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For example?
On the other hand.....same guy.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Harris wins 56 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump wins 44 times out of 100.
There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner.
Not EVEN with a 'start listening with a free Spotify account' will I venture further.
The late Ivanka chuckles from her golf course grave, tough sheet darlink.
NO one blends together lack of self awareness, sanctimony and stupidity like a Trump family member.
I did listen to it, as much as I dared, and I took the video of the firemen as I described it, her song and her background made me cringe.
There's the incongruity.
I'd rather watch 'Chicago Fire' than listen to a song about service and sacrifice from a breed that the head of the family she's a part of would no doubt revile as suckers and losers. The incongruity of it reeks.
No, there won't be any 'backdooring'. The front door is raising the social security tax cap which is absurdly low and leaves $B's on the table.
Increasing or eliminating the Social Security tax cap is just one of many solutions for improving Social Security’s financial outlook — but it’s clear that some sort of action must be taken to ensure the future of this vitally important program. More options are detailed here.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/12/should-we-eliminate-the-social-security-tax-cap-here-are-the-pros-and-cons
What Changes Could be Made to the Tax Cap?
There have been a number of proposals to increase, eliminate, or otherwise adjust the payroll tax cap as a way to shore up Social Security’s finances.
An example of one such proposal, the Social Security 2100 Act, would apply the Social Security payroll tax to earnings over $400,000 in addition to earnings below the current maximum taxable amount. The gap between the two would narrow over time as the maximum taxable amount increases and the $400,000 threshold remains unchanged.
That gap has earned the nickname donut hole and would serve to gradually increase the program’s revenues over time while not subjecting earners who fall in the gap to immediate tax increases.
While estimates vary based on assumed wage trends and the specific details of each proposal, economists project that it would take approximately 20 to 30 years for the donut hole to disappear. Such an approach is intended to make the tax more progressive by increasing the tax burden on higher-income Americans.
Anecdotal bullshit.
I have a lot of people that I know we live in a very liberal city that have told me they are voting Trump but keeping that hush hush among their liberal friends.
So obviously an outlier poll it's laughable.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/national/
There is no wide support among Dems for those proposals as compared with the lockstep support from the GOP for their proposals.
Smells like a typical, laughably fact challenged, piece from the NY Post. Smacks of a conservative's whistling past the graveyard too.
Guilty!
Incompatible.....as in election denial, mob incitement, save democracy.
TRUMP 2024 SAVE DEMOCRACY
The One is disappointed in you, for sure.
I still do that too. We have 'keepers' so it's necessary to cross out the unavailable players. It always shows that you'll need to take a player one or more likely two rounds before where he would have gone. Our draft site reflects the same thing so everyone has the same info.
My research consists of in depth hard hitting analysis which means downloading, printing out and marking up cheat sheets lol
Upon achieving the heel touch, kiss your ass goodbye.
Talk about mixed messages. If you can't see the contradictions, The One can't help you.
i pray that you will be able to overcome your ignorance.
Love & Light to you...
The 'SPIRIT ONE' does not patronize, nor does it engage in 'may haves', because it is free of logical fallacies; particularly sweeping generalizations and conclusion jumping.
Indeed it is, wonderful, wonderful. A defender of democracy VS a fascist f'k who incited a mob of his jerks to attempt to thwart a democratic procedure. A proponent of Biden's infrastructure and chips and science bills, which helped to sustain the economy during a rising interest rate environment, without a recession, VS a failed response to the pandemic and a disastrous loss of jobs, a recession, and freedom of choice vs a wannabe dictator for a day who is proud of the patchwork of laws endangering women's health.
....the 2024 election will be decided on Harris policies vs Trump policies
wonderful wonderful
'Spot on' and 'couldn't agree with you more', from two posters I highly respect, are verbal thumbs up emojis to me; better than in fact.
LOL. I bought this cat sign to go with my NOPE sign.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219408510
Excellent movie on the subject.
A century ago, Soldier Field was born as a lakefront stadium, bolstering Chicago’s image as a world-class city
Cardinal George Mundelein, from left, the Rev,. William R. Griffin, and C.G. Guill look over Soldier Field in 1925 in preparation for the upcoming 28th International Eucharistic Congress. The large, open-air Mass was held at Soldier Field in June 1926. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/01/soldier-field-opened-100-years-lakefront-stadium/
My caption for the above. Man pointing finger: Gentlemen, I'm certain you will agree with me that this stadium will not be truly consecrated until the Chicago Bears play here and their QB throws a Hail Mary pass for a TD from right about there on what will be the 20 yard line.
The Chicago Bears were founded in 1920 as the Decatur Staleys in Decatur, Illinois. The team was sponsored by the Staley Starch Company and played in the American Professional Football Association, which became the National Football League (NFL) in 1922. The Bears moved to Chicago in 1921 and were renamed the Chicago Bears the following year.
By Ron Grossman | rgrossman@chicagotribune.com | Chicago Tribune
UPDATED: September 1, 2024 at 8:32 a.m.
The birth of Chicago’s lakefront stadium was marked by a nasty squabble over its name. During construction it was prosaically dubbed the “Grant Park Stadium.” The problem arose when it was decided that it ought to commemorate the GIs who served in World War I.
That led to the name marked in big letters on the stadium’s south wall, “Soldier Field” — a grammatically puzzling moniker that has confounded school teachers and others for the last century.
It was inevitable that Col. Robert McCormick would join the fray over naming the stadium. The Tribune’s publisher was a crusader for spelling words like they sound. In his newspaper, for example, it was “thru” not “through.” In this case, though, he was making an argument that seemed to follow traditional grammar rules.
