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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 04:38:06 AM EST
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Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m.

If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? While you are thinking, I'll give my answer: Anytime before January 20, 2025, when our country began its downward spiral away from democracy and into authoritarian madness with a Manichaeistic despot at the helm, who appears more often than not to me to either be loony-tunes batsh*t delusional, or so narcissistic that he thinks he owns the world.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    He's definitely going to want one (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 03:50:08 PM EST

    While the American leader touched down in a dated Air Force One, the French PM outclassed him by arriving in the mighty Concorde flying at Mach 2 and 60,000 feet.

    Double post? (none / 0) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 09:30:46 AM EST
    I forgot anyway.

    Yes, I just deleted the second one (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 10:29:30 AM EST
    Glad you noticed.

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    What G-man said (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 11:56:17 AM EST
    "The rules of the game have changed. Now, we have to rewrite the new rules."

    -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), quoted by NBC News.

    Newsom (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 12:53:47 PM EST
    has really shown leadership through all this along with Pritzker.

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    I want a politician (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 01:08:01 PM EST
    A president, who is going to say we gotta fix this.   We gotta pass a bunch of laws to make these easily avoided so called NORMS into laws.

    There needs to be a wave of post Watergate type laws to stop this from ever happening again.

    I think many want that and I think the person who frames that best is going to be the next nominee.

    I like Pritzker but Newsome is doing it right now.

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    I agree. (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 03:02:25 PM EST
    And I think a bunch is going to be needed. I doubt the ballroom will be finished by 2029 but even if it is it needs to be destroyed.

    This nonsense of being under US law and having no representation needs to end. Statehood for PR and DC and maybe even Guam. Supreme court expanded to 13. Take districting for congressional seats out of the hands of the state legislatures. End the electoral college albeit a harder one there. Get rid of Citizen's United. And I'm sure there are more that I cannot think of right now.

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    Foundational to (none / 0) (#12)
    by KeysDan on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 05:04:40 PM EST
    the fix is reform of the Supreme Court (expansion and other changes), without which efforts for de-MAGAtization and de-fascistization will be thwarted.

    If the Grand Ballroom is not to be demolished, it should be given over for use by Planned Parenthood and a clinic for gender-affirming therapy.

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    I want someone (none / 0) (#15)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 12:42:14 PM EST
    Who's going to go medevil FDR!

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    Try that again? (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by Peter G on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 09:30:26 AM EST
    I don't understand.

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    Nigeria = distraction (none / 0) (#6)
    by desertswine on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 01:27:53 PM EST
    Look over there, not over here.

    The overt privileging (5.00 / 2) (#7)
    by Peter G on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 02:13:13 PM EST
    of conservative Christianity over other religious groups by members of this Administration is frankly shocking in its blatant unconstitutionality.

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    Unconstitutionality is the Trump regime's M.O. (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 06:17:57 AM EST
    And let's also not forget the wanton cruelty for its own sake. They've certainly taken a real fancy to that. Oh, and the dissembling and gaslighting, mustn't leave those out, particularly after 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O'Donnell's trainwreck of a primetime interview with Trump on Sunday night.

    Regarding conservative Christianity, I think a better word for such performative preening, posturing and posing is Christianism. Jesus of Nazareth had their number in his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:5).

    Aloha. 😎

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    What does (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 02:51:27 PM EST
    a 4 rating mean?

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    To me? It is disagreement with one point (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by Peter G on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 03:53:38 PM EST
    in an otherwise excellent comment.

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    Distractions (none / 0) (#13)
    by KeysDan on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 05:18:38 PM EST
    from the distractions--trying to keep all the plates spinning. and doing double duty..  Venezuela has oil. Nigeria has oil. Venezuela breaking bad with  drugs in fishing boats --blow them up.  Nigeria persecuting Christians, blow them up, catnip for the Evangelical base.  And, all that oil.

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    Also --making a new immigration policy that (5.00 / 3) (#14)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 08:59:07 PM EST
    favors Christians in South Africa, who happen to be white.

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    Did any of them even (none / 0) (#16)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 12:44:25 PM EST
    Stay that showed up in the first dump? I read that some weren't all that impressed with our country and returned to South Africa a few months back.

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    Well (none / 0) (#17)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 03:24:12 PM EST
    it's not like we're running over with job opportunities these days. They dumped all those people here without even checking to see if their skills matched any needs. I had thought they were going to be farmers? But farming is a mess these days.

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    OT. I wanted to thank you for mentioning (none / 0) (#31)
    by vml68 on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 02:01:20 PM EST
    Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus in one of your comments a while back. I had not heard of it before then. Shortly after reading your comment my mother started showing some symptoms of it.
    Her doctor was able to rule it out after testing but it really helped to know what he was talking about the first time it was brought up.

