Thanks for the pep talk, Uncle Jeff. I do know that Kamaja is ahead nationwide. There definitely are more of us than there are of them. The reason my hair is in fire is that this election will boil down to about 5 states, and we don’t know which way they’ll go. If it weren’t for the fucking electoral college, I wouldn’t be such a Debbie Downer.
The Congress that will certify on January 6, 2025 will be the newly elected Congress, not the Mike Johnson clown show. Many are predicting that we will have a Democratic House. This new Congress will be sworn in on January 3, 2025.
That is, if Mike Johnson swears the new congress people in. Read their plan is to delay their swearing in new Dems so they can't vote. Hakeem better get his coalition together.
Bring 50 Federal Marshals to the swearing in with 250 John Doe Warrants and see if they certify the election after they are warned the busses 🚌 🚇🚇🚇🚇🚌🚌🚌 are waiting for them !
He will not swear in any new Democratic House members on January 3rd. There is no way we are out of the woods until Kamala is sworn in on January 20th!
A note Kathleen about WHY Donny is campaigning in blue states like Cali, NY, & ______ is that those states have pivotal Congessional seats in play & if a MAGA can win & thus enable right wing to hold onto the House, then Johnson can throw the election to Donny (thru their Diabolical & nefarious machinations which ypu are aware of). I read it i think on Tim Snyder substack.
That's not how it works. If the Election gets thrown to the House because no one wins 270 Electoral Votes, then each State gets one vote to cast--and there are more Red States than Blue States, so the Red States will vote for Trump!
My biggest fear and what I'm truly terrified of for our natio is Defendant tRump winning. And I worry that if I repeat 1/6 fears around other people who haven't definitely decided to vote but lean left - I worry that I might inadvertently sway someone to not vote. Sometimes I think we underestimate our potential influence over others. I have to constantly remind myself about this.
But this time Joe Biden is president. And he will ensure that the violent MAGA nuts are forewarned. Try any shit like the last time and it will end badly for them.
2) Term limits or mandatory retirement age for scotus 3)Ranked choice voting
4) Take the govt out of reproductive healthcare, abortion a Federally protected legal right. 5) Impeach Thomas for taking bribes & impeach Alito for giving aid & comfort to & aligning himself with the insurrectionists.
Expanding the court has to first on the list, otherwise those 6 are still there to decide anything Congress tries to do is unconstitutional & throw it out.
As Elie Mystal describes it: If you want to put a radio tracking collar on an elephant, first you have to tranq the elephant or else it will trample you.
Im worried, as Jeff mentioned that many will give up in despair and stay home, and not vote. That won't be good. I have already voted from a mail-in ballot and dropped off in our neighborhood ballot box. I hope the despaired voters do, too.
I just keep taking more and more money out of my retirement account, throwing hundreds here and thousands there to various Democratic candidates for Senate (along with thousands in the past for Biden, then Harris). It would be insane, except that, as far as I'm concerned, if we don't win then there's no point to living in the U.S. any more. Our future is doomed.
Kdsherpa…send that money to Blue candidates in red states. I gave money to candidates in Missouri. Biden won by almost 8 million more. Do you really think FEWER people will turn out for Harris/Walz!? The fear campaign is put out there by the right. Yes, the Fascists are ruthless, but we’re WELL AWARE of what they are doing…they say it out loud!
I've recently sent large amounts to Tester, Slotkin, Casey, Brown, Baldwin and Osborne. Previously, I had sent large amounts to Gallego, Allred and Alsobrooks. (I just learned today about a group called Voto Latino, which focuses on educating Latinex voters about the candidates + helping them register to vote. I made a donation there, as well.) Do you have any suggestions? Is there any point in donating to hawley's opponent? or is that a lost cause?
Here's an idea. Have some cheap Trump stuff made, sell them to raging Trump supporters at a hugely jacked up price, and then donate all that money to blue candidates in red states.
EUGENE VINDMAN (twin of Alexander Vindman) running for a House seat representing VA. You can also check in at Emily's List to see the candidates they are recommending!
Dr. Kristin Hook is running in Texas 21 to flip Chip Roy’s fascist ass out of the US House of Representatives. She was recently endorsed by the San Antonio Express News. She is part Latina and worked for a while for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. PhD in reproductive biology. You can donate, and find out more, at Info@drkristinhook.org.
Kd, I have been a monthly donor to Hawley’s opponent Lucas Kunce since day 1 & have sent extra one-time amounts several times. I find Lucas to be really impressive & I don’t see it as a lost cause. Hawley & his wife Erin are religious extremists who are pushing for a total abortion ban nationwide & for fetal personhood. We simply cannot allow that to happen because that would give a microscopic blastocyst equal rights of the grown sentient human being that is carrying it; essentially making a pregnant person not much more than a walking incubator!!
I’ve also been giving to Debbie Powell in FL, Colin Allred in TX, Dan Osborn in NE, Tester, Brown, Alsobrooks, Lisa B Rochester, & so many others. I truly believe Allred can beat Cruz.
I’m with you kd, taking money out of my IRAs & other stock market accounts & giving to Democrats running for Senate & House seats all over the nation & to the various abortion ballot initiatives.
I see it the same way as you do; what use is my money if we let Trump & his backers from the Heritage Foundation, put in place an autocracy & all of the extremist religious rules contained in Project 2025?
Heck, you and I might be rounded up as enemies within, and put against a wall and shot. Better to do whatever we can possibly do now. We can someone replenish our various accounts, one way or another, if our nation remains a democracy. Otherwise? (I was with Allred and Gallegos from day 1.)
When I read this, I realized that I am feeling EXACTLY the way I do at the REALLY SCARY parts of movies. I am sick to my stomach. I am so anxious. That orange f*cker OWES US, BIG TIME!
Absolutely, as a retired ICU RN, I have thought about that in regard to of my own health. I have been so angry since the day the Dobbs decision was handed down, & the other things they’ve tried to do to strip more rights away from women, that I know it’s terrible for my health. I’ve actually started having much more frequent runs of PSVT or VT. I’ll chill out after we win this election.
