We’re all three of us pooped here at El Rancho Pendejo.
Up too late and too early; chores neglected or mishandled; dinners largely inadequate, poorly timed, and eaten in front of the TV; all so we could hear what the Democrats had to say for themselves.
Two things, basically: First, “We’re not crazy.” And second, “Let’s kick that guy’s ass.”
Most of the speakers said it with more grace, wit, and style, of course. But that was the long and the short of it.
And that’s really all I care about at the moment. It’s a big country in a bigger world, with a metric shit-ton of things that need doing, at home and abroad.
But none of them will get done if we don’t kick that guy’s ass. Wear out a six-pack of kneecaps each if we have to. Leave him and his bootlickers tasting our shoe leather until 2028.
And have a few laughs while we’re doing it.
This guy and his punks and their paymasters can’t stand it when we laugh at them. It makes ’em crazy. Well, OK, crazier.
Maybe that’s why Glen Bateman’s speech to Randall Flagg in Stephen King’s “The Stand” sprang to mind after the DNC finally wrapped up this week.
Once again the dark man was making promises he had no intention of keeping, and Bateman couldn’t help himself — he started laughing at him.
“Stop laughing.”
Glen laughed harder.
“Stop laughing at me!”
“You’re nothing!” Glen said, wiping his streaming eyes and still chuckling. “Oh pardon me … it’s just that we were all so frightened … we made such a business out of you … I’m laughing as much at our own foolishness as at your regrettable lack of substance. …”
It was Bateman’s last laugh. Flagg still had followers eager to do his bidding. But Bateman knew Flagg’s dark magic was on the ebb and said so, loud and clear. Heckled the evil sonofabitch, and not from the safety of the cheap seats, either.
If that ain’t a kick in the ass, I don’t know what is.
Now, as you all know, I’m a reasonable fellow. I’ll be happy to hear what an actual Republican candidate has to say, if what remains of the GOP ever manages to resurrect one. Project 2025? Sheeyit. How about some ideas that should’ve been dead and buried years ago, not a lightly reworked Project 1934 from Nuremberg? Or Project 1478 from Spain?
Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition, f’chrissakes.
Our lot doesn’t have all the answers, Dog knows. It’s a bigger tent, occasionally with an embarrassment of clowns and more tabbies than lions.
But I like to think our clowns are mostly marching forward, honking and h’yuking and tripping over their own oversized shoes. And who doesn’t like kitty-cats? Either you already know the answer to that one or I’m preaching to the wrong choir.
So how about we live in the future? It’s just starting now.
Mad Blog Media 
Now we have to make it until November. The political ads this election are the worst I have ever seen, from both sides. They assume we are ignorant and dish up (sorry for stealing your licks, Patrick) metric shit tons of grade A bullshit. Dumpster’s ads are particularly bad, and Ronnie must be spinning in his grave faster than Eddy’s rollers.
O, yeah, long slog this will be, especially if you watch the ads.
We stream all our TV sans ads and thus dodge the worst of it. Though the news can be plenty damn bad all on its own.
We watch a few youtube channels in the evening before switching to PBS or a movie. Youtube is full of those political ads. Even though you can skip most after a few seconds, but we can’t skip them all. But, I won’t pay $15 a month to watch youtube ad free. It just isn’t worth it.
Install an adblocker on your computer. Firefox has a good one, then stream from there.
I will look into that Ira. I have an ad blocker, Pihole, on the wifi network. It blocks the ads on everything except youtube.
O, YouTube has become a horrible whorehouse. They’ll show you anything at all as long as you don’t want to see it. Worse than a Tenderloin flasher they are.
Seems we did see one Republican. Adam Kinzinger, at the DNC.
There were a few GOPers who spoke, some prominent, some just reg’lar folks. I ride with a group of guys who mostly tilt conservative and they can’t believe that anyone wants to see Jesus Hitler back in the driver’s seat. So there’s hope. …
David French has de facto endorsed Harris even though he has little in common with her politics. I don’t recall whether Jonah Goldberg has endorsed the Donk but definitely has taken a major dump on Orange Hitler. I’ll be surprised if the election is even close, but my crystal ball is in for major service.
Off topic but I felt that Scott McKinley did a really good job here..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350390452/cycling-legend-nathan-dahlberg-dies-mountain-china
I really need to try develop an attitude similar to Nathan to deal with life.
Thanks, Hurben, for passing that along. Peace to Nathan, and props to Scott, who did indeed give his friend a fine sendoff.
Yes, Thank you Hurben. I remember hearing and reading of Nathan. In his aged years he sounds like somebody with a philosophy I know quite well. It’s likely that the passing on was indeed the easy part for him. Unfortunately us old dogs suffer a bit more when we try to operate in the stratosphere and before we know it the angels are carrying us away. May his spirit prevail on a few more unsuspecting of us when we consider jumping into or onto a machine that requires other than our own physical input to go have a latte and a croissant.
Bon Voyages Nathan!
Laughing at the yamster is the right thing to do. See, you are smart!