Thank you, commentor Bart:
Kamala Harris Answers The Web’s Most Searched Questions | WIRED
(It’s Sunday morning, you can listen to it later if you don’t have the ten minutes right now.)
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Thank you, commentor Bart:
Kamala Harris Answers The Web’s Most Searched Questions | WIRED
(It’s Sunday morning, you can listen to it later if you don’t have the ten minutes right now.)
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Mousebumples
Good morning, all! I look forward to listening to that Wired clip above.
NotMax
Weekend watch. Small town values.
Keystone, WV. Dirty cops and greed gone wild.
lowtechcyclist
@Mousebumples:
Good morning back atcha!
I have a hard time listening to speeches, interviews, debates, etc., and just forget about podcasts, but I had no trouble staying with this one all the way through. Definitely worth the time.
Mousebumples
Mousebumples
Mousebumples
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: Subscribed to that channel, TY
Good Morning.🌻
kalakal
Mrs Kalakal is getting some great responses to her Harris/Walz Tshirt here in Pinellas County, Fl when she goes shopping. Lots of “Oh it’s so nice to see that” and some really great short convos with total strangers. For some unaccountable reason they’re always women…
sab
I am going to be very shallow here, but I am an old and slightly vain, and I really like what Ms. Harris is doing with her scarfs round her neck. I hope that becomes a fashion thing.
HinTN
@Mousebumples:
EXACTLY!
Sid
Harris is so …. normal. Only the most embittered and extreme MAGA could watch that video without having their better angel whispering that to them.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Joey Maloney
That was fun. I wish we would get to see President Kamala reading mean tweets after the election, but by then Xitter will be 100% straight-up nazi shit.
rikyrah
You wanna know how good this was for Kamala Harris to do?
Peanut told ME about it. She had watched it on YouTube before I ever suggested it to her..this is reaching an entirely different audience.
Baud
@Mousebumples:
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
rikyrah
Amelia.M (@Amelia84M) posted at 6:14 PM on Sat, Sep 21, 2024:
Kamala Harris uses sign language to say she supports ending language deprivation for deaf kids.
I love Kamala Harris.
#TrumpIsInsane
#VoteOutEveryRepublican
#UnitedWeStand #WhenWeFightWeWin #HarrisWalz
#TrumpIsAGlobalLaughingStock https://t.co/pIUVmF14hs
(https://x.com/Amelia84M/status/1837631538583720218?t=TKWMv52fPuD1X0YJt8um_Q&s=03)
rikyrah
TODAY (@TODAYshow) posted at 7:14 AM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
“Which candidate better represents change? VP Harris gets 47% to Trump’s 38%. Why is that significant? Because in a lot of ways, this is a change election. Voters have been clear they want to see change.” – @KWelkerNBC on a new @NBCNews poll that shows Harris leading overall. https://t.co/6xc6dF1r5m
(https://x.com/TODAYshow/status/1837827800616620046?t=PoSPihL6se1I0wDyR-zB7g&s=03)
rikyrah
Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) posted at 1:36 PM on Sat, Sep 21, 2024:
This is infuriatingly disingenuous. “We don’t know her positions” is a straw man and Stephens knows it. I’m pretty sure I know what her administration will look like. I won’t like some of it! But Harris must wade into an argument about Gaza or….
Or what? @SRuhle is right. /1
(https://x.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1837561667674419658?t=kBG4YgkD1KOxZ0dTQrxOdA&s=03)
Nelle
@Mousebumples: I’ve been saying exactly that. I think it shows a basic ignorance of female bodies. Again. One gets a reminder every month of the reproductive cycle. Women don’t “move on” to the next topic. Multitasking is required.
Bostondreams
@rikyrah: Tom Nichols can be a wonderfully pretentious and old school conservative ass, but I always enjoy his tweets when he does stuff like this.
Spanky
@08:55 “That was quite enjoyable!”
I LOLed
rikyrah
Propane Jane™ 🔥💣 (@docrocktex26) posted at 7:20 PM on Tue, Jun 25, 2024:
Yup, no matter which culture war they’re waging, their primary goal is still maintaining a White supremacist caste system that grants them absolute power over the life, liberty, servitude, and death of others. It’s slave master mentality and the GOP incites it 24/7, 365. https://t.co/Yk4rA4DmDl
(https://x.com/docrocktex26/status/1805757941980553511?t=iPZl4MsceDAd1n5lfNB_QA&s=03)
zhena gogolia
NYT, Todd Purdum: “Kamala Harris is good at asking questions. Answering them, not so much.” (paraphrasing because I already threw it into the trash)
rikyrah
😡😡😡😡
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) posted at 8:05 AM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
Republicans introduced 400+ anti-gay bills in state legislatures around the country in 2023, the highest number in the entire history of the United States.
