US Politics the Biden's age a nothing burger edition

[ThinkerX]

3 hours ago, kissdbyfire said:

"Person, woman, man, camera, tv", folks. That's what a very stable genius sounds like.

And that's not all! Oh no, there's so much more on RS. 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-iowa-campaign-caucuses-2024-false-election-claims-1234908453/

A small sample:

 

 

This could get interesting...there be say, Ser Scott on election day, when six or eight armed Trump goons come in and say 'we are here to make sure you people vote right. Vote, right, hear that! none of this demo-socialist crap, bbecause those people ain't real Americans!' Then one of them plops himself right beside Scott and tells him calling the cops would be an especially dumb idea...

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

38 minutes ago, ThinkerX said:

This could get interesting...there be say, Ser Scott on election day, when six or eight armed Trump goons come in and say 'we are here to make sure you people vote right. Vote, right, hear that! none of this demo-socialist crap, bbecause those people ain't real Americans!' Then one of them plops himself right beside Scott and tells him calling the cops would be an especially dumb idea...

We will see how that goes.  

[kissdbyfire]

3 hours ago, ThinkerX said:

This could get interesting...there be say, Ser Scott on election day, when six or eight armed Trump goons come in and say 'we are here to make sure you people vote right. Vote, right, hear that! none of this demo-socialist crap, bbecause those people ain't real Americans!' Then one of them plops himself right beside Scott and tells him calling the cops would be an especially dumb idea...

Didn’t something sort of like that happen in 22? In… I wanna say Arizona? Lots of armed (of course) people watching drop boxes and other crazy stuff? Trump keeps at it and it will be worse next year. 

[A True Kaniggit]

I’m a bit worried now that  George Santos is no longer in Congress. 
 

Apparently he’s the greatest defense attorney that has ever existed. 
 

Now he has the time to get Former President Trump off on all charges. 
 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

14 minutes ago, Madame deVenoge said:

Saturday Night Live will ever be the same!

Santos spells it "ever" too, so it has to be right! 

[DireWolfSpirit]

Does the Santos pos get a congressional pension for the rest of his slithery life now?

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

38 minutes ago, DireWolfSpirit said:

Does the Santos pos get a congressional pension for the rest of his slithery life now?

No, it takes three terms in the House. Technically you don't have to finish out the third, but all the same. 

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

Santos (if that is really his name) style horseshit from Tennessee Freshman Representative Andy Ogles.  He lied about his resume and Undergraduate achievements.  He calls himself an “Economist” repeatedly while having taken one Economics class in undergrad. 

Wow.

https://x.com/nc5philwilliams/status/1730984036682629426?s=46

[IheartIheartTesla]

On 12/3/2023 at 3:17 AM, kissdbyfire said:

Didn’t something sort of like that happen in 22? In… I wanna say Arizona? Lots of armed (of course) people watching drop boxes and other crazy stuff? Trump keeps at it and it will be worse next year. 

Maybe then it would be time for Democrats to realize they are the party in power, and use the entire force of the federal government to ensure elections are happening freely and fairly.

[Zorral]

So sad. Poor ND Gub Burgum has suspended his campaign to be the 2024 nom for POTUS.

Learned this from the same magrag, The Hill, from where I learned there is yet another 'republican' candidate for POTUS 'debate'.   Happening tonight.  But without Burgum and without others too.  Does anyone care?

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

3 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Santos (if that is really his name) style horseshit from Tennessee Freshman Representative Andy Ogles.  He lied about his resume and Undergraduate achievements.  He calls himself an “Economist” repeatedly while having taken one Economics class in undergrad. 

Wow.

https://x.com/nc5philwilliams/status/1730984036682629426?s=46

The reporter asking him why he couldn't remember his major and him running away is hilarious. 

We get what we deserve. 

[butterbumps!]

is the inevitable outcome of this recent push for Haley that she becomes Trump’s running mate?  I’m struggling to come up with ways that wouldn’t be fairly catastrophic for dems.  

 

[Zorral]

33 minutes ago, butterbumps! said:

fairly catastrophic for dems.  

why?  Him having a second term is what is catastrophic.  She would just come along.  After all too, Biden's got Kamala Harris.

[Kalbear]

10 minutes ago, Zorral said:

why?  Him having a second term is what is catastrophic.  She would just come along.  After all too, Biden's got Kamala Harris.

It makes it more likely that Trump will win. Haley gives more people more ability to plausibly deny Trump's worst excesses and say 'no, she's good' and vote for him anyway. 

[Mr. Chatywin et al.]

The VP pick in general doesn't matter that much and won't help Trump. Pence probably had more impact than anyone Trump selects this time. 

[Zorral]

38 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

It makes it more likely that Trump will win. Haley gives more people more ability to plausibly deny Trump's worst excesses and say 'no, she's good' and vote for him anyway. 

Not necessarily at all since his base loathe women, and women of color (among the basket of the hates of the  deplorables).  It feels like a cancel out.

Not to mention that jerktraitorwad himself hates women, women of color and immigrants.

Not to mention, though Haley's an awful shit bird in her own, she is The Shit Bird in Her Own right, and it seems unlikely that she could put up with what it would take from her to be his vp.

Edited December 4, 2023 by Zorral

[Kalbear]

1 minute ago, Zorral said:

Not necessarily at all since his base loathe women, and women of color (among the basket of the hates of the  deplorables).  It feels like a cancel out.

His base are going to vote for him no matter what. There is nothing he can do to alienate them other than lose.

 

[Zorral]

1 minute ago, Kalbear said:

His base are going to vote for him no matter what. There is nothing he can do to alienate them other than lose.

 

Now, that is possible -- listening to Iowa women working to caucaus him -- learned he and they did from the last Iowa primary caucaus.  OTOH, can you believe it? Fox cut away from his rally to fact check all the lies he was telling. But again, so what, CNN spun it so differently.

[butterbumps!]

39 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

It makes it more likely that Trump will win. Haley gives more people more ability to plausibly deny Trump's worst excesses and say 'no, she's good' and vote for him anyway. 

Yes.  The magats are coming out for Trump regardless of who his running mate is.   The fact Haley is a woman will convince a bunch suburban women to come back to the gop and worry less about things like women losing rights to their body, and give “generic republicans” that veneer of acceptability.  Bonus for the donor class if Trump shuffles off the mortal coil leaving her in place.  

[Phylum of Alexandria]

3 hours ago, Zorral said:

it seems unlikely that she could put up with what it would take from her to be his vp.

She has put up with a lot to get as far as she has. She strikes me as someone who likes to think of themselves as good--and maybe in conventional political cultures she would be--but also as someone who's both ambitious and not very brave. Like Pence, actually.