I'm reading: "Pritzker says Trump 'bewildered' by Harris, new Dem excitement" (The Hill).
Now, I'd written Pritzker off. I just didn't think it could be him. But he's jumping to the top of the headlines at Memeorandum, and I am tantalized by his use of a single word, a funny word — "bewildered" — so I'll bite:
“Kamala Harris is the perfect person at this moment.... We’ve got the kind of palpable excitement, the energy, that we really need in the party to carry us to victory in November, and of course Donald Trump is, I think, bewildered by it all. I don’t know that he has any idea how to handle the excitement that’s happening on the Democratic side, or Kamala Harris herself."
Handle the excitement? Donald Trump? I think he can handle excitement. He's the guy that got shot in the ear and jumped up and posed iconically, didn't take a day off, and returned to the rally stage in a giant arena.
But maybe he has trouble understanding what's going on here. How did Biden, still the President (it seems!), get squelched and replaced by this woman who never won any primary votes and didn't even seem at all popular, but is somehow riding high in the media as "the perfect person at this moment"?
Yes, there's almost something wrong with you if you're not bewildered.
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“Donald Trump is, I think, bewildered by it all. I don’t know that he has any idea how to handle the excitement that’s happening on the Democratic side, or Kamala Harris herself."
Lame.
Pritzer would be a good pick. He's intimately familiar with hopeless government debt.
Pritzker's Chicago is so wrecked even the black people are looking to flee it. He has a lot of money, but I see the hand of Obama here. Harris/ Biden would have to be under very serious pressure to make him VP, yet Pritzker looks to be putting out hits on Shapiro.
I'm betting on Pritzker.
Man has legalized crime
I am bewildered by the whole situation. Biden stands mute and confused on the tarmac while Kamala delivers a contentless stream of words. Then he wanders off and boards an empty airplane. This is our executive branch?
Is Karma-la the "dark horse"? That reference has Diversitist implications on diverse levels. Or maybe it's just the colored braying of a queer guy.
JB is way too fat. He should have gone on the Pompeo diet years ago if he wanted national office.
And isn't he Jewish? Hamas wing of the Dems won't be happy.
I don't really care who Harris picks for VP. Just excited to see JD dismantle the loser in a debate.
JB Pritzker ?
Both gross and weird. Though he fits Democrat preferences. Surprised the Sopranos didn't give him a starring role,
https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2023/04/07/JOWUQ6GJABFVTINMBDN6I2KQSY.jpg
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I'm betting on Pritzker.
The financial corruption and crime in both California and Illinois would make a Harris/Pritzker the perfect "nail in the coffin ticket" for America's destruction. The corrupt pension debt in IL is enough to bankrupt the state.
I'd say Pritzker was #1 when it came to totalitarian COVID lockdowns and never ending extensions of emergency orders. Luckily in WI we had a conservative Supreme Court at the time, or Tony Evers and his ilk would have done the same to us.
what if it was Kamala running the show all along and let herself be wagged by FJB?
discuss evaluate
Nothing says the Dems are the party of the working man than to nominate a billionaire as VP.
As the scion of capones accountant he gets the whole pie
All these weirdos they're trotting out for VP candidates, not a one of them a normal person. They're on parade to make Kamala look better, but it's not helping. They're all coming off as crazy people.
"The corrupt pension debt in IL is enough to bankrupt the state."
Put Harris and Pritzker in power and they'll nationalize Illinois' debt. Count on it.
"They're all coming across as crazy people."
Because they ARE crazy people.
I work in the PA Senate and we are told it's likely Shapiro and to prepare.
Bewildered, as in, perplexed and confused; very puzzled. Yes, I also see absolutely zero reason, other than avoiding a certain loss in Novermber with some expediency in exchange for a probable loss (unless mail in ballot harvests by Dems again achieve a record crop), for the excitement of the Dems about Harris. I suspect the Dems's excitement would be just as palpable and bewildering were the nominee on the ballot a bucket of warm spit as long as there was a better possibility of winning the election than with Biden.
All Trump need do is continue to present his messages of border security, economic sanity, foreign policy strength, and federal government constitutionalism to win in November. With, of course, a record crop of harvested mail in ballots by the Repubs.