He threw down the gauntlet in a story under the headline, “This Is Going To Be Soldiers’ Field If It Takes the 1st Division,” a reference to the unit he served in during World War I, of which he was intensely proud.
“Try saying Soldier Field,” the editorial suggested. “Then ask what soldier. Maybe Mike, or it might have been Jan or possibly Sven. ”
Initially deployed against using the stadium as a memorial to soldiers were the Gold Star Mothers, whose sons had died in the war. The “noisy athletic strife,” said its head, Josephine Bentley, would not be a fitting background “for a memorial.” The organization wanted to build a $3 million memorial on Grant Park land she had somehow obtained the deed to.
With the naming issue still up in the air, construction on the stadium got underway, delayed briefly by a strike called by the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical union popularly known (or cursed) as the Wobblies. Its caisson diggers walked off the job in June 1923.
Despite the dissonance of its origins, the stadium’s completion was marked by thousands of voices singing in unison, with numbers including “The Heavens Declare” and “Beautiful Savior.” The Sept. 10, 1924, prededication ceremony was illuminated by lanterns carried by 3,000 children. It wasn’t until a little more than a year later that it was officially named Soldier Field.
The idea of a lakefront stadium had been hatched years earlier. Mayor William Hale Thompson, known as Big Bill, spoke favorably about a municipal stadium. He did so about any project that would detract attention to his sticky fingers in the public till. Big Bill’s first term began in 1915.
An aerial photo shows Grant Park, Soldier Field, the Field Museum and the Shedd Aquarium in 1931. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
The Tribune’s archives contain photographs and clippings of track and field competitions and children performing gymnastics in 1913, possibly in a temporary setup the captions describe as “Grant Park Stadium.”
By 1919, when construction funds were allocated, the low-lying site was covered by 15 feet of water.
“The first act consisted of plunging right out into navigable waters, where gulls and white caps had their own way, and reclaiming the land upon which the stadium now stands,” recalled Linn White, the project’s chief engineer. The site was filled with 25,000 cubic yards of gravel and cinders. Pilings were driven into bedrock for the stadium to sit on.
The stadium resulted from a design competition that specified the structure had to be no less than 100 feet long and no wider than the Field Museum just to the north.
That finished product was an oval stadium so large that a football game was played far from the seats along the sidelines. Fans sitting behind the goal posts might have to read the following day’s newspaper to understand what happened in the game they witnessed.
The official dedication ceremony for Soldier Field was held on Nov. 27, 1926, in front of a crowd of 110,000 during the Army vs. Navy game. The game ended in a 21-21 tie. The field first opened as Municipal Grant Park Stadium on Oct. 9, 1924. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
The stadium would be part of a cluster of neoclassical structures emerging on the lakefront site, with the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium just to the north.
Thompson envisioned a stadium seating 150,000 and larger than anything “the Romans ever built.”
Chicago scaled back from that idea but retained Thompson’s architectural preference. European architects were inspired by America’s modernist architecture. But in America, Doric columns and Ionic pediments were still considered a class act.
In ancient Greece, plays and religious ceremonies were staged in open-air theaters. Paying homage, the north end of Soldier Field was left open by William Holabird and Martin Roche, the Chicago architects who won the design competition. Temporary stands could be set up there for additional seating.
A large crowd gathers at Soldier Field for aviator Charles Lindbergh during his visit to Chicago in 1927. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
On both sides, the seating sections were topped off by colonnades. Chicagoans were so wowed that Soldier Field was dedicated four times in the first five weeks. Twice more in the next year.
On Sept. 5, 1924, Sgt. John Walsh of the Chicago Police Department won the first athletic contest at the new stadium by throwing a 16-pound hammer 132 feet, 10 inches. On the next day, the official opening, 1,200 police officers paraded into the arena. There were fireworks, two police bands played, and 40 clowns cavorted.
“It’s a lesson to foreigners and those socialistically inclined showing that Americans still have the old pleasures and love of beauty, that they haven’t lost all those qualities in the modern rush of life,” Edward Kelly, a parks commissioner, told the Chicago Daily News. Kelly later became mayor of Chicago and a co-founder of the famed Chicago machine.
Notwithstanding the sometimes poor sight lines, beginning in 1927, an annual game between the Chicago public school football champion against the Catholic school champs drew enormous crowds to Soldier Field. Fifty thousand fans saw Mount Carmel defeat Schurz 6-0.
Mike Hastings of Fort Worth, Texas, shows his skill during Chicago's third annual World Championship Rodeo held at Soldier Field in August 1927. Hastings won first place in 1927 when he threw his steer in 13 seconds. The Tribune reported that more than 350,000 visitors had witnessed the nine-day rodeo, which started on August 20 and ended August 29. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
In 1937, the Prep Bowl drew an estimated 125,000 — in a stadium with only about 76,000 seats. “I couldn’t imagine this many people coming to a high school football game,” recalled Bill DeCoorevont, the star of Austin High School’s team, which drubbed Leo Catholic High 26-0.
The city’s largest events would be held at the stadium, well before it became known as the home of the Bears.
It held the first International Eucharistic Congress in the United States, drawing Catholics from across the globe to the lakefront in 1926. It was the main stage during the Century of Progress World’s Fair in 1933. It held rodeos, car races, ski-jumping contests and more. And it was the home of the Chicagoland Music Festival, where performers such as Bob Hope and Frankie Avalon wowed large crowds with song and dance, for over 30 years starting in 1930.
