference in the election:
"...𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 1 𝑖𝑛 4 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 2020, 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 3 𝑖𝑛 4 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑. 𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎 𝑖𝑛 2024, 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 18 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 — 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑜, 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦’𝑠 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.
“𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 400,000 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜,” 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖, 𝑎 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 1980. “𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑦.”...
[ Yeah, the 400,000 number is only cited by Joe Trippi, who isn't necessarily the best source ]
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