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BehoId, The Underminer!

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  1. Oh, and I commented on this when someone else posted this: if you look at the chart on page 2 the gap between Trump at last place and Buchanon is second only to the gap between T Roosevelt and Washington. So he's not just in last place, he way in last place.
  2. Evaluating right after the president is gone is good. I think looking at guys at different times is interesting. LBJ being the best example. Vietnam was the forefront of everyone's mind so the country was all 'It's just this war and that lying sonofabitch Johnson.' Looking back now, 50 years later, Vietnam actually shrinks and the racial fight is the biggest thing. I like having both perspectives and it is interesting seeing short term value of president versus long term. Obama is a good example otherwise. We were kumbaya looking at him immediately after. Now we are like 'why didn't he do something about this obvious festering disease that was underlying the discourse?' Related, I received a framed copy of this for Christmas. It's in my office. LBJ, despite tricking the one UT grad to leave SCOTUS, is awesome.
  3. same. my imagination says that his heart is in staying and is giving the rangers every opportunity before signing elsewhere.
  4. this is kindergarten stuff. the country isn't voting in the 2020 election. they're voting in the 2024 election this time for the next four year period. i feel like arguing this just getting engaged in trolling techniques, so i won't any more.
  5. an 81 year old male has a median of 7 years left.
  6. and for the exact reason that hearsay isn't allowed. it's subject to not just outright fabrication, but optimistic swaying. his "signaling to his aides" are the aides' interpretations of the words (or, in my personal belief here, intentionally seeding news stories with innuendo that they think will help them win in november but not solid enough that they can't pivot if that is the choice later).
  7. i challenge you to find a quote from him that is along those lines.
  8. as i recall, everyone was like "this is the deal, right? one term it is, right?" and the campaign just sort of allowed that idea to fester and not address it so that people could believe what they wanted.
  9. i was very tuned out of politics at the time. thought it was funny that one party was in such chaos that trump somehow got the nomination. so i was getting lulz about him being in it too. never even occurred to me that he could win. i know that just says how small my circle was, given 60MM voted for him, but i never came across folks that liked him. i had a lawyer in my firm saying he was going to vote for him. i was recall thinking "well, i've always tagged him as the dumbest guy here, so this scans."
  10. he does look old but i'll say that his funny hasn't dropped as much as a lot of comedians when they get old. i've always though folks like jim carrey whose humor depends so much on being outrageous and physical goes from funny to embarrassing once they get long in the tooth. jon has a lot of that with his over-the-top reactions, but has avoided the downturn.
  11. re: secret republicans. they might be, but it seems to be an anecdotal version of all the polls were are seeing, which is trump +5 versus this time in 2020 where they were biden +5 or so. of course, we are all desperately seeking any reason to not believe polls, and those reasons aren't hard to come up with. 2020 was the worst polling in 40 years. the problem, of course, is they were worst in the wrong direction that we hope they would be this time. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-biden-was-worst-presidential-polling-miss-in-40-years-panel-says-11620909178
  12. Why Trump is going to win: people can't remember what they felt four years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/13/opinion/thepoint#trump-independent-voters-define
  13. Dallas burbs are disproportionately represented among Jan 6ers
  14. Good episode last night ripping on Tucker. I liked he crystallization of the new us-v-them. “ it used to be capitalist and democracy against communism. Now it’s woke versus non-woke. And if that’s the arrangement, brutal dictators end up becoming your conservative allies.”
  15. Re:Noah. Everyone is just fumbling with how to say the dude wasn’t funny in a way that sounds like there is some deeper analysis needed. Don’t really know why. Maybe we’re a little baffled that Stewart would turn it over to a guy like this. Maybe there is some racial aspect in there. But I don’t really think that it has anything to do with him being from South Africa and don’t really think showing some American can/can’t do it to Euros would make me think anything either way. John Oliver is funny. Is he a Brit? He’s clearly Brit-ish. He presents as a Brit. Would I think more or less of his mocking of us if he was British British? Probably not. Paperwork isn’t the difference between him being funny and not.
  16. Want to watch Jon tonight but who can stay until 10
  17. trump is last, and the chart looks like the gap between him and buchanan might be the second biggest, behind the gap between washington and teddy (#3, #4). http://www.brandonrottinghaus.com/uploads/1/0/8/7/108798321/presidential_greatness_white_paper_2024.pdf
  18. it was super into DMB at the time and i look back and totally cringe. i'd take britney over that any day now.
  19. do they ever split things like SPY? feels like $500 is too high of a barrier for entry for folks.
  20. this is excellent news for the pickleball tournament this weekend, not super relevant to the politics board.
  21. "gosh, it would be a real shame if someone bombed that base over in hawaii" - fdr
  22. Seriously though. This one is Dukakis in a tank bad.
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