ACOSTA: Did Trump lose the 2020 election? Can you answer that?
COREY LEWANDOWSKI: Jim, I think it's very simple — the American people have passed the 2020 election and are focused on an election that's five weeks away
ACOSTA: So what you're saying is that Trump didn't lose? pic.twitter.com/DlpRe5Gcp4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 2, 2024
Remember — sharing is caring!
Tim Walz's ability to engineer media cycles is unparalleled in the Democratic Party
— Shiv Ramdas (@nameshiv.bsky.social) October 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM
“This is something that you folks in the media want to focus on” uhh, democracy? Yeah. https://t.co/QT9Wrgmffk
— Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어 (@torriangray) October 3, 2024
Let’s not forget:
1) Pence’s family was with him at the Capitol on J6.
2) Pence’s security detail were so worried for their safety they made goodbye calls to their families.That day could have been much worse if the rioters had found Pence—and Trump couldn’t have cared less. https://t.co/BcLBsPnHwo
— Sarah Matthews (@SarahAMatthews1) October 3, 2024
An old white woman from small town Pennsylvania telling a rightoid scumbag to go back where he came from because they don't want him bullying their sweet, innocent Haitians is the real America 🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸🗽https://t.co/bQQ1NTQmJo
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) October 3, 2024
This is brilliant. Every time they lie about Biden’s record, or inflation falls, or wages go up, or energy production increases, use this meme. https://t.co/BsrpUllnBJ
— LadyGrey 🇦🇲🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@TWLadyGrey) October 3, 2024
H.E.Wolf
Keep the faith, and do the work. That’s my schedule for the coming month!
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin’, y’all.
Baud
@H.E.Wolf:
👍
Jeffro
J6 is the bright line that Republicans should have drawn, and we will never, ever let them forget it.
They had their chance to pitch the dumb, corrupt, violence-inciting MF right over the side and they didn’t take it. Now they can own it, and him, for all eternity.
Hold on a second while I go locate my tiny, tiny violin…I want to play them my rendition of “If I Could Turn Back Time”.
Baud
@Nukular Biskits:
Good morning.
dr. luba
Is it me, or has Elon not been paying his server bills? Twitter has been loading very, very slowly for me the past couple of days…..unlike every other website I visit.
Nukular Biskits
@Jeffro:
I don’t disagree but they should have drawn that line LONG before then. They were given ample opportunities to neuter Trump (figuratively, of course), particularly with 2 different impeachment trials … and they gave him a pass both times.
Balconesfault
Shockingly, “even the liberal” Jonathan Turley makes an appearance trying to clean up JD Vance’s skid marks.
Link
Rusty
Not all heros wear capes. The local woman in that clip from Pennsylvania isn’t having any right wing BS. The black guy asking the wingnut incel if he has a girlfriend is brilliant too.
catclub
@Nukular Biskits: The second impeachment trial was over the J6 revolt.
narya
@Jeffro: Sarah Longwell–the never-TCFG R pollster–said MONTHS ago that the “normie” Rs she talked to were profoundly unhappy about J6. Lots of “I’m a lifelong Republican but that was WAY too far.” So, thank you to Tim Walz and Jack Smith and J Divan for putting it front and fucking center a month before the election.
hrprogressive
“We’re focused on trying a second Coup Atttempt in a few weeks because the one 4 years ago failed” is what Vance and all the Fascist GOP are saying by refusing to answer the 2020 question appropriately.
Nice of these people to put Jan 6th back on everyone’s mind 1 month before Election Day.
WaterGirl
@catclub: I’m pretty sure he knows that. It’s the Rs who gave Trump and J6 a pass when they voted against impeachment.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Kosh III
@Nukular Biskits:opportunities to neuter Trump (
figuratively, of course),Fixed it! lol
Attempted Chemistry
The only thing weirder than Mike Pence, Savior of Democracy, is how close we came to Mike Pence, Martyr of Democracy.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Balconesfault:
You broke the blog.
narya
@Attempted Chemistry: One of the funnier things I saw yesterday was a pic of Pence and Vance side by side, with the caption “always ask why the position you’re interviewing for is vacant.”
