Winning!
Posted August 7, 2022
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Whoof, Widdershins, what an incredible week. Democrats are in such Array, even the media has had to admit how well things are going. Here are some headlines from the MSM:
Joe Biden Just Had the Best Week of His Presidency (Newsweek)
On Several Fronts, Biden Has Reason to Celebrate This Week’s Wins (MSNBC)
Republicans’ Prospects for Midterm Pickups Dim Among Democratic Wins (US News & World Report)
Democrats Are Starting to See a Path to Victory in November (Vanity Fair)
This week saw domestic victories on caring for veteran burn pit victims and upcoming, passing the Inflation Reduction Act (which is actually Build Back Better but scaled back), gas prices declining for over a month and an incredibly strong jobs report; as well as foreign policy victories on approving Sweden and Finland as members of NATO, killing the architect of 9/11, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and sending more HIMARS to Ukraine. And, in what would be a non-partisan occurrence if the QOP hadn’t doubled and tripled down on their extreme criminalization of women, Kansas voted a resounding NO on a total abortion ban being enshrined in their state Constitution.
The Kansas vote sent shockwaves through, well, almost everyone who pays attention to politics, and has totally changed predictions for November. The Vanity Fair article shares some fascinating insider thinking from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Executive Director, Tim Persico.
Yet Democratic strategists are betting that abortion will be the issue that most drives turnout. “The old adage that good policy makes good politics is true,” Persico says. “Bad policy makes bad politics too.” With the Supreme Court’s June ruling overturning Roe, antiabortion crusaders won a 50-year legal battle. Yet the Kansas vote seems to have demonstrated the large gap between the ideologues and even many Republican voters, especially women. Whether that backlash is big enough to overcome internal Democratic disgust over the failure to codify Roe is one of this fall’s biggest questions. “Democrats might feel frustrated with their own party. I’m not discounting that,” Persico says. “But what happens in places like Omaha and suburban Philly and even Las Vegas when you’ve got a Democrat on one side with a record of accomplishments against a Republican that wants to ban abortion in all 50 states?”
I submit that the “progressives” who are frustrated with Democrats for allegedly not codifying Roe are actually not Democrats and almost never vote – at all. After all, they’re young white people. The base of the party is Black women and they are not the ones blaming Democrats! I think the danger of these voters not turning out is pretty much the same as every other election, and I hope Democratic strategists don’t obsess too much about it.
What’s totally hilarious after this week, where several QOP MAGAts won elections, is a few QOP strategists whining about how Democrats were boosting the election denier, Nazi-loving, January 6th-supporting, Orban-applauding extremists. Hey QOP – you have allowed your Party to become infested with these lunatics. In fact, I’d say at least 85% of QOP are in lockstep with those anti-American ideas. Don’t blame us when your voters vote for them. Blame yourselves for letting them take over! And yes, they will be much easier to defeat in the mid-terms than bland vanilla reasonable-seeming (but still totally extreme) QOP you’d like to pretend are the majority. Muahahahaha.
Am I saying we’re a lock for November? No, of course not. But sometimes we liberals forget to take a victory lap when it’s well-deserved. So for today, let’s celebrate and hope. And let’s make sure we do something to thank Democrats for being the only true public servants in town.
153 Responses to "Winning!"

Bravo MB!!
Dems finally kissed Cinnabon’s plastic ring and passed the Senate’s version of the IRA. Poor Biden had Covid in the best week of his Presidency.


