Super Bowl LV@&q*I#^I% is officially history. The Monday Morning QBs are in their glory and everyone has chosen a favorite Super Bowl commercial. Now it’s time to return to election season that never seems to end. Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your TV, or other streaming device because the commercials for political candidates finally had ceased their repetitions ad nauseum and the candidates either have been elected or have slid back into the muck of the great swamp of obscurity, a new batch of commercials appears, promoting candidates for an election six or seven years down the road, although half of the candidates may have passed away by then.
We’ve been hearing information on the 2024 presidential election for quite a while all ready. For the Democrats, it appears Joe Biden is the man, because it seems no one has or will pop up to challenge him. The Republicans appear to be in more of a quandary with a bunch of potentials vying for the nominee position. Although, hard to believe, right now Donald Trump, a common subject in Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and Ron DeSantis, are on the top of the heap. Trump may fall off the pile if he finally gets indicted for something; anything would be acceptable.
Ron DeSantis seems to be turning Florida into his own little kingdom, by encouraging book-burning and ending studies of black history in schools. Teachers are actually pulling their own books out of classrooms so they won’t get charged with a felony for imparting some true historical facts to their students. DeSantis even has done something as un-American as declaring war on The Mouse. Walt must be spinning in his grave, thinking he should have picked up cheap acreage in the Louisiana bayous, rather than Orlando. But caution, Ron: The Mouse and Disneyworld were around before you and will still be around after you’re long gone.
Closer to home, we have the Chicago mayoral race well under way. The city has adopted a new slogan promoting the city’s image to visitors, which is deemed to be helpful for all the candidates: “Come to Chicago. The shooting is not at you.” This is true. A lot of the gunfire on New Year’s Eve, for example, is into the air. Of course, those bullets most likely have to end up some place back on earth, unless one should accidentally hit a Chinese spy balloon. Hey, it’s just good, drunken fun with a gun.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been getting dragged all over the Internet for her response to Biden’s State of the Union address, based on views from her position in an alternate reality. Her best line and the one most favored for ridicule was the one where she asked, “Do you want normal or do you want crazy?” My favorite cartoon/photo collage created to illustrate the irony in her question shows Sarah looking into the camera and saying that line with the background filled with photos of all the GOP congressional crazies such as Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert, Matt Gaetz, and a dozen or so other loonies. If Sarah Huckabee Sanders wanted her question to be memorable, it is for sure, but not for the reason she intended. Coincidentally, if the sleeves on Sarah’s dress were longer and hanging over her hands, it would have looked like a straight jacket.
I suppose we can be thankful the GOP didn’t pick a relatively normal politician for a rebuttal because there’d no material for comedians.
Just sayin’.