Ha!

Here are a couple of the latest Lincoln Project offerings.

Oh, I do love The Lincoln Project videos. :)

I agree, Trump recognizes the Stoners Political Power, but he loves fighting Decriminalization more because it is red meat to throw to his hungry base. Trump doesn't give a shit about illegal drug use - and there is plenty of testimony from credible sources that he self medicates and self recreates with drugs in an illegal manner up to the present. Trump has no problem whatever with being a hypocrite. Most of his base know the "secret" - but they don't care either.

I'm of the opinion that Biden's back porch campaign is focused like a laser upon the issue of Biden's character. All the speakers at the virtual Democratic convention focused on matters of character. So did Biden himself. The Character Offensive seems to be sound. Biden's polling data looks pretty good. I'm not saying he is a shoe-in, but he is definitely the favorite...and Republicans know it.

The best way to lose a battle is to aimlessly attack your opponent everywhere. It just dilutes your resources. Character is Trump's Achilles Heel. Fighting for the legalization of Marijuana can wait. Do Stoners think the chances of drug reform get better if Trump wins another term?

Yes, I know, some Republicans are saying the Marijuana Movement can hurt them. I see that as misinformation - another tactic common to war and politics.

Rant Over! - glad to see you back!

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/08/25/uplifting-could-have-fooled-me/

-CW

a couple more.

Here are a couple of the latest Lincoln Project offerings.

Thanks, Kick. It's funny how our Dear Elizabeth has been all in on Joe the Centrist (for "decades?") and all of the sudden is worried that Joe doesn't sound Progressive enough. You go to the election with the Joe Biden you have, in any case.

She'll be fine. I don't think she's worried about Joe sounding progressive; I think she's concerned that Americans will "buy into" the Trumpian claim that the con artist is some kind of "master of the economy" and that Joe will cede that ridiculous nonsensical argument to Trump. In short, I believe she's concerned that there are a large number of Americans that are stupid enough to buy into that asinine notion and/or that JB will not avail himself of the opportunity to explain the ignorance of it.

She needn't worry because, of course, a large portion of Americans are gullible and have already bought into the asinine notion that Donald Trump cares about them. Did you hear that fear-mongering revisionist history shitshow they put on last night? The "scare a van of 2018" has now become "MS-13 moving next door of 2020," and the GOP is obviously more worried about keeping their gullible base of aggrieved white victims rather than widening their appeal... not a good place to be in.

The only criminals Donald Trump is concerned about are himself and those capable of ratting him out for the crimes they've committed against the United States and the American people. Full stop.

I wish you could understand what I write. :(

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Chris I'd love to get your take on why The Lincoln Project's ads seem so much more effective/impactful than anything else I've seen out there.

And this, Elizabeth, is why you needn't stress over what's said at the Trump National Convention.

The Platform the GOP Is Too Scared to Publish -- What the Republican Party actually stands for, in 13 points

1) The most important mechanism of economic policy—not the only tool, but the most important—is adjusting the burden of taxation on society’s richest citizens. Lower this level, as Republicans did in 2017, and prosperity will follow.

13) Civility and respect are cherished ideals. But in the face of the overwhelming and unfair onslaught against President Donald Trump by the media and the “deep state,” his occasional excesses on Twitter and at his rallies should be understood as pardonable reactions to much more severe misconduct by others.

Yikes! I feel I've just channeled the spirit of the former troll known as Michale.

Of course, mainstream economic Dems will have to admit their own mistakes on the economy, as well ...

Guess who is having the most fun!? :)

Yeah, well, he didn't even do it during his own convention so I don't expect it this week. Heh.

Chill out, it's not even Labour Day, yet! :)

Coffee smells great up here in the mountains. Suggesting that I wake up rather than addressing my points is not becoming, my Dear I respectfully suggest that you do youself a favor and chill out until the GOP Convention is done sucking all of the oxygen out of the media environment, as Joe and his"sharpened attack" won't get a lick of attention in the meantime.

Exactly this. Timing matters. :)

I know Joe Biden.

You keep claiming that, anyway.

But, he will have to sharpen his attack on the Republican cult of economic failure, post haste.

