. . .
K “Better the crook we know than the crazy man we don’t?”
J “You sure?”
. . .
K “Better the crazy crook we know than the crooked crazy man we don’t?”
J “You sure?”
K “Better the war-savoring, crazy crook we know than the xenophobic, crooked, crazy man we don’t?”
J “You sure?”
K “Better the war-savoring and Wall Street-favoring, crazy crook we know than the xenophobic, bigoted, crooked, crazy man we don’t?”
J “You sure?”
K “Better the lying, war-savoring and Wall Street-favoring, crazy crook we know than the lying, xenophobic, bigoted, crooked, crazy man we don’t?”
J “You sure?”
. . .
J “We are now stuck with two presumptuous Presidential nominees and zero hope.”
K “Clinton is part of the problem; the Donald does not even understand the problem. Full stop.”
J “I’m sure that we have a problem.”
. . .
K “The conservatives resolve these conundrums by resorting to the aphorism: ‘Better the devil we know than the devil we don’t.’”
J “I sure don’t know who is the devil we know and who is the devil we don’t?”
K “In the final analysis, it all comes down to the Supreme Court.”
. . .
K “The solstice is the sunniest day of the year up here. Defaulting to the lesser of the two diabolical devils isn’t the most promising ray of sunshine.”
J “It starts getting darker every day after 22:34 UTC this afternoon.”
K “There are still some long days in our future.”
. . .
[See the e-commentary at “The First Look At The ‘Second Political Party’ (January 3, 2011).”]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“And how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get . . . a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?” Hunter S. Thompson
Better the crook we know than the crazy man we don’t?
The other election this week in Britain on the “Brexit” will be revealing.
Cleveland was hot yesterday and may be hot this July.