Flabbergasted is next.
When Kamala goes down in flames, taking the Senate and (chances of retaking) the House with her, her running mate will be the Democrat fall guy--can't hold a Black woman responsible, after all. So this is a suicide mission.
This reminds me of the great James Brown rendition of the song "Bewildered" (not "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", just "Bewildered").
Is Karma-la bewilding? Perhaps vicariously, but evolution has dulled the sheen of her coat.
From John Dryden (1631–1700), The Poems of John Dryden. Translations/The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius:
"’TIS pleasant, safely to behold from shore
The rowling Ship, and hear the Tempest roar:
Not that anothers pain is our delight;
But pains unfelt produce the pleasing sight.
’Tis pleasant also to behold from far
The moving Legions mingled in the War:
But much more sweet thy lab’ring steps to guide
To Vertues heights, with wisdom well supply’d,
And all the Magazins of Learning fortifi’d:
From thence to look below on humane kind,
Bewilder’d in the Maze of Life, and blind:
To see vain fools ambitiously contend
For Wit and Pow’r; their last endeavours bend
T’ outshine each other, waste their time and health
In search of honour, and pursuit of wealth."
James Brown update:
If anyone is interested in listening to the song "Bewildered", be sure to find a version with his great backup group, the Famous Flames.
Lincoln said that Polk was a "bewildered, confounded, miserably perplexed man."
Isn't it customary to refer to a female [dark] horse as a mare? But not a broodmare h/t some liberal publication where mares are held in high-esteem as affordable, available, reusable, and taxable... and as rent-a-wombs for social progress in queer unions.
Honestly I agree that Pritzker is way too fat. True it is folks on the left that tend to make up the Body Positivity and Healthy At Any Size groups, but an unsaid rule of those groups is that those fat acceptance mantras only really apply to women. They may not say it loudly but too many people who are potential Democratic voters will look at Pritzker and get the ick because of his rotundity.
The pension guarantee department in the federal government pays off bankrupt pensions, but only reasonable payments. Which I assume would be imposed on IL.
The corrupt pension debt in IL is enough to bankrupt the state.
I have been trying to talk my sister into exiting Chicago. I'll never get her out of Illinois. She is living on her deceased husband's pension. I worry all the time about it.
Pritzker is the perfect foil for Trump and Vance. He looks like "Daddy Warbucks."
Nah. We're long accustomed to seeing Democrats doing end-zone dances on their own 20.
Only Buttigieg beats Pritzker in my hopes for the Dem VP nod. Please oh please, make it so.
Humphrey Dumpty II.
Voting against Kamala is already racist and sexist. With Shapiro and you add anti-Semitic.
With Buttiedge, homophobic.
Winning!
The big reason? The $3.5 billion he inherited from his father...
He basically bought his governorship.
Remember how JB removed the toilets from a mansion he bought so it could be declared uninhabitable and lower the property taxes?
Dark horse? He’s the size of a Clydesdale!! Not sure the American public will ride that nag. Recall that “ridin’ with Biden” was a colossal flop.
It's not every day you get to compare and contrast John Dryden and James Brown's use of the word Bewildered.
Kamala Harris has won the nomination, according to the New York Post.
That's right ... they took a "virtual" vote (unriggable). She has more than half the delegates so far. So, it's over. Oh, and Democrats don't even hold their convention for 17 more days.
Isn't that amazing. She never won a single primary, and didn't even require a convention, yet somehow she is saving Democracy single-handedly.
Also this just in ... if you search Google for "Trump rally" it returns "Kamala Harris rally" news instead.
Democracy!
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-president-trump-and-jd-vance-hold-a-rally-in-atlanta-8-3-24/
I can't speak for Trump, but the Democrat shenanigans have me Bemused.
I’m betting it’s going to be Walz. Betting and hoping.
Pritzker Money one of the major funders of Arcus Foundation
Interesting article and youtube video.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-money-behind-the-transgender-movement/
https://youtu.be/tLXdoqXbC6k?si=mztE_VWDAnJzUXCA
JD v. JB. great. But how did JB get JB out of Jay Robert. Does he rename himself as Jay Bob? I dunno, Jay Bob sounds hillbilly to me.
