Laura Loomer is about as hideous as they come. The Republicans are acting like pissy little grade schoolers, name calling and finger pointing and talking ridiculous shit. What EVERYONE needs to remember-this is an election between a free country and an authoritarian state. The press be damned. The people are talking now. As it damn well should be!
I believe that too! I can't believe how many people I talked with while phone banking yesterday who are all in for Harris! I'm excited again! These are people that were going to vote for Joe, but they're more excited than ever to vote for Kamala. #HappyDance
#HappyDance here too. Saw Kamala at Milwaukee. rally. Imma have to soundproof my walls, baby! Clapping, laughing,yelling back to her LOL. If you want to write postcards: www.turnoutpac.org/postcards
Oh, we know. But we can are ARE excited that new juice is flowing into a big blue wave!!! And tRump is only getting crazier and crazier every day. And he's TERRIFIED of Harris! She's brilliant!
Not sure there's one among us who doesn't understand that this deal is far from done. Seems like we are all pretty grown up here, so no need for a knuckle rap reminder. We are all starving for a bit of good luck and stars shining down on our team for a change. Don't throw shade on the parade. Let loose with a bit of excitement. That becomes a part of the equation of success.
While Trump started his re-election campaign even before his inauguration in 2017,the effort to defeat the MAGAs at the ballot box started also...it will continue...
Their narrative is all moot. I can feel the concussions from the explosion of GOP craniums all the way in Central Ohio. Somebody get Laura Loomer some rabies meds.
She's always foaming from the mouth with the same old pathetic, toxic bullshit. It would be a cold day in hell if she ever told it like it really is such as the perverted, convicted felon, false idol's infatuation with under aged girls which seems to be prevalent within the GOP these days. Just ask botox boy Matt Gaetz. The airwaves seem to be perfectly fine with sick, unfit deviants but not those candidates or current members of Congress who want to do what's best for the country.
Loomer sure is getting a lot of attention doing it though! Isn't it sad how these Looney-Toon people get all the press and people that are actually doing good for us don't get any? Our lame-stream is pathetic.
Hopefully their ratings and clicks will reflect Americans growing disgust with corporate media,and the growing shift to progressive media for accurate information.
She may be getting attention, but she isn't garnering any votes for Trump. Harris is now pulling farther ahead in polls. I'm "cautiously giddy," but there's still much work to be done. And don't forget the down-ballot races! Those are now more critical than ever!
I know Rebecca, & besides giving every dollar I can afford to House & Senate candidates all over the nation, I just this minute sent for my first stack of 300 postcards from turnoutpac.org
for my House Rep Melanie Stansbury.
I have never volunteered for a political campaign before, but now it’s Do or Die time.
It is, indeed. And every one of us can do SOMETHING. One thing I do is post a notice in my apartment complex's laundry room saying that I will print absentee ballot requests free for anyone requesting one. It's a small thing, but I print between 40-50 every election cycle, in a complex with 50 apartments. Just wish I could afford to add a stamped, addressed envelope with each one! Maybe next year. My medical costs should be a little lower then.
Gaetz's decision to alter his face just before the convention -- where he'd be seen by (probably) tens of millions of ppl on TV and social media, meaning that his new face was sure to be a topic of convo and a big distraction -- is just one more sign of how clueless he and all MAGAs are, in all things.
TV's Frank posted: I have to disagree with everyone who thinks Matt Gaetz's plastic surgery was a bad job. It accentuated the creepy pedo look that expresses his inner essence, while preserving the face's extreme punchability.
I didn't watch either,but apparently it was mostly old white guys whining about the immigrant invasion who had a serious case of 'Biden and Democrat Derangement Syndrome'
Read several anti-Kamala posts today. Witch, why no children (which no one should ever ask), meme of a GOP guy turned into a newt by witch. Got 1,000 postcards today. Am not going to give 1 oz. of energy on those not ALL IN for Kamala.
That statistic + the 178K new campaign volunteers is just mind-blowing & so energizing, exciting, happy-dancing wonderful, that I can barely contain myself
Forgiven….never hurts to remind us of every single horrific, misogynistic thing that felon has said. How in hell Megyn can defend him & sit with him to interview him is beyond my comprehension.
She was a part of the #MeToo movement & now she is totally debasing herself. It’s sickening.
'Republicans have lost the popular vote for 32 years'....that sums it up perfectly, their solution seems to be to eliminate the Democratic party and the rule of law.
Loomer is just gross. Her talking about only married women with children having rights, is ironic since she's a single woman with no kids. Go figure...
Poor Laura. Mebbe she's a hateful nutcase because she needs love. Mebbe some brave soul can volunteer to take one for the nation. Nah, that wouldn't work. And no one is that stupid to try
Laura Loomer managed to disgust me in a way worse than Trump's plastic surgery and bleeding from wherever comments. She is an atrocious, sick person. Apparently, back in April of this year, Trump wanted to hire her.
Fwiw, I think it's better that we know what the crazies-with-some-influence are saying; if we don't know, then we can't formulate useful ways to *try* to reach the parts of that audience that are still reachable.
I know that all of them might seem unreachable, but I like to remind myself that Derek Black, the son of one of the biggest-wigs in white supremacy, has completely rejected the indoctrination and has written about singular-their journey.
I don't know about you,but it takes me about 10 seconds to hear if someone gets their information from Fox and Newsmax while they're being interviewed on MSM.
It is definitely better to know what these cretins are howling, so that we can make fun of and laugh at them. They hate that, but are too stupid to self correct. Plus, it provides so much material to SNL et al.
I was extremely upset about President Biden stepping aside. I was worried about the reaction to Kamala, but to my surprise, Kamala is uniting the Democrats including young voters. Beyoncé has lent her music to the Kamala campaign. And the money, wow!!
I needed a day off to mourn and today I recognize what President Biden did for our country.
I feel the same. I was very sad but I'm super impressed by how they've managed the transition. I should have had more faith. I feel like a lot of planning went on behind the scenes.
I'm not involved in politics so don't know what goes on behind the scenes. This was no accident. It is too smooth and well planned. Wait till Trump has his Deliverance Fest and bashes Biden. Let him have a few days of feeling like he's a shoo in for the WH. Then lower the boom. It was a Titanic boom. Because the MAGAs are impulsive, imbecilic and laser focused on Biden's age, there apparently was no Plan B. The totally ridiculous nonsense coming out of their camp now just shows how really dumb they are. Just like their candidate. And what's Donnie Diaper going to do now since I've heard that he's maybe not so in love with his little Hitler VP as he was last week? I just smile when I think of it. Our Speaker of the House needs to go. He's as big of a moron as the rest of them. I'm sure Comer will have to have a hearing now to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden. Look at the millions of dollars and time wasted on their nonsense since 1/20/21.
"...maybe not so in love with his little ... VP" No problem. Dump will just fire him (or try to) like he learned to do on "The Apprentice". Haven't people noticed? He's pretty much of a one trick pony. Meaning no shame to ponies of course
Do you know that Dumpy has never fired anyone face-to-face in real life? He either got someone else to do it or did it via tweet, usually in the middle of the night. Dumpy's too big a coward to actually fire anyone in person.
Thanks for your clarification. I didn't know but hardly surprised. I expect "coward" is accurate but not strong enough. What makes anyone think he would take responsibility for any actions like firing someone? He won't take responsibility for things far worse. The buck simply doesn't stop where he is. We've seen evidence of that over and over again. (Sorry I'm getting carried away here. I'm so very tired of all of his stuff.)
Keep in mind that what I "know" comes from comments made by people in Dumpy's former administration and who worked on "The Apprentice" that I've read on news sites. They're not as authoritative as they should be. But Dumpy very publicly fired several of his key cabinet members by tweet, so I believe those claims. I'm tired of his BS too, so I get over-righteous about stuff.
Trump will be the kiss of death for Vance one way or another. Name one person personal or professionally that has not been hurt somehow by Trump. He's pretty much the most toxic public figure since Hitler and the dictators of the 20th century.
President Biden shows again that he is a brilliant politician. Don’t for one minute think he hadn’t contacted everyone necessary to assure a smooth hand off to Kamal
That’s exactly why they women out of the workforce by forcing women to have unwanted babies & losing their career chances due to childcare costs and lack of childcare. They are threatened by women-they are threatened by their power and their vote. Let’s keep them at home taking care of babies & living on poverty & unable to divorce their crappy, abusing husbands (JD Vance wants no fault divorce). Anything to make women miserable & keep them from participating in the world outside of the kitchen. Gee, where is the Brave, Wally, Eddie & Lumpy? Next the GOP will make laws that women will have to wear dresses & pearls while they clean house & cook meals. Women aren’t going to have it!! Vote blue!
