Saw this yesterday:
That’s assuming he isn’t dead already.
Here’s the question referred to in the title, however:
No, I’m not. Are any of us?
Category: Elections
Popcorn Time
In last week’s Roundup, I posted this during the Republican convention:
And the reaction has not been long in coming (courtesy of indefatigable Reader Mike L.):
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Vice President at large John Palmer announced he is mounting a challenge to current President Sean O’Brien after he gave a speech at the Republican National Convention.
Palmer laid out several reasons why O’Brien has shown he is not fit for his leadership position, including fear of retaliation among members and failing to support members in contracts.
“This [Teamsters] administration rode into power on a wave of excitement generated by our members’ desires and frustration. We were promised a more engaged leadership and a more militant union. What we have received so far is a PR blast furnace of misinformation and betrayal.”
I guess we’ll just leave it to the teamsters to fight it all out.
Ordinarily, I’d encourage outsiders (i.e. Republicans) to stay away from this little imbroglio, but I have just one thing to say to the teamsters, and it’s only a few words:
Under the Biden administration, we’ve been seeing more and more non-union truck drivers, longshoremen and low-income workers coming into the country illegally and taking your jobs. Trump is committed to bringing back American jobs to Americans. Ask yourselves which (governmental) Administration will serve your interests better.
But hey… far be it for me to try to tell people how to vote.
Millions And Millions
There’s been a lot of harrumphing about Elon Musk setting up a “Super PAC” (political action committee) to channel tons of moolah into the Trump reelection campaign (here’s one take).
Of course, the Communists aren’t going to take this lying down, oh no. Expect to see a lot of “Musk is evil” opinions emanating from the Left, and “a few people influencing and endangering our democraceh” wailing. (Standard Left procedure: if you can’t overcome the ideas, demonize the characters.)
Of course, when the Left does the PAC thing, it’s all well and good. Zuckerberg spending millions to enable (possible fraudulent) voting drives? No biggie. Soros funding campaigns of other Commies in key state positions? Why not?
But let a few conservative rich guys do the same for their candidate? Oh no, that has to be stopped.
Fuck ’em, and the hypocritical horse they rode in on.
How Conveeenient
Well now this is an interesting development:
President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the White House said as he was on the campaign trail out West.
Guess all those WuFlu inoculations he’s been taking didn’t work out too well, huh?
However, this news should be taken along with this little admission:
Biden actually said out loud what could make him drop out of the presidential race.
In a BET interview that was taped on Tuesday but wasn’t released until today, Biden said, “If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem…” (he kinda trailed off), that would be enough to get him to quit.
…in other words, putting his reelection campaign in the hands of the doctors… and then very conveniently catching an illness that would render him unable to stay in the race.
FJBiden isn’t smart enough to have gamed this scenario, but I can think of at least a dozen senior Democrats who could have. (Not Hillary; she’s not smart enough, and anyway, had she been in charge FJB would have slipped on a bar of soap or accidentally hanged himself in his White House bedroom long before now.)
Which doesn’t answer the question as to how, exactly, the Communists would replace him? He could end his campaign and still remain President while his replacement tried to stave off the inevitable shambles in November.
Worst of all, an “illness” (me, skeptical? not at all) would turn FJB into some kind of victim and a sympathetic figure — whereas in fact this venal old bastard deserves anything but sympathy.
Quote Of The Day
Taki, on the British voting system:
“One-third of the vote gave Labour two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. And it gets better—worse, that is. The Reform party got 4.1 million votes and five seats in Parliament. The Liberal Democrats received 3.6 million votes and got seventy seats in Parliament. If that’s democracy, I’m Kim Kardashian.”
I’m not a fan of “pure” democracy — popular vote decides parliamentary apportionment — and of course our U.S. electoral system isn’t that either, being a representative republic.
The problem with Taki’s idea of democracy is that it’s based (unsurprisingly) on the Classical Greek system. Except that in that system, over three-quarters of the voting-age population were excluded from voting before the first ballots were cast.
But I have to say that the Brit system does seem to be a few too many steps in the other direction.
Vote Of Confidence (Part Deux)
The ascension of the Commies to the BritGov in Britishland caused people to start looking for places to get away from Commissar Starmer’s policies (as reported here). especially after when literally only a few hours into power, he unveiled all sorts of wickedness.
Over the Channel, then, there came this:
France’s leftwing parties have begun jockeying to lead the country’s next government after their unexpected parliamentary election victory thwarted Marine Le Pen’s efforts to bring the far right to power. Amid warnings from a former European Central Bank chief that their spending plans risked catastrophe, members of the hastily cobbled-together leftist Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) jousted with each other over who to back for prime minister. The NFP won the most seats in the National Assembly after the second-round vote on Sunday, but is far short of a majority, although it ended ahead of both President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance and Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (NR).
The results marked a success for centrist and leftist parties’ bid to form a common “front républicain” by pulling out of races to avoid splitting the anti-RN vote. It was also a stinging setback for Le Pen. But the leftist bloc — which ranges from the centre-left Socialists to Greens, communists and the far-left La France Insoumise, its biggest constituent party — will struggle to form a government.
“Within the week, we need to be in a position to present a candidate for prime minister and force the president to take this situation into account,” said Olivier Faure, leader of the Socialists, who made gains on Sunday. He also hit out at Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the LFI’s firebrand leftist leader, as “certainly the most divisive” figure within the NFP bloc and as lacking the consensus profile needed for the post of prime minister.
And to the surprise of absolutely nobody:
Prominent French Jews Urge Fellow Jews To Leave Following Left Dominating Elections
…because the Left in Europe (and especially in France) are virulently pro-Muslim and ant-Semitic (as are all French Muslims, almost by definition).
But even more telling is this:
Wealthy and Productive French Citizens Are Eyeing Escapes to Switzerland, Italy
…not all of whom are Jews, of course, but a good number must be.
Popcorn anyone?
Might as well sit and watch the bonfires Over There until the Socialists steal our own next election (again).