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  2. 2.

    The Audacity of Krope

    Get your friends, get your siblings, get that guy at the end of the train who’s always on his headphones. Ask em to vote, help em vote, figure out why they may be reluctant to vote and see if you can address it.

    This isn’t a sportsball game. A bigger win means bigger influence for your own values. Run up the score, baby.

  3. 3.

    H.E.Wolf

    Happy birthday to MVP, and let’s keep going with joy, determination, and one small, concrete action at a time.

    Nov. 5 for birthday gifts!

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    There’s an unbridgeable gap in the Venn diagram between NotMax and religion. Doesn’t mean, however, I can’t appreciate this lady’s impeccable comic sensibility.
    :)

  12. 12.

    lowtechcyclist

    We’re celebrating my wife’s 60th birthday today with brunch at Julep in Annapolis. Figured we couldn’t compete with MVP’s 60th birthday celebration, so we’re doing something a bit more relaxed. :-)

  13. 13.

    dr. bloor

    I think it’s important Harris wins battleground states big, & wins states like TX & FL so it’s harder for Trump to claim he won but it was stolen

    After all this time, Houle can’t quite grok the paranoid mindset.  If Harris wins Texas and Florida, the MAGAzombies will point to that as stone cold proof that the election was stolen.

  16. 16.

    Geminid

    One reason I want Harris to win Florida is I’m sick and tired of hearing people here asking Floridians, “WHY haven’t you LEFT that HELLHOLE!”

    If Harris takes Florida, it’ll be more like, “Way to hang there, Florida Democrats. We KNEW you could do it!”

  20. 20.

    dr. bloor

    @Elizabelle: I would, but six of them are sitting on the SCOTUS and seemingly open to entertain any kind of fuckery that falls out of TFG’s piehole.

  21. 21.

    Another Scott

    @WaterGirl: Google tells me there are 759 billionaires in the USA.  If we’re going to have the travesty of Citizens United v. FEC and all the rest, then the other 749 or so of them should step up and not let those noisy 10 or so who want to bring back the Dark Ages and feudalism impose their monstrous views on all the rest of us.

    We need better elites. – Kay

    Where our better elites at??

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  22. 22.

    sab

    @Geminid: Florida may be a political hellhole, but inland Florida rivers are heavenly when it isn’t hurricane season. Manatees paddling about. Clearest water ever. Big birds.

  27. 27.

    MP

    I was at the Harris rally in Atlanta last night. I wasn’t planning on going, but my wife and 12 year old daughter found out we had an invite and told me in no uncertain terms I had no say in the matter.

    I’m really glad I went. I find myself getting sucked into the daily maelstrom of news and polls seemingly headed in the wrong direction, so being amidst a diverse crowd of thousands all working towards a common purpose was a balm. The speakers we saw – Ossoff, Usher and Tyler Lee, a high school senior that introduced her – were all great and Harris was sharp, assured and on-point. About a third of the way through her speech, I saw on Blue Sky that Fox had cut away from Trump’s genital discourse and was showing the Harris rally. The contrast between her and Trump could not have been more stark.

    Harris said last night that the race was incredibly close, but that we would win. After seeing her in person, after seeing the energy of thousands in this swing state willing to do the work and after the side-by-side with Trump, I think she’s right.

  28. 28.

    narya

    I still have some postcard stamps, so it looks like today needs to include postcard-writing. I’ve mostly written for Deluzio in PA and Sherrod Brown; maybe I’ll add some today for the Michigan judges. Early in-person voting starts tomorrow, and I may join Downstairs Neighbor and some other local rabble rousers to vote on the first day.

  30. 30.

    lowtechcyclist

    @MagdaInBlack:

    @lowtechcyclist: As I do, I checked the menu and I’m going with the Brisket Hash. Happy Bday to your wife 🌻

    Thanks, I’ll pass that on!  I think I’m going with the pulled pork Benedict. I don’t know what my wife and son will have, but my wife and I will both be having mimosas.  (The kid’s 17, so no mimosas for him!)

