Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Motown is Joe-Town!

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

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  2. 2.

    Dangerman

    @libraryguy: You are ready to drive in LA, with the notable exception that a proper “commentary on driving skills” in LA is a double barrel blast while driving with your knees.

    ETA: Also, horn. The shortest time duration discovered by science is the time in LA from the light turning green to the hole behind honking his or her horn if you don’t hit the gas. It’s almost always a Guy, however.

    Yes, I am an LA refugee.

  3. 3.

    pacem appellant

    OT. The elder teen has pneumonia :-( Poor thing is having rough autumn. First influenza, now this. They are so bummed to missing school and their activities. Younger teen has retained his his health, and is happily taking advantage of sickness in the house to play Civ VI all day.

  7. 7.

    KrackenJack

    Sadly Cali – or at least the county I live in – has done the fiscally responsible thing and printed the same boring sticker year after year. At one point I had a ring of them on the wall behind my chair like the EU flag. Raised some questions on my video calls.

  13. 13.

    Harrison Wesley

    Here in Manatee County they have some sort of school competition for the election-sticker design.  I think it’s a nice idea, but they should put a bit more thought into the adhesive – I wore mine to the Wednesday voter greeting and the wind blew it off and away as soon as I stepped off the bus.  No biggie; a very minor annoyance.

  14. 14.

    Chet Murthy

    @pacem appellant: SF’s this cycle is very colorful, with lots of SF-specific artwork.  I love it!  I put it on the center of the top lid of my laptop, where I always put my “I voted” stickers.  Sadly, since I never go to coffeeshops anymore, I can’t show it off.  Sigh.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    WG, just sent you a photo of my sticker, with my commentary if you care to include it. It’s neither cute nor clever, but it’s very nice.

  18. 18.

    Chet Murthy

    @WaterGirl:  that is a completely adorable sticker.  I want to save at the animal’s a dog, but with the whiskers it doesn’t seem like. Maybe a mouse? Or a rat?

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    One bummer about voting by mail is that you don’t get a sticker. They should enclose one with the ballot, dammit!

    As I mentioned in a prior thread, I’m watching college football, and there are wall-to-wall political ads. I flip Trump and Rick Scott off every time their hideous mugs appear onscreen.

    @pacem appellant: That sucks! Hope the kid recovers quickly!

  20. 20.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I hate TFGs voice. I’m going to have to turn off the news if he wins. He’s got such an ugly snivelling fake asshole movie voice.

  24. 24.

    Stacy

    @WaterGirl: It’s an opossum, ubiquitous in Richmond and the city’s unofficial mascot. My daughter votes by mail and Virginia sends out the standard state-shaped voter sticker with the ballot. She’s miffed that she missed out on this one. A Virginia Commonwealth University arts student’s winning design.

  26. 26.

    West of the Rockies

    So the Iowa poll drops at six tonight?  Supposedly it may show Harris with a 1 point lead according to late-night BJ chatter

    Man, if Chumpo loses Iowa…

  27. 27.

    Jackie

    @Betty Cracker:

    One bummer about voting by mail is that you don’t get a sticker. They should enclose one with the ballot, dammit!

    WA state actually inclosed an I Voted! sticker with our VBM ballot! First time ever! I’m saving mine to wear on Election Day 😊

  35. 35.

    Kent

    @Jackie:WA state actually inclosed an I Voted! sticker with our VBM ballot! First time ever! I’m saving mine to wear on Election Day 😊

    HEY!   We didn’t get any with our mail-in ballots down here in Clark County.  Maybe it is on a county-by-county basis.

  37. 37.

    ArchTeryx

    Following up from a dead thread…

    @Tony Jay, maybe one day I’ll be able to play a round with you. Then you can have the pleasure of beating my arse, too. I’m so very rusty.

    I also don’t blame you for clinging to your wallet and whimpering in a corner when confronted with the words “Games Workshop” and “army” in the same sentence.

  45. 45.

    JaySinWA

    @Betty Cracker: King County WA does send out a sticker now. They had lame I Voted images online to copy and paste earlier in the primary, I am not seeing them now.

  48. 48.

    JaySinWA

    @opiejeanne: Ours was at the top left of the info sheet on where to drop your ballot.

    ETA I sent WG a photo, so maybe you can crib that one for online use.

