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Goodbye RifKaJor

Over the objections of no one in the hall – the 14 million people who voted for someone else did not matter – Kamala Harris was anointed the latest Democratic presidential nominee.

The convention featured a “greatest hits” series of past electeds, two of whom think they are powerful – the Clintons – and two of whom know they are – the Obamas.

Question:  do you think Nancy Pelosi called Barack or Hillary first when she decided Joe Biden had to go?

Anymahoo, Harris got the nomination, gave good speech, and people were furious that stick insect Ann Coulter made fun of Tim Walz’s “neuro-divergent” son but said nothing when a clearly angry Walz himself physically yanked him son across the stage:

And then, after being decided in a public relations office that has never heard of the concept of timing, RifKaJor immediately suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump to be the next president.

It was literally a Friday afternoon when the announcement was made.  That is the time reserved for admitting that, yes, it was you in that picture with the sheep and the girl in the ninja outfit and/or that your government agency has just accidentally so happened to squander $347 million dollars on a fur-bearing trout ranch that just so happened to be owned by your brother and the vice president’s sister-in-law.

In other words, either RifKaJor got bad advice or he really didn’t want people to focus on him dropping out of the race.

And drop out he had to – he had two main supporting groups (outside those who thought his legitimate criticisms of the pandemic response and the “vaccine” and the current government censorship model):  people irked by Trump caving to the Deep State and kicking off the pandemic response  and Democrats who thought Biden would literally drop dead if he was forced to do something as taxing as petting a bunny.

The itchy Dems, now that a seemingly physically – though not terribly different cognitively – healthy Kamala is in the race fled RifKaJor in droves and that left him nowhere to go, save for the political Mordor of supporting Trump.

Exactly what dim shenanigans are taking place regarding policy now is not known.  Trump is still – astonishingly – proud of his Operation Warp Speed.  From a government getting something done/reclaiming the bureaucracy point-of-view, it actually was rather brilliant.  But the result was, shall we say, less than desirable (not a vaccine, dead people, etc.), something RifKaJor has pointed out quite often.

But even if it seems odd, the endorsement helps Trump more than it seems.  It softens the covid debacle for him, shows an ability to work in a non-partisan fashion, and at least partially shuts a lefty green flank Harris was going to use during the campaign.

If RifKaJor moves his last remaining two points of voters to trump, it could be the difference.

Speaking of making a difference, there’s Margaret Hamilton, and, no, not the woman who played the Wicked Witch of the West.

This Margaret Hamilton a computer programmer for the Apollo project;

There is a zillion times more computer power in your refrigerator than in that stack of code.