'that included an attack on Walz for “embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote.” Perhaps they didn’t run that one by the top of the ticket.'
I have commented before how much I like the zingers/bon mots that JP throws in. I was going to comment on the "felon voting" comment but you beat me to it.
I envision the peacock jabroni's inner monologue going something like "What shall I wear to the coup? Hmm, how about the captoe boots with brogue detailing and fugazi glen plaid spats? I'll be the jauntiest rioter in sight!"
His entire campaign is hurling childish insults at everyone. Everyone is the worst, failing, bad, a communist, fascist, Marxist, left-wing lunatic. He never ever addresses how he will make Americans' lives better because all he cares about is Donald and staying out of jail. I hope he is losing a lot of voters.
When Trump was younger and more cogent he actually described his communication style as hyperbolic.
In his 1987 book "The Art of the Deal," he mentioned that he uses "bravado" and plays to people's fantasies, stating that "a little hyperbole never hurts"⁵.
Of course, Trump didn't write the book, but he provided the material for the book in interviews. If the book was simply made up by the ghost writer, he managed to create a character who is EXACTLY like Trump.
I need a trigger warning before you discuss Congress and stock trading lol. That and the electoral college automatically raise my blood pressure. Stock trading while serving in any elected office should be illegal across the board. It is truly criminal that we have allowed public service to become a "get rich quick" scheme. Only in America!
[Marjorie Taylor] "Greene is an exception that tests the rule"
For those of you wondering, the word "proves" used to be a synonym for "test". i.e. You test something in order to prove it. The phrase "...exception that proves the rule" always confused my until my dad explained this to me.
“the real reactions of the rich and powerful to Monday’s market turbulence will become apparent when members of Congress who regularly trade stocks eventually file their financial disclosures, which must be submitted within 45 days of each transaction. This is where members of Congress make their real money: millions of dollars every year, the result of lawmakers’ magical ability to trade more successfully than the S&P 500.2”
1) The GOP complains that Walz embraced “policies to allow convicted felons to vote.” Another entry in the irony sweepstakes.
2) Harris didn’t pick Shapiro because of anti-Semitism despite the fact that her husband is Jewish. Of course, that is nonsense. But it also is example #32406 of the GOP and/or Trump just “sayin’ stuff”. It doesn’t matter if it makes any sense at all. It doesn’t matter if there is any logic behind it at all. They just say stuff. And they know that the great majority of their supporters won’t bother to think about it – as long as it sounds negative, it’s good to go. Case in point: if you asked the 70% of Trumplicants who continue to believe the election was stolen, I’d be willing to bet that none of them could come up with a coherent story about how that happened (I’m defining “coherent” here to mean a story that hangs together with the known facts about how elections are conducted – and the fact that the “fraud” had to perpetrated in (at least) five different states with five completely different sets of election officials, none of whom could have been allowed to spot the fraud).
But logic has never counted for much in today’s GOP.
3) Just look at the stock market reaction. I remember Hannity saying (while Obama was President) that the rising stock market wasn’t that big of a deal because the “common man” didn’t benefit directly from that because they didn’t own much stock (Of course, I also remember Hannity in 2018 or 2019 reciting a list of economic indicators such as GDP growth and the unemployment rate that had improved under Trump as a rationale for reelecting Trump. All I could think of was that those same numbers had improved even more under Obama in 2012 than they had under Trump. But somehow I doubted that Hannity was using the same logic to support Obama’s reelection.) Then when it went up under Trump, it was an unadulterated good thing.
In a rational world, the GOP would not want to talk about the stock market at all since it’s way higher under Biden than it was under Trump. But we don’t live in a rational world. So if the market were to rise 100% and then retreat 1%, the GOP will simply point to the drop as an indication that the economy is just about to collapse. Because we all know that the market NEVER went down while Trump was President.
The economy is terrible because Republicans and Fox says so, and then our mainstream media covers them saying it is so. Most people of low income only see higher costs for food and housing. The rest of us just complain about higher costs and continue to spend like we always have.