“Queer icon” Chappell Roan: “both sides are the same” https://t.co/GltLSAfQ5c
(https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1837840578374971633?t=FoWFwYfoftIu_0942Q_egQ&s=03)
Belafon
@Sid: They don’t want normal. They want blacks afraid, trans and gays back in the closet, and women in their place.
hueyplong
@Sid: “Only the most embittered and extreme MAGA could watch that video without having their better angel whispering that to them.”
Pretty sure all of them can watch that video without having their better angels whispering to them, Katy.
rikyrah
Jazz (@Jazznychsp) posted at 2:24 AM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
Convinced part of this massive white journalist rush to protect nuzzi is because they are all benefiting from this type of journalism. Park slope townhouses, hamptons, Europe and pretend to be part of truth.
(https://x.com/Jazznychsp/status/1837754757428953149?t=Dh3pT1bcBJFlS5MfvpXf5Q&s=03)
Baud
@rikyrah:
@zhena gogolia:
They’re searching for a meme that sticks.
rikyrah
Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) posted at 5:49 PM on Sat, Sep 21, 2024:
It’s both stunning yet unsurprising to see journalists standing up to defend utterly indefensible behavior by Olivia Nuzzi. It’s hard to overstate the irreparable harm that journalists are doing to trust in their industry.
(https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1837625323208298836?t=Gn1QROpgRLwyjvMD3Z8ceg&s=03)
Baud
@rikyrah:
They’re probably all sexting each other too.
sab
@rikyrah: My granddaughter’s first vote was for Hillary. Granddaughter was just gutted when Hillary lost. I know the feeling. My first vote was for McGovern.
I am very much hoping this turns out differently.
eclare
That was great! Thank you, Bart. And hey, Kamala, I remember my bicycle with a banana seat too! I loved that bike.
Steve LaBonne
Iron message discipline wrapped in a warm, relatable demeanor. I confess that until this year I had no idea that she had political gifts on quite this level. And the same communication skills will help her be a very effective President.
sab
@rikyrah: So cynical and so true.
rikyrah
Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) posted at 8:00 AM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
NBC News national poll
(9/13-17, 1,000 RV, +/- 3.1)
Harris 49%
Trump 44%
(https://x.com/SteveKornacki/status/1837839374395871634?t=Q2kVGexLi9P8FrIBwFF24w&s=03)
Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) posted at 8:02 AM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
Men: Trump 52-40%
Women: Harris 58-37%
White: Trump 52-43%
Black: Harris 85-7%
Hispanic: Harris 54-35%
White, College+: 59-38% Harris
White, no degree: 61-33% Trump
(https://x.com/SteveKornacki/status/1837839882233749987?t=ioam_XStkubUuNUAAMf2dA&s=03)
Betty Cracker
Trump, who has perhaps been rejected by more women than any man in U.S. history, made a pitch directly to the fairer sex at last night’s NC rally (AP News):
They can have a miscarriage and bleed out in a hospital parking lot, all without worrying their pretty little heads about abortion because decisions are left to men like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott.
Experience tells us there are plenty of women dumb enough to buy what Trump is selling, and AP helpfully provides an example right in the article:
Julia Novotny is a goddamn moron, but I think there are legions of women who are pissed off about their states making them 2nd class citizens who will more than offset that fool’s vote.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Maybe they can get Glenn Thrush to comment.
Baud
@sab:
I hope so too, for her sake and ours. Young Hillary supporters are precious. I still see Hillary hate here and there (although a lot of appreciation too) . The elites really scored a psychological coup in 2016.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Men and white are very similar. Interesting.
BR
I agree with this and have wondered why she hasn’t talked about it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/17/harris-marijuana-legalization-trump/
eclare
@Steve LaBonne:
Agree. And the political talent and overall goodness of Tim Walz wasn’t on anyone’s radar, unless you lived in MN.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Mrs. Cletus Safari.
Mousebumples
@Nelle: also underestimates women and our own agency.
Upside – I was told by a friend a few days ago that shes registered to vote for the first time. She had can discouraged by all the WI gerrymandering (“my vote doesn’t matter”), but she succinctly told me, “Fuck the government making my decisions for me.”
