The 2020 Presidential Election Tournament

[Jon Letendre]

I'm only at 9:20.

Is he alone in that room but for a few cameras?

Why is there total silence in the room, even when he makes big points?

I think he and Kamala and three cameras are otherwise all alone in that room. No one would come. No one is interested. Listen to it. Not one "yeah!" or "say it, Joe."

The room is empty.

Fake, fake, fake.

You are supposed to believe that these imbeciles who cannot get fans into a room for their big first event together are challenging Trump and matching him in the polls. You are being taken for an idiot.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

41 minutes ago, william.scherk said:

William,

You hid this with the spoiler tag.

No wonder.

It's quite edifying...

Michael

(EDIT: See my post below for this to be intelligible.)

[william.scherk]

Just now, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

It's quite edifying...

Oh?

[Jon Letendre]

At 17:00 she is introduced to zero cheering or a single clap.

The room is empty.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

11 minutes ago, william.scherk said:

Oh?

William,

When I posted that, all I got was incomplete code.

I went into your post--the one I quoted--just now to make sure we were seeing the same thing. I retrieved the URL (I can do HTML, so I looked at that). Here is what I retrieved

<img alt="242316-1-e1597332697937.png?x28399" class="ipsImage" data-ratio="77.08" height="501" src="https://themoderatevoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/242316-1-e1597332697937.png?x28399" width="650">

I extracted only the URL and posted that it into a new tab on my browser and pressed enter. The image appeared. And then, for some reason, the image appeared in your post and my quote of it.

I think this misbehavior has something to do with the IPB proprietary encryption. Sometimes glitches like that happen.

As to the image, sigh... liberals can't meme. Everything is always on the nose when they try.

There are much funnier and more biting ways to make that point.

Michael

[william.scherk]

'Reporter: Did you watch the @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris event?'

[Jon Letendre]

Loud music overlay at the end was very smart way to cover that there was not a single clap then, either.

The Joe and Kamala Empty Room Tour coming to a high school near you!

[Jon Letendre]

Was it rushed?

To distract from middle east peace news today?

Looks that way to me.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

21 hours ago, Ellen Stuttle said:

Your Clinton idea seems probable to me.

Ellen,

Wanna see the Manchurian Candidate?

What's the trigger word?

How about "asked to serve"?

ASKED TO SERVE?!!

Slowly she turned...

Step by step...

Inch by inch...

She walked up closer and closer...

Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Rule Out Serving in a Biden Administration “I’m Ready to Help in Any Way I Can”

 

Here's the video. (I just listened and I forgot how disagreeable the haranguing tone of her voice was. Wow...)

A quick summary of the video...

Q: Would you serve in Biden admin?:

A: Who me? (blushing) Why the thought never crossed my mind. Gosh... I mean, with Orange Man Bad and all, who am I other than a little old team player? We have more important world-shaking things in America to concern ourselves with right now than speculate about my own personal ambitions. Of course I would.

 

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Just in case anybody wants to go deeper into extending the metaphor, we don't have to go all the way back to vaudeville.

Niagara Falls will do. 

Apply that routine to Hillary Clinton in your mind and you can amuse yourself to distraction for hours on end without TV, computer or a mobile device.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

17 minutes ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Just in case anybody wants to go deeper into extending the metaphor, we don't have to go all the way back to vaudeville.

Niagara Falls will do. 

I can't resist.

Here's a spin on that routine by Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca that is even a closer metaphor for Hillary Clinton.

The trigger and response words are different, and you know what is going to happen, but it's still funny.  

I wonder how many poor bastards HC beat up ever since she lost?

They better move on because I think her beating up on them days are not over.

Michael

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Does this look like panic to you?

It sure looks like panic to me.

 

Mika is being touted as the laughingstock of Dem election panic all over the Internet this morning.

Michael

 

[Peter]

She is a nut case fermenting rebellion like a rum factory. What universe does she live in?  

