Jeff Norman

I don't know (re the headline question)...but I do know that a reporter at this point imagining that anything Trump does could possibly be a "carefully thought-out strategy" (par. 6). FFS Trump is INCAPABLE of "carefully thinking" about anydamnedthing. And probably has been all his life.

I don't know (re the headline question)...but I do know that a reporter at this point imagining that anything Trump does could possibly be a "carefully thought-out strategy" (par. 6). FFS Trump is INCAPABLE of "carefully thinking" about anydamnedthing. And probably has been all his life.

I don't know (re the headline question)...but I do know that a reporter at this point imagining that anything Trump does could possibly be a "carefully thought-out strategy" (par. 6). FFS Trump is INCAPABLE of "carefully thinking" about anydamnedthing. And probably has been all his life.

"That's not sugar. It's shit!" —independent voters, hopefully

Everything I have read or heard from this guy is dead-on. I really hope he wins. (Not my state - next door, more or less)

Turns out, "Tommy" isn't just some guy in the crowd. "Tommy" is Republican operative Thomas Teepell. And the Right is, somehow, trying to spin this exchange as El Sayer *not* disavowing the Muslim Brotherhood. (He does, clearly, a few minutes in.)

Robert Reich recently wondered what it is about us that we allow people like Trump and Musk to have so much power. I think the answer is that "we" allow individual humans to accumulate such obscene amounts of money, which disconnects them from reality, almost as a necessity.

And that power and status allows them to game the system further in their favor, warping the very reality we experience in news and other media. We might not undergo conditioning like Alex in 'A Clockwork Orange'...but the effect is the same.

Heather Cox Richardson notes that "yesterday Elizabeth Findell, Mark Maremont, and Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Paxton spent New Year’s Eve in 2024 in Dubai, partying with a woman who was not his wife, along with two fugitives from U.S. justice."

Not that I'm worried about her candidacy, but local Republican Yasmine Outlaw is following the playbook in, once again, canceling a scheduled debate at the last minute.

I was going to write the candidate directly...but her website is SO amateurish, its main page has generic text about a publication, the kind of thing a website provider includes in a package as a sample. The campaign was too incompetent even to overwrite this text.

Not that I'm worried about her candidacy, but local Republican Yasmine Outlaw is following the playbook in, once again, canceling a scheduled debate at the last minute.

Enough. WE are not the ones favoring a grotesque, racist, misogynist revanchism more at home in the '50s - the 1850s - than in today's multiethnic America.

If, however, you enjoy those same things...but are also a raving bigot, THAT is why I disrespect you. And I'd disrespect you if your interests and values were identical to my own. And since, by and large, the left does not actually lack respect for those interests, or for churchgoing, patriotism,

Enough. WE are not the ones favoring a grotesque, racist, misogynist revanchism more at home in the '50s - the 1850s - than in today's multiethnic America.

Not to mention that ICE's own guidance states that agents have a DUTY to get out of the way when that actually happens...not shoot the driver. Because, contrary to the idiocy of ICE agents, a car does not die and stop moving just because its driver does.