Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

I really should read my own blog.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

“woke” is the new caravan.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

The revolution will be supervised.

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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Puerto Rico Smacks Back

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Lest anyone forget…

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Xochitl Gonzalez, at the Atlantic — “Trump Pays the Price for Insulting Puerto Rico”:

… As a Nuyorican—what New Yorkers from the Puerto Rican diaspora affectionately call ourselves—I am keenly attuned to any mention of the island and my people. And for most of this campaign, little has been said. So it was a surprise to see that on the same day that Hinchcliffe spoke at Madison Square Garden, Vice President Harris released a video outlining her plan for Puerto Rico and visited a Puerto Rican restaurant on the campaign trail in Philadelphia.

The coincidence was fortuitous, because it offered Puerto Ricans a real-time split screen. Many saw Harris attempting to learn and address the concerns of Puerto Ricans; Trump showed that he was willing to welcome Latinos to his tent only if they were complicit with his racist worldview. The language used at the Trump rally “was so simple, and it just very genuinely showed how they really feel,” Paola Ramos, the author of Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America, told me…

This year, Puerto Rican celebrities including Marc Anthony have already been working to remind voters of all of this while campaigning for Harris. After Sunday’s rally, Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez shared Harris’s video and announced that they were voting for her.

But none of these endorsements has as much significance as that of the musician Bad Bunny’s. His fan base is enormous and young, and includes both men and women. And unlike many stars who avoid bringing politics to their platforms, San Benito, as he’s known to his fans, has made politics, and particularly the politics of colonialism, central to his art. He’s been active as Puerto Rico has approached its election for governor, also happening on November 5, purchasing billboards arguing that a vote for the ruling party is a vote for corruption. His take has weight.

For months, as megawatt celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé have thrown their support behind Harris, I’ve heard people asking where Bad Bunny has been. Why hasn’t Bad Bunny been helping Harris? The answer seemed obvious to me: Despite being a U.S. citizen and a global superstar, Bad Bunny can’t vote in presidential elections.

Bad Bunny is a resident of Puerto Rico, and disenfranchisement is just one of the many inequities that define islanders’ second-class citizenship. But even if Puerto Rican residents can’t vote, they can influence the diaspora on the mainland, which can. And that’s what Bad Bunny is doing.

After Trump’s rally, Bad Bunny shared a segment of Harris’s Puerto Rico video with his 45.7 million Instagram followers several times. Specifically, he selected the segment in which Harris says, “There’s so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and for Puerto Rico,” and where she reminds people of Trump throwing paper towels to island residents after the hurricane…

The more that the “floating garbage” line is repeated—on television, on the radio—the more riled up Puerto Ricans are getting. More Puerto Ricans live on the mainland than on the island now. One result of the botched response to María has been, ironically, the migration of thousands of islanders—many to swing states such as Pennsylvania, where there are now nearly half a million Puerto Rican residents. Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans currently reside in Georgia and Arizona as well. The Democratic strategist José Parra told The Hill that what happened at Madison Square Garden might make a real difference: “If Pennsylvania swings toward the Democrats, I think you can look back on this as a pivotal moment.”…

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Montana!

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Someone posted this great tweet last night.

I don’t recall the nym, so please out yourself for the hat tip!

Just wanted to mention that…

Four Directions has people in the field on every single reservation in the state of Montana.

They have election protection operations in place at some of the key location.

Jon Tester participated in the Four Directions Candidate Forum on 10/10.  No surprise that the lying racist Sheehy didn’t bother to attend.

The Four Directions Weekly Ad:  (link to Four Directions Weekly Ad displayed below.

 

 

 

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Much Needed Respite

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Just a few kindness items and pet pictures to give us a break. Everyone could use some breathing room.

May 23, 2020  #NowThis #TonyHawk #News

Tony Hawk pulled off the sweetest skateboard exchange with a young fan, thanks to this FedEx driver.

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I follow this guy on FB, every photo is adorable. and the videos of the fox and other larger critters visiting at night just start my day off on the right note.

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A coffee shop doing more than serving coffee:

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About That Selzer Poll

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I hope Marci is right, and Selzer has a good track record, but she’s guessing on the model like everyone else when she publishes her poll showing Harris +3 in Iowa.

That said, the latest Epstein revelations probably aren’t going to help Trump’s standing with women:

He offers a portrait of Trump womanizing, yelling at staff and living a basically friendless life with only his daughter Ivanka, his secretary and his bodyguard truly loyal to him.