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    Subaru Diane:
    Over the 40 years that I’ve been voting in Georgia, it’s been interesting and encouraging to see the text change. For years it was English only. Then, perhaps 10-15 years ago, they added Spanish. And now the sticker says “I VOTED” in five tongues — English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and two Asian languages I am unfamiliar with (Japanese and Mandarin, perhaps? I know several commenters will provide the correct information). It’s a kick to see Officialdom be so deliberately inclusive. Not what I would have predicted for this state, and I’m happy to have been wrong.
  53. 53.

    Jager

    A friend of mine is an amputee. He has a new titanium prosthesis. His sticker is on his new “leg.”

  57. 57.

    The Up and Up

    To my knowledge not all WA counties have enclosed voting stickers in the VBM envelopes. It was the campaign promise for one candidate to restore them as auditor for elections as they had fond memories of wearing them.

  59. 59.

    hrprogressive

    For once, I am jealous of Richmond – that sticker looks great. My locality isn’t doing anything that cute.

  61. 61.

    👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀

    Here’s where the candidates are today:

    Where’s Donald Trump? In Gastonia, North Carolina, for a campaign rally at 12 p.m. ET. Then he will travel to Salem, Virginia, for a campaign rally at 4 p.m. ET. He will return to North Carolina for a rally in Greensboro at 7:30 p.m. ET.

    Where’s JD Vance? In Las Vegas, Nevada, for a campaign rally at 10 a.m. PST. In the afternoon, he will travel to Scottsdale, Arizona, for another campaign rally at 1:30 MST.

    Where’s Kamala Harris? In Atlanta, Georgia, for a campaign rally at 1:25 p.m. ET, with guests including director Spike Lee and singer Victoria Monét. Then she will travel to Charlotte, North Carolina, for another campaign rally at 5 p.m. ET, featuring singers Bon Jovi and Khalid.

    Where’s Tim Walz? In Las Vegas, Nevada, for a political event with actress Eva Longoria at 9:15 a.m. PST. Then he will travel to Flagstaff, Arizona, for a campaign rally at 1 p.m. MST before going to another campaign rally in Tucson, Arizona at 4:30 p.m. MST.

  63. 63.

    Geoduck

    @Jackie: As already noted, here in WA state getting a sticker with your all-mail-in vote is determined by your county, not the state. My county, Thurston, included one depicting the state capitol dome.

  66. 66.

    Harrison Wesley

    @Betty Cracker: Going by voter registration, Manatee isn’t exactly a hotbed of Democrats.  Not only outnumbered by Republicans by almost 2X1, but outnumbered by “Other.”

  69. 69.

    Mousebumples

    Just sent this to WaterGirl, but I figure I’ll post it here, too. (also linked on bsky, for anyone who follows me there)

    Dan Shafer put out a long read on my neck of the woods (NE WI), and it included some quotes from the Green Bay area candidates we had in the downballot thermometer.

    https://www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/joy-desperation-fox-valley-wisconsin-election-2024

    I was there to meet with two candidates for State Assembly — Ryan Spaude (running in the 89th) and Christy Welch (running in the 88th). We sat down at a table in the building’s basement, in a wood-paneled room that felt much like any church basement you might find in the region.

    I asked Welch about how she was feeling the day after the campaign rally.

    “I heard a phrase last night that I like,” she said. “I was saying ‘cautiously optimistic,’ but now ‘nauseously optimistic.’… That’s a better summary of my feelings. You obviously don’t ever want to take anything for granted based on how you’re feeling. And there’s not a ton of real-time data to be able to look at. So we’re just nauseously optimistic, doing what we need to do.”

    Earlier that morning, a few blocks away, I’d met with Kristin Lyerly, an OB/GYN who is running for Congress, at a coffee shop on Broadway. She’d been one of the speakers at the Harris rally the night before, stepping out to a huge ovation. She talks about people being ready for this moment, comparing it to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, “but,” she adds, “with a hint of desperation.”

    The nausea in the optimism, the desperation in the joy. Green Bay area Democrats understand all too well just how precarious this moment is for their community, and for the state at large.

    There’s plenty more (it’s long!), but I think that nauseous optimism is how I’m feeling, so l am totally stealing that term until we know the outcome got Tuesday.

  72. 72.

