About Last Week...
The Times They Are a Changin..
And that’s why this is an hour or so late…
For some reason, the issue of changing clocks has become a bit of a thing over the past few years.
Not to say it shouldn’t be – going from standard to daylight time and back again is a goofy remnant of, um, World War I, or maybe farming, or, well, it seems unclear.
As Kelly Johnston wrote three years ago , just fix it, one way or t’other.
What about this idea, though? Fall back this year but by only a half hour and then LEAVE THE DAMN THING ALONE.
Not a perfect solution, but it could address – at least by 50% - some of the issues brought forward on both sides of the debate regarding kids waiting for buses, etc.
But there are two things to remember about the time change that are important to people who drink – first, spring forward means starting an hour earlier and since falling back happens at 2 a.m. that typically means an extra hour at the bar (if last call is at 2) that night.
Considering the amount of alcohol that slooms through the hallways of power (and the fact that computer programs would have to fixed – if I were a tech consultant I would LOVE the idea of having to switch every machine over to the new idea; baby Y2K!) – one can therefore see why DST/EST/ETC, especially for Arizonans, has never quite moved off of the complaint dime.
Speaking of the complaint dime, we come to Kamala…as so many have before (very crude, but her nickname really was ‘heels up Harris’ when she worked at the Oakland DA’s office, so…)
By the end of the summer, she will decide if she will run for governor of California in 2026.
If she runs, she will win the primary. Name recognition alone will see to that in the state’s “jungle primary” system - every candidate no matter the party is lumped together in one vote and the top two, again, no matter the party, go on to the general election in November.
One caveat to that – she ran through a billion dollars losing to Donald Trump and her campaign – like every other one she has run – was notoriously incompetent, internally nasty, and incredibly financially indulgent. If she can convince people to give her $7.4 zillion dollars before the primary she will win; if the California donor class has had a enough of her (will Silicon Valley still be writing those checks while it is are trying to make nice with Orange Man Bad?) then the campaign is a non-starter and she can go teach and the 428 other Democrats who want to be governor can move up a slot.
By the way, if Kamala does not run her endorsement will be as sought by the other Democrats as much as mine would be.
But if she gets through the primary, things become a bit tougher for Harris.
Say she is running against a centrist Democrat (not many of those, but former Republican/Independent/whatever Rick Caruso comes to mind) - she will lose.
In her concession speech, she won’t be as nasty as Dick Nixon when he said the press wouldn’t have him to kick around anymore, but she will surely be drunker and say something just as odd but not nearly as memorable.
“The,,gulp,,thing is that the world doesn’t understandddd the importance of a person blackishto help guide the world, to keep the raisings wheel on the bus always going forward to space.”
And -unlike Nixon – it will truly be the end of her political career – run for gov and lose and that’s it…wait and try again for president in 2028 and…well, that’s J.D Vance’s dream.
To be blunt – it’s seemingly up to the politically slithery Caruso – if he runs for mayor of LA he wins in a landslide no matter who runs, if Kamala runs for governor he does the same, so it will be his choice to make.
Whichever office he runs for it will be as a “moderate Democrat who can get things done and doesn’t really care about the culture war stuff…”
He will run as the reincarnation of Pat Brown, Jerry’s dad who, along with Ronald Reagan, made California into the dream it became for so long.
Amazingly, there are also Republicans who can beat Harris in 2026. Media guy Steve Hilton is one, though the accent may throw people off, and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, amongst others.
No matter who faces her in the general election Harris will be a very weak candidate – the D next to her name matters, but she got lower percentages of the presidential vote than Biden or Hilary and her first run for Attorney General was (she would not have won except for one gaffe by her opponent) was not great.
She is, as one may say, politically gettable.
In other words, if you happen to have an extra $11.14 around and ActBlue hasn’t already been shut down as a money laundering organization, please give it to Kamala.
Speaking of giving it to Kamala, we have the issue of whether or not Joe Biden was actually president. Yes, he got elected-ish; yes, he was inaugurated, yes, he had the title, yes Dr. Jill ran as roughshod over everyone else, and all of that.
But it seems he rarely physically signed anything he said he, um, signed.
So, is any of it real?
Yes, his fake signature will hold up in court even though it shouldn’t, largely because of the impossibility of fixing the problem.
But that’s the general stuff – if I were a person directly damaged…hint hint… - by a specific government rule imposed by Biden I would be calling my lawyer right about, um, now.
Speaking on a larger topic, about now…from my friend El Gato Malo:
