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About Last Night
Random thoughts about the Trump victory:
1. I am way too damn old to stay up until 4 am. Whatever Florida does now should be done everywhere. After closing out the editor’s election thread at 3:30, my youngest started texting me from the middle of the Atlantic wanting to know what was going on. (Thanks, Elon… I think.)
2. Sherrod Brown’s defeat in Ohio was a bit of a surprise. He is one of the few Democrats in this state to show any statewide appeal. The party bench is thin, so he may not be done. The governor’s race is in two years.
I told the lad Brown’s defeat was payback for Brown having the audacity to nominate him to the Academy.
3. Speaking of Ohio governors, Mike DeWine gets to pick JD Vance’s replacement to serve until Nov. 2026. MAGA will want Vivek Ramaswamy, but DeWine is more of a Bush Republican. Names being floated include Matt Dolan, current Secretary of State Frank LaRose and former State GOP chair Jane Timken. Who gets to be the “senior” senator depends on when Vance resigns.
4. My basic assessment of Donald Trump remains unchanged. (I wrote in Ron DeSantis.) He remains underwater in personal approval numbers. That said, he has a window to be bold. If he can do that and control his worst instincts, I wish him well. I do think he is a lucky SOB. Four years ago, the Democrats had one job — not be crazy — and they couldn’t do it. And then they served him up Hillary Clinton 2.0. Harris had all of the appeal of Clinton and none of the policy chops.
5. Speaking of policy, the transgender issue and the anti-male agenda bit the Democrats big time. And they ran a faculty lounge campaign that was obviously never tested outside their own offices. Will they learn? Probably not. They usually react like they didn’t offer up enough weirdness.
Published in General
Arizona likes to prove they can’t vote their way out of a wet paper bag.
Or something.
The lawyers I met were mostly public defenders (or had been), and their clients certainly weren’t high profile. There was talk of her office withholding evidence, and being extremely punitive on low-level offenders, like parents whose children were truant, and minor marijuana/drug offenses.
Tulsi took her out pretty good in the 2020 debate.
I like the “can’t find their way out of a paper bag with a road map.” They were given a road map, but they listened to their GPS app instead, which directed them into an alley in Phoenix, or the Sonoran Desert, or Coconino county….
Oh, hell, I was lucky I got that far. I had a little man inside my head trying to push my eyeballs out when I wrote that. And to think that in my youth I produced the local segments of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon and did that while staying up 33 hours straight. The glory (and stupidity) of youth.
Enjoy it. Because there will be stupid days ahead. Politics mirrors sport in many ways. Now that the game is over we’re getting an inside look at how bad the Harris campaign really was. To the Trump campaign’s credit they exploited her weaknesses well, but the window for following up on their promises is, as always, narrow. Unlike Cleveland, Trump re-enters as the lame duck on Day One 2.0.
Just like if he had been re-elected in 2020.
Whoop-dee-doo.
IMNSHO, Trump picked the right man to carry on. It would not surprise me to see The Donald ride triumphantly off into the sunset after serving two years and one month, and after he has settled some scores. Within constitutional and legal bounds, of course. Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
Another reason why doing it this way could easily turn out better, who thinks we’d (have) be(en) better off with 8 years of Pence rather than Vance?
Who? NTs, RINOs, and retards.
That’s depressing, but not surprising.
I use Craig Huey’s list of recommendations to decide what judges to vote for here in California. In many cases only bad candidates were available. It was worse than usual this year.
I suspect the reason is simpler than that. She was too drunk to give a speech.
In the last month — and never before that — I’ve seen numerous comments on Ricochet about Kamala being a drunk. Where did this start?
I can’t remember when I first heard it but it was early in the administration. I thought it when listing to clips of her such as the school bus visit or talking about space. Maybe it’s her speaking style but I’d ask myself, “Is she drunk?” Then I saw web sites and podcasts also mentioning it and I thought, “I’m not alone.”
The first I heard was on a Joe Rogan podcast. Michael Malice called her “America’s Wine Mom”, and said she’s “three deep by noon”. Then, Rogan said that some people claimed she was on anti-depressant medication, IIRC.