    Mousebumples

    Also, on topic, we got an I Voted sticker to vote by mail in 2020 during the pandemic. Never since. 😕

  77. 77.

    sixthdoctor

    Some of my coping/self-medicating mechanisms for the upcoming week:

    Non-destructive – Trying to learn this bass line. It helps that I’m not very good and this is way above my range as a casual player. There’s also this helpful tutorial to break it down.

    Focusing on happy memories. To me that’s remembering that morning four years ago when I was letting out the dog in the backyard and seeing that notification on my phone that Trump had COVID. Oh, I felt like Scrooge being told it was Christmas Day by a street urchin…

    Fun/destructive – I have learned that peanut butter whisky eggnog exists, and I may be mainlining that Tuesday night…

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    From RSA:

    Maryland holds contests for “I voted” sticker design, with an elementary school, middle school, and high school winner.  Here are the digital stickers this year.
    They are all so good – which ones are which?
  88. 88.

    winfran

    Hi @WaterGirl: I just emailed you the sticker that came with my mail-in ballot in Colorado but it bounced back to me. What’s your email?

  90. 90.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: I got a sticker like that Thursday when I voted early at the Greene County, Virginia registrar’s office, except it had “2024” at the bottom.

    Some Republican must own the property opposite the registrar’s office, because it was full of signs for Trump, Senate candidate Hung Cào and House candidate Derrick Anderson.

    There were also handmade signs saying “Vindman is a Globalist Shill” and “Vindman 4 Endless War.” Eugene Vindman is the Democrat running in the 7th CD. The seat is open this year because Rep. Abigail Spanberger is retiring in order to focus on her 2025 campaign for Governor.

  91. 91.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @John S.:

    Thank you. I thought I would recognise written Korean because of all the Korean church signs I’ve driven past over the past several decades, but the characters on the sticker appeared more complex than what I’ve seen.

  94. 94.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Back from canvassing.  A lot of people weren’t home, but those I talked to were very enthused and pro-Dem.

  95. 95.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Chet Murthy:

    I am always thrilled to see the demographic diversity in my part of metro Atlanta, and it really warms my heart to see that diversity acknowledged on something as mundane as a voting sticker. That kind of normalising, of mainstreaming, is very important IMO.

  100. 100.

    Scout211

    @HumboldtBlue:In California, you do.

    It’s by county.  We did not get one in the mail.

    I just looked it up and my county actually had an “I voted” sticker contest for students but the winning sticker would only be given out at in-person polling places.

  101. 101.

    AM in NC

    @Betty Cracker:  Here in Durham Co. NC, they DID include a sticker with my son’s absentee ballot.  We were so pleased to see it, as this was his first time voting. The stickers are great: NO BULL, I VOTED! With a bull’s head outlined on the sticker (We are Bull Durham, you see).

  102. 102.

    sixthdoctor

    @Anoniminous: Thank you! I will check out more Abraham Laboriel; that track was one of those where half of me wants to practice for hours on end and the other half of me wants to give up and sell all my instruments on eBay because there’s no bloody way I’ll ever reach those heights…

  108. 108.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    We get the boring standard I voted stickers.  I have a 1/2 day on Tuesday so I’m taking my daughter out of school for about 20 minutes to accompany me.  She needs to partake in this historical election.  She will remember the day long after i am  gone. We’ve gone 1st thing on the morning the last 2 presidential elections but our schedules are much different now. We got this!

  109. 109.

    John S.

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    They do this thing where they stack characters which can get pretty confusing. Allegedly it’s the easiest Asian written language to learn, but I still had a hell of a time when I was in Seoul earlier this year.

  110. 110.

    Melancholy Jaques

    I’ve been living in Southern California since 1999 and the number of presidential campaign TV ads I’ve seen this cycle outnumbers all previous cycles combined. I’m used to almost no TV ads in the presidential race and only a smattering in congressional races. Same thing with my congressional district Rollins against corrupt election denier Calvert. I watch sports. It another ad every other commercial break.

  111. 111.

    BlueGuitarist

    Any Arizona juicers have good stickers?
    Heard Pima county has trilingual English, Spanish, and Tohono O’odham;
    Coconino County: English, Navajo, Hopi, and Spanish.

  112. 112.

    sixthdoctor

    @SpaceUnit: That’s really impressive; I really liked how she fretted the bass because I do have trouble fretting higher up on the neck. Should check more of these out; going down a guitar/bass/musical wormhole on youtube is so much better than doomscrolling.