Post haste? Nope. Bad timing. Might as well piss in the wind as to try doing that right now during the Trumpian convention. As I've said in the past, bigly layoffs coming beginning around October 1 in keeping with the terms of the PPP "loans." We should start hearing about and seeing these layoffs coming soon. Then explain how Trump's ignoring and downplaying the coronavirus contributed to the current shitshow and how nothing is going to change until the virus is handled properly... which Trump is incapable of doing. Big economic push then... not before. Timing matters. :)

Of course removing big money from our political process would make it more difficult for the Deathocrats to exploit people using issues like legalizing weed, so who cares if 80% of citizens (including a majority of RepubliCon voters) want the big money out of politics?

Who cares? Your shit doesn't do a thing to remove "the big money" out of the political process... just a whole lot of posturing about doing it on your part because if you were serious about it, you'd have a working website instead of mooching off this one. Lowering individual contributions by ninety-something percent wouldn't do a thing to combat the real big money in our political process that your nonworking website doesn't do a thing to address.

What does it matter if citizens are so desperate for this change that they have responded to small steps like Bernie's campaign as if it were a major step?

What does it matter? You seem desperate. What does Bernie's campaign have to do with small donors only? Absolutely nothing... not a thing.

Who cares if people keep dying while the Deathocrats and Republicons help the big money interests cash in and offer more of the same deceptive exploitation instead of helping citizens?

You obviously don't care enough to fix your website. These deaths are obviously the result of your lazy apathetic ineptitude.

"Up in smoke, that's where I wanna be

Lucky you.

Let's face it. The Deathocrats need to lose their religion. The most popular religion in the world- the worship of money, wealth and power.

All you talk about day in/day out is money, money, and money. In fact, you seem downright obsessed with money... let's do face it.

And like all religions it is NOT a virtue to have faith in the religion because faith by definition is believing something is true without any evidence and even ignoring evidence that it is not true.

Like your obsession.

If choosing between the candidates offered by the big money interests was a good way to operate our country it would have worked by now.

Let's face it: If your shit was worth a shit, it would have worked by now.

Yet the evidence is clear that it has NOT worked in the last several decades culminating in Trump being president and the bungling of the pandemic response.

Obviously this is the fault of Don Harris and his devotion to his obsession with money.

Wake up. Wise up. Rise up.
Get real.

Wake up... and fix your own website.
Wise up... and stop whining about money.
Rise up... and do something besides mooch.

Get real... and stop trolling Chris expecting him to accomplish something for you that you can't and won't do for yourself.

No, Joe is no Clinton. Both of them, especially Hillary, were excoriated by the Repugs for decades. But Joe is no Bernie nor an Elizabeth Warren, and returning America to the normalcy of 40 years of Reaganism doesn't have much appeal to the majority of us that Reaganism has left behind. Obama nibbled at the edges some, but not enough to prevent Trump from successfully appealing to the howels of rage coming out of America. And Joe's incramentalism is his greatest weaknesses in this election.

Kudos for cranking out the content in such volume!

Of course if you can at least summarize your reactions to the GOP Convention we'd love the hear your insights. I'm having the same problem watching it as I do watching Fox News: there's so much that is objectional that I want to throw my shoe through my TV. But, still, it has to be done.

But, he will have to sharpen his attack on the Republican cult of economic failure, post haste.

MtnCaddy, I don't have time for this nonsense.

Beg pardon, but YOU are the one that brought up the nonsense that the Repugs can campaign successfully on our abysmal economy and that the Dems somehow aren't/won't/can't fight back effectively.

Did the troll formerly known as Michale's DNA rub off on you a little? He constantly brought up nonsense Repug talking points/Whataboutism and when refuted simply failed to respond.

Again, the Repugs are speaking to their deluded Faux News/OAN base. There isn't enough there there (in their approach) to convince anyone who could still be remotely considered "undecided" to go with the GOP.

The concept of "swing voter" is a misnomer. Most swing voters in fact lean one way or the other (POLITICO and The Atlantic have examined this in detail - sorry, no links this early in the morning) and the"swing" part refers to whether or not they're motivated to vote at all.

For such a yuge fan of Biden you remind me of, well, Moi and my Bernie Bros: Biden was way down on my list because he wasn't willing to offer America the Progressive economic message and solutions that are absolutely required to undo 40 years of Reaganism. I still think "more of the same" Democratic centrism makes Biden a weaker, not a stronger candidate (see Clinton, Hillary.)

