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While in a fair, just world, I would say ‘don’t kick someone when they’re down,’ I fully advocate kicking, beating, horsewhipping and cattle prodding the GOP ticket without giving them a chance even to get to their knees

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Yep, they have asked for it.

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As someone who grew up with corporal punishment in public schools, I think the GOP deserves it.

They bought the ticket, give them the ride.

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F*ck Mike Johnson. And for the record, I'm tired of the media treating Johnson, et al as normal people. As Dan Rather said - spouting what your overlords want you to say is not journalism. Fact is President Biden pulled the rug out from underneath Trump and his pilot fish.

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Trump and his pilot fish!!!

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Dang, that was beautiful!

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Yeeeeeessss to this!!!

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CNN gives time to many who are too predictable to be worth an interview.

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The head of CNN has made it clear they do not care about democracy or truth. He got rid of anyone who was anti-Trump and neutered those that were left.

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Someone should remind Speaker Johnson that the GOP’s hand-picked Supreme Court has given Biden immunity for the cover-up of his disability, and have prevented the introduction into evidence of any of his discussions with his minions in laying out and agreeing to the devious plan. (Cue Snidley Whiplash cackling laughter.)

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I’m pleasantly surprised how quickly ‘many’ Democrats are rallying around Harris. Wrapping up the delegate votes this week would be a blessing

The Trumplikan reaction has been priceless. Running scared. Prison scared. For many of them. Meadows and Jordan first. Then Thomas. Then Alito

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Loving the new monikers for the Cap'n & Li'l Shillbilly!

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Are Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles 5 years old? That was the most juvenile asinine statement I’ve ever read!!

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They're Republicans. What else would you expect? It shows they're not as all-knowing as they think they are.

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Their all knowing pie has a big hunk missing. It was the good hunk too.

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I dunno -- everything Squeaker Mike Johnson has written or said so far is also in the running for that particular honor.

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I definitely like the new title.

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Squeaker Mike Johnson! 😂

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It came to me yesterday and now it won't go away. <g>

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Let’s make it go viral!!

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They had their game plan, and all the wingers were on board, but we will see if they can broken field run like Jim Brown or will be brought down on the 30 yard line "by a girl."

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Taken down by a female. Lord, it couldn’t be more appropriate.

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Just sent this to The New The New York Times's news tips and corrections sections, and to its Nepo Baby publisher and politically incompetent top editors:

Hello. This story appeared on your front page Sunday morning:

https://www.nytimes.com/.../trump-harris-strategy.html...

It showed how republicans were preparing for the possibility of Kamala Harris being the Democratic presidential candidate.

Three hours after my newspaper arrived, Joe Biden announced his departure from the race and endorsement of Harris. And for the rest of the day, republicans flailed in every direction, with their nominee still attacking Biden and his running-mate and the speaker both demanding Biden's resignation, which would then force them to run not against "Vice President Harris" but against "President Harris," which wouldn't seem logical.

I wondered if the authors of the article in question, or The Times generally, might want to do a correction, or possibly a story about how flat-footed republicans actually were? Or does it hit too close to home that you believed them?

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Nicely done!

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Thanks. I think The New York Times does a lot of things extraordinarily well. But its coverage of politics is an embarrassment to journalism.

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It’s not ignorance, deliberate skewing of the facts

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I always recall something Tip O'Neill said. The crew of Errors and Nofacts, as they called Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, would have some vicious inside item. About three weeks later, there would be a throwaway line like, "Rep. J.D. Chilcutt is doing a great job on the House Foreign Affairs Committee." And Tip and company figured out that's how they would reward their source.

Well, all we needed to know about The Habes and The Times was in the revered New York Times Pitchbot first really viral tweet: "Sources close to Jared and Ivanka say the couple privately disapproves of the pandemic."

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My laugh for the day

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Shillbilly is perfect.

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Or Shady Vance.

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Trouble with that is that I'm a huge fan of Joyce Vance of Civil Discourse, Cafe Insider, and Sisters in Law. IMO JD should change his name. <g>

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And when the GOP ticket gets its pants kicked in November, you can scoop the MSM by writing "Shillbilly Eulogy." Can't wait!

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A back hoe and a bucket loader will be needed to ‘scoop’ the contents of those pants!

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No matter what I was voting democratic up and down the ballot - for as Rick Wilson said "the choice this election is this: AMERICA or trump!" I went to bed feeling hopeful and I woke feeling hopeful. Boy is that a different feeling. Love the monikers: capt and shillbilly. You need to trademark them TC! In the meantime, there is no guarantee - eurphoria will carry us for awhile but stupid people like WV "mansion" in "the hill" saying he's thinking of standing against Harris. Good griefl Get him out of the senate and back to the hills where he belongs. Maybe someone can repossess his yacht! Let's GO PEOPLE! We can do this! But it will take WORK and COMMITMENT. "No days off - 105 days to go". We must win IN EVERY STATE! (Of course we must keep doing the work AFTER the election, because like all poisonous snakes (trump's favorite poem I guess) they cannot be trusted to leave you alone - the poison of fascism never weakens, it changes and keeps poisoning. Right now we can see it clearly in of Project 2025/Agenda 47's 920 pages approx - some of the pages are blank - I guess for notes- nothing but fascist half truths and bald faced lies. The misuse/abuse of language boggles the mind and freezes the blood! I think they got some of their "historical" talking points from that "great institution of higher education (NOT) hillsdale college located in MI (they call it a university but it is a danger to the republic), one of the groups on their "advisory committee" along with that hotbed of right wing legislation, the American Legislative Exchange Council. AND so many others. A list as infamous as any I've read. I try not to read any of it late in the evening to limit the possibility of nightmares! It's good to have that list of advisors and the authors of various chapters because you can look into who they are and I would say from my brief run through a majority of the writers served in the first dRump administration. America or dRump? Democracy or fascism. These are the only questions we must answer this election.

