Trump posted something like 150 times on Truth Social yesterday, most of it was totally unhinged. Then he bombed Nigeria, to protect Christians.

These are all bad things, and I don’t want to detract from that, but here’s my question on this lovely Wren Day: where are the Democrats?

I’m not saying that all of the Democrats need to be yelling about this all of the time, but can we have at least one who takes anti-Trump duty every day? It could be a rotating assignment. As Joe posted the other day, we need to be running to daylight or whatever sports metaphor you want to use.

I thought this was a good observation by someone on BlueSky:

Not to pick on Kimmel, who’s had a tough year, but this isn’t a “bit of a wobble” — the US elected Trump a second time after seeing what he’s like. It’s a big deal, an existential threat to this country’s reputation around the world, and to our people at home. If you’re an opposition party facing an existential threat, you just can’t take days off, the way the Democrats are doing.

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Scott H11 months ago

Is there anyone auditioning for the job of AG in a Democratic administration by shopping around their plan to exact real accountability on the Trump administration?

Doesn’t seem like it to me, and that doesn’t bode well.

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

This is a great message for reminding people how stuff works.

https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3mavutjespk2p

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

"They are high among the great accomplishments of our civilization. But they don’t inspire bestselling novels or blockbuster films. No poets celebrate the sewage treatment plants that prevent them from dying of dysentery."

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John S.11 months ago

Most young people can’t read clocks. Or cursive writing.

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

I just found out my MAGA neighbors ' son is now working for Rep. Randy Fine and he says he is Deputy Communications Director for the U.S. House of Reps. 😞

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

I'm not sure he can tie his own shoes. He only just got rid of his teenage acne and I just saw him come home for Xmas with the first ever female I've ever seen him near. He is barely functionally literate.

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

A great video by new, young candidate Kasky in NY is my palate cleanser this morning. I will donate today as a way to do my small part in battling the way my neighbors' son was literally simply handed a job by the Liberty U. to Congress pipeline.

I hope this Kasky guy gets Nadler's seat!

https://bsky.app/profile/mikesacks.bsky.social/post/3mawky72lzk2w

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John S.11 months ago

Fox News never sleeps. The propaganda spews forth 24/7. Until Democrats have a real answer for that, they’re just shouting into the void — at least the handful of times they can even be bothered to shout.

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

Thanks, I dig that!

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Sepideh M11 months ago

I was not a fan of this music, but I can appreciate art!

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

Rafael Barajas Durán, better known as El Fisgón, a Mexican cartoonist and head of Morena’s National Institute of Political Formation

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Sepideh M11 months ago

We did not have one Jewish or Muslim representative to post troll tweets from the Chinese restaurant? How can that be? I thought we were the party of diversity and inclusion.

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Scott H11 months ago

Heh heh, well, I'm more than willing to get on the Dems 24/7/365 dole to do that kinda thing. Being a white male of a certain age would somewhat mitigate any accusations of being "too woke". OTOH, it would water down the DEI image some of us are trying to project.

Woulda worked perfectly yesterday as we went to lunch at a Chinese place off of Colorado Blvd.

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

Oh Lort, the photo in this article is perfect bwahahahaha!

Per Atrios

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-posts-nearly-200-times-232052992.html

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TBone Dinosaur11 months ago

I'm using it as next year's holiday greetings 😆

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Scott H11 months ago

It's indicative of why they don't operate 24/7/365 and then wonder "Golly gee Beaver, why aren't we winning more?"

Another more charitable take that I'm sure will be raised elsewhere is the Dems are giving President Redacted all that time and space to showcase his unhingedness counting on potential voters to remember this come next November.

We've seen how that's played out.

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mister mixAuthor11 months ago

Ah, yes, the res ipsa loquitur theory of political communication. A comforting and wrong justification for doing nothing.

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Marmot Pimpernel 11 months ago

Dems are giving President Redacted all that time and space to showcase his unhingedness

Aaaaaaaasaaaarrrtrttttrrrrtggghh! Yes, the “how ‘bout a little more rope” and “he slips the knife in silently, so that [target] never notices” theories of political communication. If only Dems could point to an instance when that worked.

A couple commenters over at BJ were all excited about that shit. Along with following every useless twist and turn in Trump’s court cases, that was a big factor that soured me on the mindset over there.

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Scott H11 months ago

Heh heh, a "couple"? How 'bout "most"?