Send in the Clowns

How will the late-night comedians coming off their holiday break shape or influence the political turmoil?

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Blue Bronc
6 months ago

They not be having the same growing old affects.  One has a family history of Alzheimer’s Disease, the other rides bicycles and talks in complete, comprehensible, sentences.  One is living in an alternate universe, the other is facing world problems with aplomb.
 
As for much of the entertainment world I stopped watching and listening decades ago.  They stopped being funny to me, their views of the world became strained, joke writers were running out of jokes.  The need for a poignant view of the world was not satisfied. Burned out? Saw too much of the real world? Just jaded? Perhaps.

craigcrawford
6 months ago

This is over, time to unite and focus on Trump. Biden is clearly not giving in and holds the high legal ground to keep the nomination.

craigcrawford
6 months ago

Of course Hannity didn’t push back last night — he tells the same lies. This isn’t true. Trump campaign still has not produced proof of this claim, but he keeps on saying it and millions believe him.

Trump: “Illegal Migrants are getting the right to vote. being pushed by crooked Democrat Politicians who are not being stopped by an equally dishonest Justice Department. Our whole voting system is under siege.”

blueINdallas
6 months ago

Hmmm, MAGAts know they are losing and are already trying to push the ~stolen election~ narrative.   Time to feed the xenophobic base. Hmmm, Dems have votes from most women because Orange Adolf and his illegitimate SCOTUS (lied under oath to Congress) overturned Roe, people of color who have seen civil rights start to erode, LGBQ+ people who are increasingly at risk, union members, teachers, those in the medical profession, younger people and seniors who don’t want retirement age raised and benefits cut, and anyone who values democracy. If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.  Biden/Harris 2024   Hoping Taylor Swift will do another message reminding folks to register to vote, and a second one reminding them to vote.  She doesn’t even have to endorse, because everyone knows a truly independent woman would not vote to have a fascist state…and as rich as she is, she lost her right to bodily… Read more »

Sturgeone
6 months ago

The debate was awful and the White House’s response was awful. But I still would rather endure Joe as our candidate than to have to endure the agony of replacing him, unless somehow someone could prove that it would not be an agony. The number of elections I’ve seen democrats lose due to internal strife is the sole basis of my support for Joe.

So that’s my vote.

Sturgeone
6 months ago

https://x.com/QondiNtini/status/1810512988345950329

Lawrence O’Donnell addresses White House Press Sec. KJP responses to reporters.  A defense.

IvyGreen
6 months ago

“I love this fighting Joe Biden,” said Representative Robert Garcia of California, a Democrat and an outspoken Biden supporter. “When he takes a punch, he’s going to come back and punch harder.”


 

IvyGreen
6 months ago

“We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.”

Sturgeone
6 months ago

Jen Psaki in defense of hard questions.  

InsideWithPsaki
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12h

 

 

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@jrpsaki
on President Biden: “I worked for him. I respect him. I care about him deeply. But if I sat here every night and told you that every question being asked out there is unfair, I wouldn’t be respecting you. So I’m not going to do that.”

Jamie
6 months ago

I’ve been listening to Rachel Maddows’s Ultra, season II.  It is covering Nazi sympathizers in the US following WW II and the rise of McCarthy.  The latest episode is terrifying in the manner of those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat ig.

Season 2, Episode 4: Spectacle (msnbc.com)

 

IvyGreen
6 months ago

Thanks, Jamie. You might get me onto podcasts yet. 

I’m continually astonished by how many people I talk with learned absolutely nothing about history because “it was so boring in school.”

craigcrawford
6 months ago

New AARP poll of Wisconsin, taken after debate.

Trump: 44

Biden: 38

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin: 50 (+5)

Republican Hovde: 45

Sturgeone
6 months ago

The Ultra  podcasts are superb.  They need to be listened to and widely disseminated  for others.

Pogo
6 months ago

It’s a little long for a bumper sticker, but maybe a billboard?
WHEN YOUR WIFE IS DYING PAINFULLY FROM SEPSIS BECAUSE DOCTORS WILL GET ARRESTED IF THEY  TREAT HER PARTIAL MISCARRIAGE, THE LAST THING ON YOUR MIND WILL BE BIDEN’S AGE.
(Stolen from Quora Digest)
 

Pogo
6 months ago

From Morning Consult 2 days ago.

