The first speech Joe Biden should give to the nation, in a series of calm fireside chats.

"Look, I know this is going to be hard to hear, but I gotta say it: you and a lot of good Americans have been abused by Donald Trump and the Republican party. I mean it, I have been sitting here, watching them take you for suckers, and it makes me angry, because you are good people. 

But, to them, you are nothing but a vote and a recurring credit card charge. 

They know that you are afraid for the future, and they have weaponized that fear to turn you on the people trying to save the nation. 

Let me address one way in which they are taking you for suckers: look, I am a Democrat, and let me tell you, not a single one of our meetings ever included promoting pedophilia. Now, just, just... Let that sink in. They told you that preposterous lie about raping babies just to BAIT you into their bidding. And let's get one thing clear: there is no pedophilia problem within the party, or in its policies and platform. 

The only people with an intense, almost fetishistic obsession with pedophilia, are Republicans. Did ya ever think WHY they might be so obsessed? Did ya ever wonder where their proof was? Well, don't worry, I have the answer for you: every Republican accusation is a confession, giving you a glimpse at their criminally twisted minds, which, for some unknown reason, are focused on adults raping children. And, they have NO PROOF. If they had proof, I would ask them to bring it to the Justice department immediately for investigation and prosecution. But, four years in, and they have no proof. Just look it up: when have they ever told you a name and a location? Never. They are lies, all lies, all the way down.

So, let us recap: there is no pedophilia caucus in the Democratic party, and, until the Republicans come up with evidence--good, hard evidence--you can take it to the bank that they are peeing on your leg and saying its raining. Thank you, and may God bless the United States of America."

SHOW US THE EAR!

Remember when everyone was hounding Biden as unfit because he is an old man, and how they flogged that dead horse hard and long, until Trump got hit by broken plexiglass?

Since then, not a single journo has hounded Trump and his team, asking if he has PTSD, is he still fit to serve, why is he hiding Ronnie Johnson-Jackson's medical report from the public, is there something to hide? What is he hiding? Let us look. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING. SHOW US THE EAR!!!!!

Joe Biden could hiccup and the media would be writing his obituary and bemoaning the fact that we have a cadaver for a President. Meanwhile, that fat orange calumny machine, Donald Convicted Felon Trump, could vomit up a family of little green trolls wrapped in funky, dark mucous while shitting pus out the back end, and the media would be silent as a mouse fart.

Give me a British journo any day of the week, and twice on Sunday, man. They would be on this like white on rice.

Vance

 I prefer Vivian, frankly, but it looks like JD Vance is Trump's VP pick.

So, Trump continues to associate with whores.

"There is no place for violence in our politics."

I disagree: there is a place for political violence. 

I am not promoting it. I am not aligning with it. I am just saying that there IS a place for it. 

That place is created by the continued end-runs made around voters, especially gerrymandering, but also by continued assaults on people's right to vote. When your vote results in nothing, a person might seek other redress. 

When the political class decides to force you into a minority, and voting doesn't work, sure, you can protest. But the right to protest has been dramatically curtailed, unless you are an elected official. Then, like Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Ron Johnson, JD "Whore" Vance, and the rest of them, you can say absolutely anything to encourage violence, subtly or pointedly. It is considered sacrosanct political speech, and you are not allowed to vote it out or protest it. 

Voting rights curtailed, speech rights curtailed. 

When these things happen, those in power CREATE a space for political violence. When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Well, when you are limited to violence to effect change, that is on the system. 

And not a damned one of them in the system has any right to say there is no place for violence in our politics, when they framed it out, put up the sheetrock, furnished it, and offered it for free as an alternative for speech that might hurt RonJohn's fee-fees, or make Jim Jordan feel his penis is even shorter. 

No, there is a place for violence, because Americans have been forced into that space, built, financed, and furnished by the duopoly that keeps saying that place does not exist. Duopolistic machinations have created a space for violence to thrive in our politics. Damn them all to hell for denying it exists, or that citizens even get to grasp that last opportunity to avoid serfdom. There is a place for political violence, and there will be more, because congressmen are choosing their voters, and reactionaries ON THE RIGHT continue to use inflammatory rhetoric that waters violent actions like rain from the heavens above. 

Don't be gaslit. There IS a place for political violence in America, and the two parties have built it for us.

Heritage Foundation: Deserving of its 501(c)(3) status?

The essential agreement that lifts the burden of taxation from certain groups/corporations is as follows: you, the underfunded group committed to the public good, get a break from taxation IF you continue to serve the public good, focusing on that mission to the exclusion of 1.: the profit-driven enrichment of any individual or group connected to the organization, and 2.: any partisan political activism, support, or advancement by the group.

That is my interpretation. I am not a lawyer, but I have had to tread water in non-profit law as a nonprofit founder and executive in years past. In my opinion, groups like the Heritage Foundation exist outside this social contract, and contrary to the public good. They pay their leadership an inordinate level of compensation.

They deserve to have their tax-exempt status revoked.

Don't go, Joe.

To be frank, I am disgusted by the feckless Democratic boobs calling for Biden to step aside. I am pretty certain that this is the end result of a Russian propaganda operation, which dove-tailed well with opposition themes of questioning Biden's abilities.

Any Democrat publicly calling for a change now is either an idiot or an alarmist, and most likely a combination of the two: someone who never realized til now that the candidate they'd been hawking all along is--GASP--an old man who has slowed down!

You would think they would keep their yaps shut until after the election, so as to, you know, not sink things. But, no, these are Democrats, which means we cannot have nice things. Some of them just HAVE to argue over nonsense while chairs are sliding down the deck of the Titanic to a salty doom.

Idiots.

Project 2025

 I seem to recall hearing about this about a year or so ago, so, it isn't new.

I am glad it finally bubbled up into the national discussion.