Hey, SCOTUS handed Biden a Kingship--so let's do this--King Joe the First! And everything he does in relation to that should be prefaced with "As President of the United States"......
Rest assured that ACLU lawyer Marc Elias & his group, Democracy Docket, is on top of it & the Harris campaign has on retainer several excellent lawyers to fight back against these shenanigans. 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Me too Abigail. Large turnouts result in Dem wins! A landslide win for Harris makes it almost impossible for the FELON supporters to cheat. THEY know that. So they are doing their damnedest to convince the left that it is razor thin. Jezuz how stupid…anyone remember Biden’s wide margin? Hello? That margin will be way more for Kamala.
They refuse to count votes? Arrests need to be made. No effing around this time!
I agree, first, I don’t believe the polling samples are correct. There is a large increase in registrations for young people and women. Second, these groups are not included in polls because they only sample people who have voted in prior elections.
You are correct about the new registrants not being included in polling. Also, as Rick Wilson says, the Trump campaign knows they are losing & are flooding the 7 swing states with junk red leaning polls & that drags down her numbers & raises his when they average those in with the good polls.
It was very close in results that controlled the Electoral College. Remember, popular vote means jack shit in this country--and we need to fix this STAT.
Yes, but it’s going to take getting more Dems in state legislatures because it will take a Constitutional Amendment & that will take ¾ of the states to ratify it. An amendment like that would never get ratified now.
I have voted, it’s been counted and it blends in with the sky it’s so blue! There is some pep for those who need it. Remember the brave and committed people that now lie in Arlington, thousands were they scared? Hell yes and the same purpose as us; their spirits are with us following us and moving us to vote for OUR CONSTITUTION, buck up Democrats!!!
I, too, had to memorize it -- but 61 years ago! It is a truly heart-breaking, powerful poem. Sometime after the soldier wrote this poem, he died in battle.
We needed a pep talk! I’m not running around with my hair on fire, but I’m tired of polls that I know are BS. If you put the two camp’s rallies side by side, Kamala has the momentum to win by a significant margin. Her rallies are joyous and exciting, his are the definition of low energy. He never talks about what he will do FOR people, it’s all groaning and moaning about his grievances. I will never understand how they can stay at his rallies when not one thing he says makes any sense.
If we take a step back, or maybe 10 steps back, we can see what's really going on with Donald and the MAGA World. The whole Trump Presidential Campaign is a fraudulent money scam. The best con trick is to flood the zone with piles of bullshit stories and fantasies and phony policies and campaign promises. The whole fucking thing is a ruse. He doesn't mean one word of his snake oil spiel. (Other than the threats of violence--he's a cruel MF.) Even if Donnie loses, this con makes him a couple of billion. If he wins the WH, he can steal hundreds of billions.
There are the Grifters and the Griftees. The Grifters are all "in on the scam". Trump Family, Bannon, Stone. The 147 Congressional Objectors. The J6 conspirators. The dictator-autocrats-oligarchs Elon and Rupert and Peter and Vlad and Viktor. All the hangers on like Alex Jones and Tucker and Sean and Laura, et al. They are all in on the fraud-for-money game because they have no morals or scruples and are well paid to be a part of it.
The Griftees are the rubes and the journalists who fall for the lies and the junk and the fantasies. These marks send money to pay for the adrenaline pumping lies. And vote and promote the con. The Press could shut this thing down today. But they don't.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
Parasites don't extract their teeth from the host willingly. They must be removed with determined force. Think about the lamprey's teeth. The tick's head burrowed into your flesh. The vampire's fangs. The only way to rid the nation of the Trump World MAGA parasite is legal action, against every one of them. Prison or exile. (Donald already said he prefers Venezuela...)
Yes, prison or exile it is. I think Trump is preparing the ground to plea insanity or unsound mind with his recent brazen weirdo antics, so that when he is found guilty of treason by Jack Smith’s team he does not have to serve out his sentence in a hard prison.
There's only one way through this - yes, through, not around - and that is by managing it one breath at a time, moment to moment, within our individual six foot world's of influence.
Yeah, I looked at the NYT crosstabs for Arizona: the poll shows trump beating Harris by +5... BUT Also show the sample breakdown - Democrats 44% vs Republicans 51%. It also shows prop 139 (abortion) winning 52% to 33%. The final obvious problem is that Gallego beating Lake 48% - 41%, yet in the exact same poll it also shows Arizona voters want republicans to control the US Senate 50% - 44%. That makes no sense at all.
As for the press downplaying the treason weasel's cognitive melt down last night, even NPR got in on the "sanewashing" this morning. Fuck all of them all the way off.
For those of you who want a dose of optimism I would recommend checking out Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles Substack. He is an analyst who knows his stuff. He great but certainly not as funny as Jeff.
💩💩💩I finally realized it— stories about polls in the MSM are nothing but click bait. They might as well have underage girls in bikinis waving the so-called poll results.🦨🦨🦨 Nate Silver has been talking on his website about how the New York Times Sienna poll is biased in favor of the Republicans!
The NYT Sienna poll has been biased in favor of maga for months. Nate Silver is just trying to salvage his reputation after he said his "new" process shows trump with a 60% chance of winning. Yeah right, time for your meds Nate.
I already mailed in my ballot...I thought maybe the fundraiser calls might let up...I must of lost my mind, I think the Democratic party is trying to slip into my DMs now.
I treat polls the same way I treat my horoscope—if it's good news, I'm all in. If not, I dismiss it. The good news about the bad reporting is that no one who Harris needs to persuade at this point reads The New York Times. She may go on Joe Rogan's podcast, an excellent, ballsy move that won't turn off anyone who wasn't in her camp in the first place and that might charm a few bros. The FOX interview is another good move. Harris is outplaying the media. As for Trump - I predicted a public meltdown months ago. It won't surprise me at all if at the next rally he strips naked and bays at the moon. The New York Times will report it as whimsical and playful.
Saw Jimmy Kimmel last night with some Trump supporters,'Can you explain why you're against CRT,DEI,fracking?' Not one of the complete morons knew what the hell they were angry about, just someone told them to be angry,usually right-wing media and Trump, complete idiots.
