After President Biden was inaugurated I quit cable TV. I knew they were never going to stop talking trump. Then after a couple years I realized I was mostly watching shows on Prime. This year I got rid of my TV. And I have never missed it. I sent my vote in the first day and it has been received and counted. This week I finish pollworker training and we will start next week. Let’s do this.
Inspiring!! Canceling cable tv, canceling Prime video, getting rid of your tv altogether. Voting on the first day, training to be a poll worker. Participating in and protecting our constitutional right to vote by being a poll worker. Thank you!!💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
hope so many many votes for Kamala and Tim, other dems too, but especially them, who have worked so hard and Kamala who has been so disrespected by that orange criminal. Why has he not even been jailed for his attack on our Capitol?
I just want to see him in handcuffs and an orange jump suit. Then he can go in the pokey until he comes out in a box and gets planted in some random place next to a golf course.
trump's picture is like being startled by turning a page in National Geographic and there is a snake picture. But the vilified snake is just being the reptile that it was born to be while trump became a reptile with all the negativity that is associated with that designation!
I could do without any photos of Musk, either. After seeing photos of him doing his "dark MAGA" thing, I pulled the plug on my Twitter/X account, and as a parting shot told him what he could do with himself. It was a quote of his remarks toward companies who elected to stop placing ads on his platform.
Thanks Dan and Team Steady. I felt myself 'cracking' a couple weeks ago and got off the social media and limited my news consumption to what I could 'read' vs. listen to (over and over). I feel better, but my extra fancy anxiety continues to plague me. You are a calm voice in this storm.
Be a social media presence. Do not concede it to the other side. Support the people who are writing the right things. Write your own posts. Create memes.
Do not stick your head in the sand by ignoring the medium others are using to harm us.
Ah, yes. I am reading Jodi Piccoult's latest novel, practicing my mountain dulcimer, and writing notes and card to friends. And in any case, my social life is carried on wholly in person, not on computer. But I still find myself anxious enough to pray several times a day for my beloved nation.
I love the Psalms. Poetry and song, especially the 23rd Psalm. This passage resonates with me so much right now.:
“Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I shall
fear no evil for though art with me.”
These words describe where we are as a nation right now. We are traveling through a valley that feels dark, but it is “the valley of the SHADOW of death” and we just don’t know what will happen. It’s terrifying that there is one candidate who is evil, cares only for himself and who wants to literally destroy our democratic way of life.He also seems to be sliding into dementia, which makes him wholly unfit to run the United States of America. But the other candidate is full of light!!
She is strong, intelligent, courageous, steady, experienced and empathetic. She wants.to make people’s lives better through an “opportunity economy” that lifts people up. Kamala is a capable warrior who will fight to defeat the horrible beast who aims to get revenge. And, remember—she has done this before!! (taking. down the Sinaloa cartel and the Guadalajara Cartel) when she was Attorney General of California. For me, I need to be working to help Harris/Walz win, so I’ll be donating and starting with my siblings and cousins, checking to make sure they are registered to vote and that they have a plan.I will then ask them to check with their friends and coworkers to make sure they’re registered and have a plan to vote. Luckily my family leans heavily Democratic and some of the cousins are in the swing state of Arizona and others are in Texas and can cast their votes for Colin Allred for Senate and defeat Ted Cruz!
That an election is decided by 7 states when we have 50 proves that our system is broken because the people are substandard waiting for the Easter bunnies
I agree with you Joan and share your frustration at our current political process. It is far too long, costs way too much money and focuses on several relatively smaller States.
What we have now, as a result of the electoral college process is minority rule. We have politicians beholden to the upper class that fund them and are incapable of making the necessary changes.
It’s hard for me to picture getting out of this mess other than major campaign finance reform, elimination of the electoral college and TERM LIMITS on Congress AND SCOTUS.
Everything is easy to fix but the American public doesn't care. We need a public vote to get rid of EC; make voting in Presidential elections compulsory (26 other countries do this); campaigning is limited to 6 weeks; term limits on everyone ; age limits; NO PACS OR PRIVATE FUNDING only public funding for the 6 weeks; and the new President moves into the White House by Thanksgiving.
Yes! This! JFK announced his candidacy for President in January of 1960 - 10 months before the election. We need to put a stop to four-year-and-growing campaigns. I really like 6 weeks for campaigning. And only public funding. It should not cost 2 billion US dollars to run for president! And most of all - get rid of the electoral college. I want my single vote to count just as much as the guy from Pennsylvania.