The success of Soldier Field’s multiple dedications made pageants a perennial Soldier Field offering. The last pageant at the stadium, in 1966, was a commemoration of 1,000 years of Christianity in Poland. In Poland, a Communist government sabotaged the commemoration by scheduling road repairs for the week it was celebrated.
https://i0.wp.com/www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ctc-soldier-field-22jpg-CT0020672673.jpg?fit=1280%2C9999px&ssl=1
Spectators hold up matches to light up Soldier Field during a ceremony that is the highlight of the Chicagoland Music Festival in 1961. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
In Chicago, people began arriving at Soldier Field at 11 a.m. By 5 p.m., the stadium was nearly filled. An hour later, 90,000 people saw a parade of people in traditional Polish costumes. A 50-member orchestra played, a 1,200-member chorus sang, and 125 dancers did the mazurka and other Polish dance steps.
Mayor Richard J. Daley and Gov. Otto Kerner spoke, predicting Poland would one day again be free.
That same year, on what would become known as Freedom Sunday, civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told nearly 30,000 people gathered at Soldier Field, “This day we must declare our own Emancipation Proclamation,” In 1968, the stadium would be the birthplace of the Special Olympics.
But by the end of the 1960s, the large stadium on the lakefront was hosting fewer city events and games. Salvation would come soon after a well-known football team grew too big for its space at Wrigley Field. In 1971, the Bears started what they thought would be a short run at Soldier Field. No one could have imagined the half-century-long partnership that would follow, including an overhaul that was described as a spaceship landing on top of Soldier Field’s classical columns.
Pottersville Formerly Bedford Falls, MI. The speech is a view of our future if Harris was never born. Every time Trump speaks another devil gets a pitchfork .
I believe that, The GOP is rife with wannabe theocrats projecting their manifest amoral, perverted, behavior on others.
No real Christian can rationalize their support for the most amoral f'k, EVER, now running for president.
Faulty assumption, that denying something for which there is no proof is sociopathic
What sort of sociopath would deny the existence of the One.?
Far more sociopathy has been exhibited by true believers, religious zealots, than by those who deny the existence of the One. From the priests who invited Galileo to inspect the instruments of torture to force him to recant the heliocentric theory of the solar system, to Christian Nazi Germany, to the 'god is great' murders who executed 9/11, misguided concepts of the 'One' have inflicted far more casualties on mankind than anything else.
Nah, the Trumpanzee appetite for bat 💩 soup is insatiable. But it will be a goldmine for Dem campaign ads.
and Kennedy’s extremely odd behavior could be a liability for Trump.
Boats, batteries, sharks, whale heads, dead bears, Hannibal Lector, windmills & bacon shortages. A more advanced cognition test for the orange stable genius, a series of 'WTF?!' moments for the reality based community.
Comedian Cracks Up Obama With Spot-On Obama Impression
NAILED IT
Matt Friend brought his Obama impression to the man himself in a video filmed during last week’s DNC.
Now, imagine either member of the Trump ticket taking a joke at their expense and having a good laugh. Can't do it can you? Two insecure, angry, faux grievance nurturing, retribution seeking ass-clowns with much to laugh AT can't imagine it either.
Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor
Updated Aug. 31, 2024 3:55AM EDT
Comedian—and Daily Beast contributor—Matt Friend certainly made the most of his 60 seconds with Barack Obama when the two men came face to face at the Democratic National Convention last week to make a video urging Americans to vote this November.
.@BarackObama meets himself! pic.twitter.com/O2jMldaooZ
— Matt Friend (@themattfriend) August 30, 2024
Comedian Cracks Up Obama With Spot-On Obama Impression
NAILED IT
Matt Friend brought his Obama impression to the man himself in a video filmed during last week’s DNC.
Now, imagine either member of the Trump ticket taking a joke at their expense and having a good laugh. Can't do it can you? Two insecure, angry, faux grievance nurturing, retribution seeking ass-clowns with much to laugh AT can't imagine it either.
Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor
Updated Aug. 31, 2024 3:55AM EDT
Comedian—and Daily Beast contributor—Matt Friend certainly made the most of his 60 seconds with Barack Obama when the two men came face to face at the Democratic National Convention last week to make a video urging Americans to vote this November.
.@BarackObama meets himself! pic.twitter.com/O2jMldaooZ
— Matt Friend (@themattfriend) August 30, 2024
Comedian Cracks Up Obama With Spot-On Obama Impression
NAILED IT
Matt Friend brought his Obama impression to the man himself in a video filmed during last week’s DNC.
Now, imagine either member of the Trump ticket taking a joke at their expense and having a good laugh. Can't do it can you? Two insecure, angry, faux grievance nurturing, retribution seeking ass-clowns with much to laugh AT can't imagine it either.
Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor
Updated Aug. 31, 2024 3:55AM EDT
Comedian—and Daily Beast contributor—Matt Friend certainly made the most of his 60 seconds with Barack Obama when the two men came face to face at the Democratic National Convention last week to make a video urging Americans to vote this November.
.@BarackObama meets himself! pic.twitter.com/O2jMldaooZ
— Matt Friend (@themattfriend) August 30, 2024
Comedian Cracks Up Obama With Spot-On Obama Impression
NAILED IT
Matt Friend brought his Obama impression to the man himself in a video filmed during last week’s DNC.
Now, imagine either member of the Trump ticket taking a joke at their expense and having a good laugh. Can't do it can you? Two insecure, angry, faux grievance nurturing, retribution seeking ass-clowns with much to laugh AT can't imagine it either.
Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor
Updated Aug. 31, 2024 3:55AM EDT
Comedian—and Daily Beast contributor—Matt Friend certainly made the most of his 60 seconds with Barack Obama when the two men came face to face at the Democratic National Convention last week to make a video urging Americans to vote this November.
.@BarackObama meets himself! pic.twitter.com/O2jMldaooZ
— Matt Friend (@themattfriend) August 30, 2024
So, our conspiracy theory minded trolls exhibit in their posts a combination of fear, feelings of powerlessness, isolation and vulnerability, a need for control, a need to feel smarter or superior to others and personal agendas from which they see benefits.
