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It's meant to show his disdain for rules and standards. He's a privileged trust fund baby who thinks rules don't apply to him.

Few things give me more political schadenfreude than watching John Fetterman utterly humiliate everyone who supported him. John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure Some excerpts... Here's my favorite tidbit...

This is an example of toxic privilege. I can't take anyone seriously still out here with "both sides are the same" after everything we've seen. One side wants to kill us all and the other doesn't.

More parties wouldn't change the fundamental problem: we have a lazy, stupid, deluded electorate where rural voters have outsized power. All of these fantasies of "the party has to change" and creating new parties requires people, especially young people, to get off their asses and do some work. That's not going to happen. Trump's been in office a year and we haven't seen any sustained opposition or rebellion from the public. It's been a couple of feel good rallies where people bring their kids and pets. (We won't see anymore rallies for a while now that the weather is getting colder.) Real resistance requires making your enemy uncomfortable. I'll believe people are serious when we start seeing people burn some MAGA flags. Instead they are screaming at Schumer, Jeffries and Harris because they are too weak and scared to take the fight to the real enemy and because of what I've started calling Overseer Syndrome. Too many believe the Democratic Party is a reality show where they all get a vote on who gets to stay or go. ("Primary everybody! So and so needs to go!") Look at where we are right now: government is reopened, Federal workers are getting paid and back pay, people are getting their SNAP benefits, and the Epstein emails have been released. Maybe it's time to admit that the Dems knew what they were doing and had a strategy.

I honestly don't know what people think the result of releasing the Epstein files will be. Republicans don't care about sexual predation. It's part of GOP/Christian nationalist culture. Nobody is going to go to jail. As for Trump, everybody knows he's a sexual predator, pedophile, and rapist. That didn't stop millions of people from voting for him multiple times. I just wonder what people think the endgame is.

Black voters aren't going to let that happen and frankly progressives are incapable of governing. Look at the Squad. What have they managed to accomplish in all these years? Nothing. Governing requires coalition building and the left has shown they are incapable of that. I'm still waiting for people to realize that Democrats can't save this country from white voters no matter how much you scream at them. Folks need to turn that energy on their friends and family but they are to afraid to so they pass the time screaming at Black people and Jews online. This is why Black people are sitting this out. So you will dismiss good news and concrete results in favor of freaking out and vibes?

What about what got us to last Tuesday? Or am I the only one who remembers Dems kicking GOP ass last week?

I don't think they caved. Did people think that the government could stay shut down forever? How many people have to sit in food lines for hours? Or were people hoping that we get a few plane crashes between now and Christmas? What exactly would be the better outcome? This shutdown is now firmly in the lap of the GOP. Or at least it would be if people could stop beating up on Dems. Every day we stay shut down is because Mike Johnson won't bring the House back into session.

One thing people seem to be overlooking is that no matter what the Senate passed, it will need to go back to the House and Mike Johnson has no intention of doing that so nothing changes yet.

Mandami is a [!@#$%^&*] you from white progressives to the Black and Jewish base of the Democratic Party. Just like Platner is and Fetterman was before him. I feel sad for the Black and Jewish New Yorkers. I will say this election made it crystal clear that my decision to leave the party was the right one.

MAGA women don’t stay single for long. I saw that during COVID with the Herman Cain Awards. COVID widows would post on Facebook how they lost the love of their life then a few months later they’re engaged to one of hubby’s friends.

Don't let him steal your joy. Trump says so much stuff and it never happens. Remember when he said he was going to re-do the census? Or his EO opposing mail-in ballots? I desperately wish people would stop treating Hamhock like he's Thanos. He's a dying moron.

Caught up. My thoughts: this felt like table setting going into sweeps. It was a lot of people talking about their feelings and a lot of declarations of who loves who and who wants what from whom.

One of the things I appreciate about this show is how sex-positive it is. I don’t understand half of what these folks are doing to and/or with each other but this is the world we live in now. 😀

I think this Hegseth debacle is going backfire terribly. There's no normal person who would look at that revolting display and have it increase their support for this administration. It was a gross, perverse, shameful spectacle that nobody would try to defend. The only people impressed by this are the hardcore magats.

