72 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. jack, thanks for ms. sarah, also known as “the divine one.” immediately following your selection was another sentimental tour de force

    “The Shadow of Your Smile”, also known as “Love Theme from The Sandpiper”, is a popular song. The music was written by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster. The song was introduced in the 1965 film The Sandpiper, with a trumpet solo by Jack Sheldon and later became a minor hit for Tony Bennett (Johnny Mandel arranged and conducted his version as well). It won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

  2. last night’s cold open:

    Dana Bash (Heidi Gardner) interviews Governor Gavin Newsom, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and Draymond Green (Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Marcello Hernández, Devon Walker) to address concerns about President Biden’s age.

  3. for the weekend update connoisseurs on the trail

    Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news like Mitch McConnell announcing he’s stepping down from Senate leadership at the end of the year.

    Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Staten Island hosting a LGBTQ-friendly St. Patrick’s Day parade.

  4. joe’s old but not demented like someone else we know

    “Like someone pulled the metaphorical plug”: Dr. John Gartner on Trump’s “accelerating dementia” | Salon.com

    Since at least 2016, some of the world’s leading mental health professionals have been sounding the alarm that Donald Trump appears to be emotionally and psychologically unwell – and perhaps even a sociopath or a psychopath. Unfortunately, throughout Trump’s presidency, the COVID pandemic and his willfully negligent response to mass death and suffering, the Jan. 6 coup attempt and the attack on the Capitol by his MAGA forces, and now several years beyond, their warnings have repeatedly proven to be correct. Donald Trump only appears to be getting worse, not better, as he ages, and the pressures of his multiple criminal and civil trials and the 2024 presidential campaign grow heavier.
    In a recent conversation with Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychologist and contributor to the bestselling book “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” the former faculty member at Johns Hopkins University told me that based on Trump’s speech, memory, recall, and other behavior, he appears to be “hypomanic” and cognitively deteriorating at a rapid rate:

    I had to speak out now because the 2024 election might turn on this issue of who is cognitively capable: Biden or Trump? It’s a major issue that will affect some people’s votes. Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders and among the public. There is also this focus on Biden’s gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing.

    Almost as if on cue, in a series of speeches and interviews at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and elsewhere last week — which took place after my conversation with Dr. Gartner — Donald Trump again manifested these symptoms. So I spoke with Dr. Gartner again on Tuesday about Donald Trump’s recent behavior, what comes next if his apparent cognitive challenges and related maladies continue to worsen, the dilemma of having human sympathy and concern for a vile person like Donald Trump, and why so many medical professionals (and members of the news media, political class, and others with a public platform) are continuing to be silent about the corrupt ex-president’s very troubling and dangerous behavior.  
    This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length: 
    We spoke last week about how Donald Trump’s apparent mental and emotional challenges and pathologies appear to be getting much worse. That conversation was widely read and circulated — including by the British and other foreign news media. Why do you think your warnings gained so much traction? 

    Most of us have known someone, possibly in our own families, who’s had Alzheimer’s or some other form of dementia. The diagnostic signs are not subtle. My warnings and conclusions about Trump simply confirmed what many people had already observed and concluded for themselves but didn’t have the authority to assert. I was giving voice to what ordinary people see with their own eyes, and they were grateful for validation from a mental health professional.

    Why do you think so many of your peers who also have expertise in psychology, the brain, aging, and related topics and subjects are remaining silent? 

    I’ve been reaching out to several colleagues who are real experts in this area. They were happy to share observations and diagnostic conclusions about Trump’s severe organic mental decline, privately, but even among colleagues who were once outspoken, there’s a new high level of fear, not to mention exhaustion, that we didn’t see before. Each of these experts convinced me they weren’t being paranoid when they believed there was a good chance, they would lose their jobs if they went on the record, not to mention other forms of retaliation, especially for those who live in red states.

    How are you processing the reality that if Trump wins, there is going to be retaliation against his critics and anyone else who has dared to oppose him and the MAGA movement and American fascists more broadly? Trump has repeatedly said this. Revenge and punishing “the enemies” of the regime are central to Project 2025 and Agenda 47, for example. They’re going to get even; there’s going to be score settling for the truth tellers. 

