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I’m ready. There are plenty of women who have been in the conversation that I would have voted for. Condi is one. Haley is one.
It would be a stunning rise and fall for Vance if he were to “resign” because of the badgering over a few stupid comments 3+ years ago. I’m actually stunned more by the media’s ability to turn “cat ladies” into an everywoman offense vs. just a cat woman offense. Trump was never going to win the cat ladies.
That said, I think Trump screwed up by not picking Haley as VP nom. In the hardcore Trumper circles Haley is viewed as disloyal and in the pockets of the neocons. I think that’s way too politically naive.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There ought to be a law against this.
I also would pass a law preventing or capping remittances to countries from whence asylum seekers come. Why should you be compelled to send cash back to a country that is persecuting you?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t know what to say except that France is a far less stable society than people think. Get off the beaten path and bad things can happen.
A friend who is a PhD scientist and businessman had to visit a smaller city in France about 7 years ago on business. He was out in the evening and was approached by a group of middle eastern youths. One of them knifed him in the face without warning. Truly maimed him. Awful story.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A theory: women can get away with more controversial and anti-patriotic swagger than men because women get a pass for doing stupid stuff more than men.
It’s a bit like the comedian bill burr’s bit on white women and activism. For some reason, white women are in a different category than white men when it comes to offenses of racial iniquity even though they have ridden right along with white men. Why? Unclear.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Information is being laundered massively around Kamala. The memory hole is in full effect.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think as Kamala’s background comes out more clearly to folks there will be a lot of consternation. If you haven’t seen any segments of it, the Judge Joe Brown interview gives an insider’s view of how black men might view Kamala.
@kdotkinte13 Judge Joe Brown speaks on Kamala Harris #interview #judgejoebrown #vicepresidentkamalaharris #kamalaharris #politics #laws #joebiden #overstanding #understanding #worldwide #unitedstates #thinkingabout #kamalaharrislaugh #whitehouse #dmv #nc #texas #va #newyork #baltimore #phil #chicago #miami #houston #memphis #la
In the YouTube: Start at 4:45 for Brown’s views of Harris.
I think the identity part of Kamala is almost offensive to the intent of identity politics. Her “blackness” is from a slaveowning family in Jamaica, and her Indo-Asian-ness is from an elite Indian caste. Now, I’m not judging, but some folks will say “wait just a minute” on this when they learn more.
I think the most squirrely portion of the electorate will be white women. Kamala plays well to white women because, well, she ain’t black as Joe would say. She’s the Coke Zero of blackness.
This last few days has been one of the most fascinating displays of how the mass media can be steered on a dime to a new narrative. Kamala is suddenly an Obama-level savior. It’s amazing and it will fade. Her politics have something for everybody to hate.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think the 3d chess move is to have Joe resign now, install Kamala as president. Then run a campaign for a couple months that is “see, she isn’t that bad.”
Her job would be to do as little as possible. Basically stay in the basement part 2. Then the campaign can spin it as “doing the job the people need.”
the Dems can win that way.
I doubt Biden will go along. Arrogant ass.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Reminds me of the end of the movie “The Hunt For Red October”
In order to sink his adversary, the Soviet sub captain turn off all safeties on his torpedoes.
Ramius outsmarts him and causes his own torpedo to kill him.
His subordinate says “you arrogant ass, you killed us!”
This is all on Biden and his inner circle. Taking all the risk on this while they KNEW he couldn’t be up to it. Playing the U.S. public.
kamala as the candidate will be interesting. And, if she’s not, the Dems can hardly be the champions of democracy they have been crowing about for the past years.
arrogant asses
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)You guys are funny. Debating the politics of a killer vs wondering how he easily subverted a billion dollar security apparatus.
who cares if he was a disgruntled Republican or Democrat? How was he able to do what he did? An innocent person is dead and three other innocents are injured.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There should be a first to report rule for Atlanta. Nobody can report votes until Atlanta has reported. I bet Georgia would be solidly red then.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The news services were probably a tad conservative given it was all right there on video from the moment it happened. the hesitance to call it an assassination attempt was particularly odd.
Trump lives under a lucky star. I am very familiar with that 5.56 round the AR 15 primarily fires, and can assure you that even a grazing hit to his skull, just a half inch or so from his pierced upper ear, would have carved out a lot of skull with it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)One of my favorite quotes is from Benjamin Franklin (I thought it was TJ but looked it up) when asked at the constitutional convention what form of government the U.S. has. His response:
”A republic, if you can keep it.”
That quote can be read into as acknowledging the massive challenge of maintaining a government founded on the rational apportionment of power.
Our politics turned government into a game of who gets the money. The thing is, that happened many many decades ago. I don’t see a way to halt the momentum outside of revolution, which other than the founders has never worked.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Doesn’t evoke the prettiest images but my first thought was “out his nose????”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s not exactly provocative to say that democracy will fail. It never has survived for long.
That’s the reason the national government was established as a republic. But the people are catching on that they can still vote themselves largess. That’s, of course, the end of any democracy: When the majority votes for the goods of the minority.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have no interest in talking to the IRS, but this brings up a conversation I had earlier today with a client of ours. He was lamenting some poor manufacturing performance with a lot of it attributable to poor labor productivity and turnover.
We discussed that the whole “COVID hangover” has really been a “COVID re-set” to the values and motivations of the work force. This is in the private sector, mind you. The work force has become less effective and more entitled than possibly ever.
If that’s in the private sector, I can’t even begin to imagine how the government is doing.
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