Biden hops out of motorcade in Yorktown to greet supporters gathered outside the local high school pic.twitter.com/flO9U9BdCq
— Justin Sink (@justinsink) May 3, 2021
?? "We are revising up our outlook for real GDP growth this year to nearly 7% and to over 5% next year. If we are right … this will be the strongest two years of growth since 1950-1951 at the height of the post-World War II economic boom." – Mark Zandi, @MoodysAnalytics
— James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) May 3, 2021
Jen Rubin is still having fun handbagging her old GOP comrades, and I am here for it. “Be optimistic — unlike the sad-sack Republicans”:
… ABC News reports on its latest poll with Ipsos: “Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) are optimistic about the direction of the country.… The last time the country came close to that level of optimism about the coming year was in December 2006, when 61% said they were optimistic about where the country was headed.” (I promise, Americans won’t get tired of winning.)
Nevertheless, most Republicans remain grouchy, angry and depressed. The poll reports: “Partisanship appears to be the largest driver of pessimism with Republicans (60%) most likely to say they are pessimistic. Aside from Republicans, no other group appears to be more pessimistic than optimistic.”
These sad sacks would rather deny good news and continue to catastrophize about the downfall of Western civilization than acknowledge improved conditions as the country clears the 100-day mark under President Biden. They might be right to be gloomy, given that Biden’s success is a repudiation of the former guy; that a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd (right-wing media seems crushed by the verdict); and that center-left policies remain popular. On that last score, 52 percent “think the federal government should spend to revitalize the economy, even if it raises taxes — including 80% of Democrats and 54% of independents.” Bidenomics seems to be doing fairly well…
They gripe about policy “crises,” such as the rise in unaccompanied minors arriving at the southern border. But as soon as the situation improves, they instantly lose interest. It seems their response to good news amounts to, “Well, that’s not going to work to inflame the base!”…
If the goal of Republicans is to create a parallel political universe that corresponds to their white grievance philosophy and antagonism toward functional democracy, I suppose they are right to be down in the dumps. The rest of the country can breathe easier, enjoying the presence of a decent, empathetic and generally competent administration.
And then there’s this guy…
What a day for Stephen Miller, when the families he separated begin to be reunited, the cap on refugees he instituted is lifted, and his alma mater hosts John Legend as its graduation speaker. May there be many more days like this for Stephen Miller in the future. https://t.co/gIz34kDR6D
— Jorge Guajardo (@jorge_guajardo) May 4, 2021
Narya
Ran 7.4K this morning—longest run I’ve done.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
debbie
Anything that kneecaps Stephen Miller is good for the country. More, please!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
History will say Biden was a GIANT of his time (photo)
2liberal
good morning.
germy
Happy days are here again.
germy
It’s nice to have an administration that isn’t being advised by a war criminal.
Baud
@Narya:
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@2liberal:
Good morning.
debbie
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
There were more than a few tweets congratulating Joe on making the time to visit a dollhouse. Now I know what they were talking about.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Narya:
That’s great. How do you feel? Are you working toward something?
I’m a long-time ultramarathoner so always like to see people try running no matter the distance.
mrmoshpotato
Fixed.
Kay
Thrilled. I could not be more pleased.
This is especially important right now because Congress has allocated hundreds of millions to career training post-high school as an alternative to college. The vultures are already circling, hoping to rob 17 year olds with scammy programs. Fake “apprenticeships” that are really just low wage jobs, that sort of things. They’re popping up like noxious weeds.
You need an obsessive like Cordray to keep the crooks, flim flammers and profiteers away from 17 year olds.
Bravo. Good pick.
Baud
As it should be.
MisterForkbeard
Since it’s an OT, I’m doing a (very) early morning work training thing and we were asked to come up with an innovative idea in 5 minutes that would improve something or solve a problem.