[Jon Letendre]

Sucks when your entire elite family is deep in the gang Trump is annihilating.

Sucks being married to a man who murdered his intern.

Those have to add to the tension of each of her days.

[Peter]

From Wikipedia: According to the 2010 United States Census, the Asian Indian population in the United States grew from almost 1,678,765 in 2000 (0.6% of U.S. population) to 2,843,391 in 2010 (0.9% of U.S. population), a growth rate of 69.37%, one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States.

From The New York Times. A Revolution Transforms India: Socialism's Out, Free Market In By Edward A. Gargan March 29, 1992

From USA TODAY: How the Kamala Harris pick is playing with Indian Americans, a fast-growing and influential voting bloc Courtney Subramanian and Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY  40 mins ago . . . . The flood of texts from her family has not let up. The California senator's first name, which means "lotus" in Sanskrit, has cascaded across social media and spilled into Indian family WhatsApp message groups since Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, announced her as his running mate Tuesday. An emotional video of a tear-filled Harini Krishnan, an Indian American on the Biden campaign, percolated online while a 2019 video of Harris making dosas, a south Indian dish, with comedian Mindy Kaling again went viral on Twitter.

[Jon Letendre]

Her mother is from the elite Brahmin class that abused and exploited 99% of India for thousands of years.

 

[Peter]

RCP Poll Averages. Biden 49.3, Trump 41.6, Biden up by 7.7.

President Trump Job approval Approve 43.2. Disapprove 54.5.

Direction of country, right direct 25.3 wrong track 69.5. Wrong track by 44.2.

Battleground states. All for Biden except North Carolina where Trump is up by 1 percent.  

[Peter]

From The Washington Post . . . . Indian politicians and commentators exulted in the selection. The fact that a person of Indian origin could be “a proverbial heartbeat away from the presidency is thrilling,” wrote Shashi Tharoor, a politician with the opposition Congress Party. Ram Madhav, a senior official in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, saluted the history-making nature of the pick. Another Indian political commentator said the selection represented a ­“triumph of diversity and democracy.”

From Bloomberg / Quint: 'We are Brahmins, that is the top caste', said Harris' mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris

South Asian Americans, too, came out in criticism of Harris on social media, citing her upper-caste Brahmin Hindu ancestry. In a 2003 interview, Shayamala Gopalan, Harris' mother was quoted saying "In Indian society we go by birth. We are Brahmins, that is the top caste. Please do not confuse this with class, which is only about money. For Brahmins, the bloodline is the most important. My family, named Gopalan, goes back more than 1,000 years.”

Arukshita Kaushal

@ArukshitaK

India's infatuation with Harris rn is a perfect example of how significant a role caste still plays within the Indian minset, and that the progressive kids equally perpetuate and retain it also cause most of them come from upper class backgrounds. Barf!

[Peter]

I think Indians go from the upper class or caste Brahmins to the lower caste “Untouchables.” They’re worse than the Brits for class, status, unearned and fake nobility. So, from a Fake Jimmy Fallon skit when he is impersonating President Trump.

President Jimmy Fallon's Trump: I saw that quote from Kamala’s mother where she says her Indian family was upper class Brahmin caste. That goes against how Californians likened her tough prosecution . . . some would say it was a persecution  . . . of minority people. They called her the West Coast Elliot Ness. And she was an ‘Untouchable.” So let’s call her Kamala the Untouchable.

[Peter]

Do I have time for one more?

You ask how to say my name? Kamala sounds like Pamela! And Kamala sounds like Camelot!

It's true! It's true! The Brahmin’s have made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year, like in California which is Camelot.
 

A law was made a distant moon ago here: July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow and pot here in California-lot. The winter is forbidden till December and exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer lingers through September In California-lot, Camelot.
 

I will turn America into one big California-lot. A giant progressive parking lot. A more congenial spot for happily ever-aftering, here In Camelot.

The real Camelot lyrics

ARTHUR: It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That's how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

LOL...

