We have between 6 and 8 inches of very heavy, wet Snow this morning. I am in N. CO, not the mountains. I can see a number of branches broken. Needed the moisture, but not the broken branches. A real, expensive, mess.
There remains some clarity here for those disposed to find it, that is, for those willing to discount the leaked stories aimed by lingering Obamites’ JCPOA aspirations to undermine the administrations’ strategic objectives so solidly put and maintained from the beginning of this war right through today. We don’t have to accept the bullshit, we can just recognize and toss it from the jump.
Worthwhile Reading: a collection of links that I find interesting
Did you ever get that new computer? If so, which one did you choose?
🙂
RE: My comment about the decline of the Secret Service on another, earlier thread.
I, like many other people, probably had–until, say, ten or so years ago, when things started to obviously go downhill–an almost mythic impression of Federal Agencies like the FBI and the Secret Service, which decades of very successful PR had fostered.
I can still remember coming home from grade school in the 1950s, to listen to not only “The Green Hornet,” but also to the “The FBI in Peace and War” on our old radio. Then later, on TV, there were other straight arrow FBI portrayals.
Those far more naive days are gone, and the well earned suspicion is that these and many other major government agencies were not the straight arrow, 100 percent patriotic, upstanding, highly competent, and efficient organizations they were very successfully portrayed back then as being and–as we have increasingly seen–they are certainly not that way today.
My impression–correct me if I am wrong–is that, in general, as the decades have rolled on, many Agencies of our government–and perhaps the government as a whole–have become progressively more corrupt, bloated, and hidebound; an Administrative State which has grown parasitic, and, far too often, more of an impediment than a help, or strong pillar supporting citizen’s “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” our democratic Republic, and the Constitution.
Just to say, Ted Turner was a great sailor alongside everything else.
They sing in German (with French subtitles) a text based on Psalm 37:4, which reads (in English) “Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.” Good thought to start the day.
…many Agencies of our government–and perhaps the government as a whole–have become progressively more corrupt, bloated, and hidebound; an Administrative State which has grown parasitic, and, far too often, more of an impediment than a help…
I agree. President Reagan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” 🙂
Some great primary election results for conservatives in Indiana
Trump-backed candidates romp to wins in Indiana Senate races
President prevails in his call for retribution over congressional redistricting defeat.
Indiana Republican voters decisively sided with President Donald Trump’s call for political vengeance against state senators who defied him and voted down congressional redistricting.
Results from Tuesday’s primaries showed six Republican challengers endorsed by Trump defeating incumbent candidates, with another Trump-backed candidate winning an open seat primary. Only one of the eight senators opposed by pro-redistricting groups — Greg Goode of Terre Haute — was a certain winner.
Those incumbent senators defeated were Travis Holdman of Markle, Jim Buck of Kokomo, Linda Rogers of Granger, Dan Dernulc of Highland, Rick Niemeyer of Lowell and Greg Walker of Columbus. All those winning challengers received at least 56% of the vote, according to preliminary tallies compiled by The Associated Press.
Sen. Spencer Deery of West Lafayette was ahead of challenger Paula Copenhaver by just three votes — 6,334-6,331 — and both candidates made declarations of victory.
When I was a kid growing up in a very samll town, there was teacher at the high school who my parents thought was an idiot. He left teaching to join the FBI. At that time, my parent’s opinion of the FBI dropped significantly. Anyhow, this guy rose through the ranks and eventually led one of the units. I find it interesting that AFTER he retired, that unit had FAR more success in solving the crimes it was supposed to.
Re: FBI
I knew a guy in the Treasury Service. He called FBI agents the “feebs” because their MO was to let local LEOs put the case together, then swoop in and take the credit.
One news report said that Kamala Harris…however that name is spelled, is the Dems’s pick for -their presidential candidate for 2028.
How about it?
Does she have a good chance of becoming president, in 2028?
@TR:Does she have a good chance of becoming president, in 2028?
I don’t see how anyone could plausibly predict this at this time, given all the contingencies. If she won the primary in 2028, she’d have a good chance, but there’s a lot that would need to happen between then and now that would have to go her way, and that doesn’t even count events that no one could possibly predict that could influence the chances.
Think to where we are in the cycle and to previous Presidential elections and who was the favorite:
2002: Dem favorite was Howard Dean
2006: Dem favorite was probably Hillary Clinton
2014: Dem favorite was probably Hillary Clinton, GOP favorite was Jeb Bush
2018: Dem favorite was Elizabeth Warren, unless it was Bernie Sanders
And only Hillary Clinton ended up even winning the nomination, in 2016.