  34. 34.

    206inKY

    I’m guessing the early vote partisan split might start to freak out some folks, especially Jon Ralston’s highly reliable read on Nevada. But I think any early vote shift toward Republicans is a mirage generated by the cult-like nature of the MAGA crowd. What I see in my town is lots of Harris signs and a smaller number of Trumpers that have gone completely overboard. The photo of the house in Orion Township, MI, in the NYT article on “Door-Knocks, Texts, and Ads, Ads, Ads” is what a couple houses here look like. Totally overboard, but not an index of breadth of support.

    I think the cultists will show up early, scare everyone, but the rumbling power of Dobbs and the Harris campaign will overwhelm them by election day.

  36. 36.

    gkoutnik

    @206inKY: Plus floods of postcards in the mail, or to be mailed Thursday (including my 200), reminding Nevada Dems to make a plan and vote.

  39. 39.

    JML

    Happy birthday to MVP. Only birthday present she wants is a win in this election.

    I really hope that the ground game is worth 1-3 pts…and that the grifter BS the GOP is doing for theirs blows up in their face spectacularly, while the always refining, always improving, data-driven and volunteer powered ground game from the Democrats powers us to wins in races people thought we were going to lose and flips a state no one saw coming.

  47. 47.

    Chief Oshkosh

    I mean, happy birthday MVP, but I’m really here to discuss pro golfers genitalia, a hitherto completely undervalued aspect of our politics. Sure Arnie Palmer is hung like a horse, but what about Sam Snead? Dude had a persimmon head

    ETA: and a hickory shaft!

  49. 49.

    lowtechcyclist

    @MagdaInBlack: ​
     

    So many good choices! Shrimp and grits would have been my second, or maybe the chicken and waffles.

    There will be a side order of bacon, because what is a Sunday brunch without bacon?

  50. 50.

    oldgold

    So far, MVP and her team have done a great job campaigning.

    Of course, no campaign is perfect. The two weeks following the debate could have been more productive in terms of media presence and I am still baffled why more has not been made of the Short-Fingered Vulgarian’s atrocious response to Covid. It is the antidote to the false claim Trumplethinskin is selling that his 4 year term was a golden era.

    Still, all things considered, MVP and her team have run a stellar campaign.

  51. 51.

    TBone

    President Obama confirms that he handed over a playbook to Donold that was swiftly shitcanned, resulting in the deaths of over 400,000 fellow citizens.

    x.com/YNB/status/1848003514670207098

    “400,000 people would’ve been alive if Donald Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him.”

  59. 59.

    Spanky

    @Chief Oshkosh: The Pittsburgh Trib-Review sanewashed his rambles with the headline “Trump reminisces about Arnold Palmer, boasts steelworkers’ praise at Unity rally”. Unity being the township he polluted yesterday.

  60. 60.

    Jinchi

    @Another Scott: the other 749 or so of them should step up and not let those noisy 10 or so who want to bring back the Dark Ages and feudalism impose their monstrous views on all the rest of us.

    It’s good odds that at least half of that number are also feudalism-curious.

  61. 61.

    Marmot

    @Geminid:

    One reason I want Harris to win Florida is I’m sick and tired of hearing people here asking Floridians, “WHY haven’t you LEFT that HELLHOLE!”

    TX Dem here. I’m sick to death of that, but I’m happy to point out that there’s almost none of that here anymore, and way less of it elsewhere. I think everyone finally realized we’re all fighting the same battle on different fronts.

    If Harris takes Florida, it’ll be more like, “Way to hang there, Florida Democrats. We KNEW you could do it!”

    Way to hang in there, Geminid! Y’all can do it!

  63. 63.

    Geminid

    It’s Election Day in Kurdish Iraq. Voters to the polls in the four Iraq provinces controlled by the Kurdish Regional Government will elect a President and 100 members to the regional parliament. According to Saudi-based Al Arabiya, the KDP controlled by the Barzani clan and the PUK contolled by the Talibanis are expected to dominate and continue their power-sharing agreement.