Let’s have our own unbiased Poll ! How many of us reading this have ever been polled ? Any takers ? It will probably take the sting out of all the bogus polls the repugnantcans are behind !I for one have not in 68 years nor do I know of anyone who has!😜🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔
NYT: Why can't Kamala have fun like this and relax....she seems uptight and rigid. Is she choking??? The Hitler loving NYT is just asking questions. 🤣😂
NYT: 'President Trumps massive chest and bulging....biceps glistening with sweat reflecting the light of the moon 🌙...swaying gently with his boyfriend Vladimir Putin...😅🤣😂
Yep, there's no exaggeration needed here: Last night was THIRTY-NINE MINUTES of an escaped mental patient "dancing" around in a stage of withdrawal into himself and his personal safe space. For the media to sane-wash this makes them unindicted co-conspirators in treason.
He's been off his rocker for quite sometime now. Imagine sitting there while he incoherently answers five questions and then presto, it's music time as lardass attempts to cut a rug. You can't get anymore presidential than that just like charity thieving dipshit son Eric parading in a Nazi flag boat parade. It would be curtains for any Democratic candidate displaying this level of lunacy.
THIRTY-NINE MINUTES!!! JFC If Kamala would have done that for THREE minutes we'd never hear the end of it. I'm so sick of DonOld being graded on a curve.
Everything that has happened since the orange anus face ruined our lives would be considered implausible. It couldn’t be written as a story because it would never get past the first chapter sounding like sheer crap. That is what we have had to live with and despite the considerable number of stupid people we are going to do everything possible to bring this to an end. DAMMIT!
Hear hear! I filled out my ballot the day I got it and mailed it the following day! I live in California, so my vote is always Blue, but every vote counts!
I’m in WA and I can’t wait to get my ballot! I’m gonna open that sucker, fill it out, and drive it directly to the drop box. And if there are any trump humpers there trying to intimidate me I’ll tell them to fuck straight off to fuckoffistan!!
Same here. As a fellow Washingtonian I'll receive my ballot in the mail, fill it out (ALL BLUE!) and drive it down to the drop box. This is the most terrifyingly important election in my 77-year-old life!
I've been absolutely terror-stricken for weeks now, I'm actually more afraid of Vance than I am of Trump, since he's the one will be stuck with if Trump croaks in office. I am just hoping that this country will come to its senses.
That’s their plan. They are using trump just to sneak in the door. In four years, he’ll be in a mental hospital, or Alzheimer’s ward, or dead, and Vance is in charge. He’d 25th Amendment him on Day 2.
Elaine, if, horror of horrors, the cult leader wins, I fully expect the Republicons to 86 the Orange hamberdler eater. Vance is their guy. He’s young enough to stay in power indefinitely, has zero scruples, and will do ANYTHING to hold power.
Deb, they can and will! Another reason why they won’t release his medical records. If the records show his mental illness now, the Republicons won’t be able to claim that it is a new health issue.
Exactly Walter! However there are many contingency plans, which have been carried out in the present, past and future that have been taken for granted! Few have mentioned the 12th Amendment, which has never been used before but…
I'm not all in on the 25A thing. I don't think they will because his base would be SOOOO pissed and they need the base or they will definitely never win another election. I think that he will "resign" for health reasons, mental or otherwise, and then JD can pardon him. Either way he gets the pardon but it would be better if he resigns. We just have to vote!
There won’t be another election. Trump’s payback is that he will be able to pardon himself and not spend a moment in prison. Then, they’ll put him out to pasture. He still thinks he’s the chosen one, but he will find out their loyalty to him ends once he’s in. In other words, Vance is the chosen one, not trump.
Enough of these Presidential pardons. Need to change that rule… PRESIDENTS DO NOT PARDON ANYBODY. It’s an abuse of power … just look what Drumpf did: you steal; corrupt; or cheat and are caught… no problem .. I PARDON YOU & you’re free to go!
Win another election? Why worry about any more elections? They’re so costly and they just divide our people. Now that we are all United in our love for our Supreme Commander, elections are superfluous. All Hail Commander TRANCE!!!
I'm not sure what kind of cabinet they need to do that. If they're not confirmed, do they have the power to vote to remove him? Does Trump have enough loyal toadies around him to make sure any incoming cabinet members will protect Trump against Vance? Of course, if they're the type of people who would be loyal to Trump, they are probably sufficiently corrupt to take Peter Thiel's money to change loyalties.
Shit on a shingle, being a MAGA is seriously an exercise in masochism. And they keep coming back for more. Stranded miles from your car? No food or water? Fainting from the heat? Left in the freezing cold (an oldie from 2020)? 39 minutes of watching the corpulent scowler sway? Thank you, sir, may I have another!
Agent Orange thought he was a contestant on a game show. If you can answer 5 questions, rambling or talking shit, you get to listen to your favorite songs. He won damnit, can’t you see that? Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
People that fall for this shit are the 🎶unluckiest people in the worrrrllld🎶
They make their own luck. Most of them, even the ones that seem more educated, are completely uninformed. Jimmy Kimmel had a segment last night asking MAGA rally attendees to explain how they felt about the Deep State, DEI, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, fracking, the GDP. These people are obviously steeped in hateful ignorance. If they watch themselves, they come across as plain fucking idiots.
Everything goes back to immigration. No matter which Republican is answering, or what the subject is, it's back to immigration. Like Youngkin saying that 10m illegals are coming in every week. What really makes me crazy about the polls is every day a new group is "drifting away" from Harris because they feel taken for granted. In the more than half century since I became eligible to vote, I don't remember ever expecting any politican to write a platform specifically for me. Most people look at the issues and choose the candidate best suited. But the media is desperate for ratings and clicks.
in a year- outstripping our current pop of about 340M. That’s more than the entire population of Mexico CentralAmerica Venez. Columbia . WTF that douche talking about?
And why is it that they keep getting away with saying there's millions of illegals coming when the numbers are "encounters" not necessarily that they actually got into the country. The media drops the ball (purposely??) on this all the time. Just like the 13,000 "murderers" when that number is over 40 YEARS! THREE WEEKS!!!
