Don Winslow
Meidas Touch – a new Quaranteenies
Now This News – Not exactly an ad and not exactly news but I think important
Really American
Lincoln Project – Two – and I must make both available (VoteVets partnered on the first one).
Keith
SCOTUS petitions update
Faithful America
And one USPS petition
Daily Kos Ben Franklin project
Very busy video day, and one is long.
American Bridge (There are also 2 shorter versiona0
Meidas Touch with Bette Midler
Sound and Fury Messaging for the Democratic Coalition
VoteVets in cooperaton with LincolnProject – Sully
This is from the BBC and it is 22 minutes long, but it the complete reposrt on one huge aspect of the facebook wars from 2016. One way too successful aspect.
Beau is usually very careful – sometimes IMO too careful – not to castigate an entire specific party. That’s gone here, and good job.
Petitions update –
Congressional Black Caucus
Daily Kos (if you have one or more Dem Senators)
American Bridge – With all the attention on taxes, I’m glad someone remembers the Court.
Don Winslow – Good take on taxes
Really American – It would be news to the Brits if we were actually speaking English, as opposed to American “English.”
The Lincoln Project has a Spanish-language ad up on CoViD-19 here.
Beau is dripping with irony in this one, and it’s very funny – or would be if it weren’t such a serious issue.
Supreme Court petitions – we are now getting the ones whoch name the nominee.
Stop Republicans
Fight for Reform
It’s a very busy WWWendy day here in the CatBox. This is my only article today. Tomorrow I have my Trump* virus test, and Diana should be here slightly after I get home, so please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow. This Sunday, may the Lord keep Resident Donald Trump*… from destroying the country before we can put him in a cell.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:10 (average 4:35). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Click for interactive maps and charts
US Cases: 7,290,347
US Deaths: 209,208
Plus all the Trump* virus murders Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: A hair-raising article in Bellingcat details what has been learned from chat logs of the Patriot Coalition of Oregon, thanks to an Antifa infiltrator. Journalists Robert Evans and Jason Wilson describe the group as part of a growing network “increasingly organizing around direct physical confrontations with leftist protesters in Portland and other American cities.”
The leaked chat logs appear to reveal that some members of the Patriot Coalition have taken part in multiple violent rallies throughout the summer, and that they claim to have operated a series of vigilante patrols and checkpoints during the Oregon wildfires. While the chats appear to show they work and fight alongside members of extremist groups like the Proud Boys, American Wolf and 1776 2.0, the Patriot Coalition seems to have no coherent ideology beyond a desire to violently confront leftists in the name of the police and President Trump. A user identified as Paige summed up the general feelings of the group in a post made ahead of a what turned out to be a bloody ‘Back the Blue’ rally on August 22nd in Portland when she wrote: “I’m waiting for the presidential go to start open firing.”
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Patriot Coalition members regularly declare Democratic politicians to be “Antifa” and thus fair targets for violence.
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Discussions of violence in the Patriot Coalition group chat are not hypothetical. While some individuals are likely grandstanding, the chat logs show members gearing up for a number of events where very real violence occurred.
On August 22nd more than 300 heavily armed right-wing demonstrators rallied in downtown Portland for what was, nominally, a rally supporting the police. Yet the situation quickly degenerated into a mass brawl, with numerous injuries (including to one of the authors of this article).
Those events reflected the plans that Patriot Coalition had made. In the lead up, members discussed acquiring paintball guns and freezing their ammunition for maximum damage.
One of the many, many horrifying comments obtained from the group reads, “The only real way to end it is start shooting everyone of them. Fists and pepper spray are fun but don’t get the job done. I think sooner or later it’s coming. Our governor and the coward mayor of Portland will let it go on till November. If we don’t take care of it ourselves. Then there’s the whole prison thing I don’t quite like. So your damned if do damned if you don’t.”
