@kendonnelly We 🇺🇸 need some Indians. I read an article about election workers trekking two days through mountains to set up a polling station, in case one old woman decided to vote. There's a law that no voter can live more than a prescribed distance from a polling station, and they take laws on democracy seriously.

For anyone else there would be no question whether he is able to be president. No question whether he is able to manage a 7-11. Or able to live on his own. The question would be what is a suitable care facility to put him in.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/picking-cognitive-problems-fight-trump-faces-awkward-questions-rcna174357

@NorthernInvader That's how it is with southern borders😉

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people"

@Pat_Walrond ...

"I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. ... Had no brains at all. ... Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you've gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want."

@Pat_Walrond
I saw the Forrest Gump parody. Pretty good. A better analogy is Being There.

A simple-minded gardener named Chance (Peter Sellers) has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. His babbling is taken for deep wisdom and he becomes advisor to the president. The former Black maid sees him and remarks:

@NorthernInvader Could we please get back to stereotypes?😉
You're supposed to be stable, sensible, pragmatic, and boring, leaving the insanity south of the border where it belongs.

Don't stress out over your inability to change their minds. Vote. Later some may regain their minds.

Colbert King. #nopaywall
https://wapo.st/3TQuxlt

@peeppeepcircus Even more, some coldly calculating capitalists may realize, as in home maintenance and auto repair, it's usually a lot less expensive to prevent something than to fix it afterwards.

@Opusworks Maybe also be in a room with a woman, man, white, Black, Asian, Latino, straight, gay, trans, veteran, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, atheist, disabled, homeless, elderly, and pre-teen.... WITHOUT hitting, spitting on, or sexually molesting any of them

@Redskye572 Speaking of embarrassing ties, guess what plane Trump flew in to an Aspen fundraiser?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/trump-fundraiser-recording

Jeffrey Epstein

@feloneouscat On FB I read the observation: So Americans are so different in political, ethical, and religious beliefs that a single policy doesn't work and we must leave it to the state. Following that train of thought, we are so different that we must leave it to the individual.

@GrazingintheGrass The next domino to fall could be the insurance industry, already broken in Florida and Hawaii, teetering in California, from hurricanes and wildfires. Who will write affordable home insurance in North Carolina? Then will follow the mortgage market, then the property market.