I saw the Tapper/Youngkin chat and I really thought Jake might gut him, but no. Martha Radditz can get all over Vance, make him use his best retort " Martha are you listening to yourself?" but Jake is either too tired or too scared to down the asshole.
Most states have important ballot measures that will have real impact on people's lives, they're not being covered by media at all, just endless meaningless polls.
Project Voter Turnout (a Progressive organization) sent Citizens 41 million postcards to turn out voters this election. 41 MILLION!!! If that’s not enthusiasm, I don’t know what is.
I had finished my 200 and then my daughter and her friend ordered some (1200!!!) during the Convention and PVT was overwhelmed. There were thousands of people who wanted to write. Women are fired up!
WOW, and thousands of us have Oct 24 mailout dates! They are Blanketing peeps with multiple reminders on a systematic basis, per their emails. Do not send ur cards early!
“John Fucking Coltrane of Politics”——nice! Your pep talks help Jeff…he is one whacked dementia patient. Walz nailed it in Green Bay yesterday and we watched Harris in Eerie PA—- neither danced…but I bet they could win in a dance off with trumpinstein!
Chaos and fear are always the goal. Keep your head down and encourage everyone you can to vote for Kamala Harris. I have been wandering the streets of Bainbridge, GA wearing my 'White Dudes for Harris' hat and nobody has threatened me. I didn't wear it to the polls because it is not allowed. It was the first day of voting here and voting was brisk and very well run!
I didn't see the Town Hall. I was too busy rearranging my sock drawer. Did he do his patented "Jerking off two dudes at the same time dance?" That one is the best.
thanks for this, Jeff...and I really mean it...it's difficult to try and stay on top of "the news" when we're getting bombarded with bullshit every day...this was a nice reminder of what I believe, but I'm also being beaten over the head daily with sane washing the fuck out of a clearly unhinged mentally unstable vile ignorant orange slob
yes, I'm as concerned as you are about what happens *after* November 5th. but that's a post for another time. today's is just a pep talk
Thanks for the pep talk, Uncle Jeff. I do know that Kamaja is ahead nationwide. There definitely are more of us than there are of them. The reason my hair is in fire is that this election will boil down to about 5 states, and we don’t know which way they’ll go. If it weren’t for the fucking electoral college, I wouldn’t be such a Debbie Downer.
And sadly, even should she win the EC, we still have to worry about the certification at Congress.
The Congress that will certify on January 6, 2025 will be the newly elected Congress, not the Mike Johnson clown show. Many are predicting that we will have a Democratic House. This new Congress will be sworn in on January 3, 2025.
That is, if Mike Johnson swears the new congress people in. Read their plan is to delay their swearing in new Dems so they can't vote. Hakeem better get his coalition together.
But Biden has full immunity for official acts. He's gotots of integrity, but he can be a hero.
But the courts get to decide what is an official act. I doubt the Supreme Court had in mind equal immunity for presidents of both parties.
Right. I don’t trust Holy Mike Johnson on anything. He is a liar. Fucking fake Xtian
Damn! They always have a new trick up their sleeves.
Bring 50 Federal Marshals to the swearing in with 250 John Doe Warrants and see if they certify the election after they are warned the busses 🚌 🚇🚇🚇🚇🚌🚌🚌 are waiting for them !
They have been planning for such a vile act.
And Kamala will still be VP until later that month! And the VP will preside over the Jan 6 certification process.
True, but Johnson is in charge of the process
He’s such an evil elf
He will not swear in any new Democratic House members on January 3rd. There is no way we are out of the woods until Kamala is sworn in on January 20th!
A note Kathleen about WHY Donny is campaigning in blue states like Cali, NY, & ______ is that those states have pivotal Congessional seats in play & if a MAGA can win & thus enable right wing to hold onto the House, then Johnson can throw the election to Donny (thru their Diabolical & nefarious machinations which ypu are aware of). I read it i think on Tim Snyder substack.
I saw turd was in CA & NY. Fund raising? Did he have any events?
That's not how it works. If the Election gets thrown to the House because no one wins 270 Electoral Votes, then each State gets one vote to cast--and there are more Red States than Blue States, so the Red States will vote for Trump!
That's my biggest fear. If we see another 1/6/2021 I am truly terrified for our nation.
My biggest fear and what I'm truly terrified of for our natio is Defendant tRump winning. And I worry that if I repeat 1/6 fears around other people who haven't definitely decided to vote but lean left - I worry that I might inadvertently sway someone to not vote. Sometimes I think we underestimate our potential influence over others. I have to constantly remind myself about this.
But this time Joe Biden is president. And he will ensure that the violent MAGA nuts are forewarned. Try any shit like the last time and it will end badly for them.
King Joe!
Well, the big difference is that Biden is President (King), so no way any rioter is getting near the Capital.
I think it's okay. There should be a new, Democratic congress by the time they have to certify the new Pres.
Mike "The Elf" Johnson will refuse to swear in the new Democratic House members on January 3rd! Wait for it!
Dunno the law. If he refuses to do his job in that day, can Biden tell Kamala or Jeffries to do that?
I know, right? That fucking piece of crap electoral college could land us into a hellfire of a mess.
Getting rid of the electoral college is definitely in the top 5 of things that need to happen
Hear, hear.
Also on my list are 1) Expand the court
2) Term limits or mandatory retirement age for scotus 3)Ranked choice voting
4) Take the govt out of reproductive healthcare, abortion a Federally protected legal right. 5) Impeach Thomas for taking bribes & impeach Alito for giving aid & comfort to & aligning himself with the insurrectionists.
Expanding the court has to first on the list, otherwise those 6 are still there to decide anything Congress tries to do is unconstitutional & throw it out.
As Elie Mystal describes it: If you want to put a radio tracking collar on an elephant, first you have to tranq the elephant or else it will trample you.
Im worried, as Jeff mentioned that many will give up in despair and stay home, and not vote. That won't be good. I have already voted from a mail-in ballot and dropped off in our neighborhood ballot box. I hope the despaired voters do, too.
Thank you. I'm to the sick at my stomach, terrified part of this program.
Is that the part where you're afraid to look at any "news" article on the interweb? That's where I am. I'm pretty much sticking to Jeff.