  66. 66.

    JPL

    @Baud: I put on Meet the press and Welker wanted to talk about why Kamala wasn’t campaigning with Biden.   Click

    I did watch Jake try to take down slimmy Rep. Johnson about whether or not it was okay for trump to be talking about penis size.

  69. 69.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @oldgold:

    and I am still baffled why more has not been made of the Short-Fingered Vulgarian’s atrocious response to Covid. It is the antidote to the false claim Trumplethinskin is selling that his 4 year term was a golden era.

    Totally agreed. Twice I’ve had to point that out to Trumpers. Their eyes just glaze over. Hell, the mother of one of them died from Covid in 2020 and somehow it’s both Biden’s fault and fake news because Covid was a scam for docs to make money.

    You know, the tech-bro millions may be onto something with this idea of turning MAGAs into goo…

  71. 71.

    lowtechcyclist

    My lady thanks everyone for their good wishes, and is both amused and delighted that this thread has, to a nontrivial degree, turned into a discussion of Julep’s menu!

  72. 72.

    TBone

    A poem for VP Harris on her birthday:

    You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies,

    you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

    Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom?

    Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells pumping in my living room.

    Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise.

    Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, weakened by my soulful cries?

    Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard

    Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines diggin’ in my own backyard.

    You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.

    Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise that I dance like I’ve got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs?

    Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise! Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise!

    I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise!

    Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise!

    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise.

    – Maya Angelou

  73. 73.

    Baud

    @JPL:

    I know Harris hasn’t completely ignored mainstream media except the NYT (yay!), but future Dems really need to keep on the path of finding an alternative.

  74. 74.

    KatKapCC

    Happy birthday, Madame Veep! Hope the country will give you a wonderful, slightly belated gift…

  75. 75.

    JPL

    @Baud: Jake was discusted with Johnson’s answers but not sure of his viewership.    Johnson told Jake it wasn’t necessary to repeat that word though.   He’s offended by the word penis but not the head of the ticket.

  78. 78.

    brendancalling

    I am, right now, at a Harris rally in Philly, featuring AOC. Afterward, I’m canvassing for an hour or two. GOTV!

    Following that, some grading (ugh) then podcast editing. We gotta win this!

  79. 79.

    trnc

    For anyone wondering how the transition planning is going for both campaigns, it’s about what you would expect.

    By September 1, both campaigns were expected to sign a memorandum of understanding with the GSA that gives them access to office space, communications, equipment and IT support. The campaigns are also expected to submit an ethics plan and to identify the initial people who would need security clearances to begin receiving classified information during a transition.

    “To date, GSA has entered into an MOU with the Harris transition team outlining the terms for space and services, and is prepared to provide services to the Trump transition team once an MOU is executed and services are accepted,” a GSA spokesperson said.

    The Harris team has also submitted its ethics plan; the Trump team has not.

    I wonder in particular how classified material will be handled if Trump signs what he is supposed to.

  83. 83.

    TBone

    @lowtechcyclist:

    It was just a general heads up, because I saw the word “waffles.” Any restaurant that would use frozen waffles shouldn’t be allowed to call themselves a restaurant!

  84. 84.

    sdhays

    @JPL: Johnson’s *son probably got a notification on his p**n app today that old Mikey was searching for some pictures that had nothing to do with iced tea and lemonade (until this morning, I didn’t know that “Arnold Palmer” was a person and not just a drink).

  88. 88.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jinchi: ​
     

    I think they were all too busy trying to prevent a transition from occurring to cooperate with Biden’s transition planners.

  89. 89.

    Another Scott

    @trnc: I saw a story a while ago that said various ethics rules and reporting requirements apparently kick in once they sign the transition office paperwork.  So that’s why they haven’t done so.