    Wow. That is a powerful way of putting it — yes, there is going to be score settling for the truth-tellers. We’re really seeing in real time how a people can be beaten down. People who were enthusiastic members of “the resistance” against Trump and the MAGA movement are now saying, “I can’t do it. I’m intimidated.” The reality and potential for retaliation by Trump and his followers is extremely real. In 2016, what were my peers afraid of? The American Psychiatric Association? What was the worst that could have happened to us? We could have been expelled from the American Psychiatric Association. So what?! With Trump trying to come back to power, people are looking over their shoulders out of a reasonable fear of professional, social economic, and even criminal retaliation, as well as the threat of political violence from the right wing. We weren’t making those risk assessments before.
    Trump, who is a pathocrat, and what he symbolizes and has channeled and summoned, is impacting all of us.It’s taken a psychological toll on the population, both clinically and non-clinically. Exhaustion. Depression. Fear. Being detached and disengaged mentally and intellectually. The collective trauma of Trumpism has put many Americans in survival mode. 

    In our last conversation, you warned that Trump is suffering serious cognitive decline as shown by his speech, memory, and other behavior. Almost on cue, Trump manifests these symptoms at CPAC and at other events over the course of several days. Once you see this pattern of aberrant behavior you can’t unsee or otherwise ignore it.

    This weekend, Trump showed more evidence of his accelerating dementia. Trump named the wrong month for the primary, said that Putin would rather see Biden as president and he agreed with him, and that he made Israel the capital of Israel. But most important are the fundamental breakdowns in his ability to use language. Once you become aware of a symptom, you start to notice it, whereas before you might have overlooked it.
    Trump manifested a number of phonemic paraphasias. He was trying to say evangelist, for example, but haltingly said “evangelish.” He was trying to say “three years later,” but said, “three years, lady, lady, lady.” Trying to spit out the word “lately,” he sounded like a car with a bad battery struggling to turn over. When Trump can’t find a word his whole demeanor changes. It’s almost like someone pulled the metaphorical plug. Trump looks blank, stops in mid-sentence (or mid-word), his jaw goes a little slack, and when he starts to talk again, he slurs, speaks haltingly, and often looks confused. Trying to get the word out, he shifts to a non-word that is easier to pronounce. When people are losing their ability to use language they use non-words. They start with the stem of the real word, and then they improvise from there.
    In my family we call sandwiches “slamichs” because that’s what my stepson called them when he was three. It was cute then. It’s not cute watching and adult man regress to the mental age of a three-year-old. It can make you even feel sorry for Trump in those moments when he appears so vulnerable, confused, and disoriented. I asked several highly specialized experts about Trump’s use of language, and they told me that what Trump is doing in total, but especially the phonemic paraphasias, were almost certain evidence of brain damage. This is not minor, or within normal limits, like forgetting who the president of Germany is, for example, as Biden has been pilloried for. Trump is evidencing formal thought disorder, where his basic ability to use language is breaking down.
    Trump is also showing signs of “semantic aphasia” where he is using words in the wrong way. For example, when Trump talked about “the oranges of the investigation.” We saw an example of that this weekend, as well. Trump said, “We’re going to protect pro-God….” In mid-sentence, he goes blank and looks at the ceiling. The words he uses to complete the sentence don’t really make sense: “…context and content.”
    Trump is bragging about passing the MOCA, a screening test for dementia, as if it made him MENSA, when it’s a test any kindergartener should pass. Specialists tell me a patient can be in steep diagnosable organic decline for an extended period before they fail the MOCA. Someone with an advanced degree from an Ivy League school, for example, has a lot of IQ points to give before they hit kindergarten level. If you pass the MOCA it certainly does not mean you’re cognitively equipped to be President of the United States. Trump can’t even name the current president of the United States. Seven times he’s said he’s running against Obama. That’s not a gaffe or joke. That’s hard clinical evidence of serious organic brain damage.

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    worth reading the rest and reposting or making sure one’s magaT friends and relatives see or hear of it. particularly when they complain about joe’s gaffes.

  5. Jack Sheldon….also the voice of “Sugar Bear” (you bet your booties, Granny), frequent actor on Jack Webb’s “Dragnet 1968—1970”, and trumpeter for the band on Merv Griffin show.   I guess the ironic part of Jack appearing as an actor on “Dragnet” was standing there with a straight face while Jack Webb would launch into an angry soliloquy about the evils of marijuana.

