Don't risk a rerun of the 2000 election.

In the first presidential election of the 21st century many deluded progressives voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Their foolishness gave us eight years of George W. Bush who plagued the country with two recessions (including the Great Recession) and two wars (one totally unnecessary and one which could have been avoided if he heeded an intelligence brief 5 weeks before 9/11).

Oh yeah, Dubya also appointed one conservative and one batshit crazy reactionary to the US Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito are still there.

Paul Waldman of the Washington Post offers some thoughts.

Why leftists should work their hearts out for Biden in 2024

Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace. The first is the number of votes Ralph Nader received in Florida in 2000 as the nominee of the Green Party; the second is the margin by which George W. Bush was eventually certified the winner of the state, handing him the White House. Now, with President Biden gearing up for reelection, talk of a spoiler candidate from the left is again in the air. That’s unfortunate, because here’s the truth: The past 2½ years under Biden have been a triumph for progressivism, even if it’s not in most people’s interest to admit it. This was not what most people expected from Biden, who ran as a relative moderate in the 2020 Democratic primary. His nomination was a victory for pragmatism with its eyes directed toward the center. But today, no one can honestly deny that Biden is the most progressive president since at least Lyndon B. Johnson. His judicial appointments are more diverse than those of any of his predecessors. He has directed more resources to combating climate change than any other president. Notwithstanding the opposition from the Supreme Court, his administration has moved aggressively to forgive and restructure student loans.

Three years ago the economy was in horrible shape because of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic. Now unemployment is steadily below 4%, job creation continues to exceed expectations, and wages are rising as unions gain strength. The post-pandemic, post-Afghan War inflation rate has receded to near normal levels; people in the 1970s would have sold their souls for a 3.2% (and dropping) inflation rate. And many of the effects of "Bidenomics" have yet to kick in.

And in a story that is criminally underappreciated, his administration’s policy reaction to the covid-induced recession of 2020 was revolutionary in precisely the ways any good leftist should favor. It embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

It worked. While inflation rose (as it did worldwide), the economy’s recovery has been blisteringly fast. It took more than six years for employment rates to return to what they were before the Great Recession hit in 2008, but we surpassed January 2020 jobs levels by the spring of 2022 — and have kept adding jobs ever since. To the idealistic leftist, that might feel like both old news and a partial victory at best. What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president. And that brings me to the heart of how people on the left ought to think about Biden and his reelection.

Biden has gotten things done. The US economy is doing better than those of almost every other advanced industrialized country.

Our rivals China and Russia are both worse off than they were three years ago. And NATO is not just united, it's growing.

Sadly, we still need to deal with a far right MAGA cult at home who would wreck the country just to get its own way.

Biden may be elderly and unexciting, but that is one of the reasons he won in 2020. Many people just wanted an end to the daily drama of Trump's capricious and incompetent rule by tweet. And a good portion of those people live in places that count greatly in elections – suburbs and exurbs.

Superhero films seem to be slipping in popularity. Hopefully that's a sign that voters are less likely to embrace self-appointed political messiahs to save them from themselves.

Good governance is a steady process – not a collection of magic tricks. Experienced and competent individuals who are not too far removed from the lives of the people they represent are the best people to have in government.

Paul Waldman concludes his column speaking from the heart as a liberal...

I’ve been in and around politics for many years, and even among liberals, I’ve almost always been one of the most liberal people in the room. Yet only since Biden’s election have I realized that I will probably never see a president as liberal as I’d like. It’s not an easy idea to make peace with. But it suggests a different way of thinking about elections — as one necessary step in a long, difficult process. The further you are to the left, the more important Biden’s reelection ought to be to you. It might require emotional (and policy) compromise, but for now, it’s also the most important tool you have to achieve progressive ends.

Exactly. Rightwingers take the long view. It took them 49 years but they eventually got Roe v. Wade overturned. To succeed, we need to look upon politics as an extended marathon rather as one short sprint.

Republicans may currently be bickering, but they will most likely unite behind whichever anti-abortion extremist they nominate.

It's necessary to get the word out now that the only way to defeat climate-denying, abortion-restricting, assault weapon-loving, race-baiting, homophobic Republicans is to vote Democratic.

