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I managed to avoid most of the DNC convention other than a few clips on Rising and Jimmy Dore. What I did see was hollow, vapid, and without substance...full of platitudes and no policy. All they got is 'we ain't Trump'. Perhaps the inept response to the pandemic will be enough to sink Trump, but this sure rings of 2016. We'll see. I find myself in agreement with Caity and her view that this isn't normal...

So abnormalize the status quo. Abnormalize it every chance you get. Abnormalize it by holding a clear idea in your mind of what a healthy society would look like, then point out all the bizarre deviations from that vision at every opportunity. Remind people that this is crazy. Assure them that it doesn’t have to be this way. That the only thing keeping it this way is the fact that the powerful keep pouring vast troves of wealth into manipulating us into thinking that we should.

Well they say 3rd time is the charm.

Over at r/WayOfTheBern, where my reposting of a Caitlin Johnstone tweet has been uprated seventeen hundred times, one respondent basically called me a Trump supporter and said:

The white Queen infamously told Alice "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day."
So here's a Jam from yestidday.

(joe and jill nite 4; they put on their masks when joined by kopmala)

Patrick Martin watched so we wouldn’t have to, and reported what he saw on August 21, 2020, bless his pea-pickin’ heart.  (w/ the site’s permission)  He likens it to a cliché-driven religious revival featuring ‘the Moral Superiority of Biden compared to Trump’, Biden’s ‘deep empathy for children and the downtrodden’ (add identity ___ at will).  Hell, Bill Clinton was the master of fake empathy: biting one thumb with ‘sorrow’ in his eyes, and intoning: “I feel your pain.”

“The sheer contempt for the intelligence of the population and the viewing audience was summed up in Biden’s acceptance speech. His speechwriters appeared to have been trying to cram every possible trite phrase into a single 20-minute address.

Poet - Hone Tuwhare

Rain

I can hear you
making small holes
in the silence
rain

that the Democrats will restore the USPS, even if they win both houses and the White House? They seems to be signaling that there won’t be any money for much of anything.

I doubt that they will go after DeJoy for his wanton destruction of Postal property such as the sorting machines and collection boxes. Nor will they use existing federal statutes to prosecute him for tampering with the mail.

Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse has closed to within 5 points of Rep. Richard Neal despite an unprecedented smear campaign by the state Democratic party.
If Morse wins that would make four successful primary challenges to longtime Democratic incumbents.