Tuesday’s Gone

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Fleshing out my first thoughts on the most recent election:

In Minnesota, the age-old wisdom prevails: money talks, bullshit walks. Tim Walz is sputtering fool, but he will be governor for the next four years. Unless his A1C level approaches triple digits, it’s highly likely he’ll complete his term and step aside for another sideshow act once he passes his sell-by date, some time around 2027. The DFL has the money and the infrastructure to control this state for the foreseeable future and the GOP has nothing. The DFL proved they could elect any droolbucket with a brand name when they pushed Mark Dayton across the line in 2010 and 2014. A guy with Walz’s skillset and mien wouldn’t get beyond middle management for any respectable company in the state, but he’s won twice. We can see all see it for what it is, but it doesn’t matter in the slightest — for the fourth election running, the DFL showed Team Rocks and Cows their ass. I don’t doubt they’ll find another standard bearer who is (a) absurd and (b) likely to win in 2026.

Keith Ellison is corrupt as the day is long, a 30-year grifter. He let a $250 million fraud run without interruption for the better part of two years. He’s now won statewide office twice. We’re pretty far gone if he can’t be defeated. I don’t doubt Jim Schultz is a competent lawyer, but his affect was of a guy who doesn’t get out of the conference room nearly enough and he was too nice a guy to run against a bully. To take the AG’s office back, the Republicans need a crusading litigator type who can prosecute the prosecutor and expose the rot within. There has to be one of those out there.

On the national level, it has to be said: Donald Trump didn’t help. He was and continues to be horribly wronged by what he’s gone through at the hands of his persecutors. And since civic education in this country is essentially dead in the water, most citizens can’t recognize that Trump is living example of why the Founders were against bills of attainder. Having said that, Trump will never get a sympathetic audience. He’s an obnoxious boor and he can’t get past his own solipsism; if he had even a scintilla of self-awareness, he might understand where he is, but we’ve been watching him for well over 40 years and that’s not in his skill set. Trump fancies himself the indispensable man, the conquering hero, but if he sincerely loves his nation, he’d recognize that martyrdom is a better career move. Not a chance in hell he’ll accept his fate, though.

Aside from the utter domination of Ron DeSantis in Florida, election results did not go well as one might have expected. Even so, the Republicans could still flip the House and the Senate. Based on reports from Arizona and Nevada, the Republicans could get over the line despite the Fetterman debacle in Pennsylvania. It appears likely that Adam Laxalt will win his seat in Nevada and there’s reason to believe Blake Masters may squeak by with Kari Lake becoming the governor in Arizona. Meanwhile, Herschel Walker will be going to a runoff in Georgia and has a good chance of prevailing this time. Even if the Senate ends up 50/50 again, I can imagine Joe Manchin may try to cross the aisle to save his ass in 2024. What will be interesting is whether Mitch McConnell would want him. I am not convinced McConnell enjoys being majority leader; he has more opportunities for self-enrichment in his current position.

Meanwhile, the Donks own the next two years. And they are going to hate that. There is still an urgent need for them to ease out Biden before too long, but they aren’t going to have an easy path to removing him, unless they decide to use Hunter Biden’s depredations as the pretext. Still, they will need a plausible successor. Kamala Harris impresses no one. Gavin Newsom is an empty suit. Pete Buttigieg? I don’t think so. Maybe it will be time for President Fetterman. 

65 thoughts on “Tuesday’s Gone”

  1. Just look at who’s leading the Repubs, jdm. And look what they do to Repubs that don’t toe the line.

    Trump was never a Repub, but the GOP fucked Trump over far more viscously than the Reprobates. They were literally the knife behind the smile. But they all fucked him over for the same reasons. He owed them nothing; they had nothing to threaten him with; he was a danger to the Uniparty and the money men who own it.

    I doubt Trump could win, but I do hope he runs again. Because I enjoy the chaos that ensues, and because I can see this country is far down the slope of decline, with no hope of fixing it, I encourage it.

  2. Rule of thumb— “put up or shut up” is not good for bidness, IYKWIMAITYD. If you think an argument is mockable, mock away. The question of election integrity is certainly germane to this discussion.

