Nov 14, 2016
Nov 13, 2016
Presto Change-O Followup
In a post I put up a few days ago, I postulated that rat-fucking played a key role in electing Trump.
I'm not a big fan of Greg Palast - I have to wonder about a guy who wears that 1950s Reporter Costume on a regular basis - but he's managed to do some decent work on occasion and if he's uncovered something worth looking at, I wanna look at it.
So:
I'm not a big fan of Greg Palast - I have to wonder about a guy who wears that 1950s Reporter Costume on a regular basis - but he's managed to do some decent work on occasion and if he's uncovered something worth looking at, I wanna look at it.
So:
Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.
Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states.
The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report,
“The GOP’s Stealth War on Voters,” 8/24/2016.
Crosscheck in action:
Trump victory margin in Michigan: 13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list: 449,922
Trump victory margin in Arizona: 85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list: 270,824
Trump victory margin in North Carolina: 177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list: 589,393
On Tuesday, we saw Crosscheck elect a Republican Senate and as President, Donald Trump. The electoral putsch was aided by nine other methods of attacking the right to vote of Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, methods detailed in my book and film, including “Caging,” “purging,” blocking legitimate registrations, and wrongly shunting millions to “provisional” ballots that will never be counted.It's shitty, and it's underhanded, and it's dirty, and it's perfectly legal. This is where we are now.
Keep Fighting - Maybe
My inclination right now is to tell Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon (eg) - and everybody else who sat on their asses complaining about Hillary instead of chopping the wood and carrying the water - my first inclination is tell y'all to fuck off.
Show the fuck up or shut the fuck up.
I'm nowhere near as calm or as gracious as either Hillary (or Kate pretending to be Hillary).
It may be a while before I'm at all pleasant to be around. And I'm not begging your indulgence here. I'm not asking anybody for anything - not your patience, not your understanding, nothin'. Ya pays your money and ya takes your chances.
I'll try to suck it up; rub some dirt on it; walk it off and get back in there. Just know that if you say anything that sounds like "Told-Ya-So" or the fantasy bullshit about Bernie and unicorns and rainbows and free puppies, I'm likely to tell you to take a flying fuck at a rollin' donut.
Large percentages of American voters believe in angels and talking snakes. They think Creationism isn't much different from Evolution. Half or more of the US population can't name the 3 branches of government. 40% can't identify North America on a map. And about a third don't know that the Earth orbits the sun.
They were convinced Hillary would abolish the 2nd amendment, outlaw Christianity and convert the US to Sharia law by importing millions of Muslims from Syria to slaughter her Christian enemies. And just because she could, she'd go ahead and suspend the rest of the Constitution because Presidents don't really need that shit anyway. (I'm not making any of that up, btw - that's all from actual conversations with actual rubes over the last several months - and there's plenty more where that came from)
I think I finally get what driftglass has been saying for quite a while.
Get over the idea that a well-reasoned argument will bring the "conservatives" over to your side. You can tell 'em your Democrat or that other Democrat or this Socialist or that Independent thinks just like they do, and that if they could just listen for a minute, maybe we could make some common cause and blah blah fucking blah.
"Conservatives" have become Informationally Isolated. Guess what happens when part of a species is totally isolated from the rest of that species?
In a small simplistic nutshell, here's what it comes down to, Lefties: - You Are The Liberal Elite as far as the rubes are concerned. You can make as much noise as you want. You can stomp and stumble and trash the jungle, but there it is - they believe you're no different from Hillary, so You.Are.The.Liberal.Elite.
You wanna tell everybody what they can eat and what kinda exercise they hafta do and what cars they can drive and what light bulbs they're allowed to own and on and on and on.
It doesn't matter that you're not trying to dictate anything to them - it doesn't matter that all you wanna do is convince them to give it a shot and see for themselves...what did I just say?!
They don't fucking care what's true - they only care about what they believe
Here's the kicker - as far as I'm concerned, you just handed it all over to them because you were too busy breathing your own farts, and so you didn't show up.
I'll keep hoping the really shitty parts of this nightmare don't materialize, but now the GOP is one simple-majority vote away from changing the filibuster rule in the Senate - and then the game is fucking over. The Republic dies. And if that's how it works out, then all we're doing right now is arguing over who gets to do what with the corpse.
