Their people:
New ad we’re now airing across North Carolina https://t.co/NrvGNqaAYo pic.twitter.com/ECIkYpc5w6
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 20, 2024
“It’s about killing a child because you’re not responsible enough to keep your skirt down!” I think I’ll just say “fuck you, you total fucking pig” and leave it at that.
Our People, Class of 2022, Come On Down!
They were all new to the House in 2022, I believe, and they have already left their mark. I am 100% sure that someone in the first 5 comments will tell me if I’m wrong, and that’s easier than googling to verify! They’re smart, they’re fun, they’re fearless, and they have no collective memory of the “collegiality” that no longer exists.
Frost: Are you going after Tim Walz next week? I’m hearing from my staff that you’re planning a hearing on Governor Walz even though he has been Governor for five years and his name hasn’t been uttered in this room until he became the VP nominee
Comer: I’ll have to check pic.twitter.com/C8P9UsJ6Tl
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 19, 2024
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Incredible cut here to Comer when Moskowitz says "the big knish" https://t.co/rjaRfFAucj
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) September 19, 2024
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Crockett: This election is the best example of why you all are so afraid of diversity, equity, and inclusion because then you can’t have a simple minded under qualified white man somehow end up ascending.. instead you got to pay attention to the qualified Black woman.. pic.twitter.com/0P40XAwCVE
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 19, 2024
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HOLY SMOKES!
Rep. Jasmine Crockett just demolished Republicans during today's "US House Hearing on Biden/Harris Policies".
This is viral material. This woman is going places in US politics. pic.twitter.com/k9V3QUz0Kq
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) September 19, 2024
piratedan
its all fucking kabuki. The fact that my taxes go to pay for these GOP freaks is beyond fucking annoying
lamh47
Been offline most of the day, but just saw this clip of Kamala Harris rally Madison!
Guys…talk me down…I’m feeling hopefully like we might just win this thing.
I don’t even know why this clip gave me chills, but it did.
Hoppie
@lamh47: If we keep working, we are going to win this thing. Trust, but workify!
lamh47
So I’m seeing that more and more local Teamsters chapters are endorsing Harris/Walz…proving once again the national Teamster leadership is full of shit…
Jackie
Jared and Jasmine should get some sort of medal or award for perfectly trolling MAGA House members…. Over and over and over again!
BlueGuitarist
You’re right, as usual: Crockett, Frost, and Moskowitz all elected 2022.
piratedan
@Jackie: just illustrating that the GOP are not serious people. It’s all petty payback bullshit and not a damn thing about actually doing legislation.
BlueGuitarist
@lamh47:
speaking of Ben Wikler, he posted
Postcarding, donating, canvassing, phonebanking, all kinds of things, we are the heroes we’ve been waiting for.
fired up! ready to go!
lamh47
@BlueGuitarist: FIRED UP, READY TO GO!
Speaking of, have they announced a rally with Kamala and PBO yet. I’m guessing they are saving it for October?
Flanders Other Neighbor
Comer appears to be literally twiddling his thumbs while Frost is on the offensive asking if Walz is next on the hit list. What a doofus.
WaterGirl
All three of these young pups are really inspirational. For me, at least!
is anyone else enraged at seeing what Robinson said about women? It’s almost hard to comprehend that someone would actually say that out loud in public.
WaterGirl
@piratedan: very expensive kabuki theater.
!!!!!
Jackie
@lamh47: Jimmy Hoffa’s son calls BS:
HumboldtBlue
@WaterGirl:
There is no floor. Never has been for the GOP.
WaterGirl
@BlueGuitarist: you’ve been on my calendar for the last four days, but I never quite get to it before the end of the day. Monday for sure!
Bupalos
Holy shit Jasmine Crockett!! Oh she is working working working, she does not turn it off not for a second, not for half a second.
