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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 1, 2024

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2, but it's less heirarchal than you're thinking. A chunk of prominent insiders have decided to see if they can push out Biden. They are getting the press to run damaging stories and contacting other Dems to rally support.

So there are a lot of people who know what's going on, it's not just their close friends.

Michelle Obama's name always comes up on these things because she's one of the few prominent people that the Dems could unite behind easily. I don't think she wants it. Her current life involves hanging out with celebrities and the super wealthy who all tell her how awesome she is. Then she gets paid to give talks to people who tell her how awesome she is.

There's nothing in her history that suggests she'd rather go to Michigan and listen to the problems of the hoi polloi. Or that she's particularly interested in having to make decisions about geopolitics.

Michelle Obama's name always comes up on these things because she's one of the few prominent people that the Dems could unite behind easily.

Looking at the "Career" section of her Wikipedia page, while Michelle Obama has been involved in politics plenty, she's never even run for an elected position herself. I really can't see the Democrats going for her, in addition to her being pretty clear about not wanting the job.

Correct, she would be running on ‘Obama’s third term’, not ‘Michelle’s first’.

I mean, obviously, the bigger problem either way is that her life in which she doesn’t run for office is one in which she’s paid to hear about how great she is, and her life in which she does run for office is based on getting insulted by Trump while people call her a tranny and the media pries into minor facets of her personal life for an outside shot at having the most difficult job in the world.

I don't think the Democrats would let a wee thing like qualifications or experience stand in their way. And there is an argument to be made that Barack Obama and his former staff would just run the show anyway.

Obviously, it's not great for our nation when spouses and reality TV stars win office, but the culture war is hot enough that people want victory more than doing the right thing and losing.

The only impediment is her not wanting the job. She now enjoys a sterling reputation that would certainly be tarnished rather quickly if she ran.

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