I couldn't agree with you more! How can the US President have a term limit but the VP, SC Judges, and US House & Senate members have none? And the crazy electoral college.
Voting is a good start. But please don't ignore the fact that this could be our last three weeks living in the world as we know it and our country as we know it -- which will be gone forever if a dictator from Day 1 takes over! Rather than taking a walk -- take a walk while knocking doors to get out Harris-Walz voters. Or with postcards. Or go to your local Democratic HQ and ask how you can help putting together canvassing packets or delivering yard signs. There are a million ways to help and if we all do a little bit it will add up to a lot!!! I've been volunteering as a door-knocker on weekends -- it's easy fun and could make the difference! Whatever you do, don't wake up the day after an election we lose by a hair and wish you had done more!!
I agree. Volunteering on the campaign means you are with people who feel as you and I do! It reduces my anxiety to be with them rather than staying home and feeling anxious. I actually don’t watch TV. I’ve watched a few of the events on the Kamala channel on YouTube. The town hall today in Michigan with Liz Cheney and Maria Shriver is well worth watching.
Oh Dan as great a journalist that you are, I think you’re just as good as a psychiatrist, personal planner, motivational speaker and all other professions designed to make one feel better. Your advice about polls is 100% correct. They don’t have the answers…as my good friend John Madden would always say”you don’t know the winner until after the game”. Take most of what you hear with a grain of salt. There is too much on social media and on u reliable news sites. Just keep aware. We need this democracy and it is in our hands to keep it. DT is pig a criminal and a low life. I worked in sports tv my whole career and heard plenty of locker room jokes….but in a bar, among colleagues, not at rallies and certainly not personal like he spoke of Arnold Palmer with a word that is foul…just like the man who spoke it. He still has 2 weeks left o sink lower and maybe lose a bunch more voters.
Love you Liz Cheney. Your heart and head are where they should be. Country and Constitution first.
I've finished canvassing for a local Democrat on our little island in Maine, put the last of about 2000 postcards/letters to swing state voters in the mail, and am packing to travel to swing state Wisconsin for GOTV. I've never done social media but continue to be a CSpan listener. This beautiful Autumn evening, I did a few hours of heavy duty gardening - weeding, preparing the beds for Autumn sowing and planting - preparing for next year's bounty. And isn't that what we are all doing for next year's bounty of good government and democracy. Put your back into it, sweat a bit, get your hands dirty - and keep your heart's eye on the rewards of our efforts.
ThankYou. I am more analytical than emotional about politics. But even I am heartened and encouraged by the communal commitment to this joint exercise to win power and move forward toward realizing our shared goals. No matter the outcome, we have created strong bonds and strong systems to sustain our continuing activism. I think the majority of the Left has finally relearned the lessons of the Civil Rights movement - yes, we need to march but we must translate that energy into strategic voting. (And, for the most part, have learned to reject vote splitting purity tests, pipe dreams, and Pied Pipers on power trips. For the most part. )
I find it interesting, if re-elected Trump intends to round up all immigrants and deport them, legal and illegal doesn't matter. But what will he do about Musk, an immigrant from South Africa?
I don't count Melania as my concern for her is on the same level as Trump's concern for her...zilch. She can go back where she came from wearing her "I don't care do you?" jacket, the same one she wore to our southern border to show her faux concern for the immigrants there.
It’s illegal. Joyce Vance eluded to it on Civil Discourse this morning. UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasan is a specialist in election integrity and campaign finance. He stated in a tweet that this is a violation of 52 USC 10307. The attorney general of PA is a Democrat, Michelle A Henry. We must all hope and pray Garland wakes up and does something like now!
Garland is either the biggest coward to ever hold the office of Attorney General, or complicit. There is no excuse for how he bungled the J6 investigation. One thing that I resent about Biden is that he didn't fire him when it became clear that he was dragging his feet on investigating and indicating Trump. I know that he wanted to distance himself from the case, but Garland I'd guilty of legal malpractice as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, especially the way he keeps upping the $$. He began at $47, then went to $100. Now he’s added a bunch of zeros.
