I’ll bet Trump would like to go full horseshoe and approach RFK Jr. about joining the ticket. RFK is headed to Philly next weekend to appear at a Moms For Liberty event, along with Trump and DeSantis. Except Trump needs RFK Jr operating as an outside agent of chaos.
Aside from the fact that Trump went on national TV to basically chant “crimes, crimes, crimes, I love to do CRIMES” the thing that stuck with me about the Bret Baier interview was Trump giving a glow-up to RFK, Jr., calling him a very nice person. Just a reminder that Trump is NOT a stupid man. He is dumb but not stupid. He is so narcissistic and arrogant he believes he can basically admit to crimes and still not do time (he may be right), he is ignorant, incurious, bigoted, and narrow-minded, but not stupid. He knows a third party candidate is the only way he beats Biden.
The latest poll has Biden at 35% approval rating and 7 points behind when matched against Trump. Not saying he's doing a perfect job, he's done stuff that's made me furious, like approving the Willow project in Alaska and helping Joe Manchin get his pet pipeline through, but goddamn, this fucking country.
Here I am being all positive and shit - must be this weed ...
RFK Jr seems to be the flavor of the week. I actually listened to him for the first time yesterday. He is straight up unapologetically cuckoo bananas. I don't see where there's that many bug fuck nuts Biden voters looking for a truly crazy alternative to get behind.
The only probable support for Kennedy I see is disaffected Trump voters who are disaffected because they think Trump isn't crazy enough because there's something weird going on with their meds.
I swear the RFK Jr.phenom is just
bullshit drummed up by pay by click Politico/ Vice hacks.
I agree when it comes down to it RFK Jr will not draw many disaffected Dems, as a third party candidate he’d be more likely to poach weirdos who previously voted for Trump. But then RFK Jr doesn’t need to draw that many disaffected Dems – a few here and there in key states, a portion of Independents who don’t like either candidate, etc. It’s the Ralph Nader factor. Biden’s popular vote win in 2020 was deceptive, the EC was frighteningly close. I’m not saying Trump could pull it off, I’m saying it’s likely his only shot.
If instead of being “incurious” he had the natural curiosity of a crow and collected shiny objects, none of the past seven years would’ve happened. Oh, the incuriosity!
RFK Jr is The Latest Media-Created Craze. (Gotta have something to gossip about in the Hamptons or Martha's Vineyard.) Three months ago it was the Malevolent Duck. Three months from now it will be somebody else.
A salute for carrying the "Trump is not stupid" banner, it's a lonely fight. He's "gotten away with it" his entire life, so it makes sense to him to keep doing what worked so far. Same goes for 2024, there will be more shenanigans than you can shake a stick at since that worked in 2016. Russia, if you're listening...
Picking a VP is a dilemma for Trump. He absolutely demands obsequious loyalty, but that got him Pence, a famously dense evangelical who never missed a chance to publicly humiliate himself with over-the-top praise for Trump, but failed him when it mattered most, obsessing over some bullshit legal technicality. He needs a loyal criminal, but the old Shakesperian issues of ambition, greed, and vanity get in the way of being the loyal minion Trump needs. The God thing was supposed to cover that, but it didn't. A hot chick? Maybe, but you can't trust dames to keep their mouth shut, even with a NDA written by Roy Cohn himself, and he can get a piece anytime he wants, different one, too. He needs a guy, bone stupid and loyal as a dog, that he can distract with some phoney-baloney job to keep him busy until he needs something from him. There's a lot of those in Congress, but most are too ambitious. Is a puzzlement.
“...with all the class removed”: An apt summarization of the US for the past 50+ years. I should qualify that, though: the class thats been removed is the class that matters. What remains is toxic.
Actually, I was thinking morality, philosophically, spirituality, etc., not interior decoration. So on that level, they’ve no class, I suppose arguably negative class.
Jr. the K apparently carried water for the oil companies in the Amazon basin during the early days of the unveiling of the massively destructive pollution there. Woulda been during the late 80's early 90's...on behalf of NRDC he inserted himself into negotiations btw the inhabitants and the oil barons while indicating the drilling was inevitable and the Huaorani should lie down and learn to enjoy it.
