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  1. I tried but I just couldn’t stomach it. Did see most of Guilfoyle. We’re going through hell in CA and her smear was disgusting. Some say it is Newsom related.
    Fortunately there were live sports to distract.

  2. Mort, but it’s so funny to watch these comical frauds in action. Better than the Simpsons and Family Guy put together. That’s why I watch FOX News prime time regularly. Not just about know thy enemy, they make me laugh. Which is how they lose. 

  3. Let’s get some good writing out of you this week, then, Mr. C, if you are going to voluntarily submit yourself to this orgy of mendacity- maybe something good can come out of it🤷‍♂️

  4. I did have Fox News on. I rarely watch it but figured I may as well check out the full experience. I feel that I am uncomfortably aware of the enemy and they’re funny until I remind myself that tens, maybe hundreds of millions take them seriously and vote religiously. Many on our side seem to look for excuses not to register to vote. They’ll protest and march…then not vote. Biden is counting on his popularity among the under 35 year olds. Will they turnout this time?

  5. Here’s my concern and why I monitor right wing media: Non College White Voters. They’re Trump’s only hope and he knows it. Their turnout was fairly low in battleground states 2016 altho Trump won a big decisive majority of them. I can see his team sees a chance to pick up what they left on the table last time. They’ve built a campaign and convention to do that. That’s how and why I watch them so closely. I’m trying to understand whether they can pull it off and whether Dems should be doing something about it, what that should be. Non college whites drove Nixon but they’re about half the electorate now that they were then, but still a larger percentage in battleground states than nationally. I well remember Bill Clinton’s successful strategy for peeling away some of their votes: he obsessed on community colleges, visited several per week during his campaigns and as president showered them with money. Biden might want to think about that, especially considering his wife is a community college teacher.

  6. Republicans have said they are targeting specific areas where they were strong but turnout can be improved. I assume Democrats are doing the same thing. Strange that the Obama campaigns were very successful at identifying these pockets and getting them out to vote. I remember Joe Scarborough being amazed on election nights at pockets in conservative areas in Florida being won by Obama. His boiler room was very good. Both parties are mining for those who often don’t feel motivated to vote.

  8. Why are you so sure the Dems aren’t? I think Biden recognizes he can grab some of those voters. I worried they’re taking the younger more educated for granted. He will get the majority but the turnout may be lower than they expect. Even Bernie’s vote turnout for the primaries was lower than expected. I’m logging off now. See you tomorrow.

  9. Mort, I enjoyed the Dem convention and think they energized the base but felt more could have been done to leverage Biden’s potential appeal to non college whites. His team is smart so I have faith they’ll get to it. 

  12. for those who didn’t/couldn’t watch, a style recap by wapo fashion critic givhan:

    The roll call on opening day of the Republican National Convention was sleepy. Low energy. And sad.
    This American ritual, during which each state pledges its delegates to the winning candidate, was bereft of charm. It was technically stultifying. It was also devoid of Black people and sorely lacking in people of color. And it was a long way from exemplifying gender parity. In essence, it was White men in a room simplifying complex issues and repeatedly pledging their fealty to guns, fetuses and the importance of kneeling to pray and standing for the national anthem.
    It was Trumpian politics as television. And it was dismal.
    Each state’s chairman or representative appeared in front of the same bland backdrop decorated with the hashtag #RNC2020. The camera’s framing trapped each speaker in an uninspiring rectangle. The only reminder that the Republicans were live from a Charlotte ballroom were the disembodied cheers that would periodically erupt in the background — perfunctory, desperate noise from a greatly reduced throng.

    Diversity was mostly represented by American Samoa, Guam and Puerto Rico. The sweeping Whiteness of the roll call didn’t seem to weigh on anyone’s shoulders. 

    [continues]

  13. colbert’s take on rnc opening night

    The first night of the Republican National Convention was “a long midnight of the soul” according to our host, and featured speeches from Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Hayley, and Kimberly Guilfoyle as well as multiple appearances by President Trump. #LateShowLIVE #RNC2020 #Monologue

  16. some of NYTimes columnist thoughts on best & worse of RNC:

    Wajahat Ali At least I laughed out loud.

