Donald Trump is watching this and realizing he’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison, where he belongs. https://t.co/eCmOMIQYlg
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 6, 2024
2/ That spurred a multi-day search for a new venue that could handle the demand. As Trump never seemed to grasp, crowd sizes don't equal votes. But at that scale they signal enthusiasm and energy and a purchase into the broader popular culture that Biden …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 6, 2024
4/ in a campaign that only kicked off two weeks and will be over than fewer than 100 days.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 6, 2024
They found a solution — “Kamala Harris rally at Detroit airport to include Whitmer, top Michigan Democrats”:
Vice President Kamala Harris, her freshly-announced running mate and a lineup of familiar Michigan political figures will rally supporters at Detroit Metropolitan Airport during her Wednesday, Aug. 7, Michigan visit.
Harris will address the crowd at 7 p.m. during an outdoor event at one of the airport’s hangars, campaign officials said.
While the date of the Democrat’s 2024 presidential nominee’s visit was released last week, most details were kept under wraps until now…
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow; U.S. House Reps. Shri Thanedar, Hillary Scholten, Haley Stevens, Dan Kildee, Elissa Slotkin, and Debbie Dingell; Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist; United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain; Michigan Democratic Party Chair Lavora Barnes; Wayne County Executive Warren Evans; and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan will deliver remarks, officials said…
The Harris campaign plans to arrive in Michigan after a rally scheduled earlier in the day, about 600 miles away, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Wednesday’s double-header represents the second day of a 5-day campaign set in states considered key to winning the White House in November. After Detroit, they will visit Savannah and Phoenix on Friday, Aug. 9; and Las Vegas on Saturday, Aug. 10…
J.D. Vance, the running mate of Republican Donald Trump, announced plans to campaign in the same states and same days as Harris this week.
In Michigan on Wednesday, Vance will deliver remarks at 10 a.m. at the Shelby Township Police Department in Macomb County, about 50 miles north of where Harris plans to address the Detroit crowd 9 hours later…
This morning when Harris called Governor Walz to share the news, he didn’t answer at first because it said no caller ID, a source tells me. So Harris had to call again. The second time Walz picked up the phone call.
— Selina Wang (@selinawangtv) August 6, 2024
Harris-Walz v. Trump-Vance: It's now an expanded battle for both the Sun Belt and Rust Belt https://t.co/QwOh7JN9ds
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 7, 2024
… With her choice of a Midwestern governor as a running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris pushed to shore up “Blue Wall” states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that Democrats need to win to keep the White House. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, had already signaled that she would also contend in Sun Belt states that increasingly seemed out of reach for President Joe Biden.
Harris, the first Black woman and woman of South Asian descent to head a major party ticket, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, will also be locked in Sun Belt competition to win Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, an electoral map that has expanded since Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race.
Her ascension and the enthusiasm it generated across racial and generational lines forced mapmakers in both parties to redraw the battle lines of the campaign, Republicans and Democrats agree. Biden’s difficulties — especially among younger voters and nonwhite voters in the Sun Belt — had required him to win all three Blue Wall states and hold off Trump in Democratic-leaning Minnesota to have a chance at an Electoral College majority…
“Black women candidates have a unique ability to build multiracial coalitions,” said Democratic campaign strategist Lauren Groh-Wargo, who managed Stacey Abrams’ two campaigns for Georgia governor. “That’s the opportunity Kamala presents especially in the South and the Sun Belt, which have the most racially and ethnically diverse states of the battlegrounds.”
Chuck Coughlin, a longtime Republican consultant in Arizona, said the switch from Biden to Harris was a jolt in his state and beyond: “Once he stepped aside it was as if you released a torrent of energy.”
The vice president, a California native whom Republicans lambaste as a “San Francisco liberal,” on Tuesday unveiled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. A 60-year-old Army National Guard veteran, public school teacher and former high school football coach who once represented a wide swath of rural and small-town Minnesota in Congress, Walz adds a distinctive Rust Belt brand to the Democratic ticket…
The upper Midwestern states and Pennsylvania, in general, have slightly older, whiter electorates, and a higher percentage of the population is native-born to the states where they still reside. For example: The Census Bureau measured the U.S. population to be 58.4% non-Hispanic white in 2023, while Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all exceeded 73%. Arizona was 53.4% while Georgia was 49.6% .
Arizona, meanwhile, is just a tick above the nation’s median age of 38.9, and Georgia’s median is more than a full-year younger. The three Blue Wall states all have medians above 40, highlighting younger voters’ strength in closely divided Sun Belt states…
If this is the actual Chris Rufo, professional liar & school board activist, he’s melting down like the Wicked Witch right now:
this is never before seen levels of meltdown, i’m in awe pic.twitter.com/TBjPpOUBTL
— irene ?? (@irene_koo) August 7, 2024
Beautiful.
The guy who is usually monologuing all his evil schemes like a comic book villain is reduced to sputtering impotently because he based all his plans around a completely different ticket and he doesn't know what to do with this one.
— Alexandra Erin | patreon.com/AlexandraErin (@AlexandraErin) August 7, 2024
The psycho 4chan bathroom pervert shit is just not going to work against this. I think unforced positive energy might be kryptonitic to their whole experiment. They're already flailing and it's only going to get even funnier watching them drown.
— Tim Onion (@oneunderscore__) August 6, 2024
Baud
I’m happy that you have had so much positive news to curate, AL. You deserve it.
Matt McIrvin
Don’t like the words “outdoor rally” at all. Secret Service better have stepped up their game.
Suzanne
I was dealing with Spawn-with-ear-infection last night and didn’t get to watch the rally speeches until she went to sleep. They were great. GSD! LFGGGGGGG!!!
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Yes, this is great.
Baud
I wish she had opened the call by asking Walz if he wanted to extend his car warranty.
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne: German Shepherd Dog? Graduate School of Design?
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Hahaha!
NotMax
Still basking in the afterglow from yesterday.
Kay
Democrats should officially endorse the “100 day campaign”. It will be wildly popular. The only people who like these endless campaigns are pundits and political media.
ALurkSupreme
@zhena gogolia: Getting Shit Done.
(I’m sure you’ll get 10 other similar replies.)
p.a.
🤞🏻This is the Joe McCarthy “have you no sense of decency?” moment for the whole Republican shitshow.
Mousebumples
@Suzanne: hope she’s feeling better! Ear infections are tough on littles. (and parents, too!)
Another Scott
@NotMax: Balloon-Juice After Dark already??!
