This has been a miraculous few days. Atheist that I am, I thought that only the devil himself could have golfed that slug past PAB’s ear.And then we get this absolutely delightful turn of events engineered by the wizardly old politician. And after a day of utter misery, fury and despair on Sunday, where all I could do was think of a noble stag brought down by a pack of dogs. Looks like I picked a bad week to give up optimism!
Spent the last 8 years talking/ reading about policy and issues,and party platforms, and speaking out against MAGADeath policies and cheering on the Biden/ Harris administration. . Spent the last 4 years railing against MSM spinning Trump into someone "normal" , while they were ignoring or minimizing all the great strides Biden helped us make. Spent the last year screaming about the false narrative the MSM created and shoved down our throats about President Biden's age and competence. Spent the last 3 days smiling because Kamala Harris will be the next President. I would love to have a drink with her ( I don't like beer but I'd make her a lemon drop!) I'm smiling because she's smiling while saying all the right things! Cheers!
Boy the republicans are glad they have DEI to talk about. I doubt they would have found an angle with CRT or BLM. And they just don't have the intellect to get beyond three letter slogans.
Yeah, though DEI, CRT, and BLM all basically mean the same thing to Republicans (the n-word). They know they can't come out and say that publicly these days so they come up with these little codes.
I said elsewhere that Harris would invite you over for dinner, you'd bring beer to share as you helped her in the kitchen. There'd be a great conversation and some really good food.
And MSNBC should be so lucky that they'd dumped Katy Tur and CNN took her off their hands! (Gentle correction with snark for the cable news channels.)
These access-driven gossip columnists are almost as bad as the rightwing media human centipede mainstays like Shapiro. They all make me want to take a shower.
I love that "weird" is their main section, meanwhile their party leadership to a person is filled with weirdos. Their primary candidate goes on soliloquys about sharks and batteries, and their new VP nominee is a windsock grifter who makes Mike Pence look exciting.
The audacity is just amazing. And it will only get downhill from here. It's going to get uglier and more base as they get more desperate. We need to make sure that what happened to Hillary Clinton doesn't happen to Kamala Harris and we need to defend her when people start talking shit.
at this stage i wonder if it's at all worth the energy to focus on their, um, for lack of a better word, 'content'. there's supposedly going to be a flash flood of dark money from the more sinister techbros, flooding the voting zones with shit, and we'll hardly have time to debunk ...
Not surprised at all by the low shots lobbed at Harris. Of COURSE tRump will bring up her relationship with Slick Willie as he was called here. He did it with Willis too. However being as it was so long ago they can’t do a direct line to where she is now lo these 20 years or so later.
Aside from using the racist dog whistle of DEI they chose to use her not actually birthing a child as a detriment when in fact she’s very close to her Stepchildren. I’m sure that that did not play well with adoptive parents or other step parents either.
So in conclusion grasping at plastic straws is all they got.
And hell yes. I’d drink a beer with her. And laugh a lot. We have the same laugh. It’s delightful.
Yeah seriously! Also I wanna know how "sleeping to the top" works with statewide elected office!
And she's actually won statewide three times because she won AG and got reelected, and won Senate. So the record is even better. How can sex possibly get you that?
Well you know how we wicked women will do anything to get ahead! /s
I actually had some C level executive on Linked In bring this very situation up on a post. As if one lousy boyfriend completely negates your skills as a prosecutor or VP. I must be careful as I am unclear on what could happen to my job if some butthole gets offended and makes trouble.
Going with the southern play of not singing to the pig. Wastes my time and annoys the pig.
What a great column, Stephen! My mom was a teacher and also loved Venn diagrams back in the day.
I hope the DNC starts running the Nero fiddler while Rome burned type of ad. Four years ago Trump golfed while Americans lay dead in refrigerated trucks. Millions lost their jobs and their 401k value. Etc etc
I literally lol’d at the “government check” line. If that’s the hill you’re willing to die on, please return your covid funds and Social Security money because those were/are government checks.
Here is why I’m grateful that America’s speech lives rent free in my head: as soon as that idiot said something about Harris should be grateful, that clip played alongside the quote. And then it was easy to put that idiot in the trash bin where he belongs, without wasting another thought or emotional reaction. Same for the laughing thing — a woman can’t be allowed to be happy enough to laugh, is that right, (mediocre white) boys?
Jesse Waters: "... Americans aren’t hot on heirs. They like self-made men and women."
I guess that explains why he worships Trump.
"Social media quickly clapped back at Kelly and reminded everyone that she’d allegedly had an affair with Brit Hume at Fox News."
Oh, you mean Dollar General Robert Mitchum? Gross!
This has been a miraculous few days. Atheist that I am, I thought that only the devil himself could have golfed that slug past PAB’s ear.And then we get this absolutely delightful turn of events engineered by the wizardly old politician. And after a day of utter misery, fury and despair on Sunday, where all I could do was think of a noble stag brought down by a pack of dogs. Looks like I picked a bad week to give up optimism!
I’d have a beer with but without katy tur’s presence
Spent the last 8 years talking/ reading about policy and issues,and party platforms, and speaking out against MAGADeath policies and cheering on the Biden/ Harris administration. . Spent the last 4 years railing against MSM spinning Trump into someone "normal" , while they were ignoring or minimizing all the great strides Biden helped us make. Spent the last year screaming about the false narrative the MSM created and shoved down our throats about President Biden's age and competence. Spent the last 3 days smiling because Kamala Harris will be the next President. I would love to have a drink with her ( I don't like beer but I'd make her a lemon drop!) I'm smiling because she's smiling while saying all the right things! Cheers!
