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"Hobson's choice - a choice between what is available, or nothing at all . .. "
I don't know about you, but I was almost fascinated by the Oz/Fetterman Pennsylvania senate seat debate last night. I couldn't tear myself away, except to spend half the hour watch a streaming episode of Breaking Bad (season 4, episode 1)
This, of course, is a defining moment in American history. Fetterman feels that Pennsylvania should tell the rest of the nation to legalize abortion, regardless about how voters in those states actually feel. Oz has been cagier – he only promises to support the will of the people. Maybe . . . in certain circumstances to be clarified later . . .
In case Pennsylvania politics is as much a joke to you as it is to me, and you didn't watch the debate, I've excerpted and condensed the key moments for you.
Fetterman: “You own 10 mansions, including one in Turkey”
Oz: “You lived in your mom's basement until age 47. Then she kicked you out”
Fetterman: “You're a millionaire”
Oz: “You've been sued 67 times for unpaid taxes”
Fetterman: “You want to overpopulate the world by outlawing abortion”
Oz: “You want to reduce human population by emptying the prisons and unleashing violent killers”
Fetteman: “You look ugly. Is that a Halloween mask?”
Oz: “I like all your prison tats, actually. Are those authentic, or are you a poser?
And so on, and so forth. I'd suggest this debate was deplorable, but I'm fairly confident that 150 years ago candidates debated on vital topics such as “indian lover or not?” “the right to distill whiskey in your own basement without a revenooer showing up” and “Too many Jews and Italians?”
Safe to say, Pennsylvania voters have a crappy choice, and neither of these bozos is going to be mistaken for a founding father, or be considered future presidential material.
But wait – we said the same thing about Trump, Obama, Nixon, LBJ . ..didn't we?
Be afraid. Be very afraid . ..