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay C
Those Christopher Rufo Xits are something else: right-wingers always seem prone to blow a gasket and go off on social-media rants about sex-obsessed BS- and then wonder why the “Republicans are weird” meme has such intense effect on the (non-nutbars) public??
Steve LaBonne
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
hells littlest angel
Gee, maybe presidential campaigns don’t need to be three years long.
Chief Oshkosh
Walz’s lines about how little time they have to campaign for the win reminded me of several great team leaders I’ve worked for. To paraphrase: “We have 91 days to make it happen! My God, that’s EASY!…We’ll sleep when we’re dead!”
Just a perfect balance of acknowledging the challenge and kidding-on-the-square about how we’ll meet that challenge.
E
I am so excited about this! I do think we need to be ready for deep fakes though. Trump’s campaign is going to go full on berserker to try to survive. I sometimes worry our coalition isn’t going to hang together when that happens, but I think they will.
No One of Consequence
@Baud: DAMNIT! This keyboard was CLEAN before that fuggin’ comment.
You glorious bastard.
-NOoC
Kay
I’m glad they’re bringing the Detroit mayor back out. The Detroit story is just fascinating and he’s responsible for a lot of it. Forward thinking, optimistic, wants everyone to do well, embraces immigrants – proudly pro immigrant. Another antidote to sad sack Republicans who insist the sky is falling every fucking day. JD Vance sounds like he’s at a funeral.
Betty Cracker
Those are real Rufo tweets, at least as far as it is possible to verify the origin of content on far-right oligarch Elon Musk’s platform. They came from Rufo’s official account, anyway, and those featured are a small sample of yesterday’s rage-tweeting. Lovely to see him go all unhinged, and understandable too. Farming outrage to persecute vulnerable people is his bread and butter, and the laughter threatens to take all that sweet grift away…
@Kay: My husband said the same thing the other day, and I agree wholeheartedly. Interminable campaigns are not only exhausting for voters, they interfere with governance. 100 days is plenty of time.
Sure Lurkalot
Trump trying all the keys to unlock the clown car: (h/t Aaron Rupar)
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay C:
Fixt: “Republicans are perverts.”
eta: what else does one call people who are obsessed with other people’s genitals?
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
People say it over and over. Begging, practically. Once again we should ask “who does the constant, endless campaign benefit?” Not anyone who doesn’t make a living in the campaign industrial complex.
Suzanne
@zhena gogolia: Getting Shit Done!!!
ssdd
@Chief Oshkosh: “we’ll sleep when we’re dead” was my favorite line in his whole speech!
Belafon
@Baud: This is why you should always answer the phone. She finally moved onto the second person in her list. Luckily, it only too two tries with him.
NotMax
@p.a.
Trivia:
Lawyer made famous for that exchange, Joseph Welch, was cast as the judge in Anatomy of a Murder.
No One of Consequence
Don’t recall where, and don’t want to look it up, but it’s been said that “In order for Great Things to get accomplished, two things are required: a sound plan, and not quite enough time.”
I hope, that THIS hope has legs — and eventually wings. Remarkable outcomes might result. And wouldn’t that be Pleasant?
-NOoC
BR
Kay, I was curious how Walz lands for you, and for the “business independents in polo shirt” types you are around. The never Trumpers are whining that Walz comes across as a rural liberal teacher, so while he is authentically rural, he doesn’t bridge the gap to the business types as well as Shapiro.
Belafon
@Kay: If we could figure out how, and not end up with some of our less desirable candidates.
Steve LaBonne
It’s the primary campaigns that make presidential campaigns drag on forever. We’d need a national primary or a hyper Tuesday with all the state primaries on the same day, in either case with an early summer date not long before the conventions. I’m not smart enough to think through all the pros and cons.
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
My initial reaction when reading the Rufo Xits was somewhere between “WTF?”, “holy shit,” and “this asshole is fucked in the head.”
His usual non-frothing-at-the-mouth shtick is bad enough, but this takes it to the level of someone screaming incoherently toward the sky.
danielx
@Sure Lurkalot:
“If I throw enough shit at the walls SOMETHING is bound to stick!”
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Baud: Those car-warranty scam calls are still going on? It’s been years since I got one on my US number (I told the guy that yes, I was interested, my car was a 2009 Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust, could they help me? Several minutes of delightful – to me – confusion followed).
Burnspbesq
@Chief Oshkosh:
And he locked in the Warren Zevon fan vote with that quote.
Kay
Rufo is seething.
If they lose again Republicans are going to abandon a lot of these grifters. They’re going to want to win again at some point. We just have to beat them one more time and we lop off half the far Right brain trust. That would be three cycles in a row where they underperformed.
Caveatimperator
Rufo’s tweets are the words of a man who spends far too much time in dark corners of the Internet and not enough time with real live humans.
sdhays
@Kay: Harris is having a blowout rally and he’s having a sad sack event at a podunk police station a few miles away. There may be dozens of people who want to see that asshole!
zhena gogolia
@p.a.: Yeah!
NotMax
@Another Scott
3 a.m. here. Plenty dark.
:)
sdhays
@Kay: I’m not sure they can abandon them. What do they have left?
OzarkHillbilly
Fuck that shit. If I don’t know the number, I may or may not answer. If the # is blocked? I’m definitely not answering.
zhena gogolia
@Suzanne:
@ALurkSupreme: Thanks!
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Great movie.
artem1s
this right here will endear him to every normal person with a cell phone forever. the weirdos will scold Walz because he didn’t telepathically discern that Harris was on the phone and they will call Harris weak for being insufficiently important enough to him to already be on his favorites list. In other words the weirdos will be weirdos about a perfectly normal Dad thing that happens all the time.
Leto
Rufo… christ, what an asshole.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
This is a Statement of Truth that deserves much wider dissemination. I added the italicized part to distinguish them from possible-sane Rethug voters.
Kay
@BR:
I still think Shapiro was safer with them. I read something that rings true though – Walz is the candidate of business professionals who think blue collar people will like Walz.
I must admit they will love this though:
Friday Night Lights was very popular where I live. I liked it too. It’s absolutely polo shirt business professional to like these inspiring stories.
artem1s
this is going to bite them in the ass. he’s probably thinking he’ll get out paying for permits, security and venues by piggy backing on Harris’ events. I hope every mayor of every one of these cities tells him to pound sand.