TR: “Does she [Kamala] have a good chance of becoming president, in 2028?”
Slightly better than I do.
Nik: “If she won the primary in 2028”
You are too funny nik
I’m sure he helped some people, and that a lot of people like him, but I’m not a fan of Ted Turner.
Others can be fans of his, if they like.
He was very much one to use news- to attack positions of Republicans + USA conservatives.
I also believe he was an atheist, + would sharply browbeat anyone who was not.
One new piece said that: He went into a CNN office one day, [+ he owned CNN].
His exchange with some people went like this:
He saw some of his business workers wearing, on their faces, the religious ashes from the Christians’ holy day, Ash Wednesday.
His reaction to that was to scowl at these people + to attack them verbally, by saying: “You JESUS FREAKS! You SHOULD GO and WORK FOR FOX network!”
And then he stormed out of the room.
Oh wow. Really?
I don’t think Ted Turner was an understanding man, or a person who tolerated or accepted religious people, or their religious beliefs.
Other people can like him, I have no problem with that.
He likely helped a lot of people, and charities, but in my opinion, heroes + celebrity heroes, [should not] treat people, and their religious beliefs, like that.
Like me, hate me, or dislike me, or make me write bad checks,…that’s fine,… people can have their own opinions of me. That’s fine with me.
I think that people should learn to tolerate, + coexist, with people who have have the positions of: religious, theist, atheist, non-religious, or other kinds of positions on religious beliefs, and beliefs + positions that are not their own.
I feel that the right to have your own views + thoughts, including your own philosophy + religion, is a right that every person should have.
I think that is a right and freedom that every person, and every human, should have.
That’s all I have to say about this, for today.
Cheers.
Hi neo,
I’ve recently been using a different, email company, because I think- my old one blocks me, thinking my browser is too old.
I just wanted to tell about that.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
[I would] vote for you for president, FOAF.
😀
Thanks TR. I suspect you are the only one.
@ Shirehome > We have more snow on our yard this morning than on any single day during the winter.
The trees were beautiful – and fortunately we didn’t lose any limbs, although a neighbor did.
Considering Harris had to drop out before any primary votes in 2024, it seems her prospects of getting through the 2028 primaries are poor, although of course the Dems don’t have a strong field yet.
@ selfy > President Reagan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
I saw that phrase overlaid on a photo of Dr. Fauci.
QED
DON SURBER: Hoosier Daddy? Donald Trump: Indiana Republicans primary-ed five state senators who consorted with Democrats.
UPDATE: MAGA Is Dying? Look At What They Did to Anti-Redistricting Indiana Republicans Last Night.
“MAGA is dying?” Wishcasting all the way.
I always wondered how the Ted Turner-Jane Fonda marriage worked. Though not enough to research it.
huxley:
I think you’d have to go undercover to research it. 🙂
Some good news I hope. Rudy Giuliani is no longer in the intensive care unit.
Giuliani Leaves ICU: ‘Nothing Short of Miracle’
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is showing a recovery of what one source described as “nothing short of a miracle” after being hospitalized last weekend.
Giuliani, 81, had severe respiratory distress, which doctors later diagnosed as a life-threatening medical emergency caused by double pneumonia.
He has now been moved out of the intensive care unit.
“It was touch and go,” the source said of this past weekend. “But his recovery over the last several days has been remarkable.”
News of Giuliani’s improving health has sparked relief among longtime friends and political allies, many of whom had been monitoring updates closely since word spread of his hospitalization.
Despite the ordeal, the famously combative former prosecutor is already said to be focused on returning to public life — and particularly to defending President Donald Trump in the media.
I adore Heinrich Schutz, and have felt a deep spritual kinship with his music since I first heard it in my teens. At my wedding two pieces from the Symphoniae Sacrae were performed and a piece from the Geistliche Chormusik was performed at my wife’s memorial service.
I’d love to have “Selig sind die Toten” from the Geistliche Chormusik performed at my funeral, and have left instructions in my will. But, since it won’t be me there to play impresario, I doubt it’ll happen.
Lovey music, but their sound engineer should be fired.
”GOP favorite was Jeb Bush”
Ahhh, no. The early GOP favorites were Scott Walker and Ted Cruz. Walker flamed out, but Cruz kept his #2 position through the convention. Jeb Bush was maybe 7th.