Biden Has Lost Little Swing-State Support Following First Debate
Biden holds an advantage over Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin

The article goes on to say that it appears the numbers in those states are solid, and that voters might be amenable to someone else at the top of the Dem ticket. In my world that would draw “Objection – speculation.”  Funny, I was under the impression that polls are a snapshot, not a predictor.

IvyGreen
6 months ago

Will it be the Hairy Hillbilly? 

Such are the considerations of Trump. The ex-president has a certain—shall we say, unique—set of specifications when it comes to charting out his political course. “Central casting” is crucial.
 

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-has-a-problem-on-his-face

Sturgeone
6 months ago

Honest Clinical analysis of Trump/Biden debate and post debate.  
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shrinking-trump/id1745797271?i=1000661268788

Hosts Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Harry Segal are joined by geriatrician and dementia expert Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk to analyze Biden’s debate performance and determine what signs of dementia, if any, he actually displayed. Dr. Vince Greenwood is also back on the show to help us evaluate the signs of aging and cognitive decline shown from both candidates.

craigcrawford
6 months ago

This was always true but more so now: For Biden to have any chance at winning this campaign it has to be almost exclusively about Trump.  When 60% think you’re candidate isn’t up to the job and and he can’t seem to do anything to change that the only path is to scare them away from the other guy.

blueINdallas
6 months ago

Well, it’s NATO week, so it’s not gonna happen right now.  If anything were to be announced, all of the hand-wringers and Dems with ambitions will have to wait for the week of July 15th. 

Biden/Harris 2024
tRUMP/Project 2025 Never!
 

craigcrawford
6 months ago

Question is how does a Biden loss affect House and Senate? Tammy polling 12 pts better than Joe in Wisconsin today for a 5 pt lead offers some encouragement he’s not a drag down ballot even with Ttump ahead 6 pts there.

craigcrawford
6 months ago

This is how Biden can win. “Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian Nation. And so I am,” declares Sen. Josh Hawley. “And some will say that I am advocating Christian Nationalism. And so I do.” — https://x.com/RightWingWatch/status/1810696065940926551

IvyGreen
6 months ago

If I were Joe, would not debate Trump again unless he’s in a straitjacket. 

Sturgeone
6 months ago

Nazis are marching in Nashville. 

Wonder what the Nashville Country Music guys think about that, huh…..

Naziville

Bink
6 months ago

Tammy polling 12 pts better than Joe in Wisconsin today for a 5 pt lead offers some encouragement he’s not a drag down ballot even with Ttump ahead 6 pts there.

i can’t imagine voters will split their ballots between trump and Dem congressional candidates 

Bink
6 months ago

You loyalists can disbelieve data all you want, them’s is some terrible poll numbers, you got work to do

Team Biden has work to do
Team Biden needs to fire some people also

blueINdallas
6 months ago

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/u-haul-responds-to-white-supremacist-group-using-its-equipment-in-nashville/ “During a demonstration in downtown Nashville by a group called Patriot Front, some of the marchers were seen using U-Haul vehicles for transportation.”   “When asked about Saturday’s incident, Jeff Lockridge, a spokesperson for U-Haul International, told News 2 the company is inclusive company that serves customers from all walks of life across the U.S. and Canada.” “We don’t ask customers about their personal views, political affiliations, religious beliefs, voting history, income level, educational background, race, gender, sexual preferences, or any other private information that is none of our business,” Lockridge said. “Our business is meeting the basic need of helping people achieve affordable, accessible residential mobility.” * Somehow, I think this would’ve been a bigger deal to U-Haul and the police had this been Muslims protesting Israel, or anyone more heavily melanated. Heck, the police may be among them.    “In a photo captured by user “headspacehouse” on… Read more »

Sturgeone
6 months ago

Country Music went from supporting W Bush’s wars to having Nazis marching in the streets.  

