[kreuzberger]

Lettuce hope that she is as woefully wrong as usual.

[Abernathy]

Andrew O’Hagan has been in Milwaukee with the Trumpistas . Recommended read.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n1 ... -hard-zone

[The Weeping Angel]

Ouch.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/july/after-biden

The tin cup is empty, and the ass has gone under. Joe Biden’s political career is over, and he had to do it by autocoup. His two most trusted aides came to him at Rehoboth Beach and told him from a distance – because he has Covid – that he no longer had a path to victory. The money had dried up, he was trailing in all the usual swing states, and even in states the Democrats usually win without spending much money, like Virginia and New Mexico. The next day he posted his resignation letter to X (formerly Twitter) and followed it up with an endorsement of his vice president. Oh, yeah, c’mon, man, keep her around. So came to an end a month of blather about the way Biden had become King Lear. The final reckoning was less like Julius Caesar than like sending the president to the self-checkout till at Tesco to pay for his own hemlock.

And ow.

In 2020, the Democrats’ virtual convention presented the Black Lives Matter protests after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police earlier that summer as a cheerful prelude to the Biden campaign in a video set to Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The Rising’. The party will not be able to do the same with protesters against the genocide in Gaza if they turn up en masse this year. Benjamin Netanyahu this week spoke to Congress and asserted that Americans protesting against his war are Iran’s ‘useful idiots’, and the White House spokesman John Kirby echoed the claim (while saying ‘that’s not a phrase we would use’).

The LRB really will commision any old nonsense.

[The Weeping Angel]

Not bad for a senile old duffer.

[Youngian]

Vance is trying to turn around his negative ratings by making an apology to cats. But not childless women.

[Bones McCoy]

Vance is trying to turn around his negative ratings by making an apology to cats. But not childless women.

Does he understand that cats can't vote?

[Yug]

Vance is trying to turn around his negative ratings by making an apology to cats. But not childless women.

Does he understand that cats can't vote?

Don't worry. Women won't be able to either soon.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Actual US Senator.

[kreuzberger]

Trump advises his weirdo christian audience that they won’t have to vote again if they return him to the presidency in November’s election. It might have summat to do with weekend shifts bur, generally speaking, the media are shrugging their collective shoulders.

This man is a malignant menace, and he is spelling it out for every one of us.

[Bones McCoy]

Actual US Senator.

Somebody wants to speak to the manager.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Or the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen.

[Abernathy]

I see it's being reported that Harris has a shortlist of 3 for the job of VP/running mate. :

Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, and Tim Walz .

They all seem to be strong candidates.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Shapiro has apparently gone too far in on Israel. This may not be helpful with younger progressives.

Walz and Kelly both look good to me. Kelly potentially gets you Arizona, whereas Minnesota should be won anyway. But Walz has positives in that he probably has more of a profile across the Mid West and can stick to JD Vance.

[Youngian]

Yeh bro, I’ve got parking tickets coming out of my arse.

[The Weeping Angel]

Shapiro has apparently gone too far in on Israel. This may not be helpful with younger progressives.

Walz and Kelly both look good to me. Kelly potentially gets you Arizona, whereas Minnesota should be won anyway. But Walz has positives in that he probably has more of a profile across the Mid West and can stick to JD Vance.

He's a zionist apparently which means he supports genocide. Menawhile a good case made here for Roy Cooper governor of North Carolina

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ultimate-tea ... vzKNuB0b5H

He’s never lost an election. He’s known Kamala Harris for years. And he’s a self-professed “diet soda sommelier” with a distaste for Diet Mountain Dew — the beverage Sen. JD Vance went viral for promoting in his first speech as Donald Trump’s vice presidential candidate.

“I just think that Cooper is a complete package,” said state Senate Democratic Leader Dan Blue, who was also North Carolina’s first and only Black House speaker. “I don’t see any vulnerabilities — unless being a Southerner and talking a little slower might be a vulnerability in certain parts of the country.”

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is not an astronaut or household name like some others the vice president is considering for her running mate. But many Democrats think Cooper is at or near the top of Harris’ short list because he’d be a strong partner who could potentially deliver North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Lots of people are Zionists but have called out the Israeli Government.

Cooper is a good possibility.

[kreuzberger]

I was up at 05.00 this morning, as bright as a (reasonably bright) button. On went the World Service and the Newshour reports were that Harris had referred to Trump as being "weird".

That word has popped up in every programme and break throughout the day. That suggests that it is strategic.

I can't see it dissuading the Trailor-Trash Taliban, but it will hit home with the undecideds. He is, indeed, seriously fucking weird.

[Andy McDandy]

Differences between American and British English. Over there, you can describe someone as "a complete package", and it's a compliment.

Over here...

[kreuzberger]

"Weird" is a compliment over there, in goth circles notwithstanding?

I'm not so sure.

[Killer Whale]

Or the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen.

Funny you should mention that..