    Jamelle Bouie Nikki Haley’s speech. Haley was a blast from the past, in that she very much represents the George W. Bush era of the Republican Party, a happy warrior for low taxes, small government and belligerence abroad. Haley is a very talented and effective politician, and it is not hard to imagine a future in which Trump has receded from view, and figures like her take the reins of the party.

    Elizabeth Bruenig Tim Scott’s speech was well-delivered and powerfully written, but more potent was the fact that he didn’t even have to misquote or disingenuously misinterpret recent remarks and past policies of Joe Biden to call into question Biden’s antiracist bona fides.

    Linda Chavez Watching Kimberly Guilfoyle do her best Evita imitation. Was it hydroxychloroquine or too much Red Bull? What was the deal with her paying homage to her mother from “Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,” and her father, “also an immigrant.” Someone should tell her that Puerto Ricans are natural-born American citizens — and even Donald Trump hasn’t figured out how to take that away. The man she wants re-elected would make sure there are fewer people like her in the next generation.

    [continues]

  18. I watched for awhile and then turned on a tamer horror show with Lovecraft Country.

    Craig,

    If you didn’t read it when it first came out, you might pick up “White Trash”.  I’m rereading it now.  The author’s premise is that the inability to reach non college Whites is based in a somewhat arrogant fallacy on the part of the Democrats.   Obama’s team knew that and was able to reach past it.  Let us hope Biden learned the lesson and isn’t cripple by the limits of outreach present with the virus.

  20. Can you even imagine how lucky Gavin Newsom must feel these days to have escaped that marriage?  

    That was one gruesome screech.

  22. I will not bother posting about the science fiction convention.
     
    Two issues with the DNC, not the local Dems, but the top level party brains.  1. The Dems should be the party of farmers and foundry workers.  Small business and medium business.  College educated or high school drop out.  2. The DNC did not feature, up front and with a major place, the Hispanic, Mexican or any other group who formed America before the white people showed up.  I’m from Colorado a place which was Mexican before there was an English colony  formed.  There are many families who trace their ancestry back more than four hundred years. which beats what my English ancestors did. 
     
    The Democratic Party better start doing as much for everyone and not let the greedy old perverts survive.

  23. BB…..I think that’s the plan.  I look for them to be rolling it out.  The parties are in chaotic flux.  Realignments of various sections of the populace are happening around us.
    The right is obviously going to where they have always, throughout all written history, gone.   They are losing “the people “ there by.   So they must, as all before them have, opt for power, greed, and fear. 
    Laws be damned.   
    I could, of course, be wrong.

  24. GOP Platform, 2020:
    ”LAWS ARE FOR SUCKERS!”
    (We don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges.”)

  25. When “the people” got a load of the full Monty during Hoover, they GOT it and we got FDR.   The current administration is the full Monty. 

  26. …read the transcript of Nikki Haley’s speech- full of lies and misinformation.  She’ll be an appropriate successor to dipshit.

  27. Also, i’m assuming the gun-brandishing Missouri couple gave their little speech (obviously written by someone else, still sucked) in exchange for the free make-over they got.

  30. cnbc re LP’s new ads:

    The PAC plans to air a revamped version of their famed ad, “Mourning in America,” which will now feature an updated U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, along with another spot that boosts Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris.  Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows that over 175,000 people have died in the U.S. from Covid-19. 

    […]

    When the Lincoln Project ran the initial “Mourning in America” ad in May, Trump took aim at the organization on Twitter, leading to a record day of fundraising. The new version will highlight Trump’s relationship with China’s president Xi Jinping and accuse him of “praising China’s response instead of heeding the warnings.” 

  31. cnbc about the above:
    Cohen is set to appear in multiple ads for the progressive super PAC, which is focusing on key swing states as it works to help elect Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

    The ads will air digitally starting Monday night and will appear on television starting Wednesday – in time for the final two nights of the GOP convention.

