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To paraphrase the English Prime Minister Harold Wilson ("Who?? wonder our DeSantis drones),
A week is a lifetime in politics.
There are those, when down, fight back. The longer the odds, the more they enjoy the scrum. Harry Truman comes to mind. Rumpole in trial in Rhode Island last year, but that's another story.
And then there are those who have no backbone, no spirit, who are not and never will be, to quote TR "The Man In The Arena"
who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Our prediction is made with just a smidgen of inside knowledge, but also some objective observations, as well as a feeling. We make it, so that when it occurs and we say "we knew it" people do not scoff, although Rumpole does not lie (other than who he is).
There is another shoe to drop with the former president who is again running for the White House. And we do not wish personal illness or tragedy on anyone. But there is most likely a medical- or emotional- issue that will affect him, as he is getting his rather large ass whupped in public, day after day, the subject of more ridicule than admiration, as he cannot shake the well-placed moniker that he is just Weird. And when that shoe drops, it will once again shake this race to its core.
So we shall see if Rumpole is right. Football season is upon us. From now through the end of the year, there will be an NFL game on television every week, and that puts us in a predictive and jolly mood (as well as a betting one).
For those of you who do not work for the State of Florida and are allowed to say it- and for those of you who are not anti-intellectual maga morons and who believe in science, stay cool as we experience the hottest days on record.
Coming Soon: 237 years ago in a sweltering summer heat in Philadelphia, a group of older white men met to form a country. Their predictions for the future were surprisingly prescient.