FungiDebord

They're weird!, I type from my gooncave.

I sort of doubt she is coming off as an Antoinette figure, but I agree that the storms contribute to a general sort of malaise and paint the current administration, fairly or unfairly, as weak, and thus lead to change of regime feelings/vibes.

Hard to say obviously, but, insofar as the VP debate was indicative of a vibe shift or had any effect, I think it had much less to do with Vance as a probable heir apparent, and much more to do with how he is able to frame the race and how Harris is ceding rhetorical territory to the right.

Vance was able to articulate a support for a "Trumpist" platform while giving rhetorical permission to not be MAGA dipshit, acknowledge legitimate grievance which many Americans feel (and which Harris, as heir to Biden, is having difficulty articulating sufficiently), and was able to be conciliatory and not "Weird". Walz was on his heels, presumably he was going to give Vance enough rope to proverbially hang himself, he thought Vance would be an ideological freak and would look good as an ah shucks guys in comparison, but Vance sidestepped him. And because of Harris's rightward shift, Walz comes off as weak and less credible. He should be the strong, I gave kids lunch guy, but he can't get too far away from Harris so he has to give some mealy-mouthed talking points about an economy of joy or some bullshit.

Of course, this is all really symptomatic of the Harris attempt at triangulation -- starting w the attempt to encourage the "base" by picking Walz and not meeting Bibi and declaring No Going Back, to pivoting wholely to the "Center" and endorsing nuclear first strikes and hugging the Cheneys and framing the change from Biden as an opportunity to get more Republican input. We can't know the counter factuals, so, maybe there is a path here but, you know, at some point, obviously, at what cost.

Mostly: I don't know why people doubt Vance. He has the best story since Obama, unimpeachable pedigree. And those eyes!

Couldn't be me!

Paternalism w a common W.

Why would AOC stick her neck out for any of the rivals, none of whom are progressive? Why is everyone here clutching pearls about Biden staying in the race, when at every opportunity every hexcomment is about how he deserves to lose and decrying any support for 99pct Hitler?

Let the centrists eat themselves.

Imagine thinking association w Heritage is embarrassing and not a silver bullet on reactionary CVs.

Imagine being in 2024 and still doing performative hair discourse.