Nancy Pelosi’s social media team is good!
6200. That could have been a Zoom meeting.
Same energy, minus the #coronavirus risk. https://t.co/Ozh77k6ixF
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) June 22, 2020
But he can’t sell teeshirts on zoom
— Molly Jong-Fast?? (@MollyJongFast) June 22, 2020
History…
Monday marks the 30th anniversary of the removal of the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing between the communist East and capitalist West Berlin during the Cold War, the site of daring escapes, spy swaps and an armed stand-off https://t.co/iiGhBVOfJ7 pic.twitter.com/rVh2ChNvrR
— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 22, 2020
Thomas Jefferson
1743 – 1826Harriet Tubman
1822 – 1913Ronald Reagan
1911 – 2004History was not so very long ago.
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) June 21, 2020
Speaking of voting:
Folks credit me for speaking out on marriage equality in 2012 — but I'm not the one who took a real risk. Countless others did the hard work and paid a price just for being themselves. Christian Cooper and I discussed the trailblazers who came before us and the work that remains: pic.twitter.com/bEPmsRgZDo
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 20, 2020
A. Peter is one of the smartest people on Twitter; if you don’t already you should follow him
B. He should write more
C. This tweet is correct
D. It means that it will likely bore most political reporters, so to amuse themselves they’re going to write a lot of stupid pieces https://t.co/URHT0pDsT6
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 21, 2020
On The Road – Dave Foster – Scarlet Tanagers
Rusty
At some point I came to the realization that if a policy had a death toll, it was almost always the Republican position. Now we have reached the point where even Republican campaigning has a death toll. Progress!!
Baud
I’m too nervous about too many people’s sense of personal privilege to start talking about a landslide.
We’re in a good position. Keep focused on the fundamentals, and the rest will take care of itself.
Baud
@Rusty: Truth in advertising?
SFAW
@Baud:
That, and voter suppression — both COVID-19-abetted and otherwise.
JPL
@SFAW: I expect that republicans will try to close a lot of polls on election day in minority areas, and then blame the virus.
Baud
@SFAW:
True. But the GOP is going to try to suppress votes regardless of what our predictions are. My concern is how our potential voters will react if a landslide prediction becomes conventional wisdom.
Baud
Most understated headline ever.
Baud
Baud
Barbara
@SFAW:You are both right.
Looking at the “optimistic” map, I wonder what Utah is thinking. We have been justly scorning Evangelicals for a while, but the reputation for personal rectitude among Mormons seems to be largely undeserved as well.
WereBear
I LOVE the post title, Anne Laurie!
On which theme, I cannot understand the sloooooooow shift in the polls at this point. So you’re on the nightclub floor, the red dot is dancing in your vision as it settles on a vital spot, dancers have gone down like string-cut puppets, and you still look at Michael Beihn’s hand and argue with him?
My only conclusion is that too many Americans are still so freakin’ privileged even the reality of a global pandemic make only tiny dents in their plans for the summer… they’ve been looking forward to the beeeeach and their haaaaaaair is a mess and how can they get a new swimsuit online without seeing how their hips look in it?
The survival instinct itself has been smothered under the weight of propaganda.
Jeffro
The WaPo has a story up today about how trumpov rally goers explain Black Lives Matter protests to their children. Yes, really. It starts off with a trumpista telling his granddaughter that BLM is wrong to be violent, oh and also even when they aren’t violent, they’re wrong.
A day or two ago, WaPo had a story up about the fortunes of an Alabama store owner, whose primary business was selling variations of the Confederate flag.
I get that there’s an almost anthropological fascination, but these folks are not some long-lost Amazonian tribe here, Post. They’re the folks who have been represented and over-represented for oh, a couple hundred years already. They’ve held the mic, so to speak, the whole time.
Enough of these variations on ‘Midwestern dinerus bloviatus’. I’d like to see some other exhibits in the museum of American political movements, please.
OzarkHillbilly
Hitting trump where it hurts:
A new ad.
JWR
On last night’s TV news, I kept seeing teases about something controsversial coming out of NASCAR today, but kept missing what it was. This is what it was:
Someone elsewhere noted that one thing is clear… given the security (including cameras) in those garages, whoever did this will be caught.
Cameron
@Baud: Yes, I can picture it now, him standing in front a cheering State Duma, going full Sally Field: “They like me! They really like me!”
SFAW
@JPL:
Because it’s how they roll.
