US Politics, August 2024 -- "Unburdened By a Has-Been"

Lil xp

Next Monday she's taking them all to Red Lobster for Endless Shrimp, and the last one to tap out gets the VP slot

Congratulations Gov Walz

shapiro can't have shrimp

wild that vance is still on twitter doing gender science after all the negative publicity since he was selected youd think hed give it a rest for a minute try to figure out how to not make everyone hate him

yeah but it showcases Harris' deep ties to Algeria's womens boxing

I think I hate Vance more than Trump.

he's looking like the least popular VP pick since Eagleton in '72

kind of kicking myself for not going to the fundraiser one of my former workplaces had for Harris years ago when she was running for AG (she and the founder's then-wife knew each other). Instead I got to meet Tim Kaine when he wandered through one day which was anticlimactic (oh I did meet Jesse Jackson there once also which was cooler).

Harris' Berkeley childhood apartment is not super far from my house. I walked by there a lot when Biden/Harris won in 2019. It's a preschool/daycare now. They had lots of signs up saying "Please don't ring the doorbell".

Whoa I just remembered I met Tim Kaine

I've met Diane Feinstein & Gerry Brown but they're not all that exciting

I've been telling people that I went to the same university as Harris. I did my internship, residency and fellowship training at the University of California San Francisco (which is comprised entirely of graduate colleges), and she went to law school at UCSF

Around the same time?

lol, kesha is doing her tribute to j.d. vance right now at lollapalooza.

xp no, 5 years earlier. the first I heard of her was in 2003 when she challenged the widely-known (and notorious) incumbent Terence Hallinan for SF District Attorney, she caused a lot of excitement and beat him in the election, and then was re-elected in 2007

ancient history, but I remember those races well

I wonder how much Rahm wants to be on the considered list.

I met Gary Hart! He shook my hand and said “hi, I’m the next President of the United States”. I must have been like 12.

i feel like a lot of the clinton-era people are gone. thankfully. rahm is safely in japan far far away. i guess i wasn't fan. i still have to see stupid james carville on t.v. because i'm stupid enough to watch t.v.

donna brazile. she's on t.v. they put susan rice on msnbc sometimes. hill and bill are nowhere to be seen though. thank you jesus.

even al gore. never see him. he works for a venture capital firm now. to save the planet.

thats how it should be if you lose you have to go away and not remind us of how you blew it, hillary has been really bad at that

Apparently Carville is on MSNBC which I refuse to watch, but I see people bitch about him being there often enough

Lanny Davis, who drove me up the wall in 2008, still pops up now and again.

thats how it should be if you lose you have to go away and not remind us of how you blew it, hillary has been really bad at that

― lag∞n, Thursday, August 1, 2024 9:40 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflag

MSNBC is the phantom zone for these people

i tried to watch msnbc recent because of some political event and it was so bad, not in a i disagree with these people way it was just really poorly made tv

i watch msnbc for the cheerful personalities. it brightens my mood, even if it comes with apocalyptic prophesies here and there.

Hillary pops up on The View like once every six months. As I noted over on the the Trump containment thread, she and Bill both spoke at Sheila Jackson Lee's memorial today. He sounded phlegmy and old.

looked thru a heap of used books the other day and this popped out and i almost screamed when i saw the picture. he's gonna get you!!!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81en5-UyrEL.jpg

embarrassing typo on the first name there

Boy Clinton was his Rap name.

He looks like he’s looking down someone’s blouse

If Walz is elected VP will Alan Sparhawk play an inaugural ball?

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, August 1, 2024 4:03 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I would hope that Alan would know better than to do something so fucking stupid.

he would only do it for mitt.

I would like him to play at any inaugural ball!

I made my college friend and also my cousin watch that ryanlong03 video posted about the charli xcx von dutch brat coconut tree edit featuring Harris

why did I stay up till 3am making a von dutch brat coconut tree edit featuring kamala harris and why can’t I stop watching it on repeat pic.twitter.com/hqcmerD1Pb

— ryan (@ryanlong03) July 3, 2024

but the NY Magazine cover of her sitting on a giant coconut was kind of appalling

i scan/read newspapers every day and i watch news on t.v. every day and i don't think i ever read a single article about kamala harris or about something she was doing in the entire four years of her VP-ness. i don't think i saw or read an interview with her. i couldn't tell you a single thing that she did and i rarely heard her mentioned. she was a cipher to me. if a big deal was made about a woman of color being VP (and there should have been!) i missed it. i saw mike pence WAY more in his four years. ditto biden with obama. and ditto dick cheney (sadly) and al gore. but maybe she just wasn't doing stuff that interested me. or maybe she was flying around the world the whole time. its weird though. anyway, i'm making up for lost time.
i did pay attention to her when she was a senator though and i thought she was a badass!

You missed when she had that duel?

see, i knew i missed some cool stuff!

biden is up past his bedtime. prisoner plane just landed. nice plane!

kamala's there with joe.

aww, nice hugs!

Strange watching Biden and Harris be interviewed at the same time when they're really operating in two different worlds right now. Must be tricky for her to maintain the right amount of deference.

she definitely sounds deferential but also presidential! she was pitch-perfect.

I've been telling people that I went to the same university as Harris. I did my internship, residency and fellowship training at the University of California San Francisco (which is comprised entirely of graduate colleges), and she went to law school at UCSF

Er, hold on. (I work for UCSF...we're a grad medical school. Assuming you mean the former UC Hastings, now UC College of the Law, which is in SF?)

Satisfying seeing Biden and Harris greeting the released prisoners.Trump must be *this close* to an aneurysm.

Rosenberg: I think when you look back at this magical moment that we’re in now, there are three things that really contributed to it: the picking of Vance, Joe Biden’s selfless act, and Kamala Harris coming out of the gate in a very commanding and strong fashion. I think all of… pic.twitter.com/pDJoQy7hYU

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 1, 2024

I have mercifully never even heard of simon rosenberg, but none of us should compelled to care about what these people think. they are idiots and partisans, and no one apart from simpletons who are voting dem regardless — and thank god for them — are hanging on their words. instructively, a few of these folks happen to post to this board, and if you are a masochist you can read some of their posts in the july thread to see how insane they look in retrospect. to try to find a common cultural document, it’s not unlike the denialists in “don’t look up”.

The selflessness of being told you suck, you're going to lose and all your favorite billionaires are going to stop giving you money so you'll get routed by a guy that had 50% of the country singing "should have been a better shot/got him in the head."

Jeez, k3v, sorry this board continues to disappoint you. Sorry not everyone's up to your standard of intelligence.

Maybe you need to find a forum with better clientele.

In the meantime, I think that your tone is unhelpful and dickish.

wtf

The “selfless act” stuff does kind of make me grind my teeth. He was incredibly selfish not to drop out sooner or even to consider staying in. He was borderline forced out and could not realistically stay in in his condition. I get that maybe it’s sort of a formality to make the whole thing smoother but it’s a reminder of why I never want to work anywhere near politics.