Elizabeth, you got your candidate! So now you're sounding like a disaffected Progressive? Shoulda thought about this before you went all in on Joe, sheesh.

Um,

Good luck with that. But really, how else could the Repugs campaign considering their track record (going back to Reagan, I might add.)

I'm going to go out on a fairly sturdy limb and predict that by the end of the Republican convention, Republicans are going to sound like they are the masters of a booming economy.

Hope I'm wrong about that last bit ...

Um, do you think that Repug economic rhetoric that flies in the face of reality is going to put the Democrats in any kind of political jeopardy? Really?

Chill out Sister. For some unfathomable reason Trump and the Repugs have never never NEVER attempted to reach out beyond their poor, deluded base. Their convention rhetoric is not aimed at the real world -- check out WaPo's fact checking of this first night's speeches. It's aimed at the Fox News/OAN viewers who won't abandon Trump no matter what!

It need not be taken seriously.

I'd love it if you "asked for a friend" after checking out the song. The link is White Bird.

BTW, congrats on scoring one of their CDs. Enjoy!

Long ago, in another life, I had a cabin up at GVL. Loved it. Far enough from the lake to be away from mosquitoes, but close enough to walk on down any old time. One of my favorite mental pictures from those days is my big old black lab walking across the middle of the picture window on a 3' base of snow. My favorite sound was the wind in the trees (pre-bark beetle days). So many birds. Beautiful.

A native Angeleno, I moved up to Sonoma County last year in time for last year's fires. The recurrent fires weren't on the disclosure forms.

My recent power outage was courtesy of the dry lightning storm that caused the LNU Complex fires. Though smoke is definitely getting in my eyes, I know I am extremely fortunate; this weekend's forecast dry lightning storm did not materialize here.

Stay safe yourself.

Today's one of those days when I had a subject already in mind for a column, but then read a few other columns that essentially already said what I was going to say (and in at least one case, said it much better than I could have).

One Damn Man is BACK and still prepared to beg, whine, and troll until a column is devoted to the wonderfulness of its product:

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Light up. Bake up. Eat up.

GET WEED.

Fortunately, a second subject also popped up while reading the news today. So what I'm going to do is provide a few longish excerpts from the articles I read on the first subject at the end of this column, as a sort of "imagine the column Chris would have written" mental exercise (I even had a theme song in mind...), complete with the links to the original articles.

Okay... well, that's all great and everything, but One Damn Man demanded an article about its product (see above) on August 15, nine days ago:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/08/14/friday-talking-points-the-mail-is-in-check/#comment-167575

It is your responsibility and all that etcetera... in triplicate... with liberty and justice for all.

Instead, I'm going to write about weed.

One Damn Man has been patiently waiting for nine whole days for this! What took you so damn long!? ;)

And, Democrats wont know how to fight back.

Hope I'm wrong about that last bit ...

Well, I suppose that I could ask them about White Bird ... you know, for a friend. Can you supply the chord info?

You live up there in Santa Clara County? That's three of us representing the Left Coast here in Weigantia.

I live in Green Valley Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. It's the highest elevation town in all of California that has more than 30 full timers. In fact, we have roughly 350 full timers, although an influx of Flatlanders who are presumably dodging Covid has swelled our population up to double or triple that.

Two Saturdays ago we had four lightening strike fires here locally. The FD and a grip of water choppers made short work if them. Nothing like a lake from which to snag a quick 20,000 gallons of water.

Stay safe, Brother. Or Sister, as the case may be.

Would you believe that when I let StringKatz know I saw them on the Gowan virtual concert and wished to purchase their CDs, and after a friendly chat with one of them, she offered to send my a CD! They really are the best! Can hardly wait 'til it arrives!

I shall go have a look at your post.

Be well.

That is, I stick to it until September getting into October. At that point I "come around" on the subject, thereby boosting interest and younger voter turnout.

Biden is a bleeping idiot if he doesn't do some version of the above.

I don't think that's how it's going to happen. It'll happen when the Dem gerontocracy doesn't wake up. They can't live forever and their reefer madness will go to the grave with them.