The Democrat cartel

[Tommy Callahan]

 

[Tommy Callahan]

 

[Tommy Callahan]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

BLUE ON BLUE: Kamala Harris v. Gavin Newsom: The Coming Democratic Civil War.

 

The Democratic Party is united — for now. Fear and loathing of Donald Trump keeps the various Democratic factions in a precarious peace. But labor v. environment, Jewish vote v. Muslim vote, and center-left v. hardcore progressivism cannot remain at bay forever. The fiercest battle may well be the looming civil war between Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the party leadership once President Biden leaves the stage.

And it won’t be pretty.

 

When Biden named Harris his running mate, he conferred on her heir-apparent status. The pick made sense. VP nominees are mostly about pulling together party divisions or offsetting the nominee’s weaknesses. As an old, white male Catholic, Biden running with a minority female checked some important identity boxes. And, in 2020 with a campaign hobbled due to covid restrictions, Harris did just fine. The “not Trump” campaign worked.

 

However, given an opportunity to establish herself as the next Democratic hope, Harris has proven rather maladroit. Something about her isn’t quite right. Her speeches are mediocre, with poorly thought-out ad libs. Her awkwardness with voters is positively Hillary Clintonesque. After spending her life in the progressive hothouse of California, Harris has shown little ability to build appeal in the other more centrist 49 states. Given the unpleasant portfolio of illegal immigration early in the administration, she failed to distinguish herself. If she has any real policy responsibility today, it’s not apparent.

 

But what must rankle Harris the most and speaks to how badly she must be viewed in Democratic power corridors is the utter lack of interest in her replacing Biden on the ticket. Joe Biden’s numbers are bad, very bad. His approval has been under water for the past two years. He is running behind Trump on multiple ballot test polls — despite Trump’s myriad problems. The double-minority woman Harris replacing Biden should be the talk of the town. But it isn’t.

 

As he almost always does, Biden chose poorly with Harris. In fact, aside from Stacy Abrams, it’s difficult to imagine a worse Veep pick after Biden promised to choose a woman of color.

 

But if the Democrat-Media Complex manages to pull that hapless pair over the finish line just one more time, President Kamala Harris (shudder) will almost certainly fill out part or even most of Biden’s second term.

 

https://themessenger.com/opinion/kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democratic-civil-war-california-ambition-president

[Doc]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

BLUE ON BLUE: Kamala Harris v. Gavin Newsom: The Coming Democratic Civil War.

 

The Democratic Party is united — for now. Fear and loathing of Donald Trump keeps the various Democratic factions in a precarious peace. But labor v. environment, Jewish vote v. Muslim vote, and center-left v. hardcore progressivism cannot remain at bay forever. The fiercest battle may well be the looming civil war between Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the party leadership once President Biden leaves the stage.

And it won’t be pretty.

 

When Biden named Harris his running mate, he conferred on her heir-apparent status. The pick made sense. VP nominees are mostly about pulling together party divisions or offsetting the nominee’s weaknesses. As an old, white male Catholic, Biden running with a minority female checked some important identity boxes. And, in 2020 with a campaign hobbled due to covid restrictions, Harris did just fine. The “not Trump” campaign worked.

 

However, given an opportunity to establish herself as the next Democratic hope, Harris has proven rather maladroit. Something about her isn’t quite right. Her speeches are mediocre, with poorly thought-out ad libs. Her awkwardness with voters is positively Hillary Clintonesque. After spending her life in the progressive hothouse of California, Harris has shown little ability to build appeal in the other more centrist 49 states. Given the unpleasant portfolio of illegal immigration early in the administration, she failed to distinguish herself. If she has any real policy responsibility today, it’s not apparent.

 

But what must rankle Harris the most and speaks to how badly she must be viewed in Democratic power corridors is the utter lack of interest in her replacing Biden on the ticket. Joe Biden’s numbers are bad, very bad. His approval has been under water for the past two years. He is running behind Trump on multiple ballot test polls — despite Trump’s myriad problems. The double-minority woman Harris replacing Biden should be the talk of the town. But it isn’t.

 

As he almost always does, Biden chose poorly with Harris. In fact, aside from Stacy Abrams, it’s difficult to imagine a worse Veep pick after Biden promised to choose a woman of color.

