Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is a lousy politician and an even worse human being. For folks who write a political blog, like we do, that's two strikes and you're out. We don't need to hide the fact that we hold him in very low esteem.
It is well known that people each get 15 minutes of fame. Does that also hold for states? If so, California needs to move on and stop hogging the spotlight. But some states haven't had their allotted 15 minutes yet. One of them is Nebraska, which is a peaceful place that is usually happy to stay out of the limelight. But maybe this year it will get its time in the sun. For six reasons, no less...
Yesterday, we had an item about how the national polls are sometimes way off, with polling errors between 1% and 7% since 1980. This year, it is a virtual tie nationally and in all the swing states. Nothing seems to move the needle, since Kamala Harris was swapped in as a pinch hitter for Joe Biden...
As we wrote yesterday, Kamala Harris' decision to release her medical report wasn't really about reassuring the American public (since those reports are always somewhere between "positive" and "overwhelmingly positive"), it was about putting the ball in Donald Trump's court, and making HIS health an issue. The plan has already worked like a charm. read more
As long as we are on the subject of Donald Trump's mental health, we are now going to write about his rally/town hall yesterday. We don't usually do that, but he was in particularly bizarre form. read more
#67 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 07:54 PM | Reply | Flag: Please give us a reason why anyone should read - (much less respect) - whatever you say when you're unwilling to respond to this?
#62 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 07:39 PM | Reply | Flag: Please give us a reason why anyone should read - (much less respect) - whatever you say when you're unwilling to respond to this?
#9 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 07:36 PM | Reply | Flag: Please give us a reason why anyone should read - (much less respect) - whatever you say when you're unwilling to respond to this?
Letting men make decisions about women's healthcare is like letting your dog make decisions about maintaining your vehicle because he likes to ride in it sometimes.
#60 | Posted by TonyRoma at 2024-10-20 06:24 PM | Reply | Flag: Indisputably ...
46%, Tony, not 48%
In 2016 the Kumquat Pol Pot got 46.1%
In 2020 he got 46.8%
In both cases, the winner of the popular vote was 48.2% for Clinton in 2016 and 51.3% for Biden in 2020.
AND BOTH OF THOSE ELECTIONS WERE BEFORE THE DODDS DECISION IN 2022.
"...just like there's no ID requirement or proof of citizenship requirement." -
#16 | Posted by commnotes at 2024-10-20 01:38 PM | Reply | Flag: Is that statement true?
Which, of course, completely overlooks the fact that a person must have ID or proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Just another example of a MAGAt #4. Lying-by-omission.
"And it disgusts me the degree to which some on the left absolutely celebrate it."
#45 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 01:14 PM
The "left" only celebrates the fact that we trust women with their own, personal health care.
You want to know what's really disgusting?
The right's celebration of having the government in the exam room with the woman and her health care provider.
That's disgusting.
"I think abortion needs to be legal during the first trimester. -
#45 | Posted by JeffJ at 2024-10-20 01:14 PM | Reply | Flag: JeffJ's permission slip
"Don't ask how often viable babies are aborted, Tim Walz put rules in place to not track them."
#5 | Posted by visitor_
What kind of f*cked-up world does visitor_ live in?
He actually believes that a woman would carry a wanted child for 6, 7, 8, even 9 months, and then callously decides to abort said wanted child, because just exactly why?
The reason is that visitor_ and his ilk think that women are just too stupid to leave health care, including the decision to abort a child, in the hands of the people who actually know what's going on: the woman and her health care provider.
So, visitor_ and his ilk believe that they know what's best for women they will never meet and never know, and therefore want the government in the same room as the woman and her health care provider because they can't be there themselves.
That's the kind of f*cked-up world visitor_ and his ilk live in.
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At that point the DNC needed a primary. Nothing she's done qualified her to run for president.Needed repeating so as to not be broken up by an ad featuring fortfisher's breath mints
I'm surprised the internet is available wherever you live because it must be so misinformed there that evidently history books are only used to place your dunce caps upon. The states run primaries, not the parties. The primaries were all finished. There is no mechanism nor regulation that if a party's presumptive nominee drops out, every single primary must be held again.
Think of how stupid it is to even raise this as a probability! Tell us Einstein, just how would that happen at the end of July? How long would it take to organize each state and territory for a single race ballot? Who's going to pay for this expense, the Republican Party? Dems sure as hell aren't.
Again - as you obviously don't know nor understand - the parties themselves determine how their nominees are chosen, not state governments. As Danforth informed you, the Democratic National Committee DOES have party rules for such a contingency and they were followed to a T! There was an open call for candidates to enter a convention nomination race with the delegates deciding. Only one candidate did, Kamala Harris. None of the 25 other 2020 candidates - nor anyone else - threw their hat in the ring. So Kamala received the votes from delegates to win and become the 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee.
And being the Vice President for 4 years is the ultimate qualification for becoming President. And again, replacing the President is the chief role of the Vice President to begin with. This is why they're elected in the first place and not fireable by the President. The Vice President is the only member of the entire Executive Branch that doesn't serve at the President's leisure, she serves as the first person selected to move into the Presidency should the need occur.
And that, my troglodytic misanthrope, is the most important qualification for becoming the President and its dictate comes from inside the US Constitution itself.
#43 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-19 07:25 PM
#36 | Posted by commnotes at 2024-10-20 09:14 PM | Reply | Flag: Thinks Glenn Greenwald is a serious...anything
Charlie & I interviewed Glenn Greenwald back when several of us were doing The Free World Radio Network, on BlogTalkRadio (a tip-o-the-Tilley to RevDarko). This would have been 2008-2009 time period (with a remembrance to briwo).
Greenwald was an idiot then.
He's still an idiot.