Yeah, well.

But the reality is that there’s no investigation against Trump that won’t seem politically motivated to his supporters. Federal prosecutors aren’t elected, and a special prosecutor took over the federal investigations involving Trump as soon as Trump announced he was running for president again, but if Trump ends up being charged in either of those investigations, he’ll say it’s Biden’s doing.

And there are issues to be brought out where Trump’s supporters would have less of a case. This one makes me feel dead and empty. Like, I watched Stormy Daniels become a personality and make public appearances on late night tv shows with Trump caricature characters. This has been a boon to her career, and good for her for packaging the Trump years into a good paycheck and three, but she joins a long list of celebrities I have no interest in. In terms of the federal v state jurisdiction, it is that odd case that the way toward election in state and local districts to throw out flyers asserting “I am going to take on Trump” — all politics are national — and now it becomes a sticky wicket of “someone has to do this”. But why this one and not something that actually matters? Because, I guess, it was what was on a New York docket.

I have no clue if Desantis’s reaction is politically advantageous, but it is about right any way.

After that we get a sense of dejavu. Like, the Republicans are saying identical words as Democrats did in 1998. Both are sort of right and sort of wrong on their points.

The right, or something in it, is holding up comedic comments from Chris Rock relating Trump’s indictment to the unwise ’cause it will only make him stronger jailing of Tupac Shikur. Which seems. Odd.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason on coming Maga protests. She is a sellout mainstreaming herself for RINO consumption. Though, she is not the voice of reason on the matter in congressional matters on the subject — so… Radical Elites, servile plebes.

Trump cap locks social media posts.

DeSantis emphasizes the porn money aspect. As he oughta. It cuts two ways for him — the reiteration of the other part of the Chris Rock thesis — “how romantic”, and the porn prostitute sleaze part that is not his norm.

So. Trump is about to be indicted. It is over the matter I would not care to touch with a ten foot pole — Stormy Daniels porn crap, or to put it another manner an issue that can be circumvented as “not another about politicking, just about sex” — whether the actions were taken for politics or not. At least we have ridden ourselves of Daniels’s conman lawyer, opposition grifter of the Trump era Michael Avenatti.

The chorus comes up. Predictions are made by glib prognosticators trying to be too clever and reading the electorate as they wish or fear it is. Trump. Wins by a landslide. Over Biden. Or. Sure cash in now for the Republican ticket. Or. Now everyone can schlep over to Desantis who — I see a couple weird things in the backlinks from my Tumblr page which have the ring of false conjecture due to not being able to find any reliable news media (even avowedly liberal media) that back it up. He is… The New Hitler!

In the meantime, Trump or Trump supporters vow riotings. If anything happens, they will do what they’ve done for January 6 and blame the Feds.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders quietly signed into law on Thursday a bill that will create a “monument to the unborn” on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol.

Sanders’ team confirmed the bill signing in a release late Friday.

Not withstanding that the gesture is lame and counterproductive to real policy (whether you think the policies this supplements / replaces is great or horrible does not matter to its inherently lame nature) — I am more just a tad put off by the “cover of dark” nature of her signing it. It needs confirmation that she did a signing. And no, I do not know exactly how I would approach the matter of a bill you want to go ahead and support but do not wish to be the figure behind — or have a file photo of the signing. It becomes comical here that we get this instead —

In this Feb. 8, 2023, file photo, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE)

The deed is done. Get a photo out there of you signing the damned bill. Any and all bill signings need at least a photograph.

In other Abortion related news — this is a biased and loaded headline.

Wyoming, the first territory in the United States to grant women the right to vote, just became the first state to ban medication abortion

It presumes a break, which I understand why some see a connection but I also understand why others do not necessarily see it and it becomes loaded against them. Hell, you can stay with a feminist framework in explaining part one — it was a “Mars Needs Women” situation — whatever it took to get women out to Wyoming. And, really, only a handful were needed. Under that rubric, are we to get the storyline that these grizzled men became regressively more unenlightened over the generations?

Name this person.

He has said he will not announce until December his future plans — which he’s indicated could include running for reelection, retiring from politics or waging a bid for the White House in 2024.

f you said West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, you are right. Somehow.

The charter ers of such things always tell how Clinton did not announce until… Was it November?… as a reflection of how mad things have gotten. In his case, he was clearly running before that. And I suppose in Manchin’s case, he would have to be doing the same… Somehow. Along with everyone else whispering into the media that they area go if Biden shuts himself down.

Or maybe Manchhin wouldn’t. He’s not winning the Democratic nomination. Is this some weird team up with, like, Romney? Oh! I know! Sinema!

