Chris Van Hollen’s being mentioned for Majority Leader.

Dayum. I sort of a little bit know the guy. Our paths have crossed several times because we’re both old Peter Galbraith buddies. He’s courtly, kind, thoughtful. At least that’s what I’ve seen.

‘Scott Colom Flips Forrest County,

Named for Ku Klux Klan Founder

Nathan Bedford Forrest’

All experience is an arch wherethro’ 

Gleams my unraveling world, whose marginal utility fades 

For ever and forever when I move…

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My gray spirit yearns in desire 

To follow money like a sinking star, 

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought…

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This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave billions and billions — 

Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil 

This labour, by swift rapacity, to make hills 

Of cryptocurrency, and thro’ illicit trades,

Subdue them to our private accounts…

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You and I are old; 

Old age hath yet the despot and dishonour.

Death closes all: but something ere the end, 

Some work of ignoble note, may yet be done…

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It may be that blue waves wash us down: 

It may be we shall touch the prison’s bars. 

Yet tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ 

We are not now that evil which in old days 

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; 

One equal temper of psychotic hearts, 

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will 

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Michelle Goldberg, a wonderful writer always worth reading, reviews Elon’s spending habits.

Lawyers from [Harmeet Dhillon’s Civil Rights] office .. carried out some DOJ efforts that critics said were political vendettas, such as an unsuccessful attempt to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.

The inept apparatchik carrying out Trump’s insane orders has resigned, having lost virtually all the insane cases the insane Trump made her file.

After a decade of Trump on the political scene, he is entering his Fat Elvis phase: tired, old, overweight, awful-sounding and embarrassing-looking.

UD’s take on this would, of course, be literary. From a 2024 post:

Trump himself looks … like Humbert Humbert at the conclusion of Lolita: a washed-up roué who has trouble getting it up even for the debauching of a nation.

The new Texas AG has announced that, unlike colossally creepy Ken Paxton, he won’t sue out of state docs for mailing abortion pills to Texas.

The state will “cease using Texas abortion laws as an instrument of persecution and intimidation, harassment and political showboating. All four of those things have happened.” Under colossally creepy Paxton.

Don’t overlook a judge having just ruled against super-icky F. Giro in her fruitless GIMME A BUNCH OF MONEY PLUS MY JOB BACK quest. Harvard dumped her when her research was revealed to be bogus to the max, but since then she’s hit up the courts as she seeks retenuring and all the trimmings.

Harvard (endowment $68 billion) seems able to afford any further litigation from her, so the beat goes on.

All of my posts about her.

Devastating detail here. With the help of moneybag friends who perceive no difference between doctored and undoctored research, Giro will undoubtedly continue her romp through the courts. Subsidizing her is as crazy as giving money to Republican political candidates.

“Well look, you not only have to question the judgment of a man who would take a woman, an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in, in a parking lot of a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera and make that a TV ad in a gubernatorial race,” [Chris Christie] said.

Christie said the “real problem going forward” was Vance standing up for Ramaswamy “100 percent … not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that ad.”

… Leave the phone at a distance, on a shelf
Vivek don’t call that number
All your dreams are tossed and blown
There’s no way that you’ll feel better
So get on home”

…the midterms acted like a cleansing wave, ridding the party of many of its worst representatives, like Ken Paxton in Texas. “Well, we’re at rock bottom,” a Republican pollster said. “But there’s a lot fewer guys around to dig.”’

Senator El-Sayed waves goodbye to his opponent as he boards the Asshole Express to Florida.

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As for Ramaswamy, I hear Wall Street can’t wait to welcome him back.

Elon Musk has a new tee shirt.

Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
Of joy my actions turn on, like a thread
Carrying beads? Shall I be let to sleep
Now this perpetual morning shares my bed?
Can even death dry up
These new delighted lakes….

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https://voetica.com/poem/5811

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