YoungHegelian:
When I was in my 20s, I bought a Schutz record by mistake. When I put it on I was very disappointed. But over time I listened to it and it grew and grew on me until he was one of my favorites. This song was on the record, and it was my favorite one.
@Neo,
I bet I know which one it was. I’ll bet it was this one:
because it draws mostly from the Kleine Geistliche Konzerte and “Habe Deine Lust” (from the KGK) is the first piece on the recording. I have it on CD and I definitely didn’t buy it by mistake.
@ mkent > “Jeb Bush was maybe 7th.”
Probably at some time. I don’t have the poll numbers from 2016 at hand.
IMO, following preference polls for any political office is like watching a horse race: they change relative positions so often, almost every horse is at almost every number at some time or another; the odds-on favorites can scratch at the post; and the winner often comes from way behind in the stretch.
It might be more accurate to say that the GOPe favorite was Jeb Bush, but he wasn’t who the betting crowd was cheering for.
@mkent:The early GOP favorites were Scott Walker and Ted Cruz.
Not as early as TR was talking about: he’s talking two years before the election. But regardless, neither Walker nor Cruz got anywhere near the nomination. Put in whoever you have the best evidence for. It certainly was not the one who got the nomination.
@Niketas: I don’t see how anyone could plausibly predict this at this time, given all the contingencies.
I agree that it’s too early to predict the 2028 D candidate for President, but I’m quite comfortable predicting it won’t be Kamala Harris.
She blew through over $1 billion, not including super PAC money, in a few months and decisively lost the electoral college and the popular vote. Donors remember signing those checks and watching the bonfire of their money.
Plus Harris never showed any signs of improving as a candidate and still hasn’t. Nixon and Trump came back from losing elections, but they were hardworking, savvy politicians, two of the best we’ve seen.
Hmm. One must go back to Grover Cleveland to find a Democrat who lost a presidential election then came back to win the presidency later.
Those far more naive days are gone, and the well earned suspicion is that these and many other major government agencies were not the straight arrow, 100 percent patriotic, upstanding, highly competent, and efficient organizations they were very successfully portrayed back then as being and–as we have increasingly seen–they are certainly not that way today.
— Snow On Pine
They were (of course) never as wonderful as fiction portrayed them, nothing ever is. There is always some corruption and malfeasance. But American institutions did once work much better than they do today. That includes both governmental institutions and private ones.
(Contrast the Walt Disney Corporation of 1960 with the WDC of 2026, for ex.)
There are several reasons for that, but the most important ones have to do with the fact that the educated elite classes that run the institutions no longer share any interests or values with the commoners they rule over. Most of the rest of the problems derive from that.
One news report said that Kamala Harris…however that name is spelled, is the Dems’s pick for -their presidential candidate for 2028.
— TR
Who else would it be at this point? She at least has name recognition, none of the other potential contenders are at all well known to the general Dem electorate yet, not as Presidential possibilities, anyway. That’s what campaigns are for.
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your thoughts about: Kamala Harris’, possible- run for President in 2028.
It looks like her 2024 run didn’t go as a lot of the Democrats had wanted it to go, so it’s good to hear what other people think about this possible run.
Cheers, TR
“Earnest” Eric Swalwell certainly has name recognition.
As does Tim “Last” Walz.
Or maybe they’ll push Graham “Face” Platner all the way up there in 2028, why not?
They might even run NOZIO Madmani. (He’s already demonstrated that he has ALL it takes…)
Even more effective: they’ll rebrand them as NOT-TRUMP Swalwell or NOT-TRUMP Walz, etc.
(Maybe even “But He’s OUR Nazi” Platner…)
Yep, that should do it.
(Talk about a deep bench…and we haven’t begun to talk about “Act Out” AOC…)
…They might even be able to stitch together a virtually unbeatable Newsom-Madmani ticket, that is, if they can persuade the latter to commit to transitioning before the campaign begins…
Clearly, they can run on their off-the-chart political instincts, unimpeachable moral values and impeccable credentials…
“…California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits…”— https://instapundit.com/795191/
File under: Dream Team.
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We have between 6 and 8 inches of very heavy, wet Snow this morning. I am in N. CO, not the mountains. I can see a number of branches broken. Needed the moisture, but not the broken branches. A real, expensive, mess.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/us-news/trump-tells-post-too-soon-to-prep-for-iran-peace-signing-after-reports-deal-near/
There remains some clarity here for those disposed to find it, that is, for those willing to discount the leaked stories aimed by lingering Obamites’ JCPOA aspirations to undermine the administrations’ strategic objectives so solidly put and maintained from the beginning of this war right through today. We don’t have to accept the bullshit, we can just recognize and toss it from the jump.
