Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The revolution will be supervised.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

“woke” is the new caravan.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

You cannot love your country only when you win.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

“They all knew.”

Petty moves from a petty man.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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Please take 1 minute to watch this video.  Even if you’re just here for the music!

It’s just 56 seconds long.  Take the time.  Please.

Write some postcards or share some music.

Let’s do this!

Obama’s on fire today in Wisconsin!

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  1. 1.

    Mousebumples

    I’m here! Watching some videos of Obama in Milwaukee today for inspiration – not music, but Obama’s words are always so inspirational to me.

    youtu.be/ixISLY-Q1LI

    That’s a stream from a local Milwaukee TV station.

    And I sprained my ankle earlier today with klutziness, so I’m currently sitting with my ankle elevated. Hopefully I get more postcards done if I’m not getting up for snacks as often. 😅

    Question for those in the crowd – if we can mail with #PostcardsToVoters through Thursday or Friday (or Saturday, maybe, if it’s going to a neighboring state)… Any interest in final week, nightly postcard posts?

    I’ve got plans Thursday but I’ll be writing at 7ish (Central) the other nights. And I don’t need to be here, if there’s interest from others to do more writing on Thursday.

    And if you want to join #PostcardsToVoters – email [email protected]

    Happy postcarding!

  3. 3.

    Alison Rose

    “Some guy named Nate” – that gave me a LOL

    A few music recs that will probably be of more interest to this crowd than most of the other stuff I listen to, heh:

    Valerie June – example song: Call Me a Fool

    Ben Harper (solo or with the Innocent Criminals) – example song: Bones

    George Ezra – example song: All My Love

  4. 4.

    bbleh

    But … but on a blog I saw an embedded Twitter thread with some REALLY SCARY commentary about some politicians’ remarks concerning a recent poll in a state that COULD decide which party controls the Senate!

    It might be RIGHT!  How can I ignore THAT?

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    @Mousebumples: I watched the whole event in GA last night, and now I see there’s a whole event with WisDems today.

    I’ll have a post up tomorrow with the full videos.

    Funny, I was just adding a similar tweet up top when I noticed you had added it in a comment.  Obama on fire!

  15. 15.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Obama is the best public speaker has had in my life-time.  And it’s not even close.  Bill Clinton was great too, but Obama is next level shit!  And to think I know people (white, of course) who think it’s Bernie who can really deliver a fiery speech…FOH, as they say…

  20. 20.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @WaterGirl: Thank you for boosting.  On of the quadrillion things that I know pisses off to no end…they know they will NEVER have somebody as cool as Obama.

  28. 28.

    prostratedragon

    Until the top of the hour there’s a program on WFMT radio featuring chamber tango works. Well-curated by the Uruguayan composer who hosts it.

  29. 29.

    la caterina

    I’m here doing some late ones for Susan Wild in PA.  Very sad about Lily.  Better get off my arse and do something positive.

  30. 30.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: I might be. We’ll see. I thought a few people were planning to stop by, per the other thread earlier, but life happens. 🤷‍♀️ Postcards are a great thing to write when you have the time.

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Bizarro world for sure, but no one like Obama.

    It’s like the Rs are blind to the things that matter.

    They thought Obama was popular because he was a “celebrity”, they thought that since Hillary was running, anyone with a vagina would do.   What was that old TV commercial?  “Parts is parts.”

  33. 33.

    bbleh

    @WaterGirl: Yabbut he’s a BAD celebrity.  Educated and shows it, doesn’t know his place and flaunts it, and had the effrontery to WIN TWICE!  What could be worse in one of Those People?!

  35. 35.

    Kristine

    @Mousebumples:

    Question for those in the crowd – if we can mail with #PostcardsToVoters through Thursday or Friday (or Saturday, maybe, if it’s going to a neighboring state)… Any interest in final week, nightly postcard posts?

    Like a check-in? I could do that.

    I watched Obama’s lead-in speech in Georgia, and now this. He’s just amazing.

  39. 39.

    frosty

    OK, I did it. I watched the 56 second video. Tomorrow at noon I’ll go knock on some fucking doors.

  40. 40.

    Mousebumples

    @Kristine: whatever helps people feel “better” (a very relative state, with Election Day coming up quick) – a check in, postcard brag post (look how many I’ve done!, etc.), generic GOTV posts…?

    And they don’t need to be at 7pm central – that works for me, but I can check in late or after work/I wake up /etc., too.

  52. 52.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Alison Rose: Ooh, Ben Harper:

    youtu.be/aEnfy9qfdaU

    i can change the world
    with my own two hands
    make a better place
    with my own two hands
    make a kinder place
    with my own two hands
    with my own
    with my own two hands

    i can make peace on earth
    with my own two hands
    i can clean up the earth
    with my own two hands
    i can reach out to you
    with my own two hands
    with my own
    with my own two hands

    i’m gonna make it a brighter place
    i’m gonna make it a safer place
    i’m gonna help the human race
    with my own
    with my own two hands

    i can hold you
    with my own two hands
    i can comfort you
    with my own two hands
    but you got to use
    use your own two hands
    use your own
    use your own two hands

    with our own
    with our own two hands
    with my own
    with my own two hands

  55. 55.

    Joseph Patrick Lurker

    @UncleEbeneezer:

    Bill Clinton was great too, but Obama is next level shit!