My suggestion was to buy everyone a $40 USB-powered coffee maker they could run from their work desk. At US engineering prices, if you’ve made people stay at their desks for an extra hour over the course of the year you’ve saved money. It was supposed to be a joke, but the attendees really like the idea >_<
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
rikyrah
@Kay:
Good choice ??????
comrade scotts agenda of rage
President Biden hoping out of the caravan is so quintessentially Joe Biden. He really likes what he does, always has.
“Some people” deride so-called career politicians. Biden’s showing the best of that career path.
I read story sometime in the last year about him meeting a guy in Union Station, 7-10 years ago. Guy missed his ride or something. Not sure if Biden knew him or recognized him from train rides, whatever. Gave him a lift.
Wonderful man to finally have as president.
rikyrah
@Narya:
Wow ?
??????
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@MisterForkbeard:
We have a two-word phrase for that:
“Stop helping.” :P
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Awe ?
rikyrah
@debbie:
Amen ??
rikyrah
@2liberal:
Morning ?
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Amir Khalid
I slipped on an unexpected patch of wet floor this morning and fell. I have sprained my left knee, which is stiff and slightly swollen. I can still walk, and I’ll be fine again in a few days; but in the meantime, crap.
Kay
@rikyrah:
I’m so glad he landed there. He belongs there. When he was at the CFPB Cordray came up with a theory that student loan lenders were “banks”, which allowed him to regulate them :)
You have to stay one step ahead of the crooks. They have all the fancy, high priced legal talent. We (the people) need equally aggressive lawyers.
OzarkHillbilly
Yep, and people like Hawley and Cruz are showing the worst of it.
Betty Cracker
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Saw that photo on Twitter and had a similar thought: looks like Joe and Jill Biden are Elves visiting their Hobbit friends, the Carters.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@germy: I would think Kissinger would be considered some dirty hippie by the Trump admin.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: Oof. Glad it wasn’t worse. Hope you feel better soon!
Ken
@Baud: If you’re the sort of person who goes on Oprah’s show, and when she announces “Everyone gets a thousand dollars!” you complain because the guy sitting next to you doesn’t deserve the money, you can’t really expect to enjoy life.
rikyrah
Joy Reid brought it to ‘Tuckums’???
The ReidOut (@thereidout) tweeted at 6:52 PM on Mon, May 03, 2021:
[email protected] takes a look at every which way Tucker Carlson is ‘making America worse’:
“People like you, and your friends at the BS factory are keeping us steeped in covid sickness, and rage, and paranoia.”
#TheReidOut https://t.co/alnuZX2iSm
(https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1389367389997912074?s=03)
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: ?You should ice it, ice it good?
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Ice and elevate????
Kay
@rikyrah:
Ivanka was running the Trump federally subsidized career training initiatives. Not kidding.
We would have just flushed hundreds of millions down the toilet. I can’t imagine what the skim would have been – 40%? Every Trumpster with an LLC would have gotten a contract. The My Pillow guy would have a vocational school.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
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mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: I wish she could just flat out call him Fucker Carlson on air.
Baud
@Kay:
Yeah, at least Cordray won’t be pocketing the cash.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay:
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Ken
@mrmoshpotato: I would guess he was called that a lot in high school. Probably helped make him the
manentity he is today.Betty Cracker
@Kay: I know the list of sketchy activities from the Trump admin is very long, and many of their cons were more consequential in life or death terms, but I do hope history catches up with Princess Complicity at some point. The career training thing was such an obvious scam. Remember that bogus website? Good lord.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MisterForkbeard: You monster
Anyway
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
I did 2.5 m this morning – it was so muggy. Bleah! Much respect to the ultramarathoner..
I used the last year and the COVID excuse to stop working out and am slowly getting back in…
germy
@Betty Cracker:
Kay
@Baud:
Even before the stimulus they directed hundreds of millions in new spending to it.