Another Scott
@Betty Cracker: People like Rufo don’t live in the real world. Normal people don’t assume the absolute worst about people who they disagree with on some topic or other. RWNJs make everything black and white and every disagreement is an existential war. It’s ridiculous, weird, stupid, and society cannot long exist if these people get power.
6 year old Tabitha: But, daddy, I don’t like pea soup!
RWNJ father: Out of my house! I disown you! Never darken my door again!!11
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Soprano2
I cannot believe our ticket is tied with these pathetic people. It occurs to me that a better word to describe them is “broken”, but that wouldn’t work as well as “weird”.
Kay
@sdhays:
I think Vance is the perfect example. His “constituency” is far Right internet and media people. It’s fucking amazing. I think he gave an extended interview with every far Right nut on the internet. Blah, blah, blah.
Sherrod Brown told us he does not work at all. Brown has worked with Republicans and kind of prides himself on it. He said Vance is just not available for work of any kind. Too busy ponticating on podcasts.
NotMax
@artem1s
Brings new meaning to sloppy seconds.
//
MattF
The TFG social media rant highlighted in the schadenfreude post below keeps coming back to me. It’s completely nutso and seems to me to cross an unambiguous redline that hadn’t been crossed before. We’re circling the drain here.
Kosh III
@hells littlest angel:Gee, maybe presidential campaigns don’t need to be three years long.
Yeah, I can remember when the NH primary was in mid-March and the campaign started in earnest AFTER Labor Day. And that was still too much.
But don’t worry, on the night of Nov 5, some axxhole pundit(s) will speculate on who will run against President Harris in 2028.
BR
@Kay:
I see — Walz is more the rural upstanding dude rather than the suburban business professional who is a swing voter, and everyone will see him that way, lefties and independents alike. I hope there are actual voters he brings to the table. (Though he also is solidifying our base, which is good.)
Burnspbesq
@artem1s:
the compare-and-contrast photo spreads of crowds at Harris and Vance appearances are likely to reinforce the growing narrative that Trump’s campaign is going nowhere fast.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
The press, which is why it never stops. A politician can be trying to ignore campaigning and just govern, but it the press wants they can phrase every action as whether it’s about the next election. They do.
Baud
@Soprano2:
At this point, what do people have to do to make you think less of them?
hrprogressive
Walking cesspools like Chris Rufo and Chaya Raichik are not only obsessed with the genitals and bathroom habits of CHILDREN, but just completely incensed that transgender people not only exist, but other people acknowledge this fact with either a “Mind your own damn business” apathy, or an embrace of people being who they are.
They, and their ilk, can xweet all they want about it, but Harris/Walz are going to joyfully promise to make people’s lives better in a way that will resonate with Normal People way more than their “gay trans agenda panic” ever will.
The Fascist GOP was planning to just shit on Old Sleepy Joe all year, and now that their targets are 20 years younger, less white, more progressive, more in-tune with young folk, and can public speak way better than Joe can (God Love Him, but even Joe admits his limitations in this area) they have NOTHING that will stick in time to ruin this.
They’re going to get crushed, and watch as the youth and people of color of this nation wholeheartedly back the first woman POTUS in a complete reaction of their Fascist Vision for America.
And I think they know it, which is why they are losing their shit online now.
NotMax
@BR
“I’d Walz a mile for a Kamala.”
:)
Soprano2
@Kay: I agree, most people hate the never-ending campaign.
Kay
@BR:
I hope so too. We’ll see. It’s definitely a plus that he has such good relationships in the House, but obviously they (he and Harris) have to get elected first. I’m encouraged that she picked a governing partner though. She looked at what he had to bring when they win. It’s the same role Biden played for Obama except in the Senate.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: oooooff…
clay
@Kay: Don’t worry; there’s a fresh set of grifters waiting in the wings. Right-wing grift is an endless resource.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@OzarkHillbilly:
If its important, they’ll leave a message.
Hungry Joe
POSTCARD UPDATE
Postcards for Jon Tester:
Yesterday — 8
Running total — 33
Postcards to Swing States — Holding at 166
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: OMG, PEAK NOTMAX
UncleEbeneezer
Always loved this song but it’s even more apt now. Crank it!!!
Mind Your Own Business- Living Colour
Kay
@BR:
The House members who love him -and there seem to be a lot- can do actual campaigning for him too, both out in the open and behind the scenes with media. He’s one of them. I didn’t know that part and I think it’s important.
Soprano2
@Kay: I love that he was a coach and a high school teacher, because my dad was too. People who are like my dad was, conservative but normal, will like him because of his background. We have normal people on our ticket, they have weirdos.
lowtechcyclist
@Steve LaBonne:
A – fucking – MEN!!!!
Soprano2
@Kay: He’s another one of those people who seems to believe government is like reality TV.
rikyrah
Good Morning , Everyone 😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Suzanne
Not only do I hate the LONG campaigns….. I also wish they were more random. Every four years, as the ball drops and I think about what the next year will bring, I think “SUMMER OLYMPICS — YAY!” and then immediately “BIG ELECTION — UGHHHHHH!”. I envied the French and the British this year: snap elections called, short campaign season, election held and then over….. BAM.
Ours being on such a regular schedule essentially leaves a lot of the calendar unusable. “Can’t do that, too close to an election year!”
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
I dropped a question over at Threads, after seeing some of the freakouts over Walz and tampons/school lunches/labor support, especially once Twitler’s bizarre rant about Harris/Walz “communism” and “Marxist” ideas popped up.
“What is the political economy of Heaven? Do they spend dollars?”
Soprano2
@MattF: You mean the fan fic he wrote where Biden storms the DNC convention and takes back the nomination? I think it’s a good window into where TCFG’s head is right now; their whole campaign was built around Biden, without him to campaign against they’re flailing.
Kay
@clay:
Remember after Romney lost and they had that elaborate after-report where they savaged all the Right wing grifters? There’s like 20X more now. There’s a whole group on Your Tube and then an entire separate category on Rumble.
Starfish
I want a participation trophy.
Leto
Former Navy Seal Reveals Transgender Identity Kristin
Beck served in the military for 20 years
They’ll always try to erase people like this, but we know better. We’ve served with them. We’ve shared deployments with them. We’ve gone through the types of experiences that changes you forever, and can only change your perceptions of them. It goes very quickly from “they’re LGBTQ?” To “Do they know their job? Are they competent?” And it’s always that second question that wins out because really that’s all we care about. Can you do your job? Yes? Then let’s move.