Steve LaBonne
@eclare: We hit a grand slam this year. If Trump and Couchfucker can beat a ticket of this stellar quality, we’re truly screwed. Fortunately I feel better about our chances every day.
Baud
@Steve LaBonne:
It doesn’t diminish her to say that she took maximum advantage of her time as Veep to be prepared to step up. Memory is faulty, but I’m pretty sure she’s a better candidate now than she was in 2020, and she was pretty good then.
Baud
@Steve LaBonne:
Agree.
Baud
@Mousebumples:
Good for her. Always happy to hear about people who reject being treated as natural serfs.
Steve LaBonne
@Baud: Demonstrated ability to learn and grow does quite the opposite of diminishing her!
Another Scott
@rikyrah: Thanks for the numbers. I see it’s a RV rather than a LV poll. Kinda late to still be doing RV, isn’t it? I ass-u-me that we’re doing even better with the real LVs, but constructing an accurate LV poll may still be difficult.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
sab
I am happily married. I love the man in my life with all my heart. He is the center of my world.
But since Trump I go out in the world knowing that most men hate women, and I need to go out in the world knowing that. Like Ms Atwood said: Men are afraid of women because women laugh at them and women are afraid of men because men kill them.
Baud
@Steve LaBonne:
I agree. But weirdly some people think otherwise.
Steve LaBonne
@Baud: Some people are hard of thinking. Which is the reason why Trump gets more than 27% of the vote.
Baud
@sab:
Seriously, though, I wish all y’all would stop laughing to me.
BR
@Baud:
I am glad to see that the more undecided / low-info voters see of Harris, the more they like her, as seen by her net favorability and what focus groups say about her. There’ll always be haters, but this is nothing like what we’ve dealt with with past Dem nominees like Gore, Kerry, and Hillary Clinton who rightly or wrongly turned off voters.
Mousebumples
@Baud: yup. H/T to her boyfriend. He’s been pushing it. And he’s been regularly asking me for reminders on when elections are or how to vote on referedums.
Voting is your superpower!
BR
@Mousebumples:
That’s awesome. Reminds me of what Tim Walz says often “People say ‘I’m not that into politics’ — too damn bad, politics is into you.”
eclare
@Baud:
She observed Joe first hand, and she has Obama as an informal adviser. I respect people who learn as they grow older. So many people (Republicans) grow more rigid and stubborn as they age, it’s a shame.
Mousebumples
100%
I’ve probably told this story before, but when I first met now Mr. Mouse (January 2017), he made a comment of how he couldn’t wait to wake up and see what our President had done last night.
Follow up questions clarified that he was amazed at how dumpster fire things were at that point.
Mousebumples
@BR: yes! I love that framing.
Or, to get more personal – MAGA politics are inserting themselves into your doctor’s office and bedroom.
Fuck ’em.
eclare
@Steve LaBonne:
“Hard of thinking.” I am so stealing that.
Nelle
I went door to door on my street for two hours yesterday. Very hot, by the way. I’m thankful for the cool front.
I thought I was only going to registered D houses, but no, “We’re registered Independents, but strong for Democrats this year. Can you get us a Harris Walz sign like you got for those neighbors across the street?”
People wanted to talk. About their lives and why they want to volunteer, but can’t (some big health issues, work trips). About their children. About issues (women’s health, gun violence, education were the big ones yesterday).
Harris is only 4 points behind in Iowa right now. I think Walz really helps, but one guy reminded me that Iowa went for Obama. Wouldn’t it be a shock if we flipped Uber red Iowa?
pabadger
Anyone doing any text banking? I want to do text banking in addition to postcards this election but the it’s not as easy to do so with the DNC as 2020. Anyone doing texting through other organizations?
sab
OT Still shocked that one of our cats got out last night and spent ten minutes in a hostile world. Said cat is a doofus. She wouldn’t know what hostile is until a local coyote eats her.
We have on tape that she didn’t get out when the dog went out. So she went out when the dog came in.
ADT saved her life.
Baud
@Nelle: That’s nice to hear. I would love for Iowa to come back from the brink.
Mousebumples
@Nelle: thank you for your report on the ground! I went to school in Iowa, and I remember the excitement when the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. I’d love to flip Iowa!
Elizabelle
@Nelle: YOU are going to help us flip Iowa purple. Yay Nelle!
Mousebumples
@pabadger: anything at http://Mobilize.us ? that’s where I’ve found texting campaigns previously.