Ivanka, Betsy DeVos and Justice Scalia’s son would have been in charge of allocating it. Just pile it up and burn it on the sidewalk. At least then their cronies wouldn’t benefit.
prostratedragon
@rikyrah: Saw and liked that last night. I’ve taken to calling him ‘Tuck-Tuck.’
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
Have you factored in the increased pee breaks? Maybe you should sell the coffee maker with a bed pan. Or adult diapers. Whatever is most cost effective.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: I was about to suggest replacing everyone’s desk chair with a toilet.
rikyrah
Uh huh ?
Black Navy Vet ?????????? (@Chris4Perkins) tweeted at 0:08 PM on Mon, May 03, 2021:
If BLM had stormed the Capitol, main stream media would have around the clock coverage of every single indictment and arrest. Think not? You know it’s true.
(https://twitter.com/Chris4Perkins/status/1389265667761885191?s=03)
OzarkHillbilly
‘Out-of-control’ Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry
Heavenly Harmony could end it’s sonata on a rather discordant note.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
What I loved about it is “apprenticeship” has a meaning. She redefined that word to mean “low wage job”.
The target audience for this is kids 14 thru 17. Lambs lining up for slaughter. The TIME they would lose, too. They would lose 3 or 4 years that they can’t really get back.
When you take an apprenticeship at that age you’re committing time you could have been doing something else. It has to pay off. DeVos trumpeted this program out of Fort Wayne Indiana in food service. So she’s sending them to work in a restaurant instead of high school? The wages for those jobs are about 11 dollars an hour. She’s robbing them.
rikyrah
Not my business ?
Just sitting here eating breakfast ?????
MSNBC (@MSNBC) tweeted at 7:32 AM on Tue, May 04, 2021:
Rep. Cheney, the third-ranking House Republican, says anyone claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen is “poisoning our democratic system”.
Anna Palmer: “House Republican Leadership … feel she is not the messenger they want right now.”
https://t.co/c88uGjMshB
(https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1389558442021560320?s=03)
Geminid
I now live within range of one of Washington all-news WTOP’s transmitters. Because it was a local story, their lead news item yesterday was Biden’s visit to Virginia. Their report on the visit included a soundbite from Bidens remarks.
The messaging was succinct: the pre-K, day care, and community college funding initiatives were vital investments, he said, and are paid for, “because Corporate America and the wealthiest Americans will pay their fair share.” A simple message, and I think a good one.
rikyrah
@Kay:
You always called it right with that group ??
germy
@OzarkHillbilly:
Right on my house. That’s what I predict.
Betty Cracker
@germy: Nah, it’ll land on and destroy our brand new septic system that cost more than a frickin’ car.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Oops.
The Thin Black Duke
@rikyrah:
Liz Cheney is playing the long game. Cheney is going to run for president in 2028 as a “moderate” Republican.
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: Get out your old SkyLab hardhat.
Geminid
@mrmoshpotato: I would find Mike Lindel teaching fellow prison inmates to make pillows a very inspiring human interest story. It could happen, too.
Ken
@germy: @Betty Cracker: Hey, you two, it’s the Republicans who are supposed to be pessimistic. Think of all the things that it might hit whose destruction would be a civic or societal improvement.
OzarkHillbilly
@The Thin Black Duke: It’s a sad day when anyone named Cheney is the “moderate” in a political race. Even worse, it just might sell.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ken: trump tower. Any of them.
Geminid
@The Thin Black Duke: I also think Cheney’s looking at 2028. I’ve thought for a while that Paul Ryan has that cycle in mind, too. Ryan is laying low, but he’s not done yet.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly:
Putin’s palace would be a good destination.
Although with his money, he’d simply build back better.
narya
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I am doing this year-long virtual challenge–the brewery running series folks are doing it. There’s a route in each state (and territory!), and there are little wooden state-shaped magnets for each state’s route you complete–I finished Montana today, as a matter of fact. I’m old and slow, and I don’t particularly LIKE it, but I feel so much better when I do it. Today’s run felt great, actually–I increased my speed at the end. And all because a few years ago I was trying to come up with some cheap cardio, and I found the IL Brewery Running Series. That tiny little bit of motivation/reward keeps me doing it, so . . .
