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albacore's JournalWalz...
I was out of contact with the world last night and part of today..(Thanks a pant-load, Comcast) so I fell a little behind in my man-crush on Tim Walz.
I caught up ... fast.
The "dipshit" remark...
But the appearance on the Daily Show topped off my tank.
The guy is a Natural Person. A real human being. Funny. Quick.
I taught high school history for 30 years, and I know he was a great one. You can't fool kids with lies or evasions, and you have to be totally without arrogance or vanity to work with 17-18 year olds. All that shows in everything he does.
I feel very confident that if needed, he could step in and run the country.
His heart is in the right place.
I live in Blue Washington state. A BLUE part of that Blue state...lots of HarrisWalz signs...few trump signs..
Elway is a local and reliable pollster.
Elway's latest statewide polls show...
Harris ahead of trump 57/32% (Seattle Times had the same)
Governor: Ferguson (D) ahead of Reichert 51/37%
Attorney General: Nick Brown (D) ahead of Serrano 47/29%
Lands Commissioner: Dave Upthegrove (D) over Beutler 41-35%
And yet...
We drove to the rural area of the Olympic Peninsula - directly West of Puget Sound - and saw trump signs, banners, and even a 40+ car/truck caravan with Murikan and trump flags flapping all over them.
Same shit happens in rural Eastern Washington..
Rhetorical question: Why do rural voters continue to vote to fuck themselves?
Mass deportations..
You know that wet-dream fantasy trump has about deporting 11 million undocumented people if he wins the election?
Like all his brain-farts, It would be a disaster. Estimates run $1 Trillion in costs alone, over the next decade.
And there is more: In terms of damage to the economy...incalculable!
1/4 of workers who process meat, fish and poultry would be gone. Think food prices are high now? Prices for hand-picked crops would go up 21%.
1/5 undocumented workers work in construction..10% of the work force....32% of roofers. The industry is already short by 500,000 workers. New house prices would go up $40-$50K per unit.
Undocumented workers pay $13 Billion into Social Security..that they can't ever received benefits from.
Undocumented workers pay $21.5 Billion in other Federal taxes, and $13.6 Billion in state and local taxes.
350,000 undocumented workers work in health care....aides and childcare and cleaning staff.
160,000 more undocumented workers work in hospitality jobs....hotel maids, dishwashers, etc.
During the Covid 19 pandemic, 5 million undocumented immigrants were employed in essential industries.
More than 3.4 million unauthorized immigrants have a US-born minor child. Who cares for those kids?...or are they deported, too?
(stats from Southern Poverty Law Center, If you have different numbers...or more numbers, let's hear 'em)
Hilary Clinton won by almost 3 million popular votes.....
....but still lost in the electoral college.
Is there some calculation of just how many popular votes a candidate could win by, and still lose the electoral college? 4 million..? 5 million..?
Any educated guesses?
I was not a math major.... or good at Wild-Ass Guesses.
Jack Smith's filing doesn't mean Jack Shit...
...if trump wins this election. He will pardon himself and anybody connected to him....all the loyal soldiers as well as the criminal capos we all know.
His cult will do anything he asks them to do to see that he doesn't lose, and if he does lose, to create enough unrest that serious justice will be denied.
The rest of this year is going to be a clusterfuck...with guns.
That's supposed to be what a debate looks like....
Two (seemingly) sane people talking about policy.
Of course, we know Vance was lying his ass off and defending the indefensible, but he didn't foam at the mouth or try to exorcise Walz, and these days, that an accomplishment.
Walz ending shows he clearly won, but at least Vance didn't do a trump.
I don't think Vance lost any voters who were gonna go for trump.
Shit!!!
I hope Walz opens his debate with Vance with this..
"In the past few years, you've called trump a lot of names. You've said that 'trump is cultural heroin'....'trump is unfit for our nation's highest office'...'trump is America's Hitler'....'trump is a moral disaster'..
You said 'I'm a Never Trump guy'...
"And yet...here you are....Why would we trust anything you say now?"
trump's presser at his golf course in CA...
I swear I saw a video where he talked about "states not having the Pacific" and then gesturing toward Catalina and mentioning Hawaii.
Can't find it.
Did I imagine that? Am I cracking up? Was this "sane-washed"?
He pointed at the island on the horizon and continued, "Look at Hawaii, can you imagine living and golfing here and looking out every day and seeing the beautiful Hawaiian Islands? It's unbelievable!"
What are the odds that trump will storm out of the debate on Tuesday?
If Harris tunes him up a little, he'll blow up and totter out of there, is my guess.
"The jury found that you were guilty of rape...were there more?."
"Even Dick Cheney says you are a danger to the country."
"You don't know what a tariff is."
"Why did you take secret documents, store them in an insecure location, and refuse to return them?"
LOTS of triggers for a fuming walkout, and Harris has shown that she can trigger those assholes. After all, she made Kavanaugh cry.
Crawl on CNN just now..."20% of formerly undecided voters still undecided."
Pretending for a moment that figure is anywhere near true...What kind of person is "undecided" in this race?
Not enough contrast between the candidates?
Are people really that uninformed...?...that stupid?
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