The Plan is Simple, we will use Fear to Win Votes

Let’s be honest each political party and its candidate has to get you out to the polls and vote against the opposition.  The plan is simple.  Convince the public that their opponent will destroy the country is the next four years if he is elected.

Democrats are saying our democracy is at stake in this election From Barack Obama’s convention speech. “Because that’s what at stake right now. Our democracy.”  “This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win.”

Donald Trump says if Biden wins the democracy will collapse and we will have to learn to speak Chinese.

The Democrats did an excellent job of sending that message.  Barack Obama, Michelle Obama were the star performers in sending their message.

Data show Trump didn’t ‘build’ a great economy. He inherited it. The average quarterly economic growth under Trump, 2.5 percent, was almost exactly what it was under Obama in the second term, 2.4 percent.

The crowd in Charlotte greeted Trump with cries like “Oklahoma loves you, Mr. President!” and “Four More Years.”  “If you really want to drive them crazy, say 12 more years,” Trump said. After the roll call in Charlotte, N.C.  Now that is scary!

Four more years of Donald Trump and there may not be another president of the Republic known as the United States of America.

The Milkman is Back!

By Janey M. Rifkin

You’d have to have lived a long time to remember when the morning milk delivery was on your doorstep. But what’s that saying? – “If you milk delivery was on your doorstep. But what’s that saying? – “If you live long enough, everything old is new again.”

So, back in Bridgeport, Connecticut and probably elsewhere as well, COVID has rekindled delivery of the dairy! Doug Wade, Jr., President of Wade’s Dairy in Connecticut, inherited the business from his father, who home delivered milk in glass bottles for near a century.

It just got to be too old fashioned; customers had dwindled, wooed by grocery stores offering cheaper milk that kept longer. Women had gone off to work, leaving no one home to accept deliveries.

By 1992, Wade Dairy shut down home delivery. Now the coronavirus has resurrected that last issue. Everyone is home now. Meanwhile, many of the clients that Wade’s had pivoted to serve – restaurants, schools, corporate dining facilities – are closed.

“Never in a million years would I have thought home delivery would come back like this,” said Doug Wade Jr., age 66. Time to get creative, he thought, and indeed he did. In April, he started a service that charges a $10 fee in exchange for crates filled with everything from eggs to cheese to yogurt placed on doorsteps. More than 250 customers from 25 towns signed up.

“At its peak, the dairy had more than 3,000 home delivery customers,” Wade commented. But by the end of the 20th century, the dairy had evolved into a processing plant, pasteurizing milk from local farms, managing innovations, 80 employees, including 40 drivers. “The pandemic urely jolted the businesses back into action,” said Wade. Wade worries about how restaurant customers will survive. His delivery business model could expire when normal life returns. But he is driven by nostalgia too. He recently purchased a vintage hand-cranked cream separator. And despite his age and asthma, he can’t keep away from his office.

“I probably shouldn’t be coming into work, but you know, this is my life,” he said. I’m a milkman!

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Janey Rifkin is a syndicated writer. This article appeared in the Warner Center News. A community paper in the West San Fernando Valley, California.

This is Not Star Wars or is it?

Donald Trump is an entertainer and as such he will want to make his RNC convention an extravaganza.

But perhaps Joe Biden is playing into Trump’s hands.

“The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long,” Biden said. “Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division.”

“I will be an ally of the light, not of the darkness.”

Immediately after Joe Biden said those words I thought “Are we in a Star Wars sequel or is Joe Biden the elderly Luke Skywalker?”

The Dark Side is not evil. It is merely power, and power is only evil when wielded by evil hands – just as the so-called Light Side has done great evil in the form of the Jedi stranglehold on the galaxy.

 “The dark side is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.” Dark architect of the Galactic Empire, Palpatine is the ultimate Star Wars mastermind and, prior to The Force Awakens, the saga’s preeminent villain.

Does this mean that Donald Trump is Darth Vader? Darth Vader was the main bad guy, and the Emperor was only an unseen figure. Perhaps the unseen figure is “Q” of QAnon fame.