Soooo, I generally DON'T get political or divisive in the strip... buuuuttt... it's PRIDE and, like with last week’s strip, I am kinda burnt out with seeing the same asinine arguments online over and over. Why do I have to defend my legal right to exist with people who learned biology from "Kindergarten Cop"?

Lila and I went to the Wrentham outlets to shop for a dress for her to wear to my niece’s graduation and I’m good, I don’t need to go to an outlet again for another ten years. In fact, I despise clothes shopping. But, I did find a pair of pants and a top at Banana Republic and a pair of Lucky jeans for half off, so that was a plus. So much easier to find what works when you can try it on, but so hard to find anything that works when you’re forced to try it on in a little closet with the worst lighting on the planet highlighting all the ways age and gravity and that cookie addiction is playing high and loose with your body. Shopping is terrible and I don’t understand people who enjoy it enough to purposely spend time doing it for fun. 

Also, the air quality was completely fucked from the Nova Scotia fire smoke - hazy yellow sky that made it feel like it’s 15 degrees warmer than it actually is, and the taste of burnt universe in our mouths. Weirdly a half hour south in Bridgewater, it’s fine, with a deep blue sky and the smell of freshly cut grass and the Black Locust trees in full bloom filling the air with their intense fragrance. 

After shopping I required a 20-minute power nap in which I fell to the very bottom of the lake. Now, I’m at the dining room table attempting to engage my brain enough to do some work, listening to the traffic that’s primarily made up of diesel four-door pickup trucks that race down the 35 mph residential street going at least double that, and often much faster. Many have Trump signs and giant American flags mounted to the back, unfurled behind them, snapping in the wind. Even in this blue state, so many Trumpsters. 

It’s so crazy to me that in the 70s and 80s we all (dozens of neighborhood kids) played in the street every day - riding bikes and skateboards, bouncing on our pogo sticks, jumping rope, stopping our endless street hockey game to move the net every now and again to let a neighbor pass on their way home from the grocery store or work or to crowd around the ice cream truck to buy banana and root beer popsicles and sherbet cannonballs with bubble gum balls melted and gooey in the bottom of the plastic cone. Now there’s a car every ten seconds or less at rush hour and a steady stream the rest of the day and the trunks of the once-young Maples we climbed in the front yard are too big to get our arms around. 

I’m trying to tie this up neatly, but I think I need to let that idea go and move on to the client work I keep avoiding, so enjoy this thematically-challenged post about too many things, or don’t, as @thecasaofjulesie2 would say – I’m not the boss of you. 

Im going to ponctuate a few things:

1) the woso fandom build this image that Ashlyn evil manipulating bitch, Ali saint and naive. It doesn't matter what anyone says, even if Ali came out in public and say "I was the one who cheated and manipulate Ash", they are going to find a way to make Ashlyn the villain.

I say that cause everyone completely ignores that Ali and Ashlyn first break up was cause Ali didn't want to come out of the closet and ended everything. She said that herself around 2016/2017, but everyone ignores it.

2) We have no idea of how they are in daily basis and in those 13 years of their relationship. What we know is that when they got back together, Ashlyn pretty much accepted whatever was the pace that Ali wanted.

3) This whole "hate on Ashlyn" train was started by Hope Solo's fan and followed by Naeher's fans, when USSF fired Hope. And now is pandering by Ali's brother and fandom, using the said two fandom.

4) We also don't know how it was Sophia relationship with Ali. To me, Sophia was always far more closer to Christen, Rapinoe, Tobin, Alex, Syd and Ashlyn. I kinda understand Ali cause she seems more introvert, and not much open to people outside her circle of friends and soccer world, while Sophia is an extrovert person, she said several times she likes being around people and talking and having parties, and this kind of person might annoy an introvert.

Ashlyn is a lot like Sophia in that aspect. They also have many same interests and have similar experiences too, by both living in near by cities in the same period and both being major in communication.

5) If Sophia had cheated on Grant with Ashlyn, you bet your asses we would know already. People were dying to Sophia make a mistake to spread in her face cause of her activism. The trumpsters and the blue lives matters part of CPD fandom was dying for something like this to happen, and most of Ashlyn's haters are jumping in the bandwagon with them to massacre them.

