Yesterday was Independence Day for our neighbors to the South.
In honor of the day, I found this piece by composer, Carlos Chavez
Xochipilli, An Imagined Aztec Music
Xochipilli is scored for ten players: piccolo, flute, E♭ clarinet, trombone, and six percussionists playing a variety of instruments, many of Aztec origin: teponaztli, huéhuetl, omichicahuaztli. The piccolo and flute deputize for Aztec flutes of bone or clay, the E♭ clarinet represents the clay ocarina, and the trombone is used as a substitute for the Aztec conch-shell trumpet.
In Aztec mythology, Xochipilli is the god associated with flowers, music, and dance, as is also Macuilxóchitl. “Their difference is esoteric. Macuilxochitl is the imperceptible god, an entity beyond the scope of human thought, a timeless being dwelling in the cosmos. Xochipilli is the embodiment of the same spirit on Earth, perceived in the visible, tangible, and edible world”
Enjoy, Jack
jack, thanks. seems they’re still celebrating it in the toddling town today
Loop street closures remain as Mexican Independence Day celebrations continue – Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)
here’s more on it from arizona republic:
Mexican Independence Day: A celebration dear to Mexicans in the US (msn.com)
fun tidbit: xochipilli must have been the original flower child according to wiki
from that same wiki link:
“That Big Poll Showing Trump and Biden Are Evenly Matched? Trump Helped Pay for It.
The Wall Street Journal poll is being cited in all the mainstream media outlets, with no caveat that Donald Trump’s Super PAC paid one of the pollsters”
https://newrepublic.com/post/175387/wsj-poll-showing-trump-biden-evenly-matched-trump-helped-pay
SouzM tweet
Very strange the deluge of panels columns guests on talk shows news reports repeating in unison “Biden is too old” “Biden should step aside” “Harris is unfit” “dump Harris” – dump the whole ticket – & on the other side a fascist rapist insurrectionist killer w 91 felony counts
Think I like Xochipilli, I like a god who lords over the “edible world”
Sturg – Good catch on the paid pollster!
Yes, the media is definitely trying to steer the ageist narrative.
What they should be noting, if they want to talk about age (and folks do not physically and mentally age at the same rate), is that Republicans want to kill Social Security and Medicare.
Talk about policy!
Sturg, New Republic should have noted that 7 other polls in the same time frame showed the same tied result as WSJ, neither ahead outside the margin of error. They weren’t all paid for by Trump.
It does us no good to ignore that there is a problem. Also does us no good to assume the problem is not fixable and the whole ticket should be dumped. That’s just silly.
There are subgroups Biden won in 2020 that need attention, like I said yesterday — he is slightly underperforming among non-whites (especially Hispanics) and non-college whites compared to last time. Get their numbers up a few points and he’s back to the 2020 margin of victory.
NBC Executives: Ms Welker, the good news is we’re going to give you Meet The Press.
Long pause.
Ms Welker: Well then, what’s the bad news?
Great shuffling of the feet sound.
Attribution: Why So Angry? by Frank Hansen, PoliticalCartoons.com
Oh.
enjoyed horsey’s op ed earlier this week, here ’tis ‘toon and all
Amateur hour in Congress | The Seattle Times
Let’s see……one political party is trying with all their might with the aid of billionaires to establish a fascist dictatorship in America, what shall we do about that?
Republicans: We gotta fix the Democrats!
I ain’t gonna freak out about it but that’s what I see.
Another soul-sapping food fight.
“With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/trump-biden-mainstream-politics-news-coverage?s=01
Jack, Thank you for something different and truly enjoyable for our Sunday shenanigans.
Patd, Thank you for all the background information and articles.
Craig, I’m starting to think this whole election media noise is like pumpkin spice: Too early and not all that interesting.
Platitude of the Week:
You don’t change horses in mid-stream unless that’s where your horse died.
Jamie, A veteran political operator once told me his rule of thumb is that about 20% of the voters start paying attention after Labor Day in the year before the election, another 20% during the primaries and the final 20% after the conventions. The remaining 40%, he said, “just don’t live on planet Earth”
Like they did with Cawthorn, the gop will soon throw Boenert to the wolves and then say, See how great we are? We actually threw one out. Oh….but the vote is too close, so……cheaper to keep her.
