Tonight’s #FridayLimericks look toward sweeping Trump into the unsavory part of history’s dustbin. #LimerickRhyme
As we’re nearing the end of the chase,
We see candidates making their case.
It’s clear quality’s not
Where repubs cast their lot:
The faux king of a dwindling base.
Do you seek an economy jolt?
He has plans with the X-owning dolt.
He would make his big splash:
Bring it down with a crash—
And ignore the resulting revolt. newrepublic.com/post/187712/el…
After all, he’s watched Putin succeed
By empowering oligarch greed.
He would knock on its ass
Our entire middle class—
Help the rich while the rest slowly bleed. thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump…
You want health care? We’ve heard that this man
Still has concepts that might become plan.
But the gist: he’d lay waste
With unhinged kinds of haste
To kill all the protections he can. vox.com/health-care/38…
Education brings Trump little joy;
It’s one more thing he wants to destroy.
If the public gets less,
It maintains the class stress
That he wields like his favorite toy.
As you’re tallying targets of hate,
We find immigrants high on his slate.
His ridiculous plot
Is just keeping folks hot—
And would lead to a ruinous fate. cbsnews.com/news/trump-pla…
Now this sex assault monster dares claim
That protection of women’s his aim.
They should bask in his glow;
He won’t listen to “no”—
Seems whatever his role, he’s the same.
But then, policy’s not why he’s here;
Trump’s campaign is just anger and fear.
After digging his hole,
Retribution’s his goal—
And that drive’s hit a nasty new gear. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
As time’s ravages keep moving on,
Fuck the country; it’s all about Don.
His diminishing mind
Is in late-stage unwind;
Gaining power is Trump’s final con.
A catastrophe looms if this chump
So felonious gets o’er the hump.
We must soundly defeat
The old scoundrel and cheat—
And at last close the era of Trump. vox.com/world-politics…
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Being anti-abortion is a clean, simple, easy stance. And like so many clean, simple, easy stances, it avoids dealing with the real world. Because being pro-choice is not at all the same as being pro-abortion. (Thread)
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I am staunchly pro-choice—which does not mean “pro-abortion.” For all the rhetoric, the difference between anti-abortion and pro-choice comes down to where you position women in the discussion. Are they people who can make decisions for themselves or not?
Anti-abortion measures, whether they include exceptions or not, begin with the belief that women cannot make decisions based on their circumstances. An “exception” gives them a chance to prove they can be allowed to make the decision, rather than resuming incubator duties.
Small-minded people throughout history have condemned as evil what is new, different, or misunderstood. This was even true—in Europe and the United States—of the fork. (Thread)
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When a fork found its way to Venice at an event in 1004, it brought great consternation to some dinner attendees, who considered the fingers to be the fork God had provided, and thus the only one we need.
Puritans, too, took up the fight against forks alongside their battles against witches, declaring the fingers as the only thing worthy of touching God’s food.
This Saturday edition of #FridayLimericks looks at faux moderate Larry Hogan. #LimerickRhyme
In the Senate majority fight,
Larry Hogan would like to take flight.
Does a moderate’s dance
From a MAGA-lite stance,
And he’s running to add to the blight.
Larry claims that he won’t vote for Trump
(Since he thinks that will give him a bump).
If we follow the plan,
He’ll be Donald’s best man;
Hogan’s playing his state for a chump. politico.com/news/2024/09/2…
Hogan’s dressed in a moderate’s suit,
But the dude is McConnell’s recruit.
One week past Halloween,
He’ll change quickly off screen—
Be the trigger when Mitch wants to shoot.
@AshaRangappa_ calls out the threat of our time here. Unfortunately, lies get pretty broad First Amendment protection in the US. We should work to address what we can, but it can only be a supplement to active, engaged democratic efforts. (Thread)
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We have tools to address some kinds of false speech. We should pursue valid civil (and sometimes criminal) defamation and fraud actions. But as we’ve seen from the Fox News continued lie factory, even a big number can’t stop the current disinformation ecosystem.
Further, even if they are effective, it won’t be in a current election cycle. Our justice system is not equipped to impact an election that way—and while this moment sometimes makes me wish it were, it’s easy to envision a vigilante president playing that as a trump card.
I rarely bother to read anything from Marc Thiessen; I don’t care for his writing itself, and the ideas within tend to be laughably wrong. But this one gave me pause, because I couldn’t believe anyone could be this obtuse. (Spoiler alert: yep.)
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To be clear, I get why, in a vacuum of strategerization, Marc would think this thought. A political frenemy of Trump, sloughing off all of her understanding of the man’s failings to sing his praises, could indeed prove politically helpful. Remove all context, and sure, it works.
But you can’t remove the context. Thiessen’s surprise that Trump isn’t asking Haley for help comes from the same place as his dismissive statements about people worrying more about the man Trump is than about his policies: an obstinate choice to avoid understanding.
At the VP debate, one of the many disingenuous rope-a-dope moments from JD Vance was his commentary about “the experts.” His position: that common sense is more trustworthy than experts. (Thread)
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This is really a two-part issue: who are “the experts,” and what is “common sense”? Both of these are part of the dishonest dance that Vance performed, and on which Trump relies consistently.
1. After Walz mentioned the need to listen to experts on science, national security, and economic policy, Vance claimed “those same experts” had recommended moving jobs overseas to lower prices. Odd that national security experts, for instance, would make that recommendation.