Comments on: Open thread 11/7/22

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:36:27 +0000

Rumor is Trump is going to announce for 2024 tonight in Ohio.

If he’s on the ballot in two years, I’ll vote for him. I think I’d be more at home with deSantis.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:24:48 +0000

Cleopatra, continued…
(For those who are for all intents and purposes mummies—worn out and exhausted by extreme election anxiety)….
“Has Cleopatra’s tomb been FOUND? Tunnel carved in rock deemed a ‘geometric miracle’ is discovered 43 feet below an ancient temple that may lead to the long-lost burial site of Egypt’s last pharaoh and her lover Mark Antony”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11400503/Tunnel-temple-lead-tomb-Egypts-pharaoh-Cleopatra.html

By: neo

neo — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:01:10 +0000

Griffin:

No Trump announcement tonight.

Next week some sort of announcement about it.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:49:01 +0000

From the Trump rally tonight.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1589769840335917056

By: Aggie

Aggie — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 23:16:17 +0000

When I was a student in northern New England, I had my dad’s Air Force great coat, made from wool, from the 50s. It had a kind of integral cape, kind of like the capelet shown near the beginning of the video, but it was long and could also button up.

Man~ That sucker was warm, and its cape features really shed the snow. And the cape-like design allowed the wearer to move very freely. Plus it had a very large collar, that would stand up just higher than the base of my watch cap. I would often walk through the University forest, about 3 miles, and it was perfect for that, even in the snow, warm as toast even in the sub-zeros.

By: Aggie

Aggie — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:03:16 +0000

I’ve found that >95% of the time, when Trump says something that can be made to sound outrageous, it is re-played in this (worst-possible) light at the ’11’ volume setting, endlessly, so that we all get the idea that Trump is an erratic loose cannon. And then, a month down the road or less, it becomes plain what was meant, and the reason behind it, and it is understood that a useful reaction was provoked, and often, secured. And since he’s been out of the limelight, people have lost their de-sensitization to this sort of thing again, and reacted predictably.

I think this is the case with the ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’ crack, which is apparently directed at the GOPe’s funding and grooming efforts of DeSantis with 2024 in mind. I haven’t confirmed it but have read elsewhere that his war chest has become substantial, over $200 million. Apparently nether one of them are particularly perturbed about it.

Neither am I. I’ve given up reacting to things like this for electoral Lent, which is over on Nuclear Tuesday, tomorrow. Don’t forget to convince at least one other person to vote.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:17:10 +0000

Neo, agreed.

By: neo

neo — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:52:55 +0000

Kate:

I think Trump is stuck in 2020. If he doesn’t move forward, he becomes a liability.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:46:27 +0000

I have no idea what Trump will do tonight. I had previously heard he’d announce next Monday, 14 Nov.

But I’m pretty annoyed with him anyhow. Sniping at DeSantis before the midterms? Always talking about what didn’t happen in 2020, rather than what needs to happen in a new Republican presidency beginning January 2025? And I understand that, while he’s doing a lot of personal appearances, which he enjoys, he has not expended much of his huge campaign chest in advertising money for Republican candidates, even those he’s endorsed.

By: neo

neo — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:54:09 +0000

Griffin:

I certainly hope not.

If he’s going to do it, he should wait till after the midterms. The Democrats have used the specter of the return of Trump to drum up votes.