The news out of Virginia is extraordinary. Not only did we win the Governor of a state that went +10 for Biden a year ago, we won the Lt. Governor, the Attorney General, and the Virginia House to boot. It was a clean sweep. We won everything on offer.
We might even win the Governorship of New Jersey while we're at it, an even deeper blue state than Virginia. But it doesn't matter, if we can win +10 Biden states, in 2022 everything short of California and New England will be dyed red. We'll own the whole country shortly.
I know I wrote a despairing article when we lost both senate seats in Georgia, what should have been a reliably red state. But Virginia is way more a 'reliable blue state' than Georgia was a reliable red state, and look who's losing now. We'll of course take back Georgia in a year, while we're at it taking Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, etc.
I thought that the people of Georgia had listened to the diabolical platform of the Democratic party, to pack the court with new Supreme Court justice rubber stampers, to pack the Senate with new purely Democratic 'states,' to pack the House with amnesty for illegals, abolish the filibuster, and take eternal power as an unassailable force in all future elections. After which they could ram any unpopular policy down our throats, whether it was 95% taxation, open borders, ending all law enforcement, banning dissident speech, teaching our kids to cut off their genitals, whatever. Since the American people actually voted for this to happen I thought that would happen. Democrats said they would do this and then the people endorsed it by voting it all in.
What I hadn't counted on was how stupid and ignorant the American people truly were. You see, they didn't listen to the Democratic party platform, their own announced priorities, agree with them, and vote them in. They just heard on the tv at some point that the orange man was bad and so they went out to vote against him like proper ignorant idiots. Once they actually experienced the Democratic platform -- the transgender classrooms, the 10% inflation rate, a 30% increase in the murder rate, a humiliating surrender to the Taliban, Haitians flooding Texas by the tens of thousands from God knows where with no attempt to stop them -- it finally got through their thick skulls what it meant to vote Democrat. Now all those uninformed idiots have been informed by reality who they voted for, and they regret it. At least 10% do. They're still idiots, but they won't forget this lesson anytime soon. In their very bones they'll know that Democratic rule = disaster on every single front. In every aspect of their lives everything immediately gets incredibly worse. Stuff they never even imagined could happen, like bare shelves at supermarkets straight out of the USSR, suddenly is routine with the government saying it's the new normal and we should get used to it, there's nothing they can do. Somehow under Trump, or, you know, any president before Biden, shipping worked, but not anymore!
Most stupendous news of all out of Virginia -- the majority of Hispanics voted Republican. You know how that demographic tide meant Republicans were doomed, doomed, doomed? Well what if the majority of Hispanics side with us? Then, well, we suddenly have a 70% majority and the blacks who voted for Hispanics to flood in with such numbers that they outnumber blacks isn't looking so smart anymore. It's almost like they've hoisted themselves on their own petards. I could not think of a more poetic ending to the Democratic party. With Hispanics on our side we'll rule forever. The more immigrants they let in the larger our majority grows! We already out-reproduce them 2 to 1. Liberals have no kids! So what can they do from here? Nothing! By offending Hispanics they've cut themselves off at the knees! There is no other path to electoral success!
My music listening project is coming along nicely, only 122 songs left to go. Spice and Wolf 22 is 40% read, so I can use it to clear quite a few more songs. I finished my Harry Potter rewatch -- I'd forgotten how cool Luna Lovegood was (honest, insightful, brave and good natured on top of her exotic white-haired beauty) and was painfully reminded how stupid and worthless Ron was. I still have no clue how Hermione fell for a guy who has no redeeming traits and never even treated her well.
Soon all the music that was provisionally placed in my hall of fame will be definitively placed in my hall of fame by passing the 'can listen to it 100 times and still enjoy it' test. But that's only the first half of my task. The next is to rate all the successful songs on a scale of 1 to 5 on a curve. Which means each of the ratings will be equally represented, 1103 songs per category, and the only meaning to the category is better compared to the other songs, or worse compared to the other songs. It will take a month just to give a rough draft rating to each of my songs, and then further months to caress the ratings until each category is equally represented, by carefully listening, comparing, and competing with each other for precious slots. It's like a giant game of musical chairs with music itself the competitors.
Think how amazing the 5-star songs will be -- the top 20% of all songs that were worth listening to at least 100 times. So first I establish the objective worth of every song (no one could listen to a bad song 100 times), and then on top of that the relative excellence among them. Those 5-star songs will have passed the toughest test imaginable by the end.
Once all the songs are properly sorted and I have a true sense for the quality of each song, I can add the songs together by album or artist and see interesting new facts emerge -- like who truly are the best composers, or which the best soundtracks. This too will of course take time.
On top of this, surely during these months new songs will pique my interest and require 100 listens of their own and a rating of their own, which will slow things down yet further.
Only once all of that is done can I rewrite my Music Hall of Fame permapost with the relevant discovered data. The 100 listening aspect may finally be dealt with, but the mission remains. 2022 will be as much about music as the last five years have been.
The first College Football Playoff ranking is out and undefeated Cincinnati is ranked sixth, behind 1-loss Alabama, Oregon, and Ohio State. Cincinnati cannot get into the playoffs no matter what it does because the fix is in. Only Power 5 conference teams are allowed into the playoffs, the system is rigged. No matter how well Cincinnati does, or UCF does, or any Group of 5 team does, they'll never reach the magic number of 4th. If Oregon loses again, they'll slot in Ohio State. If Ohio State loses to Michigan and has 2 losses, they'll slot in 1-loss Michigan ahead of Ohio State and Cincinnati and snicker all the way. If Michigan loses again, they'll slot in Oklahoma. If Oklahoma loses to Baylor, they'll use that as the excuse to slot in Baylor ahead of Cincinnati. There's nothing you can do.
I hate these 'playoffs.' In every other sports league playoffs mean every team with a reasonable chance of winning plays in the playoffs and we let the contestants sort things out themselves. But in College Football 4 teams are chosen, out of 130, in a beauty pageant. Selectors decide, arbitrarily, not even required to pick undefeated teams, who will be in the playoff, and if you aren't beautiful enough to them there's nothing you can do. Nothing you play out on the field has any effect on their selection process. You can go undefeated and it literally doesn't matter. Have you ever heard of a playoff system that starts with only 3% of the field? Compare that to March Madness or the NFL or MLB or the NBA or. . .*sigh*
Though delayed, the SAO light novels should be arriving soon again, this time on 11/9/21. Then Shang-Chi comes out on 11/12/21 on Disney+, then Hawkeye on Disney+ on 11/24/21, and Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime on 11/19/21. Combined with the ever-present fall anime and football seasons, November should be amazing. There's something to look forward to every week.
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