{"id":32876,"date":"2020-11-07T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T03:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32876"},"modified":"2020-11-07T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T03:24:35","slug":"gritty-leading-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32876","title":{"rendered":"Gritty Leading the People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a week of publishing deadlines, and thirty hours after my last files went to the printer I&#8217;m <em>still<\/em> mentally exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did go to Books a Million again today to see what other gems I could find in their CD sale.  (CDs, new and used, are 90% off as they are getting out of that market.)  I found the <em>Camelot<\/em> original Broadway cast album new for twenty cents, several Liz Phair albums, an Enya album I don&#8217;t think I have, three Diana Krall albums, a Barenaked Ladies album, and the <em>Josie and the Pussycats<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to leave you with some tweets from the past two days that either I wrote or caught my attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People, I have had enough coffee this week to kill a mule.<br><br>And it&#39;s all due to deadlines, not the election.<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1324721416256839680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/alicelfc4\/status\/1324731431206244352\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There will soon be dogs in the White House again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mm5LvqER8d\">pic.twitter.com\/Mm5LvqER8d<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/svershbow\/status\/1324763738763939843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I did not expect The Count and Gritty to be the stars of the 2020 US elections, and frankly that&#39;s on me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dTioHnEO1E\">pic.twitter.com\/dTioHnEO1E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Didi Chanoch (@didic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/didic\/status\/1324813786042277888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty end Donald Trump\u2019s presidency? <br><br>Sure. <br><br>Why not. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YuKs4f8usF\">https:\/\/t.co\/YuKs4f8usF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vox (@voxdotcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/voxdotcom\/status\/1324833960560676864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s very possible that if Dems don&#39;t win both the Georgia Senate run-offs and pass electoral reform, it will be impossible for them to *ever* win a majority in Congress after this, as control of courts and gerrymandering becomes a self-executing ratchet of minority rule. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XNpI8qWEIL\">https:\/\/t.co\/XNpI8qWEIL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtsw\/status\/1324841784699047936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Madam Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris and the silhouette of Ruby Bridges when she was walking to an all-white school, newly desegregated, escorted by four deputy US marshals in 1960. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxqBVDgF3l\">pic.twitter.com\/bxqBVDgF3l<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Maya Contreras (@mayatcontreras) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mayatcontreras\/status\/1324843836842061833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarTrek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StarTrek<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TridemensionalChess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TridemensionalChess<\/a> Set coming from The Noble Collection <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwrAb80EKt\">https:\/\/t.co\/LwrAb80EKt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q2bnAokrHy\">pic.twitter.com\/q2bnAokrHy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Trek Collective (@TrekCollective) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrekCollective\/status\/1324899029214519298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They were so vehement about this being a &quot;FINAL NOTICE&quot; that I&#39;ve had six emails from the Trump campaign since then <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R0vgKgzcNs\">pic.twitter.com\/R0vgKgzcNs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1324909885365088257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden has:<br><br>\u2014Won the Electoral College <br><br>\u2014Won the popular vote<br><br>\u2014Received more votes than any other presidential candidate <br><br>\u2014Likely flipped 5 states<br><br>\u2014Won with higher margins than Trump in the Rust Belt in 2016 <br><br>Whatever the Republicans say, this was a decisive victory.<\/p>&mdash; Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBReich\/status\/1325132913957105665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s not a single kind thing I can say about Mark Meadows, and all my thoughts are uncharitable, so I will say nothing at all, except that&#39;s he&#39;s soon to be on the job market if he recovers from COVID. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HM6nvJHHKo\">https:\/\/t.co\/HM6nvJHHKo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1325145042890076161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Given that Gritty is the incarnate chaos god personification of the city of Philadelphia, just as Roma was the incarnate god of the city of Rome in ancient times, then when is Neil Gaiman writing a sequel to American Gods about the civic gods of modern America&#39;s cities and towns?<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1325228840420061184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As Gandalf said, &quot;Do not fear to weep, for not all tears are evil.&quot; And this picture is making me cry. There&#39;s a lot of love in this picture. And I think about the people who aren&#39;t there, like his son Beau. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95vehuEfQC\">https:\/\/t.co\/95vehuEfQC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1325230332560465921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just realized &#8212; Alec Baldwin&#39;s long nightmare is finally over.<\/p>&mdash; Allyn Gibson (@allyngibson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allyngibson\/status\/1325238033684307968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It occurs to me that after all of Trump&#39;s mocking at the size of Biden&#39;s rallies, the whole country is currently a Biden rally.<\/p>&mdash; Cully Hamner (@CullyHamner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CullyHamner\/status\/1325239915114868736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We look forward to hosting President-Elect Biden on Opening Day of the 2021 season.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATITUDE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NATITUDE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n3YzL7olWA\">pic.twitter.com\/n3YzL7olWA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Washington Nationals (@Nationals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nationals\/status\/1325255940363448323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Have been thinking this for more than a year. Donald Trump always knew that Biden was the guy who was going to beat him. That&#39;s why he committed a brazen and risky international crime to try to sabotage Biden&#39;s campaign. You don&#39;t do that for nothing. He knew.<\/p>&mdash; Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshtpm\/status\/1325258165911425024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the bottom of my heart: thank you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s76oHFkr66\">pic.twitter.com\/s76oHFkr66<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1325261759456874499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a week of publishing deadlines, and thirty hours after my last files went to the printer I&#8217;m still mentally exhausted. I did go to Books a Million again today to see what other gems I could find in their CD sale. (CDs, new and used, are 90% off as they are getting out<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32876\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Gritty Leading the People&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4485,4938,125,4258,4937,619,4939,463,1107,24],"class_list":["post-32876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-2020-election","tag-alec-baldwin","tag-chess","tag-donald-trump","tag-gritty","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-philadelphia","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-washington-nationals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}