MC Fresh Breath

If you like that, you might enjoy this book: Warning: It will change your relationship with places such as this:

lame sauce

further and further into third world country status.

But people have been saying this literally for decades. They all were essentially hollering down a well. They did not have large, influential media companies behind them. Their political allies were at best timid and at worst absent. For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report detailing a resurgence of radicalization in the American military. The entire commingled Republican political and media, led by then-Speaker John Boehner, a reputed “moderate,” lit themselves on fire. The outcry, stoked (as always) by lies and deliberate misrepresentation, caused DHS to run and hide. It withdrew the report. You will note that I did not use the word “forced.” The DHS was not “forced” to do anything, any more than the Clinton administration was “forced” to abandon Lani Guinier. In 2009, the DHS was going to be in Democrats' hands for at least three more years. The department could’ve told Boehner to pound sand and stood by the report. In the real world, political outrage is not “force.” It only has the power that tepid resistance gives to it. Which brings us to this weekend. Paul Pelosi gets attacked with a hammer during a home invasion and as a temporary proxy for his wife, who is the second in line for the presidency. We had Republican influencers babbling about gay trysts gone wrong, and idiot candidates trying to link the attack to their current bogus spin about a national crime wave. And this is the reaction, on national teevee, of the national chairwoman of the Republican Party. From the Washington Post: I just can’t anymore. These people are simply lost and mad. Their political party is simply lost and mad. Their political movement is simply lost and mad. Their candidates are simply lost and mad. We are on the very brink of handing the country over to the lost and the mad. The prion disease has jumped from one subject population to the general public, and in too many ways, it is creating its own reality in the national mind. We are all lost and mad. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41819935/republican-extremism/?src=socialflowTW

Pretty wild that somehow the conversations have already moved on beyond a failed political assasination.

not worried if you do or don't. they were equivalent level posts in terms of substance.

Sorry to upset you with my subtle, nuanced, grandpa troll.

well you could always just kill yourself.

ah man. but we'll always have this:

Midterm elections outlook darkens for Biden's White House https://www.reuters.com/world/us/midterm-elections-outlook-darkens-bidens-white-house-2022-10-25/

Pretty sure we're going to need a plain ol "expatriates" thread in a few years. Every time I check on the SC, I'm reminded that there is no real state in the US you can run to. Given I can't leave for at least 6, I'm wondering what language I should start to learn. Or if New Zealand will let me in at age 60ish.

Cue a lecture from Roberts on how the SC is legitimate. Thomas never should have been on this court in the first place. Thanks, Monsanto.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/young-healthy-people-may-not-need-bivalent-boosters-offit-155018744.html This is from September. My understanding is this dude is legit. Curious @Anastasisas to what your take is on the bivalent boosters outside of high risk groups.

Nike co-founder Phil Knight says he would do anything to take Oregon’s governorship out of Democratic hands https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-co-founder-phil-knight-says-he-would-do-anything-to-block-the-democrats-in-the-oregon-governors-race-11665995971?siteid=yhoof2 Just a billionarie doing billionaire things.

Tina Kotek, Christine Drazan neck-and-neck in race for governor, new poll finds; support for Betsy Johnson waning https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/10/tina-kotek-christine-drazan-neck-in-neck-in-race-for-governor-new-poll-finds-support-for-betsy-johnson-waning.html Not a real large scale poll there.

Not your fault, but that was pretty wishful thinking.

Thanks for the non-NYT link. For whatever reason I don't seem to get around the NYT's paywall these days. I'm glad to see some comeuppance for Mr. Jones. But its always tempered by the pictures of those poor famlies. Guts me to think about their loss(es) and the compounding of those losses by all the shit piled on them from Mr. Jones and his followers.

My apologies for not being clear in my attempt to whine. Is he really "about to be indicted" was what I was trying to ask. So why hasn't he been indicted by now for just that alone? Not holding my breath.

Is he, though?

Why Republicans Could Win Oregon's Governorship For The First Time In 40 Years Goddammit. The R candidate is full Q-Anon too.

It isn’t just Beto/Abbott. There are other gubernatorial races where the difference stances are being called out. I think the timing and the intentional forcing of “take a public stance on this issue” was a deft move. Opposition to the drug wars as a an issue alone crosses party lines with the voters, no matter what the politicians say.

The bit about Governors was well timed

Speaking of GOP. Not one R would ever do what Biden just did today. If only red state voters weren't for cutting their own throats so much.

Read the whole thing. I'm a bit choked up. What a historical moment.

To nobody's surprise: Walker’s Christian fans unfazed by abortion revelations