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- Weekly Address: The Progress We've Made Because of the Affordable Care Act
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The People’s View
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- FBI is Pursuing a Political Vendetta Against Hillary Clinton, But is it Motivated by Racism? Spandan Chakrabarti
Smartypants
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- How President Obama Moved the Overton Window to the Left
- Re-Imagining the Dream
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- On Marriage: A Quarterly Report
- On mortality, or how I learned to not fear death
- #Pixels: A sign of the Apocalypse?
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Greg Sargent
- Open Thread
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- Top Democrats say Clinton took a real hit from Comey. But they’re cautiously optimistic.
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- If he loses, Trump will continue spreading destruction and mayhem. This chart shows how.
Steve Benen
- This Week in God, 11.5.16
- Major legal victory for voting rights in North Carolina
- Cocktail Moment: The Old Pal
- Trump saddled with Christie's abuse of power problem
- History's clues on campaigns' closing chaos
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AMK is wearing the gold again! Happy Weekend, TOD!
News Flash for the people still in deep denial….
http://billmoyers.com/story/a-must-read-jane-mayers-dark-money-uncovers-the-hidden-history-of-billionaires/
“Her thesis, impressively backed by careful research and a wealth of rich anecdote, is that the Kochs and their network of billionaires have ALREADY bought the American political system: the House, the Senate, many state legislatures, the systems of legislative and Congressional redistricting and significant beachheads in American higher education. Only the White House has eluded their grasp, though now most of the Republican candidates are dependent on their largesse and responsive to the policy demands of the plutocrats who bankroll all except Trump. Further, she argues that what we once knew as the Republican Party is, in effect, being supplanted by a private party of billionaires who use its machinery but have little use for the traditional political tools of compromise and negotiation. Why? Because they want what they want, hate government and don’t really care if it works.
THIS is what journalism looks like.
Hi df
I’ve always thought the group (whose name escapes me) that write most of the rw legislation have much to do with the takeover of the GOP. The latest impact is passing a bill that no-one in the legislature seems to have read. Combine this with the funding of the legislators by those with money - the results are what we see today
Saturday Greetings from a rainy, chilly north! Wishing *you* the Saturday of your dreams! 🙂
Good Morning, Everyone🙂
When a man shows you who he is, believe him
Liberal Librarian
September 30, 2025
Well, Donald Trump held on. He held on by the skin of his teeth. You knew it was coming. You knew it was inevitable. But it was glorious to watch him barely control himself.
This morning at around 5am EDT, the dam broke loose. Trump finally went on the tirade he’d been holding back for four days. And the subject of his ire wasn’t, of course, the woman who had shellacked him in the debate, but another woman, a Latina, a former employee, who had dared to speak out against him.
Nothing Trump says or does shocks any longer. And that’s a grave problem. The outrageous, the outright evil, has been normalized. It’s become routine. We’ve been deadened to the lies, the vitriol, the incitement. Now Alicia Machado is the target of his rage. But next week it will be someone else. There’s always someone to blame for his failures. He never fails; those around him fail him, or conspire against him. He is the great, virtuous knight, sent to save a fallen America from itself. Anyone who gainsays him is a subhuman to be crushed.
Imagine if Barack Obama went on a tirade like this. Hell, imagine if George W. Bush did. Our politics have become so debased in only eighteen months that we barely notice this. It now seems normal that a presidential candidate goes on Twitter rampages, releasing his dark id for all the world to see. Any half-decent media would have mocked Trump off the stage at the inception of his campaign. And, at first, he was mocked. He was seen as a joke candidate.
It’s only when his hateful message gained traction that the media took notice. And it took notice not by being aghast, but by seeing ratings gold. It mainlined Trump like the worst junkie. It rode him to its highest ratings in years. Trump was good for business.
Quick Takes: Trump Gets Outplayed By Women
by Nancy LeTourneau
September 30, 2025 4:45 PM
POLITICAL ANIMAL BLOG
* Joan Walsh does a great job of explaining why Donald Trump is having a meltdown.
* Josh Marshall makes a similar point.
Serena and Venus bought part of UFC the other day along with my boy tom Brady 👊👊👊
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/09/30/cam-newton-tom-brady-robert-kraft-buy-a-part-of-the-ufc/?utm_network=twitter&utm_post=6354890&utm_source=TW%20%40SNFonNBC
Yep. That’s about it.
Yes, This is Really Happening/Trump’s Basket of Inexplicables - Real Time with Bill Maher
Bill can be good when he stays with GOP politicians that deserve his tongue lashing - other times - horrible
WOOT
Enthusiasm problem???
And you can believe what they say. Trump lies about fundraising as well as everything else.
Reminds me of the emoprogs’ obsession with the idea that PBO hated them as part of the ‘retarded’ (Rahm Emanuel’s reference to a policy idea) ‘Professional Left’.
Put the misconception out there and run with it.
