You know, I am starting to think that Ezra Klein and others like him are not at all centrist, but are right wingers looking to mainstream the extremities of the right. See too: Bari Weiss who also claimed once to be centrist.
And also, which should make others take notice of "centrist Dems" who are "just trying to be reasonable" and "see both sides". So on exactly which "sides" do you find common ground with the Right, O Reasonable One? Is it "beware of government impinging on personal freedom" or is it "biological men shouldn't play in women's sports"? Because there are a few key issues that separate the True Centrist Dems from the Cosplaying Fuckheads. Throwing any marginalized group under the bus is a tell.
Fucking Gov. Polis. Did you see the article yesterday about that orange bag of shit leaning on him? I wonder what they said that made him cave so fast?
I want public schools to start hammering the lessons of "communism", "socialism", and "capitalism" so no one gets "confused" on what those fucking words mean
Morning all! Managed to get a few dreaded chores done early, before the air turns to city flavored soup, and my trusty dehumidifier continues to be my favorite non-wearable impulse purchase in years. May your day be pleasant and your swampy bits free of algae and inferior contractors.
The homophobic Trumper lead singer of "The Village People" who used lawsuits to take over the group's name and credit for writing the music - all of which was created by gay producer Jacques Morali - has died at age 74.
Well, fuck. Morning from 6AM until I've had my nap from 9-11 is "quiet time" in my house. Nobody talks to me, bothers me, or interrupts me. But today a friend who let his water get shut off is coming by to shower at 6. Love the guy, but he is an EXTREME extrovert who never shuts up about his various problems--mostly that he doesn't make enough money because he only works like 25 hours per week and won't get a job that offers more hours or steady pay. Not my problem.
I feel you. Things I've tried, sometimes in combination:
Stay in another room.
Wear headphones.
Explain that morning is my quiet time when I need to concentrate to get certain shit done that if I don't get done, people gonna be crawling up my ass and the day is fucked. No that's not "some news site" on my screen don't look at my screen that's my privacy screensaver caught you looking that's my business no I can't tell you what I'm working on or I'd have to kill you.
Just reminds me of step monster, NOTHING was ever her fault for the numerous messes she would get herself in.
Come to find out, she was robbing my dad/us blind. Now everything SHE DID, she's trying to blame the kids “for the shit they're doing” - but cant actually say what we’re doing because it would expose herself. Just proceed with caution because narcissists all have the same stupid playbook
Yay, spent three hours yesterday learning how to use a voting machine, and it's a bit a palaver to set it up and shut it down. I can understand that; it maintains election integrity and chain of custody.
Teaching this afternoon, larnin' them young'uns the importance and process for bringing people into jail, w00t.
Here you darken in an oval on a paper ballot, then you bring it to the machine and feed it in yourself. The machine tabulates the votes and drops the ballot into a locked container under the machine.
My neighbor gave me his paper mail-in ballot and I filled it out. He was watching and I voted for who he wanted (he's a solid dem because he's a bit dusky and gets it). I'm not sure if that's illegal or not, I just wanted to do it once.
Back when Florida had some governance that didn't include go-go boots, they led the way to new voting systems after the 2000 election. Connecticut switched to the machines Florida had, and we've not had a problem since.
Good morning! What would you think of my trimming out the garage windows with everything Hemlock except for the sill, which would be walnut. And the hemlock would have squared corners, but the walnut would have a radiused edge and then curve instead of squared off corners where it goes back to the wall? And all of it finished with an oil instead of a poly?
Sort of like a guitar only you wouldn’t be able to play it. But you could set coffee cups on it. But probably not while I was watching on account of cardiac arrest.
I slept very poorly Monday night and felt a cold coming on, so I downed a half-dose of the Quil of Ny and hit the hay about 8:30, waking up about 40 minutes ago.
US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025.
In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from a Trump meme coin that has plunged in value since he launched it days before taking office.
He also reported over $500m in income from World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency firm founded by his own sons and the children of his special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
He earned millions more from real estate and Trump-themed items. But the White House denied he was profiting from the presidency.
The earnings from his latest financial disclosure far outpace the previous ones for 2024, when Trump disclosed over $600m of income.
