This Friday, lettuce celebrate making it through the week. pic.twitter.com/AqYzNWUOzU
— Tal Waterhouse (@iiTalW) October 21, 2022
President Biden made a surprise stop at sandwich shop, Primanti Bros., outside of Pittsburgh, where he said he is confident Dems can hold the Senate and said “I am worried about [Ukraine aid] because they said they would cut it” when asked about GOP possibly taking the House — pic.twitter.com/vcWPtSUqch
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) October 20, 2022
"It ain't over til it's over," Biden says of campaigning for Dems' success in midterms, during quick stop at @primantibros sandwich shop in Pittsburgh. He says Georgia has asked him to come down and "we're trying to work it out now." Says he has "about 16, 18 requests" around US.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 20, 2022
Possibly because, as someone said on twitter, when Fetterman wears a suit he looks like his own bodyguard…
Senate candidate John Fetterman greets Biden in Pittsburgh wearing a suit! (He usually wears shorts everywhere including to the WH Easter Egg Roll.) pic.twitter.com/rn9n3HQJ7n
— Nancy Cook (@nancook) October 20, 2022
Stumping in Pennsylvania for Democrat John Fetterman’s Senate campaign, President Joe Biden warned that Republican victories in upcoming midterm elections would jeopardize the nation's standing abroad. https://t.co/nbYblznLdE
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 21, 2022
United States ranks "13th in the world in infrastructure," Biden says in Pennsylvania. "We should be ranked number one. So instead of infrastructure week, which was a punch line for four years under my predecessor, it's infrastructure decade — a headline line on my watch." https://t.co/scqSKZ9efL
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 20, 2022
“Are you concerned about the spillover effects for the economy (of British turmoil)?”
“I don’t think they’re that consequential”, says Biden. https://t.co/n2OupntIdD
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) October 20, 2022
NEW: Biden responds to notion that GOP might not fund Ukrainian effort—
"These guys don't get it," Biden said. "It's a lot bigger than Ukraine. It's Eastern Europe. It's NATO. It's real serious, serious consequential outcomes. They have no sense of American foreign policy."
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) October 20, 2022
Biden also said young people are looking to Democrats and demanding action.
"If we don't step up, and do our part, they're gonna get so damn cynical about what we can do," he said.
— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) October 20, 2022
biden has spent his entire campaign and presidential term giving democrats a model for how to react to bullshit gotcha media questions and i really, really hope young democrats absorb it. https://t.co/W6lUT9vIwu
— ??GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE?? (@golikehellmachi) October 20, 2022
NotMax
FYI.
Slavery is on the ballot for voters in 5 U.S. states.
Baud
I personally think we made a mistake treating young people like children instead of capable adult citizens.
People are wondering whether women will show up because of Dobbs, but I’m looking forward to seeing what the youth turnout is. There have been some hopeful early signs that Juicers have pointed to.
Baud
@NotMax:
I just saw that. It’ll be interesting to see what happens there.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
rikyrah
AL,
I hope that you or one of the other FrontPagers will tackle this.
…….
Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) tweeted at 0:41 PM on Thu, Oct 20, 2022:
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but everyone should read the Federalist article. Because it articulates where the Right has been going for some time and makes clear that wielding power to force the rest of us to do what a small minority of Americans want is the real goal.
(https://twitter.com/MelissaRyan/status/1583151397906042881?t=UoliNiLjp8_nS8ohunfEZw&s=03)
…….
Article in question
https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-need-to-stop-calling-ourselves-conservatives/
Ken
@NotMax: My first thought was that states were trying to make slavery legal again, so that when the legal challenge reached the Supreme Court they could rule that the Reconstruction amendments were unconstitutional because reasons.
Baud
@Ken:
The 14th amendment is actually a huge boon for corporations and rich people in various areas of law. The 13th and 15th are fair game though.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
MazeDancer
Last weekend for PostCards.
Elaine Luria in VA Susan Wild in PA. Wiley Nickel in NC. Just to name a few – need your help.
Hold the House!
Get addresses. Download free, original designs: PostCardPattriots.com Or click on my nym
P.S. You go not need official PostCards. Get card stock at CVS or office supply store. Chop in quarters.
