Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

He really is that stupid.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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This ad.  Wow.

h/t Mousebumples

We’ve donated a ton of money, and all that’s left for the next 4 days – including today – is to volunteer.

Click here for information about opportunities to help Michigan.

Are you aware of other volunteer opportunities for any of the key states?  Please add information in the comments, and don’t forget to include links!

Can we forget about *Elon Musk and Twitter and whether Trump will run and all the other distractions for the next 4 days and focus on each of us doing at least one more thing that increases the chances of the outcome we want.

As Obama said in multiple speeches last week – SQUIRREL (!)  

Can we focus for the next 4 days?

Let’s win this!

*This was written before the latest post by mistermix, nothing personal intended.

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  2. 2.

    Mousebumples

    I’m going to do some more texting tonight/this weekend.

    Posted this in the M*sk thread, but this seems like a better home for it –

    Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) tweeted at 0:25 PM on Thu, Nov 03, 2022:

    Holy shit this is a good ad

    https://t.co/gzusM5fs9F

    (https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/status/1588220823847940096?t=qcL7U05m17jmmue-dZNSxw&s=03)

    Let’s leave it all on the metaphorical field. Just win, baby!

    I’m “adopting” a few friends who haven’t voted yet, are planning to vote on Election Day for Democrats, and I’m planning to blow up their phones until they text me an I VOTED sticker. (I told them I’d be doing this, and they said that it was a deal, to make sure they follow through.)

    Who can you turn out, among your friends and family?

  6. 6.

    citizen dave

    I liked a recent tweet (sorry can’t recall from who): If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism in Europe in the 20s and 30s, the answer is what you are doing right now.

  7. 7.

    zhena gogolia

    The ad is good, but has a bit of that heroicizing cartoonishness that that artist does who always paints TFG as a superhero. Is that intentional? I guess I’m not the intended audience.

    And who is the woman whose portrait is on the wall of the enemies of freedom? I see TFG, Kavanaugh, Andrew Jackson, and Clarence Thomas, but I can’t recognize some of the others.

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    Oh, fuck the NYT. I always look forward to taking their Friday News Quiz. But this week it’s a special “midterms edition.” Deleted with extreme prejudice.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @Cameron: Betty will know better than I do, but I believe Crist has been talking about this for quite awhile

    Will it affect the race?  I don’t know.  Does hate and prejudice and tribe beat out good sense and pocketbook issues?

    I guess we’ll find out.

  16. 16.

    Geminid

    @TaMara: Colorado has a lot of unaffiliated voters. Some are staunch conservatives, but a lot aren’t and these might not want to keep hearing that babbling bonehead embarrass their district and state.

  17. 17.

    TaMara

    @Geminid: As I said to someone yesterday, Boebert was an unknown quantity to most when she ran last time (except to those in Rifle, where she lost), and they just voted for the R on the ballot. She’s no longer unknown and is, in fact, an embarrassment. So yes, I’m hopeful they’ll either not vote at all or vote for the opponent.

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    Geminid

    @TaMara: I think Boebert carried the Colorado 3rd CD by 6 points in 2020, same as trump. The Dem candidate was decent, but other good ones may have held back because they thought the incumbent wasn’t vulnerable. Boebert’s win over Scott Tipton surprised people including Tipton; he had $300,000 in campaign funds he apparently was saving for the general election.

    The big question in the 3rd and everywhere else is, who will show up? It will be a different set of voters for sure, but how different?

  21. 21.

    RaflW

    @TaMara: There was a thread over at that musty place the other day saying that despite the GOP having high hopes, CO at least statewide is really on the blue end of ‘purple’ now.

    The conventional wisdom is still split between a 5-3 or a 4-4 House delegation with CO-08 (Yadira Caraveo’s new dist under CO’s new census allocation) being the swing. Wouldn’t it be great .if it was 6-2! .. and more in keeping with the statewide margin that carried Biden 55.4 to that other guy’s paltry 41.9%).

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    UncleEbeneezer

    SwingLeft San Gabriel Valley has a Canvass Day Trip from Pasadena up to Palmdale to canvass for Christy Smith this Sunday, 11/6 from 9:30 am to 8:00 pm.  An awesome friend/colleague of ours us captaining the bus.

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