Matt McIrvin
I just keep thinking that Biden will be well in the lead in the polls all the way up to Election Day, then Trump will mysteriously win by a hair-thin margin in a few states where the polls were way off and there will be no good explanation why, and people who try to investigate will start “jumping out of windows” and “hanging themselves from trees”, and that will be that.
WereBear
@Matt McIrvin: I’m sure that’s being discussed in the White House as we speak.
debbie
@Rusty:
I listened to a doctor being interviewed on the BBC overnight. She contended that the Coronavirus death toll was greatly exaggerated because lots of the people would be expected to die anyway. Not only will there be a death toll, it will be “budgeted” in.
Who knew the GOP had infiltrated England? //
SFAW
@Matt McIrvin:
Outside of the standard “
HillaryBiden took Wisconsin (et al.) for granted,” that is.debbie
@Baud:
My nervousness won’t end until I see a hand on a Bible.
satby
@Matt McIrvin: you can see the BLM protests and think that if your scenario happens people will just shrug? Doubtful.
SFAW
@debbie:
I was going to attempt a comment about it being the Traitor-in-Chief’s hand, but realized his hand is so small, it wouldn’t be visible to the unaided eye, so you got that covered.
debbie
@Jeffro:
Huh. How did they handle that noose that was found yesterday before a big race?
MattF
@Barbara: LDS are not Evangelicals. They’re small-c conservatives and do not like Donald Trump. E.g., Mitt Romney.
Jeffro
@debbie: ?? No idea.
debbie
@JWR:
The noose was the worst (and it had to come from someone inside NASCAR0, but there was also a plane flying a huge Confederate flag over the field with a sign demanding that NASCAR be defunded.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@debbie: It rained so the race was postponed until today. At least that was the TV announcement. (Mr DAW is a racing fan. He used to do SCCA racing as a hobby. What can I say? He’s an automotive engineer.)
JWR
The Beast has awakened up!
Shorter Trump: I’m gonna lose, big time.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JWR: He has no idea how voting works in this country–who runs it, who counts the ballots.
Baud
@JWR:
Shorter Trump: Even Putin is too embarrassed to rig this election for me.
Baud
@debbie:
I hope Biden uses the Bible Trump held upside down in that photo op.
hueyplong
No Biden or Democratic outfit could have made a single one of the Project Lincoln ads. Those guys do as they please, and then they brag about it. Sometimes they brag about it before they do it, just for the fun of terrorizing the partially ambulatory fecal mound.
It’s difficult to find instances of the Lincoln people being accused of incivility, being told they’ve gone too far, or being called out by GOP office holders.
They are doing everything we’d like to do but can’t, and they’re doing it without any backlash of any kind against Biden (or even expenditure by his campaign).
In truth, it’s at least partially mitigating the effects of foreign attacks on our election, which is pretty important. It feels weird to cheer on one of the execrable destroyers of Max Cleland, but it’s 2020 and the normal world does not exist.
MattF
@JWR: Four AM wakeup means he didn’t take enough Ambien.
debbie
@Baud:
Insurance wouldn’t cover that, I’m sure. //
sanjeevs
Flicking through the Bolton book (since it’s free)
1. It’s tough going. 570 pages.
2. Bolton is insufferable. Despised Obama, Democrats, civil servants, all the Trump team, Trump etc
3 . If he reflected at all on his Iraq fiasco I missed it.
4. Bolton describes over and over how Trump advances Putin’s interests but refuses to state the obvious conclusion.
5. Someone powerful really, really wanted Bolton In the administration. He was interviewed by the transition team and at several other points before he was eventually chosen as Trump’s third NSA chief. It has to be someone Trump listens to but not Putin . My guess is Murdoch or Netanyahu
hueyplong
@sanjeevs: Snark-free, I thank you for your sacrifice.
Your two guesses don’t seem unreasonable.
Baud
@sanjeevs: Trump will go down as one of the most ignorant people — not just presidents, but people — in American history. That said, there are two positive things I can say about him:
JWR
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
@Baud:
He’s also touting an interview Barr gave to Breitbart, where Barr allegedly said what Trump’s been saying about mail-in ballots, which only confirms just how far Barr’s willing to go in service of, who? Leonard Leo? Trump’s A**?
SFAW
@JWR:
More likely: the “fraudulent voting by mail” is a “tell” for what his campaign will do (or try to do).
p.a.
