41 thoughts on “Just One More Cow Pie”

  1. The Guardian

    The Democratic candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, has fired back at Mehmet Oz, after a senior aide to the Republican said Fetterman might have avoided a serious stroke in May had he only eaten more vegetables.
    “I had a stroke. I survived it,” Fetterman said<. “I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could never imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges.” […] Fetterman, 53, had a serious stroke in May. He returned to the campaign trail this month and has discussed the challenges of doing so. Oz, 62, is a former heart surgeon who became a popular if controversial voice on daytime TV. In Senate testimony in 2014, for example, he admitted promoting diet pills that did not work. Pennsylvania is a swing state, its Senate race seen as key to determining control of the chamber. But fivethirtyeight.com puts Fetterman more than 10 points ahead and Senate Republican leaders are widely reported to be moving spending elsewhere. Donald Trump endorsed Oz but according to Rolling Stone now thinks his candidate is set to “fucking lose” – a remark Trump denied. [continues]

  3. speaking of bovine pucks, the field is full of them

    The Hill

    Expect a Trumpier U.S. House of Representatives next year.
    House Republicans are not only forecast to win control of the lower chamber in November’s midterm elections, they’re also poised to bring with them a roster of new arrivals who have embraced the former president and his false claims of fraud surrounding his 2020 defeat. 
    A number of Trump loyalists have bumped off more moderate Republicans in the summer primaries — a list that grew longer on Tuesday with conservative victories in Florida and New York — while a number of other centrists are stepping into retirement.
    The combination foreshadows a power shift in the House GOP that has the potential to complicate any bipartisan compromise with President Biden, while creating headaches for Republican leaders who will face pressure to demonstrate their governing chops in a new majority. 
    […]
    “These are not libertarians; they’re anti-libertarians in all sorts of ways,” Galston added. “And that’s the Republican Party now.”
    The influence of aggressive, Trump-loving House members and the number of headaches they create for GOP leadership next year may depend on how successful Republicans are in House races overall in this year’s midterms. Many of the newcomer GOP candidates in competitive races trying to unseat Democrats are more centrist, and largely do not talk about the former president.

  4. Oz, a doctor with ~compassion~

    Bagging on a guy with 10 houses who has a campaign team so inept as to send him to a grocery store to complain about high prices do he can point a finger at Biden (who is helping the average Joe), misname the store, and pick up random items like asparagus and deli-made salsa for a veggie plate (call it what you will), shows he is just in this as an ego boost is not the same as making fun of a medical condition.

    What does Oz actually believe? What would he do? How would he fix things? Nope. He’s all ego and no heart, despite being a cardiac surgeon.

  5. Ms Petri’s Opinion | Stop improving the student loan debt crisis. All must suffer as I did! – The Washington Post

    DISGUSTING! AWFUL! I have just received word that life is getting marginally better for some people, and I am white-hot with fury! This is the worst thing that could possibly happen! I did not suffer and strive and work my fingers to the bone so that anybody else could have a life that does not involve suffering and striving and the working of fingers to the bone. I demand to see only bones and no fingers!
    Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night thrashing because I have had the nightmare again, the nightmare in which someone else is being spared a small hint of the suffering I endured. The world should not get better! The world should get worse along with me and perish along with me.
    Every time anyone’s life improves at all, I personally am insulted. Any time anyone devises a labor-saving device, or passes some kind of weak, soft-hearted law that forecloses the opportunity for a new generation of children to lose fingers in dangerous machinery, I gnash my teeth. This is an affront to everyone who struggled so mightily. To avoid affronting them, we must keep everything just as bad as ever. Put those fingers back into the machines, or our suffering will have been in vain.
    When I see unleaded paint or un-asbestosed homes, I froth at the mouth and start stomping up and down like Rumpelstiltskin. And who are we to think we deserve better than to die of sepsis? Why shouldn’t smallpox be out in the world for us as it once was? Are we too good for scurvy, now? Our great-grandparents made do without penicillin, did they not?
    What a fallen, broken world we live in. The audacity of people trying to eat food not contaminated by waste, or increase the number of rhinos in the wild — they had better not! Clean the air? YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW. Inhaling thick lungfuls of coal smoke was miserable for me, and it will be miserable for you. Put the cockroaches back into the kitchen, please, and lye back into the meat!
    […]
    John Adams wrote that “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.”
    This just shows you what a fool John Adams was! No one should get to study Painting, Poetry or Musick EVER, and if they do, they should pay for it their entire lives.
    I am not opposed to this student loan forgiveness plan because I fear it won’t ease the suffering of millions; I am opposed to it because I fear that it will.
    I fought uphill battles and squinted into the night and toiled and burdened myself in the hope that my children, one day, would also get to work exactly that hard, if not harder, and suffer at least as much as I did, and have, if the Lord allows, lives worse than mine. God, please make their lives worse!

