There's been such a shift in minority voting preference (towards Trump) that Democrats are now arguing against "blindly" trying to turn out all voters, warning that Democrats may wind up gifting Trump with more votes than Biden.
Things have changed so dramatically that it's likely to affect how Democrats campaign. We're already seeing it happen. Last week, we learned that an influential data scientist had warned major Democratic donors in a confidential memo not to register young and black voters ahead of the 2024 election because they're likely going to vote for Donald Trump.
"Indeed, if we were to blindly register nonvoters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump's quest for a personal dictatorship," Aaron Strauss warned in the memo, citing recent polling showing Trump's strength with unregistered voters.
LOL, it's a "dictatorship" when more people vote for Republicans.
Democracy is always in crisis every single election Democrats lose, or even just might lose.
Sounds like the Democrat Party is the organization interested in dictatorship.
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"The left's challenge with non-white voters is much deeper than it first appears," Adam Carlson, a data analyst with the Brunswick Group, explained. "A less racially divided America is an America where people vote more based on their beliefs than their identity. This is a big challenge for Dems."
How terrible!
Biden might not only miss the ballot in Ohio, because Ohio's deadline for naming a nominee comes before Biden will actually be named the nominee at the DNC on August 15th, but he may miss the Alabama ballot for the same reason.
First, we learned that President Joe Biden's spot on the Ohio ballot was in danger and analyzed how that might play out. We still don't even have a definitive answer to that question, but an almost identical situation has now cropped up in Alabama. The Alabama Secretary of State, a Republican, has informed the Alabama Democratic Party Chairman, letting him know that the deadline for certification of candidate names on the ballot for November falls four days before the DNC is set to begin in Chicago. The rules in Alabama appear to allow for some provisional options to avoid this issue, but Wes Allen, the Secretary of State, appears to be taking a hard line on the question for now.
As Jazz Shaw says, this is down to the DNC's own incompetence. The laws and deadlines of these states have been a literal open book for years, but the Democrat Party decided to hold a convention later than usual so as to give Biden a boost nearer to the election. No one, and certainly not any Republican, should bend the rules for them.
David Hogg's political career with the Democrat Party is off to a perfect start.
Gun control activist David Hogg has been hit with allegations over the spending practices of his group Leaders We Deserve PAC. Conservative outlets are reporting that the group spent comparably little on actual candidates as opposed to travel and expenses. His prior counsel is a familiar name in such controversies in Washington: former Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias.
Hogg created a group in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections to elect Generation Z politicians to offices throughout the country. The group was given favorable national coverage in major media outlets. He explained that contributions would be used to elect young Democrat candidates...
Federal filings reportedly show that year-end 2023, Leaders We Deserve raised over $3 million. That is impressive for its first year in operation.
The conservative sites allege that the group spent "only about $263,000 on its stated mission of electing candidates from Generation Z to office combined with donations to other Democrat Party committees and groups--and instead spent more than $1.4 million on disbursements to themselves for payroll and to political consulting firms and legal fees, in addition to travel and entertainment expenses like hotels, flights, and meals."
However, it reportedly spent more than $1,314,000 on travel and related expenses while giving $80,000 to the Elias Law Group.
Previously, when allegations of self-dealing and accounting improprieties were raised with regard to Black Lives Matter, the group's attorney, Elias, immediately stood out for many. Elias resigned from his "key role" with BLM as the scandal exploded.
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The group is only the latest political or business effort launched by Hogg, who previously tried to start a "progressive pillow company" before stepping away from the enterprise.
Biden's former chief of staff Ron Klain was caught on tape blasting Biden's frequent babbling about bridges.
Wait 'til he hears abojut Biden's obsession with choo-choo trains! And the ever-mutating circumstances of Beau Biden's death!
"I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges," Klain said. "He does two or three events a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge. And here's a bridge. Like I tell you, if you go into the grocery store, you go to the grocery store and, you know, eggs and milk are expensive, the fact that there's a fing bridge is not [inaudible]."
"He's not a congressman. He's not running for Congress," Klain said. "I think it's kind of a fool's errand. I think that [it] also doesn't get covered that much because, look, it's a fing bridge. Like it's a bridge, and how interesting is the bridge? It's a little interesting, but it's not a lot interesting."
He also says Biden should focus more on his "economic message" and "proposals" instead of his "achievements."
Why?
Well, obviously: Because Biden's economy is a disaster. He has no achievements. Every time he claims that inflation isn't real or has been "tamed," people think he sounds even more senile and out-of-touch with the actual world.
So instead, Klain advises him to say things about the future which haven't been proven to be lies yet.
Good advice, really, if cynical.
Because our country has maleducated three generations of kids in a row,
the makers of Scrabble are changing the rules so that morons can play it and feel "included."
This is a game-changer.
For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic board game Scrabble -- and touting a "No More Scoring" gameplay option.
The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game -- one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a "less competitive" version to appeal to Gen Z gamers.
The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.
Mattel is to launch a new version of Scrabble which is designed to be more collaborative and accessible for those who find word games intimidating.
"The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble," Gyles Brandreth, who co-hosts the language podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, told BBC Radio 4 Today. "They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words."
Creating words?
So idiots are allowed to just make up fake words?
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Scrabble Together is marketed for those who find the classic game to be intimidating or for people who have ever thought "word games aren't for me."
However, some naysayers objected to the changes, calling it "Scrabble for Snowflakes" and "Woke Scrabble" on X.
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So what's new exactly? In addition to a dual-sided board, there are helper cards, which provide assistance, prompts and clues and can be selected to match the player's challenge level of their choice.
In the new version, scoring is a thing of the past -- now all one has to do is finish a goal and collect the goal card.
Goal cards include challenges such as: "Play a horizontal word," "play a three-letter word" or "play a word that touches the edge of the board."
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Scrabble Together is marketed for those who find the classic game to be intimidating or for people who have ever thought "word games aren't for me."
Despite having a strong vocabulary, I'm absolute crap at Scrabble. So I don't play it.
Not all games need to be "inclusive" for everybody.
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The helper cards -- which provide help, prompts and clues -- can be selected to match the player's challenge level of their choice.
Amazingly, this game isn't being made for America, because Hasbro, not Mattel, owns the Scrabble license in America.
I bet Hasbro will in fact license Mattel's new "Scrabble for Morons" rules.
Video of Shelia Jackson Lee declaiming about the solar system, with commentary by Megyn Kelly and Victor Davis "Cruelty is my nectar" Hanson.The sun is made up "mostly of gases," she meant to say? She thinks the sun has a rocky core?
(Actually the sun is made up of plasma but let's approach this literal retard from a third-grade level.)
She also distinguishes, in her speech, between the sun and moon. If she was talking about the sun when she mentioned the moon, then she's distinguishing... the sun from the sun?
Oh she also says the moon is a "planet."
From David Strom, a lefty makes a failed anti-Trump ad that is so pro-Trump it reads as deliberate parody.
Biden: I hope my legacy will be... "reduce the prospect of war, because of Vietnam."
It sounds like he's actually claiming to have ended Vietnam.
It was a terrible war. It took Beau Biden from us!
It is pretty normal for dementia patients to relive their past--visiting their golden age from their golden years--and the Vietnam war dominated the news during Biden's rise to power. Drifting back from the reality of 2024 to the 1970s should, I suppose, not be unexpected.