Just what we needed, thank you Jeff. Today's winner (for me) is the Central Park Five. I am so happy all are still alive and that they are going after drumpf.
I still remember the full page of fuckery Trump took out many years ago begging for their execution, he needs to pay for the years of damage he caused these men Deb!!
I remember it too. I was shocked to see the full page he took out in the NY Times. For a moment It looked like I was in Alabama or Mississippi instead of NYC.
If the cops investigated a little more efficiently TRUMPS DNA might have been found at the crime scene ! That would make 27 sexual assault allegations! He lived pretty close to the crime scene ! It’s his M.O. accusing others of his crimes to cast suspicion elsewhere!🧐🤔😱
Sorry! I learned that one a year ago. It's perhaps not appropriate for a 71-year-old woman to use, but I think it's hilarious! FOTFLMAO = "Falling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off"
That did it for me too although the “water storm” remark, where the hell did that even come from? It’d have been better to call it a “wind storm” as having been through a few while living in the coastal plains of NC I remember the wind being the rule of the day-picking up semi trucks and slamming them down on top of shopping centers-wind-not water Donald.
And check to make sure your ballot was received. I mailed mine almost a month ago. County Clerk blames the Post Office. Now I have to vote again in person on E-day or get accused of voter fraud!
Really? I moved to Sonoma county from Santa Clara so that could be an issue. I’d better call and make sure they have it. I guess I call the county clerk.
To be perfectly honest Jeff, the news that HRC was supposed to be 'way ahead' of Convict PuddingInHead in 2016 did not have me popping champagne corks. I did pry a cap off a bottle of beer. But I'm no Bernie Bro. I held my nose and voted for 'Best friend of Wall Street' Hillary.
Susan we can do this!! I’m freaking out but I’m going to vote and I’m hoping there are more of us sane humans in this country than the Orange Dicktatertot wannabes
You’ve got a right to feel anxiety and apprehension, considering the traumatic events that unfolded in the last presidential election Susan, most of the people I know are fearful of the fascist regime’s fuckery!
I'm to the point of daily nausea. I live in Trump loving southern Indiana. The unmitigated stupidity here is breathtaking. What they believe is all lies. My wine bill has doubled. Ok, tripled.
I live here in Austin, TX. I have donated to Colin Allred several times and hope he can win. Do nothing Cruz is an asshole who hasn’t done anything for our state for 12 years, except go to Cancun. He should have just stayed there. We would all be better off if he had.
Contributed to Colin Allred as well plus he has Beto in his corner and Cruz is scum ask his kids after he threw them under the bus for the Cancun event 🙄.
It's a KKK state. One of my Mexican-American family members was refused service at a public golf club and at a barbershop. He's was visiting his in-laws. They live in San Diego, thank goodness. Indiana could use an enema.
Wow! I am very sorry to hear that. I grew up in NC with parents who were Holocaust victims. Jews and black people were not allowed to join any country clubs.
When I was a teen, living in a small town in W. Pa, there was a public pool, which was 'restricted' to white people only. I had a friend, Jewish like me, who got very dark when she tanned in the summers. We all went down to the pool and she got kicked out because she was mistaken for a Black person. So, we all left in solidarity.
Later on, there were 2 country clubs. One, for Jews, the other one for not Jews. My Dad, who played golf like it was a religion, joined the Jewish one and we all went for the pool. One day, the manager, in a fit of anti-semitic pique, torched the clubhouse.
As the years passed and the town shrank, the remaining club opened its doors, because they needed members to keep going. Dad joined, because golf. My HS had a reunion there and I went, just to see if the walls would crumble when I walked in. I was sorely disappointed.
WOW! How insulting! Is that even legal? I'm so sorry your family member suffered this outrageous treatment. San Diego has so much diversity. Lived there.
It definitely was humiliating. He's 6'5" handsome and very successful. He and his wife just had their only child 2 weeks ago after 3 yrs of IVF. He didn't want to make a big deal out of it. They just left early. It's not the first time. I have a 4 yr old biracial grandson. I worry everyday.
It is. He tried to rent clubs and they would only give him four. The group he called ahead to join turned out to be 3 grown fat ass white guys that weren't having it. It was terrible. The barbershop told him he wasn't a local member. He was pretty pissed. This happens when he's in the Midwest. I'm white and I've had my own run ins with hillbilly dumb ass fuckers. This election is about sexism and protecting white privilege. It's grieving. Love California. I get out there often and hangout with my nephew. He always gets me drunk though. 🥴
I'm so sorry for you. I moved from Indianapolis to Vegas 19 years ago. I don't know if I could live there now. The state is so Red. I moved there in 1976 and we had some democrats in elected offices. It has gotten much redder since I left and the murder rate in Indy is higher than Vegas (which has more than double the population). Hang in there.
Ditto. I lived in the Southern part Indiana in the late 70's. It will always be a klan state. I was actually shocked how fucking dumb people are. They thought I was a genius. Lol!!! 🤣
My son’s first wife was from there so he lived there with her until they split up. When we went to see him I was appalled. Everyone I saw looked and dressed like they were from 1970’s South Carolina.
We may be getting close to that 'Narcissistic Collapse' the Psychologists have been tantalizing us with. Knowing that Donnie Dipshit's handlers had to put him a room with soft walls and a coat that ties in the back would brighten up my day considerably. Fingers crossed!
I read 40 prominent mental health professionals did a Hare Psychopathic Test about Agent Orange. The test range is 0-40. Most humans are about a 5. Death row inmates are about a 22. Putin's boy toy got a 37. MAGAQ are narcissists. Over 60 million people suffer from narcissistic abuse in this country. They normalize abuse and the violence that comes with it. So much for my cheerful news.
There are educated ones too but they don’t come out in public about it and this is what Elon musk is trying to promote at present. He wants other moguls like himself to publicize that they back Trump. But they aren’t going to do that. They only want those deregulations and tax cuts. No hand shaking and photo ops.
I thought I saved it. It was Dr. Bandy Lee . I did find it in the Daily Express. She has written books to warn the public. Just Google those two things and it should pop up. I'm still looking through my stuff. Hope this helps.
Not breaking out the champaign, but I was just told we are having a piñata at my house at the post election party, which is going to be on the following weekend, hoping that Pennsylvania will have enough time to count their votes by then.
All we need is to make a round orange ball, and we can paste his picture on it. But, I do not want to smash his head in, because that will make me feel too much like Trump himself. I hope it is just a fun Democrats Abroad one. I do not want a violent election. I want everyone to be safe.
You are so kind. I wasn't talking about violence (never a way to behave). I just saw "pinata" and VIOLA! Democrats Abroad: So are you all coming to the US to meet up, or are you having a country-specific party?