Lotta f'ing mental baggage for sure.
“If there’s no pathology or issue there, often if [these beliefs] come on suddenly, it will be fear-based – people don’t like being in situations where they feel powerless and when it feels random, and, for example, Covid felt very random at the start.
“We like it when we have a reasonable explanation for something … so it’s often based on control.”
Dr Cullen said another factor could be feelings of isolation and vulnerability.
“Sometimes, people just want to be part of a group of like-minded people, and then all you need is two conspiracy theorists together to run rampant with it,” she said.
“It’s about that sense of connection and belonging.”
Other conspiracy theorists are attracted to their beliefs out of a need to feel smarter or superior to others.
“They want to be the enlightened, insightful ones … and even in the face of contradictory evidence, it becomes a point of pride – they don’t want to admit they were wrong, because it’s embarrassing.”
Finally, Dr Cullen said some conspiracy theorists were lured in by their own personal agendas.
“For example, if someone doesn’t want to wear a mask, then they might dispute the reasons for them, such as disputing Covid,” she said. “Sometimes, people voice conspiracy theories because it means they will benefit in some way.”
I’m Still Undecided, But I’ll Probably Wind Up Voting For Whoever Defiles the Fewest Cemeteries
Friday, August 30th, 2024
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal
https://showercapblog.com/im-still-undecided-but-ill-probably-wind-up-voting-for-whoever-defiles-the-fewest-cemeteries/
Rich Lowry emerged, bloodied and barely alive, but beaming, from the deepest, darkest recesses of the Take Jungle, having been presumed forever lost in the dense underbrush of the DeSantis Can Still Pull This Thing Off, Dangit columns of the long-forgotten Republican primary, like some less impressive, in-fact-almost-never-right-about-anything Allan Quartermain.
“Stop the bloody presses!” Lowry bellowed, in an English accent, leaning into the Quartermain thing for whatever reason, waving his Take high in the air for all to see.
“Eureka!” proclaimed the opinion editor at the New York Times. And thus was the Take transmitted, by caravan, carrier pigeon, and steamship, back to civilization.
Lowry returned in triumph to the family estate, (called Blithering Heights or Dumbfucket or something) to rearrange the big game trophies in his study, in order to clear space for the inevitable Pulitzer.
Finally, on the twenty-sixth day of the eighth month in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-four, the Take was published for all to see:
“Trump Can Win on Character.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/opinion/advice-for-trump-win.html
And then, not two minutes later, Lil’ Donnie One-Term waddled out to desecrate a cemetery.
Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, to be precise.
Sure didn’t take long for the famed “Lewandowski Touch” to reappear, did it? (For the uninitiated, “the Lewandowski Touch” refers to “physically assaulting a woman for doing her job.”)
Fading fast in the polls, the very worst human beings alive concocted an imbecilic scheme, to not only defile the graves of our fallen heroes with a cheap campaign stunt, but to spin their profanation as some sort of official memorial ceremony their dastardly Dem opponents refused to attend, opting instead to spend the day changing the kitty litter in gender neutral furry restrooms in blue state public schools, probably.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/30/kamala-harris-poll-support-trump
But alas, there was barely enough time to snap a few quick pics of the soft, sloppy fop, with his nubby little thumb in the air, grinning like he just heard Aileen Cannon’s latest ruling, before some killjoy ANC employee emerged, with blood coming out of her wherever, hemming and hawing about how they were breaking the law and had to stop, which is a shame, because they had this whole second setup worked out, where he’d be standing on a grave in a big cloud of tear gas, clutching this Bible, it woulda been so fucking sweet, you guys.
Plus, they had to scrap a bunch of ads they’d planned to shoot, for his new digital trading cards (“the official NFTs of suckers and losers!”) his new picture book, My Ear Got Nicked for Your Sins, Now Won’t Somebody Please KILL ZUCKERBERG, and his upcoming adult coloring book, Not My Type, depicting each of his twenty-six known sexual misconduct allegations, plus a bonus page illustrating what he’d like to do to Ivanka.
So they shoved the ANC employee out of the way, and launched a big, fat warning shot from the MAGA harassment cannon, to intimidate her out of pressing charges. Which worked, because who wants to spend the rest of their brief, precious life looking over their shoulder for hammer and/or nail gun-wielding psychos? Oh well, I’m sure the proto-fascist bullies will stop there.
Still, all this talk of laws and their enforcement has been exhausting for the adjudicated rapist who already had that superseding indictment from Jack Smith to deal with, further depleting those finite energy reserves of his. (And, as the oldest presidential nominee in history, there’s only so much exercise left to avoid.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-thinks-that-exercising-too-much-uses-up-the-bodys-finite-energy/2017/05/12/bb0b9bda-365d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html
Seems like only yesterday when my phone would tremble and shake, emitting terrifying weather alert noises every single time Joe Biden stammered, but I guess the public doesn’t need to know the other guy’s lurching along the side of the highway in a backwards hospital gown, bleating that Jesus thought he won California, and people don’t eat bacon anymore because of wind farms. https://newrepublic.com/post/185496/trump-rant-bacon-wind-power
He’s also proposing sweeping changes to the U.S. Constitution, wherein flag burning would be punishable with jail time, but the first thirty-four felony counts for falsifying business records are free.
As for how he plans to vote on Florida’s abortion rights ballot measure, well, he’s forgainst it. Wait, I see he walked that back, now he sopporses it. That Kamala Harris sure is a flip-flopper though, amirite?
