Winning inside the bubble is no challenge. Winning in the real world is what matters.
In 2010, Republicans thought they were going to have a bloodbath Midterms against Obama, and they got a whole bunch of whack-job Tea Partiers (the proto-MAGAs) to win their primaries against incumbents. Then they got to the general election, and they all lost against normal Democrats, badly blunting the Republicans’ Midterms.
MAGAs always have a plan, but it’s always a bad plan.
She is super fucking smart, and she could probably do a killer job right now, but the next Dem Prez needs to be a serious warrior that progressive fighters can respect and follow, and the MAGA enemy can fear. They just aren’t going to do that with AOC at this point, she’s too young. She can inspire a following, but not fear. We need someone that has the courage to crush MAGA, and inspire a following to help, and I think that could be Kelly.
Once MAGA has been purged, we will have to reconfigure our government for the future, and having AOC leading the Senate, with an equally committed progressive in the House, could accomplish ground-breaking legislation like FDR’s New Deal or LBJ’s Great Society, put guardrails on conservative Sedition, and put us on a proper path for the future,
She’s going to be an AMAZING president someday, but I would like her to have some seriously deep experience and connections before that, perhaps even including a Cabinet post. Imagine her becoming president with that sort of experience behind her?
Right now, Kelly seems like the kind of guy that MAGAs are going to have a hard time fighting against. The guy is an actual, genuine, bona fide war hero AND an astronaut. Exactly the kind of guy MAGAs would drool over. Put him up against a dweeb like Vance? In a debate? Kelly will siphon off at least 25% of MAGA votes.
Interesting, that makes sense. I can see starting from one corner, or edge, or with your favorite element, or whatever. I’d probably start from one corner, get lost in drawing leaves or grass or something, and completely forget what my main thing was before I got there.
I’m a musician, so none of that is a mystery to me, but I find visual arts nearly miraculous.
Really nice work.
She can run if she wants, but I can think of at least 5 better choices: Kelly, Warren, Buttigieg, AOC, Walz, and a bunch more.
Kelly and Warren are my top choices. AOC should do a turn in the Senate first.
Oh, it was in there, that’s what was taking so long. Finally, it got yanked, an obviously bloody chunk, and now their saying “What, that? That’s nothing. Tis but a scratch.”
The DNC is going to have to wean itself off Israeli money the way the MAGAs have to wean off of Russian money. And Israeli money.
These graduation speakers that show up to extol the wonders of AI are like the Groom on his wedding night, going on and on about how fuckable all the Bridesmaids were, and then being surprised that his new Bride is pissed off at him.
These guys like to include things like payroll taxes, and SS payments, etc. “I pay millions in taxes, just not out of my pocket.”
Yeah, Skippy, we want what’s in your pocket, too, because whatever you paid in payroll taxes, it should have been triple. That’s money that should have gone to your workers, so they’ll get it in the form of government services like health care and free college instead.
Xi probably just gave him a stern look.
Golden is mandatory. You can’t be sending him some TEMU Peace Prize.
Of course. These people are GOLDEN members of the “More Money Than Brains Club.” They have shown that they will commit serious money to anything associated with Trump, even after knowing everything about him.
They are the dumbest of the dumb, and are willing to part with big money to prove it. That’s a valuable mailing list.
Very cool. Serious question as a non-artist who really admires it:
When you have an image fixed in your mind, and a blank page in front of you, what’s the first mark you put on the paper? Where do you start?
Her second language is Klingon. Don’t let her anywhere near the throne.
At the end, when we finally are putting him in prison for the rest of his life, the sentence should include having Obama’s smiling face tattooed on his forehead.
At that point, they’re on everything else, I don’t see why a passport would be a boundary.
That’s the way to do it, take out the HQ, leadership, hard to replace high level personnel, and equipment. It will take time to establish a new HQ, get people sorted out, install new gear, figure out what Intel is lost, and get back on solid ground.
Meanwhile, Ukraine can keep pounding. I’ve heard that arms manufacturers have made deals with Ukraine to test their gear in battlefield conditions, so they are getting to play with cutting edge gear against Russia’s second rate gear that was built by their corrupt government.
In some countries, it’s a delicacy.
At some point, just leaving the hemisphere altogether starts looking like the best option.
My favorite is when we want someone to lower the window in the car, we still use the “rolling down” gesture from cars with hand cranked windows.
That congresswoman was AOC.