JB is doing is troll thing where he feels so good about himself for his concern trolling and calling out what he views as hypocrisy. It is very tiring.
Let's look at openly racist jokes from Trump 2024's official spokesman: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/is-it-racist-and-or-sexist-to-suggest-that-black-people-women-smell-bad
Apparently the latest Republican tactic is to pretend the Democratic nomination is still influx and Harris is still the presumptive veep nominee. I suppose this is just another attempt at making the Democratic Party look or be "illegitimate" but it also looks like a bunch of not very serious people losing it.
Maybe. I generally think of veep picks as being usually on the neutral to bad scale for electoral decisions. But you can squint and see how Pence could certainly have been a permission gate in 2016. Vance is more of a disaster as a pick it seems and has mainly resulted in Democrats having mocking fun which only upsets the right, the self-appointed underwear twisted contingent, and self-important pundits like the moustache of understanding
I actually find it revealing as a tell. The dude who spent years and years arguing that the Democratic Party should just adopt legalize weed as a mono-issue is now concern trolling over a DUI from 1995.
Former OTer Bouie: "with a wine mom and a public school dad on the ticket you can really think of this year's democratic ballot as the ultimate triumph of resistance libs."
The South is largely Republican and our best politicians from there are Senators and we can't risk losing their seats.
Walz is a regular guy. He was in the army, he went to public universities, he was a high school teacher and football coach. He is a very popular governor of MN who gave kids free lunches instead of reducing the child labor age like Huckabee-Sanders.
Oh look, people suddenly noticed Trump was really old and perhaps mentally unwell after the media could no longer report on Biden being old, even his own supporters.
I am not inclined to give JB any credit for his thinly veiled for the lulz/giant meteor nihilism and I am not inclined to the that the angry men who want Trump to burn it all down have a point either. Jaybird defends the burn it all down crowd implicitly if not explicitly but he is often too cowardly to admit to his own Joker-inspired instincts.
Political Science has a whole law on why Presidential/FPTP systems tend to develop into two political parties. There is a law about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
There are tough to implement reforms to end this but instead we generally just get over grown miscreant middle-schoolers who want to treat politicians like substitute teachers. This should never be indulged.
The problem is that as Philip H points out below Libertarians, Greens, etc are not really willing to do the ground work it takes to get power/make change in the United States. They rarely, if ever, run for local office, where are the Greens trying to get on city council in various blue cities? Surely there are some districts willing to consider a Green candidate.
Running for local office costs less money than running for President. You just also need to be willing to deal with boring issues like the road maintenance budget.
Sorry but I don't consider a political party serious if it mainly just seems to exist for Presidential runs every four years and does nothing else in the interim.
We have a normal political party and then we have a bunch of parties that cater to people who are for the lulz nihilists and/or have unicorn and a pony political day dreams and not much knowledge or care on how to get there but they want it NOW
RFK Jr. has a campaign that is for the for the lulz nihilists whether they realize it or not.
I actually have no strong preferences for any of the picks. I dislike Shapiro's advocacy for school vouchers.
The vibes are from the chronically online who do not represent the mainstream or median of the Democratic Party.
Shapiro's Israel stance is not different than any other veep candidate. He also called Bibi the worst leader and horrible for Israel. He just gets targeted because he is Jewish and that is gross.
Bill Barr blocked an investigation into whether Egypt illegally donated 10 million dollars in Trump's 2016 campaign: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/
BTW, Trump's admin freed up 1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt that had been withheld because of human rights abuses.
Harris is announcing her veep pic on Tuesday in Philadelphia. Her team said the location doesn't provide any hints on the selection but everyone speculates that this is putting Shapiro front and center. Shapiro could be an interesting pick.
1. Shapiro pros: He is a very popular governor of Pennsylvania which Democrats must win in November but there is conflicting evidence on whether favorite sons/daughters in the Veep slot help win a state;
2. His views on Israel-Palestine probably generally align with the median Democratic voter (he dislikes Bibi but supports Israel) but he is seen as more of a lightening rod for Israel by the louder segments of pro-Palestinian protestors who seem to be doing cognitive backflips to see Harris' stance as different than Biden's. YMMV but I don't think her stance is different at all.
3. His support for school vouchers and fracking also disappoints the left edge of the party but might be nothing burgers among median Democrats. I don't like these stances either but I admit my view on school vouchers might be a minority one.
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/5/2024”
JB is doing is troll thing where he feels so good about himself for his concern trolling and calling out what he views as hypocrisy. It is very tiring.
On “Tim Walz announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate”
Let's look at openly racist jokes from Trump 2024's official spokesman: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/is-it-racist-and-or-sexist-to-suggest-that-black-people-women-smell-bad
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Apparently the latest Republican tactic is to pretend the Democratic nomination is still influx and Harris is still the presumptive veep nominee. I suppose this is just another attempt at making the Democratic Party look or be "illegitimate" but it also looks like a bunch of not very serious people losing it.
On “Tim Walz Tapped to be VP Kamala Harris Running Mate”
Sometimes formidable is better than inspired and he is good at the digs.
