I'll be the first to admit I'll watch one.
I mean, there are tempting fantasies about surprise dumpster fires - the 'what ifs' out of the blue.
Listen, if we learn that Kamala Harris came from a middle class family, I think it'll be the key to winning. Trump would be toast.
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) October 29, 2024
It's that kind of detail people have been yearning to hear, not how she's going to be any different than the current admin she's with.
But then they happen...
REPORTER: “What’s your message to Michigan voters in terms of the economy? We have auto workers who are being laid off and others who fear they might be next. The average person can’t afford groceries or rent…?”
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) October 29, 2024
KAMALA: “Well, let’s start with this: I come from the middle… pic.twitter.com/liYTmOSa2o
...and you're pretty dang sure it's the same old, boring garbage you've heard a thousand times before. In fact. you'd almost lay money on being able to guess the answer before the question is asked, it's so obvious what will be said.
One interview sounds so much like the other, you could overlay them. Not even a smolder of interest left here.
BUT.
When it's Joe Biden's mush mouth tough guy talk that "inadvertently" *spits* turns Kamala Harris's big night and last vestiges of presidential aspirations into a flaming Dempsey dumpster pyre of donkey dung?
Oh, hay-yull, yeah.
I AM THERE IN A DARK MAGA HAT AND WITH BELLS ON
That vile old sack of carbon may be running on his last four brain cells, but three of them really hate Kamala Harris, and they know exactly how to stomp all over her at precisely the right time.
That, my friends, is old-time, feral political cunning.
And how delicious it is to watch it effortlessly deployed against the selected end product of a new era, slickster political coup orchestrated by none other than the Lightbringer himself. Someone so convinced of his superiority and transcendence that he goes about his imperial machinations, never once imagining there could be a price inherent or a tab in the offing as he takes scalps and blind fealty as his rightful portion.
All those little dings and nicks over time - and there were many - build resentment even in a seemingly jovial and not-so-bright recipient.
...But behind all the BFF bonhomie is a much more complicated story—one fueled by the misgivings the 44th president had about the would-be 46th, the deep hurt still felt among Biden’s allies over how Obama embraced Hillary Clinton as his successor, and a powerful sense of pride that is driving Biden to prove that the former president and many of his aides underestimated the very real strengths of his partner.
“He was loyal, I think, to Obama in every way in terms of defending and standing by him, even probably when he disagreed with what Obama was doing,” recalled Leon Panetta, Obama’s secretary of Defense. “To some extent, [he] oftentimes felt that that loyalty was not being rewarded.”
...Interviews with dozens of senior officials of the Obama-Biden administration painted a picture of eight years during which the president and vice president enjoyed a genuinely close personal relationship, built particularly around devotion to family, while at the same time many senior aides, sometimes tacitly encouraged by the president’s behavior, dismissed Biden as eccentric and a practitioner of an old, outmoded style of politics.
“You could certainly see technocratic eye-rolling at times,” said Jen Psaki, the former White House communications director. Young White House aides frequently mocked Biden’s gaffes and lack of discipline in comparison to the almost clerical Obama. They would chortle at how Biden, like an elderly uncle at Thanksgiving, would launch into extended monologues that everyone had heard before.
When Biden finally caught the brass ring, who moved him out of his seat to install a handpicked usurper?
The same Obama he'd been so loyal to. And that was one last bloody nick too far.
Biden is still the by-God president who is not only a "practitioner" of but a master of that "old, outmoded style of politics" them young 'uns mocked and still chortle dismissively over.
Man, are them smart-alecky young 'uns ever screaming now.
As the leader of the Democratic Party, President Biden had ONE job tonight: to STFU and let the current nominee have the news cycle. However you interpret his words, he wasn’t able to do that. https://t.co/aYXTxUQHJS
— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) October 30, 2024
BURN, BABY, BURN! DUMPSTER INFERNO!
POTATUS can blink innocently through all the ensuing brouhaha he's caused...
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 30, 2024
...that's completely hijacked coverage and social media saturation of Harris's last, best, desperate major public appearance...
...and, just like Urkel, mewl a sincere sounding, "Did I do that?" Then let everyone else clean up his mess.
...In a desperate attempt to clean up the president's mess, a White House spokesperson issued a damage control statement that added an apostrophe to the word 'supporter's' to imply that Biden was only referring to one person - comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who made a joke about Puerto Rico being an 'island of garbage.'
Toadies like Politico were already swinging into action almost immediately last night, and "news" media like Bloomberg and Reuters helped out this morning by...well...what garbage?
NO GARBAGE HERE
SEE NO POTATUS, HEAR NO POTATUS
Apparently NPR hasn't heard a thing about garbage either.
We have a veritable documented news embargo protecting the Harris campaign from further damage.
The Left is so panicked they're even trotting out another 'beauty queen groped by Trump' this morning.
Beauty queen claims Donald Trump groped her after luring her back to suite at New York's Plaza Hotel https://t.co/XLXw2DAGXu pic.twitter.com/6focas9msR
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 30, 2024
What a hoot and what losers. Hope they paid her a butt-load.
The Left knows it's too late. Those flames are already reaching way up past the roof of the building next door.
"You don't just get to say that!"
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) October 30, 2024
But sweetie - YOUR SIDE does it ALL THE TIME.
And Scott's merely pointing out the truth.
Dems and Progs - Biden, Harris, Walz - NAZI, WHITE EXTREMIST, RACIST, MISOGYNIST - name the "-ist" and you and yours are calling us that EVERY. SINGLE.… https://t.co/8UGvFpeO9R
...Dems and Progs - Biden, Harris, Walz - NAZI, WHITE EXTREMIST, RACIST, MISOGYNIST - name the "-ist" and you and yours are calling us that EVERY. SINGLE. SPEECH or roundtable every single day.
And then so upset when someone points TRUTH out.
Won't fly anymore. NO. MORE.
There's one more interesting parallel to this Democratic dumpster fire, and it's the dumpster fire itself.
Most of you should recognise it from the thousands of times you've seen it in Xweets or posts. It was a 2012 fire behind the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, CA.
But it only became famous after emerging as a running, sneering DEMOCRATIC meme in 2016 to describe?
The state of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
We are a little less than three weeks away from the election and by now there is very little that hasn’t been said or blogged or tweeted or sky-written about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. At this point, the election cycle is better summed up with a GIF. A very particular GIF, which you’ve probably seen at least once in the past few months online: the dumpster fire.
Mother Jones hailed the dumpster fire as the “meme of 2016.” New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait has published several columns detailing the most recent dumpster-fire-isms of the Trump campaign. Slate went so far as to say that comparing Trump to a dumpster fire was an insult to the latter, since “fires get the job done.” Google Trends charts a significant increase in searches for the term over the last six months. (Oddly, the searches are almost entirely in the United States. Can’t imagine why.) And now, Entrepreneur’s Jason Feifer has tracked down the origin story of the flaming blue dumpster that has become the glowing symbol of our democratic system.
Weren't those progressive kiddies too clever by half again?
Heh.
Somewhere, POTATUS is wondering what that awful smell coming from the windows is.
When those three brain cells give that snoozy fourth one a nudge, he remembers... and he smiles.
“Pretty good October Surprise right?” pic.twitter.com/ZEAbNJEMzs
— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) October 30, 2024
BURN, BABY, BURN
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