  114. 114.

    zhena gogolia

    @Josie: I am now at the point where I weep the whole time she’s speaking.

    I can’t believe the stark choice that awaits us on Tuesday!

  115. 115.

    thruppence

    Here in Adams County, Colorado we get two “I voted” stickers with our mail in ballots, one in English and one in Spanish designed by local school kids. I haven’t seen any particularly memorable ones, but that’s probably more a function of who chooses them than the creativity of the students who entered.

  120. 120.

    cain

    @West of the Rockies: ​
     
    If he loses many states, the GOP will realize women are the primary “enemy within” and will target them wholesale. Women, trans-women, trans-men, anybody on that side will be targets.

    They are going to pass more laws in their states and will get the SCOTUS to back them up.

  125. 125.

    JoyceH

    @Melancholy Jaques: I’m in Virginia and I’ve only seen a few ads for the Harris campaign and none from the Trump campaign. A couple anti-Harris PAC ads with pretty standard stuff.

  126. 126.

    Geminid

    @Melancholy Jaques: I sure hope Will Rollins can knock Ken Calvert out. He almost did last time. If Rollins wins he ought to be able to hang on to that seat the rest of this decade and beyond.

  127. 127.

    The Audacity of Krope

    I didn’t get a sticker. I’m just glad to know my ballot has already been counted.

  129. 129.

    Van Buren

    I voted last night, but no sticker. Then walked a block to a restaurant that I have never ever waited for less than 45 minutes for a table on a Friday night and we were seated immediately.

    Better than a sticker, maybe.

  131. 131.

    RSA

    @WaterGirl: I searched online for information about the designers of these stickers but couldn’t find anything.

    I like how all three incorporate the Maryland flag, which commonly appears in rankings of the best state flags and at the same time the worst state flags. :-)

  133. 133.

    SpaceUnit

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    I’m with you!  I’ve been following the girls since 2015 when one of their songs just randomly popped up on YouTube.

    They’re the best thing happening in music right now.

     

    ETA:  And I’ve already watched that concert at the Pepsi Center twice.  It is absolutely mesmerizing from start to finish.

  134. 134.

    WaterGirl

    From Sister Golden Bear:

    Our “I voted” stickers are blah, but there is a pretty sticker for being a 20+ year voter.

    FYI, the “I voted” is in English, Spanish, Chinese and Tagalog (Filipino).
  143. 143.

    geg6

    @Melancholy Jaques:

    You ought to see what it’s like in, apparently, the state that is the most important swing state (that’s the media talking there, not me). I haven’t seen a commercial for an actual consumer product in at least two months.  It’s political ads 24/7.  I couldn’t get to sleep the other night and was watching whatever was on the local CBS affiliate around 2 am and suddenly there was Randall Terry (Operation Rescue) on my screen telling me to vote for him for president as pictures of bloody fetuses flashed across it.  It was bizarre and disgusting.  We get shit like that.

  144. 144.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @geg6: It was bizarre and disgusting. We get shit like that.

    There’s a big audience for shit like that.

  145. 145.

    wjca

    @Betty Cracker: One bummer about voting by mail is that you don’t get a sticker. They should enclose one with the ballot, dammit!

    California, at least my county, does exactly that.  Consider it Proof of Concept.

  148. 148.

    karen marie

    @Betty Cracker: They include a sticker in AZ but I tossed it. The words were so small and insignificant it isn’t identifiable as an “I voted” sticker unless you’ve seen one and know what it is.

  149. 149.

    BeautifulPlumage

    Warming up at my local after knocking doors. Enjoying a hot chocolate with peanut butter whiskey added.

    Missed most of the rain but afternoon shifts we’re getting some sun. Tha app makes it so much easier than when I last tried canvassing. It even updated the noon county ballot return report so I could skip those houses. Very targeted lists and easy to use system.

  150. 150.

    Scout211

    I just saw that the California SOS is giving us virtual “I Voted” stickers if we didn’t get one from our county. Nice!

    Here  is her Instagram with the virtual sticker.

    already mailed in your ballot… here’s a virtual “I voted” sticker for you!!

