I can’t decide if it is ahistorical or just a fill in the blank projection of what is at hand that the big take away from Michelle Obama’s speech, and the sentence about this being not the time to go wasting your vote on somebody who hasn’t a chance, contextualized as it is inferred to be coming off an allusion to the black decreased turn-out of 2016 as this not being the time to sit the election put…

… Wait. Is she referring to Kanye West?

Why Kanye West and not the party stalwarts for the 3rd and 4th place getters of 2016 — Jo Jorgensen (who recently made her biggest nrws blip of the 2020 campaign by getting bitten by a bat) and Howie Hawkins,

Where Kanye West doesn’t have their ballot access–

I can’t quite tell.

Mac Smiff — hip hop promoter and political activist — said in the local alt weekly, calling out the mayor “There are 5 thousand people out here telling you the same thing, and you’re asking what we want. Justice and getting rid of the police — what is it that you’re confused about?”

Probably the intertwining of the two — that there can be no justice without a police force. Predictably enough, as the crime rate increases, the mayor is now seeking to pull back in the once called gang task force renamed gun task force. Predictably enough, we see this deemed as a “band aid”, which may be but leaves out the fact that band aids are important.

It is puzzling how the right wing cause may the propaganda mill makes stuff up when there is plenty of gist for the mill, except that the narrative is built up and additions are made from truth and not truth.

Seeing a gathering leave into the night, it struck me how the personal is not political as the political is social. THe social outing of the season is this. I noticed this with the activities organized by political party oriented groups — what, does the Oregon Bus Product do a “pub prawl” to… Er… End the War?

The equivalent of picking Tim Kaine, or the equivalent of picking Teddy Roosevelt, or somewhere in between?
SImpatico, or apt to never lose that “Bush called Reaganomics “voo doo economics” as a key reference point.
Powerful as Cheney, the attack dog of Agnew, or just a Throttle-bottom where if it power ahe needed she would have been better off holding off for a Justice Department appointment?
Predisposed to not much liking any of them — her main goal in life, as is that of all of them, is to be in the history books as a major historical president, and if you can’t get there settle on minor president that occupies the center of public life for a while before getting to be argued as being under-rated like Van Buren.

The supermarket impulse buying contraption, Joe Biden magazine, leaves something to be desired. Though, the various Barack Obama magazines over the years — the Nobel Prize commemeration perhaps the highlight of filling fluff — may suggest a coming four, eight years of reshuffling the same collection of words and photos. The article exploring his relationship with the Kennedys. The ones with him and the Obamas.

There is no Trump magazine sitting there — maybe a by product of the partisan make-up. Instead it is John Wayne… As counter programming. Interesting as somewhere in Orange Country his name has been stripped off something or other — “cancelled”, in the manner PDX has dropped “Kindergarden Cop” from the flicks in the park docket because … Insanity.

Whimsically, flippantly, the President tweets the concept of… Um… Delaying the election. Plausible deniability exists: it is just one of those tweets, which is one of those things the President’s supporters say they don’t take seriously or bother paying attention.

An idea is… Maybe we can do a retconned post hoc delay of election 2016.

Hey. New York delayed the primary election of September 11, 2001, so there is precedent. If for only an act of horror to suddenly appear on November 3, whatever that may be.

The New York Times article “what do Portland Protesters Want and etc” is answered, at least in parts, by this random interviewing, and — Figure out and analyze the selective nature of that sample but … That one is not terribly impressive.

Spiritual transcendence, apparently. And a fist shake at the enemy. The Real Enemy. You know, Ted Wheeler.

Ted Wheeler who learns anew that phrase about how the “Center Cannot Hold”.

Baseball is back, being played in stadiums with cardboard cut-outs. Basketball has resumed with a shortened end of season with 22 of 30 teams running up and down a court in Orlando, without cardboard cut-outs in the seats so… No ambiance. And there is currently a football team called “Football Team”. (Dan Snyder can probably gain a fanbase of irony minded hipsters by keeping the name.)

Headline the first: Report: Joe Biden May End Up Giving the Only Major Democratic Convention Speech from Milwaukee

Next headline: John Kasich Expected to Speak at Democratic Convention for Joe Biden: Report

I am puzzled by the word “Report” appearing at opposite ends of the headlines. Kind of like the computer code language — the first report should be in a ” < " and the last report should be in a " / > “. (Both come from USA Today, by way of yahoo.)
And maybe John Kasich does not count as “major”?