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Campaign Notes: Hey Nineteen

Buster ponders the party of projection.

There are nineteen days to go until the election. It gives me an excuse to use one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands in the post title. Hey Nineteen has nothing to do politics, elections, or anything holy. It’s an unholy song whose lyrics sound like the Insult Comedian contemplating Alabama Senator Katie Britt who he described as “very attractive” this week.

It turns out that Britt is Trump’s IVF tutor. Their brief conversation has led him to crown himself the Father of IVF. It’s been around for 40+ years and he just had it explained to him by a senator best known for bombing a SOTU response. The Kaiser of Chaos is not even the Godfather of IVF let alone the father. Even he knows he’s bombing with women and that abortion is a weak spot. Hence the erratic messaging. The legacy media continues to underrate the potency of the abortion issue. Schmucks.

The Insult Comedian keeps calling Vice President Harris stupid. He even called her a retard, recently an ugly word that 95% of the population stopped using long ago. It’s pure projection. Donald often brags that having a Phd uncle who taught at MIT is a sign of his very good brain. The Veep is the child of two Phds. Does that make her a stable  genius?

David Duke has jilted Trump in favor of Jill Stein. As the vote against the crook guy, I’m a minor expert on David Duke. He dumped Trump because Duke is a Nazi at heart and Stein has the most anti-Israel platform out there. Duke’s anti-Semitism has trumped his racism, pun intended. He’s always been more of a Nazi than a Klansman.

I haven’t written much about Senate races this year. I still have hopes that the Dems can hold the Senate, but the map is brutal. Colin Allred is running a spirited race against Ted Cruz who is about as popular in Texas as chili with beans. His negatives are sky high, but Cruz has a R after his name on the ballot. Allred did his best to maximize Cruz’s negatives in 2024’s lone Lone Star state debate:

Supply Closet Ted? I dig it. It makes him sound like a craven coward out for himself. It’s called truth in advertising.

Supply Closet Ted is an umbrella carrying appeaser in the Neville Chamberlain tradition. Chamberlain appeased Hitler, Cruz appeased the Kaiser of Chaos. Remember these National Enquirer covers concocted by David Pecker at Trump’s behest:

I would find either of those lies unforgivable, but Cruz keeps his courage in a supply closet on Capitol Hill with a backup on Cancun.

The Veep is closing strong with a message presenting herself as a fit candidate who believes in democracy against an unfit opponent who only believes in himself. She appeared yesterday in Pennsylvania with 100 dissident Republicans who have endorsed her because they’re not fascists. If Trump wins, they may be on his lock them up list.

I have a message for any bedwetters out there:

A word of caution: Don’t chew the Acid Bubblegum. Actually, don’t chew gum, it’s nasty shit.

I may be Mr. Cautiously Optimistic about the Dems chances in this election BUT I know the fight will continue after November 5. Republicans have made it clear that they will not accept the results of a presidential election if Trump loses. Election denialism is a vital part of the Trump cult and one issue he’ll truck no disagreement with. I’m glad Team Harris has lawyered up and hired Mark Elias to handle this legal mishigas.

Neal Katyal has written an excellent piece for the NYT on the upcoming post-election struggle. Here’s how he closes:

“The stark reality is that there are no immediate solutions to a potential election crisis. The personnel to trigger one — in the courts, legislatures and executive branches — are largely in place.

Two votes on Nov. 5 will matter tremendously to sidestepping the chaos. One is the presidential vote. If either candidate wins the Electoral College decisively, any dispute will be rendered academic.

The other is the vote for Congress. A key point here is that it is the new House and Senate, not the existing ones, that will call the shots on Jan. 6. Congress desperately needs principled people who will put democracy over self-interest and party politics.

Americans should vote for candidates who share a commitment to democracy and who will think critically before accepting election innuendo. The next month must be about ensuring continued rule by the people and for the people.”

Any lawyer who furthers Team Trump’s farcical and mendacious arguments should be disbarred. Come on down, Rudy Giuliani.

Finally, a last word doubleheader.

I’m not suggesting this as a theme song for the Harris-Walz campaign even though it’s on point. I’m loathe to offer up another Fleetwood Mac song 32 years after the Clinton-Gore campaign. Besides, it’s not really a rally song. The musical last word goes to Fleetwood Mac:

The countdown last word goes to Harold Lloyd:

2 thoughts on “Campaign Notes: Hey Nineteen”

  1. When Duke was running for Senate in Louisiana, it was a three-way race, a Democrat, Duke, and Ben Bagert (a Republican). Ben took one for the team, dropped out of the race, and told everyone to planning to vote for him to vote for the Democrat so as to avoid an inadvertent Duke win.

    I only bring this up because I actually knew ol’ Ben. He and his family were passengers on a rafting trip where I was one of the guides. This may be my only claim to fame.

    1. Ben was a party switcher, so it wasn’t hard for him. I know his brother Brod fairly well. And I went to law school with Ben’s wife.

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