I just keep taking more and more money out of my retirement account, throwing hundreds here and thousands there to various Democratic candidates for Senate (along with thousands in the past for Biden, then Harris). It would be insane, except that, as far as I'm concerned, if we don't win then there's no point to living in the U.S. any more. Our future is doomed.
Kdsherpa…send that money to Blue candidates in red states. I gave money to candidates in Missouri. Biden won by almost 8 million more. Do you really think FEWER people will turn out for Harris/Walz!? The fear campaign is put out there by the right. Yes, the Fascists are ruthless, but we’re WELL AWARE of what they are doing…they say it out loud!
I've recently sent large amounts to Tester, Slotkin, Casey, Brown, Baldwin and Osborne. Previously, I had sent large amounts to Gallego, Allred and Alsobrooks. (I just learned today about a group called Voto Latino, which focuses on educating Latinex voters about the candidates + helping them register to vote. I made a donation there, as well.) Do you have any suggestions? Is there any point in donating to hawley's opponent? or is that a lost cause?
kd, on behalf of Tammy Baldwin and Wisconsin, thank you!
Here's an idea. Have some cheap Trump stuff made, sell them to raging Trump supporters at a hugely jacked up price, and then donate all that money to blue candidates in red states.
EUGENE VINDMAN (twin of Alexander Vindman) running for a House seat representing VA. You can also check in at Emily's List to see the candidates they are recommending!
AWESOME! I would try Dem websites and find out where money is needed most. You’ve done your bit for sure! 👍🏼
Dr. Kristin Hook is running in Texas 21 to flip Chip Roy’s fascist ass out of the US House of Representatives. She was recently endorsed by the San Antonio Express News. She is part Latina and worked for a while for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. PhD in reproductive biology. You can donate, and find out more, at Info@drkristinhook.org.
Kd, I have been a monthly donor to Hawley’s opponent Lucas Kunce since day 1 & have sent extra one-time amounts several times. I find Lucas to be really impressive & I don’t see it as a lost cause. Hawley & his wife Erin are religious extremists who are pushing for a total abortion ban nationwide & for fetal personhood. We simply cannot allow that to happen because that would give a microscopic blastocyst equal rights of the grown sentient human being that is carrying it; essentially making a pregnant person not much more than a walking incubator!!
I’ve also been giving to Debbie Powell in FL, Colin Allred in TX, Dan Osborn in NE, Tester, Brown, Alsobrooks, Lisa B Rochester, & so many others. I truly believe Allred can beat Cruz.
Let’s give this our best effort. 💙💙💙
I’m with you kd, taking money out of my IRAs & other stock market accounts & giving to Democrats running for Senate & House seats all over the nation & to the various abortion ballot initiatives.
I see it the same way as you do; what use is my money if we let Trump & his backers from the Heritage Foundation, put in place an autocracy & all of the extremist religious rules contained in Project 2025?
Heck, you and I might be rounded up as enemies within, and put against a wall and shot. Better to do whatever we can possibly do now. We can someone replenish our various accounts, one way or another, if our nation remains a democracy. Otherwise? (I was with Allred and Gallegos from day 1.)
When I read this, I realized that I am feeling EXACTLY the way I do at the REALLY SCARY parts of movies. I am sick to my stomach. I am so anxious. That orange f*cker OWES US, BIG TIME!
You bet he does ! And he can repay us by dropping dead. jk
Hey! Should we bring a class action lawsuit?
He has shorten the life span of many I'll bet
You know what, David? I honestly think you may be right.
Absolutely, as a retired ICU RN, I have thought about that in regard to of my own health. I have been so angry since the day the Dobbs decision was handed down, & the other things they’ve tried to do to strip more rights away from women, that I know it’s terrible for my health. I’ve actually started having much more frequent runs of PSVT or VT. I’ll chill out after we win this election.
((((( ))))) ICU nurses are the BEST!!! Having been both a doctor and a patient, I can this without question!
Me too Cheryl me too
If it was reported you can bet the Feds are watching it ! Joes not gonna go out with a whimper he’s got his hand on the tiller !
Hey, SCOTUS handed Biden a Kingship--so let's do this--King Joe the First! And everything he does in relation to that should be prefaced with "As President of the United States"......
"Watch out what you wish for ...". F SCOTUS. Show us Dark Brandon!!! 🙏🙏🗽🗽
I know. But we're just too nice as Democrats to do stuff like that. Praying that our integrity isn't the end of us...
Rest assured that ACLU lawyer Marc Elias & his group, Democracy Docket, is on top of it & the Harris campaign has on retainer several excellent lawyers to fight back against these shenanigans. 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
4,681,698 advance ballots have been cast in the 2024 general election. I take that to mean good things! I remain hopeful!
Me too Abigail. Large turnouts result in Dem wins! A landslide win for Harris makes it almost impossible for the FELON supporters to cheat. THEY know that. So they are doing their damnedest to convince the left that it is razor thin. Jezuz how stupid…anyone remember Biden’s wide margin? Hello? That margin will be way more for Kamala.
They refuse to count votes? Arrests need to be made. No effing around this time!
I agree, first, I don’t believe the polling samples are correct. There is a large increase in registrations for young people and women. Second, these groups are not included in polls because they only sample people who have voted in prior elections.
You are correct about the new registrants not being included in polling. Also, as Rick Wilson says, the Trump campaign knows they are losing & are flooding the 7 swing states with junk red leaning polls & that drags down her numbers & raises his when they average those in with the good polls.
Yes, Biden won by 7 MILLION votes....to me that wasn't close. But MAGA STILL made hay over it
It was very close in results that controlled the Electoral College. Remember, popular vote means jack shit in this country--and we need to fix this STAT.
Yes, but it’s going to take getting more Dems in state legislatures because it will take a Constitutional Amendment & that will take ¾ of the states to ratify it. An amendment like that would never get ratified now.
There apparently voting in droves in Georgia broke the 2020 records 😳
YES!!! 328K on day one, as of today it’s over 700K. Nationwide on day 1 there were 5M !!!!!
I have voted, it’s been counted and it blends in with the sky it’s so blue! There is some pep for those who need it. Remember the brave and committed people that now lie in Arlington, thousands were they scared? Hell yes and the same purpose as us; their spirits are with us following us and moving us to vote for OUR CONSTITUTION, buck up Democrats!!!