The truth is a lot of the younger generations don’t believe in democracy any more. Millennials and Gen-Z are in for a world of hurt and they are in no way prepared for it. They’ve lost so much and don’t realize it yet. They’ve lost Roe, affirmative action, and the Chevron doctrine and that’s before you get to the long-term economic damage done to the country by the GOP.

What exactly are you afraid will happen? Think it through and spell it out. It's easy to be afraid of some nebulous thing you think might happen. It keeps you scared and frozen. Think about specifics of what you're afraid of and then you can prepare yourself for possibilities. Personally, I'm not terribly worried about midterms because states run their elections. Trump doesn't have the power to do anything. Remember that EO he signed about getting rid of mail-in voting? What effect did it have? None. Trump isn't Thanos. He's an evil idiot surrounded by other evil idiots. Also, Dems have been sweeping special elections and overperforming by double digits. People seem to ignore the fact that elections are happening right now.

Getting caught up. I said that Tomas needs to be replaced with a young Kamar de los Reyes but I finally realized that Ashley is meant to be a Reiko Ailesworth type.

I assume these are the remarks that got Kimmel canceled. He knew exactly what he was doing with this and bless him for it. The biggest weapon we have against MAGA right now is the truth.

Pluto TV recently launched a Law & Order channel where they play episodes of the original series from the 90s. It’s amazing to see the old school soap actors from back in the day who appeared on the show. So many familiar faces. What’s funny is seeing the actors showing up and playing different characters in multiple episodes. I’ve already seen two episodes with Michael Zaslow and I’m genuinely grateful that I got a chance to see him on my screen again.

And it's only going to get worse. Food prices are skyrocketing. The tariffs on chocolate have just hit so the holidays should be fun and that's before we get to shopping for Christmas gifts.

So let's check in on Trump voters and how they're doing. (Hint: they've reached the "find out" phase.) John Deere Announces Hundreds of Layoffs Legacy tractor maker John Deere has announced layoffs at three Midwestern facilities as the company grapples with declining sales and the effects of tariffs on its bottom line. ‘Quite a shock': Small business owner says ICE detained a third of his employees Given his support for President Donald Trump, we asked what he would tell the commander in chief if he had a chance. "What happened here? This situation is just totally just blatantly not at all what they said it was," he said. ‘The whole thing is screwed up’: Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers In Tioga County, where President Donald Trump won 75 percent of the vote in 2024, farmers are losing patience with the White House’s promise of a quick solution for farm workers. Their urgent need is highlighted by stories like those of a multigenerational dairy farm that sold off all its dairy cows because the owner could not find workers and another where a farmer’s job listings have received no responses. North Dakota soybean growers anxiously await sales to China North Dakota soybean growers rely heavily on exports to China, but with harvest on the horizon, those exports are nowhere in sight. “China hasn’t made a single purchase commitment,” John Newton, a longtime ag economist and executive head of Terrain, a farm credit services company, said last week at the Big Iron farm show. “We need to start seeing those commitments come in right now. And I think that’s really what’s weighing on the farm economy.”

Just checking in. I'm up to Chelsea's kidnapping and the "wedding" with Allison. First of all, I have nothing but praise for the actress playing Allison. I've watched a lot of soap crazies and she's doing everything right. She genuinely makes my flesh crawl. I still don't care about Chelsea but the eps with her and Allison in the cabin kept my attention. I also like Kat and Jacob as crime-fighting partners. Looking back I really enjoyed the Articulettes storyline but I'm disappointed that it got used to make Leslie/Dana rich. I confess that I'm tired of her and would like a break. I've refrained from naming actors who I think are weak links but IMO the actor playing Tomas needs to go especially if Kat/Tomas/Eva are supposed to be a triangle. I'm thinking a young Kamar de los Reyes type. (May he R.I.P.) I'm really enjoying Nicole on a lot of levels. She is over this mess.

Perfect. Everything around this is such a performance. I really wonder how this is landing with normie offline voters.

So now we know who the shooter is and this is a case of Nazi on Nazi crime. The right wingers are killing each other which makes perfect sense because that's how cults work but now that they can't blame the usual suspects I expect most of this stuff to die down after the monster's funeral. I hope the shooter takes a plea because a trial will be the biggest circus in the world.