Was that a Hopiate that called in during the segment with the two NYC DSA co-Chairs this morning, and expressed their frustration and anger that the DSA is picking a very bad time to split the Dem Party apart?
I suppose it’s perspective. They might see centrists as splitting the Democratic Party.
Better to avoid all internal wars and work together. That would be avoiding centrist attacks on left Dems and leftist attacks on Centrist Dems. They may happen, but we don’t have to participate.
Hopium can be bigger than just centrist Dems. It can reflect a broad coalition. At its best, it does. I think that is Simon’s goal overall, even when he has his preferences.
Hillary was right when she said stronger together.
Thanks, Simon! Good news on the governor front! Controlling those states will be especially important come 2028.
I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen about Trump's continued destruction of DC and to say that he's not in touch with reality and must be removed from office. I'm writing postcards to Ohio voters today.
I call my Alabama congressional delegation every weekday with typically 5 messages that are a combination of Simon's recommendations and the weekday Indivisible email that I get a 7:00 am. I also ways close with "And finally, as an American woman, I want accountability for the Epstein files."
self report: Today I started a project to help spread the word about Hopium’s candidates. I will be sending a series of emails to friends and family. Each email will highlight 2 or 3 Hopium chosen candidates with a photo, a very brief bio (two - three sentences) and links to Simon’s interview and the candidate's web site. The idea is to offer a short, simple, manageable amount of info. The candidates in my first email are Paige Cognetti, Johnny Garcia and Denise Powell.
A friend who organizes a large group of postcarders just sent my first email to her group. She immediately got several very positive and appreciative replies. So many people don't know anything about the surge of wonderful people stepping up to run for elected office. I certainly wouldn't if I didn't read Hopium!
I’m hoping that smaller bites of info with a maximum of 2-3 candidates at a time will encourage people to open at least one of the interviews every week. And of course I'll also encourage people to spread the word and forward the emails
Love this! I do something similar about once every 2 to 3 weeks. I always say, “I encourage you all to do your own research, but I promise to continue to get into the weeds for you if you don’t have time.” every little bit matters… That’s why I love being here, it’s a “teach the teachers” community! 😁🇺🇸
Just donated to Maine! And I want to thank everyone for their support for this great state. I have a friend who lives in Scarborough, and the mood up there is fired up!
"Europeans are running studies on where they would store their data or process their payments should friction with the U.S. escalate, and how well their American-made weaponry would operate without Washington’s authorization. Nations whose empires once spanned the globe are now stuck trying to extricate themselves from their humbling dependency on American technology and military power, without provoking the U.S."
Finally, I just wanted to again promote the DNC's voter reg training, which has been updated w new info from their voter reg fellows program. Very impressive - they're doing an initiative to register folks at World Cup watch parties!
Working on DNC research project and postcards to Alaska, and looking forward to Dr. Ben-Ghiat today. Keep going!
In addition to the green algae mess in the reflecting pool, the renovations he bragged about to the huge fountain at Malcolm X Park have turned the water a muddy orange brown. I wish he'd just leave DC alone.
For anyone in NY who needs this info, I received this from the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (which administers the community-based Medicaid program I work in):
IMPORTANT: Resources Available for NYers Affected by Recent Federal Temporary Status Revocation for Haitians and Syrians
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned two federal court rulings delaying the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrant community members will lose their ability to live and work legally in the United States and may be subject to detention and deportation. You can read the full decision here.
It's more important than ever to know your rights and about resources available through the New York State Office of New Americans (ONA).
New York’s Office for New Americans (ONA) and their community partners provide resources and supports to explain your basic rights regarding interactions with law enforcement, food and nutrition resources, health and wellness, and employment. More information is available on ONA’s website and the attached poster with a QR code that will direct people to ONA’s website.
The ONA New Americans Hotline (1-800-566-7636) is operational Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Saturday – Sunday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Eastern Time (except on federal holidays). All calls are anonymous, and information and referrals are available in over 200 different languages.
