My Favorite Senior

My Dad, a WWII/Korean war vet, 93 years old, with macular degeneration, lung cancer, COPD, diabetes, hearing loss and sore legs managed to send in his mail ballot, which was counted, and appoint himself Biden-Harris campaign manager at his Florida retirement home.

Coming Tonight: Our live thread for the 9pm ET presidential debate.

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

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patd
4 years ago

kudos to dad crawford!

patd
4 years ago

also yesterday from

jimmy kimmel:

“Of course Donald Trump has a Chinese bank account. He had to — he’s running out of things to be hypocritical about. It was the only thing left. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he tunneled under the border from Mexico into the country.”

 

and from prez obama

patd
4 years ago

Sturgeone
4 years ago

Yay Crawdad.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Get every vote you can, sir. That is so great!  “Hi” to Mr. C!  We have matching masks, but I’m afraid to wear mine around here.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/before-the-plague-came-i-had-it-made-trump-strikes-a-doubtful-note-in-pennsylvania
tRUMP: “I had it made before the plague came.”    Almost one-quarter if a million humans are dead, many from his mishandling of tRUMP’s plague, and he’s having a pity party.   Now he’s trying to get sympathy votes?  
No sympathy for one who showed none to anyone else. He’s a self-absorbed monster.  
 
It’s too bad that Republican Senators are still propping him up.

Sturgeone
4 years ago

blueINdallas
4 years ago

So far, 32% of registered voters in TX have cast their ballots.  It’s slowing down. Is that because folks aren’t showing up for tRUMP?  Some want to wait for Election Day?  IDK.

patd
4 years ago

patd
4 years ago

speaking of dads, LP latest

Vote for change. Vote for our sons. Vote for Joe.

Jamie
4 years ago

Waving Hi to Mr. C.  Well done sir.  

patd
4 years ago

to the males on the trail,  from your perspective, do you think that new lincoln project ad “Men” above will have an impact on his macho  anti-masker base?

Bink
4 years ago

no ofc not

Women in bikinis fawning over a big bubba in a mask would be more effective for that demo, methinks.

OR: military vets saying something like “if i served in Afghanistan for two years, you can wear a mask for one”, might work, limitedly, also.

Bink
4 years ago

“ …have cast their ballots.  It’s slowing down.”

i heard the last few days of early voting are as busy as the first few🤷‍♂️.

Speaking of, i have some haranguing of young people to do before i get crackin’✌️
 

old man
4 years ago

93  with the bit in his teeth 
True Grit

old man
4 years ago

The Traveling Inferno  has really dialed it up in Colorado .
A fire that had  been burning for 2 weeks,  exploded  yesterday near Grand Lake and Granby. 
Burning 6,000 acres a hour. 
These forests were  killed several years ago during the bark beetle attacks.

The name is the East Troublesome Fire.

  

RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

What a great picture!  Mr. Crawford…  you rock!

RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

Biden -Trump Debate Tonight…
 
 

old man
4 years ago
RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

ha ha…
 
 

old man
4 years ago

Donald Trump is getting desperate — and his mental pathology is getting worse every day
As mental health professionals, we see a disturbed and destructive man whose psyche is unraveling before our eyes
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/21/donald-trump-is-getting-desperate–and-his-mental-pathology-is-getting-worse-every-day/
 

Flatus
4 years ago

TrailDad Crawford had better earn a hefty commission upon Biden’s victory…

old man
4 years ago

Pennsylvania Billboard Claims Joe Biden Has Dementia, Spells It Wildly Wrong
 
https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-billboard-joe-biden-dementia-spells-wrong-1540957#slideshow/1656236

old man
4 years ago

‘Vote These Monsters Out’: Trump Officials Weigh Deep Funding Cuts to Covid-19 Relief, Newborn Screenings in Democrat-Led Cities

“Besides shameless graft, Trump’s central agenda is tormenting the people who didn’t vote for him.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/21/vote-these-monsters-out-trump-officials-weigh-deep-funding-cuts-covid-19-relief

Flatus
4 years ago

The high-rise dwellings where olde Floridians live are officially known as ‘Adult Congregate Living Facilities’ or, more simply, ‘ACLFs’. They vary in design and activities and resident involvement in management and investment. Lots of variety. They are mostly occupied by widows and/or widowers. They are not nursing homes.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Go, get ‘em, Joe!   I really hope tRUMPsky is so roided-up that he blurts out every awful thing and there will be nowhere he will be welcomed.  Well, maybe Lubbock will take him. Sorry, OM. 

Katherine Graham Cracker
4 years ago

SFB does not do well when he cannot control the narrative 

Flatus
4 years ago

There have been major changes in Florida ACLF Law and practise since we departed almost 30-years ago.
Here is the appropriate link .

