Two quotes stood out for me today the first is from the New Yorker: “Trump has been begging officials worldwide not to do the right thing for years to help rig the election for him—no deal in Gaza, no defense of Ukraine, no Kremlin hostages release, no border deal, no continuing resolution, no inte…
Two quotes stood out for me today the first is from the New Yorker: “Trump has been begging officials worldwide not to do the right thing for years to help rig the election for him—no deal in Gaza, no defense of Ukraine, no Kremlin hostages release, no border deal, no continuing resolution, no interest rate cuts etc—just sabotage & subterfuge.”
Next, Billie Eilish: “Vote like your life depends on it,” Eilish said, “because it does.”
I’m pleased to see that the laundry list of prominent Republicans, former officials within recent past Republican administrations, who’ve announced they are voting for Harris/Walz is growing rapidly and substantially. Country before party is a mantra I can get behind.
That is beyond true, a continuation and extension under Maga of Mitch's commitment years ago to undermine Obama so much he wouldn't be able to govern (plus Tea Party, in the wake of the ACA) yet the same Mitch is, wisely, not sure potently, is urging the House to get its act together and pass a funding bill the Dems in the Senate won't torpedo, if that GOP house members can even agree on a bill, given how the same intractable divisions among them persist, perhaps with a vengeance. Trump, of course, is pushing for chaos full fury, as Heather rightly notes. It isn't all quite working out as he hopes, i do trust. Love to see all those Republican and entertainment leader endorsement for Harris and Lutz. Get out the vote! Get out the vote!
Hold the bus! It's Congress responsibility to pass immigration reform. They did not. Republicans voted down, at Trump's insistence, the one bill they created and somehow the media doesn't follow that story. Or Biden's desperate executive order, which he did do, followed on the heels of the failed legislation. Since an executive order can be overturned by any court or the next administration, he pushed Congress to do immigration reform which hasn't been addressed since 1986. Thus, you should focus on the hypocrisy of Republican members of Congress, who have been ginning up border problems for political purposes, but refuse to do anything about it. Who admit to wanting to keep the problem alive. And by the way, migrants are passing into the US at the lowest level in years.
If Harris/Walz lose on this issue, it's because the media has not covered this story and because the false narrative is carried by people who don't take the time to understand the issue. And because, it seems Republicans in power don't care to solve problems.
Ellie, I heard an interview today with Maggie Haberman of the NYT who said the media is really doing a good job covering the campaign and that it is a left-wing misunderstanding or something that is what is undermining the media. She is wrong about that because so many issues are poorly covered by the media if it is not one of Trump's stunts, performed nearly daily for more than 9 years and the media follow each one like starving dogs. Trump and his shenanigans are covered more than the work President Biden is doing and has done over his entire presidency. No wonder people don't know about the improvements in our lives that were made since Biden took office. When Democrats do something it is covered in general, as though that is just what one would expect, but they go bonkers for whatever an ignorant, inept, guy dealing with dementia and his sidekicks do. It really is a problem for the American people. So much of the media is taken over by a few rich corporations that care nothing for real news and information, just what will get their favorite stooges elected so they will get more power to keep doing more of what they are already doing. Outrageous!
They ran for decades against Roe v Wade never thinking that the dog would catch the car. Immigration seems to be their answer for everything but they don't want to lose the only issue that they can run on.
"Vance told a reporter today that he personally considers the programs under which they came illegal, so he is still 'going to call [a Haitian migrant] an illegal alien.' ”
Prospective vice presidents can create law just by thinking about it, but the public has to vote (if they can)? But Harris (who is vice president) can't? And the press with was a-buzz with doubts about BIDEN"S sanity?
“And because, it seems Republicans in power don't care to solve problems.”
I used to think, “There must be more to the problem than Republicans’ aversion to solving problems,” but as I wobble through my eighth decade I recognize that … nah … I had it right all along.
Responsible journalism might focus on more comfort for the afflicted victims of cruel, cynical political maneuvering. Also to make the afflicitors a tad less comfortable with consistent devil's bargains.
Frank, I firmly believe that the only reason that Mitch is urging the House to get its act together is because a shutdown would do further damage to the Republicans in the upcoming election, and in the twilight of his career as a partisan saboteur he'd like to burnish his reputation to cause those among us with amnesia to view him as a benign "statesman." I don't have amnesia.
Definitely, J.L. As in the case of the Trump impeachments, he's willing to state the obvious, but he wouldn't vote to convict. Like Bill Barr, who enabled Trump at every turn, he'd now wants his legacy to highlight his last public statements, not his support of a moronic tyrant.
J L, yes, I think Mitch is actually still that savvy. He is cruel, unthinking most of the time, and well, evil, but he will certainly take care of himself and keep bowing down to the ignorant child-man who has been running the show for the past 9 years, so he will push to keep a shutdown from happening. If it were another time, he'd love it, especially if it were to cause a lot of pain for those "horrible government workers." What a hypocrite because he depends on those workers to make him look less stupid then he actually is.
Ruth, if I were able to read McConnell's mind, I would not be surprised that he actually hates Trump. He, along with all of the people from autocrats elsewhere, to Leonard Leo and his band of zealots calling the cards to construct the Supreme Court in their image, and the far-right Republican party who are determined to create and maintain control over this country and its citizens. They are willing to manipulate any useful idiot who can be the vehicle to make their wishes come true. These people will allow themselves and their families to be ridiculed and insulted in order to achieve their goals. They will sow the seeds of distrust and hatred to destroy our democracy and make everyone but like-minded parties control the populace and enrich themselves and achieve unlimited power. There are enough of us to defeat them, but we have to be able to see the forest for the trees and not take their bate. We must use the tools that remain to vote them out of office - all of them necessary, and to maintain our democracy and repair the damage already done.
Frank, I will be working the poles November 5th. It will be a very long day....it will start at 5am EST and end after dark hopefully, before 8pm EST in Clay County, Indiana. Prayers for safety will be appreciated!
