Don’t let the pills fool you: polls are gather by phone or internet. Democrats don’t answer unknown numbers. Pollsters don’t call people back.

Texas is NOT red.

The asshole who helped write the abortion law which gave a bounty tried to expand it after his marriage failed (basically had it been upheld would have resulted in “bankruptcy by court”) got shot down by the Constitution: you don’t have the right to force someone to self-incriminate.

We won one. This time.

We need to kick Republicans out of office. Vote.

It’s not JUST ONE VOTE: it’s millions of people thinking “it’s just one vote”: we are a blue state held hostage by Republicans.

“Mitchell then appealed to the Texas Supreme Court, which denied the petition in June in a three-sentence order. One justice of that court, in a concurring opinion, called out Silva’s “disgracefully vicious harassment and intimidation of his ex-wife Brittni during the course of their marriage’s demise and during this litigation,” noting that his “atrocious treatment” of her made him a “particularly unsuitable beneficiary of this Court’s discretionary” powers.”

#abortion

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/texas-abortion-law-jonathan-mitchell-silva-rcna175032

Alex Trevek:

"We're going to take care of your situation, and will force it down his throat. And we'll say, Gavin, if you don't do it, we're not giving any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the fire, forest fires that you have. It's not hard to do."

Contestant: Something a terrorist would say?

Alex Trebek: Just a minute… we were looking for Putin, but that is acceptable.

Turns out it was Putin’s lapdog, Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/worst-coachella-headliner-ever-trump-while-in-california-threatens-to-withhold-its-aid-let-it-burn/ar-AA1saC4B

“ Trump's parade of giveaways comes at a time when presidential hopefuls are typically busy fine-tuning existing proposals rather than making a host of new ones with little acknowledgment of the fiscal cost to be paid down the road.”

He promised a lot in 2016 and during his presidency.

He broke most of those promises. There was a tax break. But you had to be in the 1% to see real benefit.

Raise your hand if you made $800,000 during Trump! We didn't.

#politics

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-tax-cut-pledges-are-coming-fast-furious-waning-days-campaign-2024-10-11/

Just when you thought the NYT couldn’t go lower: sanitizing eugenics.

“ The New York Times has taken the mainstream media’s sanewashing of Donald Trump to the next level, this time with an innocuous-sounding headline: ‘Trump’s Remarks on Migrants Illustrate His Obsession With Genes.’”

#politics

What a garbage paper it’s become.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/187039/new-york-times-nyt-trump-eugenics-claim

“Rudy Giuliani’s son is trying to stop two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against his father from taking the elder Giuliani’s New York Yankees World Series rings, saying in new court filings that he is actually the rightful owner because they were gifted to him years ago“

Is this like Trump’s mentally declassifying things?

The kid apparently should have talked to his dad because Rudy listed them as HIS property.

Oops.

https://apnews.com/article/giuliani-defamation-georgia-election-workers-world-series-5654016004cfc80ba9931c35a6343529

The new term? Trump isn’t lying, “directionally correct—or sometimes directionally accurate” — the facts are wrong but if they weren’t he’d be right.

Uh. This makes no sense.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/us-presidential-election-donald-trump-lies-directionally-accurate.html

“In response to ABC News' requests concerning Trump's medical records, his campaign is pointing to previous letters released by former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, and Trump's personal physician, Dr. Bruce Aronwald.”

Isn’t Jackson the one who admitted to writing what Trump said?

It’s funny, when I was younger, I didn’t have cancer. Or high blood pressure. Or osteoarthritis. It’s as if health years or decades ago isn’t the same as TODAY.

WEIRD.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-release-medical-report-give-trumps-health-advanced/story?id=114739386

Well, shit. I think I fell for a phishing scam.

At WORST I just validated my account and they have my browser info. Dammit.

Easier solution?

Get rid of nuclear power plants!

Nuke storage may be illegal.

“But the 5th Circuit essentially ignored the text. It instead declared that temporary storage is a “major question” because it involves nuclear material…. Congress has to come in and authorize it even more clearly. Why? Because the question “has been hotly politically contested for over a half century.” It’s just that damn major, Dahlia! And until Congress approves temporary licenses again, 5th Circuit will simply veto all nuclear storage”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/supreme-court-crazy-nuclear-waste-case.html

Well, felt like crap from the shingles shot yesterday so played Star Wars: Outlaws. Was on Tatooine and sat my butt at a Stormtroopers terminal and shot up Stormtroopers because reasons. If I felt like shit I’m going to mess up a pixel world. Also, it impedes traffic.

Finally got bored and did a few tasks in the game. Again, troopers. Tried shooting them up but it had an “infinite troopers door” — which is a no win scenario.

So instead you have to sneak and hit them in the head. Did and done.

“These were the “repatriation drives,” a series of informal raids that took place around the United States during the Great Depression. Local governments and officials deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico, according to research conducted by Joseph Dunn, a former California state senator. Dunn estimates around 60 percent of these people were actually American citizens”

This is how Trump wants to make America white again.

By sending Americans to foreign countries.

https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-repatriation-drives-mexico-deportation

First off, it makes no sense except to a demented racist: why would someone spend that time and effort if there is no advantage? It doesn’t even come close to passing the most cursory sniff test.

Second, how? The VP does NOT have the same power as the President. He’s betting on people too stupid to know this — assuming he knows it himself.

Trump, again, thinks Harris is the President. He is so disconnected he is arguing she has powers she doesn’t. Pure madness.

“We're here finally, in Aurora, Colorado to call the attention of the world ... to one of the most egregious betrayals that any leader in any nation has ever inflicted on its own people,” Trump said, falsely alleging that Harris “imported” undocumented immigrants from 'the dungeons of the third world.'”

This makes ZERO sense.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/11/trump-operation-aurora-colorado/75617416007/