OK, remember July? Everybody who thought we’d be here in August, raise your hands.
Herself and I watched Kamala Harris and Tim Walz rally the troops in Philly last night. I can’t say either of them can sing the old chin music Obama-style, but at this point I’m desperate for a ticket that’s younger than me, reasonably healthy, and joyously pugnacious.
Frankly, it was comforting to see a spark of snarky life in the creaky old Donk-O-Tron 9000™. And given the political realities — anyone been paying attention to what’s happened to other party progressives lately, like Cory Bush and Jamaal Bowman? — ol’ Coach looks like a pretty savvy choice.
I’m not even remotely complacent — we have 90 days to go before shit gets real — but they seem to have backfooted the blowhards for the moment, saving their name-calling for the candidates.
Weird? Creepy? You bet your ass they are, that and more. Say it often enough and maybe the Donks can keep a grip on any wobbly centrists, poach a few independents, and maybe even persuade that mythical handful of Republicans who retain some vestigal sense of shame that these creepy weirdos are not their friends.
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Command Sergeant or so USA Army! Let me in,coach! Center Field!
Dude reminds me of David Huddleston, a.k.a. The Big Lebowski, Olson Johnson in “Blazing Saddles,” and God knows how many other roles.
Interestingly, Huddleston served in the military, used the G.I. Bill to further his education, and considered going into politics.
Yup….can totally see the Huddleston reference. Bet he’s heard it before from someone as you are spot on. I’d like to see Walz in a cage fight with J.B.Weld and tRump. When it was over, there wouldn’t be nothin left of those two grifters but a few teeth and some orange hair.
Now, of course, the big news is … who’s gonna play the candidates on “SNL?” And yet we wonder why the Republic teeters.
What, me worry?
Both parties have a problem with two many lawyers, and Tim is the first non-lawyer veep candidate on the Dem side since the ‘60s. The GOP is fucked for the foreseeable future, but this might remind them of what they used to be just a little bit. I’m thinking of William Buckley’s refrain that he would rather be governed by a random name from the Boston phonebook then by a room full of Harvard grads. Well, Timmy went to Chadron State University, got his masters in Makato. And it’s about freaking time we got somebody in touch with average people.
What we need here is some authentic Frontier Gibberish, which expresses a courage little seen in this day and age. (h/t to Olson “Tim Walz” Johnson.)
A couple of good ones in here.
https://apple.news/AMa7Uh5tnRjOMy4NQt3KqAg
Interesting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/tim-walz-vp-progressives-harris/679382/
Yeah, I read that earlier today. Dude said last night that he can achieve compromise without compromising his ideals. That’s a delicate line to walk. But refreshing in a time when political back-and-forth is largely of the “Yo’ mama” variety.
Gotta say, though, I loved the sofa quip. Charlie Pierce has been calling the other veep candidate J. Divan Vance.
My favorite: he identified as heterosectional.
Oh, yeah. He shoots — he scores!
Around these here parts Vance is known at J.B. Weld (as in his lips are stuck to tRump’s ass)