I'm a pinch, in a swing state you never know. It just might goose some of the less involved racists into voting.

If the DNC had the jewels, they'd make her the official nominee and there would be a debate.

You may need to breathe slowly, regularly into a small paper bag for this. Harris will be the nominee, so check that box. Harris is ready to debate; Trump, terrified of her, is waffling. Ready with the paper bag? In ... out ... in ... out ... good ...

The old boy's terrified of debating Harris. You can tell he's really sweating it; his makeup runs.

QCP
After some thought, I took it as an arch reference to his pretend presidency ending in January 2025. But I could certainly be wrong.

TWINPAC
It's got to really rankle the old boy, playing second banana to Harris and Vance for two weeks.

That boarding school education boomeranged somewhat on the Plains during the millenarian 1889-1890 Ghost Dance movement (of which Wounded Knee was the denouement). Ghost Dance adherents could communicate with fellow believers speaking different languages on reservations far away by turning to returnees from Carlisle who spoke and wrote English. The older folk dictated messages to a Carlisle grad, who translated their remarks and wrote them down as a letters in English. The letter's recipient would call upon a Carlisle returnee from his own outfit to read the letter and translate it into whatever. And so the word spread.

I'm a little surprised Trump in his senescence hasn't been issuing passports, pardons, driver's licenses and all manner of ribbon bedecked parchment proclamations as part of his "government in exile." Too much work. Three more Big Macs and a bag of fries!

Netanyahu wrote off those hostages long ago; he's been yammering for war with Iran long before that. It's long past time for the US to cut this sociopathic nutter loose.

"God has been with him all along"

More like the shades of Moe, Larry and Curly.

Taking away kids' clothes, putting them in uniforms, cutting their hair, punishing them for speaking their languages, all with a heavy dollop of enforced Christianity.

Of course they ran away, of course they died.

"Kill the Indian in him, and save the man"
Richard Henry Pratt
Founder, Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Scary Kari, crazier than bat -----.

Trump's enablers
A. What's "vetted" mean?
B..Know what "vetted" means but just didn't do it.
C. Vetted Vance and thought, "Cool, thinks just like me, no problema."
D. Include deep state moles straight from Soros

Clint Eastwood perhaps?

I'm assuming nobody in Trump's deep bench of folks who've deigned to never serve their country in a time/place of danger will be involved in this. That's for "losers," as Trump calls them.

"I feel like the word shatter."
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

"Heads I win, tails you lose. Naw, come on, it's a simple game, anybody can play. My game, my rules."
~ Orange Julius

As Rubin notes:

"If women prevail in handing MAGA forces a defeat (as they did overwhelmingly in the 2018 midterms and in 2020), they might have Trump and Vance to thank. They have roused the sleeping (mama) bear, now more determined than ever to preserve democracy and keep misogynists out of the White House."

JayDee, current spokesman for the He-Man Womun Haters Club (apologies to Spanky, Alfalfa, and Buckwheat), should feel downright at home in the Catholic Church.

Two features of this election that have not yet had time to sink in yet:

1. JayDee as a purveyor of insufferable pomposity and smug jackassery.
2. Orange Julius as an aged, senescent convicted felon and sower of looney tunes.

Put those two bits together, mix well, and with Biden out of the game the whole age/brain thang is now a monkey on Trump's back. What a hoot. And as for Vance, if you factor in Trump's evident mental and presumed physical health, well, a vote for Trump is a vote for JayDee as POTUS.

The man isn't well. Too bad his kids don't care enough about him to stage an intervention.

Good points, all. Historical memory can be quite fickle. For example, we often hear that phrase "peace and prosperity." Yet for my entire life - since I, as an uncomprehending kid, heard the Korean War armistice news announced as a voice-over with some photo board displayed on the black-and-white screen (same way I learned the Rosenberg were executed) - this country has been at war, in one form or another (covert/overt), in this hemisphere or others. I'm sure others have a quite different take on those decades, but that's one of mine.

Morning, Cariolanus ...

On that 1918 epidemic, my father lived through it as a young adult. When I asked him - he was deep into history - if he could account for how/why the memory of it faded, he opined that the war's end blew everything else away, then we were in the Twenties, and people didn't want to dwell on the recent, unpleasant past. We may be seeing the same dynamic in action with COVID.