OK, Jay Bob is the best bet. The Dems need a sane candidate, hillbilly or not.
I am personally familiar with the late Bob Pritzker's side of the family (JBs cousins). They are nice people, generally non-political, but truly weird. Bob was a billionaire in the 60's and made his money through hard work and shrewd investments. JB's dad (Bob's brother) was also an excellent businessman. However, that side of the family is very political.
JB and his cousins became billionaires the old fashioned way - they inherited. None of them could run a business or even organize a two car funeral on their own.
JB Pritzer a face made for radio
Seriously, What is it with the democrat party and hideous ugliness?
Most of the democrat party are SO UGLY, that they think Kamela is attractive
Other than Tulsi Gabbard, name a member (current or former) of the democrat party you find attractive?
i'll wait
like vogons or other creatures from douglas adama imaginings
I don’t know that he has any idea how to handle the excitement that’s happening on the Democratic side, or Kamala Harris herself."
The excitement that comes from "not Biden". I will believe it is excitement when Kamala fills stadiums like Trump. The Democrats are lemmings. When a new leader emerges they follow. Excitement is not the right adjective here.
He is perfect.
Liar, tax dodger, corrupt, hypocrite, wealthy and unhealthy. The ultimate silver spooner.
I think we have a winner.
" Pritzker was #1 when it came to totalitarian COVID lockdowns and never ending extensions of emergency orders"
And his family, wife and daughter,relocated to their "horse ranch" in Southern Wisconsin as soon as they could.
Also Chgo Fats (as he is affectionately known), is a tax cheat to the tune of more than 300K.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/federal-investigators-digging-deeper-into-pritzkers-331k-property-tax-break/
if she was a candidate of merit, there would be reason for excitement, but she is crass ignorant and evil (again thats in the dem wheelhouse)
The stench of desperation is palpable. These memes aren't for the base, they are to give Kamala Harris a false sense of gravitas. Pathetic on steroids.
Democratic Party Slogan: Rich white men bad!!! Elect rich white man!!!
Bewildered is just another example of Dem projection. They've been bewildered by the success of the uncancelable, unkillable widely beloved Donald Trump.
Weird is projection too, of course.
I'm old enough to remember the media blitz to generate enthusiasm for the introduction of the Edsel.
Pritzker is the most corrupt governor in the most corrupt state, a state that is hemmorhaging residents at a mind-blowing rate.
So, go for it. Kamala already has Anita Dunn, a literal, out and proud Maoist who totes around the little red book.
Chairman Mao, Boss Tweed, and Hardy Har Har walk into a bar.
If anybody appears bewildered, it's Joe Biden.
Here is a scene more closely resembling what's happening today
Living in Missouri and only about 100 miles from Springfield ILL I hear most of the Illinois news.
I can’t imagine a better Democratic choice for VP
He’s everything you can imagine a corrupt politician to be.
Pritzker is more of a draft horse. Although, there may exist a dark Diversity.
Haunting vocal version --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljkpYO1o6HU
Bewildered -- by Nova Nova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GSqi20w324
I think the piano instrumental mix is even better!
I said it yesterday:
Another good choice would be JB (Jabba the Gov) Pritzker. Imagine the scene where Jabba (nominally the Veep) has [President] Kamala chained to his waist.
Pritzker. Makes sense. Harris is as dumb as a sack of rocks and runs her mouth off with a diarrhea of nonsense that could get the country in real trouble. Obama wants a corrupt, fellow Chicago boss to mind her and keep her under control and ensure she is doing everything Obama wants her to do.
Another fat fuck Democrat? They not like us.
"This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy."
—- Kamala “QueMala” Harris
Looks matter. Not so much if you have three billion dollars, but they matter. If Ted Kennedy had looked liked Pritzker, that dead body would have been a career ender instead of a speed bump. If Pritzker gets nominated, he'll be the worst looking man in the history of the republic to campaign for that office.....I don't know anything about Pritzker, but any mud thrown at him will stick. Someone as slick as Newsome is mud resistant.....Still, the media will find some way of praising his looks. These are people who can see the sharpness of Biden's and the excitement of Kamala's presence. How hard can it be for a reporter to take note of Pritzker's raw magnetism and honest face. He's not one of those pretty boys like Trump or Vance.
