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From Infidel753:

“…you don’t have to look too hard to find voices on social media urging you to abandon the Democratic Party for various perceived heresies. Telling you to stay home, or to throw your vote away on a useless wad of cud like Jill Stein. These voices elected Trump once, and they’re hellbent on doing it again. I know y’all know that already, I just don’t want you to be shy in calling ’em out. There’s too much at stake.” — Shower Cap’s Blog

Look, I get it. Especially at times like this, when several Senate Democrats just broke ranks to help confirm Gina “Ve haff vays of making you tock” Haspel. Being up for re-election in a red state is no excuse; appeasing Trumpanzees doesn’t work, and you can’t out-Republican the real Republican in the race.

But as bad as some Democrats are, would you rather have Republicans in those seats?

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From Helen Philpot, writing for Margaret and Helen:

Margaret, I grew up on a farm in Georgia. We had more guns than silverware. To this day, I still have a gun in my house. By all means, if it helps to keep children from being murdered, come and take it. Unlike that Dana Loesch, I don’t need it that badly. Bless her heart, when you spew that much hate, I guess you go through life thinking everyone wants to do you harm. She really should try adding a little color to her wardrobe. And maybe smile more… or at least once.

We’ve talked about it long enough. We need to do something about America’s gun problem. But if we leave it up to those asshats at the Capitol, we’ll be building schools with one door where students are allowed to wear only a leotard while carrying their books in a clear ziplock baggie.

Making it all about a mental health crisis sounds reasonable… until you realize that mental health isn’t exclusive to the United States and statistically speaking doesn’t correspond with our proportionally higher rate of gun violence nor does it specifically apply on a case by case basis. Ouch. That hurt my head a little bit to think through. Maybe that’s why NRA Neanderthals settle for low hanging fruit like too many doors and trench coats.

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From Dave Dubya:

The polluter-friendly fascists are not satisfied censoring climate data. They are not satisfied having polluters dictate environmental policy.

They are going full “Lügenpresse” on our First Amendment, having a thug physically evict an AP reporter from a public meeting on water contaminants.

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From Glenn R. Geist at MadMikesAmerica:

“Mad World, Mad Kings…”

Thus begins Shakespeare’s King John, about the king of England, forced to grant a bit of access to justice, amongst other things, to the Barons he controlled. The Church opposed it of course, which lends more of the appearance of similarity to our times when our three branches of government seem to be three branches of Donald Trump and the Evangelical Churches and our institutions seem impotent.

Witch hunt. It’s the meme he wears like some hollow crown.

The term has always been used negatively in modern times as though the conclusion will always be that there are no witches, but of course, it’s a metaphor. If what you’re hunting for is something that’s being revealed everywhere in large quantity in your own words and the hunt is prompted by a large body of evidence and attested to by witnesses, the only reason for trying to make it seem a hunt for something imaginary is the guilt of the perpetrator.

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From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:

Choose Life Wisconsin announced this week that eight of Wisconsin’s Pregnancy Resource Centers will benefit from grants from the proceeds of Wisconsinites purchasing the “Choose Life” license plates when they register their vehicles.

“This is what we started dreaming about ten years ago when we began working to make a Choose Life license plate a reality in Wisconsin,” said Julaine Appling, president of Choose Life Wisconsin. “Our only goal from the very beginning was being able to get money to Wisconsin’s awesome pregnancy resource centers for their life-saving, woman-helping work. This week that part of the dream becomes reality.”

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From driftglass:

You know, call me crazy, but it’s almost like “independent” is nothing but a hollow, meaningless political slogan and that the people who suit up under those colors are mostly whiners, grifters, or frantic to avoid being held responsible for their shitty behavior.

And I would write a long post examining this all in greater detail…

…if I hadn’t already written a long post examining this all in greater detail nine years ago.

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From Andy Borowitz:

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he is “a-hundred-per-cent positive” that an F.B.I. informant infiltrated his 2016 campaign but that he has “absolutely no idea” who that mole might be.

“I’ve been trying to figure out who would have the opportunity and the motive to do something like this,” he said. “But I keep coming up empty.”

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From Anything Political:

“I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” Trump wrote.

Trump was known for his regular tweets, many of them being controversial. It was evident that Trump was possibly searching for a way to avoid an interview with Robert Mueller and bring the probe to a close.

Trump tweeted “Things are really getting ridiculous. The Failing and Crooked (but not as Crooked as Hillary Clinton) @nytimes has done a long & boring story indicating that the World’s most expensive Witch Hunt has found nothing on Russia & me so now they are looking at the rest of the World!”

Analysts indicated that Trump made false accusation in many of his tweets. It was clear there were persons on his side and others against him.

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From PZ Myers:

How can you blame both sides when one side is being gunned down by snipers, and the other is armed, at best, with rocks? When one side is killing children?

But Bari Weiss managed to top it. How horrible that the Palestinian people planned their protest strategically? Why didn’t they schedule it for a day when it wouldn’t make Ivanka Trump look bad?

Talk about missing the whole point…it reminds me of the furious complaints when Black Lives Matter protests inconvenience people. How dare they march where people would notice! Couldn’t they just march down streets in the middle of nowhere that weren’t full of busy white people trying to get to a football game?

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From nojo at Stinque:

What’s it like knowing that more people have died this year in school shootings than serving in the military?

In 1974, at age fifteen, we were already plenty cynical — by nature, and because of the times. But we were lucky: Nothing new about crooked politicians, nothing personal about diminishing resources. Nobody was trying to kill us, and nobody would have complained if action was contemplated to prevent it. The NRA as we know it today had yet to corrupt our leaders and our values.

We didn’t grow up with a target on our back. Today’s kids do. And they know it. And they know nothing will be done to stop it.

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