On Biden: “He’s going to be your president because some people don’t love me.” (FOX News Town Hall last night)
James Carville: “I think there’s a better chance that Donald Trump does not run for reelection than be reelected. There’s no chance he’s going to be reelected.” (MSNBC)
so will the Jacksonville convention be his grand finale show? Rump, in triumph basking in the insane cheering as they announce him their official nominee, does a last hurrah? with glitzy balloons descending from heaven, he proclaims “Job done. I made America great again, I’m outta here!” and is transported in a golden chariot off the stage.
this lets him say he’s already a winner. continuing with the election, he risks forever being labeled a loser.
all the above can only be accomplished after making a deal with pence for a pardon and a big military parade in his honor.
New Dixie Chick names:
Chix
Chixie Dicks
tRUMP’s ego must be in complete turmoil. If he runs, he loses. If he doesn’t run, he can say he won every election he was in…but he has to find a way out to save orange face.
Rump has to be shook when even his big time supporters say things like this as reported by the hill:
supporter Ed’s gonna be a tweet target with his negative discription of Rump ways of campaigning and with words like “weak or nonexistent…. rambling on about Biden and Pelosi or Clinton and Obama is old and tired….Not macho bullshit”
Given the GOP’s talent for cheating and suppression, this is no time to be wallowing in complacency. Whatever the orange SOB does, Democrats need to vote as if their lives depend on it.
fox news:
Texas is a tossup, as Democrat Joe Biden tops President Donald Trump by a percentage point, 45-44 percent, in a new Fox News survey of Texas registered voters.
jamie, their/our lives literally depend on it.
message has to get out and sink in that not voting or voting for 3rd party is a vote for Rump
We didn’t have this yesterday, did we??
flatus, thanks for the video. sounded like an old reagan performance. was it?
unfortunately some of the anti-maskers are mis-using that Washington quote about an American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees. they seem to also think the rest of us would choose death rather than make them cover their pieholes now and then with masks.
speaking of the pandemic politics, this from mediaite:
George Conway and Geraldo Rivera got into a heated Twitter back-and-forth over President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday, in response to Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale slamming Joe Biden for holding no press conferences in weeks, Conway — husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway — fired back bringing up the president’s comments about coronavirus.
“It’s been 118 days since @realDonaldTrump said covid-19 cases “would go down to zero,” 61 days since he suggested doctors inject household cleaning solutions into people, 3 days since he said he slowed down testing, and 6 hours since he said he wasn’t kidding about that,” he tweeted.
Rivera fired back accusing “punk” Conway of “rooting for the fucking virus”
They continued into Wednesday afternoon with Conway tweeting “it’s better to be a punk than a hack”
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Flatus
An interesting mythic re-creation. Although the real story would have been more dramatic. For they flew 2 flags over fort McHenry. A night flag which was a battle flag then in the morning they ran up the Stars and Stripes. After a night of naval shelling It would have been a very dramatic, fuck you, moment.
So you can see why Key was so inspired. It was one of those little moments not that important but for a reeling nation as the US was at the time you take what you can find. After all they had just burned the Whitehouse.
I’m not sure why right wingers feel the need to embellish what is naturally dramatic.
Jack
Now that the far right wing nuts have a new playground, parler, I wait with bated breath for the fun stuff to bubble out of it. There will be fruitcake for the nutters, but it will die out just like the previous hell holes for them. They only talk to themselves in it. The rest of the world, who they are trying to fleece, is still on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and at least a dozen more sites. With no reason to go into the stink, even if curious. It is like going into Red State, World Net Daily or Free state, those are set up for the nut jobs why do they need another?
Hey, remember in 2016 when all the polls, all summer and all fall, had Hillary Clinton up big, and then a depraved ignoramus actually won?
lol BB, in like, two weeks that site is going to become a repository for the worst kinds of hate-speech and all those GOP politicians promoting it will have to “distance” themselves from it.
I’ve decided to learn to sing the Star Spangled Banner – as soon as it is rescored into my note.
Bink… Hillary Clinton had a high unfavorable rating… the right did a magnificent job in trying to destroy her. Trump was a complete unknown in how he’d govern. Joe ain’t Hillary… and now we know how trump would govern… it ain’t pretty. With that said… everyone needs to get out and vote.
Well, we all vote, here. We need to get the sideline-sitters in our lives to do so, also.
(i’m trying- it’s so difficult😭)
Voter suppression is a big issue
Goopers need to suppress the vote to win
So how serious is the covid- 19 breakout? The Whitehouse is doing a task force presser.
Jack
KGC
As LBJ learned in his first Senate run you never go to bed before the vote is in and official. You never know when you may need to steal a few more votes..
Jack
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/texas-bars-restaurants-coronavirus-greg-abbott/
It’s closing time. TX bars are closing, again, at noon! Restaurant capacity down and no more river rafting (tubing) trips. My relative’s GF just came to TX to go tubing. Nuts! I hope she self-quarantines, but can’t say anything as they think too much has been made of the virus.
Dewey Wins!
I’m good with the spangled banner. It can stay. is there a Trailmix Blog Anthem?
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/evictions-texas-unemployed-renters/
Another symptom of COVID will be homelessness. Wake the eff up, Congress!
Was it a Muppet song or “Wagon Wheel”???
Sturg…. yup…
Tom Cotton’s bucket list includes owning slaves
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/trump-administration-obamacare-supreme-court/index.html
The Donald J. tRUMP deathpanel.
The perfect theme for this place.
I can’t remember. Were people outraged when they took down Saddam’s statue?
Gotta love you tube, was never a fan of Simon and Garfunkle’s Sound of Silence, But this version with Dylan and Paul Simon is mind blowing.
