{"id":45559,"date":"2017-12-13T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45559"},"modified":"2020-08-04T20:39:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T00:39:20","slug":"looking-stupid-even-in-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45559","title":{"rendered":"Looking stupid, even in victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long story short<\/a>: Democrat Doug Jones defeats publicly and nationally accused sexual deviant Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race; by a margin of less than 2%<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m writing about politics twice in the same week, much less about the dumb state of Alabama, but this is something that I grew remotely intrigued about as the story transpired.\u00a0 Honestly, despite the fact that to like-minded people, the battle between an accused sex offender versus a not(yet accused)-sex offender should seem like a layup victory for the morally superior, I actually would have put my money on Roy Moore.\u00a0 Because, the country I live in has repeatedly demonstrated a sheer lack of decent human values in favor of blind misguided political fanaticism, and I would never have imagined a state like Alabama of all places would have been one capable of snapping out of the tragic pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I was proven wrong.\u00a0 It\u2019s not often in which I like this result to be the case, but for the sake of the greater good I believe is needed, I\u2019ll take this L with a modicum of relief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, despite the fact that it was a battle between an accused sex offender and someone who has yet to be accused, it still ended up being a race tighter than Mariah Carey\u2019s workout apparel<\/a>, with a margin of victory allegedly less than 2% for Jones.\u00a0 Meaning despite the fact that Roy Moore had been drug through the mud and accusers popping out of the woodwork claiming sexual deviancy, over 49% of educated<\/span> Alabama voters still voted for the him to represent their state in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I love how in spite of the narrative between the candidates, it\u2019s still being labeled as \u201can upset\u201d that the not-sex offender Jones bested the sex-offending Moore.\u00a0 Only in Alabama.\u00a0 But probably also Mississippi, Arkansas, Montana or any other extremely red state if a similar scenario were to occur.<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, I\u2019m as relieved as any sensible human being that Doug Jones actually won, but it\u2019s still worth pointing out the concerning number of people who still voted for Moore.\u00a0 Over 49%<\/em> of voters<\/em> still voted for him, and you know that they weren\u2019t all just chauvinistic redneck men; there are many women who cast their votes for a guy being accused of deplorable behavior towards women; whether or not they were aware of the facts or not, or just blindly going with the Republican because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve always done, who\u2019s to say which is worse?<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though; it\u2019s a relief to see that in a rare instance, sensibility and clearer heads actually triumphed in this day and era, and a pretty known bad guy actually lost in a political voting contest.<\/span><\/p>\n

And as much as I\u2019ve been shitting on Alabama, right now, some of it is definitely coming from a place of envy.\u00a0 As a Georgia resident, I watched how just months ago, Georgia was in a very similar scenario with the nationally covered race for the sixth, where Democrat Jon Ossoff went up against Republican Karen Handel for the vacant seat.\u00a0 And despite the national attention and intervention and the millions of dollars of support flowing into Ossoff\u2019s coffers, and the sense of urgency at the opportunity for a Democrat to grab a seat in Georgia, it was Handel who still ended up emerging triumphant, leaving Georgia as red as always.<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like Georgia had their opportunity to become a political hero state, but squandered it regardless of their monumental resources, because when the day was over, it was still the simple battle between red and blue, with lots of those in either side being blind to all the facts and variables and going on auto-pilot to the polls.\u00a0 And now, that distinction of being a beacon of hope and change, is firmly planted in Alabama, of all places, instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

And good for them, because they deserved it; even if it still took an extra 2% of people to clear the cobwebs and side with those who believe groping teenagers isn\u2019t right.<\/span><\/p>\n

But really, I just wanted to give a shout out to my man Charles Barkley whom I recently ran into at the airport, who probably swung a good bit of the Alabama voters himself, as the Auburn alum did a little bit of lobbying<\/a> and explained to the people in terms that even Alabama residents could understand \u2013 to stop looking like idiots.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now, I have a perfectly adequate excuse to post this sweet (read: turrible) picture of myself and the Round Mound of Rebound, without having to waste it on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

In conclusion, congratulations to Alabama for shocking the country and actually voting for the guy who didn\u2019t fuck underage girls.\u00a0 Sure, it was still a way closer victory than it logically should have been, but a win\u2019s a win and bank shots still count.\u00a0 But leave it to Alabama to still look a little dumb, even in the light of victory.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long story short: Democrat Doug Jones defeats publicly and nationally accused sexual deviant Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race; by a margin of less than 2% I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m writing about politics twice in the same week, much less about the dumb state of Alabama, but this is something that I … Continue reading Looking stupid, even in victory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,8,52,165,182],"class_list":["post-45559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-owned","tag-politics","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45561,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45559\/revisions\/45561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}