  32. ???  contrast the  kimberly last night to the kimberly in that 16 minute 2004 interview.  wha’ happened? the body snatchers of sci fi back amongst us maybe?

    wapo:

    “He had a keen mind in terms of the political issues of the time,” Guilfoyle said during a joint interview with Newsom on “Charlie Rose” in 2004, two years before the couple divorced. “I knew that he had the vision, and the discipline, and as it turns out the courage to be in politics and do the right thing.”

    More than 15 years later, speaking to millions of viewers, she suggested her ex-husband’s policies in Sacramento were akin to those being implemented in Havana and Caracas.

  34. Sounds like we made the right decision for ourselves by not watching.  Now tonight…  game 2 of the Bruins vs Lightening.
     
    Go Bruins! 

  36. Wow, that Kenosha cop pulls that trigger very casually.  These extra-judicial killings and maimings are 4th Amendment violations.
     
    Pepper spray is remarkably effective (see its effects in footage of Portland protests), but some(?) of these cops love those pistols.

    (Edit- “Due Process” is 5th Amendment, not 4th. Duh😞)

  39. sturge, better a bra than a thong mask.

    from uk standard story back in february:

    He said: “My wife and I have got a little souvenir shop here and we were searching through some old boxes and we found some of these ‘UK thongs’. We’d forgotten about them really, they are from ages ago.

    “Straight away I said ‘blimey, that’s a mask shape’ and it fit perfectly on my head. We found it funny so I asked my sister to film me doing it and we did this amateurish video and sent it to friends on Whatsapp.

     

    “Low and behold it went mad.”

    In the amusing clip, Mr Watts shows how to wear the thong as a substitute mask by pulling it over his face and tucking the string behind his ears before replacing his hat on his head.

    Talking to the camera, he says the market is “conscious that there is a world shortage of masks due to the coronavirus” and suggests the underwear as a substitute.

    “They are £3.99 for a set of three, we haven’t got many left,” he adds.

  40. Guilfoyle was screaming!  And, she was married to Gavin Newsom??? How could he? They didn’t last like Maitlin &  Carville.
     
    Well, it was a hideous night of gaslighting.  Many of my friends just didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t even watch it. 
     

  41. ANOTHER black man shot in the BACK. It keeps happening. It’s wrong. Ya just can’t go around shooting people!!!

  42. I’ve been reading more and more about how the repupe party is now the Trump Cult. How, why did they let this happen?  Why can’t, don’t they do anything about it?  There’s ALL of them and then there’s just him.   There’s something behind this.
    Next, I’ll read Hoax.  I hear it talks about how FAUX “News” is afraid that the trumpster will get his very own Trump TV and compete with them.  Also, apparently, the talking heads there say he’s crazy and that there’s something wrong with him behind the scenes, out of his ear shot.  So why then do they keep feeding him all the conspiracy theories?  Seems that all of them are complicit in causing the virus spread, undermining democracy & the rule of law while saying he’s a nut case. It’s purposeful.  But why?  WTH’s wrong with all of them?? Maybe Hoax will answer that question.
     

  43. BB

    The hostess for the whole first night of the Democratic Convention was Eva Longoria who very proudly refers to herself as a Texican.  Her family has been in the new world for over 400 years and her part of Texas for 300 as in “we didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us”.  The roll call of the states featured several indigenous, working class, and immigrants of all types.  I’m sure there will be even more outreach as the campaign progresses

    According to research done in 2010 by Harvard professor and Faces of America host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Longoria’s oldest identifiable Spanish immigrant ancestor is her ninth great-grandfather, Lorenzo Suárez de Longoria (b. Oviedo, 1592), who immigrated to the Viceroyalty of New Spain (modern-day Mexico) in 1603. His family was based in a small village called Llongoria, Belmonte de Miranda, Asturias, Spain. Longoria is the Castellanized form of this Asturian-language surname.

