"Biden confidants worry that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is too unknown, that Biden won't demonize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell because of their longstanding and collegial relationship and that elevating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could backfire.... [S]ome Biden advisers are reluctant to contest every midterm race on DeSantis' signature issue — COVID-19 — because the Biden administration's approaches on vaccine and mask mandates may be a political liability with some swing voters.... [T]here's close to a consensus that Democrats can't hold Congress by focusing on Trump.... Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told Axios: 'I wish that we could just find one face that we could point to, such as with Donald Trump... maybe a composite.'"
Here's the TV Tropes article on "composite characters."
Certain media, including Real Life, tend to have the time and space to utilize Loads and Loads of Characters, a large number of individuals with significant and/or necessary contributions to the storyline. But in an adaptation it can be difficult to offer adequate time and space.... A solution is to invoke artistic license and compress two or more such figures into a single character with traits drawn from all of them.... Instead of having three different smart guys on the team divided up into distinct fields, you make one of them an Omnidisciplinary Scientist and discard the others....I don't know how well that will transfer into political discourse, but here's something about "Dilbert":
Dilbert revived LOUD HOWARD, a character who'd proved quite popular with readers of the strip but who the author thought was too flat to make much use of. To make him more interesting, the show merged him with Nervous Ted and had him shout constantly about trivial worries.
How many Republicans would you have to merge into a composite character as useful to demonize as Donald Trump?
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The Democrats already ran Liz Cheney up the flagpole to see if anyone would salute. I guess that has not been a big success.
The Dems can't help themselves. That's especially true for CNN and MSNBC. It has to be Trump. He's a known and hated quality and draws good TV numbers.
So the Dems fear DeSantis and Trump’s turn as Voldemort or Darth Vader or Hitler has ended.
Biden can’t hide this time. The election is about his policies and his incompetence and dementia.
From the article:
"[T]here's close to a consensus that Democrats can't hold Congress by focusing on Trump.... Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told Axios: 'I wish that we could just find one face that we could point to, such as with Donald Trump... maybe a composite.'"
They will have to find a Congress critter who is easy to demonize, as a stand-in for all Republicans, regardless of the poor scapegoat's relative importance in the power hierarchy in the Legislative Branch. Then the Two Minutes Hate will be repeated ad nauseum. How deplorable.
IOW, they got nothing to run on or against
elevating a unifying Republican foil
The designated hitler.
In other words, the Libtards don't care about anything except hating those Godddamn Republicans. So, you need some hate figure to get them to the polls.
I'd suggest cherry picking some quotes from Mitt Romney, Lindsey graham, Senator Cotton of Arkansas, and MTG, and mashing them all together. Social Conservatism from MTG, "Let them eat cake" quotes from Mittens, and Cotton and Graham quotes for warmongering Neo-connery. And then throw in some lies about some Republican supporting "white supremacy" or some such nonsense. Libtards always love it when their opponents are called Nazis.
The 3 strategies:
1. Find a scandal and fire Kamala - 'for the good of the country'.
2. Something something Joe Rogan.
3. Let's stick with Trump. Meeting adjourned.
The funny thing is that Trump will still be, actively or not, the inspiration driving opposition to the Junta. But they’ve worn out using him as a Folk Devil, at least among Independents.
Ask Saint Obama!! He was great at making up composite girlfriends!! Maybe he can make up a composite candidate too, because as he told us...he is the very bestest of everything in the world!!!
Democrats have run out of ideas, and will campaign on FUD. Got it.
What about Republicans? What will Republicans do to curb inflation without crashing the economy? How will they respond to Russian and Chinese aggression? What's their plan for international trade, education, energy? What about immigration and climate?
Are we ready for a third party yet?
Why hasn't it occurred to the Democrats to run on a positive platform about solid steps they want to take to improve the nation?
Step 1: Fuck everything up.
Step 2: Tell people the other guy would be worse.
Step 3: Repeat.
Newman on Seinfeld is a composite of Cliff and Norm from Cheers.
“Norm!”
“Newman.”
IMHO
"Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster, advisers to President Biden have discussed elevating a unifying Republican foil not named Donald Trump...."
Or, they could just govern better.
The composite enemy of the Democrat Party is the Average American. That's who they're against. That's who they're constantly vilifying. That's who they hate. Run on that!
