Tuesday Stuff

(In case you may still need reading/viewing material before casting your ballot, I provided a bunch of info from yesterday’s post.)

Here are things that I definitely WILL NOT miss now that this latest tortuous election cycle is nearly over:

Dem purity tests from the usual suspects (yes, Cenk and TYT are great and do terrific work, but I’m tired of tweets saying, “Oh, the House races are more exciting because of progressives” (which is true I know) “and the Senate races by comparison are boring and we’ll probably lose because of all of the corporate Democrats” (well, we’ll see, but comments like that are DISTINCTLY UNHELPFUL…can we PLEASE have the self-incriminating, circular-firing-squad BS AFTER the election and not DURING??!!)

And this is a perfect example from someone else who I otherwise greatly respect.

Update 11/7/18: After looking at what I've seen of the results, Cenk turned out to be absolutely right. However, competing for the U.S. Senate, especially in "white bread" middle America and the south, is a much trickier proposition than running for a U.S. House seat.

Anything whatsoever to do with Steve Kornacki – I can think of few pursuits that are more futile than trying to examine the “tribalism” of our politics.

Here’s what’s going on. The other side is getting crazier by the day, and a big part of our side has been (wrongly, I think) moving more towards the center to accommodate them somehow, which is now and always will be a waste of time. Meanwhile, the progressive left is providing a future for this country (a vision combined with practical, real-world proposals) that is a hell of a lot more in line with what the vast majority of this country truly wants.

The end.

Lectures from “boomers,” my generational cohort, to millennials, saying, on the one hand, “Oh please save us – you’re our only hope,” while simultaneously lecturing and hectoring them for not voting in the numbers of other demographic voting blocks.

Note to boomers: the mess we’re currently dealing with is overwhelmingly OUR FAULT because we let ourselves be tricked and conned into either staying home when we needed to get our asses to the polls instead or deciding to trust in a certain delusional, orange maniac who possessed neither the mental capacity, disposition, or inclination in any way whatsoever to practice governance as a democratically elected chief of state. And don’t even get me started on how we ended up putting Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao or Mr.-Puppy-Dog-Eyes-With-The-Shiv in charge of Congress, to say nothing of letting the “party of Lincoln” dominate our state and municipal elections.

And given that rant, it may seem to be a little contradictory to include this video from Bill Maher, but I nonetheless thought he made good points…



…though this is definitely an encouraging sign…



…and never, EVER forget this (more here)…



…and oh yeah, speaking of the traitorous "loyal opposition," let’s not forget about the former Hazelton, PA mayor running for the U.S. Senate…



…on the other hand, here are reasons for support incumbent Dem Bob Casey instead…



…and when it came to the chief Teahadist in our beloved commonwealth, as I said before, I was so repulsed by the violence that I forgot about the elitism (golf spikes?)…



…in opposition, though, I think this really rocks, and let’s all show it in PA by electing Gov. Tom Wolf to another term…



...and on this day, I can think of no more appropriate tune than this one.