Callers to the hotline can get answers to immigration and naturalization questions, receive referrals to free legal help and immigrant services and programs, and report fraud or scams against immigrant communities.
Simon, two comments. One, truly incredible news about these gubernatorial candidates. Can you imagine if we manage to flip the Governor’ seat in GA..and with a woman of color at that?!? Would truly be remarkable 🙏. Optimistic about Sand and Acton (please Dear God, no Ramaswamy)! Also feeling hopeful for David Jolly in FL 🤷🏻♂️🙏.
Furthermore, I highly recommend this community watch this morning’ Morning Joe. Scarborough excoriated ICE and the Trump regime for this horrific shooting that took place in Houston. Back where we were in Minneapolis and the total disconnect on the politics on this issue is totally surreal. Shockingly bad! He made a great point about Paxton being on vacation and likely to return to a political windstorm when he’s practically neck and neck with Talarico.
In some ways I wonder if this might leave a powerful narrative available to us… We had a candidate that was an unacceptable person, and we did everything we could to get them out of the race. Just think how much better off America would be if Republicans like Susan Collins would’ve done the same thing when Donald Trump made fun of war heroes, or the disabled, or admitted to creeping on young women in his beauty pageant, or admitted the sexual assault on the access Hollywood tapes, or tried to end American democracy, or got convicted on 34 felony counts, or called the immigrants in our great country vermin, or any of 1000 other things we could point out. If only Republicans cared enough to do what we just did with an unacceptable candidate. Don’t vote for us because we’re Democrats, vote for us because we share those key values with Mainers. Susan Collins and her relentless support for Donald Trump through her Senate votes and fundraising clearly does not. That makes us all… Deeply concerned about her.
What do you think? Destined to be an ad in Maine this cycle???? 😂😉
I’m starting Day 4 of a Spanish intensive class in a few minutes, which I hope will help with some volunteer work I do involving immigrants in the area.
Really glad to see the good news on the Governor’s race polls in key states. I like the T-shirt in the photo today that crosses out Redder and Bluer and substitutes Truer and Better.
Brian Tyler Cohen brought up the word "virtuous" twice today during an interview with Mike Nellis when discussing Cohen's new book, The Day After. Perhaps he's been listening to Simon.
I think I am one of the youngest Hopium-ites (2016 was my 1st election) and I don't get a chance to comment often at all, but I just want to say how happy I am to see Rachel Janfaza mentioned here! She is a good egg.
I would caution that these words mean different things to different people, and they seem to mean very different things between generations. In my conversations with other people in my age range, I am often surprised to hear "accountability" come up so often, becaue it doesn't seem like a word that would be used in everyday conversation. Yet I have realized that to young people - men and women, bt especially men - "accountability" basically means "accomplish the goals that you ran on in full" and/or "do what I want you to do, not what the experts might want you to do." Character and integrity also seem to be defined the same way: someone who keeps promises without excuses and works to help their voters directly and quickly. The other words Rachel lists in the link, like care, understanding, courage, and proactive... they all basically end up being different expressions of the same desire. Whereas with older people, I feel like accountability or character usually mean someone is an honest or honorable person who is making a good faith effort to create good policy in reasonable way, and treats people in a way that is dignified and respectable. Those are both understandable definitions, but they are not the same, so it is easy to read something like this and feel reassured that a different demographic desires the same things because they use the same words, but that is not necessarily the case. Just food for thought.
Such great comments today from the Hopium Community. I'm continually inspired by the people who gather here. Thanks, Simon, for bringing us together and providing such great info on a daily basis. Not sure I could make it through these dark times without Hopium's rays of sunshine.
I don’t know how everybody else copes with it, but I have started to reframe in my brain every time Trump does something horrible as further evidence that he thinks he’s gonna lose. It doesn’t make the terrible thing any better, but it does keep my head where it needs to be. Don’t be distracted by the evil circus… That’s exactly what he wants. Eyes on the prize, foot on the gas, accomplish the mission.