So we’ve got two of these, and what do you know, they’re both of the age where scientists say their brain might still be at top capacity, and they lay it down like “oh no, these people might actually be smarter than me!! Pete and Jasmine.
Jay
https://www.wonkette.com/p/enjoy-national-treasure-jasmine-crockett
Project 2025 was there as well.
WaterGirl
@HumboldtBlue: it’s actually very good news, though for us that all of this stuff is coming out and people are getting to see him for what he was. For the longest time he was flying under the radar and he just do you know, came off as an affable black man.
there was worried that the young pops people in North Carolina. We’re going to vote for him, making assumptions based on the fact that he was black.
I think we truly don’t have to worry about that as much anymore and that’s a huge relief. Imagine that man is governor of a state. Ugh. Doesn’t even begin to cut it.
WaterGirl
@Jay: unless I totally screwed up the post, one of those two clips of Jasmine Crockett should be the one about 2025 and she’s asking that woman – I have no idea who the woman is – whether Donald Trump is mentioned in project 2025 and how many times. The woman doesn’t know. Jasmine says maybe five and the woman says I didn’t count and Jasmine says would it surprise you to know that there are approximately 312 times the Donald Trump is mentioned specifically by name in project 2025 and the woman replies “no”.
gotcha!
Bupalos
@WaterGirl: “came off as an affable black man”
WTF?
He’s been all “I’m not actually black in the way you’re thinking, I’d be fine with whatever you’re thinking of doing to black people” for 3 or 4 years. He has not come off like an “affable black man.” He’s been completely outside the black mainstream… just… forever. He only talks to white crowd and he doesn’t do “affable” he does “you know how you want to never see another black person? Well yeah, let’s make that happen!!”
That isn’t “affable.” That’s like 2000 miles out the other side of “affable.” Dude blackwashes genocide, it’s his thing.
WaterGirl
@Bupalos: I’m telling you what the organizations in North Carolina have been telling me – that the students that have not been paying attention to politics have been making assumptions, positive assumptions, about what he must be like because he’s black.
You’re welcome to disregard what the people on the ground are saying is true, but I’m not gonna disregard what they’re telling me.
they are on the ground in North Carolina working with the students. Why would you think that we would know better than them with the students are thinking?
Mr. Bemused Senior
@WaterGirl:
Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman Testifies at House Committee on Oversight Hearing to Highlight Dangers of Project 2025
Bupalos
@WaterGirl: OK. yeah. I hear you.
Like, his act works. But let’s go ahead and name what the act actually is whenever we talk about it, because in his personal appearances (always for white audiences) he never fails to say “you know that thing you’re thinking…. well… yeah… you’re right…go with that!”
Like, when he said he was a black nazi… that’s it.
Bupalos
@WaterGirl: That’s actually beautifully constructed.
Jasmine crockett is doing the Z-snaps and whatnot, and she’s pretty good at that….but she is also just scary sharp, and fucking working hard every second.
I think the witness was either semi-friendly or just completely surprised by the preparation and delivery…she has a happy WTF is going on here look on her face… but what I take from this one is Jasmine Crockett is hella smart and hella motivated.
Let’s use these people.
sab
@Bupalos: Crockett talks faster than I can think and it’s all so good.
Dan B
@Bupalos: Yes! Jasmine Crockett is badass, not going to let anyone get away with shining her on!!
BR
@lamh47:
She was really good in both her events today. Sometimes when I watch I turn it off halfway because I’ve heard all the lines, but there was something different about both of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LlObcivyZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0rJEBtmcM
Jacel
Rachel Maddow’s film “From Russia With Lev” is incredible. If you’ve been recording it from MSNBC for later, you should know that the film itself fills a two hour block, and the following hour (labeled “The 11th Hour”) is where sub host Ali Velchi talks with Rachel about the film, and where Ali will be talking with Lev and his wife.
Dave
If he didn’t richly deserve it I’d almost feel bad for Comer so clearly out of depth.