Well, of course! These “Commanders” think that women should be at home, having children, and raising them. If they can pressure women into home schooling the children, so much the better. 🤬
I feel exactly as you do. I cried most of Sunday, then I got back on the horse and started phone banking again. People are excited about Kamala and even one of Nikki Haley's voter PACs announced their support for her! I have a feeling we're going to see a Big Blue Wave in November and it's going to blow the RethuGlicans away.
I’m sad for him that he didn’t get to do everything he wanted, but no matter how much he accomplished in a second term, he’d still want to do more. He pulled his exit off masterfully and that tells me all I need to know about his mental competency and his selfless love for America.
It’s finally time for this country to fully realize the power of women. We’re done with the patriarchy and it’s decrepit male gaslighting. They’ve been holding us hostage forever - but not for much longer. We are going to gather strength as we head towards this election, growing in numbers and excitement. You haven’t seen anything yet. But for damn sure we’re not going back to the 1950’s with the steamrolling bullshit of the GOP at last seen as the decrepit party of liars and old men. We’re bathing in the glorious energy of women power. Get used to it.
Not at all interested in a world like the Handmaid's Tale. Since I am too old to be a handmaiden and probably a martha, under a drumf (aka #34) regime, I would be heading to the poisonous, toxic mines to live out what few days I have remaining minus my teeth which have fallen out due to the pollution. All in for Kamala! No to a dystopian society.
I hope you are right but I feel old white men know that once we get power, there’s no going back. Why do you think they are enacting these draconian anti abortion laws??
The only way they are stopping us now is by cheating like they have already laid the plans to do. Hope everyone saw Rachel’s show last night, & if you didn’t go find the podcast of it.
She said there’s a reason drumph said his “Christians” wouldn’t have to vote again, but has also been saying numerous times about not needing any votes, that he has enough votes.
They have installed about 70 election denying election officials, only in the 6-7 swing states. Those people don’t even need to be in the big counties, just 1 official in 1 small county can refuse to certify the vote count, & that will prevent the entire state from certifying their election results. If that happens in each of those states, it goes into the judicial system & eventually to the scotus; & we already know how those 6 will rule.
That’s why they were feeling so overconfident, like they’ve got it in the bag. Sen Warren was on & said this must galvanize us even more to turn out a massive popular vote win.
What a sad sack. That whole let's go Brandon was rude and idiotic. Mitch McConnell jumping on board with Brandon bs made me hate him even more (if that's possible). I'm glad that dumb fool is a laughing stock now.
Yeah, he got just a small taste of his just rewards at the RNC convention when he stepped up to announce KY delegate votes for drumph & the magas booed him so loudly that you could barely hear him speak.
He deserves every ounce of that shame from his own party; vile power hungry creature that he’s been.
Kamala's star turn addressing the assembled Biden campaign staff was masterful. She's learned a lot in the past four years. I think she'll be a great candidate and will trounce Trump and his terrible running mate in November. Trump may mock her laugh, but laughter is a welcome relief from Trump's litany of hate, grievance and retribution.
Has anyone heard any excrescence from Trump's mouth that could be called a genuine laugh? He is lacking any decent human qualities, including a sense of humor. I think Harris should laugh at him every chance she gets. it will infuriate him and cause him to make even bigger mistakes.
I will never understand those who support TRump. I just can't get my head around it. He is most despicable cretin and the most disgusting human (if he's actually human!) to ever to walk the Earth.
Those who support him are *like* him. Broken. Not necessarily in the same ways or to the same degree, but very broken. I think what has been most shocking for so many of us during these past 9 years is the realization that we've been living among so many mean-spirited, angry, nasty, destructive, spiteful people but didn't know that.
Everyone wears a public mask, but I'd cautiously say that, for those on the left, the gulf between our public self and and private self isn't huge. But now we see how huge the gulf is between the public self and the private self of all those seemingly pleasant coworkers, store clerks, tradespeople, medical professionals, etc. It is shocking and destabilizing.
I think about the ?1978? remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- the belief that you're among, if not like-minded people, then at least people who aren't dangerous to your survival. Until reality shatters that belief. And so it is in the US, where people on the right want to restrict our rights, screw with our survival (via regressive taxation, opposition to M4A and a livable wage, opposition to unions, opposition to action on the climate catastrophe, etc.) or, in some cases, literally destroy us: "Some people need killing." "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
My summer of 2016: "I never knew there were so many people [idiots and rage-filled haters] who actually like this guy." I was stunned. Still am. They know we think they are trash, but they wear it as a badge of honor now. Depressing.
Oh it’s well known that he HATES being laughed at. Remember the Whitehouse Journalist’s dinner & roast? When Obama made jokes about him, he was boiling inside & became an instant & lifelong hater of Obama. James Carville did a video about how to get to him a couple months ago where he said Biden & everyone should make fun of T, laugh at him, because he hates it so much. His ego just can’t take it.
I go back and forth, wondering if he'll back out, but, I think even people in his own party would call him a coward if he did that. I'm hoping he doesn't back out. My popcorn awaits!
She’s on OUR TEAM! I couldn’t be more proud and excited. Oh, and my granddaughter was born in the same hospital that Kamala was born…
(Shout out to Oakland) I was feeling bereft that my grand daughter could grow up in a world so much smaller and more cruel than the world in which I grew up. I’m giddy with the prospect that life will be different for her.
When TRump purses his lips, his mouth looks like a butthole. This very apt description came from my dearly departed mother who detested TRump. I laughed so hard when she said it!🤣🤣🤣
I hope she makes Jack Smith Attorney General. Garland's been a disappointment. He may have made a good SC justice, but they should have been all over the GOP way before they were. It's almost election time and some of these cases are still going on.
Oh wow! I made 4 $100 donations. Now I'm doing matching emails & texts $15 here and there. Bought $560.00 in postcard stamps today. Wanted to verify 0.56 per card. My small town p.o. had 1000 post card stamps! They said we NEVER sell these. Gals there are ALL for Kamala! #YesWeKam
Or Sally Yates, she destroyed Ted Cruz when she was acting AG, filling in for one of trump's flunkies who got replaced. She was too close to building a case against trump, though so he fired her.
I cried watching her speak with the campaign staff and was glad I caught it on TV. I rarely turn on the news these days, and I don't have cable anymore, but the Roku live NBC streaming channel tuned into her.👍
I re-enabled the Nielsen ratings reporting on my Roku smart TV,(the default setting is 'on')to show I'm no longer watching corporate media outlets,and I'm actually not watching any network programming at all.
Some moron is complaining about Kamala Harris repeating a phrase when ex president Fuckwit rails on continuously about sharks, batteries, toilets flushing, Hannibal Lecter, ad nauseum? Do go on!! 🙄
The press wanted the Democrats to fight it out in a new primary up to an including the Convention, and the democrats said FUCK THAT! The press can fuck all the way off with their BS, I can see most democrats pushing back on them HARD! It's going to be fun to watch. As for the GQP, all they have are racist/misogynistic attacks on Kamala Harris. That is SURE to win over women and minority voters. Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
Exactly. It cannot be repeated enough how horrible the MSM is. So self important. They don’t care how the damage they inflict hits people who support them. Wishing them the karma they deserve.
I worked in newsrooms for most of my career, and I can share some things that most people don't know -- and I'm respectfully asking you to reconsider your negative, inaccurate comments about the MSM.
1. Bashing the MSM helps the right wing bc it supports their "We can't believe any outlet other than Fox" narrative. It supports the erosion of belief in verifiable facts. That's very very very bad for all of us, as the past 7 years have seen (K. Conway 1st used the dangerous phrase "alternative facts"on 1-17-22).
2. The MSM isn't one monolithic entity, so a monolithic criticism isn't useful. Some periodicals and websites are better than others: some have fact-checkers, some don't; some have several layers of editing (which ensures a better-quality article, bc more eyes = more questions asked), some don't; some hire superb writers, some hire people who can barely compose a coherent sentence.
3. As noted, I spent most of my career in newsrooms (a large daily newspaper; one of the nonpartisan Hill publications; a highly regarded US magazine), so I've seen how reporters and editors work. At legit operations, editorial staff don't say, "Let's slant this story in order to get lots of clicks" or "Let's make up stuff." The *vast* majority of those who become journalists are idealists who want to see wrongs righted. When reporters err, they err honestly -- not because they're trying to bring readers around to a certain viewpoint. (Columnists *are* trying to convince others of something, but that's obvious bc they're columnists.)