Maybe, focus on doing right by the American people and you wouldn't have such a monumental task to overcome?
Democrats just cannot be honest about what they are doing.
They wont go after McConell or McCarthy because they are on the same side.
They are trying to replace the working class before the working class revolts.
The key to everything they are doing is in keeping gas and energy prices as high as possible.
@Alhouse, is there a reason why you think it’s important for Democrats to be elected or re-elected this fall? Have Democrats done so well in their governance that they deserve to remain in office?
I think a case can be made that unless the Democrats face a wipeout in November they just aren’t going to learn.
What a brilliant plan, but it needs fleshing out! I know, let's get Morning Joe to have the chosen foil on as often as possible during the primaries and have CNN and the rest of the mainstream media constantly boost that person, but only until the Republican convention. Then, after the foil has the nomination locked up, work like the devil to get the snot off your fingers before the general election. That approach worked great for the Democrats using Trump as the foil in 2016! Oh wait! MSNBC and CNN actually had viewers to influence in 2016 and couldn't make it work. Why should they do any better when all their anchors are only seen on milk cartons? Still, could the Dems do any better by actually running on their agenda? Talk about snot on the fingers! I suspect they're fucked no matter what they do, and it sure looks like they suspect it too.
Donald Trump is a unique political character. Otherwise he is the classic American promoter and salesman, a showman extraordinaire, who sounds like a character from Guys and Dolls. Which of these bland, consulted, blow-dried, mealymouthed, cautious, safe piticians could have any one of Trump's larger-than-life traits?
I think Biden is gone shortly after the State of the Union. The Dems are in full panic and are already starting to turn on him, as evidenced by the articles suddenly appearing that discuss the Admin's failures in Afghanistan, as well a general need for some sort of "reset" of personnel. The goal is to play up the notion that the admin is in chaos and beset by incompetence, so that people will welcome a new Harris admin.
Like I said yesterday, the Democrats have not had a new idea in over 50 years. They are as they have been for the last century- looking for one person to demonize and tell their followers that that person over there-That One!- wants to remove social security from your grandmama, take school lunch away from your kids, and take away their health care options. They want to cut taxes for the rich, and destroy the environment by drilling for oil. And they want to take all Black people, gay people, and Portlandians and throw them all on a barge headed for Cyprus.
Tell me when you've heard this before.
They don't have an ounce of self-awareness. Not an inkling at all that maybe, just maybe some of their ideas are not right? I mean, they don't even consider that their ideas are not only incorrect, but disastrous for everyone outside of Government and Big Tech companies.
In this way they are exactly like today's media hacks- our Journalists!, who like to ponder out loud the mystery of why people don't trust or like them anymore. Usually coming up with the same answer: Trump voters. Racists!
Yes, interview Sen. Mazie Hirono for comments on the big picture ideas and listen to her answer: We need a boogie man. Fuck the ideas. We don't need no stinkin' ideas. We just need a new boogie man.
Such is the state of our elected officials. I'll say again: there should not be another Democrat elected for two generations. It'll take at least that long to clean out the mess and create a worthwhile Party. At least something you can listen to without regurgitating.
Pm,
Kamala can't be fired. The only way to get her out is impeachment and 25A.
Since as vp, she doesn't ever DO anything and has no authority it will be hard to find any to impeach her for.
25A ditto.
So ask her to resign and why should she? She probably can't be bought out. Her husband is wealthy and do not need the money.
Other than the Supreme Court, maybe, there is no position that might entice her to resign.
Resigning g for anthing less would make her officially a failure. Hang in there and she has a good chance of getting to the oval for a year or two.
Then there's the whole question of who would replace her (donald trump?)
The demmies are stuck with their AA candidate.
John LGBTQBNY Henry
The left need a manufactured enemy and a manufactured crisis. Why? their bullshit isn't selling like is used to.
The Maddow-Colber-View Ladies-Kimmel-Clintonopolis await the selection.
Is CW McCall still alive? Convoys seem to be the latest Armed Insurrection. He'll have to do until Putin gives them Old Shoe.
Pm,
Kamala can't be fired. The only way to get her out is impeachment and 25A.
