@pratik probably not .. and arguably ‘most’ people haven’t heard of her .. the nature of our times .. we didn’t used to know who CEOs were, who’s he Speaker of the House’ was, the producer of an album, … and she has the added Bennie of the NYT …
I get ‘making a name’ … but you can do that the other way. (Talking of which one of olbermans points is that all journos want to be Woodward and Bernstein .. and don’t know where to start
@artkavanagh one man’s terrorist etc …
Hadn’t even read those words .. I think in the show his nature could go either way depending on the soundtrack they used in the scene.
@pratik who the hell would want to be in the Rolodex of these #$@&Wits
Meanwhile over in the UK 🔗🎙️ Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell have a pretty good 30 minute hot take on what the UK election results mean really mean, highlighting some interesting high level 'back of a fag packet' data analysis.
@crossingthethreshold WOW. More please.
But it does seem that I can only write and save a note on the web - not in the app.
Moving on - besides, not sure I need yet another place to keep my notes !
@KyleEssary Nothing will change the narrative.
🖇️ Thought One from yesterday.
🖇️ Thought Two from today.
.. which should really have gone into my 'NOTES' .. care to be taken.
Clearly.
@larand ah ha - do NOT get me going on the left / right variations of the US v UK - I think maybe some of the UK's Tories might be accepted into the Dems tent :-)
I don’t regret my Thatcher vote - because the other choice was 'Jim' who was only one of many Labour voices at the time, including people like Tony Benn and Michael Foot, which I think pointed to a potential mess in Govt. had they got it in. Maggie was a least clear and leading.
But I guess we will never know, unless we find a way through to the other worlds in the multiverse.
As for better choices ... would be good - but really - don’t you think that anyone who runs these days must have serious character flaws by definition? It's almost a corollary of Catch 22.
@larand i am one of those people that will put their hand up and say YES - I voted for Thatcher.
The first time.
She then got a wag the dog boost for election 2 - and totally lost the plot as did the acolytes she surrounded herself with.
I think the same has happened this time around ... 14 years does that to you - I mean it was clear (to me at least) that the Tories should never have won in 2019 - but the anti Corbyn media made sure that happened. So again - they got carried away - that’s how you get a lettuce.
My point being that I THINK of myself as someone in the middle - at least what used to be the middle. Old Tories - old Labour were in the middle - but as both parties have moved out to their respective fringes - the majority of us 'in the middle' are left with no one.
I think that is how 'Bliar' won - he moved the Labour party to the middle - which Major tried - but he was tarnished with the Thatcher brush.
So in some ways Starmer I think is going to do what Bliar did - but I hope with more integrity ... as a human rights lawyer and a real experience in government rather than a 'career politician' that was Bliar.
We will see.