Thank you! I have been a poll worker and you deserves kudos for doing this unappreciated, difficult, physically taxing (!) job. We should have to hope that you (and all the other workers) are safe, but it is an unfortunate result of the nonstop hate and lies spewed by TFG.
I lived in Ukraine, married to a Ukrainian. Came back to Canada two years ago. American politics is both entertainment and critical to our ability to someday return home
As the USA Ambassador to Canada recently warned, "Canadians are spending too much time on American politics and not enough on their own." Lots is happening in Canada that is just as scary as the Republican far right especially in Alberta and Ontario. And some of it paid for by USA entities.
Biden spent almost 3 years refusing to do anything to stop millions from rushing over hot sands and a cool river. To suggest that this is our proud legacy; clogging cities around the nation with this massive influx is a sad and untenable statement of the administration. It’s a losing proposition. If Harris loses in November, this one issue stands front and center. Why he was so dense to not take executive action is anyone’s guess. Perhaps why we are not appalled is more easily understood. We accept face value of the Think People, the Idologues at the top of the food thinking chain and know that they can do no wrong and that we must fall in line and agree. After all, we’re Democrats. And now we have a nail biter of an election on our hands. Against who? Only the worst decrepit , demented unstable wannabe pretend ole-style New York mafia Don that’s Biden’s adversary. I couldn’t have dreamed up this story in a million years if it wasn’t true. And it’s all in my book, “ Donald’s Vanity Tantrums” for only $15 online. Hurry before they are all sold out. And you’ll get several belly laughs with the scathing satire told in my little illustrated book. Better than Mao Si Tung’s little red book.
I usually scroll on by. He’s been whining about immigrants for years using the same old rhetoric coming from those who feel their position threatened. And trying to sell his book.
Gail, perhaps he could increase the price of his book, and even get a bit more respect, if he knew the proper spelling of Mao Zedong. Historian, he isn't.
No not at all. I only suggest that for me, I’m not n anyone’s cheerleader as most folks are. I call it like I see. Here again is what I call group attack. If you don’t read the expected script, critize the messenger. The messengers of Ancient Greece bringing news of defeat were frequently slaughtered. Enjoy slaughtering me.
You don’t understand the logic I express.migration is by far the elephant in the room. If we lose we lose on this one issue although there are other issues that democrats have endorsed. But if Trump wins, it will be because of this. I’m not a cheerleader like you guys are. I tell it like I see it. I’m an independent-minded person. And this is a comment section. You don’t need to agree but it’s unnecessary to insult me.it only diminishes your self.
Ah, yes, the tired old "millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the border and ruining small town America". From what I gather, reading MAGAt comments on Xitter, any Brown or Black person is an illegal immigrant.
Allen, try and examine facts and issues on the ground. Often issues are nuanced as this is. Haitians are here legally. That was a totally made up story of then eating pets to fire up the unwitting base a cluck heads. The southern border has been a problem needing to be addressed and Biden finally addressed it — after three wasted years. So if your comments are to be accepted, then Biden is doing wrong keeping those brown and black people out.
The southern border problem has not been addressed. We've been over this dozens of times with you on this newsletter. Over a year ago the Biden admin started working with people in Congress to fund and try to pass the most comprehensive Border Security Bill in decades and it got killed by Republicans at the behest of Trump. The southern border executive orders that Biden has passed are all being challenged in Court and most likely will not hold up under legal scrutiny, they are at best a stop gap for solving the issue long term. The non sequitur at the end of your comment, that "Biden is doing wrong keeping those brown and black people out" doesn't make any sense and is an attempt to argue in bad faith.
Immigration is NOT the deal breaker in this election. When Biden’s attempts were made to deal with/it the usual sabotage and subterfuge by R’s ensued. To circumvent the potential loss of this election to Biden’s immigration policies is short sighted and duplicitous. The cult of trump runs deep in our disenfranchised citizenry; the desperate attempt to win at all costs (including lying, cheating, appointing thugs to oversee election sites and gerrymandering) is a far greater threat to this election than the ONE issue of immigration. I sense “off the cuff” and “incendiary commentary without forethought” is your MO. If you want to be taken seriously (and it appears you don’t) then try critical thinking/research before posting.
"The cult of Trump runs deep in our disenfranchised citizenry; the desperate attempt to win at all costs (including lying, cheating, appointing thugs to oversee election site, and gerrymandering) is a far greater threat to this election than the ONE issue of immigration.".
Agreed Maureen and I might add....fake electors, stacking a Supreme Court that will probably throw the election DT way, and the million other trucks they have up their sleeves.
You are regimented and trained well by the Democratic Thought Police. Enjoy your faulty thinking. Just remember we have laws in this country that should be obeyed.
I agree James M. Coyle! The Haitian-pet-eating scandal seems to be happening right when news outlets started noticing financial misdealing from OH Senate candidate, Bernie Moreno. The balance of the senate is critical for Dems to win. Nominating judges absolutely needs to continue under Dem control to stop Project 2025. I hope awareness of trump/vance’s sabotage & subterfuge about this senate race in Ohio is heigthened. It’s all about the judges to be nominated in the future administration. We need D-OH Senator Sherrod Brown to win in November. Here’s an article to share with others about his corrupt opponent: https://newrepublic.com/post/185913/maga-senate-candidate-bernie-moreno-lying-business
The McCarthyesque scandal machine combs for the slightest wisp of opposition scandal, clearly manufacturing charges when there is none. Vance even admits it. Next: "The Sky is Falling" (and it's all Harris's fault).
They keep saying it is about "economic anxiety" however some of much their policy ideas center on performance, punishing certain groups of people and finally just being an opposition party with no substance. That is why I don't believe them on anything, they aren't serious people with serious policy ideas on how to solve problems.