Since as vp, she doesn't ever DO anything and has no authority it will be hard to find any to impeach her for.
25A ditto.
So ask her to resign and why should she? She probably can't be bought out. Her husband is wealthy and do not need the money.
Other than the Supreme Court, maybe, there is no position that might entice her to resign.
Resigning g for anthing less would make her officially a failure. Hang in there and she has a good chance of getting to the oval for a year or two.
Then there's the whole question of who would replace her (donald trump?)
The demmies are stuck with their AA candidate.
John LGBTQBNY Henry
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Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) told Axios: 'I wish that we could just find one face that we could point to, such as with Donald Trump... maybe a composite.'"
Notice what she doesn't say....her party cannot run on what they are for and what they have accomplished.
Consider this.
1) The public is growing increasingly alarmed by economic conditions.
2) There is considerable anger (on both left and right) with the government mishandling of COVID
3) Issues around fairness and justice continue are still very contentious.
4) The Democratic Party holds both branches on Capitol Hill as well as the White House
5) They haven't done sh!t to address 1-3.
Not much to run on there Maize.
The only time I've seen democrats address their failed policies is to insist we need more of them using more of your money.
"Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster," and unwilling to simply release usurped Freedoms back to the People, "advisers to President Biden have discussed" various ways to invade and sabotage the enemy political opposition.
"Or, they could just govern better."
Nope. It's always about the messaging with these folks. The entire "let's find a target" thing is about avoiding taking responsibility for their own screw ups. If they can make it about "the other", they don't have to talk about what they have done. So "governing better" isn't on the table.
I just heard a Stacy Abrams ad on YT: Unless we elect Democrats this November, Trump will be back in the White House!
He certainly occupies a lot of space in Democrat brains.
how soon we forget TRUMP IS GEOTU
D want to be like that F-word N-word German Philopsoper and want to say GEOTU is dead
All's fair in lust and abortion... and the pursuit of capital and control.
Roe, Roe, Roe your ... Demos-cracy is aborted in darkness.
Maddow's last hit before her exit to "take a break" was on DeSantis.
And it was a total lie. Like most if not all of her other leftwing hits.
the left will clobber and crap all over the person who is effective.
The media makes the layup.
In cursing one of us, they curse all of us. And when cursing all of us asa group, each of us individually is accursed by them. But what will they do when we are so very, very horrible, and yet we win?
Time magazine put that mirror on their cover for "Person of the Year" a while back.
Maybe the Dems can do the same for "Target of Democrat 2 Minute Hate" this year.
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I think a case can be made that unless the Democrats face a wipeout in November they just aren’t going to learn."
Not even then. Hillary lost to a New York real estate developer and reality TV star with no experience in politics. Instead of focusing on why Americans hate them so much that they would put such a man in office, the political class spent all their energy trying to bring him down. Not once did they stop and think that Trump was a symptom of a growing resentment to their unaccountability and incompetence. Nope, it was those evil deplorables (or as one poster here likes to say "you people") and their xenophobia that put him in office. Because the political class has done such wonderful job over the past 50 years or so, it couldn't possibly be them.
All you'd need for Trump is a comedian skilled at taking down the opposition.
Skill would involve some sort of truth.
in order to keep the house and senate, they'll need to win house and senate races.
running against someone who's not in the race is just dumb.
Please listen to Hirono.
She is by far the dumbest person ever elected to high office in this country, and it's not even close.
She makes Kamala, Joe, and even the 'Guam tipping over' guy look like Einsteins.
Why hasn't it occurred to the Democrats to run on a positive platform about solid steps they want to take to improve the nation?
When all else fails, they would rather blame their "messaging."
I heard that Emmanuel Goldstein is available
Sounds like "The Walls Are Closing In®" on poor Brandon.
Bob Boyd wins the internet today, with "designated hitler."
Everybody here and elsewhere think that the Ds absolutely HAVE to do something to avoid catastrophe. What they are doing is working pretty well for them (power, money, prestige), even though it is a disaster for 99% of the country. No reason for them to change- they will find a way to get back into power, by crook.
Maybe a composite!? Right, demonize someone who doesn’t exist? The usual deep thoughts from the honorable senator from Hawaii. On the bright side, this non-existent person is sure not to win, so the tactic will be successful.
