The sage unsaged
I know nothing, but my prediction is Harris sweeps the 3 rust belt states and wins North Carolina and Georgia, and loses Nevada and Arizona. All of which is a meaningless prognostication I stand behind not at all unless by some fluke I am correct. For what it is worth, that great political guru of Nevada has chimed in with his sage declaration — Kamala will win the state. By .3 percent of the vote. He has crunched the numbers and has seen the results coming into clear view. Point three percent separation. Yes, it is that asinine.
Bopping about, I find a Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor for The Hill chime in with this opening to a piece
Not a single Democrat I speak with believes that Vice President Kamala Harris will win on Tuesday.
I see no evidence of anything of the sort, but matching forward.
All hoped for an open convention in August to identify and select the best candidate possible, but they were denied. To that point, this past Thursday, The Hill featured a piece headlined, “Democrats start to point fingers even as they hope for Harris win.”
He then proceeds harp on the decision to pluck in Walz as running mate, which all strikes me as if we enter an alternate universe where things went down as he argues they ought have — an open convention and a vice president Shapiro, he would be taking the “Democrats in panic” line arguing they ought have tapped the vice President and gone with a different vice president. Curious on this guy, I look about to see what else he has opined, and see this:
When honest historians once again venture upon our shores, they will record Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a true Statesman, a Patriot, and one who has continually given voice to the voiceless. My latest column for THE HILL on this “Man of the People” is below.
Tells you what you need to know.
This is the woman who ruined a ‘Wrinkle in Time’ movie project by stripping it of its Christian subtext and making it with a broadly defined “spirituality”. To get credit, she did guide a Disney ‘Frog and the Princess’ movie with its black princess character to something good, but I am always stick on the problem — I am supposed to like the celebrity entres for the political figure? Yeah, sure — you look over to Trump and see… Hulk Hogan say even less and even more.
This is the moment that Trump responds favorably to someone in the crowd offering that Kamala Harris is a prostitute. I can’t decide what to do with such a thing — calling politicians prostitutes is a well trodden insult, in this century especially with the caveat “apologies to sex workers”, and we do enter the terrain of — what is the caricature or insult of a prominent public woman that will be viewed as sexist? — and in Kamala Harris in particular we enter a terrain where the person in the audience has in their mind an obnoxious back-story making hay of her relations with Willie Brown — so you can toss it aside immediately anyways.