2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

[Chairman]

Yeah that poll looks good is what I’m saying.

[SensiblePerson]

Republican family values, as relayed by JD Vance:

Child expresses interest in something: “Shut the hell up.”

On his wife: “Obviously she’s not a white person…”

On people who are struggling: “I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society that we try to praise people, not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments.”

[Chairman]

NYT 2022 results:

Ballotpedia:

Yeah I’m going with NYT on this one since they have the vote tally by county. It’s the same map on the right on Ballotpedia drawn without the bounding boxes extending up into the lake to include the islands. You read that right: Ohio has islands with registered voters. Many people are saying they are the best islands.

Put-in-Bay is a resort village located on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, 85 miles (137 km) west of Cleveland and 35 miles (56 km) east of Toledo. The population was 154 at the 2020 census.

[goofy]

@Chairman

Put-in-Bay

I think I read an article about how the honorary sheriff here date raped an officer on the force and everyone closed ranks to protect him?

[MrWookie]

Trump Vows to ‘UNLEASH HELL’ Against Harris at Upcoming Rally

Lol, keep calling them weird

[MrWookie]

Cartoon: The Republicans' manual for acting normal

[riverman]

Nobody is this stupid.

[Surf]

Harris needs to run headline that she agreed to daily debates starting tomorrow

[chuckleslovakian]

I want you all to know I agree to a date with Margot Robbie tonight

[MimosaDef]

@riverman

Nobody is this stupid.

Cute little dance the NYT seems to enjoy:

[grue]

I propose we send pete in kamala’s place on fox.

Or Joe! Fuck it.

[riverman]

Bashing Hillary worked because everyone hated Hillary.

Normies just think Kamala is like a normal looking pretty normal person. The history isn’t there. So the bullying lands for way less people. He just looks like the asshole he is.

[commonWealth]

@Surf

Harris needs to run headline that she agreed to daily debates starting tomorrow

She should announce that she’s agreed to debates every Tuesday between now and the election with CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Comedy Central, BBC, YouTube, Weather Channel, Lifetime, and Telemundo.

Conservatives will get super weird in trashing some of them.

[Jman220]

@commonWealth

Weather Channel,

[goofy]

@riverman

Nobody is this stupid.

[goofy]

jbouie gift link:

If ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Is a Cautionary Tale, It Was Lost on JD Vance

A few days after he received the nomination, Politico published a story on his deep affinity for “The Lord of the Rings,” the series of fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien that were adapted, about 20 years ago, into blockbuster fantasy epics. Vance has, according to Politico, “pointed to Tolkien’s high fantasy epics as a window into understanding his worldview.”

Although Vance does not seem to specify the precise manner in which “The Lord of the Rings” has influenced his conservatism, his allies have taken it upon themselves to offer some explanation. “Vance’s appreciation of Tolkien is not unrelated to his conversion to Catholicism in 2019,” Luke Burgis, a professor at the Catholic University of America, said to Politico. “Of the many ways that Tolkien’s work exemplifies the Catholic imagination, one is the relationship between the visible and the invisible. I think it’s fair to say that Vance believes there is real spiritual evil in this world, and it can become embodied in rites and rituals.”

Vance, he continued, very likely took away from Tolkien “an apocalyptic frame of mind” reflecting the story’s concern with the battle between good and evil.

The ring, in “The Lord of the Rings,” represents power in all of its terrible glory. And Tolkien’s message is clear: The will to power — the desire for power — is as dangerous and corrupting as power itself. (My colleague David French makes a similar observation in his newsletter on this same topic.) Some of the most memorable antagonists of the series are the Ring Wraiths, the nine kings of men in an earlier age whose bodies have rotted away to nothing and whose souls desire nothing but the ring.

Tolkien provides other examples, beyond the ring, of the danger inherent in the desire for power. It drives Saruman, one of Gandalf’s peers, to cooperate with those he knows are evil, out of a misguided belief that he can use them for his own ends.

How does this all relate to Vance?

In the years since he came on the scene as the author of a best-selling memoir, Vance has transformed himself from a stalwart opponent of Trump to a MAGA acolyte. Where once he denounced Trump as an opiate, he now hails him as the best, last chance to save America from decline and ruin. Vance has jettisoned old friends and old beliefs in a bid for power and influence. He will do and say whatever it takes to reach the point where he holds the power to shape the world. He will save Gondor.

If “The Lord of the Rings” is a cautionary tale about the desire for power and the use of power, then it is a cautionary tale that was lost on JD Vance.

[gman42]

@grue

I propose we send pete in kamala’s place on fox.

Or Joe! Fuck it.

It would be fucking amazing if Joe showed up and just used all his time doing roast-style jokes.

[fakeBaker]

@SensiblePerson

Republican family values, as relayed by JD Vance:

Child expresses interest in something: “Shut the hell up.”

On his wife: “Obviously she’s not a white person…”

On people who are struggling: “I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society that we try to praise people, not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments.”

On pregnancy from rape/incest: “Inconvenient”

[Jman220]

Honestly, Drudge has been better for news than most of the mainstream newspapers for the last half decade.

[Surf]

Feel like Harris needs to hurry up on the VP announcement, would be a shame to let people have enough time really dig into camps that will be disappointed given we managed to avoid that with no primary