The fact that the Republican governor of Ohio and Republican Mayor of Springfield still said they are going to vote for the Trump / Vance ticket after all of these shenanigans is just insane. This is why I say they only care about power over anything else, especially since Trump can't keep his mouth shut and basically admits to all of their poorly thought out "concept of plans"
basically admits to all of their poorly thought out "concept of plans"
" You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I'll talk about, like, nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together. And it's like - and friends of mine that are, like, English professors - they say, it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen." - Bore of Little Brain
One of Trump’s “enemies” has been knocking it out of the park, of course with hilarity. 😂Jimmy Kimmel had over 3.5 million views on his Tues. night monologue.He asked all in the audience who was not registered to vote. He brought one young person up on stage and then out came Oprah to help her register online.
“It’s so important to register to vote, and to vote.”
OMG Kathy, thanks for that link ! That entire clip was hilarious ! I usually watch Colbert, but that clip served notice that I need some Kimmel now and then. Lol ~
Thank you Allen, correct! "John ??? ' fled LFAA when 16 Readers joined me in pinpointing the Department of Treasury actions (plural) against foreign paid actors. I am not on 'Thread' but "John ???" has been tracked to his new position.
“Vote like your life depends on it,” Eilish said, “because it does.”
I would like to see more celebrities using their platform to speak out against Fatman and Ribbon. Anyone with a scrap of political leverage right now, needs to use it.
I believe his wives sign non-disclosure agreements. Melania's book comes out next month. Since you hail from Michigan, the Felon in Chief spoke in Flint, my home town Tuesday. A friend drove by and said the parking lot at the Dort Center had fewer cars than it did for high school hockey games.
Patricia, I love this report on the number of cars in the parking lot for death star's BS. I can't even imagine why he would come to Flint in the first place as there are areas in Michigan that are more friendly to him. That he wants to visit Springfield, Ohio, is more of the in your face moves that Rs seem to thrive on. That poor town is trying to solve the problems created by death star and JD and now let's rub salt in the wound by visiting. Personally I like the pictures of the citizens there packing Haitian restaurants.
We are all immigrants or their progeny, except for a few of the native tribes left. It’s just that we have taken in the chaff with the wheat, like the Rupert, Elon, and the original Drumpfs. Yep, we let some snakes in and the worst are pale as can be
You got me thinking about the parable of the weeds and the wheat in Matthew 13:24-30 along with "I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16). Translation: Do something, but first, do no harm, which in this moment means vote for and support D candidates. Even the snakes will thank us in the end.
Expect a forthcoming manifestation of the Kara-Murza effect. "It happens like this always. When dictatorships (and wannabe dictators) fall, people look back and they say, ‘Well, how didn’t we see that at the time? This is so obvious.’"
Addicts hit rock bottom and admit they have a problem every day. MAGA's rock bottom is near.
The Bering straight theory has been questioned but not the immigration. That said, when First Nations arrived, the was no one here to object to it except, perhaps, birds and bears.
The first of the Indigenous probably followed the Mega-Fauna such as Mammoths , and the Big-Cats, during the last ages where temperatures would drop below -100F... The Slow, Weak, and Stupid did not make it... These Migrants, Animal, and Human, definitely did not ride in Boats, and Airplanes to get the Western Hemisphere... Us Indigenous than ran down, and killed the Big Predators to make this Hemisphere safe for the Newcomers... Imagine hunting on foot with Primitive Weapons, the Paleo-Bison that are twice as big as the Survivors that we have now, or the Mastodons which were bigger than today's African Elephants ...
I’m with you, Gary. It always irked the hell out of me that the corporate media never called these grifters immigrants while they freely throw that word around when relating to immigrants especially people of color and especially when spreading lies.
I'm not a W fan, but at least he released his tax returns and Yale transcript. He admitted he was a C student.
Where is Trump's 2023 tax returns besides as evidence in the New York criminal case. When are they going to nail him for income tax evasion as well?
Yesterday, it was reported the 3 whistleblowers are splitting 74 million dollars for turning in a tax evader that owes $263 million in taxes and penalty.
I thought Nixon would be the worst president in my lifetime; then came Reagan, then W, then Trump. Remarkably, the party pretty much started with Lincoln, was a mixed bag, and really dived after Eisenhower. Now it's corrupt to the bone.
I am partly troubled by the degree that celebrities seem to sway our decisions about the fate our own society, but anyone who has a "megaphone" should use it to call out what's at stake.
“ Senate and House Republicans told Peter Sullivan of Axios that if they regain control of the government, they will work to get rid of the provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that permits the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. Negotiations on the first ten drugs, completed in August, will lower the cost of those drugs enough to save taxpayers $6 billion a year, while those enrolled in Medicare will save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket expenses.”
How can any voter with a modicum of sense think this is a good idea?
“Modicum of sense” not in evidence in anywhere in MAGAtVille. I just got a med, that did cost $95.00. The one I just got cost $1.26. I thought it was an error, but apparently not. Glory be.
I have had the same experience and it’s lovely. And gas at the pump is under $3 a gallon. YET, after every media outlet continued to call the former Biden debate DISASTEROUS, there is no mention of tfffg disaster of a debate or even an image or mention of Kamala in the news headlines. MSM still trying to make news not report it. Is it fear of criticism by MAGat bullies?
I had the same reaction, MLM. What, Republicans are actually bragging about this?! How can any voter with a modicum of sense keep these people in office?? 😠
They keep telling me they vote on economic policies, and they hate government debt, but the way they vote sure doesn't seem like it. MAGA Republicans and the baseline GOP voters seem to have done a very good job of pretending like they care about economic issues, when they really use it as a shield for their bs culture war beliefs. They are Republicans before they are anything else, even if they know the policies they are supporting won't actually help or will make things worse. They just start from the position that Republicans are better than Democrats on every issue despite the evidence otherwise.
Republicans have NO business campaigning on immigration when they are the ones who killed the bipartisan immigration bill in Congress a few months ago.
One of my favorites, Counsellor. I always used "behind the plate" instead of "centerfield". (I was a catcher, and cannot judge a fly ball to save my soul)
I had a large, well-oiled mitt not padded like your behind-the-plate model. So Sheriff ... you know I was playing the hot corner not lounging around in centerfield.
