Even in deep red states, republicans stand up to Trump.
Florida GOP Gubernatorial Nominee Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds’ campaign updated his website this week stripping away numerous references to Trump’s endorsement, removing his photo with the president and taking “enact the Trump agenda” off his issues page.
What a hoot.
Ashley Hinson Congresswoman for Northeast Iowa
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Michigan GOP Senate Candidate
Kansas’s former GOP governor backs Democrat over Marshall for Senate
The Hill reports Kansas’s former GOP governor backs Democrat over Marshall for Senate
Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves (R) on Tuesday endorsed Adam Hamilton, a Democrat challenging Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall (R).
Saying the country is “facing increasing partisan gridlock and division,” Graves said it is “time Kansas does something different” and elect Hamilton, a Methodist minister.
“For the last six years, Senator Roger Marshall has turned his back on Kansas,” the former governor remarked in a video Hamilton shared to social platform X. “In contrast, Adam Hamilton stands as a bulwark of kindness, humility and service to others.
“It is for those reasons, and many more, that I believe Kansas should send Adam Hamilton to the U.S. Senate.”
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Hard to believe some of this stuff is true. If this is truly where we are at, where the leaders, supposedly our best and brightest, are just pigs with lipstick on (apologies to the pigs out there) then maybe it IS best to burn the whole thing down and start again.
Getting elected doesn’t mean you are amongst the best and brightest of the herd. That is your first mistake. As Hayek wrote, the worst get on top. Many people on top are the best sociopaths and psychopaths society has to offer.
Christ, that tweet about “baby gravey” is truely disgusting. WTF is wrong with these people?
For me it’s becoming quite evident that every Republican accusation is a confession.
Sickening…….
Par for the course in the Epstein class.
If true, yes. Women lie all the fucking time. So do men.
“It’s your baby.”
“He hit me.”
“The guy up for Supreme Court nomination, yeah, he raped me a long time ago.”
It is too little, too late. Last week the Senate was a maybe, now it’s at 65%. Far from trivial.
How will Mike Johnson and Donald Trump prevent the election from going through?
I think it’s going to be fairly obvious who the winner is going to be based on polls and even election night results without mail in ballots that trend blue. This is their last chance to involve Project 2025 and secure a white supremacy nation
“If we buy $2 billion worth of bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing $2 billion. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save $2 billion”
-President Donald J. Trump
I wish I was making this shit up.
He would be telling the whole story if said the whole $2 billion was spent on apples grown in the US. Which would be a good thing.
Our balance of payments has been pulling us down for decades. Rather than pushing up the cost of foreign goods, with tariffs, our government should have been pushing down the costs of US goods.
Good luck with that.
The US already has a trade surplus with Brazil, but good on the US putting tariffs and getting counter tariffs that will inevitably reduce this deficit and make Brazil lean more on China
You save 2 billion so that we can afford to cut tax for billionaires.
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party, and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.” Gore Vidal
There is an equilibrium between the propertied clique overreaching, on one hand (oligarchy), and the masses plundering everything (what the founders called “the mob”). Does your comment imply you prefer the mob? Are they better stewards — thinking of 1917 Russia? Was Occupy Wall Street any model of sustainable modern governance?
Beware, lest the majority rush to the opposite rail of the boat, and capsize it.
‘if you listen to fools, the mob rules.’
on your life you couldn’t tell the difference in policies the past 80 years, between red and blue party in power in congress and/or executive. nobody could. i will admit, after trump 2nd term and jan 6th, i might be wrong in another couple of years. i do believe a few states will effectively secede by jan 20, 2029
This is just a rationalization for the people who have been voting for the greater of two evils for their entire lives.
The biggest trick the Republicans pulled is making people believe the other side is as bad, so they create apathy while they supress people’s freedom, ban books, wage war, run up the debt and redistribute wealth from poor to rich. Just because the other side is bad does not mean as bad, or even nearly as bad. There is a huge difference, as this administration once again made clear.
Excellent point.
Another GOP congressman trying to feed kids his baby gravy? FCC chair is a creep (just look at the guy ffs)? Someone call BusinessWoman and let her know those poor kids are in trouble!
She’s busy breaking that trans glass ceiling. You go girl!
But remember, it’s actually the parents fault and the kids’ fault for being fed a stranger’s baby gravy.
Crazy how the “Republican” (the thing wearing the party’s face) mindset is literally just “I can do what I want, it’s your fault for letting me!”
Look what you made me do!
I have just two words for the sickophants.
SUCK IT!
