WCS 40: The Biden performance we'll never unsee

Too, Santa Barbara weed wealth + Will Smith + PNW traffic nightmares

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”Gavin Newsom hovers like an emergency cock at a fuck party.”

That line comes from my November 6 newsletter. Did you notice that unusual presence back in the fall, when Newsom was publicly debating and doing hella TV? Oddly, but well?

People who believed the final two candidates weren’t set in stone were treated like Flat Earthers. Not even a little bit credible or realistic. That is, until Thursday night’s CNN Atlanta debate, when our view crashed the mainstream of what’s been the most wobbly American Presidential election campaign ever.

The leadership glass could get smashed and the Democrats might have grabbed Gavin by the weekend’s close. Last night on MSNBC—an amazing night to be consuming that channel—Newsom cosplayed as President Biden’s surrogate, convincingly. “Unhelpful” and “unnecessary” is how he described the panic that tore through the soul of registered Democrats all over.

No matter what the Governor says, that fitness and viability panic is not to be ignored. Reasonable, articulate freakouts are coming from state and local Democratic candidates who are scared to death that Husk Biden will send a cascade of defeat across America. No way can they be ignored or talked down. What they saw and heard is what they saw and heard.

Shit, I bet Marcon called.

The spectacular liar running for the Republican nomination loses the November election to the so-called Generic Democrat in polling. The worst person in the planet’s history—F+ Covid conduct gives dude more bodies than Hitler—is beating the old man from Scranton though.

After last night, the prospect of a brokered convention in Chicago is in play. All Biden has to do is release his delegates to Newsom or whomever. If my process understanding is correct, that transfer can only be done in the second round of convention voting. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves though.

Now for 10 bits of fodder for West Coast party chatter. Or, virtual water cooler bullshittin’:

10 Oregon hicks with an Idaho dream

For my money, no North American movement better represents US polarization than The Greater Idaho Movement, which has 13 rural Oregon counties scheming to join The Potato State.

The border relocation proposal would bring to these counties’ residents the culture of Idaho, where cannabis and abortion are illegal.
The Oregonian/Idaho Capital Sun

• The following counties have approved Greater Idaho ballot measures since the George Floyd summer: Baker, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Union, Wallowa and Wheeler.

• Counties can’t actually leave or join a state. Too, relocating the border calls for approval from the Idaho and Oregon legislatures, as well as U.S. Congress.
  
  Lil Hit

• Of course there’s a rangy conversation on TikTok about about the definition of micro cheating. How much does “micro cheating” matter, anyway?
  Washington Post

• A new report out of Santa Barbara, details how Mary Jane became second only to strawberries as the county’s top cash crop.
  KTLA

9 The return of Will Smith

Fuck what you like, Will Smith is back.

The fourth Bad Boys film performed heroically for Hollywood in a summer that was off to a super shaky box office start. After “saving the summer,” not only is forgiveness for that Chris Rock… unpleasantness in the chamber and ready to be fired, in some studios execs’s minds, Smith’s next deal might have a couple of free murders attached.

Forty-four percent of Bad Boys’ audience was Black. Black and brown audiences have over-represented in movie theaters this season. What is that about?
The Griot