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G and G

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So, I read today that we lost that fat tub of lard, Chris Christie.  He finally dropped out.  And probably the only reason he dropped out was to give Nikki Haley a better shot at making it close in New Hampshire.  Well, if there’s a candidate I dislike more than Chris Christie it’s Nikki Haley.  In fact, I despise Haley more than Christie by whole orders of magnitude.  Christie is just an annoying gadfly.  He’s on an anti-Trump crusade because it’s the only way he could think of to even reach the debate stage.

But Haley is an honest to goodness GOPE RINO.  She believes in endless neocon war, unlimited illegal immigration, woke evil like transgender pediatric surgery and anything else that progressive Republicans tell her she should believe in.  Listening to her explain why we need to be involved in multiple wars makes my skin crawl.

Currently the plan is for Haley to either win or come close in New Hampshire by means of unaffiliated voters switching their party affiliation to Republican and voting for her.  Then when the South Carolina primary rolls around the hope is that she will have generated enough excitement from New Hampshire to win.  And you never know.  Stranger things have happened.

So, if she manages to win one or both of those states, she hopes to stay in the race all the way to the convention.  Well, I tend to doubt she can make much of a showing.  But what she’s really hoping is to be the last man standing if Trump gets disqualified by the Republican National Committee and then be appointed the nominee.  Basically, she is JEB II.  No, I take that back, she is Mitt Romney 2.0.  One thing I am sure of.  If Haley is on the ballot, she won’t be getting my vote.  I’ll either stay home or vote for Biden as a protest vote.  I despise her even more than Biden and you know how I feel about him.

So here we have the Republican Party doing everything they can to eliminate the candidate that has been polling over 60% for months.  It’s demonstrably clear that they have no interest in adopting any of the clear policy preferences of the great majority of the Republican voters.  All they want is to force the generic GOPE candidate on their voters and if they can’t do that they’d prefer to lose.

I understand that in the short term the Republican Party is the vehicle we are forced to vote for to provide the lesser of two evils.  But a time has to come soon when a successor party must begin to form around populist candidates who won’t owe allegiance to the donors and lobbyists.

It would be an enormous thrill to have a party where everything it stood for was anathema to the Bushes, the Obamas and the Clintons.  Where Nikki Haley, Mike Pence or Chris Christie would be booed off the stage if they dared show their faces.  If I could name it maybe I’d call it the Normal People’s Party.  Or maybe we could call it the God and Guns Party.  Since these are all the things that Barack Obama hated about America.

But in the meantime, just look and listen to Nikki Haley and know exactly what the Republican Party is all about.

There Are Limits

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So, after spending the last few days eating fried foods and being pummeled by my descendants in Monopoly and other blood sports, I am finally resurfacing to catch my breath, look around at the state of the world, such as it is, and make a few rude comments.

I notice that the “news” consists of various Republican candidates for president speaking out in outrage about, well, everything.  And all of it is pretty predictable.  The only one I found amusing was Chris Christie.  Currently standing at a whopping 2.7% in the Real Clear Politics average, Christie will tell anyone who’ll listen, which tends to be MSNBC or CNN, that Trump is frightened to death of him.

Now I could imagine that there are things that Donald Trump is frightened by.  Being railroaded by a DC jury in one of the kangaroo courts he’s being tried in could be one of them.  Seeing another election stolen from him by the crooks in Philadelphia and Atlanta is probably another.  But the only thing about Chris Christie that inspires fear is being stuck in an elevator with him and plummeting to your death because of weight capacity issues.  In what sense is Chris Christie considered a Republican?  At best, he’s a liberal Democrat.  Maybe fiscally he’s somewhat moderate, somewhat, but in no way a conservative.  And didn’t Trump pummel Christie along with the rest of the seven dwarfs back in 2016?

Then there’s the RNC threatening to keep Donald Trump out of the debates if he won’t take the pledge to support the winner of the Republican presidential primary.  I mean, who are they kidding?  The various polls have Trump with somewhere between fifty and sixty percent of the vote right now.  The only way Trump loses the primary is if the RNC rigs the rules to prevent him from appearing on the ballot.  And if they do that, I’ll bet thirty to forty percent of Republican voters stay home on election day.

Nah, they’ll let him in the debates and they’ll let him win the primaries and the nomination.  This thing has a life of its own at this point.  A big chunk of the population knows we’re being scammed and they want this thing to play out to the last drop of poison.  After all, it’s not everyday you get to watch the “shining city on a hill” become a bona fide banana republic with the honest to goodness flim-flam man installed as president and with his bagman in plain view.  And then they’ll jail the political opposition.  Even the Perons in Argentina would have blushed at that agenda.

Yes, I think at this point we’re all along for the ride and we want to see it through.  I guess what we’re expecting is that once the Republicans lose 2024 that the parts of the country where the Democrats are minorities will start taking direct action to make their states as independent of the federal government as possible.

At least that’s what I’m expecting.  I want someone like DeSantis or Abbott or both to go on Tucker Carlson’s show or some other platform and say officially that Republicans have been shut out of Washington DC permanently and it’s time to find another way to prevent us from being treated as serfs by the oligarchs.

Until then we’ll just be waiting around with Republican senators and congressmen and presidential candidates making silly statements about how they’re going to drain the swamp and fire the Deep State and get Washington back to doing the people’s work.

And I’m hopeful that it might happen.  After all, Biden has had three years to wreck this country and he’s done an amazing job of it.  The carnage is staggering.  Even Jimmy Carter didn’t do this thorough a job of crippling the United States.  So, if after all that, the election is declared in favor of that walking corpse then only a moron would still think that the election results reflect reality.

Well, anyway, that’s what reading the news stories today got me thinking about.  We all still have to do our best to keep the wheels from falling off the bus and we all still have to make the doughnuts but at least none of us has to believe that Donald Trump is afraid of Chris Christie.  There are limits.