Some days are better than others for finding comic relief videos and today seems to be shaping up well in that direction. David Perdue is not a man of imagination. Original ideas are not exactly his forte. So it won’t surprise you to see him wearing his Glenn Youngkin vest (it is a talisman, I said so days ago) and mouthing right-wing talking points. He is hoping that this and this alone will carry him over the finish line in his primary against Brian Kemp.
Anybody who isn’t in a forest for the trees kind of position like Perdue sees the Trump endorsement as good for sustaining interest among the MAGAs and once again the question becomes, just how many of them are there out there?
They are vocal, to be sure. Brian Kemp has been booed when getting up in public to speak, so he knows they’re out there. But whether there are enough of them to vote Perdue in as the gubernatorial candidate, after he was so handily voted down by Georgians in the senate runoff races last year, is an entirely different question.
In all events, here is David Perdue sounding relevant, MAGA style.
Former GOP senator and current candidate for governor of Georgia David Perdue says that if Trump can be banned from Twitter "then we turn into a Germany in 1933, a Russia in 1919, Cuba in 1959, and Venezuela today." pic.twitter.com/CZqASy0ZAj
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 11, 2022
And make no mistake, this is pretty much as close to a policy stance as you are going to hear from Perdue.
I don’t think he’ll prevail against Kemp, but I could be wrong. If he does knock Kemp out, I think that Stacey Abrams will eat his lunch.
An interesting race to watch, for sure.
Oy. Can these people even dress themselves?
Actually, someone should point out to Perdue that Twitter’s banning Trump is actually the same as a business that posts a sign saying “No shirt, no shoes, no service.” Or, one that posts a “No smoking” sign. You know–rules that customers must abide by if they wish to do business there.
But, then too, there’s the fun fact that many businesses in Georgia felt it was entirely within their rights to ban Black folks (like the Token Twins in the picture) from even entering their businesses. And the State backed them in full. In larger cities, department stores and restaurants could actually bar Black folks from even entering; if the business was of sufficient size, it could pretty much be two stores in one–one to serve the white folks and one to serve the Blacks (who also had to enter the store through a different door) but most just found it easier to keep the Black folks out. Smaller towns weren’t quite so discriminatory but many of those towns also had “sundown laws” in which Black folks caught in the town’s limits after sundown literally took their lives into their own hands; the businesses usually let Blacks in but there were *rules* in place to make sure white folks weren’t too inconvenienced by the presence of the darker folk.