Eta – I see some there, including with the Working Families Party group, who I’ve worked with in past cycles. Might need to use the filters, though.
sab
@Baud: I would stop laughing if you would stop joking.
I know what you are up to.
eclare
@sab:
I am so glad you noticed her on your ADT system!
stinger
@sab: Join me!
hueyplong
@Betty Cracker: I’m not comfortable with attributing “sentient” status to anyone who calls Trump “classy.”
sab
@eclare: Me too! I love the idiotic fuzzball, but she is completely lacking in common sense.
Baud
@hueyplong:
I mean, c’mon. She’s either trolling us or herself.
BR
@Baud:
Two can play that game. I love that some Swifties are trolling MAGA by saying “I was supporting Trump, but then Taylor Swift changed my mind.”
Baud
@BR: Ha! I saw that. That’s great as trolling because it’s so horrifying to contemplate if it were real.
sdhays
@hueyplong: It’s a transcription error. Trump has always been KKKlassy, but the KKK isn’t clear when spoken.
TS
@rikyrah:
They know who would help them the most but they think they can win with trump. Double losers this lot.
p.a.
I just don’t know her policies- what she stands for.
Have you read the Party’s platform or visited her website(s)?
You can’t make me!
🤔🤬🤯
AND this^^^ is the effing MEDIA.
JML
@eclare: Running a national race is different than any other kind of campaign. Harris was a candidate I really liked in 2020, but her campaign was relatively uninspired. She’s unquestionably improved as a candidate and being on the ticket as the VP candidate and then serving as VP has undoubtedly improved her as a candidate. She was always smart and skilled, adding the national experience and seeing what you need to do to win has definitely helped her. I’m not surprised.
I’m impressed with how well Harris is handling the casual racism and sexism she’s still facing from the media and so forth. It’s got to be maddening (I’m outraged and it’s not happening to me!) but she handles it in a way that makes the perpetrators look small and sad, without actually demonizing people who deserve it.
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin’, y’all!
JML
@TS: they don’t “know” who would be best for them, and this kind of “if you only understood” argument is literally the least successful form of persuasion in political history. They’ve been inundated with propaganda telling them that others succeeding comes at a price, and that they’re the ones who pay it.
racism, resentment, fear, and grievance are a scary combination and it’s been constantly stoked and fed for the GOP and their tame media outlets. I’m not saying it’s ok by any means, but it’s hardly surprising.
Frankensteinbeck
@sab:
I’d like to add something important. Men are afraid of men because men will kill them if a woman laughs at them. As a teenage boy, get on the wrong side of the patriarchy, even just failing to be good at it, and you find out how ugly it is. Often physically and violently. I both intimately understand the vicious system that drives incels to madness and have disgust for the monsters that system created.
Another Scott
@eclare: @JML: They’re all good at messaging, and messaging is vitally important.
I like very much that Harris-Walz have taken up Biden’s hammering the importance of treating normal people with dignity and respect (1:29 video of Biden swearing in State Department people and telling them he will fire them on the spot if he sees them disrespecting anyone).
No matter how much someone can only see good in Turnp-JV, they cannot honestly say that they treat others with dignity and respect.
It’s our side’s super power.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Starfish
@rikyrah: Chappell Roan has suddenly been thrust into fame, and this is very hard on her.
Not endorsing a political candidate is the correct move for someone who is newly famous. That type of “There’s problems on both sides” comes from the young and not particularly politically engaged. It’s very much LGM’s Ariana Grande theory of politics.
TS
@JML: I cannot believe people with virtually nothing think trump will do something for them. I understand they are happy that he won’t do anything for those “others” and this gives them joy, but that’s it. They have to know only the wealthy do well with someone like trump.
Maybe I just can’t understand the level of the racism.
MinuteMan
@Joey Maloney:but by then Xitter will be 100% straight-up nazi shit.
Maybe interested will finally pass into near irrelevant though with all the embeds that keep popping up that may lie a ways in the future. Maybe POTUS Kamala can lead the way by using something else rather than lend importance to Elon Putz.
sab
@Frankensteinbeck: That is so worth knowing. Thank you. I try to avoid thinking about how men think because it is so …whatever.
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
Yay!!!!
Frankensteinbeck
@TS:
During the big push to overturn Obamacare and gut medicaid, a Kentucky woman put it eloquently. She was alive entirely because the medicaid expansion and Kynect were treating her chronic illness. She wanted Obamacare overturned because if the moochers were kicked off the system, everything would be great, meritocracy would be restored to the system, and she would get a high paying job and not need medicaid.
