Vote Your Values

... and recognize that your values guide your interests - but sometimes it has to go the other way, and your interests drive your values.

Don't abandon your belief in your better self. Just understand that you have a lesser chance to be that better self if you don't survive some of the more mundane - even crass and distasteful - things in life along the way.

It may involve issuing a few fat lips and bloody noses.

In the meantime, the plutocracy is rollin' along, singin' a song.

Today's Pix

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Counting

Trump went 14 - 1

Average margin: 45.3 points

Biden went 15 - 0

Average margin: 78.5 points

I'll say it again:

There's something wrong with the polling.

We hear practically every day

• Biden's behind
• Biden's got trouble inside the party
• Biden's not popular
• Democrats are losing the messaging war

But then people vote (the only poll that fucking matters, btw), and gosh - kinda looks like Biden's doing pretty well.

I'm not saying Biden's got it in the bag. You won't hear me say that unless he gets sworn in again next January.

So don't get cocky - remember what it was like when they called it for Trump in 2016, and get busy.

GET TOGETHER

GET TO WORK

GET SHIT DONE

Get Wise

I wasn't fully aware of it back then, but I do remember the time when women were all but invisible outside the confines of their marriage, and their kids, and managing their households.

PoliticsByTabitha

Today's Eternal Sadness

I found a picture of my late husband & me from the late 80’s. He died of Covid on May 25th, 2020. He served in the 82nd Airborne during Vietnam & died because the president was “playing it down”. I was not allowed to see him. He died alone surrounded by people in hazmat suits. pic.twitter.com/pWZa45Ee4A

— Karmacat (@TallisHolly) March 5, 2024

A Thought

If Celine Dion sang the vowels in her name,

it would be Old MacDonald's Farm

Decide

There's lots of smoke in your house, and some flames are becoming visible.

Two rather elderly firefighters show up.

Fireman Joe has a hose hooked up, ready to go, and dozens of people already working the problem.

Fireman Don has a bunch of guys with him too, and they're all carrying full cans of gasoline.

This is not a difficult choice.

SCOTUS

Kinda lost in the hubbub swirling around the court's fucked up decision to overturn the Colorado Supremes' ruling that Trump is disqualified from holding office, is the fairly simple fact that both the Colorado Supreme Court and now SCOTUS have let Judge Wallace's finding of fact stand.

ie: Donald J Trump engaged in insurrection against the United States of America.

Overheard

On reports that Trump's White House was awash in drug and alcohol abuse, one staffer reacted with:

Hey - you try working for that guy

and not washing your Xanax

down with booze.

Toxicity

She could just as easily be talking about Republicans.