Y’all, Julian Assange says that Hillary Clinton has killed another man. He claims that a 27 year old DNC staffer was on his way to meet with the FBI about an big on-going investigation of the Clintons.
And have they ever investigated the whereabouts of Hillary Clinton when Mother Teresa died?
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
As an addendum to all of the brouhaha surrounding the Trump “Campaign,” commentators and pundits have been noting that yesterday was 13 weeks to Election Day or, put another way, 90 days from today.
Any dates thrown about have been in the context of either 1) the shrinking window of time that Trump has to right the ship or 2) the oodles and oodles of time left before Trump has to right the ship. Except for the most rabid Trumpistas, including the Orange-a-Tan himself, almost everyone else agrees that the ship does indeed need righting.
Captain Trump: I Got This!
Through every late-night Tweet, in every amped up rally, with every news cycle spent explaining the dumb stuff he said in the last news cycle, Donald J Trump not only fritters away time, he saps political will from the very people he needs to bring him across the finish line, where they exist, if they exist. It has been well-documented that he has eschewed the standard model for bringing in votes, which always includes a robust voter-outreach program buttressed by a strong campaign presence on the ground in key battleground states.
Rather than building such an organization of strong, tough, savvy field organizers loyal to the Trump campaign, he is relying instead on the RNC structure already in place, which has not been able to do this kind of heavy lifting for at least 15 years now. The massive amounts of money Trump has on hand despite the johnny-come-lately nature of his fund-raising indicate there are two things he’s not spending money on: ads and staff.
He can get away with the ads thing, kind of, if he is saving his money for an ad blitz later in the Fall. But he can’t build a get-out-the-vote operation that turns the key on Labor Day and expect to make up the ground lost to Team Clinton, who has been building staff, making phone calls, knocking on doors, and funneling all these voter outreach efforts back into a robust data-crunching operation which will enable them to micro-target key demographics in key counties in key states and start getting them to the polls next month.
Yes, I said “next month,” because while the 2016 Presidential Election ENDS on November 8, actual voting begins in half that time. Early voting is right around the corner, and some of these states are KEY to the Trump rust-belt strategy and/or swing states. Counting Tuesdays until Election Day, and using them as the start of a campaign week, the distribution is as follows (Most Excellent Source):
The following have early voting dates that vary by county: California, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming. And, of course, ALL of Washington State is mail-in ballots.
A REAL campaign knows this, and has people on the ground in all of these states whose job it is to make sure that people get absentee ballots who need them, (like our Juanita Jean is doing with Glen) and that absentee or in-person early votes start to get banked for their candidate on the first day possible.
The Clinton campaign has been identifying these voters for months now in key states, while the Trump campaign still thinks that the real deal of this election doesn’t start until after Labor Day. Well, Labor Day is September 5, and voting in Michigan begins 19 days later.
The first debate will be held two days later at Hofstra University. If Donald Trump bothers to show up, by the time he steps behind the podium, he will already be losing in Michigan, and in Minnesota, and in Vermont.
I think there’s a better than even chance that he doesn’t even know that.
Guys, our final numbers for the ballot by mail program you so generously supported is just a little under $8,000. Glen sent me your names and addresses, and I promise to send you a thank you note. My momma raised me right and that’s what ladies do.
However, you’ll have a wait a week or two because there’s many, many of you and I’m busier than Grandma with ten snakes and one hoe.
I have not forgotten you or my manners, but the manners part will be a little late.
Again, thank you all so much for your help. Texas is so big and I am so small.
Harris County (think: Houston) County Commissioner Steve Radack can kiss my big blue butt. Yeah, he’s a big ole Republican who for the last 30 years has been feeding himself quite well at the public trough. A county commissioner in Harris County makes $166,000 a year, plus amazing benefits and expenses. They waddle in campaign donations.
If you recall, Noah needs to come to Houston and offer some pontoon building lessons because Houston floods when when there’s a heavy mist.
