Saturday, August 15, 2020

White House Update: 2020 is in the mail


As I fell behind this week, here's a brief post (brief for me, anyway) on the race to 1600 Pennsavainya.

-- Kamala is catching the racism and misogyny slings and arrows from Trump and the Right, as all thought she would.  She's deftly blocking them, as everyone also expected.

-- The efforts the president is expending to scrunge the election by sabotaging the post office are shocking even by the standards he has established.


Conspiracy theories abound.


I've read lots of speculating over the past several weeks about 'what if Trump doesn't leave', if/when he loses the election, as I'm sure you have.  I personally haven't given it any worry time, as I'm of the opinion that there will be some soldiers who will do the ejecting if it becomes necessary, and that they might have to fight their way through some other soldiers loyal to the incumbent, not to mention a few militias, to do so.  All in a day's work for the military.

This is going to be a more salacious development.


"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump's clandestine lovers, I wasn't just a witness to the president's rise -- I was an active and eager participant ..."


Fun.  Here's a few barely-related Tweets from the past week regarding developments that are, shall we say, self-explanatory.


I'll have a lot to say about the DNC convention next week.  Trust me.


-- Libertarian Jo Jorgensen was bitten by a bat in Hattiesburg, MS prior to a rally for inclusion in the presidential debates.  She got inoculated for rabies as a result.  Politico and The Hill also covered the incident.  No word on the condition of the bat.

-- In the only other news I care to mention this week, there were a couple of vice-presidential selection developments in two minor party campaigns.  Via Indy Political Report:

Green Party turned Independent candidate Dario Hunter, who will be on the ballot in Colorado under the banner of the Progressive Party, has announced Penobscot Nation activist Dawn Neptune Adams will replace Darlene Elias as his running mate. No reason for the replacement was given.

Independent Candidate Mark Charles released a statement announcing Sedinam Moyowasifza-Curry was no longer going to be his running mate. Again, no reason was given for the change.


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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

"Kampala"

"Why was the name of Uganda’s biggest city trending on Twitter Tuesday night?"  Because of 'damn you, autocorrect', and not Tommy Chong.


In an evening Tweetstorm of snark and snidery, that was hardly the best.


Maybe Susan Rice was a bit too ... I don't know, swampy?


She'll probably make a fine secretary of state, in the Mike Pompeo tradition.


Anyway ... most of the Donkeys are happy this morning.


Kamala was, after all, the easy choice.  The safe choice.  It seemed as if Biden wanted somebody else, but this piece suggests that it was pretty much hers all along.  If you believe what Obama was tipping, anyway.  (No mention of Klobuchar there, I note.)

Seriously, the KHive brings it, and Trump is somewhat lost for insult words.  'Nasty' and disrespectful' (#3 in this list) aren't gonna play like they did against Hillary four years ago, especially since he donated to Kamala's campaign for CA AG.  Oops.  I'm less sure about "Phony", as that happens to be progressives' primary complaint.  Michael Goodwin at the NY Post is a conservative asshole, but his critique here is mostly spot on (replace "violent radicals leading riots and looting" in the last graf with "police and unidentified federal goons beating up peaceful protestors", for one example).

Let me close this out with two questions I look forward to hearing the answer to:


A White House Update is forthcoming, with more about the other candidates in the presidential race, and less about the duopoly.
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