Weekend Open Thread

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1. I'm loving the focus on what's right with our country. The glass is more than half full compared to the rest of the world. There is so much to be grateful for in this country. Time to build on our successes intead of dwelling on our griviences.

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2. Exploiting Trump’s greatest weakness, his narcissism, appears to be key to keeping him off balance and off message.

   “Kamala Harris has a résumé,” Crockett concluded. “Donald Trump has a rap sheet.”

   A man with no cause greater than self. This was also the theme from the man Democrats put forward as one of the convention’s final speakers before Harris was introduced: Republican former congressman Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), who delivered an emotional denunciation of his Trump-occupied party. “The Republican Party,” he said, “has switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself. Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. He is a small man pretending to be big. He’s a faithless man pretending to be righteous. He’s a perpetrator who can’t stop playing the victim.”

   It was all clearly meant to get under Trump’s skin, which, of course, it did.

   Instead of heeding his advisers’ pleas to stay on message, Trump spent his week mocking Harris’s laugh, calling her “comrade” and a Marxist, alleging that Biden was deposed by Harris in a “vicious, violent overthrow of a president.” 

   But mostly, he felt very sorry for himself. “I didn’t need this. I didn’t have to do this. I didn’t need to get indicted by — any time I fly over a state, they indict you.” The poor dear. “I didn’t need this,” he repeated. “I had a beautiful life.”

   With any luck, the world’s most selfish man will be able to get back to that beautiful life in 74 days.

   As Kamala Harris stays focussed on projecting vision and strength, Tim Walz, like his fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey, can play the happy warrior, putting both Trump and JD “Dud” Vance on the defensive.

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   1. Vance needs to hire a taste taster.

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3. I'm sure there will be a diary soon, but our buddy Dave Williams just lost a vote to stay as CO GOP chair! Legal challenges to follow, probably.

   https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/24/colorado-gop-dave-williams-vote-to-remove/

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   1. But (probably) BEFORE the legal challenges, there's going to be another meeting NEXT Saturday. 

      • ~400 Central committee members
      • Well, yesterday's meeting of the August 24th Republican was called by more than 100 members, had a quorum (~133 needed) for business, and had the right to take the vote — and it resulted in 161.33 to 12 to fire Williams, well over the 3/5ths needed.  And they also voted to cancel next week's meeting.
      • I think the requirement for notice would mean that next week's meeting doesn't have enough lead-time to have 100 members call for a special meeting. 
      • I guess we'll see how many show up next weekend at the "scheduled" meeting, if there are any shenanigans to try to block committee members from being registered or presenting proxies (on one side or the other),
      • If the meeting happens, if a quorum is present, and if the August 31 Republicans want to establist their claims, I think they would need to muster 60% of those "present" (including proxies) to replace a chairman.  If 400 showed ("everyone) up or sent their proxy, the August 31 Republicans would need 240 votes to fire Eli. If all the August 24 Republicans go or send proxies and there are 161.33 who voted oust Williams yesterday, the August 31 Republicans would fall short.

      REPUBLICANS 'R' REVOLTING! 

      Who could ask for more 9 weeks before the end of the 2024 election?

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      1. Now you know why I went to Pennsylvania to find a good Republican worth receiving some of my campaign money (Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, 1st District). 

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      2. Why don't they just declare a new Party, let's call them the Rhino Party.

         Basically the Republican Party needs to just shut up and die already. Then it should be an easy matter to get a bunch of rich billionaires, pundits like George F Swill, some influencers and some media moguls to start fresh.

         Two questions:

         WHO are "They", the Rhino organizers, and

         WHO are the constituencies for a remade Republican Party"? The big Conservative groups these days are Evangelicals, Christian Nationalists, Constitutional Sheriffs, Overlapping Cultural Warriors, MAGA Fox News addicts. 

         Republicans are boxed-in by the crazy, Trumpian-MAGA world; moderate conservatives just don't exist anymore. Well, I guess Bennet, Hickenlooper and Polis are fairly conservative, and not crazy.

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4. Funniest headline of the week: Vance speaks to crowd of tens as Trump campaign deflates

   Reporters appear to outnumber spectators in Kenosha, Wisconsin this week.  “Dud” Vance, indeed!

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   1. This is too perfect. "…almost like he's got an uncle at MIT"?! LOL!

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