Kamala Harris is at the top of the Washington Post home page:
When President Biden said he would drop out of the presidential race just over a week ago, throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris....
KH doesn't get credit for "taking control" here. She was handed it by someone who, for no stated reason, "said he would drop out."
... a jolt of energy instantly excited a beleaguered Democratic base. The party rallied around Ms. Harris, as upbeat memes and positive statistics for Democrats over the past week abounded: $200 million in contributions, a litany of tantalizing vice-presidential options and a rash of improved polling.
Cool, exciting things burbled up around her. It was "a jolt." It was "tantalizing." Wow. But it wasn't anything she did.
Ms. Harris now faces harder tasks in the coming weeks: maintaining that enthusiasm as the initial excitement fades, as former President Donald J. Trump and his campaign sharpen their attacks against her....
And now there is trouble ahead. How will she "maintain... enthusiasm"? With "high-profile surrogates":
Ms. Harris and her high-profile surrogates are expected to keep up their brisk pace early in the week, with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania — the latter viewed as a serious vice-presidential contender — campaigning for Ms. Harris on Monday in Pennsylvania.
Harris doesn't seem terribly active.
On Tuesday, Ms. Harris will make her first appearance as a presidential candidate this cycle in Georgia, campaigning in Atlanta as she works to keep the state in play for November.
It won't be until tomorrow that she will "make her first appearance as a candidate." A candidate? She's the candidate. She never had to fight for anything — except to the extent that she was part of whatever was done to Joe Biden to cause him to say he would drop out.
Maybe we'll find the answer over at The Washington Post, where the headline is, "How Kamala Harris took control of the Democratic Party."
The subheadline is less triumphant and doesn't even put KH in the active role: "Party officials and campaign aides raced to flip an entire brand from fading hope to salute emojis." The text supports the subheadline:
As long as Joe Biden still believed, there could be no Plan B. The boss had earned that much. Vice President Harris approved no discussions. Campaign advisers did not break ranks in public.
But some key preparations were still put in place for the most spectacular transformation in recent American political history — a flash-bang midsummer swap at the top of a presidential ticket, an outpouring of volunteer energy, a rebound in the polls and a flood of campaign cash best described in fractions of $1 billion.
The national party bosses quietly consulted their rule books. State party chairs met in secret. Others operated without orders to prepare the ground.
Donna Brazile, the former Democratic Party chair, and Bakari Sellers, the former South Carolina state lawmaker, started running their own delegate whip operation weeks before Biden bowed out. There was no public list of the 4,000 or so first-ballot convention voters — the risk of it leaking, causing harassment and death threats, hung in the air. But Brazile and Sellers knew the local politicians, the union leaders and the state party chairs who ran most delegations....
They also knew the rules. It didn’t matter how many donors or members of Congress called for Biden to step aside.... Pledged delegates would decide, and they could betray Biden. According to Rule 13 (J), they had the power to vote on the first ballot “in all good conscience.” So Brazile and Sellers made sure everyone held firm, reporting back to the campaign’s whip operation and White House senior counselor Steve Ricchetti that the troops remained in formation.
“I had people call me and say, ‘Is the vice president ready?’ I said, ‘No, she wants Joe Biden. She is sticking with Joe Biden,’” Brazile remembered.
But when it came up, Brazile also told people that the party already had a backup quarterback on the roster. Sellers told others Harris could not be skipped. There was no question in those calls what would happen if Biden made a different choice. “I said: ‘Oh hell no, you are not taking Vice President Harris out. That is not going to happen,’” Brazile said....
So that's "How Kamala Harris Took Control"?! Seems more like Donna Brazile took control. Quite a coup!
Biden bowed out of the race at 1:46 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, July 21, sending Harris’s advisers scrambling to the vice president’s residence, where she wore a Howard University sweatshirt while placing more than 100 calls over the first 10 hours.
Glad to know what she wore as she "took control."
Aides rushed to the campaign office in Wilmington, Del., to flip an entire brand from a dead stop — before passing around late-night beer and whiskey to wind down.
Glad to know what they drank.