Booger
@Betty Cracker: Yeah, but can several people shit in a car for five-to-eight years without worrying about it? HMMM?
mrmoshpotato
@Geminid: On the Sun via Zoom?
artem1s
@Kay:
love this guy and glad to see he is in a position where he can do some good. I would have liked to see him throw his hat in the ring to take Portman’s seat though. But that’s probably a career killing campaign for any Dem in Ohio.
In worse news Nina Turner is probably going to come out on top in the primary to replace Marcia Fudge. Even worse news someone came to my door collecting signatures for the Cleveland mayoral race and Dennis the Menace has decided to crawl out from under whatever anti-vaxxer vegan rock he’s been hiding under just to get some attention and grift off the local green party some more. I suppose he could win given the WWC economic anxiety of west side voters, anti-choice Catholics, die hard Berners and old timey Dixiecrats still left in the city. More likely he will split the vote in ways that will guarantee some pretty awful extremist performance artist will take the seat instead of someone who actually understands the complexity of the job and how to get anything accomplished in a city so racially divided. Four years of obstructing every development project and city initiative except free weed is not going to help this city at all.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@The Thin Black Duke: If Cheney is aiming at 2028, does that mean she expects the R candidate to lose in 2024?
All that seems unimaginably far away to me
mrmoshpotato
@Booger: LOL!
The Thin Black Duke
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s the problem isn’t it? Considering what a freak show the GOP is presently, it would be easy for Cheney to sell herself as the only Republican brave enough to rebel against Donald Trump, especially when it’s true. And if the crazies cause the GOP to lose big again in 2022 and 2024, Cheney will be seen as the savior to bring the GOP out of the wilderness.
debbie
@Baud:
Or this.
Kay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I think her decision was easy. She doesn’t have any choice. Once she denounced Trump she either had to work for a post- anti-Trump GOP or quit. It’s an easy bet. She has absolutely nothing to lose.
NotMax
Skimmed the thread and saw no mention noting it is Star Wars Day.
Take a Wookiee to lunch. Outdoors.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
A few days ago, one of the front pagers posted the twitter thread and video from Emma Newman about Operation Mallard, which was about the hatching of a brood of ducks on a 150-ft-high balcony in England. (What was your plan, Mrs. Mallard?)
That all happened last year. Mrs. Mallard came back this year, this time had 11 eggs, and they are due to hatch at any moment, possibly today (if so, it happened hours ago) or tomorrow.
Here’s an update. Emma’s Dad this time has a more elaborate lowering system designed to resist the expected winds. It’s based on his experience in the Royal Navy.
Frankensteinbeck
…they are doing what their base demands and has thrown screaming, death-threat shit fits if they’re not provided since Obama was elected. Anyone remember McConnell and Rove having to publicly apologize for saying Obamacare did not include death panels?
@Geminid:
He may not know he’s done yet. He’s the perfect example of a candidate whose only constituency is the media.
MattF
Rooting for injuries: Politico reports that Tucker Carlson is denouncing Kevin McCarthy. No link from me, but YAY.
Kay
@artem1s:
Sherrod Brown’s campaign manager is starting some kind of Ohio “project” to elect Democrats. I met with him once here – he took 4 of us to lunch. He’s an older white guy who came out of labor organizing. He’s smart and sort of refreshingly soft-spoken for someone in that job. A good listener.
Ohio D’s need leadership. They’re just flailing. I think they’re beaten up enough now that they would accept cat-herding.
MattF
@NotMax: May the fourth be with you.
Baud
@artem1s:
That is depressing news.
Geminid
@Kay: Cheney first has to fight a tough primary next year. She’ll likely win, though, especially if she faces more than one trumpist candidate.
