One More Day: Know the Facts and Vote Smart!

Tomorrow's the day and if you haven’t voted yet here are some facts:

Russia started the war with Ukraine.

The Iran war caused the spike in gas prices.

We do not control the Strait of Hormuz.

Schools do not perform gender reassignment surgery.

Reading about gay people won’t make you gay.

There is no healthcare plan coming in two weeks.

There is no such thing as after birth abortion.

Men don’t pretend to be transgender to assault women in public restrooms.

The 2020 election was not rigged.

Winning the popular vote in 2024 by 1.5% was not a landslide.

There is no $5000 DOGE Check.

There is no $2000 tariff check.

Tariffs are not paid by the exporter.

Climate change is not a hoax.

Facts. Vote accordingly.

 

Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] has decreased over the past year following restrictions imposed by the Regime forcing more people to seek help from food banks or go hungry.

That ain’t America where the rich get richer and the poor go hungry.

 

Speaking on the high gas prices, Cankles bragged that “we’re making money like we’ve never made before.” But he didn’t mean you; he meant him and his rich friends and then he added:

“I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.”

He’s made $81,000,000 from you.

 

If you listen to Republicans you never hear one word about what they want to do to help you, but instead tell you to vote for them to protect you from the trans community, communism, and jihadist.

Not one plane to make life better and more affordable for you, just fearmongering.

Vote to get things done.

 

After Brazil seized criminal Flavio Bolsonaro’s passport to keep him from fleeing the county, the Cankles Regime gave him a Visa and allowed him to enter the US. Bolsonaro is a criminal under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, just like Cankles.

And he’s just the kind of criminal ICE was created to round up and yet Cankles opened the doors to him.

Abolish ICE.

 

If you like numbers, howsabout these:

MAGAt Republicans have spent at least $315 million on anti-trans ads across the 2024 and 2026 election cycles and yet trans people make up about 1% of the population.

This is a party running on fear because they have no idea how to fix the country they broke.

 

Jeff Bezos hates the idea of taxing billionaires, but would like to have that debate so let’s have Bernie Sanders explain it:

“Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax we would give $12K to working families of four; expand Medicare for dental, vision and hearing; guarantee universal child care; raise teacher’s starting pay to $60K. And Bezos would still be worth $269 billion after taxes.”

Tax the rich.

 

When asked about how younger Americans are supposed to afford housing, J Dufus Vance did what he usually does, which is lie and blame immigrants, and said this:

“The reason why housing exploded is in part because we allowed 20 million illegal aliens into our country to buy homes that ought to, by right, go to American citizens.”

So, according to J Dufus, undocumented immigrants are simultaneously unemployed, living off government benefits and buying all the homes in America.

Make it make sense.

 

Isn’t it odd that Republicans found Amy Acton’s mother living in a car and dragged her out and cleaned her up to make that horrific political ad but have yet to produce even one child that went to school one gender and came home another?

 

Finishing up … tomorrow is election day and if you haven’t voted yet, why not??? But if you are voting tomorrow, remember:

At a 40% turnout Democrats lose.

At a 60% turnout Democrats win most of the time.

At 65% turnout you win every time.

At 70% turnout you get a congressional majority to fix this country from the ills of the GOP.

At 80% you get a supermajority to pass things like healthcare, sensible gun laws, climate policy, and ending wars and grift from the current regime.

And if you’re voting tomorrow, know your rights …

If the polls close while you’re still in line, stay in line; you have the right to vote.

If you make a mistake on your ballot, ask for a new one; you have that right.

If the machines are down at your polling place, ask for a paper ballot; that is your right.

If you have questions or problems on Election Day call the Election Protection Hotline: 1-866-Our-VOTE.

 You know what to do …

The Funny Papers

Christopher Shields Cartoons, Bill Bramhall, Adam Zyglis, Clay Bennett, David Rowe, Steve Sack, Daniel Boris, Trevor Irvin, Dennis Goris, Gary Huck

Why Is It ...

… that I miss the days when I’d wake up in the morning and think that I had a good time the night before but I was never completely sure until I read the police report.

… that I am terrible at sit-ups and push-ups but my fuck-ups are completely on point.

… that no one realizes that a bad day hiking is still better than a good day at work unless you’re eaten by a bear. Then  it’s a tie.

… that when I tell people I will always treasure them what I mean is I’d like to bury them.

… that when I wear pink it’s to raise awareness for people like me who forget to separate the reds from the whites in the laundry.

… that I see dead … oops, no, wait … I take that back: I see people that I want dead.

… that my boss doesn’t understand that I didn’t lose my motivation. It’s right here on the couch next to me and we have both agreed that today is not the day.

… that at this age when I go to a club my first question is “Where are the chairs?”

… that when someone tells me that I don’t look like I struggle with mental illness my go-to response is, “Yeah, I’m fucked in the head, not in the face.”

… that when a friend asks if they can invite more people to the plans we made  I always say, “The more the merrier” and also “I’m not going anymore.”

