Friday, November 01, 2024
Elon Won't Last 3 Days
A "funny" thing about the Trump/Elon love affair is that if Trump wins, Trump will dump him in about 3 days. OK not much would be funny about a Trump win, so let us imagine the few things that could be.
Home Stretch
I have contrarian and probably incorrect views about the rise of voting-not-on-election-day. Getting an absentee ballot should be an easy no excuse needed kind of thing, but it isn't clear to me that we have made things simpler instead of introducing complications into what should be an incredibly easy and straightforward system. Because this is America!
Things are different everywhere, which is part of the problem!
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sanctity
I don't know if women keeping their vote secret from their husbands is a big thing, but to the extent that it is, guys like Watters are the reason.
Lock Him Up!
Only thing to do!
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Elon Musk did not show up at a Pennsylvania court hearing on Thursday to consider his $1 million giveaway to voters ahead of the Nov. 5election, which could put him at risk of being held in contempt of court.
Effective Canvassers
Aside from the "Christ, what an asshole" issue, imagine thinking this was an effective way to get people to do this job.
In Michigan, canvassers and paid door knockers for the former president, contracted by a firm associated with America PAC, have been subjected to poor working conditions: A number of them have been driven around in the back of a seatless U-Haul van, according to video obtained by WIRED, and threatened that their lodging at a local motel wouldn’t be paid for if they didn’t meet canvassing quotas. One door knocker alleges that they didn’t even know they were signing up for anything having to do with Musk or Trump.
All The Worst People In The World
Observing how horrible the inner circle of MAGA is - and hardcore Trumpers generally - I regularly think about how this is all they know. They are all horrible people surrounded by the worst people in the world and they have no idea that not everybody is that horrible.
An internal whistleblower complaint at Trump Media calls for CEO Devin Nunes to be fired, alleging he has “severely” mismanaged the company and opened it to “substantial risk of legal action” from regulators, according to a copy reviewed by ProPublica.Corruption and spite all the time. Nothing else.
The letter also says that former President Donald Trump’s company is hiring “America Last” — alleging that Nunes imposed a directive to hire only foreign contractors at the expense of “American workers who are deeply committed to our mission.”
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The Moral High Ground
Losing it on everything, including that "rule of law" thing.
The Biden administration has received nearly 500 reports alleging Israel used U.S.-supplied weapons for attacks that caused unnecessary harm to civilians in the Gaza Strip, but it has failed to comply with its own policies requiring swift investigations of such claims, according to people familiar with the matter.Can't expect people to make the case for their own prosecution in the war crimes trial!
Just Calling Balls And Strikes, Nina
Speaking of ruthlessness...
There has to be some plan other than "win elections, always, everywhere" because they're making that harder to do!
Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to move forward with its removal of roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election.Kudos to CBS for being very clear here.
The high court granted a request from state officials to pause a lower court order that blocked Virginia from continuing its systematic voter removal program that was launched in August, exactly 90 days before Election Day. A provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete programs aimed at purging ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before federal elections.
There has to be some plan other than "win elections, always, everywhere" because they're making that harder to do!
Ruthlessness As A Superpower
As I age, I grow filled with rather banal observations about how the world works, and one is that a little bit of a problem with our imaginary "meritocracy" is that a willingness to fuck people over confers a nontrivial advantage to people.
That's a skill, of sorts, but perhaps not one The Market should be rewarding. More than that, it's the kind of thing which undermines the the holy market itself.
That's a skill, of sorts, but perhaps not one The Market should be rewarding. More than that, it's the kind of thing which undermines the the holy market itself.
I Wish The Democrats Had An Enemies LIst
Not really, but I do think the Democrats could use a little bit of that LBJ spirit. They should play a bit of hardball sometimes, at least, and not just against Rashida Tlaib.
Abortion Is Health Care
Not that I needed to be convinced, but I did come to understand just how fucked up health care would be if abortion was illegal when observing that Mrs. A had to get a pregnancy test practically every time she walked through the doctor's office door, just in case something might nudge an unknown embryo.
There is no way for abortion to be illegal and for HYSTERICAL PRO-ABORTION EXTREMISTS to be incorrect about the fact that the "life" of a fetus - even a nonviable one - will take precedent over the life of the mother.
There is no way for abortion to be illegal and for HYSTERICAL PRO-ABORTION EXTREMISTS to be incorrect about the fact that the "life" of a fetus - even a nonviable one - will take precedent over the life of the mother.
The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica.
But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”
For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.
Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.
WHO RUNS THE SPOTLIGHT, MOTHERFUCKER???
A "funny" thing about political coverage is that the reporters are aware of the ridiculous game, but can't help being players anyway (because they want to be).
You don't have to privilege lies and liars.
But regardless of his intent, Mr. Biden’s words sparked backlash against his party and effectively moved the spotlight — at least temporarily — away from Vice President Kamala Harris on the evening in which she delivered the closing argument of her campaign.You don't have to put nonsense into print just because conservatives are telling you to! The spotlight is you!!!
You don't have to privilege lies and liars.
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