By the time the state party chairs released a statement backing Harris at 9:12 p.m. that night, most of her potential rivals for the nomination had fallen in line....
But what did KH herself do to make any of this happen? How subordinate is she?
“If she’d had to raise money starting from zero, hire her first staff, open her first office and do all of that right out of the gate, I don’t know that she would have had time to execute. What we saw was the exact inverse of that,” said Robby Mook, the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid. “She inherited everything that had already been built and then expanded it at an extremely rapid rate.”...
You didn't build that!
I'm skipping over a lot of material about the scramble to make memes and money. In the end, it's in about the same place as the NYT — The honeymoon is over:
Now everyone has to keep going. One week later, despite the success, nothing is solved. Harris is up in the polls, but still behind Trump in some surveys and far behind where Biden was at the same point in 2020. The Wilmington team is intact, but its White House support system has faded.... It’s a work in progress.
Both Democrats and Republicans have taken to calling this period “the Harris Honeymoon.” The question is what happens when she stumbles or comes under a damaging attack... The nation remains dyspeptic, frustrated, ready for change....
The Washington Post article is much more substantial than the NYT article, and that justifies its top position on the front page. It isn't — as the headline suggests — puffing up Kamala Harris. It shows (or purports to show) the machinations that put Kamala Harris "in control," and, in this story at least, Kamala Harris is not the one controlling things.
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Kamala isn't rising, she's being inflated.
I thought Gonzalez had a big lead in the private polls before the election. Could it be that the Socialist incumbent stole the election? Venezuela’s economy has been a wreck. High inflation.
Anybody left out there who doesn’t realize that the 2020 election was completely sabotaged and rigged?
This time, the sabotage and rigging are right out in the open. No effort at concealment.
WaPoo has had a wretched problem with pronouns for years. Looks like it has metastasized to the verbs as well.
So the nomination process was 'fortified.'
There was no public list of the 4,000 or so first-ballot convention voters — the risk of it leaking, causing harassment and death threats
Death threats? Surely they must be from everyday insurrectiony Republicans trying to influence the outcome of the Democratic non election…
So long as the same people are cooking the vote this is all stagecraft for the lemmings…er, our constituency, the same type of scripted farce we’re fed in the primaries.
…and from now on you are no longer allowed to be shocked and surprised you aren’t influencing anything in the primaries.
”I thought Gonzalez had a big lead…”
Nothing matters except who counts the votes.
Wait, elections can be stolen?
This is a master class in reading Pravda.
The people behind Harris appear to be robots.
Glad to know what she wore as she "took control."
This visual cue causes our minds to focus on and recall that particular detail of the story. The only part where Harris is actually doing something. The well-earned afterwork drinks with her team also helps there.
So, only about 99 more days of this. To be followed, of course, by all the gnashing of teeth, lawsuits, late ballots being discovered, and so on.
Biden: "Pull my finger"
$2 whores are 2 fiddy now
Ann reads Russian.
Bezos compost is what its worth
Kamala Harris is in the trial balloon stage of her candidacy.
She has until the virtual convention (sometime before August 7th) to make a strong showing and "earn" the top spot. If she doesn't, I'd guess they'll write off Ohio's EVs and have a big dramatic convention fight.
The late Rush Limbaugh read Althouse for posts like this.
The Democratic Party is dealing with terminal convergence. Aside from DEI sabotaging its core mission of electoral victory, the deal with Clintonian neoliberalism has run its course. Gain power in exchange for giving up anything which made that power worthwhile.
If there are any patriots left in within the upper echelons of the Democratic Party, if they really want to save “our democracy “, then they must launch a rebellion at the DNC. When the Chair calls for the first ballot, they should refuse to vote. That won’t happen, of course. No one in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party gives a flying fuck about democracy.
$2 whores are 2 fiddy now
I take a pretty dim view of the attacks on Kamala Harris’ sexual history. While I can’t say I approve of this reality, it’s a pretty smart move by a beautiful woman to capitalize on her sexual attractiveness. That’s a sign of intelligence, not stupidity. I also like women who love men and love sex with men. That’s not a disqualifier in my book.
Given the usual lockstep in which the Times and WaPo usually march, can our Kremlin watchers divine the sides that have still not come together behind Harris?