'Course, I'm sure you'll have a grand old time finally getting your chance to lie down in front of that tank.
Like I said, I keep hoping - and if there's any chance down the road, I suspect I'll be right back chopping wood and carrying water again, but yeah - not gonna be very pleasant for a while.
Dave Returns
I can't think of a better way to kick it all off. We always need a heapin' helpin' of Dave Chapelle. I'm glad he's back.
Nov 12, 2016
Today's Tweet
So accurate it hurts and a point/reality that is being missed by so. many. people. pic.twitter.com/C2XbsVKrp1— Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) November 12, 2016
Presto Change-O
How could the pollsters have gotten it so wrong?
You call a jillion registered voters, and they tell you they're ready to go, and they shake out like: Hillary's up by 5 points or Hillary's up by 8 points or 2 points or whatever.
But then, on the big day, it goes in the shitter and nobody can figure it out - it must be because those Black Voters Under-Performed (and don'tcha just love that kinda language? "We lost - let's blame the Black People!")
"No, man, it was those stoopid fuckin' Protest Voters!"
"It was because Hillary's a lousy candidate and she failed to connect with blah blah blah - it never woulda happened with Bernie...I told ya so, man".
Fuck that noise. Fuck all that noise.
How many were a little skittish about it in the first place and finally decided just to stay home because they were afraid of being hassled?
Then Virginia (not enough to swing it, but holy fuck did they come close)
Then North Carolina (kind of a toss-up anyway, but she was trending)
Then Pennsylvania - fuck
Then Michigan - fuck
Then Wisconsin - fuck!
I wonder what the arithmetic looks like if you convert the final Polling Numbers for those states into an actual number of votes (X), minus Trump's margin of victory (Y), and compared that difference to the numbers of Registered Voters who turned out, but were denied their right to exercise the franchise.
And what the fuck is up with this apparent rash of No Vote at the top of the ticket?
Where did Kellyanne Conway send Trump in the last coupla weeks of his Scampaign®?
What the hell was he doing in places that "Hillary had all sewed up"?
The pollsters weren't all that wrong.
There was no massive Bradley Effect.
Plenty of Black and Latin Voters turned out, and Women did their thing for her.
Hillary didn't blow it, and "Those Shitty Little Millennials" didn't blow it for her.
A combination of
Voter ID Laws
+ Fewer Polling Stations
+ Purging Registration Rolls
+ SCOTUS ruling against The Voting Rights Act
+ Rumors of Fraud and Rigged Elections
+ Threats of intimidation
+ Fliers and Text messages directing people to wrong or non-existent precincts
+ That world-famous Voter Apathy here in USAmerica Inc.
+ etc etc etc
= President-Elect Trump
This looks to me like a perfectly legal rat-fucking of the highest possible order, having been well-targeted and executed down to the last tiny detail - which includes knowing how to play the Electoral College Game.
And it keeps working for as long as voters have to be spoon-fed by the candidates; for as long as we can't be bothered to figure shit out for ourselves; for as long as we insist that we have to be inspired and uplifted by some Great Leader Of The New And Awesomely Stupendous and Tremendous Movement - for as long as we're not willing to hold this system to the standards laid out by the guys who wrote up the original instruction manual for us. There's some pretty good shit at the end of the first paragraph.
It may sound like I'm being nostalgic; yearning for some golden age that never really existed. I'm not. There may never have been an election that was perfectly Free-n-Fair, and there may never be one. But can't we try to make the next one a bit "more perfect" than the last one? And the one after that?
PS) Hillary got the most votes. A lousy candidate with a bad message and a clunky disconnected style doesn't get the most votes. Don't fucking forget that.
PPS) This is fucked up and complicated - and since it didn't suddenly get all fucked up and complicated yesterday, we're not gonna un-fucking-complicate it by tomorrow.
We got Rat-Fucked, and now we get to wonder if the rubes will ever become aware that the Big Bamboozle is back in full swing.
You call a jillion registered voters, and they tell you they're ready to go, and they shake out like: Hillary's up by 5 points or Hillary's up by 8 points or 2 points or whatever.
