Why should I care?

There was an…election event yesterday. That gives it more attention than it deserves. Election spasm? Political twitch? Republican fart?

It was a caucus. I’ve attended a few — these are weird little parties where a select few show up and are given a platform for their often weird ass opinions.

It was in Iowa, a conservative rural state with a bloated status in politics for the sole, and trivial, reason that they schedule their primaries to be first.

It was a solely Republican event. Democrats were put in the shade.

The crook and rapist won.

And yet, all of the newspapers are running this as a front page story, headline news that’s going to be trumpeted endlessly. The Republican also-rans, Haley & DeSantis, were negligible. The media are ready to crown Trump after this trivial and pointless event, that we all knew how was going to turn out. They are happily feeding the illusion that Trump is inevitable without acknowledging that he’s only inevitable among the most contemptible people in the country, MAGA freaks who will ignore his record and his crimes.

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Except in the sense that a corrupt criminal is dominating the Republican party, why should I care what happened in Iowa? The media are just playing the horse race game, again. Who cares that this man could destroy the country and that a significant fraction of the electorate are ignorant assholes? We got us a competition! Let’s see who gets first place! Wheeeee! Time to sell more ads!