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Fri, 09/08/2024 - 08:00
Yes, they are actually doing that — again. It’s absurd. Meanwhile, Trump will not be allowed to lose Georgia again: After being praised by Trump, Georgia’s un-elected, administrative State Election Board changed the state’s election certification rules. Georgia House Democratic Whip, @SamForGeorgia warned the rule change could delay the state’s 2024 election results.  The 3 GA Board of Election members who voted to change these rules were praised by Trump during his Saturday rally in Atlanta, he specifically thanked them by name. Many of these members were appointed to the State Election Board recently.  .@TheLeadCNN: Their mention by Trump [election board members] has raised concerns among critics that they may be working directly with the Trump campaign…pic.twitter.com/MCbbLXvM3A — Fair Fight (@fairfightaction) August 8, 2024 Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: Two rules approved by the State Election Board in a possibly illegal meeting last week appear to have been suggested by the Georgia Republican Party.
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Fri, 09/08/2024 - 23:00
We’re not going back If Republicans expect to lead in the 21st century they might first try living in it. Donald Trump’s view of the world stopped developing along with his emotional maturity before he was a teen. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Republicans claimed Sir Ronald of Reagan had slain the Evil Empire and won the Cold War. Decades into the 21st century, they are still fighting it, invoking communists and Marxists and socialists (Oh, my!) as a slur against every political foe, always “to the left of [Fox News liberal bogeyman here].” President Harry Truman declared in 1952 that socialism is “a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.” Scare tactics are still their go-to. Over 70 years later, The Wall Street Journal this week inveighed against Minnesota under Gov. Tim Walz (D) for moving his state “sharply to the left.” Among Walz’s sins: • Funding “the North Star Promise Program, which provides free college for students with a family income under $80,000,” including illegal immigrants.
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Fri, 09/08/2024 - 00:30
More bad news for Team Trump Okay, I’m just now getting to Ezra Klein’s podcast with Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. Listen to this guy. He’s sound. I’ll finish after this posts. Meantime, Walz’s opponent for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, continues to have his woes: Several polls have indicated that Vance has overwhelmingly underperformed among American voters, making him the least popular nonincumbent veep candidate since 1980. Vance’s popularity has sunk by 8.8 percentage points since his vice presidential candidacy was announced at the Republican National Convention, according to a polling average aggregated by FiveThirtyEight. One poll conducted by Public Policy Polling on July 31 found that 47 percent of polled Americans found Vance to be unfavorable, while just 30 percent considered him favorable. An ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted between July 20 and July 27 found that Vance’s favorability had dropped by nine points, and an AP-NORC poll conducted between July 15 and July 29 saw Vance’s favorably drop by eight points. <sad trombone> Okay, don’t get cocky. Get busy.
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Fri, 09/08/2024 - 09:00
Says the man just found to be liable for half a billion dollars for committing massive business fraud: Yeah: That “Kamala Crash” thing didn’t pan out for Trump. But that won’t stop him from telling his cult that it’s happening anyway. Fox News pointing out the reality is undoubtedly driving him crazy.
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Sat, 10/08/2024 - 00:30
Your compromised freedoms are on the line in November People who don’t believe in democracy don’t believe in America. Nor in its founding principles. Nor in its founding documents. No amount of red, white, and blue garb, no number of oversized flags, decaled monster trucks, and boat parades can conceal that fact. If January 6th was not stark proof enough, where have you been? Vice President Kamala Harris is saying it without saying it. ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● For The Win, 5th Edition is ready for download. Request a copy of my free countywide GOTV planning guide at ForTheWin.us.
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 11:17
Before Tim Walz became a politician, he was a high school teacher. One of his passions as a teacher was the subject of the Holocaust. Walz wrote his masters’ thesis on “Improving Human Rights and Genocide Studies in the American High School Classroom.” It argued that the way we teach the Holocaust and genocide in school was mistaken. Walz pushed for an approach that didn’t separate the Holocaust from other genocides and human rights abuses. He also insisted that it was a mistake to focus on the maniacal character of Hitler and the Nazis. Instead he argued for a more integrated, comparative, and historicist approach, incorporating factors such as colonialism, economics, and civil war, and connecting the Holocaust to the […]
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Wed, 07/08/2024 - 23:00
Others would sign up to be cannon fodder The spouse the other day blurted out (re: the MAGA cult), “What are they so angry about? What about their lives in this country is so terrible?” It’s a fair question. These MAGA people’s lives look pretty un-terrible. What does a rig like that truck at the top cost? How oppressed are you if you can afford to own and operate vehicles like that (and these below), accessorized as they are? “Fully 83% of the arrestees resided in areas with an average annual per capita income between $20K and $50K,” reports one study of January 6 arrestees. Just a guess, but the boat parade and truck parade people are not likely to have family incomes as low as $50k. Nor the Texas women who chartered a private jet to attend the Stop the Steal rally on January 6, 2021. They aren’t that worried about the price of gas. You can call them many things, but just don’t call these adults weird. Nothing weird about adults wearing diapers (outside their clothes). The clip below speaks for itself, as does the former celebrity. Or these totally non-weird people.
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 00:30
Their reasons are not all meritless On the topic of the sort of “Hey, watch this!” idiots who’d run off when told to join the new Confederacy, The Bulwark cautions: WHEN 23-YEAR-OLD GAMER ADIN ROSS presented Donald Trump with a Rolex watch in a first-of-its-kind livestreamed interview on the platform Kick Monday, a tiny subset of the internet descended into blows over whether it was a campaign finance violation or not. The rest of the approximately 600,000 people watching thought it was hilarious and cool.  And that, unfortunately, is a major problem for Democrats—the majority of whom were likely oblivious to the whole episode.  Ross, who boasts 1.3 million followers, is part of a cohort of young hyperonline men who promote an unapologetically MAGA aesthetic and culture. He is a sycophant of the legendary king of the manosphere, Andrew Tate, known equally for his overt misogyny and the charges he faces for rape and human trafficking.  These clowns are heirs to Gamergate, dubbed the “Barstool Sports generation” by Harvard youth pollster John Della Volpe.
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Thu, 08/08/2024 - 02:00
Here’s Tim Walz: The reaction to that: The choice couldn’t be more clear. If American democracy produces a result that puts that freak Stephen Miller in power we’re probably doomed anyway.