“If we can just get him to settle down, stay on message, and act his age, we can still pull this out.”
“Yeah, you’re talking about Donald Trump, here. What are the odds he might do any of those things?”
“He must know how…”
“Maybe, but have you ever seen it?”
“Crap.”

Apparently, he’s going to do more campaigning. Apparently, he thinks only HE can save the day. Narcissism doth make a fool of the narcissist. Is lying and whining going to do it? I don’t know. It’s all well and good to try to knock your opponent down a couple of notches but he doesn’t seem to understand that just tossing out made-up stuff isn’t going to DO anything. And, listen, mispronouncing someone’s name as a put-down? That is SO second grade. Sure, MAGA enjoys it. But let’s be honest, shall we? He could stand up at that lectern farting and crapping his pants (and, from what I hear, may have) and they would just swoon at how amazing he is.

MAGA cannot be the measure of…well, anything, really. Let’s just say MAGA is an undependable source. Oh, and there aren’t enough to get him elected. He needs at least SOME mainstream voters and I think his ‘poor me’ shtick is wearing thin for normal people. It has moved beyond ‘boring.’ Most of the country, no, the world, just wants him to dry up and blow away, already. I NEVER have to tune in to a Trump speech. I saw it eight years ago and it’s been in reruns ever since.

I do get a kick out of listening to a silver spoon-fed blowhard, crying and whining about how unfair life has been to him – to a bunch of people who have actually struggled all of their lives. (They think he’s “one of them.” He is OH, so not, one of them…)

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Polls are starting to break for Harris/Walz, too. According to an Emerson College Poll released last Thursday, even old people are turning to Harris over Trump. It’s not a huge lead. Harris is at 51% while Trump is at 48% but the over-70 crowd has been reliably Republican for a long time, now.

The under-30 crowd has shifted toward Harris by nine points, too. It said that as many as 93% of voters said they were extremely or very motivated to vote in the election on November 5. It showed that black voters who are very or extremely motivated to vote went from 80% to 91% over the course of the last month. If you’re Harris (or a Harris supporter) things are trending well for you.

There’s a lot of time left but it’s looking like America is ready to move on from it’s most extreme edges, move away from MAGA (like one moves away from a crazy person on a bus) and get back to serious matters. (Kids getting cat boxes in schools? Some people will believe anything…)

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Hey, people are mailing abortion pills to states that don’t allow them! I kind of love that. As it happens, most abortions in this country are done with medications, not in doctor’s offices. It’s early days in this round, but it looks like cons might have missed their chance to totally damage women by a little bit. Unless they claim power, of course, and institute a nationwide ban.

It’s kind of like the Underground Railroad back in the slave days. People from free states would help runaway slaves from slave states to freedom. Sure, it was illegal and dangerous but it was the right thing to do and there were people ready, willing, and able to help.

So now, people from free states are helping victims of red states in a similar way. The packages are “discreet.” Sometimes, they’re mislabeled. They’re about the size of a hardcover book. There are organizations springing up and setting up shop to participate. AND, they do it on a sliding pay scale. It means that women and girls in red states won’t necessarily be forced to have babies, after all!

Eight states have passed shield laws to protect the providers of this oh-so-important medication to the people who need it. In simple terms, there are laws that say a telehealth provider has to be licensed in both the state they practice in AND the state they’re sending meds to, but the shield laws protect the providers since they likely would not be able to be licensed in the oppressor states.

I’ll tell you this: I count this good news. I’m glad to know there are people stepping up to help where help is needed. It’s heartening to know there are still good people on this planet…