NotMax
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
‘Tis a sad day indeed when Chuck is better than Prime.
Ken
@Baud: If they keep the 14th because Sound Legal Reasons, maybe they’ll toss the 19th and 26th as a consolation prize. Especially if women and young people don’t cast their votes wisely (wink wink) in this coming election.
Baud
@Ken:
It’s only fair.
knally
Wow, I’ve never thought of President Biden as a short man before now!
mrmoshpotato
LOL! True!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MazeDancer:
I feel like an idiot for asking this, but is it good practice to write the voter’s name in the address portion of the post card? I did 10 post cards like that before I questioned it. Or should it just be something like “important voter”? The FAQ section for Postcards to Voters says voters should not be addressed by name.
NotMax
@Ken
No big secret are the ties between Prohibition and granting women the vote, who were deemed a “natural” constituency to support those who voted for dry in perpetuity.
Gin & Tonic
I know plenty of people, including our good friend Tony Jay, criticize the BBC. The criticism is often justified. But they are also capable of good work – here is a BBC World Service documentary about the occupation of Kherson. It is long, it is harrowing; I’m not expecting many to watch it, and if you do, there may be points where you have to turn it off. But if you want to know what’s at stake for Ukrainians in the upcoming US Congressional elections, this is it.
WereBear
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: LOL
There was a time when I thought we were worse off than Britain, but now it’s flipped…
though it’s all ridiculously incompetent and dangerous.
Geminid
This morning Politico Magazine put up an article titled “Alaska’s Independents Have Something to Say to the Rest of the Country.” As the title suggests, author David Siders examines the question of what impact the US’s growing number of Independents will have, in particular whether this will hurt Republicans. Spoiler alert: maybe, maybe not.
The long article mostly deals with Alaska’s election for the state’s lone House seat. There are many interviews and anecdotes, including the author’s plane ride to a Kodiak debate, with Senator Lisa Murkowski sitting next to Republican House candidate Nick Begich. Alaska’s new Congresswoman, Mary Peltola shared the Alaska Airlines flight on the trip back.
Sarah Palin made the debate, and wore a pair of fishing buoy earings given to her by Ms. Peltola. Palin and Peltola met each other when Palin was Governor and Peltola a state Representative. Palin talks a lot about how much she likes Peltola, perhaps angling for some of Peltola voters’ second choice votes in the ranked choice election.
Palin has a lot of political baggage, and it turns out Begich does too. Two Begiches served Alaska as Democratic Senator and Representative, and evidently some Alaskans are still mad at the family. One observer said that Begich might be better off if his last name was Johnson.
But Mary Peltola has a good name! Ivan Moore, head of Alaska Survey Research, commented after releasing a poll:
WereBear
@NotMax: As usual, they had little idea how much organizing women politically would backfire on them.
A thread a while back discussed the trend towards progressivism continues the more women vote. It’s comforting to know what the entire human race thinks about things.
Might be a useful perspective, she said sarcastically.
mrmoshpotato
I’d rather chicken Caesar wrap up another week. Mmmmmm
NotMax
@WereBear
Didn’t have “British cuisine surpasses British government” on my BINGO card.
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Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
I assume the BBC is like the NYT: it’s really the domestic political desk that’s the problem.
Baud
@Geminid:
👍
Tony Jay
@Gin & Tonic:
What President-Elect Baud said.
The BBC itself is a wonderful thing that Britain should cherish, with a lot of very talented, very capable people working at (almost) every level, but the people in charge of it and the people promoted to be its News Superstars are fit only to be fed to pigs.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken:
That was my first thought too.
Gin & Tonic
@Tony Jay: “President-Elect”?! Shit, did I forget to vote?
Benw
@Gin & Tonic: no, but you did leave the oven on!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Gin & Tonic:
You did! It is now the year 2032 and the Baudtocracy is upon us!
Anyway
@Baud:
BBC’s coverage of US politics is awful – comparable to FTFNYT. They never miss an opportunity to put down establishment (elected) Ds.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Another chance to recommend the not so gentle mocking of the Beeb in W1A.
:)
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
So my Fire TV stick took 10 years to get here? Hooray for free shipping! 🙄
I guess better than 70 years!
Kay
The mural is friendly and welcoming and the “anti-woke” adults are assholes who should be ashamed of themselves.
