Gosh, folks, in Biden’s situation, would you want to show your face in public or would you choose to stay away for a bit? It’s the most normal thing imaginable to want to make oneself scarce after something like this.
Nothing Happening
And that, my friends, is the whole point. Little by little, we all shall end up concluding that national politics is inconsequential. We have collectively engineered a situation where we are trying to prove to ourselves that the nation-state is dead.
It’s not a conspiracy. Nobody consciously decided it. It’s simply what we feel that we need right now. And we are giving it to ourselves.
My July
That’s how my July has been going:
I really get that dude in the car right now.
Vocabulary Drama
The Merriam-Webster dictionary had to delete replies to its popular post and then remove the post altogether.
What is the highly controversial word that commenters kept referencing and that Merriam-Webster couldn’t tolerate?
Americans know the answer but how about everybody else?
The Race to Race-monger
One thing I’m noticing is that race-mongering exploded in the hours since Biden endorsed Harris.
It goes on and on and on. When one imagines four years of this triumphant race-baiting, one begins to wilt. How, how does anybody think it’s a good idea?
Biden Withdraws
OK, so now what? The DEI veep will run? Somebody else entirely? Dusting off Hillary, maybe?
The Romney Lesson
It’s entertaining to remember that Romney was accused during his campaign of all the same things Trump is being accused of now. In fact, every Republican candidate is always accused of wanting to bring back slavery, creating concentration camps, being a fascist, and doing some unspecified terrible things to “binders full of women.” In fact, the absolute evisceration by the media of the mild-mannered, extremely moderate Romney and a depiction of him as puppy-torturing, woman-hating, slavery-loving fascist is what tipped the majority of Republican voters towards welcoming Trump several years later. If you will be accused of being Satan no matter what you do and lose into the bargain, why not choose the most outrageous option and win?
This is the #1 problem of Democrats. They need you to embrace the outer edges of every fashionable lunacy, and if you hold back a millimeter, they’ll brand you as worse than Hitler. The no-border people recognize no boundaries in anything, including rhetoric.
Romney for Democrats
This is actually an excellent plan. Democrats are such a mess that a moderate Republican would be much better than anybody the Dems can nominate from among their own. Romney is not ancient, he doesn’t screech and bug out his eyes, he speaks in complete, grammatically correct sentences, he’s not a DEI pick, he’s polite, he has a normal family life. He also tugs on the heartstrings of people who realize that going with him in 2012 instead of Obama would have been the right thing to do.
Unconvincing Talking Points
A new email from the Biden campaign just dropped:
It’s kind of really funny that rounding up millions of people in detention camps appears way after the abolition of the Department of Education, a tax cut and overtime payments. You’d think that if anybody really considered the imprisonment of millions in concentration camps a possibility, they’d bring it up a bit earlier than the deeply tedious point about the Department of Education
How to Be a Hero
We were driving from the mall today, and on the way there was one of those huge construction cranes by the side of the highway. On the very top it had a gigantic banner with the words, “Trump. A true American hero.”
Can you imagine a banner saying “Biden. A true American hero”? Or Kamala Harris, or Newsom?
The answer is clear. It’s also clear that any of them could have become an American hero by simply stating something true like “men can’t get pregnant” or “BLM’s leadership embezzled the money good-hearted people donated” or “murals to George Floyd are nonsensical” or “giving puberty blockers to children is a terrible idea” or “lockdowns during COVID were a big mistake” or “we need a dramatic decrease in immigration numbers”, etc.
It’s easy to be a figure of intense fascination these days if one’s ready to state something obvious that suddenly became verboten 3 minutes ago.
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