Two days from now Americans will decide. Fascism or democracy. Repression or freedom. White nationalism or diversity. Its all very clear to anyone paying attention.
Here in the "heartland" the ads are disgusting. They are endless. They are lies. They are just never ending and when the commercials come on I mute the TV, or watch streaming which are increasingly being inundated with political ads that you cannot fast forward through. Even other states blast thru into your viewing of Dopesick or The Dropout or What we Do in the Shadows. I've seen ads from Bacon and Flood and Vargas and foreign ads like Herschel or Warnock or Fetterman and even Oz. But here in the Midwest, where "real" Americans live (puke) and the GOP gets more worried their vise grip on the Midwest becomes threatened by cities and suburbs cutting in on their territory. You know, the territory where the Republicans have run the place for 100 years, yet have done nothing to help the rural folks and blame the Democrats who have no power and then the rube goes yeah and votes R out of habit.
Kim Reynolds is running for re election as Governor of Iowa. Now Iowa is the home of Chuck Grassley, Terry Branstad, Robert Ray, all Iowa politicians who served at their own discretion. You see Iowa NEVER changes who they vote for if you are GOP. Its like Iowa law saying you cannot change Republican fossils ever. Its maddening. Grassley is a doddering fascist, Branstad was a competent moderate, Ray would be Democrat in todays world. But Kim Reynolds is a different type of Iowan. She's a former drunk who has found Jesus, and thus has gone the whole path to White nationalism. Her ads are anti-gay anti trans and feature all sorts of happy happy white people loving life in 98% white Iowa. They are infuriating. Kim Reynolds simple doesnt care about blacks browns gays trans Asians or anyone else not enamored with butter cows and corn oh and also federal handouts for farmers while decrying "socialism" .
The Kim Reynolds ads are especially racist, homophobic and transphobic because of who she's running against, a black woman named Deidre DeJear who has no chance in white Iowa. But Reynolds cannot resist piling on making sure the white supremacists who would deny being one are happy knowing one of their own is running the show.
Look Reynolds is going to win. She would have won simply being a nice lady with vanilla ads but people like her, Christian White Nationalists, cant stop. They MUST tell you how goddamned religious they are, how pro cop they are no matter what, how white they are, and how much they really despise things they dont understand.
Look I cannot stand her. I dont trust people who lurch from one extreme, alcoholism, to religious fanaticism, all this means is they are subject to yet another sudden change. Reynolds is going full white nationalist with a fucking overdone smile. She's not dangerous, unless you're gay or trans or black or brown, ok yeah she IS dangerous to decent people. Iowa will have to deal with it, or get the fuck out cuz its never going to change there.
Now part of the reason I cannot stand Kim Reynolds is this, which I saw in person for no reason other than to believe it was happening. Her screeching voice made me cover my ears and it was at that point I realized, goddam that woman is not only unlistenable, she's crazy.
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