Little Sister Resister: debate

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head." ~ Elizabeth I

Last evening, JD Vance squared up against Tim Walz in their only debate.

The debate was cordial, civil, and friendly at times on both sides.

My main takeaway: Vance is ambitious. And not in the good way. In the Elizabeth I way.

Underneath it all, I sensed a smug, smarmy ambition within JD Vance, underpinned with the worst of the MAGAt world's stench.

It was an excellent audition tape for 2028.

He was smart to throw away that note. JD was articulate, confident, pretty, and may I daresay charismatic. Which makes him very, very scary. He also lied, mischaracterized, and justified.

Vance put forth the same ol' MAGA mucus but slickly wrapped it in pretty tissue paper. He made "alternative facts" seem reasonable.

He is dangerous.

He was smooth in his absurdities. For example, talking about medications coming from other countries, he said, "We're not going to stop it by listening to experts. We're going to stop it by listening to common sense wisdom, which is what Donald Trump governed on." WTAF.

And the lies! TRUMP "saved" Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act. In which plane of existence did that happen?

Climate change is "just a bunch of crazy weather patterns." As we are still collecting dead bodies from Helene's fury.

He pounded Kamala Harris for all she did or didn't do doing her four years as VP, as if she were running for reelection. She can't do – and didn't do – anything as VP except cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

And a weird new angle: slamming Kamala for "censorship." WTAF? Way to broadcast the MAGAt playbook! Great projection, there. This steams me.

JD pounded on the economy and the border (if he says "illegal aliens" one more time I'm gonna puke), but with more subtle and slick lies than his running mate.

Meanwhile, Tim Walz seemed under-prepared, over-prepared, or just plain nervous. You could tell he had good points to make, but used half-thoughts that if you have been paying attention you would know what he was talking about, but low-information voters wouldn't follow.

He made several good points, though. He talked about what he has done in Minnesota well. It illustrated the hope and the progress that can be achieved with the Dems.

He did land a few good punches too. He was stronger on gun issues.

JD looked the fool as he talked about needing to "make the doors lock better" at schools in order to solve the problem of school shootings. Seriously?

Walz talked about gun violence in a very reasoned yet hunter-esque way, saying, "There are reasonable things that we can do to make a difference. It's not infringing on your Second Amendment. ... No one's trying to scaremonger and say, we're taking your guns."

"Sometimes it just is the guns. It's just the guns," Coach Walz pointedly said later, directly to The People, countering the tired argument of mental health as the one-n-only cause of mass shootings.

He also hit back on the question of states determining women's rights to access healthcare. JD pushed the "leave it up to the states" argument about abortion rights, and Walz hit back, illustrating with the tragedy of the death of Amber Thurman and saying, "How can we as a nation say that your life and your rights as basic as the right to control your own body is determined on geography?"

And at the end, Walz was very strong speaking about January 6. JD tried to whitewash it (aren't they running out of whitewash yet?) and sanitize that day's events, per the MAGAt playbook. JD said that his boss "peacefully gave over power on January the 20th." Riiiiight.... just two weeks after several police officers were beaten to a pulp and the entire body of Congress ran for their very lives.

Walz directly asked JD if 45 lost the 2020 election. JD tried hard to keep fastened the curtain that shields the sham of a wizard, saying, "Tim, I'm focused on the future...."

Walz hit back: "That is damning. That is a damning non answer."

The moderators also had a clap-back, when JD tried to talk over them and mansplain their fact-check of the legal Haitian migrants in Ohio. They cut his mic and said, "Thank you for explaining the legal process." Movin' on....

All in all, I don't think that this debate swayed many undecided voters. Both candidates had their peaks and valleys, and didn't move the needle one way or the other. And probably JD doesn't care. He's looking ahead.

This poll agrees with me. No one knows.

If you want to watch it, gawd be with you, here ya go. Or for the readers out there, here is the transcript.

For my favorite analysis, see Stephen Colbert, who broadcast live after the debate last night:

And, a recap of last month's Presidential Debate from our own Randy Rainbow.

Lastly, a few commentaries from the Twitterverse and beyond.

RJ Matson

Clare Morrissey

Yes! Thank you, Nick Anderson. My thoughts exactly!

LSR will be back soon with more from Freak Town and Normalville soon. In the meantime, RESIST!

Friday, September 13, 2024

The Debris From the Debate Debacle

Now that we're a few days separated from the presidential debate, we can pull back a little and get a wider view. There's much in the positive column, but as you can expect, a lot in the dark debris column too.

Yay for Kamala!

Kamala's fundraising was again off the charts. In the 24 hours after the debate, she raised a whopping $47 million. Most of this was from small donations from over 600,000 individual donors. That is yuge! (Speaking of, if you want to donate and get some Harris/Walz swag in one fell swoop, head to their official store.)

The polls indicating a winner of the debate were clear: Kamala won. As if it weren't clear to anyone with minimal brain activity who watched it.

The voter polls enjoyed a surge too. Kamala is now up by 5% nationwide, and "red" to "leaning red" states are becoming "toss up" states. Even FAUX News is forced to admit Kamala is leading. Let me remind you, though. Polls don't vote! We mustn't let up! Get every single voter to the ballot box by November 5!

