I'm so sick and tired of Trump. His insanity is boring. Let's just go fucking win this thing. Do something every day between now and election day. Donate, text, write postcards, make phone calls, canvass, whatever floats your boat. It all helps! And most importantly, vote early if your state allows it!!!
I was in the hospital and didn’t know that he was holding rallies. Wished I would’ve known.
I think I was talking to MSNBC and a nurse said, “So you’re voting for Harris? “Of course,” I answered. She said, “I wouldn’t vote for her if you blah blah blah.” I replied, “Is it because she’s black, is it because she’s a woman, is it because she hasn’t any children?”, “No,” she answered. I asked her why. She replied “it’s because of what she did in California.” I said “You realize that is lies and none of it is real,” she answered, “I think it is.” I said “You’re going to be sorry about your vote.”
Remember when you were asked a question as a kid and your parents expected an answer that you didn’t have …? The reply was because …then because why ? Again because …and that’s the standard answer for all of Rip Van Trumples fans no matter what is asked because there are no reasonable answers for all of the lies that they swear are true !😳🙈🙉🙊VOTE BLUE for True Leadership!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤔
@Linda Weide, thanks for posting these links. Though I'm not a member of the Dems Abroad, I was unaware of PsychoPac. George Conway has a powerful voice; so glad he is using it for the good of our democracy. His ex is a looney tune, kool-aid drinking nut job surviving on alternative facts.
And Kellyanne is just one of the many MAGA whose daughters hate them. Especially the Gay ones who come out like her daughter did. Once mom figured out she needed to accept her things seem to have been better, although she clearly despises her mom's positions.
I can't believe a nurse would be in favor of a pathetic , demented, criminal felon, science denier for president. Aren't medical staffers supposed to support science/medicine? and be compassionate? I guess not when they are just working for a right wing MAGA owned medical company in business only for profits and nothing else.
IDK, I always thought of doctors and nurses to be at a higher standard. I guess in red states there is no escaping the MAGAs
Nurses are no different than any other group except we have a degree. Some of the behavior I've seen is hardly professional from my coworkers. I live in Vegas (which is BLUE) and many of my coworkers are for Trump and many of them are minorities. Go figure.
that is very upsetting and disturbing to learn. But thanks for the info...
this does increase my situational awareness. Ive been hospitalized for a couple of surgical procedures over the past few years and I've noticed some really nasty attitudes in hospitals from staff starting with admissions and well into patient recovery. I just learn to deal with it here in America. I do appreciate the nurses who are good at their jobs and have a brain. Thank you.
I laughed at a Lawrence O’Donnell clip calling the attendees at Trump’s Q&A at Chicago’s Economic Club “a bunch of stupid rich people”. The interviewer, John Micklewait, was astoundingly blunt about pointing out Trump’s lack of knowledge on how tariffs work. Then, the applause at the end only validates O’Donnell’s statement of the intelligence level of the members of Chicago Economic Club. Stupid.
What was funny/sad about Big Orange's interview with Mickelwait was that he said that HE (Big Orange) knew more about how tariffs work than Mickelwait and the WSJ.
Unfortunately, I actually had a doctor look at me and straight out lie to me a week ago. This stuff, unfortunately, is getting commonplace. I was so taken off guard, I couldn't speak. I presenting am weighing options.
Don't ever put a profession on a pedestal. Healthcare people are no different than anyone else. We have wonderful people, crooks, drug addicts, liars - you name it, I've seen it or heard about it at work. Look at the docs involved in medical billing fraud.
I would speak with the hospital administration. The nurse has no business selling her crap to any patient. Her kind of talk can give someone a heart attack. F- her.
I would still complain even if I didn’t know her name— If they have the date, the department or floor, procedure, and YOUR name, they can narrow it down. Even if they don’t figure it out, they will have some good ideas based on other patients’ complaints.
During Covid, I found out there were a lot of morons working as nurses. My son was in the hospital and they were anti-VAX I told him to get the hell out of the room.
Lots of nurses I work with refused to get the COVID vaccine. One that was very anti vax and tried to get nurses to go along with her, died the summer of 2021 of COVID and was not vaxxed. She was only 52. After that, her friends got the vaccine. Another friend of mine that summer lost her son-in-law to COVID, not vaxxed. He was 42 and refused to get it. I don't even try and change anyone's mind about COVID and the vaccine. Tired of listening to their bs. Everyone that dies now is the result of the vaccine. WTH.
Did you ask this nurse just what it was that Harris 'did' in California? Did she have any facts to recite, or just the crap that she's heard over the internet or GOP propaganda? Because I'm a long-time CA resident and I think she's done a bang-up job as AG for the state and SF County DA prior to that.
I’ve been donating, writing post cards and painting rocks blue and writing VOTE BLUE on them..I bring a few with me every time I walk, (everyday) and leave them all around our neighborhood here in AZ! I try to leave them in the trumpier areas. Needless to say, some have disappeared. And needless to say, I will continue to put more out there. I have an abundant supply of rocks available to me! 🤪
Joanne: Sidebar … where does one get those rocks to paint. We don’t have a lot of those small, light, flat, rocks lying around. I think they are available at Michael’s for ridiculous amounts of $. What’s the scoop? I’d love to do some of these.
A friend is saying the same thing. She lives in Germany, but even with cancer she is in North Carolina ringing doorbells and talking to people. She was tired of just writing postcards, which cost much more to mail from here, but not the cost of a plane ticket and accommodations to stay in NC for several weeks, stumping for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
I couldn't be anywhere near one of his shitshow rallies. I'd either be arrested, get my ass kicked or both. Anyone who would continue to stay as he's talking about a late golfer's schlong is as deranged as he is.
At this point, any of us could get up & free associate a speech by dear leader (sans Arnold Palmer references)...I was the best, no one's ever seen, blah blah blah. Here's hoping they retreat to the rocks from whence they came.
Agree! Done the cards and put my absentee ballot in for Harris/Waltz! Yahoo! This pervert’s got to go! We have been tortured enough by this nutcase! 💙💙💙
My mail and ballot came today and I will be voting Trump into the garbage kind of history. I’ve been voting my mail for the last 15 years in my state and it works perfect perfectly. Plus I can track my vote online to see how it’s recorded.
