I watched the 4 episode Netflix series “Death by Lightning”, about President James Garfield.  I somewhat wonder on how an earlier depiction of things in an earlier decade would get depicted -with the scene of Charles Guiteau at Oneida, the people at the commune taking his complaints that it is all menial labor and fucking that his complaint is the women at the free love commune won’t do him — this falls in line with current take of mass shootings and violence as stemming broadly from incel entitlement.

Another thought, kind of where I am always stuck and sometimes end up with no consideration or assessment of “well written” and “badly written” because it is the mark of both  — the dialogue foreshadowing through an expression referencing Garfield’s death.  It strikes me that if a central event of a historical fiction was the famous person eating a hamburger at lunch, you would be finding allusions to that in their life and propping those up, and inventing a few for this mundane occurrence made a central point.

John Fetterman speaks. Once upon a time, an object of ridicule and horror on the right, part of a holy trio alongside Biden and Feinstein for “the Democrats’ cognitive decline problem” — two old people and a stroke victim. How did this guy who stutters incoherently and could barely campaign on his way through rehabilitation have won that election? Never mind the piece of work representing the Republicans. Now he is the Republicans’ favorite Democrat. Israel bashing Democrats turned him. Gaza lovers, I guess. A cautionary tale for the Bernie Sanders pac that pumped him up — Damned it, the Democrats should have gone with Conor Lamb. He walks into Fox News, comes out swinging for Trump’s building of a ballroom, calls everyone opposing this victims of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. I mean — security — a guy got into the far peripheral a ways way from the President with a gun — that should settle it: ballroom!

Today you can do a side by side of Majority Report youtube clips for Fetterman’s Senate campaign and how threatening this bold progressiveness is to the Democratic Establishment next to clips of Graham Platner and his Senate bid on how threatening his bold progressiveness is to the Democratic Establishment. Indeed, Schumer did whiff on the recruitment — an 80 year old workhorse who… um… is 80 and had to get dragged in anyway. Promises a single term, which worked just fine for the presidential campaign of Biden (though not a re-election) but for the Senate you are eyeing how they may accumulate power. Today the Republican incumbent does as she always does — it is Jon Tester’s re-election campaigns over in Montana or Maine to what they have done for the state and whatever is going on in Washington is their business. Likely this time up Collins meets her time as up — though I guess we see if Platner’s skull tattoo reads as a Nazi tattoo and how everyone registers old reddit posts — warnings loom in the “one of us — loud blowhead men” category.

For Platner’s part, we get a little galaxy brained, half welcome in its conspiratorial grip. He has in his stump speech some issues I normally associate as getting pulled in on the conspiratorial right and a seeing of Communism everywhere. The “they” don’t want you owning anything. Under this umbrella, there are quite a things in tech and patent law that should be redecided and pulled off from the “well, that’s capitalism!”, the terms of service agreement on e-books and how Apple has its contracts, dove-tails neatly into vague Marjorie Taylor Greene weather horrors. Despite protestations from a respectable politico — post Trump ex-Republican — on a cash-less society as “conspiracy theory”, I do stare down at the casual acceptance of a laundromat that chucked its coin operation for its machines — a headache running amok when we move further and further on this model. This is to suggest a kind of Platner if he has a move from political hackdom in the right places could do some good here — exvept, hopefully he is a political hack in the right places. It probably hardly matters — in as much as I can single the broad point of his distinct stumping into individual lines of legislative moves — and it gets past the money that swaps out 40 and 50 Senators for passing — the Supreme Court will back the Power.

Watching Thomas Massie’s concession speech, a room full of his fiery supporters, and I am quickly transported to what I am actually seeing — this was a Ron Paul speech of old. And maybe we do still sneak in Rand Paul — endosrser and supporter of the guy after all. Along with amusingly enough the endorsement of Kyle Rittenhouse who… Bastard jackass even if I take the unpopular defence attorney position on and there get kicked out of any respectable table regarding.

In the end, the guy won every age demographic except the over 65s. And I have no great sense one way or the other if the circumstance of this election were different, the swamp of campaign and social engineering from the parties required would have targeted the campaign younger — gotten the ad spots on the tik and toks, bought off something in the Fuentes and Rogan and Pooles instead of Fox News and Newsmax and Wheel of Fortune. Thomas Massie was, as so happens, more Doge supportive than anyone, conceptually. Also moved forward past Trump on two campaign promises in releasing the Epstein Files opposing the war in Iran and foreign intervention — his two big crosses against Trump and major animating reasons on how the guy was elected.

What do I make of this Ron Paul energy, for a man who is set to go to his off the grid homestead and drink a lot of raw milk? Who the heck beat him and off what?

YouTube is dumping ads for the latest from Ben Shapiro. I don’t know. In earlier periods when I watched some conservative content and some things that maybe code culturally conservative, I would understand — but now I sense a desperate lurch at that time he has lost 80 percent of his audience, I seek a full expose on the nature of propped up conservative youtube content with Shapiro as test case. The sponsored video I am not clicking on is on “Brainrot Defeated”, a celebration of the defeat of Massie. And if nothing else, Shapiro is a fan of military bombings, so it passes. But I have watched the ads of Massie’s opponent and that of the next congressman from that Kentucky district. I have heard him speak after Trump and Vance. He ran a full speed run against The View. And have a scintillating ad with Massie getting ready to have a three-way with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex and Ilhan Omar — to be sure, a metaphor visually depicted and I guess working well for Kentucky Fox News viewers.