“Does it hurt the Republicans or does it hurt the Democrats? I don’t know the answer to that,” said Mark Updegrove, ABC News’ presidential historian.

Hey! Stranger things have happened than 3rd parry victor President Manchin. Like, for instance… Uh… That one guy? Or… ?

I see the headline, which appears to thematically duplicated on a different headline and instance of the same basic thing. Questioning the rubes at CPAC. So. What is woke? Get no coherent response. The duplucatiin, I think, comes with an answer from the author of a book on woke, and I am guessing he may have given a response that is coherent, just not one that is … Er… Politically correct — mind you not that I have to agree, just… It has cohetence.

It is less of a gotcha than they think. I have a definition in mind mindful of how it came to be popularized by its well meaning not evil adherents before becoming a punchline. But I do not know that it came affixed. The word slippage is something lije, oh, neoconservative — a word that had historical context in meaning, retained some meaning even as time wiped out its historical context, then as it became a punching bag effectively became meaningless except for those who are mindful of using it in a proper term. A more immediate and more related word may be “critical theory” — most impactful of course “critical race tgeory”, which has a meaning and has prophets are a bit duplicitous in setting it out, but whose popular opponents basically drop the meaning utterly as they carry on.

So. Do the Jay Leno “man on the street poll” thing all you want. It adds up to something. Just not all that much.

Pi Day passed without fanfare. Ideally it is the Mardi Gras going into the Idea of March — a final fling before the heavy stuff.

The thing is I have a precise harbinger of doom on the looming 2008 Bank failures. The Housing bubble was obvious. It was an ad in an alt weekly showing someone who stereotypically should not be buying A home saying “I didn’t know I could buy a home.” On our new tech bank failure, there is no precise thing to point to, but there are various small minutiaes of Tech Lords selling us fantasy lands and claiming it as the new reality and there is the bubble that came into being during Highest Covid and that mass quarantine era when all we had was our tech.

The reality for economy is innovation comes out of these bubbles. It probably does not necessarily have to be the case. The problem is that we cease to allow the bubbles to fully burst — moral hazards are bubbled into being instead. Socialized loss and all that. The things of revolution, your “99 percent” Occupy thingy. Except. The comparison here is being made to college debt relief. Which is… You know… There in that 99 percent but skews toward the 33 percentile. The class divides divide.

I suppose the two political parties, its candidates, and strategists play with this sort of pounding into one dimension. And then get tripped up from time to time.

Fairfax County is Virginia’s largest school district, and one of the biggest in the country. A recent test question in an advanced placement (AP) government course asked students a multiple-choice question to choose an “accurate comparison of liberals versus conservatives.”

Some concerned parents say regardless of your politics, you should be furious with the nature of the question.

The choices represented a bunch of stereotypical identities — based on race, gender, sexuality and age.

The options written under the liberal column were: “Young, white males”; “Middle-aged, urban lesbian”; “College-educated black male professional”; and “White, upper-middle class suburban male.”

Under the conservative column, the choices were: “East Coast, Ivy League educated scientists”; “Southern male migrant laborer”; “Catholic, midwestern middle-aged male”; and “West Coast, Hispanic teacher.”

I am reminded of recent commentary by Mexico’s president which are interpreted as a “trying to move the elections” by the American right. Never mind Biden has read the polls and is maneuvering in a more hawkish direction on the border, it will still fall short of anything any Republican will come out with, leaving the otherwise comments by Mexico’s simultaneously bi and mono partisan in its rebuke on American policy. But the thing here is — like with the test question — you judge the Latino vote as going up and down in its partisan split. The test question needs to get very specific in its micro-demographics. And Mexico’s president’s comments, if they are influencing anything in an electorate North of the border, land in a wash.

A lot of fun is being had at the expense of a Texas state legislator who proposed a bill cutting ten percent on property tax for each child, hence it gets cited as “have ten kids — no taxes!” I suppose as we go into the reasoning for the proposal, the man is fitted alongside his religious injunction to “be fruitful and multiply”, an injunction I overall reject — and some behavioral economics come to play. But I am not entirely uncertain it does not make sense despite that, and I can skip right past the glib witticisms.

A simple matter. Some big families are to hatched. And, to paraphrase a former First Lady turned US Senator turned Secretary of State turned two time failed presidential candidate, “It takes a village”. The one thing here is that parents who have that big family will have that big family regardless — except maybe at the very tip of the margins — so in that sense neither his reasoning nor the detractors is mornings hold.

The scale of incentive works out to something like arguing against the Libertarian / Conservative argument on progressive taxation — the rich and wealthy don’t quit because larger earnings are taxed at a higher rate. But now I am stuck at one last rub: my defense of two strains coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum converge to the same point.