• Re: [OT] Who will Harris pick as her VP?

    From trotsky@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sat Jul 27 03:45:11 2024
    On 7/26/24 10:31 AM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/26/2024 4:17 AM, trotsky wrote:
    On 7/25/24 10:40 AM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/25/2024 5:22 AM, trotsky wrote:
    On 7/24/24 9:51 AM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/24/2024 5:34 AM, trotsky wrote:
    On 7/23/24 12:21 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 7/23/2024 4:35 AM, trotsky wrote:
    On 7/22/24 3:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    In article <20240722105905.000055e9@example.com>,
      Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:34:52 -0700
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
    Even if the Democrats decide NOT to meekly accept Kamala >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Harris
    as the Presidential candidate and contest the convention, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> she's
    going to have to pick a VP. Who do you think she'll pick? >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    AOC

    Not quite old enough.

    Yes, she is!

    She turns 35 in October this year, a few weeks before the
    election. The
    rules only require that she be 35 on assuming office on
    January 20,
    2025 so she is definitely old enough to be in either spot on the >>>>>>>>>> ticket.

    Kamala's running mate will be white. Not just white but
    super-duper
    radioactively Caucasian. And mega straight, too.

    No Pete Bootyjugs on the ticket.

    I hope it's an all female ticket; the Republicans will run out >>>>>>>> of pants after shitting their pants so much.

    There are reasons you may get your wish.  Some good, and some bad. >>>>>>
    I can't think of a downside.  Do tell.

    One bad reason would be to appeal to progressives ...which, even if
    not the *actual* reason for picking a woman, would still garner votes. >>>>

    And we don't want to appeal to progressives why exactly?  Because
    we're trying to bring back horse and buggies, or what?  We want more
    genocide, pollution, tax cuts for the wealthy?  It must be something.

    I mean "progressive" in quotes, i.e., unrelated to progress.

    And you didn't use quotes the first time why, exactly?

    By now, especially on r.a.tv, I think they wouldn't have added clarity. Thanks to considerable abuse, 'progressive' has become pejorative.


    Not to me. I don't consider myself a "progressive" but I do align
    myself with the on a number of things. Even AOC, who I used to hate for sounding stupid a lot, has made huge strides and sounds much more
    competent. Grandpa Progressive Bernie sounds the same of course.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 03:48:38 2024
    On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:31:25 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    By now, especially on r.a.tv, I think they wouldn't have added clarity. >Thanks to considerable abuse, 'progressive' has become pejorative.

    Oh you mean just like 'conservative' has been made pejorative by the 'progressives'. Hillary certainly tried hard in 2016 to do so...(not
    that I consider Trump a true Conservative...)

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 03:46:42 2024
    On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:51:03 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
    wrote:

    There are reasons you may get your wish.á Some good, and some bad.

    I can't think of a downside.á Do tell.

    One bad reason would be to appeal to progressives ...which, even if not
    the *actual* reason for picking a woman, would still garner votes.

    Surely Harris is bright enough to know that choosing a running mate
    who shares the views of the far left wing of the Democratic party
    would be one of the better ways to lose in a landslide which assuredly
    isn't her goal.

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