Silly Season Gives Way To Crazy Talk Time

No. Amanda Chase does not have a meeting scheduled with Donald Trump.

As you very well know, Virginia has an election of consequence every year.

As such, there is a rhythm to our calendar. Over time that rhythm has become tradition.

And as we all know, Virginia is nothing if not traditional. Tradition must withstand erosion caused by the ebbs and flow of time.

And over time, we see how pressure locates and exposes the cracks in our body politic.

Thank you, God.

Today, Brandon Jarvis (excellent reporter on Virginia politics BTW) reported this:

Amanda Chase told me that she has a private meeting scheduled with Trump for April 24. She says it will be at an event where a couple hundred people will be in attendance. She has not talked to him about receiving his endorsement yet, she said. The convention is May 8. Brandon Jarvis (@Jaaavis)

Naturally, this got my attention and a little quick sleuthing confirmed with a source very close to former President Trump:

there is NO scheduled meeting with Amanda Chase on April 24th or any other date. Nor do they expect to schedule one.

We have formally left Silly Season and entered Crazy Talk Time.

(Checks calendar. Hmmm…we’re a little early…oh, right! The Republicans are going a month early this year…whew)

When you say you have a meeting scheduled with a former president and you really don’t, you have entered the season of Crazy Talk Time.

Silly Season is when performative politicians try to keep their name ID up and generate all manner of conversation from what’s known as Free and Earned Media.

It’s the life blood of 21st century politics since the internet started its beat down on print. (Heck, on Monday Virginia Beach State Senator Jen Kiggans announced for Congress in one of the most competitive races in the 2022 mid terms and guess how many stories have been run in the Virginian-Pilot? Zero. But at least the Washington Post reported on it. )

Say and do Silly Things and PRESTO! you are all over social media. Being attacked? You get to raise money off of it. “Standing up for our shared values” is the bone marrow of this behavior requiring only a good tag line and a podium to pound.

You actually get rewarded for getting nothing done. That’s not crazy, it’s just plain silly. It’s not serious enough to be crazy.

New ideas? Please. It’s Silly Season people and I need you to FOCUS.

THEN as we approach the nomination date, Silly Season cracks under the pressure of losing and desperation sets in… VOILA - Crazy Talk Time.

It’s like a volcano that way. You know it’s going to happen but you just don’t know exactly when.

Here we are just 22 days out of the Virginia Republican Nomination at their Unassembled Convention Sites and we have a candidate telling a reporter that she has “a private meeting schedule with Trump” for next Saturday.

Amanda Chase might have a flight scheduled for the 24th, but apparently she ain’t go no meeting scheduled with no president. And she ain’t gonna neither.

See, this is Crazy Talk. And time’s just about up - hence, Crazy Talk Time. If Chase was raising money and signing up delegates for the convention in order to be competitive in the nomination MAYBE she would….no, that wouldn’t happen either.

Trump knows better than to get involved in a mad scramble for a nomination like this.

Las Vegas isn’t touching this thing and you really think Donald Trump will?

Let alone Amanda Chase? He knows better.

As my mother used to say, “I may be crazy, but I ain’t no fool neither.”

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