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Tonight I have "elected" to ignore the news, and instead listen to my collection of Urbie Green CDs - and this LP (from 1963):

I feel so much less stressed!

I’m similarly avoiding everything, including keeping my phone on dnd and binge watching the office.

STRESS!!!!!

After seeing the current estimates:
Why?
How backwards-oriented can a majority of people be?

MStarke wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:05 am After seeing the current estimates:
Why?
How backwards-oriented can a majority of people be?

I see a similarity to 2016. Hillary Clinton lost because she was a woman, and so did Kamala Harris. All the other criticisms were window dressing.

We have gone to a new "saving time". It's now 1724 in the US. Watch out for global warming and a re-establishment of the Russian Empire.

Sorry. Should not have introduced politics.

Bring it back to urie, that's a great album. My 5 y/o loves it and the 21 Trombones. He always asks for the "Yellow" album:
Which... wow that's a stacked cast. Alan Raph, JJ Johnson, Merv Gold, Kai Winding... list goes on. Amazing they got all of them in the same room at the same time!

I went to my brass band rehearsal and blew my heart out on Lucy Pankhurst's new test piece, Ghosts of Industry, and one of our possible choice pieces, Peter Graham's On the Shoulders of Giants.

NABBA commissioned the Pankhurst piece as the NABBA 2024 First Section test piece. I wish I liked it more...

I woke up this morning, and I'm going to be crying in my coffee for a long damn time.

I played video games and put up an election map on one of my monitors.

I feel like I am going to have to closely guard my news consumption to keep myself from getting numb to it all.

My current plan is to cut off all tv news and just read and listen to the news from very particular sites.

BBC
Politico
The Atlantic

Politico and the Atlantic are left leaning.

Can anyone suggest a right leaning news source that isn't bonkers?

I like to have a balanced perspective but its getting harder and harder to do.

I seriously hope that you United Statians will be alright these coming years; from what I have percieved it's not granted that you will get to elect the next president, and if you may there is a significant chance that there are no viable alternatives to vote for.

Regardless of if politics belong on this forum or not, I am sorry.

The really sad thing is that our useless Swedish politicians are trying to emulate U.S. politics and political solutions regardless of if they work or if they work in Swedish conditions. I cannot overstate how much contempt I have for them, and I've tried all my life to vote for a party that try to enroll educated representatives and base it's politics on science and common knowledge.

I wouldn't classify Politico as left-leaning, but maybe I'm so far to the left that I see it as right-leaning. I view BBC as pretty centrist, and The Atlantic is definitely left-leaning.

For a right-leaning news source that is not bonkers, I suggest The Economist.

The problem, of course is that both the BBC and the Economist are UK publications. I wish I could suggest a right-of-center US publication that isn't bonkers, but I don't know any.

Here in the sun rose in the east this morning. I expect it will set in the west tonight.

We’ve seen this show before.

BBC and NHK are great sources of news. The NHK does have a lot of English broadcasts and news. You get a great viewpoint from two extremely important countries that have strong connections to the US. At the very least it's a good supplement to other news sources.

chouston3 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:23 am My current plan is to cut off all tv news and just read and listen to the news from very particular sites.

BBC
Politico
The Atlantic

Politico and the Atlantic are left leaning.

Can anyone suggest a right leaning news source that isn't bonkers?

I like to have a balanced perspective but its getting harder and harder to do.

I have eschewed TV for decades. I get most of my news from radio (NPR and BBC World Service - neither right-leaning, but both provide details and background information that's hard to find elsewhere) and curated Internet news and analysis sources.

The Wall Street Journal is a center/right publication with mostly factual information.

Bach5G wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:32 am Here in the sun rose in the east this morning. I expect it will set in the west tonight.

We’ve seen this show before.

The sequel is always worse than the original...

TomWest wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:10 pm The Wall Street Journal is a center/right publication with mostly factual information.

True enough. But you have to get past the pay wall.
I can't afford a WSJ subscription.

Bach5G wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:32 am Here in the sun rose in the east this morning. I expect it will set in the west tonight.

For sure; but as RHCP sings: "The sun may rise in the east but at least it settles in the right location".

Bach5G wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:32 am We’ve seen this show before.

.....and how well did that go? We've seen politicians before talking about personal revenge for wrongdoings against them, and politicians orating about vengeance and retribution against percieved enemies and/or wrongdoers - personal or for a specific group - and that has never ever throughout history ended well or produced anything good.

One specific thing about politicians in common, and totalitarian dittos in particular, is that they more often than not really do, and fulfil, what they say they will do when they reach power. Given what the newly produced president of the U.S. has said over the years, what he's done both publically and privately, every warning sign has been glaringly displayed and every major alarm should have been ringalingadinging all through the domestic politicial system, but here we are, and here all of the citizens of the U.S. are now, with what well could be a presidency and a cabinet that will use the governmental institutions for retribution, vengeance and repression.

Bach5G wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:32 am Here in the sun rose in the east this morning. I expect it will set in the west tonight.

We’ve seen this show before.

But this time there are no guardrails.

Locking , thanks for keeping it civil everyone!