The Michigan GOP’s cold civil war turned hot, or at least lukewarm, like a Tupperware container of clam chowder you forgot in the car overnight, as ousted former Chairfreak Kristina Karamo led her crackpot battalion against the almost-as-buffoonish-but-not-quite forces of Pete Hoekstra, setting off what historians are already calling the Battle of People You Pretend Not to Know When You Run Into Them at the Grocery Store.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/24/michigan-gop-state-convention-flint-kristina-karamo-removed/74918884007/
Quick update, I’m amending my prediction from a few paragraphs ago, in light of new developments regarding Texas AG Ken Paxton’s law enforcement raids of Latino Democratic campaign volunteers’ homes, but I’m confident the proto-fascist bullies will stop here, for real this time, give or take an insurrectionist riot or two.
Scandal continues to dog (GET IT?) embattled Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, as James O’Keefe released illicitly obtained footage from the antifa puppy mill he runs out of the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion subbasement, where canines deemed insufficiently photogenic for the all-too-temporary role of “Scout” are sold to gay, communist meatpackers. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/republicans-gov-tim-walz-dog-claims/
Walz furthermore refuses to denounce so-called “son” Gus Walz, despite the latter’s now infamous display of familial affection at last week’s Democratic National Convention, and…aaaaaaaaaand I don’t suppose I could convince anybody to get mad about the 20-year-old Nebraska Chamber of Commerce thing? Any chance at all? Megyn Kelly’d really appreciate if you could give the tampon thing another look…anyone? Bueller?
https://okmagazine.com/p/megyn-kelly-tim-walz-forced-tampons-minnesota-boys-bathrooms-debunked/
Meanwhile, while JD Vance didn’t have to face anything as challenging as ordering some donuts this week, he did manage to get booed by a firefighters union. Yeah, bit of a rough stretch for Peter Thiel’s third-favorite pet dork, but he finally started to look more like his old self once he retreated to his comfort zone: sneeringly repellent misogyny.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jd-vance-meme-miss-teen-usa-caitlin-upton-rcna169003
Speaking of which, the nation gained unwanted insight into Jesse Watters’ Pornhub search history, following comments vile enough to draw rebuke from odious Th’Five cohost Jeanine Pirro, so congratulations on slithering beneath that low, low hurdle. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jesse-watters-fox-news-kamala-harris-b2602963.html
Tulsi Gabbard’s long journey around the horseshoe led her at last to the if not Promised, at least Settled-For Land: Off-Brand Orbán’s hopefully unnecessary transition team. Golly, who knows which other poisonous, faux leftists could join her in a restored Turd Reich? Might it be Matt Taibbi’s voice indignantly squawking out the latest crowd size fibs from the bushes on the White House lawn? Or Glenn Greenwald’s, perhaps?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rfk-trump-gabbard-transition-harris-rcna168592
It’s a tantalizing deal, certainly. The last mold-chewed remnants of your good name and/or soul, in exchange for a few months of groveling, until you’re discarded as a “terrible, stupid person.”
Hey, if the pot’s not sweet enough, what would you say to all the rotting beached whale meat you can eat? Cuz RFK Jr.’s been invited to this party too, y’all! (Though it does appear as though that cranial parasite ate the part of the brain in charge of regulating whether or not you end your ratfucking campaign in time to actually get removed from swing state ballots, so maybe bring your own roadkill, just to be safe.)
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/26/trump-rfk-jr-transition-team-2024-republicans
I saw a bunch of headlines about a Republican group claiming the notorious Dred Scott decision means Vice President Harris is ineligible for the presidency, and I got mad, because I assumed somebody was plagiarizing an old blog of mine, but no, that’s real news from the real world.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-president-supreme-court-b2601364.html
Moms for Liberty finally revealed their plans for all those school library bookshelves they’ve been so feverishly emptying. See, once the Rosa Parks biographies have all been burned to ash, they’re to be replaced, with Glenn Beck’s new teen novel: Are You There God? It’s Me, Stephen Miller, about a very special white nationalist boy, who learns to overcome early-onset baldness with a magical can of spray-on hair.
H.R. McMaster’s new book details the ease with which the world’s dictators manipulated the Dotard into serving their interests. Nothing tricky to it, of course. You flatter him a little, you find a prostitute with a passing resemblance to his daughter, you get her to pee on him, and BAM: classified intel falls into your lap, right in the Oval Office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
But he can still win. On “character.” Rich Lowry told me so.
I’m Still Undecided, But I’ll Probably Wind Up Voting For Whoever Defiles the Fewest Cemeteries
Friday, August 30th, 2024
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal
https://showercapblog.com/im-still-undecided-but-ill-probably-wind-up-voting-for-whoever-defiles-the-fewest-cemeteries/
Rich Lowry emerged, bloodied and barely alive, but beaming, from the deepest, darkest recesses of the Take Jungle, having been presumed forever lost in the dense underbrush of the DeSantis Can Still Pull This Thing Off, Dangit columns of the long-forgotten Republican primary, like some less impressive, in-fact-almost-never-right-about-anything Allan Quartermain.
“Stop the bloody presses!” Lowry bellowed, in an English accent, leaning into the Quartermain thing for whatever reason, waving his Take high in the air for all to see.
“Eureka!” proclaimed the opinion editor at the New York Times. And thus was the Take transmitted, by caravan, carrier pigeon, and steamship, back to civilization.
Lowry returned in triumph to the family estate, (called Blithering Heights or Dumbfucket or something) to rearrange the big game trophies in his study, in order to clear space for the inevitable Pulitzer.
Finally, on the twenty-sixth day of the eighth month in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-four, the Take was published for all to see:
“Trump Can Win on Character.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/opinion/advice-for-trump-win.html
And then, not two minutes later, Lil’ Donnie One-Term waddled out to desecrate a cemetery.
Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, to be precise.
