It seems to me the Harris path must include either GA or PA (if she gets both, goodnight Donald.) Currently she's up by a razor-thin margin in GA and in PA, a much narrower lead than she had a few weeks ago with both states essentially now tied (as is NV). As it stands, Trump could easily take PA, GA or both. Hillary and Biden were in far better positions at this point than Harris. This is with Trump in his post Jan6 peak-derangement phase, with an equally divisive and even more unlikable Vance on the ticket, having told conservatives in America he would let Russia do "whatever the hell it wants" to the western alliance. And that what we need are 10% across the board tariffs with every trading partner, 60% on China. Meanwhile Harris has to pointedly moderate to peel off any centrist or soft R voter. Trump says whatever he wants and the race is a coin flip. Maybe these polls are inaccurate, I don't know, or maybe she'll pull away enough after the debate. But it seems completely nuts that some disgruntled centrists in PA and GA hold the fate of the nation and the western world in their hands.
Stupid Ideas, Stupidly Expressed: "But the idea that this pablum is the best we can expect from a guy who has been running for or serving as president for nearly a decade now is insane.
And Rich Lowry describes Kamala Harris as "vacuous"?
I tried reading Baer's 'The Influence of Austrofascism on JD Vance' about
'where many of the ideas buzzing in his ear come from.' Vance may have these thoughts but they were more likely a parallel absorbed from something akin to Ren and Stimpy cartoons than his ability to comprehend Catholic corporatism.
If football team A scores ten touchdowns and team B scores one. There is not enough time in the 11 o'clock news highlights to show all ten team A touchdowns. So one touchdown from each team is shown to be fair. The viewer is left thinking the game was a tie. What is wrong with just stating up front, team A wiped out team B? What would be wrong with "Aging experts express concern over Donald Trump's mental breakdown at New York economic club speech"? Or at least a headline that tries to convey how nuts this is. They had no qualms about Joe Biden.
Back in 1965 I flunked High School English class - not proud of it but it was what it was. Makes me wonder, though, what that High School English teacher would give as a grade to the 'stable genius' T. Rump? I'll do my best to make sure he flunks the election in November.
People are really misusing the term "neocon." "Neo" literally means "new." A neocon is a "new conservative." It was a term originally used to describe Democrats who flipped to Republican because of the GOP's more hawkish views on foreign policy. Think Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Liz Cheney has had her hawkish political views and been a Republican for birth. She's not a neoncon.
Yeah but Dick Cheney got hit with the label because the Bush Administration pushed hard on the notion that democracy was always preferable to tyranny (a major neocon idea). It was why I adopted the label myself.
…and because I, too, went from Democrat to Republican for foreign policy reasons back in the 1980s.
So much more than the functioning of a political democracy, this period in American history is a referendum on the citizen's ability to understand and respect Reality in all its bitter flavors. Go ahead, believe what you want. Yeah, it's a free country. Try to deny it's raining outside when it's pouring down. If attempted coups, 34 felony convictions, the obscene grifting of your hard-earned dollars and the relentless cascade of lies mean nothing to DJT voters then fine, we won't tread on you. Your self-manufactured truths about your own choices will still haunt the landscape of your life. Just don't say you weren't warned.
“Spelunk” is exactly right: a treacherous exploration of the treacherous shallows of Trump’s mind where nothing is as it’s supposed to be … and nothing is at all.
I know Sarah always says authoritarians win by wearing people down; but I'm feeling like Bill was a couple of days ago. In yet another win (as JVL says, he's THE luckiest person ever), DonOld's sentencing in NY was put off 'til after the election.
And in NC (my home state), absentee ballots that were supposed to go out today (first in the country) got stopped by an appeals court siding w/ RFK, Jr. Don't yet know what's next, but this could ??significantly? impact the election in a critical swing state, not only in DonOld's favor but w/ three seriously dangerous candidates at the top of the ticket w/in the state.
RE: Vance's "Fact of Life" approach to school shootings . . .
After every school shooting, I want to ask Republican "leaders" what number of dead children would prompt them to support any gun control measures. It's a rhetorical question, of course.
After Newtown, Marysville, Parkland, Santa Fe, Uvalde, Nashville, Winder, and all the rest, we know that there is no limit to the number of children who will die before the craven tools of the gun lobby will ever support even the most reasonable gun control.
They'll ban books all day long. But they will never ban a gun.
It's not just the easy availability of guns. We also have a problem with media coverage encouraging copycat shootings. Most of these shooters want to: 1) be famous; and 2) promote a cause. So, what does the media do after every shooting? Make the shooter famous and publish his (and it's always a man) cause. Virtually every shooter is very knowledgeable of previous shooters.
Thank you for pointing out how Trump always gets graded on a curve. This is so infuriating. Just imagine if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris said something one tenth as delusional. We are not asking for media to take a side and support democracy, simply honest and unbiased coverage. That means when you cover something Trump says, imagine how you would cover it if Kamala Harris had said that. We only have two months left to save our country. When will someone speak up and tell the truth? I know there is Liz Cheney and other lonely heros out there, but we should all be uniting to communicate to the general public as honest and unbiased as possible.
It seems to me the Harris path must include either GA or PA (if she gets both, goodnight Donald.) Currently she's up by a razor-thin margin in GA and in PA, a much narrower lead than she had a few weeks ago with both states essentially now tied (as is NV). As it stands, Trump could easily take PA, GA or both. Hillary and Biden were in far better positions at this point than Harris. This is with Trump in his post Jan6 peak-derangement phase, with an equally divisive and even more unlikable Vance on the ticket, having told conservatives in America he would let Russia do "whatever the hell it wants" to the western alliance. And that what we need are 10% across the board tariffs with every trading partner, 60% on China. Meanwhile Harris has to pointedly moderate to peel off any centrist or soft R voter. Trump says whatever he wants and the race is a coin flip. Maybe these polls are inaccurate, I don't know, or maybe she'll pull away enough after the debate. But it seems completely nuts that some disgruntled centrists in PA and GA hold the fate of the nation and the western world in their hands.
