Sunday, April 27, 2025

President JB?

We're not even done with 2025 year -- not even half way -- but some are already focused on 2028.  Maybe Andy Beshear and Jon Ossoff are flirting with presidential runs?  AOC and her following seem prepared to make a run.


Not smart enough to make a run but they seem prepared.  Not smart enough?  I would've had her start working immediately on her voice because the presidency is neither head cheerleader nor homecoming queen meaning she needs to learn how to lower it an octave or two and take out some of the breathy wonder.  This would have been the perfect time for her to have worked on lowering her voice.  It would have been seen as a side effect of all the public speaking she's been doing and not an effort to come across as more mature.  And somebody better address the voice and the mane of hair before she makes a run for the Senate or the presidency.  If they don't, watch the media dub her "Airhead OC."


The only thing more laughable right now than AOC would be Bernie's hopes and dreams that the country will get behind an 87 year old man -- that's how old he'd be in the fall of 2028 -- and hand him a four year presidency.  

Now a new possibility is emerging.  




Adam Sexton  (WMUR) explains, "New Hampshire Democrats got an early look at a possible 2028 presidential candidate Sunday during the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner in Manchester.  Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivered the keynote address at the fundraiser, one of the Granite State's earliest political events that can indicate future presidential contenders in the next primary election."  Alex Degman (WBEZ) adds, "Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Pritzker is doing what candidates often do if they’re exploring a presidential run: getting name recognition by latching onto an issue partisans care about."  Disclosure, I've known the Pritzker family for years -- that includes JB as well as his sister Penny who served in the Obama administration (Commerce Secretary).  





Natasha Korecki (NBC NEWS) reports on the speech:


As Pritzker denounced President Donald Trump in a speech to New Hampshire Democrats, he also accused Democratic politicians of embracing a “culture of incrementalism” that has led the party to be run over by Republicans, who are implementing an agenda that is counter to the left’s value system.

“It’s time to fight, everywhere, all at once,” Pritzker said. “Let’s start with something that should be easy to say: It’s wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law.” 

Cheers rang out in the audience at that comment at the annual McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club state party dinner, which brought in the largest crowd New Hampshire Democrats have seen since 2020, organizers said -- more than 800 people. The presidential race is three years away, but animated Democrats who jumped to their feet several times Sunday signaled a hunger to hear about challenging the Trump White House.

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Pritzker told the Democrats that he had never called for protests in the past but that he was now calling for “mass protests,” “mobilization” and “disruption.”  

“Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” Pritzker said.

In the interview, Pritzker went even further, saying that if Democrats reclaim a majority in the House, they should investigate the actions of Trump administration officials, including who accessed sensitive taxpayer data. 

“We’re going to hold people responsible. They can’t just get away with what they’re doing right now,” Pritzker said. “Anybody that’s breaking the law, anybody that’s breaching the Constitution as a regular matter of the way they run their offices, those people all should be investigated if they are breaking the law. ... Think about the privacy of Social Security and Medicaid records and all of that DOGE went in and just breached, as if that’s OK. How about IRS records, right? I mean, all of that.”  


Reporting on the speech, Kelly Garrity (POLITICO) notes:


“Those same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on our defense of Black people and trans kids and immigrants — instead of their own lack of guts and gumption,” Pritzker said.

He lambasted pundits and scorned those “flocking to podcasts” to criticize their colleagues for not caring about the working class — the same people, he argued, “who when it comes to relief of the struggles of real people have been timid, not bold.”

The two-term governor, philanthropist and potential 2028 presidential candidate traveled to the early presidential primary state to keynote the annual McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner, a major fundraiser for the state Democratic Party. 


Joey Cappelletti and Holly Ramer (AP) note, "On Sunday, Pritzker again invoked his Jewish faith, criticizing Trump’s efforts to deport foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. He called on Trump to 'stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors,' a line that drew a standing ovation from the crowd."


Many of his remarks can be seen as a rebuke of dilettante Gavin Newsom who can't run for re-election as governor of California but appears to believe that running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination is a project that will fill his time between deep conditioning and hot oil treatments.  Via his podcast, Gavin's trying to position himself as manly and right wingerish.  It's both pathetic and hilarious to watch and it robs of his only real constituency which leaves him no chance in hell at the nomination. 


As people begin sticking their toes in the presidential possibilities pool, the current occupant of the Oval Office continues to crash and burn.  Julianne McShane (MOTHER JONES) notes:


New polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit record lows as he nears the 100-day mark of his second term on Tuesday.

An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with only 39 percent of respondents saying they approve of Trump’s term thus far. The 80-year comparison appears to refer to when Gallup first started measuring public approval of presidents, back during President Harry Truman’s term; according to data compiled by ABC, Trump had the lowest approval ratings of all presidents at 100 days in both of his terms, and he’s the only president to have the disapproval of the majority of Americans only three months into his term.

Seventy-two percent of respondents to the ABC poll also said they believe Trump’s economic policies—such as his tariff-induced global trade war—will likely cause a recession in the short term, and 53 percent believe the economy has gotten worse since Trump took office. More than 60 percent said that his administration does not respect the rule of law and that he is going too far in trying to expand his power. Majorities also disapproved of nearly every other action. The poll asked about Trump’s moves—reducing funding for medical research, shutting down the Department of Education, freezing foreign humanitarian aid, seeking to deport international students, and sending a group of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process—and they were all disliked.



This as Chumps shock troops carried out a massive raid today in Colorado Springs.  Edward Helmore (GUARDIAN) reports:


More than 300 law enforcement officers from at least 10 federal agencies raided an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs early on Sunday, arresting more than 100 people authorities said were undocumented immigrants and seizing guns, cocaine, meth and pink cocaine.

More than a dozen active-duty military members were detained as well, authorities said.

The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) posted a video on X of the post-raid scene, with dozens of partygoers holding their hands up. Another video showed dozens of people fleeing the building through its entrance after federal agents smashed a window.

The DEA Rocky Mountain division said agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), homeland security, the US army’s criminal investigation division and the Colorado Springs police had joined the raid.


Kat's "Kat's Korner: Marilyn Monroe's gifts weren't just visual" went up earlier today.  The following sites updated:

 




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