The Frankish Reich

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Tucker with a high voice and girlish giggle. Too much sun on those nads, bro!

Mentally fit for the job = yes.

I won't hold my breath, but I really do think this is the rare constitutional amendment that could get ratified. Something like "no one who will have reached the age of 75 by the end of his or her appointed term is eligible to serve for national elected office."

So old I have no idea who or what that is. Enjoy the 80s revival tonight! Put on some REO and Journey to get fired up first.

Thank you, Bad Wig Hall of Fame Member Frank Luntz, for reminding us that the Democratic National Convention has never invited a WWE Hall of Famer to speak.

I never denied that. I said it's within the normal range for men in their early 80s. Fat part of the bell curve. Repeat: no one in their 80s has any business being president, including the other guy who will be older than Biden is today by the time he finishes his term.

I somehow missed that Ol' Sunburned Ball Bag himself, Tucker Carlson, will be on too. Maybe he can engage Dana White in a slap fest. Our Republican Thought Leaders, 2024 edition.

You're so old. Hulk Hogan? Really?? I actually thought he was dead. Meanwhile: Melania will be there (fully clothed?). Not in a speaking role despite "being asked numerous times." Maybe she'll flash that smile she flashes once a decade or so. At least swat away that Trump ham hand when he tries to hold her hand.

Funny you should mention Reagan. Clearly losing it in his second term, yet the world didn't fall apart. In fact, some very good things started happening, like the fall of the Soviet Union and the liberalization of Poland with the rest of the old bloc following. Just like a very incompetent Woodrow Wilson somehow presided over a winning effort in WW1, and a seriously declining FDR took us to victory in Europe. Or how a declining Joe Biden brought about the strongest, most united NATO in history.

Mark Halperin used to be a good source until he go me-too'd and nobody would talk to him anymore.

Day 4, The Return of 80s White Trash Culture. You actually have to have exposed yourself in public in order to be on the speaking schedule. Melania lesbo pics. Amber Rose public hair pics. Hulk Hogan sex tape. Linda McMahon on too, because you really can't have the roided up Harvey Weinstein, Vince McMahon. But that was probably a close call for them.

Sometimes just a look at Trump cause women to grab themselves by the you-know-what.

In private he isn't sitting around watching TV while the Capitol burns.

And if you really believe he is totally unfit, being a patriotic American you would be completely supportive of replacing him as the nominee, lest Trump do something truly idiotic and "incompetent" Biden is elected again.

Oooh, I'm convinced.

So look at those 2016 primary numbers and tell me how you call that "domocratic." You can defend our primary process on one of those "everyone knew the rules and the rules deemed Trump/Biden/Clinton/Whomever the winner." But the bottom line is that a plurality in a number of states gives one a disproportionate number of delegates, plus you've got the superdelegates, etc. It's focused on crowning a winner quickly, not on enacting the will of the people.

He's too old. The debate revealed that he looks and sounds older and more tired than people had really internalized. So it's sunk in ... no 81 year old should be running for President. Especially this 81 year old. Yes, and a lot of people think his mental fitness is not o.k. For me it's a sliding scale, and it's not ideal, but yes, it's o.k. to continue as President. I've seen no outrageous errors from his White House other than the Afghanistan withdrawal, and that was obviously something that was done based on very flawed information from the "experts."

2016 Republican Primaries. Here's what our "democratic" primary system did. - Iowa caucus: Trump 24%, others 76% - NH: Trump 35% - SC: 32.5% ("winner take all" so he got all the delegates even though 2/3 of Republican voters preferred someone else) - NV: 45.7 then the Super Tuesday states: - AL: 43.4 - AK: 33.6 - AR: 32.8 - GA: 39 - MA: 49 - MN: 21 - OK: 28 - TN: 39 - TX: 27 - VT: 33 - VA: 35 But he "won" 7 of those states (without a majority in any) with an aggregate vote percent of 34.4%. Again, 2 in 3 Republican voters wanted someone else. And that continued with the March 5-12 primaries where he "won" 5 states (Cruz 3), again without a majority in any. The next Super Tuesday, Trump "won" 4 states/territories with his only majority vote in ... the North Marianas Islands. Kasich won his native Ohio. And it was pretty much over without Trump EVER winning a majority in any state/territory other than super-critical Marianas Islands. Only Cruz and Kasich remained, so Trump finally got a majority in NY on April 19, which mathematically eliminated Cruz. And that's what our incredibly undemocratic primary process hath wrought.

"Undemocratic." What is more undemocratic than imposing a two-party system on Americans, with state sanctioned parties on state sanctioned ballots, that results in a choice between two candidates who don't even come close to 51% approval? George Washington famously warned about the creation of political parties. I think at this point I would prefer the states to disengage from this nonsense and to run a "jungle primary" in which there is one single ballot, Republicans/Democrats/Others, with the top two vote-getters advancing to a final election day run-off. Now that would be democracy. Read my next comment ^ I'm not calling for a return to the smoke-filled room. The solution is more democracy.

Good riddance. With our system, we got Trump in 2016 because half a dozen other competitors split the 60+% of the Republican vote that didn't go for Trump. With our system, we got Biden in 2020 for much the same reason. The modern Primary system was a response to the whole 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots and all the talk of the smoke-filled room poohbahs thwarting the will of the (young) Democrats. Since then we've discovered that a pure primary system is a neat way to make sure that your nominee is a candidate that the majority of your electorate doesn't actually want or like, and it is the nature of our primary system to reward candidates who are toward the far right or far left. It's high time to rethink how we've been doing things.

Because he's losing. As I've said, he's been an effective Democratic president. Even if you disagree with his policy agenda (and I disagree with about half of it, maybe more), he has been successful in getting it implemented despite having a Republican House since 2022 and an extremely slim Senate majority.

Among the things that increasing wealth has destroyed: the English bad teeth thing. It was fun while it lasted. It's actually kind of hard to find bad teeth in people under about 40 in England now. Sad.

Just as Trump - even after the election loss - remained the clear leader of the Republican Party, so has Obama remained the clear leader of the Democratic Party. Unless he quickly and publicly disavows this story, it will be the final nail in the Biden reelection campaign coffin. I did mean 2016. When a guy is the nominee 3 election cycles in a row, it gets a little confusing ....

I feel sorry only for the fact that he was pushed aside in 2016 because all the big Democratic groups were dead set on electing Hillary as the first woman president. In retrospect, a 2016 Biden would have beaten Trump, and even if he got two terms he'd be on his way out now. He blamed in on Beau, but I think the main reason was that unlike almost all VPs he wasn't going to be recognized for his loyal service to Obama for 8 years. Having said that, it's his own damn fault that he let his ego (much like Trump, didn't want to be seen as a one-term president since those are losers in our history books) get in the way when he decided to make a second run. Alternative history: Trump loss would've saved the Republican Party as we've known it, would've led to better candidates in 2020 and 2024, and would've put America in a better place today. Hillary, it's still on you.