"US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles."
As you see all the right wing whinging about this clip, notice that Ossoff never criticizes Harp, never impugns or denigrates her. He hits Trump making *him* the smitten one
Trump is the schoolgirl writing "Natalie" on his Trapper Keeper, and the right wing chuds are embarrassed
From our comrades at Democracy Docket - the Republican plot to steal the mid-term elections is happening NOW:
"Harmeet Dhillon just announced the DOJ will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. The DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but I break down why this deployment is laying the groundwork for what comes after Election Day."
Our first step remains the same - get out the vote. Like we saw in Hungary not that long ago, we need to vote to make the games they want to play meaningless.
You know, when Mayor Coleman Young had his girlfriend (not his mistress) appointed to a cushy job as a Department of Detroit Public Schools Vice President at the munificient salary of $70,000 per annum, the white racist Detroit Free Press and Detroit News tried to makea huge scandal out of it and failed. Because people didn’t care what Coleman did in his off time.
When Mayor Harold Washington had his rumoured girlfriend appointed to a cushy city job, the racist rightwing rag Chicago Tribune tried to make a scandal out of it. The Sun Times didn’t care. The Defender didn’t care. Fast Eddie Vrdolyak was shaking down the Federal Government in an airport motel room, and that was the real corruption scandal. Were you with Hizzoner, or with Fast Eddie? The voters turned out Vrdolyak’s Aldermen, and Hizzoner won. There is a moral for all of us there.
Methinks the right protests too much. If they were confident that the voters didn’t care about the comely “special assistant”, they would not be yelping like stray dogs hit by an old shoe.
OK, all you conservaturd pundits clutching pearls about Jon Ossoff's remarks regarding That Fucking Guy's pathetic emotional neediness: your White Knighting jumping to Natalie's defense as if it was an attack on all women is just an invitation for us all to call for Natalie to have a sit-down with the Two Bobs.
"What would you say you DO here?"
Barbra Streisand might have thoughts on how this could turn out.
1996—The U.S. prison population hits 1,600,000, double what it had been just 10 years earlier.
1988—Accepting the GOP nomination, George H.[H.]W. Bush solemnly vows, “Read my lips: no new taxes!”
1980—Ronald Reagan, thanking the VFW for its endorsement, rebrands a criminal war as a “noble cause.”
1966—China’s Cultural Revolution gets a big boost when a million Red Guards arrive at Beijing to spend the day schmoozing with Chairman Mao.
1960—Ike tells the CIA to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, PM of the Congo.
1959—Sailors aboard the USS Wasp bring a severe fire under control, barely averting the need to flood the ship’s nuclear weapons storage space.
1945—The Japanese government orders its police to set up brothels for the “comfort” of U.S. GIs. Business is brisk until a VD epidemic prompts MacArthur to 86 the enterprise.
1933—Germany introduces the Peoples’ Radio, or Volksempfänger. Designed by Joseph Goebbels, it is only capable of receiving Nazi broadcasts.
1920—Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment; after a 42-year struggle, [white] women get the vote.
1590—Virginia Dare, three, becomes America’s first missing white girl, and an inspiration for future “journalists.”
1587—At Roanoke, Virginia Dare becomes the first white child born in the New World, and an inspiration for future neo-Nazis.
Marmots are more about brawl rooms. Learn more about these social critters here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/marmot-melee
And have a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/2416f5b1-4297-435f-a716-0ab4abc2818b
Just seizing the opportunity here to note a little known and underrated short American novel: John Hersey's "The Marmot Drive."
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/zUjGMq-2K_g?si=qe1_ktUXYXnPdnUK
Nice marmots!
There has to be SOME school's team out there that's named The Fightin' Marmots.
Apparently, there's an elementary school in Denver with a marmot mascot whose image is now a featured adornment on the tail of an airplane: https://www.flyfrontier.com/plane-tails/land-animals/marty-the-marmot/
Punxsutawney High School mascot is the Fighting Groundhogs. Close enough?
Woodchuck.
Yes but isn’t that cultural appropriation of groundhogs??
Some sort of playful varmints.
Sumo Rodentia, short-armed and harmless.
Not merely a marmot but a Hoary marmot.
Like many, I was of the opinion that the greatest brawl on film was either in 'They Live' or 'The Quiet Man'. I was wrong.
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆”Put on the sunglasses!”
I thought that was the first meeting of the AntiBa -
I'm for Marmots and against Ballroom.
Deep down I always knew you were very very disloyal to our country
Marmots Against Ballroom Always - MABA!
So sad and disappointing that not one man in the assembled press will stand up for the women being verbally abused by Assface.
Why do liberals cluster in blue cities?