Winning! Woot woot! Good title! Yeah, progs are going to complain – it’s what they do. I think we should just accept that and move on. Let them have their whine and cheese get-togethers with Bernie. I think we all agree that Sinema and Manchin are big problems, but if Biden gets the two more senators he’s asking for, problem solved. And pessimistic me thinks we can. With room to spare. And I think we’ll hold the House too.
I have to admit that winning in Kansas feels very weird to me. ESPECIALLY on the issue of abortion. I have lived under the tyranny of Lifers my whole life. I thought they owned the state and they did too. I can only imagine their shock. I guess Kansans didn’t like the idea of men hunting down young women. Like that isn’t a problem already. And also the many other scary things that would happen…
All of us here know that Lifers don’t care about women or babies/children. They care about controlling women’s bodies. It’s a disturbing fetish and now lots of people are seeing it. 60% in Kansas! I’m going to start calling them “Lifers”. A Lifer is a person who has dedicated their whole life to a single, disturbing fetish. (I’m sure quixote could come up with something better!) 🙂


I also submit that the Democratic Party is made up of college educated women and men of all colors, and they vote.


What is NOT in the Inflation Reduction Act (but was in the Build Back Better bill):
•Paid family and medical leave
•Extended child tax credits
•Universal pre-K
•Improved maternal health care for poor women
•Subsidies for home and community based services (HCBS) that allow the disabled and elderly to remain in their homes
•Medicare coverage for dental, hearing and vision care
People these programs would have served:
•Women
•Children
•The elderly
•The sick and disabled
•The poor


@8 That’s true, Shadow. Black women are the backbone, but we count too! 🙂
@2 Yes, smugness. I also like the word, “haughtiness”. It emanates off them.
“Guess what, ladies – they hate you too”. That must hurt. After sucking all that Patriarchy dick…


The Inflation Reduction Act passed the Senate with a simple Democratic majority vote through the budget reconciliation process. All the items I listed @9 could have been included in the IRA and passed without a single Republican vote.
But they were not included, were they?


Gee, I haven’t been to a whine and cheese get-together in a very, very long time. Years, in fact. All the events in the oncology ward are surprisingly stoical.


“Consider yourself to be dead, and to have completed your life up to the present time; and now live according to nature the remainder which is allowed you.”
~Marcus Aurelius


Lordy. (as Fredster would say)


I thought you would appreciate that one, PJ. I’ve always seen you as a deep thinker.
Have a great week.


Yup, Man-chin and Cinnabon were the reason that more necessary things were not included and they even changed the name to give those two Democrats-in-name-only recognition for their selfishness, stupidity and drama.


WOW!!


OMG!! That’s perfect!!! @29
Holy shit, this is awesome.


@30 hahahaha Oh man. Twitter is killing it and it’s killing me. Thank you, DYB. 🙂


@33 It just keeps getting better! That dude is right. That would be a blockbuster. Whoa.


Barbara McQuade was saying that this is a big deal. The FBI doesn’t do a search like this if it was something like framed pictures of Putin in those boxes. LOL


I’m feeling giddy! It’s not meds, it’s the thrill of justice!!!


29 | DYB
Hillary with a big bowl of popcorn and pink bunny slippers.
It’s just how I feel. I am so excited!!!
Trump supporters must have their hair on fire………..HA, HA, HA, HA….


PBS is reporting the FBI broke into Trump’s safe at Margo Largo. Trump was in New York at the time of the raid.


It seems as though Karma FINALLY showed up in Dump’s world.


49 Oh so true.
I bet the Dump is just trying to think of the most poor-me mileage he can get out of it.
Show us Dump, be the idiot we all know you are.


@51 Uh oh.
@52 True – that’s exactly how Trumpworld works. That’s great news!


Schmucker (great name!) missed his show? hahahaha. Holed up crying in the bathroom? I can’t tell you how much the MAGAts here depend on him. They hang on his every word. And where the hell was he in their darkest hour of need?
@49 He is great. “Show it or shut it.” I love that. 🙂


59 GAgal, that’s very interesting.
60 DYB, wonder if they want the tapes to see if someone went into the ‘storage’ room after the padlock was put on…or who is going in and out of that room.


If Dump makes it to 2024 without having a stroke, I will be amazed.


@59 Those surveillance tapes @60 might provide the answers as to who was doing what. The equivalent of the Nixon tapes? Wouldn’t that be something.