But the White House, which has repeatedly emphasised that Trump has placed his businesses in a trust managed by his sons, again denied any conflict of interest. <------
...
She added: "All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called 'reporters' pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade." <----
The president himself has also highlighted that he is not subject to federal conflict of interest laws. <---- you know, apart from the emoluments clause, but who gives a fuck about the constitution?
You can’t take it with you, slobbo. It can’t buy you any happiness, it can’t change your disgusting face, it can’t reverse the disease process that is killing you. So enjoy your overdone steaks and ass kissers. Your name, now and increasingly with time, will be an invocation of all that is cruel, stupid, venal, tacky, pathetic, gross, and bad.
And your kids, Dumb and Dumber will lose it all in scams and asset seizures. Even your favorite, Ivankaka, has been getting protested for 27 DAYS in Albania.
America will have to declare your gravesite as a Super Fund site.
"Jeffrey Toobin Explains How the Supreme Court Allowed Trump To Become a Cryptocurrency Billionaire While President"
By granting a felon immunity, that's how. I think I see the problem. I think we have a solution.
God, it's true.
White men can do nothing that they do not get forgiven for.
WHERE ARE OUR FUCKING TERBS?
TERBS!!!!!!!
I REQUIRE TERBS!
Oh there they are, never mind.
THEY DIDN'T TAKE OUR TERBS!!
The floor is lava, cavy edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCde1GVbMfs
You know, I am starting to think that Ezra Klein and others like him are not at all centrist, but are right wingers looking to mainstream the extremities of the right. See too: Bari Weiss who also claimed once to be centrist.
They moved Overton window. What used to be centrist Democrat positions are now considered "radical left commie socialist" positions.
"Concentration camps for undesirables" are just "policy" now.
Alligator Alcatraz. Fucking Alligator Alcatraz, man.
Which should make the other "centrist" Dems take notice... Maybe they have and they arent really our saviors.
Maybe even the constituents noticed and that's why DSA is sweeping the elections.
And also, which should make others take notice of "centrist Dems" who are "just trying to be reasonable" and "see both sides". So on exactly which "sides" do you find common ground with the Right, O Reasonable One? Is it "beware of government impinging on personal freedom" or is it "biological men shouldn't play in women's sports"? Because there are a few key issues that separate the True Centrist Dems from the Cosplaying Fuckheads. Throwing any marginalized group under the bus is a tell.
My tell is "goes after allies more than the fascists currently being actual fascists"
Works every time
I very very very very very much doubt Klein would consider himself a democrat.
You'd think AOC and Mamdani might have taught them something.
I think they did! And that's why “Dems” will fight more against progressive than the fucking fascists. Funny that.
Follow the money.
See also: "liars"
I've never trusted either of those fucks.
Cry harder, loser. “𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘙𝘐𝘎𝘎𝘌𝘋, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘐𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘋𝘐𝘚𝘈𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭!"
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: “𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴”
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/trump-hosts-tina-peters-she-caught-dems-cheating/
At this point, I have to assume Dementia Don believes all the shit he spews. I also assume that he is completely untethered from reality.
She couldn't catch a cruller in a donut shop.
I suppose the Mccarthy communist witch hunts were going on when he was a child and its stuck
Fucking Gov. Polis. Did you see the article yesterday about that orange bag of shit leaning on him? I wonder what they said that made him cave so fast?
Wasnt Polis also on that "secret club" with Peter Thiel that just got exposed recently?
Because then, THAT makes sense. He's already been paid by Thiel.
"𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮"
not even Russia and China do Communism any more, Don.
That's the new boogeyman word. Socialist is a complement now after Zohran stomped the corporate candidates in NYC.
They will always be doing the communising in the heads of “working class voters.”
If fucking working class voters actually understood the precepts of communism they'd like it. It's just unworkable in reality.
I want public schools to start hammering the lessons of "communism", "socialism", and "capitalism" so no one gets "confused" on what those fucking words mean
True that. Even my Josies fell short in that category.
Capitalism=good! All they teach
I woke up a bit when I got punched by an English student who was trying to explain Marxist crit theory to me. She was so fucking angry.
eta: because I was being a dick
Laos and (possibly) North Korea have entered the chat.