"Republican endorsements of the Harris-Walz ticket continue to pile up. On Monday, six-term representative Bob Inglis (R-SC) told the Charleston City Paper that “Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the republic” and said he would vote for Harris. “If Donald Trump loses, that would be a good thing for the Republican Party,” Inglis said. “Because then we could have a Republican rethink and get a correction.” "
It would be a good thing for the country to have sanity reset as something of a normal.
B.L.U.F. (bottom-line, up-front): J.D. Vance is a formidable candidate and the vice presidential debate will be crucial to victory.
We need all those G.O.P. endorsements. I have not paid attention to Senator Vance. Then I listened to a couple of speeches. This candidate is formidable. Check out minutes twenty-four through thirty of this speech in which Senator Vance takes questions from local reporters.
Senator Vance did this in at least one other speech. He prefaces his dialogue by accusing Vice President Harris of avoiding the Press. Well one thing for sure: ¡the Falstaffian 'alien count' is now up to twenty-five millions (Henry IV, part-1: Act II, Scene-4)!
Linda and I have asked ourselves which is more concerning, Trump winning and serving out his term or Trump winning and dying in office. The answer is not obvious to us.
Gary, you and Linda hold much the same concern as I. Candidate Trump galls me to no end, but at least he is unlikeable, obvious, and unpleasant.
¿What happens when a more seductive version of the former President comes along who is as unprincipled as he? Senator Vance may be that version.
Scares me witless. Now I have to get off of dead-center and volunteer lest a latter-day Alcibiades, Aaron Burr, or Douglas MacArthur comes along as V.P.
DJT, and JD thrive in Chaos... DJT has only succeeded in 'Failing Upwards'... His 'Gish-Gallop' overwhelms just by sheer Volume of S*T... Springfield is only the start... Expect more Springfields as the Election gets closer as DJT gets even more Desperate.. . JD is without a Moral Compass, look at how JD treats his Constituents as Totally Expendable Assets...
I remember John McCain coming out of the hospital with prominent surgical wounds to vote thumbs down on killing the ACA. That is a Republican that I respect. He was, at one time, part of mainstream Republicanism.
He was definitely a responsible Republican! I have a great deal of respect for him. Of course, he did a number of things I didn't like (Palin was a big error!) but all in all, he came through when he needed to, both in war and in the Senate.
Couldn’t agree more Gary. I take pride in telling people here are his policies “Trump has been begging officials worldwide not to do the right thing for years to help rig the election for him—no deal in Gaza, no defense of Ukraine, no Kremlin hostages release, no border deal, no continuing resolution, no interest rate cuts etc—just sabotage & subterfuge.” I will add and yes on controlling everything about you and tax cuts again for the wealthiest.
Another “home run” of a letter from HCR.
Two quotes stood out for me today the first is from the New Yorker: “Trump has been begging officials worldwide not to do the right thing for years to help rig the election for him—no deal in Gaza, no defense of Ukraine, no Kremlin hostages release, no border deal, no continuing resolution, no interest rate cuts etc—just sabotage & subterfuge.”
Next, Billie Eilish: “Vote like your life depends on it,” Eilish said, “because it does.”
I’m pleased to see that the laundry list of prominent Republicans, former officials within recent past Republican administrations, who’ve announced they are voting for Harris/Walz is growing rapidly and substantially. Country before party is a mantra I can get behind.
That phrase "sabotage & subterfuge" is a concise description of the MAGA party's theory of government, on display daily in your national congress.
That is beyond true, a continuation and extension under Maga of Mitch's commitment years ago to undermine Obama so much he wouldn't be able to govern (plus Tea Party, in the wake of the ACA) yet the same Mitch is, wisely, not sure potently, is urging the House to get its act together and pass a funding bill the Dems in the Senate won't torpedo, if that GOP house members can even agree on a bill, given how the same intractable divisions among them persist, perhaps with a vengeance. Trump, of course, is pushing for chaos full fury, as Heather rightly notes. It isn't all quite working out as he hopes, i do trust. Love to see all those Republican and entertainment leader endorsement for Harris and Lutz. Get out the vote! Get out the vote!
Hold the bus! It's Congress responsibility to pass immigration reform. They did not. Republicans voted down, at Trump's insistence, the one bill they created and somehow the media doesn't follow that story. Or Biden's desperate executive order, which he did do, followed on the heels of the failed legislation. Since an executive order can be overturned by any court or the next administration, he pushed Congress to do immigration reform which hasn't been addressed since 1986. Thus, you should focus on the hypocrisy of Republican members of Congress, who have been ginning up border problems for political purposes, but refuse to do anything about it. Who admit to wanting to keep the problem alive. And by the way, migrants are passing into the US at the lowest level in years.
If Harris/Walz lose on this issue, it's because the media has not covered this story and because the false narrative is carried by people who don't take the time to understand the issue. And because, it seems Republicans in power don't care to solve problems.
When the NYT says the differences between Harris' and the former guy's immigration policies are subtle, you KNOW MSM isn't doing its job.
Reprehensible!
Ellie, I heard an interview today with Maggie Haberman of the NYT who said the media is really doing a good job covering the campaign and that it is a left-wing misunderstanding or something that is what is undermining the media. She is wrong about that because so many issues are poorly covered by the media if it is not one of Trump's stunts, performed nearly daily for more than 9 years and the media follow each one like starving dogs. Trump and his shenanigans are covered more than the work President Biden is doing and has done over his entire presidency. No wonder people don't know about the improvements in our lives that were made since Biden took office. When Democrats do something it is covered in general, as though that is just what one would expect, but they go bonkers for whatever an ignorant, inept, guy dealing with dementia and his sidekicks do. It really is a problem for the American people. So much of the media is taken over by a few rich corporations that care nothing for real news and information, just what will get their favorite stooges elected so they will get more power to keep doing more of what they are already doing. Outrageous!
