Month: August 2024
Walz Ready to Debate Vance
“I can’t wait to debate the guy. That is, if he’s willing to get off his couch and show up.”
— Gov. Tim Walz, speaking at a rally, about Sen. J.D. Vance.
Harris Raises $20 Million After Walz Announcement
$20 million
Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate has been another fundraising boon for the Democratic presidential ticket, the AP reports. Her campaign announced shortly before 6:30 p.m. that it has raised more than $20 million since the vice president unveiled the Minnesota governor as her running mate.
Half Think Trump’s Too Old to Be President
50%
A new Morning Consult poll finds 50% of voters say Donald Trump is “too old” to be president. By contrast, only 12% say the same of Kamala Harris, compared with 70% who said the same of Biden.
He’s Just Unbearable
No doubt, it’s a quixotic campaign on which he’s embarked.
So, is Robert Kennedy Jr. serious or is it all just a lark?
Why hasn’t his anti-vaxxer conspiracy
And bug-eaten brain shit-canned his candidacy?
And do we really want to elect a guy who dumped a dead bear in Central Park?
It’s Nice to Have Plouffe on the Harris Team
“Donald Trump is cowardly backing out of the debate he agreed to. One just like the debate he did in June. Now, he seems only comfortable in a cocoon, asking his happy place Fox to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle debating someone his own age.”
— Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe, on X.
Trump: ‘Nobody Called from Google’
“Google, nobody called from Google. One of the things like doing a show like yours, your show, you know, you see it on Fox, but when you really see it is all over the place, they take clips of your show that you’re doing right now with me and if I do a good job, they’re gonna vote for me, they’re gonna vote for me because it’s not just on Fox, it’s on Fox is a smaller part of it. You’re on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones you’re on, you’re all over the place. You have a product, you have a great product. You have a great brand. So you have to get out, you have to get out, you have to do things like your show and other shows and Google has been very bad. They’ve been very irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google is gonna be close to shut down.”
— Donald Trump, on Fox Business.
Shapiro: Vance Can’r Be Honest with Himself or America
“I’ll say this about JD Vance: it’s really hard being honest with the American people when you’re not being honest with yourself. He is the most inorganic candidate I think I have ever seen. He doesn’t know what he believes, and that is why it is impossible for him to articulate a coherent message to the American people—because he doesn’t believe it.”
— Gov. Josh Shapiro, at a campaign event.
Ron Versus Debby
Today Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 24-176, placing 54 Florida counties under a state of emergency, including Hillsborough County, where I live. A tropical wave, named Invest 97L, could become Tropical Storm Debby over the next 36 to 48 hours and veer up Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Gov. Ron is grandstanding (again). He’s trying to deflect attention away from his latest embarrassing “Stop Woke” loss in federal court and the growing media focus on his cruel and cynical mini-Project 2025 experiments on the Free State of Florida.
As a native Floridian and veteran of numerous storms, it seems to me to be a bit premature to start pulling on the white high-heeled shrimp boots, but I think Ron’s afraid of getting caught unprepared for what looks to be a rather large, wet, but (hopefully) not awful storm.
And it’s easier to declare a nearly statewide state of emergency than it is to head off a double-digit rate hike by Citizens Property Insurance, the state’s insurer of last resort for over 1.2 million policies.
Thanks, Ron. I almost forgot about all the book banning and climate change–denying you are doing for five seconds.
Off to the liquor store for hurricane supplies …
