Grover Cleveland Loses His Unique Place in American History
Wow.
Grover Cleveland has lost his unique place in American history.
The Republicans took the Senate, too, and are poised to take the House.
America has spoken. Loudly.
This is what Americans want. It was a decisive victory. Harris lost all seven swing states & even underperformed in Blue strongholds like the great State of New York.
Here in the U.S., we get the government we deserve, and apparently even after a decade during which this narcissistic sociopath showed us exactly who he is, this is what America wants. So we deserve it.
I always wondered how those wacky Germans let Hitler in. And now I know!
Otherwise, I am treating today like a normal Wednesday. La, la, la!!
On the plus side, we did get Josh Riley elected to the House.
And my boy Andy Kim-the one politician I contributed $$$ to this election cycle-snagged a Senate seat in New Jersey.
Andy Kim is best known as the only Congressional Representative to help clean up the Capitol following the events of January 6th (a narrative about to be rewritten.)
He is also-like Ichabod-a Deep Springs alum.
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The two big issues were inflation & immigration.
This election was a referendum on egg prices: People don’t like ‘em high.
But the thing is inflation is a lagging indicator-meaning that the price hikes people experienced in the last four years were reflections of deficit spending during the four years previous as well as the anti-inflationary interest hikes the Federal Reserve was forced to make under Biden.
This election was also a referendum on those nasty immigrants speaking their weird languages that aren’t English, cooking their weird smelly food, sneaking into our country to dilute that Census checkbox “white.” News flash: Rounding up Mexicans isn’t gonna save the empire from the sociopaths who own it.
This election may also have been a referendum on the mainstream media. Seems like the harder the mainstream media went against Trump and for Harris, the better Trump did with voters. Harris went on The View and Saturday Night Live; Trump went on Joe Rogan.
Back when I owned the Little Store, I was continually bemused by the number of prospective customers wearing Harley Davidson swag. The messaging behind the Harley Davison brand is exceptionalism: You are unique. Sometimes, as many as 15 Harley Davison swag-wearing customers would crowd into the Little Store, and guess what? They all looked identical!
Trump voters are Harley Davison swag wearers, each convinced of his/her own exceptionalism. I don’t think very many of them own motorcycles.
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Anyway, it is what it is. Team D outraised Team R something like 2-1 in $$$$, had all manner of institutional advantages, and still lost. To a narcissistic sociopath.
In our dipshit two-party system, where people are perpetually pissed off at the status quo, elections seesaw & the party that’s out of power has the advantage. Neither party is prepared to challenge the status quo-it’s wayyyy too profitable, so the U.S. is doomed to be lobbed back & forth every four years between one set of corporate apologists and another.
The only way out of this would be functional third parties. But I don’t see that happening.
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Meanwhile…
Ukraine? Prepare to rejoice in your glorious destiny as the first republic in Vlad Putin’s exciting remake of the USSR!
Lebanon? Prepare to be bombed back to the Stone Age ‘cause as everybody knows, Trump is Israel’s BFF!