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Ghost of LL

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  1. My mother is in a coma, George.
  2. So is this where we talk about the new "no in-and-out" policy at the stadium?
  3. For the record, I said baseball attracts assholes. It’s hockey that attracts morons. I say this as a former baseball and hockey player.
  4. It’s a fair question. It’s extraordinary that the GQP has allowed the sitting vice president to frame herself as the candidate of change. It’s extraordinary that the sitting vice president would even try to frame herself that way. And yeah—Booker handled it really well. So what’s the problem?
  5. Jesus—what happened to the ponies?
  6. Yeah, and that's fair. I was also thinking about Fussen.
  7. My nephew told me and Mrs.LL he was voting for RFK Jr. when we saw him over Thanksgiving. Probably ought to circle back with him on that given that he's in a swing-ish state (Virginia).
  8. This is the kind of hot take that keeps me coming back to this site.
  9. Who was your favorite emperor? Nero? Perhaps Diocletian.
  10. 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.
  11. Jesus, this is tough.
  12. What? She's the incumbent. You don't think she's going to keep her seat?
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Oh, go fuck a couch you fucking tool.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Fuck, man—he’s going to make me cry.
  21. I mean, in fairness there’s only one office that’s higher.
  22. And damned if it isn’t true. This campaign just feels a lot better than 2016 or 2020.
  23. That’s exactly the direction from which we would be coming were we to go down into Sudtirol.
  24. 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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