And We're Off!

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From: Wolf Alexander <congressmanalexander@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 9:40 AM
Subject: And We're Off!
To: Seth Sturm <sethsturm@gmail.com>

I hate saying we. Who's doing this campaign anyway, Bernie Sanders or all of Bernie Sanders supporters and Bernie Sanders?

Most people don't want more work. And "we are going to revolutionize this country" sounds like a lot of work, for everyone but Bernie Sanders.

That was all in 2020. 

"He lost badly considering how well he was doing."

-Yogi Berra

I AM MY CAMPAIGN. I AM DOING IT ALL BY MYSELF.

However I have a few CO-CONSPIRATORS working behind the scenes HOWEVER IT'S STILL ME.

Me and I not we. We is disingenuous. Are you running for Congress as an independent too?

It's still not we. I am alone, on the quarterdeck of this ship. With my campaign signs up and soon my flags flying!

I AM THE NEXT AMERICAN HERO.

It goes George Washington, Martin Luther King, Gloria Steinem, now me, Wolf Alexander.

Why not? You got a problem with heroes? I would have listed Joan of Arc but she's not an American.

WE need one. The Chump is not a hero. Captain Planet agrees.

WITH MY POWERS COMBINED, I am Congressman Wolf Alexander.

From Washington D.C. on this warm fall day in 1860, I am your obedient servent. 

KING YANKEE IS ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON.

Donald Trump is one awful excuse for a boy. I wish he wasn't an old man, so I could REDACTED HIS REDACTED like Jake Paul did Tyson? I didn't watch it.

The thing about sitting shiva at a "booth" is not scaring off browsers.

Since I am the baddest badass since Steve McQueen, I am intimidating to approach.

Which I like from boys.

I am sitting on the couch in front of The Generator Hotel-Hostel, where I've been staying since Monday. 

*****

Smoking inside everywhere is illegal. Now these Yankees are demanding no smoking outside, either. At WVU you can't even VAPE! outside. 

Inside smoke sticks to everything and lingers. Bad. I agree, at a restaurant... bar. Unless it's a weed lounge, for obvious reasons.

But outside it doesn't stick and doesn't linger. So what's the problem?

I'll tell you what the problem is.

KARENS AND KYLES who cannot accept one breath of smoke per hour. Ironic considering the chemicals they allow in the air by their participation in the overconsumption economy.

Well enough is enough, and outside is good enough. If I want to be courteous and not blow smoke at passersby that's on my reputation.

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This hotel is giving me problems about campaigning on the porch. Unfortunately it's private property which I grudgingly respect. However I did not go down without a solid argument. Which I don't like having with a girl because I can't win them, then "finish him!" like I can with boys.

I had to demur. As much as she required.

I should go to Dupont Circle where I can't be stopped. But I don't like retreating until I am good and ready. As in "we will agree that I will do as you ask, when I say."

Keeps the understanding going that I am the H.N.I.C.