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They hate us, they really, really, hate us.

by Jennifer Shutt, Pennsylvania Capital-Star October 9, 2024
WASHINGTON — Republicans are struggling to recruit and elect women to Congress, lagging behind Democrats in ensuring women, who make up half the population, have a strong voice in the halls of power, experts on women in politics said Tuesday.

If Trump weren't running for President, or, say, a racist, rapist, criminal, traitor, serial liar, Putin suck-up, really bad dancer, con man, possessor of all seven deadly sins...wait, what was I saying again?

Today, in lieu of music, we offer CineFix's Top 10 Political Films of All Time. You might quibble with the rating of an individual film, or think a runner-up should have won in one category or another, but overall it's a terrific selection and a great resource for your future movie choices.
Obsidian Wings: Being the best.

We all know by now that Representative Glenn Grothman is a white supremacist, a misogynist and all-around and all-round bigot. Naturally, it makes sense that his campaign manager would be the same, right? Even dirty birds flock together.
Well, meet Jacob Floam, Grothman's campaign manager. He's also a newly elected member of Oshkosh Common Council member. Floam is also a white supremacist with quite a start at his young age.

Citing a U.S. law prohibiting states from removing people from their registered voter lists within 90 days of an election, a U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered Alabama officials to pause a controversial voter roll purge until after next month's contest.

On Fox News, Trump was asked by a 10-year-old who his favorite president was, and he said Abraham Lincoln, but didn't understand why he hadn't settled the issues before the Civil War started.
In between the doting and the fussing over traitor Trump's ego, the Fox and Friends sycophantic crew had a few people ask the former guy some questions. Fox News producers had 10-year-old Daniel on, thinking it would be cute, but it was cringeworthy.

We're not living in a democracy if legal votes can be eliminated. Just ahead of the November elections, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco ruled in favor of the Department of Justice and civil rights groups, ending a program that made thousands of legal voters in Alabama inactive and restoring active registration status for American-born and naturalized citizens.

The last time Donald was in Detroit, he bashed the city. On Friday night, he demeaned his supporters, who lapped it up. When Trump said at a June rally, "I don't care about you, I just want your vote. I don't care," he wasn't kidding. This is who Donald is.