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They are desperate for Joe to drop out of the race, because that's the best hope for Republicans to survive this election.

Somebody finally got through to Joe.

This is the best hope for Democrats to survive this election.  Talk of an all-female ticket, with Gretchen Whitmer, are rampant.  Yes please.  Women are the key to this election. There's still time to pull this election out of the shit.

And LET Trump bash Kamala Harris, let him do it all he wants. Every woman he turns off will vote for her.

Today's chuckle, courtesy of Pravda Social:

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Trump and other Republicans, meanwhile, seemed to be fuming they could no longer face Biden. In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump first demanded that the September presidential debate, scheduled to appear on ABC, instead be switched to the distinctly more Trump-friendly Fox News. He then suggested the GOP should “be reimbursed” for the money it has spent running against Biden.

“Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President?” Trump wrote. “Just askin’?”

There are 161.2 million registered voters in the US, as of 2022.

Out of a population of 333.3 million people that means only 48.3% of the country is registered to vote. Of course out of the 333.3m, about 100m are children, non-citizens & otherwise ineligible residents, while 233m are citizens who are eligible to register.  69.1% of those eligible are registered (70% of women, 68.2% of men), but only 52.2% of those actually voted in 2022 (a lower turnout mid-term).

That means in 2022, only 25.2% of the populace decided for the rest of us (48.3 x 52.2).

Opportunities abound.  There's a gap of 30.9% of eligible voters who are not registered (72m new voters).  There's a even easier gap of 47.8% of registered voters who did not vote in 2022 (77m new voters). That's 149 million possible new voters in 2024.

Just as a comparison, Biden won the 2020 presidential election by 7 million votes (81.2m to 74.2m).  In 2016 Hillary won by 2.8m (65.8m to 63m), but still lost in the EC.

Getting out even 10% of the available non-voters would result in a landslide.  Even 5% would result in a clear victory.

I don't know if any media outlets will pick up on this, but Sean Hannity just made a MAJOR slip of the tongue on Fox News tonight.

I was flipping channels, during an MSNBC commercial break, and Hannity was saying that the Mainstream Media has been going along with "the misinformation about Joe Biden's cognitive state and went along with every Trump lie."


AWKWARD!

NoCoPilot wrote:

The longer Joe fights to stay in the race, and the longer the DNC gaslights us on his cognitive decline, the more damage is done.  Voters disgusted, politics discredited, Trump gains credibility, time to build a winning coalition wasted. We want Democratic politics to be fact-based, honest and reliable. We're supposed to be the "good guys."

Some have suggested this was all choreographed, Biden waited until the GOP locked in their extremist MAGA ticket before announcing his departure. Now it's too late for them to reconsider a maybe more moderate running mate.

Personally, I doubt there's that much strategy.  Neither party has that much brains.

President Harris's cabinet.

• VP: Mark Kelly ('cause Gretchen Whitmore said no, and she needs Arizona)
  
• Sec't of State: Hillary Clinton
  
• Transportation Sec't: Pete Buttegieg
  
• Defense Sec't: [not Lloyd Austin]
  
• Sec't of Treasury: Janet Yellen
  
• Att'y General: [not Merrick Garland]
  
• Sec't of the Interior: Deb Haaland
  
• Sec't of Education: Dr. Miguel Cardona
  
• Sec't of HHS:
  
• Sec't of Energy: Jennifer Granholm
  
• Sec't of HUD:
  
• Sec't of Homeland Security: [not Mayorkas]
  
• Sec't of Agriculture: [not Tom Vilsack]
  
• Sec't of EPA: Michael Regan
  
• Ambassador to UN: Linda Thomas-Greenfield
  

I don't know if I want Mayor Pete still in Transportation. He's proved he can do that - maybe give him something else.

NoCoPilot wrote:

And LET Trump bash Kamala Harris, let him do it all he wants.  Every woman he turns off will vote for her.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nikki-haley-gop-kamala-harris-dei_n_66a35aa5e4b0af62b4257fad

“The American people are smarter than that” but apparently not the GOP politicians.

Endorsements of Harris by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé and Charli xcx are massive, because one-third of the electorate is Gen-X or Gen-Z.

And Harris leads Trump in this demographic 60% to his 40%.

NoCoPilot wrote:

Some have suggested this was all choreographed, Biden waited until the GOP locked in their extremist MAGA ticket before announcing his departure. 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-called-for-federal-restrictions-to-traveling-for-abortion-in-resurfaced-clip_n_66a3cdb7e4b0d5de59dc7dfd
The GOP vetting process for Vice President consisted of only one thing: “he likes me. Maybe more than anybody, he likes me.”
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jul/25/stephen-colbert-jd-vance-late-night-roundup

Even though, in 2016, he referred to Trump as "the American Hitler." And as "reprehensible" and an "idiot" and "cultural opioid."  But like a dog, Trump has no long-term memory.  Only sees what's in front of him at that very moment.