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Maybe. I generally think of veep picks as being usually on the neutral to bad scale for electoral decisions. But you can squint and see how Pence could certainly have been a permission gate in 2016. Vance is more of a disaster as a pick it seems and has mainly resulted in Democrats having mocking fun which only upsets the right, the self-appointed underwear twisted contingent, and self-important pundits like the moustache of understanding
On “Tim Walz announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate”
Trump is totally having a normal one: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GUU1G3DXwAAGQKP.jpg
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Why won't this resonate in the South? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ca8b1fbbd4446489991976be86c4314a9a2f9b856d6a169be63a00e19d79c8f4.jpg
On “Tim Walz Tapped to be VP Kamala Harris Running Mate”
They are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel.
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I actually find it revealing as a tell. The dude who spent years and years arguing that the Democratic Party should just adopt legalize weed as a mono-issue is now concern trolling over a DUI from 1995.
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Is Jaybird actually trying to concern troll with a nearly 30 year old DUI?
On “Tim Walz announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate”
Former OTer Bouie: "with a wine mom and a public school dad on the ticket you can really think of this year's democratic ballot as the ultimate triumph of resistance libs."
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The South is largely Republican and our best politicians from there are Senators and we can't risk losing their seats.
Walz is a regular guy. He was in the army, he went to public universities, he was a high school teacher and football coach. He is a very popular governor of MN who gave kids free lunches instead of reducing the child labor age like Huckabee-Sanders.
On “Tim Walz Tapped to be VP Kamala Harris Running Mate”
Did she announce it in 3/4 time?
On “Open Mic for the week of 8/5/2024”
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/harriss-vp-pick
Oh look, people suddenly noticed Trump was really old and perhaps mentally unwell after the media could no longer report on Biden being old, even his own supporters.
On “RFK and Dead Cubs”
I am not inclined to give JB any credit for his thinly veiled for the lulz/giant meteor nihilism and I am not inclined to the that the angry men who want Trump to burn it all down have a point either. Jaybird defends the burn it all down crowd implicitly if not explicitly but he is often too cowardly to admit to his own Joker-inspired instincts.
Political Science has a whole law on why Presidential/FPTP systems tend to develop into two political parties. There is a law about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
There are tough to implement reforms to end this but instead we generally just get over grown miscreant middle-schoolers who want to treat politicians like substitute teachers. This should never be indulged.
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The problem is that as Philip H points out below Libertarians, Greens, etc are not really willing to do the ground work it takes to get power/make change in the United States. They rarely, if ever, run for local office, where are the Greens trying to get on city council in various blue cities? Surely there are some districts willing to consider a Green candidate.
Running for local office costs less money than running for President. You just also need to be willing to deal with boring issues like the road maintenance budget.
Sorry but I don't consider a political party serious if it mainly just seems to exist for Presidential runs every four years and does nothing else in the interim.
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Exactly. Dan Savage had a good rant about this.
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We have a normal political party and then we have a bunch of parties that cater to people who are for the lulz nihilists and/or have unicorn and a pony political day dreams and not much knowledge or care on how to get there but they want it NOW
RFK Jr. has a campaign that is for the for the lulz nihilists whether they realize it or not.
"
From Tom Tomorrow:
This is just to say.
I have dumped
the dead bear
that was in
my trunk
and which
I was hoping
to eat
later
Forgive me
I had dinner at Peter Luger's
and then remembered
I had a plane to catch
On “Open Mic for the week of 7/29/2024”
I actually have no strong preferences for any of the picks. I dislike Shapiro's advocacy for school vouchers.
The vibes are from the chronically online who do not represent the mainstream or median of the Democratic Party.
Shapiro's Israel stance is not different than any other veep candidate. He also called Bibi the worst leader and horrible for Israel. He just gets targeted because he is Jewish and that is gross.
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Bill Barr blocked an investigation into whether Egypt illegally donated 10 million dollars in Trump's 2016 campaign: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/
BTW, Trump's admin freed up 1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt that had been withheld because of human rights abuses.
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Harris is announcing her veep pic on Tuesday in Philadelphia. Her team said the location doesn't provide any hints on the selection but everyone speculates that this is putting Shapiro front and center. Shapiro could be an interesting pick.
1. Shapiro pros: He is a very popular governor of Pennsylvania which Democrats must win in November but there is conflicting evidence on whether favorite sons/daughters in the Veep slot help win a state;
2. His views on Israel-Palestine probably generally align with the median Democratic voter (he dislikes Bibi but supports Israel) but he is seen as more of a lightening rod for Israel by the louder segments of pro-Palestinian protestors who seem to be doing cognitive backflips to see Harris' stance as different than Biden's. YMMV but I don't think her stance is different at all.
3. His support for school vouchers and fracking also disappoints the left edge of the party but might be nothing burgers among median Democrats. I don't like these stances either but I admit my view on school vouchers might be a minority one.
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Of course he does. This is shameless but probably the best way to play it
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Let's look at what Biden, who is probably dead, did today: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/01/world/russia-prisoner-swap-us
The Kremlinology here is that Putin perhaps is doubting Trump's victory in November.
On “The Race Is On, And It’s Getting Weird”
Harris is up plus 1 in Georgia and only slightly trailing in PA and AZ. She is soaring in Michigan.
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