  7. a glimmer of good news however reported by wapo:

    The nonpartisan Cook Political Report on Wednesday revised its projections for GOP gains in the House, with editor Dave Wasserman saying on Twitter that it is “not out of the question” for Democrats to maintain control of the chamber. The group, which once predicted Republicans would pick up 20 to 35 seats, is now projecting a more modest increase of 10 to 20 seats. And Republicans say they have dialed back their expectations even as they remain confident they will retake the House.

  9. The student loan program announcement has lit up the blogosphere. I wasn’t aware that there are so many experts on the effects on the economy of reducing student loan debt, and with so many different solutions to the problem of student debt without crashing the economy or heating up inflation. I am heartened that there are so many experts out there to provide so much advice in comments sections online. 

  10. from our friends at freedom toast and parody project

    Aug 23, 2022 Featuring clips from Monty Python and more

  11. in re Oz? this from meidas touch last month

    Jul 21, 2022 In our new video ‘Wizard of Lies,’ we EXPOSE the carpetbagger and grifter that is Dr. Oz. It’s time to tell Dr. Oz ‘there’s no place like home’ and send him back to New Jersey! Thanks to you we were able to play a major role in electing Warnock and Ossoff in Georgia. We have huge plans for Pennsylvania this year….

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    Morning Consult poll: Generic congressional ballot Dems now have a 5-point advantage over Republicans, 47%-42% Last week: 4 points, 46%-42% Two weeks ago: 1 point, 44%-43%

     

  15. I worry student debt cancelation creates resentment among non-college midterm voters and others who worked hard to pay off their loans. Could offset gains among young voters.

  16. Ohio Dem Senate nominee Tim Ryan on student debt forgiveness: “Sends wrong message to the millions of Ohioans without a degree working just as hard to make ends meet”

    He clearly doesn’t think this is a campaign winner. 

  17. Craig – I wonder how long that resentment will last. Labor Day is coming up and the true slog starts.  There are many issues in the air right now.  Something I have a great concern about is school starting.  That means the white supremacists are going to be invading and shooting up, not a guess anymore, only guess is which will be the first school.

  18. BB,  I think we’ll see the demagogues stoking this resentment all the way to election day. Kinda like how resentment against mortgage bailouts started up Tea Party movement until they went after Obamacare. 

  20. I’m in favor of the debt forgiveness for this one round.  In the future, interest free and/or total forgiveness in exchange to public service as well as applying to both technical and academic higher education.

    That should eliminate the jealousy factor as well as providing necessary services and occupations to underserved areas ala Northern Exposure.  Military service should qualify as well.  

     

  21. Bink

    Even after all this time since it started, I’m holding a 98% solving rate with the majority four or less in Wordle.  this was today’s.  I imagine most of the people in here could do the same with all the wordsmiths we have.

    Wordle 432 4/6

     

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  22. 100% 😎
     
    today’s was bullshit, got in 5 but had last four letters in 3 😒
     
    No affidavit article for me😭

  23. craig, where were those folks in 2020 when stuff like this happened?  they were cheering.

    wapo:

    ‘Doomed to fail’: Why a $4 trillion bailout couldn’t revive the American economy
    An avalanche of U.S. grants and loans helped the wealthy and companiesthat laid off workers. Individuals received about one-fifth of the aid.

