I'm not someone who venerates actors as special or extra-important, but that doesn't mean that a person who is an actor can't say something that strikes me. And in this case, when Harrison Ford endorsed Kamala Harris, this is the part that hit me: "Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her."
The election is almost here. Soon, soon, we will know soon.
Although, as the Globe warned:
I appreciated this, in the Guardian the other day, in the "tell it like it is" sense of appreciation:
But most of all, this ad made me laugh.
Given the way the Bruins had been playing going into the weekend (short answer: very, very poorly), I was starting to worry about my election night plan of watching the Bruins game. But they won yesterday and again today, so I'm more comfortable with the idea. Certainly no guarantees, but at least if they play well, it will be entertaining. I'll just need to put down my phone and tablet, and keep my hands busy with knitting instead of doom-scrolling.
All right, having rousted her highness off my lap:
It's bedtime.
I always appreciate The Guardian's truthiness.
ReplyDeleteIn Ohio we have a very hotly contested Senate race with Sherrod Brown running to hold his seat. He's been a popular (and solitary) Democrat until the rise of trumpism. Every single commercial break runs at least 3-4 ads for him and his opponent. It's absolutely exhausting. I know it's the same in other states, too.
We need some sort of protocol/regulation that limits the actual campaigning season. At this point, it has become abusive.
I was just saying on social media yesterday that it would be a nice change to live in a country that sometimes says, hey, there's an election in six weeks. Instead of years of this BS!
DeleteThat car ad is hilarious!
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A little bit of history: my husband's grandfather was a lawyer on the then-brand-new Federal Radio Commission, y'know, the new-fangled technology of the day, with the FRC eventually becoming the FCC, of which he served as chairman for awhile. All of which is to say, he was the guy who wrote the Fairness Doctrine.
And part of the Fairness Doctrine was that if you let a candidate run political ads, you had to let their opponent run ads at the same rate. You couldn't charge him (always a him back then) more to try to sideline them.
You also couldn't own more than so much a percentage of the media market in any one locale, etc etc.
This from someone who was so much a Republican that he believed to his dying day that Nixon was an innocent man.
I am hoping that the polls are wrong, that it's not close, and that Harris wins decisively enough that we know the outcome by tomorrow night or Wednesday at the latest. There will be lawsuits and bs I am sure, but if it's a big enough win it won't matter. I know I'm kidding myself, but a girl can dream!
ReplyDeleteWhy not dream, right? Once we vote, we just have to wait. Hopefully not as long as in 2020!
DeleteHarrison Ford's endorsement was powerful because it was quietly stated (no drama) and he's such a private guy that most people didn't expect him to discuss for whom he was voting.
ReplyDeleteYes, agreed! A quiet voice can be a very powerful one.
DeleteOof. Deep breath. I hope to get through this week in one piece.
ReplyDeleteExactly. It's a low bar that I hope to clear.
DeleteI cannot wait until the spam phone calls and text messages stop. I CANNOT WAIT.
ReplyDeleteI KNOW!
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