The Rufo’s of the world have no fucking clue, their Meal Team 6 “knowledge” is rooted in nothing but fear and bigotry. They understand nothing about public service, sacrifice, team work, of putting your life in the hands of another because the only way you’re getting through this situation is as a team. They are the quintessential Blue Falcon* teammate.
I refuse to cede my society to these fucks. I refuse to jettison my people because he’s no better than the 1950s white bigots who refused to integrate. We are abso-fucking-lutely not going back.
*A Blue Falcon is the name we give to Buddy Fuckers. The person who’ll throw your ass under the bus even as they’re smiling at you and calling you a friend. Everyone knows someone like that, we in the AF just have a specific term for it.
Baud
Switching candidates was so unfair to Trump, the Republicans will have no choice but to run him again in 2028 so he can be vindicated.
Kay
@Suzanne:
Supposedly actual governing, working pols hate it too. Can you imagine being in the House? Every two years. Constant campaign. Gah. I would not be able to do it.
Suzanne
@Soprano2: “Personally conservative but socially liberal” is an important typology. Hell, probably many of us here fall into that bucket.
Kay
@Baud:
I’ll bet he’s done if he loses again. They may have to pay him off but they’ll do it. I bet he makes taking one of the sons a condition of his stepping aside, though. They’re unemployable otherwise.
Soprano2
So we had a primary in Missouri yesterday. The headline for Democrats is probably that Cori Bush lost her primary to Wesley Bell, the prosecutor who was named to replace Kim Gardner in St. Louis. He’s also black, and is heavily favored to win that district. My former rep and the state House minority leader, Crystal Quade, won the Democratic primary for governor. Strangely enough, Mike Kehoe won the Republican primary for governor instead of Jay Ashcroft, and he’s the least MAGA candidate, so I guess name recognition isn’t everything. Lucas Kunce won the Democratic senatorial primary, and will run against Hawley. I hope Quade and Kunce give those two a run for their money, but either one winning statewide will be a heavy lift. It’ll help that we’ll probably have an amendment re-legalizing abortion on the ballot. All in all not a bad night for Democrats here considering.
ETA – LOL, I just noticed that on the WaPo web site the results for governor has “John Ashcroft”, not “Jay Ashcroft”.
Baud
@Soprano2:
Interesting.
Suzanne
@Kay: I don’t know. I keep thinking that the GOP will get over their Mad Trump Disease, but they keep signing up for more. I thought that 2020 was a clear sign and that they actually wanted to win stuff. They have lost a lot of elections that Normal Evil Republicans would have won easily.
I don’t know how they get over it.
OzarkHillbilly
Wow. We don’t have any of them here in Misery. Maybe in STL or KC but not anywhere else.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Soprano2:
His face is dripping with bad meat sweat.
His grifting douchebag handlers used their media access to build an entire landscape around the fiction of “corrupt Joe Biden”, and it might have worked had it not been for those meddling kids (and the reality of the rigors of campaigning while governing for a proven executive of Biden’s age). They should have prepared the possibility of something upending that, but conservatives don’t really do well in the realm of future planning, because that requires the work of thought, and they’re all lazy as fuck.
Had the competent not all been run off, they’d have segued neatly. They also would have thought a lot harder on the VP pick and chosen Haley or even played a unity ticket card with Gabbard. Had the Drum/Kristol/Jen Rubin types not all been purged, this would have been countered.
Starfish
@Leto: Chris Beck has detransitioned and gone back to being a rightwing hatemonger.
I read her Warrior Princess book, which it sounded like she bullied her therapist into helping her write. Half the chapters were almost readable. The other half not so much. A lot of picking fights with dudes in bars who claimed to be Navy SEALs when they were just braggarts.
https://meaww.com/who-is-kristin-beck-ex-navy-seal-transitioned-from-male-to-female-says-hes-now-transitioning-back
I think we have discussed him in one of Adam’s threads. Adam said that there is a type of personality that becomes a Navy SEAL.
Soprano2
@Leto: My husband says it was the same when he served in the ’60’s and ’70’s. He said he knew a couple of the men under his command were probably gay (this was when we had the draft) but as long as they didn’t make it openly obvious he didn’t care as long as they did their jobs.
Kay
If we win again the whole NYTimes Trump promoting specialist team are out of subject matter. No more 24/7 Trump coverage, no more “resets”, no more books, no more glowing reviews of his manliness and soft focus profiles of his gross hangers-on.
We could do that, if we want :)
zhena gogolia
@lowtechcyclist: Amen.
Starfish
@Kay: No more people asking Stephen Miller for his opinions on things? 🌈🦄
Kay
@Leto:
When they take your photograph upon enlistment in the military is a stern or serious expression the custom? Walz was only 17 and he looks so sad.
Suzanne
@Kay: Every two years turns the entire job into fundraising. It’s terrible. And since the majority of congresscritters get reelected easily, it’s money and time wasted.
BR
@Kay:
I think the NYT is done as an institution. They’re hollowed out. They are the best funded news outlet in the country. What investigative reporting have they done that’s worthwhile in the last several years? ProPublica does more good reporting before breakfast than NYT does in a month. Even tiny outlets like TPM and BellingCat do more real reporting.
Kay
@Starfish:
I feel like we can tell voters this! Not a promise. In an aspirational “you can have this” way.
catclub
Was there an item that listed all the rallies that Harris was doing and compared them to the lack of rallies by Trump? If anyone knows of one I am interested.
It may have been asking if Trump is tired.
matt
At this point the FBI really ought to check Rufo’s computer for a folder of child porn.
Starfish
@BR: Investigative journalist takes time and is costly. It doesn’t work in this “You need to church out six articles today to stay relevant to the social media algorithms” environment. Facebook pushing everything to be video first forced a bunch of journalists to be videographers over being journalists as well. All my journalist friends now work in the non-profit space.
Baud
@BR:
Wishful thinking.
NotMax
@Suzanne
Tangentially along those lines, brought to mind —
“I am not sure what it means when one says that he is a conservative in fiscal affairs and a liberal in human affairs. I assume what it means is that you will strongly recommend the building of a great many schools to accommodate the needs of our children, but not provide the money.”
– Adlai Stevenson
.
Bonus quote:
“Our problem is with these neoconservatives, the radical right, the religious extremists whose interpretation is very narrow, and who want to destroy everyone who doesn’t agree with them. I see them as betrayers of the fundamental principles of conservatism. A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means.”
– Barry Goldwater
.
