The likely reason he is retreading these old whines of his… is that he wants to avoid mentioning how stupid his anti-abortion allies were to pick the fight they did in Texas two weeks ago (and honestly, even going back to Dobbs — that has energized a whole generation of young people looking to make… progress — and voting reliably to unseat anti-choice morons). Those nonsensical, ineffectual attacks… have gutted any new GOP appeals to anyone under the age of 45, now and forever — unless they are already hard right bible thumping Xtains. There is no math for the GOP in national politics any longer.

The brand itself is likely dead — and John now well-knows it. But he cannot just throw in the towel.

So he returns to what he thinks of as two wedge issues. The first is laughably silly. In the US in the last five years, out of nearly 60 million school age kids — ones under 18… there have been under 200 total sexual top or bottom surgeries. That is — kids are thousands of times more likely to be maimed or killed by lightning, a rattlesnake bite, or fentanyl or even shotgun hunting… than ever meeting a surgeon’s knife in the way Hinderaker feverishly imagines. DeSantis passes laws about two cases in in a decade in Florida. This is a fundamentally stupid reason to even think about the GOP as offering anything. Whatever, John.

His other “Im just… barking mad” topic for ranting is help for low income humans in California, with their energy bills.

Here the argument he makes is that they deserve to freeze or roast to death. It is their fault (he argues) that energy is so expensive.

That is both cynical — and not supported by any real evidence. And what he really argues is that very high income people in Cali should not be allowed to help low income people afford electricity.

John — if the people of California vote for it — all it proves is that they aren’t the same embittered sad, decrepit stingy bunch of whyte codgers… that you Powerliners clearly are.