I Didn't Say It ...

Whoopi Goldberg, The View co-host, Vivek Ramaswamy's disgusting attack ad against Amy Acton in the Ohio gubernatorial race:

“For every woman that lives in this state, he is telling you what he thinks of you. He is telling you, he's making it clear. And all those folks that are backing this ad up, this is why, because they think it's persuasive. Well, they know that they can say something a million times and people may start to believe it. But what they don't realize is that you, you stepped across a line, you stepped across the line. Again, you can talk about policy, you can talk about my clothing, you can talk about bad breath if you want to,” she continued. But you don't get to go into my life, pull up my personal stuff, not stuff that has anything to do with the people I'm going to be serving, but my personal history, trauma, and pain, and use it like a carnival attraction. I think that all those women who are looking at this and all these women who are saying, wow, if that's what you do to her because you're losing, what do you want to do to us? It should be disqualifying. It should be disqualifying. It is disqualifying because I cannot think of anything worse than weaponizing the trauma of a nine-year-old child who was getting abused by her mother's husband. Remember the Epstein files. This tells you everything. The fact that he feels free enough to do this is because he feels nothing's going to happen. Nobody's going to call him out on it, and sometimes nothing does. But I have a funny feeling that if this is what you think is going to get you elected, you may be wrong, but I've been wrong before, but I think you may be wrong.”

Indeed, while morally corrupt J Dufus Vance declared his support for Ramaswamy’s offensive ad, other Republicans, including incumbent Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, have called for the removal of the ad, though DeWine didn’t withdraw his endorsement of Ramaswamy to be his replacement GOPig.

And that’s why it’s so important for every Ohio Democrat and every Independent or Republican sick of the corruption and chaos of the Regime to vote for Amy Acton and leave Ramaswamy in the dustbin of history.

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JB Pritzker, Democrat Governor of Illinois, on Cankles’ mountain of lies:

“We are all being lied to every single day. We are under siege right now., Not by immigrants, not by protesters, not by the Deep State, not by Canada or Mexico or Greenland, not by Antifa or communists or Jewish space lasers or MS NOW OR CNN. We are under siege by a petty corrupt narcissist in Washington who ran for president because he wanted to rig the system to enrich himself.”

Pay attention to the real problems in this country because it’s not immigrants or brown people or trans athletes … it’s white supremacy and Christian Nationalism.

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Abdul El-Sayed, Democrat for Senate in Michigan, on Cankles:

“We are actively being bullied by the dumbest people in the room. [Cankles] is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool.”

And his ego and his narcissism and his fear of what may happen to him if Democrats take over make him a dangerous fool.

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Adam Hamilton, theologian, minister, and author, on transgender rights:

“I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me to love my neighbor as I love myself. [So] I’m gonna love the trans person as well as the straight person, male or female. We have to do better picking on small groups [because] what happens is we turn a group of people into a campaign issue because it polls well.”

When the GOP has no solutions to the problems they created by giving tax breaks to billionaires while screwing over the rest of the country, you run of fear of the “other,” trans people and immigrants.

Don’t fall into the fear.

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Adam Bowles, former journalist and founder and lead Pastor at Castle Church, on the ICEstapo:

“Shock gloves. Ankle monitors on Haitian parents. Children as bait. Detainment of citizens based on skin color. Concentration camps. Disappearances. Self-deportees who are murdered upon return. Cold-blooded shooting in the streets. State-sponsored lies about s-called enemies of the state. As a pastor I say this with my whole chest: abolish ICE. It’s about white supremacy not border control. And it’s evil.”

It’s racist, it’s murder, it’s corruption, it’s the beginning of a police state.

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Barack Obama, at a rally in Georgia, living rent-free in Cankles’ empty melon:

“Last week I accused this administration based on the facts that they were engaging in unprecedented levels of corruption. They didn’t say anything about that. The president wasn’t even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn’t bother him. But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. He said I didn’t understand the work of artisans in the White House [and] they mobilized a whole government response to the joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. They told him to hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory.”

They rage about a joke and do nothing about gas prices.

They rage about gold emblems glued to the walls of the Oval but do nothing about tariffs and healthcare and food and the environment.

They think all you care about is a Cheesecake Factory joke.

That’s the regime, trying to make nothing into something while they do nothing.

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Bobservations

Carlos is old school in a lot of ways and I remember he came to me once and said he had a hole in a sock:

“I need to darn these socks.”

And so of course I responded:

“Okay, Pa, I’m’a gonna hitch the horses to the buggy and head into Walnut Grove for supplies, but I’ll be back before supper.”

He was not amused. Cut to this past weekend and Carlos comes to me again and tells me again that he has to darn some socks and, with all my might, I mustered out a simple:

"Okay.”

And off he went.

An hour later he came to me despondent because he said he didn’t think he could fix the socks. And he showed me how he had cut two squares out of an old beach towel and tried to sew one square on the outside of the sock and one square on the inside of the sock and ended up sewing the two sides together. I smiled and thought for a moment of what I could say and came up with this:

“Honey, you do know that we can afford new socks, right?”

