Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

A thought that me and my wife had. She is running like a British election. There is not as much time to tear her down. She has a smaller window. The press will do their best though.

 

Did you hear her today in her speech - she was great! Totally zeroed in on the racist rapist and his fraudulent businesses.

 

Maybe. And maybe probably. For instance, there may be a "we need to vet Kamala" push in the press. But I could also see that being somewhat tempered since the press just got a massive scalp with Biden stepping aside. Will that alter the way the press treats Harris -- and Trump? The press may instinctively want to appear "even-handed," which might cause them to set their sights on Trump. We'll have to see how this plays out.

 

My wife told me about it...anyone, lemme know if there is a link anywhere.

 

This is the best I can do (I feel like the offspring of Jitty with these Bulwark links )

 

Thanks!!!!!!!!

 

NOW - Kamala speaks to Biden over phone at campaign HQ: "It is so good to hear our President's voice. Joe, I know you're still on the reco... on the call... and we've been talking everyday..."pic.twitter.com/i6MyVAB9M3

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 22, 2024

in the feels!!!

 

The one thing you can count on Peter Thiel for is that he has no concept of relatability and will endorse candidates that come across as creepy (Blake Masters) or assholish (JD Vance). That the GOP had to pour money into Ohio is telling.

And of course, they're all obsessed with Lord of the Rings. And completely take the wrong lessons from it.

 

You mean Frodo should have kept the ring of golam should have got the ring he worked so hard for?

 

Stop the count!!!

Most striking thing I heard from Trump allies yesterday was the second-guessing of JD Vance—a selection, they acknowledged, that was borne of cockiness, meant to run up margins with the base in a blowout rather than persuade swing voters in a nail-biter.https://t.co/MskTPjvVSS

— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) July 22, 2024

 

I said it earlier, JD is one of the worst picks. He doesn’t bring anything expect more maga all the time. He has the charisma of a kitchen table and has produced a ton of insane “material” to be used against him and the felon.

 

Andy Beshear is on fire… . He would destroy JD in a debate.

J.D. Vance is a phony, he’s fake. I mean, he first says that Donald Trump is like Hitler, and now he’s acting like he’s Lincoln. The problem with J.D. Vance is he has no conviction, but I guess his running mate has 34.”

— Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D), on CNN.

 

And how energized the base is now.

 

They've been freed. Until Biden dropped out, every surrogate and advocate's first duty was to defend Biden staying in the race and being viable in November. Which nobody had the stomach to do. Now they've all be liberated from that duty, and they can focus on what they truly want to do: launch verbal missiles at Donald Trump.

 

Significantly, it wasn't a referendum on Biden's record as president but rather a referendum on whether he was still smart enough to do the job or not.

Ironically, Kamala can probably make a better case for Biden's record than Biden could.

 

So, just a thought, what happens if Biden choses to step down now.
Is Kamala then president?
In that case she could dominate the media from the White house and run the campaign as the sitting president.

 

Saruman was a job creator.

 

Trump could only be on his second wife in Vance’s ideal world since his first wife is dead.

 

Yes, but she'd run into trouble appointing a Vice President because they would need to be approved by both houses of Congress, and Republicans control one of those and aren't interested in governing well.

Which would leave Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R) next in line for the presidency, which Democrats absolutely don't want to see.

 

That dude is weird.....

This is what happens when a bunch of South African tech bros try to grow their own redneck in a lab in California. https://t.co/cfBPfP9m8e

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) July 23, 2024