Frankensteinbeck
@Starfish:
Transition regret does happen. What little numerical evidence is available suggests it is insanely rare. Like, absurdly, half a percent of trans people rare, but a very few such people do exist, and man, do transphobes love to trot them out. There is a serious, maybe 30% who detransition early on because of social pressure. ‘Social pressure’ being a polite sounding phrase for stuff like violent bullying, ostracism, and threats to abandon them on the street by their parents. They still want to transition.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Baud:
Kehoe had plenty of name recognition given his car dealership empire over much of Misery. Probably more people saw the “Mike Kehoe” name, somewhere, in a given week, then they saw of Ashcroft in a year.
Kehoe’s a clown like the rest of this crop of Misery RWNJs, make no mistake about it. He’s just better at keeping the inside words inside.
Baud
I’m more socially libertine than socially liberal.
TS
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
trump would never step down for anyone – so the thought of someone else doing that never entered his tiny brain. He is talking about Biden instigating a coup to take back his campaign. Weird it is.
Jackie
@Matt McIrvin:
Exactly my immediate reaction. I will be stressing out through the entire event!😬
The crowd sizes that Harris/Walz are attracting means a LOT of stress for the next three months🤞🏻
Kay
@BR:
I think they still do good work. My husband subscribes. He’s an environmentalist and he says the NYT coverage of climate change is the best out there, by a mile. Their Gaza coverage has also been quite good.
My beef is with the political reporters. They’re just terrible – rigidly conventional, no effort to be fair, defensive and arrogant, married to what are their opinions, not facts, compromised and conflicted by all the lucrative side deals. Ugh. Just hire all new people. They’re not salvageable.
Soprano2
I’m listening to yesterday’s rally, and I thought how sad I am that my sister didn’t live to see this day. She would be so excited about Harris! She would have been another childless cat lady for Harris, too.
Leto
@Starfish: Didn’t know that; I just remember his interviews from that time. Even discounting him, there’s numerous transition stories available.
A transgender pilot’s advice for serving authentically
OSI special agent shares trans journey to inspire others
@Soprano2: at this point if you don’t know a gay service member it’s because they’re afraid to tell you, and that says more about your leadership/unit culture than anything else.
Starfish
@Frankensteinbeck: Chris Beck has taken his detransition as an opportunity to undermine LGBTQ people by speaking to rightwing audiences about it.
—
At the end of Kristin’s book (Warrior Princess), she had married a woman, and they had many large guns.
BR
From Amanda Marcotte:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/112920228276370676
VeniceRiley
Don’t look now, but I’m viral on Xhitter. Been running with my feelings I posted here first on rally night . Got some big account reposts and Anand read it live on MORNING JOE.
So, don’t let anyone tell you you don’t matter. You matter, your feelings matter, and what you say and how you say it can move people to action.
https://x.com/VeniceRiley/status/1821053853778743366?t=F84Py2SQUCAoAqBdaYXTJg&s=19
Soprano2
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I don’t know, I’d never heard of him. In the Ozarks Ashcroft is much more well known. It wouldn’t surprise me if Ashcroft did well down here but not in the rest of the state. I’ve actually seen John Ashcroft once, at a local restaurant.
Belafon
@Suzanne:
The fact that ours is regular prevents what happened in the UK and Israel with the party in power dragging out how long they are in charge.
HinTN
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m on a Medicare call list. The autodial system they use generates spoof caller id numbers, but it’s not casting a wide net. The same location identifiers and sometimes actual numbers repeat frequently enough for me to recognize them. Sometimes I answer just to see if the poor sap will actually be there for me to gently explain that they’re a spammer and a scammer.
Baud
@VeniceRiley:
👍
Kay
@VeniceRiley:
That is a good comment! Yay. You can be like DougJ. We knew you when.
Leto
@Kay: Yeah, they tell you to give this like “serious” look… or just look straight ahead, no smiling , etc. You can compare photo’s from basic training across the services, across the decades, and they all look the same. Uniformity!
The AF the photo’s are taken in the third week of basic, so there’s still a bit of shell shock, some of the training is taking hold, and it’s still a lot of the Training Instructor yelling at you. I’m sure it’s a similar experience across the board.
different-church-lady
Bumping this up from an earlier thread: Musk inevitably end up hating anyone he interviews, so Trump can kiss all that sweet Tesla-embezzled-in-plain-sight money goodbye.
Chris Johnson
@Kay: Oh, they can still do that, but we can put lists of ingredients on the back cover. Or, rather, sponsors.
“Huh. ANOTHER Russia Today political profile. Wonder what kind of people THEY want me to be listening to on this fine morning?”
NotMax
@Soprano2
Hooters?
//
catclub
The lesson that those 96% of incumbents who are re-elected learn: “IF you fundraise and campaign continually you will be re-elected.”
Does not say that if you govern well and campaign only a little you will be re-elected. Maybe, maybe not.
Who wants to test this idea? Who will bell the cat?
Kay
One of the nice things about Democrats is they are genuinely nostalgiac for relationships with normal Republicans. I know a lot of Republicans and the same isn’t true on their side anymore. They’re glad Trump made you-all enemies. They don’t want to come together. You still do. Difference between a cult and a functioning political Party.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@VeniceRiley: I saw your tweet yesterday! Wow. You really did go viral.
different-church-lady
@Kay: We should try paying him off now.
karen marie
@Baud: This reminds me of the story JD Vance told in a recent podcast interview about “getting the call.”
He was in a hotel room with his seven-year-old son when Trump called. Vance had missed the first call, so when he the phone rang again, he shouted at his son to “shut the hell up,” “I don’t care about your Pokeman, don’t you he know this is the most important call in my life?” And Trump told Vance he could change his mind because Vance maybe didn’t want the job since he couldn’t answer the phone fast enough.
Let’s see, who should I vote for. The hate-filled felon and his child-abusing running mate who fucks furniture or the nice people who have a positive, helpful desire to work so people have better lives.
Yeah, it’s a real fucking quandary.
Sure Lurkalot
@Kay:
I don’t think he’ll foist his failsons upward. If he loses, he will blame them for pushing Vance to be his VP. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about them anyway.
CaseyL
@different-church-lady:
I pay as little attention to Musk as possible, but my impression is that he winds up hating the people who interview him.
In fact, I’m not sure he’s been the interviewer very often. Just a special little something he’s doing for his God Emperor.
Omnes Omnibus
While he’s in Philly Walz should do a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping and just talk about lawn care
zhena gogolia
@VeniceRiley: Wow!
