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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
This is the kind of hot take that keeps me coming back to this site. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Who was your favorite emperor? Nero? Perhaps Diocletian. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah—that was the best offer the Republicans were ever going to get. The bill that gets passed next year through a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate is going to look very different. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Jesus, this is tough. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
What? She's the incumbent. You don't think she's going to keep her seat? -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
By the way, Mary Peltola got more than 50% of the vote in Alaska's jungle primary this week. And that's kind of interesting, because she was the only Democrat of any significance in the race. That is to say that one would expect the Republicans to be more motivated to vote to get their preferred Republican in the top 4, as Peltola was almost guaranteed to make the general election. All that is to say that anybody writing off Alaska is wrong. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
That would genuinely be one of the most awkward scenes in modern American political history. It's not just that Bush is from the opposite party. It's that many partisan Democrats genuinely consider him to be a war criminal (an opinion I don't share, btw, but I guess I understand). I'm just not at all sure what kind of reception he would get even if he is there to strongly endorse the Democratic nominee. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
I think you're misunderstanding who has fucked around, and who is finding out. The "uncommitted delegates" may not be the actual people who have heckled Harris at her campaign rallies or who are blocking delegates at the Convention or who have repeatedly promised to turn Chicago into a replay of 1968. But they are closely aligned with those people. And the fact that those actual people have actually done those things tells me either (1) the uncommitted delegates are complicit, or (2) the uncommitted delegates are not leaders in the movement and have no sway or credibility. Either way, there is no benefit to giving them airtime. There is, however, a huge detriment. They're unpredictable. They could completely fuck things up because you absolutely cannot guarantee that these people aren't going to go rogue. They're also unpopular. Their position is not supported by the vast majority of Americans. So why would you possibly give valuable airtime to a group that, on their best day, are going to get up there and say shit that most Americans don't really support? Finally, there is a big benefit to excluding them. It sends a message. It's general deterrence. The days of the Democratic Party playing nice are over. This is back to LBJ-style politics. And that style of politics is damned effective. Don't think you can fuck with us and we'll still give you what you want. You may have gotten away with that shit under Biden and under Obama. But fuck that noise. We're keeping the receipts. You can't trot around calling the President "Genocide Joe" and then think you're getting any time to talk at Joe's going-away party. You can't heckle Kamala Harris from the crowd and then think you're going to get to talk on the night she accepts our nomination. And you know what? Telling these people to "fuck off" shows strength. And strength is popular. It may lose Harris like five votes in Michigan. Guess what--she'll still win Michigan by about six points. But it'll also gain her votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, and Ohio. Oh, yeah--the Democrats are going to find out all right. They're going to find out that telling people to fuck off in a very public fashion is often the popular political move.- 5091 replies
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Oh, go fuck a couch you fucking tool. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Aww, man—you got me feeling like Gus Walz over here. But sometimes you can’t go home. Sometimes it’s because what was your home is gone. But sometimes it’s because you found a better home elsewhere. And sometimes, it’s both. Trump burned it down, and the MAGAts salted the earth. But in so doing, they kind of showed me that my former political home was actually pretty shitty, and filled with a bunch of pretty shitty people. And when you don’t view the world through partisan lenses, you figure out that a lot of what the Democrats say is…shock of my life…right. There isn’t anything to go back to, but even if there was, I’m pretty good where I am. I’ll never be a Republican again; I’ll never even think of voting for one.- 5091 replies
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[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
You’ve just seen it over the past few days. And forget the House and Senate and Cabinet—look at our governors. Walz, Shapiro, Brashear, Moore, Newsom, Pritzinger, Whitmer—any fucking one of them would be very good presidential candidates. Any fucking one. Who does the other side have? Desantis? Abbott? Who? None of these people have real national appeal. But that’s all they’ve got.- 5091 replies
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
And that’s going to hurt at the top of the ticket. Because a lack of enthusiasm is contagious right up and down a ticket. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Fuck, man—he’s going to make me cry. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
I mean, in fairness there’s only one office that’s higher. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
And damned if it isn’t true. This campaign just feels a lot better than 2016 or 2020. -
That’s exactly the direction from which we would be coming were we to go down into Sudtirol.