Iʻm textbanking along with nearly 11,000 other people on Field Team Six. There is wonderful energy and enthusiasm. Also there is a great article about how the out-sourced Trump door knockers are not knocking on doors, they are sipping coffee at Dennyʻs and filling out false reports. So his ground game is JUNK too.
"who knew that Arnie was packing his own personal 9-iron down there? " LOL I am convinced you're right about Justa Dick and Theil and Elmo. We gotta win by a fucking landslide or we're doomed. This is the most embarrassing time in our history...for all the technological advancements we've made, we're still a stupid society. 🙄
For the past 45 years we've gotten even more stupid thanks to the "help" of Rupert Murdoch's Fake Noise and decades of Republican underfunding of pubic schools.
Or the KKK or the AMERICAN NAZI MOVEMENT or the HERITAGE FOUNDATION AKA FASCIST PARTY and so many other anti democratic groups! Like roaches they hide in the day and thrive in the dark just waiting for a chance to overwhelm and overthrow our democracy !
Respectfully disagree. 54% Harris, though the EC of course skews everything. The crappy polls & gloom & doom articles are setting us up to suppress turnout, but new voters & reformed Rs will swing it I think.
And in addition to new voters, high #s of voters who sat out 2020. I refuse to believe that ppl who sat out 2020 are showing up in 2024 for the Hate Yam.
I think Harris is gonna win, but I will only say that out loud if I'm clutching a rabbit's foot and wearing my lucky red socks. If the rabbit whose foot I'm holding onto is also wearing red socks, all the better.
Given the strong voter turnout and really strong new voter registration, I still think/hope women and young people are pissed enough to come out in droves. 🤞🤞🤞
Problem is, I live in Silicon Valley, and the number of houses that I walk my dog by that are encrusted with Trump paraphernalia is far more than you would expect.
Alas, I do trust the polling, and I do think it will be a nail biter.
Sure, the EC is the reason for this worry, but the R's have figured out how to game the system, and they are extremely effective at it.
Gov. Brian Kemp summed up the twisted pro-Trump mind state: "Whether you like the man or not, it's a business decision." So the system is rigged and the populace poisoned by self-serving corporatists through the media and, yes, the conservative churches.
Saddening but also enraging. At which point is a business decision overpowered by morality? Stealing someone’s food because one has been going hungry for days is a different situation than wanting to make more and more and more money beyond millions and billions. Existence of these people does not say a lot about human nature.
I will tell a tale. I am a product manager in Tech, and when the Frances Haugen revelations about Facebook came out, I was horrified. If I was asked (or incentivized) to do half the shit Facebook was doing (objectively doing, not theorized), I would have looked in the mirror and quit.
But a fuck-ton of product managers took their guidance, set by the metrics they were being judged on (for raises, promotions, and career growth) and said sure, this is unethical and fucked up to the max, but I like my $400K a year comp package, so I will just do it.
Like the German people who enabled and abided the Nazi’s.
I have standards, and I would have left even if I had to go work at graveyard shift at a convenience store to make ends meet.
For what it's worth, I was recently in and around Cleveland, Ohio, where the yard signs for Harris/Walz outnumbered the Trump/Vance signs by thee to one. I also noticed that a lot of the Trump signs were along roadsides and not on somebody's lawn. Only encountered one loudmouth MAGA (hour south of Cleveland), who was convinced that if the Dems win, they will try to take revenge on real Americans like her, but that she's not worried because she's got enough food and gasoline for six months and enough ammo to take out plenty of the would-be oppressors.
I hope they do this up and down the ticket, especially congress and senate. It will take so much for the public to trust Republicans ever again, their so extremist!
There is a Substack post(I wish I could remember who wrote it)about the 60 or so junk polls that have been dropped into the mix to water down Kamala’s results and boost tfg’s. It may be Jay Kuo who wrote it if anyone wants to follow up.
It may have been 'The Big Picture'. Jay Kuo writes for that, as well. They recently did a deep dive on the the way the polls are structured. But I believe several Substack writers (Robert Hubbell, Thom Hartmann, TPM) have been warning that the poll agglomerate has been skewed with suspect polls.
No, that's what they want you to think--and his supporters to think, so that when he loses, they will challenge it--in the courts and in the streets! This ain't over until Kamala gets sworn in on January 20th! So, brace yourself, because we are in for 2.5 months of hell after the election.
I’m with you in your thinking. The electorate is being set up; has been for years really. That was the energy behind Jan 6 that we saw. We are forewarned now with a good man in the White House now and a solid VP who will do the right thing without thinking several times about it like Pence had to do. TFG has weaponized his “troops”. The Capitol will be hardened like any large, major event. I’m concerned about local Boards of Elections especially where MAGA law enforcement is. That’s where we’ll see problems and bad delays.
Let me put this out there on the issue of it being close. Just an idea. I’m not trying to die on this hill.
So the press have been wrong about polls and predictions. Notably, 2016 in recent history. 2020 was a knicker twister but media predicted fairly well.
But this election seems even more dramatic than 2020. We are way too familiar with his capacity for serious malfeasance, and with his ability to get away with what used to seem impossible. The media is deathly afraid of missing the mark in either direction.
Is it possible that they are swearing it’s a “too close to tell” situation so that they don’t look stupid? Or that they don’t piss off trump when he comes hunting for him after he loses?
So true! And so sad. I feel like we (my generation) really dropped the ball and are leaving a pretty crappy world for our kids and grandkids. I just hope I have enough time left to see some things turn around after Kamala kicks the orange 🍊 embarrassment to the curb!
Lazy stupid and complacent …this had better be the last time we take our freedoms for granted ! IF we get through this without a bunch of dead Americans we’re gonna be the luckiest stupid .lazy complacent apathetic etc shitheads to ever be entrusted with a first rate democracy ! The only way to hold on to what we might have tossed in the shitter is to get and stay active and informed of our situation and the intent of our enemies to harm us and the U.S. 😳⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
former Louisiana Governor and presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said it best,
The Republican party has to stop being the party of stupid... (circa 2012)
And yes we got to win it... I just received an email confirmation that my voting ballot has already been collected from the drop-off box and counted ! it was about a 3 day turnaround.
The dummying down process has been going on a long time Susan! There’s a reason it’s called the boob tube… social media isn’t much better, with all the bots, trolls and execrable talking heads!