Trump, he said, was almost “functionally illiterate” but did read the Page Six gossip column in the New York Post. He was “incapable” of reading a balance sheet, and any “act of kindness” would have been an accident, Epstein said

But it is Epstein’s description of Trump’s conduct toward women which is likely to attract most attention, given the pair’s long friendship, and the 28 women who have made accusations against the former president of sexual misconduct (all of which he denies). Many of the attacks are alleged to have occurred when he and Epstein were friends.

On the tape Epstein can be heard saying, “He’s a horrible human being. He does nasty things to his best friends, best friends’ wives, anyone who he first tries to gain their trust and uses it to do bad things to them.”

On one occasion, Epstein alleged, Trump took a woman to what he called “the Egyptian Room” in an Atlantic City casino. Epstein alleged, “He came out afterward and said, ‘It was great, it was great. The only thing I really like to do is f— the wives of my best friends. That is just the best.’”

There are still plenty of women who will vote for Trump.  Tim Miller was on Pod Save America with Lovett, and he’s an out, married gay man who was Jeb Bush’s communications director until he became an anti-Trumper, so voting (and acting) against your political interests is certainly not something confined to women or the politically naïve.

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Sunday Morning Open Thread: *Two* More Sleeps…

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Late last night, I posted a gift link to a longform Atlantic article on the cacophony & infighting among Trump’s top minions. Just in case you want some schadenfreude with your breakfast…

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Late Night Schadenfreude Interesting Read: ‘What’s Discipline Got to Do with *Winning*?’

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This article would make an interesting Downfall parody on YouTube. Tim Alberta, professional Never-Trumper, at the Atlantic — “Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign” [gift link]:

At the end of June, in the afterglow of a debate performance that would ultimately prompt President Joe Biden to end his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump startled his aides by announcing that he’d come up with a new nickname for his opponent.

“The guy’s a retard. He’s retarded. I think that’s what I’ll start calling him,” Trump declared aboard his campaign plane, en route to a rally that evening, according to three people who heard him make the remarks: “Retarded Joe Biden.”

The staffers present—and, within hours, others who’d heard about the epithet secondhand—pleaded with Trump not to say this publicly. They warned him that it would antagonize the moderate voters who’d been breaking in their direction, while engendering sympathy for a politician who, at that moment, was the subject of widespread ridicule. As Trump demurred, musing that he might debut the nickname at that night’s event, his staffers puzzled over the timing. Biden was on the ropes. Polls showed Trump jumping out to the biggest lead he’d enjoyed in any of his three campaigns for the presidency. Everything was going right for the Republican Party and its nominee. Why would he jeopardize that for the sake of slinging a juvenile insult? (A campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said the nickname “was never discussed and this is materially false.”)

Over the next several days—as Trump’s aides held their breath, convinced he would debut this latest slur at any moment—they came to realize something about Trump: He was restless, unhappy, and, yes, tired of winning. For the previous 20 months, he’d been hemmed in by a campaign built on the principles of restraint and competence. The former president’s ugliest impulses were regularly curbed by his top advisers; his most obnoxious allies and most outlandish ideas were sidelined. These guardrails had produced a professional campaign—a campaign that was headed for victory. But now, like a predator toying with its wounded catch, Trump had become bored. It reminded some allies of his havoc-making decisions in the White House. Trump never had much use for calm and quiet. He didn’t appreciate normalcy. Above all, he couldn’t stand being babysat.

“People are calling this the most disciplined campaign they’ve ever seen,” Trump remarked to friends at a fundraiser this summer, according to someone who heard the conversation. He smirked at the compliment. “What’s discipline got to do with winning?”

Trump never did deploy the nickname against Biden in public. Yet the restiveness he felt during that stretch of the race foretold a dramatic shift in the tone and tenor of his campaign. Within weeks, Trump would survive an assassination attempt, Biden would abandon his candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris would replace him atop the Democratic ticket, and polls would show an election that once appeared finished suddenly reverting to coin-flip status. All the while, Trump became more agitated with what he saw as the trust-the-plan, run-out-the-clock strategy of his campaign—and more convinced that this cautious approach was going to cost him a second term.

In conversations with nearly a dozen of the former president’s aides, advisers, and friends, it became apparent that Trump’s feeling of midsummer tedium marked a crucial moment in his political career, setting off a chain reaction that nearly destroyed his campaign and continues to threaten his chances of victory. Even as they battled Democrats in a race that refuses to move outside the margin of error, some of Trump’s closest allies spent the closing months of the campaign at war with one another: planting damaging stories, rallying to the defense of wronged colleagues, and preemptively pointing fingers in the event of an electoral defeat…

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Things That Might Help You Sleep Tonight

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I loved this!

And this!

One of my favorite shows followed by one of my favorite movies.

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Sleep tight, everybody.

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