Quotes Of The Day

"... The thing about the Silicon Valley assholes is that they are not, in fact, smart about politics. Most of them got their money by effectively winning the lottery; leveraging small bets across a massive number of startups and collecting big on the very few of those bets that came through. These wins gave them god-like powers of capital accumulation but do not suggest political acumen, which is why so many of them decided to throw in with Trump when people started asking why there were no women or people of color in the senior boardrooms. I fully believe that Vivek Ramaswamy simply did not understand and probably still does not understand why the people of Ohio hated that ad.

"In any case, Elon made his bet on Trump and on misogyny and on white supremacy and now he’s stuck with it. He can’t just walk away. I look forward to investigations of what he did with DOGE and how his companies both got government contracts and have performed with those government contracts." -- Robert Farley, LGM, on the South Afrikaner fascist oligarch's loss of half a billion dollars supporting the party/cult that just got an historic ass whooping.  The same analysis applies to the "nerd Reich" oligarchs of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and wherever fascist masters of the universe gather.  Furthermore, see below.

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"... Lawyer up, bitches.

"Did you donate to Trump’s ballroom? Did you get a pardon? Have you done any business of any sort with members of the Trump family and/or their hangers-on?

"Did you take part in DOGE? Did you receive no-bid contracts for the Reflecting Pool?

"Did you trade on insider information?

"Did you shoot an American citizen on the street? Or run over a 'suspect'?

"Did you file a false incident report about an encounter with a member of the public? Did you give illegal orders? Did you follow illegal orders?

"Did you perjure yourself before Congress? Did you file documents with a court that were false or misleading?

"I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life: Get a great fucking criminal defense lawyer. You’re gonna need it." -- Jonathan V. Last, "The Bulwark," (echoing Rep. Robert Garcia) telling us that the job's not done in getting accountability for the corrupt and criminal acts of this regime.  It's just started.

 

Quotes Of The Day: "Lake Ontario -- Then, Now And Always"

 

"The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. 

 The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. 

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always." -- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, reacting to the puerile moron Malignant Fascist's risible "renaming" Lake Ontario as "Lake America."  The days anyone takes the demented MF seriously (except for his dwindling cult and spineless Republican officeholders) are long, long gone.  He lives in a fantasy bubble created by Natalie and a supine party/cult.  

Ontario Premier Doug Ford got his dig in, too:

Who knew the Canadians could play the same game?

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— Tangerine Twit Troll (@tangerinetwittroll.bsky.social) August 27, 2026 at 3:41 PM

 

Well, played, sirs!  Sane America salutes you both!

Quotes Of The Day -- Trump's Mid-Term Messaging

 

"The economy is doing unbelieveably from the standpoint of Wall Street." --  the Malignant Fascist, August 14, 2026.

"Our energy costs are way down, our groceries are way down, everything is way down, and the press doesn't report it... so I don't want to hear about the affordability..." -- the MF, August 14, 2026.

Said the sub-moron bubble boy, pathological liar, con man, fraudster, business bankrupter, and grifting/grafting billionaire (January 2025- current).

Much more here.  And here.  And still more from another crooked piece of shit.

Quotes Of The Day -- November Outcomes

 

"... Will big spending distort outcomes in November? Yes. But will it achieve all it hopes to achieve? Outcomes like we have seen in elections this year (and frankly began to see years ago) suggest that the combination of revulsion at the corruption and abuses and self-dealing of the billionaire class and corporate giants and special interests, generational change, the rise of new media technologies and the emergence of new leaders with a timely voter-centric message can begin to undo the damage of the Roberts court and mainstream elites in both parties.

"It is not a sure thing. It is up to us. But results like we are seeing and seem likely to see suggest it is possible…and that should motivate all of us to try to make a difference, pushing the big money out of American politics every way we can." -- David Rothkopf, in his "Need To Know" Substack, concluding his essay on "How Voters Can Overrule Citizens United" and the Epstein class oligarch / special interest group money.  But relief may be / is on the way (see below), if we get it done.

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"Today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. If you’re reading this, that means we finished dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s and just published our shiny, state-of-the-art 2026 congressional election forecast over at FiftyPlusOne. 🎉

"As of 6:00 AM Eastern on August 3, 2026, we give the Democrats an 85% chance to win the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and a 55% chance to win control of the Senate (which we define as 51 seats or more, unless an independent wins in Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, or South Dakota — unlikely, but not impossible).

"Because our forecast simulates elections for both chambers in one unified model, we can also calculate the probabilities of either party controlling both chambers after Nov. Democrats win control of both the House and Senate in just over 50% of simulations, whereas Republicans prevail in less than 12%.

"You can read more about the initial results of our forecast in my model launch post over at 50+1. The forecast itself lives here, and here’s an extremely detailed methodology write-up of how it works..." (our emphasis) -- G. Elliott Morris, in his "Strength In Numbers" Substack, on how Democrats are "strongly favored" to win the House and slightly favored to win the Senate in the mid-terms.