Opportunity for the Uber/wealthy to mold and divide its serfs!
😂 True...I know the Civil War was bad...but this! We've allowed brainwashing and hateful nonsense to impede our progress and goodness. I refuse to believe that people are not innately good.
😂🤣😆 Burke: You just wrote a perfect headline. Actually, it would be fun to riff and regurgitate everything you wrote, but in Donald Trump’s voice performed by a late night comedian. How about, oh I don’t know: “The bingo card. The bingo card you’ve heard about it. They all like to talk about what Trump is going to do next on the bingo card. Well, (rev up the growling voice he likes to do) I’m here to tell you (now wave the accordion hands) no one ever would have guessed it. It’s never happened before. Only I would know. Because I know all the important people. Arnold Palmer. You remember him? The most famous golfer. In fact, we’re here. This airfield is named after Arnold. Arnold Palmer not that failed actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. No Arnold Palmer a real man. That’s right! Put that on your bingo card. A real man with a salami! Palmer. Parmer’s salami was almost as famous as he was! The kind women like. (points to the crowd and grins, doubling down on his gravel voice) I know you women like a real man…..did I ever tell you I invented bingo? My casinos. Bingo was something I created. It started when the pit boss came running up to me and he said, Sir, Sir the old people are asking about bingo… but only you can make it in a new way.” Goddam, how I loathe that motherfucker.
LMAO. I invented Bingo!! That waste is skin isn’t smart enough to have done that.
And I’ll tell you this, Mushroom Dick, big schlongs are nice (but not essential) when there’s a decent human attached to it. I don’t care if your thang hangs down to your ankles, I wouldn’t get within 100 yards of you.
1. We were not aware that Arnold Palmer was well endowed. News to everyone.
2. We knew Donnie admires female anatomy. Now we know he's a fan of male genitals too.
3. Never in US history has a Presidential candidate highlighted the local hero's penis.
4. "I like big dicks." will be remembered down the years, like "They're eating the dogs!" and "Grab em by the pussy." and "Schools are performing sex change surgery." and "FEMA will take your house." and "Buy my invisible trading cards." and "Stop the Steal--send money!" and "Remember the Alamo!" and "A day that will live in infamy." and "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!" and "Give me Liberty or Give Me death!"
5. Donald will be remembered by historians as the King of the Cons. A master scam artist who was hugely successful in lying for money. A failed real estate developer and TV star who fooled the Press, Supreme Court, 147 members of Congress and 60 million gullible suckers.
This is by far the stupidest thread ever on this site! Apologies to the author. I’m leaving this site now but only today this is so off topic and just what tRomp wants. I was very busy this week so am catching up so it’s Sunday for me, I’m disgusted and you are my people, there is heavy lifting yet to be done!
If Biden had ever once said he was too tired to do an interview, the execs at the NYT would have showed up at the White House with bungee cords and a gurney.
Joe was also being machine gunned with lies from Little Donny Fuckface, making it impossible to respond to anything. It's a technique called the "Gish Gallop" which is what Brent Baier was doing to Kamala Harris. Fuck I loathe Rethuglicans!
WTAF!!! If ANY other candidate for any election had spoken of anyone’s genitalia in this manner, they’d find themselves in instant danger of their party finding another candidate!! And the thought of McCouch and his handlers running the country is equally terrifying. If anyone is the “SHIT” candidate, it’s the entire Republican Party!
What Drumpf's team is doing to him is not elder abuse. The man has been dead inside for decades, so I belive it can be bumped up to gross abuse of a corpse. 🤣🤣🤣
Never in my 72 years have I witnessed such a cluster fuck disaster as DJT. His people should realize that he is checking out mentally, if he was even there or aware. He has lost control of his bodily functions, he’s a mean, nasty piece of work who revels in other folks troubles of which he caused….wishes to become The Unitary Executive.. Total Control… And Vance, Thiel, and Musk are circling like very hungry hyenas ready to tear what’s left of his shit, Adderall infused body… OY.
I'm still having a hard time unseeing the "interview" on Faux where Chump is sitting on a couch with a piddle pad underneath. In the meantime the talking heads are trying to be jovial and ignore his madness by making insignificant small talk and banter. OY is right.
Dickbrain is now a literal description of him. So he's exhausted? I guess he isn't up to 2 Transatlantic trips, a fundraiser in LA, a Pride Rally and a Juneteenth celebration followed by 6 days of intensive debate prep and a head cold while dealing with 2 international wars.
Remember all the “ sleepy joe” chiding? Where’s the press on his inability to stay awake?? He’s likely been slipped some benzos to make him compliant and quiet, and then they try and prop him up… seriously? Dems need scare commercials about what happens if Commander Vance gets in there.
Sheila, are you saying that Trump said fuck and he made a joke about men having periods because of Tampon Tim at the Catholic Al Smith gathering in New York?
Why doesn’t somebody at one of these functions, tired of all his bullshit lies etc., just stand up and yell at him to “STFU and act like a human being for once in your life, you low level bursting trash bag of personality disorders!!!! “
The crowd would erupt with applause!
I know, I would do that - no matter what the consequences .
I guess he was invited to the Al Smith Dinner because it's traditional, but really, why do any thinking people invite him to dignified events? Why does any organization with "Economic" in their name invite him to speak? Wise the fuck up, dumbasses. Be like the McCain family, who made it clear that he was not welcome at Senator McCain's services.
Mike Bloomberg sat right in front of the podium and occasionally smiled when other people spoke but when Defendant tRump was at the podium he looked like he was about to jump over the table and throat punch him. .. or have a stroke, one or the other.
He is the biggest exemplar that gilded opulence and overstated ostentatious accoutrements do not buy class. He is just a vulgar, inappropriate, clueless clown.
Why would Justa Dick run? Just get his $$$ backers to “temporarily extend” his term of office for, say, 2 more years because reasons, and after 6 years of total media control extend it again, then again…
I'm frankly terrified. Not of Trump, but what's coming up behind him. Vance and the people who are pushing him forward are a new level of evil. They're using Trump's popularity to get him elected, then for sure they're going to get rid of him so his replacement can take over. We already figured out that Vance sold his soul to the devil for power. Heaven help us. I want to have faith in the American populace, that they won't elect these horrendous opportunists, but there seem to be far too many people who have been hornswaggled by their lies and disinformation.