Boy the republicans are glad they have DEI to talk about. I doubt they would have found an angle with CRT or BLM. And they just don't have the intellect to get beyond three letter slogans.
Yeah, though DEI, CRT, and BLM all basically mean the same thing to Republicans (the n-word). They know they can't come out and say that publicly these days so they come up with these little codes.
I said elsewhere that Harris would invite you over for dinner, you'd bring beer to share as you helped her in the kitchen. There'd be a great conversation and some really good food.
And MSNBC should be so lucky that they'd dumped Katy Tur and CNN took her off their hands! (Gentle correction with snark for the cable news channels.)
Tur is unfortunately still at MSNBC. It is Kasie Hunt (equally bad) who left for CNN+ (RIP).
These access-driven gossip columnists are almost as bad as the rightwing media human centipede mainstays like Shapiro. They all make me want to take a shower.
I love that "weird" is their main section, meanwhile their party leadership to a person is filled with weirdos. Their primary candidate goes on soliloquys about sharks and batteries, and their new VP nominee is a windsock grifter who makes Mike Pence look exciting.
The audacity is just amazing. And it will only get downhill from here. It's going to get uglier and more base as they get more desperate. We need to make sure that what happened to Hillary Clinton doesn't happen to Kamala Harris and we need to defend her when people start talking shit.
Great article!
at this stage i wonder if it's at all worth the energy to focus on their, um, for lack of a better word, 'content'. there's supposedly going to be a flash flood of dark money from the more sinister techbros, flooding the voting zones with shit, and we'll hardly have time to debunk ...
If that's their "weird" list--venn diagrams, laughing too much--wait til they get a load of:
1) Guy who thinks humans have a finite amount of energy, like a battery, and shuns exercise for this reason
2) Guy who a jury found had sexually assaulted a woman in a department store changing room, then slandered her for going public about it
3) Guy who was asked on live TV what he and his daughter have in common, and he said "sex".
4) Guy who threw ketchup at the wall when he gets mad
5) Guy who buried his first wife on his golf course
"Another group of bored columnists wondered, “Is It a Mistake for Democrats to Go All In on Harris?”
Is concern trolling the new journalism?
It is when your editor tells you to do it, and he reminds you there are tons of J-school grads who’ll do it if you won’t
are their classes still filling up?
Nice to see some long, thoughtful analysis pieces... well done Stephen!
Thank you! My wife had pushed for this move for a while now. Happy to see it appreciated.
Not surprised at all by the low shots lobbed at Harris. Of COURSE tRump will bring up her relationship with Slick Willie as he was called here. He did it with Willis too. However being as it was so long ago they can’t do a direct line to where she is now lo these 20 years or so later.
Aside from using the racist dog whistle of DEI they chose to use her not actually birthing a child as a detriment when in fact she’s very close to her Stepchildren. I’m sure that that did not play well with adoptive parents or other step parents either.
So in conclusion grasping at plastic straws is all they got.
And hell yes. I’d drink a beer with her. And laugh a lot. We have the same laugh. It’s delightful.
Yeah seriously! Also I wanna know how "sleeping to the top" works with statewide elected office!
And she's actually won statewide three times because she won AG and got reelected, and won Senate. So the record is even better. How can sex possibly get you that?
She must have slept with millions of voters!
It's the only way to win and get to the top!!
Well you know how we wicked women will do anything to get ahead! /s
I actually had some C level executive on Linked In bring this very situation up on a post. As if one lousy boyfriend completely negates your skills as a prosecutor or VP. I must be careful as I am unclear on what could happen to my job if some butthole gets offended and makes trouble.
Going with the southern play of not singing to the pig. Wastes my time and annoys the pig.
What a great column, Stephen! My mom was a teacher and also loved Venn diagrams back in the day.
I hope the DNC starts running the Nero fiddler while Rome burned type of ad. Four years ago Trump golfed while Americans lay dead in refrigerated trucks. Millions lost their jobs and their 401k value. Etc etc
Thanks!
I literally lol’d at the “government check” line. If that’s the hill you’re willing to die on, please return your covid funds and Social Security money because those were/are government checks.
All these anti-government assholes like to use this flourish when they collect government checks, it's the most annoying of their dogwhistles.
Here is why I’m grateful that America’s speech lives rent free in my head: as soon as that idiot said something about Harris should be grateful, that clip played alongside the quote. And then it was easy to put that idiot in the trash bin where he belongs, without wasting another thought or emotional reaction. Same for the laughing thing — a woman can’t be allowed to be happy enough to laugh, is that right, (mediocre white) boys?
They really are grasping at plastic straws! Fuming at the unfairness of democracy!
What is democracy? Is it a single fucking constituent voted for her? Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down
As a Mediocre White Man myself, I am 100% behind VP Kamala Harris.
More corporate Saturday is not the answer. By definition #UniversalHealthcare is the proven best policy practice. Get a grip in demand accountability.
Corporate subsidy*
Blocked. Troll.
Clearly there ain’t gonna be a Hudson E Baldwin IV
This is your first comment in the thread! LMAO!!!
lol you can’t stand when the truth interrupts your narrative. 🤣😂🤣🖕🫵🤡