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WEEK 131 / 337 — A Win Is a Win
Vol. 2 ·  Chapter 13 — Rocket Man · Dec 12 – Dec 18, 2017
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 131 “A Win Is a Win”: Election night, Alabama. The deep-red fortress state falls to the other side by a whisper, and he watches the map bleed in the dark.
(Congratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win.…)
DECEMBER 12. ALABAMA. THE FORTRESS STATE FALLS TO THE OTHER SIDE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A QUARTER CENTURY.
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 131 “A Win Is a Win”: Morning-after arithmetic: he was right all along, he explains to the breakfast room — the judge was never going to win.
The reason I originally endorsed Luther Strange (and his numbers went up mightily), is that I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election.…
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 131 “A Win Is a Win”: Ninety percent of the coverage is negative, he reads, and so the feed remains his only sword: the one way to get the truth out.
Wow, more than 90% of Fake News Media coverage of me is negative, with numerous forced retractions of untrue stories. Hence my use of Social Media, the only way to get the truth out.…
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 131 “A Win Is a Win”: Between defeats, theater: a red ribbon cut between two towers of regulations, eighty years of paper severed with gold scissors.
In 1960, there were approximately 20,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations.…
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 131 “A Win Is a Win”: Seventy record closes in a single year. Whatever Alabama took from him, the golden aura of the market is the power level he answers with.
“70 Record Closes for the Dow so far this year! We have NEVER had 70 Dow Records in a one year period. Wow!”
WHATEVER THE FORTRESS STATE TOOK FROM HIM, THE MARKET GIVES BACK. NEXT WEEK: THE BILL.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The fortress state falls. Alabama — Alabama — sends the other side to the Senate for the first time in a quarter century, and the king watches the map bleed in the dark: a win is a win, he concedes at midnight, before explaining by morning that he was right all along. The week self-medicates in theater: a red ribbon cut between towers of regulation paper, and seventy record market closes held up like a power level. Next week: the bill.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 131. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…