Tammy Duckworth For VP?

Valentine's Day arrives in August as the NY Times goes mad for Sen. Duckworth.

Politically she seems to fall in the center of the Democratic Party. Her personal story of military service and sacrifice gives her natural appeal to folks further to the right. Which inspires my current Mad Hope: Biden taps Duckworth and chases centrists and disaffected Republicans. He win in a rout while progressives pout and his new administration makes a serious (and successful!) effort to work with chastened Republicans.

In that world, we still get "comprehensive" immigration reform as a cram-down. Per Kausian Logic, the amnesty and path to citizenship will be implemented quickly and flawlessly; any faux efforts at border security and workplace enforcement will be tied up in the courts and eventually abandoned. Not Good!

However, Biden ran as a centrist and remembers well the 1994 and 2010 repudiations of a newly elected Dem President. After immigration, if Republicans show some flexibiity, there is an impressive progressive wish-list that Biden might bury:

 - We won't see the filibuster eliminated (Mend It, Don't End It? How about a 55 vote cloture rule? It was 67 when I was a lad!).

 - We won't see the Supreme Court augmented with 2 new justices; consequently, we won't see the critical DC v. Heller gun rights case overturned by a 6-5 vote (after which Dems would have resumed chanting about the importance of respecting precedent as they dug in around Roe v. Wade.)

 - We won't see Washington DC and Puerto Rico granted statehood to ensure four new Democratic senators.

Look, this is not the best of all possible worlds. But the Republican Party has brought this upon itself. Peggy Noonan pounded the table on that point [link]: Trump didn't fall from the sky - his insurgency succeeded because the Republican establishment delivered two belly-flop wars and a housing collapse while mocking the rubes on immigration. Sadly, the Trump experiment has not gone well (IMHO.) So now the Republican Party has no clear message or trusted leaders. Not helpful! But she predicts reform will "bubble up" from the states, and I'll Boldly Predict the 2024 nominee will be famous as a governor, not Senator.

We'll see. This all starts with Biden committing to a centrist strategy and pulling it off. I guess Plan B is a Trump miracle. Biden pandering to and governing like a progressive, with a 2022 public revolt and Republican re-conquest of the House and/or Senate, is Plan C Ya Later.

Comments

[DrJ]

First?

[Jane]

Hi DrJ,

Thanks for the invite!

[DrJ]

You are welcomed, Jane!

[Old Lurker]

Hi DrJ...how are you doing?

[DrJ]

Jane,

Since we are the only ones here so far, I thought I'd give you a beard update.

It continues to grow, and I'm starting to get used to it. MrsJ seems to like it. It does need some attention, and sadly my barber -- who has quite an impressive beard -- is still closed.

Since it is my first one, I need professional help!

[Jim Eagle]

Maguire, when I take Frederick back to Canterbury in New Milford, I would like to get together with you to discuss your Trump pessimism versus our national optimism he inspires. You seem to be missing the intangible enthusiasm he generates because he uses the words people want to hear. I believe sir, you are in a jungle of Biden signs on yards that have no idea why they are there.

And I am expert on CT. from my many miles driving your byways.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Which inspires my current Mad Hope:--

Godfrey Daniel. Magical thinking as a political philosophy. What could possibly go wrong?

The disbelief in what authoritarians openly tell you they intend doing has brought us just about every dystopia in history.

[DrJ]

OL,

I doing OK. Living in CA with the COVID-19 scre has been a challenge, though.

I have come to appreciate how many stores now allow you to order on line, show up at the curb, and load it into your vehicle. It is harder to comparison shop, so in some ways we spend more (on groceries, for example). But it sure is convenient.

We also have tried to get take-out from our favorite local restaurants, to help keep them in business.

[DrJ]

*I'm* *scare*

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

We'll be lucky if Heller survives the current court let alone one a Dem gets to appoint tyrants to.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Re Past is Prologue's 9/11 theory on Kungflu mortality; how many people with Kungflu experienced any meaningful amount of dust in NYC or NJ 19 years ago?
How many in RI, MA or CT which are not far behind NYC and NJ?
I am highly skeptical.

[Narciso]

She wants to get rid of the founders yourr fine with that?

[GUS]

Jack, I had breakfast in the UP this morning.
The MAIN ST CAFE, IRON RIVER.

2 EGGS over easy, Biscuits and sausage gravy, and covfefe. BEAUTIFUL WEATHER.

[rich]

maybe a map of radon levels?