@Jeffro: Yep. You can always expose these people by then asking, “well what form of protest WOULD be ok with you?” Only legit protests are white people 2nd Amendment protests.
danielx
@JWR:
Ooh, in all caps too! The shitgibbon is trying to get his mojo working again.
But it just don’t work on me.
TS (the original)
@debbie:
This is all – and more than sufficient – of what I know about NASCAR & racism
Michelle Obama and Jill Biden booed at NASCAR race
I doubt much has changed.
hueyplong
@Baud: Don’t give trump too much credit for recognizing Biden as a strong opponent. He might have attacked him purely based on his connection to the Dark (Kenyan) Prince, Obama.
It’s always a decent guess to find Obama’s crack about agonizing over whether to fire Gary Busey at the core of whatever trump action we’re talking about.
evodevo
@Barbara: It’s complicated….Mormons are right winger business types to the max…anything’s fair in business dealings. They are also social conservatives, with a strong family ethic, but a lot of them remember their church history where they were a persecuted minority (which is why they ended up forming a theocratic state in the Utah territory). On the other hand, their theology relegated blacks and Indians to a subordinate status (only just officially repealing the remnants of discriminatory policies in 1978), and there is still endemic racism there. They are very clannish, and not friendly to outsiders. They are about as hypocritical as your average uptight right-leaning evangelical, but maybe not as bad as a Southern Baptist lol –
JWR
@Baud: As to your second bullet point: Do you really think it was Trump who figured it would be Biden? I have my doubts about that. If he really did think that, it probably had more to do with Biden being his first big name opponent, and he just never let go of that “thought”, it having found a working neuron in his animal brain upon which to rest.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
MattF
@hueyplong: Tend to agree with this. Biden’s an empathic white guy who was happy to be Obama’s VP. Obviously weak and a loser.
Jeffro
@JWR: I haz questions, mr. president*:
Also, national snooze media, please beat on GOP officials and ask them what they think of this and related trumpov comments about mail-in ballots, the legitimacy of the election, etc etc. Get them on the record, please. We’ll need those quotes in a few months.
Just One More Canuck
@JWR: Foreign countries, and others? What the hell does that mean?
JWR
@debbie:
I saw that, and at first, seeing the Defund message, following the Confederate flag, I took it to be a weird way to protest. But then my shorted out brain figured it out, and even then, it struck me as a very weird sort of (mixed?) message.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Jeffro
Oh and snooze media, while you’re at it, perhaps some reporting on the whole process of mail-in voting: how it works, where the ‘checks’ and verifications are, how little fraud there’s been over the years, the participation rates in states that have been doing it for years, the fact that there’s no evidence that it benefits one party over another, etc etc. Plenty of good angles here! Once you’re done talking with trumpov rally attendees about how they “explain” Black Lives Matter protests to their kids, that is (eyeroll).
sanjeevs
Matt Schlapp is having a rough morning
mobile.twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1275032567092305928
Baud
@hueyplong:
@JWR:
I’m obviously not going to attempt to put myself into Trump’s brain. I just know he committed impeachable offenses very early on in the process to try to discredit Biden.
rikyrah
@hueyplong:
You are correct..Dems would be accused of incivility, as if that’s the worst thing in the world ??
JWR
@Just One More Canuck: Sparce Farce has located the aliens?
evodevo
@p.a.: I grew up in the Fifties in a beige middle class Eisenhower Republican family, and when all the Sixties stuff started, the consensus was that it was too noisy, and “they” needed to be patient (as if waiting 100 years didn’t constitute patience), as desegregation was “hard” and a slow process. My parents weren’t overtly racist, but “tone” and “rudeness” were the main concerns, not racial justice…very “both sides”. David Brooks and the Villagers would exemplify their political position…we would still be only slightly beyond that point if the “noisy” demonstrations of the Sixties hadn’t happened…and we would probably have been in Vietnam for another ten or twenty years…
Dorothy A. Winsor
Some fool of FOX broadcaster (Bobby something) said there were rumors that fans of the “group K-Pop” wrecked Trump’s ticket sales. Mockery is being heaped upon him.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Also strongly hints he’ll win 97% of the vote. ? ?
germy
hueyplong
@Baud: No argument there.
Another thing we might idly speculate about is the extent to which Trump’s ham-fisted attacked elevated Biden and helped make him the nominee.
JWR
@Jeffro: Mail-in balloting has always seemed to me to be the way to go, if you’re after accuracy, that is.
JWR
@Baud: You’ve got a point there.
rikyrah
@germy:
?????
