never bought a doughnut
I see Joe Trippi selling his upcoming social media platform, rejoinder to a post Elon Musk twitter, and one of a bunch frankly. What I would want to know is when The Babylon Bee comes and posts the same material it does on x formerly twitter, are they going to be banished under the same complaint rule they had been in pre Elon Musk twitter? If the answer is yes, I don’t understand this social media fees except just another “Blue Skies” and etc. Facilitating conversation and etc means whatever it means to you, and you are may than free to sell your Overton Window of social media-ing, as I guess is Trump and company.
The presidential campaign of absurdism. continues. Yes, bottom line is always Vote for Harris, “generic Democrat, and it shows”. But things flutter along with some contemplative parcels here and there. I stare at a National Review headline insisting “JD Vance is Good at This After All”, and weigh whether, despite it all, there is some point here. That as much as he becomes a punchline in the modern Democratic Party toadies of late night talk show hosts, and as much as he slides in the backdrop as Trump rather wants bombastic cranks on stage with him — RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard — he is sneaking in the margins off in the states at play. We do see a suggestion that he is playing the role Pence did in 2016 in keeping the wayward Republican politician / influencers in line.
Then Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, got Kemp on the line.
Within hours of their phone call last week, Kemp, who along with his wife had been the target of vicious Trump attacks, was on Fox News publicly declaring his support for the GOP ticket. Soon after that, Trump was thanking Kemp for the kind words.
Looking for an excuse, Kemp was, but if Vance provides it Vance provides it.
Comedy here, Vance paints as good a picture as he can on the doughnut shop workers who were just not into him.
Vance said he enjoys engaging in that kind of retail politicking and added that he has made it clear to his staff that such visits must be planned more carefully in the future.
“We don’t want to have these scripted events — I don’t want to go and do three takes of buying Doritos at a Sheetz,” Vance said, referring to a recent Harris stop at a Pennsylvania gas station. “I like to get out there and talk to people, and we want to make sure we’re doing it but definitely make sure that people are at least OK with being on camera, or we’re going to walk in and you’re going to have a person who has, practically, a panic attack because she’s got 15 cameras in her face.”
Nervous nelly, her. And I suppose him — the other guy standing awkwardly supplying him with doughnuts. It does out a hamper on the “speaks for the rust belt working class” — a funny headline for his Drehrer interview, “I would like to see European elites actually listen to their people for a change“. He the man whose such great rapport with such people?
Look. The Democrats once tried to replace Ted Kennedy with Martha Coakley. Unless you saw a way to play the long game and saw you could wait out a couple years of Scott Brown to get to an Elizabeth Warren Senatorship, if you were a liberal Democrat you were voting for Martha Coakley. A woman who did not know who Curt Schilling was. Awkward personalities happen, people disconnecting completely with parts of “The common clay”. The problem here is — aside from the particular weird “common clay elitism” of JD Vance — is that to flip it over on a “if this were a Democrat” — well, we do see what happened to Martha Coakley. Placing us to points of more relevance — the party now upholding a defense of Trump’s politicking at Arlington and campaign altercation with a worker trying to stop the inappropriate and illegal photographing — up to Vance’s performative “Go to Hell” declaration to Kamala Harris — was the party making hay of John Kerry’s “troops end up in Afghanistan” that seemed to suggest they were uneducated dummies — in 2006, so upholding of the dignity of veterans.
I do come back to some things with Vance – – a point of inference in the National Review “Doing good” column. We have a whole part of the electorate who think they have him pinned and down on a reference to couches. He makes a bad joke, as all politicians do, on the stump, which references a couch. The watch a commentator say “he should know by now not to bring up the couch!”. Should he? My advice to Vance is that in his Senate re-election bid, he make sure to allude to couches. Because there are whole parcels of the electorate who are not clued in on this thing which is — in the end just an inside (immature) joke, who will brush up against it and need something explained. Once it is explained, they will respond with a “so — you just made something vulgar up just to be mean?” , and be more inclined to vote for him.