    True?  No idea.  But 100% on-brand…

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  90. 90.

    jimmiraybob

    @sdhays: “I didn’t know that “Arnold Palmer” was a person and not just a drink.”

    The things you learn from God’s anointed savior.

  91. 91.

    Barbara

    @sdhays: ​ Really? I am from Pittsburgh and my dad caddied at the Oakmont Country Club around the same time that Palmer played there as a course professional, but I kind of thought his celebrity went beyond his sport — I mean, that’s why his name is on the drink!

  92. 92.

    Wapiti

    @TBone: Wow. Thanks! I have some Kodiak waffles in the freezer that I bought just this week. (Lot number and best by date match) Guess I’ll drag them back to the store.

  94. 94.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    On my morning walk in my white, well-off suburb of Chicago, I saw one Trump sign, two Harris signs, and another sign that said “Never forget the Jan. 6 assault on the capitol.” I also saw signs for local and state offices that had no presidential sign in sight. I don’t know if they were hiding their presidential preferences of just didn’t want to buy a sign.

  95. 95.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Ksmiami: Exactly. Combine the absence of inheritance taxes with the gutting of all regulating of campaign contributions, and you have real problems that then compound because the very rich are able to further structure the law.

  99. 99.

    Michael Bersin

    It is the season in Missouri. Homecoming parades. This week – the University of Missouri. Yesterday I got up at 1:30 a.m., was picked up at 2:30 a.m., drove to Sedalia, arrived at 3:00 a.m., switched vehicles – a truck towing a parade trailer, drove to Columbia, arrived at our first staging area at 4:30 a.m., slept for about 45 minutes on the open bed of the flatbed trailer [see, Josh Hawley (r), resident Missourians know the difference], arrived at the second staging area at 5:30 a.m., photographed the proceedings as the trailer was hitched to the candidate’s truck (the “Eladmobile” – Elad Gross is the Democratic Party candidate for Missouri Attorney General), rode to the assigned parade line-up spot, photographed the trailer/float final assembly, waited for the 8:00 a.m. start – we started rolling later, sat in the bed of the truck and photographed the parade and candidates, returned to the second staging area to disassemble the float and stow it on the trailer, ate lunch with a group of volunteers, rode the original truck towing the trailer back to Sedalia, dropped off a pair of 4 x 8 Elad Gross (D) signs, then proceeded back to Warrensburg to drop the truck and trailer (with stored float parts) at the staging area – in the lot of a private home near the start of next Saturday’s homecoming parade at the University of Central Missouri, drove back to Sedalia to get the first vehicle, dropped the driver off, and arrived back in Warrenburg at 4:30 p.m.

    I took over 1100 frames at homecoming. It was a sunny day, good light. A Canon 5D III with a Tamron 150-600 mm lens, and a Canon 5D III with a 50 mm lens. I switched between the two throughout the parade.

    The result (with additional links):

    Elad Gross (D) – University of Missouri Homecoming Parade – Columbia, Missouri – October 19, 2024

  100. 100.

    Another Scott

    @NotMax: Little tiny tie.  You know what that means…

    It’s kinda surprising that boxers and baseball players and football players and swimmers didn’t wear ties back then.  It seems like just about everyone else did all the time.

    ;-)

    Thanks!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  101. 101.

    Betty

    @dr. bloor: That’s what I was thinking. It doesn’t matter by how much she wins according to the true believers. Still need to win big in spite of that.

  102. 102.

    TBone

    Arnold Palmer thoughts on Donold:

    “My dad didn’t like people who act like they’re better than other people. He had no patience for people who are dishonest and cheat. My dad was disciplined. He wanted to be a good role model. He was appalled by Trump’s lack of civility and what he began to see as Trump’s lack of character.

    One moment stood out in her mind from the 2016 campaign, when Mr. Palmer saw Mr. Trump on television: “My dad made a sound of disgust — like ‘uck’ or ‘ugg’ — like he couldn’t believe the arrogance and crudeness of this man who was the nominee of the political party that he believed in,” she recalled. “Then he said, ‘He’s not as smart as we thought he was.’”

    jefftiedrich.com/p/shh-dont-wake-the-elderly-golfer

  106. 106.