Not-Governor Kari Lake makes me pity poor Mama Grizzly Palin, who is sitting somewhere, angry and alone, wondering why no one told her she could just lie about the voting results and claim victory. Republicans today just don’t know how easy they have it…
"but with all the class removed."
I remember Woody Allen's talking about his Mom having a Deflavorizer she used to prepare meals.
Trump has a " Declassinator" I bet, he uses on his real estate.
Nice column - lots of sex and violence !
The kind men like!
I'm pretty sure this isn't what "working a beat" means in journalism. And you're probably giving Trump more column-inches than he really has.
Oh, you...
2 marks!
'marbled, not flocked'
considering it's trump, I'd say WELL marbled.
And covered in ketchup.
I’ll bet Trump would like to go full horseshoe and approach RFK Jr. about joining the ticket. RFK is headed to Philly next weekend to appear at a Moms For Liberty event, along with Trump and DeSantis. Except Trump needs RFK Jr operating as an outside agent of chaos.
Aside from the fact that Trump went on national TV to basically chant “crimes, crimes, crimes, I love to do CRIMES” the thing that stuck with me about the Bret Baier interview was Trump giving a glow-up to RFK, Jr., calling him a very nice person. Just a reminder that Trump is NOT a stupid man. He is dumb but not stupid. He is so narcissistic and arrogant he believes he can basically admit to crimes and still not do time (he may be right), he is ignorant, incurious, bigoted, and narrow-minded, but not stupid. He knows a third party candidate is the only way he beats Biden.
The latest poll has Biden at 35% approval rating and 7 points behind when matched against Trump. Not saying he's doing a perfect job, he's done stuff that's made me furious, like approving the Willow project in Alaska and helping Joe Manchin get his pet pipeline through, but goddamn, this fucking country.
Polls are dogshit. Polls this far out are runny dog shit.
"Goddamn, this fucking country" is my way of saying "Shouldn't even be close, not now, not ever."
America: the country that puts its hand on the red-hot stove a SECOND time.
"Well, why did DA LORD JESUS gimme TWO hands, huh, libtard?"
“The” latest poll?
Should have been more specific, does "The one I heard 'em talkin' about an hour ago on Morning Joe" help?
Ha.
Here I am being all positive and shit - must be this weed ...
RFK Jr seems to be the flavor of the week. I actually listened to him for the first time yesterday. He is straight up unapologetically cuckoo bananas. I don't see where there's that many bug fuck nuts Biden voters looking for a truly crazy alternative to get behind.
The only probable support for Kennedy I see is disaffected Trump voters who are disaffected because they think Trump isn't crazy enough because there's something weird going on with their meds.
I swear the RFK Jr.phenom is just
bullshit drummed up by pay by click Politico/ Vice hacks.
I agree when it comes down to it RFK Jr will not draw many disaffected Dems, as a third party candidate he’d be more likely to poach weirdos who previously voted for Trump. But then RFK Jr doesn’t need to draw that many disaffected Dems – a few here and there in key states, a portion of Independents who don’t like either candidate, etc. It’s the Ralph Nader factor. Biden’s popular vote win in 2020 was deceptive, the EC was frighteningly close. I’m not saying Trump could pull it off, I’m saying it’s likely his only shot.
"the EC was frighteningly close"
Let me repeat: Goddamn, this fucking country.
RFK Jr: when your country hasn't quite shat itself enough...
From now on, I'm auto-translating "RFK" into R you Fucking Kidding me?
Hopefully there aren’t too many ancient Dems left who respond like Pavlov’s dog when they hear the name Kennedy.
RFK's nephew with the even bigger name is still available, according to Q.
JFK/RFK '24!
If instead of being “incurious” he had the natural curiosity of a crow and collected shiny objects, none of the past seven years would’ve happened. Oh, the incuriosity!
RFK Jr is The Latest Media-Created Craze. (Gotta have something to gossip about in the Hamptons or Martha's Vineyard.) Three months ago it was the Malevolent Duck. Three months from now it will be somebody else.
