Robinson v. Stein offers a stark contrast North Carolina Executive Mansion. Joe Biden’s sharpest barb at the White House Correspondents’ dinner was about him running against a six year old. “Of course, age is an issue. I’m a grown man, and I’m running against a six-year-old,” President Biden jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “Age is the only thing we have in common…My vice president actually endorses me.” — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 28, 2024 The Guardian this morning uses a few more words for characterizing the “former factory worker” who rose from obscurity to s ..read more

View of the Earth from the Moon, December 1968 Look at the powerful people Stealing the sun from the day Wish I could do something about it When all I can do is pray – from “Powerful People” by Gino Vannelli If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster. Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky. A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans – Hopi Prophecies sung in the soundtrack of the film Koyannasqatsi In case you missed it, Earth Day (this past Monday) and Arbor Day (thi ..read more

Is Taylor Swift a psy-op? .@Donie asks a Trump supporter: "You don't believe Taylor Swift is a government psyop?" Hear his response pic.twitter.com/yQxvmWqmkV — Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) April 27, 2024 Sigh… I’m sure that these are decent people in many ways. I have people in my family who are good people in their personal lives but their politics are dangerous and frankly, evil. I can’t get through to them, no matter what tack I take and I’ve tried different approaches for many years. In the old days we could all just agree not to talk politics. Today there’s no avoiding it. It ..read more

Lara Trump: When Donald Trump visits a bodega, that’s not manufactured. Whenever he visits a Chick-fil-A, not manufactured pic.twitter.com/GI9DgCHjMb — Acyn (@Acyn) April 27, 2024 Actually, no. That’s a lie: I knew it! Trump’s Chick-fil-A stop was a staged photo op with Black Republican supporters. Michaelah Montgomery, the Black woman who told Trump that “we support you,” actually runs a conservative group and worked with Candace Owens’s Blexit Foundation. pic.twitter.com/IvQlb200T6 — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 12, 2024 Also a lie: Trump’s Media Spectacle Bodega Visit Organized ..read more

A little bit of hope: Rosenberg says this about the swing states which are still showing Trump ahead: Here’s what I am seeing in the battlegrounds – MI, PA, WI are our best states right now, and in the 538 averages they are close and competitive. There are polls in each of these three states showing us ahead in recent weeks. Winning these three gets us to 269 Electoral College votes. As I wrote on Tuesday I am very optimistic that the extremism of the GOP in AZ and NC is giving us real opportunities in both states to win and make serious down-ballot gains. Nevada is always close, and we hav ..read more

Tom posted one short CNN video of Bill Barr’s utter pusillanimity earlier but I wanted to show the whole interview so you could get the full picture of a typical establishment, Fox News brain-rotted Republican’s worldview. It will shock you: Some excerpts from the transcript: BILL BARR: So it’s not about me. I think that, that I’ve said this all along. If faced with a choice between two people, neither of which I think should be president, I feel it’s my duty to pick the person who I think would do the least damage to the country. And I think Trump would do less damage than Biden. And I thin ..read more

The Trump campaign inexplicably decided to put Trump on TV IN the greater Philadelphia area to say this: Trump: We terminated Roe v. Wade. It’s really working out well for people. And they’re very, very happy pic.twitter.com/6xH6SzhLUE — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 23, 2024 It looks like that’s what he’s going with. Everyone’s thrilled with the repeal of Roe v Wade because that’s what the whole country always wanted. This is the most clear cut example of “you can believe me or you can believe your lying eyes” since the Big Lie. He’s obviously decided that this is going to be his line ..read more

A “reign” of morons is the collective noun Charlie Pierce was right. In his usual understated way. Lest you think the Republican rot started with Donald Trump, as early as 2013, Charlie Pierce attributed the spreading madness (mockingly) to prion disease. Even then, Pierce suggested Republicans ate the monkey brains back during the Reagan administration: The Reign of Morons Is Here OCTOBER 04, 2013, 5:00am By Charles Pierce, Esquire Only the truly child-like can have expected anything else. In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the histor ..read more

You gotta laugh to keep from crying The country’s taking crazy pills. Back in table-waiting days when the evening’s business and customers got weird, we’d run out the back door to check the night sky. What was it? The full moon? I did the same online this morning (the sun is up). The full moon was the 23rd. Maybe that’s when these bits that popped up first thing were crafted. People need to let off steam. Just been sent this pic.twitter.com/lZnw45YxUd — GriffNAFO9O9 (@kurgan3909) April 26, 2024 Bette Midler’s on the job. Trump is shilling something else to pay his ever growing legal fees ..read more

As of April 26, 2024 Donald Trump hasn’t stopped violating his Judge Merchan gag order. Until the punishments are strong enough to make him stop, we need to take steps to stop and punish his followers, who make threats on his behalf. Marcy Wheeler was on the Nicole Sandler show last week talking about Donald Trump’s systematic threatening of his critics and how normalized political violence is for anybody who comes up against Donald Trump. I’ve written about, and asked a lot of questions about, how threats online and social media have an impact and what can be done about them. It was great to ..read more