I wonder if we’ll get 500 NYTimes editorials on what the “wokeness” panic has done to public schools, like we got 500 editorials on the threat of “wokeness”.
No fucking FOLLOW UP by these people. Just incite a panic and walk away. Must be nice.
mrmoshpotato
@Kay:
Because inciting the panic is the point – and they’re assholes.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Already got a post in the backroom for later on that screed.
Kay
Excellent work, adults. This is how the antiwoke crusaders “protect children” – they gang up on a high school sophomore and make her cry.
kalakal
For anyone trying ( you fools! That way lies madness) to understand the Tory infighting and why each wannabe replacement is worst here’s a pretty good thread*
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1583169656751550464?s=20&t=BBJCKdVr61GrYQm3nKb1lw
or the shortform
https://twitter.com/ProMediaRes1/status/1583060519908696066?s=20&t=bvH9q8kRcyCVd9M8NL5U2g
* Some of these categories will be familiar over here as well. I hate these people whichever side of the Atlantic they ooze from
Betty Cracker
@Kay: I read that early this morning, and I’m still seething over it. That pack of middle-aged, fanatical bullies made the poor kid flee the school meeting in tears.
NotMax
@NotMax
While on the subject, and in the spirit of equal opportunity, Drop the Dead Donkey, a chuckle worthy send-up on a non-Beeb but still oh so British news operation.
Mousebumples
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): postcards to voters doesn’t share voter names with writers. So I go with Valued Voter.
Kay
It reminds me of the satanic panic but it also reminds me of ridiculous law enforcement panics that are as regular as rain. Police entities are the biggest suckers in the world. For a while a couple of decades ago everything in the world was a “gang symbol”. They had “gang symbol experts” lecturing police and probation officers. They were constantly accusing young people of “flashing” gang symbols for infractions like “wearing the color red”.
MazeDancer
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Either way. Voter Rolls are public record. No invasion of privacy.
Virginia, which has had an active PostCard program for years, used to send lists with no names. Now they send names and even compile the joint households for you.
IMHO, the personal PostCard that you are composing, in your own words using your own thoughts,, urging, person-to-person, that they vote, is more personal and less “junk mail” if you use their name.
But that is up to you, Essential, Valued, and Important Voter are all nice, too.
The names you get from PostCard Patriots are all registered Dems, currently active on voter rolls. Some of the lists have been personally pruned by me to remove the inactives.
As a registered Dem takes the whallop of candidate mail out of the mailbox to toss, the only one they might give a glance is a hand-written, personal PostCard, of any kind.
Which is why PostCards work.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I read about that yesterday. Didn’t read of a single person standing up for her. Left me incensed.
catclub
When you’ve lost Newsmax…
NotMax
Whoopsie. Neglected to include a linky with #40.
<a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8hjrX3kctY”><em>Drop the Dead Donkey</em></a>.
kalakal
@Baud: Correct. The BBC at it’s best is the best eg David Attenborough. At it’s worst it’s beyond dire, it’s blatently pro Tory eg Laura Kuessenberg
NotMax
@NotMax
Damnation. Fix.
Drop the Dead Donkey.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Right. Where were the other adults? Who was supposed to be moderating this event?
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I’d love to see a follow up interview of the artist. Let it sit with her a month and see what she says. My kids all attended a very conservative public school district and they have whole discussions of what they were told, the nutty religious speakers that were brought in, the wingnut teachers, etc.
But I’ll never get that. There is no “one month after” in mediaworld.
kalakal
@NotMax: Sally Smedley and Damien are all too real. I love that show
oatler
Hate-reading this site can be, uh, enlightening:
https://ricochet.com/1327463/we-are-no-longer-conservatives-we-are-restorationists/
sab
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Most households have multiple voters and you are only sending one card to that address.
Lapassionara
@Kay: When do we get to the “have you no sense of decency? At long last, have you no sense of decency?” stage of this madness?
Where are the people who will stand up for a child in this situation?
Jackie
@rikyrah: I read that yesterday. Twice. I couldn’t believe what I was reading the first go-round.
Kay
@Lapassionara:
That’s why I’d like to hear more from the artist. What’s it like to face an angry delusional mob like that and has it changed how she views the adults in her community?
