Sunday January 17, 2021 ( Electoral College Certification Day -13,
Insurrection Day -13,
Georgia Senate Election -14 )
Election Day -77
2 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
I got busy doing other things and didn’t have time for my usual. I watched the football playoffs. The last game was between Drew Brees and Tom Brady. They first faced off against on another in 1999, in college. Tom for Michigan, Drew for Purdue. They have been at it a long time. And to think they are 27 and 28 years younger than me.
On December 26th I started NOOM the weight-loss app that is rooted in psychology. It’s working. Everyday they give you a little set of lessons. Things to inform you and to help you create new habits. Today they talked about behaviors that cause you to eat.
One big contributor is environment. Apparently, we humans will imitate others. If someone is eating a lot we will try to match them. It’s call “norm matching.” A typical example would be to say, “I’ll have what he’s having…” We adapt to our environment by matching what others are doing. Are we trying to fit in? I guess so.
This made me wonder if what happened on the 6th wasn’t in some ways an example of norm matching. A crowd whipped into a frenzy by their leader and being told via the media they listen to that certain conditions are so and that they have to do something about it, led by some people with other agendas “go along with” what is happening. I guess this is what could be called “caught up in the moment.”
We have been operating under the belief that people will make the right choice. But look at the evidence. There are a lot of fat people in our country! In other words, we don’t make the right choices. We are conditioned to do things that are actually harmful to our well being. Well, so what? That’s their fault. They shouldn’t have … blah blah blah.
I think it’s time we go on a diet, a political diet. This would include: elimination of bad things, and being mindful of what we are hearing. It seems we need a truth commission or something like that. I no longer think it is healthy, given our technology, to have some idiot spouting idiocies that millions can listen to. If someone with a large following makes an outrageous claim they should be hauled up in front of a judge and asked to show the evidence.
Satan uses the same sales pitch over and over again. It doesn’t matter if he is selling his fake university or going after Obama’s birthplace or trying to get the Secretary of State in Georgia to cheat. It’s “well, I don’t know … A lot of people are saying … That’s what I hear.”
From now on those people should be required to say what they do know, and which people are saying whatever, and what are your sources for what you are hearing. If what they are saying is absolute BS there should be a price. Let’s say one dollar for every follower. So in the case of Satan he had how many Twitter followers? Thirty five million? So if he repeatedly says the election was rigged and it wasn’t that would be a fine of $35,000,000.00 seems fair to me.
If Alex Jones is spotting some idiocy he could be called in. He’d have to sell a lot of perineum wipes to cover the fine.
It’s a slippery slope. I agree, but what we have been doing isn’t working.
And Mike and Karen Pence did their final official visit, to some military place in New York. Mommy was brought to tears. Over what I don’t know. But I heard her speak for the first time.
Hey, I’m brought to tears too Karen. It pains me to think how your husband carved out the abortion laws in his home state and then went on to do it in HHS. It pains me to think how the Pence family left a mess at their gas station for someone else to clean up.
Yeah. It pains me.
In good news I listened to Joe Biden the other day. He was kind of boring. Thank god. A return to normalcy. And what is really weird is the incoming administration has identified problems and laid out plans and strategies to fix those problems. Imagine that? It was something the outgoing administration never understood or cared about.
PS The kid emerging from a hole in the ground, in Egypt.
(Photo credit to David.)