I wonder how that correlates to the reporting that a leaked batch of his ground game for trump shows about 25% of “door knocks” are “suspicious.” IOW, fake outs for the cash. Canvassers enter addresses a half mile away & list them as no one home or refused survey.
His operation is supposed to be the best of the groups the campaign cobbled together.
I am sick and tired of the GOP, MAGA Republicans, Felon Trump, and JD Vance, who use Lies and Deception and brag about it to try to win an election. Why are they so afraid of the Truth? These leaders who use Deception and Fear are not worthy. They care only for themselves. Money and Power are all they care about. They make their ill-gotten money on the working American’s backs. They do not love, care for, or defend America's Constitution, Democracy, Rule of Law, Freedom, or Equality for all—elect-smart-thinking American leaders who will defend and protect America, Democracy, and the working American.
Thank you, Mr. Rather, for keeping us sane. I'm sure I won't be able to tear myself from MSNBC or stop reading the two national papers to which I subscribe, but being in nature is the recipe for restoring one's sanity. I already voted, BLUE up and down the ballot, 120 letter to voters went out the second week of October, my husband's phone-banked and will be doing so again, our Harris-Walz lawn signs have been stolen twice and replaced, and we soldier on.
I hear you! I felt a little guilty when someone took the time, effort and postage to send a postcard to us here in Arizona. We also voted blue up and down the ballot. It does look like Ruben Gallego has an edge over that idiot Kari Lake. So there is that. We are in the small town where John McCain lived (and a lot of the locals think he was too liberal!) and the Harris/Waltz signs disappear on a daily basis with yet another trump sign taking its place. Speaks so much of the character of his cult. We no longer frequent our favorite breakfast spot because it appears to be a hangout for loud maga cult members. We haven't lived here long enough to have met many known sane acquaintances. Like you, we soldier on.
I have written around 100 postcards to AZ for Harris, Walz, and Gallego 'to build on our Democratic success, protect our rights and because our Democrats will protect our freedoms, families, and future.' I would not consider it a waste of my time at all if you all got one of my cards. Consider it a ThankYou note:)
I too live in AZ and cite DJTs demeaning remarks about John Mc Cain and other POWs whenever I can.
Since DJTs horrific comment yesterday re the flag raising on Iwo Jima, I'm remembering Native Americsn Ira Hayes of AZ who helped raise the flag...and later was denied entry to restaurants in segregated Washington DC.
I remember watching when John McCain stepped off that plane finally on US soil. Five years in confinement, not knowing if each day would be his last...and now the Flag raising at Iwo Jima??? It is beyond me that his cult think of themselves as patriots yet let him get away with this behavior. Mind blown.....
"Idiot Kari Lake" should be the name of her autobiography! She is certifiable, right?! It boggles the mind how ANY sane individual could support this "Trump in heel," but they are the same loons voting for The Donvict. Go figure...some people's kids, eh?
I’ve ceased — actually did that awhile ago — to pay a lot of attention because I know we would wind up in this spot and because Election Day and the days after (maybe weeks) will be 10 times more intense.
I have decided to be positive, not watch the news shows, VOTE, have fun with my grandkids, and have faith that, whatever happens, America will be okay. I also pray twice a day for God’s help in keeping America one nation under God.
One more or less cheerful thought is soon enough Trump will be too far gone to carry on even should he win. His dementia is not going to improve, it will only get worse. He will not be able to carry on, he will have to be institutionalized. How can we ever trust the Republican Party ever again? We can’t. Vance cannot be trusted either because he knows it too. They have poisoned the trust of that party in their zeal to dominate.
I have come to terms with the situation and understand that what will be will be. The whole affair stinks to high heaven but here we are. The one thing that absolutely gobsmacks me is that half the voters would even consider voting for such a despicable and sorry excuse for a man as Donald Trump so obviously - glaringly - is. No matter the election outcome, we now see the sad state of the American populace in 2024 and will have to live with the consequences of it for many years to come. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
Don't forget Putin pal and Trump ally Jill Stein and her avenging minions. Spoiling to be spoilers and exploiting the desperation and despair of those so devastated by Netanyahu's ravaging of Gaza and now Lebanon that they want vengeance - putatively on Democrats, oddly not on Republicans, but ultimately on our most vulnerable neighbors, threatened democracy, and fragile planet. Including Palestinians, Lebanese, Arabs, and Muslims.