     

    The four spending bills that Congress passed earlier this year to address the coronavirus crisis amounted to one of the costliest relief efforts in U.S. history, and the undertaking soon won praise across the political spectrum for its size and speed.
    The $4 trillion total of government grants and loans exceeded the cost of 18 years of war in Afghanistan.
    “We’re going to win this battle in the very near future,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said after the Senate approved the Cares Act, the largest of the four measures.
    Six months later, however, the nation’s coronavirus battle is far from won, and if the prodigious relief spending was supposed to target the neediest and move the country beyond the pandemic, much of the The legislation bestowed billions in benefits on companies and wealthy individuals largely unscathed by the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis, while at the same time allowing special aid for unemployed workers to expire over the summer and leaving some local public health efforts struggling for money to conduct testing and other prevention efforts.money missed the mark.
    […]
    More than half of the $4 trillion approved by Congress this spring was targeted to businesses, according to a Washington Post analysis based on figures from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an independent, nonprofit and bipartisan group. That and the other dollar figures in this story reflect the amounts Congress authorized. In some cases, the amounts spent and the projected impact on the U.S. deficit are lower.
    Much of the money was issued to companies regardless of whether they were impacted by the pandemic or used it to pay employees.
    The bill included $651 billion in business tax breaks that often went to companies unaffected by the pandemic and others that laid off thousands of workers. ….[
    […]
    So while the Cares Act and other bills spread out the money, much of it appears to have benefited companies that don’t need help.
    There may be no clearer example of this than the Cares Act tax breaks.
    The legislation offered generous tax breaks for businesses of any size, in any industry and regardless of need…. […continues]

  24. Beto released his very first TV of the gubernatorial campaign to make sure that every Texan knows that Greg Abbott chose to outlaw abortion beginning at conception with no exception for rape or incest — even though 82% of Texas voters oppose this radical attack on the freedom, health, and lives of Texas women. The only way to overcome the most extreme abortion ban in America is to defeat the man who signed it, win political power, and fight to restore a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions about her own body, health care, and future. Join our people-powered campaign for the future of Texas: https://betofortexas.com/

  25. another beto ad

    Beto released his first TVs of the gubernatorial campaign to make sure that every Texan knows that Greg Abbott chose to outlaw abortion beginning at conception with no exception for rape or incest even though 82% of Texas voters — including 86% of Independents and 78% of Republicans — oppose this radical attack on the freedom, health, and lives of Texas women. The only way to overcome the most extreme abortion ban in America is to defeat the man who signed it, win political power, and fight to restore a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions about her own body, health care, and future. Join our people-powered campaign for the future of Texas: https://betofortexas.com/

  29. Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters softened his tone and scrubbed his website’s policy page of tough abortion restrictions Thursday, as his party reels from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. (NBC) 

  30. Craig – I keep telling people to read up on the fugitive slave laws.  Whatever the southern slave states had as laws to control, punish and kill slaves, those are going to be installed.  Add in some idiots saying they can arrest and extradite people, including medical staff, who are not citizens of h8 women states.  Yeah, watch the court formerly known as the Supreme Court, bless (not a holy one at all) more draconian punishments and restrictions on women and medical staff.

  31. BB, agree, I think it’s apt to discuss these times in the context of pre-Civil War. Slave vs Free states like Abortion Rights vs Forced Pregnancy states. Hope we figure this out before secessions take hold. 

    Texas GOP convention recently voted to seek a secession referendum for 2023 ballot.

  32. Debt cancellation may make tRUMPsky’s base even more rabid.    It will be a great relief to many, though.    
     
    However, what is really needed is AFFORDABLE education.    

    Debt cancellation does not fix greedy colleges and businesses posing as institutions of higher education.   The entire system needs to be overhauled.

