CouchPotato

Just noticed this... House Passes Resolution Condemning Kamala Harris’s ‘Failure’ as ‘Border Czar’ with Support from Six Democrats https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/25/house-passes-resolution-condemning-kamala-harris-s-failure-border-czar-support-six-democrats/

The operative word here being "fatal". I would add that the beast of Revelation is someone with whom the whole world becomes enamored. Trump is a long way off from that.

She reminds me a bit of Trudeau in that she often sounds like a student called to the front of the class to give a presentation on a book she didn't read. She doesn't know what she is saying, but she throws in a few platitudes and words that might kind of sound smart and hopes for a homerun. Trump also didn't read the book. But he did ask someone who read the Cliff's Notes to explain it to him. When he talks about it, he gets many details wrong, but he knows the general outline of the story and says things that many people happen to agree with. "That girl really shouldn't have cried 'Bear!' so many times. In the end, no one believed her," Trump might say. For me and many people who like Trump, that's close enough. He gets the obvious point, and he says it out loud, even when it's not politically correct. No one else is doing it. To be fair there may be people who read the story, know every detail and get the point. Some of them are too scared to say the point. The intellectuals who are brave enough to talk about it, however, will just write yet another 1000-page book explaining why something obvious is obvious, or they will talk about it on their podcast in a nice leather chair with a bookshelf behind them and classical music playing in the background.

'We Applaud Caesar For Doing The Right Thing And Stepping Down,' Says Senator Holding Bloody Knife https://babylonbee.com/news/we-applaud-caesar-for-doing-the-right-thing-and-stepping-down-says-senator-holding-bloody-knife#google_vignette

Canada ‘shocked’ after spying scandal hits Olympic women’s football champions https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/24/canada-shocked-after-spying-scandal-hits-olympic-womens-football-champions Put that in your pipe and smoke it, QueenMandy85. The real world is full of intrigue.

On a whole other note, I was reading not long ago that one of the of the girls from ABBA (the brunette one) was one of the kids from the Nazi Lebensborn program.

I haven't been following this whole discussion, but are you saying that all these Jews who saw their peers be taken to these innocuous "rooms" and never return are lying?

See now, the way I heard it, he shot himself in the head with a gun twice. Or maybe that was another guy.

Absolutely agree. I just have the mindset that you should always act as if your opponent can win. It's almost a superstition with me. I think it comes from watching hockey. I am never comfortable with being ahead on the scoreboard until the game is over. I'm fully convinced that someday scientists are going to discover the Law of Jinx. 😋

You could be right. Personally, I don't care if a candidate is likeable or not. I don't need to like someone for them to do a good job. But it doesn't hurt I guess.

I don't think he necessarily has to shut up, but he can't be as ruthless as he was with Hillary. If she begins attacking him, I think Trump ought to fight back. I just think he should be measured in his attack. He bit his tongue quite a bit with Biden.

I wonder if the reason she lost doesn't have more to do with the fact that people felt there were better candidates overall and less to do with her likeability.

But most people don't know her and will never speak to her in person. She appears more likeable to me than Hillary, for instance. Cackling looks stupid, but it doesn't make her seem like a biatch.

Absolutely agreed. People mock her for her uncontrollable laughing, but it doesn't make her unlikeable. I think she'd be a fun person to hang out with if you knew her. Best move for Trump is to be professional and attack her record. Is Trump capable of doing that? I think so. Will he? I don't know.

C'mon now. Biden backed out because he is senile and doesn't have a shot. It took weeks of people telling him to drop out and donors pulling out. Biden dropped out of his own free will.....after he had no other choice. Trump has a shot. Many people want him to be president again. He doesn't suffer from MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT!!!, as robosmith calls it. Why would he back out? There are some crazy Trump supporters who claim he is a genius. They claim he is playing 5d chess in the political world. Everything he does is dignified and honorable and selfless. Everything the other side does are the actions of a supervillain and his minions. You sound like that.

What does doing something about the stupidity look like? Do you mean in the party? I mean they can't decide who runs and who people in Missouri want to put in the senate or whatever. That aside, McCain and Romney were attacked in the media. Not the chuds, whoever they are. I can understand you like quiet. I am not much different. But sometimes there are battles that have to be fought. It's a political warzone, and the people who are ready to label you a fascist for not supporting gender ideology in grade school are not capitulating. Parents who protested this sort of thing were investigated by the FBI as a terrorism threat. That's the reality.

And so selfless of that guy to hand the wallet over, too. He put the needs of that mugger ahead of his own. Trump would never be that brave or selfless.

The problem is it didn't work for the softer, genteel Republicans. Guys like McCain and Romney got eaten alive.

Well, I think the reality owes you some credit, too.

Buzzkill.

Nah. If I am going to go down the rabbit hole, there are bigger people who call the shots on things like that.

If there were others behind it, we will likely never find out. But yeah, it wouldn't have been Kamala.

It's not an easy thing to solve. The political climate these days is one in which you have you to dig your heels in, right or wrong. It's like apologizing to someone who wants to sue you. Remember when Romney was going to "put y'all back in chains" and Paul Ryan was going to "push granny over a cliff." The team wasn't built for the playoffs in 2012. They added a some grit next time around.

Used to be easier for people on both sides to laugh at their own political candidates.

For all I know about sciency stuff, and it could be possible, and Trump is a pioneer for some major medical developments. Just sometimes it's smarter not to wade in. It's like why I stick to talking about the weather with mechanics or why I wouldn't ask a surgeon "Hey have you thought about making the incision here instead and putting some kind of mild explosive in my appendix?"