4. The MSM broke the story of djt's being a tax cheat. It breaks crucial news all the time.
5. Not liking what the MSM says (such as "Many Dem donors, strategists, and pols think that Biden should step down") isn't the same as "The MSM is wrong or is pushing an agenda." That's not how it works. Sources call reporters, or reporters call sources, and the reporter gathers as much info as s/he can, and s/he then writes an article. We (the public) had a right to know this. We've benefited from knowing this. The surge in enthusiasm since Harris was anointed tells us that we might actually be able to beat djt -- which we couldn't have done with Biden at the top of the ticket. (He has been a superb president and will be until he departs, but he cdn't have regained the confidence of the US public -- not with his physical frailty and his inability to speak cogently when asked pressing questions in a debate or interview format. He would've lost, and the stakes are just too high for that to've been the outcome.)
6. The MSM is truly all that protects us from autocracy. For ex., how do you think most people have found out about P2025? Even Substackers or social-media posters who've informed so many of us know about it only bc the MSM reported on it.
No industry or institution is perfect. It can't be. Therefore the MSM isn't perfect. But legit news outlets do far more good than harm, and to bash the MSM is to weaken the only defense we have against tyranny. So I hope you'll stop doing that, and I hope you'll think about all the beneficial things that the MSM does. Thanks.
Sorry, but I have to call BS on that. The mainstream media right now is actually doing more harm than good by propping up TRump, and slamming others. It's the small publications, like Mother Jones, Daily Kos etc that are doing what should be done, and that is reporting actual news. After doing a little bit of research, I have found that most of the large newspapers and cable networks are bought and paid for by millionaires and billionaires that definitely lean to the right. Things have changed. Walter Cronkite is spinning in his grave.
🎯🎯🎯WaPo has hired a Murdoch tabloid criminal to run the show. No way they'll put out any less than right-wing takes, once more moving the Overton Window.
As for the NYT they are in a snit, because the pouty nepo baby Sulzberger that runs it, didn't get a sit-down interview with Biden, and according to Lucien Truscott lv have half of an entire floor devoted to trashing Biden. Not to mention editor Joe Kahn saying he looks forward to trump winning! And them saying defending democracy isn't their job!
After the debate only one paper said anything about how trump lied every time he opened his mouth - the Philadelphia Enquirer.
They don't slant the story (much) to get clicks but they DO slant the headlines; for you to say they don't is obtuse at best.
Project 2025 was grossly under reported until very recently, and I would not credit the MSM for getting the word out. I was sharing it far and wide long before the MSM picked it up.
Oh, and we are not bashing the MSM for their facts; we are bashing them for HOW they report their facts. Yes, Biden is old - but how many articles are about how old Biden is vs. how old trump is?
When the MSM gets back to doing more good than harm, I'll consider no longer bashing them.
So excuse me if I fail to shed a single tear for the misunderstood MSM.
Key word you're using is "legit". We need a lot more Legit.
Of course not all news outlets are "bad"... but it's apparent that WaPo and the NYT (two immediate examples) both have slanted their headlines. Evidently, reporters of several newspapers got the transcript of Trump's Unity themed acceptance speech and ran with it before he proved them all wrong and spewed hateful, weird garbage at his acceptance speech. The headlines were the complete opposite of what actually happened. And AG Sulzberger came out and told his staff to make Biden look bad because Biden wouldn't sit for an interview. Also, I believe more people than we imagine are getting information from social media....right or wrong, there are many other places to find things out. Just my thoughts.
The fourth estate - otherwise known as journalism - got bought out just like our politicians. Ronald Reagan normalized greed and unfortunately the fourth estate jumped on the bandwagon. Face up to it. The country was ill served by the fourth estate. Since so many journalists are now followers rather than leaders, perhaps they’ll follow the blue wave and start telling the truth again. I sure hope so. We can all use a break from the bullshit.
The Fourth Estate may have lost their bearings; I worry about that. I don’t watch cable because I don’t like to be yelled at. I do subscribe to a lot of print and I read. Sometimes I tsk, tsk, but mostly I read and think.
"Sources call reporters, or reporters call sources, and the reporter gathers as much info as s/he can" on the stories that they choose to cover, while ignoring others. During the weeks when outlets like the Fox News York Times would cover nothing but "Biden old! Everybody wants him out!" I saw nothing at all about Trump being named in the Epstein files, or Trump's obvious cognitive decline.
"how do you think most people have found out about P2025?" Not from any MSM coverage. I have literally never seen any MSM coverage of that subject.
Well, now, like during the last two weeks, there has been. But you're right. I started reading about the "boot camps" for loyalist hires to replace the fired civil service employees in February or March, and then more and more as time went on. But I also read (past tense) the NYT and WaPo pretty thoroughly every day, and NEVER saw any mention of Project 2025 until the last couple weeks. I dropped my subscription to the NYT last week because of the anti-Biden slantex headlines. I keep WaPo because I like their opinion columnists, especially Jen Rubin. She's talked about all sorts of stuff on her podcast that's never been mentioned by WaPo, which leads me to wonder if she's been barred from writing about it.
I literally screamed at the TV yesterday when Joe Manchin was saying that "we should have an open convention and let the people pick who they want". I thought, you la**hole. We've got just shy of over 3 months to get this done! He makes me sick.
When someone posted that crap on Threads about Manchin putting in a call to the DNC about a possible run, I read over 200 comments & they were 100% negative, most of them some variation of F off.
Holy Mike has his panties all twisted and thinks he can tell Democrats how to nominate their candidate,he can piss all the way off,no doubt he'll try run to his MAGA buddies on the Supreme Court for help.
Probably because his supporters are as demented as he is! Dang, you look at some of them and they look so inbred it's not funny. It's quite sad, actually. 😳
Lee Atwater: "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N--, n---, n---” By 1968 you can’t say “n----”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N---, n---”
Lee Atwater's death was one I celebrated big time. When I tuned into politics, it was gingrich, de mint, tom Delay. I thought DC pretty much was OK. Then Atwater, his past. I was pissed till I heard Obama speak at the convention. 🇺🇸💙
I guess in 1973 the DOJ had housing applications from African Americans that the Trump family had written 'N' on them,and you know what that means. I imagine Trumpy was a little more careful throwing that word around,but I've heard he threw it around occasionally on 'The Apprentice'. And of course Trumpy and Klan-dad Papa didn't admit any wrongdoing,he instructed Roy Cohn to sue the DOJ for $100 million dollars,and claimed it was a 'political witch hunt'...some things never change,but ironically enough,I believe Trumpy was still a Democrat at the time.
Yeah, I don't think he would. Even his dumb ass has the shred of sense necessary not to. But one of his underlings might just blow enough of a gasket to let it out.
It wouldn't matter. His supporters (many of them) feel like he does about minorities. They would say it was fake news and doctored. He's set up the public to not trust any news source now.
Fat lady hasn't sung yet. He's still in the public eye. It may be post presidency. Someone who worked with him on the Apprentice said he used to use it then so others' heard. I'm surprised he hasn't called a women another disgusting word.
Gorka already referred to Harris as "colored" (c. 7-9-24). Not quite as bad, but pretty damn bad. He trotted out a pre-1970s adj. that's now considered highly offensive by every American, and by everyone who knows anything about US history.
(Per wikipedia, which is mostly an unreliable source and which should be avoided BUT which I lazily checked just now: NPR reported that the "use of the phrase 'colored people' peaked in books published in 1970. ...... Footnote specifies: Malesky, Kee [30 March 2014]. "The Journey from 'Colored' to 'Minorities' to 'People of Color'". NPR.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 5 February 2017.)
"Hi, here's your messages. Tomorrow is Christmas. That biopsy came back negative. Your estranged dad has called in begging forgiveness, he was in tears. That movie star you have a crush on says they saw your picture on Facebook and that they want to come over and play 'Photographer'. "It's where you go into a darkroom and see what develops." The IRS called and says they owe you $50,000 and the check's in the mail. And the DNC called and said, "Instead of behaving like a boxcar full of cats, we've decided to go out on the parade ground and drill like we just graduated from West Point."
I like that Photographer game. John Gregory Dunne, in True Confessions, mentions a game called Carnival. "You sit on my face and I tell you how much you weigh."
