Biden drops out of race

[Tybee]

Here's an interesting report about Trump's behavior from his nephew:

Trump suggested people with disabilities ‘should just die,’ nephew reveals in memoir | The Independent

[Rogar]

When Trump is re-elected, Democrats will be to blame....

Since the polls are showing an equal race, I say when Harris wins it will be because the GOP picked an angry old man with a victim mentality and a criminal record instead of the sharp you woman president Haley could have been. I'd guess she could have beat anything the democrats could come up with on short notice. Both parties can be faulted for not bringing up promising younger politicians instead of the old school.

[catherine]

Does Trump mispronounce Kamala's name on purpose?

[iris lilies]

Since the polls are showing an equal race, I say when Harris wins it will be because the GOP picked an angry old man with a victim mentality and a criminal record instead of the sharp you woman president Haley could have been. I'd guess she could have beat anything the democrats could come up with on short notice. Both parties can be faulted for not bringing up promising younger politicians instead of the old school.

I can’t disagree with this.

[jp1]

And I am celebrating the fact that JD Vance is not ancient. He’s only 39 years old. He has changed once, he can change again.

He’s only changed once? You mean from never trumper who called trump America’s hitler to trump sycophant? Personally that’s the kind of change I can do without. But for the modern Republican Party it seems all too common.

[jp1]

Does Trump mispronounce Kamala's name on purpose?

Probably. But we can’t count out his mental decline as a possible reason.

[jp1]

You don't hear the reference to white privilege as much these days as you used to.

And maybe that’s what we should’ve called trump’s 2016 nomination. Because we all know that no one but a white man could possibly ever receive one of our main political parties’ nomination for President with absolutely no governmental experience. Just 8 years before that at least one person on this site was calling into question whether a sitting senator had enough experience to be a presidential nominee. That same people was absolutely silent in 2016 and in fact voted for the completely inexperienced candidate that year.

[jp1]

of course he did. Everyone knows Biden limited his VP choice to 7% of the population.

I also recall JP talking about a DEI hire on the Supreme Court. I’m unclear why that wasn’t “racist” according to JP values.

I absolutely intended to slam Thomas for only getting the job because he’s black. The difference between him and Kamala is that presidential candidates select their VP’s based on who they think will help them most electorally. At least they did until trump chose Vance. Biden picked someone who had had multiple previous electoral success and was likely to be popular with one of the democratic party’s key voting demographics, black women. That’s not a DEi hire, that’s strategic decision making.

[Rogar]

I understand J.D. has been nurtured through the system as the poor boy from the rust belt and had some unusual breaks because of it.

[LDAHL]

yes, gridlock is nice. If we can all just turn off our social media and political commentary and go about our lives, our lives will be mostly unaffected. Both houses and the executive branch will lob insults and gen up news stories and etc. but not much of it is important if they can’t “get anything done. “

But in the long run, what should old-timey movement conservatives do? Henry Olsen has a piece on that in NR. He thinks conservatives should accept Trumpist populism as a fait accompli and become an influential minority within the GOP, rather than maintain their ideological purity in powerless isolation.

Maybe he’s right. If politics is about influencing events, dirty compromise may be preferable to impotent virtue signaling.