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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Like other progressives, I was very happy when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortz won the Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat from New York City (The Bronx). I think she’s going to make a great representative.

What I am not so happy about is what she has been saying in her trips around the country and on TV. She has been saying a couple of things that simply are not true. She says unemployment is low because “everyone has two jobs”, and because people are people are “working 60, 70, 80 hours a week”.

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From The Onion:

BERKELEY, CA—Challenging long-held views on the origins of divinity, biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, presented findings Thursday that confirm God, the Almighty Creator of the Universe, evolved from an ancient chimpanzee deity.

The recently discovered sacred ancestor, a divine chimp species scientists have named Pan sanctorum, reportedly gave rise over millions of years to the Lord Our God, Maker of Heaven and Earth.

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From Michael John Scott at MadMikesAmerica:

It’s a wild idea, but one Joe Hill, the nom de plume of Stephen King’s son, just can’t shake since seeing Jaws on the big screen in 2015.

“What if the young murder victim no one has ever been able to identify has been seen by hundreds of millions of people in a beloved summer classic?”

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Political experts have trouble understanding our President’s actions, not because of the complexity of his behavior, but because of its simplicity. There is not an ounce of nuance within him. His path is always the shortest distance between one point.

Continue reading “My President’s Bully Pulpit”

• This week’s note in Trumpian “Alternative Facts” comes from Slate as Donald Trump’s lawyer explains why it has suddenly become necessary to declare his previous story inoperative: facts develop. Well, yeah, that’s one way to put it.
   
• At The Onion, defense officials listen in silence as Mike Pence outlines plans for an angel-guided weapons system. Sometimes satire is too close.
   
• MadMikesAmerica details the small, petty ways White House staff members are trying to keep Jeff Sessions out of Donald Trump’s line of sight. Such are the ways of this madcap administration.
   
• M. Bouffant at Web of Evil brings a few links to a neo-nazi candidate for mayor of a town in California. Seems his platform includes the establishment of a regional capital for like-minded volk.
   
• Green Eagle has one partial explanation for the rise of strange conspiracy theory cult Q Anon.
   
• Frances Langum watches as Chris Cuomo explains it to Laura Ingraham. If you don’t like immigration, you really don’t like America. If you hate immigration and its impact on America, your best bet is to seek another country.
   
• driftglass reacts as a noted columnist resurrects Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate that both sides were responsible for the Civil War.
   
• Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara explains that anyone concerned with the environment is militantly anti-human.
   
• Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson hawks a right-wing study that “reveals” increased spending on education will not result in increased education. Only charter schools and vouchers will work.
   
• Sometimes those in chronic pain have thoughts of suicide. In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce deals with the awkward comments of those who want to help.
   
• Infidel753 has random observations on religion, science, technology, and science. You don’t have to agree to be enlightened. Thoughtful.
   

 
Performed by John Fugelsang:

Transcribed for those too impatient for actual performance:

It’s a beautiful day on my legal team,
a big league rate job for a lawyer.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

I lost Cohen, Dowd, and Cobb in a matter of weeks,
hired a guy named Flood to help stop the leaks.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?

I’ve always wanted to have a lawyer just like you
Rudy’s afraid I’ll perjure myself or worse:
Say something true.

I may have colluded and broke campaign laws.
I even crapped on the Emoluments Clause
Won’t you please,
Won’t you please,
Please won’t you be my lawyer

Speaking:

Hello, lawyer, I’m so happy to see you.
Can you shut these bitches up
about an affair I had 10 years ago?
And take my sneakers.
I don’t want to change these myself.

 

 
From Earth-Bound Misfit:

This country is defined by our liberties, freedoms and civil rights. Without those, we are nothing more than a collection of assholes with the military and economic power to back up our assholishness. In effect, we’d be no different from being a more powerful variant of Putin’s Russia.

That Trump’s base would be so willing to trash our constitutional if Trump said so suggests that to them, the Constitution is a meaningless piece of paper.

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From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Ohio’s House District 12 is still too close for most news agencies to call (thanks to outstanding provisional ballots), but the Republican candidate (who leads by less than one percentage point) looks to be the likely winner. Regardless of which candidate wins, the same two candidates will face off again in November.

Many Democrats had their heart set on winning that race, and the loss was disappointing. But they should also be encouraged by the result. They came within 1 point of taking a district that was rated a +14 for Republicans — and which Trump had carried by 11 points in 2016.

It continues a trend that has happened since 2016 that has Democrats cutting sharply into Republican advantages. That is illustrated in the chart above (from fivethirtyeight.com). It shows that in the races so far, Democrats have seen a shift of between 3 and 23 points in their favorite. The average shift toward Democrats is 16 points.

The Democrats currently have 193 seats in the House of Representatives. They would need 218 seats to take over the House — an increase of 25 seats. Can it be done?

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From The Borowitz Report:

Harland Dorrinson, a spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party, told reporters on Wednesday that if the G.O.P. ekes out a win, it will have been worth all of the Russian currency the Party threw at the race.

“You can talk ground game all you want, but, at the end of the day, you can’t buy TV and radio ads without rubles,” he said.

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From Tommy Christopher:

Trump ‘loves’ this anti-union law, but voters didn’t.

Trump won the state of Missouri by almost 20 points in 2016, but this week voters in that state rejected an anti-union law that Trump championed, and they did so by a crushing margin.

On Tuesday, a referendum on a so-called “Right to Work” law in Missouri was defeated by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.

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