@63 I’m sure the surveillance tapes will prove their case about the FBI planting evidence. 🙂


Dana Milbank was saying that Republicans have turned on democracy because democracy turned on them.
They can’t win. Not without cheating – outright overturning elections. Their previous methods of cheating (voter suppression and other tricks) are no longer working. Look at Kansas. They wanted the vote to be on a day with the fewest voters possible (*their* voters) and it blew up in their face.


The also big WHO is who ratted Trump out? I don’t think it was Barron although that’s hilarious @43.


The press seems to be worried about what the MAGAs will do. But it feels like to me, the supernatural Dark Power switch has been turned off. The will is there, but now the power behind it is gone. This rebellion is likely to be led by this guy.


Anchor on CNN just said Dump was ratted out by someone at
Mar-a-fat-man. They said there was more stuff there.
Maybe they should ask Barron, he seems to not give a rat’s a$$ about covering up for his creepy dad.


@75 That’s probably right. There are so many rats.
Speaking of fat men… I recently heard that Mike Pomp-ous-ass-eo has lost a ton of weight. He must have gone all in and gotten the gastric bypass. No Chris Christie chicken-hearted, lily-livered lap band for him. (I have no idea, I’m just guessing) Slimming down for a presidential run?
Word is that Pompeo was evasive, passive/aggressive with the Jan 6 committee. What a surprise.


I also agree on Amnesty International, disgusting.


Testing WP #@$@#!!


Garland is going to speak soon. CNN


Hahaha, Garland filed a motion to unseal the info that was given to Dump so the public can see it.


@ 87
“BLUFF CALLED. GAME ON, MF!”
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Yup!


@87, @90 That is so funny!! Trump is such a master at playing the victim and arousing the imagined victimhood of other white men. Poor, poor little Drumpfkins! How could this happen? Without cause? This could happen to YOU!
But then, oops. Now what? hahahaha


@92 Holy shit!


@92
So it was nuclear secrets. Who was Trump selling them to?
———–
Holy shit is right but not surprising.
Everything was for sale to our enemies when it came to Dump. I’m sure it was something he kept to use as a deal with Putin, His North Korean lovepet, Saudies or China.
If this a$$wipe doesn’t serve time in jail, no one should. Maybe he will end up like his buddy Jeffery Epstein.


Remember when he would have private meetings with the above mentioned leaders, he didn’t want any American’s there or the news media or any notes.
God, I hope the White House had a recording system and someone has the backup. I guess it’s too much to ask for.


That is so great I can’t take it!! GURRLLL. OMG


“This man belongs in Guantanamo Bay or shot by firing squad for treason..”
Maybe the media as well? Let’s see… Recipes vs Nuclear secrets (and all the other blatant threats to national security incidences that Shadow and MB were talking about). Close call.


Have we heard from Mitch? Or Marco? Or Rand? Are they going to stick with their bullshit or come up with something new?


If I could handle the nausea, I would tune in to Fox and see what they’re saying. But I can’t, so I won’t.


Here are a few possibilities:
Trump had declassified all information regarding nuclear weapons when he was president. As was his right. So no problem.
Trump had declared Mar-a-Lardo a SCIF so it was ok.
It was the coffee boy. Mr. Covfefe. He’s the one responsible. Trump had no idea.
But seriously, the one responsible, the “brains” behind it, is most likely Jared (as speculated by MB). Will Trump sell him out to save himself?


@110 Thank you, quixote.


I jumped on Foxnews for about 45 seconds and they are floundering in trying to come up with some way to support their dear leader, dump..


You brave girl, Shadow. 45 seconds – I’m impressed! Thanks for the info.


PJ
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…


WSJ confirming that the FBI found 11 sets of classified documents in their search of Margo Largo, including some that are top secret.
Over 20 boxes of items were removed from the premises. Included were binders of photos (Mitt, is that you?), information about French Pres. Macron (his wife’s workout schedule?) and Roger Stone’s grant of clemency.