But then, on the big day, it goes in the shitter and nobody can figure it out - it must be because those Black Voters Under-Performed (and don'tcha just love that kinda language? "We lost - let's blame the Black People!")
"No, man, it was those stoopid fuckin' Protest Voters!"
"It was because Hillary's a lousy candidate and she failed to connect with blah blah blah - it never woulda happened with Bernie...I told ya so, man".
Fuck that noise. Fuck all that noise.
How many voters showed up in Florida only to get turned away because of Voter ID or some such?Plus FL, NC, PA, and MI— Mike Roberts (@eVilleMike) November 10, 2016
All GOP-dominated, all rat-fucked for the same result
If they let everybody vote, they lose https://t.co/64fbP4H1Td
How many were a little skittish about it in the first place and finally decided just to stay home because they were afraid of being hassled?
Then Virginia (not enough to swing it, but holy fuck did they come close)
Then North Carolina (kind of a toss-up anyway, but she was trending)
Then Pennsylvania - fuck
Then Michigan - fuck
Then Wisconsin - fuck!
I wonder what the arithmetic looks like if you convert the final Polling Numbers for those states into an actual number of votes (X), minus Trump's margin of victory (Y), and compared that difference to the numbers of Registered Voters who turned out, but were denied their right to exercise the franchise.
And what the fuck is up with this apparent rash of No Vote at the top of the ticket?
Where did Kellyanne Conway send Trump in the last coupla weeks of his Scampaign®?
What the hell was he doing in places that "Hillary had all sewed up"?
The pollsters weren't all that wrong.
There was no massive Bradley Effect.
Plenty of Black and Latin Voters turned out, and Women did their thing for her.
Hillary didn't blow it, and "Those Shitty Little Millennials" didn't blow it for her.
A combination of
Voter ID Laws
+ Fewer Polling Stations
+ Purging Registration Rolls
+ SCOTUS ruling against The Voting Rights Act
+ Rumors of Fraud and Rigged Elections
+ Threats of intimidation
+ Fliers and Text messages directing people to wrong or non-existent precincts
+ That world-famous Voter Apathy here in USAmerica Inc.
+ etc etc etc
= President-Elect Trump
This looks to me like a perfectly legal rat-fucking of the highest possible order, having been well-targeted and executed down to the last tiny detail - which includes knowing how to play the Electoral College Game.
And it keeps working for as long as voters have to be spoon-fed by the candidates; for as long as we can't be bothered to figure shit out for ourselves; for as long as we insist that we have to be inspired and uplifted by some Great Leader Of The New And Awesomely Stupendous and Tremendous Movement - for as long as we're not willing to hold this system to the standards laid out by the guys who wrote up the original instruction manual for us. There's some pretty good shit at the end of the first paragraph.
It may sound like I'm being nostalgic; yearning for some golden age that never really existed. I'm not. There may never have been an election that was perfectly Free-n-Fair, and there may never be one. But can't we try to make the next one a bit "more perfect" than the last one? And the one after that?
PS) Hillary got the most votes. A lousy candidate with a bad message and a clunky disconnected style doesn't get the most votes. Don't fucking forget that.
PPS) This is fucked up and complicated - and since it didn't suddenly get all fucked up and complicated yesterday, we're not gonna un-fucking-complicate it by tomorrow.
We got Rat-Fucked, and now we get to wonder if the rubes will ever become aware that the Big Bamboozle is back in full swing.
Nov 11, 2016
Today's Today
Jack Leroy Tueller
On the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour
Every year for 98 years now. We can always hope.
Nov 10, 2016
A Letter
Aaron Sorkin addresses a few problems in a letter to his daughters.
Sorkin Girls,
Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has.
And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic shitheads everywhere. Hate was given hope. Abject dumbness was glamorized as being “the fresh voice of an outsider” who’s going to “shake things up.” (Did anyone bother to ask how? Is he going to re-arrange the chairs in the Roosevelt Room?) For the next four years, the President of the United States, the same office held by Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., J.F.K. and Barack Obama, will be held by a man-boy who’ll spend his hours exacting Twitter vengeance against all who criticize him (and those numbers will be legion). We’ve embarrassed ourselves in front of our children and the world.