    Jack Sheldon joke:

    ”Last weekend I went to see the great matador Juan Gomez at the Bullfights in Tiajuana.  First the bull made a pass at Juan,  then the bull made another pass at Juan…..then the bull made a hole in Juan”.

  6. for example important stuff from the good doc in the above salon link:

    Trump’s hypomanic energy gives him power and makes him charismatic to his followers. Trump’s behavior has a type of primal appeal to his followers. As I warned in our conversation last week, whatever personality disorder someone has, it gets dramatically worse as their cognitive functions decline. All of Trump’s viciousness, hostility, and unpredictable and other pathological behavior is only going to get worse. In the end, Trump and the MAGA movement are a cult, and he is the leader.

    and

    I don’t want to say the mainstream media is covering up Trump’s cognitive disability, but they certainly aren’t covering it like the 5-alarm fire it is. The media will show Trump being combative and saying something outrageous and his audience reacting to it — but they are consistently not showing the parts of Trump’s speeches and interviews where his eyes go blank, his jaw goes slack, he looks confused, and slurs words, uses non-words, can’t finish a sentence, rambles, perseverates, confabulates and babbles incoherently. That’s what should make the 6 o’clock news. Doesn’t the media have a duty to warn the public that the man who wants the nuclear codes back (not including the ones he probably stole) is publicly displaying unimpeachable evidence of a broken and deteriorating brain?

    and

     I feel like older people should take offense to Trump’s behavior being explained away by aging. There are natural things that happen with aging such as occasionally using the wrong word or calling someone the wrong name because they remind you of someone you worked with. President Biden is confusing names, not people. The Dementia Care Society says “mixing up people and generations” is a sign of dementia. Recently Trump confused Nikki Haley and Nancey Pelosi, for example. He also mixed up the generations in his own family when he said his father was born in Germany, when it was his grandfather. Michael Wolff said Trump frequently didn’t recognize old friends. And most importantly Biden isn’t showing a fundamental breakdown in his ability to use language. The whataboutism narrative is that this is a race between two old men. True but one has an aging brain, and the other a dementing brain. If Trump were your relative, you would be reaching out to doctors in a state of alarm. If Joe Biden were you’re relative, you might have to remind him of things from time to time. 

  10. It’s only getting worse.

    61% of Biden’s 2020 voters now say he’s too old to be effective — New York Times/Siena College (free link)

    73% of all registered voters say he “is just too old to be an effective president”

  11. Polls aren’t showing the same anxiety about Trump’s age, but again at two rallies yesterday he was in full gibberish mode:

    “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word”

    “I, uh purposely mix up like a name like Nikki with Nancy Pelosi. I— I— I put them in because they’re interchangeable in my mind.”

    In this clip he has what looks like a mini-stroke, the second of the day.. https://twitter.com/i/status/1764027164498772005

  12. Yesterday marks the THIRD TIME he said Obama is president.

    • Daily Mail: Donald Trump, 77, confuses Biden with Barack Obama AGAIN at Virginia rally – marking the third time he’s made the same gaffe in the last six months
    • Newsweek: Donald Trump Mocked for Calling Obama President During Speech
    • New York Post: Donald Trump again conflates Biden and Obama, claims he mixes Haley and Pelosi up on purpose
    • Business Insider: Trump again mixed up Obama and Biden during Virginia rally speech
    • Daily Kos: Trump has confused Biden and Obama once more
    • Raw Story: ‘Crowd goes silent’ as Trump again confuses Biden and Obama at Virginia rally

    One of the first questions on a neurological cognitive test is ‘Who is the current President of the United States’

  13. Montage of 32 clips from Trump’s two speeches yesterday where he mispronounced words, got confused, mixed up names, forgot names, and babbled insane nonsense.

  14. There is a full court psy-op effort underway right now by the forces arrayed  against Democracy to make Biden’s age the central topic of conversation in America.  It is incumbent upon everyone who would like to avoid another Stump administration doing Putin’s bidding to adamantly resist furthering this insidious blatant attempt by evil people to suppress the democratic vote.  

