btw y’all, this might be the last msg you see from me. Heads up. Just reached out to Ryuu, gonna get myself banned again bc these chats always soak up too much of my time. See y’all in a few months (when I inevitably get the urge to come back and find some loophole or smth idk how I even have access to this chat).

Hey guys, I’m gonna dip out again after making a bunch of rambling posts that rarely answer the questions being asked. See y’all in a few months when I inevitably decide to shit post again!

1. She officially became a candidate on July 21st.  The Obama's officially endorsed her on July 26th.  5 days is quick in politics.   That said, the videotaped phone call showed her wearing a tan suit.  The same suit she was seen wearing 2 days before in several interviews.  That means a couple of things.  A, they endorsed her far earlier than the date of the publicly released campaign video.  B, They slight delay was more about planning the endorsement video, staging the right suit (the parallel to Obama getting absolute hell for wearing a tan suit in 2014 is notable), filming the video between events, editing the video, scheduling when to publish. C, The latter was important so it doesn't over take any other endorsement/campaign news.

2. She gained the necessary delegates the day after announcing her candidacy.  That locked it in right then.  Any news agency saying it could potentially still be someone else after July 22nd, either wasn't familiar with the nominating process or was just stirring stuff up for clicks.  She needed 1975 delegates and by 10:15 pm that night, she already had 2,208.

3 and 4. Michelle has no actual political background.  An announcement by Michelle Obama submitting her candidacy would have been met with a small segment of excitement that would have been overwhelmed by confusion, frustration and even anger.  The same could be said of Oprah Winfrey.  And for the record, I have never heard any discussion for either as candidates EXCEPT from right wing media.  Jesse Waters and Sean Hannity have both said their names as potential candidates within the past few years. 

4. Guesses are absolutely understandable and even expected but they are typically suggested based on some merits.  At least by serious news agencies and commentators. You will always see protest votes where someone writes in a celebrity for president but you'll never see them mentioned as a serious candidate for president (trying not to knock Trump here).

5. I haven't had time yet to dig deep into the potential VP picks yet.  I've mentioned a couple of names and that I'd be happy with just about any of the names that came up on the short list.  Surface level, I'm ok with her selection and I don't expect my initial reactive feeling to change much later on.  The selection feels vetted, scrutinized, made only after careful consideration.

Not likely.  Why open primary a candidate that beat Trump the last time?  

This isn't a fair assessment of what went down here. He also refused to comprehend the answers that plainly stated what he had been asking for.

When Kamala wins, it will assure that Trump goes to jail.  Now you would think that means he would be gone, but the GOP has allowed him to actually take over the party.  The GOP will have to go to visit him in Federal prison to gravel at his feet and get his blessing.  Lara Trump who now heads up the RNC will bleed the GOP dry they will have to run him again from jail to milk more donations out of the cult. The GOP is done for the next decade.  Republicans tried to warn the party that he would destroy them but Trump was giving out that sweet hate juice that Fox got the GOP addicted to.   He may live to be 90.  If thats the case and he can still spread hate effectively they will run him again.   After that they will run Don Jr.  They will never be able to get rid of Donald Trump.  With the GOP done, maybe its time to get rid of political parties period.  

"We have 91 days. By God, that's easy! We'll sleep when we're dead." - Tim Walz
Donald has a lifelong Criminal Prosecutor and an energetic Command Sergeant Major out here in these streets looking for him.

You guys crack me up. So many of you have your panties in a bunch over who will win in November. Look, it doesn't matter who wins, your life will be no different, unless your a weirdo, .....:)...or to elaborate....you are a non-conformist !!!!

Hard disagree. Most of the time that is relatively accurate but a Trump 2.0 administration will be different. He can distance himself from Project 2025 all he wants but the people he is going to hire want to implement it. All the people who told Trump no the first time around are gone. 

I used roll my eyes a bit at people who lived in constant Trump drama but after watching him try to overturn an election I do not trust him. 

Also as someone who works in government/politics I can point to hundreds of things that make a big difference in thousands of peoples lives but most people won't notice.

Examples

• Capping insulin prices for seniors,
• More than 10,200 bridges are being rebuilt, repaired, or modernized thanks to President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. (Trump tried and failed).
• CHIPS and Science Act has led to hundreds of thousands of new high paying jobs in advanced manufacturing. If you have one of those jobs you are impacted.
• On a local level, we have been able to get $$ for drinking water infrastructure for our rural towns that cannot afford to fix their aging pipes alone.
• Republicans Farm Bill will reduce SNAP benefits by $30 billion over next ten years. Anyone who needed that program will fill that effect if passed. Due to the current cuts our Foodbanks are seeing need at a higher level than the pandemic. 

Elections matter and have consequences. Most people just don't realize it until they are impacted by policy change or need help from a program.

1. Hmm she still isn’t the definitive pick given that she is still only a presumptive nominee. She just happens to be unopposed as most delegates are choosing her. Also just because you have all the delegates necessary does not make you the official candidate as the delegate only at the time of the DNC convention make the final choice. Which hasn’t happened yet. 

These were sent after the virtual call (which I thought meant she would be the official candidate, but I guess I was wrong here too). Sounds like they are gonna have a lot of trouble getting on 8 state ballots then.

To me 5 days is an eternity in politics, things move very fast especially these past 4 weeks with an Biden vs Trump debate, Assassination attempt, RNC convention, Biden dropping out, Kamala becoming the presumptive nominee, the DNC virtual roll call, NABJ, Kamala and Trump debate difficulties from both sides, Kamala brings Gov. Tim Walz as her presumptive VP, baby drop in stocks, Iran starting to duke it out with Israel, etc. A lot of these things happening in spans of less than 5 days.

But I do agree that there could’ve been a discrepancy between editing and approving it before it got sent out, though usually most things are done live except ads.

2.She did gain the necessary delegates but the DNC have to reapprove and reassess those delegates at the DNC convention. She is still the presumptive nominee meaning she can easily drop out right now and it wouldn’t cause a big commotion still.

3.Wasn’t Michelle pushing for what she called healthier school lunches? And pushing for Let’s Move! ? Joining Forces? Reach Higher? Let Girls Learn? Going on Sesame Street, etc. She has a decent political background as the First Lady under Obama. She’s even been a lawyer. Plenty of political knowledge about justice and the U.S. Constitution. She was actually the only one leading in polls done to see who would win against Trump before Biden dropped out. So I don’t think there would be any confusion, frustration or anger.

4.Ive never heard anything from them or others. I don’t watch Waters or Hannity. And them talking about it years back wouldn’t have any bearing on me talking about it a week ago. But no worries.

5.I think she did not pick her best out of the ones who were working for it, that being Mark Kelly and then Josh Shapiro. But I do agree that the people were carefully vetted, scrutinized and the decision was made after careful consideration to reach the final verdict for Kamala’s VP pick, Tim Walz.