US Politics, July 2024 - "Will you just drop out, man?"

Yeah, I saw that

Out of words.

Based on the rate of news in the past week alone, we're about 30 months out from MAGA squads knocking on doors to make sure the Trump portrait is hung to specs in all living spaces.

don't worry the Democrats have a comprehensive four year battle plan to deal with the fallout of another Trump administration. they've got this.

I look forward to seeing friends die as they’re nestled in their concentration camps

You make it sound kind of cozy.

How will the televised military tribunals work in the era of streaming? Will we all be required to subscribe to Trump TV? Will they be aired on every service?

I was alluding to my favourite episode of Strangers With Candy

He wasn’t president when he was paying a porn star. What is there to delay and review in this?

I keep picturing that scene from The Office where Michael declares bankruptcy by shouting out, "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY", with Trump just pacing around yelling, "THIS IS AN OFFICIAL ACT" before everything he does.

He was President when he paid back Michael Cohen and labeled it a campaign expenditure.

Paying Stormy Daniels was not the crime.

To me, something like this would seem hard to ignore (even though Biden's defenders quite likely will):

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/cnn-poll-post-debate/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8mduTEvnU0

“Top campaign officials briefed donors in a call Monday evening. A person familiar with the call said the campaign stressed that Biden knows he needs to do better after the debate and that they plan to have him out more. “

RUH ROH

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"dear Ralston, I just sent you a letter about razor blades I found in my cereal. thank you for sending me more boxes of cereal with razors in them"

Beamish: I should have recognized that it’s only my favorite show ever :(

pic.twitter.com/WtAQyt5CwV

— soylent spleen (@beeofstagnancy) July 2, 2024

I lolled

Future 2024. A Percocet and stripper in every home.

and Gucci flip-flops

wow it really is a possibility he drops out, i would have never thought it

Future to Biden: "You deserve it"

When clyburn says this, it might be happening

“I will support” Vice President Kamala Harris if President Joe Biden “were to step aside,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Biden-Harris campaign co-chair, told Andrea Mitchell earlier on MSNBC.

— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) July 2, 2024

Degenerate gamblers agree

Kamala for nominee futures are skyrocketing right now, doubled since noon: pic.twitter.com/W4sqI25Ez0

— Quantіan (@quantian1) July 2, 2024

These things can happen fast:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/house-democrat-call-biden-withdraw/index.html

this seems to be the best out of the terrible constrained options here, tbh, I realize everyone has been arguing abt Harris for days but the $200 mil already raised is a big deal

yeah I mean it can't be anyone else for that reason alone

It feels like anything is possible, in a way that sucks but is also wholly unreal. I guess … we’ll see whatever we’ll see, right?

the post on the Future subreddit foreshadows our new xanned-out Dem candidate

its really wild, I mean this is what we all feared in 2016 isn't it? the GOP is willing to blow up whatever norms they need to in order to retain power and punish people, while the Dems would loudly go tsk-tsk and talk about how "no one is above the law" while taking no actual action to reign things in. now that the demise of the country is starting them in the face are they really gonna just sit back and go "oh well, at least we followed the rules"? I mean history says yes but man I dunno with all the calls for Biden to drop out there's a lot of "holy shit do something" out there

I mean the situation seems pretty dire

New for @PuckNews:

Leaked polling from Democratic data firm OpenLabs shows Biden sinking in battleground states + putting states like Virginia, NH, New Mexico in play for Trump.

AND now - Harris, Whitmer, Newsom, Pete outpolling him in swing states.https://t.co/10VV6jFlh7

— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) July 2, 2024

if their own internal polls are showing this...yeah, it'll happen.

Fuck Pete Buttigieg and don’t even joke about him being in contention

is Puck respectable? I've only seen'em quoted a handful of times over the years.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/30/vance-president-immunity-biden-trump-00165948

Sexual assault allegations against RFK Jr.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-reportedly-shared-photos-of-nude-women-bbqd-dog

Sexual assault and animal abuse doesn’t hurt American politicians

I don't need to click the story -- the url is a delight and water came out my mouth.

xp Puck is fairly new (launched in 2021) but staffed by people with reputable pedigrees. You might see them quoted more if they weren't so heavily paywalled.

I think their journalists are mostly refugees from legit legacy publications, but “leaked internal polling” is always going to be fishy.

Gotcha! xpost

RFK's response to the story was literally "I have a lot of skeltons in my closet."

skeletons

RFK Jr. had sex with a barbequed dog

In his closet. Under the watchful eye of Red Skelton.

Barbecue dog is only good if hickory flavored

Ok so now we need a 4th of July unity rally where Biden hands off to Kamala, she names Andy Beshear as veep candidate, and Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. (If one thing I didn’t think could happen actually might, might as well go all the way.)

I guess the next question is how much pressure will there be on Harris to remain the candidate or, for whatever personal reasons, step aside.

I’m old enough to remember when (male) candidates had to drop out of races because they had an affair with an adult woman or smoked a joint.