That’s actually pretty funny 😂. There probably are still people who will buy the stuff at a discount. I’m about to drive by a house with a let’s go Brandon sign; I’ll see if it’s still up. Probably is.
I just wanna see the republicans utterly crushed so hard they might pull their collective heads out of what we left of their collective asses and rethink this whole "we wanna be white christian fascists to stay in power forever" thing. Oh and trump needs to go to jail for espionage.
I encourage you to temper your hopes / expectations. Remember that about 71m Murkans voted for scum in 2020. There's still a lot of sickness and hatred in this country (in the world, really).
That said, I too hope for some kind of reset such that the US will once again be home to two functional political parties that differ in, say, views on taxation and foreign policy but that both accept verifiable facts; uphold the rule of law; and are guided by civility and by related longstanding norms.
ETA: Some of this hatred arises from the demographic changes in this country, and that will fuel the hatred for, unfortunately, about 25 years. (25 yrs = one generation; children born today are more likely to be tolerant as adults than their grandparents bc they're more likely to go to a diverse school and have diverse friends, and therefore they're less likely to vilify The Others. There will be lots of exceptions among tomorrow's young adults, but generally speaking diversity will become more the norm.)
You won't be rid of the Trumpsters even if he's beaten or dies. That's 71 million people. They need to be beat election after election until they become social pariahs like the KKK eventually became. The future of this country lies with the younger people, not with us Boomers. We're a strong group in numbers now, but most of us don't have a lot of presidential election cycles left. Average life expectancy of a US female is 78. If you're in your 70's now, you probably have 3-4 more left if you're lucky. But as we go, so do MAGA Boomers too. The younger generation seems to have limited patience with the GOP nonsense and they are must less religious than the Boomers.
People said Richard Nixon would do irreparable damage to the GOP for decades,but Reagan came along in 1980. But Republicans have abandoned character,and actually even any issues except hatred,racism, bigotry,misogyny and white Christian Nationalism,that has to change.
Remember Dan Quayle? His wife’s family was close with the founders of the John Birch racket. But he had the decency to tell Pence to get the fuck on the right side of history.
The fact you'd call Dan for any advice just shows what a tool Pence is anyway. Probably Marilyn told Dan what to say since she held his conjones all the time anyway.
After you explained it, yesterday, this is probably been about 3-4 years in the planning. Joe is getting exactly what he planned 4 years ago. One of the greatest headfakes in history. The Party, the unions, the PACs, and the donors have snapped into line.
So who is Danny Ocean, and who is Rusty? The heist is news cycles and "poles." The "young and brilliant man", well, ex-casino owner who went bust, because he got out-maneuvered so Willie Bank
So let me get this straight: a woman who graduated from law school, worked as a prosecutor, was ELECTED to the Senate, was ELECTED to be vice president and is the most qualified person to take over for POTUS, is now the beneficiary of DEI? These mouth-frothing MAGAts need to slither back under their rocks ASAP.
Laura Loomer is about as hideous as they come. The Republicans are acting like pissy little grade schoolers, name calling and finger pointing and talking ridiculous shit. What EVERYONE needs to remember-this is an election between a free country and an authoritarian state. The press be damned. The people are talking now. As it damn well should be!
I believe the Blue Wave is going to continue...💙
I believe that too! I can't believe how many people I talked with while phone banking yesterday who are all in for Harris! I'm excited again! These are people that were going to vote for Joe, but they're more excited than ever to vote for Kamala. #HappyDance
#HappyDance here too. Saw Kamala at Milwaukee. rally. Imma have to soundproof my walls, baby! Clapping, laughing,yelling back to her LOL. If you want to write postcards: www.turnoutpac.org/postcards
You are my hero Megan, keep up the good work.
Let's count chickens after November 5th. Till then this deal is far from done.
Oh, we know. But we can are ARE excited that new juice is flowing into a big blue wave!!! And tRump is only getting crazier and crazier every day. And he's TERRIFIED of Harris! She's brilliant!
Not sure there's one among us who doesn't understand that this deal is far from done. Seems like we are all pretty grown up here, so no need for a knuckle rap reminder. We are all starving for a bit of good luck and stars shining down on our team for a change. Don't throw shade on the parade. Let loose with a bit of excitement. That becomes a part of the equation of success.
While Trump started his re-election campaign even before his inauguration in 2017,the effort to defeat the MAGAs at the ballot box started also...it will continue...
Their narrative is all moot. I can feel the concussions from the explosion of GOP craniums all the way in Central Ohio. Somebody get Laura Loomer some rabies meds.
She's always foaming from the mouth with the same old pathetic, toxic bullshit. It would be a cold day in hell if she ever told it like it really is such as the perverted, convicted felon, false idol's infatuation with under aged girls which seems to be prevalent within the GOP these days. Just ask botox boy Matt Gaetz. The airwaves seem to be perfectly fine with sick, unfit deviants but not those candidates or current members of Congress who want to do what's best for the country.
Loomer sure is getting a lot of attention doing it though! Isn't it sad how these Looney-Toon people get all the press and people that are actually doing good for us don't get any? Our lame-stream is pathetic.
I agree! The media is contributing to our issues without a doubt!
Hopefully their ratings and clicks will reflect Americans growing disgust with corporate media,and the growing shift to progressive media for accurate information.
She may be getting attention, but she isn't garnering any votes for Trump. Harris is now pulling farther ahead in polls. I'm "cautiously giddy," but there's still much work to be done. And don't forget the down-ballot races! Those are now more critical than ever!
I know Rebecca, & besides giving every dollar I can afford to House & Senate candidates all over the nation, I just this minute sent for my first stack of 300 postcards from turnoutpac.org
for my House Rep Melanie Stansbury.
I have never volunteered for a political campaign before, but now it’s Do or Die time.
It is, indeed. And every one of us can do SOMETHING. One thing I do is post a notice in my apartment complex's laundry room saying that I will print absentee ballot requests free for anyone requesting one. It's a small thing, but I print between 40-50 every election cycle, in a complex with 50 apartments. Just wish I could afford to add a stamped, addressed envelope with each one! Maybe next year. My medical costs should be a little lower then.
That is her whole act though, she couldn't get elected even here in FL, and we are the spawning ground of Floriduh man and his meth gator sidekick.
Gaetz's decision to alter his face just before the convention -- where he'd be seen by (probably) tens of millions of ppl on TV and social media, meaning that his new face was sure to be a topic of convo and a big distraction -- is just one more sign of how clueless he and all MAGAs are, in all things.
I didn't watch one second of the RNC, but, I did see clips on Instagram and Facebook of Gaetz' face and I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!
Now theres a meme going around with his stupid face inside a Liberaci outfit....it's hilarious. 😂
"Two white tigers and a life partner away from a Vegas act"... as someone said.
I saw that too 🤣
What reason would Matt Gaetz/Eddie Munster have to try and make himself look younger?? Can anyone think of any??
He looks like JaFar the villain in "Aladdin".
TV's Frank posted: I have to disagree with everyone who thinks Matt Gaetz's plastic surgery was a bad job. It accentuated the creepy pedo look that expresses his inner essence, while preserving the face's extreme punchability.
😂😂😂😂
And shows how they are hungry for attention. ANY attention, positive or negative. They can't tell the difference. Like toddlers.
I didn't watch either,but apparently it was mostly old white guys whining about the immigrant invasion who had a serious case of 'Biden and Democrat Derangement Syndrome'
Read several anti-Kamala posts today. Witch, why no children (which no one should ever ask), meme of a GOP guy turned into a newt by witch. Got 1,000 postcards today. Am not going to give 1 oz. of energy on those not ALL IN for Kamala.
New voter registrations are up 700% in the last 48 hrs.
That statistic + the 178K new campaign volunteers is just mind-blowing & so energizing, exciting, happy-dancing wonderful, that I can barely contain myself
My husband and I each got 500. Going make a party out of it all.
Yeah, stupid shit.
She's even crazier than Drunky-McWine-Box.
There are no rabies meds, only vaccines.
Looks like the antivax crowd is screwed then
Ruh roh!! 🤣🤣🤣
Laughing 🤣 hard!
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It’s already too late for Loomer. She’s foaming at the mouth.
Or as her idol might say, "Foaming out of her whatever." (sorry!)
Forgiven….never hurts to remind us of every single horrific, misogynistic thing that felon has said. How in hell Megyn can defend him & sit with him to interview him is beyond my comprehension.
She was a part of the #MeToo movement & now she is totally debasing herself. It’s sickening.
She's 'old yella'
😂😂😂
Just saying...
