51

We note we turn 51 today, thanks everyone. 

We see this blog had a '50 week' last year. Ah, that series of posts is coming back to us. We have no deep insights this year. Here's something interesting we wrote just over a year ago: 'We're turning 50 this week. Sooo....what's the next ten years gonna look like? Who can say? But we can plan. Yes we know what god will do. We're emphasizing World War 1990 this year, but this may be the last year we do that. Don't worry, there will be a World War 1990 novel every year, probably. But we published three nuke novels in the last two years and are quite pleased with ourselves. We'd like to pull off this trick again.' 

As it turned out we've published two World War 1990 novels since that post. Good on us. But we've found no way to 'pull of this trick again'.

We thought Trump started out just fine last night...and then kept talking and talking. Point taken, we guess. Trump went on for 92 minutes, Breitbart says. We don't know how long into Trump's stemwinder we bailed, but bail we did. Does it matter? Probably not [He uptalked that-Ed]. All anyone will remember is the beginning. 

As for Kid Rock (Trump! Trump!), Hulk Hogan, Dana White, et al introducing Trump, well, we ain't the target audience. But we do think it was well done. One word comes to mind. That word is 'tasteful'. 

Monday Metal, Supplemental: Trump entering the arena to Back in Black was Metal AF.

A CBS poll released yesterday has Trump at 52. More polls showing same will follow. A word of caution. These polls are designed to get Joe to step aside and may not be indicative of the state of the race.

Also, in September of 2004 W was ahead by 10 points in some polls. In September of 2008, McCain was up 3 in the RCP poll of polls. Kerry came roaring back to make a close race and Barry Soetoro won handily. In 2016, polls showed Hillary well ahead. We never believed those polls and we were right. In 2020 the RCP poll of polls had Biden up by 7-8 points. The Dems still needed five days to manufacture enough votes to give Joe the win. A lot can and will happen before election day. Exit question: how do Trump and the RNC Stop the Steal?

Well, we're off to the beach. Blogging will continue as normal.