Kay
@Leto:
Thanks. It almost looks exaggerated in his photo, like he was trying to follow directions. 17 is so young.
karen marie
@BR: Fuck them.
cmorenc
@Kay: Maggie Haberman will have to craft a whole new gig for herself with the NYT than “Trump whisperer” when he loses – her craft at sucking up to Trump’s circle for inside-information tea-leaf-reading will no longer have any value or interest.
Steve LaBonne
@karen marie: There has to be something deeply, deeply wrong with voters who are capable of being “undecided” about that choice.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Soprano2:
Ah, I love the geographic break down of Misery. I always joked that it really should have not been a state. Take everything north of the Missouri River and it’s basically southern Iowa. South of the river, northern Arkansas.
I saw Kehoe a *lot* back in both Jeff City and Columbia. Just casually around town(s).
For the (R)s in the race, the primary was the race. Just looking at the 2022 returns county-by-county in south of the River and Kehoe’s got nothing to worry about come November.
different-church-lady
@BR: Oh god some people are never going to let go of the Shapiro fight. This kind of thing is so predictable.
Soprano2
@NotMax: No, LOL. I don’t think I’ve ever been to our Hooters. It was a local restaurant at breakfast.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Charlie Pierce’s campaign advice:
Eolirin
@Kay: I don’t want us to come together either. I want them to be pushed into cultural and political irrelevancy as long as they keep their regressive bigotry.
If they want to change I’ll accept them doing so, and welcome them back into society, but we can’t negotiate with their positions, we can’t make space for them in broader society, they and their positions are fundamentally corrosive to the social fabric.
NotMax
@CaseyL
Starting off with a Barbara Walters “What kind of tree would you be?” question. Transitioning to “Ever consider a hotel on Mars?”
//
Soprano2
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Sadly I’m sure you’re right. Democrats used to be able to win statewide races, but the decline of the population in St. Louis and Kansas City made that almost impossible. Jay Ashcroft actually wrote an op-ed saying “Republicans have been in charge of this state for 20 years and things still aren’t fixed, elect me (a Republican!) and I’ll fix them”. I mean WTF?
Scout211
Apologies if this has already been posted:
Trump is concerned with the Walz pick as “very insulting” to MAGA. Sounds good to me!
Also on NBC was a reference to Walz having ”Big Dad Energy.” That was cringe* to me but what do other jackals think?
ETA: *by that I mean I literally cringed when I read it. I’m an old using so I may have used that new, cool phrase wrong. LOL
rikyrah
@Kay:
I will believe it when I see it. These grifters aren’t going to go without a fight
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Restricted number?
Will never answer 😒
Betty Cracker
@BR: I love the way Marcotte described the crowd:
That leaves a mark!
rikyrah
@Kay:
I saw that interview.
Anyone who has had THAT teacher, will immediately recognize Walz. We all know someone, on the edge, who a specific teacher took the time to help .
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Eolirin:
The Gilliard Doctrine
The original post from an OG blogster is from Jan 2005. He left us far too soon, the site’s now gone gone but can be retrieved via the Internet Archive.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: Haha. At first I thought this was a description of the Harris-Walz rally, until I got to “skinny fascists.”
Leto
@Scout211: my wife loves the BDE tag because it’s a good vibe. I know it’s going around on social media as a positive thing. It’s similar to rikyrah’s “Santa Claus” feeling, similar to the xhit that Omnes posted about: let’s talk about lawn care!
different-church-lady
@Scout211: If we had to give up on Hokey Grandpa, then getting Big Dad in return is pretty good.
Omnes Omnibus
@BR: My hometown is a city of 40,000 in Central Wisconsin. Walz is guy like my dad or my younger brother. A solid liberal and not shy about it, but the guys in the Lions Club elect them president even though the area is probably 60/40 GOP. They’ll talk fishing or sports all day long, but will object if someone is racist or sexist. The GOP business guys see them as okay and different from the Madison and Milwaukee liberals that they despise.*
*Like me.
Jess
@VeniceRiley: That’s so great! That was an eloquent and profound point you made; I’m glad it’s getting out there.
Barbara
@Scout211: The go to strategy seems to be that Harris is anti-semitic because she didn’t pick Josh Shapiro. I really like Shapiro but I honestly see him as a potential presidential candidate in his own right, and not necessarily a good VP choice.
My own personal view is that, forgetting religion, regional appeal and other demographic factors, Shapiro and Harris are very similar in terms of professional trajectory — prosecutor, AG, statewide office — Walz is going to appeal to different people, or perhaps more succinctly, his style and background are different and will therefore potentially reach a wider slice of voters and broaden the appeal of the ticket.
NotMax
@Leto
Could be just me but I don’t see the Santa Claus resemblance one bit.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
🤗🤗🤗🤗
different-church-lady
@Barbara:
That Trump is amplifying their line ought to indicate something important to any Shapiro dead-enders.
BR
@VeniceRiley:
Wow, amazing. You tapped into something unspoken in the country.
eclare
@Soprano2:
I’m so sorry your sister isn’t here to enjoy this with you.
BR
@Betty Cracker:
Every paragraph in Marcotte’s piece I was just thinking “ouch”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Barbara: One of the things I didn’t see with Shapiro is what the upside of being picked would be for him. He is in a consequential job right now, and, if he wants to run in the future, he will have a chance to do more as governor of a large state than he will as VP.
NotMax
@different-church-lady
Time to resurrect a moniker from times past?
eclare
@VeniceRiley:
Congratulations!
Betty Cracker
@VeniceRiley: Excellent! You speak for many.
@Kay: Exhaustion with the Trump circus could be a Harris-Walz selling point for normies. Apart from the cultists, pretty much everyone is fed up with the shit-show and ready for the noxious orange fart cloud to dissipate.
Jess
@Omnes Omnibus: Are you in Madison? I grew up there in the 60s-70s. I went back for the first time in June 2022 and thought it had transformed into the Platonic Ideal version of itself. Loved it!
different-church-lady
@NotMax: Foxy probably meant something different back then.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jess: I am.
Jess
@Omnes Omnibus: Which part of town? I grew up right by Vilas park. (Harrison and Vilas)
cain
@BR:
An excellent reason to get rid of your subscription. There is no excuse funding these institutions – is the crossword and non-politics stuff really worth it?
Hopefully, the NYT gets desperate and splits their political stuff away so that at least the other parts of the NYT can thrive.
