Attribution: DNC 2024 by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
More joy and better ratings.
TV Ratings: Democratic Convention Closes With 26M Viewers, Edging RNC Final Night (msn.com)
Down in their Hearts
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Attribution: DNC 2024 by Bruce Plante, PoliticalCartoons.com
More joy and better ratings.
TV Ratings: Democratic Convention Closes With 26M Viewers, Edging RNC Final Night (msn.com)
picture at Kamala & Tim’s upcoming rallies spontaneous conga lines of attendees erupting into a more secular version of this
Attribution: Kamala Kaboom by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
lincoln project latest
With Kamala Harris, a promise of a better future for all Americans lies ahead. We’re not going back.
and this on X
https://x.com/i/status/1827179030103388307
JD didn’t exactly seem comfortable ordering donuts. Whatever makes sense? It’s donuts. Our Aspergery associate orders donuts, and it isn’t really all that challenging.
harris walz latest ad https://youtu.be/x5q6oRH-R1A?si=Vmjz8iCh7VQ00pSP Aug 23, 2024 #KamalaHarris #Harris2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/23/harris-campaign-ad/ CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is releasing a new television ad in battleground states with a message aimed at the middle class, in its first major move after the convention. In the ad, titled “Opportunity,” Harris speaks directly to the camera about the importance of lowering costs and taxes on middle-class Americans. It’s a topic voters often list among their top concerns, one that President Joe Biden had struggled to gain credit for even though various economic indicators have improved during his time in office. […] The new ad, part of an eight-figure buy, will soon begin airing in seven battleground states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada — as well as in Nebraska, a state which splits its electoral college votes. […] The ad comes a week after Harris rolled out a populist economic agenda during a speech in North Carolina, providing a more detailed vision of her governing priorities, including eliminating medical debt for millions of Americans, banning what she termed “price gouging” for groceries and food, capping prescription drug costs and providing a $25,000 credit for first-time home buyers. Charles Lutvak, a spokesman for the Harris-Walz campaign, said that improving conditions for the middle class “will be a central goal of her administration” and will be a “a stark contrast to Donald Trump, who will only help the ultrarich and corporations while raising costs for middle class families.” Following her… Read more »
Rebounding from a recent losing streak, the Guardians went into a losing streak, then won a few straight games, then began a win one-lose one streak. Fatigue is unavoidable. The bats go silent for days, then explode. It’s a slog, MLB. And so is a campaign. We are coming off the sugar-high of an incredible convention, and we are confident. But are the fence-sitters going to follow, can we sustain the enthusiasm? We know we must or we’ll have Trump back, and that cannot happen. This is why pols and political junkies are screaming at us to DO SOMETHING, to get the word out, to explain to folks who are jaded and hardened against politics that this election is so important all stops must be pulled and we must find our second wind and not let up , not on weekends, not during working hours, never at all until the polls close. Then we can collectively and figuratively pour a glass of Wild Turkey 101, light up a fine cigar, and watch state after state turn Blue. In reality, I’ll have a tumbler of straight diet soda but my JOY will be the same.
now i know!
Dex, GREAT idea for the wee hours of November 6, 2024.I’m marking that on my calendar (figuratively). Mine will be Meyers Dark rum – Jamaican, ya know.
pogo & dex, add to that meyers some healthful fruits & juices for a planters punch and I’m with you; but first we gotta win BIGLY YUGE.
hold the umbrella on the punch tho’ even if it’s not by a big margin. nothing’s gonna rain on my parade if we win by only a point
the less likely a trump victory seems, the less motivated his trolls are to spread bullshit online, so keep on keeping on, attitudes up, let’s gooooo 🇺🇸
imma go put my flag up
that hard and winding trail on the way down most recent example:
‘Gotta Go’: Trump Tells Police Union Head To Wrap It Up In Awkward Rally Moment (msn.com
“gotta go”??? a literal party pooper perchance? those diapers of his can only hold so much you know.
We just got on train DC to Roanoke to visit our old pal Mudcat.
in other news no joy in X-ville
As Twitter’s Revenue Collapses By 84%, Tesla Bulls Fear Elon Musk Will Liquidate More Tesla Stock, Bringing Its Value Down For Everyone (yahoo.com)
and
wsj.com a few days ago:
reposting this which was played at DNC but needs more use the next 73 days, this is Part I of two parts but I haven’t been able to find Part II. Has it been published yet?
