Everything posted by Bateshorn
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Kamala Harris 2024 - If you've got something to say, say it to my face
Part of it is the media loves to sell shiney, impractical shit, and you need names, so we will see lots of people who it won't be for a variety of reasons: Warnock, Whitmer, Kelly, Newsom, etc. Short of a Dark Horse we haven't heard of (like when Karen Bass almost snuck in 2020), it's almost certainly, at this late stage, one of 4 people: Brashear, Buttieg, Cooper, Shapiro, with maybe a Midwest Governor like Tim Walz lurking. Basically, run the background on everyone, make sure there is not a live boy or dead girl, and pick the one that you think gives you the best chance to win. If it's Cooper or Shapiro, dispatch them to their homestate and tell them to shake every hand and kiss every baby between now and election day.
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Kamala Harris 2024 - If you've got something to say, say it to my face
JFC. Mark Kelly occupies a swing seat in the Senate the Dems have to hold. It isn't going to be Mark Kelly. Or any other Senator who the Dems might not be able to easily replace. It just won't be.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
This. Maybe by 2036 or 2040.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Sadly, actually reading it is going to be like dragging sand paper across an eyeball. He may get the best access, but Bernstein was the writer of the two.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
It’s gonna drive Trump insane he can’t get a drop of media coverage for the next week.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Seriously though: there need to be a series of Sherman-esque statements from Whitmer, Newsom, et al in the next 24 hours.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Convention is in Chicago. Somebody dig up Norman Mailer, use a revival spell, and let’s do this thing!!
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Stop feeding the troll.
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Republican Convention - "mill-e-wah-que"
Im def not the crowd for it, an maybe I’m gwnerally out of tune, but I’m finding this speech weird, mawkish, a bit off putting? I kind of prefer my Trump spitting fire and not acting like he’s a bridge builder.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
This. It’s the reverse of Minnesota or New Mexico being in play. If that’s true, Trump will sweep the Midwest and SW
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
My wife has been on two progressive calls this morning. Lot of smoke pouring out of the White House.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
My issue with Shapiro is he's smallish. I'm a bit with Trump on liking my Politicians to look like politicians, and that means some height in men. And I say that as a manlet. Luckily Harris is short, as is JD Vance.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Prolly some anodyne Southern Governor like Andy Brashear, Roy Cooper, or Jon Bel Edwards.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Literally ran this play on my mom at one point. Old age is hell.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Shit. If you can competently read off a teleprompter, you've doubled Biden's capacity right now. Being able to speak in complete sentences without notes is Einstein level stuff for the Dem Candidate.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
As I understand it, this is more or less correct. The money issue is much simpler with Harris.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
once he's nominated and accepted, the only way to get him off the ballot is for him to resign the Presidency, if you want to avoid the ballot complications. And he'd have to do it around Labor Day, I'd think. Short of a full blow rebellion with MoC boycotting the convention, Cabinet Secretaries openly calling for the 25th, Obama and Clinton publicly calling on him to step aside, Donor's bailing in giant numbers, I just don't see Biden leaving. They've convinced themselves they are the comeback kids. They aren't even talking to much of their campaign at this point.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
It's fine. Happy to suffer through another Trump Term. Just as long as Joe, Jill, Hunter, and Ashley don't have to get the feels.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
As much as everyone keeps talking about the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, it's going to look like a different Democratic Convention in Chicago: 1956, when they nominated Adlai Stevenson to get slaughtered by Eisenhower.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
JFC, the Dem Convention is going to have such a funereal atmosphere.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Putting aside the technical difficulties of getting her at the top of the ticket, I think Big Gretch is keeping her powder dry from 2028 and hoping we still have elections then.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Because the Wildly Unpopular Old Man at the top of the ticket is?
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
This is kinda shaping up to be the Women Vs. Men election. And the Democratic party is not giving women a lot to work with, while the Trump and the GOP are just straight pumping Bro Energy into the XY system. But sure, sit back and hope a moribund candidacy and Dobbs will drag the party across the line in MI, WI, and PA.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
That's the problem: The party (non necessarily Biden's inner circle, who I think are trapped in a confirmation bias loop of epic proportions) is just in disbelief that this is happening and swing voter's are considering Trump again. And it's creating a denial problem that is trapping the party. The first thing you have to do is accept swing voters will vote for Trump again, even after voting for Biden in 2020. Then work the problem backward from there.