Speaking of the Whirlwind . . . . 0
(Warnin: Short commercial at the end.)
Republican Thought Police 0
They are fighting for the freedom of repress.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Weather Bombers 0
A caller talks about his North Carolinian father-in-law’s refusing to accept aid from FEMA after losing almost everything to hurricane Helene because he believe Trump’s lies.
Via C&L, which has the transcript.
Speaking of “Bankrupt” and “Looted” . . . . 0
Robert Reich discusses what a second Donald Trump presidency means for the economy.
Or you can read the transcript.
Feeling Anxious? 0
If you’re worried about the upcoming election (I know I try not to think of it too much, because I find the prospect of the U. S. turning into yet another bankrupt, looted Trump business to be somewhat disquieting), Robin D. Stone, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, offers some hints for dealing with “election anxiety.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” didn’t know the gun was loaded.
(They never seem to think to check, do they? I guess the urge to caress that portable phallus overrides all caution.)
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Courting Disaster 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Supremacist Court seems to have some wounded fee-fees.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Speaking of the mask slipping off . . . .
Republican Thought Police 0
Steve M. reports that Florida Governor DeSantis wants to punish a television–an NBC affiliate–station for airing an ad that DeSantis doesn’t like.
The Switch Family Republican 0
Tim Walz is right.
These people are weird.
The Prediction 0
At the Kansas City Star, Roger C. Barnes and Don C. Smith argue that a Kansas newspaper editor predicted Donald Trump nearly a century ago. A snippet:
Then, in early 1943, White wrote to a friend: “The pretension that a candidate’s utterances are omniscient when everyone (knows) he is talking damned nonsense is one of the large reasons why the American people lose faith in democracy.”
Follow the link to learn why they think those words are coming true.