“Kamala “QueMala” Harris”
I heard JD said Kamala is a chameleon.
The problem with nicknames is that they don’t really persuade. While it’s red meat for the believers, to the moderates and women I don’t know that is much gooder, as Joe might say.
Reading it's Shapiro.
A lot of Pritzker money is going into trans issues. Why?
Consider the case of Jennifer N. Pritzker (born James N. Pritzker), a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army and the Illinois Army National Guard. She is a cousin of Jabba the Gov and Penny Pritzker. Jennifer is a generous donor to various issues of interest to her, including the Pritzker Military Museum in Chicago. She transitioned from male to female late in life.
It will be Josh Shipiro.
Obama will be the one who decides. It will be his 4th term....
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/obamas-former-campaign-manager-david-plouffe-joins-harris/
Looks like Harris' purported VP candidates are not noted for their intellectual acumen, and often described as "dumber than a box of rocks", per reader comments on many media articles describing this VP treasure-hunt. JB is a dumb as Kelly, as dumb as Beshear, as offensive as Buttigieg, as Jewish as Shapiro, and yes, probably dumber than DEI Wonder Woman Harris.
We are living the Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times".
I feel trapped in a Dumb and Dumber movie, to quote Jeff Daniels: "One time we successfully mated a bulldog with a shih-tzu". JB, meet Harris.
I feel trapped in a Dumb and Dumber movie
Interesting times and held captive with a Chinese finger puzzle. Ancient religions would exercise liberal license to perform human rites in order to garner climate stasis, and favor from the gods and their elite mortal representatives. Planned parenthood and "burden"... carbon sequestration may yet prove itself a viable and profitable Choice.
Pritzker will wear the trans issue like a millstone. He can't refute for family reasons.
Isn't labeling people "weird" what Mean Girls in High School do when they don't like (or their status feels threatened by) someone but they don't want to tip everyone off that they're Mean Girls?
Pick the white dude!
Isn't labeling people "weird" what Mean Girls in High School do when they don't like (or their status feels threatened by) someone but they don't want to tip everyone off that they're Mean Girls?
Yes. Harris can't win on policy, so she's trying to win on vibes by scaring moderate voters away from Trump with the threat of social ostracization.
Beshear was a really competent Governor and he's very media savvy so in my opinion he would be a good pick. I don't care who she chooses and I don't think he will be her choice.
Mayor of Philly leaked that it's Shapiro
Shapiro.
Penn is the MUST get state.
Kamala's antipathy to Israel will, they hope, negate any backlash about Shapiro being a supporter of Israel.
Maybe I've missed it in talking about 2024, but is anyone worried that if Kamala is elected she'll be eligible for re-election in 2028, whereas or Trump Old Joe (if he hadn't been forced to step aside and been re-elected) would not be? Absent a pandemic, incumbent presidents tend to be re-elected.
I'm not a big fan of Trump (sorry, Trumpists, no offense intended), but I could support one more term for Trump, over two possible terms for ANYONE, but particularly for someone with Kamala's sketchy background. And Gosh knows who her VP might be!
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
From Pittsburgh to Philli, a Jew will get votes for me.
Sex harassment is fine
If the votes are mine.
I am at least as good as Mohammed Ali.
Beshear is probably their best bet because he credibly pretends to be a "moderate". (Just like Merrick Garland was a moderate SCOTUS candidate). He won't give them Kentucky, but he is a better look for The Midwest.
Shapiro is also a good choice. Any criticism of the Harris-Shapiro ticket will be loudly denounced as anti-semitic and racist. That covers for the anti-semites in the left wing of the Democrat party.
It will get interesting because the Media will be in full blown "Kill Trump" mode.
Does Shapiro have to resign to run?
Or just if they win?
Isn’t Pritzker still flogging the JD Vance/couch smear? Maybe he’s going to go find that Pee Tape next. Class act.