  16. Sturg, like immigration I think Biden/Dems have at least a shot at fighting this age issue close to draw, or close enough to avoid it becoming outcome determinative. But it takes relentless focus on Trump’s “senior moments”. The difference is that Biden’s are more widely seen. That has to change. I do see the Biden campaign aggressively clipping and distributing Trump’s flubs.

  17. It’s going to get worse and even more worse because a lot of powerful people who hate democrats are spending vast amounts of hard cash to MAKE IT WORSE.  The sky is not falling and Biden is not TOO old.   TOO old being the operative wording.  He is old but not TOO old.  But…..It IS way too late in the game to still be discussing something which is, at this point, so totally unchangeable.   
    Or words to that effect. 

  18. “…relentless focus on trump”
     
    That sounds good to me. 🎶

    “The difference is that Biden’s are more widely seen. “

    Because they are paying so much to make it SEEM so.

  19. Aphasia is a symptom of some other condition, such as a stroke or a brain tumor. A person with aphasia may:

    Speak in short or incomplete sentences
    Speak in sentences that don’t make sense
    Substitute one word for another or one sound for another
    Speak unrecognizable words
    Have difficulty finding words
    Not understand other people’s conversation
    Not understand what they read
    Write sentences that don’t make sense
     
    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aphasia/symptoms-causes/syc-20369518

  20. At one point in the progress of his Alzheimer’s my dad lost his nouns and so every object became a “unit” to keep the words coming.  At times it got to be kind of humorous.  

  22. I suggest everyone with social media accounts post links to those Trump video clips I posted above. If a picture is worth a thousand words, video is worth 10,000. Like it or not, social media increasingly is where people get news, we’re almost at the tipping point that it’s most people

  26. I have come to the point where if all those folks who answer polls really want to elect Trump for president, I don’t give a damn. If the American voter is that stupid then they deserve what they get.  I’m old, I’m white, I’m debt free and have enough money to survive till the end of my days.  So America go ahead be stupid.
     
    Jack

  27. So can somebody tell me why we listen to anything Dr Mary says?
    She comes from a family of grifters. 
     
    Jack

  28. Jack, thanks, I can only say why I listen to Dr. Mary and read her books. She is a doctoral clinical psychologist who has the education, the training and the skills to “diagnose” the dysfunction in her crazy family. Her father was one of its victims. She personally was defrauded of her inheritance by her father’s siblings. She has treated many patients in inpatient facilities, so she’s seen a wide swath of mental and social disorders. I’ve been in this company personally and professionally for many years and her words ring true to my experiences. Maybe that’s biased on my part, I wouldn’t disagree. 

  29. Craig -The  Daily Show has been interviewing cult members at tRUMPsky rallies.  They are willful idiots and racists.  
    Most of them know exactly what’s going down, but they don’t think it will negatively impact them so they don’t care what happens.  
    Some of them are frightening.  When you hear an interview with a middle-aged, white woman who claims Biden was never POTUS, and that there will be violence if tRUMPsky doesn’t win in 2024, it’s really unnerving.  The hate.  The demented worldview.  The crucifix around the neck.   Evangelicals like authoritarianism.  They are taught what to think, spoonfed a perverted theology that keeps them subservient, and they are easily exploitable.  

  34. Supreme Court website is now saying there will be rulings tomorrow. With Colorado’s primary taking place on Tuesday, it would seem quite likely that they will decide the Trump 14th Amendment ballot eligibility case.

  35. Biden too old?  Give me a break!!  I won’t post the picture to prove it, but last night I was perched on a saddle and waving a napkin in the air while the crowd at Texas Roadhouse sang Happy Birthday. I also got free ice cream which would have pleased the President no end. 

     

  36. Started doing some research and ran across this. 
    Guess who’s company this is? 

    Get your personal and professional lives empowered by getting yourself counseled by our expert life coach. At Trump Coaching, our experts will transform your lives effectively, providing you the new way of living. Boost up your confidence and improve your standard of living by joining hands with us today. We will assist you in overcoming your weaknesses and will help you in making you mentally and physically strong. Avail our services now and see how we can modify your lifestyle.

    Trump Coaching Group, CEO Dr. Mary Trump. 
    Practicing clinical Psychologist, Hah!
    Ole Fred had some strong grifting genes. 
     
    Jack

  37. Although it seems a given the court will rule that Trump stays on the ballot I am interested in a couple of things on how they get there:

    — how will states-rights justices explain contradiction with Dobbs rationale that it’s up to the states to do what they want

    — how will strict constructionists get around the plain language of section 3?

