Like many on this side of the great divide, I am not looking forward to the Republican primary, especially the war between Trump and DeSantis. There is a chance that it fizzles before it gets going, as DeSantis is way back in the polls. Ron DeSantis is more of a concept at this point. He is an alternative to Trump, but not the rejection of Trump, so people are free to imagine him as they please.
His first big hurdle will be his lack of personality. Those people who like him because he is Trumpism without Trump will be surprised to learn that the concept made flesh looks and sounds a lot like Michael Dukakis. It is entirely possible that once those voters get a look at him on the stump, they lose interest. This is what happened to Scott Walker in the 2016 primary. His first impression was his last impression.
Given the longshot odds for any Republican in the current year, I wonder if the action does not end up on the other side of the race. Biden has been stuck at 40% in the approval polls for a long time. Most Democrat primary voters, according to polls, would prefer another option. His declining health is one part, but he was never genuinely popular in his own party. He is the result of shenanigans.
At this point, Robert Kennedy is at 15% in the polls. Without anyone knowing anything about him, that is a good starting spot. There is a substantial antiwar vote on the Democrat side that has to be unhappy with what they are seeing. All of those Bernie Bros are still there in the shadows. The regime is trying to close off the Kennedy run before it gets momentum, but that may not be possible.
Joe Biden falling over on stage the other day brought back memories of Jimmy Carter facing another Kennedy in the 1980 primary. Carter won mostly because people still remembered that Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopechne by leaving her to drown in the backseat of his Oldsmobile. For his part, Carter was one mishap after another throughout the process, constantly reminding people that he was a loser.
We may be seeing this with Biden. It was not just that he toppled over on the stage, but that he could not get up without help. He looked like the old people they use in those commercials for LifeCall. We will see more of these incidents, as Biden is a frail old man struggling to get through each day. It is possible that this summer, Robert Kennedy catches fire as a way for Democratic voters to voice their unrest.
You also have to wonder if Gavin Newsome is not having second thoughts. He was sniffing around last year looking for support to run a primary challenge. Maybe the oligarchs who actually run things will take a look at him as a way to drain support from Kennedy, but also as an alternative to Biden. The next month or two could turn out to be the more interesting story to watch in this election.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Discussing The Primary
- The Longshots
- The Establishmentarians
- Ron DeSantis
- Donald Trump
- Let Us Speak Of This No More
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As a yesterday man I know classical conservatism is dead and never coming back. It’s been dead a long time now. Yet I still feel like that kid whose parents are headed for certain divorce when the parents fight in front of him. Fights like the on between DeSantis and Trump go nowhere and nothing good comes of them.
America and Canada are so fucked. Pardon my fwench…
There’s a scene in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the Gang is arguing over ridiculous things. Charlie, the illiterate janitor and whipping boy of the Gang, screams “SHUT UP! OH MY GOD, I DON’T CARE!”
That’s how I feel about this upcoming “election” that will decide nothing. DeSantis is strictly entering the race because he and his people think Trump, probably correctly, will get indicted several times and be disqualified, leaving the field wide open for him.
I agree with Z that there is no path to victory for the GOP. Just looking at the electoral map and the states “fortified for democracy” with mail-in ballots and other officially-sanctioned shenanigans, an impossible confluence of factors would have to happen for the GOP nominee to even have a chance.
I tried to talk to my parents (both boomers in their 70s) about sitting out the election. I showed them the maps that illustrate how the GOP won the White House for the last time in 2016 and now, thanks to “fortification for democracy” and demographics, we are a one-party state and voting only gives the ruling junta legitimacy, even if you vote against its candidate.
My father, an Army veteran, told me “I fought and your grandfather fought for the right to vote” and nothing will stop me from voting. He also told me there is always hope.
I told him denying reality doesn’t make it go away. He huffed and left the room. I just think so many of my father’s generation can’t break their conditioning to see the country they once loved is gone and is ruled by demonic psychopaths whose barbaric religion is based on the sacraments of infanticide and butt sex and hatred of white, western civilization.
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“Biden has been stuck at 40% in the approval polls for a long time.”
I just can’t digest this sentence. Either the numbers are rigged like most everything else in this crooked and corrupt country. Or else the mode of governance is flawed when 40% of the population still supports this senile, corrupt, and compromised stooge.
As for falling on stage, I remember footage of a year or so back when he stumbled and fell three times on his way up the stairs to Air Force One.
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It’s really not all that surprising. Democrats will vote in a a corpse with (D) next to their name. This literally happened in a state seat in Pennsylvania. Then you have Fetterman who had a stroke and can’t speak or understand English, and he gets elected into the “distinguished” Senate. Meanwhile, Republicans jump away in fear at the mere whiff of impropriety. The reddest of red states, Alabama, voted in a democrat senator because of allegations that Roy Moore may have chased after teenage girls at the mall in his early thirties. The only evidence of this claim was based on hearsay and was probably a manufactured story of the left, but that didn’t matter to republicans. Beautiful losers.
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The purpose of the upcoming election cycle is to keep normie distracted and clinging to the false hope that voting matters. We have degraded as a people to the point where grousing and farting are now the primary skill set of almost all affluent Americans, and the only compensation for this horrendous self-image is to pat yourself on the back as you leave the voting booth.
But the bloom is coming off the rose. Dan Bongino is now saying fuck and shit routinely on his podcasts, which is a leading indicator that his vote-harder mantra is starting to crack. And some believe that when the Ds steal the 2024 election, this will be the final straw that breaks the camels back with regard to the charade of voting. I doubt that, but the models are pretty clear that a deep depression is very likely following this election as the rest of the world moves to a new reserve currency basket backed by gold. The Fed’s days of offshoring inflation are about to end.
Does it really matter if Trump spanks DeSantis in a debate or Biden shits his pants on stage and it rolls out his pant leg (better yet, green diarrhea)? Is this nonsense really all that important when your 401k evaporates due to hyperinflation and a dollar bill is more cost effective as toilet paper?
How far we have fallen.
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McGinnis and Cumia have separate podcast streaming services and do a show together on Wednesdays. They are well over the right-wing edge these days. Sometimes they are saying things very similar to Z, albeit funnier (no offense).
De Santis can easily (and safely) attack Trump on his record of failure and broken promises.
Partial List:
1. did not build the wall
2. did not put anyone in jail
3. did not take control of the GOP’
4. did not make a single decent staff pick
5. did not pardon the J6 people when he had the chance
6. did not recognize that Fauci was a power hungry fraud
7. did not recognize lock downs were catastrophic
8. did not recognize that covid was being hyped for political purposes
9. did not realize that vaxx was rushed and dangerous
just keep asking the voters “where does it look like Trump has learned anything, and will govern differently if given a second chance?” no nee3d to attack Trump on personality or presentation, just go after his record.