    Kathleen

    @WaterGirl: I think that video is from her primary campaign. One of the reasons Peggy Noonan sniffed she was not serious because she danced and laughed.

  108. 108.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    I can’t believe more isn’t being made about TCFG’S dance party playlist…you have a lowbrow person’s version of highbrow music (Ave Maria is classic but he also played Andrea Boccelli who is like pop pseudo opera) and then a bunch of music that codes gay, including The Village People and show tunes. Then yesterday he spent some time talking about men showering with other men and checking out each other’s junk.

    I’ve been told that bros like Trump out of cultural affinity but none of that codes to a country music listening pickup truck driving manly man who makes his living with his hands. Seems like some of those guys should turn on him over his taste in music. I know it’s trivial but they focus on all kinds of trivial stuff.

    It’s more Frazier Crane and Will and Grace than Last Man Standing.

  110. 110.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @JPL: I put on Meet the press and Welker wanted to talk about why Kamala wasn’t campaigning with Biden.

    Uh…she has been? But he has a pretty big job to do, too.

    Click

    Right choice.

  114. 114.

    frosty

    @Geminid: Of course it’s one of your favorites! As seen on a T-shirt:

    EXERCISE

    …EX…ER…CISE

    …EX…AR…SIZE

    …EGGS…ARE…SIDES

    …FOR BACON…

    BACON!

  123. 123.

    japa21

    @Baud: I am hoping BC doesn’t just let Badger and Pete go roaring in without thoroughly checking out the premises before entering.

  130. 130.

    trnc

    @Jinchi: Didn’t the TFG administration also refuse to meet with Biden’s transition staff in 2020.

    I know they sandbagged it big time, but don’t remember the details.

  132. 132.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Ruckus: I just achieved that. My car got totaled and I put the buy-out into an apartment rather than a car. Closer to work, pay almost nothing for transportation, losing weight in a walkable neighborhood. I couldn’t have made a better choice.

  137. 137.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @JPL:

    I did watch Jake try to take down slimmy Rep. Johnson about whether or not it was okay for trump to be talking about penis size.

    He was incredibly graphic with Johnson who didn’t bat an eye.

    I am beginning to think, and hear me out, Trump

    A. Doesn’t really want to win the Presidency, just wants to keep making the grift dollars to pay his legal bills and whine about everything being so unfair

    B. The Republicans already have a plan in place to put JD Vance either in de facto charge or to push Trump out and replace him if he’s elected which is why they’re so serene about his increasingly bizarre rally behavior.

    I saw “B.” in Mikey J’s “secret Constitutional Christian with magical plan from God” look when he answered Tapper’s question. 

    They don’t expect Trump to be President for any longer than he needs to be….

    I think we need to see more talk about this on the campaign trail in in the news. A vote for Trump is really a vote for JD Vance

  139. 139.

    Ruckus

    @The Audacity of Krope:

    Mine might/would be a gift to everyone else.

    Where I live we have a rather good city transport van service for old farts. And for going to the doc I take an electric train. 45 miles for 30 cents – adult fare. The bus on each end is 50 cents. That may go up slightly in the near future. The car is 3-4 gallons round trip. Gas near me is pennies under $4/gal

  141. 141.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Ruckus: Where I live we have a rather good city transport van service for old farts.

    I love this. Under a former employer, where we worked on hospital readmission prevention, I used to arrange that kind of transport for folks our pharmacists thought could use the assistance. Few things about that job made me happier.

    Unfortunately, it also gave me a front seat view of one town dismantling their program for lack of funding.

    And for going to the doc I take an electric train. 45 miles for 30 cents – adult fare. The bus on each end is 50 cents. That may go up slightly in the near future. The car is 3-4 gallons round trip. Gas near me is pennies under $4/gal

    Those are actually phenomenal rates. In Boston, they’re about $1 for the bus, $3 for the train, $6 for the train yonder.

