Cassidy Steele Dale forecasts and contextualizes the present to equip us to make a better, kinder future…
… and one of those ways to explain a hashtag you’ll probably see a lot of this week.
Half a week ago, the Republican National Convention coronated Trump and crowed and smugly behaved as if they had this election and the future of America in the bag.
Yesterday, Biden stepped down from the campaign and cemented his standing in history as an American statesman and saint. If we survive.
He endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. And while — in principle — anyone could challenge Harris to become the Democratic nominee for President no potential Democratic nominee will. Instead, the potentials have been endorsing her as fast as they can. Because they all want to whip Trump’s ass and they know she can do it better than any of them. And the Trump campaign is shitting their pants because they planned to campaign against Biden and only against Biden. They didn’t plan on her.
By the end of today — or even by noon — Vice-President-Former-California-Attorney-General-Will-Kick-Your-Ass Kamala Harris will have her cleats and her game face on.
Which brings me to something you may see a lot of this week: I suspect some Democrats — and anyone anti-Trump — are about to adopt a new political battle cry with the initials LFG. Here’s what it means.
This Friday the third in the Deadpool/Arthurian cycle will hit theaters. Deadpool is the foulest-mouthed most murderous antihero loser in all of Marvel Comics — so he’s had his own movies safely outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He constantly pokes fun at every superhero cliche and he’s good at it. (Extra credit: His twin swords are named “Bea” and “Arthur.” Which should tell you everything you need to know.)
Deadpool has had the dumbest battle cry in the history of everything: when the chips are down — way down — and he has to do something heroic he shouts MAXIMUM EFFORT.
For this next movie he trades up to something-not-at-all-better: LET’S FUCKING GO. Thus LFG. And he recruits a very reluctant Wolverine from The X-Men to join him in a long shot mission to save the world.
If you have to watch a trailer, here you go:
Now.
There’s not much analysis right this moment that matters. And no forecasting. Not really. It is what it is. The only real question right now if you’re a Democrat or a Never Trump Republican is what game face you’re gonna put on between now until November.
Are you going to throw down electoral lightning bolts to prevent America from becoming the world of The Handmaid’s Tale?
Are you going to go full rage-voting National Treasure Samuel L. Jackson?
Or are you going to go full Wolverine?
Or do you have something better?
Whatever you’ve got — choose it and do it today.
Because the polls are almost within reach.
Amen!
BTW, that's "Pulp Fiction", not "National Treasure".
I have one and it’s fitting for trump. “Let’s dance fat boy!”