"US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles."
https://bsky.app/profile/edroso.bsky.social/post/3mte6aoqoks2q
Republicans are killing YOUR children and grandchildren.
@ok_post_guy
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As you see all the right wing whinging about this clip, notice that Ossoff never criticizes Harp, never impugns or denigrates her. He hits Trump making *him* the smitten one
Trump is the schoolgirl writing "Natalie" on his Trapper Keeper, and the right wing chuds are embarrassed
From our comrades at Democracy Docket - the Republican plot to steal the mid-term elections is happening NOW:
"Harmeet Dhillon just announced the DOJ will deploy 1,000 election observers for the midterms. The DOJ wants you to think this is business as usual, but I break down why this deployment is laying the groundwork for what comes after Election Day."
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mtctscikes2n
Our first step remains the same - get out the vote. Like we saw in Hungary not that long ago, we need to vote to make the games they want to play meaningless.
^^^
THIS x a jillionty. Our victory must be overwhelming.
Below the belt? In his rancid dreams, which is the only place he still has a functioning pecker.
You know, when Mayor Coleman Young had his girlfriend (not his mistress) appointed to a cushy job as a Department of Detroit Public Schools Vice President at the munificient salary of $70,000 per annum, the white racist Detroit Free Press and Detroit News tried to makea huge scandal out of it and failed. Because people didn’t care what Coleman did in his off time.
When Mayor Harold Washington had his rumoured girlfriend appointed to a cushy city job, the racist rightwing rag Chicago Tribune tried to make a scandal out of it. The Sun Times didn’t care. The Defender didn’t care. Fast Eddie Vrdolyak was shaking down the Federal Government in an airport motel room, and that was the real corruption scandal. Were you with Hizzoner, or with Fast Eddie? The voters turned out Vrdolyak’s Aldermen, and Hizzoner won. There is a moral for all of us there.
Methinks the right protests too much. If they were confident that the voters didn’t care about the comely “special assistant”, they would not be yelping like stray dogs hit by an old shoe.
Morning Kitten!
https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mt7d7ht6t22u
OK, all you conservaturd pundits clutching pearls about Jon Ossoff's remarks regarding That Fucking Guy's pathetic emotional neediness: your White Knighting jumping to Natalie's defense as if it was an attack on all women is just an invitation for us all to call for Natalie to have a sit-down with the Two Bobs.
"What would you say you DO here?"
Barbra Streisand might have thoughts on how this could turn out.
Nancy Mace may have the CraCra, but even she didn't get a Totenkopf.
...that we know of.
This date in history...
1996—The U.S. prison population hits 1,600,000, double what it had been just 10 years earlier.
1988—Accepting the GOP nomination, George H.[H.]W. Bush solemnly vows, “Read my lips: no new taxes!”
1980—Ronald Reagan, thanking the VFW for its endorsement, rebrands a criminal war as a “noble cause.”
1966—China’s Cultural Revolution gets a big boost when a million Red Guards arrive at Beijing to spend the day schmoozing with Chairman Mao.
1960—Ike tells the CIA to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, PM of the Congo.
1959—Sailors aboard the USS Wasp bring a severe fire under control, barely averting the need to flood the ship’s nuclear weapons storage space.
1945—The Japanese government orders its police to set up brothels for the “comfort” of U.S. GIs. Business is brisk until a VD epidemic prompts MacArthur to 86 the enterprise.
1933—Germany introduces the Peoples’ Radio, or Volksempfänger. Designed by Joseph Goebbels, it is only capable of receiving Nazi broadcasts.
1920—Tennessee ratifies the 19th Amendment; after a 42-year struggle, [white] women get the vote.
1590—Virginia Dare, three, becomes America’s first missing white girl, and an inspiration for future “journalists.”
1587—At Roanoke, Virginia Dare becomes the first white child born in the New World, and an inspiration for future neo-Nazis.
https://www.nhgazette.com/2026/08/18/tues-aug-18-2/
Happy Fajita Day! Go out to Taco Cabana and order Fajitas to celebrate!
A white supremacist group named for Dare bought a castle in a West Virginia tourist town a few years ago, generating objections from the locals.
So THAT’S where Elon Musk got the idea for what he’s done to shitter.
I was going to add some extra snark about Fuchs Nachricht.
Why do men with no balls need a ballroom?
Whenever Trump distracts by asking a reporter who she works for, she should reply “the American people.”
If only it were true.
I wish one of them would ask Trump who HE works for.
Da!
'People have the government that they deserve'. My friend Dennis Ward used to tell me in the 80s.
He pass away years ago, I miss him. He was right.
Thanks to Jon Ossoff we have a new metaphor to retire "hiking the Appalachian Trail."
Thanks Evan, now I have to go shower again