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

There's just gonna be more stories like that NYT one. My (78-yr-old) mother was extremely happy about Lloyd Doggett, for anybody at all to be speaking out. She and my dad — both very lefty — are like personally pissed that Biden's running. They know what getting old actually does, they never thought he should have run again.

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Saw a reply in that thread from Dana saying "Show us how, then"

Did they?

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— Zevia Jane (@JaneZevia63329) July 2, 2024

Still holding out that Trump nominates a complete lunatic as VP that turns off a handful of still-wavering swing voters.

No idea how the people around Biden thought they were going to keep all of this quiet through a campaign season. They should have followed through on the right-wing conspiracies about reintroducing COVID, make Joe wear a mask at all times and dub him with a voice actor.

Trump's old too, he could still die. Keep hope alive.

shouldve rigged him up as immortan' joe imo

one reason I hate tweet threads is that people's expertise tends to be assumed when they write tweet-threads but often times the tweeter is out of their depth with what they're tweeting about.

beginning one by saying "it's possible I'm missing something, but I dont' think so" isn't the most auspicious start

I wish daily for Trump's death. he has heart disease and that was as of 6 years ago!

Is QAnon still a thing? I feel like there should be some conspiracy theories out there about how Trump successfully cut off Biden's adrenochrome supply. So now they have to kidnap some more children.

xpost also relies a lot on suggestion of 'this is how it is' without much in the way of support, like I don't demand a bibliography or anything but y'know pertinent real-life or personal examples or at least references to governing documents that say these things and not just a suggestion that 'this is what it is'.

that said, I think it has to be Kamala.

I don’t think she has a chance

it still pisses me off so much that Trump got a really bad case of Covid and likely would've died a painful death had lifesaving drugs not been invented just in time to save his life

xpost also relies a lot on suggestion of 'this is how it is' without much in the way of support, like I don't demand a bibliography or anything but y'know pertinent real-life or personal examples or at least references to governing documents that say these things and not just a suggestion that 'this is what it is'.

that said, I think it has to be Kamala.

― perpetually awkward, perennially unhappy (Neanderthal), Tuesday, July 2, 2024 3:15 PM bookmarkflaglink

The support was about 20 odd substantive points.

I looked (not too hard) at the replies in terms of alternate plans and saw references to:

1. unspecified "legal process" (as a lawyer, I lol'ed)
2. refunding campaign donations
3. the RNC possibly filing lawsuits against the DNC for violating some of these laws
4. the idea of campaign lawyers collaborating on the new plan

So, this expertise thing cuts both ways. There could be a plan, and if it is viable, I am sure we will hear more about it.

and yes, keep hope alive, not Trump

Buttigieg literally mocked people who supported Sanders and M4All. He is an absolute piece of shit

Pronounced Booty-gig

I’m just waiting for Biden’s shitshow upcoming sit down with George Stephonopolous

Get a necromancer to bring Pete's dad back, let him run

Put that pres
Out to pasture

Biden already got Jack Black’s endorsement. Does that just automatically transfer to Kamala or someone else or do they have to go through some cumbersome process to get it? These are things people aren’t considering.

I want a refund on all my Dark Brandon merch

Maybe one of these 3 a.m. phone calls people are so worried about will confuse Biden into drone striking Kavanaugh, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Barrett. Then people can use up their "Biden did this" stickers.

Dark Brandon must go through death to be reborn as the Antichrist

KEEP HOPE ALIVE

Thanks, Felicity. My mood is super dark right now and that made me lol.

Dark Brandon vs. Darkness Closing In Brandon

Now with added Immunity™

xxxp yes, K Hive

They polled Michelle

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/graphic%201%20jpeg_5.jpg

Gavin Newsom is slime but he's politically astute, he's gonna stay out of this mess and bide his time

Harris / Obama ftw, she could resign after 6 months and go back to her life. who cares. or VP Barack

RFK Jr. looks like a shrunken apple head

No idea how the people around Biden thought they were going to keep all of this quiet through a campaign season.

One of the depressing things about last week was realizing the aviator shades were a pretty good way of keeping us seeing what we wanted to see. Not that Trump doesn't have a dozen layers of disguise.

xxp Barack is ineligible to be VP, he has to be able to assume the Presidency

Come on, haven't we all wanted to test what the 22nd amendment means by what 'elected' means in "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"?

trump will certainly test that if he wins and is still alive in 2028

SCOTUS will find the 22nd amendment unconstitutional on the basis of its conflict with the supreme power of the unitary executive. He needs no election and cannot be term limited. He is and has always been.