Some of the Right wing stuff my kids put up with in public schools made them respect adults less- my daughter says they brought in religious speakers to “wave wands over us to guard against pregnancy” – they did not actually wave wands but she’s a practical person and this shit boomeranged with her- she knows how reproduction works.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: Looks good. I like that guy from Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Kay
@Lapassionara:
Panics burn out eventually, but not without doing a lot of damage. You can’t really have a panic unless “centrists” validate it and spread it, and centrists did that with the CRT and gay panics in public schools.
“Legitimate” child abuse people got caught up in the satanic panics in the 1980’s, people who know better. The thing could not have spread or gone as far without them. There has to be centrist validation or they don’t take off.
kalakal
@Kay: Why is it we go through this satanic/ witchcraft crap every couple of decades. It’s poisonous shit that ruins lives and has no evidence in fact
@Tony Jay: A major problem with (partcularly political ) journos & leader/opinion piece bloviators on both sides of the Atlantic is for them every day is a fresh start, They can reverse course every day and there’s no memory of the preceding day(s) ‘expert analysis’ ie erroneous garbage. They’re always right even if as recently as 12 hours ago they were catastrophically wrong.
We really need the equivalent of Politifact’s Pinnochios, perhaps the Reverse Ferrets, applied to each of these wankers chryons or bylines
kalakal
@oatler: Whiny little prats aren’t they?
Kay
@Lapassionara:
I don’t know why but we seem particularly vulnerable to these things. There can be a perfectly legit issue – juveniles being sex trafficked (prostitution) and it can be just so wildly inflated by panic-mongers that it becomes QANON and everyone is a sex trafficker and “800k” children go missing every year.
Leto
@Kay: @rikyrah: these two are connected; the shitty article and the parents actions. When are we sending all the conservatives with Musk to Mars? Or the Sun? Either will work.
Edmund Dantes
@Ken: they don’t have to make it legal again. It’s always been legal for people convicted of crimes.
kalakal
@Leto: The B Ark works for me
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MazeDancer:
Thanks. The templates provided do a lot of the work for you, so I’m less sure of what to write about on the actual postcard. People on another thread gave good advice, such as early voting dates as something to write
Leto
@oatler: yeah, it’s a follow on to the shit article rikyrah posted. I do appreciate them dropping all pretense and just saying out loud what we’ve known all along though. I don’t think they meant their pieces to be comedy bits, but here we are.
Kay
@Leto:
I feel like we were due a panic and there was “CRT”, just waiting to be exploited and lied about- but it could have been anything. Panics are cyclical and they all follow the same pattern. The satanic panic was about more women working and more children in day care- they’re a backlash to societal change and they always focus on risks to “the children”.
The fentanal “Halloween candy” for example. Police agencies are promoting absolute nonsense about dangerous drugs. The “hook” is children. There needs to be a risk to children.
Edmund Dantes
@Kay: the fentanyl “od“ is my current favorite. So many cops having panic attacks.
Edmund Dantes
@Dorothy A. Winsor: there were several adults quoted as standing up for her. Including one that was conservative (I believe) that was calling the other idiots.
Kay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I’ve gotten the postcards and I was pleased. I’m not a “normie” of course but I can’t imagine not liking a friendly post card. My writer used different colored inks :)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
I’d just like to know where these people have been for the last 20-30 years. There’s been plenty of popular media during that time that humanized LGBT individuals. They’re not much older than I am, in the case of these parents. Being in their early 40s is not old
Ken
@kalakal: From your first link to RussInCheshire:
According to their wikipedia bios, both are the children of recent (1960s) immigrants, and of Indian/African origin. I can just see karma cackling offstage, waiting for its big entrance.
GoBlueInOak
Dems gonna get shellacked at the polls. Inflation is killing any chance of Dems coming out of this with a victory. And Powell is batting cleanup for Trump, the guy who appointed him – by killing the economy at the same time. Even EU voters are souring due to inflation & complaining about Ukraine.
Dems outspending GOP 79-1 on State SoS races & still it not mattering. Vote, yeah of course, but better be prepared for the disaster .