The Canadian Justice minister ran Trump up the flagpole and it didn't work out as he'd planned. Democrats had to see that as something that would go much worse for them.
It's the old Democrat playbook, but it works best in POTUS election years.
Starting with Goldwater who was going to start a nuclear war we have come to Trump, a White Supremacist who praised Nazis.
The Big Lie works because Democrats want to believe it, especially the MSM.
"Searching for a strategy to avoid ... disaster"
How about dumping the woke craziness, not feeding the inflation fires and finding someone competent to lead Team Dem? Just a thought. On second thought, never mind. Now back to your regular programing about using virtual non-reality to try to fool everyone again.
Where's Emmanuel Goldstein when you need him?
shadow governor, is like the death star over jedha
are advisers to President Biden = same as advisers to DNCC etc?
or is Biden being assisted in trying to stay on as President
Floundering in the deep end of the pool hoping someone will throw them a line to get to safety--and wearing two pair of cement overshoes named Biden and Harris.
The Dims are in deep water--indeed Obama might even say deep doo doo.
Like I said yesterday, the Democrats have not had a new idea in over 50 years.
And exactly what new ideas have the Republicans had in the last fifty years? Even Trump's signature achievement was, wait for it, a tax cut that we were promised would pay for itself, but of course further increased debt and the deficit. Typical Republican "solution" for the last forty years.
In other words, the Libtards don't care about anything except hating those Godddamn Republicans. So, you need some hate figure to get them to the polls.
And the Republicans care about, other than owning the libs, what exactly?
Leave aside the discussions about if it can be done, how about we begin with would this be or ethical?
Do you want to live in a nation in which one of the political parties considers this to be fair and ethical?
Sen. Mazie H. Is probably #1 of the top ten most obnoxious, divisive and hateful people in government. She is constantly attacking the other side. I have never seen her trying to be amicable toward the Republicans but rather acting like the pit bull from Hawaii that she is. What an unhappy POS she must be in her personal life to be so unpleasant. If she was still a congress person, I’m sure she would be the Squad Leader spewing her hate with the rest of the WOC.
A composite for the Dem opposition to target in the next election should be any middle-class, mid-western, white male.
This is the individual who represents the group who is trying to make a living, help raise a family, and contribute to the American way of life. This composite must be targeted as the enemy of the oppressed democratic voter. Or it could be any white cop in uniform. There’s your enemy America.
A composite of almost all the anchor babes on Fox News and Amy Coney Barrett. They are all accomplished, pretty, smart, hetero and cis, and worst of all, WHITE. Whats not to hate?
Sen. Hirono, who Tucker Carlson derides as the dumbest person in Congress, gives the shrewdest comment. Dems do need a figure to demonize, a scapegoat for their failures. Smearing is the only weapon in the Dem playbook and it works … usually. A composite Devil might work except for the fact that we just lived through two years of hell that deep down everyone knows was Democrat governing in essence. So I give Hirono props for a smidgeon of creativity.
It does make me laugh that they’ve taken Trump off the table. The reason is because McAuliffe ran against Trump and lost. But concluding that’s why he lost is the same fallacy as concluding your coach is an idiot because the Hail Mary pass was intercepted … as the clock ran out.
If I’ve learned nothing in the past two years it’s that the expert class is a gifted and talented class in a mental ward.
If they can make it about "the other", they don't have to talk about what they have done. So "governing better" isn't on the table.
To be fair, could you put a positive spin on their record? I couldn't.
What SHOULD happen is that the adults should take back control of the party and immediately announce their intention to drop both Harris and Biden in 2024. Pelosi and Schumer lose their jobs. Kick Bernie to the curb (ungrateful bastard used the party but never joined) and tell him to take the squad with him. Start promoting Manchin and Gabbard (or Gabbard and Manchin). Buy some air time around the State of the Union speech, and go full mea culpa. We're sorry, we lost our way, we'll do better in the future.
What will happen is that the Dems and the media will double down on the "The Republicans will put women back in the kitchen, Black people back in chains and gays back in the closet" talk.
This is great! Hear me out: “Emmanuel Goldstein!”
Screw these Dem d-baggers. Perhaps they should run on their records, policies and the other sub-maroon agenda items they champion
Mazie Hirono is the poster child for stupid Democrat politicians. No way that woman has three digits in her IQ. Not clear that she's even in the 90s.