I soooooo needed your "good news" post today!!! What a reminder that if you do the work - it works. Kamala is that amazing combination of calm and fierce. If you stand up to the bully (I see you Exonerated Five), he shrivels just a little bit more. The press needs to pounce on Musk and Thiel buying the presidency for their boy, Couch Cushion Connoisseur Vance. Let's expose them in every media outlet they don't own yet!
Kansas is a small electoral college state, but it may be a bellwether this election. Kansas has two senators, Roger Marshall, Trumper MAGA Sellout and Jerry Moran, Traditional Republican. Last week Senator Moran presented Baker University in Baldwin City, KS with a bible signed by President Biden. This contribution was for the University's presidential bible collection.
Senator Moran has not endorsed VP Harris, however this respectful, rational, reasonable, non-partisan act by Senator Moran indicates that Kansas ain't all insane MAGA red.
"Baker University
4 days ago
Senator Moran visited Baker University yesterday to personally deliver a Bible signed by President Biden. This Bible will join the Presidential Bibles on display at the Quayle Bible Collection through Inauguration Day!
We’re grateful to Senator Moran and his team for taking the time to make this special delivery and to President Biden for continuing this valued tradition at Baker University."
YES! Exactly what I needed, anyway. THANK YOU Jeff T.
I spent the day helping friends get in their wood. Our friends are Dems but are feeling gloomy about Vice President Harris' chances of winning. I gave them my best pep talk, but I was still on the somber side when we got home.
Then I made the mistake of reading another Substack writer's comment section and it plunged me into gloom. Not one of those commenters was positive about Kamala Harris' chances to win and they were all "gotta get my passport renewed..." Gotta check out SwissAir schedules..." Gotta check out what the citizenship requirements are for Canada." Geez, apparently Chicken Little LIVES....in every single hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, running-around-like-hair-is-on-fire Democrat.
Well, I do think worrying about what airline to flee on before the election is held seems to be a bit premature. However, what I really object to is spreading gloom and despair prior to the election. Why? What good does it do? I understand feeling anxious about what's at stake with this election but we have two more weeks to go! We need to spread confidence and pride. Doom and gloom could--possibly--discourage people from voting thinking it of no use...that their vote won't count and we need EVERYBODY TO VOTE!!! When we turn out--and vote--we win!!!
I wrapped up this post when it got to be fifteen hundred words long, but there was more I could have written about. for instance, Donny's PAC is nearly out of money, having blown it all on Alina Habba's kidney upkeep.
Jeff, I can't speak for everyone here, but since we subscribe to this and since we love this and since we NEED this, feel free to go over the "1500 word mandate" with as many words as you wanna write...I will read every single fucking word as I do every day!...thanks for helping to at least keep me pointed at sane...I won't actually think that I am sane, but pointed at it is a start!
I'm in CA and get Jeff at 8 am-ish. I screwed up on Substack so I don't get any Jeff emails. I go to "my profile" scroll down to Substack subscription. When you see Jeff, click the upside down "U", Select "View Publication".
If I see Alina Habba's ad for Dotard one more time, I will hurl. It upsets me to see women debase themselves for trump and for what? He's a felon, a serial rapist and p****-grabbing, 5 times bankrupt moron with dementia. They have zero to gain from it and are too stupid to just back away.
"Kamala leads dong-obsessed fry chef Donny Convict"
"everyone gets a puppy vs diarrhea forever?" 😂😂😂😂
I cant live with Uncle Jeff in my life! I've been pretty depressed about all this...because my fellow citizens dont understand evidently what's at stake. You wanna be a Republican? Cool. Go find one, cause Trump aint it. He's a monster, wanna be dictator. Thanks for this community. Man, I need you guys so I stay outta the bottle. 🤣🤣 (AND YES for the Central Park Five!!)
My neighbor was telling me that many of his union members love assman. I told him they're bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic assholes. Period. That probably knock their wives around. One guy was trying to justify his stance. I asked if he would put his 15 yr old daughter in a room with any of them. Of course, his said no. I walked away. I'm done!!!! 😖😖
These MAGAs are so juvenile, on top of all their other personal malfunctions. Maybe the dumbass is short on cash after buying gold sneakers, Chinese Bibles, watches, coins, trading cards, NFTs, that he can't afford a new T shirt. Let 'em wallow in their own hateful misery as we and the country move forward toward a more perfect union. And of course they benefit from our national prosperity whether they know and admit it or not. That's what makes them dumbasses.
But like all third party candidates who have no chance of winning, her quixotic campaign can end up tilting results further away from her own ideals. Look at what Nader did to Gore in 2000.
Lawrence O'Donnell said last night she's 74 years old. Now that a POTUS's age has come into the spotlight, not good for her. News piece on her on L. O'Donnell last night posted here. Her family is not supporting her candidacy. No reason given.
No kidding! Remember when she collected $6 million to do a vote recount? 2016? And we didn’t hear from her again for eight years? But she’s baaaack! She must be broke.
Sorry, after what Jeff has told us today, my self-respect will not permit me to vote for Kamala Harris. She's offering a free puppy, and I wanted a free pony!
Also, the Central Park 5 better get onto it before LDFF has been drained of his last grubby penny.
Yay 🎉 Another day, another lawsuit against turd! This one might particularly enrage him, as he took out full page ads on how guilty they were. They've now been exonerated, spoke at the DNC convention. turd to this day hates these wrongly accused Black men, refusing to admit they were proven to be innocent. Oh No! Maybe he'll stroke out! 🚑🚑🚑🚑
He punishes those around him severely. Saw a clip on YouTube of him sitting next to the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein and he audibly farted when speaking. The look of dismay and disgust on her face is priceless. No doubt she also sampled the odor
Thanks for the good news. I think Harris will win by a landslide. Here are the reasons I believe that.
1)there are more newly registered voters than ever before. - 13 Million, the majority will vote for Harris
2) women are pissed off about the overturning of Roe and they will show up in droves to vote for Harris.
3) we have a coalition that includes lots of conservative republicans. They have as no one to vote for because they love the constitution and with Cheney’s support and the support of many conservative republicans we will capture that vote.
4) Trump’s rhetoric has gotten more violent and he is obviously mentally melting down.
5)Harris has a great ground game and Trump not much of one.
6) Harris has separated her policies from Biden.
7) To summarize the women and GenZ’s will have Harris win by a landslide.
Sure hope so. The maniac's rapidly deteriorating rhetoric is coming back to bite him in his fat ass and some GOP voters are finally starting to see through all of his bullshit. Our local news showed a clip this morning of the MAGA moron king saying he wants God to come down for one day to count the votes in CA. WTF? He obviously doesn't realize how bad he will get his ass handed to him here and hopefully as convincingly in many other states as well.
