We were going to call it the “Last Supper,” which was meant to commemorate Vic’s last bone-in ribeye over at Outback. But the connection to the Opening Ceremony to the Paris Olympics was too vivid. This commemoration is to celebrate the onset of a few weeks of soft dining that will result from the removal of the original equipment teeth which have ceased to provide reliable mastication.

Not their choice, nor Vic’s, so it is a lot like the Election.

The process had been in motion with the yanking of the upper dental work before the scourge of Covid. The significant impact of mandated mRNA treatment schemes to an international bad cold disrupted timing. So, the uppers had been excised as the initial step in a two-part process and then there was an extended wait.

But that will be over this morning, and yesterday’s luncheon with four lovely ladies over at the neighborhood steak house was to bid farewell to the old mandibles. It is only twelve teeth, not the next four years, so we will chew that one over with you once Vic knows how it went.

Which leaves us where we are this morning. In one week- seven days- we will have some of this international and domestic mystery unravelled as we start the new ones. We have mentioned some grounds for hope that this could be an emotional but routine election.

That is the kind in which one side has performed with lackluster ability and will be swapped out for a different one under whose model we will suffer in varying degrees for one or two terms before rejecting them.

The surprises so far have been fairly unsurprising and are now just recycled versions of old ones. The dynamic and personable candidate of Joy and Change has failed to launch convincingly as someone who can get through an interview, much less everything else.

Word on the street here is the possibility of violence depending on how things turn out. So, we are stocked up in case we have to keep our heads down. And we are hoping that like the simple removal of a dozen teeth, this will all turn out just fine.

Like, what could go wrong?

The Israelis raised some excitement in their three-wave raid on military facilities around Tehran. The announced targets had been missile related, so a direct reference to the hundreds of ballistic rockets they have fired at Jerusalem. But the un-mentioned emphasis was on the S-300 air defense system, and if that part of the attack was successful, Tehran is now naked to the next strike.

So, maybe there will be an inclination to settle down a bit. The “one week” to go part of the timing amounts to something that will occur before the weekend, so the messaging and dissemination will be finalized by Friday to be shouted at top volume through the end of official business on Tuesday.

The scandal barrel has been scraped bare since Mr. Trump’s descent on the Escalator that started this nine years ago. It has been that long. The ten seconds it took to ride from the Atrium to the Lobby of Trump Tower started this chapter of national excitement.

At present, it appears many voters are inclined to extend another chance to the Donald’s reality show. Like Vic is doing to express his trust with his Dental Surgeon this morning.

The cranked-up soundtrack nine years ago was Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” We think Neil is voting for Kamala this time, but that is the kind of abrupt policy change to which we are now accustomed.

Back at 2015’s Trump Tower, the cued-up crowd was staged with loyal staff, legacy reporters and paid demonstrators to wave signs and produce noise, wearing new red-tinged clothing.

Trump’s vision was to create something like the Academy Awards, however improbable that appeared running against Mrs. Clinton. But it worked with some a concerted effort

They thought they knew who he was, and what he was doing, and how this would go. They commenced an astonishing barrage of legal stuff partly abetted by a GOP leadership that seemed to have a lot in common with the people they were supposed to be opposing.

Like Liz Cheney, who used to be the Congresswoman from Wyoming.

So, keep an eye out anything surprising today. We will keep you posted from here!

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