Homer Simpson plus Gulley from Monarch of the Glenn.
Looking forward to hearing about someone who is "worse than Trump."
Because what’s the 2-minutes of hate without a foil whose face you can point at as the enemy. Mazie and the rest are just evil.
too obvious, quato the martian rebel leader, played by marshall bell in the original total recall, or bill nighy in the remake,
I guess Mazie Hirohito is now the official brain of the Democrats.
There is a boardroom meeting suggestion meme.
Boss: Any ideas to win midterms? Using Trump has played out.
Manager 1: Vilify de Santis
Manager 2: make a vile composite of a number of key Republicans
Manager 3: maybe we could just stop being bat-shit crazy for the time being
Boss looks at the Manager 3
Manager 3 gets thrown out the window
In a recent action story, not only were the bad guys white nationalists but turned out to be pedophiles as well. I forget the details. Some sex trafficking ring.
I didn't get the feeling that it was a composite thing, just the author piling on to establish badness.
Evil gets a bad name from composites, and gets people looking for it in the wrong places.
Can’t they just run on all of Joe’s accomplishments?
one of the political parties considers this to be fair and ethical
Ethics is a relativistic religion (i.e. behavioral protocol). That said, all's fair in lust and abortion.
Searching for a strategy to "avoid a disaster," not for a strategy to win.
Trump is unique. They'll go with Trump.
You know, if the Democrats weren't doing such a shitty job, they wouldn't have to make up a composite Republican to rail against.
"Mazie Hirono is the poster child for stupid Democrat politicians. No way that woman has three digits in her IQ. Not clear that she's even in the 90s."
She is fighting the stereotype that Asians are smart.
Maybe the New Biden team should simply run against Old Biden. "How proud we are that he has abandoned every position he held for years in the Senate. Let's face it, he used to be the embarrassing white guy at the Thanksgiving dinner table. He is so woke now, at least for an old white guy. He grovels, he apologizes, he whines, he reads hostage statements. Vote The New Joe!"
Maybe the New Biden team should simply run against Old Biden. "How proud we are that he has abandoned every position he held for years in the Senate. Let's face it, he used to be the embarrassing white guy at the Thanksgiving dinner table. He is so woke now, at least for an old white guy. He grovels, he apologizes, he whines, he reads hostage statements. Vote The New Joe!"
The obvious list of weird, dishonest politicians high-up in the GOP hierarchy include dishonest and dislikeable types that I abhor such as OSU wrestling coach Gym Jordan who knew nothing about the team doctor but is the most likely Speaker in 2022; Ted Cruz who learned to lie big from Trump; Rand Paul who needs to be more like his dad instead of fighting his neighbor; and our sweetheart from S.C., "ambiguously gay" Lindsey Graham who seemingly changes his mind every time his feminine side kicks in.
Sadly, only a few GOP politicians are faithfully observing their infamous oaths of office, most obviously, our greatest VP's daughter, Liz Cheney.
Composite? Let me put this out there: "Vladimir Trumpin"
Wait, that's the guy they've run against since 2016!
I am deeply frustrated by the repeated Democrat claim that the Trump tax cuts increased the deficit. They did not. Revenue collected by the IRS went steadily higher after the tax cuts, it never went down. The deficit did increase, but that's because spending increased even faster than the increase in tax revenue. What's more, economic growth after the tax cut was higher than projected--whether the tax cuts deserve the credit is a separate question. What else is more is that the Trump tax cuts made the income tax more progressive, not less so, primarily with the cap on the SALT deduction. The share paid at the top increased, as did the absolute dollars paid, so hardly a tax cut for the rich. Look it up on the IRS website. It's the Democrats who now want to scrap the SALT cap to give an enormous tax break to the rich.
The other truth that the Democrats want to bury is that after the tax cuts and before the Wuhan flu, the unemployment rates among POC were the lowest ever recorded.
yea - I second Emmanuel Goldstein.
I am astounded at how deeply incompetent Biden and the Democrats are at politics these days — it’s not just that Biden appears to have learned nothing in his fifty years in Washington; it’s that every action Democrats take appears to have been crafted by a diabolical enemy leading them to their destruction.
"Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster, advisers to President Biden have discussed elevating a unifying Republican foil not named Donald Trump...."
Because all their policies sucks dn they know it. So they can't compete on policy grounds.
it's pitiful when everything you do makes things worse, and the one thing you refuse to do is stop doing the things that make things worse
Everything is "us vs. them" for the left. It is all about destroying something, someone.
Lance said...
What about Republicans? What will Republicans do to curb inflation without crashing the economy? How will they respond to Russian and Chinese aggression? What's their plan for international trade, education, energy? What about immigration and climate?
1: Cut all the Dem spending programs that are driving up the deficit
2: Sanction the Nord Stream II pipeline. Encourage US oil production to drive down the price and thus cut Russia's budget. Trade sanctions against China
3: Trade: Continue Trump's policies. Education: Nuke everything teh Democrats are trying to do, including CRT and letting boys in skirts go into the girls' locker rooms / bathrooms. Energy: Drill baby Drill!
4: Restore MPP. Deport every single illegal the Biden Admin let in. Deport every single person who signed up for DACA, and all their illegal family members. Change US immigration law to favor merit admissions, not "family reunion"
IOW, pretty much do everything the opposite of the Democrats, since every single thing they've done has made America worse off
Mr Wibble said...
I think Biden is gone shortly after the State of the Union.
They can't.
1: Dr. Jill is not going to give up being "1st Lady" and power behind the throne
2: If they get rid of Biden, then Harris becomes President, there's no VP, and until the GOP votes in a new VP the Dems have no Senate Majority. Which means they lose all legislative power
They are going to flail and scream, and otherwise accomplish nothing of a positive nature
So the Dems' strategy is to parrot Tony Montana: "That's the bad guy."
Senator Hirono is the dumbest person in Congress and I am including AOC in that calculation. Actually, she's dumber than Senator Joe Biden. I am not sure why we care about her opinions.
Then again, both Biden and Hirono do appear to have a knack on how to get elected despite having no traits that would recommend them, so perhaps this is the one thing of which they know of what they speak.
Perfect. A fake foil for a fake president.
Mazie is indeed a stupid person. A composite is a fictional character. Nobody is scared of a composite. What she should have said is a hydra -- a many-headed monster: Trump DeSantis McConnell McCarthy Brett Kavanaugh Clarence Thomas Proud Boys White Supremacists Insurrectionists Truckers etc. You can already imagine an ad throwing them all together in a scary montage.
Mazie Hirono is the poster child for stupid Democrat politicians. No way that woman has three digits in her IQ. Not clear that she's even in the 90s.
Don't neglect Hank Johnson!! He deserves his place in the sun. After all, it too many people move to one side of Guam, Guam could capsize. The admiral he was questioning deserved a Meritorious Conduct medal for not gafawing at that question.
Kamala Harris could be impeached for mopery and dopery of the space ways. That's a good a reason as Trump's two impeachment hearings.
Desantis is Mua'dib, they try to deny it,
I would suggest they run against Rush Limbaugh, but they can't now that he's voting Democrat...
Obama was a composite character in his awn "autobiography". That worked out quite well for the Demofascists. Not so good for Hillary, but there you go. The bag has baggage.
Searching for a strategy to avoid a 2022 midterm disaster..
I'm guessing competence has been ruled out.
The problem with trying to use DeSantis is that Florida is booming. He ran a gamble last summer and it is paying off big time.
He's also a rare form of Republican that likes to fight back and isn't afraid to toot his own horn.
No way that woman has three digits in her IQ.
She does if you count the two after the decimal point.
The only thing that will save Democrats now is the overturning of Roe v Wade. Fortunately for Dems it appears the Supremes are willing to do their part.
Was Emmanuel Goldstein not available?
I think that this US Trucker's Convoy could provide the Democrats with a l little lift. The Canadian protests were authentic grass roots organized with legitimate beefs that were immediate, and not being addressed. This US Truckers' convoy stinks of astroturf and will be easily played by the Democrats.
Since Axios elected to quote Maize Hirono on the subject, I'll just say I can't tell whether she's truly the stupidest US legislator alive or the "...most obnoxious, divisive and hateful..." person in government as Ceceliahere suggests. Maybe she's both.
