1/ Zak Cheney-Rice with a chilling story....
In February 2012, a few days before the Nevada caucuses, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president and most Republicans didn’t care. A Pew survey at the time found that a Trump endorsement would make “no difference” to 64 percent of definite and likely GOP voters, according to CNN, while 20 percent said it would make them less likely to support Romney and only 13 percent said it would make them more likely.
2/ Bill Maher with one of his better ones - why Democrats lose, a must watch....eight minutes of tough love.....
3/ Jordan Klepper from the Daily Show went to the "Million MAGA March", and talked to a few of the morons who attended.....
Six painfully funny minutes...
4/ This writer can't forgive Trump voters....ever...
5/ What a charmer....love this one....
6/ With the election and Covid stories dominating the news you probably don't know Europe is having an economic meltdown.....
Benjamin Studebaker with the story...
As the figures for the third quarter come in, I am growing very worried about the future of Europe. Coronavirus has unleashed a disaster there that is hard to comprehend. The numbers are extraordinarily terrible. Let me show you what I mean.
7/ James Corden rewrites headlines for Fox news.....funny, 2 minutes...
8/ The media and Trump....pretending everything's normal...
9/ I am putting this guys excellent rant in in its entirety, as it's an expression of exasperation with the Democratic party that should be listened to.....
We're in an endless loop. The left keeps depending on the system, and the right rigs the system and then the left is positively STUNNED when things don't work out its way. Were there any consequences for DeJoy slowing down the mail? Of course not, he just stonewalled, and ignored the government and judicial orders. He said removing sorting machines was de rigueur and there was no way to reinsert them and...HE GOT AWAY WITH IT! Yes folks, in plain sight Trump and his cronies put their finger on the scale with absolutely no consequences.
And then there was the voter suppression. Been happening for years. Trump even says if everybody votes Republicans can't win. When are the Democrats and the media going to take what Trump says on face value? He only changes his take if it's to his advantage, and it's not to his advantage to leave office.
Sure, he may concede, or at least agree to go, even as I write this, but I wouldn't bet on it. Meanwhile, with the support of his party apparatchiks Trump has succeeded in undermining the legitimacy of the election in the minds of 40% of the electorate, so even if Biden takes office, expect pushback, expect very little to get done.
Meanwhile, sorting the smoldering ashes all the Democrats can do is lament they didn't move even FURTHER to the center. Yes, the reason people voted for Trump was the protests and "Defund the Police" and if we just shut up and obeyed orders and played the game properly, we'd win. That hasn't worked for DECADES, if ever!
Meanwhile, AOC goes on record the DNC lives in the last century, focusing on TV and the mail as opposed to Facebook, and she's excoriated by the same gang who keeps on losing, putting a stake in the heart of the Democratic Party, if not ultimately democracy itself. If things are going in the wrong direction, if you're losing market share, that's when you take big risks, that's when you throw the long ball. You don't get customers back by polishing up the old crap, you give them something new. We've seen this movie over and over again in tech, even sports are run on data, even GOLF, but when it comes to politics we must trust the old "experts," as if the game never changes and they can't possibly be wrong.
If you can find someone who is excited about Biden, you've found someone who is happy their nest egg will be protected. I've yet to find a single voter excited about Biden. Oh, they voted for him, anybody but Trump, but when you serve up a milquetoast like this and you expect people to follow you...
God, kids could not steal music, they needed to be told it was wrong and sued into submission. Did that work? NO! MySpace was huge, Friendster started the social network phenomenon, but did that keep them alive when a better mousetrap, i.e. Facebook, came along? Of course not. And Zuckerberg was smart enough to buy WhatsApp and Instagram to protect his mindshare, those in government woke up YEARS later! As for the public? It doesn't care that Zuck owns and controls them all, it doesn't even really care that's it's coughing up its privacy, the truth is the public hates to pay and that's why Zuck proffers ads, and when Apple tries to hamper targeting, Zuck and the rest of the advertisers blow back and Apple postpones implementation. Do you know what I'm talking about? If not, maybe like AOC says you need to go online and follow the news, where it's going. Yes, we're never going back. As for Trump's administration, there was almost no going back, even coal didn't come back. DeVos emphasized private schools, the rich and powerful were taxed less and were unfettered and...
We are never going back. Hell, Joe Biden talked about bringing manufacturing back to America, HUH? You wanna pay 6k for a computer, or 3k for a flat screen, do you know anything about global economics? But if you speak the truth you're seen as a joke, like Andrew Yang, or you're just too dangerous, like Bernie Sanders, and then there's Elizabeth Warren who blinked and lost all credibility, oh, she's still pontificating, but it's meaningless, everyone knows her backbone is flexible, if not nonexistent.