Kosh III
” Maggie Haberman will have to craft a whole new gig for herself ”
I hear they are hiring at Pravda, TASS and RT.
NotMax
@Jess
Pigged out at the Harvest House all you can eat smorgasbord each time I passed by the Madison area back in the day.
;)
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: A Pennsylvania Governor can do a lot of good in two terms. Democrats seem to be slowly but surely flipping the legislature and thst could give Shapiro opportunities to sign progressive legislstion like Gov. Walz has.
As for national Party interests, Shapiro can do a lot to make Pennsylvania a reliably Blue state.
eclare
@different-church-lady:
Morning Joe sure as hell isn’t over it. Some of these pundits need to get out more. As soon as I saw a few clips of Walz, I was sold.
And I don’t know how the “pick a VP from xyz state and that state will vote for you” holds up. It didn’t when Romney picked Ryan.
Jackie
@Soprano2: WA St has “jungle primaries,” so the top two candidates with the most votes moves on to the General.
Sigh… for the first time since WA adopted this, my MAGA Red county won’t have a Dem on the ticket for CD-4. TCFG’s endorsed choice MAGA Jerrod Sessler came in first; incumbent Dan Newhouse – TCFG’s arch enemy for voting to impeach him re J6 AND voted to certify Biden as the ‘20 winner – placed second.
I’m going to have to vote for an R (Newhouse 🤢) for the first time in my voting life. I can’t leave that seat blank, because that would ensure Sessler wins. We Dems and independents are going to have to unite behind Newsom 😢 sigh…
The Thin Black Duke
@VeniceRiley: Congratulations!
eclare
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Georgia.
cain
@VeniceRiley: I saw it – glad your tweet is getting the attention it deserves!
I’ve seen that sentiment expressed somewhere else. Perhaps your tweet was the inspiration!?
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: Fed-up Normies could be impressed by the slogan, “We’re not going back!”
Omnes Omnibus
@Jess: I am on west side now, but my last place was on the corner of Main and Proudfit.
UncleEbeneezer
Indeed. Walz is showing that cool, non-MAGA, white men in the Midwest exist and creating a permission structure for more men to choose this route of masculinity based on empathy, love, tolerance etc. It’s great to see.
eclare
@Scout211:
That is very cringe and needs to be stopped now!
Geminid
@Jackie: Rep. Newhouse was one of the 10 House Republican Impeachers, in Trump’s second Impeachment. He and David Valadeo (CA) are the only two left in Congress.
Geoduck
I doubt that the Shaitgibbon is going to spend a day in jail.
Lose the election? That’s very likely (not certain!) at this point.
And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he’s the GOP candidate again in four years.
The Thin Black Duke
@different-church-lady: My resolution is when the doom spiral starts up again, I’m gone. Besides being counter-productive, it’s boring.
NotMax
@eclare
JML
sadly, the DC media is going to be against Dems probably from here on out because our team doesn’t leak like crazy and is filled with professionals rather than desperate grifters looking to stab anyone in the back that might get in their way towards acquiring more power. The media loooooves administrations that give them easy access and loads of anonymous quotes and “sourcing” of gossipy stories. Biden’s administration gives them none of that. They make the press write about policy stuff that they’re too lazy to learn anything about.
(My contempt for the DC political media just grows all the time. for every decent one out there it seems like there’s two trust fund babies looking for their next tv spot and a book deal)
Jess
@Omnes Omnibus: Not far from my old stomping grounds!
Jay C
@Geoduck:
I, for one, would be shocked if Trump is the R candidate four years from no, because by 2028, I think it is WAY more likely that The Donvict will be;
1. Dead
2. In jail.
3. in some medical facility (or a newly-refurbished “medical wing” at Merde-a-Lago
4. in exile in some non-extradition foreign country.
Citizen Alan
@SFAW: I am absolutely certain that chris rufo, at a minimum, keeps some really fucked up porn on his computer, and I genuinely worry about his children.
UncleEbeneezer
@Omnes Omnibus: I have two good friends from Minnesota who are two of the greatest, most liberal guys I have ever known. One is very outdoorsy the other more of a book-nerd (literally, a best-selling author of novels: Kitchens of the Midwest and Lager Queen of Minnesota). I was always amazed that they were so openly Progressive, coming from a region I know tends to be so MAGA. So I love seeing Walz representing their breed of masculinity and highlighting it.
NotMax
@The Thin Black Duke
Seriously considered bidding adieu during that interminable carousel ride. But the aim of providing a touch of mirth here and there prevailed.
Soprano2
I listened to most of the rally; it didn’t have Shapiro’s speech, so I missed that. Normal political speeches by normal people is what I heard. I think for many “normies” these two will be a refreshing breath of fresh air after the stale, old, tired TCFG speeches that are full of his grievances and meander all over the place. One thing I caught that I didn’t know is that Walz’s wife is a long time teacher too. I like that they’re both teachers, that’s an important viewpoint that isn’t heard enough in our government. I feel hopeful after listening to that, and how enthusiastic the crowd was. They’re happy people! So many of us are ready to be happy again, to drive TCFG and his sour minions to the back burner of our lives. They’re small, hateful, pinched people who want to impose their way of seeing things on all of us. I don’t care how they live their small, pinched lives, I just don’t want to have to live mine the same way they do.
Geoduck
@Jay C: Yeah, I should qualify, IF he’s alive and more or less upright, he could still be the GOP candidate. Even being in jail might not stop him, but hopefully incarceration would finally prompt the GOP to ditch him.
And when he finally does croak, the knife-fights to pick his successor will be something to behold.
Soprano2
@Eolirin: In order to be accepted again they need to quit trying to make all of us live the same kind of lives as they do. Many of them will never give up on that, though.
KatKapCC
Transphobes always come across like horny ass pervs. No one thinks more about genitals and sex toys than these creeps.
(Nothing wrong with being horny or pervy in certain ways, but their ways are…the kind you don’t want to encounter on a dark street.)
zattarra
The Shelby County Police Station? Oh my, whoever put that together apparently has never been. It’s a nice police station. Very well kept up. Probably can host a crowd of 20 for this rally. And getting to Shelby County? That should be a blast. Between lack of direct freeway routes from any decent airport (or really from anywhere) and Michigan summer construction season? Apparently the Trump advance team in Michigan must hate JD Vance.
sdhays
@Soprano2: Since the W administration, I have a mental rewrite for Ashcroft -> Asscroft. More correct.
Spiceagony
I think there would have been many more ticket requests for the Detroit rally if it was easier to find where to sign up. I looked for 2 days and never found it.