"term limits" are for suckers, let's get rid of this whole four year thing and replace it with "until he gets the job done"

I know I was saying that death-of-democracy talk hasn't really fired up many people, but it seems like Project 2025 is getting some traction as a threat. It's handy in having a scary-sounding and easy-to-remember name.

Project 2025 is not a game, it’s white Christian nationalism. It is the Sharia Law of the “Christian” crazy people who aren’t Christian at all but want to control every aspect of your life through their narrow and exclusionary interpretation of Christ’s egalitarian, inclusive,… https://t.co/F1sdIpkovi

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 1, 2024

Rark Muffalo!

Project 2525 is made from people!

Already knew RFK jnr was beyond awful, but didn't know just how awful:

Mary found Robert’s diaries. In the back pages were lists of women with whom Robert had had flings. The book elaborates: “He ranked them from one to ten, as if he were a teenager. Ten, Mary knew, was for full-on intercourse. ‘My lust demons,’ he wrote, were his greatest failing.

“He used the word ‘mugged’ a lot – women who, he wrote, just came up to him on the street and said, How about it? If they had sex, he considered himself mugged, a passive victim of aggressive women.

“There were so many – astronomical numbers, Mary said, and she knew a lot of them: The celebrated actress who came to their house and went on vacations with her family. The older model who was always around. The socialite whose husband was one of Bobby’s good friends. A gorgeous royal. The wife of a very famous man. A lawyer. A doctor. An environmental activist. All these beautiful, accomplished women. How could Mary compete?”

Mary became distraught, weeping and drinking and struggling to get out of bed, the book says. Robert tried to forcibly hospitalise her, telling her that she would be “better off dead”. Callahan interviewed Mary’s therapist, Sheenah Hankin. When Robert asked for Mary to be diagnosed as mentally ill, Hankin refused, telling him: “Your wife isn’t mentally ill. She is angry and depressed, but she is not ill.”

Robert began dating the actor Cheryl Hines, who played Larry David’s wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He cut off Mary’s credit card and access to cash. Broke, she had to ask other mothers for an extra $20 so she could buy petrol and groceries.

Finally, she hanged herself at home. The book recounts how Mary had put on her yoga clothes and sandals, and walked out to her barn. “When she was found that afternoon, Mary’s fingers were stuck inside the rope around her neck. She had changed her mind. She had tried to save herself.”

Mary’s siblings insisted that her depression had been a direct result of her husband’s cheating and neglect, his threats to take the children and leave her with nothing, “bringing the full weight of the Kennedy family to bear against her”.

Robert, however, portrayed Mary to the world as a disconsolate alcoholic. In his eulogy, he took no responsibility for the anguish that his adultery had caused her. He said: “I know I did everything I could to help her.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/02/maureen-callahan-kennedy-family-women

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i wondered why heritage and conservatives were being so open with their administrative fascism plans, because why not just keep it under wraps and unveil it when it's time to end the republic once and for all? but right now it seems like another cruel game, because it works for them on both sides of reality. on one side, they use it to enflame trump voters that their man has a plan to root out the deep state whatever and replace them with loyal henchmen. then, after the election, they can deny everything, enact the plan differently, pull a few different levers (barf on me for typing that) and hold back on 1 or 2 of the most wretched things, and mock anyone who opposed them for believing in the project 2025 conspiracy theory.(in fall 2029, propublica will publish a brilliant exposé showing how project 2025 was implemented in plain sight in 2025)

also you can see how so much of the world is engulfed in authoritarian states and conspiracy theories - some of them are true, some of them aren't, but almost everything is plausible because the people in charge demonstrably don't care about the wellbeing of normal people

it still pisses me off so much that Trump got a really bad case of Covid and likely would've died a painful death had lifesaving drugs not been invented just in time to save his life

― frogbs, Tuesday, July 2, 2024 6:20 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

dirty secret of medicine is that the very best medical therapies we have for anything reduce mortality by at most 20-25%, early covid being no exception

can't we just bioengineer a virus that is only lethal to him

I mean his DNA is probably 75% Big Mac by now

President Biden tomorrow is having lunch with Vice President Harris, and will be meeting in the Roosevelt Room at 6:30pm with Democratic governors.

— Matt Viser (@mviser) July 3, 2024

JUST IN: Governor Gavin Newsom is heading to DC tomorrow to meet with President Biden and other democratic governors.

— Daniela Pardo (@danielapardotv) July 3, 2024

just run six people for President as one hybrid Prez

all hail hydra