Thank you for this. Some days, like today, I feel so despairing and full of anxiety, grief and rage that I’m literally (yes literally) immobilized, just unable to function. I do believe he has psychologically damaged this country so badly that half of us are insane, and the other half feels like that’s where they’re headed, too. He’s a rabid dog that’s been allowed to terrorize the neighborhood for way too long, that’s what I’m saying.
Jennifer, TFG never did the prez job while in the WH. If the worst happens, it will be handled by others. I don't think it will be JD either. JD is no executive.
Exactly. Now that the worst has happened, I too believe that the people pulling the strings will be the scariest ones. I'm not convinced that they can actually pull off a dictatorship, however, time will tell.
Jeff's people here keep recommending reading The Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg. Listened for 45 min (free) last nite -- he & guests make perfect sense of why polls are not to be believed (GOP & rw misleading flooding polls with heavy GOP voters)*shocked!*.
Stressed highly important to vote the earliest day possible, get by mail ballot remained same or next day.
Ignore the polls--they've been flooded with Bannon's "flood the zone with s**t" strategy whereby the polls have been skewed by the release of 20 to 30 sketchy polls generated by equally sketchy right wing orgs. That throws off the agglomeration average of ALL the polls...which is what Trump's campaigns wants. They want this race to look close enough so that a challenge over fraud or goddess knows whatever the Trump team thinks might look reasonable.
Professional golfers play in tournaments hosted by country clubs. Do country clubs have the kind of communal showers I remember from high school? I'd expect them to offer their members a bit more privacy than that. Is this another of the Donald's fantasies?
I'm so sick and tired of Trump. His insanity is boring. Let's just go fucking win this thing. Do something every day between now and election day. Donate, text, write postcards, make phone calls, canvass, whatever floats your boat. It all helps! And most importantly, vote early if your state allows it!!!
I was in the hospital and didn’t know that he was holding rallies. Wished I would’ve known.
I think I was talking to MSNBC and a nurse said, “So you’re voting for Harris? “Of course,” I answered. She said, “I wouldn’t vote for her if you blah blah blah.” I replied, “Is it because she’s black, is it because she’s a woman, is it because she hasn’t any children?”, “No,” she answered. I asked her why. She replied “it’s because of what she did in California.” I said “You realize that is lies and none of it is real,” she answered, “I think it is.” I said “You’re going to be sorry about your vote.”
"I think it is."
"Do you just think what my blood pressure is, or do you check? Because I really prefer people who check their hunches against reality."
Remember when you were asked a question as a kid and your parents expected an answer that you didn’t have …? The reply was because …then because why ? Again because …and that’s the standard answer for all of Rip Van Trumples fans no matter what is asked because there are no reasonable answers for all of the lies that they swear are true !😳🙈🙉🙊VOTE BLUE for True Leadership!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤔
Oooo...great answer!
A new guy that just joined our Democrats Abroad group, introduced us to this power PAC, called PsychoPac. Here is a sample of their ads.
https://youtu.be/znzKYWN7ptw?si=6aC2z8_dgq3xMq_w
https://youtu.be/o16GZJSoIkI?si=WGKfnvd6R0Aknttq
@Linda Weide, thanks for posting these links. Though I'm not a member of the Dems Abroad, I was unaware of PsychoPac. George Conway has a powerful voice; so glad he is using it for the good of our democracy. His ex is a looney tune, kool-aid drinking nut job surviving on alternative facts.
And Kellyanne is just one of the many MAGA whose daughters hate them. Especially the Gay ones who come out like her daughter did. Once mom figured out she needed to accept her things seem to have been better, although she clearly despises her mom's positions.
I 💙 George Conway!
I love this group! I've been donating for the past few months.
MAGA STUPIDS embarrass themselves with their willfully ignorant “thoughts “
Brilliant.
In the “old days” that would be simple common sense.
Now? What with all the mud suckers and knuckle draggers, your words shine like a brilliant star.
WT ever-lovin’ F?????
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎊🎊🎊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That nurse is totally unprofessional. It's so inappropriate.
I can't believe a nurse would be in favor of a pathetic , demented, criminal felon, science denier for president. Aren't medical staffers supposed to support science/medicine? and be compassionate? I guess not when they are just working for a right wing MAGA owned medical company in business only for profits and nothing else.
IDK, I always thought of doctors and nurses to be at a higher standard. I guess in red states there is no escaping the MAGAs
Nurses are no different than any other group except we have a degree. Some of the behavior I've seen is hardly professional from my coworkers. I live in Vegas (which is BLUE) and many of my coworkers are for Trump and many of them are minorities. Go figure.
that is very upsetting and disturbing to learn. But thanks for the info...
this does increase my situational awareness. Ive been hospitalized for a couple of surgical procedures over the past few years and I've noticed some really nasty attitudes in hospitals from staff starting with admissions and well into patient recovery. I just learn to deal with it here in America. I do appreciate the nurses who are good at their jobs and have a brain. Thank you.
They are just people. Don't assume they are thinkers.
I'd kinda be afraid that that nurse would do something to me while I was under her care!
No. She's not a criminal. She's just stupid.
I laughed at a Lawrence O’Donnell clip calling the attendees at Trump’s Q&A at Chicago’s Economic Club “a bunch of stupid rich people”. The interviewer, John Micklewait, was astoundingly blunt about pointing out Trump’s lack of knowledge on how tariffs work. Then, the applause at the end only validates O’Donnell’s statement of the intelligence level of the members of Chicago Economic Club. Stupid.
What was funny/sad about Big Orange's interview with Mickelwait was that he said that HE (Big Orange) knew more about how tariffs work than Mickelwait and the WSJ.
Oh, come on now.
Sorry you got Nurse Ratshit.
Unfortunately, I actually had a doctor look at me and straight out lie to me a week ago. This stuff, unfortunately, is getting commonplace. I was so taken off guard, I couldn't speak. I presenting am weighing options.
Don't ever put a profession on a pedestal. Healthcare people are no different than anyone else. We have wonderful people, crooks, drug addicts, liars - you name it, I've seen it or heard about it at work. Look at the docs involved in medical billing fraud.