GOD COMING TO CA FOR A DAY: Presumably turd will be in CA to meet him. It's GOD, stupid. There's gonna be conversations. GOD has had a close eye on you for decades, but not in a good way. I bet you forget all about the vote count.
I agree 100%! Rep. Maxwell Frost has been campaigning on college campuses, and the voter registrations are up something like 700%. Since these people never voted before, they aren’t included in polling
Also, a majority of the polls recently have been financed by the GOP, and they trend red, so they are causing the totals to look more red than they actually are.
Don’t despair, we’ve got this. Just don’t let up on the work. It’s pedal to the metal until November 5!
With winter coming, we will all have to look out for frozen water storms and bigly windy air storms. At least that will reduce the number of very hot trees in places where trees grow and light up like fireworks.
I write this in tribute to my late mother who was involved with politics since the late 1950s and staunch member of the League of Women voters. Right until near the end of her time, she also volunteered as an poll worker for every. single. election. Every state primary, every national election. She loved going to hear speeches by politicians of any stripe talk about their views. She would come home and spend QUITE a bit of time discussing and breaking down the politician's stance.
She once told me she was interested in going to hear Jill Stein, never having heard much about her. When she returned, I asked my mother what she thought. I was expecting a long discussion of some finer points.
For the first time ever, my mother simply said, "Jill Stein is an idiot."
I never thought of Jill (“Harvard educated doctor”) Stein as a “fucked up asteroid” before! Thanks for the coffee-snorting laugh. Now I have to change my shirt. Ha!
AWESOME metaphor - truly. "like some fucked-up asteroid, every 4 years her weird-ass orbit swings her too close to the earth and she ends up dicking with the tides and screwing with our electoral magnetic field". Brilliant.
When discussing these polls we have to keep in mind that several of the pollster groups have admitted to polling heavily republican demographics. These polls aren't indicative of a true sampling of the American population. Don't be surprised if Kamala wins pretty big
Hey, I am an older white woman with a landline and cellphone. I also have caller ID, and , a blocking app. If I get bored, I will occasionally answer the landline,and, if it is a robo calk, I have "fun" , leading them on, then asking for address ,so, my police squad can visit them. The call ends abruptly!
They’d have to put him in with the tree jumping kiddie touchers and baby rapers and Those freaks would kick his ass for giving them a worse rep than they already had !!😵💫😂😅
Thanks for the good news! As for the post-election fuckery, while I do worry about another J6, I comfort myself with the fact that this time, Donny isn’t our sitting president. And Biden isn’t gonna sit and fart in front of the TV for 3 hours while a bunch of domestic terrorists burn down the Capitol. This time I’m hoping the only people who will be “standing back and standing by” are the National Guard.
I expect the Capitol to be locked down like a fortress on 1/6. Not saying state capitals won't be attacked, but I doubt you'll be able to get near the one in DC.
Maybe Joe will give us a free pass for a day to go bat shit crazy on the fascist bastards ! Hey Shitler was talking about it …turn abouts fair play ! Joes got the OK from the Supremes !
Thank you Jeff for what looks like an optimistic outlook, I for one really needed this. I’m seeing a bit more cause for hope in this maga bethel community as well. In fact it’s the beginnings of FAFO for the local yokels in county government and I’m buoyed enough to continue to be a poll worker.
I have a vivid memory of sitting in an optometrist waiting room the day before the election in November 2016 reading Nate Silver's 538 prediction of the outcome. It stated that Trump's chance to win the electoral college and thus the election was ~33%. My understanding of statistics is excellent, therefore I was truly freaked out and not confident at all on election day and absolutely dreaded hearing the outcome
Your columns invariably make me laugh, often out loud -- and sometimes even FOTFLMAO. However, after early voting yesterday here in Charleston, SC, I came home and wrote the following. I feel no humor within. (Didn't even read your column today. Sorry about that.)
"Tonight, I find myself thinking of our national anthem. The words, 'Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free?' play over and over and over in my mind. And I realize that for the first time in my life, I understand the tremendous anxiety behind that question: DOES it still wave? Or have we lost the battle? And that is where I am. WILL our nation still exist as a democracy in two weeks and one day? or will we become a fascist dictatorship? The fact that a severely demented man who is a malignant narcissist, who is owned by a group of oligarchs and fascists, is supported by 50%!!! of my fellow American citizens is shocking. It is beyond anything I could ever have imagined. It's breaking me. Today I voted. I also spoke with some perfectly nice people who have bought hook, line, and sinker into the lies told incessantly by the orange sadist, and say that they are "really scared" of Kamala Harris. They know NOTHING. And these are the people who are deciding the fate of the United States. So I sit here, feeling overwhelming anxiety deep in the pit of my stomach, wondering: WILL that flag yet wave? Or will it soon be over?"
KD I’m right there with you.. but WE the PEOPLE will pick up our BELOVED FLAG and we will wave it because WE THE PEOPLE CAN DO THIS!! WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER OUR Country or OUR PEOPLE to The DICTATORSHIP of DRUMF and His CORRUPT COMMUNIST Buddies!! UNITED WE STAND 🙌🏽💙🙌🏽
Yes, we will win! There are so many newly registered voters, and a large majority of them are interested in reproductive health care and climate change. They are not included in polling.
SC will probably be red, but the swing states are blue.
This is the double-edged nature of self governance. The right, duty, privilege, and responsibility of choosing our leaders is the most solemn, serious, and important decision for our way of life. Being well informed, clear-eyed, and cognizant of our dedication to fact and the rule of law are essential for wise choices. Being gullible, ignorant, resentful, angry, violent, and emotionally manipulated are detrimental to our process of choosing. We get what we deserve.
Thiel was born in West Germany but immigrated to the US as a young child. Intelligent but turned into a fascist piece of shit, like Musk. Founding members of the Billionaires Asshole Club. I wish they would defect.
Exactly! Continual conservative palaver has vilified government to many, including those (which is everyone in some way) that get a direct, personal benefit from government. We have become so anti-tax and anti-regulation as a knee jerk reaction and yet want all the facilities and services and whine when they aren't there. How, pray tell, is everything paid for without taxes? Is free market capitalism workable without any regulations? Should we be ruled by an oligarchy consisting of only the wealthiest (and greediest)?
Educated people all over are early voting for Democrats. Arkansas started at 8 am yesterday and I was there before that. I got to talk to women in their 80s. We did not discuss who they were going to vote for, but I feel that their votes were for Democrats.
I expect Arkansas to stay Red but with a surprising amount of Blue, when all the votes are counted.
