Moofy
User ID: 1350
Moofy
5mo ago
I am going to make myself sound about 30 years older than I am, but there were also David Susskind and Joe Franklin
Moofy
9mo ago
I answered this a few months ago, so here's the copy/paste of that comment. Since that time the GOP has updated the rules on the link I provided, but the rule appears to be the same:
Per the rules of the Dems and the GOP it appears that the Democrats will have a meeting of the national committee, and the new nominee will be selected by a majority vote of the committee, one person, one vote. The Republicans will do the same, but members representing each state will receive the same amount of votes their state had during the convention. The replacement will be selected by a majority vote.
In neither case is it a rule that the Vice Presidential nominee will automatically assume the Presidential nomination.
Moofy
9mo ago
In my neighborhood there is still one "In This House..." sign, it is counter-signaled by three "Love Lives Here" signs
Moofy
9mo ago
The view from my neck of the woods (western Montgomery County, PA, which went handily for Biden in 2020) is that Trump signs outnumber Harris/Biden signs 100+:1. In 2020 there was more parity in comparison to the lopsidedness this year. In my neighborhood of 70 some homes I count 8 homes with Trump signs out front and no signs for anyone else. At minimum I take this as a sign for greater enthusiasm for Trump.
This is contradicted in my own home where one member who voted for Trump last time almost certainly will not this time due to Dobbs.
Moofy
10mo ago
Are you thinking of the walked-back policy of PayPal fining clients $2,500 for engaging in 'misinformation'?
Moofy
10mo ago
Are you thinking of this press conference by Joe Arpaio?
Moofy
10mo ago
Is this the post you're looking for? https://www.themotte.org/post/963/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/205067?context=8#context
Moofy
10mo ago
Would you pay one-time $5 fee to be able to post on a forum you like to read?
I did, on MetaFilter. Twice. The one-time fee served to keep some of the riff-raff out. It also gave users a feeling that they had a piece of ownership in the forum, which would inflame the dramatic 100+ reply threads on MetaTalk when unpopular mod decisions would be handed out.
What if it was $5/year?
Probably not, maybe if it were here. It's hard for me to justify the benefit to my wellbeing of finding more reasons to sit in front of a screen instead of doing anything else.
It is one hell of a performance of intellectual gymnastics to turn someone who spends all day tweeting, reporting people for minor traffic violations, and shilling his substack, into a Nietzschean Superman.
Moofy
11mo ago
There are images of intact teleprompters taken after the Secret Service swarmed him
Moofy
11mo ago
You should think twice because the formal mechanism for denying him the nomination relies on either pledged delegates breaking their pledge, or him giving up voluntarily.
Also, it could make more sense to have him drop out after the convention to prevent an open convention and an open intra-party civil war that could ensue.
Moofy
11mo ago
Him stepping down now creates a bad situation for Harris, it either sets up an open convention or a farcical situation where everyone is voting for him at the convention only for him to accept the nod and have the committee give it to her afterward
From the team that also used to have D'Andre Swift and Mike Quick.
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