Sure didn’t take long for the famed “Lewandowski Touch” to reappear, did it? (For the uninitiated, “the Lewandowski Touch” refers to “physically assaulting a woman for doing her job.”)
Fading fast in the polls, the very worst human beings alive concocted an imbecilic scheme, to not only defile the graves of our fallen heroes with a cheap campaign stunt, but to spin their profanation as some sort of official memorial ceremony their dastardly Dem opponents refused to attend, opting instead to spend the day changing the kitty litter in gender neutral furry restrooms in blue state public schools, probably.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/30/kamala-harris-poll-support-trump
But alas, there was barely enough time to snap a few quick pics of the soft, sloppy fop, with his nubby little thumb in the air, grinning like he just heard Aileen Cannon’s latest ruling, before some killjoy ANC employee emerged, with blood coming out of her wherever, hemming and hawing about how they were breaking the law and had to stop, which is a shame, because they had this whole second setup worked out, where he’d be standing on a grave in a big cloud of tear gas, clutching this Bible, it woulda been so fucking sweet, you guys.
Plus, they had to scrap a bunch of ads they’d planned to shoot, for his new digital trading cards (“the official NFTs of suckers and losers!”) his new picture book, My Ear Got Nicked for Your Sins, Now Won’t Somebody Please KILL ZUCKERBERG, and his upcoming adult coloring book, Not My Type, depicting each of his twenty-six known sexual misconduct allegations, plus a bonus page illustrating what he’d like to do to Ivanka.
So they shoved the ANC employee out of the way, and launched a big, fat warning shot from the MAGA harassment cannon, to intimidate her out of pressing charges. Which worked, because who wants to spend the rest of their brief, precious life looking over their shoulder for hammer and/or nail gun-wielding psychos? Oh well, I’m sure the proto-fascist bullies will stop there.
Still, all this talk of laws and their enforcement has been exhausting for the adjudicated rapist who already had that superseding indictment from Jack Smith to deal with, further depleting those finite energy reserves of his. (And, as the oldest presidential nominee in history, there’s only so much exercise left to avoid.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-thinks-that-exercising-too-much-uses-up-the-bodys-finite-energy/2017/05/12/bb0b9bda-365d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html
Seems like only yesterday when my phone would tremble and shake, emitting terrifying weather alert noises every single time Joe Biden stammered, but I guess the public doesn’t need to know the other guy’s lurching along the side of the highway in a backwards hospital gown, bleating that Jesus thought he won California, and people don’t eat bacon anymore because of wind farms. https://newrepublic.com/post/185496/trump-rant-bacon-wind-power
He’s also proposing sweeping changes to the U.S. Constitution, wherein flag burning would be punishable with jail time, but the first thirty-four felony counts for falsifying business records are free.
As for how he plans to vote on Florida’s abortion rights ballot measure, well, he’s forgainst it. Wait, I see he walked that back, now he sopporses it. That Kamala Harris sure is a flip-flopper though, amirite?
The Michigan GOP’s cold civil war turned hot, or at least lukewarm, like a Tupperware container of clam chowder you forgot in the car overnight, as ousted former Chairfreak Kristina Karamo led her crackpot battalion against the almost-as-buffoonish-but-not-quite forces of Pete Hoekstra, setting off what historians are already calling the Battle of People You Pretend Not to Know When You Run Into Them at the Grocery Store.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/24/michigan-gop-state-convention-flint-kristina-karamo-removed/74918884007/
Quick update, I’m amending my prediction from a few paragraphs ago, in light of new developments regarding Texas AG Ken Paxton’s law enforcement raids of Latino Democratic campaign volunteers’ homes, but I’m confident the proto-fascist bullies will stop here, for real this time, give or take an insurrectionist riot or two.
Scandal continues to dog (GET IT?) embattled Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, as James O’Keefe released illicitly obtained footage from the antifa puppy mill he runs out of the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion subbasement, where canines deemed insufficiently photogenic for the all-too-temporary role of “Scout” are sold to gay, communist meatpackers. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/republicans-gov-tim-walz-dog-claims/
Walz furthermore refuses to denounce so-called “son” Gus Walz, despite the latter’s now infamous display of familial affection at last week’s Democratic National Convention, and…aaaaaaaaaand I don’t suppose I could convince anybody to get mad about the 20-year-old Nebraska Chamber of Commerce thing? Any chance at all? Megyn Kelly’d really appreciate if you could give the tampon thing another look…anyone? Bueller?
https://okmagazine.com/p/megyn-kelly-tim-walz-forced-tampons-minnesota-boys-bathrooms-debunked/
Meanwhile, while JD Vance didn’t have to face anything as challenging as ordering some donuts this week, he did manage to get booed by a firefighters union. Yeah, bit of a rough stretch for Peter Thiel’s third-favorite pet dork, but he finally started to look more like his old self once he retreated to his comfort zone: sneeringly repellent misogyny.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jd-vance-meme-miss-teen-usa-caitlin-upton-rcna169003
Speaking of which, the nation gained unwanted insight into Jesse Watters’ Pornhub search history, following comments vile enough to draw rebuke from odious Th’Five cohost Jeanine Pirro, so congratulations on slithering beneath that low, low hurdle. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jesse-watters-fox-news-kamala-harris-b2602963.html
Tulsi Gabbard’s long journey around the horseshoe led her at last to the if not Promised, at least Settled-For Land: Off-Brand Orbán’s hopefully unnecessary transition team. Golly, who knows which other poisonous, faux leftists could join her in a restored Turd Reich? Might it be Matt Taibbi’s voice indignantly squawking out the latest crowd size fibs from the bushes on the White House lawn? Or Glenn Greenwald’s, perhaps?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rfk-trump-gabbard-transition-harris-rcna168592
It’s a tantalizing deal, certainly. The last mold-chewed remnants of your good name and/or soul, in exchange for a few months of groveling, until you’re discarded as a “terrible, stupid person.”
