This looks plausible. But the blue wall has to hold. I'll check in again at around midnight. Watch a movie or something.

 

Twitter post where my reach was limited by the very impartial Twitter owner, seen dancing around on the stage with Trump like a bit of a Dip. Thank god Musk doesn't own Blogger, yet.

Post where the reach was limited on Twitter. On the day of the election. And the warning was completely false and had nothing to do with the post. There was no hate speech involved. I was clearly joking.

I was responding to this Twitter post.

Has nothing to do with "Derangement". There are lots of good reasons not to like Trump and his openly fascist party.

 Yeah it's not just because of losing my healthcare or the fact that I do not like convicted rapists and racists in general. I dislike the openly fascist (By every definition I've read.) GOP for many many reasons. It doesn't have anything to do with derangement. I like laws that protect my air and water. I don't think an anti vaccine guy like RFK Jr should be running the Dept of Health. Etcetera and So On. It's terrifying that the election is a coin toss.

Don't pay attention to the attack ads. Charlamagne tha God has endorsed Kamala Harris.

 BTW if you're watching Charlamagne the God talk about Kamala's position on sex change operations (endlessly here in Pgh. Pa right now.), that attack ad omits the fact that tha God has endorsed Kamala Harris.

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Kamala should sack her ad team because many of her ads don't emotionally resonate. She's either answering very weakly or not at all.

 Free political advice for Harris. Taken in the spirit of: What have I got to lose and what have you got to lose? Not sure Trump will win but he's definitely gaining and the prospects of GOP house and senate candidates seem to be rising with him.

Adapted from Twitter:

These ads either are not being countered or countered in a very weak way by the badly done Harris Walz ads that I've seen, at least here in Pittsburgh. (The Harris ads do not resonate emotionally. When I watch a Trump ad I feel that Harris is personally helping some evil migrant kill some white person. All the Harris ads have no emotional life. They're not funny or interesting. Even though Harris has the support of Hollywood they seem poorly imagined and produced...It's unreal....) There's a reason Harris didn't do well in the Dem primary in 2020. I mean, even the Bob Casey ads are specific. They're to the point. Casey isn't exactly a ball of fire btw. Not sure he's going to win but his ads are specific. But the modern campaign is a television ad war that these center right neo lib dems just don't understand. Trump is winning the ad wars. If I was Harris, then I would sack my team and replace it with Casey's team.

Does Kamala Harris know that she's in danger if she loses this election? Because if you don't move on student debt or Israeli genocide, you're making me think she doesn't know.

 https://x.com/mrpshropshire/status/1848687717078495370

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Well she'll be fine, maybe. I mean, maybe she doesn't get a ticket to the detention camps as well. No wait she definitely goes, especially as the child of immigrants. She probably gets a ticket. How will you stop them? By filing suit in front of a Trump judge? That's the horror of a Trump presidency. You know Biden didn't step down because I thought that was a good idea. Or even because Cenk thought he should step down even though Cenk has a massive following and a tv show. It was because Pelosi and the Obamas thought the plug should have been pulled. Keep in mind that if Pelosi been home on that night when her big headed husband got bonked in the head we would be referring to her as the late Nancy Pelosi. I think the Obamas should be scared too. Why isn't Kamala scared? The rule of law is whatever the Trump judges say it is. If you're scared, btw, you forgive all student debt under the 65 act. You do something to stop the Israeli killing spree. You don't just throw up your hands and let Israel commit war crimes. I sometimes wonder if she's trying to win, or if Biden is sabotaging her or both. That would be the ultimate Washington Generals Sacrifice.

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Kamala Harris is losing in last six polls out of Michigan, a state she has to win. If she said she'd do a weapons embargo on Israel - a moral position she should have anyway - she would pick up five points at least and win the election. But she would rather lose than defy Israel.

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Resistance movements are glorified in movies but in real life the Empire often wins.

 

Couldn't post this on Twitter for some reason. But children, as well as debt, are often used to keep people quiet and scared. You might be willing to take a hit for public statements. But not if it harms your kids or career prospects.

 Well one of the things that having kids does is that it kind of enslaves and restrains you. I'm broke and I can't afford kids and there were very few times where I could. But that does give you some freedom. Not only is there nothing financial to take away from me (trust me on this.) but it frees me to say the truth. For example: Israel should be registered as a foreign agent. Biden and all the Dems that armed them should also be charged with war crimes. It really is genocide in Gaza. And I'll take the punishment for saying those things. Apparently it could be my phone exploding near my groin. Or my heart. Choices I guess. But I also don't have to worry about someone targeting my children or a job that I would probably need if I had kids. No trust funds here. People with kids, or politicians who want kids and want a future in politics, or less likely to say what I just said. And I don't think those people are awful cowards. There's a price to pay if you take on the lobby. You're just less likely to do that if burdened by debt or children. I think that's the point of our fucked up society. And one of the many many reasons it's a fucked up society.

I was responding to this Young Turks post. One thing I forgot to add: If Sarah Huckabee really liked kids in her state she wouldn't have signed a bill allowing them to work at younger ages. Contrast this to Walz feeding all the kids in his state. Their pics with kids look different too.

Best Calvin and Hobbes Comics Ever. Love Ruben's portrayals of AOC and Kamala Harris.

 

 I'm thinking of doing an audio book of short statements. This might be one of them.

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A tsunami is coming: The shocking influence of right-wing money on American politics

Get ready: massive pools of dark rightwing money are soon going to clobber us. Will Democracy survive this onslaught by the morbidly rich?

Democrats are giddy right now; the substantial lead that Trump had held over Biden for months has largely vanished as the match-up has changed to Harris and Walz. In the ten polls aggregated by RealClearPolitics since Biden’s withdrawal, Trump has lost 3 points and only leads by one. In the DailyKos/Civiqs poll Harris leads Trump 49/45, Reuters puts the race at 43/42, and Morning Consult has it at 47/46.

Trump is blustering in ways that indicate he thinks he’s losing (Thursday's presser at his shabby golf motel was particularly pathetic), while JD Vance’s poll numbers are in the toilet…or the couch…and showing no indication of recovery any day soon.

That said, other lessons from this and recent past years should keep Democrats from easing up or becoming overconfident. The official beginning of the election season is still almost a month away, and the big money pledged by rightwing and neofascist billionaires hasn’t even shown up yet.

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Just assuming Handmaid's Tale is already banned but I'm not sure...

 

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