As soon as I was old enough to know what a President did or what the Congress is, I have loved the whole ecosystem of American retail politics – it’s my fantasy football league.
Many pundits and armchair pundits like myself were sure that Josh Shapiro was going to be the vice presidential pick for the Harris campaign. I’ve never been more thrilled at being wrong – Tim Walz is the real deal.
Like many who don’t live in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro is a name I only know from a casual perspective. He is the obvious choice.
American politics has been a joyless pursuit for a long time now. But Kamala Harris is a potential game-changer, and her candidacy is making it feel like Christmas in July.
ChatGPT’s attempt to write a victory song for Labour in the style of Joni Mitchell was surprisingly good, coherent, and while most of it doesn’t really convey Joni’s style directly, the chorus (at least in my head) is highly reminiscent of the chorus of her song “The Circle Game.”
It gives me no pleasure, as an amateur, to say that I could have predicted the current crisis the Democrats are currently experiencing as it relates to Joe Biden’s age and his debate performance.