Polls matter again!

57% after the inauguration, and from a  right leaning pollster. Everybody else, with the exception of far right wing rags, have said his first week has been a disaster. That includes many Republicans.

We just had one of the largest protest demonstrations in our nation's history over the weekend. Millions marched in nearly every state in in our country. Not to mention all over the world. I wouldn't shoot your wad yet.

I think social media killed a lot of forums. I know about a dozen peeps who went to facebook and never came back. I went to FB, but then returned to forums deleting all social media I had.

I don't like FB for a lot of reasons, mostly though because it's too broad. If I have 60 "friends" but the FB algorithms decide only 6-12 of them see my posts in their feed. Of those how many are really interested in the topic I may have brought up? It's way too various to have any interesting conversations with people you know. I also despise the narcissistic qualities of social media....so boring and vapid.  Forums are much more specific, and people are there to talk about that particular subject. Not post pictures of their kids, what they ate, where they went on vacation, repost memes all day, post the same clips that everybody else did etc...But I think that's why people are drawn to social media, it makes it all about them and their lives.

Reddit is a great forum, if you want to call it that. I was turned off to it for years simply because of the layout, but lurk there often and enjoy it much more now. In fact I primarily post here and that's about it these days. I read more than anything believe that or not.

My place has circled the drain for a couple of years now. Some great posters, many quite bright and interesting went to FB...and that was that. I've seen many forums die off over the years: Music, cars, investing...you name it. And once they're dead they never come back, sorry to say.