Love Moskowitz smirking in the background while in the video featuring Frost.
Crockett I think just terrifies him rightfully so.
Bupalos
@BR: I hear you, yeah, she’s feeling it. She feels what she’s saying.
THE GOVERNMENT… DONALD TRUMP….
SHOULD NOT BE TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO.
She had HER plan. She had HER plan…
But they let her die in the parking lot, because doctors have to wait until the patient is at death’s door…
eclare
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
Thanks! I wondered who that was too.
WaterGirl
@Dan B: “ shut the fuck up, I didn’t ask you a question!”
OK those weren’t Jasmine’s exact words, but it was clearly what she communicated.
WaterGirl
@Dave: I’m not seeing Moskowitz smirking in the background during the frost video. Where is he sitting?
Bupalos
@BR: I really encourage people to go through these links. Kamala is in the zone where she deeply feels the policy she’s talking about. And can communicate that. That is rare.
We’re up against sooo much. On paper, we should lose. but we’ve got a fucking warrior here. Stand up. We’re lucky for the chance for our effort to matter. This person is rare, and we’re lucky.
West of the Rockies
Gym Jordan has been quiet lately… I wonder why. And Comer and Kennedy (Louisiana) have got to be the dumbest looking Republicans in a while. Oh, and Gohmert, too.
TS
@lamh47:
That was Obama style! MVP doesn’t need outside rallies to hide the size of the crowds.
lowtechcyclist
Works for me!
Weird how he seems to believe that men play no role in women getting pregnant. Women can’t keep their skirts down, and spores floating through the breeze that would otherwise be harmless waft into their bodies and next thing you know, they’re preggers. It’s magic!
KatKapCC
Amen, sister.
TS
@WaterGirl: Went almost insane when I saw his comment on pregnant women. That any man would say this – but especially one who has just been outed as a closet everything ridiculous about GOP men who think they are all powerful.
He sure won’t be governor & the icing on the cake to give MVP the state.
KatKapCC
Hey, do not sully the delicious name of knish by applying it to Comer.
Jackie
Loony Loomer is trying to make news again, insinuating the Harris/Trump debate was rigged:
wjca
I guess I’m just an old stick-in-the-mud. But for me, it’s hard to comprehend someone even thinking that way. Yes, I know they do. But I just can’t wrap my head around a mind that works that way.
kindness
Why is it always the women’s fault in Mark Robinson’s eyes? Why is it ‘the woman couldn’t keep her skirt down’ and not ‘he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants’? These are disgusting people claiming a moral superiority they do not posess.
KatKapCC
@Jackie: Yes, the debate was totally rigged…
…in the sense that one of the candidates has a functioning brain and the other one’s skull is filled with the pink slime that feeds off anger from Ghostbusters 2.
SO UNFAIR!!! PINK SLIME BRAIN 2024!!!
TS
Is our media learning?
TV down under shows many news shows from other countries – albeit probably later than in the home country. At the gym today I caught the “ABC News Tonight” with David Muir. It was not a good news night for trump. No each ways, just facts about who was doing/saying whatever. It included Kamala talking about the lass in Georgia who lost her life because of the draconian laws re abortion. I was pleasantly surprised because it was so different to what I read in the Washington Post.
KatKapCC
@kindness: In the minds of men like him, men are supposed to — and I apologize for using this disgusting phrase — spread their seed, and men require sex with as many women as possible because it’s in their mAsCuLiNe eNeRgY.
Or possibly he thinks all women are sorceresses who put hexes on poor innocent men to make them lose their minds with lust.
NotMax
FYI. DJT stock plummets 7.8% to $13,55 at Friday’s market close.
No bottom in sight.
Chet Murthy
Blogfather said it a while back: VP Harris came up in the early 90s in SF, when half the kids were nonwhite/Hispanic, and it shows. There have been interviews with AOC where she’s said that she came up at a time when G(r)OPers were always the enemy, always the bad guys, and the idea of bipartisanship was ridiculous b/c the other side was always in bad faith. And these youngsters here grew up in that tradition. They know that there’s nobody on the other side to reach out to, it’s just a battle, a struggle, and until we win we can’t stop.