While liberals bitch and moan about nothing, the fascists are playing for keeps and winning
Th main difference I’ve noticed in twitter so far is
It used to be that if something happened in the world, it would quickly be all over Twitter……now it’s kinda like you have to wait a while for it to start popping up. Look how long it took for the fondling to get out.
He’s bolloxed it up. Mission accomplished.
Since I already know I’m voting for Biden barring some unforeseen wild development, the primaries are soon enough to stop tuning out the eyeballs/dollars both sides media coverage.
Today is the day in 1787 when The Constitution was signed in Philadelphia. It is also the day, in 1987, when I met David in Philadelphia.
To be clear, that picture was just 4 years ago at the Benjamin Franklin bench, University of Pennsylvania
Meet the Press
Time for the lies, no time for the facts.
Congrats on your anniversary, Mr. C
Congratulations to David and Craig. ❤️
Craig & David
Congratulations may you share many more decades.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-16/mexico-s-friend-shoring-moment-may-have-to-wait-until-after-elections
Yes, but no, it’s happening. Hubs got back yesterday from his second recent business trip to Mexico City, more on the schedule. His Spanish language skills are about to improve.
Hey, that theater in which Boebs was getting busy? Packed. $3000 Taylor Swift tickets? Sold out. First thing people cut during times of financial hardship? Entertainment.
This economy is bad, how?
“When President Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a residential area of Mexico City on April 14, 1966, he unwittingly contributed to perpetuating a very unhistorical legend about the relationship between Lincoln and Mexico’s Benito Juárez—two great liberators….The Lincoln statue was a gift from the United States to the people of Mexico in belated commemoration of that nation’s 150th anniversary of its independence in 1960.”
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/48/1/75/157524/Lincoln-and-Juarez-A-Brief-Reassessment-of-Their
Thanks all, and thanks to having to wait a couple of decades to legally marry we get to enjoy two anniversaries
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-mexico-loved-lincoln-180962258/
I’m pleased journalists are not hedging about this con artist anymore…
NYT Peter Baker to Meet host on her interview: “I am struck by how defiant he is — defiant of the facts, defiant of you as you were fact checking him along the way. A bulldozer shoveling falsehoods and lies, creating a different reality”
I keep hoping we’ll get a poll that bucks this trend of relentless ties but today we can add a 9th tied poll in the past month:
CBS News
Trump 50%
Biden 49%
(2,680 Likely Voters, 9/12-9/15, MarginOfError: 2.6)
RealClear average now Trump +.05
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html
NBC Meet The Press today should be a model for how legit media interviews this chronic liar. Firstly, tape the interview, do not go live! Some fact-checking by the host during the interview without getting bogged down, provide correction or context for major falsehoods before and after the breaks, follow up with an online analysis detailing and refuting each lie.
NBC: “At least 11 different points during the interview, former President Trump flubbed numbers, misstated facts or omitted critical context”
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-the-press/fact-checking-trump-meet-press-interview-rcna105297?s=03
Well I hope it turns out that Ms Welker did a good job with the interview and she can turn the show back into something i can watch again. If so I will heap praise upon her for the rest of my days.
Sturg, I don’t know much about her or her prospects but I was impressed about how she handled Pumpkin Head. If you get too confrontational with him he disrupts the whole interview and nothing is accomplished. She found about that still managed to press him in important ways. For example she boxed him into saying he acted on “his own instincts” in the election rigging schemes not solely on the advice of lawyers, which was going to be his defense in the criminal cases. That was clever on her part because she took advantage of one of his weaknesses, an inability to acknowledge credit to anyone other than himself.
Those that still back tRUMPsky, well, there’s no hope for them. They are fearful/hateful, racists who hide behind a very, cherry-picked Bible. (Where is loving your neighbor? Where is welcoming the stranger?) They are Christo-fascists and they hate the very idea of a true democracy. Then, of course, there are the uber-wealthy who play into that fear/hate to stay in power and line their pockets even more.
Reduced economic pressure in day-to-day life easily helps Biden, but the wasted opportunity is letting Republicans control the narrative about their plans to destroy our country.
The MAGAts don’t care about the environment or a woman’s personal freedom. They will, however, care about the safety of Social Security and Medicare. Everyone 50-plus will vote against tRUMPsky (or at least stay home) if they realize what’s at stake for them personally.
It’s not just about how terrible tRUMPsky was and is, it’s how the heartlessness that has always infected the Republican Party has come to a head for all to see.
Biden/Harris 2024!
