The Shoes photos will be hard for Little Marco to overcome—not to mention the damage done by the Little Marco moniker.
The right likes its candidates to seem at least marginally Dominant and Strong, and those traits are not called to mind by clown shoes.
Pundit Mona Charen has a good takedown of Rubio, published today:
(For what it’s worth, I’d support a thread-title change to something less violent-sounding.)
So original.
I’m not familiar with their paradigm. Does someone set those odds, or are they just the current betting line from all bettors, or something else? Personally, I do not rate the intelligence or perspicacity of Kalshi bettors enough to pay attention to. They are gamblers, are they not? That makes most of them losers.
Haven’t those poor people suffered enough?
He should ask this guy about the power of images, even ones that look innocuous when taken.
Agreed. He may get on the ticket, but I doubt if he’ll be elected.
Of course, we’ve said that before about other candidates.
I’ll wonder for the rest of my life: why didn’t he just wear extra pairs of socks?!?
Why doesn’t Marco Rubio just wear an extra pair of socks so that the oversized shoes fit better? I wonder why doesn’t he just buy the same type of shoe in the correct size. That’s what I would have done. I think the Florsheim shoes that Donald Trump was buying for people cost something like $150 a pair, which isn’t even all that expensive.
And Googling, all Florsheim shoes are made overseas, “in Cambodia, China, India, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.” Ironic that Trump doesn’t support a domestic producer.
Definitely. Dukakis wouldn’t have posed for that picture if he’d known it would be interpreted in a way opposite to what he’d hoped. The ‘Resolute Manliness’ he’d hoped to convey was seen instead as ‘little guy incongruously sticking out of giant tank, looking like a poseur.’
The right DOES insist on Resolute Manliness. And, again, Clown Shoes does not cut it.
Because he’s a Cheap-Ass Stupid-Shit Little Cowardly Weasel.
Same with all the shabby MAGA merch garbage.
I don’t think there’s enough meat there to be worth firing up the grill for. Maybe cut the ears off and fry them up for Mike Tyson.
You misspelled predictable.
ChASSLCW? Need to work on that!
??? Prediction markets develop probabilities, not yes/no decisions. If you take an ensemble of 70/30 predictions, the prediction market performs well when 30% of those underdogs succeed.
There, there, don’t cry. The overpriced gold-painted Trump watch advertised as “Made in USA” ended up made in China, but it was “Made with American values.”
And just like the 1918 Inverted Jenny postage stamp, which is priced as high as $2 Million, the lucky watch buyers with ‘TRUMP’ misspelled on their watches may see the value of their keepsakes soar up to Tens of dollars.
The $TRUMP meme “coins” had a market cap of $72 billion at its peak. Abe Lincoln never did that. Mother Teresa never did that. Tulipomania never did that. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.
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So after the biggest “we fucking hate this administration” election in 50 years you’re dooming about the GOP winning the next presidential election? Go touch some grass.
Also, both Kalshi and Polymarket have Ossoff as the favorite and Vance over Rubio among republicans.
As was the overpriced, gold-painted trump phone.
I guess ‘Made with American values’ means ‘manufactured in a country with cheap child labor in order to maximize profit margins’.
But a proper pair of Wisconsin-made Allen Edmonds oxfords are $400 list, $250 on sale. Plus he’s likely disconnected enough to think Florsheim’s still a class American brand.
There’s nothing more American than that! 