Jabba the Guv has an econ plan, he will remove the toilets from all government offices so that the US Treasury will not have to pay property tax, thus reducing the deficit.
They are in a "Kill Trump Mode" right now. They just missed.
Tomorrow Kelley or Shapiro will claim that Trump is “peripatetic”! He walks around! He goes so many places he is itinerant! He does not campaign in a basement! His sister was a thespian! He masticates everyday!
Pritzker’s only redeeming quality is that he hasn’t been sent to prison. He will bring Illinois but might just lose Kamala votes in the state. Folks outside of Chicago Land genuinely hate him. His Covid policies were abysmal and he sent his family to Florida on his private jet for the duration
He also brings massive wealth but at the presidential level does that really matter?
Trump is thankful for remaining viable in the woke of abortive ideation, saddened that yet another human life was Planned, and pleased that the Democratic elite would openly embrace Antidem and Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry).
Here's to PoO (Person of Orange) and a second term to pin the tail on the Ass and empathetic, sympathetic interests, native and alien.
Shapiro's ante is in, today he called JD Vance the most "inorganic" candidate he's ever seen. Somehow that manages to be both the most bewildering and weirdest insult yet. I mean, if JD Vance lacks carbon molecules, he's the greenest creature to ever exist: all greenhouse gases contain carbon. But maybe Shapiro just means that JD doesn't pay extra for the "organic" fruits and veggies. Certainly that would be considered weird in Berkeley or Brooklyn.
"How hard can it be for a reporter to take note of Pritzker's raw magnetism ..."
Are you sure it's magnetism and not gravitational attraction?
Colleen Brown said...
This reminds me of the great James Brown rendition of the song "Bewildered"
Astounding vocal range and control!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iXlDeqSTRA
Don't forget Bumfuzzled.
Don't be bamboozled.
"How hard can it be for a reporter to take note of Pritzker's raw magnetism ..."
MG: "Are you sure it's magnetism and not gravitational attraction?"
New keyboard needed!
That dude can sure warp some spacetime!
From the post:
"Hill).Now, I'd written Pritzker off. I just didn't think it could be him. But he's jumping to the top of the headlines at Memeorandum, and I am tantalized by his use of a single word, a funny word — "bewildered" — so I'll bite:“Kamala Harris is the perfect person at this moment...."
It's looking to me like a game of Three Card Monte. Here, it's Shapiro. No, wait, it's Buttigieg. Wait, look over here and it's Pritzker!
Any of the contenders will toe the Party line with effusive praise for The Kamala!
Achilles said...
"Does Shapiro have to resign to run?
Or just if they win?"
IIRC, Tim Kaine didn't resign from the Senate to run with Hillary! in 2016. I'm not sure if different rules apply to the governorship.
Shouldn't they attach the "without evidence" qualifier to this?
I find myself wondering what Josh Shapiro's speech-making voice is like.
I don't believe you ever have to resign to run for a different office, but in most states, you can't run for two at the same time. LBJ had Texas law changed so he could run for both Prez/VP and reelection to the Senate in 1960.
Good times!
All those Chris Christie jokes and memes get re-used.
Illinois is the most corrupt state out of our fifty. Draw your own conclusions.
Show me a big Obama-'Hope'-style propaganda poster, with a full-figure front-on rendering of Pritzker, with the word 'Bewildered' underneath, all caps. You could even play with it, putting an Oliver Hardy-style bowler and mustache on Pritzker.
Show me a similar version of Waltz, with 'Weird'.
You know what makes me bewildered? How any normal person could vote for JB Pritzker.
Did he put "Bewildered" into a hot with "Bewitched" and "Bothered" and draw that one out?
"Weird" is a direct shot at the other party. Those have at least a little staying power. "Bewildered" isn't going to stick or stay around very long. It seems to suggest that Pritzker is as bewildered by Trump as Trump may be by Harris.
Pritzker is a different kind of Jew than Shapiro -- less of a Jew and less emotionally attached to Israel -- so his ethnicity wouldn't be as much of a problem. His weight would be. It's hard to preach to people when you can't stop eating everything in sight. Ask Chris Christie about that.
We should encourage the Democrat Party to select Tim Walz as the VP nominee.
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