😂😂😂 rabies medicine. Perfect!
They really are losing their shit
Good thing they're all wearing diapers.
😂😂😂
❤️👏👏🎯😂🤣
It's disgusting that anyone prints what she has to say. There's nasty, but she brings a whole new meaning to the word vile.
'Republicans have lost the popular vote for 32 years'....that sums it up perfectly, their solution seems to be to eliminate the Democratic party and the rule of law.
Or say stupid shit that media loves putting on msm so dumbass white ppl believe them!
Loomer is just gross. Her talking about only married women with children having rights, is ironic since she's a single woman with no kids. Go figure...
Takes one to know one I guess.
And rump and is looking VERY OLD!!!!!!!
He's leaning into putrefaction.
I think TRump has moved into the decomposition stage! 🤢
He's definitely wanting his binky.
They're just shameless grifters without character or morals.
Dissolving too.
Poor Laura. Mebbe she's a hateful nutcase because she needs love. Mebbe some brave soul can volunteer to take one for the nation. Nah, that wouldn't work. And no one is that stupid to try
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You know the Republicans would never allow exceptions; if you had a child and they passed away, you'd lose your right to vote in a heartbeat.
Yep, I’d fall into that category. Had my only child for 39 ½ yrs, but now I’d just be seen by them as a childless crazy dog lady.
Drumph, Vance, & that entire party are dangerous to our freedoms & to our very lives.
The blue tsunami 🌊 is building!!
Laura Loomer managed to disgust me in a way worse than Trump's plastic surgery and bleeding from wherever comments. She is an atrocious, sick person. Apparently, back in April of this year, Trump wanted to hire her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/trump-laura-loomer.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/trump-laura-loomer.html
Like! Like! Like!!!!!
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Because she gets more clicks than reporting actual news. The media these days is absolutely pathetic, in both print and TV platforms... Ugh. 🙄
MAGAs make-up a non-existent issue,and then whip up the cult to rage about it,that's what they do.
It's called creating the news, not reporting.
Wag the Dog
Yes they are trying to manufacture the news, which is yellow-press territory.
Fwiw, I think it's better that we know what the crazies-with-some-influence are saying; if we don't know, then we can't formulate useful ways to *try* to reach the parts of that audience that are still reachable.
I know that all of them might seem unreachable, but I like to remind myself that Derek Black, the son of one of the biggest-wigs in white supremacy, has completely rejected the indoctrination and has written about singular-their journey.
I don't know about you,but it takes me about 10 seconds to hear if someone gets their information from Fox and Newsmax while they're being interviewed on MSM.
🎯Yes, because they say things that are not true, as if they were real.
It is definitely better to know what these cretins are howling, so that we can make fun of and laugh at them. They hate that, but are too stupid to self correct. Plus, it provides so much material to SNL et al.
I was extremely upset about President Biden stepping aside. I was worried about the reaction to Kamala, but to my surprise, Kamala is uniting the Democrats including young voters. Beyoncé has lent her music to the Kamala campaign. And the money, wow!!
I needed a day off to mourn and today I recognize what President Biden did for our country.
He’s a great, great president! 💙
I feel the same. I was very sad but I'm super impressed by how they've managed the transition. I should have had more faith. I feel like a lot of planning went on behind the scenes.
I'm not involved in politics so don't know what goes on behind the scenes. This was no accident. It is too smooth and well planned. Wait till Trump has his Deliverance Fest and bashes Biden. Let him have a few days of feeling like he's a shoo in for the WH. Then lower the boom. It was a Titanic boom. Because the MAGAs are impulsive, imbecilic and laser focused on Biden's age, there apparently was no Plan B. The totally ridiculous nonsense coming out of their camp now just shows how really dumb they are. Just like their candidate. And what's Donnie Diaper going to do now since I've heard that he's maybe not so in love with his little Hitler VP as he was last week? I just smile when I think of it. Our Speaker of the House needs to go. He's as big of a moron as the rest of them. I'm sure Comer will have to have a hearing now to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden. Look at the millions of dollars and time wasted on their nonsense since 1/20/21.
"...maybe not so in love with his little ... VP" No problem. Dump will just fire him (or try to) like he learned to do on "The Apprentice". Haven't people noticed? He's pretty much of a one trick pony. Meaning no shame to ponies of course
Do you know that Dumpy has never fired anyone face-to-face in real life? He either got someone else to do it or did it via tweet, usually in the middle of the night. Dumpy's too big a coward to actually fire anyone in person.
Thanks for your clarification. I didn't know but hardly surprised. I expect "coward" is accurate but not strong enough. What makes anyone think he would take responsibility for any actions like firing someone? He won't take responsibility for things far worse. The buck simply doesn't stop where he is. We've seen evidence of that over and over again. (Sorry I'm getting carried away here. I'm so very tired of all of his stuff.)
Keep in mind that what I "know" comes from comments made by people in Dumpy's former administration and who worked on "The Apprentice" that I've read on news sites. They're not as authoritative as they should be. But Dumpy very publicly fired several of his key cabinet members by tweet, so I believe those claims. I'm tired of his BS too, so I get over-righteous about stuff.
Trump will be the kiss of death for Vance one way or another. Name one person personal or professionally that has not been hurt somehow by Trump. He's pretty much the most toxic public figure since Hitler and the dictators of the 20th century.
As Rick Wilson so aptly observed; ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies
It's likely Trump misspelled 'Vance' for his VP pick,he meant to write 'Pence'....damn autocorrect...and brain worms.
"deliverance-fest" was brilliant.
There's a reason the turtle always defeats the hare.
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Gotta love people who can take care of their business!
Admittedly, who could have seen this coming!
Oh I'm sure you're right. Biden is an amazing strategist.
President Biden shows again that he is a brilliant politician. Don’t for one minute think he hadn’t contacted everyone necessary to assure a smooth hand off to Kamal
I feel the same way! I love the way we are embracing Kamala! She’s smart and not afraid to show it.
And that scares the hell out of the Republican party! Smart, capable women are like kryptonite to them. 😁
That’s exactly why they women out of the workforce by forcing women to have unwanted babies & losing their career chances due to childcare costs and lack of childcare. They are threatened by women-they are threatened by their power and their vote. Let’s keep them at home taking care of babies & living on poverty & unable to divorce their crappy, abusing husbands (JD Vance wants no fault divorce). Anything to make women miserable & keep them from participating in the world outside of the kitchen. Gee, where is the Brave, Wally, Eddie & Lumpy? Next the GOP will make laws that women will have to wear dresses & pearls while they clean house & cook meals. Women aren’t going to have it!! Vote blue!
You meant that he wants to get rid of
no-fault divorce
That’s right! Thanks for pointing that out
Well, of course! These “Commanders” think that women should be at home, having children, and raising them. If they can pressure women into home schooling the children, so much the better. 🤬
Wonder how long it will take for them to miss that second paycheck and have to get a second job to support their ever growing families ????
They never think that far ahead. They only see the power & glory, never the consequences
That's why they want so badly to control women.
Remember when she was grilling Then AG Jeff Sessions about the Russia connections? He claimed she made him nervous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_HmEFxCpI
That was delicious 😋 msnbc has been replaying all of those clips from her Senate interrogations & I’m loving it
I loved it then, and went back and watched her make Jeff Sessions “nervous”!
I agree. A fine and experienced gentleman who I hope will continue to offer his thoughts… he’s amazing
I feel exactly as you do. I cried most of Sunday, then I got back on the horse and started phone banking again. People are excited about Kamala and even one of Nikki Haley's voter PACs announced their support for her! I have a feeling we're going to see a Big Blue Wave in November and it's going to blow the RethuGlicans away.
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SAME!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It's almost as if people are tired of this country being run by old white men. Huh, who knew?
Except for Joe Biden
Yeah, there are actually several old/older old, white, Democrat men who are real champions of the people.
The first one who popped into my mind was Sen Sheldon Whitehouse. That man has been ringing the alarm bells about our corrupt scotus for years.
I'm tired of the thugs desecrating flags and disrespecting veterans and calling it 'patriotism'.
Let me sum up: ROFL :-D
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I’m sad for him that he didn’t get to do everything he wanted, but no matter how much he accomplished in a second term, he’d still want to do more. He pulled his exit off masterfully and that tells me all I need to know about his mental competency and his selfless love for America.
