Go Cubs Go!

It was something of a mystery as to why Nixon didn't, as one of his advisers advised, make of the tapes a bonfire on the White House lawn.  I think most likely he thought, like so many politicians do, that he would never get caught.  Also I think he thought history would record him as a great genius.  And I'm sure he thought he could use them against his people if the need arose.

I wonder why there hasn't been more speculation as to what happens if Dumbo meets an unfortunate accident before the election, and come to think of it, after he won, but before he is sworn in,.  I wonder if we had a record of Pence's google searches if we would find anything,

We had this question before, who is really a republican or democrat.  I suppose the republicans could tighten up their rules as to who is allowed to vote in their primaries.  That would keep folks like Dumbo and some of the more extreme tea partiers out, but then who would they have left?  I guess the big question is whither do the Trumpists drift after he goes down in flames?  Does Dumbo keep it up?  Do they find another leader, but who could replace Dumbo?  I think maybe Pence could ride the wave between the two factions, but who knows?

This whole thing has men across the country thinking back on their locker room experience, and I guess we remember different locker rooms.  Back in my teens, probably the only time when I spent time in actual locker rooms, I heard talk not that different from what Dumbo has spouted, but even then it would be from the mouth of some big mouth asshole, that nobody dared challenge, because we didn't know much about that stuff.  And certainly after 25 I never heard talk like that.

Let's take this particular quote:

• "I'm automatically attracted to beautiful [women]—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

Did you ever hear anybody say anything like that without everybody around them rolling their eyes and thinking what an asshole?


Old Dog seems to think it is not such a big deal, and if it was just those few phrases we have heard so far maybe it isn't (I still think it is), but it comes in context of all the other remarks he has made, like blood coming out of Megan Kelly's Whatever.  And maybe we can shrug it off, and here I think of Old Dog and me and a young man of fifty at the latest seminar, all of us mateless, discussing relationships, but women really hate that crap.  And they have been voting for the last hundred years.

And then there is the landslide effect among Republicans who see the ship sinking and are ready to abandon it in a heartbeat anyway, and Dumbo's quotes give them a chance to do that and seem a little noble at the same time.


I'm sorry that I am taking up so much Beaglesonian time with politics, but that will be all that will be going through my mind until election day, and probably a few days afterwards.  There is one other thing occupying my mind, and I know we almost never speak of sports, but I have to say this morning after coming back from a three run deficit to take the lead in the top of the ninth and holding it in the bottom to take the series and stand one opponent away from the World Serious, Go Cubs Go!