The Democat ads write themselves
With the admission of Rudy Giuliani this week that he made false statements alleging fraud in the 2020 presidential election, it makes me sincerely curious if former President Trump's most ardent supporters are truly incapable of seeing what's coming.
Leave everything else aside - including passions, loyalty, appreciation - and look at this pragmatically. Should Trump be the nominee in 2024, Democrats need say nothing to defend the fecal festival that the Biden administration has been. They will simply buy massive amounts of ad time in state they presume to be in play, and run clips of key Trump officials, recorded on tape, admitting that they knew Trump lost the election, that they told Trump he lost the election, but that they went along with the "stolen election" narrative to play the president's supporters as saps and raise money.
Are there some Trump supporters who will refuse to believe they were conned? Yes, of course. Maybe even the majority of them. But there will be plenty who see these ads and feel this way:
That's not to mention any independent voters who were turned off by Trump enough to vote for an obviously mentally-impaired Joe Biden in 2020, are not going to see this and suddenly join the MAGA ranks.
For those who truly want to end the Biden nightmare, electability is the biggest issue to consider in the primary. I don't know which candidate Republicans have who is the most electable, but it seems to be defying common sense to pretend that there isn't one who obviously isn't.
First they came for Ron, Senator
I have been leaning ever-so-slightly towards Senator Tim Scott in my presidential preference, but I was a bit disappointed by this:
To be clear, I obviously agree with the sentiment that "there is no silver lining in slavery." And while I do appreciate Scott not using the reporters' question as a chance to trash Governor DeSantis, I truly wish he would have rejected the question's false premise.
In responding to questions about the Florida history curriculum, Governor DeSantis stated that any benefit to former slaves occurred, "in spite of slavery, not because of" it.
To be fair to Senator Scott, he might not actually be following the DeSantis drama that closely. He is running his own presidential campaign, after all. But Republicans have to know that the media that is unfairly framing your opponent isn't trying to help you, they're trying to destroy them. And once they've accomplished that, they're going to do the exact same thing to you.
Bud making cuts
The one reason I have always been somewhat skittish about boycotts, even though I am a big believer in being as responsible a steward of your resources as you can, is because time and again it seems that successful boycotts - ones that effectively undermine a company's bottom line for poor corporate decisions - almost never end up hurting those corporate decision makers. Invariably, it is the single mom working the register or the mentally handicapped greeter that gets the ax for stupidity they played no part in facilitating.
So imagine my surprise to see the recent announcement from Anheuser-Busch that they were eliminating hundreds of corporate level jobs (rather than line workers and delivery truck drivers) following the jaw-dropping backlash against the company's recent foray into transvestite promotion.
On the one hand, I am certainly thankful that lower-level employees who need the paycheck and who probably were as disgusted with their company's perversion as the rest of sane society was, are not being dismissed. At the same time, I am quite sure that the executives now out of work had little to do with the fateful choice to turn Bud Light into a gender-bending laughingstock either.
Hopefully they can land on their feet and find good work with a company loyal to its shareholders and employee base rather than shrill activists pushing a cultural revolution.