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    I am (none / 0) (#33)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 03:07:34 PM EST
    glad it was able to help you. I had never heard of it until my stepfather was diagnosed with it. It seems to be a fairly common form of dementia.

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    So I was reading this thing about (none / 0) (#18)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 06:56:17 PM EST
    how Paramount+ was going to assimilate HBO and there was is interesting bit.  Interesting if you have been following the news about the "news" at CBS.

     

    A particularly intriguing element involves news operations. Warner Bros. Discovery's CNN could tap into resources from Paramount-owned CBS News, enabling shared reporting assets, bureaus, and talent pools. This synergy might amplify coverage capabilities, blending CNN's global breaking-news prowess with CBS's deep domestic journalism bench. While no formal restructuring details have emerged, the setup could yield cost savings and enhanced storytelling, though it raises eyebrows about editorial independence in an era of media convergence.

    They make it sound so positive..

    Might be time to switch to MSNOW.

    But (5.00 / 2) (#29)
    by FlJoe on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 11:25:22 AM EST
    eyebrows were raised, all is not lost.

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    SO exciting!! (none / 0) (#34)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 03:11:25 PM EST

    Inside David Ellison's Dramatic First 100 Days at Paramount: Courting Tom Cruise Blockbusters, Forging Ties With Trump and Daring Anyone Else to Buy Warner Bros. Discovery

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    Yep (none / 0) (#35)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 03:14:03 PM EST
    Hollywood may be wary of the Ellison family. The WGA called the prospect of Paramount buying Warner Bros. Discovery "a disaster for writers, for consumers, and for competition" and vowed to work with regulators to block the merger.

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    Link (none / 0) (#19)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 07:13:52 PM EST

    The End of HBO Max? Paramount Wants to Merger The Service Into Paramount+ Putting an End to HBO Max



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    I don't know what to think Capt (none / 0) (#20)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 09:58:08 PM EST
    HBO has been groundbreaking since I was a teenager. I think all these conglomerates owned by specific oligarchy will actually end up leading to stunted creativity and anemic products.

    I think the wealthy fear the free  expression of our feelings and storytelling as they now begin to squeeze us.

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    Stunted creativity and anemic products? (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 06:34:39 AM EST
    "Why, whatever do you mean?" he asks as he looks up from the premiere of NBC's "Law & Order: Despicable Conduct," in which retired D.A. Jack McCoy (Sam Waterson) urges NYPD Capt. Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) to investigate what he insists are the mysteriously coincidental deaths of everyone over age 85 at the senior housing facility where he resides.

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    Lol (none / 0) (#23)
    by Militarytracy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 07:44:23 AM EST


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    This definitely (none / 0) (#24)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 07:50:02 AM EST
    Eric Holder Calls on Democrats to Reform Supreme Court
    November 4, 2025 at 7:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard 85 Comments

    Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called on Democrats to reform the Supreme Court should they win a "trifecta in 2028" on Monday, calling it "a broken institution" that was causing "an untold amount of damage to the fabric" of the country, Mediaite reports.

    Said Holder: "I think the reality is, and it pains me to say this, I think the Supreme Court is a broken institution and it's something that has to be, I think, a part of the national conversation in '26 and in '28. What are we gonna do about the Supreme Court?"

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    That, and (none / 0) (#28)
    by leap2 on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 11:21:05 AM EST
    scrap the Constitution and start over

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    Dick Cheney is dead (none / 0) (#25)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 07:56:36 AM EST
    RIP

    I look forward to Trump's response,

    At least he wasn't a Russian operative. (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by desertswine on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 10:20:38 AM EST


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    First (none / 0) (#30)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 12:13:47 PM EST
    Thought i has is what kind of disaster is Trump.going to put forth over this. Denying him the ability to loe in state? I hope Biden out lasts Trump.being in office.

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    So (none / 0) (#32)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 03:03:30 PM EST
    the White House flag is at half mast but not because of Trump.

    It turns out there's a law that says you have to lower the flags for a dead VP.

    Probably good news for Vance.  In the long run.

     

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    ELECTION NIGHT! (none / 0) (#36)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 04:42:24 PM EST
    I really think it's going to be a good one.

    Every Republican who can find a camera is warning Democrats Mamdani will be "the face of the Democratic party" if he wins.

    Well, he's going to win.  And I think Republicans might rue the day decided to make him the face of the party.  It's a good face.

    It smelled of onions (none / 0) (#37)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 05:10:26 PM EST

    Border Patrol Agent Gregory Lairmore took the stand Tuesday, nearly three months after being nailed with a hoagie in the chest.

    "It smelled of onions and mustard," Lairmore said on the stand, claiming he got a whiff after it "exploded" across his bulletproof vest.



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