It’s another muggy day here at the CatBox. I spent the morning preparing today’s report, and I feel very tired.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:00 (average 5:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – If You Don’t Vote, You Ain’t Shit
Translated to Yankee: If you don’t vote, you ARE shit! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Trump’s 30 Biggest Broken Promises
Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. However, the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, was breaking promises regularly long before Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten became Resident. Sadly, the Sheeple will just say BAA-A-A-A-A and vote red. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The New Yorker: A vast majority of Americans would feel significantly safer if an enormous caravan consisting of angry white men left the country, a new poll indicates.
The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, suggests that the concept of an angry-white-male caravan could be the most wildly popular policy proposal in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections.
In an indication of just how much support the proposal has, many Americans said that they would personally contribute gas money to help get the caravan on its way.
Despite the popularity of the caravan, however, there was disagreement over what the optimal number of angry white men to depart with it would be, with some suggesting a figure of twenty thousand and others preferring a number as high as forty million.
Dang Andy! 40 million sounds great, if before Tuesday! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
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11 Responses to “Open Thread – 11/2/2018”
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6:19 I’m sneezing just looking at it.
How sweet it is …
Trae – Yes, that’s the translation. Whose fault was it? Lots of people. However, it was NOT the fault of anyone who voted for Hillary. But we are certainly suffering for it. It’s a good sernon, but for me, he’s preaching to the choir.
Reich – Robert is well aware that Republicans have been breaking promises forever. It’s because that in so many ways this election is a referendum of Trump that he is singling Trump out. And that, strategy-wise, is right on.
TNY – The only problem with settling on forty million is that larger numbers increase the probability of the wrong white men getting included. No one here wants to see TomCat, or Mitch, or Nameless, or any one of many others in that caravan.
Cartoon – The obvious flaw in that poll was sample selection. The magazine took a poll by telephone. In 1948, only Republicans could afford to have phones. (Yes, that’s an exaggeration, but it’s basically correct.)
Liberal Redneck: Your vote is your voice. If you don’t vote, you don’t count – and have no business bellyaching about the results. We MUST vote, because losers don’t make policy. I certainly hope that all this tRump bulls–t has galvanized Progressives to get their arses to the polls. And it probably has, since early voting here in Georgia is a lot higher than last time, possibly at record levels. Even when I voted in the middle of a weekday, I had to wait, though not for long.
Robert Reich: Not two years into the rolling dumpster fire that is the tRump regime, and he has broken more promises than many people will break in a lifetime. Not only that, his broken promises are vastly more harmful.
Trae: Word. Go VOTE if you haven’t yet. GO!!!!
RR: Spot on! dt: He’s a big time liar. I don’t buy anything he says. Repugs do, and have no spine, like him.
NYer: What Joanne said.
Cartoon: I remember my father talking about this, he had a copy of the paper too. Not the Tribune, but a local paper with this picture.
Beautiful day here, kinda chilly for me. Hope you have a relaxing evening, take care, & Thanks,Tom
*This just in: “Never, NEVER, bring a Mike Pence to an Oprah fight.” ~ Mario L. ~
–in reference to Mike Pence’s comment to Oprah, ‘I’m Kind of a Big Deal, Too’ lol, lol ……https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/mike-pence-oprah-stacey-abrams.html
Joanne, LOVE your picture!!
Trae: I have a hard time understanding him in his southern drawl even with the CC helping out. The point is is that if you do not vote, you have no right to complain.
Robert Reich: Trump’s 30 Biggest Broken Promises: Longer than usual, 11 minutes. Have a listen and forward this video to your “unbelievers”. I am sure that there are other “broken promises which were not mentioned. Perhaps the problem is that trump is such a pathological liar and he cannot stop lying. Robert Reich is a treasure.
The New Yorker: I may be an angry older white male and may get swept up in the 40 million other angry older white males and get shipped out to Neverland. Heaven forbid. lol.
Cartoon: Oops is right. lol.
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Liberal Rednecks: If you call yourself a Democrat who decided not to vote and you don’t get yourself down the polls after hearing this list of reasons to vote from Trae, then crawl back under your stone and never call yourself a Democrat again.
Robert Reich: Drumpf went from 20 to 30 broken promises, that’s quite an achievement in two years. But of course Drumpfians gobble up every crumb he throws them, calling him the president who achieved most of all. Throwing out promises he can’t or wom’t keep apparently is quite an achievement.
TNY: How about getting each one of those angry white males out, Andy? NOW!
RR: He speaks truth about tRump. Seeing tRump on CNN today, saying “He speaks truth”, was a flipping joke. I don’t really think that he knows what the meaning of truth is. He’ll make his name known in the Guinness World Records, as the biggest liar in the world.
Puzzle — 4:09 Well I am all wet today! I suppose you’re going to eat the kid, eh Puddy Tat?
Trae — Have you voted yet? If not, why not? Don’t be letting the moss grow! If you have voted, thank you for participating in US democracy!
To quote a recent song from Parody Project, “VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE the bastards out!”
Robert Reich — And there will be many more before he is kicked out of the WH.
The New Yorker — LMAO!!! But where would these angry white men “caravan” to? It better not be north! They will be turned back with a barrage of frozen hockey pucks, the likes of which they have never before experienced! Perhaps they can be airlifted to Russia since their Fuhrer is so enthralled with Russia. Or take an Alaska cruise and then take the crossing to Russia with Sarah Palin in tow!
Cartoon — OOPS! indeed!!! So that is where Rick Perry got his fabled line. I knew he could never have an original thought. From Wikipedia:
“The erroneous headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune (now just the Chicago Tribune) became ill-famed after a jubilant Truman was photographed holding a copy of the paper during a stop at St. Louis Union Station while returning by train from his home in Independence, Missouri, to Washington, D.C.[1] The Tribune, which had once referred to Truman as a “nincompoop”, was a famously Republican-leaning paper. In a retrospective article over half a century later about the newspaper’s most famous and embarrassing headline, the Tribune wrote that Truman “had as low an opinion of the Tribune as it did of him”.”
Humans are not tasty! Dawgs are!!
Missouri is one of those states that does not have any early voting provision. While I actually enjoy voting on election day, I would welcome early voting – or making it a national holiday like some countries do.
But whether you vote early or on Tuesday, please VOTE!
AMEN!!!
Thanks all! Hugs!