6) Sophia is a 41 year old woman who is constantly blamed for stuff she is used to deal with this kind of hate and so is Ashlyn. This might be a mistake? Yes, but at least she will do her mistake by her own head, but this might work too, like I said, we can't possibly know how they are in private and if they have chemistry. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds started in a similar way as Sophia and Ashlyn, and they are still together.

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of people who mean something special to you. Share some happiness 🌺💜

Right now, it’s been tough so the things that make me happy are more like goals.

1) I enjoy writing, but haven’t been able to do much in over a year. So, little by little, even if it’s a sentence I push myself to do something. I’m proud of myself for finishing a secret Santa story on time this year!

2) the friends I’ve made online have gotten me though a lot of the tough times, so please know I love you guys a lot! Getting back to you all helps to motivate me to get better 💜 and I’ll try to pop into Discord here and there when up to it. Oh, and I even got to meet two of you irl this August! You know who you are. That’s something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

3) related to above is interacting with the fandom. I had to drop out of the nalu blog cause I couldn’t keep up anymore. Giving up sucked, since I’d been doing it since fall of 2018, but it wasn’t fair to everyone else to let it flounder. Seeing it continue makes me really happy.

4) my irl bestie of 27+ years has been living with me for a couple years while their family home is rebuilt after a fire. It’s made me undeniably happy to be able to help her, and her helping me through all the shit I’ve been dealing with. I’m blessed to have such an amazing friend. I’d lost tough with most of our old friends from hs, but this has motivated me to rekindle the relationships.

5) lastly, imma be selfish and say myself cause I’m proud I didn’t give up. 20 years ago this strife might’ve led to suicide, so that means I have gotten stronger. Looks like I just have more information I can stick in a story 🙃lol. Making myself happy is a big motivator.

Even with help, surviving whatever happens to you is ultimately due to your own efforts of not giving up, so Always remember to pat yourselves on the back!

I’m right with you girl 🥹✊ @cstorm86 it’s been a hell of a ride lately, but you’re a survivor! You got this! 💪

I’ll explain why I’ve been MIA from here for so long below.

From spring 2019 to august 2021 so much crap happened with my family. My uncles cancer/death revealed an explosive skeleton in the family closet that left my grandma homeless in November 2019. Neither her surviving kids would take her for selfish reasons so she lived with me. She was doing so well!… but In September 2020 her daughter finally took her, stuck her in a room sending her health plummeting and she died by the following April 2021. The final straw was my mom dying from Covid in august 2021 because my trumpster half-siblings who didn’t believe in Covid brought it home. They’re now all dead to me. I’ve also been having a lot of medical problems on top of this so, in September 2021 I just… cracked… Three psychiatrists, two anti-depressants, one antipsychotic, and two therapists later I’ve finally found a good therapeutic fit. Psychotherapy is tough but I really like it and I think I’ve started the road to recovery. I highly recommend this form of therapy when you need to fully break free from past traumas.

There are several things going on and one of them is just abject poverty his people don't care to do anything and make any money and do anything positive make changes get things they need they're just sitting around waiting for some sort of hand out that will never occur. And it's true we know about it and apparently they know that's the way it's going here. There are reasons for them to distribute the funds that they owe to our son first

-first and Paramount is that they are getting pressured from all sorts of people to do so hang on

-secondly those that were kicked out want them to do it to get them kicked out and they said if we get him this then we get kicked out and they don't believe it and they say they're going to and they don't and they say we stopped you and it goes on and on

-another reason is that technically they're breaking the law because they don't pay and if they know about it and a lot of them get fired because they see it and they don't pay or they trying change the record erroneously and they're getting fired a lot of them and yeah after a while there won't be anyone but that won't be for years at this rate even with all this stuff going on no that's one thing that's happening people cannot stand them anymore and it's extortion they did figure it out too and against pseudo empire foreigners us they want to extort stuff so kind of overrides the other reasons they say they haven't gotten anything so you have to prove it and we are others are too

