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Out of My Mind and Time

LOL! Racist muffin top got stomped on her racist comments. Then the racist Omar thinks she know climate temperatures in B.C.

Does she even believe in B.C.? LOL

Then dementia sleepy Joe  Crow looked absolutely horrible today. Time is not on his side. 

josevolution

Out of My Mind and Time said:

LOL! Racist muffin top got stomped on her racist comments. Then the racist Omar thinks she know climate temperatures in B.C.

Does she even believe in B.C.? LOL

Then dementia sleepy Joe  Crow looked absolutely horrible today. Time is not on his side. 

😂😂😂 to much café dude slow down

The Juggler

josevolution said:

Out of My Mind and Time said:

LOL! Racist muffin top got stomped on her racist comments. Then the racist Omar thinks she know climate temperatures in B.C.

Does she even believe in B.C.? LOL

Then dementia sleepy Joe  Crow looked absolutely horrible today. Time is not on his side. 

😂😂😂 to much café dude slow down

It's like a never ending SNL skit with these guys. Whatever nonsense the maga right wing echo chamber is force feeding them, inevitably they will come here and puke it out to the rest of us in a sloppy constructed post. 

Shocked this wasn't in the form of a cartoon though. 

static111

The Juggler said:

josevolution said:

Out of My Mind and Time said:

LOL! Racist muffin top got stomped on her racist comments. Then the racist Omar thinks she know climate temperatures in B.C.

Does she even believe in B.C.? LOL

Then dementia sleepy Joe  Crow looked absolutely horrible today. Time is not on his side. 

😂😂😂 to much café dude slow down

It's like a never ending SNL skit with these guys. Whatever nonsense the maga right wing echo chamber is force feeding them, inevitably they will come here and puke it out to the rest of us in a sloppy constructed post. 

Shocked this wasn't in the form of a cartoon though. 

can you decipher racist muffin top and B.C? British Colombia?  Who is racist muffin top?

Halifax2TheMax

Out of My Mind and Time said:

LOL! Racist muffin top got stomped on her racist comments. Then the racist Omar thinks she know climate temperatures in B.C.

Does she even believe in B.C.? LOL

Then dementia sleepy Joe  Crow looked absolutely horrible today. Time is not on his side. 

Perhaps you can diagnose this word salad rambling? Oh wait, I know the answer, very stable genius of brilliant brilliance in all its brilliancy.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cu2gzm7PrtS/?igshid=Y2I2MzMwZWM3ZA==

gimmesometruth27

static111 said:

The Juggler said:

josevolution said:

Out of My Mind and Time said:

LOL! Racist muffin top got stomped on her racist comments. Then the racist Omar thinks she know climate temperatures in B.C.

Does she even believe in B.C.? LOL

Then dementia sleepy Joe  Crow looked absolutely horrible today. Time is not on his side. 

😂😂😂 to much café dude slow down

It's like a never ending SNL skit with these guys. Whatever nonsense the maga right wing echo chamber is force feeding them, inevitably they will come here and puke it out to the rest of us in a sloppy constructed post. 

Shocked this wasn't in the form of a cartoon though. 

can you decipher racist muffin top and B.C? British Colombia?  Who is racist muffin top?

he really owned the libs by not speaking our language.

racist muffin top? honestly that can be most of maga, lol.

The Juggler

Yeah I don't know what the hell he was talking about. Plus I thought demented sleepy Joe was now a crackhead, which would make him the opposite of sleepy? It's very confusing keeping up with complete and utter bullshit. 

benjs

The Juggler said:

Yeah I don't know what the hell he was talking about. Plus I thought demented sleepy Joe was now a crackhead, which would make him the opposite of sleepy? It's very confusing keeping up with complete and utter bullshit. 