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Hillary Clinton for the WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
#ALL50
#YesWeMUST
Hope all of you are enjoying your weekend …
Why, because they’re not being allowed to pivot? Because their Trump talking point lies are getting shut down more often? Because their candidate is so crazy that even they can no longer attempt to explain him?
All of the above …. and, because they know he’ll destroy their businesses and, very likely, their ability to survive a nuclear winter …
To the point …..
Never doubt that we’ll be hearing about T-rumps grudges for years to come.
Does he misspell Schwartz? Deliberate?
Putting this here….
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-pressured-second-wife-to-pose-nude-for-playboy
Then there’s this…
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/trump-team-fires-back-after-jane-doe-refiles-rape-lawsuit-with-new-witness/
I would love for him to meet Lorina Bobbitt….
Lorina? My understanding is that there’s not much there for her to cut…
Yes. “Many people are saying … “
Good evening Nerdy & TOD! Happy October 1st everyone! 🙂
Folks just can’t face the history of the USA…
interesting
Indications they believe Trump will lose.
GE PF58.
Not surprising, since this article refers to after HRC is President-elect. Lame-duck Senate (especially if Dems take the majority in that body) will fall all over themselves to confirm Garland, fearful HRC will nominate a qualified candidate whose views are “too far left.”
Hope most ancient Senators up for re-election (such as one of the worse impediments for voting on Merrick Garland, Chuck Grassley) next month will be planning their retirement instead.
wow
GE Dudette, hope you’re hardy and hale this fine day.
From Meta’s timeline this morning, key races to keep an eye on come Nov 8.
Hi & thanks, Arapaho! Doing much better! ☺️
Dudette - so nice to see you here🙂
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How did trump get this tape of Hillary slamming millennials? Or have they had it for awhile and are now using it to change the subject?
Dear heavens jovie - SHE DIDN’T slam Millennials - read up the rest of the thread and you’ll see it all in context.- Hillary isn’t stupid like Donald - she doesn’t slam anyone - why do you believe ANYTHING said by the GOP
Hillary didn’t slam millennials. She empathized with the difficulty that some young adults have had finding decent paying jobs that will allow them to live independently.
Trump and his minions decided to twist HRC’s words. Trust me, that won’t make a difference.
Did she say they live in there mothers basement? I’m just asking that’s why I come here to find out & ask questions? 👌
Yes, she said many of them live in their parents’ basements because they can’t find decent paying jobs to sustain independent living. She used the basement to illustrate her overall point about not being able to find work - not to “slam” millennials.
So the overall point I agree with it was just in artful .
And also some millennials are being big old babies this election.
That’s my opinion- I doubt trump will use that.
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No your point was wrong - if you want to be negative about the dems in this election don’t bring it here. I think our Ms Chips mentioned that many many times
The complete speech is on a comment on this thread - if you want information - read it
This is truly a travesty…
There may be nothing that we can do to convince these folks of the folly of their belief systems…but one thing that we can do is to vote to make sure that folks who think like them are not making policy for the rest of us…
Sad when you think what Trump would say about these two ladies.
Brexit, Trump & Johnson voters……
That is a horrific read, prettyfoot. 😦
interesting how this is not seen as radicalization …
It is in my opinion. Not to mention radically idiotic and far beyond the lunatic fringe. At least she *was* temporarily locked up on account of her unhinged behaviour, but they should have kept her there.
there is a lot of things to be devastated about in this article; democracy is in the hands of these people
Beauty break: Happy 126th Birthday, Yosemite
#ALL50
typo corrected …
This is some kind of twisted delusion:
PROGRESS
So wrong to stop people from voting because of past deeds. This is the Australian law
If you are serving a full-time prison sentence of less than three years you can vote in federal elections.
If your sentence is three years or longer, you can remain on the roll but you are not entitled to vote until you are released from prison.
Wow, that’s pretty progressive!
Used to be 12 months meta - not sure when it changed to 3 years - but even if in jail people are still citizens - and probably more than many of us - they are impacted by which party is in power. I was somewhat amazed to find that in some US states AFTER people are released they cannot vote. Another form of gerrymander.
#ExpectUs
HMMMMMMM……
keep digging ….
Hmmmmm…….
I am sure they used rubber gloves.🙂
Trump has the worst karma ever imagined.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/09/david_plouffe_barack_obama_s_campaign_manager_is_confident_clinton_will.html
I gather he has already done this hf
Right! Mr Trump will fix the tax codes since he knows how to beat paying taxes. Fix it for whom? You think he will fix it so the rich and his own families will pay their fair share of taxes? What in his past has ever shown him to be selfless? And do not tell me about his charity foundation with other people’s donated money he uses as his personal slush fund to pay for lawsuits and paintings.
and the ‘taxed enough already’ rubes are/were funding his campaign and his literally golden lifestyle.
This is what the HRC and her surrogates should be hitting on 24×7. Destroy the myth.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/10/01/perfect-ten/