A salute for carrying the "Trump is not stupid" banner, it's a lonely fight. He's "gotten away with it" his entire life, so it makes sense to him to keep doing what worked so far. Same goes for 2024, there will be more shenanigans than you can shake a stick at since that worked in 2016. Russia, if you're listening...
Picking a VP is a dilemma for Trump. He absolutely demands obsequious loyalty, but that got him Pence, a famously dense evangelical who never missed a chance to publicly humiliate himself with over-the-top praise for Trump, but failed him when it mattered most, obsessing over some bullshit legal technicality. He needs a loyal criminal, but the old Shakesperian issues of ambition, greed, and vanity get in the way of being the loyal minion Trump needs. The God thing was supposed to cover that, but it didn't. A hot chick? Maybe, but you can't trust dames to keep their mouth shut, even with a NDA written by Roy Cohn himself, and he can get a piece anytime he wants, different one, too. He needs a guy, bone stupid and loyal as a dog, that he can distract with some phoney-baloney job to keep him busy until he needs something from him. There's a lot of those in Congress, but most are too ambitious. Is a puzzlement.
Um, Roy, is it ok to depict Lake and Gabbard as literal whores? It’s not like they’re Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
They're not whores, they're ambitious careerists comfortable with their sexuality.
I'm comfortable with mine, too – do I need to get uncomfortable to distance myself? 'Cause yikes.
Entrepreneurs, if you will.
"Leaning In", as Sheryl Sandberg used to say.
Oh, so like Nancy Reagan then!
Being comfortable with other people's sexuality is usually the difficult part.
Tulsi especially seems to have a problem with that.
Sam Alito: "Let me hold your pole! Ooh, it's jerkin', I think I landed a big one!"
"I wa’ be vi’ pre’ident" has to be in Roy's greatest hits.
Was gonna make a "Don't talk with your mouth full" joke, but let's be honest here, we all know it's not a mouthful.
Along with the floaters remark. Stealing that!
NSF...Anywhere!
Somewhere, Manqueman's head just exploded...
Hearted for the thought, but also for Manqueman. Because it only works because Manqueman, bless him...
Oh, tulsi... 😄😅😍🥰
Anyway.
“...with all the class removed”: An apt summarization of the US for the past 50+ years. I should qualify that, though: the class thats been removed is the class that matters. What remains is toxic.
I'm guessing Paul Singer and Leonard Leo's offices have plenty of class. Harlan Crow too, although his sense of decor is a little more specialized.
Actually, I was thinking morality, philosophically, spirituality, etc., not interior decoration. So on that level, they’ve no class, I suppose arguably negative class.
Class, dismissive...
Jr. the K apparently carried water for the oil companies in the Amazon basin during the early days of the unveiling of the massively destructive pollution there. Woulda been during the late 80's early 90's...on behalf of NRDC he inserted himself into negotiations btw the inhabitants and the oil barons while indicating the drilling was inevitable and the Huaorani should lie down and learn to enjoy it.
See 'Savages' by Joe Kane.
Why couldn't HE have run into a tribe of cannibals?
Or bad weather in a light aircraft over Martha's Vineyard?
"Flying in IFR conditions when he only has a VFR" describes a VERY large portion of our nation's elites.
Because Rockefellers have good taste—er, taste 'good'.
This is news to me -- I mainly knew his estimable work with Riverkeeper.
NRDC denies it. Joe Kane was there.
Too bad King Toad didn't go with Tulsi because I think America is ready for campaign ads by Michael Bay.
Not-Governor Kari Lake makes me pity poor Mama Grizzly Palin, who is sitting somewhere, angry and alone, wondering why no one told her she could just lie about the voting results and claim victory. Republicans today just don’t know how easy they have it…
TRUMP: I got floaters actually.
ded, I am.
That made my day.
Oh boy. Add Karl Rove's leather slave to the mix and you'd be channeling Rude. Lol. ScaryFun stuff, if a bit too easy to visualize. Gah.
You had me at "tiny Porky Pig heads," although that's arguably a touch wittier and more whimsical than Trump could ever be.
"Your wife dresses you funny."
"I've got floaters"! :D
Dynasty-esque GENIUS!
Thanks you!