Logic is not the language spoken by the modern GOP, outrage is.

mickeyrat

will have to look for this article...

https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1685734822721777664?t=JZFLRposWpeEbbKc-Yo6UA&s=19

mrussel1

Abby Spanberger running for VA governor, likely.  She is excellent.  She lives about two neighborhoods away from me, although due to re-districting, she's no longer by representative.  But she is ex-CIA and a heavy hitter.  I think she'll wipe the field.  Then look for her waiting for a senate seat when Warner retires.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/spanberger-future-00108756

gimmesometruth27

mrussel1 said:

Abby Spanberger running for VA governor, likely.  She is excellent.  She lives about two neighborhoods away from me, although due to re-districting, she's no longer by representative.  But she is ex-CIA and a heavy hitter.  I think she'll wipe the field.  Then look for her waiting for a senate seat when Warner retires.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/spanberger-future-00108756

whenever i hear someone is ex cia i always imagine them being like stan smith, haha

mrussel1

gimmesometruth27 said:

mrussel1 said:

Abby Spanberger running for VA governor, likely.  She is excellent.  She lives about two neighborhoods away from me, although due to re-districting, she's no longer by representative.  But she is ex-CIA and a heavy hitter.  I think she'll wipe the field.  Then look for her waiting for a senate seat when Warner retires.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/spanberger-future-00108756

whenever i hear someone is ex cia i always imagine them being like stan smith, haha

I love that show.  Maybe she is more like Bullock. 

The Juggler

Your 2028 frontrunner is right here, folks. 

Opinion | Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro shows how to fix the roads and politics - The Washington Post

Opinion 

 Josh Shapiro is showing how to break the politics of resentment

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August 6, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT

Last week’s indictment of Donald Trump brought home the urgency of transforming our nation’s public life. Special counsel Jack Smith lived up to his responsibility by holding the former president accountable for his crimes against democracy. Only politicians can break the grip of Trump’s politics of resentment.

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This has long been one of President Biden’s central goals, but his Democratic colleagues at the state and local levels might have the best shot at moving their fellow citizens away from cultural, racial and religious divisions and toward the (often literally) concrete ground of jobs and building things. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro ranks as one of the most determined and, so far, successful practitioners of this new politics of addition.

You might know Shapiro as the guy who got a collapsed part of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia fixed within 12 days. Given how long public projects take to complete, he deserved all the attention he got for this achievement.

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It sure made him popular at home. In late June, a Quinnipiac Poll found that 57 percent of Pennsylvania voters approved of Shapiro’s job performance while only 23 percent disapproved. Strikingly, 53 percent of independents and even 34 percent of Republicans gave their Democratic governor positive marks.

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For Shapiro, the I-95 moment is part of a larger task: to prove to voters that government can be effective and also operate in the interest of those who feel left out, left behind and disrespected.

“You’ve got to show up everywhere, and you’ve got to speak to everyone, and you've got to speak in plain language and in practical terms,” he told me in an interview last week in the final days of settling a tough state budget fight. He noted that in his 2022 campaign, “I went to counties the Democrats had written off a long time ago and spoke about workforce development and spoke about how we're going to bring back the economy and talked about it in very tangible, practical ways.”

It worked. In a state Biden carried in 2020 by a little more than 80,000 votes, Shapiro swept past Republican Doug Mastriano in 2022 by more than 790,000.

Granted, Mastriano was a Trumpian extremist who turned off even Republicans in key swing suburban counties. But like his predecessor Tom Wolf did in the more Democratic year of 2018, the now-50-year-old Shapiro slashed GOP margins in the Trump heartland.

In the west and west-central parts of the state, for example — counties such as Westmoreland, Beaver, Washington and Cambria — Shapiro ran ahead of Biden by 10 or more points. In gaining a Senate seat for the Democrats in 2022, John Fetterman also outperformed Biden, but his margin of just under 264,000 votes was smaller than Shapiro’s.

As governor, Shapiro said he’s determined to signal to economically struggling voters that they’re being “seen and heard.” One of his first acts was to sign an executive order doing away with the college degree requirement for 92 percent of state government jobs.