Kay
@Edmund Dantes:
We have a situation here where the idiots told detainees at a juvenile lock up that fentanyl had “escaped” and gone thru the heating and ac system. They evacuated the detainees. Parents of one of the detainees are now suing because they were told their son was poisoned in detention. 100% nonsense. It came RIGHT back around to bite them. I can’t wait for police to explain how they came to believe that these “fumes” poisoned 60 kids thru the heating system. None of this happened. It’s entirely invented.
Soprano2
@rikyrah: Wow, he’s openly calling for “conservatives” to become dictators regardless of what Americans actually want. How else to interpret “Will conservatives ever give up power?” He doesn’t want to admit they failed because most people don’t want what he wants! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Leto
DougJ breaking through to the normies again with a pretty good one.
Jackie
From Political Wire:
“An upcoming biography about Liz Truss is already undergoing some changes as the UK continues to face political chaos,” Indy100 reports.
“The biography, written by journalists Harry Cole and James Heale was initially slated to be called Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss and Her Astonishing Rise to Power.”
“However, following a turbulent few weeks in Truss’ government, it seems Cole and Heale have decided to change the name of the book ahead of its December release.”
A fun contest for we jackals!
Kay
@Edmund Dantes:
These are the same police who were more than willing to infect every juvenile detainee with covid rather than wear a mask or get a vaccination because no one is the boss of them. They’re now evacuating the kids because magic drug fumes are entering the facility.
Soprano2
@Kay: I read that story a week or so ago and wondered what kind of asshole adults do that to a kid? Geez……🙄🙄🤬🤬
HinTN
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
FWIW, I put the full name in the address but used no salutation.
Leto
@Kay: I think it was John Oliver who had a lead off segment about the fentanyl bs. Local tv stations just reporting the “fentanyl Halloween candy” bs with no evidence, just the cops saying it’s happening. No follow up, no further examination, nada.
Chris Ruffo simply lays out the plan for the next “panic” every few weeks, and the press just follows along blindly. Same as the Halloween fentanyl: follow up? Critical thought? Basic journalism? F all that.
Kay
@Leto:
Good for him. Nothing they do surprises me anymore but the Fetterman stroke coverage pissed me off. It was just so dumb, as if none of them have ever encountered an accommodation before, or a person with health problems. God almighty, grow up. It’s NOT that “weird” and they shouldn’t be freaking out about it. It’s a normal part of every day life. Do they like GAWK at people in wheelchairs? WTF?
Leto
@Kay: I’m sure the cops have qualified immunity, so totes good. And if they don’t, the SCROTUS 6 will make sure to square that peg.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
Thank you 👏🏾
HinTN
@MazeDancer:
You are da bomb! Thanks for doing this. (Did you get the CO mess sorted out?)
kalakal
@Edmund Dantes: In Scotland the death blow to the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the ’80s was when the grifters and fanatics brought court cases against English teachers (and parents helping kids with their homework) for promoting witchcraft and deviltry. Specifically they alleged kids were being taught Burns’ Tam o’Shanter as part of a Satanist plot.
The ridicule killed them, everyone in Scotland is taught Burns ( the guy wrote Auld Lang Syne FFS )and that poem in particular.
This crap needs to be exposed to ridicule and those who promote need to be held accountable for the very real damage they cause
Queen of Lurkers
@Baud: I know that many on this site disparage the NYT. While I find a lot of their political coverage annoying, their global coverage is far superior to anything else available in the US. Same with the BBC. Their website is not particularly good, but they have people on the ground in so many far flung places. Most US coverage of all events outside the US has a parochial outlook. The BBC really has a global footprint where the reporters are either local, or they try hard to not identify as “British.”
schrodingers_cat
@Gin & Tonic: I agree BBC does a damn good job covering India as well and unlike US media they have reporters who report in India’s regional languages not just English
They suck at covering our politics and I will let the Brits speak to how they cover British politics.
Guardian on the other sucks as well. It was BS central both in 2016 and 2022
NotMax
@Leto
Hey, it’s gotten increasingly difficult to just drop in at the neighborhood shop and count on finding razor blades, don’tcha know.
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Kay
@Leto:
They have a good lawyer. I don’t think he would take if it he thought he couldn’t get paid.