So report them.
Hahahaha so true, though. I agree.
same here
When I say, I was talking to MSNBC, in meant screaming about a statement or I suppose it would be a lie from TFG.
Apparently I meant I not ‘in’
I would speak with the hospital administration. The nurse has no business selling her crap to any patient. Her kind of talk can give someone a heart attack. F- her.
You’re right. I was too drugged up from pain meds to make a decision. I should’ve when the fog cleared
You still can file a complaint if you remember her name or what shift she was on.
I would still complain even if I didn’t know her name— If they have the date, the department or floor, procedure, and YOUR name, they can narrow it down. Even if they don’t figure it out, they will have some good ideas based on other patients’ complaints.
The most that would happen is that she'd be told not to do that again. I speak from experience as a nurse who knows how the system works.
And if she's a MAGA favorite, nothing might be said to her. I wouldn't waste my time. Just go vote.
During Covid, I found out there were a lot of morons working as nurses. My son was in the hospital and they were anti-VAX I told him to get the hell out of the room.
Lots of nurses I work with refused to get the COVID vaccine. One that was very anti vax and tried to get nurses to go along with her, died the summer of 2021 of COVID and was not vaxxed. She was only 52. After that, her friends got the vaccine. Another friend of mine that summer lost her son-in-law to COVID, not vaxxed. He was 42 and refused to get it. I don't even try and change anyone's mind about COVID and the vaccine. Tired of listening to their bs. Everyone that dies now is the result of the vaccine. WTH.
"I do my own research" is code for "I need my 'facts' to match my biases so I can hold on to it, conscience-free."
They don’t want to believe truth only the lies they get from their right wing sites or sources or what DT says. I had a similar experience.
Did you ask this nurse just what it was that Harris 'did' in California? Did she have any facts to recite, or just the crap that she's heard over the internet or GOP propaganda? Because I'm a long-time CA resident and I think she's done a bang-up job as AG for the state and SF County DA prior to that.
I would notify the hospital immediately about how inappropriate it is for any of their employees to discuss politics with patients. So unprofessional.
I’ve been donating, writing post cards and painting rocks blue and writing VOTE BLUE on them..I bring a few with me every time I walk, (everyday) and leave them all around our neighborhood here in AZ! I try to leave them in the trumpier areas. Needless to say, some have disappeared. And needless to say, I will continue to put more out there. I have an abundant supply of rocks available to me! 🤪
Rock on!
Excellent Joanne, I’d love to see a pic!
If I can figure out how to attach a picture, which I haven’t been able to do so far, I will do that. 🤷♀️😫
Modge podge. Paint it right over the pic and it dries clear. Buy it any craft or art supply store
Joanne: Sidebar … where does one get those rocks to paint. We don’t have a lot of those small, light, flat, rocks lying around. I think they are available at Michael’s for ridiculous amounts of $. What’s the scoop? I’d love to do some of these.
I live in the dessert so rocks are plentiful. But any craft store should have river rocks. They are easy to paint.
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Great idea leaving blue rocks all around! I like it! Good work! 💙💙💙
Thank you. 😊
A friend is saying the same thing. She lives in Germany, but even with cancer she is in North Carolina ringing doorbells and talking to people. She was tired of just writing postcards, which cost much more to mail from here, but not the cost of a plane ticket and accommodations to stay in NC for several weeks, stumping for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Amazing person, that friend of yours Linda!
Agreed,it's boring and stupid,and your stupidity is showing by being at one of his hate rallies.
I couldn't be anywhere near one of his shitshow rallies. I'd either be arrested, get my ass kicked or both. Anyone who would continue to stay as he's talking about a late golfer's schlong is as deranged as he is.
MAGA TRASH are just low self esteem LQSERS I have nothing better to deal with their meaningless lives
At this point, any of us could get up & free associate a speech by dear leader (sans Arnold Palmer references)...I was the best, no one's ever seen, blah blah blah. Here's hoping they retreat to the rocks from whence they came.
My stupidity? I hope you meant her stupidity since she was the trump fan.
Agree! Done the cards and put my absentee ballot in for Harris/Waltz! Yahoo! This pervert’s got to go! We have been tortured enough by this nutcase! 💙💙💙
My mail and ballot came today and I will be voting Trump into the garbage kind of history. I’ve been voting my mail for the last 15 years in my state and it works perfect perfectly. Plus I can track my vote online to see how it’s recorded.
Same here Merc
Iʻm textbanking along with nearly 11,000 other people on Field Team Six. There is wonderful energy and enthusiasm. Also there is a great article about how the out-sourced Trump door knockers are not knocking on doors, they are sipping coffee at Dennyʻs and filling out false reports. So his ground game is JUNK too.
"who knew that Arnie was packing his own personal 9-iron down there? " LOL I am convinced you're right about Justa Dick and Theil and Elmo. We gotta win by a fucking landslide or we're doomed. This is the most embarrassing time in our history...for all the technological advancements we've made, we're still a stupid society. 🙄
For the past 45 years we've gotten even more stupid thanks to the "help" of Rupert Murdoch's Fake Noise and decades of Republican underfunding of pubic schools.
We’ve allowed ourselves to become that way through apathy and laziness!
Just ask anyone from Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and any of the other 1st world countries.
Well, some among us. Who would have thought the Know Nothing Party from the 1850s would survive into 2020s.
Or the KKK or the AMERICAN NAZI MOVEMENT or the HERITAGE FOUNDATION AKA FASCIST PARTY and so many other anti democratic groups! Like roaches they hide in the day and thrive in the dark just waiting for a chance to overwhelm and overthrow our democracy !
Not unlike the Stalwarts of the late 1800’s. Roscoe Conklin (Conkling?) was their leader and, in many ways, he may have been a foreshadowing of frump.
The problem is, we are not going to win by a landslide. It will be a squeaker, and if you are truly honest with yourself, it is a coin-toss.
This is, unfortunately, who we are in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four.
Respectfully disagree. 54% Harris, though the EC of course skews everything. The crappy polls & gloom & doom articles are setting us up to suppress turnout, but new voters & reformed Rs will swing it I think.
The voters who will win this election and preserve our democracy have NEVER been polled.
Also this.
Seems to me we’ve been getting poled for about 10 years and the pole hasn’t been lubricated !😱😬😵💫
AGREE!!!