Oh, btw, if precipitously declining poll numbers for trump get him to resign as soon as possible, i suppose there is a value in quoting them.
Lets keep Trump right where he is at. Much more danger in wrapping his ideas in a pleasant personality there by giving legitimacy to them.
Jack
Bink, the pollsters were right about Hillary. She did win by exactly the percentage they predicted by over three million votes. Unfortunately those were national polls, not state polls counted by the Electoral college where she “lost” by about 70,000 votes spread over three states. This is why I consider the anachronistic, slave & agriculture based EC an abomination that is getting more and more out of sync with national desires governed more by suburbs than farmland.
STurgeone
The Star Spangled Banner as played as a bar song and now played for display of the original key is a high baritone. Somewhere along the line it got slowed down and pitched for screeching sopranos.
Bob cracks me up doing that Elvis schtick
Mike Pence oy
Huh? Pence cites “freedom of speech” and “right to peaceably assemble” as rationale for Trump campaign super spreader rallies.
Twice Pence uses First Amendment to defend maskless Trump rallies. Sorry dumb ass, freedom of speech is not a right to recklessly endanger others.
Apparently Pence believes Freedom of Speech includes spitting up deadly germs without a mask.
Maybe Pence has a fatal disease and has offered to be the goat
I looked at that video and thought, I didn’t know Dylan was that tall. As it turns out I didn’t know Simon was that short: 5’7″ vs. 5’3″
Sonoma County numbers jumped up 40 percent in the last two weeks to 1000
I don’t think we will be going out again anytime soon
how does a flimsy cloth mask keep anyone from speaking?
in addition to speaking thru it, one can emblesh a mask with favorite political & religious symbols and slogans thus enhancing their 1st amendment entitlements.
okay, there is an instance where i’ll cut pence some slack on his claim about freedom of speech being curtailed by masks. it would be a problem if your only audience were hearing impaired lipreaders.
Let us suppose that there are nuclear weapons. I presume that polecat pence would not sign on to be the last president. Besides, mommy wouldn’t let him evaporate the grandkids.
I entertain no such cheery presumption about emperor trump, ‘ O ! What a tv star the world is losing ! ‘
Ms Pat, there is no constitutionally guaranteed right to hear.
XR, you’re right and there is no constitutionally granted right to be heard either
mask?… what mask?
et tu, WSJ?
the hill:
127,000.
trump’s present message is ambiguous. It can be interpreted as meaning that testing finds C19 or that testing actually causes C19. I’m sure the latter is the intention.
I think that by inauguration day we’ll probably have between a half million and a million dead.
Fuck the wsj editorial board and the wooly mammoth they road in on. They have no business warning trump to re-invent himself. It’s treason, and on that trump and I can finally agree.
Courts rule: military funds cannot be diverted to wall-building.
Niece can publish book on dumbass.
XR, well, yes, fuggem, but they are in a large and growing club of republicans who can see what they believe is the proverbial writing on the proverbial wall.
So, Mr. Pence (and god knows Pense would not be the apt spelling of his name) I assume that right to free speech and right to assemble would also apply to the protesters who your administration had forceably removed from Lafayette Park so that your boss could go out and fake the exercise of freedom of religion?
Shame doesn’t work. Reasoning doesn’t work. Pointing out their lies and hypocrisies doesn’t work. Begging them doesn’t work. “Playing fair” doesn’t work. Showing them the rules doesn’t work. The only thing which works with them is their utter defeat.
Anybody remember the Vietnam briefing “Follies” when officials repeatedly said we were winning? That was Pence today.
James Carville:
My guess is today @parscale is taking a long drive in the luxury car he bought after fleecing the Trump family into thinking he has a grand plan. Open the top and enjoy the ride downhill son. It’s not gonna be pretty.
Pence touring COVID hot spots. Plans to take Birx with him. He’s headed to the big, Baptist church in Dallas…and that church should lose its tax-exempt status, too.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/mike-pence-visit-texas-dallas-church-coronavirus/
The pastor at that church is a piece of work.
Dick Cheney wearing a mask. Do I have to like him a little bit now?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-26/american-air-will-book-flights-to-capacity-with-pandemic-raging
Who is flying these days?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/trump-signs-monuments-executive-order/index.html
tRUMP has signed an EO to protect monuments…but he wants Americans to get sick and die by mishandling the pandemic and taking away healthcare.
What WA Gov. Jay Inslee just said on CNN: “I wish he cared more about living Americans than dead Confederates.”
where are all those GOP pro lifers? why aren’t they holding protests about the Rump’s 124,000 covid victims?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/politics/louie-gohmert-mask-texas-republican/index.html
Louie Gohmert is too dumb to breathe.
critterville follies today reported by wapo:
TT – Have you noticed more Lone Star flags than usual? Maybe I’m projecting, but could it be a proxy, confederate flag?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/tech/facebook-boycott/index.html
Suckerberg is an authoritarian jerk. FB won’t bend due to revenue pressure. Someone’s too big for his britches.
Something to relieve all the crappy news while doing good. Starting Monday a celebrity filled reenactment of The Princess Bride. The rules they had to follow alone are hilarious.
Variety article on Quibi production
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/26/i-thought-id-be-safe-waiting-out-coronavirus-texas-i-was-wrong/%3foutputType=amp
“…bad governance and stubborn ignorance…”
Yee-haw!
Another great rendition of the Star Spangled Banner
BTW the duet I just posted was the result of a chance encounter.
The back story
Mrs P saw Pence making his absolutely stupid shit comments and she had more than a few “choice” words. Gawdalmighty is that one dumb sumbitch.
I put one in
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