Wow, MAGAs will turn on their own to defend Israel, but won’t go after pedophiles in their ranks.

I think people are so fired up to vote, that even the Democrats won’t be able to screw it up.

a club that’s “really run out of energy . . .I don’t know if the branding is outright negative,” Thiel told the outlet, “but it feels way less important for people to join.”

That’s fine, we’ll just take it all, whether you like it or not. If it comes to that, it probably won’t be a pleasant experience for you, and you will most certainly wish you had been more generous up front.

he has the vp of the US in his pocket

On a leash.

I don’t want a pony. I wouldn’t mind a small dog or sweet kitty.

Yep, when the House and Senate flips in the Midterms, the new Congress will no longer be business as usual. They will get with the program, or they will suffer the consequences right along with the rest of the MAGAs. There are already a few who will have to answer for their incompetence, like the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries.

I recently discovered Johnny Guitar (1954), starring Sterling Hayden, Joan Crawford, and Mercedes McCambridge, and directed by Nicholas Ray. Cinephiles know it and love it, but the general public has never heard of it.

It features a vicious, deadly rivalry between two Wild West female entrepreneurs, who are in a land dispute. Besides featuring two strong female leads, it is beautifully shot. We often froze the video, just to admire the framing, or the way the ensemble was posed, like a baroque painting.

The court at The Hague was created precisely for guys like them.

Eventually we’ll get his second term declared invalid, and roll back all of his EOs, legislation, etc., including pardons. Those people will be expected to return to prison to serve out their sentences, or they’ll be declared fugitives, and an additional 10 years added to their sentence, no matter what the original sentence was.

Now that I’m older, all that conversation serves me well, because I always have an anecdote about nearly anything, even if it’s not mine. I don’t take credit, I always say, I once met a guy who…

Not long ago, someone was amazed that I actually had something to contribute to some obscure subject, and somebody else said, “Oh, yeah, that’s Barney. He’s got a story for everything.”

“How’s your monster doing, Dr. Frankenstein?”

Literally every single person in that administration is a Sociopath, and they just don’t care about other people, at all, so it NEVER occurred to any of them to give a single advance thought about any Americans who might be over there.

He can’t suspend elections, they are managed by the states. He has no say over it. And with over 400 Congressional races, he can’t rig that many local elections. So they are coming up with pre-, during, and post-election cheating strategies.

Before the election, they are trying to get their hands on the state voting infrastructure, for some reason. They raided the Georgia election offices, but I’m not sure what they can accomplish with it. They have some sort of plan, because they are also trying to get their hands on the same materials from other states as well. They may have a plan, but they are virtuosically incompetent, so there is about a 70% chance that it will fail miserably.

Another pre-election strategy is to purge the voter rolls on advance. This was first used by Jeb Bush before the 2000 election, and was very effective in suppressing Democratic votes, so it has become SOP for the GOP ever since. All voters, but especially those in Red states, should know when their registration period ends, and make sure they are still registered to vote before the deadline. They are also trying to ban mail in ballots, which is really stupid, since mail-ins tend to favor the Right.

Also closing polling places in busy areas, while having lots of polling places in rural areas, and restricting early voting.

For the During Election strategies, we’ve been hearing of plans to send ICE to the polls, where they have no jurisdiction or duties (there won’t be any illegals at the polls, they can’t vote), to intimidate people.

Post-election, we can expect them to try to raid certain state election offices before the count is finished, in order to confiscate the voting materials, and do their OWN vote count. They can’t be allowed to do that under ANY circumstances. Governors have to be prepared to send the National Guard, and the State Patrol to guard their Election Offices, and if any MAGAs show up to steal the ballots, and they DON’T have a signed warrant…SHOOT THEM, like they should have done to the DOGE Goons when they tries to get past the lobbies in those Federal agencies. If they claim there is a “DoJ Policy” that legally allows it, that’s a lie, and not how the law works, so if they try to push beyond that without a warrant, they are trespassing on State property, it should be considered terrorism, and they should be dealt with decisively.

I’ve always worked in retail and sales, and have even owned retail shops, so I long ago got comfortable with chatting with strangers.

I once went to a big dinner party with a couple of friends, where none of us knew anyone else at the party.

We sat together, but I barely said a word to my friends. I spent most of my time speaking with people I didn’t already know. As we were walking home, one of my friends asked “How do you do that? Just talk to people like that?”

