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They’ll stop protesting once they get shot by active duty troops.

My wife and I are starting a drive tomorrow morning. Frankfort KY tomorrow night; Johnson City TN Wednesday; Athens GA Thursday; Kathleen (Warner Robins) GA Friday; Chattanooga TN Saturday; Louisville KY Sunday; then home. Combination color show drive and going to support our poor nephew who is a coach for an 0-10 high school football team—it’s their final game of the season. Will be taking lots of state roads through mountains. Will be interesting to see the sign representation and, if you want, I can check in with updates.

The only thing it’s missing is the Ynizer actually saying, “I’m voting for Kamala.”

So much for paper ballots are more secure. 😏

That makes it even more likely he’s blowing sunshine up our asses.

Flip side, David Plouffe is a partisan hack blowing sunshine up Dem voters’ butts.

It actually is woke, before we let right wingers make "woke" a dirty word.

You trust polls. How adorable.

As I said earlier today, turning out those guys is really the only way Trump can win, because that's how he won in 2016, and that's also why I'm not popping champagne corks over super high early voter turnouts, because a big chunk of that is probably those guys. Come on, young women, we need you more than ever.

Everything is close. Yawn.

Or 19 days. Or 90 days. Something like that.

Punching down is a core conservative value.

Trump is trying to win. This is exactly how they think they will turn out low-engagement young white male voters, the exact kind of people that would love to go door to door rooting out and murdering Democrats. This is the one wild card that could hand him victory.

Three things: The loathsome way he spit out the phrase “Jew haters” makes you wonder which side he’s really on. This sounds like the kind of language that’s a precusor to a purge. Betcha that callers on Washington Journal this morning will say he’s kidding.

lol

Too many people have the worm Trump and the Russians put in their brains.

I know you don't like George Carlin, but he said something very salient along these lines back in 1989:

Oh, I fully see how they characterize centrist Democrats as begin "far left", and it drives me bonkers. It's all branding and it works with their base. But it's not true, and I don't know why Democrats don't address it it in a more visible way, because by appearing to ignore it, they're ceding that point to Republicans, and that hurts the Democratic Party with the middle.

Democrats repudiated "defund the police" basically the day the so-called BLM movement first uttered it, because they knew it was the wrong way to phrase what it was they actually wanted to do, which was to shift much of the funding for dealing with people having mental episodes from police departments to social services departments, which I would agree with wholeheartedly. The party never embraced that phrase in any serious matter, and that goes double for Party leadership. The whole episode was one big gift to the Republicans so they could make hay on saddling Democrats with the phrase.

Assuming you and I define the far left similarly, I'm sure you'd agree that the far left is barely even a minuscule fraction of the size of the far right, and with even less of a fraction of the power and influence on the body politic. If I had to venture a guess on the numbers, I'd say the far left makes up maybe two percent of the population, while the far right makes up thirty percent. That's a function of how the far right has completely overrun one of our major political parties. People like to equivocate and claim the far left has similarly overrun the Democratic Party, to which I can reply only, "come on." The Democrats treat the far left as a wild child who goes prodigal a lot. The party sure would like them to fall in come Election Day, but they can't count on the far left not peeling off in a snit and voting for Jill ****ing Stein instead (as if she were going to save Gaza from Israel). Democrats don't cave to the far left because the far left isn't reliable, and besides, most of what animates the far left falls well outside the Party's policy positions, anyway. But Republicans must cave to literally everything the far right demands, because they currently hold the entire party hostage.

One objection I have about Maher is that he is an old school liberal until his ox gets gored. Two examples: (1) he railed against California's environmental regulations because they specifically affected his ability to put solar panels on his house; and (2) he rails against political correctness on college campuses in general specifically because he feels it has cost him college bookings for his standup act. He gets butthurt by an inconvenience wrought by a minor aspect of some larger thing, and so he flushes that entire thing down the toilet. It's so baldly obvious for the guy. All this said, I still enjoy the show for the debates at the table. I wish he still had the third panelist on it, which he dumped during the pandemic.

Yay, useless yards by Tony Pollard to get me fantasy points!

Good lord, we might score 70 today.

Special teams having a special day. What’s the team record for most yards by special teams in a single game?

I don’t think we should just give up on the idea because we’re too smart to believe it can ever happen. We gotta start changing it with a step in the right direction.