“We’re here to preserve democracy, not practice it.” – Crimson Tide
The Times Square New Year’s Eve Committee asked Hillary to join the committee. Turns out that sometimes dropping the ball at the last minute is a resume builder!
We are currently in the “crazy season.” As years of elections go by, people on every side of the political question have become better at influence and persuasion. Why? The prize is huge. Political power provides billions of dollars, if not trillions, for favored industries. In the 2020’s – it also means immunity from prosecution for supporters of the winners.
Like Hunter Biden, the stakes are high.
Political campaigns, unlike the NBA®, learn over time. What worked last election? What didn’t work? What does the focus group say?
After the primaries, the campaign isn’t focused on getting the votes of die-hard supporters. All seven of the people in the United States who are “really excited” to vote for JoePedo will vote for JoePedo. Who is JoePedo?
JoePedo was an early slogan of the Left that sorta backfired on them. They were going for Joe as a torpedo, not as, well, a Pedo. It’s important to understand how people might make fun of your name.
Thankfully, in 2020, ISIS is WASWAS.
About 99% of Biden voters are only voting for Biden because he’s Not Trump. They will continue to vote for Biden as long as he doesn’t turn into Trump. Biden could kill and eat live kittens on during the debate, naked, while taking billions of dollars in checks from Satan for “services rendered”, and Never Trumpers would still vote for him. Heck, let’s be really honest: they don’t even require a pulse. Given Biden’s mental, umm, “difficulties” it’s obvious that even dementia isn’t a disqualifier.
Trump voters are (mostly) voting for Trump because he’s Trump – a finger in the eye of the establishment. Trump voters are unhappy with a country that they see is no longer a country. In the view of Leftists, the United States is nothing more than an economic entity, one which every person on the globe has a right to move to. Trump voters reject that.
Never-Trumpers are gonna vote Biden, and Trump doesn’t care about them. Trump voters are gonna vote Trump. Biden doesn’t care about them.
Neither campaign is attempting to get the votes of the diehard supporters of the other candidate. Instead, this last campaign stretch is only to convince the people who follow politics so little that they haven’t figured out who they’re voting for. But right now? Both sides are pulling out all of the stops.
I can hear the campaign staffer defending his meme: “At least it’s better than Turboanalisis.”
JoePedo will tell you that he’s running for the Senate if his handlers aren’t able to shut him up in time. But the staffers in the know managed to get Trump’s tax records to the New York Times®. The fact that this is a felony, well, who cares, right? If Biden wins, a felony is just a wink and a nod. But the taxes seem to be a poor weapon: there’s nothing of interest, outside of the fact that Trump has way better tax advisors than I do.
But Team Biden isn’t done. They have at least three “gotcha” attacks planned for Trump in the next 20 days. And those attacks will escalate. They’re saving their best attacks for last.
But Trump will fight back. Trump has an arsenal of information on the JoePedo. He’s going to unleash it, bit by bit, like a Chinese water torture. And he’ll Tweet® and laugh the whole time.
My prediction that we hadn’t yet seen the craziest part of 2020 is proving to be stunningly accurate. Honestly, it was really an easy prediction – the only prediction that is easier is that the Sun will rise tomorrow, or that Ruth Bader Ginsburg won’t.
What do you call a Supreme Court Justice that was so cheap she would eat the scraps on other people’s plates at the diner? Booth Raider Ginsburg.
The goal of these next twenty days is manipulation.
Now, when The Mrs. was just The Miss and we first started dating, one particular date we had was one we called the Forever Date. It started on a Friday night, when we went to play mini-golf. Mini-golf is a great date idea. Everyone sucks at mini-golf, and seeing how a potential spouse deals with being awful is a great insight on their personality. Sadly the courses are packed now, since the economy is so bad that CEOs are now forced to play miniature golf.
But after mini-golf? Dinner. Then we walked down and got an expensive coffee at a hippy coffee bar. Then we went back to my place and watched Babylon 5. The next day, we had a bunch of other things on our schedule – a renaissance fair, a play, out to another dinner, and a movie. In all, we had spent 24 hours together in two days.
In that time, we had done a lot of things. The sheer number of things that we did made that 24 hours seem like weeks – it compressed and amplified our relationship. It didn’t hurt that most of the activities, outside of the play and the movie, involved a lot of conversation.
In a weird way, this Forever Date was manipulative. Unintentionally so – but when you put a compatible unmarried man and woman together?
- And put them through activity after activity?
- Fun things, unique things, unusual things?
- That involve conversation?
After learning about how couples interact as I got older, the only answer is if you put people into the circumstances that The Miss and I were in? Those people are going to become close. And if even remotely compatible? Married.
Jesus turned water into wine, most men drink to make a six look like a nine.
That same time compression is exactly what the manipulators want from voters right now. They want to hit the voter with crisis after crisis until the voter’s mind is available for persuasion. Like the Three Stooges, the candidates want Moe-mentum.
The persuasion we’re seeing now is aimed squarely at the undecided voters. It’s ironic that the people who care the least and know the least about politics decide the election every four years. It’s like having the Senator without thumbs winning every election, but that’s not surprising since he’s unopposed.
Remember, Kamala placed lower than all of the above candidates. It’s okay, she’s used to being on the bottom.
So, the next twenty days will be filled with more information than in any election in the history of the United States. It worked really well when there was a last minute announcement that George W. Bush had been arrested for Driving Under the Influence. That cost him a lot of votes.
When John McCain was told by the news media that the problem was all in his head, he took the news media seriously. Those videos of Sarah Palin painting seals and birds with oil? Yeah, those hurt.
Okay, the fact that McCain’s personality had all the warmth of a Soviet Gulag and all the compassion of an African tribal war is what really cost him the election. Sarah Palin? I could have been Michael Palin and they still would have lost the election.
Michael is still a funnier Palin than Sarah.
But, like I said, campaigns are a learning organization, and they have learned that October is the best time to spring a surprise. So the result is that every four years, October will get progressively crazier until each political party hires individual mimes to stalk and convince undecided voters. There are dangers to hiring mimes: one of my relatives became a mime – I haven’t heard from him since.
Here in 2020, however, knowing what they’re doing is enough. It’s certain that voters are fine in convincing themselves, but when it comes to propaganda? They resist. The only solution is to confuse them with so much information that they become susceptible to changing their mind. And thinking that they changed it themselves.
This particular election will be the most expensive in history. Yet, the election will likely come down to relative handfuls of voters in a few key states. California? Not an issue. But Pennsylvania? Wisconsin?
But you’re not likely the target. And here’s the key – if all of the nonsense you’ll hear in the next few days annoys you? All of the radio ads? The campaign mailers?
Ignore it.
My kids voted for pizza for dinner the other night. They got tacos. We don’t live in a swing state.
The real key to life has nothing to do with the daily news cycle. The real key to life has to do with keeping your values in sight.
And that’s good news. If you want to ignore the political nonsense going on right now, you can.
If, like me, you want to enjoy the nonsense with a bag of hot popcorn?
You can do that, too. It may be the crazy season, but it doesn’t have to drive you crazy.
If you feel yourself getting crazy from this political season, don’t worry. If you get lost, you can always take the psychopath.
