darkest winter
Joseph Biden takes the stage against a sharp red backdrop to make a case against an “Ultra Maga” for the 2022 midterms. It is always hard to assess whether this worked. Something worked, though — and you can ask Zelensky about this — not exactly or not fully or not up to the level of winning a presidential election. The Democrats, if you remember, against the backdrop of commentary on how “the red wave did not materialize” — did move from a slim House majority to a slim House minority.
It has come right back to this. Somewhat. No blood red backdrop, no, but a discombulated staticy voice. A closing message on 2024, a confluence of events and late declaring military figures. Trump talked about the appeal of Adolf Hitler. As he has done so in the past. “Fascist to the core” — fascism, which I think the pure definition is Italy’s with everything (including Germany’s) a modification — but that is academic. The crap has been thrown at us pretty quickly over the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes. Yesterday Ticket Carlson — one of the spotlighted speakers of the RNC convention and a friendly interviewer of a man detailing how Winston Churchill enemy of World War 2 — was at a campaign event, preceding Donald Trump — and how did he present Trump? As the daddy who is going to spank the two year old who smeared crap on the wall and the teenage daughter who gave daddy lip. And he is not going to lie — the spanking will hurt you and not me. The crowd are it up. Trump are it up. And we edge one step further into the abyss we stood at when Trump complimented Arnold Palmer’s penis for no discernable reason.
Interesting exercise in pointlessness. The polls have been stable for quite some time. Nothing in and themselves to hang a hat on — just keep grinding through those seven states, you two! Except for an on-rush of Republican polls which allow the Fox News and talk radio contingent to proceed as with a “Kamala stalls, as predicted, Trump climbs, as predicted.” Surely they are joking. Funny thing on watching clips of Hannity — a go to line of some theoretic partisan effectiveness when confronted by a Stephen A Smith on the bumbling Trump — “the liberals said the thing about George W Bush!” – – is a no go.
Wait. They walked into a diner at breakfast. To get the voice of the people, the forgotten hoity toity poor hard scrambled older whiter that Beltians who will decide it all. How novel!