Steve LaBonne
@Frankensteinbeck: “She reached down and picked a crab out of a bucket. As it came up it turned out that three more were hanging on to it. “A crab necklace?” giggled Juliet.
“Oh, that’s crabs for you,” said Verity, disentangling the ones who had hitched a ride. “thick as planks, the lot of them. That’s why you can keep them in a bucket wihtout a lid. Any that tries to get out gets pulled back. yes, as thick as planks.”
Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
RevRick
@Baud: In 2020, she tried to find the nonexistent lane between Bernie on the left and the centrist candidates like Biden and Buttegieg.
eclare
@Frankensteinbeck:
I remember some woman from KY who was interviewed who said she would vote Republican til the day she died. The interviewer told her that both she and her son had health insurance due to Democrats and that Republicans would take it away. Did she still feel that way? Yes.
I wonder if it was that same woman. Then again, seems like every Cletus has been interviewed, so probably not.
rikyrah
Just a reminder
The SAVE ACT that the GOP is pushing would take away the right to vote for millions of married women 😒😒😒
Frankensteinbeck
@Steve LaBonne:
Heh. For Pratchett that has extra meaning that doesn’t hit Americans. We don’t really have the ‘getting above your station’ thing. Class consciousness is deeply embedded in British culture, and not in the class warfare or ambition to rise sense of Americans. Pratchett talks about it a lot.
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
If Bret Stephens is undecided between Trump and Harris, then I am God-Emperor of the Milky Way Galaxy. There may be some people who are undecided between one and the other, but they are people who haven’t a clue about what each of the parties stands for these days, let alone these two candidates.
I liked Tom’s followup:
That’s all it is. Anyone who actually follows politics is quite aware of the enormous chasm between the two parties on practically all major issues. Maybe one Dem differs on the details from another Dem (and the same on the other side) but >95% of the policy difference between any Democrat and any Republican is the chasm itself. Anyone who claims to be waiting for details about that last <5% isn't worth wasting time on; as Tom says, they're looking for an excuse to justify voting for their senile racist misogynist crazy man.
Another Scott
@Frankensteinbeck: I was mentioning to a friend yesterday that the way our wetware evolved to quickly see patterns in shadows and act on them was great for keeping us and our tribe from being eaten by smilodon, but not so great for logically figuring out economics and international and interpersonal relationships and planning for the future. They’re different things, and we cannot rely on truthiness and our guts to tell us what’s the better way forward. Especially when monsters continue to appeal to that older way of thinking.
I like to think that we can make the transition from plains apes to modern humans that can be less susceptible to really old thinking, but it’s a tough transition.
“You can’t reason someone out of a belief they didn’t reason themselves into.” – Anon.
Whoever figures out the best way to solve the puzzle will be the savioresss of humankind.
Have a good Sunday, everyone.
Cheers,
Scott.
rikyrah
@Nukular Biskits:
Morning 🤗
gene108
@Betty Cracker:
Almost feel sorry for what that woman’s lived through, if she thinks Trump looks good in a suit.
His suits are mind boggling ill fitted. Properly sized off the rack suits look better than what he wears.
hueyplong
@Baud: “… he looks great in a suit.”
Gotta be the double wetsuit referenced a couple of days ago. This might be shaming, but that woman’s kinks rate up there with Robinson’s.
Matt McIrvin
@RevRick: There were a lot of primary candidates running in 2020 and most of them kind of got crowded out. Bernie was still getting the left insurgent energy and once the Black Democratic base coalesced around Biden as an acceptable establishment not-Trump candidate, the rest of the race crystallized around him.
But one thing Harris did do was perform well enough in primary debates against Joe Biden to impress Joe Biden. And that turned out to be key for the future.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
As the late, great Robin Williams once said:
“Not buying the bullshit.”
“Undecided” to reich-wing clowns like Stephens is simply a dog-whistle for “I want to vote for this man but can’t actually publicize the fact that I’m a hollow shell of a person.”
Jeffro
We know people like this exist, and yet it’s still shocking when they say any one – much less ALL – of these things.
“He’s a good man” – what?
“Our country is in the dirt” – What??
“He’s classy” – WHAT IN THE HOLY CHEESE AND CRACKERS??!?