Yeah. Record early-voting turnout in Georgia and NC. I think people are excited to vote, and I think they're excited to vote for Harris.
And in addition to new voters, high #s of voters who sat out 2020. I refuse to believe that ppl who sat out 2020 are showing up in 2024 for the Hate Yam.
Me thinks you’re on the right track Let me!!
True or not, keep fighting like we’re 10 points behind.
THIS
I think Harris is gonna win, but I will only say that out loud if I'm clutching a rabbit's foot and wearing my lucky red socks. If the rabbit whose foot I'm holding onto is also wearing red socks, all the better.
Damned straight!
Given the strong voter turnout and really strong new voter registration, I still think/hope women and young people are pissed enough to come out in droves. 🤞🤞🤞
Problem is, I live in Silicon Valley, and the number of houses that I walk my dog by that are encrusted with Trump paraphernalia is far more than you would expect.
Alas, I do trust the polling, and I do think it will be a nail biter.
Sure, the EC is the reason for this worry, but the R's have figured out how to game the system, and they are extremely effective at it.
This is who we are, and it saddens me to no end.
Gov. Brian Kemp summed up the twisted pro-Trump mind state: "Whether you like the man or not, it's a business decision." So the system is rigged and the populace poisoned by self-serving corporatists through the media and, yes, the conservative churches.
Spot on, and I think it will be a LOT closer than the polls tell us.
Ironically, Kemp will be pulling the lever for Trump 💯
He deserves a visit from Karma and her sisters (who are reputed to be worse).
Saddening but also enraging. At which point is a business decision overpowered by morality? Stealing someone’s food because one has been going hungry for days is a different situation than wanting to make more and more and more money beyond millions and billions. Existence of these people does not say a lot about human nature.
I will tell a tale. I am a product manager in Tech, and when the Frances Haugen revelations about Facebook came out, I was horrified. If I was asked (or incentivized) to do half the shit Facebook was doing (objectively doing, not theorized), I would have looked in the mirror and quit.
But a fuck-ton of product managers took their guidance, set by the metrics they were being judged on (for raises, promotions, and career growth) and said sure, this is unethical and fucked up to the max, but I like my $400K a year comp package, so I will just do it.
Like the German people who enabled and abided the Nazi’s.
I have standards, and I would have left even if I had to go work at graveyard shift at a convenience store to make ends meet.
You just described any large corporations.
For what it's worth, I was recently in and around Cleveland, Ohio, where the yard signs for Harris/Walz outnumbered the Trump/Vance signs by thee to one. I also noticed that a lot of the Trump signs were along roadsides and not on somebody's lawn. Only encountered one loudmouth MAGA (hour south of Cleveland), who was convinced that if the Dems win, they will try to take revenge on real Americans like her, but that she's not worried because she's got enough food and gasoline for six months and enough ammo to take out plenty of the would-be oppressors.
Turd roadside signs not on people's property? I would go for a drive late at night and collect them. Sounds like littering to me.
That's usually where I see signs. Almost never in yards.
The delusion runs deep.
Glad to see that there are plenty Harris/Walz signs.
Isn't she special.
I hope they do this up and down the ticket, especially congress and senate. It will take so much for the public to trust Republicans ever again, their so extremist!
Their=they're
They will.
There are days I feel like everything is going to work out, then others when I am in the depths of despair. GOD. Let this be over.
We just have to hang tough until Jan. 20.
Yes.
After husband and I ask the first morning question*, “is he dead yet?”, the next question is “Where are you at today honey? Up or down, yes or no?”
*Been asking that one ever since the gold escalator day.
I agree, Susan. Women have had ENOUGH. We are furious.
Nope. Trump and his allies WANT us to believe that. I think we are going to bury the old fart.
There is a Substack post(I wish I could remember who wrote it)about the 60 or so junk polls that have been dropped into the mix to water down Kamala’s results and boost tfg’s. It may be Jay Kuo who wrote it if anyone wants to follow up.
It may have been 'The Big Picture'. Jay Kuo writes for that, as well. They recently did a deep dive on the the way the polls are structured. But I believe several Substack writers (Robert Hubbell, Thom Hartmann, TPM) have been warning that the poll agglomerate has been skewed with suspect polls.
You get the John Shaft award today TL right on!!
No, that's what they want you to think--and his supporters to think, so that when he loses, they will challenge it--in the courts and in the streets! This ain't over until Kamala gets sworn in on January 20th! So, brace yourself, because we are in for 2.5 months of hell after the election.
I’m with you in your thinking. The electorate is being set up; has been for years really. That was the energy behind Jan 6 that we saw. We are forewarned now with a good man in the White House now and a solid VP who will do the right thing without thinking several times about it like Pence had to do. TFG has weaponized his “troops”. The Capitol will be hardened like any large, major event. I’m concerned about local Boards of Elections especially where MAGA law enforcement is. That’s where we’ll see problems and bad delays.
Let me put this out there on the issue of it being close. Just an idea. I’m not trying to die on this hill.
So the press have been wrong about polls and predictions. Notably, 2016 in recent history. 2020 was a knicker twister but media predicted fairly well.
But this election seems even more dramatic than 2020. We are way too familiar with his capacity for serious malfeasance, and with his ability to get away with what used to seem impossible. The media is deathly afraid of missing the mark in either direction.
Is it possible that they are swearing it’s a “too close to tell” situation so that they don’t look stupid? Or that they don’t piss off trump when he comes hunting for him after he loses?
Not
So true! And so sad. I feel like we (my generation) really dropped the ball and are leaving a pretty crappy world for our kids and grandkids. I just hope I have enough time left to see some things turn around after Kamala kicks the orange 🍊 embarrassment to the curb!
Lazy stupid and complacent …this had better be the last time we take our freedoms for granted ! IF we get through this without a bunch of dead Americans we’re gonna be the luckiest stupid .lazy complacent apathetic etc shitheads to ever be entrusted with a first rate democracy ! The only way to hold on to what we might have tossed in the shitter is to get and stay active and informed of our situation and the intent of our enemies to harm us and the U.S. 😳⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I agree. Our complacency will end our freedom.
former Louisiana Governor and presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said it best,
The Republican party has to stop being the party of stupid... (circa 2012)
And yes we got to win it... I just received an email confirmation that my voting ballot has already been collected from the drop-off box and counted ! it was about a 3 day turnaround.