How you like that, Grand Ole Opry?
What, the Klan was busy?

blueINdallas
6 months ago

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/state-and-local-leaders-react-to-patriot-front-march-in-downtown-nashville/ “More than 100 people, believed to be part of Patriot Front, marched through the streets of downtown Nashville on Saturday, July 6, covering their faces with masks while holding shields and Confederate flags.” *Now, they have no problem wearing masks.  Probably police, firefighters, and other ~upstanding~ members of the community. Heck, maybe even an evangelical preacher or two.  “Just before 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) took to social media to share a photo of the group making their way up to the Tennessee Capitol.” “White supremacists marching outside the Tennessee Capitol today. This comes after a march of neo-Nazis in the Spring and Proud Boys rallying there a year ago,” Jones wrote. “Shame on my Republican colleagues who continue to welcome these hate groups to our state with racist laws and rhetoric.” “In a statement, Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Hendrell Remus said, “This… Read more »

Bink
6 months ago

Nashville is trending liberal with the infusion of money and female-led country culture, which is probably why the nazis decided to make a display there

i wanna see them try in Memphis 😆

Yo, swing TN for the good guys, Tay-Kelce or whatever you two are called

i’m sorry but there’s something comical about the mental image of 30 overdressed racist idiots packed into a hot uhaul hitting their heads on every bump, Darwin might end up taking care of a few of them, eventually 👍

ok pardon me, Preserve America, Vote Biden

craigcrawford
6 months ago

BREAKING: Nikki Haley is not invited to the 2024 RNC Convention

“She was not invited, and she’s fine with that,” Haley spokeswoman Chaney Denton told CNN. “Trump deserves the convention he wants.  She’s made it clear she’s voting for him and wishes him the best.”

IvyGreen
6 months ago

I too am still with Joe. 

blueINdallas
6 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/06/joe-conason-the-longest-con-book
‘Stealing with both hands’: veteran reporter Joe Conason details the right wing’s graft
 
“Take the grifting around ‘stop the steal’, post-election, 2020-21. Led by Trump’s son in law [Jared Kushner], they knew they were going to do it before the election was even over. ‘We’re going to keep our fundraising operation intact.’ And they booked a quarter of a billion dollars in a couple of months. It was amazing. One of the biggest rip-offsever.”
 
”On the page, Conason charts 75 years of rightwing rip-off merchants attacking liberals and making money. Beginning with the supposedly anti-communist crusade of the lawyer Roy Cohn in the mid-1950s, proceeding through the rise of the Moral Majority, the attempt to bring down Bill Clinton and the brief age of the Tea Party, he ends with Cohn’s protege, Trump, poised to retake power.”
 
They were groomed by TV preachers.

blueINdallas
6 months ago

Nikki is voting for the orange monster whom she said was “not fit to serve.”   K

craigcrawford
6 months ago

Sen John Fetterman (D-PA) on the electoral chances:

“Maybe we can encourage President Biden to bang a porn star”

Bink
6 months ago

…predictable spinelessness from Nikki Haley, and a direct insult to those who supported her candidacy precisely to prevent what she now encourages them to do 🤦‍♂️ 

maybe she’s justifiably afraid of the right-wing zealots in her party. Blink twice, Nikki

Pogo
6 months ago

She’s learned from the master – he was described this morning as being able to say two contradictory things in the same sentence and the press never calls him on it. 

IvyGreen
6 months ago

Even though they’ve broken up, can they still be friends? 

Bink
6 months ago

o nikki you lack spine/ such lack of spine it blows my mind hey nikki

craigcrawford
6 months ago

Dana Bash
@DanaBashCNN
I am told that Senators Michael Bennett, Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester told colleagues in today’s Democratic caucus lunch that they do not believe that President Biden can win the election.
5:33 PM · Jul 9, 2024

craigcrawford
6 months ago

Cook Political Report
@CookPolitical
Today, we’re making six changes to our Electoral College Ratings.
AZ: Toss Up to Lean R
GA: Toss Up to Lean R
MN: Likely D to Lean D
#NE02: Likely D to Lean D
NH: Likely D to Lean D
NV: Toss Up to Lean R

Bink
6 months ago

“Government works for or against you at all levels, Vote Blue Down Ballot 🫡 “

Bink
6 months ago

“President Biden isn’t the only thing up for a vote this Nov. , so is your BODILY AUTONOMY.  Keep it, Vote Blue” 

Bink
6 months ago

“Time to start Adulting.  Exercise your rights.  Vote Blue Down Ballot”