Craig – Oh, wow. She got him to implicate himself. Can that be used at trial?
Happy Gotcha Day! to you & David!
Oh yes, BiD, I’m sure prosecutors have already added those clips to their huge trove for the jurors
Anything he says or does anywhere is fair game. And the beauty is the defense cannot use any types or clips of their own to make him look better without putting him on the stand.
Recent polling conducted by frequent pollster YouGov in collaboration with CBS News found a massive majority of young people in support of President Joe Biden heading into the 2024 election. Young people here means individuals under the age of 30 (ending at 18, when Americans are first able to vote). A full 65 percent from that group backed Biden.
https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/09/17/gop-in-freefall-among-young-people-as-massive-majority-backs-joe-biden/
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boeberts-date-own-drag-show-bar-1827636
It gets better!
Bobblehead’s date “… has been identified as Quinn Gallagher, a co-owner of Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar, which has hosted drag shows in the past”
“…the venue has hosted events in support of the LGBTQ+ community, including a women’s party for Aspen Gay Ski Week and a “Winter Wonderland Burlesque & Drag Show.”
I guess the bad news is that ousting her will make MTG very happy.
I’m not sure if the writers’ strike gusts or helps Biden. There are those who get their news from Weekend Update” and the like. On the other hand, they pick on the only thing they can with Biden: age. That’s not helpful, and it’s not even accurate in the way that tRUMPsky’s continual lies are, but his lies are easy pickings.
Can you imagine how unhinged he’d be on the stand? Ha! Under oath, on a Bible he only sees as a prop…when he wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in his 215+ pound backside.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/governor-kristi-noem-god-fearing-family-woman-and-corey-lewandowski-trump-creep-reportedly-had-yearslong-affair
“The Daily Mail has published an explosive report that South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, a former Donald Trump aide, have been having a secret affair “for years”—at least since 2019.”
“A “family values” Republican, Noem has three children with her husband, Bryon. They’ve been married for over 30 years. Lewandowski married his wife, Alison, in 2005, and they have four children.”
“Noem stoked speculation that she’s angling to be Trump’s running mate for 2024 with an early endorsement of the indicted man for president.”
“The Daily Mail claimed it has a long list of receipts including “stays at luxury resorts where their intimacy was observed and noted.” They allegedly took private planes on donors’ dimes, and would disappear frequently.”
“Lewandowski became a key adviser to Noem by 2019, and they would travel frequently together. Per the Daily Mail, “In the months leading up to the 2020 election, Noem and Lewandowski became virtually inseparable companions on the Trump campaign trail. By then, their relationship was an open secret at the White House and among high-level GOP lobbyists and political consultants.”
“Rumors of their alleged affair surfaced briefly in 2021, via far-right conservative website American Greatness, but Noem issued a strong rebuke of the story.”
“However, after a scandal in which Lewandowski allegedly propositioned a donor’s wife at a Benihana, he was supposedly cut loose from Noem’s team. “Corey was always a volunteer, never paid a dime (campaign or official),” Ian Fury, Noem’s communications director, said in a statement at the time. “He will not be advising the governor in regard to the campaign or official office.” The Daily Mail claimed this was not true. Lewandowski continued working for Noem, and she would, according to a source, “make excuses for his behavior and apologize to staffers for him.”
Ha, James Carville on impeachment: “The people they have running it, Comer and Jordan, are borderline stupid. I so want them to do this. I can’t tell you how much I want them to do this. I want them to hold hearings. I want the American people to watch them make fools of themselves”. (CNN)
https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/toms-piece-on-noemlewandowski
“We really don’t care who Kristi Noem is sleeping with. That’s a personal issue between her, her husband Bryon and her supposed lover Corey Lewandowski and his wife.”
“What’s really troubling is the people she is in bed with politically. That’s what really impacts our state and nation.”
“While Noem attacked The Daily Mail — like her mentor, Donald Trump, she is always on offense — it is noteworthy there was no blanket denial from her, her spokesman Ian Fury or from Lewandowski.”
“The report also says Byron Noem moved out of the governor’s residence in Pierre two years ago. I do know that a moving van was spotted at the home at that time.”
“Lewandowski, a former Trump campaign manager, has a very shady reputation. He reportedly had an affair with Hope Hicks, a young, attractive blonde who was a campaign press secretary. Trump reportedly praised Lewandowski for his affair in his typically crude manner.”