  153. 153.

    prostratedragon

    @AM in NC:  Mr. Buzz is a good teacher. Have you ever worked with a guitar method? If it were as simple as practicing a lot to get as good as he is, I’d have done it for a living — but did stick around long enough to know that sheer stubborn practice will help improve. The bass player uses a classical technical approach. Segovia scales!

  154. 154.

    West of the Rockies

    @cain:

    You may be right.  And that would be a colossal f*#@ up. Going after 51% of the population and the other, let’s say, 25% of the population who loves them in a psychologically healthy way…  by all means Trumpian incel misogynistic weirdos, do your worst.

  160. 160.

    TS

    @👻David 🎃Booooooo🎃 Koch💀:

    One thing I read in the Post today, confirmed my thought that trump has the same people showing up at all his rallies

    Donald Trump made an extended digression about “the women of North Carolina,” referring to a group of female fans who have been following him around the country.

    For a moment, Trump couldn’t find them in the crowd, at his rally in Gastonia. “Where are they?” he asked.

    He touted the number of rallies the North Carolina women have attended, then said, “There’s no way they’re not here…. Where the hell are they, put up your hand!”

    Do they call them trumpies – ughhhhhhhhh

  162. 162.

    sab

    Ohio’s voting sticker is statewide. There is a blue outline of the state of Ohio around a two line statement:

    OHIO VOTED

    Boring, but I like it. We have had it for many years.

  163. 163.

    JoyceH

    @TS: call them Trumpheads. Like Deadheads but crazy and mean. Some of them have been to 100 rallies – and brag about it!

  164. 164.

    mrmoshpotato

    @JoyceH: I call them Trump trash.  But then they all are.

    Some of them have been to 100 rallies – and brag about it!

    That’s just sad.

  167. 167.

    Renie

    A woman showed up to vote early at a New Jersey polling spot wearing a MAGA cap and t shirt. She was asked to remove the cap and get a jacket to cover up her t shirt. Instead she ripped off the t shirt and voted just with her bra on top. Not a pretty sight as she was probably in her 60s and overweight. After voting she called the election workers the c word and gave them the finger. Typical class-less trump supporter. (Don’t complain I assumed women in their 60s are unattractive as I am 67 myself and know the reality)

    Also the Washington Post which costs $120 for an annual subscription is now offering them for $29. Sounds desperate.

  169. 169.

    TS

    @JoyceH:

    It’s like hoarding guns – I wonder how much it costs and what they (or their family) have to miss out on to support such a ghastly habit.

  171. 171.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Renie:

    Also the Washington Post which costs $120 for an annual subscription is now offering them for $29. Sounds desperate. 

    I doubt Bezos gives a damn.  It won’t hurt him.

  172. 172.

    TS

    @WaterGirl:

    I amazed just seeing all the stickers – it’s compulsory to vote where I live – rather than getting a sticker for voting, you get a fine for not voting. Saves masses of money in regard to GOTV. Only people who advertise voting is the Electoral Commission!

  176. 176.

    prostratedragon

    Happy hour movie break coming up on TCM @ 5:30 Central: The Killers with Lancaster and Gardner. Remember, Kitty is innocent!

    Later, A Face in the Crowd if you’ve some how missed it, and Ace in the Hole. Spike Lee the guest programmer?

  178. 178.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Geminid:

    Rollins is the only campaign I’ve put in time for this cycle. I have been homebound all summer and all I can do is phone banking (which I hate doing & receiving) but if it helps get rid of Calvert it is worth doing.

  180. 180.

    Geminid

    So Trump just took the stage at the Salem, Virginia Civic Center. He was over 90 minutes late, with another rally in North Carolina to go to afterwards.

    Glenn Youngkin entertained the crowd while it waited by talking about what a great campaign Trump has run. Youngkin said that when he saw Trump wearing that garbage man’s safety vest, he knew he would win. What a suck-up.

  181. 181.

    Another Scott

    @TS:

    Something something Americans will do the right thing after exhausting every other option.

    [ groucho-roll-eyes.gif ]

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  183. 183.

    HinTN

    @WaterGirl: I like that the red, white, and blue motif on the rather mundane Tennessee sticker could portend a blue North Carolina! Yeah, I’ll take it.

  185. 185.