I view it even deeper than that, PianoMan: It's beyond he's going to lose; he knows he's going to die, and he's going to die alone.
And he also knows it's likely that everything he's done, everything that bears his obscene name, will be redone and taken down.
So, for all of his $, his machinations, and the Teflon he's been said to wear all his life, there's an end to him like there's an end to everything: In sum, he's nothing special.
Just donated to the Maine Democrat Party a small amount. This month is tight. Thanks to BeeBee in NYC for the advice of trying to get a refund from Act Blue for the donation to Platner. He showed his ass on the way out the door. Calls to my reps voting no on the SAVE Act, reining in ICE, no to Blanche for AG, pass aid for Ukraine. The shortsighted, demented orange Caligula is so intransigent and stubborn regarding the housing bill. Four months before the midterms and nothing for his party to champion to the voters, except trying to rob us of our votes.
Thank you for this info, BeeBee. I just emailed them myself and told a friend who donated much more to him directly (I assume through ActBlue). I wonder if they'd be more likely to get the campaign to comply if a lot of people contacted them. I guess we'll see.
Simon, this is prob a conversation for another day I admit, but I do think it’s interesting to ponder at the same time because I feel while we’re in the general election for the midterms, we’re also very much in the thick of it ahead of 2028 more than some think. Certainly, I feel the more prepared and organized as a party we are ahead of the next Presidential primary cycle, as early as possible, all the better. I was watching a very interesting discussion on The View this morning (yes I watch it often 😉😆) where they went back and forth about 2028 prospects. Sounds like wasted energy, but is it?
A couple on the panel felt the sad reality of this moment is that as wonderful as Obama was, the reaction was Trump (a white lash) and feel were ‘in a burning building’ and in an existential crisis (which we are) and are likely to elect a ‘straight white man’ to simply pull us out from the fire (like Biden but younger and with more visible moxie for the time). Others on the panel disagreed and felt our electorate is in a different place than even just four years ago, hungry for a fighter regardless ‘who’ they are.
Alyssa Farrah Griffin (the Anti-Trump conservative on the panel mind you) feels Rubio will likely achieve the GOP nomination (🙄) and noted he’s a Cuban American for one (noting how the GOP would back the cultural shift of course, only cuz he’s MAGA adjacent at this point), and predicted Kamala Harris may very well get her second shot and feels the party may not pass her over for a white man, and that she has the goods to make a ‘winning comeback’ this time around, having proven to everyone she was right, capitalizing on the grassroots money she helped lead, the coalition she helped build, and name recognition she built (which while pleasantly tickled by that assertion, found interesting especially coming from her nonetheless).
Another panelist simply said she believes we’ll have around 10-15 candidates ‘duking it out’ but noted they’ll likely ALL be our best and sharpest slew of candidates to date, leading the electorate to choose from ‘good to better’ so to speak (which I agree with overall). I do ultimately feel between Harris, Newsom, Kelly, Shapiro, Pete, Beshear, possibly Ossoff, possibly Moore, some feel possibly AOC in the running (although I prefer to see her in the senate first)…we really can’t go wrong! That all said, any thoughts on where we are as broad electorate, in this time, under this administration, as it pertains to the kind of candidates we move towards, pulling us out from under this crisis?
It’s going to be intriguing to watch as we draw closer but while Trump himself is predictable, the fallout, what ultimately happens to him (given his health and political vulnerability etc.), not so much. So, it’s wiser we expect the unexpected in these moments. I feel as though we’re in the midst of two elections wrapped in one (both the midterms and a gearing up for the next Presidential election). They say Trump won’t be on the ballot next. Well, not literally of course but he will be figuratively. Won’t matter if it’s Rubio, Vance, Hawley, Tucker (God forbid), etc., they ALL abided by Trump’s flailing legacy. Would be foolish for anyone to think Trump won’t have a direct negative effect on the next election. The price of his own self destructive narcissism. Yet, given lessons I hope the party is learning from the likes of the Platner debacle, only we can get in our own way even when we have the upper hand. So, here’s to hoping 🙏. Again, prob a conversation for another day, but I’m sure you take my point nonetheless. I just don’t think given the circumstances, it’s ’too early’ to ponder unlike how it prob would be in ‘normal times.’