It’s just so sad to me. Our juvenile prosecutor went to high school with my oldest son. She’s smart, although a Right winger. Why is she falling for this nonsense? I asked “Rachel, you believe this?” and she’s “yes- why wouldn’t I?” Oh, I don’t know because you do drug cases all day and know damn well that fumes or skin contact aren’t sending people into convulsions?
schrodingers_cat
@Queen of Lurkers: NYT coverage of India is pretty bad. It is replete with elitism, lack of local knowledge and tired platitudes. Rest of the prestige US media is the same including the New Yorker.
Tony Jay
@kalakal:
Oh hell, yeah. There’s no consequences for getting stories catastrophically wrong. They either get rewarded (because the story they told advanced the narrative their bosses wanted out there) or it just gets forgotten, never mentioned again.
Just look at the initial Mail/Express coverage of Truss and her budget or the FTF Guardian’s (lack of) coverage of the Forde Report and the Al Jazeera documentaries about Labour Leaks. Both examples of storylines that these ‘information outlets’ got completely, humiliatingly, reputationally destroyingly wrong… so they just pretend it never happened.
Information isn’t power, the ability to decide what information gets out there, that’s where the power rests.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@GoBlueInOak:
How do you know the polling is accurate? The Kansas abortion vote polling said the race was incredibly close and it ended up being off by quite a lot in our favor, for example
schrodingers_cat
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): He is here to suppress the turnout. Don’t feed him, block him.
BlueGuitarist
@Kay:
@Betty Cracker:
Enraging.
It connects to the article rikyrah flagged @6, which is quoted/amplified in the article oatler flagged @52
the point of which is to to use big government as a very blunt instrument to accelerate this bullying, to imprison parents, doctors, and teachers for eg gender-affirming care.
They hate the woke, and they hate the dreamers: They are the nightmare.
We have to beat the fascist nightmare with votes, up and down the ballot
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jackie:
More like Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss and Her Astonishing Fall from Power.”
Leto
@NotMax: man, that was my childhood “panic” in the early 80s. Razor blades. Like… wut? I think it was a plot cooked up by parents so they could “inspect” our candy :P
Betty
@Jackie: Just add “and fall from”, and they are good to go.
Queen of Lurkers
@schrodingers_cat: Agreed. But I get my India news from people I know. :)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@schrodingers_cat:
I agree, though stuff like this does bother me a bit, I admit
OzarkHillbilly
Comedy Wildlife Photo finalists – in pictures
My favorite: Talk to the Fin.
NotMax
@Jackie
The Other Liz: Primed to Fail.
kalakal
@Tony Jay: To be fair the Mail was accurate when they called it “A True Tory Budget”.
It’s a good example 2 weeks ago they hailed it as the best thing since sliced bread now they claim they saw it as a disaster all along.
Cameron
Somebody knows their Iron City icons – having the President drop by Primanti’s was pretty savvy. And isn’t that Governor Wolf in those pics?
NotMax
@Cameron
Now will Oz and Mastriano show up at Primanti’s Total Landscaping?
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Another Scott
@Leto: I vaguely remember scares about needles and razors blades in apples in the 60s-70s. That’s why you should only take packaged candy, not homemade stuff or fruit, donchaknow. (groucho-roll-eyes.gif)
Wikipedia says it goes back to the 1950s, with one in 100M examples of kooks doing bad things on Halloween just to prove the rule.
Grrr…,
Scott.
Cameron
@NotMax: Or perhaps Primanti’s Adult Bookstore.
kalakal
@Jackie: Liz Truss: Our part in her downfall by the Tory Party.
or for the pun inclined
Liz Truss: From Romainer to Leafer
Jackie
@NotMax: 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
OzarkHillbilly
Louisiana trio imprisoned for 28 years freed after judge tosses murder convictions
Long overdue:
Ksmiami
@Betty Cracker: we are going to need to punch these people back. They’re emboldened when they need to be dusted
NotMax
@kalakal
Liz Truss: Rocket to Oblivion.
Jackie
@kalakal: “Liz Truss: From Romainer to Leafer” 😂
GoBlueInOak
@schrodingers_cat: If relaying on a middling blog comment section the direction of what all the polls and underlying fundamentals have been screaming for weeks is “trying to suppress turnout” then you have the backbone of a chocolate eclair with skin thinner than tracing paper.
