Left Coast

I don’t think both OSU and IU get into the playoff, especially if OSU beats IU. I don’t think IU will be in the playoff without at least one top 25 win. If IU beats OSU then OSU will need to start sweating. And Penn St is such a fucking fraud.

Yeah these uni’s are pretty sweet. too bad Garbers keeps gifting Iowa the ball.

Nailed it.

Did anyone else read this in Leslie Jordan’s voice?

The NY Times Magazine today had a very interesting (and lengthy) story about a Russian officer and how he deserted the Russian military. Lots of interesting insights into the corruption of the military, how Russians think, and the just abject suckage of everything on the Russian side of the “Special Military Operation”. If you have 30+ minutes it’s extremely insightful into how fucked up Russia is. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/20/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-deserter.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240922&instance_id=134963&nl=the-morning&regi_id=126775420&segment_id=178500&te=1&user_id=ef676bb5d96b21e35fc214ee034066fa

Don’t forget Oregon, they always seem to be in the mix.

7 weeks before the election and this guy is golfing? Such a lazy motherfucker…

Trump is losing by 25 (?) points in California right now. Honestly the smarter move for Garvey right now is to not get the Trump “endorsement”. (Regardless he’s still going to lose bigly)

I love the idea of people in Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri or other shithole MAGA states “worried” that they’ll become California if Kamala is elected. And of course the moron does it while standing on a bluff overlooking the Pacific instead of in front of Skid Row or some other “California is going to hell” photo op. Just the dumbest people.

Meh, that was in 2016 when probably a lot of people thought Trump was an outsider who “told it like it is”. She’s not MAGA.

That song you mention (Any Man of Mine) is Shania Twain, for whom I had a super gay crush on in the 90s, mostly for the “That Don’t Impress Me Much” video since she was an absolute diva. She’s Canadian and most definitely not MAGA.

And LSU still ahead of USC… er ok.

“Lightning”

I bet Elmo takes up the mantle. He seems like he’d want to be a dictator. (Of course, not for president since he’s ineligible thank God.. But for sure as MAGA puppet master.)

Spotted on the freeway today. Trump’s disdain of the military seems to have been noticed by many members of that group.

Is publicizing that an effort to get Russian civilians to flee Crimea in advance of the bridge going boom?

The internet would melt down (and so would MAGA).

Don’t forget:

It’s only 87 miles from the DNC and in a battleground state. I think it’s great, and shows the campaign isn’t taking anything for granted. They are out there doing the work every waking second (unlike Sleepy Trump’s campaign).

Example #5,673,967 of Republicans trying to disenfranchise voters: Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Block 40,000 Arizonans from Voting in November https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-08-19/republicans-urge-supreme-court-to-block-40-000-arizonans-from-voting-for-president-in-november WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in an Arizona election dispute this week and block up to 40,000 of the state’s registered voters from casting ballots in the presidential race. Republican state lawmakers say these voters did not provide proof of their citizenship when they were registered and now they should be barred from from voting in person or by mail. ADVERTISEMENT Although Congress made it easier for Americans to register to vote, those federal rules cannot override “the Arizona Legislature’s sovereign authority to determine the qualifications of voters and structure participation in its elections,” they said in an emergency appealfiled Aug. 9. The fast-track appeal may signal whether the conservative court is ready to intervene in partisan election disputes. The Arizona Republicans asked for a decision by Thursday because counties will soon begin to print ballots. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the appeal should be rejected. “There is no evidence of fraud and undocumented voting. The 2024 election is weeks away and acting now to restrict the voting rights of a large group of Arizona’s voters is undemocratic,” he said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT Many of the affected voters are “service members, students and Native Americans who did not have birth certificates while registering,” Fontes added.

Not that this is a surprise but the latest Berkeley Institute/LA Times poll came out for California. Harris 59% Trump 34% Margin is +7% over where Biden was earlier this year. Huge gains among the young, Black, Latino and independent voters. What bodes well in other states: The Berkeley poll delivered another piece of good news for Democrats — showing that people who don’t belong to a political party and those who describe themselves as moderates favor Harris at significantly higher levels than they did Biden. Moderates in California said they would pick the Democratic nominee by 59% to 31% over Trump. That puts Harris 12 percentage points ahead of where Biden stood in February, the poll found. And among nonpartisan voters, the poll showed a stout advantage for Harris, with 62% of California independents saying they support the vice president, a 17-point improvement over Biden’s standing in February. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-14/poll-harris-and-walz-build-huge-lead-among-likely-california-voters