So, like a typical autocrat, Trump is on a disinformation campaign. His babes go on Bill Maher and even Fox and spew ridiculousness but he keeps on winning for himself. Pompeo talks about another Trump term and everybody laughs, huh?
Come on, rule of law, what did the police ever do for you? They won't even come to a car accident anymore, and when you call for help they usually say there's nothing they can do. But somehow the police keep being lauded, just like the military. Come on, the fighters are pawns who've been sent overseas by Bush and Cheney and why don't we stop lauding those at the bottom and stop the bleeding by holding those at the top accountable?
Wall Street skates after ruining the economy twelve years ago and what's the solution? GIVE THEM MORE MONEY! The news is littered with fat cats who gamed the system to get money from the government this spring, meanwhile, the hoi polloi, out of work, about to get kicked out of their dwellings, are getting no relief. McConnell says no relief before the election, which is still in play according to the Trumpians.
And, like an autocratic country, Republican elected officials are afraid of getting on the wrong side of Trump. Oh, we read in the left wing press, the same one that trumpeted inaccurate polls, that once Trump was defeated everybody would come back to their senses. HASN'T HAPPENED YET! And it's not about to happen, because Trumpism is working for their constituents, as in they all voted for Trump and more, who wants to offend these people? And all the DNC will tell us is we must appease the Trumpers... That didn't work and it will never work. You've got to start a fire on your side that draws people to you, you don't hobble your message to try and be accepted by the other side.
So, we keep on getting all this analysis. About lawsuits re the count. Oh, that's another thing, you're laughing that in some states Trump and his cronies want all the votes counted and in others they want votes excluded. Up is down and down is up and truth doesn't matter, they just play with impunity. Meanwhile, the Fox opinion-mongers, like Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson, just double down, they haven't accepted Biden, they've just riled up the right saying the election was rigged. But they're even better than that, they take the left's motto and remake it for themselves. They just want "every vote counted." Just like Trump embraced the concept of "fake news." These people are geniuses at marketing, and the DNC is run by wimps, who don't know how to fight. You OWN your edges, that's the rule of all art. Stop apologizing, the right never does, and embrace all the crap the right gives you crap for. As for political correctness and trigger warnings, et al, you know you're in trouble when many members of your own party wince and don't agree. Come on, we're allowed to offend some in the pursuit of not only the greater good, but the right good. You can't keep everybody happy, no way, that's why people hate politicians, they pander. Meanwhile, Trump constantly offends and he's winning, his minions see him as a tough guy who will fight for them. As for Joe Biden...
But Kamala Harris is VP, WHOOP-DE-DOO! Unless the Democrats win both Senate seats in Georgia, absolutely nothing will be accomplished in D.C. Oh yes, Biden has his executive orders, as for bipartisanship...the right hasn't wanted it for thirty years, why should they want it now?
So you thought the game was over. The media waited FIVE DAYS to give Biden the election, you were dancing in the street, meanwhile, Trump keeps saying he won and Covid-19 is raging and it's the same as it ever was.
But when they go low, we go high. HUH? Dirty for dirty is what Joni Mitchell sang, turns out she knows more than everybody in the DNC.
The right is not going to take Biden's election lying down. No way. They don't accept it in PRINCIPLE! Hell, their behavior is bad and they constantly get away with it, try to run a Biden bus off the highway and your party CONGRATULATES YOU, CHEERS YOU ON! Meanwhile, all we've got on the left is infighting.
They took to the streets in Belarus. But in America? WE'VE GOT TRUMPERS TAKING TO THE STREET! What is it gonna take to get Americans motivated, to show Trump and his cronies that they're not playing fair, not according to the rules, and Trump should concede?
Trump breaks the law in plain sight in Ukraine, but he's not convicted. What makes you so sure the RNC and its elected officials are gonna tell Trump to fly straight?
For a second there we thought it would be like Watergate, the Republican brass would go to the White House and tell Trump he's cooked, he's got to go, instead they keep adding gasoline to Trump's bonfire.
As for information... Zuck placated the right, but not well enough, and now they're going to Parler. Furthermore, Zuck was gonna encrypt communication, make discussions private on Facebook and now...IT CAN'T POLICE DISINFORMATION! Once again, the mad scientist has created something that's come out of the lab and infected the populace. Zuckerberg is just as complicit in wrecking this country as Covid-19. But the stock market keeps putting billions in his pocket, and money is everything.
NO, HEARTS AND MINDS ARE EVERYTHING!