Nice emoji work my friend 😀
It’s finally time for this country to fully realize the power of women. We’re done with the patriarchy and it’s decrepit male gaslighting. They’ve been holding us hostage forever - but not for much longer. We are going to gather strength as we head towards this election, growing in numbers and excitement. You haven’t seen anything yet. But for damn sure we’re not going back to the 1950’s with the steamrolling bullshit of the GOP at last seen as the decrepit party of liars and old men. We’re bathing in the glorious energy of women power. Get used to it.
Not since the January 2017 Women's March, anyway. YES WE KAM!
Behind you 100%
Thank you James! We'll need both women AND men to win in November!
Not at all interested in a world like the Handmaid's Tale. Since I am too old to be a handmaiden and probably a martha, under a drumf (aka #34) regime, I would be heading to the poisonous, toxic mines to live out what few days I have remaining minus my teeth which have fallen out due to the pollution. All in for Kamala! No to a dystopian society.
RIGHT ON! Well put. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I hope you are right but I feel old white men know that once we get power, there’s no going back. Why do you think they are enacting these draconian anti abortion laws??
The only way they are stopping us now is by cheating like they have already laid the plans to do. Hope everyone saw Rachel’s show last night, & if you didn’t go find the podcast of it.
She said there’s a reason drumph said his “Christians” wouldn’t have to vote again, but has also been saying numerous times about not needing any votes, that he has enough votes.
They have installed about 70 election denying election officials, only in the 6-7 swing states. Those people don’t even need to be in the big counties, just 1 official in 1 small county can refuse to certify the vote count, & that will prevent the entire state from certifying their election results. If that happens in each of those states, it goes into the judicial system & eventually to the scotus; & we already know how those 6 will rule.
That’s why they were feeling so overconfident, like they’ve got it in the bag. Sen Warren was on & said this must galvanize us even more to turn out a massive popular vote win.
Do it.
Sarah: "Get used to it." LOVE THAT!!!
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 BRAVO
New store name: Going Out of Business
Spirit Halloween Store coming soon!
I swear I saw the photo last night with the Spirit Halloween sign underneath.
I swear I didn’t steal the idea!!! I made it with my own brain!
I believe you - but here in Tampa, right about now - EVERY empty store becomes a Halloween store :-)
Let’s Go Broke Store
“It Sucks to Be Us “
You beat me to this comment! I offer “bankruptcy” to your comment!
Which is to say, GOOB-er's.
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What a sad sack. That whole let's go Brandon was rude and idiotic. Mitch McConnell jumping on board with Brandon bs made me hate him even more (if that's possible). I'm glad that dumb fool is a laughing stock now.
Yeah, he got just a small taste of his just rewards at the RNC convention when he stepped up to announce KY delegate votes for drumph & the magas booed him so loudly that you could barely hear him speak.
He deserves every ounce of that shame from his own party; vile power hungry creature that he’s been.
Kamala's star turn addressing the assembled Biden campaign staff was masterful. She's learned a lot in the past four years. I think she'll be a great candidate and will trounce Trump and his terrible running mate in November. Trump may mock her laugh, but laughter is a welcome relief from Trump's litany of hate, grievance and retribution.
I hope she laughs at his every inane comment during a debate.
Has anyone heard any excrescence from Trump's mouth that could be called a genuine laugh? He is lacking any decent human qualities, including a sense of humor. I think Harris should laugh at him every chance she gets. it will infuriate him and cause him to make even bigger mistakes.
I will never understand those who support TRump. I just can't get my head around it. He is most despicable cretin and the most disgusting human (if he's actually human!) to ever to walk the Earth.
Those who support him are *like* him. Broken. Not necessarily in the same ways or to the same degree, but very broken. I think what has been most shocking for so many of us during these past 9 years is the realization that we've been living among so many mean-spirited, angry, nasty, destructive, spiteful people but didn't know that.
Everyone wears a public mask, but I'd cautiously say that, for those on the left, the gulf between our public self and and private self isn't huge. But now we see how huge the gulf is between the public self and the private self of all those seemingly pleasant coworkers, store clerks, tradespeople, medical professionals, etc. It is shocking and destabilizing.
I think about the ?1978? remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- the belief that you're among, if not like-minded people, then at least people who aren't dangerous to your survival. Until reality shatters that belief. And so it is in the US, where people on the right want to restrict our rights, screw with our survival (via regressive taxation, opposition to M4A and a livable wage, opposition to unions, opposition to action on the climate catastrophe, etc.) or, in some cases, literally destroy us: "Some people need killing." "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
Nightmarish, frankly.
My summer of 2016: "I never knew there were so many people [idiots and rage-filled haters] who actually like this guy." I was stunned. Still am. They know we think they are trash, but they wear it as a badge of honor now. Depressing.
& threatening... anyone heard from merrick lately?...
I heard him on tape last night saying "I do not like to be laughed at." Bet Kamala's people know that. 😊
Oh it’s well known that he HATES being laughed at. Remember the Whitehouse Journalist’s dinner & roast? When Obama made jokes about him, he was boiling inside & became an instant & lifelong hater of Obama. James Carville did a video about how to get to him a couple months ago where he said Biden & everyone should make fun of T, laugh at him, because he hates it so much. His ego just can’t take it.
If VP Harris laughs at him during the debate, he'll have a meltdown. Nobody laughs at Dumpy, especially not a mixed-race woman!
I doubt very much that trump will debate Kamala. She’d crush him.
I go back and forth, wondering if he'll back out, but, I think even people in his own party would call him a coward if he did that. I'm hoping he doesn't back out. My popcorn awaits!
He's been whining it should be on Fox instead of ABC so everyone will love and worship him.
She is a prosecutor, literally a trained speaker.
She’s on OUR TEAM! I couldn’t be more proud and excited. Oh, and my granddaughter was born in the same hospital that Kamala was born…
(Shout out to Oakland) I was feeling bereft that my grand daughter could grow up in a world so much smaller and more cruel than the world in which I grew up. I’m giddy with the prospect that life will be different for her.
May she, and your life, be massively wonderful and full of love.
Thank you, dear Natalie. So far, so good! That little girl is a warrior!
I hope that Don Von Shitzenpants doesn't back out of a debate with her. She will tear him to pieces. And I can't wait!
She’ll be good and ready for him 😂
OMG, 🍊🤡 HATES being laughed at! Remember the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I hope that drinking game puts us all under the table!
Not to mention those disgusting “fish lips” of his. My cousin’s wife calls the 🍊🤡 a “blowfish.”
When TRump purses his lips, his mouth looks like a butthole. This very apt description came from my dearly departed mother who detested TRump. I laughed so hard when she said it!🤣🤣🤣
Clarification: it IS a butthole
Even better! 👍🏻
Perfect!! I think your mom (may she RIP) said it best!!
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It’s actually shaped exactly like an anal sphincter.
I have seen it described by Evan on "Wonkette" as a "cat's anus" mouth.
I hope she makes Jack Smith Attorney General. Garland's been a disappointment. He may have made a good SC justice, but they should have been all over the GOP way before they were. It's almost election time and some of these cases are still going on.
Agreed,same with Christopher Wray IMO, there's never been a Democrat heading the FBI, maybe it's time for one.
So many new, wonderful things to think about. Got my post cards!! Glad for the late Oct mail date. So excited to help other than donate!
Me too, mine should arrive in 2-3 weeks. I’m donating like crazy, pulling money out of my IRA accounts; we are doing this!!!
Oh wow! I made 4 $100 donations. Now I'm doing matching emails & texts $15 here and there. Bought $560.00 in postcard stamps today. Wanted to verify 0.56 per card. My small town p.o. had 1000 post card stamps! They said we NEVER sell these. Gals there are ALL for Kamala! #YesWeKam
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Or Sally Yates, she destroyed Ted Cruz when she was acting AG, filling in for one of trump's flunkies who got replaced. She was too close to building a case against trump, though so he fired her.
I cried watching her speak with the campaign staff and was glad I caught it on TV. I rarely turn on the news these days, and I don't have cable anymore, but the Roku live NBC streaming channel tuned into her.👍
I re-enabled the Nielsen ratings reporting on my Roku smart TV,(the default setting is 'on')to show I'm no longer watching corporate media outlets,and I'm actually not watching any network programming at all.
Well done!
Notice that tRump never laughs. Rich yet so unhappy
Yes, I think many have begun to point that out now that he has started to hate on her laughter. The closest he gets to a smile or a laugh is a sneer.
Some moron is complaining about Kamala Harris repeating a phrase when ex president Fuckwit rails on continuously about sharks, batteries, toilets flushing, Hannibal Lecter, ad nauseum? Do go on!! 🙄
That person was objecting not to her repetition of a phrase but to the phrase itself, which he calls "a Marxist and Luciferian incantation."