In a creative twist, the DNC released a parody video styled like Law & Order, starring Kamala Harris as the tough prosecutor and Donald Trump cast as the “criminal.” Part I of II The video taps into Harris’s former career as a prosecutor, using the familiar format of the popular crime show to highlight her legal chops and contrast her with Trump’s mounting legal troubles. With sharp humor and pointed jabs, this parody has stirred up strong reactions from both sides of the aisle. Check out the highlights and reactions! #KamalaHarris, #Trump, #LawAndOrderParody
Watching Fake Bobby and Pumpkin love fest yesterday I’m wondering, did JD just get unofficially fired?
OMG… we can only hope Craig. JD is weird… but Bobby K is much worse.
I do believe in trump… I do believe in trump… to pick the weirdest running mate of all time!
She’s a pop icon now, no stopping her…
Keep it KAMALA
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP81Gvdb1/
Somewhere between Culpeper and Charlottesville
I’d be surprised if JD was optioned back to Silicon Valley. Bobby as veep would be throwing a wrench into the works.
Yeah, when I started going to weekend games at what was then Jacobs Field , I became mesmerized by the Guardians of Traffic on Hope Memorial Bridge. That is why I was elated to hear the new name was to be Guardians. To see them as you slowly cross the bridge is amazing. Also, I was stared down by a Native American 28 years ago as I entered the stadium during a protest against Chief Wahoo, the logo of the Cleveland Indians. I could see through his eyes into his soul. I knew the Indians name had to go. No joke, as Joe says.
Hey Dex, for a guy with 3 wives and a bunch of girlfriends why not two running mates?
There’s gotta be something bad wrong with that Kennedy boy.
GOP campaign has become the Mt. Rushmore of weird: Trump, Vance, RFKjr and Elon Musk.
Odd choices for a party hemorrhaging women.
Steinbeck: Only one brave and beautiful boy of ten named Andy from Salinas ever crossed the old Chinaman. Andy was visiting in Monterey and he saw the old man and knew he must shout at him if only to keep his self-respect, but even Andy, brave as he was, felt the little cloud of fear. Andy watched him go by evening after evening while his duty and his terror wrestled. And then one evening Andy braced himself and marched behind the old man singing in a shrill falsetto, “Ching-Chong Chinaman sitting on a rail–‘ Long came a white man an’ chopped off his tail.” The old man stopped and turned. Andy stopped. The deep-brown eyes looked at Andy and the thin corded lips moved. What happened then Andy was never able either to explain or to forget. For the eyes spread out until there was no Chinaman. And then it was one eye–one huge brown eye as big as a church door. Andy looked through the shiny transparent brown door and through it he saw a lonely countryside, flat for miles but ending against a row of fantastic mountains shaped like cows’ and dogs’ heads and tents and mushrooms. There was low coarse grass on the plain and here and there a little mound. And a small animal like a woodchuck sat on each mound. And the loneliness-the desolate cold aloneness of the landscape made Andy whimper because there wasn’t anybody at all in the world and he was left.… Read more »
Surgeons
Just picked up the Kindle version of Cannery Row so I could read it again for the umpteenth time. That part of the world is my happy place.
It bears frequent readings, don’t it …….I always do them all…start with the Flats, then the Row, and then Thursday.
I think Andy was Steinbeck himself. A little pet thinkage.
I can hardly read books anymore so will soon move on to books on tape.
type “audiobook” into youtube
Thumbs up idea……I use YouTube for everything imaginable and just never thought of that one.
Back when I had to perform frequent mechanic shit on a 96 F-150,,, YouTube was indispensable
i’m trying to find a good vintage American stratocaster, wish me luck
…got my steed purring like a kitten
You mean a pre-CBS, real McCoy one? That’s a lotta cash on that neighborhood, but I maintain it’s the onliest way to have a strat. The knock-offs, and post CBSs etc are good guitars but the only real one is a real one.
Sarah Cooper doing Trump on the Bible… https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP81t971S/
lol pre-CBS
no
as post CBS as it gets
2004 is vintage these days
a bunch of people spent their stimulus check on guitars they didn’t learn how to play so there are some deals out there
like i said before, rich people shit inflated by huge factors, $25k+ guitars are the height of late-stage hypercapitalism
Strat-o-meister.
today’s meme…
“relic-ing” is the craft of making a new guitar look exactly like yours, you can pay thousands for a new guitar that looks old
that might be a semester or two of college for the grandkid in that case, i’m sure you’re aware, you’ll get max value in the NYC market, don’t take it to a dealer
provenance that it shared a stage with famous musicians would add to its value
that place on Bleeker street would
know, they eat that shit up
a clean fretboard and a worn body means that axe was wielded properly 🫡
I don’t like the stray for playing….i use the tele. The stra’s knobs get in the way.