It’s great to see. And I DGAF that supposedly we’re supposed to think of the other side as “friends”. Just DGAF. There’ll be a time for that, when MAGA, Trumpism, and Movement Conservatism have been buried alive and the screams die out. Until then, these men and women know what they’re doing, and God bless ’em.
prostratedragon
@West of the Rockies: He certainly has. A friend and I remarked on that last week, and I thought the silence started around the time when the Russian troll case dropped last month.
wjca
@Jackie:
The doubt in my mind started with the complaint going to the SEC. Not seeing any securities being traded here. Not seeing any company financial reports being messed with. No doubt I’m missing something obvious. But I’m just not seeing anything within the SEC’s jurisdiction — for those who care about such legal niceties.
Jackie
Great voting news in Arizona!
Jay
@wjca:
If legit, it should have gone to the FEC as an in kind political contribution.
Just more winger bullshit.
Didn’t they already kill the “whistleblower” off earlier in the week in a “suspicious” car accident?
Just replaying the Golden Oldies. The Writers for this season are so lazy.
Gloria DryGarden
@kindness: right? Or why couldn’t she resist his advances and pressures and cajoling a little better, or…
you know, been better at convincing him to wear a condom…
etc
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jackie:
Even if the debate had been “rigged”, that’s not an excuse for Trump’s piss poor performance. That’s on him and him alone
Ishiyama
I watched her today on video, in the Dane County Coliseum, where I saw Eugene McCarthy fill the venue in ’68. And I thought: With whom should she be compared for eloquence and force as a speaker? And I answered myself: FDR, maybe.
Omnes Omnibus
Utter horseshit.
Gloria DryGarden
@KatKapCC: it’s a strange division of labor. It’s been said that women bear the responsibility for saying no, or managing birth control, for keeping our legs shut. It’s weird.
Most women, even if we end up with safe kind conscious partners, have been through the odd situations where we have to be in charge of all consent, and manage their anti consent behaviors. Oh I’m not saying this well. And it’s not to insult all the respectful kind men we know.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@wjca:
Right? I don’t think there’s any government entity a whistleblower could go to for something like that, right? Maybe the FEC? I’m not sure if there’s anything explicitly illegal about a private news org doing something like that? It’s all bullshit of course, goes without saying. The right knows Trump fucked up and won’t admit it, so they cry about the debate being “rigged”
Jay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Any time Dolt45 “loses”, it’s rigged against Dolt and repeated by the Cult.
“Blue tooth” earrings didn’t stick, so plan “B”.
Besides, according to MAGgoTs, the “whistleblower” was killed in a “suspicious” car accident earlier this week.
I guess “Killary” has come out of retirement.//
piratedan
@Jackie: it’s a big deal because this was a GOP attempt to disenfranchise newly registered voters, specific to Native voters.
TBone
My Ode to Jasmine – got cat class and cat style! She pounces. 🎶
https://youtu.be/vEtbfzMLVWU
TBone
@Omnes Omnibus: hard agree
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Since it’s an open thread, anybody else looking forward to the new Ranma 1/2 anime remake that will be on Netflix starting October 5th? I’m reading that it will be a more faithful adaptation of the manga than the original 1989 anime was.
After being out of print for several years, the English manga volumes are now in stock on Amazon; VIZ apparently did a reprinting earlier in the year, probably in preparation for the anime remake. I plan on buying all 19 volumes as I read them for a complete collection and in preparation for watching the new anime. Have the first volumne being shipped. I’ve always liked Rumiko Takahashi’s stuff, so I’m excited. It wasn’t that long ago that the complete set for Ranma 1/2 went for like $700 on ebay
piratedan
@Gloria DryGarden: there is that kind of double edged sword there, I’m not sure many guys want to be labelled as being guilty of assault/rape, so you don’t act with confidence and sometimes that can kill the moment.
piratedan
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): will be interesting to see how they do it. I liked the original anime when it was out while the premise was somewhat unique, they way that it was used to drive the character based humor was good, although after a bit it started to feel recycled.
