And the award for the best shade throwing goes to...

[Burning Petard]

Hey, you missed JD Vance's name change (birth Name, James Donald Bowman.) snailgate

[Scooter]

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When Charlie Kirk tried a "gotcha" on this lad at the DNC:



Other appropriate answers would be "Anyone who covers their drink when you walk into a room is a woman" and "Anyone whose genitalia dry up when you come near them is a woman."

[Sue U]

My preferred response is "Why? Do you think you might be one?"

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

This is apparently the second time that he has uttered this line. Does he not have anyone who can stop him from shoving his foot into his mouth?

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[Big RR]

My daughter and I were at a big 50s/60s car show last Saturday an ran into a drunk guy who apparently included himself among the MAGA types. He started spouting off against Harris (pronouncing her name very strangely and saying she was not a natural born citizen (although he didn't go into detail and I didn't pursue it--what's the use) and then calling Walz "Tampon Tim", a name I haven't heard for quite a while. For the most part we got away from him quickly. but I found things interesting; the first is that he just attacked Harris and Walz instead of singing the praises of Trump as god's chosen candidate--is this becoming the MAGA approach and have they lost some faith in Trump? Also, the attacks were fairly innocuous and ancient (Tampon Tim> come on). I had expected to hear of the evils of undocumented aliens or failing to enforce laws, but this surprised me. The third thing, however, did concern me; I think there is a lot of anger out there which prompts people to pew their rants to people they have never met; I think the guy expected us to agree with his idiocy (granted I am older so maybe he thinks all older Americans think that way), but he was not seekung to convince me of anything, more just thinking he'd get a "Damn right" in return. That sort of anger can lead anywhere, and I do think we need a way to address it.

[BoSoxGal]

Joe Scarborough said the MAGA/Trump approach for the rest of the election would be to try to make Americans dislike Harris - they know they can’t make them like him, he’s got his base and isn’t winning new hearts and minds. If he makes people dislike or distrust her, he might win. If he can’t make people dislike or distrust her, she is very likely to win because people are sick of the MAGA era.

[Big RR]

Sure, that does make sense, but before I always heard disparagment of the opponent oand extolling Trump--this was different. Are they getting tired of Trump? I would hope so, but perhaps not; I still think that turning this into a campaign to defeat Harris instead of electing Trump might well show some disillusionment of the MAGA masses, which can only be good. In 2016 and 202, it appeared that many of these masses saw Trump as the proverbial "second coming"--reducing him to the person to beat the antichrist is something quite different. And FWIW, I have no doubt that this guy was part of his base, at least before.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Maybe this is wishful thinking, but the Trump of November 2020 was very different to the Trump of 2024. He was the sitting president, which despite the usual problems of the mid-term elections on Congress when incumbency is often a reason for seeing falling votes, is usually a vote getter.

Since and including 1900, there have been 32 presidential elections. For 13 of those there was no incumbent president who ran in the eventual election. In 14 elections the incumbent president won. In only five did the incumbent lose: Taft in 1912; Hoover in 1932; Carter in 1980; GHW Bush in 1992; and Trump in 2020. (The 1912 election was complicated because former (but not incumbent) Republican president TDR ran as a 'Progressive' (whatever that meant in those days) and probably sucked votes from the incumbent R president Taft.)

Despite the built in advantage of the incumbency, and the stacked system of the electoral college, Trump lost the popular vote and the EC in 2020. And of course Jan 6 hadn't happened by the time of the election. And despite the inflation of the past few years - which is just an overweight and out-of-shape inflation impersonator to those of us who lived through the 1970s - many (but by no means all) of the population had inflation-linked SS pension payments; major salary increases and plenty of places hiring; and continued stock market growth. Inflation was a problem but to many of us it did not hit very hard.

I am quietly becoming more and more confident that KH will win in November. Warning - I have been wrong before.

[Scooter]

Yes, I know her alleged response is fake. But this is out there, and he will see it and seeth.

[BoSoxGal]

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"a skunk telling a possum his breath stinks"

[Sue U]

"I am just a country lawyer, unaware of the ways of Washington, D.C," says the former Governor of Georgia.

[Scooter]

I have to wonder if there's a bit of gay boy in Barnes, because he read Jordan for filth.