US Politics XXXIV: Biden Against the Manchine (Live at the Sinema)

[DeVaul]

The only echo chamber Uncle Headache approves of is the one inside that eagle head…

[Hewson]

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I hate you all

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/sawyerhackett/st...605663232?s=21

What changed ???

[Bluer White]

Jake Tapper Says Jen Psaki ‘Earning Her Paycheck This Week’ As She Cleans Up Biden’s Comments
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tap...dens-comments/

......Psaki cleaned up several of Biden’s answers, including questioning the legitimacy of the upcoming midterm elections and appearing to give the “green light” to Russia to conduct a “minor incursion” into Ukraine.

......“That’s absolutely not what our intention was or not the message we sent,” replied Psaki, citing the U.S. actions that have been taken in response to Russia staging troops on the country’s border with Ukraine.

Ending the interview, Tapper said, “White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki earning her paycheck this week.”

Earlier in the interview, Tapper pressed Psaki on Biden suggesting that the 2022 elections could be not legitimate.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

oh sure. let's highlight a handful of presidential gaffs. must be hard to worry about such things.

[Headache in a Suitcase]

the annual hitler youth march is back in DC i see

[Irvine511]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

oh sure. let's highlight a handful of presidential gaffs. must be hard to worry about such things.

And to think, 2 years ago, Trump was all “can we nuke hurricanes? I went on this great date with that Boy King in Noeth Korea” and honest brokers were all “calm down, Trump gonna Trump.”

[LuckyNumber7]

Originally Posted by Irvine511

And to think, 2 years ago, Trump was all “can we nuke hurricanes? I went on this great date with that Boy King in Noeth Korea” and honest brokers were all “calm down, Trump gonna Trump.”

This is the most absurd part about society today. Folks can’t put their finger on what it is that makes Kamala Harris the most notorious, relevant, and worst VP in history, but boy there’s just something about her that’s a lot worse and more relevant than former president poopiepants asking NASA if we could use interplanetary spacecraft cleanroom disinfectant fog in folks lungs to treat Covid patients.

[Moonlit_Angel]

Let's not forget Mitch McConnell's recent words regarding black people voting.

But hey, I'm sure he just "misspoke". Totally innocent gaffe.

[LuckyNumber7]

Originally Posted by Moonlit_Angel

Let's not forget Mitch McConnell's recent words regarding black people voting.



But hey, I'm sure he just "misspoke". Totally innocent gaffe.

Well I’d actually agree that Mitch misspoke. I’d only agree because we know the man knows better. That was personal Mitch leaking into professional Mitch.

[Bluer White]

Originally Posted by LuckyNumber7

This is the most absurd part about society today. Folks can’t put their finger on what it is that makes Kamala Harris the most notorious, relevant, and worst VP in history, but boy there’s just something about her that’s a lot worse and more relevant than former president poopiepants asking NASA if we could use interplanetary spacecraft cleanroom disinfectant fog in folks lungs to treat Covid patients.

It would be better if you didn't draw any more attention to Vice President Harris than is necessary.

[LuckyNumber7]

Originally Posted by Bluer White

It would be better if you didn't draw any more attention to Vice President Harris than is necessary.

I mean attention is relative. Each VP since Cheney has been disliked for their respective reasons and I’m not discounting reasons why not do I care what reasons you have. What level of attention is necessary? I’ve got a large contingent of my family who won’t stop commenting on her. As a space systems engineer who had to listen to Mike Pence do the president’s job for national space policy, I didn’t hear general outcry for the poor job he did, despite being an unusually powerful VP (the choice of the president at the time). Despite his power, he was still on-the-whole irrelevant. No more or less so than Harris. If you want to criticize her from time to time that’s fine, but talking about her like she’s the worst thing ever is polluted with the bias that she’s probably “the next candidate.”

[Bluer White]

Originally Posted by LuckyNumber7

I mean attention is relative. Each VP since Cheney has been disliked for their respective reasons and I’m not discounting reasons why not do I care what reasons you have. What level of attention is necessary? I’ve got a large contingent of my family who won’t stop commenting on her. As a space systems engineer who had to listen to Mike Pence do the president’s job for national space policy, I didn’t hear general outcry for the poor job he did, despite being an unusually powerful VP (the choice of the president at the time). Despite his power, he was still on-the-whole irrelevant. No more or less so than Harris. If you want to criticize her from time to time that’s fine, but talking about her like she’s the worst thing ever is polluted with the bias that she’s probably “the next candidate.”

I haven't said much about VP Harris except in my previous comment,

but the vice president has clearly shown she is not 'the next candidate' for president.

[LuckyNumber7]

Originally Posted by Bluer White

I haven't said much about VP Harris except in my previous comment,



but the vice president has clearly shown she is not 'the next candidate' for president.

There’s not much meat on the bone here. I’ll preface this by saying aren’t talking to someone who is supportive of her as a candidate.

Now, I don’t know if you mean literally or figuratively that she’s shown that… in the literal sense, if Joe Biden chooses not to run, she is likely to be a top contender for the slot.

On the flip side, if you’re being figurative, put some more meat on that bone, please. I gave you my thoughts - I literally do not give a shit about what, on a good day, we refer to as the least relevant position in the president’s cabinet. So I ask again, why are conservatives hyper-focused on her in a way that we’ve not really ever seen before for any VP?

Once again I’ll provide my theory. Conservative media gets an early lead on likely candidates and goes after them - particularly Fox News. You can see this circa 2012 in media coverage of Hillary Clinton. She used to have popular support, what a weird thing given how hated she is now. It was only after office that she lost it, when it was apparent that she was launching a campaign. This is literally media driven buildup of negative recognition for someone we otherwise traditionally ignore.

[Bluer White]

I've read your last few takes and appreciate where you're coming from.

At the moment I don't have anything more to add on Vice President Harris or Mrs. Clinton

[phanan]

I think the focus is fairly obvious, sadly - she's a woman.

But the Republican party has gone so far over to the right that it's not really surprising anymore.

[BEAL]

https://twitter.com/harrylitman/stat...673326081?s=21

What a different world we would be in had her emails not been a thing.

I do think that part of the Rights obsession with Harris is to make her so unlikeable to mirror what they did to Hillary.

It was years and years of smear jobs against her (and Bill didn’t help matters either with some of his shit)

We could go back to Gore losing to Bush in 2000 as the start but Dubya was no where near as moronic and dangerous to our own National security as Trump

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Originally Posted by BEAL

https://twitter.com/harrylitman/stat...673326081?s=21

What a different world we would be in had her emails not been a thing.

I do think that part of the Rights obsession with Harris is to make her so unlikeable to mirror what they did to Hillary.

It was years and years of smear jobs against her (and Bill didn’t help matters either with some of his shit)

We could go back to Gore losing to Bush in 2000 as the start but Dubya was no where near as moronic and dangerous to our own National security as Trump

it's almost as if elections have consequences.

[Irvine511]

Originally Posted by Headache in a Suitcase

it's almost as if elections have consequences.

I’m so glad that 5 of the 8 justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote. Really seems like what the Founding Fathers intended and how it was back when America was Great.