I think he’s saying add him to the list for directing it, not let the eight off the hook because they didn’t act independently.

The deal was the Republicans got their eight votes from senators that aren’t up for election soon.

It always goes something like that. It’s never 30-40 senators or house members from the opposing side that vote for something when a deal is reached. It’s always just enough, with the votes coming from the ones most able to take the hit due to not being up for election next time, in a safe seat, very high popularity, etc.

Even when the minority leader admits to being part of the deal, they aren’t necessarily part of the group voting for it.

I don’t think that’s an argument for legumes. I’m a hell of a cook now and when I make beef wellington, confit lamb, or curry goat I’m demonstrating a lot more skill than I did back in college when legumes featured more heavily in my menu.

Yes, because as we all know, if you’re craving a nice steak a bowl of lentils will be totally satisfying.

Well duh, obviously if it wasn’t for all the illegal Mexican gang members taking all the food stamps there would have been plenty of money to help the people that deserved it, like them.

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I see a lot of these postmortems and I don’t know what combination of them is the actual truth, but I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised when she lost. As soon as she got the nomination I thought it was likely.

For what it’s worth, here is my take on her as one Californian that’s had to deal with her since before 2010 when she ran for attorney general:

• Even before she ran for attorney general, I was constantly hearing about all kinds of awful stuff the SF district attorney’s office was doing under her leadership even though I’m not from SF county.
• I was very disappointed when she got the nomination for attorney general because I didn’t want her policies applied statewide. I voted against her in the primary but of course I held my nose and voted for her over the R in the general.
• I don’t recall who I voted for in the 2016 primary for Senate but it wasn’t her, or blue dog Sanchez. I think I barely tilted toward Sanchez in the general but I honestly can’t remember. I was so disappointed in those choices that I didn’t really give a shit. I thought we could do better in California than two conserva-dems, especially with the top-2 primary system.
• Never even considered voting for that cop in a presidential primary.
• Didn’t like that she was the bottom of the ticket in 2020 especially considering Biden’s age, but the alternative was clear.
• Of course, due to the alternative I voted for her in 2024 but without one iota of enthusiasm. I think I may have been more enthused to vote for John fucking Kerry, but that was a long time ago, it’s hard to remember my feelings for a block of wood.

A small silver lining to her losing is I’ll never have to hold my nose and vote for her ever again.

She lost because she just sucks. Whether an individual’s reason for thinking she sucks and not being excited about her was based on misogyny, racism, her record of public service, her policy goals, or her personality doesn’t matter. I didn’t know anybody excited to vote for her. I knew some people excited to vote for a WOC, but not her as a person. A little enthusiasm was what was needed to turn the tide in the three states that mattered this time.

As soon as Biden dropped out too late for an actual primary, we already lost.

Is going down to the courthouse and getting married again not an option? Not that you should have to do that, just curious.

Edit: I mean your local courthouse so you don’t have to deal with this anymore.

It could just be one of the 19 new shows adult swim put out this week instead of a decent end to Metalocalypse or The Venture Brothers. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this silly shit.

I’ll do what I can but I can’t stop the zoomers from listening to Rogan any more than I could stop the boomers from listening to Limbaugh.

Musk and Vivek haven’t learned the lesson yet. Trump can do whatever he wants, but he can’t say whatever he wants.

The few times Trump has been booed by the faithful is when he’s deviated from the MAGA dogma. You can import all the workers you want, but you have to say you’re deporting everyone. As long as Trump claims he’s rounding up all the immigrants and getting rid of them if you try to confront MAGATs with doubling H1B visa numbers they’ll scream “fake news”, no matter how much evidnece they’re shown.

These people are stupid, but they need to be pandered to.

It’s only two sentences. It seems clear to me.

My first point is 2.65mm is neither 10mm, like you originally posted, nor the 7mm you edited it to. My second point is she only needed a little more than 230k where it mattered most this time.

She lost by about 2.65mm.

And just a little over 230k in the States that mattered this time: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Yeah, the young MAGAts I work with don’t like that old crew of Rs. People like Cheney campaigning with Harris was another reason for them to vote for Trump. Sane people know the whole “drain the swamp” thing is bullshit but a lot of his supporters buy that bullshit, and Cheney is definitely a swamp creature.

She needed a little over 230k (at last count) in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Edit: And the total popular vote gap is down to ~2.65mm.

I’ve only heard that applied to foreign diplomats. Because the parents have diplomatic immunity, they and their children aren’t “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

Wasn’t there also the thing where he offered a horse to a masseuse if they’d give him a happy ending? A couple days before the story broke he made some statements supporting Republicans then said “watch the left come up with a story to take me down now that I’m a Republican,” or something like that. All his political shit has been downhill and ever more unhinged since.

He was always saying side-eye worthy shit, but in a generic rich guy way. His political stuff, before the horse thing, was always progressive-ish. Whether that was what he ready thought, or as the biggest shareholder of an electric car company he knew which side his bread was buttered on, I’m sure I don’t know. But it seems like trying to preempt the horse story was the turning point for his public persona.

Is the book just the story or does it have the parts where the grandpa is reading the book to the kid?