It’s probably insane to mark the time when I was about 20 as “the good ol’ days,” but if you think about it, unless you’re sick, being 20 is generally awesome. I didn’t fornicate with any women, so I can’t talk about that. I’m a massive nerd, who was the type to learn whilst entertaining himself.
I never belly-laughed at Dennis Miller, but I appreciate him. The forerunner of every rightist trying to be funny. A conservative Republican at his/her best knows something you don’t. He’s not depressed; he leaves that for you, liberal. I will say Gutfield is trying too hard; when The Five was first on, it was hilarious. Conservatives aren’t funny when they’re aggrieved; they’re funny when you’re aggrieved.
I don’t have anything to say really about the Pope and Vice President Vance. It wasn’t a smooth move for a general election, when the Catholic vote—both observant and otherwise—will be crucial. You can totally see Marco Rubio getting photographed at Mass, hugging his Bishop, and carrying Rosary beads for the next two years. BTW, the GOP has the advantage. You need to know that’s what I think. Trump hasn’t changed that math. Most of the country not on the coasts thinks the Democrats complain and whine about people they don’t like—our own citizens—rather than offer solutions to actual problems. Their young progressive activists would rather be “right” than win, and that’s why they don’t win. Remember 2020, when it was “obvious” that Biden had no chance? Remember when he said that 99 percent of Democrats hadn’t voted yet? What happened? Joe Biden was crazy before he got sick and old, but he knows normal people. He’s a lot like them. The great Obama himself had to tell his young activists to calm down, because Uncle Joe knows a thing or two.
Biden won Obama a second term. Absolutely. He beat Paul Ryan in a crucial debate in 2012, after the young president seemed tired and listless. We tease Mittens now, but Romney was a formidable Death Star of a candidate in the primary, and pushed a sitting president as far as you can, in a good economy, with no nightmares happening.
I digress. With apologies to my friends who like him more than I do, JD Vance is the kid who lost class president because he said “Well, actually…” too many times. He got here by sticking his finger in the wind at the right time. It’s possible Trump picked him because he’s not big enough as a personality to upstage him. His only real shot in my view is to let his wife and their adorable kids sell him, while he says as little as possible.
And remember: I don’t much care; I’m only grabbing a pitchfork if someone nationalizes abortion rights or euthanasia again.
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