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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-miles-davis-was-what-i-needed-to-write-this-shit

And let's just say this so we are clear.

Fuck the incumbents.

Jim McLaughlin, doing his level best to find the sunny side for the GOP, argued Republicans can still ride out the storm by drawing contrasts on "banning transgender athletes from women's sports."

There it is. There's the whole goddamn strategy in one clause. The house is on fire — gas prices underwater, Trump's approval on handling the economy at a limp 31 percent, his gas-price number at a wretched 23 in mid-June Fox polling — and the big plan, the war room's best idea, is to point at some trans fifteen-year-old on a track in Ohio and holler hey, look over there. That is not a policy. That is a broke-ass magician who's out of tricks, sweating through his tux, waving the same tired scarf for the ninth time and praying to Christ you don't notice both hands are empty and always were. It has worked before, God help us. And they are betting the entire midterm it works again, because they have got not one other thing in the bag — not a single solitary idea for the price of your insulin, your rent, the eggs, the heat that just cooked two hundred million people while these clowns workshopped bathroom bills.

Judy Sherwood's avatar

It is beyond amazing how obsessed the R's are with whatever's going on in other peoples' underpants. What a bunch of sexual perverts.

Tess's avatar

Well said Wendy!

Margaret Reis's avatar

Wish I could, but with Fetterman and McCormac it is a lost cause!

Cheryl Johnson's avatar

I've got Tillis and Budd and I still call and send letters!

Scott Dworkin's avatar

Scott Dworkin

3d

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Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j

Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j

Jane's avatar

You make it so easy to participate in these letter writing campaigns! Thank you!

Ms Jonington's avatar

You know what gets me?

The moment Molly Hardy said “It didn’t feel good. It just felt really sad.” That’s the quiet truth behind every chainsaw stunt and every headline they tried to bury. The damage wasn’t permanent, the grift wasn’t invisible, and the people they underestimated are the ones turning the tide. Thanks for being here to help carry the receipts.

Sam Jones's avatar

This week showed exactly why staying in the room after the cameras leave matters. The numbers didn’t match the noise, the receipts didn’t match the spin, and one worker’s answer said more about this regime than any press conference ever could.

Diana Williams's avatar

$3.7 billion in federal money flowed to companies tied to Trump’s sons. If a Democratic president’s grown children pulled this, what would Fox be calling it right now?

FOX would be calling the first family, the CRIME FAMILY! The fleecing of Americans by the CRIME FAMILY!

Julian di Ciurcio's avatar

Well, maybe FOX isn't calling the Trumps THE CRIME FAMILY....most of the remainder of the world certainly is!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaagh!!!!!!! WE HAVE GOT TO RID OURSELVES OF THIS SICK, DEMENTED PRESIDENTIAL FAMILY/REGEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Douglas John Gillert's avatar

I am a news media veteran and a strong advocate for the free press. But it is the press that too often keeps Trump's name front and center in nearly every "news" report they air. This is so even of MsNow, of which I am an avid viewer. At some point, the new media has to start tellling the whole story or too many Americans won't grasp what truly is going on. You will find it difficult to find coverage of other world events as long as Trump gets all the attention. Perhaps if we didn't water the flower so much, it would wilt and die.

Diana Williams's avatar

I Too was a news junky until the I could tell the media was all breathlessly talking about trump and bashing President Biden. The news media is what got the idiot re-elected! Most of our media is run by the billionaires so this is the only place we can get real news! Or you may try PBS or BBC.

Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

And The Guardian. You get better news from Al Jazeera! There’s plenty of good news to read but what bothers me is most people still rely on broadcast and cable news. Rather than reading. So they don’t really know what they’re missing. It used to be we could rely on those sources but not anymore.

Brenda Doherty's avatar

Scott, the MAGAs howled about Hunter Biden’s business dealings, but are silent about the Trump sons’ grifting.

robin gray's avatar

Thank you for all...!

I have an unrelated question: I never hear anyone speak to the fact that Trump himself benefitted from BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP! His father was from Germany his mother I think from Ireland and ONLY because of our laws was he born a citizen!!! I would like to hear something about that ... thanks again for all you do!!

Claudia Landivar Cody's avatar

I believe his grandfather was German and his mother was from Scotland. But yes. His first wife was Czech (?) and Melania is Slovenian.

But of course we know that Trump’s stunted emotional state doesn’t recognize any humanity outside of himself. Not the world population, not his children. His capacity is only for momentary recognition of whoever is fueling his greed (and then just as a vehicle for the hit of money, power…), or whoever is providing emotional sustenance of flattery.

Renee Goodman's avatar

robin, you are absolutely correct!

Lisa's avatar

Trump is losing the support of his own people now. His departure time is approaching and knows it ... but, despite using his old play book of Lie, Deny & Repeat," it is NOT working this time around because you can't convince people that they are doing better when our paychecks don't go as far as they used to at the grocery store, gas pumps, energy bills, etc. Even the uneducated notices when their limited dollars doesn't buy them as much anymore. Trump is screwed now for screwing the working class who fuel our economy. Vote BLUE /Democrat up and down your ballot in every state in the critical Nov 3rd midterm election. 🗳💙🇺🇸

Tess's avatar

This should be news everywhere! Thanks for all your work Scott!

Allen Schulz's avatar

We’ve only been irretrievably broken since 2016, when McConnel purposely started the process of making the courts, and especially SCOTUS so broken they all remain on life support to this day. If voters return the government to people who will reform, and overturn what has happened in the last decade, there is a slim hope to fix what has been shattered.

Kay-El's avatar

Shrinkage is depreciation and loss of value. That’s what DOGE did.

Linda Orlick's avatar

How much longer does our country have to witness this corruption before its finally stopped even before the midterms. Hes laughing in our faces!!! Whats the strategy? THIS ADMINISTRATION IN FULL MUST BE STOPPED ASAP!!!!!!

Marc's avatar

Faux News is more hypocritical than The Orange Lard Ass!

Judy Sherwood's avatar

They are all cut from the same cloth.

Teri Gelini's avatar

The corruption of the r drumpf bits is a full circle contract for drones with the DOD and it is for I think 10 years. Denver Riggleman has all the info in that