odds and ends
I don’t know who the man on the lower left is. This clip has thehost, upper left, turning to Allan Lichtman at the lower right, he of the “13 Keys”. James Carville in the upper left can not hide a certain disdain,Though he sits silently and lets him ramble on. Carville has long been of the opinion the Democrats need to get a new candidate for 2024 and let Biden retire, Lichthman believes they have just thrown away one of the keys. To be sure, he still sees the Democrats as holding the correct number of keys.
I imagine Obama’s endorsement is of zero significance. It would be significant only if he didn’t, or he endorsed Trump or Jill Stein.
At the moment and for the rest of the election JD Vance has bestowed upon the Republican a “weirdness” factor, a repellent toward normies, swimming in a pool of odd sub-cultural squares that speak a language middle America does not understand. Should Harris win the election, and should the Republicans clean themselves up even a tad, and makes some kind of breaking retiring Trump from their active roster, it is worth marking a ride turning. Looking over to the next Hunter Bidens —
An entrepreneur and social media influencer, I suppose. It is a misnomer to say that the Democrats have won all the elections in the past four years. They did lose the Virginia gubernatorial election, on issues that burble into people’s lives — education policy — and have some cultural clashing undercurrents in it, one side gets a little smug in its perception of where the normies are at.
Reportedly Manchin, not a Democrat, called Donna Brazille, not an official with the DNC, on how to run in the post Biden world. A wacky asterisk if there ever was one.
The Internet has lots of opinions. Though are they any more insightful than the Old Media figures?
A step down from Trump’s previous tendency to call all the Dems “marxist”s.