    And if they take the off ramp “it’s all up to Congress” an intriguing scenario emerges: if he wins and Democrats win control of Congress they can refuse to certify the vote on grounds he is an insurrectionist — especially if he is convicted in the DC case before certification day in January.

  38. Jack, that is interesting about Mary, but I see that post is 9 years old and I can’t find anything more recent about whether her life coaching company is still operating. Never heard about it before. I will continue to enjoy her entertaining attacks on her uncle but with a more skeptical eye.

  39. People are saying that Rump’s rallies are shrinking as he becomes unable or unwilling to pay seat fillers.  

  41. What is going to really irritate me about SCOTUS keeping him on the ballot is Trump and all his troops are going to argue the Supreme Court ruled he did not lead an insurrection. That is not even on the table in this case

    When actually the findings of fact by the trial court, and upheld by the state supreme court — that he DID lead an insurrection — will likely be unaddressed and undisturbed by the SCOTUS ruling

  42. One way around section 3 is that it doesn’t say you can’t run for office, you just can’t serve.
    Unless they deal with a process problem in the Colorado case, I don’t see how they overturn it without laying down a lot of specific rules that the states must all follow.
    If they do that then given that each state has its own rules of how to get on the ballot and who votes the chaos that would result would be a lawyer’s paradise.
    Jack

  43. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/01/kkk-governor-candidate-removed-ballot

    “After McClanahan declared for governor, a picture showing him appearing to give a Nazi salute in front of a burning cross – a symbol of Klan terror – circulated widely online.”

     
    “The Missouri Republican party sought to distance itself from a candidate for governor linked to the Ku Klux Klan, saying it would remove him from the ballot.”
     
     
    So, you CAN just remove someone from the ballot???

    “The ADL also published an image from Russian social media showing McClanahan using a different name and the phrase “white power”.

    Russia. Interesting how invested they are in exploiting division.

    “McClanahan sued for defamation, arguing, as the Riverfront Times put it, “that what appeared to be a cross-burning was a mere ‘Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony’”.

    I mean, (k)lan is right there in his name, too.

  44. https://www.thenational.scot/news/24143657.donald-trump-found-fraudulently-boosted-value-scots-homes-200m/

    “FORMER US president Donald Trump, his companies, and some executives have been found to have fraudulently inflated the valuations of non-existent Scottish golf club properties by up to £200 million.”

    “The Herald reports this was part of a scheme to dupe banks and to borrow more at lower rates.”

    “It comes as it emerged the Aberdeen club’s operating company has run at a deficit since it opened in 2012 and has amassed total losses of more than £13 million in the ensuing 11 years.”

    I didn’t realize the NY case was for overseas properties, as well.

  45. Secession Movement Gaining In Texas Legislature — Dallas Morning News 

    An opinion piece titled, “Texas voters, beware of pro-secession candidates,” the Dallas Morning News’ editorial board raised concerns over Republican candidates signing the “Take Texas Back” pledge:

    “As Super Tuesday approaches, Republican primary voters in Texas should beware. A worrying number of candidates for the Texas House of Representatives and other offices have signed the ‘Take Texas Back’ pledge that makes them promise to advance legislation to help Texas secede from the United States under certain conditions”

    https://www.newsweek.com/texas-newspaper-warns-about-secession-pledge-1875324?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1709418007

  46. Craig,
    Mary’s wiki page is rather sparse when it comes to her professional life.  About 5 sentences. One has to wonder if she really ever had a professional life. 
    It did list , what I’m assuming was her internship with the State of New York at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center. Some teaching but doesn’t say where and Her life coaching company, which as you pointed out was back before Donald Trump was elected and doesn’t seem to have done anything lately. 
    Her great success seems to be her books about Donald Trump and the media stuff since.
    Jack

  47. if all those folks who answer polls really want to elect Trump for president, I don’t give a damn.

    we’re trying to save the world here, dude

  49. Jack: “One way around section 3 is that it doesn’t say you can’t run for office, you just can’t serve.”

    Yes, which presents an intriguing scenario if the court says executing Sec. 3 is up to Congress — an easy off ramp some think they might take.

