1 January 2021 #MAGAanalysis #HappyNewYear2021

The Forward View + A Table of Contents For Our J.E. Dyer @OptimisticCon's 10 Threads

To be sure, happiness in this New Year's moment has an even more ephemeral feeling than usual, and perhaps by a good deal. Yet it is here.

17 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #Overturn

It Is @POTUS' Job To Secure The 2020 Election

There is NO President Elect Biden. That is a lie. We face a stolen election. Maybe not the first. But, certainly the first landslide obliterated. #Brazen. Or maybe better: #BrazenTheft.

2) We've discussed The Big Lie before. We've discussed my beloved Shaggy video, It Wasn't Me. In the war between Truth and Lies, it is often, sadly, the most committed who wins. Truth does not uniformly defeat falsehood. That is sad.

3) No intelligent, honest, and grounded person could possibly conceive of HRC getting away with her crime family leadership at the helm of the Ship of State in America. Email scandal? No. Information crime blatantly in your face. This is The Swamp, The Cabal. And yet...

4) And yet she parrades herself...HERSELF...in evil, corrupt pride across the land. Forgive my foul language, but no other can convey her message. Fuck you, America, she says with her every public statement. I win. You lose. You thought you could catch me? Never going to happen.

5) Obama and Clinton hate each other. I have no doubt of this. But they are best of friends against America. Well, they love America as victim. They detest America as world power. They detest the Constitutional Democratic Republic of America. They want to delight in its fall.

25 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis Christmas Edition

The Great Reawakening - A Renewed Dream Of America

@GenFlynn tells me the JOY of the MAGA Movement has returned. Our Xmas gift is A Renewed Dream For America. In case you didn't know, it's his birthday too, he's a Christmas baby!

25 January 2021 #MAGAanalysis #MythicalTrump

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

Yeah. I watched the original Star Wars movie in the theaters when it came out, and I can't tell you how many times I

26 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #Overturn

Underneath The News, Beneath The Blackout Blanket

I thought to call today's mediation, "The Death Of The News Cycle," but couldn't. It may be ill. One day it may die. But it's power remains vast, and we're going to discuss that first.

Academic staff at universities can't be open about the complaints against them - and most complaints of transphobia from students seem to be directed at staff. I'm just a final year PhD student, under no contractual requirement to be confidential, so I can share.

The original complaint against me was typical of the sort of thing directed at many female professional academics (and some male too). The strategies employed by my complainants are commonly used.

One of these is to perform vulnerability while behaving aggressively. Performing vulnerability is essential in order to trigger the university's awareness of its duties under the Equality Act, and establish an oppressor/victim dynamic to the case from the outset.

My complainants did this effectively. The complaint was initiated by a fellow PhD student, who joined forces with the SU. A student from the SU wrote the actual complaint. This is how it begins:

In all my dealings with @HuddersfieldUni I accepted that sometimes anonymous complaints were necessary - and that, sometimes, victimisation could be a concern. However, I have never victimised anyone. Nobody has ever argued that I have.

Having spent 2020 telling covid denalists that they were overly optimistic about the pandemic, I now look forward to spending 2021 telling covid maximalists that they are overly pessimistic about the end of the pandemic.

Telling a denialist in May that we shouldn't open bars back up = telling a maximalist in February that we should open schools back up.

Look, folks, the math is straightforward. ~13% of Americans have been vaccinated as of this

And the 7 day average continues to rise; we're approach 2 million vaccine doses per day. Meaning that we'll double that ~13% much faster than the two months it took us to get there.

So it's entirely reasonable that absent any other intervention, we should expect to hit ~30% vaccinated by the end of March.