If you’ve seen her when she’s having a giggling fit, she looks about half in the bag.
EDIT: Here’s the clip.
The rumors have been around a while. Not sure where they started. I have seen a couple of videos of her public appearances where she appeared to be drunk. One where she is introducing Biden as the greatest president ever, she is slurring her words. I can’t find it now, naturally.
But it is fundamentally different. A continuance of government is vastly different than starting one from scratch. None of the Senate confirmations from the first administration hold over. So there’s no ability to reshuffle or use temporary acting secretaries. It is a big whoop-dee-doo.
Except that’s not what you said. What you said was “lame duck.”
And there’s a good argument that Trump is better off starting with a clean slate now, especially considering how much information has come out in the meantime.
Trump said recently that one of his big mistakes was hiring the wrong people in his first administration. Looks as though he has smooth sailing for appointments requiring Senate confirmation. It appears that he and the renovated RNC put together a good plan for the election, so I’d guess he is on track for filling positions from scratch. At the top-of-the-hour news many candidates were mentioned. I could be wrong, but I think he’ll hit the ground running.
And he didn’t understand Washington in 2017 and had back stabbers like McConnell and Ryan “helping” him learn how things work. Now he has a strong win and can hit the ground running in January. Last time the Republican congress should have had a conveyor belt full of bills ready for Trump to sign his first week. Instead, they were still crying that an undesirable had won and they couldn’t continue Failure Theater that Hillary winning would have allowed.
He’s already said that it is important to get rid of McConnell, though he said it in more blunt terms. He will not hesitate to call out backstabbing RINO scum this time around and do it by name. There has been a lot of p*****g and moaning about how the Republican party has been re-made in his image. A long overdue change. I’m looking forward to seeing what J. D. can do when his turn comes up. I am certain he is one VP who won’t spend his time going to funerals in third-world countries.
Then embrace the chaos and the opportunity wasted. Because if he enters this term with a slim one or two seat majority in the House, he’s going to need all the RINO scum he can gather. All he has to do is piss off three back benchers and his agenda is toast.
Why is the ability to count votes such an alien concept to some of you folks?
It isn’t at all.
Well, there is still the Executive Order path. Some of us don’t give a **** anymore. Some ancient Greek said that in desperate times bold measures are best. If they oppose him on the important measures, they can go fornicate themselves and we can try to replace them at the mid-terms. It’s “Go big or Go Home”, but I suppose you’ll not understand.
Isn’t she a wine-collector? That’s the first step.
She always struck me as drunk or stoned, or a combo.
Then you also accept the impermanence of it all. Every party change brings an overturn of EOs.
Not every Congressional district is open to electing “your type” of candidate. You primary at your own peril.
Michael Beschloss convinced Joe Biden he could be FDR and LBJ combined. How’d that work out?
Yes, the transition and confirmation season will soon be upon us with the usual conspiracies and the unusual unfounded accusations.
Do you think Cleveland would have run for a 3rd term? He’d run 3 presidential campaigns (1884. 1888 and 1892) and like Trump he was 2 for 3, but my limited google searching and Wikipedia reading, sounds like he was done with it. The tradition of a term limit seemed to work, until that one fellow wouldn’t abide and leave…
You say lame duck like its a bad thing… I think Trump is a “Damn the Torpedoes” kinda guy – particularly now that he doesnt have a re-election to care about, and this being his last chance to complete his agenda from 2016…While realistically I know there will be disappointments along the way, he’ll leave it all on the field.
1) Yes.
Also, laws can be repealed.
2) The oppose at theirs.
3) It’s a gamble. What isn’t?
She often slurs her speech. Maybe she’s tired. She’s a gal always on the run ya know. I think she often sounds like she’s consumed half a valium and a couple glasses of wine.
I think a lot of it came from Micheal Malice who was on the Joe Rogan Podcast in August. I think its right at the top of the show when the talk about the 3 stages of wine mom Kamala…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q6Bw6AiZ_sI?app=desktop
I don’t trust DeWine. He’s probably thinking of appointing Sherrod Brown to replace Vance.
Never double down when you can quintuple.