Biden - his time

[ursus arctos]

As Gingrich reminded Fox News, "he's had a lot of concussions"

[caja-dglh]

I would think the habitual liar path wins over that by a very easy margin. Though Gingrich, as many, are in a completely different world.

[San Bernardhinault]

This is just an astonishing story.

In an ideal world, of course, all Republicans would lose. But in second-best world with a marginal victory for Democrats, Walker and Oz and Boduc (and, in a dream case, Vance) lose, while Laxalt and Budd win, leaving a very clear narrative that nominating Trumpy candidates who have no other qualities but being Trumpy* is electoral disaster.

*Trying really hard not to use mental health language here - my instincts definitely make me want to use terms I shouldn't. Thanks to OTF for making me aware of this, although I still often fail on it.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Nice one, SB.

[anton pulisov]

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859


Fox News presenter job in the offing?

[caja-dglh]

Who is she again?

[ursus arctos]

Gabbard has already guest hosted for Tucker Carlson as a "Democrat"

I imagine that they would much prefer that she stay in Congress, as the chances of getting anyone else elected as a Republican are extremely low.

[Satchmo Distel]

She exploited Hinduphobia (which I think is real, as noted elsewhere) to make it all about herself:

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/1235633239936638983?lang=en

[anton pulisov]

Gabbard has already guest hosted for Tucker Carlson as a "Democrat"

I imagine that they would much prefer that she stay in Congress, as the chances of getting anyone else elected as a Republican are extremely low.

It seems she's no longer in the House. She didn't run in order to concentrate on her presidential campaign.

[San Bernardhinault]

It seems she's no longer in the House. She didn't run in order to concentrate on her presidential campaign income from right wing broadcast outlets who want to pretend they're showing balance by having someone who was once a Democrat on their panel.

FIFY

[San Bernardhinault]

Meanwhile, on Biden himself, there was a brief few hours of "gotcha" delight on Fox a couple of days ago when they got a hacked voicemail from Biden to Hunter from 2018.

Until everyone on the internet realised that Joe Biden was just being a decent father of a son who was an addict, and it made Fox look like utter scum who hadn't the slightest concept of empathy. Suddenly this story has vanished from the right-wing media.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022...s-sean-hannity

[Incandenza]

The press narrative around Fetterman and his health is now fully gone into ableism and is seeing assistive accommodations as making someone unfit for office.

https://twitter.com/jmart/status/1579986004185739265

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1580025613930631168

[Sean of the Shed]

Biden has officially announced running for a second term.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Next presidential election is looking like a replay of 2020. Not good for the Orang Utan, though the consequent reverberations will be scary.

[anton pulisov]

Bernie Sanders 2028

[Lang Spoon]

Sanders Feinstein Big Tent candidacy.

[Flynnie]

Sanders Feinstein Big Tent candidacy.

The Bern is a lot sharper than Feinstein… or Biden for that matter. Cool that we got the figurehead president that other countries have, just by stealth and with unelected ministers to boot.

[ursus arctos]

Interesting discussion

https://twitter.com/deepstateradio/status/1652311893824921603?t=-qISEreH6gFUnDRpoZEX1g&s=19

[DCI Harry Batt]

So what's with this 14th amendment talk?

[ursus arctos]

There is an argument that the 14th Amendment requires the US to pay it's debts and therefore trumps the limitations imposed by the "debt ceiling"

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

[Satchmo Distel]

Yellen has said that invoking it would cause a constitutional crisis.

[ursus arctos]

We have been in a constitutional crisis since at least 2016

[San Bernardhinault]

If you asked me, that seems pretty clear and transparent that there's no way the US could refuse to pay its debts under that amendment.

The fact that congress brought in a "debt limit" long ago doesn't mean that it's constitutional. In fact, how can it be legal for congress to both say it will spend money (by passing spending plans) and simultaneously says it won't (by refusing to pay the US's debts)

But I'm not a conservative supreme court justice.

The constitutional crisis will come because the Supremes will ignore the constitution and side with the Republicans, as always.

[Flynnie]

Which I might welcome, it’s time the Supreme Court gets cut down to size a bit.

[anton pulisov]

Debt incurred "for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion". Surely that is just some archaic text no longer relevant to the modern US. Oh wait....