Remember this? At moments like now I still reread it, even though I had to memorize it over 40 years ago...
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields
I, too, had to memorize it -- but 61 years ago! It is a truly heart-breaking, powerful poem. Sometime after the soldier wrote this poem, he died in battle.
I dropped mine off at the box outside of my police station.
Of course I voted Kamala and blue up and down ballot.
But my last nerve is about to break. I never looked at polls like I have this election.
Back to the drawing board. I’ve had enough. From now on Jeff only.
I appreciate the pep talk Jeff. Thank you.
Polls are bull shit
Thank you. I need a pep talk!
Remember Megan you have done an excellent job with all your calls!
Stay strong eyes on the prize, so to speak we are all going to be exhausted after this election
We needed a pep talk! I’m not running around with my hair on fire, but I’m tired of polls that I know are BS. If you put the two camp’s rallies side by side, Kamala has the momentum to win by a significant margin. Her rallies are joyous and exciting, his are the definition of low energy. He never talks about what he will do FOR people, it’s all groaning and moaning about his grievances. I will never understand how they can stay at his rallies when not one thing he says makes any sense.
Thank you.
Well said Jeff!
If we take a step back, or maybe 10 steps back, we can see what's really going on with Donald and the MAGA World. The whole Trump Presidential Campaign is a fraudulent money scam. The best con trick is to flood the zone with piles of bullshit stories and fantasies and phony policies and campaign promises. The whole fucking thing is a ruse. He doesn't mean one word of his snake oil spiel. (Other than the threats of violence--he's a cruel MF.) Even if Donnie loses, this con makes him a couple of billion. If he wins the WH, he can steal hundreds of billions.
There are the Grifters and the Griftees. The Grifters are all "in on the scam". Trump Family, Bannon, Stone. The 147 Congressional Objectors. The J6 conspirators. The dictator-autocrats-oligarchs Elon and Rupert and Peter and Vlad and Viktor. All the hangers on like Alex Jones and Tucker and Sean and Laura, et al. They are all in on the fraud-for-money game because they have no morals or scruples and are well paid to be a part of it.
The Griftees are the rubes and the journalists who fall for the lies and the junk and the fantasies. These marks send money to pay for the adrenaline pumping lies. And vote and promote the con. The Press could shut this thing down today. But they don't.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Ooh thanks. Forgotten about that.
Parasites don't extract their teeth from the host willingly. They must be removed with determined force. Think about the lamprey's teeth. The tick's head burrowed into your flesh. The vampire's fangs. The only way to rid the nation of the Trump World MAGA parasite is legal action, against every one of them. Prison or exile. (Donald already said he prefers Venezuela...)
Yes, prison or exile it is. I think Trump is preparing the ground to plea insanity or unsound mind with his recent brazen weirdo antics, so that when he is found guilty of treason by Jack Smith’s team he does not have to serve out his sentence in a hard prison.
And they won't because the press is complicit.
Well put.
Likewise.
There's only one way through this - yes, through, not around - and that is by managing it one breath at a time, moment to moment, within our individual six foot world's of influence.
We're in this together. I promise.
And I do thank you for the pep talk. I really do. But....yeah, I'm still terrified.
tRump said to his cult to vote January 5, I'm hoping they do that.
Yeah, I looked at the NYT crosstabs for Arizona: the poll shows trump beating Harris by +5... BUT Also show the sample breakdown - Democrats 44% vs Republicans 51%. It also shows prop 139 (abortion) winning 52% to 33%. The final obvious problem is that Gallego beating Lake 48% - 41%, yet in the exact same poll it also shows Arizona voters want republicans to control the US Senate 50% - 44%. That makes no sense at all.
As for the press downplaying the treason weasel's cognitive melt down last night, even NPR got in on the "sanewashing" this morning. Fuck all of them all the way off.
For those of you who want a dose of optimism I would recommend checking out Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles Substack. He is an analyst who knows his stuff. He great but certainly not as funny as Jeff.
I read it everyday!
Robert Hubbell also.
He also talks about Nate Silver….
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/just-grind-it-out?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Nate Silver is a treason weasel too....I don't follow his foolery
Got a link?
...all the way off to Fuckoffistan!!!!!!
Treason weasels!!!
My husband did 3 tours there.
💩💩💩I finally realized it— stories about polls in the MSM are nothing but click bait. They might as well have underage girls in bikinis waving the so-called poll results.🦨🦨🦨 Nate Silver has been talking on his website about how the New York Times Sienna poll is biased in favor of the Republicans!
The NYT Sienna poll has been biased in favor of maga for months. Nate Silver is just trying to salvage his reputation after he said his "new" process shows trump with a 60% chance of winning. Yeah right, time for your meds Nate.
The polls are usually less than 1,000 people,not really a poll.
Trust no polls! Just vote as early as you can?
*can
I already mailed in my ballot...I thought maybe the fundraiser calls might let up...I must of lost my mind, I think the Democratic party is trying to slip into my DMs now.
Great analysis thanks. Seems like there's something going on ... "correcting" for anti-Trump bias but not massaging the other answers?
I treat polls the same way I treat my horoscope—if it's good news, I'm all in. If not, I dismiss it. The good news about the bad reporting is that no one who Harris needs to persuade at this point reads The New York Times. She may go on Joe Rogan's podcast, an excellent, ballsy move that won't turn off anyone who wasn't in her camp in the first place and that might charm a few bros. The FOX interview is another good move. Harris is outplaying the media. As for Trump - I predicted a public meltdown months ago. It won't surprise me at all if at the next rally he strips naked and bays at the moon. The New York Times will report it as whimsical and playful.
Gee thanks... Now I won't be able to get that image out of my head all day! 😳🤢
Just consider it an appetite curbing aid. Mental Ozempic.
It would be a
flabolanche.
😂
Same here!! (chuckling and upchucking at the same time) 😝
Oops. Sorry.
Well you know according to him he has a "beautiful body" LOL
I always read the NYT and WP. I stopped both because of their reporting on Biden and lack of honesty regarding Trump. Truly a double standard.