I hope we keep making the point that in no other profession would the rate of "errors" by ICE tolerated. Not with trauma surgeons, not with bus drivers, not with teachers. Yet it's tolerated and encouraged by the GOP.
Currently on WNYC: Reps from the NYC DSA on Brian Lehrer's show.
On Monday, Chevalier will be on with Brian.
Happy to post the on-demand links for Hopiates once they are posted, if you can't tune in.
Thank you.
Was that a Hopiate that called in during the segment with the two NYC DSA co-Chairs this morning, and expressed their frustration and anger that the DSA is picking a very bad time to split the Dem Party apart?
I suppose it’s perspective. They might see centrists as splitting the Democratic Party.
Better to avoid all internal wars and work together. That would be avoiding centrist attacks on left Dems and leftist attacks on Centrist Dems. They may happen, but we don’t have to participate.
Hopium can be bigger than just centrist Dems. It can reflect a broad coalition. At its best, it does. I think that is Simon’s goal overall, even when he has his preferences.
Hillary was right when she said stronger together.
Thanks, Simon! Good news on the governor front! Controlling those states will be especially important come 2028.
I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen about Trump's continued destruction of DC and to say that he's not in touch with reality and must be removed from office. I'm writing postcards to Ohio voters today.
Catherine are you familiar with Swing Left? They do a lot of party - related work in your area.
Yes, thank you! They do good work.
I call my Alabama congressional delegation every weekday with typically 5 messages that are a combination of Simon's recommendations and the weekday Indivisible email that I get a 7:00 am. I also ways close with "And finally, as an American woman, I want accountability for the Epstein files."
Thank you two Catherines! These calls really matter......
self report: Today I started a project to help spread the word about Hopium’s candidates. I will be sending a series of emails to friends and family. Each email will highlight 2 or 3 Hopium chosen candidates with a photo, a very brief bio (two - three sentences) and links to Simon’s interview and the candidate's web site. The idea is to offer a short, simple, manageable amount of info. The candidates in my first email are Paige Cognetti, Johnny Garcia and Denise Powell.
A friend who organizes a large group of postcarders just sent my first email to her group. She immediately got several very positive and appreciative replies. So many people don't know anything about the surge of wonderful people stepping up to run for elected office. I certainly wouldn't if I didn't read Hopium!
I’m hoping that smaller bites of info with a maximum of 2-3 candidates at a time will encourage people to open at least one of the interviews every week. And of course I'll also encourage people to spread the word and forward the emails
What a great idea!
Great work Kate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic idea and work, Kate. Will follow your lead.
This is fantastic! Thanks for the great idea!
Love this! I do something similar about once every 2 to 3 weeks. I always say, “I encourage you all to do your own research, but I promise to continue to get into the weeds for you if you don’t have time.” every little bit matters… That’s why I love being here, it’s a “teach the teachers” community! 😁🇺🇸
Love this idea!!! And heads up to postcarders that postage goes up Monday the 12th to 65 cents a postcard.
Brava, Kate!
Just donated to Maine! And I want to thank everyone for their support for this great state. I have a friend who lives in Scarborough, and the mood up there is fired up!
I've posted several times that you can sign up for a NATO newsletter, which I just got this morning. It's chock full of great info on how European allies are continuing their coordinated work with new initiatives including drone warfare, space, tech and surveillance. A summary here: https://www.nato.int/en/news-and-events/articles/news/2026/07/08/secretary-general-on-the-ankara-summit-nato-delivers
And given the really scary WSJ article about how intl leaders are dealing w him like the baby-man he is, this is especially good news. [gift link] https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/european-rupture-with-america-e3a9bb3c?st=raXUs9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
"Europeans are running studies on where they would store their data or process their payments should friction with the U.S. escalate, and how well their American-made weaponry would operate without Washington’s authorization. Nations whose empires once spanned the globe are now stuck trying to extricate themselves from their humbling dependency on American technology and military power, without provoking the U.S."
