Friday, January 24, 2025
You Know What Happened Next? Joe Biden Won
They probably should've continued listening to The Groups, instead of moving right on immigration, lending credence to Trump's biggest issue, and pushing public opinion against immigrants. Everything The Left always says will happen when you try to out-Republican Republicans.
They also wanted anti-war people to shut the fuck up 2004. Maybe they're right that it would've helped if they did, but "telling people to shut the fuck up" only seems to apply to The Left, when for others it's "listening to their legitimate concerns."
Their line is, basically, "Democrats can't win unless everybody is an unpaid campaign volunteer, on message all the time just like we are, from our boats." And, I dunno guys, that's not a viable campaign plan!Yup! Dems had a very popular message and policy on immigration. But thanks to a small group of activists who never represented most Latinos or immigrants, this is what happened when Biden used the same exact language in 2020: https://t.co/mI3Y6uvpvw https://t.co/6dyjnLpUVj
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 24, 2025
They also wanted anti-war people to shut the fuck up 2004. Maybe they're right that it would've helped if they did, but "telling people to shut the fuck up" only seems to apply to The Left, when for others it's "listening to their legitimate concerns."
Mommy and Daddy Parties
Forget the substance of being "tough on immigration" for a moment, or anything having to do with reality. Is there a single voter in the county who would believe that Harris would be "tougher" on immigration than Donald Trump?
Even if being tougher on immigration is popular, even if it is one area where Donald Trump is beating her, how insane do campaign advisers have to be to tell her to go out there and claim she's going to be a bigger bastard than Donald Trump?
The people who were responsible for the campaign blamed The Left for this shit.
Now they are paralyzed because too many of them still want to prove they're the Big Balled Beat The Immigrants party.
Even if being tougher on immigration is popular, even if it is one area where Donald Trump is beating her, how insane do campaign advisers have to be to tell her to go out there and claim she's going to be a bigger bastard than Donald Trump?
The people who were responsible for the campaign blamed The Left for this shit.
Now they are paralyzed because too many of them still want to prove they're the Big Balled Beat The Immigrants party.
Echoes of the Kerry campaign, which was basically "George Bush isn't killing enough of the right brown people." It was dumb then, but it was more understandable dumb in the post-9/11 era.
This Won't Bring Down Price Of Eggs, Mr. President!!!
Seems bad.
Kennedy, then chairman of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit, later recounted online that Samoan “government officials, including the Prime Minister were curious to measure health outcomes following the ‘natural experiment’ created by the respite from vaccines.” Wherever the idea originated, Kennedy was quick to offer them a way to do it.
It’s a milder version of an idea he has long championed at home — that the safety of vaccines, well established by scientific consensus, needs to be studied further in the kind of trials that would depend on a large group of children going without them. With a renowned health informatics expert in tow, Kennedy visited Samoa in 2019, to pitch the prime minister and ministry of health on an information system that would track the impact of medical interventions, including vaccines, on the nation’s 200,000 citizens.
Way To The Right
I know we're supposed to pretend the last year didn't happen, beginning with the Dems desperately trying to pass a Bipartisan (Republican) Immigration Bill, which the Republicans, predictably, LucyFootballed, and ending with this:
"I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers that came into our country illegally. I prosecuted them in case after case, and I won," Harris said. "Donald Trump, on the other hand, has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk," she said.People can argue it was Smart Politics if they want, but don't fucking tell me it didn't happen. What happened is after Harris lost, the people who argued that was smart and necessary and good pretended it didn't happen, and went on to make their next boat payment.
Send Up The Jake Tapper Signal
Have the Dems said anything about our precious troops being harassed?
[the answer to the question is no one in leadership has]
“Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a local establishment in the City of Newark, detaining undocumented residents as well as citizens, without producing a warrant. One of the detainees is a U.S. military veteran who suffered the indignity of having the legitimacy of his military documentation questioned. This egregious act is in plain violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees ‘the right of the people be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures….’They went way to the right on immigration, ran right into a blind alley, and don't know how to get themselves out of it.
[the answer to the question is no one in leadership has]
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Step 1
Reagan appointee.
A federal judge in Seattle blocked, temporarily, President Donald Trump’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship — the idea spelled out in the Constitution that every person born in the United States is an American citizen.
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide.
“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”
Sure Why Not
I bet this story went through many editors.
An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent her, according to written correspondence reviewed by The Post and a person familiar with the effort.Computer, enhance and accentuate:
Knowing Your Product's Value
CNN:
They have also been prototyping a new video news service that allows users to swipe through vertical videos as they do on apps like TikTok and Instagram. Mr. Thompson said it’s not clear yet whether that will exist as a stand-alone product or as a section of CNN’s mobile app.The Democrats
“You can use your thumb to flick from a CNN news story to a CNN anchor to a reporter,” Mr. Thompson said. “That’s a really interesting experiment.”
In a private Senate Democratic luncheon last week, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey led colleagues through the shifting dynamics of a media echo chamber that conservatives are thriving in. Democrats scoured examples of how conspiracy theories like one about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, spread rapidly in the conservative media sphere and how Democrats needed to try to harness their own tools to get their messages out better.I know it's the senate so they need it to be about them otherwise half will fall asleep, but if you want to know how to Do Internet you should talk to people who are actually good at it, not relive the glory days of Mark Warner's disgsuting 2020 tuna melt.
...
One of the bright spots Democrats highlighted, according to a source familiar, was a viral video from the pandemic of Warner making a tuna melt in his kitchen that led to the lawmaker being cheered and jeered by people who questioned his culinary leanings.
Winter Fundraiser Day 3
It is quickly becoming like the bad old days of the first Bush term, though for very different reasons. This little blog had a bit of impact back then, maybe it will again!
Venmo!
Venmo!
or
Well What Are You Going To Do About It
I keep coming back this story, told by an ex-Obama person (I forget which) about how journalists treated Republicans refusing to replace Scalia.
Basically the Obama guy thought "this is outrageous" was the obvious spin, but the reporter kept coming back to the question in the title.
I know journalists deserve some scorn for their asymmetrical admiration of Republicans shenanigans, and it is correct to see that they are always eager to transmit outrage about any Dem norms violations.
Still it was the right question. Dems too much think the strategy is to get the press to call foul and administer a penalty. It isn't actually their job even if they do it frequently.
Dems who don't have any answers to that question should move aside for those who do.
What Could Go Wrong
Trump can just keep pardoning him, everyone, himself. Although, given the DOJ is now just is personal force, it doesn't matter!
Unlimited crimes!
Unlimited crimes!
Morning
"We" tried to warn them that even the trolling versions of "we want to work with you on cutting costs, Mr. Trump" were fucking stupid.
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