The "where is Biden?" is humorous. It's almost as though he didn't just cease to be the candidate, he also ceased to be the president. Where is he? What is he doing? Harris is already acting like she is the president, but I have no doubt the people actually running the country haven't (and don't plan to) miss a beat.
Bsck in the spare room like john gill
The Harris Honeymoon. I thought we weren't supposed to talk about that.
Even the casual political observer understands that Kamala is in control of nothing. She's just the meat puppet for our ruling class.
Shouting Thomas:
You told us all about your randy sexual history of fucking random woman as part of your racial bingo card.
People with morals don’t do things like that; especially the score keeping.
Harris is a whore with an exceptionally poor character. She used her good looks to make up for lack of smarts and work ethic.
I think the juxtaposition of Harris on the airplane steps and the word Momentum is rather savvy. Momentum is what happens to a body in free fall. Like....Biden tumbling downwards literally and metaphorically. It would have been a more positive image/word pairing if she were going up the steps with a confident smile. Are the people behind the scenes this smart or this dumb?
T
A YouTuber called OkayRickk has succeeded in explaining something that needed to be radically simplified for Quaestor’s radically simple mind: DEI = Didn’t Earn It.
"...except to the extent that she was part of whatever was done to Joe Biden to cause him to say he would drop out."
The NY Post has reported that the reason Biden eventually dropped out was because they threatened him with the 25th Amendment. Two points:
First, the threat to remove a President for political reasons is an attempted coup.
Second, the VP has to be in on it.
I wonder if they will keep her in the basement like they did Biden. As soon as she opens her mouth in public, people are going to figure out that she is a blithering idiot. Not that typical Democrat voters will object - they need to save their democracy.
You told us all about your randy sexual history of fucking random woman as part of your racial bingo card.
They weren’t random. They were chosen, from a vast army of applicants.
I’m a lifelong pro musician, both popular and sacred. One of the really important things that non-musicians don’t know is that women swoon and sort of lose their minds with good musicians. I’m, in fact, a reincarnation of the great Greek poet, Orpheus. His poetry and music so inflamed the passion of women that they ripped him to shreds.
This has been the story of my life. You have zero idea of how incredibly available women are, and always have been, for me.
She has nothing else to commend herself with everything else is corruption
p=mv
When a free-falling body finally hits rock bottom, p=0.
The Dims have one last chance to avoid becoming a tragic joke.
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
Yeah
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
In order to make this true one has to employ judicious use of ellipses:
As long as Joe Biden still believed, there could be no Plan B... in public.
But we didn't need the WaPo to tell us that what we witnessed last week was the operating, fully staffed, well-planned Plan B all along. And thanks to the usual public liars/private schemers ("Donna Brazile and Bakari Sellers... already had a backup quarterback on the roster" (again ellipses are your fried)) the beans are spilling. because they are proud of deceiving America and Biden, just like Brazile was proud of helping Hillary cheat in the CNN debates.
Good thing they were able to "flip an entire brand from a dead stop" in order to Save Our Democracy (TM) in a most undemocratic way. Shame it's not going well. As I noted in the overnight thread, even NYT commenters are refusing to eat the dog food.
The Democrats and their loyal media have not yet decided on a unified narrative for explaining their previous reporting on Harris versus the wonder woman character they are pushing today. The media are going back in time and editing their reporting from two years ago to match it to the reporting of today (totally on their own initiative of course).
One of the latest attempts in explaining Harris sudden wonder woman status is that "Harris has grown in experience and stature over the past few months". However, they can't quite articulate exactly in what manner such growth and experience has happened.
Meanwhile, at the WSJ, it is Trump who has had a "rough" week. Yep, 100 days before the election, the Democrats have instituted a palace coup and replaced their dementia-riddled candidate with an unlikable poorly rated meme-worthy DEI hire, but it is Trump who is having a rough week.
