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

xp andy very true! this is a good reminder that it's difficult to understand the actions of people who run for president or are adjacent to that world because they are all dealing with incredible personal issues

https://i.imgur.com/nsCwjG0.jpg

Just clicked on a New Yorker article about Trump as messiah figure and saw that it's written by Christopher Hitchens' daughter. Nice work if you can get it — but you can't, unless your parents were in the club.

the fucked up thing about his messiah / cyrus thing is that it fits what white evangelicals have been searching for signs of for their whole lives: the end, the rapture, apocalypse, punishment, rewards, fighting, action, love, peace. if trump ends up being really bad and evil, that means he's a false prophet or antichrist, and frankly, chandler from friends voice, could trump BE any more antichrist than he already is? he's so fucking evil he makes even me want to convert back to white evangelicalism again. on the other hand, i think of his glossolaliac buddies really do believe in him and think he's some sort of new chosen nu-testament figure. either way, it's apocalypse baby

the video of trump shouting "fight! fight!" was really chilling because it means one things to his paramilitary troll army and another to fundamentalist christians looking for signs of the rapture, matt 24 style

Eazy, it was the 2005 State of the Union. Shortly after the first Iraqi election. Republicans wanted to claim the W for spreading democracy with their stupid bloody war. Neener neener, liberals - give war a chance.

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/2005/photoessay3/04.html

i think it has to be harris and it will go to her, but there are plenty of alternative community-driven systems to choosing a leader. for example,

mx. america
under this system, a new presidential candidate would be chosen via a series of ms america-style political contests, all onstage, on camera, evening shows with unknown faces and names, and the audience/judges just have to make a decision based on what happens that night. to start, each candidate would have to parade onto the stage, smile and wave. each candidate would also have a chance to display a talent or skill. finally, they'd have to answer exactly one difficult political question. each state would take 2 weeks to hold their events and choose a representative, and then the final mx. america competition would be 2 weeks later (in tribute to the 2-week break before the superbowl). whoever wins runs against trump. i don't know what kind of candidate would emerge from this process, but it would be way more representative of what people want than the current system, it would take 4 weeks total, and it would potentially usher in a new age of tv reality government that you'll have to see to believe

BREAKING: CNN reports that President Biden is in the 'contemplative stage' regarding his political future

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) July 18, 2024

nice

I'd vote for this lady.

VP: In recent days, they have been trying to portray themselves as the party of unity. But here is the thing. If you claim to stand for unity, you need to do more than just use the word. pic.twitter.com/tJrVRdOagH

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 18, 2024

sources familiar with the matter say he appears to acknowledge he may be close to coming around to accepting the reality that though he has yet to make up his mind it is time to seriously weigh his options

— Eric Lach (@ericlach) July 18, 2024

BREAKING: CNN reports that President Biden is in the 'contemplative stage' regarding his political future

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) July 18, 2024

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same

Welcome to the resistance, Joseph Robinette Biden

Eazy, it was the 2005 State of the Union.

Ugh, thanks!

I don't know who Eric Lach is but is he the Shams of politics?

He's a New Yorker writer and Twitter smartass

it was purple heart bandages at the 04 RNC. https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/gop.purple.hearts/

good times

Look, when you've lost West Virginia state legislator Kayla Young ...

It’s time. pic.twitter.com/KhqYNNrr6a

— Kayla Young (@kaylayoungforwv) July 18, 2024

Gotta listen to Young people

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4780762-biden-future-harris-running-mate/

They had to choose THAT photo, didn’t they?

lol PBKR I was just going to make a Shams joke

Every time I get home after being out for a couple of hours and find them still talking about Biden's intransigence, I'm amazed and appalled.

Supposedly, Trump's going to talk about how some higher being caused him to turn his head at just the right moment. I'd listen to the wording carefully, he may end up plagiarising Samuel Jackson's speech at the end of Pulp Fiction.

I guess a higher being also decided to kill a bystander.

"that firefighter died for all of us..."

He’s not going to mention anyone killed or wounded at that rally

Sources close to President Biden tell me tonight they’re *furious* that while the president is trying to recover from Covid in Rehoboth, a pressure campaign keeps picking up speed. Lots of anger toward some donors for talking of $ drying up if he doesn’t quit, toward what they…

— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 19, 2024

"Sources close to..." =Jill

Sometimes you just have to steal grandpa’s car keys.

ha what losers maybe try finding a fully functioning president if you care so much

Biden is starting to make the Nixon of August '74 look like a paragon of humility and clear thinking.

which.. he kinda was.. .delusional, antisemitic, but they didn't need a hook to pull him offstage

"You won't have Old Joe to kick around anymore..."

He could, at the very least, still understand simple math.

apparently Hulk Hogan speaking now, we've gone full wrasslin'

Well Hogan has one thing in common with Trump, people have filmed him saying the n word

So Costa's the Biden direct channel basically.

Andrew Bates is knocking down everything he sees on Twitter, saying no no no no not gonna happen. Maybe Biden's really gonna make it a public fight, there's been this tacit assumption that at some point he gets it and folds but obviously he doesn't have to do that. And the longer he drags on, the more factious the party gets, the pro-Biden people who are left are starting to get super defensive (a lil bit MAGA) and it all seems bad. I think it's megalomaniacal for Biden not to step aside at this point, but the race isn't short on megalomaniacs.

I just don't see what path he sees here — everybody walks back everything they've said and they have a huge celebratory convention and it's all hunky dory? I guess when he sees himself at the center of all that, he just doesn't/won't see himself as he is, and doesn't understand what a fantasy it is. Just boomer narcissism on a large scale. (I know, not "boomer," but really he is.)

Just boomer narcissism on a large scale

yup

What if it turns out that Joe and Jill stay up every night digging for the treasure buried under the White House, and they need at least another 10 months to reach it?

imagine if he got to the convention speech and starts talking about Housing Secretary Carville and UN Ambassador Bill Haley... at that point you can't walk it back

he had one job (the debate)

all he had to say was "it's been four years and you still won't shut up"

Foreign policy experts who have publicly supported President Joe Biden are circulating a petition among former national security officials who have worked under him, saying he should step down as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate for the good of the country.
“With the deepest appreciation for your many decades of inspired leadership, we strongly believe that ongoing concerns surrounding your continued candidacy and the growing likelihood of an electoral college victory for Donald Trump put your national security accomplishments ― and our country and your legacy ― at an unacceptable level of risk,” reads the letter they intend to send, which HuffPost viewed a copy of on Thursday evening.

Better to pull the bandaid off before this gets (even more publicly) embarrassing

Basically Pelosi figured out Donilon was the one feeding Biden hopium-spiked poll results, and leaked it out.

Once it was proven that there really was bad info in the inner circle, that gave everyone else confidence in their own eyes. The emperor really was naked. https://t.co/cznv2gvfOH

— Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 (@michaelzlin) July 18, 2024

What if it turns out that Joe and Jill stay up every night digging for the treasure buried under the White House, and they need at least another 10 months to reach it?

Starring Nicolas Cage

#Still RidingWithBiden2024 l pic.twitter.com/dpbjpXEkLA

— Dolly Madison ✌🏻🌻 🟦 (@dollymad1812) July 19, 2024

xp Ulysses Grant's Confederate Gold.. saw a History Channel show about this

kid rock is bringing the house down.