What the f--- am I looking at?

Gracey Van Der Mark is ripe for the picking. It's time the Kluwe campaign went after her—hard.

The above image was posted on Instagram this weekend by Gracey Van Der Mark, the Huntington Beach City Council member running for State Assembly.

And the word that comes to mind is …

Trashy.

Absolutely trashy.

To be clear, I’d be saying this were Gracey a man or a llama or a three-pronged fork. Whatever the status, she’s just grotesque; a woman who led the push for the library MAGA plaque; a woman who fought libraries and insisted—at the top of her voice—that pornography merchants were infiltrating education; a woman who has corroded and corrupted a fantastic city with her extremism, her anger, her viciousness, her raw stupidity.

In short, Gracey Van Der Mark is a QAnon-supporting lunatic. And that should offend your general lunatics, because to be grouped with her is no compliment.

And here’s the thing: As we speak, Gracey is running against Chris Kluwe, former NFL player/current Huntington Beach resident/advocate for decency. And, at the moment, you’d have to say Gracey is the slight favorite. It’s a lean-conservative voting block, and her time on the council has provided useful name recognition. It’s a lean-Gracey race right now.

So, what I’d like to see is this: Chris Kluwe taking the gloves off, and Chris Kluwe’s campaign taking the gloves off. In smaller elections, you can’t just win by hyping your own goods (and Chris is overflowing with goods). No, you need to define your opponent. In this case, that isn’t too hard: Gracey is a nut. Not half a nut. A full, all-squirrels-in lunatic who dashes toward the nearest conspiracy theory as a moth does a streetlamp. She is a sitting duck of stupidity and simplicity, running against a dude who is far more accomplished and intelligent.

If I’m the Kluwe campaign, oh, 70 percent of my focus going forward is on defining Gracey. Scroll her wacky IG feed, pluck images, make her messaging your messaging. Go hard, go on the attack, start handing out leaflets about her porn weirdness and council meeting blatherings.

Bring.

The.

Fucking.

Heat.

She’s lined it up for us.

Let’s knock it down.