…who would make a better President than any current Democrat politician:
Feel free to disagree and / or suggest your own candidates. (Remember: no furriners.)
From Othias at C&Rsenal, talking about the Russian Contract Winchester 1895:
“I can’t be held responsible for what you learn in fiction.”
In context, he was talking about people whose sole exposure to guns is through RPG-play on their computers, but if you think about it, it’s applicable to so many other areas: movie depictions of gunplay, books’ descriptions of romance, movie depictions of auto-driving, newspaper hypotheticals, and let’s not forget political hyperbole (e.g. the 9mm Europellet “blowing a lung out of the body”). All fiction, and all often paraded as fact when of course they aren’t, no matter how plausible.
Looks like the Socialists are starting the process of ditching Biden, via the whole “illegal classified documents route” (as opposed to just handing it over to the Clintons for an accident / suicide):
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union that President Joe Biden bore “ultimate responsibility” for the classified material found at his home and office.
“Let’s be honest about it — when that information is found. It diminishes the stature of any person in possession of them. It’s not supposed to happen. Whether it was the fault of a staffer or an attorney, it makes no difference. The elected official bears ultimate responsibility.”
Yeah; slime him, have his disciples quit on him, leave him isolated, start the process of anointing his successor (TBD, but most likely a sitting Democrat Governor).
Textbook political assassination.
Donald Trump has announced he’s running for the 2024 US presidency as he bids to return to the White House for a second time.
The 76-year-old has confirmed he will be throwing his hat in the ring to be the Republican nominee to contest president Joe Biden in two years time.
“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said to an audience of several hundred supporters, club members and gathered press in a chandeliered ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago club.
He stood flanked by more than 30 American flags and banners that read, “Make America Great Again!”
“I am running because I believe the world has not yet seen the true glory of what this nation can be,” he continued. “We will again put America first.”
At this point, there’s only one thing left to do:
Wake me up, politically speaking, in December 2024.
I have to admit that I’m starting to lean this way myself:
Donald Trump is being largely blamed for the midterm red wave that never happened, with Republican strategists pinning the party’s underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterms on his selection of ‘flawed’ candidates.
Trump endorsed some 300 candidates, held 30 rallies and raised millions of dollars for his ‘army’ of candidates. It was supposed to be the amuse-bouche for a Presidential run, intended to set him up for a sweeping 2024 success.
But overnight, many of Trump’s chosen candidates crashed and burned.
It seems to me that Trump is becoming like Her Filthiness Hillary Ciinton, the “broken glass” candidate (in that people would crawl over broken glass to vote against them).
Where there was previously no strong candidate to back in the fight against socialism, Trump was the default because all the Stupid Party could bring to the [ahem] party were candidates of the Romney/Mitch McConnell stripe — establishment GOPe drones.
Thanks to Trump, however, we have more radical leaders like Kristi Noem and of course Ron DeSantis around who, provided we could actually vote them into power, might continue or even improve upon the works of President Trump.
And let’s be honest: another Trump similarity to Hillary is age: in 2024 he will be 78, and if Biden is anything to go by, we do not need another octogenarian in the White House, no matter how energetic he may seem at the moment. (A depressing thing about advanced age — ask me how I know this — is that two, three or four years has a far more radical effect upon one’s physical- and mental capabilities at 65+ years than they had at age 40 or even 50.) Trump would be 79 if he were to win the next election, but 81 by the next mid-term election. Could he still be as effective? Hell, given the obstacles the Swamp would throw at him, could he be effective at all?
I have no problem with Trump continuing to hold rallies all over the place, as long as they support the MAGA philosophy and not his candidacy. But that ain’t gonna happen.
And given that the supposed “red tsunami” turned out to be more of a pinkish trickle (a topic for another time), there’s no guarantee that even a conservative maestro like Ron DeSantis would be successfully elected.
Is it too early for a second gin? I think not.
From yesterday’s Comments:
“More than three million (and counting) “Texans” voted for Beto.”
Just remember that if all three million had voted in the same place, he wouldn’t even have carried Houston, let alone the whole state.
In fact, given that the Lone Star’s voting population numbers about 19 million, and at least ten percent of any given population are retarded assholes*, Beto’s vote count is not even double that number.
*Assuming that all retarded assholes would vote for Beto, that is, but there’s a limit even to asshole retardation.