The Yippies (the Youth International Party) held a massive march on the Pentagon in the 1960s, with the stated goal being to encircle the building and levitate it.

No lie. Look it up!

:-)

-CW

* Will extend the deadline for accepting mail ballots
* Will allow voters to submit their ballots through drop boxes
* Will remove the Green Party's candidate for president from the ballot

PA Supreme Court Decision 09/17/2020

Mail ballots will now be accepted in PA if they are received by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday after the election and were either postmarked by Nov. 3 or there is no evidence to suggest they were sent after Election Day.

Trump had planned to sabotage the USPS mail delivery and also filed a lawsuit in federal court to simultaneously keep the State of PA from instituting their own ballot drop boxes to therefore compensate the (planned) slowed mail service -- drop boxes that multiple other states have had for years -- thus and thereby attempting to disenfranchise thousands upon thousands of voters in Pennsylvania. The PA Supreme Court has very different ideas.

Republicans, of course, aren't done trying to disenfranchise voters in multiple states including Pennsylvania... so stay tuned.

Tonight at 8pm eastern watch a live stream concert in support of Crew Nation, featuring artists from various bands including Tommy Shaw from Styx! You just have to create an account and donate whatever you wish ...

https://www.youtube.com/user/livenation?fbclid=IwAR0clAEcId5RD0aIQ7_47iGpmpZhOtEn2-vUZip97qyxazZid2GobJ7QVyE

When we were in a task force meeting, the President said "maybe this COVID thing is a good thing, I don't like shaking hands with people, I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people." Those disgusting people are the same people that he claims to care about. These are the people still going to his rallies today, who have complete faith in who he is.

~ Olivia Troye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0j6adNroo4&feature=youtu.be

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Sounds like her experience working with Trump matches Bob Woodward's observations and the myriad of taped quotes of others from "inside the house"... including Trump's words to Woodward.

How are things looking in Texas-23? Gimme some good news.

Good news: Another big chunk of Texas is still likely to flip Blue. :)

We know this because in 2018, the progressive group Rural Organizing surveyed 820 rural Americans to test the power of the following message: “Instead of delivering for working people, politicians hand kickbacks to their donors who send jobs overseas. Then they turn around and blame new immigrants or people of color, to divide and distract us from the real source of our problems.”

Note the three elements: 1) Americans of all races need good-paying jobs; 2) politicians have let the donor class gut Americans’ standard of living; 3) then they try to deflect the blame onto immigrants or people of color. In the survey, three-quarters of rural respondents agreed with this message, which appealed not just to liberal voters (who made up only 23 percent of the respondents), but also to the 42 percent who were conservatives and the 26 percent who were moderates.

I hope Joe's Debate Prep Team is coaching Joe on how to get under our Whiner-in-Chief's skin. If Trump loses it he'll still get his 40-ish percent base but it could help the undecided voter.

D'yall remember the Impeachment? Before Covid and our economic crash one poll had 50% support for both Trump's Impeachment AND removal.

It's Joe's election to lose, Elizabeth!

How are things looking in Texas-23? Gimme some good news.

Good, but what about this one?

#TrumpKnew and he did nothing.

I gave you ONE JOB.

;) *grin*

"is "The" your first name?"

For the purposes of this comments section, yes. For purposes of Voter Registration, No.

What were you thinking Kick? - now the North Koreans know where the building is. The Pentagon will have to be moved. If you think DC area traffic is bad now, wait until the Amish lift it off the foundations and onto several thousand carefully positioned flat bed trucks.

Heh.

Easy...easy...little to the left.

The DC area couldn't be much more left than it already is. ;)

Oh, look! The John M's are ganging up on andygaus. Let's get 'em andy. I'll hold John M while you take John M. ;)

The thing that boggles my mind and that the majority of the rest of us are so exhausted from, is that they make up an astonishing 45 percent of the electorate.

Forty-five percent! They wish, John M! :)

And Don the Con.

And 9/11, in case I didn't post it from 6 days ago.

