North Carolina presidential primary candidates finalized
DEM- Joe Biden
GOP- Trump, Ryan Binkley, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, and Vivek Ramaswamy
REJECTED- Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Cenk Uygur, and Jill Steinhttps://t.co/FRkzcILx7N
— Ted Corcoran (RedTRaccoon) (@RedTRaccoon) January 2, 2024
This is a prime example of fake leftists adopting Republican talking points because they think it will help their agenda: in this case, its a guy who was not born in the US thinking he should be able to bypass the constitution and run for president. https://t.co/WlijWjK46z
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 3, 2024
Have they tried rubbing some crystals on her campaign?
— John Van Amburg (@John_VanAmburg) January 6, 2024
Lordy.
The Crystal Lady is ahead of #DropOutDean. https://t.co/t7edO6DcXn— KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) January 4, 2024
But *none* so angry as Dean Phillips!
Defending the Florida, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Tennessee Democratic Parties by noting how MAGA Republicans kept Trump's competitors off primary ballots in 2020 is about as rich as it gets.
"MAGA Republicans do it, so what's the big deal?"
— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) January 5, 2024
You didn't file your paperwork on time, Dean. It's also why you're not on the ballot in Nevada.
— Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦| 🛡 (@alwaysadorecats) January 6, 2024
Bernie 101: when you're too incurious to learn the nomination process, blame the process. #DropOutDean https://t.co/qU51TX1V6G
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 7, 2024
did I mention? you should be ashamed of yourself. Because of the utter failure of your campaign you’ve shifted from your original argument to a load of dishonest whining which now explicitly makes the Trumpian argument that Dems advocacy of the democratic order is cynical BS.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 6, 2024
He doesn’t get it: He doesn’t have the ground support in these states. His campaign just seems to be in only NH and the ‘Net.
— Prime of House Moderna 🌻 (@TheJPPrime) January 7, 2024
Dean Phillips is chapped because he’s never faced a situation in his life where everybody told him ‘no’. https://t.co/9d1ovON0Du
— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) January 6, 2024
Failed vanity candidate Andrew Yang shows up to defend this season’s model:
Just ask President Eugene McCarthy. https://t.co/jrnfBMh4Z9
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) January 2, 2024
We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.
1) The First in the nation Democratic Primary (which will be the very first contest for Democratic delegates) is in SC on February 3rd.
2) Black voters in SC will once again show you and others in the… https://t.co/pBt0uuC8Ir
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) January 2, 2024
As does hedge-fund billionaire & Rufo supporter Bill Ackman:
Dean Philips is worth a close look. I will have more to say soon. I recently met him and I was incredibly impressed. https://t.co/GFMOcj90M4
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 5, 2024
Now there’s two guys who can only help promote Dean’s campaign in all the {ahem} right places!
That's ok cuz their fans are like… pic.twitter.com/XWwYE0nLQZ
— Ray the Gay Zionist Liberal Vermin (@InfernallyBLUE) January 7, 2024
wjca
Since Biden is not on the New Hampshire ballot, his expected vote total would necessarily be . . . zero. Hard to see how he falls short of that expectation. Just sayin’
opiejeanne
@wjca: A report on polling in NH showed Biden leading with 57% as a write-in.
Anne Laurie
@wjca: There is, of course, a write-in campaign for Biden. It won’t affect the official delegate totals, but it will certainly be touted as an indicator of the all-important VIBES by major media.
NotMax
Just wanted to see that again.
arrieve
Good morning from Aqaba, Jordan. I have safely disembarked from the ill-advised cruise through the Red Sea, which was mercifully uneventful. And I got to see a little of Saudi Arabia, which is a very strange place, and transit the Suez Canal, which was very very cool.
Guest
No, you guys are right, wasting time throwing these marginal candidates who wouldn’t win anyway off the ballot DEFINITELY makes Biden look better, absolutely
SpaceUnit
Russian money is drying out if this dime-store twitter shit is all they can afford.
SpaceUnit
@arrieve:
Hello. Glad your journey was peaceful.
strange visitor (from another planet)
“there are guns at aqaba.”
“they face the sea, sherif ali, and cannot be turned round. from the landward side, there are no guns at aqaba.”
arrieve
@strange visitor (from another planet): Fortunately at the moment I only see palm trees.