>>>Posted by: jimmyk | August 02, 2020 at 03:29 PM

global warming?

jib and narciso live in the shark attack capital of the world and a surprise entry in the florida shark attack index charleston sc.

Posted by: rich | August 02, 2020 at 03:57 PM<<<

[rich]

and i'll have to ponder the subject of the thread ...

[Jim Eagle]

Waiting for Bob and Doug to enter our world.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Steven Hayward at PL; Is Leftism an Actual Clinical Psychosis?

[rich]

and tk will be on shortly.

good grief.

illinois? isn't the fbi rolling up the corruption networks in the state.

[CCGirl]

Jane, You convinced me. I would prefer to live with snakes, lizards and insects rather than be ruled by them.

I am surprised our kind host is so optimistic about Biden and Duckworth. Even my very left in-laws are feeling discouraged with Biden and the progressives.

I will try to follow Clarice's advice, and rest up this month. It's all so stressful!

[Past is Prologue]

Iggy, You are right, I posed it as a hypothesis. We don't know what particles remained in the atmosphere over time, including Conn and RI, etc. The numbers, though, are so disproportionate in that eastern corridor, as you've pointed out.

[Jane]

TM,

Except for COVID, I think it’s gone very well!

[GUS]

Being limited to CNN, I cannot FUCKING COMPREHEND how this NETWORK is in business. The PEOPLE that they foist on the public are incredibly STUPID.
Nonsensical clowns who belong on TMZ jr.

[Jane]

So my coverage ended before the astronauts came out. Is that an omen?

[GUS]

It's LEGS UP. Duckworth is not ready for prime time, nor will she ever be. They'll sew up the KAREN SHREW and LESBIAN vote FO SHIZ.

[Extraneus]

TM thinks Biden would be in charge if he won...

Biden is a puppet. He has already called for defunding the police, and he doesn't appear to be playing with a full deck. He can't run as a centrist or he'd be eaten alive by his own party, and they aren't compromising with anyone. They're out for blood.

The only thing that will save the nation is for Trump to beat them so badly that they spend the next decade licking their wounds and pretending to still be Americans.

[Buford Gooch]

Bongino says an "inside source" says Biden is now deteriorating more rapidly, and it will be much more obvious over the next few months.

[Past is Prologue]

Iggy, While I’m here, my son and his wife were married in the St. George Hotel in Volcano about 11 years ago, our families and a few close friends attending. We stayed over in the cottages, and some in hotel itself. They and we all love that gold country and its amazing history, thanks for the link.

[clarice]

TM, this is a worse thing than even rove is going to be indicted and the duke Lacrosse team has to be guilty.OTOH Peggy will be happy to know she has retained at least one fan.

[Jane]

Buford,

I saw that too. And I trust bongino. Altho it's hard to imagine him getting much worse. His wife is truly an ass, as this is spousal abuse.

[henry]

Duckworth is a puppet as well, controlled by Durbin.

[hrtshpdbox]

Sadly, the Trump experiment has not gone well (IMHO.)

BS, Trump's been great, hater gonna hate.

[hrtshpdbox]

haters, too

[rich]

this is some frediman fanfac

>>>Which inspires my current Mad Hope: Biden taps Duckworth and chases centrists and disaffected Republicans.<<<

lutz. never trumpers and bluenoses and bluehaired landwhales

the cornerstone of every winning election campaign.

[MissMarple2]

Brought over from end of last thread:

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
51s
Rarely has anybody deserved the death penalty more than the Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The court agreed that this “was one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks since the 9/11 atrocities”. Yet the appellate court tossed out the death sentence. So many lives lost....

....and ruined. The Federal Government must again seek the Death Penalty in a do-over of that chapter of the original trial. Our Country cannot let the appellate decision stand. Also, it is ridiculous that this process is taking so long!

[rich]

>>>I will try to follow Clarice's advice, and rest up this month. It's all so stressful!

Posted by: ccgirl | August 02, 2020 at 04:08 PM<<<

we need you doing some pull ups and getting in some range time. terminators need training.

[Momto2]

Sadly, the Trump experiment has not gone well (IMHO.)

Really? This boggles my mind!

[rich]

she has a 7% from the nra on gun issues

62% from the aclu

totes a centrist as defined by the nyt.

[rich]

Posted by: Momto2 | August 02, 2020 at 04:47 PM

this isn't a surprise.

[sbwaters]

Does this mean I have to turn over my Duckworth ticket in the Veepstakes to TM?

