I was eating with friends at a Hooters around 2006 or thereabouts, and totally as a joke I complained about their "911" hot wings, telling the waitress that I was offended by their appropriation of our "sacred tragedy 9/11" to name their hottest wings after. She got all wide-eyed and said "oh no no no no no no no" and went running off to get her manager, who came and apologized profusely and told me they were named after the 911 phone number and not 9/11. He comped our entire table's bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates as well - it was too late for me to back out of the joke at that point. TBF I still have those gift certificates somewhere, but it was no real hardship to not use them because Hooters is pretty fucking awful.
I've noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it's supposed to be or what has happened that's making people add the slash now..
I remember when Judy Woodruff was still the anchor during Jan 6th, she was just beside herself saying "there was no way we could have known!" Cue Amna Nawaz with "We did know. He told us, many times" as she proceeds to list several examples.
I remember that! I've been really impressed with her often on-the-ground reporting both in places like the southern border where she humanizes many of the migrants, and especially her work in Gaza.
I'd vote for my mom, and I'd vote for my brother, but I'm way far to the left of both of them. That said, they have decent politics on some things, and great politics on others.
There is no one else in my family I would vote for, save maybe that one cousin who went no contact with the whole family when his dad disowned him for being gay in the 90s. But I don't know his politics. I just respect the fuck out of him.
Yeah it's not the best metric. Imagine it the other way around and you're a progressive who came from a crazy religious Conservative family. Should whether they support you impact people's votes?
It doesn't have to be a great metric, she's saying the bar is on the floor for this one. "They don't agree with me on everything, but they agree with me enough not to vote against me." That's as low a bar as anyone can clear, and he doesn't clear it.
There's fundamentally 2 reasons why your family wouldn't support you for President:
Because they suck
Because you suck
It's not complicated to work out which of these applies to your hypothetical person and which of these applies to RFK, but it would undermine his run to say either out loud.
The photo has two individuals in it. The interviewer is on the left, Amna Nawaz, and RFK Jr is responding to a question by asking one of his own, “does everyone in your family agree with you?” Amna’s response is to reply that, “I think that they’d vote for me if I ran for president.”
RFK Jr family has come out against his presidential campaign. I believe they have aligned with the Biden campaign.
The burn here implies that: if you can’t even get your own family votes, how can you expect to get American voters?
You just hit me right in the wholesome. I appreciate your response very much. I have been conditioned to expect condescending responses and yours was informative to answer the persons question.
May the road rise up to meet you.