BlueGuitarist
If you have university connections, maybe check with the study abroad program whether they have provided students studying abroad this semester with info on how to vote from abroad.
resource not just for students
VotefromAbroad.org
Early worm/lolgop points out votes from abroad greater than Biden’s margin in AZ and GA even though low % of voter turnout abroad.
Nukular Biskits
@catclub:
Oh, I know.
The point there is that Republicans were never and are never going to hold Trump accountable. For anything.
Another Scott
@Balconesfault: PSA
On just about any URL, you can remove everything including and after the “?” (all the tracking stuff) and it will still work fine. (Dunno if that applies to “gift link” stuff.)
And it keeps the Ghost of Steeplejack from being upset about breaking the right margin.
HTH a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
TBone
The “Mayor of Charleroi” FTW!!! 😆❤️💙🤜
TBone
@Rusty: “Call her right now.” 🤣😆😎
TBone
@narya: AMEN
TBone
@narya: 😆🎯
Scout211
Ugh. Elon and his free speech for me but not for thee.
TBone
Mood music 🐾
https://youtu.be/HNcJGWQsz1Q
Sleep well, Donold…
New Deal democrat
Dan Guild has started a google page with his essential polling graphs updated daily:
https://tinyurl.com/yysuu3fd
Yesterday he pointed out that only once in the past 60 years has a candidate leading now lost the popular vote. That was W in 2000, who was ahead by a whopping .02%. By contrast, Harris is up 3.6%.
As to the topic of this post, the GOP’s talking point re 2020, that Americans want to move forward, may well backfire by highlighting that they *still* refuse to accept the outcome of that election. And if they are unrepentant about doing so in 2020, they probably will do it again this year. It might help motivate wavering never-Trumpers to get to the polls and vote.
Nukular Biskits
@New Deal democrat:
I know it’s too much to ask but, while I’ll take even a squeaker of a Harris/Walz victory, I’d much rather it be an electoral ass-whuppin’.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Fixed. Just one of the hundred reasons why I miss Steeplejack.
Mowgli
@Attempted Chemistry: wow, beautifully phrased.
Raven
Michael Stipe and Jason Isbell for Harris/Walz
Happening today– Hello Pittsburg!
Rocking the vote.
TBone
@TBone: and furthermore 🎶 LFG! 🖤
https://youtu.be/I_2D8Eo15wE
TBone
@Raven: 💜
Dave
@Nukular Biskits: It’s not too much to ask just too much to necessarily expect.
Figure the range of possible outcomes goes from a Trump squeaker up to Harris with something similar to a 2008 type victory.
What the odds of that is I have no idea. Stupid interesting times.
balconesfault
@WaterGirl: Thx.
Meanwhile – Judge Mendez – GW Bush appointee.
The judicial gifts that keep on giving. Thanks Ralph!
Trivia Man
@Jeffro: Is there a list handy if all NO impeachment votes connected to senators on the ballot this year? There has to be a few instates that are not slam dunks.
And – ask EVERY candidate on camera, “would you have voted to convict?”
Jeffro
@Raven: the Pitchbot is probably gonna have a “both sides” field day with that one
Swift/Beyonce/REM/Isbell vs Kid Rock/Nugent
tam1MI
The legacy media’s line that they were pushing – “JD Vance totally won the debate, okay maybe Walz got in one little point” – has been flipped on it’s head and instead all anyone is talking about is is Walz’s masterful meme-worthy J6 moment. It’s a beautiful thing to see.
Jeffro
@Dave: 319 EVs for Harris is my bet ;)
Belafon
@Scout211: “It should only apply to deep fakes that slander Republicans.”
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: though I suppose some people with the mindset of Supreme Court justices might argue that this is a reason to elect Trump, just to keep it clean, because defeated Democrats would be much more polite and orderly than defeated Republicans. Nice constitutional order you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it.