    Jamie – Exactly. “Northern Exposure.”

    ps – Let’s not forget about the corporations and the billionaires who feed off off the government teat. Why do folks getting pay raises get blamed for inflation? Why are folks getting a bit of their student debt forgiven get set up as the enemy?

  33. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/24/ken-paxton-texas-election-security/

    “A legal opinion released by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week will almost certainly throw county elections offices into chaos after November, experts say, exposing election clerks to possible criminal charges and materially reducing the security of every ballot cast in the state.”

    “Federal and state law require that ballots be kept secure for 22 months after an election to allow for recounts and challenges — a time frame Texas counties have had set in place for decades. Paxton’s opinion, which doesn’t stem from any change to state law, theoretically permits anyone — an aggrieved voter, activist or out-of-state entity — to request access to ballots as soon as the day after they are counted. Such requests have been used by activists all over the country as a way to “audit” election results.”

    “The opinion from Paxton doesn’t carry the force of law, but experts say it will almost certainly serve as the basis for a lawsuit by right-wing activists.”

  34. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/woman-arrested-charged-after-viral-confrontation-plano-parking-lot/287-e221067a-18f6-424b-bc60-0849ac58caa4

    “The woman, who was identified by Plano police as Esmeralda Upton, shouted racial slurs and began hitting Banerjee.”

    “Go back to India, we don’t want you here,” Upton could be heard saying on the video.

    “What was so very scary is she came very close and not only verbally assaulted us but started physically assaulting us. She started hitting me,” said Banerjee.

    “Upton, who identified herself as Mexican-American, told the group in the video that she “hated Indians.”

    We have so many problems in this country.

  37. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/us/florida-activist-donate-arabic-in-god-we-trust-signs-texas-reaj/index.html

    “The new law says a Texas public elementary or secondary school or an institution of higher education “must” display a durable poster or framed copy of the motto in a “conspicuous place” in each building if the poster or framed copy is “donated for display at the school or institution” or “purchased from private donations and made available to the school or institution.”

    “After Texas school districts started receiving donated posters and framed copies of the national motto, “In God We Trust,” which they are required to display in accordance with a new state law, a political activist in Florida has started a GoFundMe to provide districts with signs of national motto in Arabic and a number of other languages.”

    “Stevens said the project is meant to voice dissent with Texas Senate Bill 797.”

    “The law seemingly presumes these signs are written in English.”

    Future artwork will not only include Arabic, but also Hindu, Spanish, Chinese, and perhaps African dialects,” he told CNN.

    “When asked if he anticipates the issue going to court, Stevens told CNN “the gold makes the laws, so this is certainly an uphill battle with the odds stacked way against me.”

  38. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3616055-white-house-calls-out-greene-other-gop-critics-on-how-their-own-loans-were-forgiven/

    “Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven,” the White House wrote, referring to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a lifeline extended to help small businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

    “Data from ProPublica shows the loan and accrued interest for Greene’s company, Taylor Commercial, Inc., which reportedly would go to payroll, was forgiven.”

    Almost $200k is a far cry from the $10k to $20 of student loans that will be forgiven.

    “Is it fair to people who, in fact, do not own multibillion-dollar businesses, if they see one of these guys getting all the tax cuts? Is that fair? What do you think?” Biden said after his remarks announcing the plan.

  39. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/08/25/white-house-slams-republicans-who-criticized-student-debt-relief-but-used-ppp-loans/

    “Each quote tweet simply listed the member of Congress’ name and how much in PPP loans they had forgiven: The White House says Buchanan had the most of the cohort with $2.3 million in forgiven loans, followed by Mullin ($1.4 million), Hern ($1 million), Kelly ($987,237), Gaetz ($482,321) and Greene ($183,504).”

    No need to turn on folks getting a bit of their student loans forgiven. Look at the big money and look at who is screaming the loudest.

    ps – They passed tax cuts for the wealthy, too.

  40. i guess your starting word yesterday was “crest”

    lol, today’s answer is something i frequently appreciate

    ok i’ll say no more 😶

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