#politics If someone claims to be an undecided voter, make no mistake - they’re either a Trump. voter or a non-voter. Maybe there is a fraction of a fraction of a percent of voters who are so clueless as to be overwhelmed with indecision, but get real, people. Stop thinking those citizens will decide the election. Concentrate on getting your people to the polls. Democrats outnumber Republicans in the so-called battleground states. As Obama keeps saying, they need to vote!

Did Trump think he would get away with his McDonald’s stunt? I don’t know, but I do know he doesn’t care. His base will believe anything he tells them, including how he actually won California in 2020 (He lost by five million votes). So Trump pretends to work the drive-through window at a McDonald’s that was actually closed, handing out “orders” to car drivers that were told to pretend they were customers. And this was supposed to denigrate Harris’s claim she worked at McDonald’s? Huh?

@John_Ripley Nor will I.

It’s been a while, but the TV execs must be happy with the World Series opponents. Two major markets with a colorful baseball history, and two of the best players this year going against each other.

@AskTheDevil Yeah, there were isolationists, for sure, and Nazi sympathizers like Joe Kennedy and Lindbergh, but when the British Isles were threatened, that was too much for the majority of Americans. And they were pushed into action when Hitler stupidly declared war on us after Pearl Harbor

@Ruthat Why can’t they figure out the time they need and schedule accordingly? Sorry, that’s no excuse.

I’d be curious to know, during WWII, what percentage of Americans thought we’d lose the war. I would guess it would be in the minority, for a defeat would have been too terrible to contemplate. I see a parallel in the 2024 presidential election, and for the same reason, I am confident Harris will win, because the alternative would be too much of a disaster. I’m betting on right over debacle, since that’s what history, albeit over time, has shown us. Karma? Yeah, I think so.

Why can’t a political rally or a law enforcement press conference, or a government briefing EVER START ON TIME? The endless camera view of the empty podium while the newsperson’s voice-over says, “Any minute now . . .” Folks who have gathered to hear the presentation, waiting hours in some cases, have lives too. Show them a little respect, okay? I challenge anyone to tell me an example where the event started when it was scheduled to start.

Have Republicans explained how undocumented immigrants are able to vote in presidential elections? And why they would take that risk of discovery in the first place?

@elbutterfield My hope is that the pollsters got it wrong again - this time undercounting the hidden Harris vote. Possible, I guess. Joe Sixpack might not wanna admit he’s voting for a broad!

#politics I hope to be proved wrong next month, but in the states that will decide the election, there seems to be more men who can’t stomach the idea of a woman president- and a Black one at that - then there are all other voters. How else to explain Trump, an old, misogynist, racist, lying, dictator-loving felon in cognitive decline, running even and even ahead of Harris in those states? Yikes! I fear for our country.

@Tee_Lynn Yeah, they want FEMA money when their states need it, but hem and haw about the cost when blue states ask for it. Hypocrisy? That word doesn’t appear in their dictionary.

@feloneouscat They’ll say their protests forced the government to come up with the money.

C’mon, Duck. You think the government would step in to limit purchases? Did it do that during the pandemic? No. Individual stores did it. And speaking of WWII rationing, there’s evidence that much of it was bogus - done for patriotic morale, so the nation would feel involved in the war effort. Anyway, until January, at least, the “crisis” is over.

@Coctaanatis Of course it can’t. And government agencies can’t either.

@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN When you panic and think there won’t be any for you if you don’t stock up now, you’ll pay the inflated price. Egg prices are rising because of chicken flu, they say, and butter is on the rise (What, is there a cow flu?). If a rumor started that the supplies of eggs and butter will be running out, folks will pay 10 bucks each for dozens of eggs they don’t need and multiple pounds of butter @ 10 bucks a pound. At least the butter can be frozen.

@Coctaanatis Human nature. I’ll get mine, devil take the hindmost. So with pantries full and other folks do without because of it, too bad for them. Suckers.

@Coctaanatis It’s panic buying/hoarding, creating a problem where there wouldn’t be one. We don’t get our TP from France, for Pete’s sake. It’s an example of H.L. Mencken’s words: “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Sheesh.

@Coctaanatis Hmm. More than 90% of TP consumption in this country is from product made in this country, so there seems to be a contradiction in that stat.

Toilet paper? Really? It’s being hoarded again because of the longshoremen’s strike. TP does not come from overseas, people. It’s manufactured here in the U.S.A. We still cut down American forests to make it. Imported cheese and champagne - well, you’ll have to tough that out. Unless you want to try (gasp!) cheese from Vermont and Wisconsin and bubbly from California.