Some of the non college educated people are increasingly turned off by Trump's garbage. The Democrat TV ads show regular folks who aren't rich and who want government that works for them. If the people elect the government, shouldn't the government work for the people?
I look forward to a landslide for the Democrats, with little recourse for MAGA. If they want to revolt, Joe Biden can put them down and lock up the boss "man".
So I am not afraid. I want to celebrate my 73rd birthday in peace on November 5th.
“Dong-obsessed fry chef!” that was clever! We voted this morning in Wisconsin! More people there than usual-so hopefully a good sign! JUSTICE PIE CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH!!!!!!! (good one Jeff!)
And I'll add a feel-good story I saw on the old TT this morning. A couple in Missouri put an Apple tracker on one of their Harris/Walz lawn signs. They tracked it to the trunk of a car belonging to two teenage boys and their Karen--I mean, mom. In the trunk were 60 Harris lawn signs. Karen, seeing her boys were caught (with police on they way) got mad and grabbed the signs from the truck and threw them on the ground shouting, "Oh, you liberals! I just can't take it anymore!"
Can't take having someone's stolen property returned to them? At $20 a piece x 60 signs = felony. FOAFO, trumpies.
folks, I have to do a 'good news' post at least once a month, for my own mental health. I hope it helps yours, too
Just what we needed, thank you Jeff. Today's winner (for me) is the Central Park Five. I am so happy all are still alive and that they are going after drumpf.
Exonerated Five!
Right
I still remember the full page of fuckery Trump took out many years ago begging for their execution, he needs to pay for the years of damage he caused these men Deb!!
I remember it too. I was shocked to see the full page he took out in the NY Times. For a moment It looked like I was in Alabama or Mississippi instead of NYC.
If the cops investigated a little more efficiently TRUMPS DNA might have been found at the crime scene ! That would make 27 sexual assault allegations! He lived pretty close to the crime scene ! It’s his M.O. accusing others of his crimes to cast suspicion elsewhere!🧐🤔😱
Now that would be an October Surprise!😲
FOTFLMAO!!!
? Huh? Acro’s stump me sometimes.
Sorry! I learned that one a year ago. It's perhaps not appropriate for a 71-year-old woman to use, but I think it's hilarious! FOTFLMAO = "Falling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off"
Love it
Yes, horrifying what they endured
That should’ve shown people of New York what a bigot he truly is and maybe he’d have been run out of town sooner. Better late than never
I remember also
Wonkette did a terrific write up of the attempted Russian smear of Tim Walls. Don't miss!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/russian-hackers-try-to-smear-tim/comments
Yay Wonkette!!
"So not just lazy from a creative standpoint, but lazy in execution as well." Well, whattya expect from those lazy bestards?
YES. Good for them.
Hear hear!
That did it for me too although the “water storm” remark, where the hell did that even come from? It’d have been better to call it a “wind storm” as having been through a few while living in the coastal plains of NC I remember the wind being the rule of the day-picking up semi trucks and slamming them down on top of shopping centers-wind-not water Donald.
I needed it so much...I really was getting nervous. Still am.
"fight like we're still ten points down"
Absolutely. 👏👏👏👏
And check to make sure your ballot was received. I mailed mine almost a month ago. County Clerk blames the Post Office. Now I have to vote again in person on E-day or get accused of voter fraud!
Really? I moved to Sonoma county from Santa Clara so that could be an issue. I’d better call and make sure they have it. I guess I call the county clerk.
There is an online (easy) way to check in Wisconsin. I believe California has a similar program.
I’ll do it
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💙💙💙👏👏👏
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To be perfectly honest Jeff, the news that HRC was supposed to be 'way ahead' of Convict PuddingInHead in 2016 did not have me popping champagne corks. I did pry a cap off a bottle of beer. But I'm no Bernie Bro. I held my nose and voted for 'Best friend of Wall Street' Hillary.
I can’t help but do that
Susan we can do this!! I’m freaking out but I’m going to vote and I’m hoping there are more of us sane humans in this country than the Orange Dicktatertot wannabes
We HAVE to, Morgan! I gotta believe there are more decent Americans than there are morons. 🤞💙
I didn’t quite peg you as an optimist, Susan 😉
Lol!!
I voted yesterday blue down ballet
Morgan, report back to tell us what you saw and heard at the place you voted, please.
You’ve got a right to feel anxiety and apprehension, considering the traumatic events that unfolded in the last presidential election Susan, most of the people I know are fearful of the fascist regime’s fuckery!
Ditto !
Me too. I can’t imagine T-Rump running and ruining our country. Him and his besties Puke-in and Jung Un and yes the new bigot on the block Musky smell
Me too, on both counts.
I'm to the point of daily nausea. I live in Trump loving southern Indiana. The unmitigated stupidity here is breathtaking. What they believe is all lies. My wine bill has doubled. Ok, tripled.
Unmitigated stupidity here in Texas is breathtaking as well. At least we have a chance to rid our state of Cancun Cruz once and for all!
I contributed to Allred, he'd be fantastic for you all in TX, I really hope he wins-thats a tough state. He was excellent in the debate 💙.
I sure hope so!
🤞 for Allred. Donated from out of state to Beto, and now Allred.
I live here in Austin, TX. I have donated to Colin Allred several times and hope he can win. Do nothing Cruz is an asshole who hasn’t done anything for our state for 12 years, except go to Cancun. He should have just stayed there. We would all be better off if he had.
Contributed to Colin Allred as well plus he has Beto in his corner and Cruz is scum ask his kids after he threw them under the bus for the Cancun event 🙄.
It's a KKK state. One of my Mexican-American family members was refused service at a public golf club and at a barbershop. He's was visiting his in-laws. They live in San Diego, thank goodness. Indiana could use an enema.
Wow! I am very sorry to hear that. I grew up in NC with parents who were Holocaust victims. Jews and black people were not allowed to join any country clubs.
When I was a teen, living in a small town in W. Pa, there was a public pool, which was 'restricted' to white people only. I had a friend, Jewish like me, who got very dark when she tanned in the summers. We all went down to the pool and she got kicked out because she was mistaken for a Black person. So, we all left in solidarity.
Later on, there were 2 country clubs. One, for Jews, the other one for not Jews. My Dad, who played golf like it was a religion, joined the Jewish one and we all went for the pool. One day, the manager, in a fit of anti-semitic pique, torched the clubhouse.
As the years passed and the town shrank, the remaining club opened its doors, because they needed members to keep going. Dad joined, because golf. My HS had a reunion there and I went, just to see if the walls would crumble when I walked in. I was sorely disappointed.
"One day, the manager, in a fit of anti-semitic pique, torched the clubhouse." O.M.G.!!! WHY?? What religion was he??