Hey, if the pot’s not sweet enough, what would you say to all the rotting beached whale meat you can eat? Cuz RFK Jr.’s been invited to this party too, y’all! (Though it does appear as though that cranial parasite ate the part of the brain in charge of regulating whether or not you end your ratfucking campaign in time to actually get removed from swing state ballots, so maybe bring your own roadkill, just to be safe.)
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/26/trump-rfk-jr-transition-team-2024-republicans
I saw a bunch of headlines about a Republican group claiming the notorious Dred Scott decision means Vice President Harris is ineligible for the presidency, and I got mad, because I assumed somebody was plagiarizing an old blog of mine, but no, that’s real news from the real world.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-president-supreme-court-b2601364.html
Moms for Liberty finally revealed their plans for all those school library bookshelves they’ve been so feverishly emptying. See, once the Rosa Parks biographies have all been burned to ash, they’re to be replaced, with Glenn Beck’s new teen novel: Are You There God? It’s Me, Stephen Miller, about a very special white nationalist boy, who learns to overcome early-onset baldness with a magical can of spray-on hair.
H.R. McMaster’s new book details the ease with which the world’s dictators manipulated the Dotard into serving their interests. Nothing tricky to it, of course. You flatter him a little, you find a prostitute with a passing resemblance to his daughter, you get her to pee on him, and BAM: classified intel falls into your lap, right in the Oval Office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
But he can still win. On “character.” Rich Lowry told me so.
I’m Still Undecided, But I’ll Probably Wind Up Voting For Whoever Defiles the Fewest Cemeteries
Friday, August 30th, 2024
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal
https://showercapblog.com/im-still-undecided-but-ill-probably-wind-up-voting-for-whoever-defiles-the-fewest-cemeteries/
Rich Lowry emerged, bloodied and barely alive, but beaming, from the deepest, darkest recesses of the Take Jungle, having been presumed forever lost in the dense underbrush of the DeSantis Can Still Pull This Thing Off, Dangit columns of the long-forgotten Republican primary, like some less impressive, in-fact-almost-never-right-about-anything Allan Quartermain.
“Stop the bloody presses!” Lowry bellowed, in an English accent, leaning into the Quartermain thing for whatever reason, waving his Take high in the air for all to see.
“Eureka!” proclaimed the opinion editor at the New York Times. And thus was the Take transmitted, by caravan, carrier pigeon, and steamship, back to civilization.
Lowry returned in triumph to the family estate, (called Blithering Heights or Dumbfucket or something) to rearrange the big game trophies in his study, in order to clear space for the inevitable Pulitzer.
Finally, on the twenty-sixth day of the eighth month in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-four, the Take was published for all to see:
“Trump Can Win on Character.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/opinion/advice-for-trump-win.html
And then, not two minutes later, Lil’ Donnie One-Term waddled out to desecrate a cemetery.
Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, to be precise.
Sure didn’t take long for the famed “Lewandowski Touch” to reappear, did it? (For the uninitiated, “the Lewandowski Touch” refers to “physically assaulting a woman for doing her job.”)
Fading fast in the polls, the very worst human beings alive concocted an imbecilic scheme, to not only defile the graves of our fallen heroes with a cheap campaign stunt, but to spin their profanation as some sort of official memorial ceremony their dastardly Dem opponents refused to attend, opting instead to spend the day changing the kitty litter in gender neutral furry restrooms in blue state public schools, probably.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/30/kamala-harris-poll-support-trump
But alas, there was barely enough time to snap a few quick pics of the soft, sloppy fop, with his nubby little thumb in the air, grinning like he just heard Aileen Cannon’s latest ruling, before some killjoy ANC employee emerged, with blood coming out of her wherever, hemming and hawing about how they were breaking the law and had to stop, which is a shame, because they had this whole second setup worked out, where he’d be standing on a grave in a big cloud of tear gas, clutching this Bible, it woulda been so fucking sweet, you guys.
Plus, they had to scrap a bunch of ads they’d planned to shoot, for his new digital trading cards (“the official NFTs of suckers and losers!”) his new picture book, My Ear Got Nicked for Your Sins, Now Won’t Somebody Please KILL ZUCKERBERG, and his upcoming adult coloring book, Not My Type, depicting each of his twenty-six known sexual misconduct allegations, plus a bonus page illustrating what he’d like to do to Ivanka.
So they shoved the ANC employee out of the way, and launched a big, fat warning shot from the MAGA harassment cannon, to intimidate her out of pressing charges. Which worked, because who wants to spend the rest of their brief, precious life looking over their shoulder for hammer and/or nail gun-wielding psychos? Oh well, I’m sure the proto-fascist bullies will stop there.
Still, all this talk of laws and their enforcement has been exhausting for the adjudicated rapist who already had that superseding indictment from Jack Smith to deal with, further depleting those finite energy reserves of his. (And, as the oldest presidential nominee in history, there’s only so much exercise left to avoid.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-thinks-that-exercising-too-much-uses-up-the-bodys-finite-energy/2017/05/12/bb0b9bda-365d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html
Seems like only yesterday when my phone would tremble and shake, emitting terrifying weather alert noises every single time Joe Biden stammered, but I guess the public doesn’t need to know the other guy’s lurching along the side of the highway in a backwards hospital gown, bleating that Jesus thought he won California, and people don’t eat bacon anymore because of wind farms. https://newrepublic.com/post/185496/trump-rant-bacon-wind-power
He’s also proposing sweeping changes to the U.S. Constitution, wherein flag burning would be punishable with jail time, but the first thirty-four felony counts for falsifying business records are free.