Nailed it, and Haberman is too busy following the three-ring-circus to look beyond the tent
Well, they haven't done their jobs for years. Why should they start now?
Before He Who Shall Not Be Named comes for them?
Thank you for the sanity and the clarity.
They ran for decades against Roe v Wade never thinking that the dog would catch the car. Immigration seems to be their answer for everything but they don't want to lose the only issue that they can run on.
"Vance told a reporter today that he personally considers the programs under which they came illegal, so he is still 'going to call [a Haitian migrant] an illegal alien.' ”
Prospective vice presidents can create law just by thinking about it, but the public has to vote (if they can)? But Harris (who is vice president) can't? And the press with was a-buzz with doubts about BIDEN"S sanity?
“And because, it seems Republicans in power don't care to solve problems.”
I used to think, “There must be more to the problem than Republicans’ aversion to solving problems,” but as I wobble through my eighth decade I recognize that … nah … I had it right all along.
Responsible journalism might focus on more comfort for the afflicted victims of cruel, cynical political maneuvering. Also to make the afflicitors a tad less comfortable with consistent devil's bargains.
Frank, I firmly believe that the only reason that Mitch is urging the House to get its act together is because a shutdown would do further damage to the Republicans in the upcoming election, and in the twilight of his career as a partisan saboteur he'd like to burnish his reputation to cause those among us with amnesia to view him as a benign "statesman." I don't have amnesia.
I think he is cunning enough to see that a shutdown is most likely to backfire.
Definitely, J.L. As in the case of the Trump impeachments, he's willing to state the obvious, but he wouldn't vote to convict. Like Bill Barr, who enabled Trump at every turn, he'd now wants his legacy to highlight his last public statements, not his support of a moronic tyrant.
J L, yes, I think Mitch is actually still that savvy. He is cruel, unthinking most of the time, and well, evil, but he will certainly take care of himself and keep bowing down to the ignorant child-man who has been running the show for the past 9 years, so he will push to keep a shutdown from happening. If it were another time, he'd love it, especially if it were to cause a lot of pain for those "horrible government workers." What a hypocrite because he depends on those workers to make him look less stupid then he actually is.
Ruth, if I were able to read McConnell's mind, I would not be surprised that he actually hates Trump. He, along with all of the people from autocrats elsewhere, to Leonard Leo and his band of zealots calling the cards to construct the Supreme Court in their image, and the far-right Republican party who are determined to create and maintain control over this country and its citizens. They are willing to manipulate any useful idiot who can be the vehicle to make their wishes come true. These people will allow themselves and their families to be ridiculed and insulted in order to achieve their goals. They will sow the seeds of distrust and hatred to destroy our democracy and make everyone but like-minded parties control the populace and enrich themselves and achieve unlimited power. There are enough of us to defeat them, but we have to be able to see the forest for the trees and not take their bate. We must use the tools that remain to vote them out of office - all of them necessary, and to maintain our democracy and repair the damage already done.
Frank, I will be working the poles November 5th. It will be a very long day....it will start at 5am EST and end after dark hopefully, before 8pm EST in Clay County, Indiana. Prayers for safety will be appreciated!
Thank you! I have been a poll worker and you deserves kudos for doing this unappreciated, difficult, physically taxing (!) job. We should have to hope that you (and all the other workers) are safe, but it is an unfortunate result of the nonstop hate and lies spewed by TFG.
Suggestion: work the polls in November instead. I think poles are in strip joints.
I love that a Canadian is following US politics so closely. Do you live in the States?
I lived in Ukraine, married to a Ukrainian. Came back to Canada two years ago. American politics is both entertainment and critical to our ability to someday return home
As the USA Ambassador to Canada recently warned, "Canadians are spending too much time on American politics and not enough on their own." Lots is happening in Canada that is just as scary as the Republican far right especially in Alberta and Ontario. And some of it paid for by USA entities.
Ugh…don’t like to hear that!
You've written "Harris and Lutz" where you meant Harris and Walz." (Lutz was a diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during WWII, so quite worthy.)
Biden spent almost 3 years refusing to do anything to stop millions from rushing over hot sands and a cool river. To suggest that this is our proud legacy; clogging cities around the nation with this massive influx is a sad and untenable statement of the administration. It’s a losing proposition. If Harris loses in November, this one issue stands front and center. Why he was so dense to not take executive action is anyone’s guess. Perhaps why we are not appalled is more easily understood. We accept face value of the Think People, the Idologues at the top of the food thinking chain and know that they can do no wrong and that we must fall in line and agree. After all, we’re Democrats. And now we have a nail biter of an election on our hands. Against who? Only the worst decrepit , demented unstable wannabe pretend ole-style New York mafia Don that’s Biden’s adversary. I couldn’t have dreamed up this story in a million years if it wasn’t true. And it’s all in my book, “ Donald’s Vanity Tantrums” for only $15 online. Hurry before they are all sold out. And you’ll get several belly laughs with the scathing satire told in my little illustrated book. Better than Mao Si Tung’s little red book.
My mother used to say "Blab Off" when TV commercials interrupted the news.
Blab Off Katz- you are annoying.
I usually scroll on by. He’s been whining about immigrants for years using the same old rhetoric coming from those who feel their position threatened. And trying to sell his book.
Gail, perhaps he could increase the price of his book, and even get a bit more respect, if he knew the proper spelling of Mao Zedong. Historian, he isn't.
Ditto for you in my remarks to Miss Simon.
Hum ho, he seems to be everywhere touting his wisdom to those of us who “refuse to see”
Any point seems to get lost in the tedium
No not at all. I only suggest that for me, I’m not n anyone’s cheerleader as most folks are. I call it like I see. Here again is what I call group attack. If you don’t read the expected script, critize the messenger. The messengers of Ancient Greece bringing news of defeat were frequently slaughtered. Enjoy slaughtering me.
