and if Biden did this?
Low level conspiracy theory on South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, right alongside the same low level conspiracy theory for Alabama Senator Katie Britt. They debased themselves and exposed themselves to political — cultural ridicule so as to maintain a future political viability by getting themselves out of the running for Trump’s vice presidential selection. Britt had a bizarrely horrible Republican Response to Biden’s State of the Union address and Noem revealed a trigger happy dog kill anecdote. As things play out, Noem continues playing the happy warrior, tagging along Trump at an event in Pennsylvania. There is a Republican Senate candidate there, but he apparently doesn’t want to do this. So it is Noem who debased herself here, irretrievably in frame the night Trump fell off the cliff.
And she shuffles off to the side, gamely making the appropriate hand dancing on YMCA and the rest of the list after Trump does the “fuck it. Let’s listen to some music!”
Everyone straining here to go along where Trump is taking them. Question: is this worth their dignity? And I suppose someone would be in the position to do this, but it is notable that it is not the Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate — the campaign has to import from our of state South Carolina’s governor. Of course, in the closing weeks of the Biden campaign, the scuttlebutt and tell was the disappearance of political bigwigs and candidates from Biden’s campaign appearances. This was after the caveat for the case in re-electing Biden became too big. The guy was old, getting older, and all public appearances now moved the flub he would invariably make into the focus of the next news cycle. The case for Biden’s fortunes hinged on a comparison to Trump, but it was hard to focus on to the problem of Trump then.
Trump was a focal point of Ellis’s book — though, the “ruthless capitalist” model hardly figures here anymore. What I want to understand is how Greg Gutfeld can sit there now, and take this one in, after all his knocking of Biden stumbling, a “if they manage to pull this one past the finish line” Hell. Or Rod Dreher, understandably citing at Biden’s election and nomination a move into a Chernenko phase for the Democratic Party apparatus, chugging along with a fossil. Dreher did so, though, while also making the assumption that Trump was spent, eaten up his good will with January 6, and the party could move on. The thing, though, is the absurdity is the point now.
Something notable here. Harris offered up a public statement, before cameras, on a major development with foreign policy. I don’t believe it is in her official powers to do so, her statement is meaningless as this is something we should see President Biden doing right now. But she is laying out an official position. This is a ruse, a presidential action by a woman wanting to look like the President. Maybe, just maybe — like the economic summit in 2008 when Bernanke was addressing a lot of his points toward Obama as McCain stumbled in after stint campaign jabs — an unofficial official beginning of her Presidency. Though, I guess the focal point for JD Vance’s stump speech — has not worked its way into Trump’s yet — is trying to pull off a plagiarism charge that one of those non-book bullet PowerPoint political books she has released at an earlier part of her career — has material from.elsewhere. Oh, maybe.
I am mildly curious to watch Trump’s remarks at the Al Smith dinner. A weird affair, this is now. Kamala bails, though sent over a skit with an Saturday Night Live character, the better to defuse the “there is no humor in a jab on Trump’s trajectory but whatever”. Trump gives the whatever. There may be a context and frame of London can pull into that makes them funny.