After President Biden was inaugurated I quit cable TV. I knew they were never going to stop talking trump. Then after a couple years I realized I was mostly watching shows on Prime. This year I got rid of my TV. And I have never missed it. I sent my vote in the first day and it has been received and counted. This week I finish pollworker training and we will start next week. Let’s do this.
Thank you! You are appreciated.👍
Aww thank you very kind of you to say.
👍👍
Inspiring!! Canceling cable tv, canceling Prime video, getting rid of your tv altogether. Voting on the first day, training to be a poll worker. Participating in and protecting our constitutional right to vote by being a poll worker. Thank you!!💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you so much, Lisa! You and all poll workers are my heroes. I appreciate you greatly!
Well thanks. But I really do enjoy it. It’s always a pleasure to meet the voters.
hope so many many votes for Kamala and Tim, other dems too, but especially them, who have worked so hard and Kamala who has been so disrespected by that orange criminal. Why has he not even been jailed for his attack on our Capitol?
soon....he can be in court to be held to account for the attack on Congress and our democratic process.
Hope so!
That’s awesome!!
But what about baseball?
I enjoy your articles and agree with you 100 percent. But please! no more photos of the FORMER president in any pose.
I just want to see him in handcuffs and an orange jump suit. Then he can go in the pokey until he comes out in a box and gets planted in some random place next to a golf course.
I like the way you think, Melissa!
🤣🤣🤣
Would that be considered illegal disposing of toxic waste?
Thank you for saying no more photos of them ever!
I have stopped looking at ANY pictures of Trump. He makes me nauseous.
We are in a terrible place politically, but as long as we breathe we can change for the better.
In the US, maybe, but doubtful.
Me too. 🤢
trump's picture is like being startled by turning a page in National Geographic and there is a snake picture. But the vilified snake is just being the reptile that it was born to be while trump became a reptile with all the negativity that is associated with that designation!
With all due respect I'm startled by snakes but ... this effin' guy! I'm repulsed and horrified at this poor excuse for a human animal.
I totally agree!
Recently a woman was removed from a flight for wearing a top which showed her midriff.
Looking at the photo of Musk baring his midriff, I want to say, act your age! Get off that platform!
Musk is disgusting too. I would never buy a Tesla auto!
Agreed.
I could do without any photos of Musk, either. After seeing photos of him doing his "dark MAGA" thing, I pulled the plug on my Twitter/X account, and as a parting shot told him what he could do with himself. It was a quote of his remarks toward companies who elected to stop placing ads on his platform.
I would rather see his face than hear his voice.
Thanks Dan and Team Steady. I felt myself 'cracking' a couple weeks ago and got off the social media and limited my news consumption to what I could 'read' vs. listen to (over and over). I feel better, but my extra fancy anxiety continues to plague me. You are a calm voice in this storm.
Agree with this strategy. Even in 🇨🇦
Be a social media presence. Do not concede it to the other side. Support the people who are writing the right things. Write your own posts. Create memes.
Do not stick your head in the sand by ignoring the medium others are using to harm us.
I hear you and normally I am all about it with support and sharing but something really hit me a couple weeks ago and I needed a break.
DK, I do that and I really do need a break....
I agree. Too many folks are stressing out. So watch old movies, read good books. Don’t talk politics.
If you need to do something, contact your local Democratic organization and see if you can volunteer.
Otherwise, let it go. It will be what it will be. Well, maybe pray 🙏
Ah, yes. I am reading Jodi Piccoult's latest novel, practicing my mountain dulcimer, and writing notes and card to friends. And in any case, my social life is carried on wholly in person, not on computer. But I still find myself anxious enough to pray several times a day for my beloved nation.
Ive been praying the Psalms.
I love the Psalms. Poetry and song, especially the 23rd Psalm. This passage resonates with me so much right now.:
“Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I shall
fear no evil for though art with me.”
These words describe where we are as a nation right now. We are traveling through a valley that feels dark, but it is “the valley of the SHADOW of death” and we just don’t know what will happen. It’s terrifying that there is one candidate who is evil, cares only for himself and who wants to literally destroy our democratic way of life.He also seems to be sliding into dementia, which makes him wholly unfit to run the United States of America. But the other candidate is full of light!!
