I'm enjoying the Republicans are weird thing as much as anyone. I've long thought that mockery is the best antidote to Trumpism. As always, I prefer to blaze my own satirical trail, so I'll leave the weird jokes to others. Besides, Jamie O plans to write about that on Friday morning and I don't want to steal his thunder. I may, however, swipe some lightning, put it in a bottle, and see what happens.
I'm a longtime admirer of Vice President Kamala Harris. I've always thought she had the right stuff. I've enjoyed watching the collective freak out by Republicans. Their convention and Trump's Veep pick were an odd exercise in overconfidence. JD Vance claims that the Democratic reset is a sucker punch. Truer words have never been spoken. He's a sucker and he got punched. I took my own shot at him with The JD Vance Pop Quiz.
Many have expressed surprise that Team Trump was unprepared for the move from Biden to his running mate. I was not. The Trump regime was famous for its incompetence and incoherence. The Trump campaign staff may be more professional this time around, but the candidate is not. That's why I call him the Kaiser of Chaos.
Team Trump is rolling out a series of attacks on the Veep, but few have landed thus far. They keep talking about a Willie Horton type ad against Harris. For those of you too young to have lived through the 1988 campaign, here's the questionable ad in question:
That's some scary shit but will the same approach work in 2024? I'm dubious. The GOP has cornered the market on bigotry and I doubt that the handful of swing voters will base their decision on fear mongering. There's something much scarier in store for the country: Project 2025 for one thing. Team Trump is running away from that document like scared rabbits. They thought nobody would notice such a long and tedious document. The title of this song says it all:
I remain mystified by the oddly overconfident tone of the RNC. Trump's electoral record is shitty: losing the popular vote twice and the fakakta electoral college in 2020. The GOP has done poorly in mid-term elections under the Insult Comedian because of bizarre candidates who can win primaries but not general elections. Come on down, Mark Robinson.
Under former President* Pennywise, the GOP has ignored the revealed wisdom of the 1980 Reagan landslide: the more optimistic candidate usually wins. All the doom and gloom of Trump's campaign rhetoric was calculated to depress Democratic turnout paving the way to a Trump victory. They were even bragging about a wipe out. It backfired. Overkill usually does.
The Veep is off to an excellent start but it's a long way until election day. Things can always go wrong, but I believe that the majority of Americans do NOT believe we live in a shit hole country that's ready for a dictator with bad hair and a fear of sharks and windmills.
Repeat after me: Overconfidence is for mugs, weirdos, and freaks.
A quick note about the featured image: Buster Keaton as a projectionist in Sherlock Jr. It's a play on the notion that the GOP is the party of projection. It's a quality they learned from the Insult Comedian. It's one reason why they're oddly overconfident. Overkill will do that to you.
The last word goes to Men At Work with the original version of Overkill:
I hope that wasn't overkill.
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