The timing of Jane Mayer's attempt to exonerate Al Franken of sexual harassment charges couldn't be more suspect. This is clearly the opening salvo of an attempt to get Franken back in his Senate seat in 2020.
Governor Mark Dayton appointed then-Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith to fill Franken's seat until a special election, which she won, to fill out his term. But that means that in 2020 she'll have to run for a full term. Smith was a bit of a statehouse insider who was not well known in the state and had never run for office independently. The New York political/media elite may now figure that she would be fairly easy to knock off and reinstall 'their guy' to his rightful position.
I don't think it'll work. For one thing, the carpetbagger issue may prove more important in this election than it was originally, because Smith is a born-and-bred Minnesotan, and the incumbent. Franken was born in New York City. His family moved here when he was a small child but moved back to New York when he was around ten, where he lived until he decided to run for the Senate in Minnesota and established residency here. He's not a Minnesotan, he's a New Yorker, and the fact that his reentry into Minnesota politics is being orchestrated from the pages of The New Yorker is highly suspect.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Monday, July 15, 2019
high-end parasites
This Jeffrey Epstein nonsense brings up a nagging question about our socioeconomic 'system': Why is it so common that disgusting subhumans like this are often among the most richly materially rewarded people in our society? We really need to ask ourselves that question.
For one thing, nobody seems to know just where this guy got his money. That in itself seems a little odd, given that he has so much of it. People like him aren't wealth creators; they're wealth extractors, skimming it off the top of the productive economy much as the Mafia skimmed it off the top of the Las Vegas casinos. We all know about the low-end welfare/petty criminal parasites, but most of those people simply can't help themselves. These high-end parasites know better, though. And so should we.
For one thing, nobody seems to know just where this guy got his money. That in itself seems a little odd, given that he has so much of it. People like him aren't wealth creators; they're wealth extractors, skimming it off the top of the productive economy much as the Mafia skimmed it off the top of the Las Vegas casinos. We all know about the low-end welfare/petty criminal parasites, but most of those people simply can't help themselves. These high-end parasites know better, though. And so should we.
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