  4. Regarding the names of people convicted, agreed that this is few and far between. My take is that by and large, authorities are not terribly interested in getting convictions because it really doesn’t help them advance in their careers. So the mood we need to set is to ask “who’s been caught violating campaign/voting laws?” and then “if they’re not at least indicted, why not?”, as these things seem to be rather open & shut. Yes, not the best for one’s career advancement, but huge in terms of what we see in government today – bikebubba

    The question is whether such a sweeping conspiracy of stuffing ballots across an entire nation can be pulled off without leaving a trace.

    As I said way upthread, the problem with conspiracies is that no one knows how to shut up. Someone always comes forward, if only to become a TicToc star.

    So let’s lower the bar, if convictions are hard to come by and indictments are hard to come by and even a single incident report is impossible to come by, let the conspiracy believers name a single name.

    Even “umbrella man” had a name (since suppressed) attached to him.

    Do I believe the 2020 and 2022 elections were on the up and up?

    Hell no.

    Do I believe there was widespread illegal activity and ballot stuffing?

    Not really, things like that don’t happen without leaving plenty of traces and people opening up about it later.

    Do I believe the Democratic employed every shady trick they could think of?

    Undoubtedly.

    Do I believe the dirtiest trick of all, this cycle, was for the Democrats to spend $53 million on backing nutjobs in the primaries that conspiracy theorists and Trump loyalists went ga-ga for? Thus costing us the red wave.

    Absolutely, it was their most powerful weapon.

  6. Hey, thanks for the loss.

    Even the brits realize this.

    From the Daily Mail How Democrats’ high-risk midterm meddling paid off: Biden’s party took clean-sweep in contests where they spent $50 MILLION boosting election-denying MAGA Republicans because they knew they’d be easier to beat

    Dumping millions to boost far-right election-denying candidates in GOP primaries whom they perceived as easier to beat in general elections seems to have paid off for liberals, even as many criticized the move as anti-democratic.

    This year Democratic groups launched a risky new strategy pouring over $50 million into ads boosting 13 Republican candidates they banked on being able to beat in a general election.

    Individual Democratic candidates forked over tens of millions more. The scheme drew criticism as Democrats could have used the funds to defend a narrow majority, and the potential that the far-right candidates they boosted could actually come to power.

    Who needs to stuff ballots?

    When you run fans of Alex Jones and Toxic Trump, the ballots stuff themselves.

  7. If Toxic Trump had the slightest regard for the party, the people or the nation, he would put off his BIG ANNOUNCEMENT until after the Georgia run-off – but hey, what’s important here?

    Ask yourself, what would DeSantis do?

    Then ask yourself, what will The Donald do?

    Hint: Trump is only always all about himself.

  8. next election we wont bother with ballots
    takes too long to count them
    too much arguing over eligibity

    text 123 for biden/harris
    text 456 for desantis/lake

    the results will be tabulated by computers programmed by former facebook and twitter employees to scrupulously tabulate the votes in a fair and honest fashion

    instant results
    no recounts
    no possibility of tampering
    whats could possibly go wrong

  9. It’s worth noting that “The Donald’s” little stunt in January 2021 pretty much gave Warnock the Senate seat in the first place. Looks like he’s aiming to do that again.

  10. ‘Quality candidates,” according to Emery, include candidates with senile dementia (Biden) and certified brain damage (Fetterman).

  11. Pure speculation on my part, but Biden’s, well, I don’t know how else to describe it but as arrogant stupidity, may convince Manchin to jump ship.

  13. At this point it is clear that attempts to make American democracy stronger with expanded early/absentee voting and ranked choice voting have actually damaged American democracy. Political polling is a mess, vote counting takes days, not hours, early and absentee ballots are not treated consistently, and ballot dumps after election day fuel conspiracy theories, Now record numbers of Americans do not believe that we have free and fair elections.
    Once again our political elites have been shown to be dumber than tree stumps.

  14. and ballot dumps during and after election day fuel conspiracy theories

    There, fixed it for you MP. You are welcome.

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