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

The Wit and Wisdom of RFK Jr

the Noah we need for our End Times

jesus steven miller is on msnbc..why?

maybe stephen miller has buttigeig envy. he wants to prove he can enter the liberla lion's den and demolish them

Rfk is weird

jd vance pic.twitter.com/Db4bRFAPlR

— Pep Boys & Baboon Cinematic Universe (Updates) (@EarvLikes) August 7, 2024

yes

who’s that guy who does meme edits of republicans, like changing the colour of the video and adding fart noises? vic berger - vance is like a vic berger video that’s come to life and running for vp

duh they work together don’t they

ya

weirdest thing about RFK - he doesn't actually cook & eat the roadkill, he just freezes it

Waiting until science can bring it back to life

Vance showing up at Kamala’s tarmac was some McCain loser shit

"See that plane back there? All mine in a few months."

He's back

In his first TV interview since exiting the 2024 race, President Biden tells CBS News' @costareports he's "not confident at all" that a peaceful transfer of power will happen in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump loses.

"He means what he says. We don't take him… pic.twitter.com/uE4dj5Vzrs

— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) August 7, 2024

How can it be anything but peaceful, the people in charge of the transition are his own people. The only reason people freaked out about that in 2020 is because Trump had direct influence over all of the parties involved in the transition and was actively attempting to block it

Kamala herself will be presiding over the electoral vote count.

The main challenge are states with 2020 deniers in key positions who might obstruct state certification. That's worth worrying about, but Trump's just gonna file dumb lawsuits

He did incite a mob of idiots to storm the Capitol

yeah I assume he means the potential for another Jan. 6 type of event

Well biden is immune and can order them gunned down

If the EC count is close and the GOP manages to foul up one or two swing states and keep them from certifying their results, they can knock Harris' EC vote count under 270 which throws the election to the House, where it's a vote of state delegations, so Trump wins 26-24. Any attempt to do that will result in tons of lawsuits which will get appealed up to... the Supreme Court.

stop the steal loser

Yeah but again that was much easier when he was already in office. Nobody was going to dissipate his assembly, he asked them not to wand his supporters for weapons, and he saw to it that no law enforcement or National Guard reinforcements could be deployed to the scene until it was too late

a original copy of Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast on Top Dog

fake news! this was always on Jive, and Top Dog didn’t put out a commercial release solo until ‘96.

Not saying nothing can/will happen, just saying Trump had a much easier time doing it last time as he was the incumbent and so he was using White House resources to do what he did.

I doubt there will another coup attempt in DC, but are there going to be death threats against election officials in swing states? Almost certainly.

There already are.

the thing is - if there's somebody handing out water bottles, or some precinct boss accidentally moves the wrong box of votes - they're gonna be on it like flies on shit

Harris/Democratic Party and their lawyers just need to anticipate every bit of tomfoolery in advance and strategies the best they can because there will be attempts on at state level, sure.

Best thing to do is win where it's not particularly close, but in this climate that's not easy. But I think Harris could create comfier margins in some swing states

I'm a bit paranoid about MAGA people being voted into election offices and interfering with the counts. Malevolent actors could cause chaos.

I don't think GOP state legislatures in swing states could successfully block certification. The only swing state where the GOP controls the trifecta is Georgia, where the Governor and Sec of State didn't go along with Trump in 2020.

the fact that Trump was riding so high three weeks ago and now is in a lonely gully must be absolutely infuriating to some of these crazies, I don't know what's gonna happen

xp otoh the Georgia election board just today approved a new "reasonble inquiry" for certifying election results which gives county election boards more leeway to reject the outcome

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Now that’s how you pull up in Detroit. pic.twitter.com/l9BHPQ9czK

— Daniel Wessel (@da_wessel) August 7, 2024

Uh-oh, Clemenza. Y'd better dust off that Bobby Fuller Four single again!

Nah this time it’s “Waitress in the Sky”

Harris campaign doing two a days while Trump increasingly isolated at Mar-a-Lago

dude. holy shit. dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PDITpWBPI

I feel like Charlie Brown clutching onto my sickly little Christmas tree, but: even though I don't like the Beyonce song anymore than I did five days ago (or that I will five years from now), if it's working for her/them, I'm 100% for it.

I was hoping I could live out my life without ever revisiting the subject (here, anyway), but since you've reopened the matter, I'll use that as an excuse to post this, one my friend and I put together soon after the Walz announcement (the friend again looking after all technical matters).

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

Here Comes a Regular (Human)

harris has momentum. i'm so relieved.

xxp that's a great song

Yes, I'm also so relieved. Whoever would have thought that democrats could pull themselves together like this? It's very heartening

*who ever

i'm happy and surprised that charli xcx had a role to play in this, however small

They’re really a swingin’ party now

charli is actually cool unlike the celebs hillary tried to rope into her campaign. and it felt organic because it came from her

just clicked. brat girl summer

This is a deftly detailed, fair-sounding leftie consideration of Walz's transitional saga x mixed record, both pretty distinctive---and with some amazing testimonal ads he's recorded---can stream or read---here's the gist:

I think there has been a sea change in the American political landscape. Walz’s record, for all the flaws that there are to his record — and, believe me, there are definitely many flaws — it’s still a very robust progressive record. And in the past, that would have been considered a liability. But I think, according to reports at least, you know, one of the big reasons that Harris chose Walz, one of the things that she saw in him as a viable governing partner, was the fact that he was someone who had done a lot of the things that she wants to do on a national level, and she thought that he could help her do that. And by the way, the things that she wants to do, the things that she’s talking about, the things that Walz has already done in Minnesota, if you look at surveys, they’re overwhelmingly popular among the American public, across partisan lines. So, I think, you know, that has been true for a long time, but it’s taken a long time for the Democratic Party, for the kind of establishment in Washington, to realize it. And so, we’re seeing these things start to really change before our eyes now.

so, what i guess i'm wondering about that MSNBC clip above is...is it worth it to sue stephen miller for saying that "joe biden and kamala harris are the number one traffickers of children and girls into sex slavery on planet earth" on national television? or do you just let it slide?

You call it weird, my friend.

had a conversation with a coworker tonight that we may need to think about using “strange” and “sofa” instead of other words, because Hatch Act.