Very fun post from a dude who e-biked over to the debate hall to watch the bullshits. — Garrett Bucks at the White Pages
Interesting: Dial group of “undecided” (dumb) voters pre- and post-debate.
Vivek Ramaswamy’s super successful audition for Trump VP. (Michael Scher at Washington Monthly) Josh Marshall’s instant and intense loathing for him: Same. (Talking Points Memo) And Amanda Marcotte’s several cents. (Salon)
Cool cool, I’ve been to $8 spaghetti night here, at Cook’s Corner, where an ex-cop just mass-shooted his wife and anyone else who might have made the mistake of existing in the vicinity. That’s the second place I’ve been that’s (later!) had a mass shooting, which is better than the guy who was killed in that second one after having survived a first one in the Vegas shooting. Cool cool. (Orange County Register)
Trump took a bunch of Bernie’s positions to ingratiate himself with the working class (don’t worry, he eventually returned them all unused), then added all of Reagan’s racism and then some. And that’s how the Republican Party shit sandwich is made! — Thom Hartmann
Aw man, crying. “This is not a partisan issue,” she says, and she is wrong, but the blonde Republican Nashville moms are not leaving. From Tennessee Holler.
Heather Cox Richardson delves into Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness that just whomped a bunch of 50-year-olds (and Dok) with big fat zero-dollar-balances on their remaining student loans.
Your friend Crip Dyke goes long — very long, Crip Dyke! give it at me, I’ll cut a quarter — on trans rights and abortion rights and Our Intersectional Feminism Will Not Be Bullshit but it’s not boring like I just made it sound.
Oh, just Roger Stone yelling about how “they” want “us” to “lead this march but won’t even tell us where to go,” among other Roger Stone shit. (Salon)
Here’s a thing I didn’t know about Trump and Giuliani: When Giuliani was US Attorney prosecuting mobsters, he was investigating Trump for money laundering. Then Trump offered $2 million to his campaign and the investigation stopped! Don’t we have fun! — Old Wayne Barrett at NYDN
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I like tourist traps, FUCKIN SUE ME. (Fodor’s)
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Finally can talk about a thing cause today is the day.
So you all know how southern military bases are getting a make over because /act of congress. It came about after that shooting in the church, the same one that had Nikki take down the flag,cause in this country we'd much rather do symbolism than substance, it is how we roll
Anyway, the money's LONG been put aside for this thing so it is not coming out of anyone's budget right now (keep that bit in mind)
Our local base, allegedly, is going from being named after a fuckwad slave owner I no longer have to mention, to a Lady Doctor named Mary Walker. This was a lady who, when the army told her you are a lady we will not hire you, went off and did doctoring on the battle fields anyway. This shamed them into paying her eventually. Later she was very much part of the suffragette movement and wore pants, and the army took away her medals because they made up an excuse (she was a suffragette) but Jimmy Carter gave em back many years later.
The butthurt from the locals has been amusing as fuck as they get it wrong (they're wasting MONEY that could go to Maui!!!!....No. No they are not. That money has been allocated for years) to they're erasing our history (do we need things named after Hitler to remember who he was?) to the usual The Civil War Wasn't About Slavery (It is the first damned article of succession). I've been enjoying myself immensely and have been somewhat surprised that the rants are not about Lady Doctor Who Was Not Actually In The Army because you apparently cannot make a halfway decent argument when you are doing butthurt.
Should be a fun day