Category Archives: 2024 Election

Unsubtle

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Michael Froomkin

Perhaps this is no time for subtlety.

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Lincoln Project Says, Man Up

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Michael Froomkin

Preaching to the choir or effective messaging?  Being in the choir, I’m not sure….

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Powerful Harris-Waltz Ad

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Michael Froomkin

 

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Proof of Life

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Michael Froomkin

I’ve been spending lots and lots of time in ‘observation’ in hospital for something that never actually re-manifested.  I expect to be discharged to rehab Real Soon Now — maybe even today.  Meanwhile, as proof of life, I offer you three thoughts on your Miami-Dade ballot:

  1. The rule of law is on the ballot.  If you think this is overly dramatic, just see for example the NYT’s Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency and the Washington Post article, As rioters stormed Capitol with Pence inside, Trump allegedly said ‘So what?. Vote accordingly.  Not just in the Presidential election but also federal legislative races where full MAGA and/or MAGA fellow travelers are also Putin’s useful idiots.
  2. Women’s right to bodily autonomy is on the ballot in two ways: In the Presidential and legislative elections (US Senate and House, and Florida legislature too), and also directly via Florida Constitutional Amendment 4.  Vote YES, both to establish some justice and also to stop the brain drain in the medical profession, and soon in younger knowledge workers, to states with more civilized policies.
  3. While you are at it, vote YES on Florida Constitutional Amendment 3 which would legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Enforcement of this prohibition is a joke except when it is outright racially biased.  The law needs to catch up to mores here.

More later maybe on other ballot issues….

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Puppies in Politics (2)

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Michael Froomkin

Like everyone else, I was surprised by the news that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem boasts in her forthcoming autobiography about shooting Cricket, her 14-months-old wirehair pointer, due to Cricket’s “aggressive personality”.  Political commentators seem to think that she did this to show her toughness, with a particular eye, perhaps, to signalling to Donald Trump that she’d be a fine Vice Presidential candidate.

What surprised me more than the cruelty of the act — we’re talking about a modern Republican Governor after all — was that Noem seemed ignorant of the role of dogs in modern politics. Mitt Romney got pilloried for tying a dog on his car roof.  Dr. Memhet Oz might be a Senator from Pennsylvania but for this video about his actually killing puppies:

And as I’ve noted before, in a 2008 Maryland Senate ad in the (ultimately losing) candidate tried to make fun of attack ads against him by invoking his love for … puppies.

It worked, though, for Senator Raphael Warnock,

…and it wasn’t even his dog.

Meanwhile, it turns out that shooting your dog might also be a class two misdemeanor in South Dakota.

In any case, what sort of politician thinks that the W.C. Fields crowd is a demographic worth pursuing?

And I think it probably will be Sen. Tim Scott, anyway.

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Lincoln Project Had a Good Weekend

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Michael Froomkin

I thought the Lincoln Project kinda lost its mojo after the 2020 election, and the major staff changes.  But this under-2-minute montage of all the highlights from the weekend is vintage stuff.

Now if only they’d post their latest videos on their website instead of ex-Twitter.

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