After 9 long years of the Trump and Toadies Show, aren't you all just sick of it? No creativity, no originality, just the same worn-out, predictable script. All you have to do is swap the name, then comes the recycled, juvenile nickname, low IQ, radical leftist, going to destroy the country (which by his telling is already a hellhole). BORING! Even his most loyal rally roadies can only hang in for so long, trickling out from lack of interest. That and the projection of his behavior on his opponents - the very definition of irony - is his standard schtick. How great will it be to see candidates who smile, speak coherently, and aspire to do good things for everyday Americans? And don't have Ivy League educations that are discredited by their lack of principle? If anything catches fire, I hope it's this sense of decency and optimism, a resounding rejection of the vile American carnage message.
It would completely shock me if some tens of thousands of Republican donor dollars weren't periodically spent in Mexico and Central America to organize and launch: "migrant caravans".
Those caravans and the media campaigns around them generate a lot of value for the right
"Walz is a pick that will satisfy nearly every corner of the Democratic party and base" is exactly right. VP Harris continues her record of good judgment. Former Republicans don't get to pick who is on the Democratic ticket, and as the GOP has moved to the radical fascist right, the Dems have become more progressive in response. Centrism doesn't beat fascism.
Centrism AND more liberal (I guess that's now being relabeled as progressive) voters working in tandem is the best chance to beat fascism. And I think that's what we have going on here. If history is any guide, that was a coalition that held off the right wing's rise in Germany for many years following WW1, and it was only when one faction stopped coordinating with the other that Hitler's fascists were able to gain enough to enter in the gap between. We don't have an exact parallel here, there are only 2 parties, but we definitely need both types of voters, the more liberal and the somewhat liberal (centrists), to cooperate by agreeing to vote for the anti-authoritarian candidate.
I'm a leftist not a liberal. I'm a democratic socialist, I'm more left than the Democratic party base, but not by as much as centrists think. Bernie Sanders and Tim Walz are wildly popular for a reason. Kamala Harris is a San Francisco progressive. That's where the Democratic Party is, not Joe Biden. Anyone who doesn't like it should make their own party. We are exhausted from nearly a decade of do-nothing centrism against a genuine fascist threat, and it still might cost us the nation.
The Dems are a big tent party out of necessity, and the centrist Biden wing is an important part of that coalition. You still need centrists to defeat authoritarianism, there aren’t enough democratic socialists in the country to accomplish anything on their own at the national level.
The Dems have loudly, clearly, and enthusiastically moved to the left with Harris/Walz. The center needs to move away from the GOP and towards the more progressive Dems. Stop trying to pull us back to the outdated 20th century definition of the center. We're not going back.
Really? Harris is hardly a progressive, she tried to be one in 2020 and failed miserably. She certainly isn't trying to be one this year. The Dems have loudly and clearly united because they are focused on beating Trump and excited that someone young and healthy enough to make a compelling case while generating enthusiasm is at the top of the ticket. They certainly haven't moved to the left in any meaningful way recently. I'm not trying to pull anyone anywhere, I'm just saying that you need centrists, liberals and progressives in order to beat the GOP due to the structural advantages they have in presidential elections and the Senate.
I agree the center needs to move away from the GOP, but how does that happen? Maybe by the Dems making themselves appealing to centrist voters?
With every stupid comment, Donald reveals he has no clue. About much of anything. He's an obvious dumbshit. His backers and supporters have to scramble to try to cover his ass. Which makes them look even stupider than Donald!
On the stock market. Has anyone noticed or commented that the broad stock market prices rose 13% from May to July? That's a fast price boom that had to correct. Contrary to Donald's dumbshit claims, the market often goes up too fast and has to come back down somewhat to balance values with price. This boom and correction has zero to do with politics. It sure as hell has nothing to do with Dumbass Donald!
Pay attention to Putin's/Murdoch's/Musk's propaganda and dirty tricks. Tim Walz is a NORMAL guy who can't be bought. That's why they hate him. They will try to crush this Good Man. Fight back the lies and reveal the autocrats/oligarchs and wannabe self appointed aristocrats for who they are. Liars and thugs. Read Anne Applebaum's new book, Autocracy, Inc.