I hadn’t really thought of it before, but all I do is Be Honest. If I know about a subject, I will say it, and even debate it if I have to. But more importantly, if I DON’T know about a subject, I don’t pretend to know stuff, and try to fake it. That only makes you look like a doofus. There is no shame in admitting you don’t know much about something, but you are curious, and then ask questions, and then follow up questions, so they see that you are really trying to understand, and you are counting on them to teach you. People really appreciate that attitude, especially when it’s genuine.

Even more importantly, I try to avoid subjects I already know about, and can expound upon at length, and try to learn about something new. Someone has an interesting job that I’ve never experienced? Let’s learn about that.

It’s especially effective if I’ve done both - asked questions about things I don’t know about, while also speaking definitively about things I do know about. Then people realize that you are smart, but also a genuinely curious person, who isn’t just trying to look important by being a phony.

Don’t be like my dummy uncle, who always has to prove to everybody that he knows more about their job than they do, no matter how educated and experienced they are, and always invents some story where he saved the day, or told off someone in authority. {sigh}

Nat Geo was literally the best publication on the planet for over a century. Then Fox bought it, and now every other issue has a Biblical cover. Another case of MAGA destroying anything good in the world.

My brother was always super shy, so I grew up around it, and know how to a handle it. I’ve always recognized the shy person, and made sure to speak with them, ask their opinion, etc. They have plenty to say, it just makes them uncomfortable, so they generally appreciate it when someone else makes the approach, and doesn’t make any issue out of their shyness.

I am sick of foreigners prodding us to revolt, simply for their sick entertainment, as if a Civil War in America wouldn’t make life miserable in every other country in the world. We still a have the Constitution and a few legal strategies left, including the Midterms, and the 2028 Presidential Election.

What happens in the future depends primarily on the outcomes of those elections, and if MAGA defies the results of those elections, then we’ll start to moving toward revolt.

But right now, it is far too early. We still have legal, Constitutional steps to take first.

I would definitely not be happy if Newsome was the Dem nominee. He’s less of a Democrat than the Clintons. He was once married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, before she became Don Jrs concubine, so that should tell you all you need to know about all of them.

But if Newsome was the nominee, and my only other choice was a MAGA, then I’d vote for Newsome, only because even he would be miles better than ANY MAGA.

I don’t ask you to lead the revolution but when the time comes will you fall in line or will you fight against your fellow workers?

I’m not sure what you mean by this, but I don’t have an issue with my fellow workers, unless they are unapologetic MAGAs. I would never turn on my fellow workers. We need to stand in solidarity against the slave-owners.

Lose how? It’s not they’ll ever conquer him, back in America, and he’ll never surrender on his own. He will spend 10x more lives and money than it requires to keep saving face, to eventually be driven from office, so the next guy can see reason, and end it.

But even if that happens, the damage is already done. Iran’s new Supreme Leader got the job when a bomb killed not only his father, but also his mother, wife, and daughter. What are the chances that he will negotiate in good faith vs swear to spend the rest of his life getting revenge?

JFC, HE CHEATED! Everybody knows it! He won EVERY swing states? That’s was pretty much a statistical impossibility. They made no secret of it, both Trump and Musk both said many times that they intended to steal it.

All they had to do was flip one vote in seven states. That’s how we ended up with MILLIONS of straight Democratic ballots, with Trump at the top. MILLIONS OF THEM! Who does that? Who votes that way? Have you ever met a person who voted straight Democratic, except for Trump? I’ve never met one, and I’ve never seen one on TV. That’s because they don’t exist, not in any significant numbers.

And the craziest thing is, they ONLY seem to exist in the swing states, because that vote pattern didn’t occur anywhere else.

But as soon as the polls closed, the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries immediately declared Trump’s victory “fair & square,” abdicating their sworn responsibilities, and condemning America to the political Hell we are being dragged through.

If it was “fair & square,” it was the first time in his entire life that Trump didn’t cheat, and it is highly doubtful that he would choose the one election that would keep him him out of a life sentence in prison to finally play it straight. Does that sound like the Trump we know?

Quit doubting America, quit doubting Harris’s campaign, and place the blame where it belongs - on Trump, and his evil cabal of corrupt, treasonous, pedophiles.