Who is this guy?

I will take my campaign to Cloquet today. I hope to spend time going door to door later in the week in the southern end of the vast Eighth District. I have enough in my warchest for a couple nights in a cheepo motel. At this point I’m going as much for reconnisance a word that I know confuse with the French word for recognize. In fact I think minus an accent mark that’s what I spelled out. I will have to cancel my chess game with a homebound buddy to make use of the daylight hours.

I’ve made good headway in picking up my office. I made a youtube showing it before decluttering. Its on my youtube channel. My French pen pal watched it while she was getting chemo therapy in a hospital. I told her I had a lot of boring videos of me with headshots on youtube. Many have been put on this blog. I haven’t put the current one up and don’t plan to. It pales before any five minutes of a TicToc assault.

One delight was the unexpected appearance of a Reddit thread of people puzzling over my lawnsign headlined with the Question “Who is this guy?” https://www.reddit.com/r/duluth/s/GtpSD4f7Nn Most of the comments were charitable several were suspicious….meaning: how can anyone trust anyone claiming to be a Republican? I enjoyed it thoroughly and burst out laughing at this comment under my lawnsign that my wife called a “mugshot” long before I heard that repeated over and over: “He’s trying to win a Republican primary, it’s probably a good idea to give the impression that he might be a felon.”

Still makes me chuckle.

As earlier posts indicate I’m breathing a sigh of relief at Kamala Harris likely role as Biden’s successor. I will watch how the GOP tries to interfere with her succession. They are right to question how Biden’s campaign money transfers to her campaign because this is like so many strange twists in American politics every four years not your usual situation. And with so many Trump judges and so many souless Republican legislatures there’s no telling how much damage they will manage to inflict on a candidate younger, smarter, and prettier than the chastity belt party’s rapist, Trump. Veep Vance’s Ohio Attorney General almost succeeded in preventing his state from listing Biden on the ballot of the state that has contributed more Presidents (7) to America than any other state except Virginia’s 8.

I know Willie Brown who’s exploits stealing the California legislature from the Republicans a quarter century ago has suggested she moved up in politics because they had a little chemistry but I don’t think Kamala pushed him into a changing room like a Trump. I enjoyed Willy’s wily politics rather like I enjoyed Muhammed Ali’s taunting of boxing world’s racists when I was in junior high. I can’t say I was impressed with his macho desire to bring his private sex life out in public like a teenager bragging in the locker room. I’m thoroughly open minded about sex as the section of my best selling book “An Older Woman” makes clear. Even my sister was embarrassed by my candor when she began reading it out loud to her daughter in law and she quickly set the book aside.

My Mom set me on the path of being open minded a fact I recalled when I was putting files away yesterday and discovered her old 1947 college year book. I paged through it and came across the face of the young man my Mom had an argument about with her father. I think that argument figures into that old column of mine.

BTW: I’m still collecting donations. Don’t let my candor stop you. It all helps to weaken Trump’s harem mate Pete Stauber.




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