SFAW
@Baud:
I think that’s because Biden was the unofficial/likely front runner at that point, much the way Hillary was in 2013.
mrmoshpotato
Oh for fuck’s sake. This Soviet shitpile mobster conman is fucking deranged.
Soprano2
@JWR: Maybe he’s telling on himself, and that’s his plan for how to win – foreign countries print millions of ballots that vote for Trump. LOL After all, you know he can’t keep a secret.
germy
MattF
@Baud: My guess is that the idea of a Biden-Ukraine scandal came from Giuliani. Biden was already getting in the way of Rudy’s schemes and needed to be warned off. ‘Your son’s a nice kid. He shouldn’t have gotten mixed up with Burisma.’
WereBear
@rikyrah: I think it shows how deeply the Automatic Republican Respect has been embedded in the media. And should be ripped out and sent to the sun’s surface.
JWR
@mrmoshpotato: He can smell a huuge loser from months away. ;)
Tenar Arha
@debbie: That’s the laissez-faire version of eugenics, “they would have died anyway.”
Periodically after WWII we should have killed eugenics with metaphorical fire & then salted the earth.
Anya
@Baud: Absolutely agree. We should stay clear of that word. We need to work like we’re behind and aim for 270 electoral votes. Trump and his daddy Vlad will do everything they can to cheat. We can’t afford to be complacent with talk of landslide and other unnecessary bs.
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2: Antarctica For Dump!
“Penguins love me, you losers!”
Anya
@OzarkHillbilly: This is so low. But since it’s republican on republican skeeviness, I’ll allow it.
mrmoshpotato
Warning – picture of Dump.
But savagely hilarious tweet.
Jinchi
Trump attacked any potential rival as they rose in the polls and Biden started at the top of the polls, even before he announced his run for office. The Trump campaign just as quickly went after Warren and Buttigieg with bigoted, racist and sexist attacks when they surged.
The only exception to that rule was Bernie. Republicans wanted to run against a self-identified socialist.
With the possible exception of Sanders, any of the major Democratic candidates would be sitting in the same polling position against Trump today. This is not an election about the strength of Joe Biden. It’s all about Trump.
Barbara
@MattF: Did you look at the map? Like him or not they’re mostly guaranteed to vote for him. Isn’t that more indicative of character? Not that anyone should overly generalize about all members of any group, but something keeps them on Trump’s side.
montanareddog
@debbie: At the risk of upsetting some people, the science of doctoring is real hard. And, sometimes, that comes at the expense of the EQ side. Too many doctors look at patients as scientific issues to be addressed, and either solved or written off.
Full disclosure: spouse is one of the more empathic types of doctor and is frequently appalled by the attitudes of some of her colleagues.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@montanareddog:
My brother was a nurse before he became an MD and he always claimed that made him a much better doctor.
Chief Oshkosh
@JWR:
Perfect example of how messaging can be crystal clear to one set of people and opaque to another set. See, you’re using way, way too much of your little gray cells on this. Think of how a small, angry child would put together two “ideas.” The flag is flown in defiance: “See? You’re not the boss uh me! I can fly muh flag in God’s free air* an’ yoo cain’t stop me!” The “Defund” message is a complete lack of understanding about what the “Defund the Police” movement is all about, but basically they want the owners of NASCAR to not profit. Again, no clue as to how the world of bidness works (NASCAR would simply vanish if the owners stopped making money), but you go to war with the morons you have, not the morons you wish you had.
All said, their bitter tears of longing and disappointment add to my beautiful Monday morning, where I’m still grinning over Trump Tanking in Tulsa.
*I wonder if TFRs (temporary flight restriction) areas are still in place for outdoor events like NASCAR races. Probably not, since there are no spectators. Still, might be fun to find out if the pilot flying the loser flag busted a TFR.
Jinchi
All you have to do is look at this chart to figure out why Trump was fixated on Biden. It wasn’t any unique insight. He just targeted the frontrunner.
realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html
montanareddog
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That, I can believe (that it made him a better doctor, not that he said it!)
rikyrah
@Anya:
We should work for ALL paths to 270.
Leave no path behind.?
Another Scott
@Jeffro: The BBC loves stories like that about American voters. One of their reporters was in Wyoming or Montana last week presenting a story about how the rural people are still with Donnie.
All 3 of them.
Beautiful videography and some kinda interesting comments.