Ten Bears
There are two unqualified foreigners in that bunch thinking they could bypass the constitution and run for President, only one ~ Rama Lama Ding Dong ~ made the final cut. Uygur did not
Say’s a whole book about NC Repubes …
eclare
@arrieve:
I bet that was cool! Glad you arrived in Jordan safely.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Ten Bears: I was curious and Googled him. He was born in Ohio, whereas Cenk was born in Turkey.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@arrieve: iirc, there weren’t any back then, either.
enjoy your adventures.
eclare
@arrieve:
How was the Great Bitter Lake?
Tony Jay
Bland Daddycash – “I am the eternally optimistic radical pragmatist problem solver with the looks, energy and charisma the Democratic Party needs to advance the Biden Agenda further and faster than Joe can. Vote Bland Daddycash for The Same, But Better!”
Advisor – “Your campaign is dead in the water and what support you do have is swamped 2/1 by Patchouli Dreamweaver and her volunteer army of transcendent dryads.”
Bland Daddycash – “Ayatollah Biden is a tyrant monster and DemoRats need to start listening to billionaire conservatives from outside their Cult if they want me to save them from Woke Marxism!”
Imagine being worse at this Primary thing than Ron DeSantis. SMDH
thalarctosMaritimus
@arrieve: Glad to hear it was uneventful. That’s the best kind of travel, especially through a place that sounds like it’s heating up by the day.
Baud
@opiejeanne:
If someone writes in Dark Brandon, I wonder if they’ll count it.
Splitting Image
The solitary virtue of the presidential contest lasting as long as it does is that it requires a candidate to find out the requirements for getting on the ballot in each state and to do the proper paperwork to get on it.
This requires them all to begin their campaigns long before the first primaries, making the whole thing two years long every time, but it does have the virtue of informing everyone of who the most incompetent posers are before primary season starts.
I pine for the days when the also-rans were sitting congressmen hoping for a promotion to the Senate and termed-out governors angling for a cabinet appointment. It used to be you had to put in the years that Chris Dodd or Tom Vilsack did to rise to the heady levels of 1 or 2 percent in the primary polls.
matt
How is having deadlines different from rigging everything? Tough question Dean.
lowtechcyclist
Say what you will about Ross Perot, when he ran in 1992, his supporters learned the rules for getting him on the ballot in their states, and got him qualified for the ballot in every state.
Ross Perot got on TV a lot in 1991 and 1992, and that helped. But these loons seem to think that getting on TV a lot is the qualification for getting on ballots, and they get upset when they find out it’s not. Tough noogies, y’all.
SiubhanDuinne
Who is Ryan Binkley?
sab
@Ten Bears: Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati, like Taft.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Good question.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ryan_Binkley
Anne Laurie
A pastor from Texas, according to USAToday.
Suspect we’ll never hear from him again, after Iowa.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Thank you. Can’t think how I could have missed hearing about such a prominent candidate for all these months.
eclare
@Baud:
I just checked out Create Church’s website. Looks like a zesty blend of anti LGBTQ+ beliefs and prosperity gospel beliefs. There is a “financial freedom” class offered along with just a “freedom” class.
Baud
@eclare:
LOL
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie:
Some of us never heard from him — or of him — before Iowa.
Kind of odd that he qualifies for the NC primary ballot, but apparently didn’t have sufficient credentials or profile or support to make it to even the earliest GOP debate stages.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
From Aaron to Zane.
;)
Baud
@NotMax:
Joe Exotic!
Geminid
@arrieve: I hope it was a good trip, and I’m glad you are not working up an On the Road post titled “….by the Rocket’s Red Glare…”
According to Die Welt, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is also in Jordan today.
Baud
@Geminid:
Seems like an odd time for him to take a cruise.
bjacques
@NotMax: that’s quite a list. Now I’m torn between independent candidates Sexy Vegan and Turok “Son of Stone” Jones.
NotMax
@bjacques
Would be worth a lot to hear Kornacki repeatedly announce numbers for Sexy Vegan, wouldn’t it?
;)
barbequebob
@strange visitor (from another planet):
Is this quote from T. E. Lawrence?
I’m reading his book, but haven’t gotten to this part yet.
Geminid
@Baud: Blinken’s on one of those whirlwind airline tours. Yesterday it was Ankara, Nicosia and Amman. He still has stops in the West Bank, Israel, Qatar, the UAE and Egypt.
Blinken’s talks in Ankara couldn’t have gone too badly; at least he said afterwards that he believed that Turkiye would agree to Sweden’s Nato accession. That might happen when the Grand National Assembly meets again on January 16.
Erdogan may be waiting for signals from the Biden administration and Congressional leaders that sales of F-16s are forthcoming. Turkiye and Sweden seemed to have worked out their bilateral issues this summer, in the weeks leading up to the Nato summit in Vilnius. Turkiye is still using accession as a bargaining chip for F-16 sales, though.