Also apparently he calls his minions constantly re the green algae mess: https://people.com/trump-calls-burgum-all-hours-about-reflecting-pool-12015260
YIKES.
Finally, I just wanted to again promote the DNC's voter reg training, which has been updated w new info from their voter reg fellows program. Very impressive - they're doing an initiative to register folks at World Cup watch parties!
Working on DNC research project and postcards to Alaska, and looking forward to Dr. Ben-Ghiat today. Keep going!
In addition to the green algae mess in the reflecting pool, the renovations he bragged about to the huge fountain at Malcolm X Park have turned the water a muddy orange brown. I wish he'd just leave DC alone.
I saw that. John Aravosis has been reporting on it.
You couldn't write this stuff if you tried.
Unbelievable. I am still surprised at how much the MSM just shrugs about.
For anyone in NY who needs this info, I received this from the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (which administers the community-based Medicaid program I work in):
IMPORTANT: Resources Available for NYers Affected by Recent Federal Temporary Status Revocation for Haitians and Syrians
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) overturned two federal court rulings delaying the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti and Syria. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrant community members will lose their ability to live and work legally in the United States and may be subject to detention and deportation. You can read the full decision here.
It's more important than ever to know your rights and about resources available through the New York State Office of New Americans (ONA).
New York’s Office for New Americans (ONA) and their community partners provide resources and supports to explain your basic rights regarding interactions with law enforcement, food and nutrition resources, health and wellness, and employment. More information is available on ONA’s website and the attached poster with a QR code that will direct people to ONA’s website.
The ONA New Americans Hotline (1-800-566-7636) is operational Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Saturday – Sunday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Eastern Time (except on federal holidays). All calls are anonymous, and information and referrals are available in over 200 different languages.
Callers to the hotline can get answers to immigration and naturalization questions, receive referrals to free legal help and immigrant services and programs, and report fraud or scams against immigrant communities.
ONA_KnowYourRights.pdf
Simon, two comments. One, truly incredible news about these gubernatorial candidates. Can you imagine if we manage to flip the Governor’ seat in GA..and with a woman of color at that?!? Would truly be remarkable 🙏. Optimistic about Sand and Acton (please Dear God, no Ramaswamy)! Also feeling hopeful for David Jolly in FL 🤷🏻♂️🙏.
Furthermore, I highly recommend this community watch this morning’ Morning Joe. Scarborough excoriated ICE and the Trump regime for this horrific shooting that took place in Houston. Back where we were in Minneapolis and the total disconnect on the politics on this issue is totally surreal. Shockingly bad! He made a great point about Paxton being on vacation and likely to return to a political windstorm when he’s practically neck and neck with Talarico.
thanks. I missed that, but I get the MJ newsletter and look forward to the updates.
Good post. Plenty of hope.
Mainers will figure it out.
And Pingree may well have coattails.
In some ways I wonder if this might leave a powerful narrative available to us… We had a candidate that was an unacceptable person, and we did everything we could to get them out of the race. Just think how much better off America would be if Republicans like Susan Collins would’ve done the same thing when Donald Trump made fun of war heroes, or the disabled, or admitted to creeping on young women in his beauty pageant, or admitted the sexual assault on the access Hollywood tapes, or tried to end American democracy, or got convicted on 34 felony counts, or called the immigrants in our great country vermin, or any of 1000 other things we could point out. If only Republicans cared enough to do what we just did with an unacceptable candidate. Don’t vote for us because we’re Democrats, vote for us because we share those key values with Mainers. Susan Collins and her relentless support for Donald Trump through her Senate votes and fundraising clearly does not. That makes us all… Deeply concerned about her.
What do you think? Destined to be an ad in Maine this cycle???? 😂😉
Great point!
