Quote of the day comes from David Hogg, the 17-year-old Parkland massacre survivor who quickly became a target of the NRA for daring to speak against Moloch, the Gun God. Young Mr. Hogg is learning that most of the adult world is set up to screw the many in service of the few, and this profile makes clearhe’s not having it.
“When your old-ass parent is like, ‘I don’t know how to send an iMessage,’ and you’re just like, ‘Give me the fucking phone and let me handle it.’ Sadly, that’s what we have to do with our government; our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to.”
The national political press is gearing up for next week’s special election in southwestern Pennsylvania, mainly because the local RWNJ who won the Republican primary is a Class A stumblebum and the Democrat is more conservative than Delaware’s most conservative Democrat (mental note: Ask El Som if that would be gun-lovin’ Bruce Ennis). What I found most interesting about Politico’s analyis, though, was this comment attributed to GOP strategists:
Particularly concerning, they say, is the fact that the millions of dollars Republicans have spent — much of it highlighting the GOP tax cuts and attempting to tie Lamb to Pelosi — has failed to move the needle.
This continues a trend I noticed in the 2016 elections — generic negative ads aren’t having the effect they once did, meaning money, at least for heavy negative advertising, isn’t as important as it once was.
Pundits continue to paw the bones of the Texas primaries, and one has determined the big winner was…Kirsten Gillibrand. Wait, what? Yes indeedy, the Democratic Party’s most accurate weathervane backed seven women in various contests, and all either won or advanced to a run-off. Contacts like that are important in a presidential run, he argues; OTOH, Joe Biden. Nobody accumulates more chits, but he’s never done doink in a presidential campaign.
There’s nothing the liberal web loves more than a female politician with idiotic things to say. Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn…all were turned into stars mainly on their ability to drive the left bonkers and, at least in the first two cases, look fabulous while doing it, and Blackburn is about to turn her froth-mouthed conservatism into a Senate seat. The budding star in this field is upstate New York’s Claudia Tenney, who keeps delivering the crazy on the gun front.
The Russia stories are coming too thick and fast for me to keep up with, so I found this Russian follies roundup helpful. Over the past year, such bursts of Russia-related information have preceded big developments in the Mueller probe, but even more so than in most situations, past performance does not guarantee future results.