{"id":11655,"date":"2020-08-20T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2020-08-20T14:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:30:26","slug":"which-normalcy-what-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11655","title":{"rendered":"Which normalcy? What certainty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/19\/kamala-harris-dnc-speech-vice-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She said: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. If you\u2019re a parent struggling with your child\u2019s remote learning, or you\u2019re a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen, you know that what we\u2019re doing right now isn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are a nation that\u2019s grieving. Grieving the loss of life, the loss of jobs, the loss of opportunities, the loss of normalcy. And yes, the loss of certainty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What normalcy does Kamala Harris believe most Americans wish to return to? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/18\/first-night-dnc-did-something-radical-it-let-us-feel-normal-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alyssa Rosenberg<\/a> claims &#8222;what we had when this year began was good&#8220; and &#8222;it\u2019s still within reach.&#8220; Is this what Harris believes? Is <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">January 2020<\/span> a normalcy to return to?<\/p>\n<p>In <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">January 2017<\/span> I watched with amazement as <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">San Francisco<\/span> streets filled with people certain wearing pink knit pussy caps would accomplish some worthwhile goal. Is this a certainty which Harris believes should be returned? The certainty of <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Nate Silver<\/span> and fivethirtyeight.com on <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">election night 2016<\/span>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vLbMNYy6K2M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nineteenth-year-old-Billie-Eilish-believes-Joe-Biden-shares-her-values-at-the-Democratic-National-Convention.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nineteenth-year-old-Billie-Eilish-believes-Joe-Biden-shares-her-values-at-the-Democratic-National-Convention.jpeg 625w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nineteenth-year-old-Billie-Eilish-believes-Joe-Biden-shares-her-values-at-the-Democratic-National-Convention-300x171.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Billie Eilish looks into (or at least towards) the camera here and claims Joe Biden &#8222;is building a team that shares our values.&#8220; How many 19-year-old Americans with hair anything like Eilish&#8217;s are stoned enough to hallucinate Joe Biden shares their values?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: She said: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. If you\u2019re a parent struggling with your child\u2019s remote learning, or you\u2019re a teacher struggling on the other side of that screen, you know that what we\u2019re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11655\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}