But no context at all that they aren’t America any more (and haven’t been for, oh, I dunno, maybe 200 years?). The vast majority of America lives in cities and suburbs near a coast – half the population lives in 9 states on the great lakes or an ocean/gulf (some on both). No pushback at all on the 60-something white guy saying that he’s the “real American” that Donnie is “finally” listening to…
Grrr…
When I’m benevolent despot, the conventional-wisdom schools that push this tripe will be razed and replaced by something useful.
Cheers,
Scott.
JWR
@mrmoshpotato:
I saw that image superimposed with the words “Arthur Miller – Death Of A Salesman”, like a book jacket. It was perfect.
Just One More Canuck
@JWR: Biden/Marvin the Martian 2020
rikyrah
Anya
@Soprano2: This is my fear about the whole mailed in ballots. Trump and his corrupt AG are putting stuff out there about the unreliability of voting by mail in ballots. When every one debunks their assertions then they can say when they steal the election, “didn’t you say vote by mail was reliable?”
I don’t trust these sleazy cheaters.
rikyrah
@Another Scott:
Ah…The Cletus safari
debbie
@montanareddog:
Understood.
JWR
@Chief Oshkosh:
Yeah, that was where the image and the words didn’t fit. It was, as I’ve already noted, a weird sort of message. But then, I wasn’t its target.
MattF
@Barbara: Agree. Just saying that having a conscience appears to be a serious burden for this set of Trump voters.
dman
We have a BINGO
rikyrah
Shalimar
Another reminder that history is not that long ago:
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, 1860-1937
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, Jr., 1913-1989
Jefferson Beauregard Session, III, 1946-present
One of our worst living white supremacists had a grandfather and namesake born before the Civil War.
Kay
Good catch. That was the person Barr and Trump hand picked to obstruct investigations into Trump cronies. That didn’t work, but they did identify the person, so now we know.
JWR
@dman: Yep, we have a winner, indeed! ‘Heritage not Hate’ my artsy-fartsy a**.
MattF
@Kay: Not to mention SEC Chairman Clayton. According to Wikipedia, he was nominated on the day Trump was inaugurated.
AnotherBruce
Question, after the debacle of polling places in Wisconsin during the primary, why doesn’t the governor have control of where and how many polling places are staged?
Matt McIrvin
@debbie: “What, did you think they were immortal? Everyone dies of something eventually, so why even try to prevent disease?”
Anyone who claims that other causes of death are being misattributed somehow, or that COVID doesn’t really matter, has to deal with the massive excess rates of death from all causes in the places hit by the pandemic. If it’s not COVID, it’s something else that is just as bad.
I guess the fallback position is to say that an extra five years of life for Grandma isn’t worth much, but these people should not be doctors.
Soprano2
I’m listening to Rachel’s Friday night broadcast, and I keep laughing when she talks about what the Trump campaign is planning to do with the overflow crowds. I laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and even though it’s really not a victory at all, it makes me feel good to know that repulsive person was made to feel bad by a bunch of teenagers! Tonight’s Colbert is going to be lit!
JWR
@Kay: Didn’t I read somewhere that Berman resisted “resigning” until assured that his replacement would be his top aide, a woman whose name I don’t recall?
No wait, here it is:
So now what? Suppose they’re gonna fire her, too?
Another Scott
@hueyplong: +1
As Adam reminds us, Putin was trying to start taking down Biden in 2014.
Donnie will throw everything at the wall to try to get something to stick. There’s no strategery going on in what’s left of that demented brain of his.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@AnotherBruce: Because elections in Wisconsin are actually administered at the local level. And because part of the problem stemmed from the fact the primary took place during a pandemic and emergency vote by mail measures were struck down by the WI supreme court when it was too late to arrange for the usual number of polling places.
MattF
@JWR: Oddly enough, Senate Republicans appear to have averted that possibility. Graham and, by implication, McConnell, have decided that this time the Senate tradition that home state Senators have a say about their US Attorneys will prevail. Believe it or not.
debbie
@Matt McIrvin:
I think it also means they’ve become too far removed from contact with patients.
JWR
@MattF:
Well, considering it’s Lindsey Graham we’re talking about here, and given his history of posing for the cameras, I choose Not. ;)
ETA I’ll believe it when I see it.
AnotherBruce
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you, so hopefully the presidential election goes smoother. Maybe.
rikyrah
@Kay:
That is true, Kay.
rikyrah
@JWR:
She is not a political appointee. She is a regular staffer.