"Trump Looks to Regain Campaign Edge After Rough Week" (July 28, 2024 11:20 pm ET)
(The article only stayed on the front page for an hour or so before being moved to the lower right of the Politics page where you have to scroll down to find it. Maybe the mockery was too much for them)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-looks-to-regain-campaign-edge-after-rough-week-8e037378?mod=politics_lead_pos3
“ “She inherited everything that had already been built and then expanded it at an extremely rapid rate.”...“
If you wander over to KamalaHarris.com, close the donation and pop up, then scroll down to the “Work With Us” link, you’ll see tens of open positions needing to be filled in Wilmington, DE. Several of them are leadership or specialist positions, as well. I think that “expanded”idea is not accurate.
Also, I can’t imagine Biden’s campaign staff being happy to have to support the person who stabbed him in the back with the 25th threat. There may be bodies there, but likely more than a few not quite onboard with the team goal.
Given the fact that I’m a great screenwriter, I’ll clue the Althouse community in on the Kamala narrative that the Fake News and Dems are creating now.
Rewriting her history of incompetence is the first thing, That’s why they had they ran the she-wasn’t-the-border-czar narrative.
Next was the attack on JD Vance on abortion and childless cat ladies. Expect attacks on the fact that he converted to Catholicism.
Kamala does get a honeymoon. But events are now much quicker these days. But it will extend through the convention.
We also need a little drama on the VP pick.
The final part is the horse race narrative that is so well loved. Kamala is the underdog! The poor Black woman that will fight for women and minorities against the rapist and convicted felon Trump and his hillbilly VP.
America still believes in the Protestant work ethic. So expect puff pieces on how the young and energetic Kamala works hard for your vote. All the while the Dems are registering illegal aliens and working their criminal schemes to steal another election.
Katzenberg is advising the Dems. He knows the proper beats of the American election script.
In real life the Queen Bee is kept as a slave and it's a pretty shitty job by human standards but you do eat well so there's that.
ST:
Congrats on being a Billy goat.
https://x.com/HighbrowHaze/status/1817899372455063972
even NYT commenters are refusing to eat the dog food.
One of those tidbits I would learn only by coming here. My guess will be soon those people will be told there is noting else coming so you now must shut up and eat it…and they will.
Congrats on being a Billy goat.
My late wife, a stunningly gorgeous Filipina, was my Eurydice.
She died just as she was about to attain national prominence as a blues singer. I’m am so truly a reincarnation of Orpheus that I am now condemned to search eternally for her in the underworld.
Michael scherer deck 3 of the journolist
My take:
1. I suspect that the delay in Joe Biden’s announcement to not run was part of the plan to buy time to coordinate and get the Kamala launch messages prepped. Might not be so, but I suspect it is so.
2. If you watched the events of the past 4 weeks, it is hard to believe that Kamala or even Joe Biden are or were in control of the Democrat party. I think Elon has correctly observed: they are the puppets.
3. I don’t blame the news outlets for trying to rewrite the story about Kamala being the Border Czar. They have no choice but to play along with the Democrats, since their main and only source of content and “inside scoops” are the Democrat leaders, and because their viewers want only positive news on Kamala. If they upset their viewers, they lower their advertising revenue. Or put differently, once you stop maintaining the notion that they are news outlets - once you finally settle yourself on the fact that they are for-profit enterprises with no monopoly on the broadcast medium and no original content - you can stop being upset that they are doing what they do.
What do we do now?
“As soon as she opens her mouth in public, people are going to figure out that she is a blithering idiot.”
Most people already know she’s a blithering idiot, so she’ll need to open her mouth to try to prove otherwise—much as Biden needed (and failed) to do to prove he was compos mentis.
ST:
And I never appreciated how you kept calling Althouse a fag-hag.
You have both poor judgment and poor character.
Joementum >> Momentum >> Slowmentum >> Woementum
Based on an honest review of her actions and results, no one with any brains would trust Harris to be in charge of ensuring the plants were watered while they were on vacation for a week.