To counter that line of reasoning is one of the reasons I emphasize that, actually, the aftermath of a Harris win is likely not to be as bad as January 2021 simply because, during the lame-duck period, Joe Biden will be President and Kamala Harris will be Vice-President. We won’t have the people in control of the federal government being in the same party as the insurrectionists and trying to use them for a self-coup.
Whereas what really worries me is not the scenario where Trump is a sore loser, it’s the one where he wins–a second Trump administration would be far more lawless than the first and out for revenge. And the 2028 cycle would get really wild, regardless of whether Trump decides to ignore the Constitutional term limit and go for a third term (or is even alive–his successor would probably be Vance either way). There would probably be “elections” of some sort. But we’d once again have people in charge federally with open contempt for democracy and an interest in extinguishing it. That’s when you start thinking about Putinian possibilities like opposition politicians mysteriously stepping out of 11th-floor windows or developing a taste for polonium on their salad.
catclub
@narya: I wonder if not having Pence as an extra sop to the right wing evangelical wing will hurt trump any with them. It only takes a little.
MagdaInBlack
Trumps GoFundMe for hurricane relief has $4.3 mill so far. I see Bill Ackman donated. Who is Steve Witkoff, the top donor?
Bupalos
“Bet you don’t have a girlfriend, call her on the phone now” is probably an angle that could work with these guys. Not because they necessarily don’t, but because there’s a really good chance that if they do, and even if the woman was another winger, she’d be kind of embarrassed at the immaturity and frivolousness of the whole thing. “He’s where? What? Walking around the streets asking random people about immigrants for youtube hits?”
balconesfault
@Trivia Man: And – ask EVERY candidate on camera, “would you have voted to convict?”
I was thinking the same when I read an article about Larry Hogan today. You’ve GOTTA ask him if he would have voted to convict after Jan 6.
Bupalos
Has there been any followup on who the california dudebro is here? Or his mother or girlfriend?
Mr. Mack
Was really looking forward to hearing Ari Melber break down some of the revelations of the released indictment…I got Navarro, Sondland and Kasich. What. The. Fuck.
Matt McIrvin
@Jeffro: Isbell has been an outspoken liberal for quite a while. None of this “both sides are equally bad” progressivism either.
OId Man Shadow
@Attempted Chemistry: I don’t know… Dan Quayle: Elder Statesman and Constitutional Defender was pretty weird.
zhena gogolia
@OId Man Shadow: That was the last thing I said before going to bed last night!
narya
The part that makes me extremely nervous is that Dems may be in charge of the FEDERAL government, but they’re not in charge of the many many states who are doing whatever they can to suppress voter turnout, remove people from the rolls, cause chaos and doubt, etc. The R plan isn’t to win by getting the most votes, it’s to do a better job than they did last time to keep people from voting and throw out the (D) votes of the people who do vote.
TBone
@Mr. Mack: it was too soon for Ari to have had an in depth analysis ready for his show. But I hear the YUK reaction loud and clear – I changed the channel immediately upon hearing Navarro and then both of the others state that they’re still “conservatives.” Fuck them.
Lawrence O’Donnell didn’t disappoint:
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/10/jack-smith-makes-his-case-no-presidential
Video at link
narya
@catclub: plus maybe the “evangelicals for Harris” ad.
Eolirin
@narya: As long as we don’t lose PA, MI and WI we’ll be okay on that count. We have the executives in those states.
It may cost us the senate if we overperform in Texas and Florida though.
Mr. Mack
@TBone: He rarely does.
Dave
@OId Man Shadow: Well Republican’s are graded on a fairly impressive curve when it comes to that.
Assuming we do make it through this Dan Quayle and Mike Pence defenders of democracy is just something I’ll have to accept might require more than a few edibles,
tam1MI
The waffling he has been doing on abortion should cause a few of them to stay home.