The dummying down process has been going on a long time Susan! There’s a reason it’s called the boob tube… social media isn’t much better, with all the bots, trolls and execrable talking heads!
Opportunity for the Uber/wealthy to mold and divide its serfs!
Embarrassing isn’t quite the emotion I had in mind Susan! lol
😂 True...I know the Civil War was bad...but this! We've allowed brainwashing and hateful nonsense to impede our progress and goodness. I refuse to believe that people are not innately good.
Spot on dear ! Thank you 😂
Who could predict that the October surprise was Donnie admiring Arnold Palmer's big dick? That was not on my Election Bingo card.
😂🤣😆 Burke: You just wrote a perfect headline. Actually, it would be fun to riff and regurgitate everything you wrote, but in Donald Trump’s voice performed by a late night comedian. How about, oh I don’t know: “The bingo card. The bingo card you’ve heard about it. They all like to talk about what Trump is going to do next on the bingo card. Well, (rev up the growling voice he likes to do) I’m here to tell you (now wave the accordion hands) no one ever would have guessed it. It’s never happened before. Only I would know. Because I know all the important people. Arnold Palmer. You remember him? The most famous golfer. In fact, we’re here. This airfield is named after Arnold. Arnold Palmer not that failed actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. No Arnold Palmer a real man. That’s right! Put that on your bingo card. A real man with a salami! Palmer. Parmer’s salami was almost as famous as he was! The kind women like. (points to the crowd and grins, doubling down on his gravel voice) I know you women like a real man…..did I ever tell you I invented bingo? My casinos. Bingo was something I created. It started when the pit boss came running up to me and he said, Sir, Sir the old people are asking about bingo… but only you can make it in a new way.” Goddam, how I loathe that motherfucker.
Perfect! I can almost hear every word in his voice! 👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣
LMAO. I invented Bingo!! That waste is skin isn’t smart enough to have done that.
And I’ll tell you this, Mushroom Dick, big schlongs are nice (but not essential) when there’s a decent human attached to it. I don’t care if your thang hangs down to your ankles, I wouldn’t get within 100 yards of you.
I don't remember the the discussion of anyone's caaaak at Drag Time Story Hour 🤔🤷
Caaaak. LMAO.
Scratched by head for a few before I heard a voice speaking it.
Me: caaaaak
Wifey: 🙄😒
Ladies have manners around children. Drag Queens would make excellent examples of proper behavior imo.
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1. We were not aware that Arnold Palmer was well endowed. News to everyone.
2. We knew Donnie admires female anatomy. Now we know he's a fan of male genitals too.
3. Never in US history has a Presidential candidate highlighted the local hero's penis.
4. "I like big dicks." will be remembered down the years, like "They're eating the dogs!" and "Grab em by the pussy." and "Schools are performing sex change surgery." and "FEMA will take your house." and "Buy my invisible trading cards." and "Stop the Steal--send money!" and "Remember the Alamo!" and "A day that will live in infamy." and "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!" and "Give me Liberty or Give Me death!"
5. Donald will be remembered by historians as the King of the Cons. A master scam artist who was hugely successful in lying for money. A failed real estate developer and TV star who fooled the Press, Supreme Court, 147 members of Congress and 60 million gullible suckers.
5.
Well said!
Oh my, I'm going to bave to borrow that one. thanks!
Hah...I just wrote almost that exact same thing--'was this the "October Surprise"?' on Mindy Fischer's page!
This is by far the stupidest thread ever on this site! Apologies to the author. I’m leaving this site now but only today this is so off topic and just what tRomp wants. I was very busy this week so am catching up so it’s Sunday for me, I’m disgusted and you are my people, there is heavy lifting yet to be done!
If Biden had ever once said he was too tired to do an interview, the execs at the NYT would have showed up at the White House with bungee cords and a gurney.
Joe Biden blamed his poor debate on a cold, and also his travel schedule, and the press crucified him
Biden: Oops, I caught a virus
Media: HOW DARE, YOU MUST GO TO JAIL
Trump: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz arnold's dick zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Media: *overtly casual whistling*
that’s effing fabulous
Indeed Alison!!
Haha. So fucking true.
Joe was also being machine gunned with lies from Little Donny Fuckface, making it impossible to respond to anything. It's a technique called the "Gish Gallop" which is what Brent Baier was doing to Kamala Harris. Fuck I loathe Rethuglicans!
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In a perfect world MAGA would be the subject of deportation Mary!
And the media is still sane washing his glaring problems both mental and physical
Aren’t there too many to sane wash Barbara? Any cogent person should know better!
It’s a real pain in the ass having to rely on the truth being an acceptable answer nowadays!🤔
Yep, the wealthy corporations that own the media don’t want to pay taxes and continue their thievery Jeff!
WTAF!!! If ANY other candidate for any election had spoken of anyone’s genitalia in this manner, they’d find themselves in instant danger of their party finding another candidate!! And the thought of McCouch and his handlers running the country is equally terrifying. If anyone is the “SHIT” candidate, it’s the entire Republican Party!
Another example of how Republicans are obsessed with people's anatomy. Fucking creeptastic
The Pants Police
THAT could be made into an excellent campaign ad, but alas too disrespectful to Palmer's family.
Just wait until he starts talking about some babe's lady parts.
There is another candidate and they are not telling us who.
Are the initials JDV?
Duh!
True dat Pamela!
And how a certain creepy “genius” loathes for his own daughter…?!
What Drumpf's team is doing to him is not elder abuse. The man has been dead inside for decades, so I belive it can be bumped up to gross abuse of a corpse. 🤣🤣🤣
I knew it… LDFF is a necrophiliac!
Omg ah hahahahaha!!!!
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Never in my 72 years have I witnessed such a cluster fuck disaster as DJT. His people should realize that he is checking out mentally, if he was even there or aware. He has lost control of his bodily functions, he’s a mean, nasty piece of work who revels in other folks troubles of which he caused….wishes to become The Unitary Executive.. Total Control… And Vance, Thiel, and Musk are circling like very hungry hyenas ready to tear what’s left of his shit, Adderall infused body… OY.