I’m especially interested to see how fellow impeachers Adam Kinsinger (IL), Peter Meijer (MI), and Anthony Gonzalez (OH) do in their primaries. These races will be a good gauge of the direction Midwest Republicans are going.
Kay
@Geminid:
Ohio Democrats think he will lose. Meijer might be in better shape. Michigan is Trumpy but not that Trumpy and you really cannot discount how his last name is a household word in Michigan.
Kay
@
OzarkHillbilly
As a matter of fact, that very question was answered on a Prairie Home Companion episode. The answer is, “Yes.” Another question was answered in the same episode was “Can a Father ruin a homecoming parade in which his daughter is Queen by driving thru town with a ’57 Chevy septic tank hanging from the back of his tractor?”
The answer to that question was also, “Yes.” A most emphatic “Yes.” at that.
Kay
@Geminid:
It’s not that bad a bet. Trump could wither and die as fast as he rose and what was her alternative? Become Nikki Haley? Just be a completely full of shit individual? I think she has too much self regard to do that.
Things change and sometimes they change fast. If they do she’ll be positioned to a leader of the post Trump GOP. If they don’t she goes to some cushy think tank.
germy
Geminid
@Baud: Nina Turner has a ton of money, and there is no runoff, so she could win with a plurality. But the primary is not until August, I think. I am hoping that Shontel Brown can get some separation between herself and the other candidates, and make it a two woman race. Nina Turner is the last person I want to see in the Democratic Congressional Caucus.
germy
@Geminid:
She’ll be inside the tent, pissing in.
Kay
@Geminid:
The amazing part of GOP’ers following Trump like addled puppies is he did not win his re-elect.
Incumbents usually win. He couldn’t even do that. They all have contempt for Romney because he lost but Romney wasn’t the fucking incumbent.
Trump should have won. Biden was an upset. It’s a measure of how much Trump sucks that he didn’t.
Betty Cracker
Charlie Crist just announced he’s running against DeSantis for FL gov. I hope someone beats him in the Dem primary because I’m pretty damn sure he’ll go on to lose if he’s the nominee. I also worry a bit about his House seat, unless he plans to run for that at the same time. We can’t afford to lose any of those, and Crist won his handily, but it’s a somewhat swingy district.
germy
Barbara
@MisterForkbeard: Once upon a time a friend worked at a law firm known for its very high flying and high dollar practice, and they ordereed and delivered lunch to every lunch every day of the week if they wanted it. An extra hour of billing was many times the price of a sandwich and chips.
Baud
@Geminid:
August is a long time off. Too early to tell what will happen.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
Which is one of the biggest reasons the base are throwing a violent tantrum and directing spittle-flecked rage against anyone who denies that the Democrats CHEATED CHEATED CHEATED. It’s not about losing Trump. It’s about losing.
Kay
@Geminid:
I think that’s part of why Cheney is so mad. Bush and her father WON their reelect. They have rewritten the “merit” rules to lower the bar for the Trumps. Now winning doesn’t even matter, there’s whining and making excuses and elaborate conspiracy theories instead of anyone asking the question- “why did this person we promote as wildly popular lose after people got to know him?”
Republicans have just decided there will be no more analysis of their approach. There won’t be pre mortems or post mortems. They will just DENY he lost.
OzarkHillbilly
@Booger: My bad, it was a PHC 1937 Chevy Septic Tank from Sept 1984, Lake Woebegon
If you’ve got 21:16 to waste this AM, I can’t think of a better way to. It’s hilarious.
Geminid
@Kay: I wonder about the new Ohio redistricting process. I noticed that one of the legislative sponsors of permitless concealed carry legislation said that it had to be done now, that more neutral redistricting would make the next legislature less Republican. He may have just been saying that to hype the bill, though.