Where does James Woods get this stuff?

I don't like Colbert, but his proboscis on its hypocrite-sniffing game here.

Michael

[Peter]

4 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I don't like Colbert, but his proboscis on its hypocrite-sniffing game here.

Did you say Sniff?

Huh? What?

Sorry to wake you Joe. It didn’t work.

Huh?

The sniff test, Sir.

Previously on Network TV. Hello. My name is Joe Biden and I am going to be the next President of the United States. Let me introduce to you, my running mate and next Vice President of These United States, Camelot . .  uh . . . I mean Pamela . . . uh . . .  I mean, ‘RELAEASE THE KRAKEN!”.

From Bing. "Release the Kraken!" is a catchphrase and image macro series based on a memorable quote uttered by Zeus in the 1981 fantasy adventure film The Clash of the Titans as well as the 2010 3D remake. Despite the dramatic delivery of the line in the reboot, the quote was perceived as unintentionally funny and quickly became a target of image macro jokes on the web.

From Know your meme. Spread: The first Urban Dictionary entry for the phrase "Release the Kraken" was submitted on March 31st, 2010, defined as "to pwn or to kick the ass of whomever you're releasing the kraken on." Throughout the first week of April 2010, the phrase was dubbed the latest meme by various tech and internet news outlets including Geekosystem, Vulture, Now Public, MTV and Mediate among others. In December, the phrase was listed in TIME Magazine's Top 10 Buzzwords of the Year . . . .

[Jon Letendre]

No one is there. The Empty Room Tour. Fake candidates. Fake, fake, fake. And you, dear voter, are taken as too dumb to notice or care.

 

 

[william.scherk]

I'll note at "All Polls Are Wrong" a few Big Five takeaways from 538's confection of arithmetic and gumption, just published, but meanwhile, sweaty weasel elitist smell David Pakman takes his own note of the new 2020 forecast model in "Trump Can EASILY Win."

HA Goodman (and perhaps Michael and Ellen) still gives strong odds that Clinton will end up "on the ballot" for this election. Slow and sidekick Phony having signed the papers, I think the actual compositing of official ballots (electronic and paper) occurs with ten thousand county copy-pastes only after the two party conventions ratify the respective choices. Which means bang, here's your personalized ballot, with candidates CTRL-V, bang, fill it out and take it to the county dropbox.

Or, arguably, you vote early in person or show up to poke your way through whatever electronic voting/ballot-marking device is on offer locally.

Though HA gives no detailed scenarios of just how Crooked will finagle or assassinate her way to the top of the ticket, I can imagine a couple of plausible-if-fantastic scripts or narratives ... in mine, withdrawal or removal of Slow Jo and She's Not Eligible have to come first and early in the timeline.

HA's latest plodding live-to-tape is "Trump Predicts Clinton Replacing Current Challenger at Some Point Before Debates."

For a depressing sample of current The Left concerns, Sam Seder (black mirror of Pakman, fellow spawn of the demonic Young Turks nursery):

 

The other thing I notice the odorous elitists are rankled about -- this stupid notion that President Trump is responsible for scary-if-true conspiracy attached to the US Postal Service

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

On 8/14/2020 at 6:29 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Where does James Woods get this stuff?

I have a non-political comment on this.

There's a moment after the set-up where Colbert asked Kamala, "So you don't mean it?" then mugged for the camera.

Here's a screenshot of the moment.

I like expressions of joy, but in this case, the joy comes from humiliating someone in public.

And Colbert's joy is real. He just took down a VP candidate a peg or two and that makes him important.

It's a sacred feeling.

In Colbert's mind, I have no doubt this is a moment he will remember often. If he invented the cure for cancer, I don't think his joy at that achievement would come close to what he felt here.

I don't have anything inside me to resonate with this on such a deep level.

But like the saying goes, you can't give caviar to a pig. He won't eat it. He wants slop...

btw - Is he using braces?

Michael