BS: American Presidential race 2024

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: leeneia
Date: 20 Sep 24 - 12:36 AM

It's discouraging that manyAmericans lapped up CSI stories for years and didn't seem to acquire analytical thought. With the pet-eating rumor, why don't journalists and the man in the street ask the following simple questions:

Does Animal Control report more pet owners searching for missing pets?

Are teachers seeing woeful little kids whose pets are gone?

Are there more flyers posted around town about missing pets?

Are more pet owners asking rescue organizations about missing pets?

Two predators for small pets are coyotes and great horned owls. Are they moving into Springfield? Great horned owls are increasing in wooded cities, and Springfield looks pretty verdant.

Do social-media sites report more pets missing in Springfield?

The city government says there are no reports. Is Springfield the kind of place where citizens would ask gov't for help with a pet?

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Of course the whole idea is ridiculous. Why eat pets when one could go fishing?

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: Helen
Date: 20 Sep 24 - 02:11 AM

There is a joke in Oz which has been around for a long, long time about cooking and eating cockatoos. Place the dead cockatoo in a pot of boiling water with a large stone. When the stone is soft, throw away the cockatoo and eat the stone, i.e. the flesh is too tough to eat. Cats and dogs would probably fall into the same category.

I just saw a snippet on the TV news saying that Trump is planning to visit Springfield, maybe to clarify his source of information for this conspiracy theory. Or maybe not - maybe to try to cement his whackadoodle statements into a firmer position in reality. (Like THAT'S going to happen!)

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: mayomick
Date: 20 Sep 24 - 08:07 AM

It seems more like Russian satire directed against various Western media Meta itself refers to Doppelgänger as a “spoof”

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: Thompson
Date: 20 Sep 24 - 10:40 AM

Kamala started out great guns, but she seems to have gone suddenly quiet. Why is there no news about her now?

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: Rain Dog
Date: 20 Sep 24 - 01:06 PM

I see voting has already started in Virginia.

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: Neil D
Date: 21 Sep 24 - 01:28 AM

Several years ago I read one of the most profound commentaries on America and I regret that I can't remember the author's name. He was a Scottish writer of detective fiction (not Iain Rankin). His protagonist was a detective trying to wind down from a brutal case by visiting America, only to stumble onto a human trafficking ring. None of which ha to do with the commentary. After his adventure he spends his last day in America at a Florida beach where he sees an immigrant family and he muses "The American Dream has never belonged to Americans. It belongs to the people around the world who desire to be American. But when America closes her borders, as she inevitably will, that dream will die." I've never forgotten those words and find them most appropriate now.

Subject: RE: BS: American Presidential race 2024
From: Thompson
Date: 21 Sep 24 - 10:52 PM

Now you're driving me crackers, Neil - what was that Scottish thriller?
Two good pieces in the New York Times about what a victory by Harris or Trump would mean: from last month, Tim Walz and the Weird Politics of Free School Lunches, and from January, Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal.
Harris and Walz offer an America where people help each other - where the rich reach out a hand to pull people out of poverty with honest work and decent lives. Is that what Americans want? We shall see; I hope what they want on 5 November isn't Gunpowder, Treason and Plot.