    Sorry, but you’re dead wrong.  In his prime, Bill Clinton was clearly a better orator than Obama.

  58. 58.

    eclare

    @bbleh:   Also can drain a three and flaunts it.

    If you google Obama drains a three you’ll get the clip.  That’s what I do!

  62. 62.

    Alison Rose

    @Sure Lurkalot: I love him. I think my favorite song of his is Oppression:

    (hang on, gotta fix the spacing

    Oppression
    you pray on us when we sleep
    oppression
    you chase after the tired the poor the weak
    oppression
    you know you mean only harm
    oppression
    you reach out with your long arm

    but oppression
    I won’t let you near me
    oppression
    you shall learn to fear me

    oppression
    you seek population control
    oppression
    to divide and to conquer is your goal
    oppression
    I swear that hatred is your home
    oppression
    you just won’t leave bad enough alone

    but oppression
    I won’t let you near me
    oppression
    you shall learn to fear me

    oppression
    I don’t see how you sleep
    oppression
    for your bleeding conscience I weep
    oppression
    you may have the dollar on your side
    but oppression
    from the gospel truth you cannot hide
    and
    oppression
    I won’t let you near me
    oppression
    you shall learn to fear me
    oppression
    I won’t let you near me
    oppression
    you shall fear me

  64. 64.

    Mike in NC

    Wife watched Obama in Wisconsin and said she’d forgotten what a powerful and elegant speaker he was. As opposed to the sniveling whiner of Mar-A-Lardass.

  67. 67.

    Mousebumples

    🔟 done! Popcorn break. And then I’ll grab another 5-10. Thoughts on if I should change up which campaign I’m writing for are welcome. 😊

  68. 68.

    Joy in FL

    @Mousebumples: Other nights this coming week could be good for me. I think Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday are open.

    I would be glad of company to write postcards with.

  74. 74.

    Mousebumples

    @Kristine: works for me! I’ll keep writing those then. I went to college in Iowa, so I’d love to see another mostly rural Midwestern state send more Dems to Congress. 🤞

  90. 90.

    Kristine

    @WaterGirl: It’s good to know I’m not alone in all this. Local friends are writing postcards and knocking on doors for various candidates. And then online there’s BJ. It all helps.

  92. 92.

    Jackie

    @Steeplejack: For the longest time I thought it was “Purdy Little Love Song” 😂 I still have to correct myself when I hear it! I love Marshall Tucker! And the Eagles.

  104. 104.

    frosty

    @Steeplejack: ​I had a compilation album of Southern Rock and “Doraville” was on it. I still end up humming it now and then.
    “New York’s fine, but it ain’t Doraville”​

  121. 121.

    WaterGirl

    This just arrived in my inbox from Penzey’s.  It was titled Recipes & Sadness today, and my first thought was how do they know about Lily?  Of course, they are talking about Paul Pelosi.

    In any case, here’s their pep talk.

    You are a Cook. You care. Which is absolutely awesome. But your caring on days like yesterday with the political attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband makes it all the worse. I’m with you. It all just kind of takes the wind out of your sails. But it needs saying, the lies Republicans tell to get elected have become really-really dangerous lies. They can’t run on who they are or against who the Democrats actually are so they pile up lie after lie. It all adds up. It is wrong.

    And so today you may well be feeling a little down and out of sorts. That’s a sign that you are a good and decent person. But please do what you can to overcome this and whatever else comes our way before the election. Wednesday, November 9 you are free to collapse. But until then please do all you can to bring in every vote you can November 8. You are a Cook. People respect you. Use that respect to break through all the lies Republicans spread. People will listen to you. You matter.

  130. 130.

    Steeplejack

    @Jackie:

    LOL! When that song was big I was a newspaper reporter in Alabama, and in our after-work bar debriefings I used to torment a coworker by claiming that it was “Purty Little Love Song.” Never caught on that I was joking.

  131. 131.

    Steeplejack

    Just now starting to read this thread. Didn’t want to break the flow of my YouTube music diving earlier. Looking forward to what others have posted.

  132. 132.

    Jackie

    @Jackie: Another song I misheard the words to:

    Toby Keith and Willie Nelson:

    youtu.be/jRqNjN7C8_c

    I thought they were singing *Whiskey for my men BEFORE my horses*

    I thought how wrong is that?! Cowboys are always supposed to take care of their horses FIRST!

  134. 134.

    Mousebumples

    @WaterGirl: Yup, sounds like it!

    I looked up the 2020 results (I think Biden got an EV from this district, if memory serves?), and the current Rep won 50-48… So not out of sight! Though who knows what redistricting did.

    Looking forward to Tuesday! I’ve got a big work meeting that day (quarterly P&T) so I might have a beer while I postcard. 😊

  135. 135.

    sab

    My own Lily was a ten year old dog  I acquired through my step-daughters fucked up connections. Somebody had a dog they coulsdn’t keep, so we took her in. An absolutely lovely dog. We loved her. Our cats loved her. Our dog loved her. But then she got cancer. Something inher esopagus or digestive track. Our vet never could pinpoint where the problem was, and God knows we didn’ t spare any expense on testing.

    We tortured her for many weeks feeding her foods she couldn’t digest while she wated away. Vets and we were at a loss.

    Sometimes it is a huge mercy to know that this is the time.

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