“Noem is a strong person, personally and politically. She rides motorcycles and horses, shoots guns, raises bison. She first ran for office in 2006 and has never lost an election, a remarkable run of success almost unmatched in South Dakota history, and in the last few years, she has set her sights on national office.”
“Her involvement with Lewandowski, who has a long, troubling record of offensive behavior, was linked to her goal of being president or vice president. He has provided her a boost onto the national stage, positioning her as “America’s Governor.”
“Noem does have a strange track record of associating with deplorable men with track records of abusive behavior against women. In 2022, she supported Nebraska Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, who had multiple accusations of assaulting women and making unwanted advances.”
“Noem’s strong support for Trump has helped boost her national reputation.
Lewandowski and Trump have a lot in common, since the former president has been accused of sexual assault by more than 20 women, and even bragged about it before he was elected president.”
So, if Bobblehead happened to be vaping something with THC…weed and weed byproducts are t legal everywhere. Is gun registration state and federal? Did she pull a Hunter?
Occupy Democrats
BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith scores a MASSIVE win as Donald Trump slips up at today’s Meet the Press interview incriminates himself by taking full responsibility for the Big Lie after the host bravely forces him to answer her brilliant question. It all started when host Kristen Welker asked Trump whether he was listening to his lawyers or his “own instincts” when he decided to cook up his Big Lie that he is now facing multiple federal felony charges over. At this point, Trump sensed danger, so he tried to pivot to bragging about the “many numerous books” that have “been written about how the election was rigged.” At this point, the host went for the jugular, cutting Trump off and asking, “But were you calling the shots?” Trump tried ignoring her, once again launching back into his rant about the “many books” that back his Big Lie. Undaunted, host Kristen Welker didn’t back down, again cutting Trump off and asking, “Were YOU calling the shots though?” At this point, Trump became visibly upset and snapped back, “Excuse me!” before AGAIN shamelessly going back to rambling about the Big Lie books. Unfortunately for Trump, Welker wasn’t about to let him get away with it, and she again looked Trump dead in the face and asked, “But where YOU calling the shots though, Mr President!?” At this point, Trump had no choice but the mumble nervously, “Ughhh… as to whether or not I believed that the election was rigged? Sure! It was MY decision! There you have it, folks — and straight from the horse’s mouth. Special Counsel Jack Smith just got even more incriminating evidence to show Judge Chutkan — nothing less than Trump himself admitting that he was the one “calling the shots” in his Big Lie conspiracy to steal Biden’s win.
No, but public indecency might be a criminal offense in that jurisdiction 🤷♂️
Ah, i get what you mean by a “Hunter”, now. THAT is a good question 🤔
The word on the street is that Boebert’s date is a democrat operative who set her up, getting her drunk and taking her to the play where the surveillance cameras are so…..zzzzzzzzzz
https://nypost.com/2023/09/16/lauren-boeberts-new-man-owns-gay-friendly-bar-which-hosts-drag-shows/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/17/world/north-korea-kim-leaves-russia-intl/index.html
“As he left, the governor of the far eastern Russian region of Primorye gave him a bulletproof vest and a set of drones, Russian state media TASS reported.”
“This is a body armor with protection zones for the chest, shoulders, throat and groin, and it is much lighter than its known analogs,” the state news agency added.
“Kim was also presented with five kamikaze drones produced in the same region, as well as a Geranium-25 aircraft-type reconnaissance drone, TASS added. A set of special clothing that is invisible to thermal imaging cameras was an additional gift.”
Ben Meiselas
What if a surgeon instead of stopping the spread of a disease accelerates its spread? Then, after the surgery, the surgeon gives the patient a fact sheet of all the things the surgeon could have done during the surgery. When a journalist like Kristen Welker from NBC interviews Trump but refuses to do her job, she spreads the disease of fascism. By sending us to a website to read the fact check you should have done, but didn’t do during the interview, you are the surgeon who makes the patient sicker. In this case the country becomes sicker and more divided. It shows us you either don’t understand your job or you are intentionally gaslighting us to appease Trump.
Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnsteim
12h
Oy. Trump says the Capitol Police testified against Nancy Pelosi, and then burned all the evidence. Lie upon lie upon lie. Unchallenged by Welker. Every word out of his mouth is a lie, and he talks over any questioner. Just a colossal mistake to showcase this sociopath.
Sturg – You miss Chuck Todd?
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