What she said:
I was indeed kidding in that last paragraph yesterday, but I have long believed that the best jokes are the ones that have a grain of truth in them.
Friday, August 5, 2022
Thursday, August 4, 2022
another vote for trump
Au contraire mon frere (all of us effete, elite, liberals speak a little French), I should be delighted that Dixon won. That Trump tiara which looks so chic to the republican electorate does not elicit a similar response among the independents and democrats, and though the dems would hang the mantle of Trump over whoever won that primary, it will hang most tightly on the one wearing the tiara.
Actually thinking that any one of them has a snowball's chance is delusional. Liz Cheney sacrificed her career to fight Trump. Beagles sold out to him for a ineffective pot shot.
Our gov, Jolly Jay, did the same thing to the false republican with the fat cat donor that those Michigan dems did to Meijer, running ads theoretically against the most extreme candidate, the hick, but in effect promoting him among the reps by saying how conservative he is. The ads never declare themselves to be sponsored by republicans so they are not false flags, but they are definitely dirty tricks. But really dirty tricks against reps, isn't that just tit for tat?
Still I don't like it. We should be better than that. They should just take that money and give a big picnic for orphans. It would be such a huge unprecedented thing that the press would give it big coverage, so they wouldn't even have to spend money to let the public know what nice guys they are.
I wouldn't say I was ecstatic about Trump winning the primary, but I have to admit I may have smiled. I was, of course, jesting with that stuff about Beagles being a double agent, and I assume that last paragraph of his post is just a continuation of that jesting, but with Beagles I can't always tell.
It's Not Always About Trump
I understand that Uncle Ken is disappointed by Tudor Dixon's winning of the Republican nomination for governor because she is the one candidate who might have a snowball's chance in hell of beating Queen Gretchen. That's one of the reasons I voted for her myself, not because of Trump's last-minute endorsement. Indeed, you might say that I voted for Dixon in spite of Trump's endorsement, not because of it.
There were no Libertarians on the ballot because this was a primary, you can either vote for Democratic candidates or Republican candidates but not for both, and certainly not for Libertarians who don't even have a primary in Michigan. I didn't know if there were any non-Trumpist Republican candidates in Michigan, but I just found out there was at least one. He was not running for governor, he was running for re-election to Congress, and not in my district. Turned out he was defeated, largely because of a false flag ad put out by Democrats who thought his Trumpist opponent would be easier to beat in November.
I seem to remember that Uncle Ken was ecstatic when Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 because that surely meant Hillary was going to win in November. I speculated that maybe he was sent by somebody for that very reason, but it backfired on them when Trump won. Now I wonder if that isn't why they are keeping him around after all these years. They keep investigating him but not charging him, except for that impeachment thing which they knew was doomed to failure. If Trump was in prison where he belongs, they couldn't use him to cast aspersions on all the other Republican candidates and everybody who votes for them.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
another vote for trump
Your vote for the Trump-endorsed candidate was hardly irrelevant. When future candidates try to decide whether to go all out Trump or not, they will consider what his record on endorsements is, and the triumph of Tudor will be one more example of how it is politically wise to go the Trump way. Your vote was another palm leaf laid before the feet of the orange one.
You have admitted that none of these Trumpists have a chance of beating Gutsy Gretch so what difference does it make who you chose, except that you could have made a choice to vote in a very small way against Trump. Were there no libertarians? You could have written in the name of that Czech guy you used to write about, or yourself, or maybe a non-Trump republican if such a thing exists in Michigan.
I remember how you used to peddle this theory that Trump was some sort of double agent sent by Them to ensure Hilary's victory, well now I have to think that you are some sort of double agent, complaining about Trump but using your vote to advance his interests.
But this is America, you can do whatever you want.
Didn't mean to disparage Michigan reps, here is who the proud reps of Illinois have chosen to run Illinois.
I Decided That Trump's Endorsement is Irrelevant
It bothered me when Trump endorsed Dixon, but not enough to make me change my mind. I thought it possible, even likely, that he waited till the last minute before jumping on the Dixon bandwagon before it started off without him. I just now came across this article that tends to agree with me:
“The last-minute endorsement for Dixon was more about Trump trying to position himself as the kingmaker,” says Michigan-based Republican strategist Dennis Lennox. “He waited and waited until it became obvious that all the third-party money and endorsements from a who’s who in Lansing had pushed her over the top.”
What other choices did I have anyway? Three other Trumpists and one preacher man who thinks he can save Michigan by restoring Judeo-Christian principles to government. Sorry to say, that ship sailed a long time ago. It was way back in the 60s that the Polish enclave of Hamtramck had to cancel their annual Christmas pageant because they couldn't find a virgin and three wise men, or so I have been told. I understand that the Poles abandoned Hamtramck to the Muslims some time ago, and maybe that's one of the reasons why.
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
another vote for Trump
Dixon is the evilest of the five evils. Because she has been endorsed by Trump, the election is sort of a referendum on Trump. If she wins then the craven reps will see that the Trump endorsee has won and that will be an example of how powerful he is in the party and they will be less likely to try to go against him in any way. A vote for Dixon is a vote to keep Trump strong.
And a vote for Trump is a vote for Russia and their invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile here in Illinois the hick has been abandoned by his fatcat backer, Uihlein, interestingly enough an heir of the Schlitz fortune. The fatcat who backed the fake republican has has left the state for Florida, and the other Irvin backers are not bothering to throw their support to the hick, and he is broke and cannot even air commercials, and the dem incumbent, who is his own fatcat, is pounding him on the airwaves.
Last I heard that Michigan commission is fair and square so since the previous redistricting was rigged to favor the reps, they should do less well in the elections, but I don't know anything more of what is going on in those races.
The black majority district thing did indeed backfire. The blacks did get their districts but at the cost of losing their representation in other districts, so that the legislatures in the white districts, having few black people in their district, they had no incentive to pay attention to black districts.
Trump Marches On
Thanks to Uncle Ken for clarifying that De Vos issue. I have read vague references to it, but I didn't know what they were talking about. The election is tomorrow, and I've got to vote for somebody, so I think I'll stick with Dixon as the lesser of five evils. I agree that Queen Gretchen will probably get re-elected, but she won't do it with my vote.
The political survival of Trump never ceases to amaze me. I thought he would be history after the January 6 riot, but he keeps hanging on like an albatross around the neck of the Republican Party. I suppose it's because he tells people what they want to hear, but there must be somebody else out there who can do that without being Trump. That's what I would like to see, the Trump agenda without the Trump.
Meanwhile back at the mid-terms, it will be interesting to see what effect the latest redistricting will have on the balance of power in the Michigan legislature. Queen Gretchen wouldn't be that hard to take if the Republicans maintained their majority in both houses. Remember, our legislature no longer does its own redistricting, it's done by a citizen's committee that is supposed to be fair and impartial. Last I heard, they were being sued by a couple of Black districts that were split up, leaving neither of them with a Black majority. Like Uncle Ken said, gerrymandering can backfire on you, and it appears that de-gerrymandering can too.
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