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Open Thread: Our Seriously Underrated Vice President

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It’s been a busy few weeks politically, but the Media Village Idiots always have a spare chaos agent available for attempts to poison the well, tee up a Dems in disarray!!! story, maybe spark a fire that will discourage Black voters before the all-important midterms. ‘Slate pitches‘, remember them? Scott Bixby does…


Madam Vice President has been quite busy doing her job, and there’s been a shortage of media attacks on her, so *obv* the KHive is a spent force. Prove me wrong, dudes!

If you read Shroff’s whole thread, a number of the people misquoted in the Bixby hit piece have objected to his framing. And there has been PUSHBACK.

(Which, sadly, Bixby is probably framing to his employers as See — best quality clickbait! Am I valuable to your mission, or what?)

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  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    You can’t expect every Democratic VP to wash a Trans Am in the WH driveway while cranking Night Ranger on the stereo.

  3. 3.

    Steve in the ATL

    Had a nice conversation with a union thug last week who had just heard her speak in Las Vegas.  He was impressed with how smart she is. I told him that we know she’s really smart because Fox and crew keep talking about how dumb she is.  We had a good laugh.

  5. 5.

    Mike E

    Watching white people losing their minds over being governed by POC…they’d rather burn it all down than abide by democratic rule. Fuggem.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    Not that I’ve read either article, but this rinds me of the hit job on Neera Tanden that AL posted last night.

  8. 8.

    zhena gogolia

    I love that guy in the tweet. But I think her record tiebreaking has more to do with the makeup of the Senate than anything else. Nevertheless, I adore Harris.

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud:

    Female.  check!

    Person of color.  check.

    Female person of color.  check check.

    Female person of color, with serious power, their heads explode with rage and indignation.

  10. 10.

    SpaceUnit

    Biden had a great week and the both sides narrative is currently on life-support.

    I guess this crap is all they got.

  13. 13.

    Scout211

    The Democrats have had an exceptional week.

    Trump’s week just got a little worse, if that is even possible. Link

    Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges tied to his indictment by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in an investigation of former President Donald Trump’s businesses, according to two people familiar with the matter and a public court filing.
    Weisselberg’s plea could come as soon as 9 a.m. Thursday. Terms of the expected deal were not immediately disclosed.

    Weisselberg and the Trump Organization were charged as part of what prosecutors described as an “off the books” scheme over 15 years to help top officials in the Trump Organization avoid paying taxes. Weisselberg, 74, was accused of avoiding paying taxes on $1.7 million of his income.

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Scout211:

    I’ve seen some details, he can’t plead the fifth when grand jury calls and he can’t plead the fifth to Leticia James.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Scout211:

    Tristan Snell @TristanSnell 1h

    BREAKING: Weisselberg cuts deal with Manhattan DA; 5 months, no cooperation.
    Now Weisselberg can’t plea Fifth for anything he pled guilty on — so he can be subpoenaed to testify before the Manhattan DA grand jury and in the NY AG civil case.

    Something deeper is going on.

  18. 18.

    BruceFromOhio

    Voted for her in the primary.

    There should be a Khive archive where we can show a pattern

    at risk of being pedantic, the pattern is pretty obvious, archives all over the place.

  20. 20.

    Martin

    The Biden Trans-Am joke will never get old, because it’s pretty damn insulting to someone who owns a Corvette (an inarguably better car) that’s older than I am. It must get under Joe’s skin.

    As you all know, I’ve been a Harris fan for ages. The media coverage is, as expected, horrific. But I don’t think that’ll hurt her, particularly in the current moment. Nobody is going to be a stronger moral guide after Dobbs than her.

  21. 21.

    Ken

    @Scout211: In a “Law and Order” episode, this is about when the DA says “Your plea bargain was with the State of New York. Not the IRS.”

    Does this admission mean the IRS has cause to audit every former executive of the Trump Organization?

  22. 22.

