2024 Primary Elections.

Seems like there might be an argument for letting undocumented immigrants get driver's licenses in here somewhere.

Just sayin'.

There IS a way. An entire process, in fact.

The criminal leaves their license at the scene of the crime, of course. Don't you always leave behind your driver's license when you rob a gas station?

https://apnews.com/article/09e34f6331708c192c89d7c1727c2458

It seems that he likes dudes.

RFK Jr. and Aaron Rodgers: How con artists exploit male insecurity for political gain
Voting for muscle-bound conspiracy theorists will not quell the nagging fear of mediocrity

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/03/15/we-are-losing-our-kids-satanic/

Oh, that article doesn't even scratch the surface of the bugfuckery Rogers believes in. A sample

It gets a lot weirder.

He totally does.

And he’s really, really stupid.


https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1769091128488345601?s=46&t=Vuk59u51XAvPf6wr-lhPGQ

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Set to Name Elon Musk's Alleged Ex-Lover Nicole Shanahan as Running Mate: Report

Well that makes him a shoo-in

Reality is The Truman Show, and Vince Russo from WCW took over the writing.

Thinks totally sane and rational people say

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...ys-immigrants-poison-blood-nation-1234934092/

Gee, how could innocent babe-in-the-woods 2016 good-Republicans know this is who he was?
Except that Fred Trump was a Nazi who taught Donnie eugenic s with horse breeding as the analogy, and Trump admitted it in a 60 Minutes interview, and those good-Republicans called us all hysterical, and that we had TDS.

Same ones who said the pussy tape was "locker room talk".

They'll "locker room talk" "we give him a mulligan" and "fake news" us all to the gas chambers, and still say "how could we know? ".

LOL!

You know Biden hit it out of the park with his SOTU when House Republican Leadership is saying they won’t invite him back next year:

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/biden-state-of-the-union-invitation-republicans

Now technically they don’t have to. In fact the Constitution doesn’t require it to be a speech, much less to a Joint Session, that is just tradition.

But LOL at being so butthurt by a ‘senile’ old man kicking your ass up and the down the aisle you not only admit he’ll likely be president next year but also state you’ll be a petulant child about it?

They're also assuming that they'll still be in control of the House.

Joe won the primaries by cheating and not letting anyone run against him, sort of like what he did last time, and now he is angry because that did not improve his poll numbers. So it seems from reports he is yelling at his people like Trump does when people do not do what he wants them to do.

I wonder if his ketchup stains on the wall look just a little bit better than Trump's.

Maybe they should not run Trump lite against Trump a second time?

Hey Joe, maybne you should up the dosage on those uppers you are taking? Just a thought, it cannot do any actual harm.

Yesterday he was leading off with "they are animals" which is classic fascist rhetoric which Hitler employed but so did others before him like unreconstructed confederates.

Prompted by a tweet re his response to a voucher push in his state I'm finding time in this somewhat slow season of the campaign (from clinching to convention) when the only real news is legal stuff I have mused about the depth of the Dem bench for 2028. Here's the list I cam up with:

Kamala Harris - including the VP is obligatory, but I'm skeptical she will ever be the nominee
Andy Beshear - the "his" I was speaking of above. Force me to bet significant money on who will be the next nominee, he'd be my pick. Also, while I've expressed a tentative favorite (the next name below) He's probably moved into 2nd with me and may yet achieve #1
Gretchen Whitmer - There's an inherent difficulty in winning as a woman but the Michigan Dems have done a LOT in a short time after taking the legislature and that reflects to her credit if she can find the magic formula that marries having done good things with political talent.
Gavin Newsom - is transparently ambitious, has a great skill for on the stump politicking (or on camera as may be) but has made some enemies and may not be as popular as he imagines himself to be.
Josh Shapiro - good early impressions, will need the next four years to build reputation and name rec
Jared Polis - isn't discussed much by well regarded AFAIK
Pete Buttigeg - continues to come across very well on camera and is building up the articulate/charismatic cred but it's hard to run from a random cabinet office.
Chris Murphy - seems to be building a catalog of "stuff we need to work on" in some sense the way Warren did (albeit much less tailored to economics) and it gives the impression of a guy who wants more responsibility; alternately I could see him angling to be the next Dem leader in the Senate when Schumer done.
Brian Schatz - somewhat lower profile, but appealing and sharp - he and Murphy are tight though and I don't think they would run against each other.
Corey Booker - may have another go, but also tight with the two above - between the three only one (at most) would be running
John Fetterman - likely wants to someday, but took a LOT of damage re Israel and will likely need to put that well into his past before trying it.

Means nothing, basically just me spitballing for no real reason.

The Harris issue is an issue.

I don’t know how much of her current (dis)reputation is her fault v circumstances and how much can be repaired but I know that unceremoniously kicking out/rolling past/moving on from the first Black and South Asian female VP for *reasons* would not be good for the coalition.

Recently I submitted a scenario WHICH I FULLY ADMITTED was very West Wing (show) brained and everyone seemed to simultaneously agree it was an eloquent but extremely West Wing brained.

Hear me out though.

It is a fact that a SCOTUS Justice having had to have served as a judge is a relatively recent phenomenon. For most of our history that wasn’t the case. And as the court has gotten increasingly political maybe putting politicians back on it isn’t a bad idea?

And if we were gonna pick such a person wouldn’t someone who has been the DA of a large American city, then the AG of the largest state in the nation, then a Senator, then a Vice President… wouldn’t that be a pretty impressive resume that would give someone a very relevant background in multiple areas of governance?

And then Biden appoints Whitmer to fill the vacancy and then retires two years and one day into his second term.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy….

Deepest apologies for the absolutely obnoxious commentary before, during, and after this but I’m not about to go link to Don Jr.’s actual podcast, and I couldn’t find a clean restream on YouTube.


TLDW: Tulsi Gabbard has completely sold out and, unsurprisingly, really wants to be Trump’s VP.

FF is at the prospect...even though he doesn't support Trump...

I have no doubt at all that if Tulsi is Trump’s VP pick, he’ll pull the lever for him and claim he’s “really only voting for Tulsi.”

This guy is the type of smug liberal that Republicans see in their head. He fits the stereotype.

She should be Kennedy's pick, not Trump's.

Then you do not know me like you think you do.

Thinking doesn't come into the equation when it comes to knowing you. It can't.

It's like trying to understand choking by breathing harder.

You obviously don't come across like you think you do.

It's pretty elegant, albeit that probably makes it less likely.

I don't have any specific thing against heard but having heard her both speaking and being interviewed as VP and she just, previous elective wins aside, doesn't seem to be very appealing in those setting regardless of actual ability to do the work.

you would think it would have appeal to her - trade the non-zero chance that you might yet be the first female president for the firm guarantee of spending decades on the court...you gotta think about it.

VP Harris was taken down by Trump’s potential VP candidate in the 2016 debates. Let that sink in.