    Ruckus

    @Dangerman:

    I don’t drive near as much as I used to (is that a sigh of relief that I hear from the cheap seats????) but I still do on occasion, because the bus system where I live seems to employe drivers who never want to have a paying customer board a bus. And as an old, I’m getting past the age of actually wanting to drive. Anywhere. We have a local transit bus system but the route I live on seems to have a few drivers who hate other human beings and refuse to stop and pick them up. The other day I watched one driver not stop for an senior woman who was using a walker – she tried to flag down the bus, I waved as well so that he couldn’t say he didn’t see anyone, but he just drove on by. I filed a complaint. At this point I hope the asshole gets fired. Out of a cannon and into a brick wall if possible…

    As a senior who has been one for a while and who still walks a couple miles at a time, which used to be like twice as much per day and more days per week, and one who really wants to be a good driver I am slowing down and not being so active. I ride the bus and electric transit train here in LA rather than drive as much as I used to and will likely sell my car in the not all that distant future. Making the world better for all of us….. Most of us get old, some do it sooner than others but all of us still breathing do. I’ve watched this happen for most of my life. First my grandparents generation, those born in the 1800s, then my parents generation, born in the early 1900s and now my generation, born late in the first half of the 1900s and a bit into the second half. We have dramatically better health care, more knowledge of medicine and better aging, but still we all do it. Have a cousin that made 6 months, a cousin that made it to about 70 and a parent that made it to 95 (the day before actually, I give credit on occasion) and I’m now the oldest in the extended 4 families.

  186. 186.

    SomeRandomGuy

    @Betty Cracker: Washington (state) includes stickers.

    It’s funny, in a way: most of us stopped caring about “STICKERS!” by the 6th or 7th grade (and we stopped showing enthusiasm earlier, even if we kept on collecting and using them quietly).

    Now, it’s not an award sticker for keeping your desk tidy for a whole week, it’s something much bigger, and more important, and when it really, really, matters, at least we still remember the tiny bit of pride in a valueless prize for extremely meaningful work – it’s the work that makes it valuable, not the prize itself.

    Any artist out there want to make a “Not even the FLOOD kept me from voting!!!” sticker for BC?

  191. 191.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @WaterGirl:

    I love that ad. I read somewhere recently that that message – that Trump’s own administrations – was the most effective with “undecided” voters.

    Did the pick him because he is liked by us boomers?

    Do you think the ad is most directed at older white people?

    Is it running on TV or cable?

  193. 193.

    hitchhiker

    @Geminid:

    Youngkin said that when he saw Trump wearing that garbage man’s safety vest, he knew he would win.

    They think this is going to be just like “deplorable,” don’t they?

    Sorry, cupcakes. The candidate you’re running against is Kamala Harris, and she’s not going to give you any cheap shots.

    Every day I’m more astonished, seriously, at the grace and poise this woman brought to meet this moment in her life and in our history. It’s got to be driving trump out of his fucking mind how made-for-tv she really is.

  196. 196.

    Geminid

    @hitchhiker: Some Republicans definitely think this will sink Harris.

    Maybe not Youngkin though. Youngkin is a political chameleon whose superpower is being all things to all people. He’s been working on a 2028 Presidential run ever since the night he beat beat Terry McAuliffe in 2021, and this is just more positioning towards that end.

  200. 200.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: I was referring to President Biden’s comments about garbage. Republicans are saying Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.” He in fact didn’t, but they’re acting like this will damage Harris’s campaign in a major way.

    Some of them believe it. I have a landscape customer who told me so on Wednesday. She’s convinced Trump will win and this “garbage” thing will be one of the reasons.

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    meander

    Michigan had a contest to choose the “I Voted” stickers.  At one of the early voting centers in East Lansing, Michigan, I got the one showing the words “I Voted”, with a male deer wearing chromatic sunglasses and a green and white hat marked “Michigan” on the bill with a map of Michigan on the top panel.  It was created by high school student Michelle Lekhtman of West Bloomfield, a student at West Bloomfield High School.

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    Chris T.

    @Kent: Didn’t get an “I voted” sticker in ours either (Whatcom county, WA). Spousal Unit and I voted quite a while ago at this point, pretty soon after the ballots arrived.

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    Chris T.

    @Jager:

    A friend of mine is an amputee. He has a new titanium prosthesis. His sticker is on his new “leg.”

    I misread that as “Itanium prosthesis” at first, and was weirded out for a moment. (This one is only for certain kinds of computer folks….)

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