She is strong, intelligent, courageous, steady, experienced and empathetic. She wants.to make people’s lives better through an “opportunity economy” that lifts people up. Kamala is a capable warrior who will fight to defeat the horrible beast who aims to get revenge. And, remember—she has done this before!! (taking. down the Sinaloa cartel and the Guadalajara Cartel) when she was Attorney General of California. For me, I need to be working to help Harris/Walz win, so I’ll be donating and starting with my siblings and cousins, checking to make sure they are registered to vote and that they have a plan.I will then ask them to check with their friends and coworkers to make sure they’re registered and have a plan to vote. Luckily my family leans heavily Democratic and some of the cousins are in the swing state of Arizona and others are in Texas and can cast their votes for Colin Allred for Senate and defeat Ted Cruz!
And eat some ice cream.
That, too. I think i will get some tomorrow.
I have also prayed about this election!
That an election is decided by 7 states when we have 50 proves that our system is broken because the people are substandard waiting for the Easter bunnies
I agree with you Joan and share your frustration at our current political process. It is far too long, costs way too much money and focuses on several relatively smaller States.
What we have now, as a result of the electoral college process is minority rule. We have politicians beholden to the upper class that fund them and are incapable of making the necessary changes.
It’s hard for me to picture getting out of this mess other than major campaign finance reform, elimination of the electoral college and TERM LIMITS on Congress AND SCOTUS.
Everything is easy to fix but the American public doesn't care. We need a public vote to get rid of EC; make voting in Presidential elections compulsory (26 other countries do this); campaigning is limited to 6 weeks; term limits on everyone ; age limits; NO PACS OR PRIVATE FUNDING only public funding for the 6 weeks; and the new President moves into the White House by Thanksgiving.
Yes! This! JFK announced his candidacy for President in January of 1960 - 10 months before the election. We need to put a stop to four-year-and-growing campaigns. I really like 6 weeks for campaigning. And only public funding. It should not cost 2 billion US dollars to run for president! And most of all - get rid of the electoral college. I want my single vote to count just as much as the guy from Pennsylvania.
I couldn't agree with you more! How can the US President have a term limit but the VP, SC Judges, and US House & Senate members have none? And the crazy electoral college.
I, too, am unhappy with the current fact of swing states.
If truly "free and fair" election... there should be another way. (Constitution has been amended before). A collective: one citizen= one vote.
Stacking certain states with conspiracy theorists... really doubtful that was the original plan!!!
But, psychologically, 'birds of a feather flock together'.
Sadly, those states can lean more psycho, than the logical.
Wishing the Golden Rule would come back into society. Ethics. Trust. and STEADINESS.
If we get rid of the electoral college we'll make a huge stride toward that goal.
Many people have liked this comment, but this article connects the dots: https://joanbreibart80bites.substack.com/p/letter-to-vice-president-harris-on
Thanks, Dan and Team Steady. We all need to be reminded of your suggestions. A collective deep breath . . .
Voting is a good start. But please don't ignore the fact that this could be our last three weeks living in the world as we know it and our country as we know it -- which will be gone forever if a dictator from Day 1 takes over! Rather than taking a walk -- take a walk while knocking doors to get out Harris-Walz voters. Or with postcards. Or go to your local Democratic HQ and ask how you can help putting together canvassing packets or delivering yard signs. There are a million ways to help and if we all do a little bit it will add up to a lot!!! I've been volunteering as a door-knocker on weekends -- it's easy fun and could make the difference! Whatever you do, don't wake up the day after an election we lose by a hair and wish you had done more!!
I agree. Volunteering on the campaign means you are with people who feel as you and I do! It reduces my anxiety to be with them rather than staying home and feeling anxious. I actually don’t watch TV. I’ve watched a few of the events on the Kamala channel on YouTube. The town hall today in Michigan with Liz Cheney and Maria Shriver is well worth watching.
Oh Dan as great a journalist that you are, I think you’re just as good as a psychiatrist, personal planner, motivational speaker and all other professions designed to make one feel better. Your advice about polls is 100% correct. They don’t have the answers…as my good friend John Madden would always say”you don’t know the winner until after the game”. Take most of what you hear with a grain of salt. There is too much on social media and on u reliable news sites. Just keep aware. We need this democracy and it is in our hands to keep it. DT is pig a criminal and a low life. I worked in sports tv my whole career and heard plenty of locker room jokes….but in a bar, among colleagues, not at rallies and certainly not personal like he spoke of Arnold Palmer with a word that is foul…just like the man who spoke it. He still has 2 weeks left o sink lower and maybe lose a bunch more voters.
