By Rick Boettger

Tuesday’s SOTU speech mattered zero politically, as does everything else both the ruling party and opposition do after every election.  I repeat, every winning party loses Congress in the two-year election between presidencies.  For the simple reason that the losers hate the winners, and the winners smugly say home and don’t vote.

Nothing either side does matters, good or bad.  All the polls about “affordability,” ICE, Epstein–that’s pretty much all any voter cares about–matter zero at the voting booth, or getting the voter to show up.  They all only give the media something to do, sounding urgent and important.  Really, all they need is a poll question like, “How much do you hate the other guys, scale of 1-10?”  For the losers, easy, “TRUMP+11!”  but for the Reds, it’s hard to hate a faceless group of Resisters, who strike the Reds as bitter, pitiable, uh, losers.  So the poll would come up 10-3, and that’s the only poll that would correctly predict the mid-term, and that poll doesn’t exist.

Historically, the only way to beat this is to get attacked, as in 9/11–not even winning a war, like Kuwait for H.W., will beat the hate.  Clinton got the usual shellacking his first term, and won in 1998 for such a quaint reason, sex with an intern, bizarrely helpful in that it triggered an impeachment, sympathy for over-reach even in that innocent age.  Weird reverse hate, and it won’t happen again.

As for nuclear war threats in Ukraine and Iran, the American electorate in its sacred wisdom cares vastly more about the price of eggs, to the exclusion of such petty concerns.  Trump is tackling those, because he doesn’t give a damn about the voters anymore, but does care for history and the existence of the human race.  

This earns him a recent 5,000-person cheer of “Fuck Trump!” led by CA Rep. Katie Porter, holding up such a sign.  And frankly, with his open scorn of not only Blue but his own voters, he’s getting exactly what he says to us all.

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