The Republican Achilles Tendon

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And supposedly, we are getting snow.  There's a good chance we will be getting between 10 and 15 inches.  The white stuff is predicted to begin falling tomorrow night and continue until Monday morning.  Our temps are supposed to be brutally cold.  This means I will have to manage Howie carefully.  As an 18 month old Labrador, he is smart as a whip when it comes to fetching toys and knowing where his snacks are, but when it comes to cold he's as dumb as a 2 year-old child.  He doesn't understand that cold is bad.

Anyway, I'm all prepped for the storm.  I bought another gallon of milk yesterday, though I am running low on chunky peanut butter.  Since today's Friday and every media outlet is shrieking snowstorm, snowstorm, snowstorm, I'm betting my local supermarkets are going to be quite busy.  Tomorrow they will be worse as people stock up.

I'm scheduled to work this weekend, but... while I'm betting Saturday's going to be a sure thing, I'm also betting Sunday will be a snow day.  If the forecasts are wrong, and we only get around 6 inches, I'll go in late, and we all know forecasts are wrong all of the time.  I did check out the European weather models since they tend to be a little more accurate than the NOAA models, and their charts indicate snow should be falling at a rate of 1.5 inches an hour for about 8 hours with the heaviest starting around noon.

Here's what the WaPo is predicting.

And while I no longer subscribe to the Washington Post, I do check their headlines daily, they still tend to be more conservative than cultists, but not by much.  So, I was surprised to see several negative headlines regarding Orangie.  The one I found most intriguing has to do with his cratering popularity.  This was not a "how to fix it" headline, but rather a "why is he pissing so many people off," blurb.  Since I don't subscribe, I couldn't read the article, but let's be frank here, the reasons for his cratering are fairly obvious.  He's a pathological liar, a used car dealer who has sold American voters the worst lemon on the lot, and now blames them for not being happy with that lemon.  Except for the cultists that worship him, a vast majority of Americans now see him as a conman, a grifter, and thief.  Americans now understand that he's accumulating great wealth at our own expense.  His approval rating sits at 35% and there is nothing he and his party can do to change that fact.  Nor can they change the fact his unpopularity is continuing to grow as his approval rating sinks.  His presidency will flatline, probably before the midterms.  The Republican party gambled that Americans en masse would accept the dark side of authoritarianism, and they're losing badly.  They simply don't understand that most people are good.  That is one of their Achilles tendons.