Low effort comedy

 In blogging and forums you have what they call shitposting.  Something that doesn't take long to write with minimal thought and even less minimal research.  Likewise in humor you have lazy comedy or shit comedy.  Dave Chappelle's Charlie Kirk joke at MSG for example.  As another comedian Ricky Gervais pointed out this failed as even dark humor.  No lead up and no joke or punchline.  Others to be fair have tried to deconstruct the joke trying to find some subtle context or hidden irony to save it.  None so far but you can try.  SNL even canceled him from their upcoming Thanksgiving special. 

What was the guy thinking?  Career basically over;)

Reagan gave out amnesty and it didn't destroy the Republican Party

 Far from it.  Watching a clip from Megyn Kelly's podcast last night.  She has one of the bigger podcasts out there.  Everyone seems to like to quote her.  Sometimes I agree with her sometimes she's in uncharted waters.  She said on her show last night that Trump working out some kind of deal with the Democrats to normalize most of the illegal aliens already here would practically destroy the Republican Party as we know it.  This despite polling consistently showing only about 25% of Americans actually support getting everybody out.

It's known as dealing with reality.  A crew is putting in a new sidewalk for you.  It's costing you a pretty penny but they're doing a damn good job.  The young Latino or Mexican workers might be illegal.  In fact they probably are.  You gonna go up to them midway through and say hey boys ya gotta go?  Maybe send them to Angola.

Throw your coins in the fountain here.  It's all good;)

Trump - closet Democrat?

 Trump signals he's willing to work out a deal with the new Democratic Congress to give amnesty to illegal immigrants who have resided in the United States for over ten years, have committed no crimes and have essential jobs.  He didn't use the word amnesty however but his base what's left of it anyway is horrified at the prospect.  In a "60 Minutes" interview since the wake of the blue tsunami he admits he may have been too tough with immigration enforcement. 

This would explain his apparent calmness since this historic midterm election.  He didn't really care if the Dems took over.  He wasn't serious during the campaigns and focused on things like men's butts.  Whatever it's all good.

Put that in your conspiracy pipe and smoke it.

Right-wing and left-wing echo chambers

 Browsing more lately the main right-wing and left-wing parts of the blogosphere and if everyone agrees with each other or tend to agree with each other on most of the issues of the day I don't know.  Let's say I was given a listen of 50 subjects or topics and told just simply state your opinion as briefly as possible and so I did then I find some commenter out there who agrees exactly with my pov in each of the fifty cases I'd be that's kind of weird.  I have a lot of reasons for my opinions but I can't be right about everything.  I might be missing something.  Maybe I'm half right or mostly right or partially right or just full of shit.  So what do you think of the current blogging scene?

MAGA behind the blue tsunami?

 Theory floating out there backed up by some Frank Luntz polling data.  Trump pissed off voters who voted for him in 2024 and so they flipped to the Democrats.  The Iran War, affordability, health care, housing, gas, groceries, tariffs, Epstein, Israel First etc.  In a nut Trump betrayed MAGA and MAGA got back.  Basically some of the data strongly suggests this was a massive collective vote against Trump and not people suddenly liking abortion more or socialism more or woke more or anything else leftist more.  This was politically existential, taking it to the next level.  MAGA no longer supports Trump.  Only the splinter offshoot Trump cultists do.

That is the theory.  Hmmm......

A sharp rebuke to Trump and Trumpism

 As predicted.  The 2026 midterm election results.  The Ohio Governor's race shouldn't have been that close.  I guess slime sells.  I'll be brief.  Vance is chalking up the devastating GOP midterm losses to the Iran War.  That's a part of it but a big part.  Actually it's everything.  It's All Of The Above and it all has to do with Trump.  I call it the Asshole Effect.

I didn't know if you took a girl out you had to wear a tie

 Election Day ruminations.  Some folks be in a time warp.  I can't remember the last time I saw an actual hippy.  Does Jackson Galaxy count?  This is gonna come out the wrong way but some older folk can't stop talking about WW2.  Not a pacifist but I also think war should not be celebrated.  That said Hegseth should have treated the Eisenhower globe with more respect.   "We had nice songs back in the day" is another one.  The time will come when a future generation won't even know who Lady Gaga was and we"ll be saying the same thing.  There's a strong bias towards the past among many folk who don't seem to know what going forward means.  BTW if the tie comes off does that mean things are gonna get a little frisky?