a short election post

then we will return to newlessness

Edit on November 7, 2024: I cannot stress enough that this newsletter does not cover the news. There are maybe two posts that glance on “current events” a year. Don’t subscribe if you want stuff about the news!

A while ago I saw a tweet which I can’t find anymore, but it was making fun of Zachary Levi, a not very famous actor, doing a Trump event. The joke was that he wasn’t very famous and that his appearance wouldn’t sway anybody—I can’t find the tweet anymore (I tried) but the joke was something like “if everybody who saw Shazam votes for Trump now, he’ll pick up twelve votes.” (Since I am on record as believing celebrity endorsements don’t matter, I was silently like, probably not twelve.) When I clicked on the video, though, what I noticed was that the event was in Dearborn, Michigan.

Which was not a town or a state in which it would be good for Trump to pick up any margin of votes. The actual story of this video was that Trump was doing events in Dearborn, not that he had Z-list c…