Comments on: More long knives coming out for Kamala https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:24:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: TommyJay https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562967 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:24:36 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562967 I recall people talking about that charismatic young man who gave a great speech at the Democrat convention. I completely dismissed Barack Obama then.

I consider Buttigieg to be an exceedingly dangerous politician, if he can gain enough power. The mere fact that he scored a cabinet position was worrisome to me when it happened. I just think we need to keep an eye on him, even if we think he is currently rather powerless.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562945 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:37:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562945 Another scary possibility if Kamala gets pushed out, is Pete Buttigieg. I’d say this would be extremely unlikely. Perhaps talk of Michelle and Mayor Pete are just right wing fever dreams/nightmares.

TommyJay:

Perhaps. But then who? This is why I keep going to the well with Michelle.

It doesn’t look like the Biden administration has the juice to rig Congress, the Supreme Court and the vote to become the Forever Party they desire. So it’s crucial to win in 2024 lest a Republican take a hammer to their work with even more vengeance than Trump did.

Will the Dems leave it to chance that a Dark Horse will emerge and take charge? If so, again, who?

If not, why are they undermining Harris?

]]> By: Art+Deco https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562943 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:04:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562943 However, Transpo. Sec. Pete is talking up not only climate change and infrastructure building, but is also talking about seeing everything through an “equity lens.” Is that just Pete being Pete, or is he angling for the big power?

Pete’s just building his resumé, as always. Question is, when does he dump Chasten for someone not so twee? He’s on the national stage now.

]]> By: TommyJay https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562937 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:51:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562937 Another scary possibility if Kamala gets pushed out, is Pete Buttigieg. I’d say this would be extremely unlikely. Perhaps talk of Michelle and Mayor Pete are just right wing fever dreams/nightmares.

However, Transpo. Sec. Pete is talking up not only climate change and infrastructure building, but is also talking about seeing everything through an “equity lens.” Is that just Pete being Pete, or is he angling for the big power?

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562914 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:49:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562914 I thought Airman Lawrence got all his relationship advice from a stout bundle of birch twigs and Lance Corporal Wallop. Or something like that.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562912 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:39:35 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562912 ‘…”relationship advisor”…’

Whatever that might happen to be, they both were in dire need of one…though they both had excellent excuses given the exigencies of their respective formative years (and of course D.H.L., later on, contracted tuberculosis, which often upsets the entire game board).

In T.E.’s case, after trying out several speedboats for personal self-actualization, he ultimately opted for a “comfort” motorcycle (several, actually), with ultimately less than satisfactory results….

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562909 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:54:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562909 I read Goodbye To All That many years ago. A great read and a precursor to Catch-22.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562907 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:29:10 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562907 Graves blotted his copybook with his essay The Case for Xanthippe. But nobody’s perfect. Just delayed shell shock I guess.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562905 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:05:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562905 I hope the librarians appreciated its rarity, and didn’t just trash it.

AesopFan:

My bet is the book was stolen by someone who recognized its rarity.
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Rare first issue, with the suppressed Siegfried Sassoon poem on pages 341-343 and unexpurgated passage on page 290.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book near-fine with a little soiling at cloth edges; text largely unopened. Dust jacket with small chip to front panel and a little toning to spine. An exceptionally nice copy of an extremely difficult book to find in collectible condition.

https://www.manhattanrarebooks.com/pages/books/983/robert-graves/goodbye-to-all-that
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No price listed because that copy was already sold. I’ve been curious to read “Goodbye.”

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/more-long-knives-coming-out-for-kamala/#comment-2562898 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:16:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=108339#comment-2562898 I meant T. E. Lawrence “of Arabia” – sometimes I dyslexicize him with D. H. (I actually read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” back in my college days, and was not tremendously impressed).

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