KatKapCC
@piratedan: There is a universe of difference between “acting with confidence” and “not giving a shit about consent”. If a man “acting with confidence” gets him labeled as a rapist, guess what? That man is a rapist. You wanna know what “kills the moment”? Well, rape is way up on that list!!!!!
Stop acting like men are too stupid to understand what consent is and what it isn’t and why it matters. They know. But a good number of them simply don’t care.
Ishiyama
I will check it out, but I was disappointed in the Urusei Yatsura remake, so I don’t expect much.
Jackie
@piratedan: 100%! I’m extremely happy about this ruling!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ishiyama:
Without spoilers, what didn’t you like about it? I think the same studio, MAPPA, is has worked on both
Jackie
Just an aside: I’m NEVER AWAKE this time of night. I got double vaccinated yesterday, was blah today and took two naps… extreme shoulder pain gone and now WIDE AWAKE. I’m gonna pay for this temporary insomnia tomorrow.😬
Gretchen
@Jackie: Loved Rep. Crockett telling a mediocre white guy that they’re scared of DEI because then they have to listen to qualified black women. I might have to save it – I’ve watched it a bunch of times already.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@piratedan:
I recall only watching up through the introduction of Ranma’s mother, Nodoka. So around 60 or so episodes in? I think I was only half way through the series. I watched it about 10 years or so ago, and think what you’re talking about can be attributed partially to “filler”. The anime was being produced at the same time as the manga, so the anime’s writers had to make up original stories to avoid overtaking Takahashi
Gretchen
@lamh47: O’Brien’s feelings were hurt that they wouldn’t let him speak at the Democratic convention after the spoke at the Republican convention. His petty revenge gave the individual local Teamster’s endorsement several days of news coverage, rather than the one-time blip the whole union’s endorsement would have caused.
Ishiyama
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Let’s just say they smoothed out some of the rough edges in characterization to conform to contemporary taste.
HumboldtBlue
Tonight’s moon is goodnight, summer.
Yutsano
@West of the Rockies: Gohmert, thank the Fates, is a private citizen now.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Ranma ½ was cute but essentially a drawn out one trick pony. Would opt for Takahashi’s original Lum (Urusei Yatsura) for sheer giggles.
“Ventura, ventura, space people.”
;)
Ishiyama
@NotMax: Utena, anyone?
Msb
@WaterGirl: what most impressed me was that Crockett dealt with the witness firmly but got not only truthful but good humored answers from her. I really like Crockett, including the way she wears brooches.
Yutsano
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): ONLY if they keep Cathy Weseluck as Shampoo for the inevitable English dub. But yes I am loving what MAPPA is doing with the art style, much more the whimsy that Takahashi implies in her manga.
schrodingers_cat
The Eagle has landed. 46 hrs trip was brutal.
NotMax
@Ishiyama
Revolutionary.
:) //
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
Glad you made it okay, srry about the long trip.
Bupalos
@lamh47:
@lamh47: I’ll talk you down. Kamala is blowing the fucking doors off. Growing by the minute.
which makes it 50-50. If and when she wins, clock will be ticking. This is systemic.
NotMax
@Ishiyama
Any comment on the anime series Please Save My Earth?
Sticks in memory decades later as not only unusual in its premise but thought provoking in its unfolding as well. Lovely music and songs, also too. Oh, and a nasty, nasty little boy (excerpt).
Sadly, the powers that be pulled the plug early and the rush to wrap it up some way, some how was mildly disappointing in comparison to what preceded it.
