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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:16:07 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 6/24/2025 10:23 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 6/23/2025 11:14 PM, Titus G wrote:
>>> On 24/06/25 13:19, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>> On 6/23/2025 11:21 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:45:20 -0700, The Horny Goat =
<lcraver@home.ca>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 10:41:39 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
>>>>>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The USA "conservative" is different than what it was five years =
ago.
>>>>>>>> --scott
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Only some of them are now fascists but they are =
sycophantic
>>>>>>> toward the
>>>>>>> current president and afraid of the MAGA horde.=A0 Some =
Republicans=20
>>>>>>> were
>>>>>>> alway authoritaians
>>>>>>> to start with but now have taken their mask off. Some have a long
>>>>>>> history of idiocy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am looking forward to the US 2028 election even if Vance is the =
GOP
>>>>>> candidate. (Which at this point I'd guess is a 50-50 proposition =
but
>>>>>> by no means a certainty)
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmmm ... Vance/MTG vs Newsom/Buttigieg.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now /that/ would be a contest worth watching!
>>>>
>>>> At least they're all under 60.
>>>>
>>>
>>> A part from Vance, I do not know those names.
>>> Is 60 an IQ measurement?
>>>
>> MTG is Majorie Taylor Green, a congresscritter who is constantly=20
>> complaining that The Orange One isn't doing enough of what he does.=20
>> Gavin Newsom is the Governor of California.=A0 Buttigieg, I know the =
name=20
>> but can't remember what office he's held at the moment.
>
>Buttigieg ran for President in 2020, and was Secretary of
>Transportation under Biden.
>
>I'd personally prefer him over Newsom for President, but many think he's
>unelectable, being gay, and gay married.

That might work too.

And it may not matter who it is. If the Orange Taco does enough
damage, the Dems might win whoever they run. Like 1992.

Then again, if the Republicans in Congress grow spines, that could
change.

Nixon didn't win 49 of 50 States in 1972 because the country adored
him. He won 60.7% of the popular vote because the Dems ran McGovern.

/That/, BTW is what a "mandate" looks like. Not some wimpy 49%+.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"