Matt McIrvin
@narya: They have control of fewer swing states than in 2020. The big one where they do is Georgia, so that’s one to keep an eye out for if Harris takes it.
So the craziest efforts I’ve heard about are on the county level–ideas like using some red county to block the entire elector certification of Pennsylvania–but I think it’s important to keep in mind that these are acts of desperation. They’re trying that because they don’t have control of the state government. I think the Unbeatable Weird Trick stories are partly intended to demoralize Democratic voters, and it bothers me a bit that left sources sometimes spread them uncritically.
TBone
@Mr. Mack: 👍
Soprano2
I wish the press would ask every one of these asshats who refuse to admit that TCFG lost the 2020 election “If he didn’t lose, why isn’t he president now?”. LOL When the dam finally breaks, and they aren’t afraid of TCFG and his follower goons anymore, it’ll be nice. I think they live in a bubble and don’t realize that the true believers are actually a minority of a minority, although I can understand being afraid of people who are willing to commit murder for their cult leader.
LOL at the language the older woman used on that guy, I’m sure he wasn’t expecting that!
Bupalos
@narya: One thing we should have learned and need to learn is that government doesn’t function via explicit control of the formal levers of power. It functions via consent, trust, and voluntary (even when grudging) compliance. It will help somewhat that Dems control parts of the government, but as you say even this control is (as always in the United States, by design) fractured and incomplete.
But I think the most likely dynamic should Trump come up short in votes is that the Republicans will internally divide, with a few actually seeing Trump as a last gasp they have to hold onto, and a majority thinking he won’t win and thinking about future political positioning. So I think we’ll get some actual violence that doesn’t actually seriously threaten the transition, and a lot of fractured and ambiguous jockeying around this violence, as Republican power players try to find their way into a post-trump political future. And the strongest position may be Republicans trying to cast Democratic response to the violence as disproportionate and tyrannical and the cause of the chaos in the first place. Somewhere along the lines of the way they defend Jan 6 by suggesting it was a kind of setup and sting by the ANTIFA-FBI.
Kay
@narya:
We’re also not in charge of Trump appointees to the federal bench. As we have learned, they’re shameless hacks.
I think they’re going to try to create some kind of “dispute” in Pennsylvania (I don’t think MI is going to be close and there are indications Trump is giving up on MI) and take that to a Trump appointee on the federal bench.
Kay
@narya:
I just hope there will be an actual massive (peaceful) protest if a Trump appointee on the bench tries to steal it. I worry that they’re won’t be – on our side. We’re going to have to make some noise. If media sees that there’s little public pushback they’ll fall in line. They’re the least resilient of the institutions – the weakest link.
Geminid
CBS radio news reported that Liz Cheney will campaign with Vice President Harris today. I think I heard the venue is in Wisconsin.
Kay
@narya:
What they hoped to do in ’20 was make a chink in the wall – all they needed was one state and one judge to create doubt. If they could bully a major media personality into going along they could get real traction. That was the plan. It’s what they’ll do again – there is no other route. Create chaos, find friendly judge and weak and easily bullied media outlet.
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
They should also point out that the Constitution (22nd Amendment) doesn’t allow someone to be elected President more than twice, and if he was in fact elected in 2020, how is he eligible now?
Forget the 14th Amendment argument – we should have challenged Trump’s presence on the ballot in swing states on this ground, and forced them to argue that he lost the election.
Kay
@Geminid:
Ugh. I hope she’s a net gain. Many Democrats are fucking horrified that we’re embracing the Cheney’s. I was suprised how often I’m hearing it and how MUCH they hate it.
I hope it nets votes. Our people do not like it. Even the Right leaning D’s in my county are horrified.
Scout211
@Geminid: I read that this morning. More details.
Birthplace of the Republican party? Huh. I guess we need all the votes we can get. Ugh.
Betty Cracker
@Eolirin: Rick Scott started yapping about “voter fraud” in FL when the count was close in 2018. (He clammed up when it became clear he’d narrowly win.) He’ll cry foul if he loses in November, and a lot of knuckleheads will believe him, even though Republicans have controlled the state since the 90s.
