Nov 18, 2018
A Little Spoof
I get a bit suspicious sometimes. Like when certain movies end up looking like commercials that just happen to be 2 hours long.
Today's Quote
Trump allows people to express their racism and bigotry in a way that they haven't been able to in quite a while, and they really love him for that.
It's a shocking thing to realize people love their hatred more than they care about their own actual lives.
It's a shocking thing to realize people love their hatred more than they care about their own actual lives.
--Fran Lebowitz
Nov 17, 2018
Still Waiting
Wondering when we're going to get some followup analysis on this one, now that the numbers are in.
NBC News - Guns In America (11-1-18):
NRA slashes campaign spending, lowers profile in midterms. Why?
The gun group has put $11 million into midterm races this year — less than half what it spent four years ago.
The National Rifle Association — long seen as a kingmaker in Republican politics — is taking a lower profile in this year's high-stakes midterm campaign, a sign of the shifting dynamics of the gun debate as the GOP fights to maintain its grip on Congress.
The NRA has put $11 million into midterm races this year — less than half what it spent four years ago in an election that gave Republicans full control of Congress. This year's totals are also far below the $54 million the group spent in 2016 on both the presidential and congressional races.
NBC News - Guns In America (11-1-18):
NRA slashes campaign spending, lowers profile in midterms. Why?
The gun group has put $11 million into midterm races this year — less than half what it spent four years ago.
The NRA has put $11 million into midterm races this year — less than half what it spent four years ago in an election that gave Republicans full control of Congress. This year's totals are also far below the $54 million the group spent in 2016 on both the presidential and congressional races.
- and -
It's the first time under current campaign finance laws that the NRA might be outspent by gun control groups, though the organization often ramps up spending late in the campaign. That money won't show up in federal financial reports until after Election Day.
BTW - here's a picture from the time Repubs in the House voted to fuck over 20,000,000 Americans by passing ACA Repeal:
BTW - here's a picture from the time Repubs in the House voted to fuck over 20,000,000 Americans by passing ACA Repeal:
A) Guess what the ❌ means
B) Guess which Gun Makers' Trade Group didn't donate as much as usual to most of those people in the picture
Getting the excessive amounts of dark money out of politics will do wonders for the process.
Today's Tweet
There must be consequences. We make noise about law and order, and how no one's above the law, but then what do we do when it comes time to follow our own credo?
This is a remarkable work of art. This picture is made from the faces of 670 soldiers who died in the Iraq War. pic.twitter.com/6ENRbJ0ECJ— Stone Cold (@stonecold2050) November 17, 2018
We didn't hold Nixon fully accountable for Watergate - and a host of other shit - and we got Reagan.
We didn't hold Reagan fully accountable for Iran-Contra - and a host of other shit - and we got W43.
We didn't hold W43 fully accountable for Iraq - and a host of other shit - and we got Cult45.
What is it we're thinking about doing this time?
Podcast
On why we can't let 'em off the fucking hook this time.
- how clean water and succession planning fit together.
- why the Press Poodles are salivating over a return to Speaker Pelosi, and the fight inside the Dem Party.
Plus a quote from the darkest days of the Watergate era:
"Knit on with confidence and hope through every crisis"
--Elizabeth Zimmerman
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A Lesson In Perception
An awful lot of what we see and hear, is what we're taught to see and hear.
We usually don't even know it's happening - we don't know we're being programmed to think a certain way.
This is not representative of the way we vote:
Because it says "We the people", not "we the acreage".
The Dems' wins in the 2018 midterms should go a long way in fixing the gerrymandering problem on the House side. But we still have a very long haul to figure out what to do about the ratfuckery that can (and does) happen because of the way we do the Senate and the Electoral College.
We usually don't even know it's happening - we don't know we're being programmed to think a certain way.
This is not representative of the way we vote:
This is what is actually looks like:
Because it says "We the people", not "we the acreage".
The Dems' wins in the 2018 midterms should go a long way in fixing the gerrymandering problem on the House side. But we still have a very long haul to figure out what to do about the ratfuckery that can (and does) happen because of the way we do the Senate and the Electoral College.
Nov 16, 2018
Porn Today
So, I start up my new porn DVD, and all I see is a dark image of some fat old idiot sitting on a couch with his dick in his hand.
Then I noticed the TV wasn't on.
Then I noticed the TV wasn't on.
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