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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Aeeywaald felt that perfecting his immersion blender frothing technique would be what finally separated him from the other Merry Mixmasters Jubilee participants.
The Democrats are in what is no doubt a very weird place right now. On the surface, they’re at least pretending to be bubbly and enthusiastic about the OH SO AWESOME sudden anointing of Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee. They’re selling it too. The Dems are quite adept at operating in a purely fictional environment, after all. These are the same people who just spent three-and-a-half years pretending that Joe Biden had a functioning brain. They’ve got mad acting skills.
Behind the scenes, however, they must be in a dead freakout about the fact that Kamala will still be Kamala and there is only so much they can spin that babbling train wreck.
Potential running mates haven’t exactly been breaking down the doors to get in line and curry Madame Veep’s favor. Most have been fleeing for the exits, preferring to keep their eyes on future prizes.
The list of potential running mates for Harris that quickly began popping up in the mainstream media was almost certainly curated by the Democratic National Committee — they’re not dumb enough to leave things up to her. As I said in an episode of « Beyond the Briefing » last week, it’s quite the collection of White guys. The Dems can only stray so far from their roots.
The B Team White Dude list is suffering from attrition now.
Rick reported over the weekend that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was accused of covering up sexual harassment in his office, which pretty much took him out of the running.