It is heartening that voters in swing states got Kamala's message and seem to be headed to the polls with a fresh viewpoint.

Voter registration inquiries surged after Taylor Swift's endorsement. YES! Let's get those new voters to the polls! Look at this graphic regarding Google searches for voter registration information during and shortly after the debate. After her endorsement, Google searches for specifically the term "taylor swift voter registration" spiked. You can see the relative spike when the terms "voter registration" and "Taylor Swift" are superimposed. Read more in The Washington Post.

People didn't just stop at the search. Vote.gov had 405,999 visitors on debate night. It's unknown how many of those will convert to new voter registrations, but a year ago, the last time Taylor Swift encouraged voter registration, it was estimated that it led to 35,000 new registrations.

Now is a good time to remind your friends and family who are turning 18 on or before November 5 to get registered. And those who have turned 18 during the last four years – they may not be registered either! Send them to vote.gov or vote.org for information on how to register. You can also check your own registration there. Make sure you haven't been thrown off the rolls!

The Weird

Voter registration information wasn't the only trending Google search during and after the debate. Other searches reflected the bizarre world we live in. Diaper Don's name with "eating pets," "eating dogs," and "eating cats" trended on Google.

DonOld was so humiliated during the debate that he made his way to the spin room to be his own spin-master, claiming that he won bigly and spouting made-up poll numbers left and right. It was weird.

Afterwards, Traitor Tot went around the media saying that he won but yet it was "so unfair" – "three against one" – and complained Kamala must have gotten the questions in advance.

Ummmm, Sir, you had the questions in advance as well. It wasn't the SAT. It was a freakin' presidential debate. Did you think they were not going to ask questions about abortion rights, January 6, the economy, immigration, and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza? Or did you honestly think there was a possibility of having to summarize the religious allegories in Moby Dick?

He mocked Kamala for asking for another debate. "When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are ‘I WANT A REMATCH!'" And yet, he declined to participate in another ass-kicking. Hmmmm...

Ann Telnaes

The Laura Looney, I mean Loomer, Connection.

This lady is a real nut job. She is an ultra-right wing agitator, and I mean agitator. She has been making vile and racists statements for years. She has is known for her anti-Muslim posts (she even goes as far as calling herself "#proudislamophobe"). She was banned from Twitter over her hate, but Elmo reinstated her once he bought the joint. She is a racist homophobic, transphobic, conspiracy theorist. She's on the fringe of the fringe; even the Righties hate her.

Last week, she made vile racist posts about Kamala Harris. It was so bad that even Empty Gee condemned her.

Loomer has run for Congress unsuccessfully a couple times, but earned the admiration of winners like Roger Stone. As well as her new bae, one Dolt 45.

Lately, Loomer has been quite cozy with Micro McMushroom. The New York Times reports, "Ms. Loomer has been to Mar-a-Lago at least nine times since January 2021, flew on Mr. Trump’s jet to the Iowa Caucuses and was almost hired by the campaign in the spring of 2023 until news coverage and internal pushback killed that plan." She was also on the plane with him to the debate in Pennsylvania. She may be the source of Lex Loser's bizarre dog-eating shite.

There are rumors about an affair. Melania has largely been MIA lately, and Laura has been visibly ...uh... supportive of the Republican candidate for President. Look see:

The Ugly

It's true. The bizarre claim that people are eating the cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, is funny. But the Springfield community at large, and specifically the Haitian community, are getting hit by shrapnel from the lies.

Of course, when faced with push-back and humiliation, Kim Don-ill must always double down. And so must his whack-job VP pick. And so they did. And then tripled down.

Understand that this is a racist attack. Idiot Amin considers Haiti a "shithole country." By asserting that the large Haitian immigrant population is doing this, they again smear shit all over anyone who is not shiny bright white, Christian, and possesses a penis. Do you think that if 20,000 Norwegian immigrants landed in Springfield, Ohio, this would be happening?

Because of the vileness of this lie, and the fact that his minions gobble up every steaming pile of shit that he is able to squat out, the city of Springfield is suffering the effects.

Bomb threats have been called in to city buildings and schools. Three public schools had to be evacuated or closed. City Hall was also evacuated due to a bomb threat.

Not that it matters, but the Haitian immigrants to Springfield are mostly legal and have been invited by city officials, who touted the city as having good jobs and affordable housing. The immigrants have been instrumental in revitalizing the city and boosting the local economy.

Yet, the senator for which these people are constituents, one JD Vance, has betrayed them. He once stated that the pet-eating nonsense is a rumor (i.e., a lie), but yet now he keeps it going.

I hope that no violence breaks out, but if it does, the blame lies solely at Jabba the Putz and JD's feet. It must be scary for the community and especially for the Haitian immigrants who call Springfield home. Shameful.

Singer John Legend has condemned the lie about residents of his hometown of Springfield, Ohio. President Biden has also spoken out, calling the threats to the community "simply wrong."

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The Memes: Addendum

The memes and cartoons just keep a-comin'! The humor in the pet-eating memes is fading a given the news, so let's give ourselves one more chuckle before it doesn't feel good anymore. Heck, people are darn funny, and sometimes ya gotta laugh to keep from crying. ~~We will~~ May we never live in times like these again.