@119: I actually am taking this quite seriously. It is a dangerous situation.
But as my mother used to say, “If we don’t laugh, we will surely go mad.”
I’m at least halfway there already.


ALL of the Dems finally passed the IRA, and none of the Rethugs voted for it.
Bravo Dems.
Nancy looks so happy it passed.


Baby crows are so much prettier than their parents.
In reverse, baby falcons are not pretty as babies but are super beautiful as juveniles and adults.
Grinnell Junior juvenile: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfeWG14rL-U/


@126 “He is still wearing that ugly hat with the puff ball on top.”
What the heck is that(?) I was wondering. So I looked it up. Dear Lord…


Republicans want to destroy our democracy. They’re not being subtle.
They’re pumped. “We’re doing this! WHO’S WITH ME?!” However, abortion rights is going to be on the ballot in November (directly or indirectly). That will drive turn out. A big turn out is good for democracy and bad for them. So in a roundabout way, Alito and Christian fascist extremists have given us our best chance to save democracy. Ironic.


Luna @128
Grinnell Jr. is beautiful and has quite the personality. He and his sister, Lindsey have gone off on their own for over a week now and I sure miss them.
These two juvenile chicks are from Annie and Grinnell. Grinnell is the falcon that died after Annie had laid her eggs. There is a slight possibility that one of the chicks might be Alden’s. He is the falcon that took care of Annie when Grinnell died, and they did mate…
Alden has been a great step-dad, even if both chicks were Grinnell’s.
We are waiting to hear of the results of the DNA from each chick, it might be awhile in the future before we know.


MB
I was thinking this morning that Drumpf will be brought down by a Black man (Bennie Thompson), two Black women (Fani Willis and Tish James) and a Jewish guy ,(Merrick Garland). Take that, you Nazi.
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And also all the women that testified against him in the impeachment trials, like Fiona Hill and the women in the J6 hearings.
I think of the thousands of people he has killed from his stupidity denying the seriousness of the pandemic, all the women he has physically and emotionally abused and all the evil men he has put in position to overturn Roe v Wade.
He is evil and deserves his place in Hell.


Annie @34
Wow, I can’t even imagine moving that fast…even when I was a little girl.


Hahahaha, MB. You’re right. And that is so delightful!!
“Take that, you Nazi”. The Nazi Party is also having to take it. They are clinging to Trump tighter than ever and rallying to save him. I guess they really do believe that he alone can “fix it” (restore White Male Christian Supremacy, make America great again). A big part of MAGA is getting control of white women again and packing the Supreme Court was a hell of a start – SCOTUS has not disappointed. But they’re not going to succeed. I bet the Nazi Party finally loses their majority of white women vote (they were losing white women anyway, but it’s being accelerated).


Socal, how does Laker think his girl, Liz is going to do on Tuesday? I think I heard that she’s down 30 points. I think she should launch her presidential bid the next day. With her dad standing beside her. With his gun. Locked and loaded. 🙂 Ok, maybe that’s more scary than funny…
(I’m only teasing about Liz being Laker’s girl – but you knew that, right?)


Good question, quixote! I heard that Democrats are switching parties so they can vote for her (just for the primary), but that’s probably not very many people in Wyoming.


Socal, thank you for passing on Laker’s thoughts! 🙂 I think he’s right about repubs being split and the possibility of half voting for the nonDump (especially if Dump’s picks lose big in Nov). I also agree that it’s all up in the air! Crazy.


“Do we think that fat old schmuck carried them into a U-Haul himself?” hahahaha. And, no. You’re right – he HAD to have had a lot of help. (help, meaning he did nothing and someone else(s) did all the work).
“I’ll bet he started with this the second Lavrov came to the White House.” Whoa. I bet you’re right. Maybe Lavrov even handed him a “wish list”.
Adam Schiff nailed it.


I bet a lot of those helpers – co-conspirators – are “little people” who will flip. But it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the SS – who might not flip.


Wow – that’s great to hear (if it’s true). That really does surprise me. And Dump too, I bet.

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