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Manchin has recognized reality and announced he is still retiring from politics.

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Manchin has been a boat anchor for way too long.

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Yes! Thank goodness his silliness did not last long.

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It was a joke. It was his childish equivalent of jumping out and yelling "boo!" before going to bed.

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😅😅😅

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While I needed this laugh and agree with all you said... Let's be aware that there are a lot of MAGA or old republican "normal" people who need to see what their platform is really about. And somehow, given that I know some of these people, (they walk among us), we need them also to see that we aren't the enemy. We need them to see that they've blindly followed the enemy. How do we do that without increasing the divide? I remember laughing at how absurd Trump was during the Obama years, not realizing how that was just fueling their hateful fire.

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It's just about impossible to *make* anyone see that "they've blindly followed the enemy" until they're willing to see. This is true whether the enemy is alcohol or drugs or a cult or a really toxic relationship. Facts usually don't make a dent in emotional investment. You may make some headway, e.g., plant some doubt, with people you know well, but prepare to be frustrated and disappointed.

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I know. The closest I've come is a common community cause or food. But it is something I think about a lot. I don't have an answer. I live in a red county in a blue state and have relatives that are lifelong republicans. I've never understood why.

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I think you're on the right track with "common community cause or food." My mother was a lifelong Republican. Then she got a job working for a publishing company whose authors were liberal and/or feminist and/or lesbian/gay. Then she got involved through her church in doing support work for the grassroots movements in Latin America in the '80s. (She was a real asset here because she spoke Spanish.) Eventually she asked me to take her to see a local showing of part of the AIDS Quilt. I don't know if she ever changed her voting registration, but her politics definitely evolved. However, this was in Massachusetts, and in New England until fairly recently the Republicans were more liberal, esp. on social issues, than the national party.

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Cults need Ike or deprogramming.

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It is Democrat's that have the duty to remind all of the voters of what a danger the Orange Scumbag is to our " American Way of Life! "

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It reminds me of the old Mitchell and Webb skit "Are We the Baddies?" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY

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Via Benzinga (real time News) about 10 minutes ago, DONALD J. HARRIS, economist & Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, died. Professor Harris is the father of Kamala & Maya Harris.

My condolences to the Family.

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I hope he lived to hear that his daughter is the DEM nominee for president. It would be nice to think he heard.

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J.D. should go by J.D. Vantz - Yiddish for bedbug

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😆😆😆

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Really? Oh, so clever! Spread that too!

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If Nancy Pelosi is all in for Kamala Harris, then we all better be all in for Kamala! I keep in mind your post a couple years ago (I think) about standing next to NP during an event featuring her husband. You recounted her vast knowledge of Who’s Who in LA politics then—-when she was by her account (as I recall) raising children “right now”….. hope I have that right, TC

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San Francisco politics, not Los Angeles (though I'd bet she knows those too). It was an event for my then-boss, Robert Mendelsohn, during the 1974 primary campaign for State Controller.

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You may remember that several months ago I suggested Joe should stay in the race and take all of the GOP BS-incoming until a "propitious" moment when he could hand off the baton to a younger person and the GOP wouldn't have time to get their smear machine going. Well, circumstances forced something like that, and it's a joy to see the poop slingers standing in front of a whirling fan named KH. It will only worsen for them when she picks a running mate, which I hope she'll drag out until the convention where "he" can be the new shiny thing. It's got to sting Trump's other ear that the MSM has run down the road to the new story.

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"Little Shilbilly" is brilliant. it was mart of him to grow that Don Jr. Clone beard. otherwise, his weak chin and fat, befuddled face would be an instant deal-breaker.

and I've said for along time that Aaron Sorkin is absurdly overrated. he was really pulling for fucking ROMNEY?? I didn't know, probably because I have no interest in what he does. I actually saw "A Few Good Men" on Broadway a LONG, LONG time ago. it sucked so much that on the whole ride back to Queens, I sat with my pal Danny in the backseat and we both laughed hysterically about how terrible and cliche-ridden it was. the movie was slick and expensive, but just as hollow (possibly even more hollow because it was so successful and that fucking "You can't take the truth" (or whatever it was) became what has now come to be called a "meme." but the worst thing about the piece is that it pretends to seriously take up an "issue" which is, as far as I can make out, a non-issue. but the only excuse for this Romney thing is that he's been watching too many "West Wing" reruns.

yeah, those normally right-on-the-talking-point Repugs are confused and scrambling around like the roaches in my junkie brother-in-law's apartment, circa 1970.

that Russian asset Matt Taibbi has a paywall. good for him. it saved me five minutes which could have been used to better effect by micturating. plus, micturating doesn't ever leave me feeling enraged. so Taibbi loses on two fronts.

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