Kamala’s mirror universe counterpart.
I was hoping that it meant the Duchess of Cornwall was under consideration.
I’m basically in the same boat…but I’m also in a non-competitive, small state so I could vote for The Zombified Corpse of Ronald Reagan and it wouldn’t mean a thing.
Trump seems to be off his meds today, if this tweet is anything to go by…
Prince Charles’s second wife, duh.
Here’s the link to the tweet in case anyone else had to see it to believe it. Wow.
Thanks for that. I had to do a double-take myself, and question my certainty that the past month had actually happened.
:smack: :smack: :smack:
From the Man With His Finger On The Button.
“Mr. President, we–we can’t just nuke London! The UK is one of our closest allies!”
“But they burned the White House!”
He’s so full of shit.
If you want to read Trump’s tweets without getting the dirty feeling you’d get by going to his Twitter feed, I recommend the Trump Twitter Archive.
Here’s a good one from yesterday: he retweets someone named Tom Fitton saying, “AG William Barr says Russia probe targeting @RealDonaldTrump was started ‘without basis’. Where are the prosections?”
Assuming he meant “prosecutions”, Trump can just fucking call up Barr and ask him where the prosecutions are! And if Barr won’t prosecute, he can find someone who’s even more of a toady than Barr is (admittedly a challenge, but Trump’s up to it) to be AG. His tweets often have this weird aspect of Trump seemingly yelling at the TV about what his government’s doing, even though he’s in charge of it.
“Very sad! We are getting killed by this Wuhan Virus PLUS unbelievable numbers of Americans out of work! POTUS very incompetent and a big LOSER! Buck stops with HIM! USA deserves better!
#ImpeachPOTUS NOW!”
Fascinating, and disturbing…but this has to do with “Bernie withdraws” because…??
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and Sander’s role in that was? He has nice ideals. He’s never felt like a practical, get stuff done guy, though. Not that i think Biden is the strongest, either, I just don’t think Sanders would be any better. They’d fail in different way. Sanders would yell, Biden would smile. But neither seems super to me.
God, I hope so. I’m anticipating trump wins the election and i think there’s a nontrivial chance he makes himself dictator for life. At least he’s old and unhealthy.
Matt Yglesias made a very interesting point on the latest Vox podcast. He said he met with people close to the Sanders campaign back in February 2019 and suggested that Bernie actually formally join the Democratic Party. He says they laughed that off and in fact said it was so absurd they weren’t even going to bring the idea to Bernie.
Yglesias goes on to say that he doesn’t want to claim that Bernie would have won if they would have just listened to him, but that it is a remarkable thing in a candidacy that (unlike 2016) did not start out as a protest candidacy but was really aimed at winning the nomination, that they were so dismissive of doing “literally the simplest thing you could do to make yourself seem more acceptable to a mainstream political party.” And I agree that this was a big mistake and a strange form of hubris. It would not have required him to change a single substantive position. There is just some sort of stubborn point of pride about not actually joining the party.
But then it shouldn’t surprise anyone if the party instead chooses a guy who keeps pointing out at every televised rally that he’s a proud lifelong Democrat. So are most Democratic primary voters! You can set all questions of policy and electability aside and even then, people are going to be reluctant to warm to someone who acts disdainful of joining their club. That’s basic human psychology, and the left is going to have to learn from that mistake and not make this unforced error in the future if they want to gain power.
It doesn’t. It’s just irrelevant* ranting.
- — irrelevant to Bernie Withdraws
Other things Bernie should have done: abandoned the “Democratic Socialist” label. In addition to scaring people away, it’s also not technically accurate. Democratic Socialism is about abolishing capitalism. But Bernie’s policies don’t do that, they merely add a stronger safety net and more regulation to our capitalist system. The “revolution” talk may have excited the younger people, but it scared the older folk. In reality, despite the way he branded himself, he’s a reformer, not a revolutionary. A Social Democrat, not a Democratic Socialist.
“All the scariness, half the policies!”
I continue to not buy that you have to do all that much to undo what Trump has actually done, because what Trump has done is mostly “Don’t do the things a president should do,” and “do things any president would not do.” Simply having him replaced means the unstaffing goes away, and that the organizations that were crippled come back. Then all you need from there is to stop the stupid trade wars and stop saying stupid, hostile shit.
I’m not after some huge change in how government functions. Not yet, anyways. You have to first have a foundation that is working, then you can experiment with making things better. you don’t go from dysfunctional to “never tried this before” and expect it to work without harming people.
The main issue I have with Biden is the lack of enthusiasm, and the unfortunate fact that enthusiasm (rather than just rational thought ) is so important in winning elections. It shouldn’t matter how enthused you are for a candidate, as long as they are the better choice (i.e. the lesser of two evils–concepts that mean the exact same thing in a two person race). But, for some reason, it does.
It’s winning the election, not what happens afterwards, that concerns me much more. That’s been a concern since Biden would clearly win. Given that, I care about Bernie dropping out only in terms of how well it will help Trump lose the election, not what happens afterwards.
It’s this big trope that there is no enthusiasm for Biden, but the record turnout of people coming out to vote for him would suggest otherwise. It’s just that those people are not on social media.
Does it, though? When the alternative to Biden is not Romney or Jeb Bush, but TRUMP?
This emphasis on “enthusiasm” seems a relic of a time when the two major-party candidates were both basically sound and sane. But that’s not the situation we’re looking at, this particular November.
Is the talk about ‘not inspiring enough’ a way forward for fans of Sanders to excuse a failure to vote? As if the non-Trump candidate owed it to them to get them excited?
Because that’s not what voting is. It is not an obligation of the candidate to make voters feel any particular way. A vote is not a magical device that ensures the voter is happy and satisfied and feels Seen by the candidate. A vote is a tool you use to get as close as possible to what you want.
In this case, what millions want is for Donald Trump to GO AWAY.