But I completely disagree with Joe Smith that she "...makes Kamala, Joe, and even the 'Guam tipping over' guy look like Einsteins."
No one in the United States of America today is so dumb they make Joe Biden look like an Einstein. That just totally breaks both the General and Special Theories of Relativity.
Sadly, only a few GOP politicians are faithfully observing their infamous oaths of office, most obviously, our greatest VP's daughter, Liz Cheney.
gadfly is going for the Mazie prize.
"Biden's approval rating has been in decline since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan — and now hovers in the low 40s."
"Hovers in the low 40s" is an interesting way of saying "hovers around 40 +-" Whatever you do, avoid the truth if it makes us look bad, is their motto, I guess.
Some White House officials are optimistic that Biden's numbers may creep slightly upwards if the omicron variant is, indeed, the last wave of COVID-19. But it's not clear such a boost would come soon enough or be powerful enough.
Oddly enough, this is exactly what conservatives have been saying since the numbers came out of South Africa in mid-December, and then the UK, and it was dismissed as "dangerous misinformation."
only thing that will save Democrats now is the overturning of Roe v Wade
Setting the standard of viability for the beginning of life to match the end of life.
In the meantime, it's Roe, Roe, Roe your parent/hood... down the river Styx for social, clinical, redistributive, and fair weather causes.
1: Dr. Jill is not going to give up being "1st Lady" and power behind the throne
2: If they get rid of Biden, then Harris becomes President, there's no VP, and until the GOP votes in a new VP the Dems have no Senate Majority. Which means they lose all legislative power
They are going to flail and scream, and otherwise accomplish nothing of a positive nature
1: She may not want to give it up, but if the party as a whole is screaming behind closed doors that Biden has to go, she won't be able to stop it.
2: They're already on track to lose the Senate Majority, which would render Harris useless. If they wait until after the midterms for Biden to step down, she would be a caretaker president and likely face a primary challenger in 2024. Her best bet is to take the reins prior to the midterms, when the Dems might be able to peel off a GOP vote or two for new appointees and to push some sort of legislation through that she can run on in 2024.
I am astounded at how deeply incompetent Biden and the Democrats are at politics these days — it’s not just that Biden appears to have learned nothing in his fifty years in Washington; it’s that every action Democrats take appears to have been crafted by a diabolical enemy leading them to their destruction.
"The best way to understand any organization is to assume it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."
The problem for the Dems is that the long-term goals of the party require actions which are at odds with those actions required to achieve the short-term goals if the party leadership. The smart move would be to focus on opposing illegal immigration, imposing tariffs, and protecting the rights of parents and small businesses. This would appeal to the large blue-collar conservative voting bloc that used to be the Dem base. The problem is that such a move would piss off the progressive activists who make up the current Dem base, and who are burrowed in deep in Dem fundraising and campaigns. Any leader who doesn't toe the woke line gets destroyed by the left.
It's the lefts go to move. I believe Obama was a pioneer in one his books with a "composite" girlfriend. Was she white? Asian? Maybe both. Not black.
Based upon my Facebook feed, I'm pretty sure that Marjorie "Gazpacho" Taylor Greene is currently the designated "typical Republican". A day doesn't go by that I don't see 1 or 2 posts about her.
Dems have Mazie, GOP has MTJ.
Greg The Class Traitor said...
IOW, pretty much do everything the opposite of the Democrats, since every single thing they've done has made America worse off
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and yet 4 of them stayed away to give D vote majority to continue funding masking! mandates
Vax Mandates Remain After Four Republican Senators Skip Senate Vote
Not to worry. The NYTimes/WashPost will come up with something for their party.
>Joe Smith said...
Please listen to Hirono. She is by far the dumbest person ever elected to high office in this country, and it's not even close.<
Phi Beta Kappa does not induct dumb people into its membership. It would have been very strange for them to have made an exception for Mazie Hirono.
Prole, "I am astounded at how deeply incompetent Biden and the Democrats are at politics these days — it’s not just that Biden appears to have learned nothing in his fifty years in Washington; it’s that every action Democrats take appears to have been crafted by a diabolical enemy leading them to their destruction."
You might even think that all of this is intentional.