Soprano2
@UncleEbeneezer: Chappell Roan is from a small town about 10 miles from here, and I didn’t even know who she was until a couple of months ago! LOL
Omnes Omnibus
@UncleEbeneezer: You do have to remember that in a 60/40 district there are still a lot of people on the non-winning side. Also, I think MN is like Wisconsin in that its liberals are very liberal. WI is a purple state not because everyone is an undecided moderate but rather because it is closely divided between very deep blue and very bright red. Historically, that is how we produced both Fighting Bob La Follette and Tailgunner Joe McCarthy.
Jackie
@Geminid: I’m very aware. I think I mentioned that in my post?
artem1s
@Frankensteinbeck:
The media and professional campaign managers and fundraisers. Citizen’s United brought a flood of ad buy dollars in failing newspapers and cable TV. The longer the campaign season, the longer the window is to collect that revenue. Do away with endless PAC and think tank money the source and incentive to create a horse race dries up. CU must be the center of any legislation that addresses SCOTUS reform, bribery of public officials and voting rights.
K-Mo
@VeniceRiley: Nice!
VeniceRiley
@cain: My tweet predates the one I saw. And my Juice post predates that large. But I’m sure it’s a very common feeling expressed by many. That confirms the truth in it.
Geminid
@Geoduck: I think this is Trump’s last campaign.
K-Mo
@BR: I think this is right. The polo shirt business guys aren’t going to see him as “one of us” but they might see him as likeable and trustworthy anyway.
And we still have that guy from Scranton to get PA pointed in the right direction. And a strong Governor.
Jay C
@zattarra:
With luck, not only will Vance’s appearance blatantly draw a minimal turnout, but there might be a furniture outlet right nearby in camera range for optimal mockery-opportunity.
A “Sofa Blowout!” sign in view with JD would be ideal…
Geminid
@Jackie: Well, I knew you knew that. Not everybody does, and I think Newhouse and Valadeo are examples of a couple things: the ability of some Impeachers to survive because they are in jungle primary states; Jaime Herrera Butler did not survive and now Marie Gluesenkamp Perez now represents her district.
Also, how fatal that vote was for the other 8 Impeachers. Four retired and four– Hererra Butler, Liz Cheney, Peter Meijer and Tom Rice (SC)– lost primaries. David Valadeo has a tough race in California and Newhouse may be the last one standing next Congress.
Jess
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, it was like that when I was growing up. Middle school, which brought together kids from both camps, was a battleground.
KatKapCC
ROFL Jeff Tiedrich’s description of Stephen Miller on TV last night:
artem1s
@Omnes Omnibus:
This really describes Ohio well too. If not for gerrymandering the state would be purple leaning blue in urban areas and leaning red in suburbs. Only by diluting the AA and union votes in NEOH has the GOP been able to turn Ohio bright red over the past 3 decades. Biden’s very public support of labor and bringing manufacturing back the US could influence GOTV in all the rust belt states and reengage dispirited voters who have increasingly been sitting out on election day because they know their votes do not matter. But those same voters need an assurance that the civil rights and pro-labor work will continue. Walz was the best pick IMO to send that pro-labor and pro-diversity message that the Harris administration intends to continue Joe’s work on infrastructure, manufacturing and labor rights.
different-church-lady
@Jay C: Why would you think any of those four things would prevent them from nominating him again?
different-church-lady
@The Thin Black Duke: a) Don’t go. b) I don’t think the Shapiro/Walz wars are gonna get any traction. That won’t stop them from relentless ankle-biting, but there’s too much enthusiasm keeping them from getting to the knees they’d want to cap.
Ksmiami
@hrprogressive: Lol McConnell is trying to get his senate candidates to unperson Trump… good luck with that asshole
CaseyL
@VeniceRiley: I shared this on Mastodon and BlueSky, with attribution, which I hope is OK.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
I never thought she would pick one of the younger candidates. They want ed to run for the nomination in 2028. Now I think they are waiting to see what happens.
tam1MI
I went to high school and college in Central Wisconsin. Walz reminds me of a lot of guys from there. Good people.
Dark Patriot
@The Thin Black Duke:
Please don’t go
AM in NC
@VeniceRiley: I’m not surprised. Your comment here brought me up short because it described my feelings exactly, and I hadn’t realized it until I ready your comment. Well done!!!
UncleEbeneezer
@different-church-lady: Yeah, even most people who had strong feelings on Shapiro/Walz have already moved on. I really don’t see that as something that anyone aside from a tiny slice of the electorate will still be fighting about even in a couple days.
There go two miscreants
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Reminds me of the time (long ago) when Road & Track magazine did a road test of a “Mercedes-Benz GT” (garbage truck) for their April issue. Similar vibe!
phdesmond
@VeniceRiley:
nicely done and well said.
phdesmond
@NotMax:
so, you’re a self-confessed Mirther?
Bill Arnold
@No One of Consequence:
Sigh; The Google demanded attention.
That version has been attributed to Leonard Bernstein, with poor sourcing: “To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
It’s the pithiest variation IMO: Quote Investigator
Bill Arnold
@VeniceRiley:
That tweet was well-done, well-placed, and well-timed.
Good work.
Kayla Rudbek
@Chris Johnson: they will look like a Formula One car or a professional cyclist
SomeRandomGuy
@Betty Cracker: Alas, the infinite campaign won’t break until right wing hate has its back broken, then its neck broken, then every single bone of the spine surgically removed, and then crushed with a 40 ton hydraulic press, post-exsanguination, so we can create an enormous upside down cone, so we can get a million people on top of the cone, to force it down, by making rhythmic steps to a melody, into its final gravesite.
What? No, those million people were performing *construction*, not dancing on a grave!
The upside down CONE is for dancing on he grave. The construction was just making sure it was strong enough for a million people to do so at once. Because, come *on*, part of proper design is capacity!
No need to put a stake in the heart; no need to remove the balls; no such organs can be found in right wing hate; no need to apply fire, they flame all the time, burning out every speck of human decency; no need to worry after their children, for hate loves only its favored adoptive children. Too many children raised in hate have learned better.
Anyway: as long as right wing hate is broadcast 24×7, the eternal campaign will occur, unless Dems want to unilaterally disarm. That said, yes, I agree, people are tired of hate, and I hope even the grifters tire of it, and people start looking at hate like the truly ugly and disgusting stuff it is.
It could happen – MAGAts only know to re-entrench when losing.