THE PERSON who MAKES the FIRST COMMENT WILL GET TWO CRITTERS
EVERY PERSON WHO COMMENTS WILL GET A CRITTER
RULES IN THE DIARY
WHEN YOU FIND SOMETHING in the DIARY that you LIKE
YOU CAN REPOST IT AS COMMENT in the DIARY
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Take Heart.
If you never thought you'd see the day when a Cheney supported a Democrat for President, that day is today.
The coalitions for democracy are growing. The fight against fascism is transcending hard party lines.
Donald Trump divided America beyond recognition over the past 8 years.
America will reunite despite his best efforts to keep us fractured.
We were never just a building he could lay siege to...or a document he could threaten to suspend.
We are an idea. An idea that has withstood the test of time for almost two and a half centuries.
An idea that overcame the odds and toppled a tyrannical occupation. An idea that fought for freedom here and abroad for over a century.
An idea rooted in rule of law and equal opportunity.
An idea that will withstand the likes of Donald Trump.
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Jack Smith has evidence that Trump knew about the “Red Mirage”, and told close advisors he would exploit that to simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted.
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Woo Hoo! I think this is big.
On December 9th 2020, Trump filed a brief in support of Texas’ election lawsuit against Pennsylvania, declaring he was filing in his “private capacity as candidate for president,” which proves his state pressure campaign isn’t immune from prosecution.
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"TRUMP RETURNS TO THE SCENE OF THE ALLEGED CRIME--Prosecutors include Trump's 40 attacks on Governor Kemp in filing arguing he's not immune" might be a good headline for Trump's GA visit today.
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Dammit.
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan has agreed to let Trump file his response to Smith's big immunity filing after the election. Trump had asked for late November, but Chutkan split the difference and gave him until Nov. 7.
Could be the day the race is called, if it's close.
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This is Ripon, Wisconsin right now. The population of Ripon is 7,772 & the line to see Kamala Harris & Liz Cheney stretches for BLOCKS. We are building the broadest coalition in presidential politics history. This is absolutely amazing.
Click the xit to see for yourself.
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Wow. Deafening chants of, “THANK YOU, LIZ” erupted when Liz Cheney just took the stage in Ripon, Wisconsin. Let’s all thank Liz Cheney for putting her country above her party. She is a hero. Thank you, Liz Cheney, on behalf of all of us.
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Liz Cheney: "Our institutions also held because of Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to violate his oath to the Constitution, and that is why Mike Pence is not Donald Trump's running mate today. Instead, JD Vance is on the ticket."
"Vance has said repeatedly that he would have done what Donald Trump wanted, that he would have rejected electoral votes, he would have thrown out the votes of the people of Wisconsin because he didn't like the way that you voted. That is tyranny and that is disqualifying."
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Holy cr@p. From today.
WOW. This is the the line to see VP Kamala Harris in Flint, Michigan right now — & there are still 4 hours to go before VP Harris is set to speak. A gigantic crowd of fired up Michigan voters for Kamala Harris. Truly jaw-dropping & amazing.
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Meanwhile,
This is absolutely devastating for Trump. The Washington Post just released a report on why people leave Trump’s rallies early. This woman left early and attending Trump’s rally convinced her to vote for Kamala Harris:
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Rick ain't wrong.
You can taste the disappointment in MAGA world that the dockworkers strike is over.
As always, they were rooting for the American economy to fail .
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But I was told we lived in an economic hellscape where the living envy the dead.
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"This report is basically abating concerns that the labor market is deteriorating!" -- It's time for my favorite Friday tradition: Maria Bartiromo and company cope with yet another strong Biden jobs report
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Click the xit to watch.
Holy cow. Mark Cuban, once again, just appeared on a podcast listened to by primarily men & set the record straight about how it was actually Donald Trump who causes the cost of gas to increase with facts & logic. Mark Cuban is so freaking good at this.
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Huh. Cue Gomer Pyle.
Top Execs Exit Trump Media Amid Allegations of CEO’s Mismanagement and Retaliation. www.propublica.org/…
Former President Donald Trump’s media company has forced out executives in recent days after internal allegations that its CEO, former Rep. Devin Nunes, is mismanaging the company, according to interviews and records of communications among former employees.
Several people involved with Trump Media believe the ousters are retaliation following what they describe as an anonymous “whistleblower” complaint regarding Nunes that went to the company’s board of directors.
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Jeebus Forking Christmas.
Trump Bibles only ones in the world to meet new criteria for purchase by Oklahoma schools. www.rawstory.com/…
Oklahoma is accepting bids to supply its Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles, but vendors can only find two versions that meet all the statutory requirements – and both of them happen to be endorsed by Donald Trump.
The bid documents
show that Bibles must be the King James version, contain both the Old and New Testaments, be bound in leather or leather-like material, and include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but vendors are suspicious of the requirements,
reported The Oklahoman.
“It appears to me that this bid is anything but competitive,” said Drew Edmondson, a Democrat who served as the state attorney general from 1995 to 2011. “It adds to the basic specification other requirements that have nothing to do with the text. The special binding and inclusion of government documents will exclude almost all bidders. If the bid specs exclude most bidders unnecessarily, I could consider that a violation.”
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This woman (not Molly) is an idiot.
I would not have believed this if I hadn’t seen it myself
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So is this guy.
Senator, I don't want to get caught up on facts, but the share of American-born folks in their prime working years who have jobs is higher than at any point during the Trump administration, and indeed, it's the highest it's ever been since the BLS started publishing these numbers
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Kamala Harris's economy has been an unmitigated disaster for American citizens. This is what happens when you bring in 20M+ low-wage workers through the wide open southern border.The American people get screwed while Kamala's corporate benefactors enjoy unlimited cheap labor.
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Click the xit to see who's been naughty...
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David Nir on downballot races to watch. www.publicnotice.co/…
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The good piece of news is that Democrats are flush with cash,” he said. “They’ve been outraising Republicans at every level in every way — candidates, Super PACs, and so forth. What that means is that Democrats can probably afford to take another gamble on Texas and Florida without shortchanging any other races.”
I even got Nir to weigh in on the tight presidential race — a discussion he joked felt a bit like “betraying the mission of The Downballot.”
A transcript of our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows.
Click the link to read the whole interview.
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President Obama just cut a new ad for Elissa Slotkin's Michigan Senate campaign. It's his first Senate ad this cycle. The ad is called 'Make You Proud'.
Click the xit to watch.
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Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Smile Day!
Happy National Golf Lovers Day!
Happy World College Radio Day! This brings back memories!
Happy National Manufacturing Day!
Happy National Cinnamon Bun Day!
AND, Happy National Vodka Day!
Tomorrow is National Apple Betty Day.
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