Harris is the poster child for failing up and a cautionary tail for the real world results of DEI. The fact that the Democrats/DNC/media are "flocking" to her as the nominee for POTUS shows you how afraid they are of losing their death-grip on political power. As she fails to "rise to the occasion" expect them to get more and more desperate making the last 3.5 years look like the calm before the storm.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/an-inspiration-to-me-always-meet-kamala-harriss-radical-pastor/
Based on an honest review of her actions and results, no one with any brains would trust Harris to be in charge of ensuring the plants were watered while they were on vacation for a week
I’ve wondered if the people who are running Joe and will soon be running Kamala will be so brazen to declare we have nothing to worry about, because while technically Kamala will be “president’ she wont’t be President…
sounds like Shouting Thomas wants to grab some pu$$y
You have both poor judgment and poor character.
I set out in life, from the time I can remember, to live a life of great adventure, epic music, romance and sex.
God gave me exactly what I asked for. I have been extraordinarily blessed. Whatever it is that you want and seek in life, it’s not what I wanted or sought.
Oddly, Althouse and I share favorite writer, Henry Miller. Althouse is no fan of timid language. You have to be an avid reader to understand this. Have you ever read Miller? He’s damned blunt.
Today in the NYT: How Kamala Harris took control of the Democratic Party
Tomorrow in the NYT: How Lamb Chop and Howdy Doody took control of the budding television industry.
Maybe Monica Lewinsky should run.
Put a D on it.
You feel it slipping away, Trump's second coronation. Kamala is igniting GenZ tictokers and Millennial spinsters. She wins the anyone but an old man vote. I feel that $200 I bet with my son slipping out of my wallet ðŸ˜
The biggest tell you are losing hope is you are making all of the predictable shop worn excuses for the loss already... the media bias, the deep state and election fraud are all conspiring against you and Donald.
I also take a dim view of focusing on Harris's sex life, but for a different reason.
I could say it's because it's pretty clear that Trump, in his younger days, was promiscuous, but I think the point Dave B and others want to make about Harris is that she used her... I'll just call them her modern sexual morals to rise in politics, which Trump didn't.
The reason I personally would avoid that line of critique is because it isn't one that can be leveled at a man: there simply aren't enough women in high places who also want boy toys to make sleeping your way to the top viable for a young man. And it's still the case that promiscuous women are treated very differently from promiscuous men. So it's slut-shaming when there's no counter-slam available and I don't dig it.
But the reason I'd advise the Trump camp to avoid that line is because there are women who will be very put off by it: women, for instance, who fell for the Sexual Revolution in their youth but then settled down upon realizing that it didn't offer them the fulfillment it said it would (because women aren't men and don't generally find any kind of fulfillment from lots of commitment-free sex). They have changed, repented even, and so they know that that change can and does happen.
Trump's life in the past couple of decades had mirrored that pattern, it seems to me: whatever horndogging he did as a young man, he is now solidly a family man. And if his past morals are off limits for his supporters, I can see some of his female supporters being irked by the expectation that we all fall in line to try to hang Willie's willie around Harris's neck (now that's a weird visual). when we have no reason to believe that she's continued to use her sexuality to advance since those early days.
She has no accomplishments to her name except the collaose of the border the crime wave in a 100 cities she fanned
"the machinations that put Kamala Harris "in control," and, in this story at least, Kamala Harris is not the one controlling things"
Sure, but it doesn't matter. The issue is not if Harris is in control but whether Dems will seize control of the entire government. They think they can, so Harris' personal ability is irrelevant. In fact, less than irrelevant: Dems have done well with a puppet president controlled by a team of lefties, and will be happy for that continue. The less control by a flawed person at the top, the more opportunity to push prog policy.
I do appreciate the fisking, though.
there simply aren't enough women in high places who also want boy toys to make sleeping your way to the top viable for a young man.
Let me correct myself: for a young straight man. Young gay men have had access to this tactic for decades, at least to become powerful behind the scenes.
Early in college, my husband did an internship in Gov. Deukmejian's administration in California (Republican, to remind readers here of the halcyon days when California was at least more sane). The gay folk ran the joint. My husband, then 18, though straight, was thin with broad shoulders, curly hair, and a great smile, and got invited to amazing parties of movers and shakers, particularly related to the McClatchie media empire (McClatchie apparently put Shouting T herein to shame), and eventually had to quit because one fast-rising staffer was starting to buy him clothes and gifts and making the quid pro quo explicit.
so Harris' personal ability is irrelevant
Not to impugn the general post but I suspect it’s possible part of the reluctance to replace old Joe is due to the reality that while Kamala is stupid she isn’t senile and when she’s installed as president, Kamala IS President. I could see that as a riskier strategy for them…
@ST: I also like women who love men and love sex with men. That’s not a disqualifier in my book.
