In Georgia, Don't Vote for Football Kanye
Kanye West's Downfall Should Be a Lesson to Georiga Voters Not to Give Mentally Ill Serial Domestic Abuser Herschel Walker a Seat in the Senate
Kanye West has been on a tear recently with anti-Semitic statements causing him to lose endorsement deals and then this culminated in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in which West praised Adolf Hitler. He said, “Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.” Later stating, “They did good things too, we’ve got to stop dissing the Nazis all the time.”
I’d been hopeful, a couple of years ago that West had turned his life around. He’d turned more towards worship music and returned to Christianity. I hoped West might become a twenty-first century Johnny Cash, another talented but troubled musician who found his way through embracing Christian.
But the deterioration of West’s family life and his divorce from Kim Kardashian seem to have led him a darker direction. Apparently, there’s no one in his life who can tell him, ‘Shut up, get away from the microphones, and get yourself into treatment.”
While many conservatives are shaking their head at Kanye and his self-destructive conduct as well as those like Candace Owens who brought him to political prominence (the last thing he needed), they’re trying to drag out every right-leaning voter to support the campaign of Herschel Walker.
Walker and West have a lot of common. Both men are quite talented in their own respective fields, Walker in football, West in music. Yet, both are also troubled and have hurt other people through their bad conducts. Both suffer from mental illness, although Walker seems to have done more to get treatment than West.
It’s become clear that Walker’s dealing with his own issues has been far from complete or honest. Multiple previously unacknowledged children had out of wedlock were acknowledged. Allegations that Warnock paid for the killing of two of his unborn children. The revelations were too much for Walker’s son, Christian, a MAGA influencer who broke his silence in Octobers:
Christian Walker was castigated by the online right and he pushed back, pointing out that his father had promised to “get ahead of his past” and take accountability for it Instead, Walker opted to downplay and have a constant drip of embarrassing allegations:
Herschel Walker has failed to take accountability and to make amends with those he’s wronged and has not really dealt seriously with his own demons based on the dishonest and manipulative campaign he’s run. It should go without saying that he’s not fit
If Georgia voters elect Walker, they’re risking a Kayne-style meltdown, not on the Alex Jones show, but on the floor of the U.S. Senate perhaps even at a sensitive time for either the country or Walker’s party. Imagine Walker losing it in October 2024 or doing a sensitive foreign policy debate.
It’s only the short-sighted nature of partisan politics that can’t see past the current election cycle that leads so many Republicans to try and buttress this candidacy. despite the fact that Democrats will hold the Senate Majority regardless of the outcome. There are slight advantages such as a 50-50 majority meaning evenly divided committed that won’t issue party-line subpoenas. In terms of legislation, it won’t matter one whit because any liberal legislation will die in the new Republican house.
If such transiatory arguments influence Georgia voters to compromise their own self-resposect and vote to elect the football version of Kanye West, they deserve all the embarrassment, they’re going to get from having Walker in the Senate.
Yet, should not be taken as an endorsement of Warnock, a man far too far to the left for the State he represents who’s recently had an ugly divorce (which Walker cluelessly tried to attack Warnock over), outgoing Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan (R-GA) showed the appropriate way to approach this race:
Duncan told CNN in an interview Wednesday that he also did not vote for Warnock, explaining he stood in line to vote for an hour but could not bring himself to pull the lever for either candidate.
"I showed up to vote this morning," Duncan said. "I was one of those folks who got in line and spent about an hour waiting, and it was the most disappointing ballot I’ve ever stared at in my entire life since I started voting."
"I had two candidates that I just couldn’t find anything that made sense for me to put my vote behind, and so I walked out of that ballot box showing up to vote but not voting for either one of them," he added.
Now Duncan had been critical of both men and made it clear that he wasn’t voting for Warnock. Now, he may have been debating with himself over that hour whether he could bring himself to vote for Walker or he may have done the whole thing as a demonstration and a single to other Republicvans who can’t stand either candidate. Either way, Duncan’s got the right idea, though I’d personally skip the hour standing in line if I wasn’t going to vote.
This is an election that calls to mind, the old saying, “If God had wanted us to vote, he would given us candidates.”
Not voting for Walker shows a respect for the franchise, and a refuse to cheapen it by spending your vote on an unfit and unqualified candidate. It also might reduce the interest of shady, unstable, and unqualified celebrities in running political campaigns for a few year. The most principled action to take in Georgia is to not vote.
#NeverTrump will be #NeverRight in Eyes of GOP Hacks
In his latest rant of TruthSocial, President Trump amped ups his feverswamp stolen election rhetoric to a level 15 with this “Truth”
Thr former President of the United States called for the termination of rules, regulations, and Articles, “even those found in the Constitution.”
Writing over at Hot Air, David Strom suggests quite rightly that Trump is trying to see how unhinged he can get and still maintain support. He suggested wrongly that this Tweet was an act of “political suicide.” I’d still take 2:1 odds on him winning the Republican nomination.
Strom lays out the case strongly for why this is wrong:
Basically, he is saying that in order to fix things we have to destroy everything. This is literally how Caesar came to power. Caesar never asserted that the Roman Republic was over; theoretically, all the same safeguards remained in place. Merely suspended during his dictatorship.
Yeah, right. Once you toss it all out, it’s gone. In order to accomplish what Trump is advocating you would need a coup. Nobody in power today–not the Courts, not Congress, and certainly not the Executive Branch–would even think of establishing a legal basis for a new election or installation of Trump as the legitimate winner, even if it were possible.
So the only way to do what Trump is demanding is a coup. Goodbye America.
Yeah, no.
But Strom does not want you to get the wrong idea about him:
I am not a Never Trumper. That struck me as a religious affiliation, not a rational political position. For me, the only question that matters about a politician is will they make the country better? Do the right thing as much as possible? Be better than the other guy?
Well, tossing out the Constitution doesn’t make the country better. It blows it up.
Where to begin? #NeverTrump has never been a “religious affiliation.” Certainly some people have turned it into grift and others have sadly turned into their whole identity. But the basic idea of #NeverTrump is that Trump is and was unfit for public office. Hew was certainly this unfit when 86% of the Republicans in the Senate voted to acquit him which allowed him to be eligible to run for president again after inviting an insurrection against Congress.
Trump has always been this guy. He’s always been someone who didn’t respect the Constitution and who was incapable of viewing the interest of the office he held and the interest of the nation separate from his own personal interests. What Strom is saying is that Trump is exactly who #NeverTrumpers said he was and he wants to be clear he’s not one of those icky #NeverTrumpers.
And this is a good illustration of why those who tiij a stand against Trump are never going to find a home in the GOP. Some might have expectations of something unreasonable like an apology for gaslighting them for six years and acting like they had gone off the deep end. That’s just not going to happen. Political people are too arrogant and full of pride to admit they’ve been as wrong as the GOP has.
A more realistic route was the trajectory of George Will, who was slammed for being anti-Nixon. No one apologized to George Will, life just moved on. With Will advocating for conservative policies, while knowing many on his side were unprincipled and dishonest, but could still be worked with on a case-by-case basis.
The situation with #NeverTrump even though Trump has vindicated all of the core criticisms against him, #NeverTrumpers are still traitors. The modern Republican Party is a mafia and #NeverTrumpers went against the Family and it doesn’t matter how right they were..