Politics Plus

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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It’s another muggy, sticky day, here at the CatBox.  I slept well last night.  Exhaustion finally overpowered everything else.  Store to Door came a bit early, so I’m already done with groceries and lunch.  WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat and help with chores.  For Halloween, her presence will be my treat.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 6:31 (average 9:21).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Fantasy Football Report:

Here are the latest results from our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

Congrats to Patty Monster, Pam and Wendy for winning their games.

Standings:

Kudos to Pam for leading the league.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): 2018 Election Could Yield Congress That Will Be A Check On President Trump

Rachel is spot on, but whether or not we get a handle on the Fuhrer of the Republican Reich depends on YOU! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: The Truth About Trump’s Economy

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, takes YOUR wealth, no matter how small, and gives it to billionaires. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order stripping the children of immigrant mothers of their citizenship, thus disqualifying himself from being President of the United States.

The constitutional crisis came to light moments after the signing ceremony, when a fourth grader visiting the Oval Office on a school tour pointed out the far-reaching legal ramifications of the order.

“Hey, wait, wasn’t your mother from Scotland?” the student, Tracy Klugian, asked. “That means you’re not a citizen and you can’t be President.”

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Trump and the author of the executive order, quickly grabbed the document from the Oval Office desk, panic spreading across his face as he reread it.

“Oh, my God,” Miller gasped. “What have I done?”

Trump immediately called Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for help in voiding the executive order, but Kavanaugh was unable to take the call because he was “sleeping off a rough night [with his latest victim],” an aide to the Justice said.

Dang Andy! Since it would force him out of office, maybe we should pretend it’s Constitutional. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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I’m running late today, because I had a meeting about moving with CCC.  There is still no news.  I feel very tired.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:02 (average 5:55).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Agony:

No excuses.  They were simply beaten by a team that played better.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): THE VOTING SONG – Parody

Amen Don! I would, if I could, but I voted yesterday. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: The American Social Contract

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. However, the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, rejects all five of those values. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: A new analysis by the election forecaster FiveThirtyEight found that a record number of women are projected to be elected to Congress in the midterm election cycle appropriately dubbed “The Year of the Woman.”

Poll whisperer Nate Silver’s model gives Democrats an 84 percent change of flipping the House this year, with many of those gains coming thanks to women candidates. According to the models, a record 124 women may win their elections this cycle, compared to the 107 women elected to Congress this session. As many as 100 women lead their House races, along with 24 female Senate candidates, out of 238 women running for federal office. There are currently 84 women in the House and 23 in the Senate.

FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich warns that these candidates hold solid leads and have strong chances to win, but the gains are far from guaranteed. At the same time, it’s also true women’s gains could be even greater.

If you think this will happen without YOUR BLUE VOTE, it won’t! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Yesterday’s trip to the eye surgeon’s office came off without a hitch.  Lori said the eye point is unchanged, increasing the odds of a successful corrective surgery in December.  I slept very poorly last night so I am tired today.  Pray for those harmed by the Republican domestic terrorist in Pittsburgh.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:35 (average 5:01).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Chunnel): Trump Era Unique For Violent Extremists Inspired By US President | Rachel Maddow (28 min.)

Rachel did a superior job of linking Trump’s mouth to the MAGA Maniac and a bevy of other violent Republican terrorists. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT – The Spooky Mens Chorale

In a word, Amen. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Moments after law enforcement apprehended the pipe-bombing suspect, Cesar Sayoc, in Florida, White House staffers scrambled to make sure that Donald J. Trump had never retweeted anything from Sayoc’s demented Twitter feed.

The alarm bells went off at the White House after the chief of staff, John Kelly, reviewed Sayoc’s feed, which is riddled with right-wing conspiracy theories and paranoid attacks on George Soros, and thought that some of the tweets “looked kind of familiar,” an aide to Kelly confirmed.

After spotting the similarities, Kelly enlisted Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Jared Kushner to comb through Trump’s Twitter feed and ascertain whether he had in fact retweeted any of the bombing suspect’s unhinged ravings.

As of late Friday afternoon, the team of staffers had not yet identified any retweets of the alleged pipe bomber by Trump, but cautioned that their work was “far from over,” a White House source said.

Dang, Andy! I think they’ll find dozens. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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