Fair enough. I’m not put off by Trump’s tomcatting. Got to be consistent I guess. Men use wealth, power and fame to get sex, while women use sex to get wealth, power and fame. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.
We can beat the Marxist airhead a hundred other ways, anyway. To my mind the most damning thing about her is her failure on border security, which will not be successfully memory-holed by the press. Nor will her support for the rioters and looters of Antifa/BLM play well in the swing states.
They weren’t random. They were chosen, from a vast army of applicants.
Heh. You’ve got style, I’ll give you that.
Go back to Fantasy Island, Howie.
The comments by and between ST and DB are some of the most puffer-fish and entertaining things to happen in this comment section in more than a minute. Good Golly, are we in the presence of greatness here, y'all, or what?
I don't understand piling on ST, especially for anyone familiar with this comments section. And for the millionth time, Trump's statement was more like ST's than the misinformation spread by Butkus: "When you are a star they let you do anything, grab 'em by the pussy." Trump used an outrageous example to make a point. He didn't recommend it. He didn't admit doing it. He simply made a point that propagandists have twisted into their own talking point over the years while falsely claiming "that's what Trump does!"
Because the gullible and people who vote Democrat (BIRM) will believe any lie that reinforces their Orange Man Bad narrative. Any lie.
Just scan the leftist comments on here.
Trust me on this. The Hollywood crew has a full three act script for Kamela with all the beats set out. Also storyboards.
We know she is evil and ignorant like a character from princess bride
“They tried to coup him, impeach him, remove him from the ballot, they ran show trials against him, tried to bankrupt him and his family, put him in prison, and assassinate him. They're OBVIOUSLY not done and it is reasonable to be worried about what their next step is.”
—- Mollie Hemingway
Meanwhile Jamie @ 8:18: that's a solid and insightful comment.
I’d like to hear Althouse’s views on this subject of a woman taking maximum advantage of her physical beauty. Althouse was sort of an ideal of hippie beauty when she was young, blonde, thin and (as I remember) busty. And she likes men. She’s pretty outspoken about that. I’ll be Henry Miller blunt here. Our area of disagreement is over men penetrating one another orally or anally. I lived through the worst of the AIDS epidemic in SF, and I associate that with suicide.
I’ve known and been with a lot of very sexy, beautiful women. This is a double edged sword for a woman. Only the most intelligent know how to use this to their advantage. The others are used by it.
Kamala Harris seems to sitting pretty. Maybe she’s smarter than you think, although not in the areas or ways you’d like. The Willie Brown thing? Have you ever considered that she truly loved him and lusted after him? I have.
The Hollywood crew has a full three act script for Kamela with all the beats set out. Also storyboards.
I think this must be true at least in essence. And I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's true in details.
Here's how Harris took control.
By allowing Obama to take control.
Leaving Las Vegas
I guess a flood of money to Harris' campaign from a bunch of billionaires and multi-millionaires is an example of "Enthusiasm" and "Democracy" to the WaPO.
And as expected, the Democrats are cheating. There's a limit on donations DIRECTLY To the Harris campaign. IRC its $2500 per person. PAC's and campaigns are different, and PAC'scan only spend money on certain things.
The Democrats got around that $2500 limit by using things like "Actblue". Millionaires give huge amounts, but is split into 2500 increaments, and donated by people with no addresses, or dead people, or people from PO Boxes and empty lots, or they have a senior citizens give thousands of donations.
So, there is no grassroots flood of money. Its just a handful of rich Democrats who got what wanted giving money.
I just can't take this Kamala Harris "beauty" notion anymore. Her supposed "great beauty" is lost on me.
She's a 7 with a bad case of RBF - other than when she is donkey-tooth cackling.