 

But if the Democrat-Media Complex manages to pull that hapless pair over the finish line just one more time, President Kamala Harris (shudder) will almost certainly fill out part or even most of Biden’s second term.

 

https://themessenger.com/opinion/kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-democratic-civil-war-california-ambition-president

 

True except for the opening sentence.  The Dem party is tearing itself apart from within because of all the anti-semitism.  When they try and replace Kammy with a white guy...

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

[Doc]

9 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

She put out an ad telling people the wrong day to vote. 🤣

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[BillStime]

9 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

                                    

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

“Once is happenstance.

 

Twice is coincidence.

 

Three times is enemy action.”

 

We are on #6

 

 

 

[Tommy Callahan]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

[John from Riverside]

On 11/28/2023 at 12:57 PM, Doc said:

 

True except for the opening sentence.  The Dem party is tearing itself apart from within because of all the anti-semitism.  When they try and replace Kammy with a white guy...

A party tearing itself apart you Republicans sure do like the project

3 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

Ahem…trump?

[B-Man]

 

 

We don't owe you peasants any transparency

 

 

SecDef Hospitalized; Press Protests Lack Of Info To Public. 

 

 

“The Pentagon Press Association (which represents the press corp at the Pentagon) went on to say in it’s letter protesting the lack of information: ‘At a time when there are growing threats to U.S. military service members in the Middle East and the U.S. is playing key national security roles in the wars in Israel and Ukraine, it is particularly critical for the American public to be informed about the health status and decision-making ability of its top defense leader.'”

 

https://smarthernews.com/secdef-hospitalized-public-not-alerted/

 

 

 

 

Related: A Pentagon mystery: Why was Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stay kept secret for days?

 

https://apnews.com/article/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-secrecy-disclosure-6ff7eddfde1231453f967747886420ee

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

"Lloyd Austin Owes Americans an Explanation/The secretary of defense has taken 'full responsibility' for failing to inform the public of his hospitalization, but that’s not enough."

Writes Tom Nichols in The Atlantic.

 

[W]hat possible reason could there be for Austin’s failing to inform President Joe Biden and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan...?... If Austin’s illness was kept under wraps by his aides to shield him from criticism or scrutiny, that’s evidence of a dysfunctional staff environment, in which actions to protect the boss’s equities overtake both necessary procedures and plain good sense. The fact that Austin’s hospitalization, according to Politico, was “a closely guarded secret, kept from even

senior Pentagon officials and congressional leaders,” suggests that this strange episode was the result of more than just an oversight.... 

 

 

Click for more » https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/lloyd-austin-walter-reed/677052/

 

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[Tommy Callahan]

Anything to make up for the fact people are fleeing these districts, states 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

 

Biden’s Campaign Doesn’t ‘Brief’ The Media, It Colludes With Them.

Whatever the Biden campaign wants from the media, it will get. They’re always coordinating and strategizing according to Democrats’ preferences.

 

 

A short item this week on the news site Semafor had an interesting way of describing the existing dynamic between the national news media and Joe Biden’s angry reelection campaign.

 

It said Biden’s team has “begun organizing a series of off-the-record trips for top political reporters and editors” to meet up at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, for the purpose of “background briefings on campaign strategy.”

 

I’d like to think that the person who authored the article is just hopelessly naive, but it’s Ben Smith, who has been running in these circles for what feels like three lifetimes. So he certainly knows that contrary to his depiction, these aren’t boring scenes where curious reporters show up to get a rundown of Biden’s campaign schedule and themes. That’s not what happens.

 

What happens is the nation’s most influential media outlets send representatives to a Democrat candidate’s facilities — in this case, Biden’s campaign headquarters — to coordinate what their coming “news coverage” should look like, according to the Democrat’s needs and preferences.

 

Thusly, Smith wrote that in these recent meetings, “Campaign officials have chafed at some of the coverage of former President Donald Trump, feeling that outlets are too focused on his legal troubles and haven’t paid enough attention to some of his incendiary recent statements on the campaign trail.”

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/09/bidens-campaign-doesnt-brief-the-media-it-colludes-with-them/

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

OH Hakeem.

 

 

[Doc]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

OH Hakeem.

 

 

Should be on DefiantLs or LibsofTikTok...

[B-Man]