Progressives and conservatives both reliably paid attention to Dorian's devastating landfall in the Bahamas, and (to my surprise) they both put the "national emergency at the Mexican border" in second place in their remembered attention. I couldn't even remember which national emergency that was.
After that, the Jussie Smollett "fake news" story captured a lot of attention on both sides of the aisle, as did the somewhat related "you can't believe anything the powers-that-be tell you" story of Epstein's death.
Right-leaning Americans remember a lot about a state-of-the-union address that left-leaners tuned out completely, focussing instead on various shootings and Trump's attacks on John McCain. The right noticed the shootings, but less urgently, and tuned out the McCain furor completely.
Both sides noticed the Varsity Blues controversy; I remembered it, too, but had forgotten that the college-admission fraud cases were popularly called that after a TV show of the same name, which I had never heard of before this happened.
Below all these stories in the attention cascade on both sides came the scintillating impeachment story. Kind of amazing, considering it's not even over yet, and already a yawner. Yeah, yeah, you're finally impeaching him, let us know when Nancy Pelosi puts on an orange robe and lights herself on fire on the capital steps.
There was a government shutdown in there somewhere. I'd already forgotten about it, but partisans on both sides noticed it about equally, more or less at the same rate that they noticed state abortion restrictions, which I did remember.
After that, on the left, people noticed that Biden was in the race, while people on the right noticed that Biden was always sniffing women and children's hair. There were some Mexican tariff threats. Michael Cohen testified before someone or other and said something.
Somewhere in this middle-lower tier, people on the right noticed that Mueller issued a report, but it fell off the radar on the left. For comparison, in my husband's and my life, the Mueller report probably tops the list, followed by the attempted use of the Ukraine phone call to defibrillate the clinically dead Russia hoax story, perhaps followed by the outstanding economic news.
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The reason you can’t remember it is that it was pro forma. The president was declaring one for the purpose of moving money around for wall building. The border didn’t get any worse than usual, nor any better.
It may have indeed gotten a bit better from our side- Border patrol apprehensions continue to decline, so there's that. Often the message being sent is as important as the actual physical barrier- but both are essential.
I don't read or listen to the news.
It disrupts my analysis abilities via adulteration and bias, aka mind control external.
Some topics like Epstein "killing himself" makes it through, since it has strategic import.
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