It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Election Cycle

It’s The Supreme Court, Stupid

January 3, 2020

After starting off with almost as many contenders as there are voters, the Democratic primary preseason is finally winding down.  One month from today we will have the absurdly anticipated Iowa caucuses, followed closely by the New Hampshire primary.  Barring the emergence of the Republican’t party from the nether world, and the short-circuiting of the disastrous Chrump un-presidency, the 2020 election will have consequences beyond anything any of us have ever seen.

New Hampshire is number four.  Iowa is number six.  In what, you might ask.  Those are their respective rankings on the list of the whitest states in America.  And we ain’t talking snowfall here ladies and gentlemen.  These also happen to be the states that have for some bizarre reason become the first two, and therefore typically the most sought-after primary wins for presidential primary candidates.  If you cannot sway the pasty-faced populace of at least one of these Caucasian commonwealths, you might as well change your name to Adlai Stevenson, Ralph Nader or Dennis Kucinich, or perhaps Mud.

The next two states in the primary sweepstakes are Nevada and South Carolina.  Nevada is a place that by all natural rights should have a population of a dozen or so, and South Carolina is basically responsible for wanting to take their slaves and go home, ushering in the Civil War – not the one Donald Chrump is currently fomenting in the event he should be impeached or ushered out next November – the one fought over slavery several years ago; not to mention being home to Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Rep. Joe “You lie” Wilson.

These are the states that make and break presidential hopefuls in America.  In the year 2020.  Some of you might be wondering why.  Some of you might be wondering what the fuck.  Others of you might be hovering over a toilet disposing of your most recent repast out of the less desirable end of the eating/excreting tube.

Yet, this is the way our selection process for the highest office in the land, and up until January 20, 2017 perhaps the most powerful position in the world, persists in playing out.  That same process too often culminates in a bunch of unknown yahoos known as the Electoral College over-riding the will of the people to install the candidate who lost the popular vote as president.  Once, not so long ago, it was determined that even the Electoral College was not good enough, and the yutz who lost the popular vote (and the Electoral College, had all the votes been counted) was simply appointed by the Supreme Court after they stopped the Florida vote count.

Right now, two of the top three candidates for the Democratic nomination and three others are U.S. senators and will soon be required to sit for jury duty when Donald Chrump faces an impeachment trial in the Senate.  This will interfere drastically with their ability to campaign in the first two, up until now critically important primaries. 

If only for this election cycle (and really, it should be permanent) let us all say to hell with #6 Iowa and #4 New Hampshire.  If the top candidates need to focus on the serious business of convicting the most corrupt, idiotic and dangerous president in American history, they should be applauded for ignoring the much less serious primaries…I’m sorry, caucuses, in two states that are so poorly representative of the American electorate.

Just so we are clear, America was daring enough to elect an admitted sexual assaulter, an avowed racist, multiply-bankrupt casino magnate who pretended to fire idiots on television as president, with inferior intellect, because he promised to shake things up.  But the American electorate is horrified at the thought of electing someone who actually knows what they are talking about and has bold ideas about how to achieve numerous policies that large majorities of the voters themselves favor.  Especially if that person is not a very white man.

Many people insist that the only way to rid this nation of Chrump is to vote him out next November.  In addition to the endless and myriad means of stopping fair elections – gerrymandering, voter suppression, disinformation – Chrump is unabashedly building an international coalition of bots and other operatives to retain the White House.  We simply cannot risk beating him at the ballot box, as so many continue to claim we must do, without beating him up in the eyes of the public via a comprehensive and painful impeachment process.

Over a dozen high level Chrump appointees have already testified – despite his blatant attempts to gag everyone – that Chrump was quid pro quoing all over the place in a very bad way – some would say bigly.  The one totally perfect phone call for which we have many witnesses turned out to be a clear and present danger to our national security, our democracy and our very way of life, according to every single person who has testified under oath. 

Can you imagine what Chrump says to Putin in all those completely private, absolutely perfect phone calls and meetings where no adult is present to bear witness?  How much of Russia has been gerrymandered into Mississippi’s Second District?

While we’re on the subject of elections…

Justin Clark, one of President Donald Trump’s top reelection aides told Wisconsin Republican’ts, “Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places.  Let’s start protecting our voters…”  Yep, just another shameless fucker.  They hate democracy so much they just cannot help themselves, as previously reported here and here.

And another thing: Let us hope the voters of Maine can finally get Susan Collins to STFU.

I. Mangrey reporting.  Panic responsibly.