Worthwhile Reading: a collection of links that I find interesting
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/76599.html
Thanks for the different video today.
So, Neo…
Did you ever get that new computer? If so, which one did you choose?
🙂
RE: My comment about the decline of the Secret Service on another, earlier thread.
I, like many other people, probably had–until, say, ten or so years ago, when things started to obviously go downhill–an almost mythic impression of Federal Agencies like the FBI and the Secret Service, which decades of very successful PR had fostered.
I can still remember coming home from grade school in the 1950s, to listen to not only “The Green Hornet,” but also to the “The FBI in Peace and War” on our old radio. Then later, on TV, there were other straight arrow FBI portrayals.
Those far more naive days are gone, and the well earned suspicion is that these and many other major government agencies were not the straight arrow, 100 percent patriotic, upstanding, highly competent, and efficient organizations they were very successfully portrayed back then as being and–as we have increasingly seen–they are certainly not that way today.
My impression–correct me if I am wrong–is that, in general, as the decades have rolled on, many Agencies of our government–and perhaps the government as a whole–have become progressively more corrupt, bloated, and hidebound; an Administrative State which has grown parasitic, and, far too often, more of an impediment than a help, or strong pillar supporting citizen’s “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” our democratic Republic, and the Constitution.
Just to say, Ted Turner was a great sailor alongside everything else.
They sing in German (with French subtitles) a text based on Psalm 37:4, which reads (in English) “Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.” Good thought to start the day.
…many Agencies of our government–and perhaps the government as a whole–have become progressively more corrupt, bloated, and hidebound; an Administrative State which has grown parasitic, and, far too often, more of an impediment than a help…
I agree. President Reagan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” 🙂
Related (JCPOA):
https://x.com/StrickerNonpro/status/2050241514761228448
H/T Powerline blog.
Snow on Pine, repeat after me:
The Corps is Mother. The Corps is Father.
That’s better. 😉
Some great primary election results for conservatives in Indiana
Trump-backed candidates romp to wins in Indiana Senate races
President prevails in his call for retribution over congressional redistricting defeat.
Indiana Republican voters decisively sided with President Donald Trump’s call for political vengeance against state senators who defied him and voted down congressional redistricting.
Results from Tuesday’s primaries showed six Republican challengers endorsed by Trump defeating incumbent candidates, with another Trump-backed candidate winning an open seat primary. Only one of the eight senators opposed by pro-redistricting groups — Greg Goode of Terre Haute — was a certain winner.
Those incumbent senators defeated were Travis Holdman of Markle, Jim Buck of Kokomo, Linda Rogers of Granger, Dan Dernulc of Highland, Rick Niemeyer of Lowell and Greg Walker of Columbus. All those winning challengers received at least 56% of the vote, according to preliminary tallies compiled by The Associated Press.
Sen. Spencer Deery of West Lafayette was ahead of challenger Paula Copenhaver by just three votes — 6,334-6,331 — and both candidates made declarations of victory.
When I was a kid growing up in a very samll town, there was teacher at the high school who my parents thought was an idiot. He left teaching to join the FBI. At that time, my parent’s opinion of the FBI dropped significantly. Anyhow, this guy rose through the ranks and eventually led one of the units. I find it interesting that AFTER he retired, that unit had FAR more success in solving the crimes it was supposed to.
Re: FBI
I knew a guy in the Treasury Service. He called FBI agents the “feebs” because their MO was to let local LEOs put the case together, then swoop in and take the credit.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
________________________________________
Where have you gone, Efrem Zimbalist Jr?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Well, well…Quelle surprise…
“Nick Fuentes Joins the DEMOCRATS…”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2026/05/06/nick-fuentes-joins-the-democrats-triggering-a-hasan-piker-nightmare-for-liberals/
First Platner. Now this!
(Fuentes must have found this whole episode incredibly encouraging…)
Yessirree!
Tomorrow—most certainly—belongs to…US!!
One news report said that Kamala Harris…however that name is spelled, is the Dems’s pick for -their presidential candidate for 2028.
How about it?
Does she have a good chance of becoming president, in 2028?
@TR:Does she have a good chance of becoming president, in 2028?
