...Furiously Cranking Up The Trump-Off Machine.
There are buckets of elation sloshing around the US'ian Democratic Party machine today what with yesterday's Senate majority-generating win by Rafael Warnock down in Georgia.
But here's the thing...
It was close.
And if not for the fact that Mr. Trump's handpicked candidate was pretty much the worst possible challenger to Rev. Warnock?
...I’m glad Warnock won, but look at the numbers: 48.6% of Georgians voted for the blithering idiot, it’s no wonder he had to beg for help. Imagine if the Republicans had nominated a marginally competent candidate, or if the Republican governor of the state had actively tried to promote their party’s candidate — we’d be in trouble. I don’t see much cause to celebrate squeaking by in a race that should have been a cakewalk...
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We talked a wee bit about the sounds the Trump-Off Machine coming to life recently here...However, if you want to really keep up with all of those machinations (and their historical reverberations) by reading words of wit, style and elan, I suggest following Driftglass...
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4 comments:
Very much so Ross, the democrats whilst doing a victory lap should not be indulging in too much public self delusion to the extent they are. The best summing up was from the democrat commentator Van Jones on CNN, words to the effect that because the republicans did some dumb stuff, we shouldn’t get too carried away. A.K.A. believing their own propaganda.
P.S. the jukebox is great.
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And they better keep on thanking their lucky stars for the work of Stacey Abrams...The lunatic fringe really went after her and tried to tie her to Warnock in the last days of the Senate run-off.
Thanks for the up-thumb on the jukebox...A lot of archived stuff so far...Will try to get some new stuff in there.
I sent a bunch of tabs to Bigger E, so hopefully she'll send me a couple of tunes as well.
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Could look at Warnock’s win the other way ‘round, too. In spite of Georgia’s looooong history of voting Republican and the fact that Warnock’s incumbency bid happened only two years after winning a special election (by-election), also in a runoff, in addition to said voter suppression tactics (or would “strategy” be better?), I think the Dems did pretty well, even with a squeaker. Hey, Georgians will have six years to think about it. A lot can happen in that time: it was six years ago that tRump was elected, lets try to forget.
This election was special in a special way: it’s probably the last one which tRump will interfere with in any effective way. One thing stands out: most of the voters interviewed entering or exiting the polling stations who supported Walker are old enough, and the American healthcare system exorbitant (inaccessible) enough to hazard a guess that there’ll be fewer of them next time due to natural attrition.
But that’s the future, so many things can upset the best prognoses—as we’re learning right now with Covid, climate-change, and Putin. If I was a betting man I’d put money on Biden not running in ‘24—prob’ly gonna do what I think JT is doing: sandbag for as long as possible to exhaust some of the enemie’s ammo, then drop out at the last workable moment.
“Vincent” is one of my fave acoustic numbers—and I got to play along on my new (whoa yeah!) Taylor mahogany parlour guitar! I often go on the wagon a month or two before Christmas/Chanukah (drinking and eating, respectively), so this is my present to myself. My step-son gave me a Les Paul Studio last summer, strung it upside down with super slinky strings tuned down to an open C—just so’s to play like Albert King. I other words, I have a lifetime worth of axes now. No more, I promise!
Keep on rockin’!
Point taken re: the shift in Georgia Scotty. And, as I mentioned to Keith, that has a lot to do with the work of Stacey Abrams (who has, I think, been vilified unfairly due to her loss in the Governor's race).
Man. That Taylor sounds sweet. And when you have enough guitars to keep them in various tunings at the ready?...Well, some might say you may just have a wee bit of a problem (but I would most definitely not be one of those people).
Me, I'm trying to learn a little piano which has kept my axe jonseing at bay for the moment.
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