Monday, July 19, 2021
A little natural justice
The fearmongers are screeching louder and louder because nobody is listening. There's no such thing as accountability, and no chance of "legal" justice. We'll never get a Nuremberg trial because there are no victorious allies.
Still, natural justice sometimes works via money.
A chart from one of the fact-gatherers:
Norm seems to be 40% down from last year. That's a bankruptcy-size decline for businesses that run mainly on debt. Vanity toys like WaPo can sustain it, because super-rich fuckheads like Bezos have infinite resources.
This shouldn't have been surprising. When you tie your ENTIRE existence to FUCK TRUMP, and TRUMP disappears, your reason for existence disappears.
I noted this problem in 2017:
= = = = = START REPRINT:
I read an article about Pininfarina's 1961 dream car, the Jacqueline. Pininfarina was trying to get Cadillac to make the car, and the name (as in Jackie Kennedy) was meant to be part of the appeal.
It was a DAMNED PRETTY car, but GM didn't bite. It's clear from actual results, if not from written history, that AMC did bite on the styling. The perfectly pretty 1963 Rambler clearly follows the same lines, and the timing is about right. Ed Anderson gets full credit for the '63. I doubt it. His previous "own" designs were clumsy, and his previous designs with official help from Pininfarina were pretty. So the influence, official or otherwise, seems like a good bet.
Naming cars after people other than the company founder has always been a jinx, so it's easy to see why nobody picked up the name.
Around 1930 Marmon named its sub-luxury car the Roosevelt, after Teddy. Just in time for the other Roosevelt to become a hissing and a byword to Marmon customers. A little later Studie named its new cheap car the Rockne, after Knute. Just in time for Knute to get killed in a plane crash.
This should have been an obvious marketing error. Politics and football are team sports, with passionate fans and anti-fans for each politician or coach. When you pick one side you automatically lose the anti-fans as customers, even though they might have liked the car.
So we don't have a Cadillac Ivanka or a Chevy Nixon or a Ford Paterno.
Lincoln is a major exception to the rule. I guess the jinx doesn't apply with people who are far enough in the past that they have fossilized into household words. It certainly applies to people who are alive at the time of the naming, because living people can surprise you.
= = = = = END REPRINT.
Media were also making another mistake BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS. A plot in soap opera runs for six months. When FOX and CNN turned "news" to soap opera in 1990, they continued the rule. A major story always ran for six months. This one has gone on without any change for 18 months, so it shouldn't be surprising that the people have moved on.
Norm seems to be 40% down from last year. That's a bankruptcy-size decline for businesses that run mainly on debt. Vanity toys like WaPo can sustain it, because super-rich fuckheads like Bezos have infinite resources.
This shouldn't have been surprising. When you tie your ENTIRE existence to FUCK TRUMP, and TRUMP disappears, your reason for existence disappears.
I noted this problem in 2017:
= = = = = START REPRINT:
I read an article about Pininfarina's 1961 dream car, the Jacqueline. Pininfarina was trying to get Cadillac to make the car, and the name (as in Jackie Kennedy) was meant to be part of the appeal.
It was a DAMNED PRETTY car, but GM didn't bite. It's clear from actual results, if not from written history, that AMC did bite on the styling. The perfectly pretty 1963 Rambler clearly follows the same lines, and the timing is about right. Ed Anderson gets full credit for the '63. I doubt it. His previous "own" designs were clumsy, and his previous designs with official help from Pininfarina were pretty. So the influence, official or otherwise, seems like a good bet.
Naming cars after people other than the company founder has always been a jinx, so it's easy to see why nobody picked up the name.
Around 1930 Marmon named its sub-luxury car the Roosevelt, after Teddy. Just in time for the other Roosevelt to become a hissing and a byword to Marmon customers. A little later Studie named its new cheap car the Rockne, after Knute. Just in time for Knute to get killed in a plane crash.
This should have been an obvious marketing error. Politics and football are team sports, with passionate fans and anti-fans for each politician or coach. When you pick one side you automatically lose the anti-fans as customers, even though they might have liked the car.
So we don't have a Cadillac Ivanka or a Chevy Nixon or a Ford Paterno.
Lincoln is a major exception to the rule. I guess the jinx doesn't apply with people who are far enough in the past that they have fossilized into household words. It certainly applies to people who are alive at the time of the naming, because living people can surprise you.
= = = = = END REPRINT.
Media were also making another mistake BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS. A plot in soap opera runs for six months. When FOX and CNN turned "news" to soap opera in 1990, they continued the rule. A major story always ran for six months. This one has gone on without any change for 18 months, so it shouldn't be surprising that the people have moved on.
Labels: Emersonian justice
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