FWIW, I think he’ll win. I hate the invasive Midwestern python and wish he’d lose, but it’s unlikely, particularly since he has unlimited funds to spend and so many Floridians are stupid enough to be swayed when he screeches nonsensically about socialism.
Ksmiami
@Raven: more of this!!!
catclub
How big a cut is Trump taking off the top?
TBone
@catclub: all of it, Katie.
TBone
@Betty Cracker: hugs
Baud
@Kay:
Desparate times call for desparate measures.
TBone
@Scout211: I am glad to see this for reasons.
Schoolhouse being one of the many.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CvQhTbCY4xc&feature=youtu.be
ROCK
catclub
Of course, that did not fly with normies at all.
Even normies said, yeah right, a bunch of middleaged white guys are the vanguard of Antifa.
TBone
@Baud: 🎯
catclub
@Baud: what about desperate times?
billcoop4
Kamala is following the wise words of Nancy Pelosi: “Just win, baby!”
BC
Baud
@catclub:
Then it’s party time.
TBone
@TBone: holy shit the algorithm loves me! Julie Andrews P2025 parody video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojr4ryZZzpY
💜💜💜
Kay
@Baud:
I told them Sherrod said he needs 1 in 5 Trump voters so this could go to that. They love Sherrod. They’ll embrace a Cheney for him, even. But – ugh. She’s a horrible warmonger who lies about abortion.
Baud
@Kay:
I wish we had the numbers to do it ourselves.
suzanne
PA has lots of grumpy old ladies like that and I am, quite literally, here for it.
Come sit by me.
TBone
@suzanne: 😎
tam1MI
AKA the New York Times.
suzanne
@TBone: There’s a slice of white Americans who think that I should feel more of a responsibility or more of a sense of fellow-feeling toward them than I do migrants or immigrants or asylees….. even if those white Americans are lazy or commit crimes or treat women like shit.
Guess what? I do not. I feel alignment good people who work hard, no matter what their nationality.
narya
@Kay: Speaking of hacks: the SCROTUS has explicitly said previously that it’s “up to the states” how they run their elections, except, say, when Colorado says that TCFG is ineligible to be on the ballot.
One other thing I expect, if Harris wins: the j6 case will get back to SCROTUS and they will find a way to say that TCFG can’t go to trial because he’s immune.
Scout211
@Baud: I don’t see it as desperate, but I do see it as determined.
BR
@Kay:
I would be fine if they put Liz Cheney in a GOP for Harris event tour. I don’t like her doing an event with Harris.
Melancholy Jaques
@Kay:
If I recall, some senator recorded a phone call with Giuliani where he was arguing for exactly that. Something like, “just get the vote delayed till tomorrow.”
SFAW
@tam1MI:
You seem to think the FTFTFNYT is not doing it on purpose. They love them some Rethugs, or maybe they just hate them some Dems; either way, the result is more-or-less the same.
They’re “editorial” of a few days ago — declaring that TCFG shouldn’t be president — was a fig leaf, so that they can pretend they’re not in the tank for him. Their positive message re: Kamala Harris was pretty much non-existent.
EarthWindFire
I’d have loved for Ari to ask WTF they think a conservative is now and how they think their conservatism has a constituency big enough to fit in a restroom stall. But, otherwise, yeah, yuck.
Bupalos
@catclub: Well “oppressive Dems overreacted” is intra-party politics, not a play for normies. It’s a kind of triangulation play that gets past Trump while not explicitly breaking with him the way Desantis tried to.
Geminid
@Scout211: I think Cheney could help with the Independent vote. Many Independents prize bipartisanship as much as some Democrats despise it.
Geminid
@Baud: Yes, and disparate times require disparate measures.
mappy!
