Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

"There’s a really smart researcher on authoritarianism, Karen Stenner, and she had retweeted that—what she said was, Pay attention to how he says the word women. And if you listen to it, it’s really interesting because of so much visceral anger and hatred just dripping off of his tongue as he says the word women. That’s very indicative of Trump’s approach to women in general."

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/9

As he campaigns for a key House seat in Virginia, Republican Derrick Anderson --- who does not have kids --- has been unable to escape a photo of him posing holiday-card-style with his friend’s wife and three daughters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/10/28/derrick-anderson-congress-virginia-7th-district-vindman/

"One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you are some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future."

~ Thomas Zimmer

#Trump #ElonMusk #RFKJr #economy #oligarchs #EconomicElites #healthcare #vaccines
/17

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/it-could-definitely-happen-here

2/ Via Aaron Rupar:

REP. TIM BURCHETT: He was not calling for her assassination

ACOSTA: But when Trump says '9 barrels' shooting at her, that obviously invokes images of a firing squad, of an execution, does it not?

BURCHETT: I didn't know there were 9 barrels in a firing squad quite honestly

GOP Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita was more concerned with punishing a physician who performed the abortion on a 10 year old girl who was raped than with punishing her rapist.

This is today's GOP. But you can VOTE HIM OUT!

#ChooseDestinyWells #ToddRokita #Indiana #NeverToddRokita #Abortion #VoteBlueForWomen #GOPLiar

Not that we should be worried, or anything.

#Climate #ClimateEmergency

"Pentagon audit says Boeing cleaned up on Air Force parts, including soap dispensers marked up 8,000%"

https://apnews.com/article/boeing-defense-audit-soap-dispenser-parts-a811f332067af097f0bcd2effb111d30

In every generation, there have been people who stood up for inclusion while others spewed divisiveness.

Franklin debuted on Peanuts in a decade that saw civil rights protests, children hit with firehose for protesting, MLK assassinated, and so much more.... Remembering Charles Schulz:

@Lana i wish you lots of success.

I'm from germany. We have tried out this nazi thing.
Did not work well.
Would not recommend.

Fight hard. Totally worth it.

Kamala Harris is changing the way America does politics. And I'm going to prove this by taking you away from Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania and the rest of the swing states to talk about a state I'm from. Kansas.

Harris' opponent won Kansas in 2016 by over 20 points. Kansas is so overwhelmingly red that there are currently more people registered "other" in Kansas than there are registered Democrats.

But in 2018, Kansas also elected a woman to the governorship - a Democrat named Laura Jean Kelly. And in 2020, Harris' opponent won by only 8 points. In 2022, they re-elected Governor Kelly to a second term. And in the same year, Kansas Republicans tried to sneak a statewide abortion ban past without anyone noticing. Instead, Kansas came out in droves to defeat that ban in a landslide 60-40 vote.

And now, in 2024, Harris' opponent is leading by only 4 points in the polls. Now sure, you could look at that and say, Trump is up by 4 points against Harris. But remember that Trump LOST in 2020. He needs to pick up NEW voters if he is going to win this year. So another way of looking at those numbers is that Trump is DOWN 4 additional points from 2020, points that he NEEDS to win nationally.

And if you look at the voting lines, they also tell a different story from the polls. 2 hour early voting lines aren't uncommon across Kansas. And there is anecdotal evidence of people standing in line for 4 or even 5 hours to cast their votes. Now, will all of those be for Kamala? No. But ask yourself why would Republicans be standing around for 5 hours to vote in a state that's definitely going to go red anyway.

Folks, here's why people are doing that. This isn't just a campaign. This is a movement.

We are not going back. That includes Kansas. That includes those of us in North Dakota. That includes Texas. That includes Puerto Rico. That includes every state and territory in the Union. Because this isn't just about electing our nation's first black, female President. This is about restoring America to its promise. That we are a place where every person is created equal, regardless of race, creed, gender, orientation, or national origin.

And do you know what? Even if those are Republicans standing out there in the October cold for 5 hours to vote red, that only proves my point harder. Because that means we're making them fight for EVERY state. EVERY state is a swing state now. EVERY state matters. EVERY state is leaning more and more blue. It means that they know that their views are so unpopular that EVERY state in the Union has become a "battleground state". Even Kansas.

It's now an unbreakable rule! Little kids only get 2!!!

A small child dressed in a bird costume, who is awed by the door opening, and was too shy to speak, appeared with her parental units, grinning a baby teeth smile.

She got 4.

I almost gave her 6.

SHE WAS ADORABLE!!!

Was trying to determine which bird she was. Perhaps a penguin? But no black feathers. A seagull!

I don't have a seagull emoji.

🦅 🦇 🎃 🕸️

#HappyHalloween #Halloween #Halloween2024

reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.

The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite