US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

wonder why

yeah hmmm

lol at the nuzzi thing

around the time of the “dapper young nazis” richard spencer interview era, I was a friend-of-a-friend with someone on facebook who posted about her interviewing that asshole and Nuzzi herself responded when I was complaining about it. I felt a little bad for being so harsh, but then I thought… nah

it’s been clear for a long time she’s 100% into the type of access journalism where she’s texting buddies with absolutely anyone who could give her a little story, including some of the worst shitheads

xxpost yeah obviously. But the CV is that you have to win over White Working Class voters to win PA (or states like it) whereas Harris is possibly driving up numbers in Philly and the suburbs.

CW that is

This was the case for Harris that some people were making back in 2019/20, that the Democrats needed a candidate of color to motivate the base.

big news day

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RFK Jr. had to tell Cheryl Hines about his affair with Olivia Nuzzi the same day he had to tell her he was being investigated for cutting off a dead whale’s head with a chainsaw.

Rough Thursday. pic.twitter.com/cRxCtFBJEV

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) September 20, 2024

My Thursday wasn’t that bad in retrospect, in comparison. Dang, RFK Jr.!

Wow. Worst Thursday for an RFK since June 6, 1968.

Harris did a WIRED autocomplete interview. It's pretty straightforward, but I guarantee the NY Times publisher is having a stroke all over again that she's willing to do this stuff but not talk to the paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-cjwpthz4

I guarantee the NY Times publisher is having a stroke all over again

you say that like it's a bad thing ;)

xxpost yeah obviously. But the CV is that you have to win over White Working Class voters to win PA (or states like it) whereas Harris is possibly driving up numbers in Philly and the suburbs.

According to the Cook Political Report's "Swingometer", 52.5% of the Pennsylvania electorate falls in the 'white working class' category, and Harris only needs 39% of them to support her, as long as she gets the same level of support that Biden got from the other demos.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/swingometer/2024

Kamala Harris: “If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot. Probably should not have said that.” pic.twitter.com/hlpGKUZAik

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 20, 2024

i find this mode of hers pretty irresistible tbh

Every once in a while she throws in a crispy Keith Richards guitar lick

It can’t hurt

oprah can't believe it!

i don't share harris' views on gun ownership but yeah, i think probably her point of view is the one that many if not most people share, and i don't think what she said is controversial, just notable

Naaah come on

Current Revolt, a far-right website that features a contributor who has shared Hitler memes, has reported that Corey DeAngelis, a pro-school privatization activist with an anti-LGBTQ streak, did gay porn.

What is evening happening anymore? https://t.co/3JcA9HSKWB pic.twitter.com/wPlkuZCDLq

— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) September 20, 2024

iiuc that nyt nate thread about white working classs: he's presenting the fact that she's doing slightly worse than biden did with that group in PA in 2020 as evidence that the polls are not obviously wrong, and you should take the top line result (+4, she's leading) seriously.

I would not shoot an intruder, I'd offer him a Negroni.

Jerk Off Race for October Thread Title.

Biden administration never did a good job of selling how they were helpful to the white working class , and Dems have always struggled with this — trying to get through the Fox News bubble to show who is actually more valuable for those folks .

In my RL experience (not what I've seen in the news), home invasions are largely friends of the house owner stealing guns or drugs for drug money or revenge. But I'm very much trailer trash, so I'm probably seeing a limited selection of the data.

Would assume the scenario would be more like Pelosi's home invader

“What is evening happening anymore” is certainly a thing I ask myself when it’s suddenly 9:35pm on a night before work

Would assume the scenario would be more like Pelosi's home invader

This is very much what I thought she was talking about, without wanting to be explicit about it.

Love seein this dude tweet because it’s how I find out a new Matt Gaetz story just came out https://t.co/of0DTWAzfK

— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@TheWapplehouse) September 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-B0_OKkeg

"If someone breaks into my house, they're getting shot" is actually pretty passive tense.. and of course, if someone broke into Harris' house, the Secret Service would likely shoot them

She needs to be more affirmative: "I would blow that motherf*cker's head off!" *audience laughter*

How is this guy real?

"Rushes into other room"

I was *walking* to the doctor (because one of my kids gave me the plague)

My comment on Mark Robinson is that Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the Inflation Explosion Act and because of that a lot of Americans can't afford groceries https://t.co/jYyHAhIGEa

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 20, 2024

he's staying on-message!

The "Trump War Room" campaign account posted a transcript of Harris' "they're getting shot" comment — with a lot of emphasis on how much she laughed as she said it — and most of the X responses from Trumpers were "Stop making her sound awesome! What are you doing?"

dont love kamala gun shit / cop shit but her talking to oprah that way is prob some pretty good campaigning

the Harris shooting thing is fine imo, as I'm just old enough to have been traumatized by Dukakis flubbing that grotesque death penalty question.

you know in retrospect maybe the Inflation Explosion Act could have been better named

i mean i dont think its fine the national fantasy of protecting yourself with a gun is a threat to everyones safety

Same kid that wouldn't shut the hell up about Pikachu?

Footnote to the Olivia Nuzzi story, from Politico:

A note from our own Ryan Lizza: “Because of my connection to this story through my ex-fiancée, my editors and I have agreed that I won’t be involved in any coverage of Kennedy in Playbook or elsewhere at POLITICO.”

the pika virus

ha I was trying to remember when JD threw his kids under the bus last

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i mean i dont think its fine the national fantasy of protecting yourself with a gun is a threat to everyones safety

― lag∞n, Friday, September 20, 2024 1:45 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fair point tbh

Harris is pretty safe now, but she used to live alone, and as a former D.A. who put away some pretty nasty people, I can totally see her having a .38 in her nightstand

sure its just been extensively proven to make you and others less safe tho

"They don't care about fixing the cruise control on a '79 International"

Walz otm

I presume Harris now has armed Secret Service

You mean the person who's been VP since early 2021? Yes, rather.

That doesn't sound as safe as it used to

I presume Harris now has armed Secret Service

yeah it's just political now, to counter 'they're gonna take your guns!' bullshit

It's a government plan. If you want extra protection you have to hire bodyguards, or buy your own gun.

man i get it's funny to talk about kids giving you the plague but you're running for VP cut that shit out. maybe it's just how unfunny he is