I am sure as I can be that this guy is not at all the only one, and I sincerely hope the USSS has learned a hard lesson from the near-assassination of Il Douche to do their job with a bit more thoroughness.
on the bright side, maybe that’ll leave the playing field open 8 years from now. picking a younger white guy might have set him up as the inevitable nominee after a successful harris administration. and it’d really be nice to have women from here on out. ( well, for the next 250 years or so. you know, to balance things out. )
also, he seems solid, but not exciting… which might prevent the media from using him to upstage harris during her term/s
And he’s younger than I thought. A mere youth of 60. At least in the Presidenting biz.
Hey, that’s me! (Except for the whole “presidenting” thing, that’s not me at all!)
I’m not sure 60 is mature enough for a job of this stature. That’s the age RFK Jr. was when he had that youthful indiscretion with the bear, and the age Donald Trump was when he was recorded doing the “locker room talk” in that Access Hollywood tape.
Georgia’s voter portal gets a crash course in client versus backend input validation
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If the state’s officials are right, the only issue here was that the website wrongly said an incomplete application was accepted. The site rightly included client-side checking of the submission, though when that was bypassed, there should have been an immediate backend check to alert the user that information was missing and that the cancellation request would therefore be rejected by staff.
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This bit, though:
Georgia has blocked multiple attempts to cancel the voter registrations of House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Well, AIPAC has successfully defeated their second member of the Squad.
One cult leader is most likely getting set to speak out against another cult leader
Guarantee the MAGAts will latch onto this to prove he is a socialist Ji-nah lover. But let them. I am beginning to think they may have been thoroughly defanged, at least for the moment. Let them rage. It makes them look stupid.
Walz taught children. Trump keeps kissing a dictator’s ass - and gets made fun of by the dictator.
I’m okay with that comparison.
Looking at this whole election at a distance, and from a Finnish perspective, it seems to me that the MAGA side has lost the initiative. The Democrats clearly have the momentum: they are driving the media cycle, while the Republicans are just reacting to things – and people are only interested in their opinions and statements to see what new, out-of-touch weirdness they will spout.
Lord, may that continue for another 90-something days. Things can change in a moment, but the closer it gets, the more hopeful I am. Dramatically different from how I felt a couple weeks ago!
The upcoming Democratic Convention might give them a little bump too.
i’ve a vague ominous feeling that the trumpies have given up all but performative campaigning and are now concentrating on organizing a election certification-level plus packed courts steal. And the only reason they campaign at all is to keep the donor money flowing into their coffers.
-sigh-