Find out that this has been going on for years, at jbs.org
Keep up with the gay slurs gadfly...so much for the 'tolerant' left.
Republicans have an easier time of it. No one likes Nancy Pelosi.
"She is by far the dumbest person ever elected to high office in this country, and it's not even close." No kidding, my dog has more brains in his ASS than in Hirono's entire body.
Far be it from me to provide advice to the enemy but they may consider turning away from their busy body impulses and leave the american people the fuck alone for a few years. That would be a huge improvement over what they are currently doing. I don't think this country can stand many more months of their "help". Everything they and Biden touch turns to shit so they may start there.
Oh, and send Hirono to Ann Arbor, so she can learn how to spell “Maize.”
Jeff said...
Why hasn't it occurred to the Democrats to run on a positive platform about solid steps they want to take to improve the nation?
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Thanks, Jeff, I needed a good laugh.
Jeff said...
Why hasn't it occurred to the Democrats to run on a positive platform about solid steps they want to take to improve the nation?
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Thanks, Jeff, I needed a good laugh.
Narayanan said...
how soon we forget TRUMP IS GEOTU
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GEOTU?
Biden's strategy is to get into a muddle in the Ukraine.. and somehow claim victory.
But as Obama said, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up". You can add Harris to that to.
Obama runs the democrat party for a generation. Lost over 1000 federal, state, and local seats. Continues hemorrhaging talent. The dems have no bench. It would take a heart of stone ....
Amadeus 48 said...
Trump is unique. They'll go with Trump.
They tried that in VA
They got swept Statewide, and lost control of the VA House, with a 12 pt shift to the GOP from 2020.
So I sure hope they do that
Narayanan said...
and yet 4 of them stayed away to give D vote majority to continue funding masking! mandates
Vax Mandates Remain After Four Republican Senators Skip Senate Vote
1: The 4 stayed away because if teh Senate passed a different bill than the House, the gov't would have shut down, since the House was on vacation
2: The 4 assholes are Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Richard Burr (R-NC)
https://nationalfile.com/vax-mandates-remain-four-republican-senators-skip-senate-vote/
All 4 need to go
Earnest Prole said...
The only thing that will save Democrats now is the overturning of Roe v Wade. Fortunately for Dems it appears the Supremes are willing to do their part.
Which is then followed by most States NOT banning abortion at least until the end of the 1st trimester.
At which point the big Roe freakout becomes a bust
The Dems can try to shift the focus to an external threat, like the all purpose bad guy Putin.
Or they can all run against the 1/6 Q-Anon shaman.
"Biden won't demonize Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell because of their longstanding and collegial relationship"
They were "butt buddies"...at least until Joementia classified The Turtle as a domestic terrorist.
Doug,
I've made the same point a bunch of times. He was a disaster for the party. His admin lost the party seats, convinced the activists that they didn't need blue collar voters, and his bitchy attack on Trump at the WHCD convinced Trump to run.
Where was Emmanuel Goldstein during this time?
4W Technologies
While Republicans have started playing the class warfare card, it's only after Democrats have been waging economic warfare on the working class for years.
most everybody has already said the obvious. Running on agenda items expose the Democrat lie.
Democrat Party policies have been exposed.
In a nut shell, their policy is to pander to the separate classes Dems invented, telling them they are 'less' and need protection and special $help$, Woman? You just can't do it, dems are your only way to be successful, can't do it on your own. Blacks? Dems have been helping you f 60or years, which is why dems are redoubling their $eforts$ to remove barriers, like merit based testing, and other measures of achievement. You cant achieve and that's where the Dems step in to correct that.
Gays, illegal aliens, chicks with dicks, $democrats$ are your solution, Self reliance is a ruse.
In short the Democrat Party is one part.Spend massive amount of other peoples $money$. Claim that $$money is going to $help$. While at the same time skimming off the $vigorish$ for themselves and their families growing $wealth$ off the backs of the oppressed.
Oh, I almost forgot, the Dems are about the money they can pocket and the power they can amass.
Looks like Senator Scott stepping forward to say, Let me be the guy.
Well they've managed to turn Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Bobert and Matt Gaetz into a major fund raisers already. They could try attacking Gov Youngkin some more, he could use the boost.
George Pataki and Chris Christie would probably volunteer to have their profile raised.
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