He also said she repeats it all the time, so I think my comment still stands.
Yes, trump has no clue what "Luciferian" means too polysyllabic!
I think she said it once, but he has seen it over and over in various YouTube videos and is confused into thinking she says it often.
The RNC put together a compilation, but who thinks that’s a horrible scandal besides the GOP. 😂
HAHAHA! THATS a great phrase...I'm stealing that! 😂
Me too ! That’s a gift I really appreciate 😍😂
The press wanted the Democrats to fight it out in a new primary up to an including the Convention, and the democrats said FUCK THAT! The press can fuck all the way off with their BS, I can see most democrats pushing back on them HARD! It's going to be fun to watch. As for the GQP, all they have are racist/misogynistic attacks on Kamala Harris. That is SURE to win over women and minority voters. Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
Exactly. It cannot be repeated enough how horrible the MSM is. So self important. They don’t care how the damage they inflict hits people who support them. Wishing them the karma they deserve.
I worked in newsrooms for most of my career, and I can share some things that most people don't know -- and I'm respectfully asking you to reconsider your negative, inaccurate comments about the MSM.
1. Bashing the MSM helps the right wing bc it supports their "We can't believe any outlet other than Fox" narrative. It supports the erosion of belief in verifiable facts. That's very very very bad for all of us, as the past 7 years have seen (K. Conway 1st used the dangerous phrase "alternative facts"on 1-17-22).
2. The MSM isn't one monolithic entity, so a monolithic criticism isn't useful. Some periodicals and websites are better than others: some have fact-checkers, some don't; some have several layers of editing (which ensures a better-quality article, bc more eyes = more questions asked), some don't; some hire superb writers, some hire people who can barely compose a coherent sentence.
3. As noted, I spent most of my career in newsrooms (a large daily newspaper; one of the nonpartisan Hill publications; a highly regarded US magazine), so I've seen how reporters and editors work. At legit operations, editorial staff don't say, "Let's slant this story in order to get lots of clicks" or "Let's make up stuff." The *vast* majority of those who become journalists are idealists who want to see wrongs righted. When reporters err, they err honestly -- not because they're trying to bring readers around to a certain viewpoint. (Columnists *are* trying to convince others of something, but that's obvious bc they're columnists.)
4. The MSM broke the story of djt's being a tax cheat. It breaks crucial news all the time.
5. Not liking what the MSM says (such as "Many Dem donors, strategists, and pols think that Biden should step down") isn't the same as "The MSM is wrong or is pushing an agenda." That's not how it works. Sources call reporters, or reporters call sources, and the reporter gathers as much info as s/he can, and s/he then writes an article. We (the public) had a right to know this. We've benefited from knowing this. The surge in enthusiasm since Harris was anointed tells us that we might actually be able to beat djt -- which we couldn't have done with Biden at the top of the ticket. (He has been a superb president and will be until he departs, but he cdn't have regained the confidence of the US public -- not with his physical frailty and his inability to speak cogently when asked pressing questions in a debate or interview format. He would've lost, and the stakes are just too high for that to've been the outcome.)
6. The MSM is truly all that protects us from autocracy. For ex., how do you think most people have found out about P2025? Even Substackers or social-media posters who've informed so many of us know about it only bc the MSM reported on it.
No industry or institution is perfect. It can't be. Therefore the MSM isn't perfect. But legit news outlets do far more good than harm, and to bash the MSM is to weaken the only defense we have against tyranny. So I hope you'll stop doing that, and I hope you'll think about all the beneficial things that the MSM does. Thanks.
Sorry, but I have to call BS on that. The mainstream media right now is actually doing more harm than good by propping up TRump, and slamming others. It's the small publications, like Mother Jones, Daily Kos etc that are doing what should be done, and that is reporting actual news. After doing a little bit of research, I have found that most of the large newspapers and cable networks are bought and paid for by millionaires and billionaires that definitely lean to the right. Things have changed. Walter Cronkite is spinning in his grave.
Agree, Megan.
🎯🎯🎯WaPo has hired a Murdoch tabloid criminal to run the show. No way they'll put out any less than right-wing takes, once more moving the Overton Window.
As for the NYT they are in a snit, because the pouty nepo baby Sulzberger that runs it, didn't get a sit-down interview with Biden, and according to Lucien Truscott lv have half of an entire floor devoted to trashing Biden. Not to mention editor Joe Kahn saying he looks forward to trump winning! And them saying defending democracy isn't their job!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/something-wrong-york-times-140102338.html
https://substack.com/home/post/p-146467746?source=queue&autoPlay=false
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-times-biden-white-house-00154219
Truly protects us from autocracy? You mean like this: https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/
Or this:
https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-in-inconsistent-narrative-selection-and-framing-that-tends-to-favor-republicans/
After the debate only one paper said anything about how trump lied every time he opened his mouth - the Philadelphia Enquirer.
They don't slant the story (much) to get clicks but they DO slant the headlines; for you to say they don't is obtuse at best.
Project 2025 was grossly under reported until very recently, and I would not credit the MSM for getting the word out. I was sharing it far and wide long before the MSM picked it up.
Oh, and we are not bashing the MSM for their facts; we are bashing them for HOW they report their facts. Yes, Biden is old - but how many articles are about how old Biden is vs. how old trump is?
When the MSM gets back to doing more good than harm, I'll consider no longer bashing them.
So excuse me if I fail to shed a single tear for the misunderstood MSM.
Yes, that is the reality. How it used to be, doesn't matter when they are harming us now.
Key word you're using is "legit". We need a lot more Legit.
Of course not all news outlets are "bad"... but it's apparent that WaPo and the NYT (two immediate examples) both have slanted their headlines. Evidently, reporters of several newspapers got the transcript of Trump's Unity themed acceptance speech and ran with it before he proved them all wrong and spewed hateful, weird garbage at his acceptance speech. The headlines were the complete opposite of what actually happened. And AG Sulzberger came out and told his staff to make Biden look bad because Biden wouldn't sit for an interview. Also, I believe more people than we imagine are getting information from social media....right or wrong, there are many other places to find things out. Just my thoughts.
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/new-york-times-reporter-anonymously-linked-papers-publisher-its-coverage-bidens-age
Everyday we hear your MSM propaganda Dee,I don't believe that message will work here on Substack,I believe you're barking up the wrong tree.
The fourth estate - otherwise known as journalism - got bought out just like our politicians. Ronald Reagan normalized greed and unfortunately the fourth estate jumped on the bandwagon. Face up to it. The country was ill served by the fourth estate. Since so many journalists are now followers rather than leaders, perhaps they’ll follow the blue wave and start telling the truth again. I sure hope so. We can all use a break from the bullshit.
The Fourth Estate may have lost their bearings; I worry about that. I don’t watch cable because I don’t like to be yelled at. I do subscribe to a lot of print and I read. Sometimes I tsk, tsk, but mostly I read and think.
"Sources call reporters, or reporters call sources, and the reporter gathers as much info as s/he can" on the stories that they choose to cover, while ignoring others. During the weeks when outlets like the Fox News York Times would cover nothing but "Biden old! Everybody wants him out!" I saw nothing at all about Trump being named in the Epstein files, or Trump's obvious cognitive decline.
"how do you think most people have found out about P2025?" Not from any MSM coverage. I have literally never seen any MSM coverage of that subject.
Well, now, like during the last two weeks, there has been. But you're right. I started reading about the "boot camps" for loyalist hires to replace the fired civil service employees in February or March, and then more and more as time went on. But I also read (past tense) the NYT and WaPo pretty thoroughly every day, and NEVER saw any mention of Project 2025 until the last couple weeks. I dropped my subscription to the NYT last week because of the anti-Biden slantex headlines. I keep WaPo because I like their opinion columnists, especially Jen Rubin. She's talked about all sorts of stuff on her podcast that's never been mentioned by WaPo, which leads me to wonder if she's been barred from writing about it.
There is a UK tabloid man one of Murdoch's running it now look for more propaganda.Jen Rubin is worth rerading for an ex-republican she's great.
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I literally screamed at the TV yesterday when Joe Manchin was saying that "we should have an open convention and let the people pick who they want". I thought, you la**hole. We've got just shy of over 3 months to get this done! He makes me sick.
When someone posted that crap on Threads about Manchin putting in a call to the DNC about a possible run, I read over 200 comments & they were 100% negative, most of them some variation of F off.