I don’t see how anyone could plausibly predict this at this time, given all the contingencies. If she won the primary in 2028, she’d have a good chance, but there’s a lot that would need to happen between then and now that would have to go her way, and that doesn’t even count events that no one could possibly predict that could influence the chances.
Think to where we are in the cycle and to previous Presidential elections and who was the favorite:
2002: Dem favorite was Howard Dean
2006: Dem favorite was probably Hillary Clinton
2014: Dem favorite was probably Hillary Clinton, GOP favorite was Jeb Bush
2018: Dem favorite was Elizabeth Warren, unless it was Bernie Sanders
And only Hillary Clinton ended up even winning the nomination, in 2016.
TR: “Does she [Kamala] have a good chance of becoming president, in 2028?”
Slightly better than I do.
Nik: “If she won the primary in 2028”
You are too funny nik
I’m sure he helped some people, and that a lot of people like him, but I’m not a fan of Ted Turner.
Others can be fans of his, if they like.
He was very much one to use news- to attack positions of Republicans + USA conservatives.
I also believe he was an atheist, + would sharply browbeat anyone who was not.
One new piece said that: He went into a CNN office one day, [+ he owned CNN].
His exchange with some people went like this:
He saw some of his business workers wearing, on their faces, the religious ashes from the Christians’ holy day, Ash Wednesday.
His reaction to that was to scowl at these people + to attack them verbally, by saying: “You JESUS FREAKS! You SHOULD GO and WORK FOR FOX network!”
And then he stormed out of the room.
Oh wow. Really?
I don’t think Ted Turner was an understanding man, or a person who tolerated or accepted religious people, or their religious beliefs.
Other people can like him, I have no problem with that.
He likely helped a lot of people, and charities, but in my opinion, heroes + celebrity heroes, [should not] treat people, and their religious beliefs, like that.
Like me, hate me, or dislike me, or make me write bad checks,…that’s fine,… people can have their own opinions of me. That’s fine with me.
I think that people should learn to tolerate, + coexist, with people who have have the positions of: religious, theist, atheist, non-religious, or other kinds of positions on religious beliefs, and beliefs + positions that are not their own.
I feel that the right to have your own views + thoughts, including your own philosophy + religion, is a right that every person should have.
I think that is a right and freedom that every person, and every human, should have.
That’s all I have to say about this, for today.
Cheers.
Hi neo,
I’ve recently been using a different, email company, because I think- my old one blocks me, thinking my browser is too old.
I just wanted to tell about that.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
[I would] vote for you for president, FOAF.
😀
Thanks TR. I suspect you are the only one.
@ Shirehome > We have more snow on our yard this morning than on any single day during the winter.
The trees were beautiful – and fortunately we didn’t lose any limbs, although a neighbor did.
Considering Harris had to drop out before any primary votes in 2024, it seems her prospects of getting through the 2028 primaries are poor, although of course the Dems don’t have a strong field yet.
@ selfy > President Reagan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
I saw that phrase overlaid on a photo of Dr. Fauci.
QED
If you have a little time to spare — although it doesn’t contain the one I mentioned.
https://politicallyincorrecthumor.com/meme-galleries/dr-anthony-fauci-meme-gallery/
Instapundit had a lot of posts about Indiana.
One from Glenn Reynolds, as an example; scroll forward from there.
https://instapundit.com/794933/
Another good set of links:
https://instapundit.com/794992/
I always wondered how the Ted Turner-Jane Fonda marriage worked. Though not enough to research it.
huxley:
I think you’d have to go undercover to research it. 🙂
Some good news I hope. Rudy Giuliani is no longer in the intensive care unit.
Giuliani Leaves ICU: ‘Nothing Short of Miracle’
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is showing a recovery of what one source described as “nothing short of a miracle” after being hospitalized last weekend.
Giuliani, 81, had severe respiratory distress, which doctors later diagnosed as a life-threatening medical emergency caused by double pneumonia.
He has now been moved out of the intensive care unit.
“It was touch and go,” the source said of this past weekend. “But his recovery over the last several days has been remarkable.”
News of Giuliani’s improving health has sparked relief among longtime friends and political allies, many of whom had been monitoring updates closely since word spread of his hospitalization.
Despite the ordeal, the famously combative former prosecutor is already said to be focused on returning to public life — and particularly to defending President Donald Trump in the media.
I adore Heinrich Schutz, and have felt a deep spritual kinship with his music since I first heard it in my teens. At my wedding two pieces from the Symphoniae Sacrae were performed and a piece from the Geistliche Chormusik was performed at my wife’s memorial service.
