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Late Night Open Thread: The Vanity Candidates Are *Angry*!

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But *none* so angry as Dean Phillips!


Failed vanity candidate Andrew Yang shows up to defend this season’s model:

As does hedge-fund billionaire & Rufo supporter Bill Ackman:


Now there’s two guys who can only help promote Dean’s campaign in all the {ahem} right places!

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  1. 1.

    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’

  3. 3.

    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.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    REJECTED- Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Cenk Uygur, and Jill Stein

    Just wanted to see that again.

  5. 5.

    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.

  6. 6.

    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

  9. 9.

    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.”

  11. 11.

    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 …

  16. 16.

    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

  17. 17.

    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.

  19. 19.

    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.

  21. 21.

    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.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    Thank you. Can’t think how I could have missed hearing about such a prominent candidate for all these months.

  27. 27.

    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.

  29. 29.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Anne Laurie:

    Suspect we’ll never hear from him again, after Iowa.

    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.

  32. 32.

    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.

  34. 34.

    bjacques

    @NotMax: that’s quite a list. Now I’m torn between independent candidates Sexy Vegan and Turok “Son of Stone” Jones.

  37. 37.

    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.

  38. 38.

    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.

  40. 40.

    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.

  43. 43.

    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.

  47. 47.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    @Evap: There is a difference btwn being a citizen and natural born citizen.

  49. 49.

    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.

  50. 50.

    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.

  52. 52.

    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.

  55. 55.

    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.

  58. 58.

    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

  61. 61.

    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?

  62. 62.

    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.

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