    In 1767, her seventh great-grandfather received almost 4,000 acres (16 km2) of land along the Rio Grande in a land grant from King Charles III of Spain. The family retained this land for more than a century. After the US-Mexican border was moved southwards in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War, the land ended up on the American side of the border. Her family had to deal with the influx of United States settlers following the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.[110]

    According to DNA testing, Longoria’s overall genetic ancestry is 70% European, 27% Asian and Indigenous, and 3% African. After a computer compared the DNA results of Gates’s dozen guests, tests showed that she is genetically related to cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who is of Chinese heritage. Since women have two X chromosomes and no Y chromosome, Longoria did not inherit her father’s Y-DNA, but she did inherit her mother’s mitochondrial DNA (genetic information passed from mother to child). Longoria’s mtDNA belongs to the Haplogroup A2, making her a direct descendant of a Native American woman, a Mayan from the territory of Mexico long before it was Mexico. Her ancestors include many other Mayans on both sides of her family.

     

     

  46. couldn’t resist this cartoon…
     
    ps…  bought several his pillows a few yrs ago…  they stink…  they wound up in the dump…
     
     

  47. First night Republican Convention viewership: 15.8 million, per Nielsen early data. That compares to 18.7 million for first night of Democratic convention last week.

    Both are down about 4.5 million from 2016.

  48. Trump Has Now Moved $2.3 Million Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business

    Donald Trump continued to shift money from his donors to his business last month, as his reelection campaign paid his private companies for rent, food, lodging and other expenses, according to a review of the latest Federal Election Commission filings. The richest president in American history, who has yet to donate to his 2020 campaign, has now moved $2.3 million of contributions from other people into his private companies.

  51. They must be saving Harris because she’s part of the narrative of Biden turning everything over to the radical left

  52. Ron DeSantis’ office paid D.C. law firm $250,000 to defend felon voting law

    TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office paid prominent Washington law firm Cooper & Kirk $250,000 to defend the state’s law banning people convicted of felonies from voting before they’ve paid off all court fees, fines and restitution to victims.
    According to the contract released by the governor’s office Monday, DeSantis general counsel Joe Jacquot inked the deal with the firm in November. The $250,000 flat fee covers the firm’s work for a year.
    Last week, the firm’s co-founder, Charles Cooper, represented Florida before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
    Cooper, who represented former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the investigations into Russian election interference, was unusually candid about Florida’s shortcomings during the hearing, telling the judges that “Florida didn’t get its act together as quickly as one would hope” while processing registration forms from applicants with felony convictions.

  53. Haha.   The goobers are passing this pic around entirely overlooking the fact that the man standing behind him is Charlie Manson.

  55. American Airlines just sent a letter to 19,000 employees to let them know they’re gone on Oct 1st.  Those numbers are added to the 23,000 who took early retirement/buyout or who were already furloughed.   Nobody will be able to afford to fly when this is over.  Fewer flights.   That also hurts all of the airline-adjacent businesses.   Y’all let me know if they mention unemployment tonight. 

  58. Prognosis Starbucks Cafe’s Covid Outbreak Spared Employees Who Wore Masks

    Officials assume that most patrons didn’t consistently wear masks as they were drinking and eating while in the Starbucks Corp. outlet in South Korea, according to Gang Young-do, a spokesperson for the Paju government. A ceiling-mounted air-conditioning was helping to cool the second-floor outlet, he said.
    “The virus may spread where people can’t wear masks while eating or drinking tea, as witnessed at the Starbucks in Paju,” Jung Eun-kyeong, head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, told reporters in Seoul on Sunday.

  59. Wow, I just heard news clips of the fear mongering and lying that went on last night.   I will be skipping night two, too, because the Republican/Russian/klan members are just too, too disgusting.   
    They have NOTHING to offer.  NOTHING.  The tRUMPs and all who associate with them are LOSERS.

  62. In Texas, it’s when kids/staff get sick and Gov. Abbott can legally close a school.   Gotta let the horse outta the barn before you close the door down here. 

  63. Bink – elections matter, from dog catcher to school board to county to state, transportation, and everything.  When Dems are running the show, intelligence takes place.  When greedy old perverts are in place ten thousand to one hundred thousand school children are expendable to send parents back to work in offices and factories.

  65. Hoax is wonderful.  Very interesting.  Read by the author. I guess the answer to why Faux keeps feeding mentally ill trumpity lies is  Fear and Greed, of course.

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