Age Is The Only Bar To Office Now
If you're old enough you're good enough to take the stage
What a show, what a show that was.
Herschel Walker is brain-damaged. Possibly no more than, say, Senator Tommy Tuberville, who may equally just be really stupid rather than brain-damaged. Walker, though—his brain is mush. No way of knowing whether or how closely his mental health issues are tied to repeatedly ramming his brain at high speed into other men and inanimate objects, but it can’t have helped.
One thing that can be positively said of Walker is that he would never surrender to a head of lettuce.1 Same thing is true of Warnock, evidently, so far.
More than 12,000 Twitter users were watching the feed Thursday as Truss announced her resignation outside the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street in London.
After touting her supposed achievements during her 44 days in office — the shortest-ever tenure for a British PM — Truss acknowledged that she “cannot deliver the mandate” on which she was elected by the Conservative Party.
Moments later, Britain’s national anthem, “God Save the King,” blared as a hand reached across the table and set Truss’s photo on its back, and the caption “This lettuce outlasted Liz Truss” appeared.
A contest between two Black guys could be seen as progress, as could a Walker win erasing “qualified” as a qualification. Maybe it’s harder to vote than it used to be, but at least it’s easier to run.
One can’t argue Walker would be the least-qualified current senator if he wins, although one can argue that, even if you didn’t like what Feinstein was doing, there was a time when she knew what it was.
Corruption is no bar,2 with so much of it having been legalized over the years.
North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Ted Budd used his congressional office to press federal regulators to let financial institutions evade his own state’s prohibitions against predatory lending, despite warnings from local watchdog groups that the move would cost North Carolina borrowers almost a half billion dollars.
The lawmaker’s pressure campaigns coincided with influxes of cash from Wall Street donors, according to an extensive review of federal records by The Lever. Budd also helped those same finance industry donors try to gut rules preventing them from hammering North Carolina small businesses and consumers with debit card fees.
Now, more donor rewards for Budd are on the way: Wall Street cash is flooding into North Carolina to boost his Senate campaign as new polling shows that Budd and his Democratic opponent Cheri Beasley are in a dead heat ahead of the election next month.
Here’s a guy who ran for office on one platform and immediately leaped to a radically different one which gratified a lot of people and companies with a lot of money. Not to say that his previous benefactors were skint, not at all; just these new ones effectively have all the money in the world. They bribed him, because bribery is no bar to office, because bribery isn’t bribery anymore. Although that might not matter, if it was.
I don’t have to guess but if I did have to, I’d guess the couple shots I took at the ketamine clinic with the film camera yesterday won’t turn out very well.
And speaking of Ketamine: the substack platform provides writers with basic statistical information, including the number of times a post is shared by readers. Until yesterday, the number of times a post was shared by readers was zero; now it is one. I’m glad somebody thought the post was worth sharing, but not sure how I feel about this being the only one someone has thought worth sharing.
If Black Francis says it was The Pixies recorded “Doggerel,” one supposes he’s right. It’s good, pretty good. No new Deal, though. Violent Femmes indulging their rock’n’roll fantasy at “Hotel Last Resort,” concluding with a breezy cover of “God Bless America.”
And that, comrades, is the skinny feast we have today. Be well, take care.
The implication that there is an equivalence between Herschel Walker and Nancy Pelosi (now) is bizarre.