Is there anyone left under the bridge today? nt

Does anyone know the identity of the arrogant Trumpy gargoyle who tells the lies

on the anti-BBB ad on TV?

The ads are financed by the "Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease", a big-Pharma subsidiary and she is supposedly just an indignant woman in Georgia.

Isn't it strange that the same people who for years have insisted that rap lyrics and video

games encouraged acts of violence now insist that there is no way Gosar's murderous anime could persuade some MAGAt to attack a Democrat?

"Strange" isn't the right adjective. "Shameless" is a more appropriate term.

When do we say "ENOUGH!"

When do we point to the elephant in the room?

When do we stop speaking and acting AS IF those in the Trump party are acting in good faith?

When do we stop pretending that if we simply communicate better and GOTV, things will "work out eventually"

When do we stop considering or caring about what "they" might say or do?

When does it register that going "all in" in '22 is our ONLY chance to win in '24?

A Calgary lad, Raphael, a bit of verse started to tell.

Began with "Nantucket", then decided "Aw, fuck it!
Why provide them with proof I'm not well?"

Revealed! Text of jury's last question to "Judge" Schroeder:

"WTF is up with you?"

"Alternate facts" create an "alternate reality". Here's the one in which the Trump cult lives:

---if a person has an "R" after their name AND Trump approves of them, EVERYTHING they say is true and "factual"; ANYTHING they do is legal, moral and "patriotic"; ANYONE they hurt "had it coming"; and, ALL who oppose or criticize them are "communist socialist deep-state Soros-funded poopy heads!"

This is sad, but then the truth often is.

We can no longer afford to be civil and polite and patient in dealing with the mob of thugs and fools who STILL support Trump and insist he won last year's election.

Donald Trump is not simply a "political opponent" with whom we disagree; he is a national enemy whose goal is the destruction of our democracy, his own autocratic rule over us and the selling of all we hold dear to the highest international bidder for the enrichment of himself, his family and his toadies.

Call it "hardball", "smashmouth politics" or "taking the gloves off", but find a way to do what needs to be done to enforce our laws, preserve and implement our Constitution and put the disgusting anti-American Trump cultists in prison for at least a couple decades.

The Trumpists are relying on our patient implementation of the procedures that "always worked before" because they know they will have cemented their control over our government before those procedures will stop them. You know those "wheels of justice" that "grind slowly"? Our enemy's intent is to shatter them.

"What are you prepared to do?"

I know this is armchair quarterbacking but, it seems to me that two factors that cut against

Rittenhouse have not been addressed in his trial.

First, he shot one Defendant four times in .76 seconds.

People TRAIN to fire in such bursts for combat or other situations where the shooter's life is at stake. Better to stop a threat with just one of 3 or 4 shots than miss with a single shot. There is no need to assess the necessity of each shot because the life-threatening circumstances justify "whatever it takes" to survive.

Second, once a person decides to fire in bursts, he has to PRACTICE in order to pull that trigger 4 times in .76 seconds.

IMHO, Rittenhouse was a 17 year old Rambo-wannabe who did just what he had fantasized about and trained for.

Will there be criminal referrals of Clark and Meadows? nt