#122 Glad you are safe, Corky. I was worried cause I thought you lived in the Naples area, but I wasn't sure.

#18 One of those times I wish we could double flag a post funny and newsworthy.

#82 I thought Corky lived near Naples, but I could be wrong. Yav is somewhere in Florida too. Hope both are well

How many MAGA are QAnon is the question. That particular subset of Republicans are divorced from reality, which is probably why Donnie likes them, IOW, they'll believe any cockamamie thing he spouts:

A real posting from a QAnon cultist.

If Putin is a fool and Putin owns Trump, what does that make Trump? It makes him a fool's fool, I reckon.

Best of luck to all Floridians in the hurricane's path. Hope all DR Floridians stay safe.

"The soldiers describe a crisis in morale and a lack of equipment, and say they were lied to about the mission they were on--all conditions that have contributed to the recent setbacks for Russia's campaign in the east of Ukraine."

Thank God they aren't woke! That would have really been a problem.

Remember when the invasion first started and Trump called Putin a savvy genius? Good times.

Oops, sorry for the Freudian slip. MF: should be MFA:

MF:

Arizona GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who led the legal process to try to get Arizona's pre-statehood ban on abortion put back into effect after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in late June, tweeted that he was pleased by the decision:

"We applaud the court for upholding the will of the legislature and providing clarity and uniformity on this important issue. I have and will continue to protect the most vulnerable Arizonans," he tweeted.

Republicans are once again speaking out of both sides of their mouths. I hope voters who care about female reproductive rights are paying attention:

After Republicans spent 2 weeks refusing to say if they support Lindsey Graham's national abortion ban, the party JUST put out their official 2022 agenda that includes a national abortion ban. Cannot make this stuff up.

"an inspirational video full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of America that were actually stock footage from Russia and Ukraine."

An understandable mistake for a party that touts the line: "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat."

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@ProjectLincoln

The "plan" in question:

"However, we need to take most of the responsibility for the "efficacy" of Putin's troll farms. They plant the seed, but we bear the fruit."

Yes, Putin's troll's didn't create the conflicts. We did that ourselves, and they exploited them.

#231 Having said that, at the time Dems didn't realize who was egging them on and feeding the conflicts within the Democratic party. At the time the animosity was real, and some Bros did refuse to vote to Clinton as a matter of principle. Some even took pride in not doing so, either thinking that Trump wouldn't be so bad (and Hillary would have been worse), or if he was so bad, it would bring on the revolution sooner.

Dont confuse his actual supporters with the proven russian propaganda bernie bros who worked to get the dem party to fight with itself. And it worked.
Putin's paid spammers didn't just support trump, they also put bernie and clinton supporters against each other.
POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Gotta agree with you there too.

All I've said, and what I'll keep saying, is that all I care about is winning swing voters and keeping fascists out of power. While wokeness has good intentions, strategically it's a stupid way to gain the power to actually make the changes woke activists seek because it makes the left look insane.
POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2022-09-23 06:16 PM

That appeal to moderate and swing voters was the very rationale given by many who supported Clinton and Biden over Sanders. Just sayin'.

I think you're referring to the end of my polite tolerance of conservatives. Yes that ended the day they elected a hateful criminal con man to the most powerful job in the world. I realized their stupidity was no longer something we could just laugh at. It had reached critical mass that now threatened the country and the world. And I was right. You called me hysterical at the time. But since I'm way smarter than you I could see what kind of damage trump would do to the country before he did it. A half million dead americans and 1 fascist coup attempt later, was I hysterical or were you just blind?
#223 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Okay, I gotta give you credit there. A lot of us were called hysterical who have since been proven right.

"Dems nominated the only person on earth who couldnt beat donald trump."

Uh-huh. Whatever gets you through the night.

"Imagine what the world would be like if those "bernie bros" had been heeded instead of mocked in 2016."

Or imagine if more of them hadn't taken their balls and gone home by either not voting or by voting for Jill Stein despite Bernie begging them to vote for Hillary.

I think that is the dynamic Eberly was tangently referring to in this post:

It's odd to see an extreme liberal see liberalism as ugly and scary.
Moderates are scared of liberalism and progressiveness?
I suppose some are but you can't forget lazy liberals either. They're lazy but they're upset when you drop causes like transgender and black ariel. They'll stay home if you cave.
I think Corky refers to them as "puritopians" meaning they are so fragile that if their party doesn't fight hard, they take their ball and go home.
You need them on election day.
#133 | POSTED BY EBERLY

In 2016 and 2020 liberals weren't liberal enough, according to some, because they weren't progressives.

Look what happens to even a well established liberal if they reject the woke warrior groupthink. That's all it takes to switch from seeing me as an ally to an enemy. It's totalitarian. It's the same idiotic tribalism that makes trumpers throw anyone out of the party who doesn't totally submit to trump.
That's why you're offering swing voters when it comes to the woke agenda: Get on board or get destroyed. Go vote for our enemy instead.
#205 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

Hmm, what you describe is pretty much what a lot of Bernie Bros did back in 2016 to any liberal who decided to vote for Clinton rather than Sanders during the primaries and to a lesser extent to any liberal who decided to vote for Biden rather than Sanders during the 2020 primaries.

"Cohen turned over all his tapes to the FBI who would have supplied copies to NYAG"

David Corn
@DavidCornDC

A reminder: this case against Trump and his kids might never have materialized were it not for...Stormy Daniels.

That led to the criminal case against @MichaelCohen212, and Cohen's testimony helped lead to the probe of Trump's alleged fraud. #TheStorm

"... Plaintiff has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. ..."

Looks like the court didn't buy the argument that he needs to personally possess the documents in order to write his memoirs.

"Fragile whites vote. Winning elections is WAY more important right now than being as woke as possible."

These fragile whites you speak of were likely always going to vote Republican and for the Trumpiest candidates at that. Do you really think Black Ariel is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back and causes them to vote for the GOP? That may be the excuse they give, but their minds were already made up.