Thankfully he didn’t say childcare is child’s play
Stupid Ideas, Stupidly Expressed: "But the idea that this pablum is the best we can expect from a guy who has been running for or serving as president for nearly a decade now is insane.
And Rich Lowry describes Kamala Harris as "vacuous"?
Rich Lowry is a pimple on the arse of progress.
Actually the Pod save bros are funded by extremely expensive sheets I believe. Big Sheet has those guys in their pockets.
Though sheets dont have pockets. In their pillow cases? I'll get back to you on the best metaphor but follow the money.
They do advertise some sheets as having deep pocket; the metaphor works.
I tried reading Baer's 'The Influence of Austrofascism on JD Vance' about
'where many of the ideas buzzing in his ear come from.' Vance may have these thoughts but they were more likely a parallel absorbed from something akin to Ren and Stimpy cartoons than his ability to comprehend Catholic corporatism.
I'm not so sure actually. Vance definitely is steeped in the new right wing Catholic authoritarian project. He seems to have become a true believer.
This is a brilliant summation of all things tRUmp: mental gibberish buried in the verbal gibberish of Trump
Tucker interviewed a Nazi and America didn't know.
If football team A scores ten touchdowns and team B scores one. There is not enough time in the 11 o'clock news highlights to show all ten team A touchdowns. So one touchdown from each team is shown to be fair. The viewer is left thinking the game was a tie. What is wrong with just stating up front, team A wiped out team B? What would be wrong with "Aging experts express concern over Donald Trump's mental breakdown at New York economic club speech"? Or at least a headline that tries to convey how nuts this is. They had no qualms about Joe Biden.
Back in 1965 I flunked High School English class - not proud of it but it was what it was. Makes me wonder, though, what that High School English teacher would give as a grade to the 'stable genius' T. Rump? I'll do my best to make sure he flunks the election in November.
If I may shift gears, here...
In light of the news that Liz Cheney's dad is also voting for Harris...
When will we see the NeoCons for Harris Zoom?
'Cause I'll gladly dial in for that so long as it's not Tuesday. :)
People are really misusing the term "neocon." "Neo" literally means "new." A neocon is a "new conservative." It was a term originally used to describe Democrats who flipped to Republican because of the GOP's more hawkish views on foreign policy. Think Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Liz Cheney has had her hawkish political views and been a Republican for birth. She's not a neoncon.
Once the neoconservative ethos was established, people could come up within it. They didn't have to always be converts.
Yeah but Dick Cheney got hit with the label because the Bush Administration pushed hard on the notion that democracy was always preferable to tyranny (a major neocon idea). It was why I adopted the label myself.
…and because I, too, went from Democrat to Republican for foreign policy reasons back in the 1980s.
So much more than the functioning of a political democracy, this period in American history is a referendum on the citizen's ability to understand and respect Reality in all its bitter flavors. Go ahead, believe what you want. Yeah, it's a free country. Try to deny it's raining outside when it's pouring down. If attempted coups, 34 felony convictions, the obscene grifting of your hard-earned dollars and the relentless cascade of lies mean nothing to DJT voters then fine, we won't tread on you. Your self-manufactured truths about your own choices will still haunt the landscape of your life. Just don't say you weren't warned.
“Spelunk” is exactly right: a treacherous exploration of the treacherous shallows of Trump’s mind where nothing is as it’s supposed to be … and nothing is at all.
We're viewing living in interesting times through the looking glass.
Okay . . . Just caught news on MSNBC - Liz Cheney says her father Dick Cheney IS VOTING for Harris!
Hard to get excited since been speaking out against Trump for awhile.
I know Sarah always says authoritarians win by wearing people down; but I'm feeling like Bill was a couple of days ago. In yet another win (as JVL says, he's THE luckiest person ever), DonOld's sentencing in NY was put off 'til after the election.
And in NC (my home state), absentee ballots that were supposed to go out today (first in the country) got stopped by an appeals court siding w/ RFK, Jr. Don't yet know what's next, but this could ??significantly? impact the election in a critical swing state, not only in DonOld's favor but w/ three seriously dangerous candidates at the top of the ticket w/in the state.
It's all so discouraging.
RE: Vance's "Fact of Life" approach to school shootings . . .
After every school shooting, I want to ask Republican "leaders" what number of dead children would prompt them to support any gun control measures. It's a rhetorical question, of course.
After Newtown, Marysville, Parkland, Santa Fe, Uvalde, Nashville, Winder, and all the rest, we know that there is no limit to the number of children who will die before the craven tools of the gun lobby will ever support even the most reasonable gun control.
They'll ban books all day long. But they will never ban a gun.
It's not just the easy availability of guns. We also have a problem with media coverage encouraging copycat shootings. Most of these shooters want to: 1) be famous; and 2) promote a cause. So, what does the media do after every shooting? Make the shooter famous and publish his (and it's always a man) cause. Virtually every shooter is very knowledgeable of previous shooters.
Thank you for pointing out how Trump always gets graded on a curve. This is so infuriating. Just imagine if Joe Biden or Kamala Harris said something one tenth as delusional. We are not asking for media to take a side and support democracy, simply honest and unbiased coverage. That means when you cover something Trump says, imagine how you would cover it if Kamala Harris had said that. We only have two months left to save our country. When will someone speak up and tell the truth? I know there is Liz Cheney and other lonely heros out there, but we should all be uniting to communicate to the general public as honest and unbiased as possible.