Evap
I just wanted to point out that you don’t have to be born in the US to be president, you only have to be a citizen at birth. So born in a foreign country with at least one parent a citizen works.
arrieve
@eclare: @Geminid:
I’ll probably do an OTR post or two on the Canal. It was really interesting.
And I’m as glad as anyone that there were no rockets anywhere.
Geminid
@arrieve: I’d like to see those posts on the Suez Canal. Also the rest of the trip if you choose. I have become very interested in that part of the world.
artem1s
@Evap:
so good news for John McCain then?
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
@arrieve: Any trouble transiting the horn of Yemen?
sab
@eclare: Does “financial freedom” freedom mean freeing yourself from your finances by giving them to the church? Or is it a course in “grifting” so you have more to give to the church? Those prosperity gospel guys do know the ropes, so I am not surprised he found his way onto the ballot before he was anywhere in the polls.
sab
@Evap: Ted Cruz, for example.
H.E.Wolf
@barbequebob:
https://movie-sounds.org/famous-movie-samples/quotes-with-sound-clips-from-lawrence-of-arabia/from-the-landward-side-there-are-no-guns-at-aqaba
arrieve
@David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch: We didn’t go that far south–just to Jeddah. Then we turned around and headed north again.
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
@Evap: There is a difference btwn being a citizen and natural born citizen.
Geminid
@arrieve: Was that a change in your itinerary, or was Aqaba the scheduled end to the cruise all along?
David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch
Nobody cares about these primaries. In 2020, a debate between Bernie and Biden, right at the start of Covid, had 15.4 million viewers. The last rethuglican debate on December 7 was seen by an anemic, low energy audience of 4 million.
barbequebob
@H.E.Wolf: Thanks. In his book he spells it Akaba, which made me think I was wrong about it being a quote from the book. So I was right about being wrong.
ema
@arrieve:
Nice to hear from you and I look forward to your OTR pictures.
arrieve
@Geminid: Yes, Aqaba was the scheduled end, though at one point the cruise line rep told me they were considering just skipping all the Red Sea stops and barreling through to Oman. (Which the ship, minus the passengers, is now doing.) The big change was all of the stops in Egypt were cancelled, and most of us had our return flights cancelled and rescheduled several times. I’m due to fly to Istanbul at three am, so fingers crossed I will be landing in NY early tomorrow afternoon.
I’m staying at a really lovely hotel in Aqaba, and there is no one here. I was the only person eating lunch in the restaurant, and when I went down to the hotel’s beach earlier it was just dozens of empty loungers on the sand.
Layer8Problem
@arrieve: A picture of those seaward-facing guns would be excellent for an OTR, but I’m sure they’re long gone.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
W O W !!!
JML
Dean Phillips sure seems to be bound and determined to piss away all the goodwill he generated by finally ending GOP ownership of Congress in the west metro suburbs in MN. I can only hope his moronic candidacy continues long enough that he can’t jump back in for re-election for his congressional seat, because he needs to go back to rich dude obscurity. Clearly the very worst thing for him was the additional attention he got from being a sitting member of Congress.
arrieve
@Layer8Problem: The fort is still there–assuming that’s where the guns were. I thought about walking down to see it, but it was too hot and too far.
Layer8Problem
@arrieve: It’s not hot here in NYC. Snowing but not sticking.
grubert
@JML: just moved from Omar’s district to Phillip’s district. Me and misses gotta hustle to get registered in time to vote agin him by primary time
Daoud bin Daoud
@strange visitor (from another planet): “But we must cross the deadly Anvil of the Sun to attack those guns.”
Daoud bin Daoud
@Anne Laurie: You’re saying Binkley will simply blink out of existence?
kindness
How is it that so many ‘liberals’ like Yang et al seem more to hate the Democratic Party while completely ignoring the Republican Party’s insistent goosestepping on to fascism without bothering to hide it anymore?
wmd
I’ve been enjoying RFK targeting me for fundraising on Facebook. I leave a 😃 reaction, and a comment telling him to get mental health treatment.
This gets me served more fundraising ads, and I repeat the process. Each one costs his campaign some money, and perhaps creates some awareness in his cult that people see him as a delusional megalomaniac.
Paul in KY
@lowtechcyclist: Ron’s was the last serious 3rd party attempt. If he’d had Willie Nelson as his veep pick, he might have won a few states.
Paul in KY
@barbequebob: Tis a quote from the movie.