Mad props to Olympia musician Alex Sturbaum for coming up with this song, which states my feelings better than I can.
https://youtu.be/9YRJw1cnw-M

@EvilBunny Sounds like an opportunity for Donolf Drumpf. Сделаем Россию снова великой!

@blissfulthorn Or the Kennedy magic only works so far. It didn't survive Chappaquiddick, and it would take more to revive it than an anti-vaxxer with a brain worm.

Saying goodbye to an old T-shirt (yeah I know it's silly). This rag was from the first year I did the AIDS/LifeCycle Ride -- a pivotal year for me. The community I found there, where the only real rule was to support and find joy in each other, has been my ideal, my benchmark, for community ever since.

How to Be Truly Free: Lessons From a Philosopher President https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/world/americas/pepe-mujica-uruguay-president.html

@sfleetucker @Cosmichomicide Our financial advisor says every presidential election year is a great year for the economy, no matter who's in office. (OK, except 2008.) Funny how that works.

@dauphin87 They won't even go. Their kind has been in US politics since the Civil War (if not earlier). They're like herpes: there's no cure, all we can do is keep them in check.

@ToolPackinMama They had one every night, right after the gender-affirming surgery on the kindergartner of the day. I can't imagine how you missed *all* of them. Did you miss the nightly parade of criminally insane immigrants too?

DNC 2023 is like a multiethnic LGBTQ+ remake of the Waltons.

@Siren_six https://www.youtube.com/@DemConvention

Eva Longoria with a bilingual pun, "She se puede!"

@LiberalLibrarian I can hear the chant at Drumpf's rallies now:
WE'RE NOT A CULT!
WE'RE NOT A CULT!
WE'RE NOT A CULT!

@Maude Call the paleogeologists -- buncha prehistory needs rewriting!

@DavidSalo From what I've seen, kicking your kids out for having different opinions or lifestyles is strictly a conservative thing. I know liberal parents with conservative kids -- they just shrug and say what can you do?

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"while other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours."--Tim Walz
#dnc
#politics

Walz is brilliant -- not quite sure whether as a candidate or as a carefully crafted product -- but brilliant.
#dnc
#politics

@sfleetucker All those DEI hires....🤣

"Here's a sentence I never thought I'd hear myself say: I'm Pete Buttigieg and you may know me from Fox News."