[Manuel Transmission]

Willowed,

rich, I don't think this was posted earlier.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/01/younger-dryas-impact-hypothesis-takes-another-hit/

Related to the new push away from the bolides and to volcanos, but the comments are where things really kick loose. Makes my head hurt, but I still poke around to see if anyone has better ideas, or just want to rant.

[rich]

>>>Trump didn't fall from the sky - his insurgency succeeded because the Republican establishment delivered two belly-flop wars and a housing collapse while mocking the rubes on immigration.<<<

but isn't this a 'both sides' problem. the dems could sit on the side lines and shoot spit balls and then when obama descended from the sky he could manage defeat with delusional dumpster fires and talk. lots and lots of talk.

[Old Lurker]

Trump arrived because thirty years later, it was obvious to a brick that nobody in the GOP Uniparty had any desire whatsoever, and never did, to see Reagan's Morning in America or the Shining City on a Hill he imagined. Trump arrived just in time for one final long Hail Mary Pass to get back on that path.

[rich]

Posted by: Manuel Transmission | August 02, 2020 at 04:56 PM

not surprising ... they've been pretty skeptical about the idea and some have a weird hostile reaction to it (sort of like garlic and hillary?) ... i've looked at the site more as 'climate skeptic' (they'll concede large portions of the manmade climate argument and go off into these tiny areas that are ultimately pointless).

my guess is that the comet research group is within a year of presenting indisputable evidence of a series bombardment across modern day canada (4-7 sites) that will either have to be explained away or accepted.

[Buford Gooch]

Our gracious host should share some of his stash. I'm not sure what he's been drinking or smoking, but this dream certainly doesn't seem to come from a sober position.

[clarice]

https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/majority-black-and-other-minority-voters-approve-trump-topping-whites-approval
He's remaking the party.So is Biden, but in a bad direction.

Peggy and friends might have to start their own club to keep out the hoi poloi.

[Narciso]

Flathead has an unblemished streak of category error going back to beirut.

[rich]

**and to explain this to those not in the overnight jim_nj had flagged up the subject and man tran and i have been engaging it for a few days. the hypothesis is that at about 12.8k years ago a series of strikes hit the ice sheets across north america causing a catastrophic meltdown of the ice sheet. it would have been 6-7 million cubic miles of water flowing off north america and into the pacific and atlantic in a few weeks. i'd go even further east and say that the north sea and norther europe might have evidence of hits as well.

[Dave (in MA)]

The housing collapse was brought about by liberal policies over the preceding decades. They just happened to cause maximum damage while a Republican was in the White House.

[henry]

Rich, aliens were mad at dinosaurs? (thinking Footfall)

[rich]

"comprehensive" immigration reform -> amnesty -> permanent progressive majorities -> overthrow of the us constitution

(enjoy your reparations tax tm.)

[Narciso]

In one dr who classic it was a cybermen ship from the 25th century.

[rich]

Posted by: henry | August 02, 2020 at 05:19 PM

more like mastodons and mammoths. i'm hesitant to link something (length-3hrs-and subject matter-gets a bit into the whoo).

[Jane]

Boy if anyone can see a repeat of Levin last night don't miss it. Biden's plan for the suburbs will blow your mind.

[MissMarple2]

Catturd ™
@catturd2
·
11m
I see Hillary stopped tweeting her snide BS 3 days ago and hasn’t tweeted since.

What happened?
😂

[lyle]

Does this mean I have to turn over my Duckworth ticket in the Veepstakes to TM?

Dave seems to think TM™ already chose Demings. Judges? 🤔

[rich]

>>>But neither impact events nor volcanic eruptions can explain such a clearly quasi-periodic climate change signal.<<<

because a body of debris on an earth crossing orbit would clearly not be periodic ... wha???

[Extraneus]

Anyway, Biden isn't going to be the candidate. He can't do it, and it's only the CCP flu that's given him cover or he'd have already been exposed as the Weekend at Bernie's candidate he is. Even if he manages to get the nomination, he'll have to be replaced. The real question is: who will they actually run? It'll be a knife fight between Cuomo, Newsome, Harris, Bernie, and several others. I've predicted it's Cuomo and I'm sticking to that.

Cuomo can talk a moderate game while the Dems all know he's a solid lefty, just like they knew Clinton's and Obama's moderate talk was b.s.

I'd bet TM would be ok with Cuomo's moderate schtick, and the rest of the NeverTrumpers would vote for Hitler over Trump, so it really doesn't matter to them who the Dems run. Good thing they're a minuscule slice of the electorate, probably smaller than the number of blacks who will cross over to vote for Trump.