SatanicPanic
@Betty Cracker: sometimes I wonder what life is like in North Korea or some similar place where the ruler is some dude who claims to be god on earth and people believe it. MAGA world is basically already there.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Jeffro:
Well sure he’s classy, if you define somebody who puts golden toilets in his properties.
JML
@eclare: That woman in KY didn’t believe that Democrats had gotten her health insurance and didn’t believe that the GOP would take it away. She was expressing her disbelief in the messenger that was telling her something that didn’t align with her deeply embedded worldview. And this is why 45% of the country is still voting for TFG, even though we know he’s going to keep screwing most of them into the ground.
Kevin Smith was 100% right in Dogma when he talked about how tricky it was to change someone’s beliefs.
gene108
@pabadger:
I’ve done text banking for a one person running for Congress. It was organized through this https://www.mobilize.us/
Jeffg166
@Betty Cracker:
Julia Novotny is a Republican trying to sound like an independent.
Baud
@RevRick: Agree. The shadow of the 2016 primary was still affecting things.
Jackie
We’ll see…
BR
@Another Scott:
This talk from a decade back talks about how we think through things using feelings vs. models while grappling with reality and how these are in conflict and what happens when they are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGd_M_CpeDI
Betty Cracker
@gene108: I’ll never understand why his fans attribute virtues to Trump that he so obviously doesn’t possess — toughness, smarts, negotiation shrewdness, etc. But yeah, the “looks good in suits” comment jumped out at me too. It’s like praising DeSantis’s footwear!
Anoniminous
@rikyrah:
DING! DING! DING! DING!
The Internetz haz been won for the day.
BR
@Jackie:
Eh, I doubt many 60 minutes viewers are undecided voters. This is more to satisfy the media and drive their narratives. I think Harris can reach as many people on a random YouTube channel.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
This guy was Adams’ pick as interim commissioner, was from outside the NYPD, and the NYPD apparently really doesn’t like outsiders in leadership…
Cheers,
Scott.
Jeffro
ol’ Ezra spends a couple thousand words to explain two very simple things 1) trump is Project 2025 and it is him, unhinged and unleashed, and 2) that’s why every thinking American is repelled beyond belief by it
Why trump can’t shake Project 2025
(gift link)
*obviously by “conservative”, Vought means “completely unhinged”. Anyway, carry on…
Here’s a couple other long-winded explanations that tickled me:
“trump has no principles other than what’s good for trump”
Hmm…this one’s also “trump has no principles other than what’s good for trump”
and…yup, you guessed it…
Matt McIrvin
@Frankensteinbeck: We have something a bit like that in the idea of “forgetting where you came from” and the striving after authenticity. It’s more of a geographic-racial-ethnic identity thing though. All those country songs that are just about who is or is not “country”.
Nelle
@rikyrah: I had no idea that I was making my life easier when I didn’t change my name upon marriage. In 1980.
Westyny
@Baud: we’re laughing with you!
Jackie
Looks like Lindsey Graham drew the short straw to defend Robinson for the Sunday shows. He’s on MTP.
BR
The favorability numbers from the NBC poll are fascinating:
Tim Walz +7
Taylor Swift +6
Kamala Harris +3
…
Trump -13
Vance -13
Socialism -37
Project 2025 -53
https://bsky.app/profile/adambonin.bsky.social/post/3l4qqhnfhob2w
Baud
@Jackie:
“It shows the diversity of the Republican Party that even its black members strive to be Nazis.”
Anoniminous
@Jackie:
Poor Miss Lindsey. Always & forever the sub without a safe word.
sab
@rikyrah: I just spent six weeks getting my inherited right to my dad’s ira because vanguard couldn’t recognize one person (a married woman) had had two names.
I dearly love my husband, but I am very close to trotting down to the courthouse to get my maiden name back.
Also too we should get matrilinear now. All kids have their mother’s name. Father.? Who knows , who cares?
Baud
@BR:
Unfortunate that a bunch of young people decided to label their good ideas that weren’t really socialism “socialism.”
cain
@rikyrah:
All I see uneducated white men are not going to be having much of a love life.
Also interesting that this thing seems to indicate that there are more uneducated white men than any other demographic?
Otherwise after all that weight for Kamala there is only a 4% difference?
Starfish
@rikyrah: I have a sense that Nuzzi has been terrible for a long time. I don’t remember what it was, but there was a sense that she injected herself and centered herself in the stories.
I found this story where the journalist who centered herself in a story by leaving her husband to run off with pharma bro Martin Shkreli is defending Nuzzi, and this makes me laugh so much.