This was last summer. He did ask them where the colored bathrooms were before he left. Sorry your family experienced this sickness of bigotry.
WOW! How insulting! Is that even legal? I'm so sorry your family member suffered this outrageous treatment. San Diego has so much diversity. Lived there.
It definitely was humiliating. He's 6'5" handsome and very successful. He and his wife just had their only child 2 weeks ago after 3 yrs of IVF. He didn't want to make a big deal out of it. They just left early. It's not the first time. I have a 4 yr old biracial grandson. I worry everyday.
Isn't that illegal? Good God. I'm glad that I live in California. Everyone of every color and creed lives here in relative harmony.
It is. He tried to rent clubs and they would only give him four. The group he called ahead to join turned out to be 3 grown fat ass white guys that weren't having it. It was terrible. The barbershop told him he wasn't a local member. He was pretty pissed. This happens when he's in the Midwest. I'm white and I've had my own run ins with hillbilly dumb ass fuckers. This election is about sexism and protecting white privilege. It's grieving. Love California. I get out there often and hangout with my nephew. He always gets me drunk though. 🥴
I'm so sorry for you. I moved from Indianapolis to Vegas 19 years ago. I don't know if I could live there now. The state is so Red. I moved there in 1976 and we had some democrats in elected offices. It has gotten much redder since I left and the murder rate in Indy is higher than Vegas (which has more than double the population). Hang in there.
Well I spent a summer there abouts when I was 12yrs with cousins. Even then I couldn’t believe how stupid they ALL are!
Ditto. I lived in the Southern part Indiana in the late 70's. It will always be a klan state. I was actually shocked how fucking dumb people are. They thought I was a genius. Lol!!! 🤣
My daughter in law lived in a town with not one black family in the whole town.
My son’s first wife was from there so he lived there with her until they split up. When we went to see him I was appalled. Everyone I saw looked and dressed like they were from 1970’s South Carolina.
Golly, I know you are joking but I have to say that I am drinking more than I usually do. Once this is over, I promise to turn over a new leaf.
Don't feel alone. I'm eating a shit ton of gummies.
Because the economy is great and Rump's tax "plan" will tank it.
Agreed
We may be getting close to that 'Narcissistic Collapse' the Psychologists have been tantalizing us with. Knowing that Donnie Dipshit's handlers had to put him a room with soft walls and a coat that ties in the back would brighten up my day considerably. Fingers crossed!
I read 40 prominent mental health professionals did a Hare Psychopathic Test about Agent Orange. The test range is 0-40. Most humans are about a 5. Death row inmates are about a 22. Putin's boy toy got a 37. MAGAQ are narcissists. Over 60 million people suffer from narcissistic abuse in this country. They normalize abuse and the violence that comes with it. So much for my cheerful news.
Lisa, they are white uneducated and God speaks to them.
I think God is speaking to them with 2 Campbell soup cans and a string. The translation gets a bit muffled.
😅🤣🥫
Lisa...I just love ya! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love you too! 😍
There are educated ones too but they don’t come out in public about it and this is what Elon musk is trying to promote at present. He wants other moguls like himself to publicize that they back Trump. But they aren’t going to do that. They only want those deregulations and tax cuts. No hand shaking and photo ops.
Dr Mary Trump has said a lot of the same and she grew up in that household, can you imagine that? Esh
Thanks for brightening my day Lisa!
Do you have a link to that? I tried the Google machine but can't seem to find it, and it sounds like an interesting read.
I thought I saved it. It was Dr. Bandy Lee . I did find it in the Daily Express. She has written books to warn the public. Just Google those two things and it should pop up. I'm still looking through my stuff. Hope this helps.
Not breaking out the champaign, but I was just told we are having a piñata at my house at the post election party, which is going to be on the following weekend, hoping that Pennsylvania will have enough time to count their votes by then.
You gonna make a pinata of #OrangeTurd to beat the hell out of. 🤣🤣
All we need is to make a round orange ball, and we can paste his picture on it. But, I do not want to smash his head in, because that will make me feel too much like Trump himself. I hope it is just a fun Democrats Abroad one. I do not want a violent election. I want everyone to be safe.
You are so kind. I wasn't talking about violence (never a way to behave). I just saw "pinata" and VIOLA! Democrats Abroad: So are you all coming to the US to meet up, or are you having a country-specific party?
You can fill the piñata with the MAGATS dashed dreams and piss on em when it spills on the floor !😅
It sounds like more people should be making pre and post election piñatas.
Yeah, Bill Gates heard about Kamala's constantly asking for money. He donated $50 million today! And endorsed her.
Wow. A tech bro for good. Isn't that wonderful?
He’s the only one I think
I’ve always liked him
Is the piñata a replica of Drumpty?? Cause I’ll take a swing on that with a baseball bat!!
Whats going to be in your piñata?
OMG! I need to find one. Thanks for the wonderful idea.
I like your style Linda, it’s a great bottle of champagne I trust!!
I’d prefer a neck tie that ties in the back !🤬🤣
😂😂😂
Oh you’re spot on
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Tick tock.
Would Vance become the main ticket, or does the RNC have an alternate Stephan?
Probably Noferatu.
Thanks! I really mean it. This was almost as good as Xanax.
Omg, thank you. I really needed this good news.
Me too!
I soooooo needed your "good news" post today!!! What a reminder that if you do the work - it works. Kamala is that amazing combination of calm and fierce. If you stand up to the bully (I see you Exonerated Five), he shrivels just a little bit more. The press needs to pounce on Musk and Thiel buying the presidency for their boy, Couch Cushion Connoisseur Vance. Let's expose them in every media outlet they don't own yet!
Great article but you might want to change out the photo for the woman convicted in AZ - that picture is our Governor Katie Hobbs not Peggy Judd.
Kansas is a small electoral college state, but it may be a bellwether this election. Kansas has two senators, Roger Marshall, Trumper MAGA Sellout and Jerry Moran, Traditional Republican. Last week Senator Moran presented Baker University in Baldwin City, KS with a bible signed by President Biden. This contribution was for the University's presidential bible collection.
Senator Moran has not endorsed VP Harris, however this respectful, rational, reasonable, non-partisan act by Senator Moran indicates that Kansas ain't all insane MAGA red.
"Baker University
4 days ago
Senator Moran visited Baker University yesterday to personally deliver a Bible signed by President Biden. This Bible will join the Presidential Bibles on display at the Quayle Bible Collection through Inauguration Day!
We’re grateful to Senator Moran and his team for taking the time to make this special delivery and to President Biden for continuing this valued tradition at Baker University."
Great report. Was floored when deep red KS voted for reproductive freedom!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! All good news in this election is welcome.
It does!!!!
I'm good now. Thanks Jeff! You can start terrifying us tomorrow.