[rich]

stick him with his first choice. i'm sticking with mine.

[MissMarple2]

SAM FADDIS
@RealSamFaddis
·
3h
So for fifty years it has been Fauci's job to get us ready for a pandemic - and - now we are supposed to listen to him criticize a President who has been in office for three years for not being prepared? @ANDmagazine
#FireFauci #FauciFraud

[lyle]

Biden's plan for the suburbs will blow your mind

That’s what has me worried the most with this golf course we live on and the jackass developer suddenly wanting the city to rezone it for ANY type of construction he prefers. He was talking a good game about just renovation to the course and some commercial construction along State Street but now he’s changed his plan. I wonder why...

[rich]

>>>Good thing they're a minuscule slice of the electorate, probably smaller than the number of blacks who will cross over to vote for Trump.

Posted by: Extraneus | August 02, 2020 at 05:26 PM<<<

pretty much.

(although if the dems put newsome on the top of the ticket many will stay home.)

[henry]

TM follows the NYT hagiography of the day. Which today is Duckworth. Tomorrow might be Big Mike, or Oprah. The “Great Nonwhite Savior” is a moving target.

[Narciso]

Oh

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1290021692127887360

[clarice]

Actually, I think Blexit has arrived and is not just a pipe dream. The tiors clinched it.

[lyle]

If Trump does get a second term, our little comments section collegium might have to find a new home...🤨

[Narciso]

But of course

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1289977467999072256

[rich]

hahahaha ... i'll believe it when i see it.

mostly it ain't happenin' and it was a flawed trump strategy to believe that it would.

[lyle]

I can just see all our petty tyrants here in the US getting sexually aroused at doing here AGAIN what’s going on in that Oz link, narc.

[clarice]

tiors s.b riots.

[CCGirl]

Rich 4:46. Yeah, terminator girl was all show and no go this past week. Too much work and too much fun. "Rest up" means taking better care of myself, and includes working out. So far all I've done is stretched. Sad. I told my husband and daughter that I was planning on becoming a "bad ass" this month. They both laughed and told me to pour another one! LOL

This week it starts!

[Extraneus]

Interesting typo, Clarice.

[rich]

winters in australia ... august ... cold wet dreary

cold and flu season.

[JimNorCal]

Someone ... perhaps someone on the team who attaches the tracking collars is creating a "Bears for Trump" cadre.
Leftie heads explode, as one might expect.
(If you don't have an FB account, you should be able to click "Not Now" and still view it)
https://www.facebook.com/101481584557260/posts/321628699209213/

[MissMarple2]

This is something.... pic.twitter.com/n40SNF5XWp

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 2, 2020

Link goes to a photo and screen cap. Mets had a guy just pack up and leave without telling anyone.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Iggy, While I’m here, my son and his wife were married in the St. George Hotel in Volcano about 11 years ago, our families and a few close friends attending.--

Wow. Tiny world. I owned the land across the street and to the south of the St George.
My family still has its 123 acre 'ranch' on the north end of town. Unfortunately a demented troll lives there.
Magical property other than that. Bottom of a valley with a flat meadow of about 30 acres surrounded by pine and oak covered hills. Small creek through the middle with a couple of nice springs and ponds with an old barn and my great uncle's old house; wherein the troll.
Used to go up every Sunday as a kid while my great uncle was still alive. Huck Finn never had it so good.

[rich]

>>>This week it starts!
Posted by: ccgirl | August 02, 2020 at 05:42 PM<<<

as a terminator you need functional strength ... look into kettle bells and core lifts (dead lifts, clean and jerk) ...

and clean rifles. we need you to take out targets at 500m.

[Captain Hate]

Sadly, the Trump experiment has not gone well (IMHO.)

LOL @ humble. Pull the other one.

[rich]

reminds me of PUTIN

pigeons united to interfere now

https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2020/2/19/21144474/pigeons-united-to-interfere-now-maga-trump-politics-protest-putin-maga

[Ralph L]

“where will you find the headlights on this submarine?”

More importantly, where do they put the brake lights?

[Dave (in MA)]

Dave seems to think TM™ already chose Demings. Judges? 🤔

Check back to the July 27th thread.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/poll-trump-takes-lead-over-biden/

[Extraneus]

Mayor Bill de Blasio says NYC seal should be re-examined

No more Indians!