Cameron
@Betty Cracker: I think DeSantis will be really hard to beat, but he shouldn’t be. He hasn’t done anything worthwhile for Florida; in fact, he’s been proactively evil.
Kay
@Frankensteinbeck:
Absolutely. It’s also why they won’t get vaccinated. To get vaccinated is to admit that they were wrong and the virus is serious and controlling it is a matter of taking direction and simple steps. They’ve turned it into a political theory. It’s not that complicated! It’s not about “freedom” or “liberty” or any of that. It’s a dull, grinding public health problem and that’s how it will be solved.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Yep. I don’t like her a bit, but she has at least one principle she won’t sell out and she’s smart enough to realize that someday there will be a post trump GOP and the people who didn’t go along will be first in line to lead it.
ETA it’s all about the timing, hers may be off but if so she’s going to land just fine.
Kay
@Geminid:
I have to read up about it. I had a nice local woman ask me about in the office and I told her I don’t know. Good question, though! She’s in favor of neutrals doing redistricting. Good government. I love those people.
Soprano2
I saw an article in last weekend’s paper about Ryan speaking at the Ronald Reagan library in June as part of a series. He thinks TFG is going to fade out. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-05-01/paul-ryan-trump-debate-will-fade-as-new-candidates-emerge
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well, partly it’s self respect, right? There are things where you cannot remain “who you are” if you compromise. Haley is diminished by her groveling. She’s a smaller, lesser person.
MisterForkbeard
@Kay: Especially since we already know that Trump put his thumb on the scale for his own re-election. His DOJ didn’t want to enforce election rules, the tried to rig a bunch of process, etc.
It’s not even that he couldn’t win re-election, he cheated and he still couldn’t win re-election. You’re right – he should have won if he was any good at all. He’s not.
Kay
Because we’re all vaccinated my daughter is bringing the baby to my youngest’s high school graduation.
Thanks, scientists! You should all make as much money as CEO’s :)
Kay
@MisterForkbeard:
Absolutely. He held campaign rallies using federal resources. By the end he was parading his new SCOTUS and using her as a surrogate. Well, “using”. That assumes she wasn’t a willing and eager participant, which she was, the gross hack.
MisterForkbeard
@Barbara: Yep. My wife used to work at a company that had a 4-star chef on hand to make lunch and dinner every day. Spending $250k/year to keep 100+ developers around during lunch or not leaving early for dinner was a very easy financial decision.
MisterForkbeard
@Kay: He literally held campaign events in the White House. Yeah.
SFAW
@MisterForkbeard:
I’m a little dismayed that your first thought/suggestion was NOT “jail or deport ALL Republican office holders and enablers.” That alone would result in an American Renaissance, with or without coffee.
Uncle Cosmo
Tho it’th Thtar Warth Day….:^p
OzarkHillbilly
I think it’s all self respect. If one doesn’t have that, everything else is subject to change..
Geminid
@Kay: I am not very familiar with Ohio’s new redistricting law. It sounds similar to the method Virginia adopted last November as an amendment to the state contitution. There was pushback at the time by some Democratic leaders. They wanted to use their new majority in the General Assembly to pick up legislative and Congressional seats through some gerrymandering of their own. But most people just don’t like gerrymandering, and the measure passed 2-1.
SFAW
@Soprano2:
Yeah, Paulie Blue Eyes always did have superior political judgment. Well, compared to Shrummie and Larry CoKedlow.
ReadWrite
@Kay: One the central tenets of modern conservatism is that once you stake out a position, you can never admit being wrong. That’s one reason for the fire hose of bullshit that continues to spew forth from the RWNJ media and its followers. They simply can’t change direction (well, unless Uncle Rupert instructs otherwise).
Admitting Trump’s approval never topped ~45%, and that he lost the election is simply not acceptable. Admitting that COVID has to be taken seriously is not acceptable. And so on…
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
That moron apparently doesn’t learn. What IS it about FL that most Dems shooting for statewide office seem to be clueless, politically? [Gillum perhaps excepted.] They haven’t had a serious candidate in years [Gillum excepted].