And the world took no time to react. The Dow futures dropped 700 points overnight. Economists are predicting a deep and prolonged recession. Our NATO allies are in a state of legitimate fear. And speaking of fear, Muslim-Americans, Mexican-Americans and African-Americans are shaking in their shoes. And we’d be right to note that many of Donald Trump’s fans are not fans of Jews. On the other hand, there is a party going on at ISIS headquarters. What wouldn’t we give to trade this small fraction of a man for Richard Nixon right now?
So what do we do?
First of all, we remember that we’re not alone. A hundred million people in America and a billion more around the world feel exactly the same way we do.
Second, we get out of bed. The Trumpsters want to see people like us (Jewish, “coastal elites,” educated, socially progressive, Hollywood…) sobbing and wailing and talking about moving to Canada. I won’t give them that and neither will you. Here’s what we’ll do…
…we’ll fucking fight. (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless. We don’t have majorities in the House or Senate but we do have representatives there. It’s also good to remember that most members of Trump’s own party feel exactly the same way about him that we do. We make sure that the people we sent to Washington—including Kamala Harris—take our strength with them and never take a day off.
We get involved. We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it—whether it’s writing a check or rolling up our sleeves. Our family is fairly insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency so we fight for the families that aren’t. We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight for the First Amendment and we fight mostly for equality—not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up.
America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours.
Roxy, I know my predictions have let you down in the past, but personally, I don’t think this guy can make it a year without committing an impeachable crime. If he does manage to be a douche nozzle without breaking the law for four years, we’ll make it through those four years. And three years from now we’ll fight like hell for our candidate and we’ll win and they’ll lose and this time they’ll lose for good. Honey, it’ll be your first vote.
The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family. I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again.
Love,
Dad
Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has.
And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic shitheads everywhere. Hate was given hope. Abject dumbness was glamorized as being “the fresh voice of an outsider” who’s going to “shake things up.” (Did anyone bother to ask how? Is he going to re-arrange the chairs in the Roosevelt Room?) For the next four years, the President of the United States, the same office held by Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., J.F.K. and Barack Obama, will be held by a man-boy who’ll spend his hours exacting Twitter vengeance against all who criticize him (and those numbers will be legion). We’ve embarrassed ourselves in front of our children and the world.
And the world took no time to react. The Dow futures dropped 700 points overnight. Economists are predicting a deep and prolonged recession. Our NATO allies are in a state of legitimate fear. And speaking of fear, Muslim-Americans, Mexican-Americans and African-Americans are shaking in their shoes. And we’d be right to note that many of Donald Trump’s fans are not fans of Jews. On the other hand, there is a party going on at ISIS headquarters. What wouldn’t we give to trade this small fraction of a man for Richard Nixon right now?
So what do we do?
First of all, we remember that we’re not alone. A hundred million people in America and a billion more around the world feel exactly the same way we do.
Second, we get out of bed. The Trumpsters want to see people like us (Jewish, “coastal elites,” educated, socially progressive, Hollywood…) sobbing and wailing and talking about moving to Canada. I won’t give them that and neither will you. Here’s what we’ll do…
…we’ll fucking fight. (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless. We don’t have majorities in the House or Senate but we do have representatives there. It’s also good to remember that most members of Trump’s own party feel exactly the same way about him that we do. We make sure that the people we sent to Washington—including Kamala Harris—take our strength with them and never take a day off.
We get involved. We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it—whether it’s writing a check or rolling up our sleeves. Our family is fairly insulated from the effects of a Trump presidency so we fight for the families that aren’t. We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight for the First Amendment and we fight mostly for equality—not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up.
America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours.
Roxy, I know my predictions have let you down in the past, but personally, I don’t think this guy can make it a year without committing an impeachable crime. If he does manage to be a douche nozzle without breaking the law for four years, we’ll make it through those four years. And three years from now we’ll fight like hell for our candidate and we’ll win and they’ll lose and this time they’ll lose for good. Honey, it’ll be your first vote.
The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family. I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again.