Chilling Quotes About The Dark Side

“If Once You Start Down The Dark Path, Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny.”

“The Fear Of Loss Is A Path To The Dark Side.”

“The Dark Side Is In Our Blood.”

“Luke, Don’t Give In To Hate. That Leads To The Dark Side.”

“If Only You Knew The Power Of The Dark Side…”

“The Dark Side Of The Force Is A Pathway To Many Abilities Some Consider To Be Unnatural.”

“Once You Start Down The Dark Path, Forever Will It Dominate Your Destiny.”

Is George Lucas directing this re-election?

Growing List of Leading Republicans that oppose Donald Trump

A growing list of Republicans are now supporting the Joe Biden for president campaign. They know that our democracy is in danger if Trump is re-elected.

The shocker this August is the list of former and current Republican office holders who have publicly stepped forward to support Joe Biden.

Past President George W. Bush

Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman

Former Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman

Former New York Republican Rep. Susan Molinari

Former senior Trump administration official Miles Taylor

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent

Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel

Current Senator Mitt Romney

Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden

The group, Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden, includes former NSA and CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden, former Deputy Secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence Amb. John Negroponte, former CIA and FBI Director William Webster, and former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under President Trump, Miles Taylor.

John F. Kelly, United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2017), White House Chief of Staff (2017–2019)

James Norman Mattis (born September 8, 1950) is a retired United States Marine Corps general who served as the 26th US secretary of defense from January 2017 through January 2019.

The list is so long that it now has its own page on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose_the_2020_Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign

Has Donald Trump received the message? Probably not!

Dear Red States… We’ve Decided We’re Leaving!

DEAR RED STATES… WE’VE DECIDED WE’RE LEAVING.

Dear Red States…

We’ve decided we’re leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us.


In case you aren’t aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and Washington D.C.

We also get Costco and Boeing

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole’ Miss.

We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we’re going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they’re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don’t care if you don’t show pictures of their children’s caskets coming home.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country’s fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95 percent of America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy League and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

By the way, we’re taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Oh, and you can have all the new Coronavirus cases since you’re too dumb and self-centered to wear a mask.

Peace out, we are the people

Blue States
Thank you

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Democrat’s Convention Night One – Michelle Obama

This political convention offered little in new thoughts.  We all know the Democratic Party’s objective is to make Donald Trump a one term president.  That is a daunting task.  The last time it happened was Bill Clinton’s defeat of George H.W. Bush in 1993.

The highlight of the evening was the the presentation by former first lady Michelle Obama.

If you don’t want to watch her entire presentation read these words. “If you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this,’ she said, with deadly seriousness. ‘If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we don’t make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it.”

Donald Trump is Living in his Own World

This man is delusional.

That pivotal moment came in April when he declared “when somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total and that is the way it’s gonna be. It’s total. It’s total. And the governors know that,” over states reopening decisions, though he later backed off from that aggressive rhetorical approach.
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Trump claimed on Thursday that if Biden is elected, there would be “no fossil fuels, which means, basically, no energy,” warned that cities would need to be rebuilt “because too much light gets through the windows … let’s rip down the Empire State Building,” “no airplanes,” few cars, and suggested: “They don’t want to have cows, they don’t want to have any form of animals.”
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Trump Admitted He’s Sabotaging the USPS to Screw Up the Election

“They need that money in order to make the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots.”
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In an interview with the New York Post Trump passed out maps of the 2016 results in New York State, showing that most of the state’s counties voted for him. This is somewhat akin to a president conflating wins in the geographic expanses of Wyoming and the Dakotas with overall popular-vote success — which, of course, Trump does all the time.

It’s worth remembering that Trump made a similar claim in 2016.

“I think we will win New York,” he said in Indiana in April 2016. “I really do.”

He did not. He lost the state by more than 22 points.

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Frighteningly this is what makes Mr. Trump so dangerous to our democracy.