Blabbermouth can't help saying the quiet part out loud.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

NoCoPilot wrote:

The GOP vetting process for Vice President consisted of only one thing: “he likes me. Maybe more than anybody, he likes me.”

GOP buyer's remorse with Vance has led some commentators to speculate Trump might dump him for Tim Scott or Elise Stefanik.

Neither of which would be better.  And the chaos of doing so would be EPIC.

I noticed that in pictures of Trump and Vance standing together, Vance is clearly at least an inch or two taller than Trump. Apparently, Vance is 6'3". So. When do we start the whole bullshit about Trump only being 6'1" again?

NoCoPilot wrote:

I have this awful fear that through a combination of Biden missteps, Saudi election interference through gas price manipulation, Russian election interference through misinformation and AI fakes, Trump's popular lies, Department of Justice sloth & inaction, and possibly some actual vote counting shenanigans, Trump will ostensibly win in '24.

Rachel Maddow's 'B'-block tonight was about how Trump is weirdly telling his crowds that he doesn't need their votes.  Yeah, and he told the Christian Nationalist convention on Saturday that if they vote for him in 2024, they'll never have to vote again.  We all see that as part of his master plan.

But he's ALSO telling Fox & Friends and rally crowds that they don't need to vote for him now, in 2024.

What the heck is going on, asks Rachel?

Trump has installed 70 election supervisors across all the swing states.  They have INSTRUCTIONS from the Trump campaign not to certify the elections in their state if Trump loses the popular vote.  With seven or eight states refusing to certify the election, the Independent State Legislature (ISL) theory claims that the national certification of the vote would be set aside, and the nation's state legislators would decide the election. This is basically a replay of what the Trump campaign tried to do in 2020, with their "fake electors." They were stopped then by career election supervisors preventing it.  Career supervisors who are now gone.

There are 29 Republican state houses, more than enough to give the election to the Republican candidate, regardless of who won the popular vote.

Snopes says it won't work.  

USA Today says it is only "partly false."

Yet other experts say this pathway is eerily plausible, and Trump's campaign appears to think they have enough loyalists in place to make it happen.

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance has a history of making disparaging remarks toward people without children, a CNN KFile review of his comments shows, including fundraising off his now-infamous “childless cat lady” remarks in a series of emails that called Democratic leaders “childless sociopaths” who “don’t have a direct stake in this country.”

I'd take a "childless" person (with two adopted sons) over a person who won't have a dog.

Trump is planning something like what's going on in Venezuela.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-lt-venezuela-election-nicol%C3%A1s-maduro_n_66a7d9a4e4b0e33a3bb7a2ad

Kamala's ads and stump speeches are finally bringing the heat to the orange turdictator. Finally, a candidate with balls.

It's awfully RICH that Vance is saying childless women don't have a stake in our country's future. Who is denying climate change, who is restricting voting rights, who is destroying the Middle Class and upward mobility, who is making sure the next generation(s) are much worse off than we are?

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“He also said, either is fine, both is fine,” Cotton said of Trump. “He loves African Americans, he loves Indian Americans, he loves all Americans.

I understand Trump even has a colored friend.

I mean, seriously. Religious nuts are fond of saying "Jesus said this" or "god does that," and nobody can really contradict them because they're both make-believe. But with Trump? The counter evidence is right there, in front of us.

Vance keeps calling Harris "a DEI hire."

I guess he hasn't realized yet that DEI -- like "woke" before it -- isn't the slur he thinks it is.  In fact the vast majority of Americans are in favor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Trump fired all the policy wonks inside the RNC.  All that's left are his "loyalty hires" who are too afraid of the naked emperor to explain to him that his message is falling on deaf ears.

Like everything else he's touched, the GOP is going into a death spiral.

A friend of Mrs NoCo is married to an Egyptian guy, and he's a Trump supporter.  He says Biden did something bad to Egypt (I'm not sure what).

She asked him if he agreed with the Project 2025.  He didn't know what it was.

He doesn't watch the news, and pays no attention to politics.  All he knows is "Biden did something bad to Egypt."

Frightening to think that there may be enough people in this country who pay no attention to the news, and are such low information voters that they're attracted to Trump. We could lose our most basic rights and freedoms－and form of government－because some people are too stupid to pay attention.

And the people around those stupid people, who won't confront Crazy Uncle Harry because it would open a rift in the family. Are we so civil that we'll elect another Adolf Hitler because we're too polite to call him what he is?

Kamala is opening an appeal to Republicans horrified by Trump. Smart.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-republicans-for-harris_n_66b04b18e4b007ab691fae7a?63

NoCoPilot wrote:

Frightening to think that there may be enough people in this country who pay no attention to the news, and are such low information voters that they're attracted to Trump.

These are the same morons by and large who believe global warming isn't true because the bible says to have dominion over the earth and Jesus wouldn't let anything bad happen to his followers.
https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/5419/is-there-a-biblical-basis-for-not-believing-that-global-warming-is-occurring