Love,
Dad
Yesterday's Keith
And just a little PSA for all the Bernie Bros and Party Puritans who love pissin' and moanin' about what a bad candidate Hillary was: Fuck that noise.
You chop the wood and you carry the water when you're working to get Bernie nominated.
And when Bernie isn't the one who gets the nomination, then you chop the wood and you carry the water for Hillary, because yes, exactly - she's not Donald Trump.
Enthusiasm pushes people to the polls. Hillary is no Obama. Tough shit. The other side is backing their guy very enthusiastically, so wash the sand outa your ass crack and go to work.
Either you show the fuck up or you shut the fuck up. But hey - at least you can enjoy the smell of your own farts for a while.
President-Fucking-Trump
Today's GIF
Liberty reacts as she begins to understand that a ginormous rolling clusterfuck, previously known as the Trump Scampaign®, is about to be installed as our national government.
hat tip = Facebook pal Susan F-B
Nov 9, 2016
And One More Thing
What really bothers me is the very real possibility that some little bit down the road, Mike Pence could emerge as the heroic Christian warrior who stepped in to save of us from the debauchery of Donald Trump.
Y'all heard it here first.
Y'all heard it here first.
Meet The New Boss
Congratulations, President Pence.
I expect Trump to operate in the Executive Branch the same way he "operates" "his" businesses. ie: His involvement begins by putting his name on the letterhead, and ends with him trying to sell whatever it is Mike Pence comes up with.
We elected a brand; nothing more than a guy's name; we decided the most powerful and important office on the fucking planet is to be filled by somebody who hasn't run anything but his mouth for a good 20 years.
Nobody can tell us they know exactly what horrors this bunch has in store for us, but I think I can be pretty sure most of it will seem like a good idea to about half of us and turn out to be unworkable for everybody except the few who have a vested interest in nothing but pretending their policy ideas are amazingly awesome long enough to cash in on them.
Do ya dig what's been happening in Kansas and Michigan and Wisconsin?
Do ya think all that shit with The Bundy Boys was just a kind of spontaneous protest, and not a practical demonstration of The Useful Fool?
I'll stop before I get myself too worked up - no point in reiterating the arguments against Trump's election or the brand of "conservative" that's anything but conservative; and there's nothing to be gained by going full Paranoid Nutball - yet.
Suffice to say we handed the power to a gang of thieves. They have the Executive and the Legislative branches, and they can now proceed to stack SCOTUS so they can move all the shitty laws onto the books that will Make America Look Nothing Like America. They'll have to do something kinda drastic about the filibuster, but this bunch hasn't been shy about "fuck your minority rights", so - yeah.
Tax cuts, deficits, piling on the debt, which means more spending - this is Trump, kids - there will be lots and lots of spending. And we gotta pay for it somehow. Anybody in the market for a gently-used National Park?
Ooh - I know - let's strip out the Social Security Trust Fund, turn it over to the Wall Street Banksters and let them make a great big pile of bonuses for themselves, while feeling deeply sorry that the benefits will have to be cut back (again - shared sacrifice, y'know) in order to compensate for fluctuations in the markets that simply couldn't have been foreseen, even though we've been colluding with our Trading Buddies around the world to arbitrage the pricing and create a nice little Churning Effect so we can syphon off enough cash to feel insulated from the homicidal mob you'll be forming once you idiots realize we've been playing you for suckers again.
And that's just the weird shit that goes on here at home - can't wait to see how creatively this bugbrain can choke when he has to go up against somebody who actually knows their way around.
Trump is not the only moron we have to worry about - it's all those other subordinate morons too.
We have no idea just how enormous this clusterfuck is about to get.
Nov 8, 2016
Roosts And Roosters
Bob Cesca at Salon:
One of the many long term side effects of the Watergate fiasco was the sudden demystification of the American presidency. Not only did this spark the idea that the office can be held by anyone, regardless of expertise or accomplishment, but it also helped to manufacture the ill-conceived notion that presidents should be just like us. From there, cable news kingpins like Roger Ailes and political operatives like Karl Rove sold politicians to voters by packaging them for “the folks” — as “guys we’d like to have a beer with.” We’ve been instructed for too many years that plain-spoken leaders are better than well-educated, well-qualified ones. It’s a shallow, comfort-food selling point that never should’ve existed. Our priority shouldn’t be to elect someone just like you or me. We should demand, if not utterly fight for leaders who are far superior and exponentially more disciplined than we are.
