Thunderdome Is Upon Us!

 From The Transom:

That’s before we get to any of the technological issues, like this horrible looking password-exposing botch by the office of Colorado’s Secretary of State, who probably should’ve spent more time focused on security than on getting a total loss at the Supreme Court trying to get Trump off the ballot (she cried about it on MSNBC after). Or the bizarre attempt, rebutted by that same Court, to block Virginia from culling its voter rolls of those who had already personally admitted they aren’t citizens. And of course, if it isn’t Pennsylvania, we could be following all those weird X accounts focused on Maricopa County. The whole thing looks like everyone’s already collecting their threads for if and when things go sideways.

And what are we talking about in the closing moments? Oh, all the things we expected way back when we started: Why Donald Trump is in a garbage truck and why half the American electorate won’t give “grace” to President Biden for calling them “garbage”, all because America’s most prominent insult comic behaved like one to open a Trump rally, telling a joke which the most important interviewer of the cycle, a former host of Fear Factor, advised him against. We’re talking about the betrayal of Jeff Bezos, and all the other media figures who decided not to their duty and endorse Kamala Harris with a full-throated defense of her dubious and utterly unestablished ability to lead. And if you’re Tim Walz, you’re talking about the importance of having free access to porn, as a very normal vice presidential candidate does.

Give thanks for this at least: As silly as this election season has been, as dangerous and chaotic, it does as all elections do (excepting Stacey Abrams and Kari Lake) eventually end. Let’s hope and pray for America, unsteady as she is at times, to handle this as well as possible. And please, can we figure out who the next president is by this time next week? I need a vacation. (Read more.)