Dark Roast Color Changing Mug! Tabs, Wed., Sept. 20, 2023
Dark Roast Color Changing Mug! Tabs, Wed., Sept. 20, 2023
That's a terrible title for your Dark BRANDON mug, Joe Biden website! Morning news roundup!
Judd Legum and his Popular Information crew don’t seem to think much of Kristen Welker’s fact-check of President Poo-Butt, so they’ll do it themselves!
Joe Klein wants to know if it’s bad that he spends more time yelling at Joe Biden for being old than the Republicans for being evil and insane, when they’re the ones who are rancid and putrid and nutballs and bad. Well, yes, Joe Klein, it is bad, and you have the power to stop it. ONE DAY AT A TIME, JOE. (Joe Klein’s substack, apparently, ugh)
All I see ANYWHERE is one million posts and news stories about Democrats “freaking out” about Joe Biden, but I guess I have a real good bubble, because nobody I know is that stupid. Anyway, what the pundits are forgetting is people really like Old Joe. — Dan Pfeiffer at Message Box
Stephanie Miller was showing off her hot shit new Kamala shirt … that someone stole from us.
Here’s the real thing :) (Wonkette Bazaar) (Fun fact: Facebook won’t let us sell that design on there, because it has an outline of boobs.)
Tim Scott thinks we should just fire all the auto workers, fuck it, why not. (NBC News)
Should red states test women for abortion drugs, like they do in Poland? Don’t forget … argh. — Gift link New York Times
This one’s a bummer: Stop planting monoculture “forest,” that’s the shit that lights right up when the hot wind looks at it wrong. (Gift link NYT)
Who’s suing the oil industry today? A helpful chart! Thanks, Center for Climate Integrity!
I mean who wouldn’t use “let’s stop the sex trafficking of children” to try to get some strange. Meet again this Operation Underground Railroad guy who may be running for Mitt Romney’s Utah Senate seat. — Vice
Well. Well. Perhaps you’ve already read this, in which case you are excused. But all the rest of you, put on your longread sober reading pants, it is time to read the spare, and unsparing, story of Jenisha Watts. (Atlantic)
From February, but yes, of course this corrupt fibbie was almost certainly behind the Anthony Weiner’s laptop and all the other corrupt Trump FBI New York field office bullshit. (Craig Unger at The New Republic)
Dark roast color changing mug? That’s what they say, because they are BAD AT NAMING SHIT. (Joe Biden)
Today’s hed of Pallas’s kittens is from YouTube channel Manulization. More here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/pallass-kittens
With all due respect, anyone who imagines that people really like Biden really are living in a bubble. Let's start with OHJB's very marginally 'better' approval rating vis-a-vis Trump., which is far less an endorsement of Joe for being Joe, and very much a function of his not being Trump. An opinion validated by the 10 point 'enthusiasm gap' between GOP and DP voters. As well as being reinforced when one looks at Biden's stand-alone approval rating (among all voters), which sunk beneath waves in late Aug. of 2021, and hasn't come within 10 points of coming up for air since.
The one and only thing Biden has in his favor is Trump's in-the-shitter approval rating (bobbing between -25 to -30 points), which could result in an even higher popular vote landslide, but hardly inspires confidence in an Electoral College victory as well. And let's just put aside the consequences this has for down-ballot Dems.
As for comparisons to 2020, it helps to remember that Biden won only 51.4% of all primary votes, with the rest of the pack getting the other 48.6%; and half of the loser's votes came after all but Sanders dropped out by March 8th (with Bernie dropping out on April 8th). Which is hardly the ringing endorsement of popularity it's misrepresented as being. Also, Biden finished fourth in IA, fifth in NH, a very distant (-21+ pts) in NV, before finally winning (with a plurality) in SC. By the time Sanders withdrew, Biden was declared the nominee on the strength of winning primaries in 14 red states (9 of them in the former Confederacy), 12 of which he went on to lose in the G.E. IOW, the most conservative, anti-progressive states chose the DNC's (preferred) candidate for the entire DP. Just as they had in '16.
If anything, this is the good news. The not-good news is Biden (and the DP) has been haemorrhaging support across all demographics since 2020, particularly in key constituencies--minorities, youth, environmentalists, just to identify a few of the more significant. Which is another discussion for another time.