I had to look it up:
ja·bro·ni
/jəˈbrōnē/
noun INFORMAL•US
1.. a foolish or contemptible person.
"get it together, you jabronis"
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 11:01 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus
All the news about WW2 came from the government.
Perhaps it would have gone differently if you had a bunch of bobble heads on TV
giving a play by play and giving their personal commentary.
In Vietnam they embedded reporters with the troops, and that dramatically
affected how the war was seen, but even then the news cycle was days and weeks
long. There was time to produce a more clear eyed picture before something was
printed.
Now every jabroni on Twitter counts as a news source. This is a related problem
to the politician problem. Rumor, conjecture, and inference are co-mingled
with the facts and treated with the same weight. With enough circular
references they become facts. Multiple sets of facts exist which can't all be
true, but nobody has the time or expertise to thoroughly check everything. So
we're forced to go about our day doing our jobs and simply choosing which
expert testimony to believe. Then the politician not only has to consider what
to say to get elected, but has to choose which set of shared facts his voters
will believe more.
I think it's likely that none of us is working from a perfect set of facts at
this point. Our politicians included.
On 4/20/2020 12:37 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Just contrasting the current situation to what I know about WWII. Everyone
seemed to get behind the war effort irrespective of politics.
I came of age during Vietnam. So we had the polar opposite of that in those
years.
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 10:24 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus
The funny thing is when you talk about politicizing a crisis, everyone thinks
you're talking about someone else but not them. It's everyone and it always
will be.
Every elected person has to address every situation with the mentality of
"what will voters want me to do?". Or perhaps, "what do I want voters to think
I'm doing?" If they didn't do that they wouldn't be re-elected. We all, in
theory, want our politicians to do the right thing and tell the truth about it,
but in reality they're going to do what they think their voters want, or if
they can't then they'll try to tell them what they want to hear. We can't
expect anything other than politics from politicians. When someone gets a job
by winning a popularity contest they're going to be somewhat narcissistic to
begin with. The ones who keep the job the longest are the ones with the most
narcissistic tendencies because they'll have the greatest skill at deflecting,
equivocating, and outright BS'ing.
I hope this doesn't count as a lent issue. I'm not naming any persons or
parties and it's more of an indictment of electoral processes in general. The
problem of course is that every other method is worse.
On 4/20/2020 11:16 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
I am normally pretty optimistic, so feeling a bit cynical this morning:
If aliens landed in a mars attacks style, if would become partisan politics
before they even left the spacecraft.
If Jesus appeared walking across the sea, helping fishermen gather a catch,
PETA and Greenpeace would be filing injections.
From: Jaime Solorza
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 8:56 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Virus
Didn't your governor procure PPE stuff in stealth mode to keep FEMAs hands
from stealing these supplies? That doesn't inept to me, Steve.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 6:02 AM Matt Hoppes
<mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
This is correct, there have been a few were accidents, and other deaths
related to usual activities.
On Apr 20, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Jeff Broadwick - Lists <jeffl...@att.net>
wrote:
I’ll be interested to see the overall death rates for the US during
this time. I suspect that they will be down from their usual levels, overall,
even with the virus.
Jeff Broadwick
CTIconnect
312-205-2519 Office
574-220-7826 Cell
jbroadw...@cticonnect.com
On Apr 19, 2020, at 7:21 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Sobering to see that we have passed the number of the US servicemen
deaths in the Korean war and will probably pass Vietnam before we are done.
All in a few short months.
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