@SFAW: Here’s how the editorial could have started (in an alternate universe)…
“It is hard to imagine a candidate more worthy to serve as president of the United States than Kamala Harris. She has proved herself morally fit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest. She has proved herself temperamentally fit for a role that requires these very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility. discipline.“
Baud
@suzanne:
How do you feel about lazy ass good people?
Asking for a friend.
TBone
@EarthWindFire: maybe he did! I didn’t stick around long enough to find out.
TBone
@Baud: 😆🥰
geg6
@suzanne:
Yes. I am one of them.
Geminid
@BR: Evidently Vice President Harris thinks differently. Her campaign team would not have scheduled an appearance with Cheney without her approval.
suzanne
@Baud: Lazy good people are fine!
I just don’t get why anybody feels like I owe them greater respect or assistance or fellowship because of where they happened to fall out.
Scout211
Melania’s grift is over-the-top. But that’s nothing new. Did we expect anything else from her book tour?
It’s a mistake [that they got caught], her team says. But how many news organizations have signed on to this? Hmmm.
satby
Lotta spam on this blog lately. I have email for that.
Kay
We’re gojng to go babysit our two NY grandaughters today. The 4 year old had a presentation by police at daycare where they had a police dog, showed her lights and sirens, etc. She thought it was very cool. Her mother wants my husband to tell her about criminal defense and make it as fun as the police show. Both sides! He said he can show her a copier – lol. Those are fun!
dm
@Rusty: “You’re embarrassing your mother” was a great opener.
JML
I’ve been thinking about Pence and Jan 6th a lot this morning: what would have actually happened if he had been killed in the riot?
(not that I wish death on anyone, including Mike Pence)
Would Chuck Grassley have actually been able to step in and eff up certification of the vote?
Would there have been a much bigger backlash against all of the attempts to overthrow the election once the GOP saw their party leader triggering the assassination of his own VP?
Those fuckwits bend themselves into pretzels minimizing Jan 6th and pretending what happened maybe didn’t really happen. Does that change if the VP is killed?
Or would it have triggered the actual end of democracy in the US, as TFG declares martial law?
We’ll never know, but I wonder a lot about it.
Ruckus
@Jeffro:
You should be using the world’s largest bass for this, a tiny violin won’t shout loudly how actually bad this was for the country. Nor be ominous enough.
This entirely self centered human was the person in charge of OUR government. And seemingly only has the concept of one person that matters, out of millions, in a job that is never actually about that one person. Do not misunderstand, that person has a job to do and that is feel, believe, speak, act in the best interest of ALL of us, the inhabitants/citizens of the country. And he can only think of one, as above all the rest – himself.
Many, many of the humans, citizens and non-citizens of this country do things and have been over the last couple of centuries for the country, often risking their lives and sometimes losing them to protect that which is about all of us. He volunteered to be the leader of a constitutional country and his only focal point is him, him, him, and what anything means to him. That is NOT leadership, that is not the intention, direction, duties of the job. That is being self centered to the first and last degree, from someone who is supposed to be a leader.
The job he was elected to do is one that is about ALL OF US. Not about him. All of us has to be and is above ME. A concept that this person has zero understanding of.
Ken B
@narya: I think that’s one reason the judge released Jack Smith’s filing.
It would be a lot easier to rule that Republican God-Kings are immune without facing blowback if this filing never got out. But after the release, they’ll be facing a lot more blowback if they do it.
We’ll see how many are willing to set what little unearned credibility they still have on fire for the sake of… Trump… if he loses.
Layer8Problem
I just noticed that top tweet was from “Jean-Michel Connard“. Hats off, mon pote.
dc
Is the video with the older white lady telling the right winger to go back where he came from on another platform (youtube, TikTok, etc.)? I won’t watch it on X.
Matt McIrvin
@Kay: I think we’re WELL past the point where, if Harris wins and the courts just try to reverse it, Democrats just go “gee, coach, he’s right– there IS no rule in the book that says a dog can’t play basketball!”