His emphasis on opportunities for those without college degrees might be seen as a bow to the White working class, which he, like Biden, is certainly interested in winning back to the Democratic coalition. But the actual (as opposed to the pundit’s) working class is heavily Black and Latino. So Shapiro’s focus on expanding funding for apprenticeships, vocational education and job training for those who aren’t college-bound is aimed at a broad swath of Pennsylvanians.

Representative of what Shapiro is trying to do is an executive order he signed last week directing some $400 million from Biden’s infrastructure investments to “on-the-job training” to install broadband internet and fix roads, bridges and pipes. “We’re the first state in the nation to do that,” he noted.

“I think that we've gotten too elitist in our attitudes that the only way you can succeed is if you go to college,” Shapiro said. “I just fundamentally think that is the wrong approach, and that's something I'm trying to change.”

What’s interesting about Shapiro is that he made “real freedom” a signature theme around not only LGBTQ+ and abortion rights but also the aspiration to good jobs and incomes — “the freedom to chart your own course” and enjoy “the opportunity to succeed,” he said. He’s connecting social rights of particular concern to his suburban constituents with the economic rights sought in blue-collar towns and lower-income big-city neighborhoods.

He’s certainly not alone in this. His party now has a regiment of governors — Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan, Wes Moore in Maryland, Gavin Newsom in California, Maura Healey in Massachusetts and Andy Beshear in Kentucky, to name a few — pushing back against right-wing culture warfare with an emphasis on inclusion and practical achievement.

But for now, Shapiro’s I-95 feat has made him a leading voice for the transition to a less fractious politics. Building an actual road fast is an apt symbol of the journey the country needs to take.

Lerxst1992

Loved during Covid, his son walking in on his tv interview with Wallace  (I think it was). By all accounts Gov Shapiro should be a very strong candidate. Unfortunately his name will cause many of a certain influence in swing states in this extremely unusual country to Google his name in a certain manner, making his ability to reach 270 questionable.

mrussel1

Shapiro is good, but I still think the next one is Newsome.  

static111

Lerxst1992 said:

Loved during Covid, his son walking in on his tv interview with Wallace  (I think it was). By all accounts Gov Shapiro should be a very strong candidate. Unfortunately his name will cause many of a certain influence in swing states in this extremely unusual country to Google his name in a certain manner, making his ability to reach 270 questionable.

What is wrong with a name like Josh Shapiro??

Gern Blansten

mrussel1 said:

Shapiro is good, but I still think the next one is Newsome.  

Agreed....Newsome is the guy. 

cottagesteeze

Gern Blansten said:

mrussel1 said:

Shapiro is good, but I still think the next one is Newsome.  

Agreed....Newsome is the guy. 

I think Newsom is an automatic loss for the dems. He is too easy for the right to smear.
People love to hate on California and he's been caught up in too many headline scandals.
I don't know how much there is to those headlines, but the fact they exist and I heard about them in MN can't be a good sign.

mrussel1

Gern Blansten said:

mrussel1 said:

Shapiro is good, but I still think the next one is Newsome.  

Agreed....Newsome is the guy. 

Have you been watching this debate discussion between him and Desantis?  Newsome's team leveled Ron with their response to his "demands", including the hype video, cue cards, etc.  Newsome already showed that he can smack around a pro like Hannity, so someone as  thin skinned and in his own "bubble" like Ron should not be too much of a challenge.  

Gern Blansten

mrussel1 said:

Gern Blansten said:

mrussel1 said:

Shapiro is good, but I still think the next one is Newsome.  

Agreed....Newsome is the guy. 

Have you been watching this debate discussion between him and Desantis?  Newsome's team leveled Ron with their response to his "demands", including the hype video, cue cards, etc.  Newsome already showed that he can smack around a pro like Hannity, so someone as  thin skinned and in his own "bubble" like Ron should not be too much of a challenge.  

Yes I caught some of that. He'll destroy Desantis. 

We really need our guys (Newsome, Buttegieg, Shapiro, etc.) to appear on Fox as much as possible. They do well on there.