For about six months now i have been living with my home page being the one that Yahoo says is "News for Me".  What this usually consists of is some article about Donald J. Trump (mostly stupid stuff), with about ten or twelve items underneath the major article that Yahoo is pushing, which usually consist of about four more items about Trump, five or six supposedly "eye-popping" pictures of has been celebrities half naked (i guess Yahoo knows that i am a man who likes to look at "eye-popping" pictures of some has been celebrity half naked), and maybe one other item of meaningless use. 

Prior to these last six months, my old Yahoo "home"page was one i designed with all kinds of news from legitimate sources, sports, fjuinance, health, and entertainment.  I don't know whether it is because of the "titillation" or all the "Trump" news that i have not bothered returning to my actual Yahoo home page, but i have not up to this point.  Today, i think it is finally time to return "back home"--i just have to figure out how my computer can recognize "my home page" for what it is.  I have done this before, i just have to figure out how to do it again.  No problem.

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Regardless, my point this morning has to do with this morning's Yahoo news, which they selected for me.  It said this: Notable minority of GOP voters are not MAGA fans.  (I did not bold this because i think it is news.  I simply bolded it because it was the news that was given to me).

Okay, so what did i learn when i read the article.  Nothing.  I learned nothing--at least nothing i didn't know before.  In fact, i thought i was somewhat mislead by the lead.  Now if you look back at the title again, you will notice that the article selected for me used the term "notable".   What the "notable" in the title, however, means is that you can find it with a microscope.  Notable does not mean 50%, 40%, 30%, etc.  Notable in terms of the article means about 1%.

And that is the democrats' advantage of having someone like Trump or DeSantes run for President.  One percent.  All the other repubicans are going to jump on the bandwagon supporting MAGA until its dying days.  Can you believe it?  One f------- percent.

Now the article was correct in saying that that "one percent" is notable because it does help in winning national elections, but come on folks, that is hardly a guarantee for winning elections when 99% of the republicans are going to be led by the nose of their candidate.  Hell, the democrats could never get 99% of their folks to slobber over a candidate--how can the republicans?

Just to make my point, the article used the example of how close the democratic candidate for one of the representative seats in Colorado "almost beat" the incumbent stalwart MAGA republican in 2022.  The democrat lost by only about 500 votes.  Get the picture.  "Notable" does not mean "a lot", it means 'you can still lose close elections!"

(BTW, this is an aside, but i just switched back to look at the article again to get the candidate names, but now i am being offered a different "highlighted news for me".  This one's temptation says: Why Pence finally decided to take on Trump over Jan. 6.  I did not look, but i assume i could have still found all the earlier "titillation" offerings, just probably in a different order.  The "titillation offerings" only seem to change every day or two, unlike the main upfront article which seems to change about every hour.  BTW, i will admit, i do ocassionally take a peek, always making sure to avoid the Kardashian bunch offerings however (that's taking it a step a bit too much for me).

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I swear it is the same every day.  You hardly ever see anything in Yahoo's "news for me" other than Trump and titillation.  What kind of man does Yahoo think i am?  I'm getting worried.

Now i will say that probably 90% of the Trump items are disparaging against Trump, but just the same, it seems like the only news for me is Trump and titillation.  Maybe Yahoo is right because it seems like that is all i watch on television, too (i.e., news about Trump and R-rated movies).

Some one out of country looking at "news for me" would think that Trump must still be President considering all the attention he gets.  No wonder the republicans think Trump won the election--everything he does is more important that anything Biden seems to have done--at least from the perspective of "news for me".  

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Notable = one percent.   Go figure.

ps.  Two-years and three months it took Pence to finally stand up for himself and his family.  And someone recently commented to me that "Pence was the Man".  Man of what, i should have asked.  Being from the same state of Indiana, having gone to the same white conservative Presbyterian "liberal arts" undergraduate school (Hanover College), and knowing Pence's record as Governor of the state--i would hardly come to the conclusion that he was "my man".  Pence might not be as dangerous as Trump or DeSantes, but i hardly think this nation needs to go back in time to the puritan "witch trials" period.