Matisyahu's Blog

Today was a windy and wet day however it appears that things are going to get better on Friday which will hopefully translate to the weekend drying up. Today I worked from home and it was rather uneventful although two system issues caused a higher volume of calls than expected but that being said at least it wasn’t on a day where we’re traditionally more busy. In Australia the telecommunication giant Telstra had a nationwide outage which caused chaos which reminds me of the nationwide outage in New Zealand that occurred on the One NZ network (Spark had their own nationwide outage back in the days of XT Network when they moved from CDMA to 3G UTMS). When this sort of thing happens it makes me wonder whether there should be some sort of fall back mechanism where the other mobile phone carriers pick up load just in case people need to make an emergency or urgent phone call etc.

Over the last day or two there has been fall out from more revelations coming out regarding Graham Platner. For me when I saw the primary taken place I stood back and waited to see what else came out and I couldn’t help but get the feeling that something was being held back, that not every revelation had ben made public. I generally want to believe in the idea of giving someone a second chance, that there is redemption in this life time, I’ve even rallied against cancel culture on my blog because I believe people have the capacity to deconstruct their past beliefs and reform themselves. With all that being said, rehabilitation doesn’t occur over night and the fact that these issues didn’t come up during a background check for opposition research makes me wonder whether it was a situation of not wanting to find something because what he was saying blinded them from doing some serious digging into the guys past.

Oh, and as for the Republicans, there was Kevin McCarthy on Fox News who claimed that the Republicans when they found out there was a bad candidate they didn’t vote for him. Really? because how do you explain Donald Trump? Roy Moore? Dr Oz? Herschel Walker? Michelle Bachmann? Marjorie Taylor Greene? Lauren Boebert? Matt Gaetz? Rick Santorum? Christine O’Donnell? do I need to go further? it is amazing how the average Republican voter appears to have no long term memory because Republicans just spout provable lies and there is no political consequences. It’s almost as if Republican voters just live in the moment and what happened 5 minutes ago let alone an hour ago or a year ago didn’t happen because it isn’t even remembered. It’s like watching 1984 where the past is rewritten to justify the present when the phrase “We have always been at war with Eastasia” was uttered. The average Republican has somehow perfected the art of double think – being able to hold two contrary ideas in their head at the same time and consider it perfectly normal.