Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden predicted Friday that big wins for his party in November could lead to an "epiphany" that convinces Republicans to join Democrats in pulling the country out of crisis.

"If we win as big as we possibly can, there's going to be a great, great epiphany that's going to take place, as we Catholics say," Biden told donors at a high-dollar virtual fundraiser.

Meanwhile back in the real world, McConnell is plotting all the ways he can sabotage a Biden presidency if he is elected.

Donald Trump's secret police': Portland fears a federal `occupying army' violating citizens' constitutional rights

Both of Oregon's U.S. Senators and Two Congressional Reps Want Investigation of Federal Forces in Portland

In the past week, those federal forces shot one protester in the head with crowd-control munitions and, according to reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting,  allegedly pulled at least two protesters off the streets into unmarked vehicles.

Those actions, conducted by forces answerable to Trump rather than local officials, prompted Democratic U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici (all from Oregon) to call today for the inspectors general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate "the unrequested presence and violent actions of federal forces in Portland."

We don't have the Yamamoto US Naval Base anywhere. Or the Herman Goehring US Air Base anywhere either. Why does the US continue to have military installations named for traitors. Men who fought against the United States. It's lunacy. And the current occupant of 1600 PA is a lunatic.

As to the confederate flags, this is the flag of traitors. It's not much different if Germans were running around Berlin waving Nazi flags. They don't do it, in fact, it is illegal.

Lately I've seen Biden commercials where they don't even use the orange doofus' name. The ads talk about leadership and righting the ship.

Had to switch channels when Ari Melber started to echo that line--- Trump was not alone at the podium even though he was alone, he was with Dr. Fauci and the CDC.

 No thought to his polls.  It's one of those presidential pivots, a catastrophe too late.

I don't think it's really that weird.

Many lucid dreamers greatly enjoy the experience, particularly in the third of cases where they experience some control over the dream's direction. Just over half of Aspy's participants had lucid dreamed before, and were keen to learn to do it more frequently.

However, Aspy says the benefits go deeper. Many lucid dreamers describe using their dreams to solve problems that defeat them when awake, or practice for challenging situations.

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The U.S. Supreme Court put a clash over a grand jury subpoena for President Donald Trump's financial records on a fast track, formally returning it to the appeals court level ahead of schedule," Bloomberg reports.

"Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had asked the justices not to wait 25-plus days, as they normally do after issuing an opinion.

What I really would like to see is a serious book explaining Donald's talents in conning people during his business and political career. Such abilities are thankfully not common at all.
Most people would be slapped down immediately if they tried any of it.

The settlement of Fred Trump's estate where his 4 surviving children got hundreds of millions while the two children of the late Fred Jr (Freddy) were shut out, has been previously reported.  Those two children Mary L and Fritz are, according to some news reports, feuding over the book.  Fritz says Mary L has violated a non disclosure agreement they both had to sign to get something from the old man's estate.  But since we never are told in the book, exactly what they got, maybe it really hasn't been violated.  Fritz may be mad because Mary reported on how Donald and the others originally cut off medical treatment for Fritz's son who was born with cerebral palsy.  Apparently they are now giving help and that whole business was supposed to stay confidential.

Mary gives very little information about herself as an adult.  She has PHD in Psychology as does a cousin David Desmond Jr, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry's son from her first marriage.  I would be curious to see if some reporter can get him to comment on her cousin's book.  Mary mentions in a few places that she raised a daughter after a same sex marriage, that she seems to have kept hidden from the family, ended in divorce.

One of the more egregious recent examples of left-wing illiberalism is the firing of David Shor, a data analyst at the progressive consulting firm Civis Analytics. Amid the protests over Floyd's killing, Shor was called out online for tweeting about work by Omar Wasow, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton, that shows a link between violent protest in the 1960s and Richard Nixon's vote share.

Shor was accused of "anti-Blackness" for seeming to suggest, via Wasow's research, that violent protest is counterproductive. (Wasow is Black.) "At least some employees and clients of Civis Analytics complained that Shor's tweet threatened their safety," reported New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait. After an internal review, Shor was let go; he was also kicked off a progressive industry listserv.

Civis has denied that Shor was fired for a tweet, but an employee told The Atlantic's Yascha Mounk that the company's chief executive said, in a staff meeting, "something along the lines of freedom of speech is important, but he had to take a stand with our staff, clients, and people of color."

Could not find the full interview but the greatest hits are being played non stop on CNN and MSNBC.  

In an interview with the Washington Post's Greg Sargent, one of the founders of the Never-Trumper Lincoln Project said he is personally seeking "atonement" for some of the Republicans he once helped into office, and that the group is making plans to eliminate all traces of Trumpism once the president is gone.

Lumped in with those "traces" are the GOP lawmakers who have enabled the president.

Maybe it's just that he sounds so real when he talks about family and illness and the stuff that requires empathy.

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper has raised concerns within the administration about federal agents patrolling the streets of U.S. cities in camouflage uniforms similar to those worn by troops in war zones, his spokesperson said Tuesday.

Yeah, ok.  Got it.

"I just wish her well."

-- President Trump, quoted by Reuters, when asked about Ghislaine Maxwell, who prosecutors say conspired to entice girls as young as 14 to engage in illegal sex acts with Jeffrey Epstein.

The first absentee ballots will be sent out in North Carolina starting on Sept. 4. Voters in Pennsylvania will be able to request, fill out and turn in absentee ballots in person starting on Sept. 14, followed by voters in Michigan on Sept. 19.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) declined last week to back President Trump for reelection, saying she would focus on her own race while suggesting that she only picked sides in 2016 because she was not on the ballot, CNN reports.

Said Collins: "I was not up for reelection. I didn't have my own race to worry about at that point."

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Joe Biden called President Trump the country's first racist to be elected to the White House, the Washington Post reports.

Said Biden: "No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. We've had racists, and they've existed, they've tried to get elected president. He's the first one that has."

She said anyone who wants to vote by mail is being allowed to do so.  I think they may intentionally be trying to do it quietly so no one tries to stop it.

She said on the app there are three choices

You can't be there

You can't be there for health reasons

You are in an extended care facility.

She said most people pick one of the first two and they are not questioned.

BREAKING NOOZE

A new Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies poll found 60% of Millennial and Generation Z voters in seven key swing states -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada -- say it's important Joe Biden pick a Black woman to be his running mate.

"What an abject disaster of a morning for the three Ms: Steve Mnuchin, Mark Meadows and Mitch McConnell."

"After a few weeks of anticipation, the Senate GOP leadership had to abandon its plans to release a Covid relief bill after disagreements on policy with the Trump White House."

"To put this in context: Republicans can't even get on the same page with each other for a bill that is simply meant to jumpstart negotiations with Democrats. In other words, the bill that the White House and Senate GOP leadership are arguing over will never get a vote. Now think about how hard it will be for Republicans to put together a big package with Democrats over the next few weeks."