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l33tminion) wrote2024-06-02 08:20 pm
l33tminion) wrote2024-06-02 08:20 pm
A Long Time Coming
Friday was Take Your Child to Work Day at Google, which Erica has been asking about for months, even before that was planned. So she was thrilled to go, and enjoyed the activities they planned for the day. Friday night we had dinner at the home of a potential collaborator for Julie's next business venture, it was nice to meet them and a lovely meal.
This weekend was packed with activities. Erica had her art lesson, she attended her friend George's birthday party, we went climbing. There was a Nepali Cultural Festival in Union Square Sunday evening, which was fun. I'm solo-parenting again, Julie is out of town Saturday for Monday for another conference, returning Wednesday.
In the news, it's pretty wild seeing Trump supporters in an absolute twist over Trump's criminal conviction. (Also, yeah, I called it!) The levels of cope are through the roof. I expect my anti-contrarianism will continue to serve me well here, since lots of people (including Trump) will want to spin this one as (or paranoidly worry that it will be) somehow good for Trump. No, bad things are actually bad, and being convicted of crimes is not, overall, a winning political strategy.
It's especially funny to see Trump supporters put forward the suggestion that the reason Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden only faced Republicans (Comey and Hur respectively) trying to put "there's no case" in the most negative possible terms is that Republicans were just too polite. Of course not! Also, basically all Democrats I've met are completely willing to bite the bullet that top politicians should face trial for any crime they've committed, where there's actual evidence that there was a crime that could plausibly prove that to a jury.
This weekend was packed with activities. Erica had her art lesson, she attended her friend George's birthday party, we went climbing. There was a Nepali Cultural Festival in Union Square Sunday evening, which was fun. I'm solo-parenting again, Julie is out of town Saturday for Monday for another conference, returning Wednesday.
In the news, it's pretty wild seeing Trump supporters in an absolute twist over Trump's criminal conviction. (Also, yeah, I called it!) The levels of cope are through the roof. I expect my anti-contrarianism will continue to serve me well here, since lots of people (including Trump) will want to spin this one as (or paranoidly worry that it will be) somehow good for Trump. No, bad things are actually bad, and being convicted of crimes is not, overall, a winning political strategy.
It's especially funny to see Trump supporters put forward the suggestion that the reason Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden only faced Republicans (Comey and Hur respectively) trying to put "there's no case" in the most negative possible terms is that Republicans were just too polite. Of course not! Also, basically all Democrats I've met are completely willing to bite the bullet that top politicians should face trial for any crime they've committed, where there's actual evidence that there was a crime that could plausibly prove that to a jury.