Bob for the win.

From October 2011 it’s Caturday: Head Shots

I'm thinking of pitching a new idea to Bravo, The Real HouseCats Of Camden, so I have been taking headshots of the players for my proposal.

Here they are:

Tuxedo would be that cat. The one everybody loves and wonders why he is on such a trashy show.

Consuelo Roca Jones would be the cat that flips the table because she doesn't understand what you said.

Tallulah Belle is the crazy one, with the wonky eyes, that you never know when she'll attack.

MaxGoldberg will be the one who cries every single episode. On cue.

And for a little diversity, we'll toss Ozzo in the mix. He'll be the outsider who's always crashing the HouseCat parties and eating their food.

Just in time for Thanksgiving we have the newest taste sensation sweeping the planet: Silver Fox Cakes. Yummy ...

This week, on the heels of spending some $300 million to influence an election but not spending a single cent to do anything good for the planet, Leon Skum Tweeted this:

“Hitler was a far left socialist.”

And received this response:

“[Leon]. You absolute fucking moron. The Nazis were far-right fascists who destroyed labor unions, persecuted communists and socialists, and murdered political opponents. Hitler literally purged the party’s left wing.

Calling Nazis socialists because of their name is like believing North Korea is Democratic because it calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

Imagine being the richest man alive and still being too fucking stupid to understand history at a middle-school level. Money can buy you a platform, [Leon]. Apparently it can’t buy you a functioning brain.”

And it may not buy you Texas either.

After weeks of Cankles’ holding his rallies and Talking about how hot some men are, about men and their fine asses, about some big and their big dicks, this week MAGA Seante Majority Leader John Thune spoke at a rally about his fellow GOPer Bernie Moreno and called his “eye candy.”

MAGA clearly stands for Make America Gay Again to the GOP.

This is rich, and stupid: the White House is claiming Melanie brokered a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine.

The same Melanie who took credit for a college degree she never got and took credit for a speech Michelle Obama wrote and took credit fluency in 5 languages that English is not one of—is taking credit for a ceasefire deal that Pope Leo brokered.

She can’t even get her husband to change his own diaper.

Valentin Humbroich is a German-born model who first walked a runway back in 2020 for Dolce & Gabbana. So would you walk up to him and Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: Reighton Wood

Reighton Wood sits on almost nine and a half acres near the market town of Tenterden and was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential work where natural materials carve out elegant, light-filled living spaces, and connections to the outdoors.

Reighton Wood was remodeled and reconfigured with the help of local architect who added the glass conservatory. A refined palette of wood and glass has also been adopted throughout resulting in an easy, uplifting and organic harmony between the building and its natural environment. The home is especially quiet and private, sitting behind solid oak electric gates with a large driveway and a beautifully planted turning circle.

The front door, tucked under a porch, leads into a wide entrance hall that serves double purpose as a dining room. To the left is a living room, which looks out into the garden, the pool and rolling countryside; it has tall, pitched ceilings and a wood-burning stove. To the right is a more formal sitting room, arranged around another working fireplace, with the same white ash floorboards found throughout the house and There are more large expanses of windows here.

A third living space lies adjacent to the kitchen; this is an intimate space with an exposed brick fireplace fitted with wood-burning stove, crowned with a concrete lintel. Large sliding doors and windows create an unbroken connection with the garden. 

The kitchen is arranged around an oil-fired Sandyford stove and a Lacanche cooker. Grey cabinets and central island are both topped with wide unpolished granite counters and a utility room and pantry are just nearby. Beyond the kitchen is a light-soaked Scot's pine-framed, south-facing conservatory which is bright throughout the day and year. A glazed door slides open to reveal a sheltered spot—perfect for outdoor breakfasts, lunches and dinners—and features the same limestone flooring as the kitchen.

The first floor is home to six bedrooms, including two en suites and a shared bathroom. All of the bedrooms are fitted with bespoke banks of cupboards, while some have built-in bookshelves and desk spaces.

Outside is an annex featuring a bank of windows that can be opened on two sides to enjoy the view of the lily pond beyond. The building has a large living space with a kitchen, and upstairs there are two bedrooms and a shared bathroom. The pool house, with a small kitchenette, bathroom and wood-burning stove, is used throughout the year for entertaining, workshops and as a yoga studio.

The gardens are centered around distinct areas—Oak pergolas create distinct 'rooms’—and plantings to encourage pollinators and provide respite for people. The lily pond, just in front of annex, features a curved boardwalk that ends with an oak bench surrounded by wildflowers. The garden is also home to a tennis court and hot tub, a kitchen garden with fruit cages, greenhouse, and fruit trees; there are ancient oak trees and native ferns and a swathe of woodland stretches beyond the formal gardens.

All yours for £3.75 M or $5.08 M75USD.

As always, click to emBIGGERate …

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