Omnes Omnibus
@AnotherBruce: It should. First of all, we now know happened in April and can plan around it. Second, there is going to be a big push for people to get absentee ballots and mail them in early. Third, most municipal clerks in WI would prefer to be in the news for running a smooth election rather than for their citizens’ determination to vote despite the obstacles.
I may be a pollyanna on this, but I spent a couple of years working for the state agency that oversees WI elections, and one thing I came away with was that election workers tend to take pride in their work and want elections to go well procedurally.
JWR
@rikyrah: Got it. Thanks. ;)
low-tech cyclist
The occasional zippy remark won’t make up for abandoning the next 100,000 coronavirus victims to their deaths.
And it definitely won’t make up for Democratic normalization of the Presidential dereliction of duty that has made those deaths nearly inevitable.
Another >4000 Americans will die this week due to the coronavirus. And the week after. And so on.
I’m sure the House is having hearings about this, where (if Administration officials won’t testify) they’re calling in outside experts to explain what the Trump Administration could have done, and could be doing now that it is not, to bring the coronavirus plague under control.
Right?
ETA: It’s one thing to root for your team. It’s another thing to say that whatever your team does is great, that when they keep on playing that 3B who can neither hit nor field, or keep on starting that guy who can’t pitch 5 innings without getting hammered, they know what they’re doing and critics should just STFU. Just sayin’.
NotMax
@JWR
Name one, Donnie.
*crickets*SFAW
@NotMax:
Russia.
Of course, the fraudulent ballots coming from there will somehow, mysteriously, be 97 percent for the Traitor-in-Chief.
Omnes Omnibus
@low-tech cyclist: You complain about Democrats in Congress not doing things, and then people point out that they have passed legislation addressing the issue you were bringing up. This happens again and again. Somehow, I feel that you aren’t quite on the level.
SFAW
@low-tech cyclist:
Yes, if only Speaker Pelosi — instead of sitting on her hands — would force the Maladministration and the Senate to do what she wants.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Murc’s Law
Kay
@rikyrah:
Barr is so incompetent he managed to identify the specific crook and then fail to install him. Now he’s just sitting in his prior position with us all knowing he was the most corrupt they could find.
gwangung
@Omnes Omnibus: Too dependent on mass media that they supposedly disdain.
J R in WV
@germy:
Loved Congressman Lieu’s first ad, even if it was pretty simple. Kids, they’re great!
J R in WV
@dman:
Actually, just seeing a single photo of a Southern Picnic at a lynching puts the “heritage not hate” thing in its grave. Smiling people gathered proudly around a defiled corpse, Black, Jewish, or foreign of some sort, a Yankee. Southern Heritage made immortal by photography. That’s who they are.
I will never forget the first time I actually saw Jim Crow signs down south. I was a little kid, and I didn’t understand hate then. I still don’t, not really, but I accept that some people are broken in despicable ways that allow, or even require that they hate folks.
Then while in the Navy I was posted to Mississippi, in 1972, where they work hard to keep Jim Crow alive and well. Still today, I am sure, just from looking at census data.
daryljfontaine
@rikyrah:
Work all paths to 538.
Burn down the GOP, and salt their earth.
D
J R in WV
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dopey-o
@JWR: ‘…ballots will be printed by foreigners…’
Every projection is a confession. I will be checking my ballot for a russian postmark.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus:
Neither are they on the square.
Elvis Nightingale, Esq. (frmly Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn)
@Baud: “He was smart enough to know (at least so far) that another neocon war of choice would be politically unpopular.”
I wouldn’t give him that. At least, not on those terms.
The reason he hasn’t taken us to all-out war is because he’s way too lazy to exercise the type of leadership needed during wartime. You can’t always be at war with East Asia and still get in several hours daily of watching Fox and tweeting random synaptic spasms. That’s why he did such a happy dance on Twitter when he could see a way out of escalating with Iran after Soleimani (the original killing of which still defies an rational explanation that I’m aware of).
So, if he’s self-aware enough to realize he’d find being an actual wartime president a drag, then hats off to him, etc. =o)
Captain C
@TS (the original): I’m so old I can remember when NASCAR was being hyped as the Next National Pastime.
terry chay
@Baud: When news is bad, Trump will make it worse by doubling down. At a certain point the only news to report will be how big the landslide is instead of a horse race.
The Republicans have hitched their cart to him. They can’t abandon him without losing even bigger.
That is a realistic map by November. It might even be even better.