Ruckus
@piratedan:
The gop party wants money, they seem not to be able to give 2 shits about anything else. They really do not care about the country other than making money off of it. They want to go backasswards to a time when the people didn’t have a choice about their government or themselves, only that the leaders got rich screwing everyone else. They aren’t serious, look who they want as a leader. They are about power and money, not running a rational country. In my youth, seemingly about a bazillion years ago, they seemingly wanted a county that worked to their goals. Now their goals weren’t all that and a loaf of bread but their goal wasn’t to fuck over everyone for a few bucks. Now it is. It’s whiteish power baby, and this is from an old white man who thinks they should fuck off into the sun.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Ruckus: Tangential to that, I just had a shower thought about the problem with Joe Biden: others have noted that he came of age, politically speaking, when Republicans were able to collectively come to the conclusion that Richard Nixon had gone too far, but his problem with dealing with the current political climate is that he’s essentially the last man standing from that generation of politicians. Most of our current-day politicians came of age later, when the influence of Reagan, Gingrich, W, Cheney, and more importantly Limbaugh, Hannity, and their ilk had come to prominence. (And Trump is included in that category – he may be chronologically of Biden’s generation, but his involvement in politics came much, much later.)
Biden remembers what the 20th-century Republicans were like, and even though he knows what the 21st-century Republicans have become, he wasn’t prepared for the long-duration cluster-bombing scorched-earth campaigning that the 21st-century GOP routinely engages in. That was his weakness, I think – that and having lost a bit of mental agility to age and the strain of properly governing the United States.
The new generation of Democrats – Crockett, Moskowitz, Frost, their compatriots, and Harris and Walz as well – came of political age in the new environment the 21st-century GOP created, so they don’t have to adjust to it.
Like someone said about Harris, she came of political age in a time when the California GOP had already gone insane.
Ishiyama
@NotMax: I will have to check it out, thanks. If you want horrible, Now and Then, Here and There. Some stuff hits too hard, but wow.
Layer8Problem
@schrodingers_cat: Glad to hear you landed safely. Just heading back to the States here.
scribbler
@schrodingers_cat: It’s good that you will be with your family now. Sending peace and love.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I am glad you featured these new Representatives. Because the Democratic Class of 2022 entered Congress in the Minority, they have not been able to help pass momentous legislation like members of the Class of 2020 did. Nor have they had to stop destructive Republican initiatives in their tracks, as did the talented Class of 2018 when they stood with Speaker Pelosi.
Still, under the capable leadership of Ranking Member Jaime Raskin and his deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Reps. Crockett, Frost and Moskowitz have used the platform of Government Oversight Committee hearings to make tbeir mark.
These three may not have been able to help pass ground breaking legislation, but they have helped maintain Democratic morale by making fools out of their Republican colleagues on a regular basis. If this Congress were to go on much longer, the hapless Comer would have to institute some sort of “Slaughter Rule” whereby the TV cameras got turned off after a certain level of Republican humiliation was achieved.
Fellow freshman Rep. Dan Goldman has played a comparable role in Judiciary Committee hearings.
But what about the other Democratic members of the Class of 2022? This Class totaled 31, including Mary Peltola who entered the House early by means of an Alaska special election. I believe many of them are as capable as Reps. Goldman, Crockett, Moskowitz and Frost, and some could prove even more so. Rep. Peltola comes to mind here,
Although, I expect Mary Peltola will be working at the other end of the Capitol building come January of 2029. That’s when her friend Lisa Murkowski’s Senate term ends and Alaska’s new Senator gets sworn in. In the meantime, Rep. Peltola will get a a lot done in the House. That woman is a doer.
Mark’s Bubbie
@Jackie: I had such a bad reaction to those shots a couple of weeks ago, very unusual for me. I was fine that day but achy at night and the next day I could hardly get out of bed.
WaterGirl
@Mark’s Bubbie: @Jackie: I am hearing a lot of that. I wonder what the change is about?