The sad thing, is no matter how incompetent, stupid, or strange Kam Harris is, all the D's and lot of independents will vote for her. She has (D) after her name, and that's all that matters. They never would've voted for Biden in 2020, if theyd cared about anything else.
Blogger Shouting Thomas said...
This has been the story of my life. You have zero idea of how incredibly available women are, and always have been, for me.
People often undervalue things that come too easily
because they threatened him with the 25th Amendment. Two points:
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why would Biden + entourage consider such threat credible of success?
since he claims to be for a man with vast experience in Senate [aka Snake Pit]
The NYTimes obviously wanted someone else as the nominee and probably are holding out hope to get someone other than Harris. Biden's enemies in the party got his name on that withdrawal letter and thought they had done it in a way that also kneecapped Harris, but someone in the White House that had access to Biden's Twatter account got that Harris endorsement out in the news the same day. I think it was all Obama- it explains why he waited several days to give the endorsement. I still think Harris had better get that virtual delegate vote done before the convention or they will shiv her in the back, too.
So, the WaPo is controlled by the Clinton Camp, and the NYT is controlled by the Obama Camp.
Thank you Prof Althouse for this view into the Kremlin style in-fighting of the Democrat Party.
Or is that "The People's Democratic Republic" Party?
To Mike Wolf
Shouting Dumbass clearly states he's a "star". A rock star. Wheres the disinfo?
https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1817931235290743072
"Oh hell no, you are not taking Vice President Harris out. That is not going to happen,’” Brazile said....
So that's "How Kamala Harris Took Control"?! Seems more like Donna Brazile took control. Quite a coup!"
Ah, Donna Brazile. She who wrote in her book "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that put Donald Trump in the White House," to wit:
"I had tried to search out any other evidence of internal corruption that would show that the DNC was rigging the system to throw the primary to Hillary, but I could not find any in party affairs or among the staff. I had gone department by department, investigating individual conduct for evidence of skewed decisions, and I was happy to see that I had found none. Then I found this agreement.”
“The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.”
In the first paragraph of that excerpt, Brazile says she can’t find any evidence that the “DNC was rigging the system” until she unearths the fundraising agreement. In the second paragraph, she calls the fundraising deal “unethical” and adds: “It compromised the party’s integrity.” She adds that, as a result, the primary wasn’t a fair fight."
Source: Donna Brazile said the 2016 primary was rigged before she said it wasn’t (CNN)
I believe she backtracked because she was told that she had to.
Shades of “Guns of Will Sonnet”…
“No brag. Just fact.”
—- Walter Brennan
“ All out war is coming to the Middle East, the American president is mostly gone, his vacuous VP (and who knows who else) is in charge, and we’re not supposed to notice. Very scary time for the world. But tell me more about Vance’s cat lady comments.”
—- Karol Markowicz
"... the media bias, the deep state and election fraud are all conspiring against you and Donald."
True in 2016 as well. And that's why I can't help feeling a little optimistic this time around. Compare this utterly bizarre iteration of a Democrat campaign with 2016. Ideology aside, at least the Democrats of 2016 had a shred of legitimacy. Absent truly epic fraud, I don't think any amount of puffery gets Kamala! across the finish line.
Winred is the republican equivalent of act blue.
It seems to work the same way.
I don't give money toeither
John Henry
Kampala has about a week to prove she can do it. I still think Obama is not convinced.
Yancey Ward said...
The NYTimes obviously wanted someone else as the nominee and probably are holding out hope to get someone other than Harris. Biden's enemies in the party got his name on that withdrawal letter and thought they had done it in a way that also kneecapped Harris, but someone in the White House that had access to Biden's Twatter account got that Harris endorsement out in the news the same day. I think it was all Obama- it explains why he waited several days to give the endorsement. I still think Harris had better get that virtual delegate vote done before the convention or they will shiv her in the back, too.
I don't think it was *all* Obama. Getting Joe's signature on the letter of resignation, maybe. But the Harris endorsement does not seem like Obama, especially given that he didn't immediately endorse her himself.