Trump has done serious damage to our presidential ideals.
About Those Evangelicals
The best way to get a clear understanding of what these guys are really saying is to substitute "me" or "my" or "mine" whenever you hear the word "god".
Via Mock Paper Scissors, here's Reverend Fishdicks:
Via Mock Paper Scissors, here's Reverend Fishdicks:
Nov 7, 2016
Survival
Sometimes, there really is somebody out to gitcha. Sometimes, it's just dumb luck they don't. And sometimes, you get lucky because the guys trying to get you are a buncha dumb fuckin' snakes.
Possibly the greatest scene in documentary history. Incredible. #PlanetEarth2 pic.twitter.com/01dDjDJcdX— ✏️ (@MrLukeJohnston) November 7, 2016
Today's Keith
...first, Scottie Nell Hughes is a precious gift from the angels.
And now, Mr Olbermann:
This Just In
Exclusive video from inside the Trump Scampaign® - as Donald experiences the effects that typically accompany Twitter Withdrawal.
Unconfirmed reports also suggest he was a bit miffed at the whole Comey SNAFU.
The Trump Scampaign®
Aside from a few - Jeb, Kasich, McCain, and some others - Repubs "running" for POTUS have had a distinct aroma. Take it, John:
It's been said before, by people smarter than me - and as such, bears repeating as long as the grass grows and the wind blows - Trump is not some kind of weird anomaly. Trump is doing what the GOP has spent 30 years telling their voters to look for, and prodding them to vote for.
And BTW - try not to think about the fact that Nu-Skin is very much the reason Jason Chaffetz is in office:
And BTW - try not to think about the fact that Nu-Skin is very much the reason Jason Chaffetz is in office:
Accused in several states of operating an illegal pyramid scheme, the Provo-based multilevel marketing firm has decided to mount an offensive. Nu Skin takes issue with the way national and local media have portrayed the company."Enough is enough," said Jason Chaffetz, Nu Skin administrative assistant for public relations. "We're frustrated and disturbed that a number of inaccuracies continue to be perpetuated."
One Last Thing Before Tomorrow
America, you're about to elect the leader of the free world. Well, here's a message for you from the free world. pic.twitter.com/mtFhNxLIIn— Mark Humphries (@markhumphries) November 7, 2016
Nov 6, 2016
Trump Tweets
Trump calls protestor with sign an "assassination attempt", grants himself battlefield promotion to 6-star general, now head of military.— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) November 6, 2016
I thought the only thing that could stop a bad man shouting "gun" at a Trumpkin hatefest is a good man shouting "gun" at a Trumpkin hatefest— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) November 6, 2016
Today's SNL Clip
ALEC BALDWIN OPENING FUNNY SKIT FOR SNL KISSES FBI, PUTIN AND KKK VERY FUNNY! pic.twitter.com/V1XfeCk9rM— RogelioGarcia Lawyer (@LawyerRogelio) November 6, 2016
Today's Tweet
(Oops. I had a great Tweet for this, but I fucked up embedding it - sorry about that. I'll try to find it again and fix it for ya.)
Anyway - this is supposed to be a clever dig against the Purity Police, but like I said, I blew it.
You're not pushing people away from Hillary so much as you're pushing people away from taking part in the process. You're reinforcing the thinking that maybe they can't take the chance of "voting for the wrong one" so they won't vote at all.
Low turnout favors the bad guys - it always favors the bad guys - it's why the bad guys are always trying to keep people from voting - because when everybody votes, the bad guys lose.
You're doing the GOP's work for them, and you should stop doing that.
