Let's hope that Churchill was right, and that Americans will do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other options.
We tried "running the government like a business". We even gave the carnival-barking, casino-bankrupting real estate heir a second crack at it. But it turns out you cannot take the United States government into bankruptcy court, so he is fresh of business ideas.
We need a Renew America Deal. We need to plant seeds that will grow from the ground up rather than ever again praying for rain from some trickle-down hocum.
It's going to take radical ideas like making sure people have food, shelter and health care. And that we don't foul the environment for quarterly profits. And that we put people first and destroy legal fictions like "corporations are people" and "money is speech".
We need good ideas and cost-effective work programs that help heal the land and improve cities and towns.
This is all going to cost a lot of money, and we are going to pay for it by making multu-millionaires and billionaires pay.
But why not condense everything down to the first 15 seconds of James Gang alumnus Joe Walsh's immortal political analysis of Nixonian policy back in 1973?
FactPost, a bsky account run by Democrats.org is encouraging people to read Trump's interview. You'd think that would be a good strategy because everyone can see that he's completely batshit and paranoid, but it didn't work for Harris when she encouraged people to watch Trump's speeches.
OT the second shot of the shingles vaccine has really hit me hard, I'm hoping the tylenol I took fifteen minutes ago does something to help. I don't recall having a vaccine really hit me this hard before but I guess that's the first shot of the series doing its thing.
I was just reading about the side effects and it was basically a list of what ails me. None of the serious ones. It did refer to me as a 'young person' so that was a treat!
I'm enduring a low-back nerve impingement, and I'm finding that about all that helps is a couple of Tylenol. I've gotten muscle relaxants, which are great for feeling dopey and stupid (but not "high") while in pain. And I could find opiates, if that were what I wanted. But 1000mg of acetaminophen seems to knock the pain down to a dull roar that I can function with.
Take it easy today, and rejoice that you won't have a bad case of shingles to deal with.
I have lower back issues and the muscle relaxers are good for that “as needed,” which is rare, but I learned to stay away from serious painkillers because the pain is what keeps me from doing stupid things that hurt my back more in the long run. My go-to is Alleve for my back but the headache-y part of the side effects made me choose the Tylenol. Sometimes I just need it dulled down from a roar, and OTC stuff has helped me a lot with that.
Unfortunately those awful people learned about vertical integration and decided to ratfuck the 'Will of the People' in terms of elections from every level and direction from the apex peak right down to rock bottom.
I'm sick of fundraising texts. My advice is do not donate to Dems unless you want several texts a day. "Stop2End" does not work.
(OK, now tell me how I need to pony up the dough anyway. )
Let's hope that Churchill was right, and that Americans will do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other options.
We tried "running the government like a business". We even gave the carnival-barking, casino-bankrupting real estate heir a second crack at it. But it turns out you cannot take the United States government into bankruptcy court, so he is fresh of business ideas.
We need a Renew America Deal. We need to plant seeds that will grow from the ground up rather than ever again praying for rain from some trickle-down hocum.
It's going to take radical ideas like making sure people have food, shelter and health care. And that we don't foul the environment for quarterly profits. And that we put people first and destroy legal fictions like "corporations are people" and "money is speech".
We need good ideas and cost-effective work programs that help heal the land and improve cities and towns.
This is all going to cost a lot of money, and we are going to pay for it by making multu-millionaires and billionaires pay.
Meanwhile (BosGlob)..
𝐴 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠-𝑁𝑂𝑅𝐶 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 17% 𝑜𝑓 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡’𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 26% 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑤.
𝐴 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦, 65%, 𝑜𝑓 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝’𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙, 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐼𝑟𝑎𝑛
The screenwriters are just toying with us now.. Robert Gault?
“𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑,” 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝐺𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡, 66, 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐵𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑃𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑠𝑦𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑎, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛.
“𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙. 𝐻𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑,” 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝐺𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡. ”𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, ‘𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛.’ 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.”
I think I'm out for the day. Laters!
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This certainly helps put things in perspective.
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:hsogstbdd4htnofbgowhszmb/bafkreicnx5y4xbjxsd7akeafivqpj5krgxxe3vqltrmmr4sgpr6tbdbqau
The Bulwark's coverage of the Paxston leak (they brought up this stat for context) has been brutal.
Either the Republican Donor class doesn't want him to win, or they don't want him to win *and* they are willing to leak that audio.
AZ Dems are calling it what it is.
https://youtu.be/xXF_RR6_kdY?si=DLbg-AuT-OVzg0ng
Katie Hobbs is playing hardball.
Cool!
But why not condense everything down to the first 15 seconds of James Gang alumnus Joe Walsh's immortal political analysis of Nixonian policy back in 1973?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP9My5P5_eE
United States v. David C. Hearn (the reflecting pool guy) dismissed WITH PREJUDICE.
kat pics and a hopeful article?
dis gud.
FactPost, a bsky account run by Democrats.org is encouraging people to read Trump's interview. You'd think that would be a good strategy because everyone can see that he's completely batshit and paranoid, but it didn't work for Harris when she encouraged people to watch Trump's speeches.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3mwszwl7p4c2m
If he'd starting into a rant on Purity Of Vital Bodily Essence, he would have seemed more cogent.
They put it in ice cream, Mandrake.... My ice cream... My two beautiful scoops of ice cream... everyone else gets only one scoop...
Nothing was going to work for Harris because "moderates" ratfucked everything and VAGINA.
OT the second shot of the shingles vaccine has really hit me hard, I'm hoping the tylenol I took fifteen minutes ago does something to help. I don't recall having a vaccine really hit me this hard before but I guess that's the first shot of the series doing its thing.
The shingles vaccine impacted me the same way. I think I slept all day after having the second one.
I was just reading about the side effects and it was basically a list of what ails me. None of the serious ones. It did refer to me as a 'young person' so that was a treat!
Hey, your immune system works. That's good. Not fun, as I don't need to tell you. But good.
Totally.
I'm just a wimpy baby when I feel unwell! But I'm about a half hour past when I took the tylenol and it's def taking the edge off.
Good.
I'm enduring a low-back nerve impingement, and I'm finding that about all that helps is a couple of Tylenol. I've gotten muscle relaxants, which are great for feeling dopey and stupid (but not "high") while in pain. And I could find opiates, if that were what I wanted. But 1000mg of acetaminophen seems to knock the pain down to a dull roar that I can function with.
Take it easy today, and rejoice that you won't have a bad case of shingles to deal with.
I have lower back issues and the muscle relaxers are good for that “as needed,” which is rare, but I learned to stay away from serious painkillers because the pain is what keeps me from doing stupid things that hurt my back more in the long run. My go-to is Alleve for my back but the headache-y part of the side effects made me choose the Tylenol. Sometimes I just need it dulled down from a roar, and OTC stuff has helped me a lot with that.
Mississippi? God damn!
Boo . . .
This one gets a heart for the headline alone!
Here's a partial fact check for Trump's Time interview. I would not call it complete.
https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-fact-check/
Unfortunately those awful people learned about vertical integration and decided to ratfuck the 'Will of the People' in terms of elections from every level and direction from the apex peak right down to rock bottom.