Also, I don't see them flipping out Harris at the Convention. First, someone whose hopes were raised will get defeated, which means that their supporters will be even more violent in their riots. Second, even the most rationally ignorant voter will become aware that the Democrats are the party of chaos if they do (replacement)^2. They probably lose with Harris -- though nothing is written -- but they would surely lose with chaos-selected candidate.
"You have zero idea of how incredibly available women are."
Shouting Thomas
Not all of us had to sing for our supper.
I don't think it was *all* Obama. Getting Joe's signature on the letter of resignation, maybe. But the Harris endorsement does not seem like Obama, especially given that he didn't immediately endorse her himself.
I agree. Maybe it was Joe and Jill poking Obama in the eye. I understand that Michelle does not like Dr Jill. Seems too smart and quick for those two but maybe an ally.
John,
My error- I wrote that really badly. What I meant to convey is that Obama was the one that got Biden's name on the letter without the endorsement of Harris and someone in the White House with access to the Twitter account noticed the omission of an endorsement and either convinced Biden to do it on Twitter or just acted in Biden's place. That Twitter endorsement was never supposed to happen so that the Democrats could can both of their morons, not just the senile one.
Endorsement:
There's *nothing* as impressive as getting an endorsement from someone with Dementia.
The term Althouse needs here is the porn industry term, fluffing. Before the era of Viagra, the fluffer was the person who got the guy ready for his on-screen performance in a porn flick. That is what the NYT is trying to do with Kamala, despite the difficulty in her case, as she isn't a male porn star. "Can a former fluffer go from backstage to the starring role?" asks the WaPo, more correctly.
John henry said...
Winred is the republican equivalent of act blue.
It seems to work the same way.
I have read that WinRed checks CCV codes. Anyone donated with them who cn comment?
I blogged back in 2008 about the fact that the Obama campaign was NOT doing Address Verification of credit card "donations", and thus was paying higher fees to credit card companies with every donation.
And further noted that the only believable reason they were doing that is because they wanted to enable fraudulent donations. So many fraudulent donations, in fact, that it would make up for the loss from the fees.
ActBlue is clearly following the Obama tradition for the same reason.
And some enterprising GOP AGs really should be prosecuting this. I expect that all they need is a claimed false donation (as proved by asking the person if he / she did that donation) from someone in their State.
After all, all you need is a judge willing to take the case, and you get big headlines
Higgledy Piggledy
Kamala Harris
Loses momentum from honeymoon phase.
Or so pronounces a New York Times article
Inevitability is only a craze.
Buyer's remorse for Kamala already?. (I mean, I know the news cycle moves pretty quick these days, but, geez...)
What the deluded and cynically bent hacks at the NYT, WaPo write, along with the cable TV talking faces say about American history, politics, and culture should not be automatically accepted as true or even real.
And some enterprising GOP AGs really should be prosecuting this. I expect that all they need is a claimed false donation (as proved by asking the person if he / she did that donation) from someone in their State.
Blows my mind that hasn't happened already, along with some really harsh and comprehensive discovery demands. Why are the politicians on our side always choir boys and pussycats and Elmer Fudds harrumphing about collegiality and historic norms? Why can't we use the legal systems we control to inflict savage, costly, embarrassing lawfare on every organ of the Left, and start squeezing their small-fry functionaries with threats of decades in prison if they don't squeal on the likes of Marc Elias? They've been doing it for a long time and we ought to be smashing them ten times harder.
“And we must have the courage to object when they use that term Radical Islamic Terrorism, which ignores how many of them overwhelmingly have been the greatest victims of terror. And we must also have the courage to object that term Illegal Alien.”
—- Quemala Harris
My thought on the late endorsement by Obama was that he was waiting/trying to recruit someone else to jump into tje race, and no one remotely viable was willing to sacrifice his or her political future at this late date. So it was Harris who has to try and make this work now.
Once Harris is past the excitement of becoming the candidate and picking her vice-presidential running mate, she actually has nothing else to say that would occupy a media cycle or speak to Americans. She is an empty vessel.
Get real, Jamie -- there are a lot of asymmetries in life; raging against them is a large part of so much feminism is so insane.
"So it's slut-shaming when there's no counter-slam available and I don't dig it"
Of course there is a counter slur for men; it's "bum".
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