@SeekWhatsRight His delivery has become less passionate as his lies have become more unhinged.
It's a kind of balance, grasshopper. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence -- and deadpan delivery.

Looking forward to contra dance camp next weekend -- partly for the dancing, partly for the community, partly to spend a few days at what's reputed to be a beautiful Canadian lake, partly to spend a few days in a civilized country.

@Museek There are passages in the New Testament that call for believers to keep themselves aloof from worldly governments. Not to oppose them actively, much less violently, but to engage with them as little as possible. That was a very sensible outlook for a 1st-century cult that didn't go along with deifying the emperor.
JW's don't salute the flag either, and I'm with them on that. I disagree with them on basically everything, but we find common ground in loathing idolatry.

@darcrich Senator Vance spoke to reporters after being thrown out of a furniture store.

@BlueStateBabe I'm in for 2 at least!

"No, I'm not selling [my DJT stock]," Trump said.... "I'm not leaving. I love it. I think it's great."

Translation: He's selling it as soon as he can.
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@mcfate He's not likely to sell at the current price, that's sure. Did you see the dive it took after the debate? I have never laughed so hard at a stock price graph. The drop was practically vertical.

@AnnetteTRemain @Museek Makeup would explain the color. Though I agree there's a lot of missing pieces here, and not all from his ear.
My pet theory is that his skull is so thick it's bulletproof.
I kinda wish Biden would respond to Donolf's hints that the White House was behind it by saying, "Dude, if we'd taken a shot at you we wouldn't have missed."

@estherschindler With all due respect to Harris, Donolf himself is doing some of the flipping. Standard political strategy is to start your campaign pretty far left or right, then tone your rhetoric down enough to appeal to moderates without losing too much of your original base. Trump has bolted into full-bore crazypants.
Still, people can wrap their heads around anything. I can easily imagine someone saying "Well, of course I don't believe that stuff about eating pets, but inflation...."

@sfleetucker @Stonekettle For anyone who knows geese at all, "pet goose" is a hoot. I'd rather have a pet tarantula -- less aggressive, eats less, not as messy, just as cuddly.

@Cosmichomicide She's right. The Haitian libel is now an article of the MAGA creed, along with masks don't work, vaccines are poison, ivermectin works, the 2020 election was stolen, crime is rampant, etc.
MAGAts won't recant them. Believing them binds them together as a group (or cult) and they would rather stick with their group than be "right" in outsiders' eyes.
Ridiculing MAGAts for those beliefs may persuade others to distance themselves, but "look at those idiots!" is poor rhetoric.

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@mcfate Or like he's about to eat someone's cat.

@cmskiera Yow! You must be one of those "Play big or go home" folks. Hope you feel better soon.

@XaoslordErie Tim Snyder posits two kinds of politics: of inevitability, where the polity is basically good and can't help but get better; and of eternity, where it struggles against enemies within and without, trying to regain its original greatness.
This dovetails with economics. When times are good, we think we've finally got things figured out and just need to keep doing what we're doing; when they're bad, we look back at the good times and haplessly try to replicate them.

@CherNohio It's been the Republican strategy more and more since 1968: stir up hatred and fear of the most vulnerable, the black and the poor.

@Coctaanatis Unfortunately there's little reason for confidence, according to the polls. I know the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day, but I think it would be foolish to trust our feelings. In too many elections the voters have stunned me.
That's why I'm contributing as heavily as I can, sending postcards to swing states, and will probably be texting too. Democrats usually win on turnout.

@b2bjacks That's funny -- on his social media site he was crowing that he'd won bigly. I guess if he loses it's because it was rigged, if he wins it's despite its being rigged.
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