Tele go lucky
i have a need for speedy lately, need to lay down some tasty licks while i still can
omg i need a time-machine to grab that sander out of your younger hand 😜
(if you wake up and the finish is restored i was successful)
Ok, good chattin’, pardon the guitar talk, y’all, i’ll stay out of the rest of this and the Sunday thread as penance
Harris/Walz 2024 Be a Part of History 🇺🇸
Woo-hoo to Mudcat!
Glad to know the old mudcat is still out and about.
Bink, no worries, Mr. I’s enjoying your guitar thread I hold up to his face (his idea of facebook is me sticking the iPad in his face.) He has a strato-thingy in his guitar room, but not in that league.
We’re still catching our breaths from last night’s musical genius by the Gipsy Kings.
Melodramatic Maureen’s got a doozy this week. It’s more entertaining to me than some of her recent fare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/opinion/trump-harris-dnc-election.html
A vintage article popped up while pursuing y’all’s topics about Mellon bucks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/rfk-jr-endorse-trump-execute-drug-dealers/679597/
Talk about joyful, I couldn’t stop laughing.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5088635/fauci-west-nile-virus
Last month I woke up to a seeming bite mark and large rash on my arm, probably by something in my back yard. I had no recollection of a bite or sting. My doctor put me on antibiotic as a precaution against Lyme disease. I never got any other symptoms, the rash is gone but the bite mark is still there.
Love Botha them Fenders, Sturg. Obvious from the tele’s fretboard it’s the preferred of the 2.
Bink, LP has a 2004ish strat deluxe. 2 tone sunburst. Nice guitar. He paid $1k for it new. Used they’re up to the $2500 range. I think the only thing deluxe about it is gold toned tuners. Paul’s Boutique at Reverb has a nice looking one for $1200. That would be a great catch if it’s playable.
Ivy, you should have put a warning on that Life Accordian to Trump video. That’s Coke on the keyboard stuff.
Donald is a felon.
Bobby Brainworms is a felon.
Donald wanted to kill ACA and replace it with something else, so he said.
Bobby Brainworms now lies about healthcare.
Adolf and Bobby will poison each other.
JD just fetching donuts and coffee, now?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/politics/iranian-hackers-biden-trump-whatsapp/index.html
“An Iranian hacker group targeted the WhatsApp accounts of individuals associated with the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta announced Friday.”
“This malicious activity originated in Iran and attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the United States and the UK,” the social media giant said in a statement, noting that the effort primarily focused on “political and diplomatic officials, and other public figures, including some associated with administrations of President Biden and former President Trump.”
That’s a good point, i’d beware any donut JD was alone with, especially if he offers milk with it, like a coffee with cream 😱
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24082024/alabama-court-abandoned-bluestone-coke-plant/
Couple of days and little Bobby’s going to come to, a long way out on a shakey limb all by himself.
Question: Where is the alleged 5% of RFKJ voters located? Any/all swing states? I know he’s on the ballot in NC and other swing states, but he got on those ballots before the baby bear story, and before the brain worms story? (Before Harris, too.) Has his support eroded because he now seems unhinged to folks who thought his conspiracy theories were…hinged?
…watching “the Martian”, realized Musk doesn’t talk about Mars anymore, instead he is more focused on providing a safe-space for hate-speech
https://apnews.com/article/utah-ballot-measures-voting-rights-b01900725e0e4979d111e4455a0f1747
“Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature will ask voters in November to relinquish some of their rights to lawmakers who want the ability to change state ballot measures after they’ve passed.”
“Frustrated by a recent state Supreme Court ruling, lawmakers called a special session Wednesday in which both chambers swiftly approved an amendment to Utah’s constitution that would grant them greater power over citizen initiatives. The Legislature used its broadly worded emergency powers to hold the session.”
“If a majority of Utah voters approves the amendment this fall, it would give lawmakers constitutional authority to significantly rewrite voter-approved ballot measures or repeal them entirely.”
“Democrats decried the decision as a “power grab,” while Republicans argued it would be dangerous to have certain laws on the books that cannot be substantially changed.”
~You’ll only have to vote once~
i totally see what you mean about the knobs now, Sturge 👁️
…getting back in the time machine, gonna have a word with Leo. if you wake up and the knobs aren’t in the worst place for knobs, my mission was successful 🫡
Just kidding, i need to learn to depossess, not possess, disregard previous discussion of materialism, won’t happen again
Harris/Walz 2024 🇺🇸 Shift Your Paradigm
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