    But I get my $22 weekly pass for unlimited use.

  142. 142.

    RaflW

    Here’s a really random question, based on the discussion upthread on shrimp and grits (yum!).

    On both my recent longhaul flights, the lunch/dinner featured what Delta called “creamy polenta”. It was light and fluffy in a way I’d never had it before — though technically I’d actually not call it creamy! I am usually sort of so-so on grits/polenta, though as I say above, a good shrimp n grits at a good restaurant is great.

    Anyone have a clue how to get that fluffy texture? I’ve never encountered it before. I’d love to be able to recreate that.

  146. 146.

    Geminid

    @Booger: I get the shrimp and grits snd other good meals at the Hunt Country Store, opposite Foxfield. It’s on my way to and from Inglecress subdivision where I work a couple days a week.

  148. 148.

    Memory Pallas

    @Ella in New Mexico:

    I wouldn’t discount a plan to really make JD Vance president. But I actually think Republicans go through this Sunday show take-down process for a different reason. They have to squirm and look foolish but they often get the last word as a consolation prize (unless they are so combative that thay get shut down completely.)

    Mike Johnson successfully got out a whole completely unrelated message, that Kamala Harris is too weak on the world stage (cause woman) by saying that’s what Trump “really meant”.

  149. 149.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax: Any idea what year that’s from? Cagney looks very young.

     

    ETA: 1931. My grandpa might have been taking stills. He retired the following year.

  150. 150.

    Anoniminous

    Trump’s ever increasing obvious mental incompetence will lose him some votes. With Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin on the knife edge, based on 2016 and 2020 results, that’s good news for John McCain Harris.​

  152. 152.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ksmiami: The good news is Elon is a self stopper.

    It’s pretty amazing how society rewards useless idiots just because they go to the correct parties, but such is the world.

  153. 153.

    Annie

    @sab:

    and alligators and humidity.

    I have relatives in a rural part of central Florida.  They are afraid to post Harris walz signs.  A restaurant in their area was driven out of business when the place was rented to the local Democratic Party for a meeting.  And Milton did not spare them.

  154. 154.

    trnc

    @Ella in New Mexico:

    I am beginning to think, and hear me out, Trump

    A. Doesn’t really want to win the Presidency, just wants to keep making the grift dollars to pay his legal bills and whine about everything being so unfair

    Winning is the only way to shut down the federal investigations, plus I’m sure it will make it impossible for NY and EJC to collect any of their judgements.

  155. 155.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Michael McDonald (not the Doobies’ singer) on Twitter:

    1.3 million Georgians have voted. That’s 26% of the 5 million that voted in 2020, 55% of them are women
    In NC, nearly 1 million have voted (they began in-person voting 2 days later than GA), that’s 17% of the 2020 turnout, 52% of them are women
    You have to get into the voter reg weeds to appreciate in NC gender is optional on voter reg forms. 0.5% of Georgians have a missing/other record compared to 5.6% in North Carolina If we look at differences in gender turnout women vs. men GA: women +9.5 points NC: women +8.5

    In Michigan, 1 million people have voted which is 12% of the 2020 turnout
    Women are 56% of those who voted

    *the file I use for gender stats is from Friday

    In the battleground states where I can produce voting statistics by gender we are seeing robust women engagement. In GA (where I have data I can compare to 2020), levels are similar to 2020 (55.2% women overall of early voters)

    My usual caveats apply: we don’t yet know how voting will play out. We still have time to go. I think the best information that can be drawn at this point is the probability of a big polling miss favoring Trump is shrinking. This looks like what Harris needs to be competitive

  157. 157.

    wjca

    @WaterGirl: The American oligarchs are really showing their asses this year.

    After a Harris win, they are likely to discover that their behavior this election cycle was the proximate cause of the end of Gilded Age II.  Which, for all the pain they are causing right now, will be a blessing.

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