-in his meanderings our son and sometimes daughter have figured out that if they pay out from social security something happens and we know about it and we know what the code is and it is to pursue those of different races and mixed races and people who are have messed up DNA and they don't want that and it is not really now this group is very large maybe issuing a hit against themselves they say and against minority warlock and minorities and by getting him funds and we have people on government support too but we did say this it needs to be lit up a little bit and take a look and see what you're doing these people who are running it have wasted their time doing anything and I'm not paying their people and they're not giving them bonuses and anything else

-if they paid our son he was saying he's our people and they be paying theirs in gaps and say it was real and think it kind of prove it cuz they really don't do anything and there's a whole bunch of gaps because they always make you wait and they were others there doing that so a lot of it is legitimate you can start with that and then start peppering it in and it's kind of tough there's so many and they don't want to do that and we've talked about it for 2 years solid

-another way is if they were to arrest those who are not doing it properly and going after their conspirators their groups and make large arrests and big nets and yeah it's ridiculous you're never going to go anywhere and do anything and people are looking at the problem saying it's too trumpsters and they find out it's not just them it's a bunch of pokey losers and they work for the higher ups and their bunch of s*** having a fight thinking one side will win by all of them being mean but this method is risky and that it exposes the issue and the issue is that they don't feel like paying it out at all but it has been done and quite often recently so it really is getting out I guess that they're not doing anything with it they don't want any security in in the masses or social security they call it which is absolute IDC they're the ones who receive these checks mostly their own people are mad let me see them with robots and ai and it's not there computer program so they're angry and you have Jesus Christ and Mary came back and others they be running it so they try and go after them all the time to kill them

-there's another reason that they would pay it out is if they had to try and move him so far they don't have to and it's taking a while there won't be as long as people think they went out there to fight over possible thorium and lost and died large armies of them and now they're being sought out globally and they're being killed

-and it is also a matter of timing the empire plans on disproofing it to dispersing it to our son and to try and find us and to go after corners and minority morlock and morlock but they're not there yet and they're supposed to get help from others and our son and daughter for free it didn't happen now they're up against the wall and we hear rumors that they might not even go through with it so we have to use force on all of them except foreigners and they have a reason to do it

+ what's happening now the pseudo empire is getting beaten up by the morlock in the rings even though they lost the forces there are beat up and they're going to get beat up tonight and the hardware and stuff will be taken away the max are taking it away too they don't like these folks and what they're doing here is gross and foreigners with the max missing most of their fleet they are not likely to pay out money to our son since they think it's uswho has it further they're trying to cut off social security to a lot of people and have nothing get to people and we are out there pulling these Max in and getting information a lot of it is very valuable and we're going to start taking their bases over underground and topside they've had their time to talk out loud and flab and foreigners are starting to get to them and the clothes took over 400 laser bases and it's precedent and we should go for the jugular while we can and he and she said that last night I put it forwards and they said you're right they look weak and they don't seem to care just like these morons

-that's a heck of a pile of people against you for having anything these people are dog s*** and only to be executed you're f****** losers and I tell you there's a ton of them they're running around circles like it's Halloween saying that they're awesome because they look like someone else for 20 minutes and you can't hold it then they have scoliosis the bones break and then in the hospital for a day and they're better than anybody else at it and they don't have a fleet pretty soon we hate them there are other reasons for it to be paid out but the foreigners will do it and will do it once these guys are held a day and it will draw the max out who are going to end up sitting there like you said it's did just as these idiots did

More shortly and it's a good and powerful announcement it is something to be afraid of these Max need to go none of them are going to help society they need to be cut out of almost everything in the pseudo empire is furious as if we don't have an accident of anything you pieces of s*** and our son has been suggesting to go for the Air supply and they agree they didn't even threatened that might change things

Thor Freya

Olympus

So he's saying an Air supply song to Michael too and he got up and he said the man was brilliant and he talked to the big guys then he talked to the idiots and he said we have a problem here and this might be a solution and it might be what Moonraker is all about but you don't have the gumption to do anything and there's no air intakes right now so they got really mad and they said we know where some are they said there aren't any that's why it's the air supply and it said there must be air going out of the bunkers and into the cavern and out of the cavern so they said oh this tunnels and yeah he said a little but really this is what it is so he got really excited and they start working on it and then he said these guys have been isolated near thorium you thought we had it and you know we don't and also this madness they're going mad and they're going to get angry they hardly flinched when their fleet disappeared and just want to be mean and extort and think it works