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What's this shit I'm seeing about no in-and-outs? And yeah, spare me the I didn't--this shit was news to me.
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The experience I had as a kid/young man was reconfirmed by the experience my son had: baseball attracts assholes. I don't know why it is, but my high school baseball team was all of the biggest assholes in school. And it was ultimately what led me to give up playing (yeah--the fact that I couldn't hit a fastball that had any movement on it had nothing to do with it at all). Playing hockey was the exact opposite experience. Not that there isn't assholish behavior. And not that I never got into a fight in a parking lot after a game. But on balance, it was just a bunch of chill dudes who understood that we're all on the same team and we're all looking forward to going out drinking after the game.
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Boy, the guns on this thread sure swerved from Greg Swindell over to Huston Street in a hurry.
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I don't see an Austria thread, so I guess I'll just toss these thoughts into here. I'm thinking of 2-3 weeks bouncing around the country--perhaps flying into Munich and out Vienna. I figure maybe 3 days in Munich, 2-3 days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 4-5 days in Tirol (I found a place that looks like the Austrian version of a Great Wolf Lodge, which the kids would probably enjoy), a handful of days in Salzburg, and then 4 days or so in Vienna. But nothing is booked, and I'm obviously up for suggestions. The kids like stuff that is more active (e.g., canyoning and rafting in Tirol). Mrs.LL is going to like just spending an afternoon at the Viktuelenmarkt eating breadroll sandwiches and drinking beer. I'm the dad--I'm good with whatever. So fire away. @texasdago--thoughts on a day trip down to Bolzen? Anybody else have thoughts on a day trip from Vienna to Bratislava?
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
These are exactly the values supported by Nixon and Ford. And the Republican Party under Nixon and Ford was a "conservative" party. You're right that Reagan (I'm not sure that I will concede Bush) started the change in direction from "conservative" to "reactionary." But for the most part, it was reactionary in rhetoric only. The Republicans of the 80s and 90s had the good political sense not to actually do anything to ban abortion, no matter how much they might talk of doing so. And they had the good political sense to manage immigration and create paths to citizenship (though Pete Wilson thought racial scapegoating of Hispanics was the way to go, resulting in the destruction of the Republican Party in California). As you go from Nixon to Trump, there is clearly a reactionary creep to the Republican Party. But I'd argue that that is really only clear in retrospect. It was just a Dole or McCain win away from remaining firmly tied to conservativism. I mean, maybe. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
. . . that is never enforced, in part because there are major First Amendment issues with it. But anyway, yeah--go on you fun Palestinian protestors and tell me how awful "Genocide Joe" and the Democrats are. -
2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Is conservative. Not "sounds." Is. I'm still pretty damned conservative. I favor free trade and the international financial order that has made the United States of America the dominant financial and mercantile power in the world. I don't want to repeal our free-trade agreements, rethink the monetary policies that have made the Dollar the world's reserve currency, or entertain the idea of defaulting on our debts. I favor adhering to our international obligations, from Europe to East Asia. NATO is the strongest mutual-defense organization in the history of the world, and has preserved the peace in Europe for nearly 80 years, which is the longest that continent has gone without a major war since . . . ever. And in East Asia, our defense treaties with Japan and South Korea have fostered an economic environment that has led to an economic expansion throughout Asia while enriching Americans. I favor preserving freedom of thought and expression. Of ensuring Americans are free to make their own decisions about their property, their religion, and their bodies. At the same time, I favor preserving the social safety net that we have built up over the past 90 years. And where there are holes in that safety net, either in its original construction or because new economic developments have torn holes in it, it should be repaired. All of these are conservative values. These are the values that would be supported by any conservative party. But the GQP today is not a conservative party. It is a reactionary party. And reactionism is not "conservativism." Don't. People know they don't like it even if they don't know precisely what it is. "Project 2025" has just become a buzzword for "scary shit that Trumpublicans are going to do if they get back into power." Use that. Feed it. Say "Project 2025" over and over again with ominous and foreboding music in the background. Just please, for the love of god, don't go into a discussion of Schedule F trying to reach people who you think don't know enough about Project 2025. -
[Harris+Walz] The 2024 DNC: TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?!
Ghost of LL replied to Bullneck's topic in Cloak Room
Mmmmm, Jasmine.
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