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The Obvious and The Not-So-Obvious

I think it's a natural inclination, when there's an assassination attempt, to lean towards supporting the person who got shot at.  We are supposed to decide these things through votes and when someone tries to steal a democratic right from millions of people and replace it with a single violent act, we recoil against this.  This is the obvious take, but I think this is illogical:  The candidates are the same as they were before the attack and you should support whomever you think is best.  

The not obvious but true take, is that at multiple levels, the event and its aftermath reveal incompetence and lack of leadership at the top, the presidency.

1.  As president you have a huge advantage in an election:  You're running things.  One of the most important things, is to make sure that the election is fair and orderly.  If you let your opposition be killed or almost killed, you have failed to properly administer the executive branch.
2. It's not just a fluke or a well planned attack.  The USSS made just about every mistake that could be made and got foiled by a single 20-year old.  It was dumb luck that Trump happened to move his head at exactly the right moment.
3. The attack was Saturday, it is now Wednesday.  Nobody has resigned or been fired!  There is a chain of command from the site commander right up to the president.  The site commander should have resigned on Saturday or Sunday, or been fired on Monday.  If not, by Tuesday, the site commander and his immediate superior should both have been fired.
4. If Biden had already fired people, he could have shown leadership.  He did not, he needs to be fired.

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Do I Blame Them?

 Not really.  Self-Reflection is hard, so their choice to go with blaming the victim is no surprise, no surprise at all.

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Okay, I Freely Admit

 I like it when one of my intellectual betters notices when I write something clever.

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How did you come by these strange beliefs?

 I got them the hard way:  By questioning and logic.

I once had a woman accuse me of believing something, which I did happen to believe. I was dumbfounded. Why would I be embarrassed to believe something I think is true?

She was proud of believing the same things, her betters believed. This is why she couldn't defend her positions.

Louie C.K.

Everyone already has the power to never watch or listen to Louie C.K.  

If the women he harmed/offended vow to never put one Cent into his pocket, that's their prerogative.  Maybe these women can get other people to engage in doing the same, as an act of solidarity.

Given Louie C.K.'s talent, even if you got 50% of his potential audience to stay-away from his shows, movies, albums etc. he's still going to be very successful.  So denying yourself the pleasure of his entertainment will end up hurting you, more than it hurts him.

I think that what bothers them is that they don't have the power to prevent everyone from going to any show by Louie C.K. again.  The only way to hurt him is if the cancelling is comprehensive, which is not only impossible but also would deny the enjoyment of millions of person-hours of his entertainment.

One million hours of viewing (first run of one HBO comedy special) is 114 years, or more than two human lifetimes, especially if you only count waking hours of life.

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 It took a long time between turn 3 and turn 4.  It was not...

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