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I was in the top part of this the wow this is great

Hera

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Wow Advertising is Just such crap

so I got this ad that goes to a pseudo journalist agitprop landing site- specifically for an article that states Trump is being unfairly prosecuted by his political enemies. Which obviously, The Trumpster Fire Oompa Loompa maybe-he-was-just-born orange guy committed lord knows how many crimes simply in terms of Emoluments and Nepotism let alone the fraud, the rape, the treason, the Saudi Billions, or the other insurgency treason, et cetera. But what is really fascinating is that people will spend good money to plaster this stuff and try to end democracy in my home country. Much like a decade ago where the airport guys with the posters of Obama with a Hitler mustache claiming the ACA was a evil conspiracy, there is no limit to the shrill bullshit. But let me be clear, its not notable that someone would plaster a bullshit ad on a social media site, or that weird Bond Villain Billionaires would pay for it (set fire to all the things, bring back feudalism, anything for lower tax rates I guess), but WHAT IS AMAZING is that Someone Accepted Their Money. If you want your social media thingamajig to have a future, don't Accept Money from Liars who support Evil Crooks. Old Dude is going to Jail, not because of a conspiracy or because he's not politically correct, He's going to Jail because of trying to destroy the political traditions that hold together our country, because of billions of dollars of fraud, because of sharing State Secrets with Evil Murderous Bastard Tyrants. And also maybe all the rape, but there's no telling on that count. So like- history is hopefully going to dunk the whole MAGA movement in the trash, set fire to the trash, embarrass the weirdos who tried to legitimize the trash, and meantime- if you want your future business endeavors to succeed- mayyyybeeeeee don't accept weird trash advertising on my Monster Fucking Queer as Hell Kinksters and Fan Obsession site. I hope they paid REALLY FUCKING GOOD because even a namby pamby 'satire news' advertisement in this political climate is really shitting the bed in terms of making Decent Americans think the majority of your company has no common fucking sense or decency. (Which you know, duh. We already knew, but come on, I hope that Ad buy was at least expensive.)

“Well, let’s just say it’s not Republicans — well, most of them, anyway,” he said." from the 'Satire' article from the ad- BRO, every fucking witness in the Election Tampering case is a Republican.

Also fun in general to think that the brain trusts making decisions for so many online news site used to have that sort of Fox lite shit all throughout their site disguised as 'sponsored content'.

Robert R. Lynn, a registered Republican and Trump supporter in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly requesting an absentee ballot for his mother, who died in 2015. Lynn, 67, is a resident of Luzerne County, a largely white, working-class, political bellwether that Barack Obama won twice, but which swung hard for Trump in 2016. Lynn is being charged with voter fraud and forgery for faking his deceased mother’s signature on the absentee ballot request form.

Trump Supporter Arrested For Requesting Absentee Ballot For Dead Mother | HuffPost

"Conspiracy theories associated with reinstating former President Trump have included calls for violence if desired outcomes are not realized," a bulletin sent to states from the Department of Homeland Security said

With Trump Republicans: When all else fails, try to stir up feelings of phony anti-white persecution.

Trumpsters have to become increasingly histrionic in order to fire up their declining base of fundamentalist Christians, conspiracy freaks, and flat-out white supremacists.

The rude truth is that communities of color suffer disproportionately from environmental injustice.

In any case, if Donald Trump and his sludge buddies had not spent four years rolling back safety and environmental regulations, the mess in East Palestine would have been smaller or probably nonexistent. 

If you’re feeling sad about the politics in 2020 just read Red White and Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston for a much happier 2020 political situation or just a better 2020 in general

In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, whom they called “terrorists” or “thugs.” They made transphobic posts and bullied members who supported anti-police brutality protesters or Joe Biden in a forum billed as a place officers can “decompress, rant, share ideas.”

Anosh Ahmed, the chief operating officer at Loretto Hospital on the West side of Chicago, has resigned from his post following the revelatory reports that he had sent vaccine doses meant for residents of the majority-Black, low-income neighborhood to considerably richer and whiter people in Chicago—including Eric Trump.