As for how he plans to vote on Florida’s abortion rights ballot measure, well, he’s forgainst it. Wait, I see he walked that back, now he sopporses it. That Kamala Harris sure is a flip-flopper though, amirite?
The Michigan GOP’s cold civil war turned hot, or at least lukewarm, like a Tupperware container of clam chowder you forgot in the car overnight, as ousted former Chairfreak Kristina Karamo led her crackpot battalion against the almost-as-buffoonish-but-not-quite forces of Pete Hoekstra, setting off what historians are already calling the Battle of People You Pretend Not to Know When You Run Into Them at the Grocery Store.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/24/michigan-gop-state-convention-flint-kristina-karamo-removed/74918884007/
Quick update, I’m amending my prediction from a few paragraphs ago, in light of new developments regarding Texas AG Ken Paxton’s law enforcement raids of Latino Democratic campaign volunteers’ homes, but I’m confident the proto-fascist bullies will stop here, for real this time, give or take an insurrectionist riot or two.
Scandal continues to dog (GET IT?) embattled Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, as James O’Keefe released illicitly obtained footage from the antifa puppy mill he runs out of the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion subbasement, where canines deemed insufficiently photogenic for the all-too-temporary role of “Scout” are sold to gay, communist meatpackers. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/republicans-gov-tim-walz-dog-claims/
Walz furthermore refuses to denounce so-called “son” Gus Walz, despite the latter’s now infamous display of familial affection at last week’s Democratic National Convention, and…aaaaaaaaaand I don’t suppose I could convince anybody to get mad about the 20-year-old Nebraska Chamber of Commerce thing? Any chance at all? Megyn Kelly’d really appreciate if you could give the tampon thing another look…anyone? Bueller?
https://okmagazine.com/p/megyn-kelly-tim-walz-forced-tampons-minnesota-boys-bathrooms-debunked/
Meanwhile, while JD Vance didn’t have to face anything as challenging as ordering some donuts this week, he did manage to get booed by a firefighters union. Yeah, bit of a rough stretch for Peter Thiel’s third-favorite pet dork, but he finally started to look more like his old self once he retreated to his comfort zone: sneeringly repellent misogyny.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jd-vance-meme-miss-teen-usa-caitlin-upton-rcna169003
Speaking of which, the nation gained unwanted insight into Jesse Watters’ Pornhub search history, following comments vile enough to draw rebuke from odious Th’Five cohost Jeanine Pirro, so congratulations on slithering beneath that low, low hurdle. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jesse-watters-fox-news-kamala-harris-b2602963.html
Tulsi Gabbard’s long journey around the horseshoe led her at last to the if not Promised, at least Settled-For Land: Off-Brand Orbán’s hopefully unnecessary transition team. Golly, who knows which other poisonous, faux leftists could join her in a restored Turd Reich? Might it be Matt Taibbi’s voice indignantly squawking out the latest crowd size fibs from the bushes on the White House lawn? Or Glenn Greenwald’s, perhaps?
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rfk-trump-gabbard-transition-harris-rcna168592
It’s a tantalizing deal, certainly. The last mold-chewed remnants of your good name and/or soul, in exchange for a few months of groveling, until you’re discarded as a “terrible, stupid person.”
Hey, if the pot’s not sweet enough, what would you say to all the rotting beached whale meat you can eat? Cuz RFK Jr.’s been invited to this party too, y’all! (Though it does appear as though that cranial parasite ate the part of the brain in charge of regulating whether or not you end your ratfucking campaign in time to actually get removed from swing state ballots, so maybe bring your own roadkill, just to be safe.)
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/26/trump-rfk-jr-transition-team-2024-republicans
I saw a bunch of headlines about a Republican group claiming the notorious Dred Scott decision means Vice President Harris is ineligible for the presidency, and I got mad, because I assumed somebody was plagiarizing an old blog of mine, but no, that’s real news from the real world.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-president-supreme-court-b2601364.html
Moms for Liberty finally revealed their plans for all those school library bookshelves they’ve been so feverishly emptying. See, once the Rosa Parks biographies have all been burned to ash, they’re to be replaced, with Glenn Beck’s new teen novel: Are You There God? It’s Me, Stephen Miller, about a very special white nationalist boy, who learns to overcome early-onset baldness with a magical can of spray-on hair.
H.R. McMaster’s new book details the ease with which the world’s dictators manipulated the Dotard into serving their interests. Nothing tricky to it, of course. You flatter him a little, you find a prostitute with a passing resemblance to his daughter, you get her to pee on him, and BAM: classified intel falls into your lap, right in the Oval Office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
But he can still win. On “character.” Rich Lowry told me so.
Trump campaign hits "third rail" of the military community with Arlington stunt in Sec. 60
The Arlington debacle is different. A lot of veterans are reaching out to me about how angry they are. Even my most politically neutral friends are enraged. Arlington is sacred. Trump, Cheung, and LaCivita have hit the third rail of the military community by using Section 60 for…
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 30, 2024
Trump campaign hits "third rail" of the military community with Arlington stunt in Sec. 60
The Arlington debacle is different. A lot of veterans are reaching out to me about how angry they are. Even my most politically neutral friends are enraged. Arlington is sacred. Trump, Cheung, and LaCivita have hit the third rail of the military community by using Section 60 for…
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 30, 2024
Trump campaign hits "third rail" of the military community with Arlington stunt in Sec. 60
The Arlington debacle is different. A lot of veterans are reaching out to me about how angry they are. Even my most politically neutral friends are enraged. Arlington is sacred. Trump, Cheung, and LaCivita have hit the third rail of the military community by using Section 60 for…
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 30, 2024