By reclaiming her seat as Speaker, she and her Old Guard stooges willfully ignored the message of the 2018 election, which was that we the voters sent new blood to Washington in direct response to the threat of Trump with the primary mission of investigating and impeaching him. But her Ok Boomer generation just…

Thing is, Pelosi set up a chess board but she’s playing against a guy who will just knock over the pieces because he doesn’t understand the game, call the game stupid and/or for nerds, and high five with the knuckleheaded sycophants who surround him. Chess is a game of rules, and the reason Trump appeals to his base…

Yeah, but a dark horse comes out of obscurity and nobody expects them to win. I like to remind myself that I’m actually closer to the majority opinion than they are and that progress might be slow but it is inevitable.

Try thinking of yourself as the only white sheep in a flock of black. Don’t let them claim normal. That’s what I do.

Pelosi’s right, it is sad that we allowed this man into this position and now have proof of our negligence on display for the entire world. There is nothing to gloat about here. We have won nothing. We have to stay laser focused on November and removing this tumor before it can spread further. And then we have to stop…

You seem fun. Let’s hang out. You bring the boiled chicken; I’ll bring the funeral dirges! We can read automotive manuals to each other!

Reality TV is basically the Star Search diaspora: cheaply made television spotlighting aspiring attention-seekers from around the world hoping for a chance at fame and fortune.

It’s easier if you just think of them as spokesmodels. Influencers are just an Instagram filter on a very old method of selling products. We used to choose new ones on Star Search.

Just like when “Linus and Lucy” knocked out “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in the third round bracket of my family’s Christmas music tournament last weekend, this tourney has gone completely off the rails! It’s a farce, I say! A farce!

I want my house to look like the living room in Golden Girls. 80s geriatric Miami.

You had me until you suggested replacing Mid-century Modern with Shabby Chic, Memphis, and/or Rococo. It’s almost 2020: Can we start creating aesthetics for this century yet?

My wife has a pair of 1960s production Le Corbusier LC1 chairs that she got from an old lady who hosted her poetry group in her Upper West Side apartment. The lady was divesting of her worldly possessions in grand fashion and had a lot of nice pieces . . . and some once-nice pieces that needed a little love. All that…

Business Insider announced that shares in Peloton fell 9% in a single day following response to the ad, erasing $942 million in market value. The shares have started to slowly rebound, but the audience response to the ad has made investing in the company suddenly seem risky, and a perceived volatile stock is not good…

It’s not exactly a closely guarded secret.

Also, Verizon’s potential reach into people’s lives is so much broader than something like Peloton, so they need a more multi-faceted campaign.

We believe people want a result. Our job is to convince them that our product or service will get them that result. Nobody buys a Peloton because they want a piece of workout equipment. They buy a Peloton because they want the lifestyle the equipment promises to deliver.

It’s a character layer, not the central focus. The ad is trying to hit several niches within the larger demo. It’s there to get the women who can identify with that particular aspect. My wife had two kids and it’s taken three years since the last one for her to finally lose most of her baby weight, and she spotted the…

Thank you for the articulate, well-considered critical analysis. This is my favorite comment on this thread.

I haven’t seen the commercial you’re talking about, but attractive people in commercials are a fairly standard aspirational marketing tactic. You put good looking people in an ad because society associates beauty with happiness, so the viewer subconsciously thinks “That good looking person looks so happy using that…

And that’s before you even get into Blue Steel and Magnum variants.