Love you Liz Cheney. Your heart and head are where they should be. Country and Constitution first.
Thank you, couldn’t have said it better. Can you imagine the garbage that comes out of him.
No class at all. Full of crass.
What a role model ? Not only God Bless America but I strongly feel God Save America.
I agree with all of this, Janis. Especially Liz Cheney.
She sure turned out okay.
I've finished canvassing for a local Democrat on our little island in Maine, put the last of about 2000 postcards/letters to swing state voters in the mail, and am packing to travel to swing state Wisconsin for GOTV. I've never done social media but continue to be a CSpan listener. This beautiful Autumn evening, I did a few hours of heavy duty gardening - weeding, preparing the beds for Autumn sowing and planting - preparing for next year's bounty. And isn't that what we are all doing for next year's bounty of good government and democracy. Put your back into it, sweat a bit, get your hands dirty - and keep your heart's eye on the rewards of our efforts.
Grateful. My son works for a Wisconsin Dems. He keeps me calm.
I love all you have said. You show real, positive Hope for the future. Wish everyone was like you. ❤️🌺❤️
ThankYou. I am more analytical than emotional about politics. But even I am heartened and encouraged by the communal commitment to this joint exercise to win power and move forward toward realizing our shared goals. No matter the outcome, we have created strong bonds and strong systems to sustain our continuing activism. I think the majority of the Left has finally relearned the lessons of the Civil Rights movement - yes, we need to march but we must translate that energy into strategic voting. (And, for the most part, have learned to reject vote splitting purity tests, pipe dreams, and Pied Pipers on power trips. For the most part. )
I think it shows desperation on their part… Having to buy votes? Is that the only way he has a chance to win? Way to go Elon.
Elon musk needs to go back to s Africa or where ever. He’s a nut case and not good for America.
and the other two back to their countries. Murdock and whoever.
I find it interesting, if re-elected Trump intends to round up all immigrants and deport them, legal and illegal doesn't matter. But what will he do about Musk, an immigrant from South Africa?
Or his wife and her family?
Fact is, we need immigrants.
Aren't we all immigrants except for the Native Americans?
Exactly, my point. And the people who landed at Ellis Island, off the boat, are you trying to tell me they all came legally? Too much hypocrisy.
Thank you
I don't count Melania as my concern for her is on the same level as Trump's concern for her...zilch. She can go back where she came from wearing her "I don't care do you?" jacket, the same one she wore to our southern border to show her faux concern for the immigrants there.
Sadly being a nut case is far too common these days.
It’s illegal. Joyce Vance eluded to it on Civil Discourse this morning. UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasan is a specialist in election integrity and campaign finance. He stated in a tweet that this is a violation of 52 USC 10307. The attorney general of PA is a Democrat, Michelle A Henry. We must all hope and pray Garland wakes up and does something like now!
Garland is either the biggest coward to ever hold the office of Attorney General, or complicit. There is no excuse for how he bungled the J6 investigation. One thing that I resent about Biden is that he didn't fire him when it became clear that he was dragging his feet on investigating and indicating Trump. I know that he wanted to distance himself from the case, but Garland I'd guilty of legal malpractice as far as I'm concerned.
The Trump/Elon crowd believes all of life is transactional and comes with a price tag. Let's prove them wrong.
Yes, especially the way he keeps upping the $$. He began at $47, then went to $100. Now he’s added a bunch of zeros.
I wonder how that correlates to the reporting that a leaked batch of his ground game for trump shows about 25% of “door knocks” are “suspicious.” IOW, fake outs for the cash. Canvassers enter addresses a half mile away & list them as no one home or refused survey.
His operation is supposed to be the best of the groups the campaign cobbled together.
I am sick and tired of the GOP, MAGA Republicans, Felon Trump, and JD Vance, who use Lies and Deception and brag about it to try to win an election. Why are they so afraid of the Truth? These leaders who use Deception and Fear are not worthy. They care only for themselves. Money and Power are all they care about. They make their ill-gotten money on the working American’s backs. They do not love, care for, or defend America's Constitution, Democracy, Rule of Law, Freedom, or Equality for all—elect-smart-thinking American leaders who will defend and protect America, Democracy, and the working American.