    If Trump wins and Democrats win control of Congress they can refuse to certify the vote on grounds he is an insurrectionist who “cannot serve” — especially if he is convicted in the DC case before certification day in January 2005.

  50. Russia. Interesting how invested they are in exploiting division.

    we’re trying to destroy them, turnabout is fair play

  51. This election isn’t only about Biden, it’s about Congress, which Republicans control and can’t make function AT ALL
     
    If Biden’s polls are bad, talk about something else (i.e. flip the script)

    ✌️

  52. Bink
    I guess I’m just getting old and cynical.
    Ex. I’m tired of hearing about the opioid crises. I told my sister the nurse that the way to solve it was to make fentanyl free to anybody that wants it. Then restrict access to the overdose antidote. Let Darwin take care of the problem. 
    IMO those boys I was with yesterday would be better off with a dead mother rather than one that plays mind games to get the boys spending money so she can buy drugs. She was out of jail yesterday which means she probably got the $20 I put in his birthday card. If I had known she was going to be there I would have waited to give him the money. 
    Jack
     

  54. I’m really sad for the boys, Jack. I hope their mother will get clean for herself and for them. In the meantime, you are helping them. It often takes just one responsible adult in the life of a child to inspire them to believe in themself. 

  56. It often takes just one responsible adult in the life of a child to inspire them to believe in themself. 

    they need a baseline of sanity, too, so that’s a really valuable service, also Mr. J 🫡 

  59. A little something from back in the trenches of fighting russia.  The intelligence agencies of russia are still working extremely hard to influence this 2024 election.  We are doing what we can, but there is still a lot to handle.  Especially with the many magat congress people taking russia money, which includes the speaker! 
     
    Too many are under the spell of the russians.  Suspect many of the media are believing the BS put out by the russian IC.
     

  60. Orange Adolf keeps mentioning Obama, but I don’t think it’s dementia.  His cult members think Obama is controlling the WH, and that Biden isn’t really in charge.   His followers are racists and the name Obama really bothers them. 

    Adolf is, however, having trouble pronouncing words and staying on topic.  I wonder if it’s worse later in the day.  Maybe he has sundowner’s syndrome.

  61. BID, I hear that all the time from my maggers, they actually believe it.*

    * Or at least they SAY they believe it, could be two different things.

  66. The lads played well together.
    It’s damned near like time travel.
    Thanks for the submarine, as fine a song as ever been wrote.

    Haha not the submarine at all…..

  68. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/03/early-voting-turnout-2024-primaries/

    “About 1.8 million Texans voted during the early period that ended Friday, down from 2 million during the 2020 presidential primary.”

    “Democratic turnout accounted for the entirety of the decline.”

    Noooo!

    “Republican participation increased slightly compared to 2020 but not by enough to counter the sharp decrease in votes cast early in the Democratic primary. About 1.2 million votes were cast in the Republican primary and about 600,000 were cast in the Democratic primary.”

    We’re up by about a million voter registrations in the state since 2020, so all of those folks moving here from California didn’t help. Why would they; my Cali relatives are all Republicans.

  69. Bid, thx. Super Tuesday here she comes.
     
    The Beatles – one of 6 favorites on my Sirius/XM channels. 2 sports, 2 news and 2 music. Revolution – loved that song, loved the Fuzz Face.

  70. see, the polls that pique my interest are all the ones that show majorities support progressive policy goals everywhere
     
    For instance, i saw one that said a majority of ALABAMANS support equal marriage rights, and yet they have extremist right-wing rule

  71. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/02/opinions/tennessee-three-the-whole-story-justin-pearson-justin-jones-van-jones/index.html

    “But when Republicans came into full control of Tennessee with the 2010 Tea Party movement, they imposed dramatic changes. They wasted no time gerrymandering the state to make it impossible for Democrats to ever get the majority again.”

    “That’s how you end up with a large Democratic-leaning city like Nashville without any actual Democrats representing them. Decades into this Republican supermajority, Tennessee politics are so polarized that according to the folks I talked to, Republican members won’t listen, engage with or include the other side at all. And it’s getting worse as time goes on. Almost all deals cut are between the right and the far right. Left-leaning or moderate Tennesseeans have virtually no say in their state legislature on the political matters that govern their lives.”
     
     
    Bink – This is how it happens.

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