Ruckus
I wonder if a lot of the issues we see now are because republicans seem to have no other candidate than shitforbrains. He is seemingly – their leader. He is their biggest loudmouth, who else do they have? He is the last guy they elected, they seemingly see no one else.
This is worse for the country than for them because it could easily split the country completely. He has zero concept of actually being a leader of any kind. He’s just like a large boulder rolling down a hill, what’s to stop it? A light breeze? The other side of the valley it’s rolling into?
The point I’m trying to make is that republicans have cornered themselves behind the stench that is djt. They likely don’t like him for his personality, they like him because he supposedly has a lot of money, which is supposed to make him smart. But it hasn’t in any way. As an old man myself I see some of the limitations of senioritis and money worship. Especially about the president. We as a country are seemingly at a crossroads – one that humanity often comes across. The powers that be, the status quo, or refreshing the concept of the whatever – which in this case is democracy. We have a couple centuries of building, if not a ruling class, a ruling concept – money. And while money can buy a lot, one of the things it cannot buy is actual humanity of government. The almighty dollar really isn’t. It is a type of currency, it doesn’t tell us about the person with or without it. It tells us one thing, wealth, which of course over time has often been a shitty story of greed, hate and power, no matter the country, group or person. We need money, in the concept of modern life of any reasonable type. We don’t need massive amounts for this but there is a need. But money cannot buy respect, democracy, reality. It can buy humans and has and will, likely forever. We have that purchasing as part of our history. We have it in front of us in the case of djt. But the reality is that this country, while it needs money to operate, and always will, is not about money. djt thinks (such as that process is in that tiny, tiny mind) that it is all about money. He is not alone. Money should not be a qualifier in a democracy, nor a disqualifying concept. But this is after all, humanity.
Matt McIrvin
@Ruckus: There are all these younger people angling to be the next Trump. Vance is obviously the leading one now, but there was DeSantis before him, who seems to have been a wet squib nationally, there is Hawley, Tom Cotton etc.
They don’t have Trump’s big baller TV asshole image or his ability to say this shit without sounding like a phony. But the true believers like them.
I think their next big guy will have to be some other kind of celebrity though. Maybe some Joe Rogan type goes into politics.
Mousebumples
@Scout211: Wisconsin opinion – that’s a red part of the state. I don’t think it’ll flip any counties, but it might peel off a few squishy normies, or at least persuade them to leave the top line blank or vote 3rd party.
Captain C
@Ken B:
If I had to guess, at minimum Scalia and Thomas (who would write an incoherent dissent saying that his wife was immune from prosecution for all crimes ever for Reasons), and Roberts would probably at least whine about comity and respect when the Scalia and Thomas bullshit was exposed as being such, while trying to make a ruling that made TCFG God-Emperor without making him (Dred Scott Roberts) look like the lying hack that he is.
Ruckus
@Matt McIrvin:
On the same page.
This is about power, plain and simple. It is in no way about leadership or democracy. We are at a crossroads, have been here before and will be again in the future.
The country we live in is about equality. And to me equality is a very, very hard to actually define in human terms. It isn’t about being the same height, the same intellect, the same color, the same wealth, it is about each and every one having the same level of citizenship, and even if they are not citizens. It is about equality. It is about all of us, not just the monied or the whitest, or the having the largest whatever, or owning the most property or a business or the many other possibilities of measurement of a person. It is the guy sleeping under a bridge being a citizen, it is the guy having a bank vault of money being equal to that guy living under that bridge. At a time when some have little to nothing and some have billions – we are still equal. In theory no one is more equal than anyone else, and I believe that we have gotten somewhat away from that concept. And I also see that it is likely impossible to ACTUALLY be equal. That rich person can buy lawyers to protect themselves. Even from their own greed and/or stupidity. The poor cannot do that. We are still equal. Money does not make us more equal. Or at least it is not supposed to.
The Other Bob
How weird is it that I (a nobody) knows a woman with a picture of Corey Lewandowski’s penis in her text messages? She has kept it since before the 2016 election.