You and me both. Now I play the games, then into my computer "trash" it goes.
I only play the free games. Not giving them a dime!
Ditto.
--and everyone onstage with him will do the same. Look at those idiots in the background, bopping along with the Leader.
Saw Jimmy Kimmel last night with some Trump supporters,'Can you explain why you're against CRT,DEI,fracking?' Not one of the complete morons knew what the hell they were angry about, just someone told them to be angry,usually right-wing media and Trump, complete idiots.
White bread
Let’s have our own unbiased Poll ! How many of us reading this have ever been polled ? Any takers ? It will probably take the sting out of all the bogus polls the repugnantcans are behind !I for one have not in 68 years nor do I know of anyone who has!😜🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔
Let’s see, how many fingers can I count. That would be zero times I’ve been called (I really do have all my fingers).
Same here,in my 62 years I've never known anyone who's done a poll,shit,I don't even do surveys or reviews,do your own PR jackass.
Excellent point. I have not been polled in 20 or 25 years.
I think I was in a mall in about 1984 or so,they wanted to know if I prefered Pepsi or Coke...
11 out of a potential pool of what a thousand or so ? so far very few after 6 hours …let’s check tomorrow morning and do another poll !
NYT: Why can't Kamala have fun like this and relax....she seems uptight and rigid. Is she choking??? The Hitler loving NYT is just asking questions. 🤣😂
NYT: 'President Trumps massive chest and bulging....biceps glistening with sweat reflecting the light of the moon 🌙...swaying gently with his boyfriend Vladimir Putin...😅🤣😂
Oh, behave. :-D
Fuck, now I can't get that out of my mind.
😂😂
Yep, there's no exaggeration needed here: Last night was THIRTY-NINE MINUTES of an escaped mental patient "dancing" around in a stage of withdrawal into himself and his personal safe space. For the media to sane-wash this makes them unindicted co-conspirators in treason.
I just am so angry that the mainstream media isn't covering his dementia! It's so obvious the guy is completely off his rocker.
He's been off his rocker for quite sometime now. Imagine sitting there while he incoherently answers five questions and then presto, it's music time as lardass attempts to cut a rug. You can't get anymore presidential than that just like charity thieving dipshit son Eric parading in a Nazi flag boat parade. It would be curtains for any Democratic candidate displaying this level of lunacy.
We don’t need THEIR report. We see it, most of the republicans see it.
THIRTY-NINE MINUTES!!! JFC If Kamala would have done that for THREE minutes we'd never hear the end of it. I'm so sick of DonOld being graded on a curve.
Everything that has happened since the orange anus face ruined our lives would be considered implausible. It couldn’t be written as a story because it would never get past the first chapter sounding like sheer crap. That is what we have had to live with and despite the considerable number of stupid people we are going to do everything possible to bring this to an end. DAMMIT!
At the beginning of whateverthefuckthatwas last night, Shitler refused to sit in the white chair on the stage because he can't depend on his Depends.
Like
Fuck the polls. Fund Democrats. Rush into the end zone November 5. Or, earlier. I voted last week.
I live in Wyandotte County, Kansas. This coming Saturday will be the first possible day to vote in person, and I plan to be there first in line.
Hear hear! I filled out my ballot the day I got it and mailed it the following day! I live in California, so my vote is always Blue, but every vote counts!
Same here, dropped my ballot off yesterday
Mine went in the courthouse drop box the morning.
Blue to the bone!
I’m in WA and I can’t wait to get my ballot! I’m gonna open that sucker, fill it out, and drive it directly to the drop box. And if there are any trump humpers there trying to intimidate me I’ll tell them to fuck straight off to fuckoffistan!!
Same here. As a fellow Washingtonian I'll receive my ballot in the mail, fill it out (ALL BLUE!) and drive it down to the drop box. This is the most terrifyingly important election in my 77-year-old life!
I can't wait. Dropbox is so easy.
Me too Carol!
Mary in Renton
I've been absolutely terror-stricken for weeks now, I'm actually more afraid of Vance than I am of Trump, since he's the one will be stuck with if Trump croaks in office. I am just hoping that this country will come to its senses.
I agree with you. Vance is dangerous. We must decisively kick their asses!!
Even if they lose, Vance is their boy. He will stick around, sadly.
Hes their boy the way they relentlessly pushed for Kavanaugh.
I’ll second that sentiment Susan!
That’s their plan. They are using trump just to sneak in the door. In four years, he’ll be in a mental hospital, or Alzheimer’s ward, or dead, and Vance is in charge. He’d 25th Amendment him on Day 2.
OMG what a fuckin shit show 🤬
Elaine, if, horror of horrors, the cult leader wins, I fully expect the Republicons to 86 the Orange hamberdler eater. Vance is their guy. He’s young enough to stay in power indefinitely, has zero scruples, and will do ANYTHING to hold power.
I'm with you Elaine.
Can they use the 25th amendment to make wingnut our potus 🥺?
Deb, they can and will! Another reason why they won’t release his medical records. If the records show his mental illness now, the Republicons won’t be able to claim that it is a new health issue.
Exactly Walter! However there are many contingency plans, which have been carried out in the present, past and future that have been taken for granted! Few have mentioned the 12th Amendment, which has never been used before but…
I'm not all in on the 25A thing. I don't think they will because his base would be SOOOO pissed and they need the base or they will definitely never win another election. I think that he will "resign" for health reasons, mental or otherwise, and then JD can pardon him. Either way he gets the pardon but it would be better if he resigns. We just have to vote!
There won’t be another election. Trump’s payback is that he will be able to pardon himself and not spend a moment in prison. Then, they’ll put him out to pasture. He still thinks he’s the chosen one, but he will find out their loyalty to him ends once he’s in. In other words, Vance is the chosen one, not trump.
Enough of these Presidential pardons. Need to change that rule… PRESIDENTS DO NOT PARDON ANYBODY. It’s an abuse of power … just look what Drumpf did: you steal; corrupt; or cheat and are caught… no problem .. I PARDON YOU & you’re free to go!
All Prez's have pardoned some pretty shady people.