SFAW
@Cameron:
Feature, not bug, for Florida voters. [Betty, Adam, and other Florida jackals excepted, of course.]
Betty Cracker
@Cameron: He’s been a disaster, and his full embrace of Trumpism should be a millstone around his neck, but since Trump actually outperformed his 2016 numbers here in 2020, I don’t think it will be. But really, who knows? There’s a lot that could happen between now and November 2022.
Crist is a retread whom Republicans despise because he switched parties and a lot of Dems distrust for the same reason AND because of his reliance on big donors. I’m thinking someone shiny and new would be more appealing, but TBH, I thought that about Biden in 2020, so maybe I’m wrong about this as well. Shruggies!
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
No, you’re not. Crist is a useless sack of shit as a Dem candidate
Cameron
When I moved to Florida, Scott was governor, so I’ve never experienced what good government here is (or would be) like.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: I read that Crist expects Florida’s Republican legislature to redraw his district to his detriment, so he may be thinking it’s up or out for him. The same dynamic may work on fellow Canine Azul Stephanie Murphy, and cause her to not contest her House seat, but run against Rubio instead.
WaterGirl
@The Thin Black Duke: I agree that she is positioning herself for when the Rs regain their sanity. Not sure that will happen, but it’s probably her only play if she doesn’t want to go along with the big lie.
J R in WV
Not a big Star Wars guy, not even a Trek fan so much. I read more than I go to the movies.
But you guys have fun!!
I’m not a spoil sport, you should all wear the costumes, play the games, have big fun!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kay: Not to be morbid, but Trump could drop dead tomorrow, and things could shift
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Morbid? How so?
I guess I don’t see how something so simple, that would help America so much, could be considered morbid
ETA: Unless you’re concerned about how his children would handle becoming fatherless, which would be very compassionate of you.
Betty Cracker
@Geminid: Yeah, the redistricting situation in Florida is a microcosm of what’s happening nationwide in states with wingnut-led statehouses, and it’s not good. I’m pretty sure Crist would prevail in his House district regardless — it’s swingy but not wildly so, and he’s an incumbent who used to be governor. I’m not as familiar with Murphy’s district.
taumaturgo
@OzarkHillbilly: Could. A powerful weasel word that could generate feel-good antagonism and fake outrage.
Pennsylvanian
@Ken: Yep. It’s what they thrive on:
By blogger/commenter Davis X. Machina, as spotted on Reddit:
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
artem1s
I love Sherrod! And he’s good at managing an array of constituents who often have conflicting interests. But I believe he’s capable of pulling off an OH version of Emily’s List. The OH Greens, Occupy, and Berners hate him because he votes for manufacturing interests and brings big $$$ to Ohio. And he’s an OLD! So expect the usual whinging about him being a corporate sell out. But Sherrod is a good role model to follow for anyone who wants to do the job of governing, not just put on campaign performance art for the media.
Hoppie
@germy: Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.
artem1s
@Kay:
not only that the GOP paved the way for him by allowing him a free pass in the GOP primary. TFG didn’t have to spend a dime on defending his nomination or a minute answering questions or debating other voices in the GOP. There were dozens of states that suppressed the primary votes of their own constituents just to give TFG an easy road to the GOP nomination. Why were they so afraid of having an actual primary if he was so wildly popular? At the time I thought they were trying to save money but now I think they knew he couldn’t even win the nomination unless they shut down every Never Trump challenger before they even got started.
The GOP bungled that election in multiple ways just to give TFG an easy pass to a second term. No wonder TFG thinks the election was rigged – it was – in every way imaginable – for him. And he still managed to lose.
LadySuzy
@rikyrah: Second time this week I see a national pundit calling Fox the “BS Factory”. Jim Acosta, and then Joy.
I hope it becomes a meme.