NO MONITOR EMAILS WERE BLOCKED YESTERDAY.

16 February—Well fuck Nikki Haley and all who sail in and with her! I’m not a one-issue voter and this isn’t really an issue because Haley’s proposal to mandate mental competency tests for politicians older than 75 will never get anywhere. But the poor 51-year-old formerly rising political star has just aborted (whoops—not a word for Haley) her chance at the Republican presidential nomination. Next year for sure, probably forever.

What were Haley and her keepers and strategists thinking? Sure, they spin ageism as “generational change,” which sounds progressive but is really reactionary, not to mention divisive and discriminatory, as well as offensive.

The Grand OLD Party is supposed to have suffered a rather heavy loss of support from so-called senior voters of late. That’s doubtless due to our mental competency and extreme, demonstrated intelligence as well as death. But there are still enough of us old farts alive and voting to make a difference. And every vote counts. Just ask old farts Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Could Trump have in fact engineered a deal with Haley to have her infuriate old farts so they’d support him and then he’d run her as his vice president? If Biden and Harris, why not Trump and Haley? Ugly old white male president, youngish attractive female vice president of color (of course). I shouldn’t put it past him. Or her. Or them.

Why not mandate competency tests for all politicians? Easy: too many pols are incompetent. Ditto, lie-detector tests.

Next thing you know, some young snot who actually will have read “Logan’s Run” is going to suggest killing off all adults, i.e., everybody over 21. The events in that novel take place in 2116. And that’s less than a century away . . .