[An elected official] should never put holding his office above keeping straight with his conscience…he should be prepared to go out of office rather than surrender on a matter of vital principle.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1911
If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.
Diocletian
February 6, 2024
Presidential Race.
Trump has been advancing towards prison, albeit slowly given the current glacial pace of American criminal justice, as he's also been advancing in the polls.
February 6, 2024
No immunity.
Of course, who really thought there was?
Unfortunately, the delay in issuing the opinion has resulted in the postponement of the trial originally scheduled for March.
Cont:
Matt Gaetz and Elise Stephanik have co-sponsored a resolution that Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States on January 6, something that clear is an attempt to address the 14th Amendment in that insurrection may be excused under it.
Having said that, a resolution that it didn't occur will not excuse it, and this will not get through the Senate.
Trump, who has avoided debating his Republican challengers, stated on Monday:
I’d like to debate him (Biden) now because we should debate. We should debate for the good of the country,
Biden responded:
Immediately? Well, if I were him, I’d want to debate me, too. He’s got nothing else to do,
Biden won the Nevada Primary. In the GOP Primary, which doesn't decide anything as their caucus does (much like Wyoming in this regard) "None of the above" won, an embarrassing defeat for second place finisher Nikki Haley.
State Races
Republican (yes, I know that this is blue, we're going with the international color standards, not the moronic US ones)
Harriet Hageman. Only Hageman has announced, and she'll win in the primary and general absent something massively bizarre happening.
No Democrats have announced.
U.S. Senate
Republican.
John Barasso. He's the incumbent and will win.
Reid Rasner. Ranser is a challenger from the far right whose campaign will go nowhere.
No Democrats have announced.
Some information:
Candidate Filing Period ……………………………………………………………………. May 16-May 31, 2024
Minor and Provisional Party Candidate Deadline ………………………………………… August 19, 2024
Independent Candidate Deadline ……………………………………………………………….. August 26, 2024
3,891 Signatures Required for Statewide Races
February 8, 2024
While almost nobody cares, Marianne Williamson dropped out of the Democratic race for the Oval Office.
February 9, 2024
Trump won the GOP Nevada Caucus.
Biden will not be charged for retaining classified documents, but the report that was released regarding it calls his mental status into question.
Biden probably does have some cognitive decline. Trump, I'm guessing (without a medical license) may be showing the early signs of some species of dementia, which is why he forgets, is childish, and mean. Two candidates in their 80s, effectively, is absurd. And to keep the grip of American power in such an aged group (McConnell and Schumer aren't youngster, nor was Pelosi), seems to be based on the assumption that nobody under 60 years of age is qualified to do anything, which is insulting really (and I'm 60).
The one thing both parties agree on is that, in spite of their pathetic performance, that no voter may ever look at a third part, and that the election is, and must be, binary. No matter what else is the case, the voters must never ever look at any choice other than the Democrats or the Republicans. Effectively, Democrats would rather have voters look at Trump than a third party, like the American Solidarity Party The GOP holds the same, and would rather have voters look at the Democrats than a third ticket made up of something like Manchin/Cheney, or Christie/Manchin. Pathetic.
February 10, 2024
In spite of the fact that it's well demonstrated that machines are more reliable than hand counted ballots:
Park County Citizens Push To Ditch Voting Machines In Favor Of Hand-Count Ballots
The angst that's been falsely introduced into elections has to stop. This would be unreliable, result in multiple hand counted recounts, and be slow.
February 11, 2024
Trump is attacking Biden's cognitive status, Biden is defending his, and Haley is attacking both of theirs, even using a "Grump Old Men" theme in a major way.
Trump spoke at an NRA Presidential Forum at the Great American Outdoors Show in Pennsylvania.
Biden has declined a pre Super Bowl interview for the second time in a year, something that has caused political functionary and sometimes advisor James Carville to comment that Biden's administration doesn't have enough confidence in him to allow him to do an interview.\
February 12, 2024
Trump made a comment late last week that if President, he'd cause the US to dishonor its NATO commitments and refuse to defend any country that was delinquent in its defense contributions.
This provoked a reaction from NATO's Secretary General.
He also in a rally asked where Haley's husband, who is a deployed National Guardsman, was, an odd question for a man whose "wife" is often not present.
In a Truth Social post, Trump claimed that Taylor Swift voting for him would be disloyal, in light of his actions as President having resulted in her making a lot of money.
This may all be an interesting look into a portion of Trump's mind, as it seems that money is central to it, which given his life, from birth to his now, given his age, near death, has been central to it.
Cont:
Nikki Haley's husband posted a reply to Donald Trump's childish "where's her husband" comment with the following:
February 13, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s Super Bowl advertisement strongly recalling JFK's television ad made members of the Kennedy family and some members of the general public angry.
Kennedy apologized to the family.
Frankly, in an election cycle when the leading GOP candidate says something insulting, and often outright stupid, on a constant basis, this is a bit over the top. Kennedy stands little chance, but the controversy probably aids him.
February 15, 2024
V. Putin oddly announced that he prefers Biden to Trump as he's "more predictable" but that Russia will work with anyone the US chooses.
The Kremlin is likely concerned that Putin's recent interview with Lord Haw Haw is having negative impacts in the U.S.
February 16, 2024
Donald Trump is attempting to replace Rona McDaniel, who had been a loyal laky, with Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law as Republican National Committee chair. McDaniel is accused of suddenly showing a spine and no longer being as supportive of Trump as she once was.
McDaniel will likely step down this month.
If this all occurs, one of the interesting things is that McDaniel, a political insider, was an earlier post insurrection supporter of Trump who read the winds correctly. If she's doing that again, it may mean that Trump's fortunes are flagging according to insiders.
If Trump does cause his daughter-in-law to become the RNC head it's likely that some remaining real Republicans will abandon ship at that point.
Cont:
Manchin bows at, but condemns both parties:
February 18, 2024
From the AP:
PHILADELPHIA -- As he closes in on the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump made a highly unusual stop Saturday, hawking new Trump-branded sneakers at “Sneaker Con,” a gathering that bills itself as the “The Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth.”
Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear.
What the crud.
A thought from here:
Why isn't anyone suggesting that Tammy Duckworth replace Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket?
February 23, 2024
Trump's daughter-in-law who is campaigning for appointment to the RNC declared that Republican voters would likely welcome using RNC funds to support his legal battles.
I'd strongly question if this was legal, and frankly it likely opens the RNC up, in my view, to a Rico charge.
February 25, 2024
Trump took South Carolina yesterday, as he was expected to do. Absent the intervention of an exterior force, such as the Court (unlikely), perhaps criminal conviction, a really shocking revelation, or old age mortality, he will be the GOP nominee.
NPR ran an interesting pre-election edition of its Politics podcast, in which it was revealed that many South Carolina Republican voters felt Trump was "the only person who can save the Republic". "From What" might be the logical followup. He seems ill-suited to take on any of the really serious problems of the day, and there are many really serious problems.
What that reveals is the extent to which rank and file Republicans feel that leftward social drift is destroying the Republic, something that's been going on since at least the Civil War, if not the founding of the Republic itself. Of interest, I read a comment by one of Trump's backers and former staffers who now works at the Heritage Foundation to the effect that governmental developments dating back to Woodrow Wilson need to be more or less fully reversed.
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