The first thing I thought, when the stock market started a crazy sell off, was that these folks think Kamala is going to win! And when she does, tax rates for the wealthy will go up. Since price gouging has run rampant since the slowing of the pandemic, and wealthy folks have become obscenely more so, is it any surprise that they would decide to do some profit taking immediately? I don’t think so. I don’t think it had anything to do with a slightly lower jobs number. That’s ridiculous. However, the MAGA crowd will burn the economy to the ground if they think it will help them win. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
The market drop yesterday was largely related to Japan’s central bank raising rates and the change in currency value which blew up the “yen carry trade” of using free money to buy US securities. Japan’s main index was down more than 12%. Much bigger factor than labor market. Trump is playing a dangerous game to call attention to the down days… go Dow 40.
Once again, Joe Perticone displays boss writing skills with his casual use of the term “kayfabe.” It sent me to an online dictionary and, as Perticone so often does, enlightened me both on an element of the culture and a perfect description of Congressional theatrics. JP — you, sir, are killing it.
Relative to Gov Walz, let a Twin Cities resident testify that his response to the organic eruption of rage that followed George Floyd’s murder should be taught in government classes as an example of leadership in an impossible situation. While Trump was fueling the fire (remember “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”), Walz was a responsible adult who walked the fine line between enforcing the law and protecting free speech. I shudder to think how much more of Minneapolis would have burned if the heavy-handed tactics espoused by Republicans had been employed in Minnesota.
'that included an attack on Walz for “embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote.” Perhaps they didn’t run that one by the top of the ticket.'
Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh
I have commented before how much I like the zingers/bon mots that JP throws in. I was going to comment on the "felon voting" comment but you beat me to it.
I envision the peacock jabroni's inner monologue going something like "What shall I wear to the coup? Hmm, how about the captoe boots with brogue detailing and fugazi glen plaid spats? I'll be the jauntiest rioter in sight!"
His boots were made for insurrecting.
I was a college freshman and in lust with Nancy Sinatra.
But then George Santos shows up in a Burberry scarf he stole from his roommate
Do you think anyone is ever going to get tired of "it's the biggest/best/worst ___ in the history of ___"?
Even if you like the person saying it, it's got to make your eyes glaze over at some point.
Trump's three brain cells crave repetition.
His entire campaign is hurling childish insults at everyone. Everyone is the worst, failing, bad, a communist, fascist, Marxist, left-wing lunatic. He never ever addresses how he will make Americans' lives better because all he cares about is Donald and staying out of jail. I hope he is losing a lot of voters.
I think you have summarized Trump's qualifications to be President pretty well. Who could not vote for such a man?
Does he know what hyperbole means.?
It's got 'hyper' in it, so it must be good.
Right?
Totally.
When Trump was younger and more cogent he actually described his communication style as hyperbolic.
In his 1987 book "The Art of the Deal," he mentioned that he uses "bravado" and plays to people's fantasies, stating that "a little hyperbole never hurts"⁵.
5) Super-Hyperbolic Man: Hyperbole as an Ideological Discourse ... - Springer. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11196-019-09621-8.pdf.
At least his ghost writer, Tony Schwartz, knew it.
He didn't write the book. He had a ghost writer who said he was a moron. He probably does not know what word means.
Of course, Trump didn't write the book, but he provided the material for the book in interviews. If the book was simply made up by the ghost writer, he managed to create a character who is EXACTLY like Trump.
He has said, or maybe it was ghost-written for him, that he employs "useful hyperbole."
So, maybe he does. Still doesn't make him bright.
It's in his DNA.
I need a trigger warning before you discuss Congress and stock trading lol. That and the electoral college automatically raise my blood pressure. Stock trading while serving in any elected office should be illegal across the board. It is truly criminal that we have allowed public service to become a "get rich quick" scheme. Only in America!
“Sartor” has to be a nom de plume for a Pitti Peacock, doncha think?
I wonder if that's the name on his birth certificate.
[Marjorie Taylor] "Greene is an exception that tests the rule"
For those of you wondering, the word "proves" used to be a synonym for "test". i.e. You test something in order to prove it. The phrase "...exception that proves the rule" always confused my until my dad explained this to me.
Thanks Joe ~ Good reminder!
“the real reactions of the rich and powerful to Monday’s market turbulence will become apparent when members of Congress who regularly trade stocks eventually file their financial disclosures, which must be submitted within 45 days of each transaction. This is where members of Congress make their real money: millions of dollars every year, the result of lawmakers’ magical ability to trade more successfully than the S&P 500.2”
I might add that it's quite bold of Joe to expose this issue when his reporting depends on access to these very people.
