“The Republican Party is rushing to establish a Supreme Court whose base views will be wildly out of alignment with the views of American voters on key issues by overriding the opinions of those voters to get it done before the election...
... This is the next step in a decades-long strategy by the GOP to control, manipulate, and subvert institutions and processes that will give them disproportionate influence to their percentage of support in America. We know this can’t be how our democracy works...
...I won’t apologize for defending the idea that the vote of every American should count a much as the vote of every other American. There are a lot of things we need to do to ensure this ideal. In the coming decades, we will face unparalleled, accelerated change ...
...in every aspect of American life. We can’t be looking backward and remain competitive and survive.”
Just say that over and over.
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35 yrs later, it was an awful winter in Ohio, feet of snow, ice everywhere, everything covered in road salt in that unnecessary Ohio way
She stopped to get gas in the blowing snow, looks down, realizes the diamond has just fallen out of its setting—onto the salt-strewn ground /2
It’s dark and wet, those terrible salmon-ish “low light pollution” light-post bulbs at the gas station, making everything on the ground look like dirty road salt.
She despairs, thinks she will never find the diamond. She looks around, nothing. Some other ladies help. Nothing. /3
I’m really stuck on this thing where FoxNews refused to cover the most significant story of the day—the most significant domestic terrorism plot *in years*—in prime time because it doesn’t fit the editorial narrative they are using to mindf*ck Americans toward political violence
It’s unconscionable what they are KNOWINGLY DOING to America by manipulating perceptions of reality.
I’m going outside to write, but in case you were wondering, so far this AM Fox & Friends have leaned heavy on hurricane coverage & “court packing” to avoid the Michigan story, with segments on one homeowner in Wisconsin “confronting” (non-white) protesters, and a cookbook. Really
Tucker says Kamala & Joe only pretend to be people of faith and that Kamala “barks.” Keepin’ it classy!
Huge video montage to explain Pence isn’t sexist.
Zero words so far about domestic terror plot against Gov Whitmer.
Tucker thinks this is about “unhappy rich ladies whining about oppression” which is somehow about “identity politics”
Oh Jesus, he has Victor Davis Hanson madlibbing trigger words — AOC fracking Obama elites bankers green new deal — cannot. toggling to another channel.
Honest to god he is living angry far right word magnet art. It’s impossible to stop watching.
He says the working man is dying for “the zoom and the Skype class” and Trump is standing up to them by fracking and freeing Americans from wars started by Bay Area elites.
The bar is so low for Pence tonight, if his head doesn’t spin around like the exorcist, or he doesn’t collapse in covid-fever mid-debate, he’ll have passed (in very pass/fail sense) /2
Pence’s make-up is a fail; looks like mildly warmed death. Kamala, flawless.
I am deeply, deeply worried about POTUS referencing the “Proud Boys” unprompted in the debate in the manner that he did. He is clearly waaaaaaaay more involved in the day to day management of relations with/winks toward extremist groups than he has thus far allowed to be exposed.