Voltaire

Wordle 1,151 5/6 🟨 🟩🟨 🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was rough again.

Big Bird

Wordle 1,149 3/6 🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 In jsut before midnight. That second guess was incredible.

1!

Rudy Eugene’s check-in bag must have opened up.

I wonder if you can put dead bodies in the check in baggage or if you have to buy them a window seat and ask for wheelchair assistance.

These things happen.

The Highlander

Wordle 1,148 4/6 🟨🟨 🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The third guess gave it away. I had all five letters and three green.

Wordle 1,147 4/6 🟨 🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Took a long while to see. but shouldn't have.

Wordle 1,143 3/6 🟨🟨 🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 That was a hard one to see. Took a long time. Not a great 'welcome back.'

Mister Jones and Me

Ol’ Man River

Memes maybe. I’d have to see for myself. Anti-Muslim… does not giving an Fock about Palestinian protests count? Otherwise it’s only guilt by association. They claim to be pro-Western Civilization and open to (and have members from) all races.

Glad somebody was holding the fort while I stepped away for a few days. Anyways, when I opened this thread, I'd thought it might be interesting if maybe if Kamala was manning a glory hole, alas it should have been obvious beforehand who'd be behind the wall.

Wordle 1,136 3/6 🟨 🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Back after missing a few days. When a streak ends I get less motivated. Was really surprised to hit it on three. Took a shot but I'd not reduced it enough at that point.

I don't know how what she brings to the table appeals to midwest voters. "Scranton Joe" was a fake but at least he knew the words and tune. That 2028 deal is another thing. I'd rather Joe lose 2024, saving Kamala be either the 2028 winner, or the jilted and vengeful DEI set-aside candidate, because seeing the 'the only reason to not get in line behind her is racism and sexism' card played on the Dems themselves would be sweet deserts, richly deserved, for what they've put the country through with their constant and incessant race baiting.

Its really the only way these events can be scored by their nature. If they don't do it this way, you don't see them at all. There's no speed/timer or nothing to count, which, it seems spoils it for you but I don't mind. As a layman, and not an expert, I find that I can get in the groove of it myself and reasonably estimate a score before the judges' official score is revealed. So I don't feel like it's corrupted except for that 1988 boxing match of the US guy vs the South Korean. To his credit, the guy who won that gold has spent the time since 1988 feeling awful about it, wishes he'd gotten silver instead: https://apnews.com/article/sports-seoul-south-korea-sports-asia-2020-tokyo-olympics-768c6f38b4fb055e973db0db9fc858b2

Can't blame you. Your party's chances of winning the election just went from 0 to somewhere in play... my own estimate is maybe 25%. For my part, I sure wanted Joe to stay in the race.

Wow! As a non-Democrat, I thought the party did the safe/smart/necessary thing when Biden proved inept. BLM actually has a more principled take than I do. What world are we living in?

Wordle 1,130 5/6 🟩 🟨 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Almost forgot today. Was pretty snakebit along the way,

Joe Biden?

They'd wanted a speed dating primary but -whoopsie- everybody that could have done so backed out rather than take on the Certainly Not A DEI princess. Alright, there goes that idea. I guess we'll just rally around Kamala then.

Jeb! flashbacks

You rig a couple of elections to get Bernie out of the way for the establishment candidate, then rig another to get RFK Jr to declare as an independent so you can slide a vegetable through. Biden hosed the Dems by 1) running for re-election 2) holding on too long after the debate 3) choosing Kamala Harris as his VP. There are other knocks about how he's governed, but I think we can agree on those three. I don't mind the delegates getting freed up; they'd had a 'break glass in case of emergency' situation after all. But they're stuck with an untested and unpopular Kamala when there were likely much better candidates they could have had if Biden had pulled out a year ago instead. Maybe she rises to the challenge, I work too much lately to pay close attention, but it seems so far, so good for her after a couple of days of being elevated. I'm going to take a week or so to disengage a bit because I've been spending way too much time with this and need a break. Anything that happens will seem anti-climactical to what we've been through.