Mike Rogers is a war loving Neocon of the 1st order. His ad will by a lying pretense.
“Byron Donalds’ campaign updated his website this week stripping away numerous references to Trump’s endorsement, removing his photo with the president and taking “enact the Trump agenda” off his issues page.”
Lt. Aldo Raine to Oberst Hans Landa:
But I do have one question?
When you go to your little place on
Nantuckett Island, I image you gonna
take off that handsome looking SS
uniform of yours, ain’t ya?
That’s what I thought. Now that…
I can’t abide.
I mean if I had my way, you’d wear
that goddamn uniform for the rest of
your pecker suckin life. But I’m
aware that’s ain’t practical. I mean
at some point ya gotta hafta take it
off.
So I’m gonna give you a little
somethin you can’t take off.
The best scene of one of my favorite movies ever. Not sure how good a human being Brad Pitt is, but dude can act.
” You know Lieutenant, you’re getting pretty good at that!”
“You know why you get ta Carnagie Hall, dontcha? PRACTICE!!!”
Also, his fight scene in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is cinematic gold. Makes me laugh every time I watch it, especially when he makes fun of Tex. But I think I am way off topic now.
Big Tarantino fan here. Just found out there’s a litmus test in Inglourious Basterds — in the cafe scene, did Landa know that Emmanuelle was Shoshana? I maintain there’s no proof.
yeah, personally not sure. usually drunk at that point so I miss the finer points.
bonus points for allowing the term “carpet munching” on your blog.
These are times when vulgarities often fit the bill. Trump led the way by using them, and embodying them.
Time to rename America to Vulgaria.
amerikans have been such little pussy scolds for too long. afraid of women’s nipples, even. i find it hilarious. clutching my pearls.
Public prudery is only a front for hidden depravity.
I wish I had more faith in the American electorate to hope that they will follow through and vote all these spineless opportunistic bums out.
But I doubt it. Rather than voting with integrity, they’ll pull for the party or because of bribes or for other base reasons.
And even if they do, I can’t honestly say that the alternative candidates are deep down any better.
There are far too few Massies or other principled options out there.
“Least bad” is generally all that is on the menu. I’ll take it.
Part of being an adult. At some point you realize nobody is paying any attention to your tantrum.
“There are far too few Massies or other principled options out there.”
AIPAC makes damn sure of it.
So, the rats are finally doing the right thing and abandoning the ship? Is it really too late?
Everybody know that you need more than 3-4 comanies providing a product or service for there to be any market competition — otherwise they will collude (whether explicitly or silently) on prices and terms of service.
In the US there simply is no political competition.
I get what you’re saying about the US two party system but then you quickly lose me when you hold up the Duma as a model alternative.
Near as I can tell the Duma is a rubber stamp to Putin with a 75% or so lockdown by Putin’s United Russia party, and that the other parties are at best interested bystanders. Maybe I’m missing something, but I see nothing that substantiates your assertion.
If only there were some other, not run by a fascist state, parliament to look to! If only such places existed! Oh well, guess we should turn into Russ- oh wait we’re already there.
Didn’t Iceland jail their banksters ~18 years ago?
Nobody said that the Russian political system is a model, simply that the reality is more complicated than the Marvel Comics caricature that we are fed.
No, the only qualification for the job is being a prolific pedophile, a card carrying member of the Epstein Club.
It’s Team Crazy v. Team Chaos…sad part Mish is in my part of the world there are some decent GOP folks running in this hard blue to purpley state, ruled by Team Crazy. It’s a real challenge to get any balance in Oregon given the lead tire dropped around the neck of the candidates in this midterm cycle. And it was all avoidable…
Trump has gone from a feared president six months ago to one where the cracks and defections are shredding his regime on the daily.
Once the House flips to the Dems, the wheels are going to grind to a halt other than the executive orders, the illegal actions (like bulldozing buildings), the pardons, and the endless corruption.
As long as he keeps his fingers off the nuclear button, I think (hope) we’ll make it through.
We have an amazing ability as a species to muddle through. Hoping you’re right about a nuke. I heard a listener on my talk station tell a host that the way to fix it is to nuke Tehran. The irony…nuke the country so they can’t get a nuke…That’ll teach ’em. /sarc
That’s the Trumpian way. Get them before they get you!
Pretty simple – the primaries are over
I can’t dare to hope that the Senate flips as well as the House. The polls have always underestimated Trump’s appeal.
Somehow I can’t imagine that Kansas, Iowa and TEXAS(!) will go Dem, the media has rug-pulled the left way too many times. Remember Beto?