I love AOC, I think she’s the future of the country, but please please PLEASE do not nominate another candidate with a vagina in 2028. We’re just not ready for that.

I am selfish as a New York State resident and want to keep her, and give her Chuck’s seat in 2028. Maybe after a term or three in the Senate we’ll be ready to elect someone without a penis as President.

Wasn’t it DeGaulle himself who said

Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?

Something needs to me done while this headline is just a metaphor

what will they do with the surplus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

Where’s the fog?

In the course of Doing My Own Research, I uncovered classified footage of the party balloon, which proves Noem’s case that the balloon was dangerous and needed to be taken down…

This makes me wonder who owns Lindsey Graham

Speech jammer? Really?

That’s an awful lot of words, when you could have just said “No, I can’t tell you that.”

Can you tell me honestly that it would have been worse than what we have now?

Don’t underestimate how disasterous that last debate was for Biden. For many Americans, their last impression of him was a doddering fool who was up past his bedtime. I suspect that if he hadn’t run for a second term, but didn’t change anything else, he would be remembered better.

I am convinced that the real problem is how Republicans have seized the narrative on immigration, and have somehow made it so that anyone who is against their very heavy-handed enforcement mechanisms are somehow for “wide open borders”. (Note for most Lemmings: Yes, I know you don’t feel “open wide borders” is a bad thing. I don’t either. But just roll with me for a while.)

Republicans have presented this heavy handed enforcement as the only way to “secure the border” whatever that means. Democrats need to disengage on arguments on who we let in and make the discussion on the how. Focus on how the current enforcement methods are counterproductive, and actually makes us all less safe, regardless of who we let in. Leave those discussions about who for later.

And Democrats need to remind everyone that they had a path to making this all better towards which they made real progress in 2024, until Candidate Trump called a few Senators and told them to knock it off. They can’t try to actually fix the problem, because he was planning to run on how broken it all was.

“There is so much crazy shit, outrageous corruption, and naked, ham-fisted ambition in this WSJ piece about Noem, Lewandowski, and DHS,” she wrote. “Read and take note of the of eye-popping number of sources who have knives out for Kristi and Corey.”

That’s why they are doing all this! They are taking Noem to the gravel pit, and once she is dispatched to that farm Upstate, the rest of MAGA will say “See! She was the problem all along. Let’s Deport some more brown folks!”

Why would the Administration be upset that she is planning a Presidential run?

Unless they already have plans either to steamroll a Trump 3rd term, or have something like Don Jr. run on a transparent platform of “Vote for me, get my dad too”.

Or, maybe it’s the fact that there’s only so far a woman can go in MAGA. So they’re really more upset that she might aspire to being more than a Secretary…

That much money to protect one person? Something smells fishy. The article mentions that he has a detail of a dozen Federal Marshals protecting him. Even if that is warranted, I doubt those Marshals are costing over $1M/yr each.

This is a grift, pure and simple, just like everything else this administration does. Poke into this further, and I guarantee you will see that a lot of his personal friends and relatives are all getting a piece of that money through no-bid contracts and no-show consulting gigs.

I bet there’s also a huge budget for private jets, because only Antifa flies commercial

Maybe that’s the long-term plan, Democrats simply refuse to fund DHS at all. Take a page from the Republican playbook and drown it in the bathtub, or force Republicans to kill the filibuster ahead of an election which may put Democrats in the majority in the Senate.

Nice try, but the popular vote doesn’t mean anything in primaries, because the elections are held over a period of time and many candidates drop out mid-way through, so we will never know how many Joe Biden or John Edwards voters would have voted for Obama over Clinton. Clinton did not win a majority of votes, after all.

Obama won a majority of pledged delegates, even before taking the undemocratic Super Delegates into account, and it’s delegates that count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Democrats don’t need to mess with the counting of votes to “fix” primaries. They do it the old fashioned way, by manipulating the primary calendar to make certain candidates inevitable.

I don’t know about that. I was kind of hoping this would make it to a military tribunal.

Now, I was never in the military and don’t have my inside knowledge of how it all works like some of you do. But if they claim to have the authority to recall a sitting congressman to active duty and demote him, can’t the tribunal do the same thing to the SecDef? If I were writing the script, I would have the tribunal haul Major Hegseth in and give him the lecture on illegal orders that he obviously missed while in the Army National Guard.

As compared to some of the other candidates that might have run if the Democratic Primary were an actual primary and not a coronation.

The last time Democrats ran an actual primary ws 2008, when a young, generational candidate beat out the (kinda boring) establishment choice. Democrats learned their lesson to never let something encouraging like that happen again!

Gavin’s gonna win the Primary, as his right as the Next One Up, and we’re all gonna vote for him, because as awful as he is, he is objectively better than whoever the MAGA party will run.

It’s always the ones you most expect