And Houston floods are nondiscriminatory. They flood rich and poor alike. Around the first part of June, the flood waters were a damn mess. I have a close friend who ended up with 3 feet of water in her house. She had lived there for 40 years and never flooded before. As of today, she is still living in a local hotel room with her husband (who is being treated for cancer) and their cat. They were able to save some precious family keepsakes, but lost everything else. It’ll be at least another month before their house will be ready to moved back in. At least.
And it won’t be as good as before because insurance doesn’t pay worth crap and she has to argue over every damn light fixture and drawer pull because she has nothing but free time while caring for a husband with cancer in a hotel room.
Commissioner Steve Radack had kind words for her and others in her position …
Precinct 3 Commissioner Steve Radack recently said some people want to get flooded so they can cash in, and he’s not backing down from his comments.
… they frankly enjoy floods. They’d like to see a flood about every 7 years, because they want new cars, they want their homes redone,” Radack said at the meeting.
And there, my friends, you have a glimpse into the mind of a Republican. I think that’s what he likes, so he’s assuming everyone else does, too.
So please don’t ever start thinking that Republicans care more about flood victims than they do insurance companies.
In Commissioner Radack’s world the message to flood victims is Let Them Eat Some Damn Cake.
Thanks to Elizabeth for the heads up.
Hillary Clinton has a tendency to “short-circuit” a lot, meaning that her thoughts are running so fast that her mouth doesn’t exactly catch up. She says things that are actually from the middle of an internal conversation, or a short-hand statement that, in her head, is tied to a lot of other facts, but sits there naked and alone when it has left her mouth and sounds plain stupid.
Donald Trump does a lot of the same thing, except he has no accompanying thoughts. It’s why he always trails off in the middle of a sentence, or comes up with little nicknames, or speaks in disjointed phrases. His mini-chunks of verbiage actually sound like the notes you’d put on a 3×5 card for a speech, except all he knows is what he memorized on the card. With Hillary, you know that there’s a lot of meat behind the shorthand.
Case in point: a few years back, Hillary was running behind in the primaries to Barack, but she wasn’t ready to back out, yet. She was making the point that a lot of stuff was still ahead, including California, which is in June, and the reason she will always remember that is that Bobby Kennedy was killed in June of 1968 on the night of the California Primary. Even 5-year-old Primo would always remember where he was when he heard about it: outside a HoJo in Dallas, on his way from Chicago to the HemisFair in SA in a two-door Dodge crammed full of Hachecristos.
But that’s not what she said. All that came out was the part about Bobby, and then everyone went nuts, thinking that she had said, “Of course I will stay in the race. Maybe Barack will die.” Clearly, not what she meant. Still…
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I dunno…”
I also dunno: is he advocating that someone shoot Hillary? Or that someone shoot a Supreme Court Justice after Hillary picks him or her?
How do you top asking an unfriendly nation to cyberspy on your opponent in order to win an election? Ask some nutjob ammosexual to win it for you instead.
Y’all all know about James O’Keefe, the two bit agent provocateur for the Republican party.
He tried a new scam. And failed. Again.
He wanted to prove that we need Voter ID laws. So, he marched into a primary voting precinct in Michigan and pretended to be someone he was not. He said he’d lost his driver’s license and gave the voting clerk a name. She replied that Michigan law allows someone to vote a provisional ballot if they are willing to sign a sworn affidavit attesting that they are who they say they are. He handed him the affidavit but he didn’t sign it.
Good thing, because the name he was using is a guy on the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press, Brian Dickerson, who just so happens to be a friend of the election clerk. She just wanted to see if O’Keefe would be willing to commit a felony by signing it.
The guy on the editorial board writes —
But instead of forging the affidavit — a felony punishable by imprisonment — O’Keefe aborts and heads to Birmingham City Hall, where he confronts City Clerk Laura Pierce (on camera, of course) with the somewhat exaggerated claim that one of her volunteer poll workers has just offered him my ballot in return for a forged signature.
Well, see, that never happened. The system worked. He was never offered a ballot. He was offered an affidavit and a golden opportunity to commit a felony.
Additionally, the city election clerk would have informed law enforcement that the real Brian Dickerson voted by mail two days earlier.
The system worked. Sadly, O’Keefe never has.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.