I cannot see a poll here. Obviously, I’m going with “not Hitler.” That seems sane.

I wouldn’t buy any bread manufactured in 1946.

The sad thing is we lose, not them. We have some 35% of the country convinced that elections don’t matter. That’s tangentially a democracy problem, but good luck having a meaningful discussion about the the difference between a democracy and a republic.

I frankly haven’t believed in my own government since 9/11. This is not about conspiracy theories; it’s about the fact that I could drive into Canada in 2000 with a driver license. We obviously are the most imperial country in history (the irony is not lost on me, given how this all started).

But we started doing things like creating the Department of Homeland Security when the DoD covered that alongside ICE. I don’t understand what it’s like to think those were insufficient.

We didn’t forget about it; we were silenced.

You’re not getting that through 35 states. There’s the Congressional problem, too. He seems to understand the process and thought it would be a waste of time.

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Be well.

OK, so now can we get an explanation for the three seashells?

He emphatically said no to that movement. Dude seems to like the Constitution or something.

Thank you.

For anyone on a VPN, here’s the original source. Can’t help on the paywall front without suggesting software, but this is an important analysis of how newsrooms work for nonjournalists to read.

The only surprising data point I’m seeing is that 55% of self-described Trump supporters agree that “[r]eligion should be kept separate from government policies” – and yet the GOP is running on a platform of establishing a nondemocratic theocracy.

This feels rather out of context. At the national level, the memes get attention, and while that’s of some utility, the ground game is still where the most reliable bloc of voters – seniors – pay attention.

Harris and Walz wisely did their whirlwind tour of key states to work this aspect at the same time as memeing it up. Sure, NYT and WaPo were all over it, but it was also on A1 the next morning for both people who still subscribe to their metro print newspaper. And local TV news covered it. That gets older people talking, and Silver isn’t exactly new to this concept.

This is a classic false dichotomy. The options aren’t “memes or” – the one being employed, “memes and,” is simply ignored here.

With corrections by John Cleese.

I’m not a huge fan of Harris, either, but I’ll sure vote for her instead of the Fourth Reich.

I’d say media coverage of her has been so abysmal that no one knows what she’s even done as VP, but in trying to think of a veep who did get more coverage, I’m drawing a blank.

All I can think of is the Weekend Update that included Kevin Nealon for no reason showing a picture of Spiro Agnew and saying, “Former vice president Spiro Agnew,” pausing a beat and then moving along. I was too young to know the name, so it felt incredibly random.

This summarily erases two of Trump’s ongoing arguments: age and his whole “Biden crime family” schtick. Dems need to go much younger here to present a stark contrast and finally have someone not old enough to be a great-grandparent to Gen Z.

I’m good with a Warren/Harris ticket. In this environment, I do not see female and not white gaining traction if Biden does decide to step aside. I want policy, not platitudes. And the GOP is geared up to explain to their brainwashed masses how bad a minority woman would screw them over. I’d give a lot for the timeline where the recount happened instead of Bush v. Gore.

Great. So now we have to hear from this asshole daily in addition to Trump’s meandering authoritarian christofascist rants.

That ship sailed with Bush v Gore.