THAT is Trump making it clear that he recognizes the danger to people’s health that attending his rallies pose!

Yep.

Why else would he require them to sign waivers that they won’t hold him responsible if they get infected at the rally!?!?

So Trump won't get sued for wrongful death by their families if any of them die from attending a Trump superspreader rally.

I can't wait to hear about the secret Obamacare replacement plan at the "debate"!

Heh. I know, right, JFC!? "Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated."

Yet so easy!:

"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do," Trump promised in a July 19 interview with Fox News.

After two months, Trump teased the plan again in the town hall. It matches his criteria of being closer to the election and certainly more than two weeks after his July promise. McEnany confirmed the White House's proposed law is ready to go, but she told reporters that Americans and the press aren't allowed to see it. It's unclear why the plan is a secret since the president talked about it for so long. Still, McEnany didn't clarify why the plan will remain a secret.

"I'm not going to give you a readout of what our health care plan looks like and who's working on it. if you want to know, come work here at the White House," McEnany told CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

https://www.salon.com/2020/09/16/kayleigh-mcenany-reveals-theres-finally-a-trump-healthcare-plan--but-the-details-are-secret_partner/

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The Trump propaganda machine doesn't even bother to come up with a new tactic to present to their gullible cult followers because they clearly believe them stupid enough to fall for this same bullshit over and over... and that's because a whole bunch of them obviously are that gobsmacking gullible and spectacularly stupid.

Exactly this. They are behind, CW, and people are voting now in North Carolina and begin voting tomorrow in Minnesota, with Michigan and Pennsylvania beginning to vote in days.

In other interesting news: The Michigan State Senate has agreed that clerks can begin preparing the absentee ballots for counting a day early.

Good points, Stig. Um, is "The" your first name?

But, no Hillary (who, if you think about it, was as "deplorable" to Repug voters as so many Trumpanzies are to us Democrats.) And Russia/China/North Korea/Iran/Saudi Arabia are "on the radar screen." Plus no Comey. Plus, 200,000 dead Americans and another Great Depression/Recession. Still...

Trump's supporters WANT four more years of increasing fascism (authoritarianism is too nice a word)...directed at somebody else. Trump's hope is to maximize the turnout among his base, and decrease the turnout of everybody else. Given the Electoral College, and enough state government dirty tricks - and just maybe an upturn in COVID to keep voters at home, Trump could win himself a second term. Some see the debates as debates, Trump sees them as just another political rally. It's not a great strategy, but it's good enough to work if random events go his way. It worked 4 years ago.

I have an idea:

* Jason Miller is the Trump campaign's "Chief Strategist."

* George Stephanopoulos and Jason Miller are friendly (not to be confused with being friends).

* Despite the campaign rhetoric, they know they are behind.

What were you thinking Kick? - now the North Koreans know where the building is. The Pentagon will have to be moved. If you think DC area traffic is bad now, wait until the Amish lift it off the foundations and onto several thousand carefully positioned flat bed trucks. Easy...easy...little to the left.

So maybe that will have some impact in the debates - with "at least some people" who still have open minds on this question. Thanks.

Trump answered that HE was not worried because the stage was so far away from the crowd that he should be safe, but remained silent on whether he was worried that the crowd were being put at risk by attending his rally.

THAT is Trump making it clear that he recognizes the danger to people’s health that attending his rallies pose!. Why else would he require them to sign waivers that they won’t hold him responsible if they get infected at the rally!?!?

I'll go ahead and say the same thing about the debates with Biden, before they even happen: nothing that Biden or Trump says will change a significant number of minds among the electorate. It's nice to advise Biden that this or that tactic, informed by this Town Hall, will send an effective message to the voters.

But it's not going to be about Biden, no matter what he says to fact-check, shame, or expose the president. This president's style and rhetoric is burned into us by now, like a third-degree scar. Most people hate it and wish for the pain to end; a large minority continue to say, as always, "but on me, it looks good!"

Well, how about that!!! :)