Morning all! Managed to get a few dreaded chores done early, before the air turns to city flavored soup, and my trusty dehumidifier continues to be my favorite non-wearable impulse purchase in years. May your day be pleasant and your swampy bits free of algae and inferior contractors.
The homophobic Trumper lead singer of "The Village People" who used lawsuits to take over the group's name and credit for writing the music - all of which was created by gay producer Jacques Morali - has died at age 74.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddlnqy8zmqo
State funeral with 21 YMCA gesture salute?
So 42 jerked dicks?
How could he live with the knowledge that he'd performed with Teh Gheys?
The money made up for it.
Everything Trump touches...
In this case, it was less touch and more pantomime double-wank dance.
May everything he wanks follow suit.
Whomp.
Well, fuck. Morning from 6AM until I've had my nap from 9-11 is "quiet time" in my house. Nobody talks to me, bothers me, or interrupts me. But today a friend who let his water get shut off is coming by to shower at 6. Love the guy, but he is an EXTREME extrovert who never shuts up about his various problems--mostly that he doesn't make enough money because he only works like 25 hours per week and won't get a job that offers more hours or steady pay. Not my problem.
I feel you. Things I've tried, sometimes in combination:
Stay in another room.
Wear headphones.
Explain that morning is my quiet time when I need to concentrate to get certain shit done that if I don't get done, people gonna be crawling up my ass and the day is fucked. No that's not "some news site" on my screen don't look at my screen that's my privacy screensaver caught you looking that's my business no I can't tell you what I'm working on or I'd have to kill you.
Nothing is his fault or responsibility? Beware
He's a mess.
Just reminds me of step monster, NOTHING was ever her fault for the numerous messes she would get herself in.
Come to find out, she was robbing my dad/us blind. Now everything SHE DID, she's trying to blame the kids “for the shit they're doing” - but cant actually say what we’re doing because it would expose herself. Just proceed with caution because narcissists all have the same stupid playbook
Oh he's not like that; he just doesn't want to work more than he has to; would rather play disc golf.
That's a noble pursuit.
Daily kaboom - from Penza, not Penzey's!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXoCX-V--4
Yay, spent three hours yesterday learning how to use a voting machine, and it's a bit a palaver to set it up and shut it down. I can understand that; it maintains election integrity and chain of custody.
Teaching this afternoon, larnin' them young'uns the importance and process for bringing people into jail, w00t.
Thank you for your service, Wanderer
:-)
As I told my brother, "It keeps me off the streets and out of bars."
I am in charge of the machine, the ballot scanner, at my polling place.
That's what I'll be doing.
A good tip is to be sure to say "scan the ballot" instead of count your ballot. It keeps people from freaking out. : )
Yup!
And never touch the ballot yourself; have the voter handle it at all times.
If people have trouble, I always ask if I can touch their ballot.
"Tabulator Tender"!! You and the (what we call) ballot clerks are the people who make MY job at the polls easier.
I mean, it's pretty hard with that touch screen where you have to recognize "candidate" and use your digits to press it.
Here you darken in an oval on a paper ballot, then you bring it to the machine and feed it in yourself. The machine tabulates the votes and drops the ballot into a locked container under the machine.
We can pick that kind or a touchscreen. Almost everyone goes for the paper one.
Huh. Funny that ... voters aren't that stupid after all.
That's how ours works here in Virginia.
Like Connecticut ... we got newer tabulating machines. Very fancy with a screen that the voter can read!
Oh those ones, we have those ones.
We do have a touchscreen voting machine for disabled voters, but even that produces a paper ballot you have to bring to the scanner.
My neighbor gave me his paper mail-in ballot and I filled it out. He was watching and I voted for who he wanted (he's a solid dem because he's a bit dusky and gets it). I'm not sure if that's illegal or not, I just wanted to do it once.
Back when Florida had some governance that didn't include go-go boots, they led the way to new voting systems after the 2000 election. Connecticut switched to the machines Florida had, and we've not had a problem since.
Same in Texas, it's touch screen - then when you're done, it prints out and you walk that paper to the drop box in the same room.
“𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯,” 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦. “[𝘉𝘶𝘵] 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧.”
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 '𝗿𝘂𝗯 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗸' 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗢𝗣 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗼: 𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻
https://www.alternet.org/trump-unpopular-gop-convention/
He's not ON the ballot, but he's on the ballot.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In a fair world, he should have destroyed the Republican party. But, TAANJ, and people are very very stupid.
In a fair world, his fucking game show would have been cancelled due to low ratings and Marco wouldn't be wearing big Florsheims now.
The Party had its chance to destroy him in 2011, and failed. So it deserves whatever he does to it.
2016, shurely?
He started making noises about running for Pres in 2011 and took a dip at the ballot for 2012 (Reform Party USA), but he had flirted with the GOP.
Oh ugh, I'd managed to erase that from my mind.
I assume he flirts like a rapist would.
Well, yes. That goes without saying.
Good morning! (coffees)
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Good morning! What would you think of my trimming out the garage windows with everything Hemlock except for the sill, which would be walnut. And the hemlock would have squared corners, but the walnut would have a radiused edge and then curve instead of squared off corners where it goes back to the wall? And all of it finished with an oil instead of a poly?
Ooh, pretty.
Sort of like a guitar only you wouldn’t be able to play it. But you could set coffee cups on it. But probably not while I was watching on account of cardiac arrest.
You're late! We await the morning kaboom!
In lieu of nekked joggies and a national anthem?
I slept very poorly Monday night and felt a cold coming on, so I downed a half-dose of the Quil of Ny and hit the hay about 8:30, waking up about 40 minutes ago.
You do realize it is now Wednesday?
What?
Yes, hence the need for a good night's sleep Tuesday night.
It reads like you dosed up Monday night and had an awesome sleep.
Heh.
Morning Kittens: https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mpiutsulkk2x
https://bsky.app/profile/rudepundit.bsky.social/post/3mplalgf5622z
Don’t promise me a good time, Temu Voldemort.
https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social/post/3mpjv2fuotv2p
Stephen Miller just warned voters what will happen if Democrats retake Congress in November:
“It’s game over. They’re going to get rid of ICE.”
And people said "defund the police" was a bad position.
Promises, promises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uea9_a8R0xc
And nothing of value will be lost.
Oh no.
Who is running the Vichy Times these days? Calling out Orangini's grift and the evil Supreme Court, now this?
𝗛𝗲𝗴𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗬𝗧
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/06/hegseth-loses-another-press-access-battle-with-nyt/
Let's see what's going on with the North Korean News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgmv98ez3zo
---
US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025.
In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from a Trump meme coin that has plunged in value since he launched it days before taking office.
He also reported over $500m in income from World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency firm founded by his own sons and the children of his special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
He earned millions more from real estate and Trump-themed items. But the White House denied he was profiting from the presidency.
The earnings from his latest financial disclosure far outpace the previous ones for 2024, when Trump disclosed over $600m of income.
But the White House, which has repeatedly emphasised that Trump has placed his businesses in a trust managed by his sons, again denied any conflict of interest. <------
...
She added: "All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called 'reporters' pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade." <----
The president himself has also highlighted that he is not subject to federal conflict of interest laws. <---- you know, apart from the emoluments clause, but who gives a fuck about the constitution?
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Crim criminey, crim criminey, crim crim cher-ee
A PAB is as lucky as lucky can be
Crim criminey, crim criminey, crim crim cher-oo
All charges rub off when I shakes 'ands with you
You can’t take it with you, slobbo. It can’t buy you any happiness, it can’t change your disgusting face, it can’t reverse the disease process that is killing you. So enjoy your overdone steaks and ass kissers. Your name, now and increasingly with time, will be an invocation of all that is cruel, stupid, venal, tacky, pathetic, gross, and bad.
From your fingers to dog's ears.
And your kids, Dumb and Dumber will lose it all in scams and asset seizures. Even your favorite, Ivankaka, has been getting protested for 27 DAYS in Albania.
America will have to declare your gravesite as a Super Fund site.
Those two especially are in for a rough time.
That lying White House should shut its whore mouth.
KKKaroline is baaaaack!