You don’t understand the logic I express.migration is by far the elephant in the room. If we lose we lose on this one issue although there are other issues that democrats have endorsed. But if Trump wins, it will be because of this. I’m not a cheerleader like you guys are. I tell it like I see it. I’m an independent-minded person. And this is a comment section. You don’t need to agree but it’s unnecessary to insult me.it only diminishes your self.
"migration is by far the elephant in the room" -
in your room- and in their room.
Womens Rights ?
Gun Control ?
Fiscal Responsibility ?
Honor, Integrity ?- hmmmm
Threw the baby, our amazing young country, out with the bathwater?
Your "job" could be the better explaining of your logic. You disrespect and insult us readers right and left and then you complain about insults.
Pfui poor Mr. Katz.
Ah, yes, the tired old "millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the border and ruining small town America". From what I gather, reading MAGAt comments on Xitter, any Brown or Black person is an illegal immigrant.
Allen, try and examine facts and issues on the ground. Often issues are nuanced as this is. Haitians are here legally. That was a totally made up story of then eating pets to fire up the unwitting base a cluck heads. The southern border has been a problem needing to be addressed and Biden finally addressed it — after three wasted years. So if your comments are to be accepted, then Biden is doing wrong keeping those brown and black people out.
The southern border problem has not been addressed. We've been over this dozens of times with you on this newsletter. Over a year ago the Biden admin started working with people in Congress to fund and try to pass the most comprehensive Border Security Bill in decades and it got killed by Republicans at the behest of Trump. The southern border executive orders that Biden has passed are all being challenged in Court and most likely will not hold up under legal scrutiny, they are at best a stop gap for solving the issue long term. The non sequitur at the end of your comment, that "Biden is doing wrong keeping those brown and black people out" doesn't make any sense and is an attempt to argue in bad faith.
Try reading what I wrote
Sorry. Bought Prof Timothy Snyder new book "On Freedom" instead. And he didnt advertise here.
Good for both of you.
Immigration is NOT the deal breaker in this election. When Biden’s attempts were made to deal with/it the usual sabotage and subterfuge by R’s ensued. To circumvent the potential loss of this election to Biden’s immigration policies is short sighted and duplicitous. The cult of trump runs deep in our disenfranchised citizenry; the desperate attempt to win at all costs (including lying, cheating, appointing thugs to oversee election sites and gerrymandering) is a far greater threat to this election than the ONE issue of immigration. I sense “off the cuff” and “incendiary commentary without forethought” is your MO. If you want to be taken seriously (and it appears you don’t) then try critical thinking/research before posting.
"The cult of Trump runs deep in our disenfranchised citizenry; the desperate attempt to win at all costs (including lying, cheating, appointing thugs to oversee election site, and gerrymandering) is a far greater threat to this election than the ONE issue of immigration.".
Agreed Maureen and I might add....fake electors, stacking a Supreme Court that will probably throw the election DT way, and the million other trucks they have up their sleeves.
You are regimented and trained well by the Democratic Thought Police. Enjoy your faulty thinking. Just remember we have laws in this country that should be obeyed.
I'm putting a non-partisan 'get out the vote' post on Facebook tomorrow.
I agree James M. Coyle! The Haitian-pet-eating scandal seems to be happening right when news outlets started noticing financial misdealing from OH Senate candidate, Bernie Moreno. The balance of the senate is critical for Dems to win. Nominating judges absolutely needs to continue under Dem control to stop Project 2025. I hope awareness of trump/vance’s sabotage & subterfuge about this senate race in Ohio is heigthened. It’s all about the judges to be nominated in the future administration. We need D-OH Senator Sherrod Brown to win in November. Here’s an article to share with others about his corrupt opponent: https://newrepublic.com/post/185913/maga-senate-candidate-bernie-moreno-lying-business
I agree!
The McCarthyesque scandal machine combs for the slightest wisp of opposition scandal, clearly manufacturing charges when there is none. Vance even admits it. Next: "The Sky is Falling" (and it's all Harris's fault).
I wish Sherrod Brown had run for president in 2016. He had shown interest for a brief moment.
They keep saying it is about "economic anxiety" however some of much their policy ideas center on performance, punishing certain groups of people and finally just being an opposition party with no substance. That is why I don't believe them on anything, they aren't serious people with serious policy ideas on how to solve problems.
The fact that the Republican governor of Ohio and Republican Mayor of Springfield still said they are going to vote for the Trump / Vance ticket after all of these shenanigans is just insane. This is why I say they only care about power over anything else, especially since Trump can't keep his mouth shut and basically admits to all of their poorly thought out "concept of plans"
basically admits to all of their poorly thought out "concept of plans"
" You know, I do the weave. You know what the weave is? I'll talk about, like, nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together. And it's like - and friends of mine that are, like, English professors - they say, it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen." - Bore of Little Brain
All the crap is in service of plutocrats' quest for Absolute Power.
Patriotism? Like pledging lives, fortune and sacred honor? Christianity, like Sermon on the Mount?
Trump?
Vance?
Leo, Musk, Koch or Crow, et al?
MAGA?
What's wrong with this picture?
One of Trump’s “enemies” has been knocking it out of the park, of course with hilarity. 😂Jimmy Kimmel had over 3.5 million views on his Tues. night monologue.He asked all in the audience who was not registered to vote. He brought one young person up on stage and then out came Oprah to help her register online.
“It’s so important to register to vote, and to vote.”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa6vGFO9ty8v5KZJXQxdhaw
I saw this yesterday, and loved it! Kamala and Oprah have a joint podcast tonight.
Double 'good trouble' ...
OMG Kathy, thanks for that link ! That entire clip was hilarious ! I usually watch Colbert, but that clip served notice that I need some Kimmel now and then. Lol ~
Most important in the battleground states. Everything else is extra.
I take it you are the immigration troll on LFAA. They finally got rid of John S??? who was the Russian troll but he has resurfaced on Threads
Thank you Allen, correct! "John ??? ' fled LFAA when 16 Readers joined me in pinpointing the Department of Treasury actions (plural) against foreign paid actors. I am not on 'Thread' but "John ???" has been tracked to his new position.