Trump has abused the power of pardon more than any president in history!!
Sad truth Dave!
Win another election? Why worry about any more elections? They’re so costly and they just divide our people. Now that we are all United in our love for our Supreme Commander, elections are superfluous. All Hail Commander TRANCE!!!
I'm not sure what kind of cabinet they need to do that. If they're not confirmed, do they have the power to vote to remove him? Does Trump have enough loyal toadies around him to make sure any incoming cabinet members will protect Trump against Vance? Of course, if they're the type of people who would be loyal to Trump, they are probably sufficiently corrupt to take Peter Thiel's money to change loyalties.
Thiel’s $ is always welcome for the faux hillbillies pocket Nancy!
This, has been in my mind since Trump was likely to be the republican candidate!!
Yep. The plan is obviously to get Vance into the WH via the 25th.
Shit on a shingle, being a MAGA is seriously an exercise in masochism. And they keep coming back for more. Stranded miles from your car? No food or water? Fainting from the heat? Left in the freezing cold (an oldie from 2020)? 39 minutes of watching the corpulent scowler sway? Thank you, sir, may I have another!
LOL!! Corpulent Scowler. 👏👏👏👏👏
He shuttle-bussed them miles from their cars so they couldn't leave early. What happened afterwards was none of his concern.
'Don't care about you,I just want your vote'
DJT
He wants their vote and then he’ll hire someone to remove the filthy MAGAts out of his sight.
I would too actually.
Agent Orange thought he was a contestant on a game show. If you can answer 5 questions, rambling or talking shit, you get to listen to your favorite songs. He won damnit, can’t you see that? Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
People that fall for this shit are the 🎶unluckiest people in the worrrrllld🎶
They make their own luck. Most of them, even the ones that seem more educated, are completely uninformed. Jimmy Kimmel had a segment last night asking MAGA rally attendees to explain how they felt about the Deep State, DEI, Marxism, Critical Race Theory, fracking, the GDP. These people are obviously steeped in hateful ignorance. If they watch themselves, they come across as plain fucking idiots.
Saw that,dumb as a box of rocks.
Scary. These were Californians who seemed more educated and economically comfortable and yet they are so ignorant. Holy shit
There are plenty of stupid people in CA. Look at the rubes who were bused into the desert.
It was scary funny.
That's true, there's a lot of California whacka-doodles tweaking in the woods.
good one! lol
Thanks for the smile Kay-EI
👍🏼😂
If anything, the polls should be firing up voters to hit the polls as soon as they can and prove the fkg dimwits wrong! Just like in 2022!
That's what I'm hoping 👍
In the first day of voting in Georgia,300,000 Georgians already cast their ballots.
Do trump and cult know that the song YMCA is about gay cruising?
The song's about being G-A-Y-gay! G-A-Y-gay!
MAGA; Macho Alphas Gay At-last.
Don't tell them. It's too amusing.
I know!!
Some may — Lincoln Club Repugnants somehow still exist.
Everything goes back to immigration. No matter which Republican is answering, or what the subject is, it's back to immigration. Like Youngkin saying that 10m illegals are coming in every week. What really makes me crazy about the polls is every day a new group is "drifting away" from Harris because they feel taken for granted. In the more than half century since I became eligible to vote, I don't remember ever expecting any politican to write a platform specifically for me. Most people look at the issues and choose the candidate best suited. But the media is desperate for ratings and clicks.
10 million a week? that’s 520,000,000
in a year- outstripping our current pop of about 340M. That’s more than the entire population of Mexico CentralAmerica Venez. Columbia . WTF that douche talking about?
And why is it that they keep getting away with saying there's millions of illegals coming when the numbers are "encounters" not necessarily that they actually got into the country. The media drops the ball (purposely??) on this all the time. Just like the 13,000 "murderers" when that number is over 40 YEARS! THREE WEEKS!!!
I saw the Tapper/Youngkin chat and I really thought Jake might gut him, but no. Martha Radditz can get all over Vance, make him use his best retort " Martha are you listening to yourself?" but Jake is either too tired or too scared to down the asshole.
Most states have important ballot measures that will have real impact on people's lives, they're not being covered by media at all, just endless meaningless polls.
10 million every week. Sure, I buy that.
Project Voter Turnout (a Progressive organization) sent Citizens 41 million postcards to turn out voters this election. 41 MILLION!!! If that’s not enthusiasm, I don’t know what is.
I had finished my 200 and then my daughter and her friend ordered some (1200!!!) during the Convention and PVT was overwhelmed. There were thousands of people who wanted to write. Women are fired up!
Thank you.
WOW, and thousands of us have Oct 24 mailout dates! They are Blanketing peeps with multiple reminders on a systematic basis, per their emails. Do not send ur cards early!
I had to send mine out early because I’m out of the country until the 26th.
“John Fucking Coltrane of Politics”——nice! Your pep talks help Jeff…he is one whacked dementia patient. Walz nailed it in Green Bay yesterday and we watched Harris in Eerie PA—- neither danced…but I bet they could win in a dance off with trumpinstein!
Loved the Coltrane line as well, being a Blue Note aficionado Tess, Sla’inte!
Chaos and fear are always the goal. Keep your head down and encourage everyone you can to vote for Kamala Harris. I have been wandering the streets of Bainbridge, GA wearing my 'White Dudes for Harris' hat and nobody has threatened me. I didn't wear it to the polls because it is not allowed. It was the first day of voting here and voting was brisk and very well run!
Good report. Thanks, Steve.
I didn't see the Town Hall. I was too busy rearranging my sock drawer. Did he do his patented "Jerking off two dudes at the same time dance?" That one is the best.
Jeez, I just snorted reading that and the cat sharing my seat shot me a dirty look. 😁 So thanks for getting me in trouble with Buzzy!
Yep- he was up there jerking off two
horses. Sad white bread dude trying to look cool. 🤮
🤣😂
thanks for this, Jeff...and I really mean it...it's difficult to try and stay on top of "the news" when we're getting bombarded with bullshit every day...this was a nice reminder of what I believe, but I'm also being beaten over the head daily with sane washing the fuck out of a clearly unhinged mentally unstable vile ignorant orange slob