WATCH: ‘Lady Trump’s’ Political Ad Is the Template For All 2022 GOP Ads To Come

There’s something about the Nevada desert which attracts the weirdest breed of Republicans. If this was the 1950’s and bomb tests were common, I would swear that these people were a product of radiation, just like the 50 Foot Woman, The Tarantula, and other freaks of nature. You may have heard of the lawyer who fled here from California and started up the secession movement. He wants Clark County to become South Nevada, because it votes blue and the rest of the state is supposed to become North Nevada and be a MAGA enclave. Just how the MAGAs are going to pay for roads, schools, anything, when the state has a one horse economy and that’s gaming/entertainment, the vast majority of which is in Las Vegas, is a wonder to me. But the MAGAs don’t seem to concern themselves with such trifles.

And now we have this creature, Michele Fiore, and she definitely looks like something that the H-bomb dragged in. If radiation got to Dorothy Parker’s character, “Big Blonde” it would turn her into Michele Fiore. She’s running for governor.

Check out her campaign ad, because it is the ne plus ultra of Republican political ads. Guns, of course. Big trucks and GOP talking points. Fiore has zero platform, none of them do, but she’s got emotional talking points, in the form of beer bottles, which she blows up for emphasis.

My name is Michele Fiore. I'm running for Governor of Nevada. We don't need more weak, compromise, blue blazer Republican politicians. That isn’t me and never will be. I will never stop fighting. Join the fight: https://t.co/k9QWQjPn6v pic.twitter.com/JuKbwZeXCg

— Councilwoman Michele Fiore (@VoteFiore) October 19, 2021

You see how she identifies vaccine mandates, critical race theory and election fraud as key issues facing her constituents? Ummm….have you bothered to check out Lake Mead lately, Michele? Its level has fallen substantially in the past twenty years, along with that of the Colorado River and that is going to impact life in this region more than some arcane academic subject on race. And then there’s the fact that Nevada ranks very low on public school performance nationally, like 49th. Might want to do something about that. And how about that mining tax model that has been in effect since back in the days when Mark Twain and his brother were in Nevada politics?

But no, Michele Fiore sees these hackneyed GOP talking points as the issues that face Nevadans and that.is.nuts. In particular her being against vaccine or masking mandates is insane considering how the pandemic has wreaked havoc on tourism in Las Vegas.

Fiore is another Republican who loves the Trump playbook. It’s all a TV show and talking points.

This is her Christmas Card from a few years ago…. pic.twitter.com/l4Lh0vQ0o7

— mrob22 (@mrob22) October 19, 2021

Here’s what Esquire Magazine has to say:

If you’re looking for a concise summary of the Republican Party in 2021, you’ve got one courtesy of newly minted Nevada gubernatorial candidate Michele Fiore. The Las Vegas councilwoman released a campaign ad on Wednesday that truly has it all: a Ford® Super Duty® truck, a frontier setting, a gun carried prominently on the hip, and the use of that gun to destroy the great evils of our time. These are represented on the labels of beer bottles—which look a bit like Bud Heavies but are apparently products manufactured by “Socialism”—and they are as follows: “VACCINE MANDATES,” “CRT,” and “VOTER FRAUD.”

The second refers to “critical race theory,” a term for a relatively obscure area of study in American law schools which has been repurposed as a catch-all for perceived Woke Excesses by right-wing political operatives. (One admitted this outright.) The third refers to a problem that does not exist in any significant way, though it has become an article of faith underpinning the notion that the 2020 election was stolen from the one true president, Donald Trump. And the first is the in-vogue talking point over at Fox News, which requires all its employees to get vaccinated or get tested every day of the week—a significant burden that you’d think would push a lot of hesitaters to get vaccinated—but whose on-air hosts decry such rules as authoritarian power grabs and, perhaps, the end of the American experiment itself. […]

Something else you may have noticed is that, like pretty much anything else coming out of the Republican Party at the present moment, there is no discussion of any actual issue facing the United States of America right now. Inequality? The plight of American low-wage workers? Infrastructure? Climate? Healthcare? The 728,000 people dead from COVID-19 in the United States? None merit a mention. For Esquire’s September issue, Charles P. Pierce wrote about what he called the Phantom Revolution, which has consumed the conservative movement and directed its energy towards imaginary threats with very real consequences. It’s hard to think of a better example than a political ad that lays out the three major issues facing America as election fraud, critical race theory, and having to get vaccinated during a pandemic. Also, if socialism looks like Budweiser, wouldn’t that make it as American as apple pie?

Things could be worse, right? It could be Mellisa Carone running for governor. You can always find a bright side, if you look.

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