You bailed my brain out again ! Thanx brother !
I love Good News Tuesday. More, please. 💙
YES! Exactly what I needed, anyway. THANK YOU Jeff T.
I spent the day helping friends get in their wood. Our friends are Dems but are feeling gloomy about Vice President Harris' chances of winning. I gave them my best pep talk, but I was still on the somber side when we got home.
Then I made the mistake of reading another Substack writer's comment section and it plunged me into gloom. Not one of those commenters was positive about Kamala Harris' chances to win and they were all "gotta get my passport renewed..." Gotta check out SwissAir schedules..." Gotta check out what the citizenship requirements are for Canada." Geez, apparently Chicken Little LIVES....in every single hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, running-around-like-hair-is-on-fire Democrat.
Why move to Portugal if your SS check does not come and the banks all crash? Might as well stay where you have friends and family.
Well, I do think worrying about what airline to flee on before the election is held seems to be a bit premature. However, what I really object to is spreading gloom and despair prior to the election. Why? What good does it do? I understand feeling anxious about what's at stake with this election but we have two more weeks to go! We need to spread confidence and pride. Doom and gloom could--possibly--discourage people from voting thinking it of no use...that their vote won't count and we need EVERYBODY TO VOTE!!! When we turn out--and vote--we win!!!
It definitely did and thank you!
I wrapped up this post when it got to be fifteen hundred words long, but there was more I could have written about. for instance, Donny's PAC is nearly out of money, having blown it all on Alina Habba's kidney upkeep.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/politics/trump-pac-funds.html
Jeff, I can't speak for everyone here, but since we subscribe to this and since we love this and since we NEED this, feel free to go over the "1500 word mandate" with as many words as you wanna write...I will read every single fucking word as I do every day!...thanks for helping to at least keep me pointed at sane...I won't actually think that I am sane, but pointed at it is a start!
Seriously true. Husband and I used to start the day (after the ‘is he dead yet’ question) with “what are today’s [MSM] headlines?”
Now? It’s “what does Jeff say today?”
Mind you that happens later in the day in that his email doesn’t drop here on West Coast til 8:40am.
I'm in CA and get Jeff at 8 am-ish. I screwed up on Substack so I don't get any Jeff emails. I go to "my profile" scroll down to Substack subscription. When you see Jeff, click the upside down "U", Select "View Publication".
Did that today. Got it right after 8 instead of 8:40-ish.
Thank you for that. 👍🏼
I know. The late receipt really impacts my day. I can't get started until I read Jeff.
Ditto !!
New kidneys are a MAGA accessory must
Along with pouty duck lips. But Roger Stone's wife takes the prize for kidneys, like she's strapped on Chinese spy balloons.
🤣😂
Those “pouty duck lips”? MAGA loves vagina lips. I could go further in my description ….
Please refrain 😳
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Plus a nice dose of Botox.
And a nice chianti, maybe a Riserva Ducale Tan. Look out for the stones.
If I see Alina Habba's ad for Dotard one more time, I will hurl. It upsets me to see women debase themselves for trump and for what? He's a felon, a serial rapist and p****-grabbing, 5 times bankrupt moron with dementia. They have zero to gain from it and are too stupid to just back away.
I don’t get the reference to the kidneys?
I believe ‘new kidneys’ is code speak for breast, uh, enhancements.
🎯🎯👀
Big fake ones that look big and fake.
Eeewwwww. Sigh. No accounting for taste!
The kidney reference is damn fine. I wonder who else gets it.
“Ass-spraying mayhem” is my favorite. Trump is a Squitter Wit. That’s 17th-century speak for Diarrhea Mouth. 💨
Hey. My kidneys need UP keep too! 😬
Sometimes it takes more than 1500 words.
Always.
Who needs upkeep for water balloons? 🤔
Lol, right?
That's why he's sucking money from the Space Nazi
But they're such nice kidneys 😂😂
Where is an 1,500-word 'mandate' stated?
Fuckin' write what you are thinking and double-un-fuck whoever doesn't like it. Triple.
I don't subscribe to make sure no posts exceed the 1,500 word "rule'. Make it 5,000 tomorrow, and see what happens.
"Kamala leads dong-obsessed fry chef Donny Convict"
"everyone gets a puppy vs diarrhea forever?" 😂😂😂😂
I cant live with Uncle Jeff in my life! I've been pretty depressed about all this...because my fellow citizens dont understand evidently what's at stake. You wanna be a Republican? Cool. Go find one, cause Trump aint it. He's a monster, wanna be dictator. Thanks for this community. Man, I need you guys so I stay outta the bottle. 🤣🤣 (AND YES for the Central Park Five!!)
My neighbor was telling me that many of his union members love assman. I told him they're bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic assholes. Period. That probably knock their wives around. One guy was trying to justify his stance. I asked if he would put his 15 yr old daughter in a room with any of them. Of course, his said no. I walked away. I'm done!!!! 😖😖
Great hypothetical for him to think about.
I think out loud. It gets me in a world of trouble. Life on life's terms. At this point there's nothing to say. Just roll your eyes and say goodbye.
Brandon is still POTUS! And a damn good one, not an ez job.
These MAGAs are so juvenile, on top of all their other personal malfunctions. Maybe the dumbass is short on cash after buying gold sneakers, Chinese Bibles, watches, coins, trading cards, NFTs, that he can't afford a new T shirt. Let 'em wallow in their own hateful misery as we and the country move forward toward a more perfect union. And of course they benefit from our national prosperity whether they know and admit it or not. That's what makes them dumbasses.
I saw a lady at the hospital I was scanning whose husband had a hat that said "voting for the felon" 😒🙄🙄🙄 I was so annoyed!
But like all third party candidates who have no chance of winning, her quixotic campaign can end up tilting results further away from her own ideals. Look at what Nader did to Gore in 2000.
Donny has always been a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
I have not seen any evidence that Stein has ideals beyond annoying people every four years.
Lawrence O'Donnell said last night she's 74 years old. Now that a POTUS's age has come into the spotlight, not good for her. News piece on her on L. O'Donnell last night posted here. Her family is not supporting her candidacy. No reason given.
I think they know she is as crazy as RFK, Jr. and the fact that she may be a Russian agent.
LOL Truth!
Jill Stein's ideals: 💵💵💵💵
No kidding! Remember when she collected $6 million to do a vote recount? 2016? And we didn’t hear from her again for eight years? But she’s baaaack! She must be broke.
Professed ideals, then
I’m not sure of the Nader/Gore details. But it’s important to realize that Stein’s “pull-aways” are pulling from ShitBlimp, not KH.
