President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

The "War on Wokeism" - if it needs to be "fought" should be held in the marketplace of ideas, not the halls of a legislature.

 

Chuck Todd out at MTP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/04/chuck-todd-leaving-meet-the-press-welker/

 

i'm surprised he didn't push back

 

I wonder if he even has a new campaign strategy. Clearly, "woke" is his SportsCenter Anchor catchphrase and "declaring war" on it means that it can't be any less than the backbone of any policy making he intends. Hell, his gubernatorial record suggests that.

As has been said here (and by Trump) though, he better have a succinct, ready-to-go soundbite for defining it. As for that matter, so should Dems.

If this is all he has, I'd say it's not enough to move the needle. Of course, MAGA had no substance behind it (well, other than proud racism, which clearly went over well - and still does - with that clan).

 

Oh well

Republicans are spending millions on turnout operations that are deeply flawed, insiders say

 

Also on emptywheel …

The order of these bullets tracks the known timeline of the investigation, which I laid out here: Durham didn’t fully develop his now-debunked theory that Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko lied to the FBI and then — building off that theory — come to believe Clinton had conspired to lie to the FBI. Rather, he worked in the opposite direction, pursuing the Clinton conspiracy theory first, and only after Nora Dannehy thwarted Durham’s attempts to release an interim report focused on that conspiracy theory just before the 2020 election, did he do key interviews collecting much of his evidence in the Alfa Bank and Danchenko investigations. Worse still, in both investigations, he never took obvious steps (like checking Jim Baker’s iCloud, or interviewing the Clinton staffers Sussmann allegedly coordinated with, or interviewing Sergei Millian, to say nothing of interviewing George Papadopoulos, which he never did) until months after indicting the two men. Everything happened in reverse order than it should have if he were following the evidence.​

It gets worse (if you’re Durham) from there.

John Durham Fabricated His Basis to Criminalize Oppo Research - emptywheel

 

This is their brain on "anti-woke":

Trump’s Numerous Legal Woes Give Him ‘Credibility,’ Says GOP Rep. Ken Buck

 

Ah yes, another reality-teevee argument for retroactive abortion.

 

Just go on the headline, don't bother reading the article and get the full quotation in context.

It was silly comment, but he said "almost give [Trump] credibility" and it was clearly in the context of what it means to his political base.

 

Legislatures aren't supposed to argue ideas? C'mon.

In the marketplace, I think the debate's over, isn't it?

 

Rachel Campos was a hot thing back in the day, then her demonic conservative husband ruined her for everyone else.