SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL EDITION.

Heard this one at the taco place.

Friday ‘Round-the-Horn come on a Saturday this week, as the Pogo peeps used to say. Well, we’re all busy and deserve a smidge of slack.

Out of the five regular Roy Edroso Breaks It Down editions this past week – yes, I’m there Monday through Friday, like Eyewitness News or Good Morning America, the hardest working man in Substack business – I’m releasing two to gen pop.

First is my latest Elon Musk at The Office sketch. In this case he’s working on a counter-attack to Kamala Harris’ Medicare Long-Term Care Benefit proposal. Yeah, I know Democrats don’t put over everything they promise, usually because Republicans block them (though it’s notable that the Obama-era LTC proposal, the CLASS Act, was withdrawn by the Obama administration – though it was a Republican who gave it the poison pill. The Dems should have fought harder for it then. Blame neo-liberalism! It’s usually a good guess). Still, I like putting LTC back on the table and daring the GOP to block it and think it's a winner. Musk’s solution runs true to his repulsive nature. 

The second is my home-stretch piece on why, despite the threats, a Harris victory is at least probable. It’s an optimistic read but not an unreasonable one, based on past electoral results, human nature, and Trump’s own behavior. I know it may not look so good at the moment but, it has been noted elsewhere, both sides have good reasons to underestimate the Democrats’ hope of victory. It doesn’t address the certainty of post-election MAGA mayhem – with Vance’s continuing refusal to accept the 2020 election results and Tubby’s demand for military hardware (allegedly for “security,” obviously for purposes of insurrection) the latest chilling harbingers – but if that’s only an issue if we win. Dare to dream!