The Black Lives Matters protesters had it right, they were mad as hell and weren't going to take it anymore. That's what we need now, spontaneous demonstrations that evidence our power to Trump! Oh, you're afraid, he controls the military, it'll just add fuel to the fire. But are you winning? No, you keep depending on the system to make things right, but that hasn't happened in four years, why should it happen now?
Yes the U.S. is not that different from Belarus. And most people are on the Democrats' side. They demonstrated against involvement in Vietnam, Johnson declined to run for re-election, but we must lay down in the face of Trump, our worst nightmare, a threat to democracy itself, who has packed all the courts, including the Supreme, with his lackeys, oftentimes unqualified. So they lied. THEY'VE BEEN LYING FOR YEARS!
And forget the false equivalency. Blame the media for this. Afraid of expressing an opinion, all media, print and broadcast should lead with this story each and every day, TRUMP MUST GO! We must evidence our power, we must bring this to a head, otherwise we're playing Trump's game, and he keeps on winning.
And if you think even if Biden gets in office it's going to solve all our problems, wait for 2022, never mind 2024. Zuck realized mobile was key and redesigned his entire platform for handsets almost overnight. Meanwhile, the Democrats are still using faxes and BlackBerrys, or their equivalent.
Innovation. Disruption. Trump won on those theories. He disrupted politics, own it, admit it. Why can't we do this on the left?
BECAUSE WE'RE PUSSIES!
P.S. I'm not supposed to use that word. And I know it. I could change it, but that's what's wrong with the left, it's so busy trying to comfort everybody that its ultimate message has no edge and doesn't resonate. They swear all over TV, and Arsenio Hall labeled computers porn machines over two decades ago, but those in charge keep talking about parental controls when you can Google porn and every kid knows how to get what they want online. It's a new day. We are never going back to normalcy, our only hope is to create a new paradigm that works not only for the left, but ultimately everybody. THINK ABOUT IT!
10/ This is a unique look at the Trump cult, and why 70 million of your fellow citizens voted for him....it's a form of mental illness.
Very interesting article....
11/ An extraordinary story - an ER nurse says some patients deny the existence of Covid, while they lay dying from it....
12/ We were lucky we got Trump - the next authoritarian who gets elected might be just as nasty, but competent which will
mean really bad things will happen....
Now that Joe Biden has won the presidency, we can expect debates over whether Donald Trump was an aberration (“not who we are!”) or another instantiation of America’s pathologies and sins. One can reasonably make a case for his deep-rootedness in American traditions, while also noticing the anomalies: the early-morning tweeting, the fondness for mixing personal and government business, the obsession with ratings befitting a reality-TV star—the one job he was good at.
From an international perspective, though, Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world:
13/ Tom Tomorrow in a parallel universe....
14/ If you ever needed a reason to keep wearing a mask, this is it...
15/ "Autotune the News" with a mishmash of songs about Trump, featuring some strange people - Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Rudy Guiliani
and more....2 fun and weird minutes with a catchy song.......
16/ Matt Taibbi with his controversial comments on the election....he wonders if the Republicans are now the working class party...
In an irony he is humorously ill-equipped to appreciate, Donald Trump by losing this week may have gained something for the Republican Party bureaucracy he took such pleasure in humiliating four years ago: a future.
Defying years of muddle-headed media analyses, Trump underperformed with white men, but made gains with every other demographic. Some 26 percent of his votes came from nonwhite Americans, the highest percentage for a Republican since 1960.
17/ Who's the victim?
18/ Is Florida now a red state? It will be unless Florida Democrats get smarter....
They don’t understand that Florida, north of I-4, is basically Alabama with more guns. They take for granted that Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties are going to win the election for them.”
Rick Wilson, media strategist, talking about the Democratic Party in Florida
19/ New York Magazine rates the best war movies...
The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made
A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema.
Today's collection of fascinating photos....
Today's cat people joke...
I'm not sure who wrote this but it is funny and I'm sure some of people can relate to it!
HOW TO GIVE YOUR CAT A PILL:
1) Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
2) Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in
left arm and repeat process.
3) Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.
4) Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear
paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.
5) Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.
6) Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.
7) Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap.
Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.
8) Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill inside end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.
9) Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.
10) Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door onto neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.
11) Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink. apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw Tee shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12) Call fire brigade to retrieve the f------ cat from tree across
the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil-wrap.
13) Tie the little b**tard's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of steak filet. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.
14) Consume remainder of Scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the
emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and remove pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.
15) Arrange for RSPCA to collect "mutant cat from hell" and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.
HOW TO GIVE A DOG A PILL:
Today's philosophical jokes....
1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.
6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.
10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"
11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east."
19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.
Which one is YOUR favorite?