I'm still having a hard time unseeing the "interview" on Faux where Chump is sitting on a couch with a piddle pad underneath. In the meantime the talking heads are trying to be jovial and ignore his madness by making insignificant small talk and banter. OY is right.
I should have done a OYOYOY, a triple for a very special boy who is unable to admit he a nutty buddy.
You know what career would have suited Donny to a T without having to think or lie or cheat or steal? Executioner.
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Dickbrain is now a literal description of him. So he's exhausted? I guess he isn't up to 2 Transatlantic trips, a fundraiser in LA, a Pride Rally and a Juneteenth celebration followed by 6 days of intensive debate prep and a head cold while dealing with 2 international wars.
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Remember all the “ sleepy joe” chiding? Where’s the press on his inability to stay awake?? He’s likely been slipped some benzos to make him compliant and quiet, and then they try and prop him up… seriously? Dems need scare commercials about what happens if Commander Vance gets in there.
Our own headline here on Jeff's Substack: "Dickless NYT reporter refuses to mention tRump's inappropriate remarks about Palmer's dick"
He also said "shit" at the Al Smith Dinner in front of the Catholic clergy and assorted luminaries. Classless clown.
The dog shit on the bottom of my shoe has more dignity than this creep.
And smells better
He also said "fucking" and he said he didn't think men could get periods until he heard of Tampon Tim! He got booed at the end!
Sheila, are you saying that Trump said fuck and he made a joke about men having periods because of Tampon Tim at the Catholic Al Smith gathering in New York?
He would fail as a comedian, just like everything else
Shame on the clergy for not coming forward and publicly condemning him. But, with the billions paid out for their cloaked pedophilia, not shocked.
And insulted the sitting president in such a non-funny manner that his own people on the dias looked like they wanted to crawl under the table.
Why doesn’t somebody at one of these functions, tired of all his bullshit lies etc., just stand up and yell at him to “STFU and act like a human being for once in your life, you low level bursting trash bag of personality disorders!!!! “
The crowd would erupt with applause!
I know, I would do that - no matter what the consequences .
I guess he was invited to the Al Smith Dinner because it's traditional, but really, why do any thinking people invite him to dignified events? Why does any organization with "Economic" in their name invite him to speak? Wise the fuck up, dumbasses. Be like the McCain family, who made it clear that he was not welcome at Senator McCain's services.
Yet Ivanka and hubby showed up. Classy.
Mike Bloomberg sat right in front of the podium and occasionally smiled when other people spoke but when Defendant tRump was at the podium he looked like he was about to jump over the table and throat punch him. .. or have a stroke, one or the other.
He is the biggest exemplar that gilded opulence and overstated ostentatious accoutrements do not buy class. He is just a vulgar, inappropriate, clueless clown.
Sort of like the Catholic church.
Shitler has (pant)loads of class. Too bad it's all third.
Yes and he had his Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, sitting right next to him. Wonder if he heard the vulgarities.
They say it in private all the time...
My biggest concern is that little donnie is a figurehead so that his best buddy JD can slap the 25th on him shortly after Jan 20th.
Whereas 25 for 45 would not have been a big issue, I'm not sure that 25 for 47 isn't even more dangerous....
Trump has always been a useful idiot, the time has nearly passed Nick!
Why would Justa Dick run? Just get his $$$ backers to “temporarily extend” his term of office for, say, 2 more years because reasons, and after 6 years of total media control extend it again, then again…
I'm frankly terrified. Not of Trump, but what's coming up behind him. Vance and the people who are pushing him forward are a new level of evil. They're using Trump's popularity to get him elected, then for sure they're going to get rid of him so his replacement can take over. We already figured out that Vance sold his soul to the devil for power. Heaven help us. I want to have faith in the American populace, that they won't elect these horrendous opportunists, but there seem to be far too many people who have been hornswaggled by their lies and disinformation.
I'm with you Jennifer. Need to pay attention to wingnut.
Thank you for this. Some days, like today, I feel so despairing and full of anxiety, grief and rage that I’m literally (yes literally) immobilized, just unable to function. I do believe he has psychologically damaged this country so badly that half of us are insane, and the other half feels like that’s where they’re headed, too. He’s a rabid dog that’s been allowed to terrorize the neighborhood for way too long, that’s what I’m saying.
I feel you MzNicky. I have no brilliant answer, other than you aren't the only one.
Jennifer, TFG never did the prez job while in the WH. If the worst happens, it will be handled by others. I don't think it will be JD either. JD is no executive.
Exactly. Now that the worst has happened, I too believe that the people pulling the strings will be the scariest ones. I'm not convinced that they can actually pull off a dictatorship, however, time will tell.
And yet the polls are still virtually tied. Where in the the fuck are we living?
Jeff's people here keep recommending reading The Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg. Listened for 45 min (free) last nite -- he & guests make perfect sense of why polls are not to be believed (GOP & rw misleading flooding polls with heavy GOP voters)*shocked!*.
Stressed highly important to vote the earliest day possible, get by mail ballot remained same or next day.
Did it!!! #presidentharris
Ignore the polls--they've been flooded with Bannon's "flood the zone with s**t" strategy whereby the polls have been skewed by the release of 20 to 30 sketchy polls generated by equally sketchy right wing orgs. That throws off the agglomeration average of ALL the polls...which is what Trump's campaigns wants. They want this race to look close enough so that a challenge over fraud or goddess knows whatever the Trump team thinks might look reasonable.
Thank the Gods that Bannon is still in the slammer.
I think that waste of a human being gets out
around Oct 30…
Not for much longer 😡
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They are not accurate! Stop it!!
Yeah but do we believe the polls? Do we believe the ppl telling us what the polls show? Just saying I can't believe it!
The GOP is flooding the zone with rigged polls!
No, they’re not. That’s what the Right wants to believe.
May I steal "hard of thinking". Please
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Professional golfers play in tournaments hosted by country clubs. Do country clubs have the kind of communal showers I remember from high school? I'd expect them to offer their members a bit more privacy than that. Is this another of the Donald's fantasies?
Bet on it.
You said “member” huh hahaha
It was members. Also clubs.
Offer their members? 🤭
Some days I feel like Émile Zola’s spirit [“J’accuse!] is fueling your columns. Thanks, man.
Some days?