Anoniminous
@BR:
What I take from that is Walz gets a +1 for being male and +4 for being white and male.
Almost Retired
@sab:
Similiar experience here. My wife kept her name (after meeting my family) and her inherited IRA from her father sailed through. Her sister changed her name, and only won the battle after 6 months of “we value your call” hold time with Vanguard.
Nukular Biskits
@Baud:
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear you were DougJ!
BR
@Baud:
Walz has been doing a great job of reframing it whenever asked. Like “they’ve been banning books in school, while we’ve been feeding kids in school and banning hunger”.
Nelle
@Elizabelle: I confess a great deal of self-interest that intersects with the GOTV project. Early on in our relationship, I understood that marrying the man I did might involve a less than settled life. He’s a scientist/engineer who prizes science over bureaucracy and, after his first firing for accurate reports that made the government unhappy, he always lines up the next job when he sees the writing on the wall. Oh, one of the biggest polluters of Chesapeake Bay is a big donor to the government? Quickly get another job, then share the info with U of Maryland Law School. Rinse and repeat. We’ve lived in eight states and two countries since our marriage.
So, if I want community, I have to make it and do it quickly. I don’t just interact with my neighbors when I want their vote. When Israel began bombing Gaza, I was over at my Palestinian neighbor’s place (I am about to start talking to him about the election – we’ve left that subject alone). I need these people. We have porch wine, where people come to the big porch we have and chat. We run extra covid tests across the street when the man is sick and has run out. Plates of cookies and muffins are brought here and I give out biscotti. We all watch out for the widow with big memory loss issues. Covid hit me hard that, choose them or not, these neighbors are the closest lifelines that we may have. Certainly, they make my life better.
Today, I hope to find out why the former Moms for Liberty neighbor is now a registered D.
BR
@sab:
And now we’re hearing that that’s what the SAVE act that pastor Johnson and Trump are trying to push and want to do a government shutdown over — stopping women from voting by using name changes as a way to block voting.
lowtechcyclist
@Frankensteinbeck:
Apparently belief in One Weird Trick isn’t just a liberal thing.
Jackie
This is another reason to watch Texas this Nov:
sab
My stepdaughter was rejected by her first adoptive mother ( husband’s ex) after her own mother had died and her grandmother tossed her into fostercare.
She wants me to be her mother. I love her a lot but I am not a mother. Labelling me as such seems like an insult to her birth mother who loved her.
cain
@gene108:
She is only looking at the AI generated versions of his pics. She doesn’t actually watch the man. She probably doesn’t know any of his very vague policy positions.
Another Scott
@BR: Thanks.
Bruce is good. I have a few minor quibbles, but there’s only so much one can do in a TEX(x) talk.
(Our brains make models all the time – e.g., even before we do the thinking part of constructing our own models of how the outside world works. Understanding how those processes in our head work, their limitations, and their dangers is important.)
Cheers,
Scott.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@lowtechcyclist:
Edited for clarity.
pabadger
@Mousebumplesu: Thanks I will check things out there. No idea why Harris/Walz makes it so hard. I even emailed them.
Actually I do know why – they want to drive people to doors and phones.
Nukular Biskits
Since this is an open thread, some indication that Mississippi continues to move into the 20th century.
And, yes, I meant 20th:
A Mississippi town moves a Confederate monument that became a shrouded eyesore
BR
@Another Scott:
Yeah, implicit models are tricky and can be problematic. Especially if we get them through cultural osmosis.
UncleEbeneezer
@rikyrah: Amazing artists can also be really dumb. I put her in the same Leftier-Than-Thou camp as Tom Morello (and the rest of Rage Against The Machine) and Susan Sarandon. Hopefully she learns better but I certainly won’t hold my breath.
dc
@Betty Cracker: Classy???? Looks good in a suit???? You know who looks good in a suit and has more class than the Orange Asshole has in one cell of his awful body? Joe Biden.
Ksmiami
@Jeffg166: or a Russian asset…
Starfish
@sab: If you are parenting children, you are a parent. If you want to choose a different term to go by give space to the deceased, that is fine.
The way that we expect to ask our female leaders about their relationship to motherhood and never ask the same of men is pretty damn sexist. No one asks these dudes if they are sure they want to be President and if they will have enough time for fatherhood.
Matt McIrvin
@Nelle: I have a few elderly relatives who still can’t reconcile themselves fully to the idea of my wife having a different last name. But there aren’t many of them left.
