If you are planning to spend election day just waiting for results, well, you will probably be waiting for a long time. But here is something that might just make you feel good about America, and ironically, it is from a gay man. It is just under an hour long, so it will stop you from spending the whole day (or more!) looking for results.
Pete Buttigieg was put in a room with 25 undecided voters from Michigan, who could ask him pretty much any questions they wanted. These were not low information voters, they asked him many hard questions. And Pete did an amazing job of answering their questions. And it was done calmly and with respect to the questioners, even ones who were leaning toward voting for Trump.
One of the things I am very good at is explaining difficult subjects so that anyone can understand them. But I have to say, Buttigieg totally leaves me in the dust and blows me away. I so hope that he gets to be president someday.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Bernie Sanders, even though I often disagree with some of his desired policies. Here’s a video from today that I totally agree with, and also shows why he has a place in my heart.
Jimmy Kimmel has a special monologue for you to send to Trumpy Republicans you know. It is actually pretty sweet.
Kimmel says: “Tonight’s monologue is for Republicans. If you have someone in your life who is either planning to vote for Trump or thinking about it, please send this to them. Ask a Republican you love and respect to watch this. The whole thing. As a personal favor to you. We are a week away from the election so make sure to get out and vote on Tuesday, November 5th.”
You may be wondering why I am posting two videos by the Lincoln Project in a row. Well, there are a couple of reasons. First, this one made me laugh, it is cute and serious at the same time.
Second, I do not want the US to be a single party country. I believe in competition, and fair debate for our country. However, I do not want our democracy to be destroyed by a tin-pot dictator, nor do I have respect for any party that kowtows to such a dictator. I sincerely hope that either the Republican Party wakes up and returns to being the party of Lincoln, or – lacking that – is replaced by a new party.
It is interesting to click on the “Watch on Youtube” link, and read the comments. In addition, right now as I am writing this, there are no down-votes for this video. That gives me hope.
Which reminds me of a quote from Samuel Adams, one of our founders, “To have a villainous ruler imposed on you is a misfortune. To elect him yourself is a disgrace.”
On October 14th, Donald Trump held a Town Hall in suburban Philadelphia, during which he “demanded his handlers play a series of his favorite tunes, including Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” the celestial “Ave Maria,” and the song that has become his bizarre signature: the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” Then, while his supporters started leaving, Trump “danced” for 40 minutes.
In return, we give you a song (complete with nuns dancing) that is a takeoff from The Sound of Music, titled “How do you solve a problem like a MAGA”. Enjoy!
Dave Bautista points out that Trump is a crying baby. So why do male voters seem to love him. Maybe for the same reason that he loves the very gay song “YMCA”, especially the “macho man” line.
Apparently, Americans only remember the things they heard over social media, like in the last 24 hours.
Like, do you remember back when Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns, and blatantly lied, claiming that he couldn’t release them because he was being audited? Nobody (including media) mentions this anymore (well, I guess other than me).
Does anyone remember the movie Idiocracy where humans became stupid? Maybe it actually happened, but we forgot.
In fact, it did. “Harmful exposure to lead [specifically in leaded gas] during childhood has affected more than 170 million US-born adults as of 2015, leading to a population-wide drop in IQ, says a new study.” Here’s the study, from researchers at Princeton University.
But the story of how this happened is not well known anymore. In fact, oil companies suppressed it even though they knew it was killing people. Indeed, the man who invented leaded gas contracted lead poisoning.
In all, it is believed that lead has been responsible for the loss of over 825 Million IQ points in the US alone. In addition, the use of lead in gasoline between 1940 and 2015 correlates strongly with the rise in crime, and once we stopped using it, a decrease in crime in the US. However, lead is still used in fuel for aviation.
Donald Trump blames crime on immigrants, but he should be blaming the oil companies who put lead in gasoline instead.
Hilarious video from Jimmy Kimmel. But probably not safe for work. In addition to Trump farting while blustering at a rally, and claims that the Democrats can control the weather (if that were true, then Mar-a-Lago would have been swept out to sea a long time ago). There is also some fishy business (named Trumpy Trout), and last but not least, all those cheesy items Trump is always hawking to his rabid followers were made in China. I guess he’s trying to get rid of the merch before he slaps a huge tariff on China. Sheesh.
How did we ever have a president who is a conman, grifter, crook, cheater, liar, shark, charlatan, gangster, scammer, faker, imposter, scoundrel, fraud, humbug, racketeer, hustler, fraudster, swindler, confidence man, scamp, defrauder, bilker, deceiver, fleecer, flimflammer, mountebank, rascal, offender, rogue, thief, shyster, hoodlum, lawbreaker, chiseler, and more. How the hell did he get anyone to believe in him, let alone vote for him? We have so many bad names and labels for Trump, you’d think they would know better.
