What did Fascist DerSantis offer Pompeo . . . or threaten him with?
Ah, that explains it. neoplacebo crushes the dreams of yet another pol.neoplacebo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:23 pmWell, there goes that beach house I was counting on. Mike told me he'd buy me one if I shilled for him with the woke crowd. I lied and told him I would. The joke's on him. Right after he tweeted that, I called him and told him that he better get some fish slap antidote.
Vrede too wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 9:02 amWhat did Fascist DerSantis offer Pompeo . . . or threaten him with?Ah, that explains it. neoplacebo crushes the dreams of yet another pol.neoplacebo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:23 pmWell, there goes that beach house I was counting on. Mike told me he'd buy me one if I shilled for him with the woke crowd. I lied and told him I would. The joke's on him. Right after he tweeted that, I called him and told him that he better get some fish slap antidote.
I went along with him, humoring him for a while. All the while knowing he'd end up a smoldering heap of nothing. All I said to him was "well, at least you don't have to worry about your hair turning white. You've got that covered."
Yeah, he did leave that one out, although it does support his point about 3rd party spoilers.
Maybe Perot was omitted because it's less clear whether he was a spoiler.billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:04 pmYeah, he did leave that one out, although it does support his point about 3rd party spoilers.
... The effect of Ross Perot's candidacy has been a contentious point of debate for many years. In the ensuing months after the election, various Republicans asserted that Perot had acted as a spoiler, enough to the detriment of Bush to lose him the election. While many disaffected conservatives may have voted for Ross Perot to protest Bush's tax increase, further examination of the Perot vote in the Election Night exit polls not only showed that Perot siphoned votes nearly equally among Bush and Clinton, but roughly two-thirds of those voters who cited Bush's broken "No New Taxes" pledge as "very important" (25%) voted for Bill Clinton. The voting numbers reveal that to win the electoral vote Bush would have had to win 10 of the 11 states Clinton won by less than five percentage points. For Bush to earn a majority of the popular vote, he would have needed 12.2% of Perot's 18.9% of the vote, 65% of Perot's support base. State exit polls suggested that Perot did not alter the electoral college count, except potentially in one state (Ohio), which nonetheless showed a result in the margin of error. Furthermore, Perot was most popular in states that strongly favored either Clinton or Bush, limiting his real electoral impact for either candidate.
Perot gained relatively little support in the Southern states and happened to have the best showing in states with few electoral votes. Perot appealed to disaffected voters all across the political spectrum who had grown weary of the two-party system. NAFTA played a role in Perot's support, and Perot voters were relatively moderate on hot-button social issues. A 1999 study in the American Journal of Political Science estimated that Perot's candidacy hurt the Clinton campaign, reducing "Clinton's margin of victory over Bush by seven percentage point." In 2016, FiveThirtyEight noted that it was "unlikely" that Perot was a spoiler.
Clinton, Bush, and Perot did not focus on abortion during the campaign. Exit polls, however, showed that attitudes toward abortion "significantly influenced" the vote, as pro-choice Republicans defected from Bush.
Useless is envious.GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 4:36 pmThat's actually pretty funny.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Acyn/status/ ... 5193759751
Vrede too wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:52 amTrump's growing GOP challengers revive fears of 2016 repeat
Good, an Rx for losing in the general. I say this with some slight trepidation that we may have a tiny chance of getting Dolt .45.2.
Nikki Haley - TRE45QN stained, plus no way the modern GQP nominates a woman or a non-White.
Fascist DerSantis - Peaking too soon, too much right wingnuttery to win the general, TRE45QN stained....
Oh no, he and Tim Scott will split the Black RepuQ vote.Larry Elder's Presidential Announcement Sparks Avalanche of Jokes, Memes
... Elder, who ran unsuccessfully in California's recall election in 2021 against Governor Gavin Newsom, announced Thursday on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News that he was running for president within the ranks of the Republican Party....
... "Black community: nothing could be worse than [South Carolina Republican Senator] Tim Scott," wrote another Twitter user. "Larry Elder: hold my beer."
... "Maybe he just enjoys losing," commented another one in one of many tweets mentioning Elder's loss to Newsom in 2021.
"I don't hate Larry Elder, but I don't really know what his angle is here," the conservative political account Red Eagle Politics said on Twitter. "There is a zero percent chance than anyone not named Trump or DeSantis wins this nomination, and probably around a 15 percent chance anyone not named Trump wins it."
... As of April 12, Trump led a list of potential candidates with 49.3 percent of the vote, followed by Ron DeSantis with 26.2 percent....
Poll: How do Americans feel about a Trump-Biden rematch? 'Exhaustion' tops the list.
More Americans say they feel “exhaustion” over the prospect of a 2024 contest between Biden and his predecessor than any other emotion.
... The survey of 1,530 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 14 to 17, found that 38% chose exhaustion after being shown a list of eight feelings and asked to select all that “come to mind” when considering another Biden vs. Trump campaign.
Among registered voters, the number is even higher: 44%. Yep, same old, same old.
No other sentiment — not fear (29%), Yep, Dolt .45 might win
sadness (23%), We can't do better?
hope (23%), Joe hasn't been bad, and he might be very good like Obama was his last 2 years
anger (23%), TRE45QN should be in prison
excitement (16%), The RepuQs might get stomped for a 5th time in a row. TRE45QN's felonious and narrow EC win doesn't count as a GQP win
pride (8%) Meh, not so much
or gratitude (7%) Meh, not so much
— cracks the 30% mark among all Americans.
I'm not disagreeing with AG Hamilton, but I wondered if his is a pro-Fascist DerSantis agenda given Dolt .45's lead in the polls. Yep, he's anti-Trump, RepuQ and defends Ron:GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:04 amA reminder.
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status ... 7989824512
If so, NICE!!! though I feel old. She's 45.Biden expected to tap Julie Rodriguez to run 2024 campaign
... Rodriguez, a longtime Democratic party activist, also worked in former President Barack Obama's White House. She's the granddaughter of labor leader Cesar Chavez and labor activist Helen Fabela Chávez.
Growing up in California she was active in campaigns, picket lines, boycotts, marches and union meetings....
Agreed, but who do you want for the nomination
The only viable one I can think of is Newsome.
I would vote for Newsome