I don't think it is a secret , everyone knows
A few comments...
1) The GOP complains that Walz embraced “policies to allow convicted felons to vote.” Another entry in the irony sweepstakes.
2) Harris didn’t pick Shapiro because of anti-Semitism despite the fact that her husband is Jewish. Of course, that is nonsense. But it also is example #32406 of the GOP and/or Trump just “sayin’ stuff”. It doesn’t matter if it makes any sense at all. It doesn’t matter if there is any logic behind it at all. They just say stuff. And they know that the great majority of their supporters won’t bother to think about it – as long as it sounds negative, it’s good to go. Case in point: if you asked the 70% of Trumplicants who continue to believe the election was stolen, I’d be willing to bet that none of them could come up with a coherent story about how that happened (I’m defining “coherent” here to mean a story that hangs together with the known facts about how elections are conducted – and the fact that the “fraud” had to perpetrated in (at least) five different states with five completely different sets of election officials, none of whom could have been allowed to spot the fraud).
But logic has never counted for much in today’s GOP.
3) Just look at the stock market reaction. I remember Hannity saying (while Obama was President) that the rising stock market wasn’t that big of a deal because the “common man” didn’t benefit directly from that because they didn’t own much stock (Of course, I also remember Hannity in 2018 or 2019 reciting a list of economic indicators such as GDP growth and the unemployment rate that had improved under Trump as a rationale for reelecting Trump. All I could think of was that those same numbers had improved even more under Obama in 2012 than they had under Trump. But somehow I doubted that Hannity was using the same logic to support Obama’s reelection.) Then when it went up under Trump, it was an unadulterated good thing.
In a rational world, the GOP would not want to talk about the stock market at all since it’s way higher under Biden than it was under Trump. But we don’t live in a rational world. So if the market were to rise 100% and then retreat 1%, the GOP will simply point to the drop as an indication that the economy is just about to collapse. Because we all know that the market NEVER went down while Trump was President.
The economy is terrible because Republicans and Fox says so, and then our mainstream media covers them saying it is so. Most people of low income only see higher costs for food and housing. The rest of us just complain about higher costs and continue to spend like we always have.
After 9 long years of the Trump and Toadies Show, aren't you all just sick of it? No creativity, no originality, just the same worn-out, predictable script. All you have to do is swap the name, then comes the recycled, juvenile nickname, low IQ, radical leftist, going to destroy the country (which by his telling is already a hellhole). BORING! Even his most loyal rally roadies can only hang in for so long, trickling out from lack of interest. That and the projection of his behavior on his opponents - the very definition of irony - is his standard schtick. How great will it be to see candidates who smile, speak coherently, and aspire to do good things for everyday Americans? And don't have Ivy League educations that are discredited by their lack of principle? If anything catches fire, I hope it's this sense of decency and optimism, a resounding rejection of the vile American carnage message.
I was sick of Trump the day the Apprentice aired for the first time.
Yeah, I wasn't a fan even farther back than that...
Republicans want bad things to start happening:
Maybe they can start paying immigrants to come across the border just like they pay black people to sit behind Trump at his rallies.
It would completely shock me if some tens of thousands of Republican donor dollars weren't periodically spent in Mexico and Central America to organize and launch: "migrant caravans".
Those caravans and the media campaigns around them generate a lot of value for the right
"Walz is a pick that will satisfy nearly every corner of the Democratic party and base" is exactly right. VP Harris continues her record of good judgment. Former Republicans don't get to pick who is on the Democratic ticket, and as the GOP has moved to the radical fascist right, the Dems have become more progressive in response. Centrism doesn't beat fascism.
Centrism AND more liberal (I guess that's now being relabeled as progressive) voters working in tandem is the best chance to beat fascism. And I think that's what we have going on here. If history is any guide, that was a coalition that held off the right wing's rise in Germany for many years following WW1, and it was only when one faction stopped coordinating with the other that Hitler's fascists were able to gain enough to enter in the gap between. We don't have an exact parallel here, there are only 2 parties, but we definitely need both types of voters, the more liberal and the somewhat liberal (centrists), to cooperate by agreeing to vote for the anti-authoritarian candidate.