    Roger Moore

    @LeftCoastYankee:

    Woman of color and “Seriously Underrated” is a tautology in this silly land.

    Diamond and Silk Zirconia and Rayon beg to differ.  Conservatives are graded on a curve generous enough that even conservative women of color are overrated.

  23. 23.

    Turgidson

    @WaterGirl:

    I’d add: and damn good at the job(s) she has/had, but in ways that make snowflake mediocre white men who have barely had to work a day in their lives uncomfortable.

  24. 24.

    sdhays

    @Ken: Aren’t they still auditing the Trump Organization, and that’s why Trump still hasn’t released his tax returns?

  25. 25.

    Ken

    @sdhays: I meant their personal returns, since Weisselberg has just admitted (via guilty plea) that he has been helping them conceal income.  But that’s a good point — TFG’s personal returns and the Organization’s returns are different things, belonging to different legal people; just which ones are being audited?

  28. 28.

    delphinium

    @Baud: I was just thinking the same thing. It is so damn obvious what the media is trying to do with these BS stories.

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @HumboldtBlue: couldn’t bring myself to watch it, I think I could only listen to him if Sarah Cooper brought her schtick to his videos

    I see he’s got a flag folded in a triangle in a wooden case in his camera shot. Gross little poseur, especially given his father’s history of comments about veterans and US military killed in action.

  32. 32.

    eversor

    I think the focus should be on Joe right now because we are in a stupidly odd situation with Trump.  I also think a lot of the K bashing is because the media and the right really, really, really, doesn’t want J to run in 2024.  The bashing of Kamala is they are trying to make Kamala 2024 happen.  Biden VS Trump results in the same thing.  DeSantis vs Harris is much more interesting.

    Biden VS Trump is winning for us.   Don’t fail for the bait and let them switch the debate.  That switch will happen in Bidens second term and it’s going to be a horrid shit show and we will all hate it but now is not the time.   Let her fly under the radar with her base of support and rack up wins she can start to trot out and take the stage towards the end of a second Biden term.

  33. 33.

    Geminid

    @BruceFromOhio: Since the last election I’ve followed a set of Black Democrats on Twitter including Candidly Tiff, Rugged Amethyst, @WonderKing82, and @Needle of Arya. I was introduced to them though Ragnarok Lobster’s retweets.  They’re more K-Hive adjacent than K-Hive but they share a similar outlook.. They don’t just defend Kamala Harris from unfair attacks, they defend Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Merrick Garland, Pete Buttigieg, just about every Democratic politician. And they are fierce.

    A lot of these attacks come from bitter-ender “Bernie Bros” who over the last two years have come to consider the K-Hive their biggest enemy. This has led to a strange situation where on the one hand real K-Hive members are dismissed as being white ladies in “digital black face,” while non K-Hive Black Democrats get sneered at as K-Hive members just because they are Black and push back on the lefties.

    Of course that gets these Black Democrats really mad, and they push back hard. They remind me of my late friend Chris, who learned growing up that he had to stand his ground and not take any shit.

  36. 36.

    Ladyraxterinok

    @Mike E:

    I honestly believe that many whites a’re upset by having black people in positions of power because they think those people should be their slaves ,..literally

    (I am an 82-year-old white woman born and raised in Oklahoma)

  37. 37.

    JaneE

    I just love how Harris’ supporters are the “occasionally insane” ones right after a Trump supporter tried to attack an FBI office with a nail gun.  I know it is hard to see your own bias, but come on.

  38. 38.

    Honus

    @JaneE: not to mention the guy that crashed his car into the Capitol barrier, shot into the air when it burst into flames and then shot him self.  But yeah, Kamala’s supporters are insane.

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Geminid: Will Stincel (the Pope of Do Something Twitter, for those lucky enough not to know) claimed that Nancy Pelosi ordered the K-Hive to attack him, ’cause Nancy D’Alessandro Pelosi is scared of him, I guess.

  40. 40.