Click through. The rest is too important to miss. What these Republican terrorists are doing in my town today, they shall do in your town tomorrow. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): Elizabeth Warren Responds to Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
Liz could not be more spot-on. Every Republican in power is one Republican too many! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
It’s another tired painful day here in the CatBox. I still have no news on getting my stent. I wanted to do more today, but I overslept, and I’m just not feeling up to it. I’m afraid you guys may be carrying the ball until I get my stent and recover more of my strength. Tonight is a WWWendy night. Oh God, it’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:21). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 7,011,463
US Deaths: 204,167
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: MAGA Nutjobs Block Entrance To Voting Site In Fairfax, Virginia
These Trumpanzee idiots are protesting IN-PERSON voting, now. Blocking entry to polling places is a felony, by the way.
Am I the only one not surprised? Nevertheless, ‘Trumpanzee’ is an insult to the apes! RESIST!!
From Alternet:
Aprominent [sic] psychiatrist who spent years studying Nazi Germany has called for mental health professionals to speak out about President Trump’s “falsification of reality” ahead of the election, warning that his attacks on the truth echo those of the Nazis.
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, distinguished professor emeritus at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a leading psychohistorian who has written extensively about doctors who aided Nazi war crimes, has long called for mental health experts to defy warnings from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and speak out about Trump’s mental health. Lifton recently published a book entitled “Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry” and was one of the 27 mental health experts featured in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” the bestseller edited by Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee in which mental health professionals assessed the president.
Lifton told Salon that the book and a Yale conference on the topic began the movement of “psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against Trump.”
“I spoke about what I called malignant normality that was being imposed on us, and the need to be witnessing professionals who told the truth and oppose the malignant normality,” he said in an interview last week.
Lifton said that Trump’s supporters and enablers exhibit the same “cult-like behavior” that he has studied, adding that the current administration has “Trumpified” every part of the federal government, in much the same way that the German government was “Nazified” under Adolf Hitler.
What other pattern would Republicans follow? I called GW Bush, aka Nincompoop Nazi, the Fuhrer of the 4th Reich. Republicans planned to make him permanent, but when their policies caused the economy to collapse, they abandoned Bush to let Obama inherit their damage and blame him for it. Now they have chosen Trump* as Fuhrer. That he’s a Nazi goes without saying. Being a Nazi a prerequisite to become Fuhrer of the Republican Reich! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Crosby Stills Nash – Carry On / Questions
Love that guitar in Questions! Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
It’s another sick painful day, here in the CatBox. I slept most of yesterday afternoon and last night. Nevertheless, I overslept this morning. WWWendy retuned greetings. This is my only article today, but I think it’s a good one. I hope to publish an article on SCOTUS/SCROTUS (Supreme Court/Republican anti-Constitutional VD) tomorrow, which will be busy, because Diana is coming to check in on me. Today is a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I shall meditate as my Broncos travel to Pittsburg where the Stealers will try to steal their victory. I love you guys so much that I’m giving up part of my worship to finish this. May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb bless you all.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:48 (average 6:17). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,971,365
US Deaths: 203,880
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Letters sent in recent days to the White House and to local law enforcement agencies in Texas contained the lethal substance ricin, and investigators are trying to determine whether other envelopes with the toxin were sent through the postal system, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said on Saturday.
Investigators believe that the letters were sent from Canada and have identified a woman as a suspect, the official said.
The letter to the White House, which was addressed to President Trump, was intercepted, as were the letters to a detention facility and a sheriff’s office in Texas.
The envelope to the White House was caught at the final off-site processing facility where mail is screened before being sent to the White House mail room, according to a second law enforcement official. The Postal Service irradiates mail that is addressed to the White House and other federal agencies in the Washington area, and the mail is sorted in a facility that samples the air for suspicious substances.
