Is Paul still dead?
Whenever anyone dies these days, the Head Groundskeeper says “Too soon.” We said that about our Madison friend Bob Keller, age 98. We say it about Lindsay Graham, at age 71. Too soon.
He was one of three senators we stopped what we’re doing to watch — the others being John Fetterman and John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana, author of How to Test Negative for Stupid.
Yeah, Sen. Graham backtracked big time after declaring “I’m out” with Trump in the immediate aftermath of the failed Capitol insurrection. His constituents let him know they were still on board with MAGA. So the senator decided to represent his constituents but work from within. Remained a steadfast friend of Ukraine despite Trump. Today, Zelensky appears to have all the cards — or, at least, some Trump cards. (Cough cough.)
Sen. Graham’s finest hour was defending the nomination of Bret Kavanaugh after the Democrats putting a magnifying glass to the nominee’s high school yearbook — his high school yearbook! The same people who couldn’t see through Graham Platner. Plus, Graham was a true friend to Israel.
Now for the real story!
Already Sunday night, the irresponsible twittersphere exploded with B.S. conspiracy theories, alleging knowledge of the “real” story,” whispering “foul play.” “The regime wanted him dead,” etc. May be why Kash Patel deployed the FBI to the home, to dispel such nut crackery. Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly have made fortunes trolling the gullible. The Left still believes in Russian collusion and “the patriarchy.”
At this point, the Head Groundskeeper yields the podium to Erick Erickson, who asks, “Why do so many people now reach, reflexively, for the grand explanation over the plain one?” Psychologists, he writes, call it “the proportionality bias” or the “major event/major cause” heuristic. (“Heuristic“?) Erickson argues:
When something big happens, we assume something big must have caused it. A great man cannot simply die of an illness the way ordinary men do; the cause feels too small for the weight of the loss. This is why the assassination of John Kennedy spawned a thousand theories.
A senator dead of sudden illness, a movement’s champion felled by a nobody on a rooftop. … There is a strange comfort in the sinister. Many people sleep better at night believing that dark and powerful forces are arranging the world …
A hidden hand, however wicked, means someone is in control. Randomness means no one is, and that is the more frightening. — Erickson, “the Comforts of a Grand Conspiracy”
We might say the same for Trump’s defeat in 2020. There must be skulduggery. Blame Hugo Chavez and George Soros, malevolent algorithms, Democrat- and Republican-appointed judges, Robin Vos and Brad Raffensperger.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Occam’s Razor holds that the simplest and most obvious explanation is usually the best. Its corollary: never discount the effect of stupidity, incompetence, or random chance. As the great man said, Schidtt happens!
BTW: Sara Rodriguez has fired her campaign manager for cooking the books.
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