I would add January 6th. Really a second nomination?
I’m starting Day 4 of a Spanish intensive class in a few minutes, which I hope will help with some volunteer work I do involving immigrants in the area.
Really glad to see the good news on the Governor’s race polls in key states. I like the T-shirt in the photo today that crosses out Redder and Bluer and substitutes Truer and Better.
Also wanted to share this post from Rachel Janfaza, who Simon had on a while ago, about what young people are looking for in candidates. In two words- character and accountability. https://theupandup.substack.com/p/what-young-voters-want-from-politicians-accountability-genz?r=2ia0gw&utm_medium=ios
Brian Tyler Cohen brought up the word "virtuous" twice today during an interview with Mike Nellis when discussing Cohen's new book, The Day After. Perhaps he's been listening to Simon.
I think I am one of the youngest Hopium-ites (2016 was my 1st election) and I don't get a chance to comment often at all, but I just want to say how happy I am to see Rachel Janfaza mentioned here! She is a good egg.
I would caution that these words mean different things to different people, and they seem to mean very different things between generations. In my conversations with other people in my age range, I am often surprised to hear "accountability" come up so often, becaue it doesn't seem like a word that would be used in everyday conversation. Yet I have realized that to young people - men and women, bt especially men - "accountability" basically means "accomplish the goals that you ran on in full" and/or "do what I want you to do, not what the experts might want you to do." Character and integrity also seem to be defined the same way: someone who keeps promises without excuses and works to help their voters directly and quickly. The other words Rachel lists in the link, like care, understanding, courage, and proactive... they all basically end up being different expressions of the same desire. Whereas with older people, I feel like accountability or character usually mean someone is an honest or honorable person who is making a good faith effort to create good policy in reasonable way, and treats people in a way that is dignified and respectable. Those are both understandable definitions, but they are not the same, so it is easy to read something like this and feel reassured that a different demographic desires the same things because they use the same words, but that is not necessarily the case. Just food for thought.
I really appreciate you sharing your perspective on that -- I learned something. You're quite right that is how I was reading the term "accountable."
FYI here is the post from last year that has the interview with Rachel J. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-big-win-in-north-carolina-fighting?utm_source=publication-search
Such great comments today from the Hopium Community. I'm continually inspired by the people who gather here. Thanks, Simon, for bringing us together and providing such great info on a daily basis. Not sure I could make it through these dark times without Hopium's rays of sunshine.
I don’t know how everybody else copes with it, but I have started to reframe in my brain every time Trump does something horrible as further evidence that he thinks he’s gonna lose. It doesn’t make the terrible thing any better, but it does keep my head where it needs to be. Don’t be distracted by the evil circus… That’s exactly what he wants. Eyes on the prize, foot on the gas, accomplish the mission.
I view it even deeper than that, PianoMan: It's beyond he's going to lose; he knows he's going to die, and he's going to die alone.
And he also knows it's likely that everything he's done, everything that bears his obscene name, will be redone and taken down.
So, for all of his $, his machinations, and the Teflon he's been said to wear all his life, there's an end to him like there's an end to everything: In sum, he's nothing special.
Just donated to the Maine Democrat Party a small amount. This month is tight. Thanks to BeeBee in NYC for the advice of trying to get a refund from Act Blue for the donation to Platner. He showed his ass on the way out the door. Calls to my reps voting no on the SAVE Act, reining in ICE, no to Blanche for AG, pass aid for Ukraine. The shortsighted, demented orange Caligula is so intransigent and stubborn regarding the housing bill. Four months before the midterms and nothing for his party to champion to the voters, except trying to rob us of our votes.
Just a note, as I am still waiting to hear from ActBlue, as to whether they can simplify this process.
I posted that I sent a query about Platner refunds to info@actblue.org
BUT
the proper address is Info@actblue.com
I received a bounceback for the former and received a support ticket # for my query to the latter.
Be happy to report my progress when someone writes me back.