I'm a leftist not a liberal. I'm a democratic socialist, I'm more left than the Democratic party base, but not by as much as centrists think. Bernie Sanders and Tim Walz are wildly popular for a reason. Kamala Harris is a San Francisco progressive. That's where the Democratic Party is, not Joe Biden. Anyone who doesn't like it should make their own party. We are exhausted from nearly a decade of do-nothing centrism against a genuine fascist threat, and it still might cost us the nation.
The Dems are a big tent party out of necessity, and the centrist Biden wing is an important part of that coalition. You still need centrists to defeat authoritarianism, there aren’t enough democratic socialists in the country to accomplish anything on their own at the national level.
The Dems have loudly, clearly, and enthusiastically moved to the left with Harris/Walz. The center needs to move away from the GOP and towards the more progressive Dems. Stop trying to pull us back to the outdated 20th century definition of the center. We're not going back.
Really? Harris is hardly a progressive, she tried to be one in 2020 and failed miserably. She certainly isn't trying to be one this year. The Dems have loudly and clearly united because they are focused on beating Trump and excited that someone young and healthy enough to make a compelling case while generating enthusiasm is at the top of the ticket. They certainly haven't moved to the left in any meaningful way recently. I'm not trying to pull anyone anywhere, I'm just saying that you need centrists, liberals and progressives in order to beat the GOP due to the structural advantages they have in presidential elections and the Senate.
I agree the center needs to move away from the GOP, but how does that happen? Maybe by the Dems making themselves appealing to centrist voters?
They need to realize that GOP economic policy is just as bad as everything else about that party. 40 years of Reaganomics is what got us here.
Imagine your every waking breath is spent figuring out how to be the biggest A-Hole you can be aka Republicans.
That's the only thing that unites the right these days, being an a-hole is the greatest virtue in the GOP.
With every stupid comment, Donald reveals he has no clue. About much of anything. He's an obvious dumbshit. His backers and supporters have to scramble to try to cover his ass. Which makes them look even stupider than Donald!
On the stock market. Has anyone noticed or commented that the broad stock market prices rose 13% from May to July? That's a fast price boom that had to correct. Contrary to Donald's dumbshit claims, the market often goes up too fast and has to come back down somewhat to balance values with price. This boom and correction has zero to do with politics. It sure as hell has nothing to do with Dumbass Donald!
Pay attention to Putin's/Murdoch's/Musk's propaganda and dirty tricks. Tim Walz is a NORMAL guy who can't be bought. That's why they hate him. They will try to crush this Good Man. Fight back the lies and reveal the autocrats/oligarchs and wannabe self appointed aristocrats for who they are. Liars and thugs. Read Anne Applebaum's new book, Autocracy, Inc.
Watch for RNC operatives to jump start another Migrant Invasion.
The first thing I thought, when the stock market started a crazy sell off, was that these folks think Kamala is going to win! And when she does, tax rates for the wealthy will go up. Since price gouging has run rampant since the slowing of the pandemic, and wealthy folks have become obscenely more so, is it any surprise that they would decide to do some profit taking immediately? I don’t think so. I don’t think it had anything to do with a slightly lower jobs number. That’s ridiculous. However, the MAGA crowd will burn the economy to the ground if they think it will help them win. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
The market drop yesterday was largely related to Japan’s central bank raising rates and the change in currency value which blew up the “yen carry trade” of using free money to buy US securities. Japan’s main index was down more than 12%. Much bigger factor than labor market. Trump is playing a dangerous game to call attention to the down days… go Dow 40.
Once again, Joe Perticone displays boss writing skills with his casual use of the term “kayfabe.” It sent me to an online dictionary and, as Perticone so often does, enlightened me both on an element of the culture and a perfect description of Congressional theatrics. JP — you, sir, are killing it.
Relative to Gov Walz, let a Twin Cities resident testify that his response to the organic eruption of rage that followed George Floyd’s murder should be taught in government classes as an example of leadership in an impossible situation. While Trump was fueling the fire (remember “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”), Walz was a responsible adult who walked the fine line between enforcing the law and protecting free speech. I shudder to think how much more of Minneapolis would have burned if the heavy-handed tactics espoused by Republicans had been employed in Minnesota.