Thank you for your service, Carlos.
#DNC2024

"As the Republicans skewed the mechanics of government to favor themselves, their candidates no longer had to worry they would lose general elections but did have to worry about losing primaries to more extreme challengers. So they swung farther & farther to the right, demonizing the Dems until finally those who remain Republicans have given up on democracy altogether."-Heather Cox Richardson

Simple FACT- RepubliQans HAVE GIVEN UP ON DEMOCRACY & they're WORKING to DESTROY it!!!
HarrisWalz2024

#age #old_people

At my age "getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering why I am there!!!

GO, PETE!

#Politics

Rothman’s whining that taxing inherited wealth is punishing the accumulators of that wealth for their “industry” ignores the fact that, in the New Gilded Age, the large majority of vast fortunes were already inherited in the first place, so the only “industry” involved is winning the aforementioned genetic lottery. The idea that people in America are mega-rich because they worked so hard for their wealth requires ignoring all the evidence.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/08/they-made-money-the-old-fashioned-way-they-inherited-it

#CoSoMusic

Last night, someone asked about a list of all the songs that were used during the roll call vote at the DNC.

Here ya go....

Every State’s Song at the DNC Roll Call to Nominate Harris

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dnc-roll-call-songs-every-state-chose-nominate-harris-1235084163/

Beshear re: JD Vance and rape and abortion

“As a man, JD Vance will never have to face any of this personally, but it’s sad that he lacks the empathy to be able to put himself in a different position and to understand why having exceptions, having reproductive freedom, is so important in the first place… Obviously, I never wish harm on anyone. It [is] just again, deflection, trying to make himself and Donald Trump the victims.”

#politics #VanceCantGetPregnant

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4837145-vance-beshear-pregnancy-from-rape-remark/

Ooh la la.
The trump campaign is freaking out about the DNC and Brian Tyler Cohen is so there for it 😂

https://youtu.be/iRaD7A_V5wA

1 last toot - because I did not realize this was an actual thing

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Holy shit, Dickless is STILL whining about not getting to run against Biden. "For the first time in American history, I'll have to beat TWO candidates!"

Well, you poor, sad, put-upon little thing, it really sucks to be you, huh?

:: pat, pat ::

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-complains-joe-biden-no-longer-rival_n_66c40bede4b00667298b1749

#Politics #Election

"Democracy Docket identified eight groups leading the right-wing effort to challenge the registrations of millions of voters across the country."

Group (States active):

Election Integrity Network (AZ, FL, GA, NV, NC, TX)

True the Vote (CA, GA, NY, TX, WA)

The People’s Audit (FL, GA, NV, NC, TX)

United Sovereign Americans (MD, PA)

Pigpen Project (NV)

North of 29 (WI)

Soles to the Roll (MI)

Iowa Canvassing (IA)

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/these-right-wing-groups-are-trying-to-remove-millions-of-voters-around-the-country/

I know that Hillary is in her 70s but to be named "foreign policy adviser to the president" would scare the living shit out of putin and other dictators.

Great idea from Rhonda McMillan on X/Twitter: special-edition Kamala Doritos only in red states called "Donald's Nacho President Anymore"

"Charlie Kirk is at the DNC, and it's going to be his first time seeing black people in person."
~Alex Cole

Twitter thinks that spontaneous combustion is a thing you can will into existence, to cease the existence of others.

I wish Donald Trump would spontaneously combust.

I hope Donald Trump would spontaneously combust.

I pray Donald Trump would spontaneously combust.

I know Donald Trump will spontaneously combust.

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Sir David Attenborough:

'If I die while I have a pet, let my animal see my dead body, please. They understand death and seeing me dead will allow them to mourn, but if I just never show up one day they’ll think I abandoned them. I know what it feels like to be abandoned and I never want anyone to feel that way, especially my dog.'
#DogsofCOSO

“Supporters of the Supreme Court's order, including the states that filed the challenges, had argued that even partial implementation of the rules package would impose undue burdens on schools and infringe on states' rights. The 10 states are Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho.”

Huh. So human rights are undue burden?

I remember when they said the same thing about desegregation.

#politics

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/16/nx-s1-5064627/supreme-court-schools

No shit

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/14/2263187/-Kamala-Harris-doesn-t-owe-the-national-press-anything