[MissMarple2]

M3thods
@M2Madness
·
9m
If Hunter Biden did nothing wrong, why isn't he actively campaigning for his father?
#WheresHunter

[Jane]

winters in australia ... august ... cold wet dreary

I arrived in Sydney Sept 1 and was there for 2 weeks, and then went to Perth for 2 weeks. It seemed more like winter in the south than in New England. Don't recall bringing a coat.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Indians? What about the Nazi eagle?
Not to mention two sexist, buck nekkid beavers.

[Ralph L]

The beavers are problematic, too. This country wouldn't exist without fur pelts and tobacco, both no-noes now.

[MissMarple2]

HCQ Should Be Prescribed To Treat Covid-19, When Asked For. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Said, “The Use Of HCQ Should Be A Decision Made Between A Doctor And A Patient”.
Governors Should Not Restrict Use, And Doctor’s Should Decide. NOT Politicians. 🇺🇸
pic.twitter.com/8suvwUlgBi

— SwampNugget (@swamp_nugget) August 2, 2020

Short video at the link.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

If those minority job approval ratings, which I don't recall any other GOP pres having, translate to even a minor surge of votes the Dems will be in sad shape.
And if Trump has enough of an effect on the GOP to consolidate it, that supposed inevitable DEMographic bomb is going to go off in its rectum.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The funny thing is the only technology on that seal from 1625 is a windmill, which the dipshits are still trying to cling to 400 hundred years later.

[rich]

that it will translate to nothing.

[Captain Hate]

Trump arrived because thirty years later, it was obvious to a brick that nobody in the GOP Uniparty had any desire whatsoever, and never did, to see Reagan's Morning in America or the Shining City on a Hill he imagined.

It took me a long time to realize this but once understood, it's stayed locked in place because nothing refutes it. We have been sold out by those liars.

[clarice]

Kenny Williams
2 hrs ·

August 1st, 2020. Estimates now indicate between 1.3 and 1.5 million people gathered in Berlin, Germany to announce the end of covid-19. America are you ready yet??

FYI. The fake news reported 15,000 protesters 😡

Photo at his post

[Captain Hate]

The only thing that will defeat Trump is the numbnuts who keep spamming my phone with messages.

[rich]

for a generation captain hate.

[James D.]

TM, if you're reading these comments, I have to ask, with all due respect:

Are you our of your freaking mind?

There are no moderates in the current Democratic Party, regardless of what they try to sell to the rest of the country. They have been throwing an extended, lunatic temper tantrum since November of 2016, and they openly despise the majority of the population of this country, including plenty of their own voters.

However much you may hate or look down on President Trump, at least he doesn't despise you, or think that you and your family are white supremacists who need to be put in your place, or want to reenact the seizure and looting of the Gromeko family home from Doctor Zhivago with your neighborhood as center stage - and the Democrats DO.

If you're OK with that, for both yourself, and for your family, I just don't know what else to say.

[Gentlejim]

Here’s a link to Levin’s show from last night: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4w2CIqW6UPo
I haven’t watched it and am assuming this is what Jane wanted us to see.

Nice blue beavers ya got there, NY.

[Melinda]

I did not know of the Devil 16:

Reg Saddler
@zaibatsu
The devil 16 🧐

🎥 Via @supercarblondie

https://twitter.com/zaibatsu/status/1290046060191084544

[lyle]

Check back to the July 27th thread.

::whiny voice: do I HAVE to?::

😬

[Melinda]

QT@Anon 🌟🌟🌟
@QTAnon1
QT. Weapons of the future

The Swalwell-fartgun

https://twitter.com/QTAnon1/status/1289774199783948288

No FOID needed!

[JimNorCal]

Why the "hate speech" movement is important to watch.

https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/hate-speech-and-the-new-tyranny-over-the-mind
America is the only Western nation that does not criminalize “hate speech.” Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and most nations of Europe already do so. The United Nations relentlessly pressures the remaining holdouts to follow suit ... Meanwhile in America, Members of Congress issue their support for speech restrictions, and Big Tech’s digital oligarchs, enjoying a disproportionate power over society, continue to impose speech restrictions in exchange for access to their platforms. So are America’s colleges and universities more and more governed by an aggressive chorus of students, faculty, and administrators who demand and impose speech codes. ...
Leading restriction advocates want not only to banish “hate speech,” but also to criminalize it. ... Perhaps most surprising, legal precedents that would bring this revolution fully into existence in America are already embedded in two areas of our legal system: antidiscrimination and harassment laws, and Supreme Court rulings favoring sexual liberation that are based on a new view of “dignity.”