Starfish
@Nukular Biskits: I was hoping it would be Hattiesburg that moved its stupid monument. They should also rename Forrest County while they are at it.
Scout211
Axios is reporting this morning that both Harris and Trump are in talks with CBS to be interviewed on Sixty Minutes. The interviews are to be aired back-to-back on October 7th. Both Walz and Vance are also invited.
Sister Golden Bear
@Starfish:
Roan has disclosed she’s being treated for severe depression, and her life has gotten turned upside down since getting famous.
That said, while I understand why she might not want to formally endorse anyone, just saying “both sides have problems” is…. problematic for someone who wants to be a queer icon.
Jackie
@dc: I thought you were going to say Kamala. She also looks good in ALL colors of suits – including blue – AND has much more class than The Orange Asshole! 😁
DougL
@Frankensteinbeck:
I couldn’t agree more. Much of our society is a construct of the fear we have for powerful men. Our economy is designed to reward them. We could have a much better world but about 4000 billionaire men (almost always men) stand in the way. Them and the armies of bullies and sycophants they employ. How to successfully resist the sociopaths and check their power is the goal of every successful society.
ETA: Or as Ben Franklin said, a republic if you can keep it. The keeping it is the hardest part.
Matt McIrvin
@Frankensteinbeck:
To be fair, they’re also afraid of other men laughing at them. In part because that can easily lead to worse. Or they remember worse.
I think a lot of what made dating so terrifying a thing in my youth is that I had attraction to women all muddled up with a fear of being low-status in the eyes of other boys. I also think that if I hadn’t been brought up kind of feminist, and if the whole “incel” online community had existed at that point, things could have gone much worse for me.
People sometimes wonder why men think that the grosser aspects of performative male heterosexuality are attractive to women. I don’t think they do. The audience for that stuff is other men.
Starfish
@Sister Golden Bear: The lead singer from the band “The Darkness” has a YouTube channel, and he is talking about some clips Roan made about her relationship to fame, and it feels a little like the time that Simone Biles backed out of the Olympics.
Kayla Rudbek
@sab: think of it this way: you’re a successor, not a replacement
Citizen Alan
@Jeffro: i don’t consider maga voters to be functionally human. There, I said it. I genuinely don’t recognize them as being part of the same species as me. Their brain structure are so different at a fundamental level that I feel like I would have more in common with a space alien from planet zog, provided that space alien wasn’t a misogynistic bigoted, nazi space alien.
Juju
@rikyrah: I don’t know wether Brett Stephens is really that stupid or if he’s playing stupid just to be contrarian. I lean towards just that stupid. Also, I can see why Trump is pissed at Stephanie Ruhle this weekend.
Juju
@Baud: I know that’s the first thing I consider when I vote for a candidate, how good they look in a suit. Fortunately VP Harris looks better in a suit than Trump. 😜
Splitting Image
@Juju:
I’m of the opinion that former editors at the New York Times shouldn’t get the benefit of the doubt. I consider Stephens to be dishonest, not stupid. That said, there is a point in every lie when persisting in the dishonesty makes one sound stupider and stupider.
Gloria DryGarden
@Frankensteinbeck: I am very interested in (learning about) all the ways boys and men are pressured and “ molded.”
As a woman, not in male culture much, I think there is a lot more that goes on than most women are aware of. I feel like I’m looking through a crack in the door, or seeing something out of the corner of my eye.
For awhile, I’ve been thinking about vulnerability as a quality to be encouraged, nurtured, allowed. I don’t know if it’s even safe, and I’ve started considering that perhaps vulnerability is a privilege.
I keep thinking that allowing boys and men to be present with vulnerability in themselves and their peers, would help.
I know that’s possibly naive and simplistic, but I wonder what you think will help, what we can do.
it hurts to think that even while women have been subject to misogyny, men have been subject to something also, that is devaluing, belittling, dehumanizing.
Ruckus
@Belafon:
That to them IS normal. They are OLD school, everything is controlled, freedom is silly and dangerous.
Some people need guidance to exist, either their functional brains are so small or so deluded as to what reality is that they need 4 walls and a roof so that they can’t see much of the outside world because they can’t believe/understand reality. They may have been told for their entire lives that the world only works one way and this ain’t it. Some people like to be controlled, then they don’t have to actually think or be responsible.
David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch
Isn’t Brett Stephens a bedbug?
pabadger
@gene108: thanks! I will check it out.