Thank you. What is his last name? I need to find him on Threads and troll him.
I had an anonymous (Ukrainian) troll on my Blog and it took forever to get rid of him. I kept hoping that a Russian missile hit him
excellent.
“Vote like your life depends on it,” Eilish said, “because it does.”
I would like to see more celebrities using their platform to speak out against Fatman and Ribbon. Anyone with a scrap of political leverage right now, needs to use it.
"President Joe Biden said: "We don't demonize immigrants."
Obviously Biden is a better man than I am. I demonize Elon (Leon) Musk and Rupert Murdoch who continue to support DonOLD.
And I demonize Ivana and Melania for marrying convicted felon Donald Trump and refusing to challenge his xenophobia, misogyny and his hate speech.
I'm sorry Joe. There's a reason you are the President and I'm not, if fact hundreds of reasons.
I believe his wives sign non-disclosure agreements. Melania's book comes out next month. Since you hail from Michigan, the Felon in Chief spoke in Flint, my home town Tuesday. A friend drove by and said the parking lot at the Dort Center had fewer cars than it did for high school hockey games.
Patricia, I love this report on the number of cars in the parking lot for death star's BS. I can't even imagine why he would come to Flint in the first place as there are areas in Michigan that are more friendly to him. That he wants to visit Springfield, Ohio, is more of the in your face moves that Rs seem to thrive on. That poor town is trying to solve the problems created by death star and JD and now let's rub salt in the wound by visiting. Personally I like the pictures of the citizens there packing Haitian restaurants.
Who is Melania's ghostwriter? Michelle Obama, with a twist?
No, she wrote it herself. It's a coloring book. /S
; -)
this should be a top news headline - tRumpf would go apesh!t crazy with that comparison! ;-)
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💥
We are all immigrants or their progeny, except for a few of the native tribes left. It’s just that we have taken in the chaff with the wheat, like the Rupert, Elon, and the original Drumpfs. Yep, we let some snakes in and the worst are pale as can be
You got me thinking about the parable of the weeds and the wheat in Matthew 13:24-30 along with "I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16). Translation: Do something, but first, do no harm, which in this moment means vote for and support D candidates. Even the snakes will thank us in the end.
Hope I live long enough for that to happen. Cults usually need some deprogramming or Ike…
Expect a forthcoming manifestation of the Kara-Murza effect. "It happens like this always. When dictatorships (and wannabe dictators) fall, people look back and they say, ‘Well, how didn’t we see that at the time? This is so obvious.’"
Addicts hit rock bottom and admit they have a problem every day. MAGA's rock bottom is near.
I read the comments on Newsweek stories and it is scary how ignorant many of the commenters are as well as their cognitive dissonance.
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both”
— Justice Louis Brandeis
Louis likely spinning as much as any founding father. Sad that we don’t learn….
Didn't the Native tribes immigrate over the Bering Straight?
We all emigrated from Africa....
Just some more recently than others.
Guess those who stayed behind had no idea how “superior” those who went first would be to those who went right behind.
The Bering straight theory has been questioned but not the immigration. That said, when First Nations arrived, the was no one here to object to it except, perhaps, birds and bears.
The first of the Indigenous probably followed the Mega-Fauna such as Mammoths , and the Big-Cats, during the last ages where temperatures would drop below -100F... The Slow, Weak, and Stupid did not make it... These Migrants, Animal, and Human, definitely did not ride in Boats, and Airplanes to get the Western Hemisphere... Us Indigenous than ran down, and killed the Big Predators to make this Hemisphere safe for the Newcomers... Imagine hunting on foot with Primitive Weapons, the Paleo-Bison that are twice as big as the Survivors that we have now, or the Mastodons which were bigger than today's African Elephants ...
Yep, but what did those natives disparage? Guess they just ate the bears, and whatever.
It was not conquest, though there were internal wars for territory. They saw themselves as kindred to other creatures, even those that were eaten.
I’m with you, Gary. It always irked the hell out of me that the corporate media never called these grifters immigrants while they freely throw that word around when relating to immigrants especially people of color and especially when spreading lies.
Ditto Gary; I'm afraid to even take a stab at how many times I've said just that, ie.,
"I'm sorry Joe. There's a reason you are the President and I'm not, in* fact hundreds of reasons."
I probably plagiarized it from you 😎.
Ha! I wish I could like this a zillion times.
You mean someone like Coward George W. Bush Kazz? The man who sleepwalked America into raging disfunction. That one? Both he and Jeb, fearful losers.
I'm not a W fan, but at least he released his tax returns and Yale transcript. He admitted he was a C student.
Where is Trump's 2023 tax returns besides as evidence in the New York criminal case. When are they going to nail him for income tax evasion as well?
Yesterday, it was reported the 3 whistleblowers are splitting 74 million dollars for turning in a tax evader that owes $263 million in taxes and penalty.
I thought Nixon would be the worst president in my lifetime; then came Reagan, then W, then Trump. Remarkably, the party pretty much started with Lincoln, was a mixed bag, and really dived after Eisenhower. Now it's corrupt to the bone.
Kazz, we all have a scrap of political leverage, and we all need to use every scrap right now.
I am partly troubled by the degree that celebrities seem to sway our decisions about the fate our own society, but anyone who has a "megaphone" should use it to call out what's at stake.
“Fatman and Ribbon”. Brilliant!
“ Senate and House Republicans told Peter Sullivan of Axios that if they regain control of the government, they will work to get rid of the provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that permits the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. Negotiations on the first ten drugs, completed in August, will lower the cost of those drugs enough to save taxpayers $6 billion a year, while those enrolled in Medicare will save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket expenses.”
How can any voter with a modicum of sense think this is a good idea?
