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August 02, 2024 11:57 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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“I was brought up in a small town where I knew the shame and dishonor of race hatred. I grew to despise it because it threatened the happiness of you and you and you.”

–Ralph Carr

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    1. Tough love, as a sufferer of combat related PTSD that has lasted 44 years and dropped my personal and professional life from grabbing the golden ring and falling to the bottom I applaud the Mayor of SFO and her team for the hard work. 

  1. Would selecting Josh Shapiro be Kamala Harris's Sister Souljah Moment?

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4808478-josh-shapiro-israel-gaza-kamala-harris/

    The solution is simple and practical.

    She needs to put a couple of polls in the field measuring how she does with Shapiro and without. One in Michigan, the other in Pennsylvania. She needs to measure how much damage he does to her in Michigan versus how much benefit he brings in Pennsylvania.

    1. The challenge is that Shapiro is known in PA, but not in MI or other places around the country.

      I'm certain there are snap polls and focus groups gathering data — but the choice is going to come down based on many factors, not simply the immediate electoral implications.

  2. Apparently, Trump is suffering from delusions.  

    Trump claims new debate deal as Harris urges sticking to existing date

    Harris’s team was baffled by Trump’s claims. The Harris campaign said Saturday that there is no agreement for a new Fox News debate on Sept. 4. A person familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said the campaign held no negotiations with Trump or Fox about a new debate. Fox representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

  3. So….

    Leonard Leo says the SCOTUS reforms suggested by President Biden are an effort to delegitimize the court.

    I call BULLSHIT!!

    The court was delegitimized by Mitch McConnell when he fucked with the nomination of Merrick Garland. Period.

     

    1. Haven’t five of the six conservative justices been appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote, then largely confirmed by a Senate that disproportionality represents conservatives?  
       

      I don’t think these younguns’ who are going to fuel this blue tsunami give two schitts about what Leonard Leo thinks. 

      1. Clarence Thomas was appointed by GHW Bush41, who won 53.4% of the popular vote and 426 Electoral College votes.  Both Roberts and Alito were GW Bush43 nominations AFTER he won re-election in 2094 with 50.7% of the popular vote.  Trump, the popular vote loser, only appointed 3 — Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & Coney Bryant.

  4. Walz a high quality option, great communication skills,  Master Sergeant National Guard veteran, high school teacher, congressman, governor elected in a red district he lives in, grew up farming I think, State winning HS football coach, and he coined WEIRD for MAGA lately.

     

    Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard at the young age of 17, and retired 24 years later as Command Sergeant Major. Before retiring, Walz served overseas with his battalion in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Walz is the highest ranking enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress.

    1. I hope its Walz. He’s gotten positive national attention for a few years now as governor. His background is also impeccable. I’m impressed and that’s coming from someone who is somewhat of a party pooper.

  5. Once again Jennifer Rubin offers invaluable perspective largely missing from today's pundits.

    ‘Weird’ does not begin to describe the Trump threat

    Sure, there are upsides to this strategy. But Vice President Harris’s team needs to use it with caution.

    In casting Republicans as “weird,” commentators, operatives and politicians should avoid making Trump seem merely daring or irreverent. And they certainly must not downplay the threat to the most vulnerable Americans and the life-or-death implications of Trump’s views. It is not “weird” that he wants to round up 11 million suspected undocumented immigrants and stick them in camps before deporting them; it is monstrous. It is not “weird” that he wants to abandon Ukraine and ingratiates himself with dictators; these are both a moral abomination and a threat to national security. And wanting to ban abortion isn’t “weird”; it’s endangering women’s lives.

    1930s-era dictators “were mocked as buffoons in their day, but when they suddenly came to power the joke was no longer quite so funny.” In some sense, Trump’s misplaced vanitynarcissism and ignorance are laughable. But we should never forget that those very qualities make him impervious to shame and contemptuous of social norms and legal restraints.

    The Harris campaign should be on the lookout: Today’s politics and political coverage too often elevate entertainment over substance, cynicism over analysis and superficiality over reflection. That’s how we got a reality-show host and con man as president. Mockery is fine and serves a useful political and marketing purpose, but Vice President Harris and her team must be careful not to downplay the existential danger to the democratic experiment.

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