ShitBlimp!😂😂🤣🤣😂
Sorry, after what Jeff has told us today, my self-respect will not permit me to vote for Kamala Harris. She's offering a free puppy, and I wanted a free pony!
Also, the Central Park 5 better get onto it before LDFF has been drained of his last grubby penny.
Yay 🎉 Another day, another lawsuit against turd! This one might particularly enrage him, as he took out full page ads on how guilty they were. They've now been exonerated, spoke at the DNC convention. turd to this day hates these wrongly accused Black men, refusing to admit they were proven to be innocent. Oh No! Maybe he'll stroke out! 🚑🚑🚑🚑
Call the waambulance! DNR
If only we're could be so lucky💙✌🏻
Perpetual diarrhea is a most appropriate penance for Donnie Convict.😂😂🤣🤣😂
He punishes those around him severely. Saw a clip on YouTube of him sitting next to the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein and he audibly farted when speaking. The look of dismay and disgust on her face is priceless. No doubt she also sampled the odor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVBdk0BlYLo
I reckon that's what killed her.
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LOL!
More ExLax!🤣🤣
Thanks for the good news. I think Harris will win by a landslide. Here are the reasons I believe that.
1)there are more newly registered voters than ever before. - 13 Million, the majority will vote for Harris
2) women are pissed off about the overturning of Roe and they will show up in droves to vote for Harris.
3) we have a coalition that includes lots of conservative republicans. They have as no one to vote for because they love the constitution and with Cheney’s support and the support of many conservative republicans we will capture that vote.
4) Trump’s rhetoric has gotten more violent and he is obviously mentally melting down.
5)Harris has a great ground game and Trump not much of one.
6) Harris has separated her policies from Biden.
7) To summarize the women and GenZ’s will have Harris win by a landslide.
🙏 I keep trying to say that to myself—so hope so!!!!!!
Sure hope so. The maniac's rapidly deteriorating rhetoric is coming back to bite him in his fat ass and some GOP voters are finally starting to see through all of his bullshit. Our local news showed a clip this morning of the MAGA moron king saying he wants God to come down for one day to count the votes in CA. WTF? He obviously doesn't realize how bad he will get his ass handed to him here and hopefully as convincingly in many other states as well.
He better hope that God doesn't come down here because he has a lot to answer for
Doc - Not His God! He thinks he is the chosen one so no answers needed LOL
I thinking my ears didn't deceive me that turd claimed yesterday that HE WON in CA.
GOD COMING TO CA FOR A DAY: Presumably turd will be in CA to meet him. It's GOD, stupid. There's gonna be conversations. GOD has had a close eye on you for decades, but not in a good way. I bet you forget all about the vote count.
From your mouth to God’s ear Ilene!! I’m here for it 🙌🏽🤙🏽🙌🏽
Totally agree Ilene!!
I agree 100%! Rep. Maxwell Frost has been campaigning on college campuses, and the voter registrations are up something like 700%. Since these people never voted before, they aren’t included in polling
Also, a majority of the polls recently have been financed by the GOP, and they trend red, so they are causing the totals to look more red than they actually are.
Don’t despair, we’ve got this. Just don’t let up on the work. It’s pedal to the metal until November 5!
🎯🎯🎯🎯. Several members here have recommended The Hopium Chronicles in Substack. I felt worlds more positive and upbeat.
I know, but MAGAts do not follow logic.
Also, they’ve put out there the Manifesto
Project 2025 , which scares a lot of people, about its fascist intentions.
Yup. All the way.
Also, still, fuck the editors and publisher of the New York Times. Bigly.
Amen
With winter coming, we will all have to look out for frozen water storms and bigly windy air storms. At least that will reduce the number of very hot trees in places where trees grow and light up like fireworks.
Thank you. "Frozen water storms" is my first lol of the day.
I’ll bet trump can use that! hahahahah
Any chance you're a DonOLD speechwriter?
I write this in tribute to my late mother who was involved with politics since the late 1950s and staunch member of the League of Women voters. Right until near the end of her time, she also volunteered as an poll worker for every. single. election. Every state primary, every national election. She loved going to hear speeches by politicians of any stripe talk about their views. She would come home and spend QUITE a bit of time discussing and breaking down the politician's stance.
She once told me she was interested in going to hear Jill Stein, never having heard much about her. When she returned, I asked my mother what she thought. I was expecting a long discussion of some finer points.
For the first time ever, my mother simply said, "Jill Stein is an idiot."
Hehehe oh your Mom was one awesome woman!!
I never thought of Jill (“Harvard educated doctor”) Stein as a “fucked up asteroid” before! Thanks for the coffee-snorting laugh. Now I have to change my shirt. Ha!
AWESOME metaphor - truly. "like some fucked-up asteroid, every 4 years her weird-ass orbit swings her too close to the earth and she ends up dicking with the tides and screwing with our electoral magnetic field". Brilliant.
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When discussing these polls we have to keep in mind that several of the pollster groups have admitted to polling heavily republican demographics. These polls aren't indicative of a true sampling of the American population. Don't be surprised if Kamala wins pretty big
Also only old dumb white people answer their landlines or unknown callers any more so they’re the only ones being polled!
Hey, I am an older white woman with a landline and cellphone. I also have caller ID, and , a blocking app. If I get bored, I will occasionally answer the landline,and, if it is a robo calk, I have "fun" , leading them on, then asking for address ,so, my police squad can visit them. The call ends abruptly!
Elon the felon to be …calls just before the pollster and offers a million bucks for a vote !
Elon.. He’s such a giant narcissistic prick
Something tells me that he wouldn't do well in general population.😂😂
They’d have to put him in with the tree jumping kiddie touchers and baby rapers and Those freaks would kick his ass for giving them a worse rep than they already had !!😵💫😂😅
😂😂🤣
Me! Till almost exactly six years ago. I had no choice to break down & get a cell phone.
You need a landline so that you can use it to locate your cell phone.
Thanks for the good news! As for the post-election fuckery, while I do worry about another J6, I comfort myself with the fact that this time, Donny isn’t our sitting president. And Biden isn’t gonna sit and fart in front of the TV for 3 hours while a bunch of domestic terrorists burn down the Capitol. This time I’m hoping the only people who will be “standing back and standing by” are the National Guard.
I expect the Capitol to be locked down like a fortress on 1/6. Not saying state capitals won't be attacked, but I doubt you'll be able to get near the one in DC.
I'm hoping to see The Capitol fenced off with razor wire, snipers & panic buttons, as Fredo described in AZ yesterday.
Maybe Joe will give us a free pass for a day to go bat shit crazy on the fascist bastards ! Hey Shitler was talking about it …turn abouts fair play ! Joes got the OK from the Supremes !
Yup! Total immunity!
