LEAVWORLD: GRAFFITI POLITTI

     A few comments on current events:     There are a bunch of anti-semitic controversies being reported on, lately. A NY Nets basketball player named Kyrie Irving shared a link to an Amazon.com post of an "antisemitic documentary". He says that he was not promoting the documentary by tweeting a link to it, which falls flat in the face of social media reality. If you share something controversial, if you don't openly condemn it, you are promoting it. (Full disclosure: over my almost 20 years blogging, I have posted content that I disagree with, and not proclaimed my opposition.) He eventually was forced to apologize, after being suspended from the team for several games. That's how public life works, but I have a question: Is nobody questioning why Amazon is selling this "antisemitic" documentary? It's still up there .    Of course, Kanye West had to "one up" the story. Before  defending Irving , he had gone on his own crazy antisemitic r...

     I have to admit being surprised by the results of the 2022 midterm elections. The partisan in me was disappointed, but the analyst in me was intrigued. In some ways, it resembled what happened in 2020, when the GOP lost the White House and Senate, but gained seats in the House. While the presidency wasn't on the ballot this year, the similarities in the Senate are uncanny, with Georgia's one Senate race going into a runoff, as both did in 2020. There is a lot to unpack and analyze, and I've waited until the final results are in, except for the Georgia runoff, before posting this. On Nov. 21st, there were still some localities that are still counting ballots, amazingly, but none of them made a big difference in the national outcome. By Nov. 29th, it looks as if the GOP has a 220 to 213 advantage over Dems , with 2 seats still undecided, but leaning Republican.    At this point, the GOP has won control of the House of Representatives, by a slim margin.  ...

     This is the final post in my series on the 2022 midterm elections, and before I make my closing arguments, I'd like to share links to each post, so that they can all be accessed through this post. Part 1: The Biden Record, and the Democrats Who Supported It: A Series on Graffiti Politti Part 2: COVID and Educational Policy Failures Part 3: Garland's DoJ and FBI Seek Domestic Threats, While Ignoring Crime and the Crisis on the Southern Border Part 4: How Biden Blew Up the Economy With Inflation Part 5: Foreign Policy Failures, Empowering America's Enemies, and Being Owned by Foreign Powers Part 6: The Corruption of the Biden Family, and the Democrat and Media Cover-Up       When I started this series, the political landscape was a bit different, with Democrats having a surge from their year-long drubbing in the polls. The raid on Mar a Lago put Pres. Trump back in the media spotlight, and the SCOTUS ruling on abortion was still affecting the GOP p...