Quotes Of The Day -- On Birthright Citizenship And Gutting Campaign Finance Reforms

 

"... The very idea of questioning birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment had been deader than Marley, either Jacob or Bob, for more than 130 years, which isn’t surprising given that the amendment establishes it in unambiguous language. Even the 180 proof racist nativism of 19th century federal judges didn’t deny this reality.

"But nothing — absolutely nothing — is ever good enough or off the table for our own racist nativism, which has managed to achieve escape velocity from all social and legal reality, as it marinates in a poisonous atmosphere of resentment and hatred.

"That these people can’t even see that the Supreme Court is the very best friend right wing reaction has ever had in this country — and not merely at present but for about 93% of that ignominious institution’s existence — is a testament to how the reactionary right in this country can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, doesn’t feel remorse or pity or fear, and absolutely will not stop, ever, until anything like cultural pluralism, religious and intellectual liberty, and even any semblance of liberal democracy in America, are dead."  -- law professor Paul Campos, LGM, in "Terminating America With Extreme Prejudice" yesterday. 

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"... The Constitution is not a functional document if it can be swept aside so easily at the behest of a fascist sitting atop the executive branch. The Constitution is not a functional document if it can be overruled by a simple majority in Congress. The Constitution is not a functional document if it can be gutted based on a handful of members of the nation’s highest court so eagerly deciding to abdicate their duties.

"As constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it yesterday, 'Nothing bad in the United States is ever over, including constitutional things. These were the same arguments rejected over a century ago, and they’ll be back again and we’ll have to kill them again.'”  -- attorney Lisa Needham, today in "Public Notice" Substack, on "A Vote Away From Undoing The Civil War."

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“Today’s campaign finance ruling is part of the Roberts Court’s 16-year drive to destroy anti-corruption laws. From Citizens United forward, these justices have ushered in an era of massive money in politics. If you don’t like the way the political system is working, blame the Supreme Court.

“Here, the Court again overrode the law passed by Congress, going against the wishes of the vast majority of the American public who want reasonable campaign finance limits. The questions at the heart of this case were for Congress to answer, not nine unelected justices.

“The Court’s campaign finance vendetta has given wealthy donors outsized influence, resulting in a fusion of private wealth and political power unseen since the Gilded Age. Public trust in our institutions is plummeting. Congress must act to curb corruption arising from the flood of money in elections and restore Americans’ faith in government. Ambitious reform is long overdue.” -- Michael Waldman, president and CEO at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, on the Republican SCOTUS' dismantling campaign finance anti-corruption laws to benefit their rotted-out party in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission.

 

We have a lot to do to undo the damage these rats-in-robes have done to our country and its Constitution.  We must undo it with the same zeal and commitment that they've employed over the past two decades, and make sure that our reconstructed system won't allow for their anti- democratic, un- Constitutional, un- American radicalism to hold sway over the American majority again.

Quotes Of The Day

 

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) speaking at a rally in Savannah, GA, yesterday:

 

“The president was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller and refused to sign the affordable housing bill. That’s after he gave some felon donor a no bid contract for the reflecting pool and it filled up with algae, which for some reason required the deployment of the National Guard. And then because of his war and tariffs, inflation rose to over 4%. He promised to bring down prices on day one, do you remember that?”

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“Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. It’s unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money on both sides. Donald Trump’s rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it.”

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“This is what happens when you send your son in law Jared to cosplay as a diplomat. Despite zero qualifications, Prince Jared was tapped to lead Middle East diplomacy. Now remember Jared’s slush fund already got $2 billion from the Saudi Crown Prince. Even now he’s actively asking Arab princes for billions more. Not for the US, for his own business.”

He also rightfully called his MAGAt Republican opponent Rep. Mike Collins "a bigot and an antisemite under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars..."

FFS, Democratic candidates, please take note of how to pound the fascist Republican MAGAt cult, and what we need to do with power, from this guy.  

You can view the entire video of Sen. Ossoff's remarks as well as those of former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democratic nominee for Georgia Governor, here.

Quotes Of The Day

 

There's apparently a group of Democratic operatives calling themselves "Project 2029" who are developing what they think is an analog to the MAGAt fascists' "Project 2025" -- that notorious document that gave them a running start on dismantling the Federal Government, Constitution, and "liberal administrative state" once the Malignant Fascist took office.  Here are two commenters who've seen a summary of an early version of the Dem operatives' work and have some serious concerns.

Brian Beutler

"...These liberals, all veteran Democratic operatives, have begun offering glimpses of their work, and I’m of two minds. First, generously: As the saying goes, there’s no bad ideas in a brainstorm. Ideas are good. Ideas that start out bad can become good. Ideas that seem unresponsive to the needs of today can become urgent—or they might just be worthy apart from any particular salience, easily slotted into some future appropriation bill without fanfare.

