Category: Political Animal

Rescue The Republic

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Matt Taibbi’s speech in Washington;

I was once taught you should always open an important speech by making reference to a shared experience.

So what do all of us at “Rescue the Republic” have in common? Nothing!

In a pre-Trump universe chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Hamlet before RFK Jr., Robert Malone, Zuby, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell, Bret Weinstein and I would organically get together for any reason, much less an event like this.

True, everyone speaking has been censored. The issues were all different, but everyone disagreed with “authoritative voices” about something.

Saying no is very American. From “Don’t Tread on Me!” to “Nuts” to “You Cannot Be Serious!” defiance is in our DNA.

Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.

In the open he said this! I was telling Tim Pool about this backstage and he asked, “Was black ooze coming out of his mouth?”

Honey, I Finished The Internet

Honey, I Finished The Internet Political Animal 5 Comments

Presidential Election Pre-Postmortem

I decided to write my November 2024 election postmortem in early September so I can stop listening to political coverage and focus, instead, on mowing the lawn, cleaning out drawers, and making some more coffee. As soon as a winner has been declared (i.e., sometime between November 5 and January 6), simply print off this article and, between each pair of brackets, cross out the left-hand entry if Harris has won, or the right-hand entry if Trump has won.

I’m Not Taking My Own Selfies!

Drain The Swamp Political Animal 12 Comments

LBC- Angela Rayner under fire over taxpayer-funded £68k photographer

It is normal for a prime minister to have a personal photographer, but she is understood to be the first deputy PM to have their own .

The government says Simon Walker, the photographer, is part of her communications team, rather than a ‘personal’ hire for Ms Rayner.

Mr Walker’s job description on LinkedIn says he is the “chief photographer to the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He was previously Rishi Sunak’s chief photographer.

By-Election Watch: LaSalle-Émard-Verdun (bumped for extra ridicule)

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Bumped for results.

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa – Things are so bad for the Liberals in Montreal that their LaSalle—Émard—Verdun byelection candidate Laura Palestini just ran away from her own election night watch party with only 5% of the polls reported.

At 1:08 Eastern, the Block and Liberals are in a dead tie at 6,715 votes apiece. LOL

Part of me wants to see the Liberals lose the seat, the other part wants Trudeau to feel empowered and hang on to the leadership for the ultimate shitkicking.

Final results, a win by the Bloc. Let the games begin.

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With the Bloc polling ahead, just how desperate are Liberals to keep the seat once held by Paul Martin?

Desperately desperate.

The Kid’s Table

Political Animal 79 Comments

Your open thread on the ABC News Presidential Debate.

Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi are liveblogging the liver damage. (link live now)

DRINK EVERY TIME:

Harris uses the words felon, extreme, threat to democracy, or for the people.

Trump uses the words communist, socialist, radical or Marxist. Double-shot for tampon.

Harris talks about her experience dealing with predators, scammers, cheaters, perpetrators, or special interests.

Trump invokes the Kamala crime wave or defund the police, or says something like They destroyed San Francisco or You can’t buy a loaf of bread without getting shot. Any story of this sort qualifies (“These Haitians, it’s unbelievable. Who would eat a cat?”). Non-negotiable double-shot for literally third world conditions.

Harris says Let me be clear, I’m talking, or “Not going back.” Take a SMALL SIP ONLY whenever she mentions the middle class. Take a full drink when Donald Trump only cares about himself.

Trump says illegal, sanctuary, Border Czar. Double shot when Harris protests she wasn’t.

Harris cackles. Trump does “stank face” or “pinchy hands.”

Harris mentions the opportunity economy, price gouging or bringing down costs. Double for groceries. If both candidates mention groceries, take an aspirin.

“CHECK, PLEASE!” Drink if Harris runs out of things to say and has to be reminded she still has time left. (Drinking game trivia: this rule was originally written for Joe Biden years ago.)

“BILLIONS AND BILLIONS!” Drink when Trump rattles off a statistic that’s off by a factor of 10x. Double if he tells us how many people were just shot in Chicago and how it was worse than Afghanistan. (He may substitute Philadelphia tonight).

From Harris: sales tax, bipartisan, reproductive freedom, different vision. Drink for any mathematically perfect tautology/redundancy (e.g. deadlines of time). More than three seconds of stoned-looking hesitation is a drink. Strike your companion if you hear joy.

From Trump: so crazy, beautiful, fake, beating the hell, never been anything like it. Drink when he says any national problem was completely eliminated when he was president and complains the media lies its face off about it. You may also drink for take a bullet or the “pull down that chart” story if you feel under-served.

Tune in tonight to the livestream at 8:45 pm for an additional MYSTERY RULE.

Tim Pool is also live casting.

As the end of the debate nears, the “moderators” are all in debating Trump. Holy moley. Wrap up: my take is “no minds changed” and despite some missed opportunities, he did ok in a 3 on 1.

Joy Ride

2024 Political Animal Pollspotting 16 Comments

Nate Silver Douses Operation Demoralize: Harris ‘on the Decline’ in ‘Key Swing State’ Polls

Julie Kelly digs deeper.

Well, this should help turn things around.

“This is all about persuasion.”

Democrats Political Animal 14 Comments

Nobody turns a phrase quite like Kurt Schlichter.

The electorate is largely baked in. We’ve already got all the people who are going to like Donald Trump. Those people are ready to crawl over a San Francisco sidewalk to vote for him in November. And there are a bunch of people who are going to crawl over broken Chardonnay glasses and their cats’ litter boxes to vote for that skanky Dem half-wit and her duty-dodging tampon aficionado partner. We have to focus on the persuadables.

Poking Holes in the Lone Wolf Narrative

Baiting The Left Baiting the Right Democrats Historical Events Media Political Animal Trump 28 Comments

This is a few days old but still highly relevant: The Duran Interviews Larry Johnson

3 days before the assassination attempt, the Warmonger Queen, Victoria Nuland, predicted an “Unhappy Surprise” for Donald Trump.

Related: Who was involved in short selling of Truth Social in the days before the attempted assassination?

Added by Kate:

A company called Austin Private Wealth LLC shorted 12,000,000 shares of $DJT via a put option. The filing date is July 12th, the day before the assassination attempt.

They have around $1 Billion in assets under management and this is by far the largest put placed. According to a source the trade represents 6% of total shares and over 16%! of the float of the stock given the fact that Trump owns 60% of the company.

Leave It To Beaver

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The Canadian Greens continue as the punchline of Canadian politics. If they had any real integrity, they’d campaign under their true identity — The Elizabeth May Party.

Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault has announced he is stepping down from his job for “personal reasons.”

Pedneault made the announcement on Tuesday in Ottawa, where he said he will provide no further comments on his decision.


“angry, cranky” @ElizabethMay vows to lead Greens into another elxn to remind voters how they “f–ked this planet.”

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