I’d love to have “Selig sind die Toten” from the Geistliche Chormusik performed at my funeral, and have left instructions in my will. But, since it won’t be me there to play impresario, I doubt it’ll happen.
Lovey music, but their sound engineer should be fired.
”GOP favorite was Jeb Bush”
Ahhh, no. The early GOP favorites were Scott Walker and Ted Cruz. Walker flamed out, but Cruz kept his #2 position through the convention. Jeb Bush was maybe 7th.
YoungHegelian:
When I was in my 20s, I bought a Schutz record by mistake. When I put it on I was very disappointed. But over time I listened to it and it grew and grew on me until he was one of my favorites. This song was on the record, and it was my favorite one.
@Neo,
I bet I know which one it was. I’ll bet it was this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Sch%C3%BCtz-Kleine-geistliche-Konzerte-Symphoniae/dp/B00C3W09F4
because it draws mostly from the Kleine Geistliche Konzerte and “Habe Deine Lust” (from the KGK) is the first piece on the recording. I have it on CD and I definitely didn’t buy it by mistake.
@ mkent > “Jeb Bush was maybe 7th.”
Probably at some time. I don’t have the poll numbers from 2016 at hand.
IMO, following preference polls for any political office is like watching a horse race: they change relative positions so often, almost every horse is at almost every number at some time or another; the odds-on favorites can scratch at the post; and the winner often comes from way behind in the stretch.
It might be more accurate to say that the GOPe favorite was Jeb Bush, but he wasn’t who the betting crowd was cheering for.
@mkent:The early GOP favorites were Scott Walker and Ted Cruz.
Not as early as TR was talking about: he’s talking two years before the election. But regardless, neither Walker nor Cruz got anywhere near the nomination. Put in whoever you have the best evidence for. It certainly was not the one who got the nomination.
@Niketas: I don’t see how anyone could plausibly predict this at this time, given all the contingencies.
I agree that it’s too early to predict the 2028 D candidate for President, but I’m quite comfortable predicting it won’t be Kamala Harris.
She blew through over $1 billion, not including super PAC money, in a few months and decisively lost the electoral college and the popular vote. Donors remember signing those checks and watching the bonfire of their money.
Plus Harris never showed any signs of improving as a candidate and still hasn’t. Nixon and Trump came back from losing elections, but they were hardworking, savvy politicians, two of the best we’ve seen.
YoungHegelian:
No, it was this one by New York Pro Musica.
Hmm. One must go back to Grover Cleveland to find a Democrat who lost a presidential election then came back to win the presidency later.
— Snow On Pine
They were (of course) never as wonderful as fiction portrayed them, nothing ever is. There is always some corruption and malfeasance. But American institutions did once work much better than they do today. That includes both governmental institutions and private ones.
(Contrast the Walt Disney Corporation of 1960 with the WDC of 2026, for ex.)
There are several reasons for that, but the most important ones have to do with the fact that the educated elite classes that run the institutions no longer share any interests or values with the commoners they rule over. Most of the rest of the problems derive from that.
— TR
Who else would it be at this point? She at least has name recognition, none of the other potential contenders are at all well known to the general Dem electorate yet, not as Presidential possibilities, anyway. That’s what campaigns are for.
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your thoughts about: Kamala Harris’, possible- run for President in 2028.
It looks like her 2024 run didn’t go as a lot of the Democrats had wanted it to go, so it’s good to hear what other people think about this possible run.
Cheers, TR
“Earnest” Eric Swalwell certainly has name recognition.
As does Tim “Last” Walz.
Or maybe they’ll push Graham “Face” Platner all the way up there in 2028, why not?
They might even run NOZIO Madmani. (He’s already demonstrated that he has ALL it takes…)
Even more effective: they’ll rebrand them as NOT-TRUMP Swalwell or NOT-TRUMP Walz, etc.
(Maybe even “But He’s OUR Nazi” Platner…)
Yep, that should do it.
(Talk about a deep bench…and we haven’t begun to talk about “Act Out” AOC…)
…They might even be able to stitch together a virtually unbeatable Newsom-Madmani ticket, that is, if they can persuade the latter to commit to transitioning before the campaign begins…
Clearly, they can run on their off-the-chart political instincts, unimpeachable moral values and impeccable credentials…
“…California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits…”—
https://instapundit.com/795191/
File under: Dream Team.