Only kidding Mr. Garland we’d be the ones you’d prosecute!😵💫
Thank you Jeff for what looks like an optimistic outlook, I for one really needed this. I’m seeing a bit more cause for hope in this maga bethel community as well. In fact it’s the beginnings of FAFO for the local yokels in county government and I’m buoyed enough to continue to be a poll worker.
THANK YOU for being a Poll Worker!
Appreciate you stepping up as a poll worker Tama! 🇺🇸
Thank you Tama for being a trusted poll worker!!!
Today’s poll workers aren’t our mothers’ poll workers. You kinda gotta be made of steel to walk into that lava stream. Thank you.
Wait. Lava melts steel? Have to think of something else. 😬🤣
I realize 2016 was an exceedingly rare clusterfuck, but I don’t listen to Nate Silver anymore
there's no reason listen to Nate Silver, now that he's joined Darth Thiel's dark side
Another pathetic weak-ass who sold his soul to the billionaire asshole cabal
Hi Ho Silver ."…We Pay !
I have a vivid memory of sitting in an optometrist waiting room the day before the election in November 2016 reading Nate Silver's 538 prediction of the outcome. It stated that Trump's chance to win the electoral college and thus the election was ~33%. My understanding of statistics is excellent, therefore I was truly freaked out and not confident at all on election day and absolutely dreaded hearing the outcome
Your columns invariably make me laugh, often out loud -- and sometimes even FOTFLMAO. However, after early voting yesterday here in Charleston, SC, I came home and wrote the following. I feel no humor within. (Didn't even read your column today. Sorry about that.)
"Tonight, I find myself thinking of our national anthem. The words, 'Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free?' play over and over and over in my mind. And I realize that for the first time in my life, I understand the tremendous anxiety behind that question: DOES it still wave? Or have we lost the battle? And that is where I am. WILL our nation still exist as a democracy in two weeks and one day? or will we become a fascist dictatorship? The fact that a severely demented man who is a malignant narcissist, who is owned by a group of oligarchs and fascists, is supported by 50%!!! of my fellow American citizens is shocking. It is beyond anything I could ever have imagined. It's breaking me. Today I voted. I also spoke with some perfectly nice people who have bought hook, line, and sinker into the lies told incessantly by the orange sadist, and say that they are "really scared" of Kamala Harris. They know NOTHING. And these are the people who are deciding the fate of the United States. So I sit here, feeling overwhelming anxiety deep in the pit of my stomach, wondering: WILL that flag yet wave? Or will it soon be over?"
KD I’m right there with you.. but WE the PEOPLE will pick up our BELOVED FLAG and we will wave it because WE THE PEOPLE CAN DO THIS!! WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER OUR Country or OUR PEOPLE to The DICTATORSHIP of DRUMF and His CORRUPT COMMUNIST Buddies!! UNITED WE STAND 🙌🏽💙🙌🏽
Fascist buddies
Fascist Buddies thank you Hl2thDoc!!
Indeed. They are anything but (good) Communists.
Yes, we will win! There are so many newly registered voters, and a large majority of them are interested in reproductive health care and climate change. They are not included in polling.
SC will probably be red, but the swing states are blue.
(will be red; we always are) Praying for the swing states to be blue.
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave !🇺🇸👍
Beautiful! Thank you for that! My heart already feels lighter! We did it before (twice). We can do it again. (Hopefully without another war!)
This is the double-edged nature of self governance. The right, duty, privilege, and responsibility of choosing our leaders is the most solemn, serious, and important decision for our way of life. Being well informed, clear-eyed, and cognizant of our dedication to fact and the rule of law are essential for wise choices. Being gullible, ignorant, resentful, angry, violent, and emotionally manipulated are detrimental to our process of choosing. We get what we deserve.
Well put.
(musk and thiel both S. Africans, by birth and/or by raising)
Thiel was born in West Germany but immigrated to the US as a young child. Intelligent but turned into a fascist piece of shit, like Musk. Founding members of the Billionaires Asshole Club. I wish they would defect.
Oh, how I wish!
But they won't. They love it here. Thanks to the conservative fucks on the Supreme Court and the Citizens United ruling, money equals free speech.
Just imagine: what if we could thrown 'em all in jail!
Exactly! Continual conservative palaver has vilified government to many, including those (which is everyone in some way) that get a direct, personal benefit from government. We have become so anti-tax and anti-regulation as a knee jerk reaction and yet want all the facilities and services and whine when they aren't there. How, pray tell, is everything paid for without taxes? Is free market capitalism workable without any regulations? Should we be ruled by an oligarchy consisting of only the wealthiest (and greediest)?
Educated people all over are early voting for Democrats. Arkansas started at 8 am yesterday and I was there before that. I got to talk to women in their 80s. We did not discuss who they were going to vote for, but I feel that their votes were for Democrats.
I expect Arkansas to stay Red but with a surprising amount of Blue, when all the votes are counted.
Some of the non college educated people are increasingly turned off by Trump's garbage. The Democrat TV ads show regular folks who aren't rich and who want government that works for them. If the people elect the government, shouldn't the government work for the people?
I look forward to a landslide for the Democrats, with little recourse for MAGA. If they want to revolt, Joe Biden can put them down and lock up the boss "man".
So I am not afraid. I want to celebrate my 73rd birthday in peace on November 5th.
Happy birthday! A Harris/Walz win would be an excellent birthday gift.
Happy early Birthday Darrell. I follow you 4 days after but I’ll only be 68, I think!
“Dong-obsessed fry chef!” that was clever! We voted this morning in Wisconsin! More people there than usual-so hopefully a good sign! JUSTICE PIE CAN’T COME SOON ENOUGH!!!!!!! (good one Jeff!)
Justice Pie...the tastiest kind!! 😂
LET'S GOOOO!!
And I'll add a feel-good story I saw on the old TT this morning. A couple in Missouri put an Apple tracker on one of their Harris/Walz lawn signs. They tracked it to the trunk of a car belonging to two teenage boys and their Karen--I mean, mom. In the trunk were 60 Harris lawn signs. Karen, seeing her boys were caught (with police on they way) got mad and grabbed the signs from the truck and threw them on the ground shouting, "Oh, you liberals! I just can't take it anymore!"
Can't take having someone's stolen property returned to them? At $20 a piece x 60 signs = felony. FOAFO, trumpies.
In NJ it is a crime to remove campaign signs. If you get caught, it’s a serious fine.
Wow. That's serious biz
BREAKING NEWS!! I love this!! FAFO !
What is it that Uncle Jeff says? Shoot that shit right into my veins every day.
Paraphrasing. 🤣
LOL right? That's the way to start a morning.
Who pays for a yard sign? Good story.