Why Democrats should hate, and Republicans should love Barack Obama.
4 thoughts on “MAGA Barack”
““[T]he most satisfying aspect of his decision to endorse had little to do with Harris,” Allen and Parnes report. “‘It was a fuck-you to Obama’s plan,’ ”
This is an admission of who was in charge during Biden’s presidency, and it wasn’t Biden. It is doubtful that Biden knew what his administration was doing, even if he thought he was in control.
It isn’t likely a change of candidate would have mattered. Kamala got over 70 million votes. It wasn’t a matter of turnouts but turncoats and the reasons why the country turned against the Democrats wouldn’t have changed with Newsom at the top of the ticket.
However, Obama’s chosen would have had the same benefits that Biden did in 2020. “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,”
OK, OK, I “get” the quote about the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization.”
Is it fair to say that Mr. Biden meant that “we” (the Democratic Party, Mr. Biden’s campaign) put together the best anti-fraud organization, or at least in terms of how Mr. Biden defines such a thing?
Or from the context of the sentence, maybe the most extensive and inclusive voter registration and engagement organization, combatting what he understands to be “voter suppression” on the part of Republicans or the Trump organization wanting stricter voter qualification measures?
Critics of Mr. Biden have been pointing to “inclusive voter fraud organization” as a Michael Kinsley-style slip-up of accidentally telling the truth. But maybe the slip-up resulting in truth telling is that Mr. Biden was slipping cognitively for a long time?
There was widespread election fraud in 2016. Democrats have been cheating in elections for over 150 years. That is why we have so many election protection laws. When do they claim to have given up cheating?
On the topic of MAGA Barack, did I just stumble across MAGA Mathew Iglesias?
The term “security theatre” to describe the enormous expense and inconvenience we have imposed on air travel I thought if not a righ-wing position is perhaps a populist or MAGA position, much like MAGA populism has come down on masking, vaccinating and isolating as “infectious disease avoidance theatre.”
I was thinking about whether airline security is costing lives in the form of making air travel inconvenient and turning people away from planes and towards driving, where on a per mile basis, flying is much safer than driving.
I was also thinking someone must have thought of this before, I asked the question in the Copilot AI, which gave me the usual AI patronizing the questioner with “interesting idea”, but it gave me a link to here
This isn’t from Mathew Iglesias, rather, he cites a Charles Kenney writing in Bloomberg, but for Mathew Iglesias who I thought was party-line on everything to entertain “TSA as security theatre” was as much a Road-to-Damascus moment as Jon Stewart going on Colbert and doing a bit about COVID-came-from-a-lab-in-China at a time when saying that, even in jest, made you a Candace Owens-style right-wing nutter. It certainly prompted Colbert to ask Stewart, with some edge to it, “When did you become a staffer for Senator Ron Johnson?”
Maybe Iglesias was (back in 2012) sick and tired of airline security, maybe Stewart is a germophobe, and maybe people drop the script and become conservative/populist/MAGA about things affecting them most directly and personally?
““[T]he most satisfying aspect of his decision to endorse had little to do with Harris,” Allen and Parnes report. “‘It was a fuck-you to Obama’s plan,’ ”
This is an admission of who was in charge during Biden’s presidency, and it wasn’t Biden. It is doubtful that Biden knew what his administration was doing, even if he thought he was in control.
It isn’t likely a change of candidate would have mattered. Kamala got over 70 million votes. It wasn’t a matter of turnouts but turncoats and the reasons why the country turned against the Democrats wouldn’t have changed with Newsom at the top of the ticket.
However, Obama’s chosen would have had the same benefits that Biden did in 2020. “We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,”
OK, OK, I “get” the quote about the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization.”
Is it fair to say that Mr. Biden meant that “we” (the Democratic Party, Mr. Biden’s campaign) put together the best anti-fraud organization, or at least in terms of how Mr. Biden defines such a thing?
Or from the context of the sentence, maybe the most extensive and inclusive voter registration and engagement organization, combatting what he understands to be “voter suppression” on the part of Republicans or the Trump organization wanting stricter voter qualification measures?
Critics of Mr. Biden have been pointing to “inclusive voter fraud organization” as a Michael Kinsley-style slip-up of accidentally telling the truth. But maybe the slip-up resulting in truth telling is that Mr. Biden was slipping cognitively for a long time?
Kinsley Gaffe
There was widespread election fraud in 2016. Democrats have been cheating in elections for over 150 years. That is why we have so many election protection laws. When do they claim to have given up cheating?
On the topic of MAGA Barack, did I just stumble across MAGA Mathew Iglesias?
The term “security theatre” to describe the enormous expense and inconvenience we have imposed on air travel I thought if not a righ-wing position is perhaps a populist or MAGA position, much like MAGA populism has come down on masking, vaccinating and isolating as “infectious disease avoidance theatre.”
I was thinking about whether airline security is costing lives in the form of making air travel inconvenient and turning people away from planes and towards driving, where on a per mile basis, flying is much safer than driving.
I was also thinking someone must have thought of this before, I asked the question in the Copilot AI, which gave me the usual AI patronizing the questioner with “interesting idea”, but it gave me a link to here
https://slate.com/business/2012/11/counterproductive-airport-security-does-tsa-cause-more-deaths-than-it-prevents.html
This isn’t from Mathew Iglesias, rather, he cites a Charles Kenney writing in Bloomberg, but for Mathew Iglesias who I thought was party-line on everything to entertain “TSA as security theatre” was as much a Road-to-Damascus moment as Jon Stewart going on Colbert and doing a bit about COVID-came-from-a-lab-in-China at a time when saying that, even in jest, made you a Candace Owens-style right-wing nutter. It certainly prompted Colbert to ask Stewart, with some edge to it, “When did you become a staffer for Senator Ron Johnson?”
Maybe Iglesias was (back in 2012) sick and tired of airline security, maybe Stewart is a germophobe, and maybe people drop the script and become conservative/populist/MAGA about things affecting them most directly and personally?