"Second, more importantly: We are not—at this rate—getting a Project 2029 that serves anything like the purposes Project 2025 was meant to serve. We’re getting competing factional agendas, from a familiar universe of people, all of whom want jobs in or influence over the next administration. And so they’re devising policy ideas meant for popular consumption, rather than governing stratagems for fixing the American state.

"This is an error of conception. It doesn’t discredit any particular idea let alone the whole suite. It just means that if liberals or progressives thought party operatives were hard at work on a blueprint for the first several months of the next Democratic administration—a series of steps that any Dem president could execute to put the country back on an even keel—they’re going to be terribly disappointed. Unless something changes..."  (our emphasis)

Josh Marshall

"... If you look at the challenges faced today by Democrats, their reputational problems, lack of trust not only by unattached voters but by their own partisans, the biggest problem is that people think they are weak, their espousal of values doesn’t match their willingness to fight for those values and goals. At the most basic level, they don’t have a strong understanding of political power and how to use it. A Project 2029 should be mostly a blueprint for how to use trifecta power to the maximum extent possible by law and constitution to make thoroughgoing structural changes to the federal government to buttress against authoritarian fascist attack. Reinforcing the structures of civic democracy is a central part of that. To use a sports analogy, that doesn’t mean running good plays. It means reshaping the entire playing field. They’re not the same thing. That means starting as the sine qua non with things like ending the Senate filibuster and reforming the Supreme Court. But those are only the start. Those are the ones that make all the other reform and structural changes possible. They are also the talismans of seriousness. Because if you’re not willing to tackle those, you’re not any kind of player or even on the field.

"The reason to do this is, above all, because it needs to be done. The country managed for a long time with a very imperfect system because none of its presidents actively wanted to govern as dictators or as though they owned the country. We don’t have that luxury any more. But there are secondary importances too. It is a demonstration that Democrats have become comfortable using political power to its maximal extent and are willing to do so. So it’s a demonstration of ability and willingness. The biggest reason for the Democrats’ unpopularity is the idea that they are weak and essentially useless. You can’t contest elections effectively, over time, without changing that perception. And you change the perception by changing the reality."  (our emphasis)

The operatives coming up with this are likely the same ones advising DNC Chair Ken Martin, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.  Their playing field, from these indications, is that of 1980 or maybe even 2016.  They're not, to use Marshall's analogy, reshaping it to meet what needs to happen for the future, radical de-Trumpification of America.  It also might be said, to extend the sports analogy, that they don't have any balls.

 

Quotes Of The Day -- Breaking Containment

 

"... The CDC benefited from ears on the ground during that [Ebola] outbreak, which began in late 2013 and grew to more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths. Some were CDC staff, others were contractors or physicians at partner organizations like USAID.  [snip]

"But last year, DOGE took a wrecking ball to that network. USAID was shut down practically overnight, which led to Ebola-prevention funding being “accidentally” canceled, as Elon Musk cavalierly noted. Musk at the time claimed it had been restored, but ultimately the health infrastructure was dismantled. Meanwhile, the CDC faced its own steep cuts and the U.S. — which had long been the WHO’s top funder — withdrew from the organization entirely.

"While it’s too early to directly blame those cuts for the late detection of the current outbreak, one thing is certain: The decimation of USAID and the U.S.’ exit from the WHO will make containing the spread much more difficult..." -- Lisa Jarvis, Bloomberg News, on why "Containing Ebola Is Hard. The U.S. Made It Worse."

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“But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States….”

-Section 4, 14th Amendment

"... It is by now widely understood that the 14^th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, and protection from state interference with citizenship rights. The Amendment incorporates the concept of equality – racial equality – into our Constitution for the first time. In so doing the 14^th brings our Constitution into harmony with the core principle of the Declaration of Independence that 'all men are created equal.' The drafting and ratification of the 14^th Amendment constituted a stunningly ambitious act of constitutional repair and reconciliation.

But the Amendment does even more. For the first time, our Constitution confronted head-on the destructive forces that live in the DNA of our country that had been laid bare by the Civil War. The powerful force of white supremacist ideology would have to be cabined. But those founders recognized something else – that the strain of insurrection that led to secession and the creation of the Confederacy continued to run strong throughout the South, and it too would need to be disabled.

For these reasons, the 14th Amendment did more than guarantee equality. Section 2 of the Amendment contains a provision designed to punish southern states if they attempted to keep Black (men at the time) from voting. Section 3 bars those who participated in insurrection from serving in public office.

Section 4, excerpted above, bars payments to insurrectionists...." -- Sherrilyn Ifill, in "Sherrilyn's Newsletter," on "Trump's Insurrectionist Payout Scheme Violates the 14th Amendment."

Both quotes illustrate the bitter irony of the Malignant Fascist's "Make America Great Again" slogan when, in fact, it's a national suicide movement.