Holy Mike has his panties all twisted and thinks he can tell Democrats how to nominate their candidate,he can piss all the way off,no doubt he'll try run to his MAGA buddies on the Supreme Court for help.
He will fail, they really can't do anything. But I hope he spends a lot of campaign money doing it.
Wanna start a betting pool on how soon one of them will drop the first n-word?
one of the things I got wrong about Donny's presidency is I was sure he couldn't go four years without blurting the n-word into a live microphone
He’s deeper into his dementia now so it could still happen..not that his supporters would care.
Probably because his supporters are as demented as he is! Dang, you look at some of them and they look so inbred it's not funny. It's quite sad, actually. 😳
They really don't even try to hide their racism and and white nationalism anymore because of Orange Fuhrer.
OK, as penance you need to scotch tape a maxi pad to your ear and wear it in public for five days.
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Lee Atwater: "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N--, n---, n---” By 1968 you can’t say “n----”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N---, n---”
It was CRT, now it's DEI. Same dog whistle.
Karma took care of Atwater, didn't it?
He actually did a death-bed renouncing of his evil deeds, unlike Rush Limpblob.
Lee Atwater's death was one I celebrated big time. When I tuned into politics, it was gingrich, de mint, tom Delay. I thought DC pretty much was OK. Then Atwater, his past. I was pissed till I heard Obama speak at the convention. 🇺🇸💙
I guess in 1973 the DOJ had housing applications from African Americans that the Trump family had written 'N' on them,and you know what that means. I imagine Trumpy was a little more careful throwing that word around,but I've heard he threw it around occasionally on 'The Apprentice'. And of course Trumpy and Klan-dad Papa didn't admit any wrongdoing,he instructed Roy Cohn to sue the DOJ for $100 million dollars,and claimed it was a 'political witch hunt'...some things never change,but ironically enough,I believe Trumpy was still a Democrat at the time.
Actually the Trumps wrote "C" for "Colored": not much better, but no they didn't use "N"
Yeah, I don't think he would. Even his dumb ass has the shred of sense necessary not to. But one of his underlings might just blow enough of a gasket to let it out.
It wouldn't matter. His supporters (many of them) feel like he does about minorities. They would say it was fake news and doctored. He's set up the public to not trust any news source now.
Seven-second delay?
Or the other n word....nasty.
I still have $20 says he does it before Labor Day.
…yet.
Fat lady hasn't sung yet. He's still in the public eye. It may be post presidency. Someone who worked with him on the Apprentice said he used to use it then so others' heard. I'm surprised he hasn't called a women another disgusting word.
Likewise, although I'm pretty sure he said it plenty when not on mic or camera.
He still has time. The more pissed off he gets , the better the odds
Oh. You mean in public? 🙂
DEI is the preferred euphemism, does that qualify?
They can spell?
Covfefe.
Hahahaha! Too funny 🤣
They’re close with DEI.
and they'll all be fine with it, it will only endear them to him more...after all, the MAGAt hat is the new white hood!
Gorka already referred to Harris as "colored" (c. 7-9-24). Not quite as bad, but pretty damn bad. He trotted out a pre-1970s adj. that's now considered highly offensive by every American, and by everyone who knows anything about US history.
(Per wikipedia, which is mostly an unreliable source and which should be avoided BUT which I lazily checked just now: NPR reported that the "use of the phrase 'colored people' peaked in books published in 1970. ...... Footnote specifies: Malesky, Kee [30 March 2014]. "The Journey from 'Colored' to 'Minorities' to 'People of Color'". NPR.org. National Public Radio. Retrieved 5 February 2017.)
I heard that some MAGA talking head did call Harris "colored" today. I thought we got rid of that particular word in the 1960s.....
"Hi, here's your messages. Tomorrow is Christmas. That biopsy came back negative. Your estranged dad has called in begging forgiveness, he was in tears. That movie star you have a crush on says they saw your picture on Facebook and that they want to come over and play 'Photographer'. "It's where you go into a darkroom and see what develops." The IRS called and says they owe you $50,000 and the check's in the mail. And the DNC called and said, "Instead of behaving like a boxcar full of cats, we've decided to go out on the parade ground and drill like we just graduated from West Point."
I like that Photographer game. John Gregory Dunne, in True Confessions, mentions a game called Carnival. "You sit on my face and I tell you how much you weigh."
"Maybe you could sit on my lap, and we could talk about the first thing that pops up!"
That girl at the strip club really does like you and wants to be friends.
We’ll get married and she’ll never have to take her clothes off again. (Stolen from Mel Brooks.)
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 PERFECT!
Turn it into an adult toy store and call it “We’re Fucked”..because they are.
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Very clever, Karla.
Things just come to me lol.
How about “ YARD SALE “? Not as funny as yours, but lots of people can’t resist that sign !
That’s actually pretty funny 😂. There probably are still people who will buy the stuff at a discount. I’m about to drive by a house with a let’s go Brandon sign; I’ll see if it’s still up. Probably is.
It’s down! The Let’s Go Brandon flag is down and I have seen VERY FEW trump signs and flags in that county this year.
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I just got that joke. I’m slow. 😂
I just wanna see the republicans utterly crushed so hard they might pull their collective heads out of what we left of their collective asses and rethink this whole "we wanna be white christian fascists to stay in power forever" thing. Oh and trump needs to go to jail for espionage.
I encourage you to temper your hopes / expectations. Remember that about 71m Murkans voted for scum in 2020. There's still a lot of sickness and hatred in this country (in the world, really).
That said, I too hope for some kind of reset such that the US will once again be home to two functional political parties that differ in, say, views on taxation and foreign policy but that both accept verifiable facts; uphold the rule of law; and are guided by civility and by related longstanding norms.
ETA: Some of this hatred arises from the demographic changes in this country, and that will fuel the hatred for, unfortunately, about 25 years. (25 yrs = one generation; children born today are more likely to be tolerant as adults than their grandparents bc they're more likely to go to a diverse school and have diverse friends, and therefore they're less likely to vilify The Others. There will be lots of exceptions among tomorrow's young adults, but generally speaking diversity will become more the norm.)
You won't be rid of the Trumpsters even if he's beaten or dies. That's 71 million people. They need to be beat election after election until they become social pariahs like the KKK eventually became. The future of this country lies with the younger people, not with us Boomers. We're a strong group in numbers now, but most of us don't have a lot of presidential election cycles left. Average life expectancy of a US female is 78. If you're in your 70's now, you probably have 3-4 more left if you're lucky. But as we go, so do MAGA Boomers too. The younger generation seems to have limited patience with the GOP nonsense and they are must less religious than the Boomers.
Problem is that when old turd voters die, they leave behind two generations who are probably just like the dead ones.
People said Richard Nixon would do irreparable damage to the GOP for decades,but Reagan came along in 1980. But Republicans have abandoned character,and actually even any issues except hatred,racism, bigotry,misogyny and white Christian Nationalism,that has to change.
The Rethuglican party needs to go the way of its predecessor the Whigs.
The Whigs were n’er so bad.
Treason
Remember Dan Quayle? His wife’s family was close with the founders of the John Birch racket. But he had the decency to tell Pence to get the fuck on the right side of history.
The fact you'd call Dan for any advice just shows what a tool Pence is anyway. Probably Marilyn told Dan what to say since she held his conjones all the time anyway.
Tool is def le mot juste.
that is wild. and here i was thinking all roads led to rush and/or opus dei ;?
oops forgot the masons! :))))
I relished every word you wrote today.
Day 2.5 of me feeling positive, because REASONS!
After you explained it, yesterday, this is probably been about 3-4 years in the planning. Joe is getting exactly what he planned 4 years ago. One of the greatest headfakes in history. The Party, the unions, the PACs, and the donors have snapped into line.
Obama's chess master brain is involved, too. This is so exciting! What an amazing time to be witnessing history!
So who is Danny Ocean, and who is Rusty? The heist is news cycles and "poles." The "young and brilliant man", well, ex-casino owner who went bust, because he got out-maneuvered so Willie Bank
Right on!
Repeatedly.
So let me get this straight: a woman who graduated from law school, worked as a prosecutor, was ELECTED to the Senate, was ELECTED to be vice president and is the most qualified person to take over for POTUS, is now the beneficiary of DEI? These mouth-frothing MAGAts need to slither back under their rocks ASAP.
Calif. DA & Attorney General also???
Yes, both of those are also elected positions, the AG a statewide one in one of the largest states in the Union