ELECT HARRIS-WALZ
Thank you, Mr. Rather, for keeping us sane. I'm sure I won't be able to tear myself from MSNBC or stop reading the two national papers to which I subscribe, but being in nature is the recipe for restoring one's sanity. I already voted, BLUE up and down the ballot, 120 letter to voters went out the second week of October, my husband's phone-banked and will be doing so again, our Harris-Walz lawn signs have been stolen twice and replaced, and we soldier on.
I hear you! I felt a little guilty when someone took the time, effort and postage to send a postcard to us here in Arizona. We also voted blue up and down the ballot. It does look like Ruben Gallego has an edge over that idiot Kari Lake. So there is that. We are in the small town where John McCain lived (and a lot of the locals think he was too liberal!) and the Harris/Waltz signs disappear on a daily basis with yet another trump sign taking its place. Speaks so much of the character of his cult. We no longer frequent our favorite breakfast spot because it appears to be a hangout for loud maga cult members. We haven't lived here long enough to have met many known sane acquaintances. Like you, we soldier on.
Hello Carole,
I have written around 100 postcards to AZ for Harris, Walz, and Gallego 'to build on our Democratic success, protect our rights and because our Democrats will protect our freedoms, families, and future.' I would not consider it a waste of my time at all if you all got one of my cards. Consider it a ThankYou note:)
Awwww! Thank you, lin! I hope we in Arizona make you proud on November 5th!
Hear Hear! We went blue last time, let's do it again!!!
Messing with campaign signs is a misdemeanor where I live. May want to report suspicious activity.
I too live in AZ and cite DJTs demeaning remarks about John Mc Cain and other POWs whenever I can.
Since DJTs horrific comment yesterday re the flag raising on Iwo Jima, I'm remembering Native Americsn Ira Hayes of AZ who helped raise the flag...and later was denied entry to restaurants in segregated Washington DC.
I remember watching when John McCain stepped off that plane finally on US soil. Five years in confinement, not knowing if each day would be his last...and now the Flag raising at Iwo Jima??? It is beyond me that his cult think of themselves as patriots yet let him get away with this behavior. Mind blown.....
"Idiot Kari Lake" should be the name of her autobiography! She is certifiable, right?! It boggles the mind how ANY sane individual could support this "Trump in heel," but they are the same loons voting for The Donvict. Go figure...some people's kids, eh?
I’ve ceased — actually did that awhile ago — to pay a lot of attention because I know we would wind up in this spot and because Election Day and the days after (maybe weeks) will be 10 times more intense.
They always are, only now there's a lot more on the line.
Yeap! Stay off the pollercoaster and do something!
I have decided to be positive, not watch the news shows, VOTE, have fun with my grandkids, and have faith that, whatever happens, America will be okay. I also pray twice a day for God’s help in keeping America one nation under God.
One more or less cheerful thought is soon enough Trump will be too far gone to carry on even should he win. His dementia is not going to improve, it will only get worse. He will not be able to carry on, he will have to be institutionalized. How can we ever trust the Republican Party ever again? We can’t. Vance cannot be trusted either because he knows it too. They have poisoned the trust of that party in their zeal to dominate.
The sleepiness episodes are a symptom of some dementia types, along with the other visible issues.
DT is not immortal, so JD Vance is equal threat to the USA... DT worshippers will transfer their idolatry to him
Have we all forgotten that he LOST the last time? I don’t believe he will win this time either despite Elon’s bribes.
I don't think it matters. Vance is the Plan.
I have come to terms with the situation and understand that what will be will be. The whole affair stinks to high heaven but here we are. The one thing that absolutely gobsmacks me is that half the voters would even consider voting for such a despicable and sorry excuse for a man as Donald Trump so obviously - glaringly - is. No matter the election outcome, we now see the sad state of the American populace in 2024 and will have to live with the consequences of it for many years to come. We have met the enemy, and it is us.
Don't forget Putin pal and Trump ally Jill Stein and her avenging minions. Spoiling to be spoilers and exploiting the desperation and despair of those so devastated by Netanyahu's ravaging of Gaza and now Lebanon that they want vengeance - putatively on Democrats, oddly not on Republicans, but ultimately on our most vulnerable neighbors, threatened democracy, and fragile planet. Including Palestinians, Lebanese, Arabs, and Muslims.
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