OT WE 4 NOV 26 ~ Use Your Common Sense Day
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 11/04/2026 - 6:25am
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Autumn leaves shower like gold, like rainbows,
as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.
-- Dan Millman
as the winds of change begin to blow, signaling the later days of autumn.
-- Dan Millman
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Not sure common sense can be taught, although some attempt should be made to get
across the concept in every primary school curriculum in my mind. Seems people either
have some degree of "horse smarts" or totally bereft in that department. How many
genius types do you know who are unable to perform simple tasks? Regardless, if you
have it, today is the day to use it.
Today we should witness the tantrums of a rejected trumpet. Hold on to your hats.
Since this thread is open, use it to share your election results or whatever cranks
your turn.
Comments
Wow, a rather large blue wave occured overnight
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Seems trumpet damaged the R brand pretty much up and down the
ticket nationwide. I serious rebuke of his mishandling of national
affairs for 2 years. Maybe he will tone down his crazy a bit?
Read AIPAC spent around $90 million on this election cycle without
much ROI. They came out with a statement they will stop buying buying
politicians. Somehow I doubt that will be the case. If trumpet withholds
the $4 billion support, perhaps they will no longer be in a position to
bribe America. We'll see.
AIPAC halts endorsements and direct contributions to candidates
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/21/nx-s1-6011531/aipac-campaign-contribution...
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning...
The threat to withhold $ to Israel is a paper tiger. If the military folds together (there's a bill that must pass first), Israel will have access to the 1.5T in the military budget with NO oversight.
As to the blue wave, don't expect much. The demoncrats will push the Ukraine proxy war against Russia and perhaps stifling the Iranian incursion.
I must admit to voting straight demoncrat just to protest the rethugs. None the less, we got mostly rethugs in AL. The new Governor, Tubberville (past football coach) is going to cut taxes and increase spending. Sounds like a football coach. In my decades in the classroom, I've been the victim of football coaches most of my career...they become the principals and stupidintendents. Most don't know shit about education.
The surprise was the election of a transgendered woman...in Alabama? Of course it was in Huntsville, Space City, home of SpaaaceForce!!!.
Our color is coming on! A much needed rain today. Already more than an inch.
Have a good day and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I guess don't have much enthusuasim for Dems
It feels like I've seen this show before, with many reruns. Performative legislation that fails, legislative maneuvers that some how get stymied for some reason, they don't have 61 votes so they can't do anything. Legislation that would help the 99% visited once and then forgotten. Endless committees about corruption and who has the power, that gets litigated out to 2044, and everything fought up to supreme court level. All to the tune of Chuck Schumers drone and Jeffries patter. When nothing changes for us, what's next in 2028?
As for Aipac, it'll be money under the table instead of out in the open.
You are correct
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The money coming from State is being switched to the
Pentagon. So no, the "aid" will continue.
T just blowing smoke.
Zionism is a social disease
Speaking of rain ...
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This is remarkable. Parts of Florida’s Space Coast have received up to *half a year’s worth of rain* in the last day and a half — as much as 27 inches in 36 hours, about 50% of an average year’s rainfall (radar estimate through 5 p.m. ET Monday).
Apparently the St. Johns river is flooding.
Zionism is a social disease
Montanans passed Initiative 194
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by a sizeable margin. This challenges Citizens United by
preventing non-human entities (corporations) from flooding
money into political races.
Good for them. Money is not speech in the real world. And corps are not people.
https://ballotpedia.org/Montana_I-194,_Exclude_Political_Spending_from_A...(2026)
Zionism is a social disease
I applaud Montana
for passing 194, but if I were a betting man, I 'd bet it gets struck down in the courts. If by some miracle it is upheld, I would hope the other 49 states try to pass similar legislation.
I agree with you 100%, money is not speech and corps. are not people.
MAGA
Morons
Are
Governing
America
Seems like a step in the right direction
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We'll see how hard special interests fight it. The people
in Montana seem fairly strongly independent. The state has
this opportunity to show how to fight back against corp
machinations.
Zionism is a social disease
Common sense tells us one thing......
there's the saying that "slavery is the fiction that people are property and corporations are people" courtesy of the supremes. Can't wait to see what they come up with next.
Woke up "not dead"
this morning. Coulda knocked me over with a feather. I figured for sure that Trump would nuke Pickaxe Mountain last night, in a fit of pique (as is his wont), and I'd have been vaporized in my sleep when the inevitable use-'em-or-lose-em response came whistling in.
But the day is young. He could still do it later today, or tomorrow. At least my sock drawer is in order.
I see that Eileen Laubacher is leading the execrable Lauren Boebert in my district, currently 49.1% to 47.7% this AM- but of course, they are "still counting". As usual. Last time out, Boebert won her seat by 262 votes- but maybe, just maybe, we'll be rid of her this time.
Then, come January, we will once again get to watch the predictable spectacle of the dems doing fuck-all (other than lining their pockets), and blaming everyone but themselves for it. Who will be in the new cadre of rotating villains this time, I wonder? It'll be business-as-usual for the Circle D Corporation, although their bottom line will take a hit because they won't be able to fundraise off of not being in power for the next two years.
I wish I could be wrong on that count, but I doubt it. At least now we can be done with the unceasing political attack ads and begging texts and emails for a few months, maybe. Maybe. The 2028 cycle starts today, after all.
Not, as ever, a fan.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
So, for the optimists among us, this prefatory interlude -
Interesting point up there courtesy of Snode - they don't have 61 votes
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning
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Thanks for the interludes. My feeds are pregnant with
interpretations of the election consequences. Diesen,
Johnson, Kwaitkowsky are all chiming-in. Is this baby
trumpet's time to throw a nuclear tantrum? Sure hope not.
A fairly balmy day here today. An opportunity to get some
outdoor projects underway.
Zionism is a social disease
Alrighty, given the era I used google to get a random number
from zero to 64 and got 40. I then used the brave browser's search function for hexagram 40 and it provided the following:
Your mileage may vary
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, Cap'n!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
My two favorite memes
of the day, despite the fact that I know in my heart of hearts that nothing will fundamentally change:
Hope, as they say, springs eternal...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I was planning on
doing some upgrades in a bathroom with that $5,000 Trump check.
sigh...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981