Yes please post on Hopium. I'm sure I'm not the only one who would now like that money go to someone more deserving.
Thank you for this info, BeeBee. I just emailed them myself and told a friend who donated much more to him directly (I assume through ActBlue). I wonder if they'd be more likely to get the campaign to comply if a lot of people contacted them. I guess we'll see.
I donated to the Maine Party today.
Thank you so much!
Simon, this is prob a conversation for another day I admit, but I do think it’s interesting to ponder at the same time because I feel while we’re in the general election for the midterms, we’re also very much in the thick of it ahead of 2028 more than some think. Certainly, I feel the more prepared and organized as a party we are ahead of the next Presidential primary cycle, as early as possible, all the better. I was watching a very interesting discussion on The View this morning (yes I watch it often 😉😆) where they went back and forth about 2028 prospects. Sounds like wasted energy, but is it?
A couple on the panel felt the sad reality of this moment is that as wonderful as Obama was, the reaction was Trump (a white lash) and feel were ‘in a burning building’ and in an existential crisis (which we are) and are likely to elect a ‘straight white man’ to simply pull us out from the fire (like Biden but younger and with more visible moxie for the time). Others on the panel disagreed and felt our electorate is in a different place than even just four years ago, hungry for a fighter regardless ‘who’ they are.
Alyssa Farrah Griffin (the Anti-Trump conservative on the panel mind you) feels Rubio will likely achieve the GOP nomination (🙄) and noted he’s a Cuban American for one (noting how the GOP would back the cultural shift of course, only cuz he’s MAGA adjacent at this point), and predicted Kamala Harris may very well get her second shot and feels the party may not pass her over for a white man, and that she has the goods to make a ‘winning comeback’ this time around, having proven to everyone she was right, capitalizing on the grassroots money she helped lead, the coalition she helped build, and name recognition she built (which while pleasantly tickled by that assertion, found interesting especially coming from her nonetheless).
Another panelist simply said she believes we’ll have around 10-15 candidates ‘duking it out’ but noted they’ll likely ALL be our best and sharpest slew of candidates to date, leading the electorate to choose from ‘good to better’ so to speak (which I agree with overall). I do ultimately feel between Harris, Newsom, Kelly, Shapiro, Pete, Beshear, possibly Ossoff, possibly Moore, some feel possibly AOC in the running (although I prefer to see her in the senate first)…we really can’t go wrong! That all said, any thoughts on where we are as broad electorate, in this time, under this administration, as it pertains to the kind of candidates we move towards, pulling us out from under this crisis?
It’s going to be intriguing to watch as we draw closer but while Trump himself is predictable, the fallout, what ultimately happens to him (given his health and political vulnerability etc.), not so much. So, it’s wiser we expect the unexpected in these moments. I feel as though we’re in the midst of two elections wrapped in one (both the midterms and a gearing up for the next Presidential election). They say Trump won’t be on the ballot next. Well, not literally of course but he will be figuratively. Won’t matter if it’s Rubio, Vance, Hawley, Tucker (God forbid), etc., they ALL abided by Trump’s flailing legacy. Would be foolish for anyone to think Trump won’t have a direct negative effect on the next election. The price of his own self destructive narcissism. Yet, given lessons I hope the party is learning from the likes of the Platner debacle, only we can get in our own way even when we have the upper hand. So, here’s to hoping 🙏. Again, prob a conversation for another day, but I’m sure you take my point nonetheless. I just don’t think given the circumstances, it’s ’too early’ to ponder unlike how it prob would be in ‘normal times.’
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1GJumFQR1H/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Everyone want a good laugh??? Here’s a clip of Ramaswamy’ new ad for Governor of OH. Can’t make this shit up!!! C’mon Amy!!! Let’s win this thing 🙏🙏🙏.
I hope we keep making the point that in no other profession would the rate of "errors" by ICE tolerated. Not with trauma surgeons, not with bus drivers, not with teachers. Yet it's tolerated and encouraged by the GOP.