GoBlueInOak
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It should. Inflation / economy is gonna matter way more than abortion to swing voter rubes who flit between parties like a freshman at rush week.
Even EU voters are starting to sour from it & I think it’s gonna affect EU support for Ukraine War in 2023.
Ken
@Jackie: I think they can fix it with punctuation: “Out! of the Blue: The Inside Story of Liz Truss
and Her Astonishing Rise to Power.”kalakal
@schrodingers_cat: They caved to the Tories quite a while back. The BBC is funded by a licence fee rather than advertising & by sales of its programs internationally. The licence fee is set by the government & the Tories have been using that as an axe to silence dissent.
Sales of programs of course cuts into the profits of Murdoch & other private providers so the Tories limit what the Beeb can produce ( rather like the Repubs cripple the USPS to favour Fedex etc). Partly to reward their owners, partly ideology, public enterprises must be seen to be worse than private. The critique of the BBC they use is that programs that are not commercially successful are a waste of tax payers money* by lefty elitists, programs that are commercially successful are unfairly subsidised by the tax payers money hurting poor Mssrs Murdoch, Branson, Bezos et al. Either the nest of lefty vipers that is the BBC must be eliminated!
The other line of attack is the Board of Governors. Appointees are meant to be impartial with industry knowledge. They are appointed by the government and you get the same result with the Board and the Tories as we get with the Supreme Court here and the Republicans.
The BBC has been in a defensive crouch for years, the upper echelons are in large part Tory stooges. On the plus side they have some of the most talented people on earth who genuinely believe in a public service ethos. On their day they are the absolute best and are in some ways the only true global news organisation Despite decades of Tory sabotage they still poll as the most trusted news worldwide.
At their worst they are cowering hoping not to get hit, this particularly affects their news US/UK where the owners of the Repubs/Tories both hate them and see them as commercial rivals.
kalakal
@NotMax: 😂
Citizen Alan
@Ken: Honestly, I thought that too. I still think that if things don’t change, there will be a serious effort to reasstitute slavery within the next 10 to 20 years. I’m certain Brown versus board of education will be on the trapping block by the end of this decade.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@GoBlueInOak
I honestly think you and the pollsters are underestimating the effect of Dobbs. The polling has been inaccurate the last few election cycles, anyway
J R in WV
@Edmund Dantes:
That’s their point — they want to make involuntary servitude illegal IN PRISON at long last. Or did you not read the whole thing?
MazeDancer
@HinTN: And thank you for being one of the most prolific PostCard writers.
Yes, CO gets a big prune before shipping.
mrmoshpotato
Speaking of lettuce…
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: *reads article*
*blinks*
Damn, Skippy. Well, say what you like about it, at least “we must use the power of big government to crush the evil liberals” is some kind of an ethos!/
Miss Bianca
@GoBlueInOak: The “disaster” I’m always primed for around here is that *you* and your ice-cold hot takes are going to pop up, as ugly and unwelcome as a herpes sore, whenever we least expect or need it.
Uncle Cosmo
@GoBlueInOak: You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself with a rusty anthrax-dusted chainsaw, asshole.
schrodingers_cat
@kalakal: They are still much better than the NPR-PBS shit show IMHO at least where international news gathering is concerned.
BigJimSlade
In that first tweet with the lettuce, what is that creature? A turd salamander?
Kay
It’s interesting to me what a blunt, aggressive campaign Josh Shapiro is running. I feel as if this reality isn’t reflected in the coverage, where he’s always portrayed as running a careful, moderate campaign. He’s fucking brutal.
Obviously he drew a great opponent- the nutjob Rightist Trump chose- but still, interesting.
J R in WV
@GoBlueInOak:
How long have you been employed by the Federalist org? Or are you more a GRU guy from St. Petersburg, RU? Obviously only on a site like this one to spread Fear and Discontent and Loathing.
Not to share uplift, care for anyone else, suggest a way to improve the odds for a Democratic candidate, none of that nonsense, just Doom, Despair and Misery on everyone’s head. So glad WaterGirl implemented the improved version of the Pie Safe for folks like you.
Was surprised when I toggled your post to see what was up with you, will never make THAT mistake again! Bye now, Russian Troll.