Katherine Graham Cracker
4 years ago

I hope there is a giant Trump meltdown and he marches off

patd
4 years ago

KGC, that walking out does seem his usual MO.  he even had that as a tactic in the “art of the deal” 

NYTimes has reported this about the premature release of his 60 minute interview (a side thought: wonder if premature releases are also a habit of his in other areas):

As a tactical matter, Mr. Trump’s decision to release the video just hours before the last debate with Mr. Biden was curious. One Republican noted that it meant that Democrats would have some insight into how the president might answer certain policy questions.
In the interview, Mr. Trump makes a notable pronouncement about his opinion of the Affordable Care Act, telling Ms. Stahl that he wants the Supreme Court to abolish the policy, commonly known as Obamacare.
“I hope that they end it; it’ll be so good if they end it,” Mr. Trump says. Pressed by Ms. Stahl on how he would handle a scenario where millions of Americans abruptly lost their health insurance, Mr. Trump said repeatedly that he had “a plan.”When Ms. Stahl pointed out that he has not shown a plan publicly, Mr. Trump falsely claimed that he had.
At one point, Mr. Trump falsely claimed he had never said a version of “lock her up” about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who was recently the target of a foiled kidnapping plot. In fact, after his rally crowd chanted, “Lock her up” as he campaigned in Michigan last weekend, Mr. Trump said, “Lock them all up.

his lies during the debate will give joe a chance to employ the reagan “there you go again” line.  add to it “lying” and then quote wapo’s latest lie count.

patd
4 years ago

rvat

These Republican voters can all agree – Donald Trump has failed the American people with his mismanagement of the coronavirus. When it comes to getting this pandemic under control, they trust Joe Biden. “We don’t hire presidents for the good times, we hire presidents for these kinds of times.”

Bink
4 years ago

This year is shaping-up to possibly be like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

I hate to say it, I have been spending several minutes each day on FB trying to keep up with my friends who live in the fire zones.  All is not that great.
 
One thing that surprises me are the scams that are going on.  I see my friends picture plastered on weird crap.  Buy a vending machine, all you need to do is contact X and send Y dollars to get it out of storage.  First off the only thing the real person knows about vending machines is how to put money in  and push a button, never to buy one.  Another is to buy a ATM for your room, his friend is selling them and will install it.  There are many more, but what a waste.  At least a couple feet of snow are forecast which should tamp down the fires and I can go back to my usual ignorance of the FB world.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Hmmm, then the tRUMP spawn would be fair game, like Junior and Russian interference in 2016, and, Eric and foreign banks…which brings up tRUMP’s secret, CHINESE bank account.
Americans DO NOT CARE about what garbage Russian-Republicans/tRUMPsky and their propaganda machine Izvestia/Faux Noise can concoct about Hunter.
 
What we do care about:  HEALTHCARE, PROTECTION FOR PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, HANDLING OF THE VIRUS, CLIMATE/CLEAN WATER/GREEN JOBS, POLICE REFORM.  
If tRUMPsky goes after Hunter, it’s because he has NOTHING ELSE.   tRUMP  is a LIAR AND A LOSER!

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

Just something to toss to the good people of Trail Mix – who the hell names their dog “Nixon”?

Bink
4 years ago

*buzzes in*
”Who is Roger Stone?”

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

It is difficult to read the FB posts right now.  There is a constant stream of requests for horse and cattle trailers.  Hundreds of head of horses are at risk of death as the fires attack.  Places which are very familiar to me are near the fires, are in the fire or have burnt.  The same can be said of those who live in the fire areas of California. 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

BB. – The MSM barely covers the fires or anything else except number of COVID deaths and whatever BS tRUMPsky can puke out to get their attention. 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Stay away from tRUMPsky and his team.  Don’t trust them! 

old man
4 years ago

BB –
It’s as bad as it seems  in Grand County .  My first summer in Colorado was at Grand Lake,  I lost my wallet in the damn thing .
The East Troublesome fire , brace yourself 
Yesterday it was 19,000 acres  this morning it was 125,000  acres.
Beetle kill and it’s crossed into the Park.   The town of Grand Lake may be gone.

old man
4 years ago

Wildfire Forces Residents Out Of Estes Park And Into Pandemic
 
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/10/22/wildfire-forces-residents-estes-park-into-pandemic/

ESTES PARK, Colo. (CBS4) –Thick smoke moved into Estes Park Thursday as the East Troublesome Fire jumped over the Continental Divide and into Rocky Mountain National Park — forcing residents out into the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’re afraid right now of what’s going to happen,” said Estes Park resident Thomas Booth. “Being evacuated into a pandemic is terrifying.”

 

old man
4 years ago

This fire has crossed the entire Rocky Mountain National Park in a single night .
This is simply amazing. 

Bink
4 years ago

Pogo
4 years ago

In anticipation of tonight’s mute button. 
Sounds of Silence, Trumpian style. 

tiptoe21
4 years ago

Craig, your dad is a Super Senior!!!!

Sturgeone
4 years ago

I have a feeling I might be astounded before this night is over.