Votes are coming in fast
Noting any tiny inch of a sign of a bad news on the election forecasts and prospects of Kamala Harris, piling a molehill into a mountain. A certain Democratic Party and Selfridges PTSD on the 2016 election, mainly. When 75 percent of the signs point your direction, you fear the 25 percent that don’t. It is also that sensation that a large number of Republicans in the mid level kind of does not care all that much one way or the other — two years on we will win with Harris to knock around and have at least some room to wriggle with back to where we want without Trump as an albatross. The Democrats and group of Never Trumpers are existential meaning here. Beyond a candidate who, when you can get past miles of incoherence, is evoking the 1890s Alien and Sedition Act, nineteenth century tariff policies, the 1950s immigration deportation program, and early twentieth century racial theories that died in Germany at the end of World War 2.
It has been a while since I have checked in on the Babylon Bee podcast. They don’t seem to have the group of Christian entertainment not political in the strictest d v r sense yahoos getting interviewed — and I am mildly interested in hearing them, and I think possible the one actually funny host — the guy who did Ax Cop — is gone. They have a long time in development project on the way. It is a hilarious movie mocking the hew and cry over January 6. Hilarity, all of it — what a gas. Somewhere in the past they interviewed a man with “Wak Away”, a group of Black Republicans ie: “Walk Away from the Democratic Party”. An interesting interview with a man who was at the scene — a big take-away from him though not the message he was wanting to relay: he got questioned on a few things, but not prosecuted because — while he was at the crime scene at the time of the crime, he is not a man we have any interest in. Leave feelings of persecution to the persecution.
Animating the Walk Away campaign, apparently, is… The fate and/ or quality of a Brady Bunch reboot. The mind reels. Familiar with this genre of internet videos, five or maybe fifteen minutes, complain about a highly stilted and politically unsubtle entertainment item. This thing about a Brady Bunch reboot where… I don’t know — is Cousin Oliver gender non binary? — is one hour thirty five minutes fifty nine seconds. I will say if wokeness in the form of overbearing production notes halted filming of this project, a rebooted Brady Bunch for the 2020s — Woke All the Way, Baby!
Checking in on the post liberal duo of Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn. When last I listened, they were making a drink the media is ignoring or not putting Putin / Russia’s nuclear saber rattling threats to the West over Ukraine. Today it is — hm. At least it is a dignified caricature of Biden. Or is that Bush? I have no reference point on this. A Bush-Biden mashup might make sense — maybe?
The slog toward the election continues. Media information spaces split ashunder. Some of your neighbour thinks Haitian immigrants are eating dogs and cats and school kids are acting like cats and demanding litter boxes in schools — and even if they aren’t, this just focuses is on real issues. How does one skip past this? Who knows, but it isn’t sustainable.
The demographic-splicing podcast choices of Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump — you exchange a podcast with this silly name — so mocked by good Christian humorists as “sex podcast” — for a 20 something whose shtick is that he runs up to sniff the seats of favoured guests (like Andrew Tate) after they leave — nothing sexual on that scene.
Ron Paul is still out there, commentary available for your edification. When last I checked, he was promulgating every line the Republican Party is against President and then candidate Biden — Russia hoax, responded justice department against Trump, maybe you find yourself aligned with his isolationism on Ukraine, the border the border the border. Bother to check in with Rand Paul — nothing much altered but dynamics of our politics.