U.S. Politics, November 2022: “I don’t know, you hear the same things I do”

Wikipedia has Nixon at 5' 11-1/2". Obviously, this is of paramount importance...carry on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_presidents_and_presidential_candidates_of_the_United_States

5’11 & 1/2 means 5’9” in reality

Is It Immoral for Presidents and Presidential Aspiriants to Wear Lifts To Appear Taller and More Powerful? A Discussion Thread

I googled DeSantis' height recently because he kind of presents as a shortish guy to me, but it says he's 5'11" so I guess not.

The Sky Is Not The Limit and You’re Never Gonna Guess What Is: Height in U.S.A. Governance, 1920-2030

Don’t mind me, just goof in’

Bernie Sanders ain't getting any taller folks

not with that attitude he isn't

C'mon, y'all, everyone knows the ultimate metric of presidentiality is hand size

I honestly still don't get why Howard Dean didn't have more political legs.

well he did wind up being the last good DNC head

Yup, he was head and shoulders above the rest ... well, not physically but still

From an article about Ron Klain:

Progressives credit Klain with helping inject their proposals into the White House policy debate and building out an apparatus that’s put liberal allies in positions of power across government. Perhaps just as importantly, they said, he’s served as a high-level sounding board for the wing traditionally treated by the Democratic establishment with suspicion or outright derision — and won over liberals who once perceived Biden as out of touch with the progressive base.

“He was not my first or second choice for president, but I am a convert,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who heads the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said of Biden. “I never thought I would say this, but I believe he should run for another term and finish this agenda we laid out.”

I googled DeSantis' height recently because he kind of presents as a shortish guy to me, but it says he's 5'11" so I guess not.

I know, he has a weird boxy build.

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

If John Ritter, David Duchovny, and Jason Bateman had a baby...

looking at pictures of dean with gore and clinton, then looking at pictures of them with obama, GWB, etc, I'd say 5-10 or 5-11 seems reasonable for dean

I voted for Dean in the primary even after he'd been mathematically eliminated, partly because I thought the media reaction to his yelp was one of the weirdest cases of political journalism groupthink I've ever seen.

it's pretty quaint, post-trump and all the crazy shit that happens on a daily basis now, to think of a time when THAT was something that could sink your career

yeah, didn't get it at the time, LOL at it now

Anyway I thought Dean was fucked cos of the fact he was unapologetically pro choice and also that stupid “scream” video.

I voted for Dean in the primary even after he'd been mathematically eliminated, partly because I thought the media reaction to his yelp was one of the weirdest cases of political journalism groupthink I've ever seen.

Anyway I thought Dean was fucked cos of the fact he was unapologetically pro choice and also that stupid “scream” video.

― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac),

now I imagine Dean as Janet Jackson in the "Scream" video.

I'd take Bernie over 40 year-old Peter Buttigieg.

― curmudgeon, Monday, November 21, 2022

regardless of who we’re comparing him to, Bernie’s time has expired! he should retire

I shouldn't have said 'retire', I just think that his time is over as a presidential candidate

Bernie should steal Mayo Pete’s life energy and serve another 40 years

mayo has a dearth of life energy is what i'm tryna say here

Make Pete a blood boy for the geriatric Dems

x-post -I'd take Bernie over 40 year-old Peter Buttigieg.

― curmudgeon, Monday, November 21, 2022

regardless of who we’re comparing him to, Bernie’s time has expired! he should retire

Ideally a younger liberal or progressive would be best, but Pete's just a centrist corporate go-getter

A new benchmark for bothsidesing. If you click through, what she's referring to is the Biden WH being misleading about allowing Vogue to set up a private photo shoot ahead of the White House wedding.

A low point for the Washington Post. https://t.co/THHuqKRhzK

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 22, 2022

Ashley Parker of course got her start as Maureen Dowd's researcher. Apples, trees, etc.

wait maureen dowd has researchers

I know we’ve all moved on but Dean’s campaign was artificially inflated by the media thinking internet support was more powerful in 2004 than it actually was; he did the scream as part of a speech where he was trying to rally his supporters after coming in third at the Iowa Caucus as compared to what his campaign and the pundits were expecting. The scream didn’t make him lose, he was already losing

I think that's true and it was going to be Kerry anyway. But the coverage of the scream was really something else.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-house-ways-and-means-committee-democrats/

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the Treasury Department from turning over several years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, clearing the way for Democrats to obtain the records weeks before Republicans take control of the House in January.

lol so ... a few more years?

Boy those IRS auditors are gonna by annoyed by this interruption

Honestly an insane amount of legal Ls Trump is getting today across the board.

Everyone who applied and was eligible for a personal letter saying they were approved but payment was blocked by the courts. And now this. Praxis. Finally starting to feel like they get it.

It's sort of wild to watch a Democratic leader finally acknowledge the industry of conservative judges, AGs, and lawyers dedicated to neutralizing them, and respond to that with executive power. And then to realize that that person is Joe Brandon https://t.co/M4Zuu5529l

— Paul Blest (@pblest) November 22, 2022

👍

ashley parker is a whiny fucking baby

If Warnock wins the Senate can subpoena the tax records that the new House will bury, right? Something about the split and committees hamstrung them?

biden should have extended the pause to June 30, 3023

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the Treasury Department from turning over several years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee"

I'm kind of picturing the room with Ned Beatty from Network and the message being "tell the Justices to take him down, he is of no use to us now".

Rep. Chip Roy on members of the military celebrating Pride month: "We need to refocus our military on what it's supposed to do, which is blow things up and kill people." pic.twitter.com/sLXM6TuwxA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2022

A stopped clock

The military seems pretty focused on those things already.

They're really best in class at it.

I mean, it’s an honest mistake, right? https://www.newsweek.com/herschel-walkers-erection-remark-spark-torrent-memes-jokes-1761658?amp=1

A new low for Pompeo:

In an interview with Semafor this week, Pompeo said: “I get asked, ‘Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? Is it Chairman Kim, is it Xi Jinping?’ The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten. It’s not a close call. If you ask, ‘Who’s the most likely to take this republic down?’ It would be the teachers’ unions, and the filth that they’re teaching our kids, and the fact that they don’t know math and reading or writing.”

God he's a fucking asshole

He somehow thinks he's got a shot at the 2024 nomination. But, like so many in the field, he's just an asshole without Trump's power to mobilize the mouth-breathing masses.