    JaneE

    @Ladyraxterinok: You are probably right about wanting the return of slavery.  I read somewhere that one of our newest SCOTUS justices expressed doubts about the validity of the post civil war amendments, since they were ratified before the confederate states were counted as part of the United States again.

    That, and they fear that everyone else wants to treat them the way they want to treat everyone else.

  41. 41.

    kindness

    Slandering Kamela is a twofer in right wing world.  They get to rag on a brown American of substance by raising the racism out there and 2) they’re planting their meme’s for the future.  They are Clintonizing Kamela as much as they can because they really really don’t want a future President Kamela Harris…well because they are racists.

  42. 42.

    eversor

    @Geminid:

    I know a lot of that type and they aren’t bitter enders.   Most of them realized after Obama that they’d never get shit, ever, on economic issues unless they were willing to shoot the hostage of social issues.  They aren’t wrong.  They also aren’t wrong that prior labor movements were bloody and violent.

    So if you care about those issues shooting hostages and going violent is the only proven historical way it does work.   Asking them to join an upper middle class professional movement from the very zip codes causing all these problems for social issue is so beyond idiotic Dr. Oz couldn’t top it with his “shopping for crudietes, like the peons, with salsa”.

    The Democrats do not get that.   Either the entire six figure crowd (and I am one of that) are getting into the gutter with the rest and having every advantage for our kids stripped out or we are going full out Christian fascism or Russian revolution.   The system has failed.  It cannot be saved.  There are those taking sides now on what will happen and those who are in for a rude awakening.  Shit is really, really, really bad.   Income issues rank over climate change for why my generation does not have kids, the next generation is more extreme.

    The youngs are just punching the button for Space Communism or Christian Fascism now, the realize that’s the only way out.  I don’t vote that way, but I know they are correct.

  45. 45.

    James E Powell

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Speaking of Las Vegas, should be getting nervous about Senator Cortez Masto? I’m close enough that I could spend some weekends volunteering, but maybe postcards & phone calls?

  46. 46.

    Origuy

    Update on Passportghazi:

    As suspected, the story was nothing like what Trump said. Two of the passports were expired. One was a diplomatic passport, presumably not his main passport. And DOJ alerted him when the filter team found it. It wasn’t taken intentionally. https://t.co/zdBHQNdbVU— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) August 16, 2022

  47. 47.

    HumboldtBlue

    @Origuy:

    I’m not sure if it was sab or satby or someone else who commented yesterday about Trump’s claims about the passports along the lines of, “who still believes anything Trump says” and that if he’s saying it you can assure it’s bullshit.

  48. 48.

    Calouste

    @HumboldtBlue: Right-wingers lie, it’s what they do. There’s no reason to believe any of them. Dimwit Donnie is just an extreme example because his lies are so obvious.

  49. 49.

    Ruckus

    @BruceFromOhio:

    Voted for her in the primary as well.

    And I’d bet that you did the same as me and voted for her in the election. Obviously not for the first spot, still a vote for Joe was also a vote for Kamala.

  51. 51.

    Geminid

    @James E Powell: Aside from Jackie Rosen’s 5 point win in her Senate race, Nevada elections are close. Clinton and Biden carried the state by ~2.5%, as did Cortez-Masto in her 2016 election.

    I cited a Ballotpedia report in the earlier Nevada thread, that said 50% of registered Nevada voters weren’t on the voting rolls when Cortez-Masto won her first Senate race in 2016. So this race is especially unpredictable. Her votes on the Infrastructure, CHIPS+ and Inflation Reduction Act should help her.

  52. 52.

    Matt McIrvin

    @eversor:

    I also think a lot of the K bashing is because the media and the right really, really, really, doesn’t want J to run in 2024.  The bashing of Kamala is they are trying to make Kamala 2024 happen.

    Or, they want to create “Democrats in Disarray” drama by ginning up a push for Biden to dump Kamala Harris. At least one front-pager on LGM already took that bait.

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