You don't have to say anything good about Clinton, and you can go back to slagging her all you want after Tuesday. And I promise, if you just manage to shut up for a few more days, your farts will still smell as sweet to you as they apparently do now.
hat tip = Facebook buddy BD
Nov 5, 2016
Thanks, Trump
Thank Trump for the one good thing he did. He exposed Evangelicals, who are his supporters as the shameless hippocrates they've always been. pic.twitter.com/hqOpc1oKMR— Bill Maher (@billmaher) November 5, 2016
Today's Tweet
My interview of the night ended with Bill Murray asking if I recycle. He handed me his champagne bottle. #WorldSeries #Cubs pic.twitter.com/66jzAshLL9— Jose de Jesus Ortiz (@OrtizKicks) November 3, 2016
Nov 4, 2016
Today's Podcast
Crazy Uncle Liberty's last stand
-and (paraphrasing)-
I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton. I believe in my heart that I'm voting for the republic itself.
-and (paraphrasing)-
I'm not voting for Hillary Clinton. I believe in my heart that I'm voting for the republic itself.
Today's Keith
That the FBI is rat-fucking for Trump should be the biggest of the big-time Holy Fucks, and as Keith says, those agents should be fired as of at least last week, and it should be reflected on their records to the point they'll be forever hard-pressed even to land jobs as crossing guards or Port-A-Potty attendants or javelin catchers.
The saving grace is that they are, after all - wait for it - Gubmint Employees, and therefor - wait for it again - a buncha fuckin' idiots.
Makes me wonder why Republicans in particular would trust them to pull it off.
How to spend the weekend? FIGHTING THE GODDAMNED MORON FASCISTS! pic.twitter.com/tELbvcpxpQ— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 4, 2016
New Music
...about the same old shit too many people still hafta put up with.
Common:
I Used To Love H.E.R.
Letter To The Free
The Day The Women Took Over
Little Chicago Boy
Common:
I Used To Love H.E.R.
Letter To The Free
The Day The Women Took Over
Little Chicago Boy
Get out and vote
It never feels like it's enough, but it's what we've got
And eventually, if we keep doing it right, it works
Nov 3, 2016
Gotta Wonder
In Trump's defense, he probably has never read the First Amendment.— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) November 2, 2016
Or the rest of the Constitution.#ImWithTur pic.twitter.com/vPw6AQQNtH
Today's Nostalgia
Call me silly and old-fashioned, but I find myself yearning for the days when the FBI and the Russians weren't on the same side.
Scattershot Bullshit
Trump is that guy who has no real idea what he's doing, and no plan, and no way to get anything done because all he knows how to do is to throw all the shit possible and see if anything sticks.
Politico (Tiger Beat On The Potomac - thanks, Charlie):
Politico (Tiger Beat On The Potomac - thanks, Charlie):
The glitz and ambition of the luxury-brand businessman with his name in giant letters near its spire. It’s the tallest residential skyscraper in Canada, and probably the fanciest. The hotel’s sleek cream-and-black interiors were inspired by Champagne and caviar. Every room features Italian Bellino linens and Nespresso coffeemakers. Guests can book a Trump Experience outing through the Trump Attache concierge service. Their furry friends are eligible for the Trump Pets program, which “will fill your best Fido’s tummy with gourmet treats, and see them off to sleep on a plush dog bed.”
This Trump-branded and Trump-managed jewel is also, as a business venture, a bust.Nobody with a lick of sense would put Donald Trump in charge of a high school car wash.
A Short Hit Of That driftglass If You Please
In which @MillerForTexas calls @HillaryClinton the c-word. He's since deleted the tweet #txlege #Election2016 pic.twitter.com/mXnEMIMDqV— Joshua Fechter (@JFreports) November 1, 2016
driftglass:
Republican Mad Cow (or, as it has been known to medical professionals since 2006, Rovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) is a tough beat.Wait -
Trump 44
Cunt 43
What? I didn't know Sid Miller was running against Trump - but maybe he'd be doing better if he'd take a little time and work on that self-image thing.
Today's Tweet
Exclusive video of Paul Ryan casting his vote for Donald Trump: pic.twitter.com/1AhqgbSwi7— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) November 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016
Even Louis CK
Hillary Clinton can take the abuse - this has been 25 years of hazing, and it's given us someone who's tough; someone who can focus, and get shit done.
If you vote for Hillary, you're a grownup.
If you vote for Trump, you're a sucker.
If you don't vote for anybody, you're just an asshole.
Word, bubba.
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