“Modicum of sense” not in evidence in anywhere in MAGAtVille. I just got a med, that did cost $95.00. The one I just got cost $1.26. I thought it was an error, but apparently not. Glory be.
I have had the same experience and it’s lovely. And gas at the pump is under $3 a gallon. YET, after every media outlet continued to call the former Biden debate DISASTEROUS, there is no mention of tfffg disaster of a debate or even an image or mention of Kamala in the news headlines. MSM still trying to make news not report it. Is it fear of criticism by MAGat bullies?
Yes, they try to make the news not report it. Walter flipping in his grave…
Are you saying they negotiated your cost down from to 95 to 1.26? If so this is fantastic! Cheers!
It was on the list of drugs that would be negotiated. I just know what showed up on my CC a couple of days ago. No complaints here...
I had the same reaction, MLM. What, Republicans are actually bragging about this?! How can any voter with a modicum of sense keep these people in office?? 😠
They keep telling me they vote on economic policies, and they hate government debt, but the way they vote sure doesn't seem like it. MAGA Republicans and the baseline GOP voters seem to have done a very good job of pretending like they care about economic issues, when they really use it as a shield for their bs culture war beliefs. They are Republicans before they are anything else, even if they know the policies they are supporting won't actually help or will make things worse. They just start from the position that Republicans are better than Democrats on every issue despite the evidence otherwise.
Cognitive dissonance.
Willfully ignorant sheep.
Republicans have NO business campaigning on immigration when they are the ones who killed the bipartisan immigration bill in Congress a few months ago.
They are talking about objectifying people of color. Logic has nothing to do with it.
Yup. Heather is a heavy hitter. 🎶 Put me in Coach ... I'm ready to play today 🎶
One of my favorites, Counsellor. I always used "behind the plate" instead of "centerfield". (I was a catcher, and cannot judge a fly ball to save my soul)
I had a large, well-oiled mitt not padded like your behind-the-plate model. So Sheriff ... you know I was playing the hot corner not lounging around in centerfield.
With the memo leak about Supreme Court Justice Roberts....I worry that the election will end up in the Supreme Courts hands.
Memo leak? I missed that, although I share your concern.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/justice-roberts-trump-supreme-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L04.9NKv.ZlUDvF0UnBdY&smid=url-share
YIKES!!!
Thank you for link!
Thank you Ellis!!!
Still time to register more Democrats.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/all-volunteer-ops/volunteer
I'm still writing post cards, but adding a $ donation too. Everyone, do what you can, and do it now. Time is short.
I sent another $30 to Kam & the Coach. This time their Team is sending me a signed yard sign. : --)
COOL!
Keeping it for my 2 Granddaughters. : -- )
and
"Republican endorsements of the Harris-Walz ticket continue to pile up. On Monday, six-term representative Bob Inglis (R-SC) told the Charleston City Paper that “Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the republic” and said he would vote for Harris. “If Donald Trump loses, that would be a good thing for the Republican Party,” Inglis said. “Because then we could have a Republican rethink and get a correction.” "
It would be a good thing for the country to have sanity reset as something of a normal.
It provides us with some hope for a resurrected two party system that is rational and simply has honest policy disagreements.
BE CAREFUL OF J.D. VANCE
B.L.U.F. (bottom-line, up-front): J.D. Vance is a formidable candidate and the vice presidential debate will be crucial to victory.
We need all those G.O.P. endorsements. I have not paid attention to Senator Vance. Then I listened to a couple of speeches. This candidate is formidable. Check out minutes twenty-four through thirty of this speech in which Senator Vance takes questions from local reporters.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?538417-1/senator-jd-vance-campaigns-raleigh-north-carolina
Senator Vance did this in at least one other speech. He prefaces his dialogue by accusing Vice President Harris of avoiding the Press. Well one thing for sure: ¡the Falstaffian 'alien count' is now up to twenty-five millions (Henry IV, part-1: Act II, Scene-4)!
Linda and I have asked ourselves which is more concerning, Trump winning and serving out his term or Trump winning and dying in office. The answer is not obvious to us.
Gary, you and Linda hold much the same concern as I. Candidate Trump galls me to no end, but at least he is unlikeable, obvious, and unpleasant.
¿What happens when a more seductive version of the former President comes along who is as unprincipled as he? Senator Vance may be that version.
Scares me witless. Now I have to get off of dead-center and volunteer lest a latter-day Alcibiades, Aaron Burr, or Douglas MacArthur comes along as V.P.
DJT, and JD thrive in Chaos... DJT has only succeeded in 'Failing Upwards'... His 'Gish-Gallop' overwhelms just by sheer Volume of S*T... Springfield is only the start... Expect more Springfields as the Election gets closer as DJT gets even more Desperate.. . JD is without a Moral Compass, look at how JD treats his Constituents as Totally Expendable Assets...
When Trump loses, these responsible Republicans (Where have they been all these years?) can form the backbone of a new Conservative Party,
I remember John McCain coming out of the hospital with prominent surgical wounds to vote thumbs down on killing the ACA. That is a Republican that I respect. He was, at one time, part of mainstream Republicanism.
He was definitely a responsible Republican! I have a great deal of respect for him. Of course, he did a number of things I didn't like (Palin was a big error!) but all in all, he came through when he needed to, both in war and in the Senate.
I would have voted for him in 2000 if Rove’s dirty tricks hadn’t won the primary for W. I couldn’t vote for him with Palin in 2008.
Couldn’t agree more Gary. I take pride in telling people here are his policies “Trump has been begging officials worldwide not to do the right thing for years to help rig the election for him—no deal in Gaza, no defense of Ukraine, no Kremlin hostages release, no border deal, no continuing resolution, no interest rate cuts etc—just sabotage & subterfuge.” I will add and yes on controlling everything about you and tax cuts again for the wealthiest.
We’re in near violent 😂 agreement on this.
Thank you Gary…underscoring is very cool🫶
The list of Republicans supporting Vice President Harris highlights the cowardice of former President Bush.
A nice summary. Thanks.