I say with confidence that the woman in Canada who did this was NOT our Sasquatch! As much as knowing that Trump* was playing sizzle-checkers with his perv-pal Jeff Epstein, accomplishing his physical demise is God’s job. Ours is limited to accomplishing his political demise. I suspect this may be a false-flag, perpetrated by Republicane to paint Democrats as violent criminals or to give Resident Bone Spurs* an excuse to declare war on Canada. However, I condemn all who approve, support, and take part in such acts. It wrong, no matter who does it. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s Front-Runner For Ginsburg’s Seat?
I think Republicans are most likely to go for confirmation in the “lame duck” Senate. If they make it appear that the left are winning this battle prior to the election, it could make Democrats feel overconfident. At the same time, this would send millions of desperate Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the exact opposite of real authentic Christians) scurrying to the polls in an attempt to kill Roe v. Wade. These pro-death hypocrites think the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth. After the election, GOP Senators can goose-step with their Fuhrer* and BBMMM with nothing left to lose. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man
Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
Hammering Trump’s irresponsibility regarding the novel coronavirus seems to be working, as major advertisers are still coming out with new ads on the subject.
Don Winslow – How we got here.
Meidas Touch – Trump lied, 200,000 died.
The Lincoln Project – an ad addressed to Hispanics – and sane people of all stripes.
It’s a slow-ish day. I could throw in you a video of a Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputy giving instruction on how to fabricate false evidence – but that would be disturbing and depressing. How about I just quote this from George Takei instead (it was a long Tweet thread but has been unrolled for readability)?
I have heard many say that never in their lives have they experienced such fear, that the America they know might be gone for good. Here’s why I have hoped with my head high and my eyes focused ahead. /1 #MondayMotivation #50DaysLeft
When I was just 5 years old, soldiers marched up to our home in Los Angeles and ordered us out. We had done nothing wrong, our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl Harbor. The laws and the Constitution failed to protect us. /2
No one dared stand up for us then. Politicians on both sides, from FDR in the White House to Earl Warren in Sacramento, took advantage of the fear and racism for their own political gain. We lost our home. Our friends lost businesses. We all lost our freedom. /3
I remember reciting the Pledge of Allegiance from a makeshift classroom inside the barbed wire fence of an internment camp. Most of us spoke English because we were born in America and were U.S. citizens. But that didn’t matter. America had forgotten its promises. /4
After we were out, many of us, including myself, dedicated our lives to ensuring that something like this would never happen again inside of America. We knew how fragile our freedoms and liberties really were. We knew we had to safeguard them. /5
Today, I have no doubt that if something similar happened to one group of people, there would be massive protests and an upswell of support. From this I understand thatwWe have learned much as a country. But it’s also very easy for us to forget, to be misled, to diminish. /6
It takes hard work to keep our Republic and our democracy strong. Every time we stand up against the forces of fascism, for the rule of law, for decency and humanity, we strike a blow against tyranny and evil. The fight is what keeps us vigilant and strong. /7
We have not faced such an existential threat to our system since I was a child. And so once again, we must stand and meet it. When we do, we will emerge stronger, and the lessons will be felt in our bones for future generations to heed and appreciate. /8
This is why I remain motivated, why I do not despair, why I know that while we have been here before, we can overcome it. We must summon enough strength and win the hearts of all good Americans. In 50 days, we can and will prevail. /9
I am 83 years old, but I am also that 5 year old, looking out at a dusty American flag and reciting those words, “With liberty and justice for all.” Only now, I know their true meaning after a lifetime of fighting for them. So fight with me. Stand up. Vote. /end
Really American – their take on the Woodward revelations
Meidas Touch – Doing its best to pin the pedophile label where it belongs.
The Lincoln Project – Regarding the $800 million which has “disappeared.”
Teaser from Lester Holt’s Vindman interview. You can also read about it.
Robert Reich – Racism is profitable. For years I have been predicting another French Revolution-style event here. It has not happened, and I am starting to see why it won’t. France did not have a large minority of black and/or brown people whom they could exploit to divide the poor and pit them against each other. So there was much less preventing those people from uniting as one. How are we going to surmount the fact that we do?
Beau defines the term “failed state” and shows why it is being applied.