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As Charlie Christ took him to the woodshed time after time, Ronny D looked like he was able to start crying.

Sure, Ronny can keep up the lies and bluff–so long as there is no one there to challenge him.

Raw Story flags a new profile of DeSantis in the Financial Times. I am not going to pay for it, but apparently the future screaming-fascist used to get up and take his undergrad-sized marbles home if any of his chums corrected his pronunciation.

I didn’t hear it.

If you think the Republicans won’t go after a program designed to provide health care to the poor, you’re bats.

Pelosi did say something about it. I know it’s not exactly fashionable among Democrats to mention the words “low income,” but perhaps if they fought for poor more stoutly, the poor might vote in greater numbers.

Remember two years ago? Remember the pandemic that Truck and his lackeys actively sabotaged a recovery from? And do you somehow not expect a worldwide inflationary spike to follow?

Question: why do the Republicans oppose every possible measure to actually reduce inflation?

and voters trust them over Democrats on the economy?

The Democrats’ inept messaging has never been more tragic.

The traditional media, of course, is doing its part, refusing to cover the Republicans’ stated determination to destroy Medicare and Social Security.

and is running propaganda ads filled with lies to attack rent-regulation laws, as it virulently attacks them in court.

For Air Mail, I squib on Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the Met Opera.

My brother and I took two friends from Chicago to last Saturday’s matinee–they attend the Chicago symphony but don’t go toa lot of opera. They loved it.

So don’t miss the final performance October 21.

Now in extremis, Trump has no compunction about broadcasting his anti-Semitism.

Trump insists that the evangelicals, who believe Jews will go to hell if they don’t embrace Christianity, are more supportive of Israel than American Jews themselves.

It’s like Jimmy Kimmell said the other night–words to the effect that, Will this man ever live us alone? Then he played a supercut of Trump repeating “never” ad infinitum.

Funded by Christo -Fascists like Betsey Devos who hate fact-based education, DeSantis, who sends his kids to private schools, has located in Sasse the perfect sanctimonious fraud to implement his hate and propaganda agenda. A true Stalinist, DeSantis has no use for public education except as institutions of indoctrination.

Sasse is exactly on DeSantis’ wavelength. In the Florida Times-Union, Nate Monroe reminds us that Sasse’s “right-wing political philosophy [is] deeply hostile toward gay rights, women’s reproductive health, equality and academic freedom. In the Senate, Sasse enthusiastically backed Donald Trump’s three Supreme Court appointments, all of whom are laboring to engineer a puritanical society that would be unrecognizable to incoming and current students.”

And let’s not forget how Sasse got aall huffy claiming that it was credibly-accused sex criminal Brett Kavanaugh who was the real victim.

Wouldn’t it be great —
to star Timothy Hutton in a revival of Long Day’s Journal into Night?

I’ve been revisiting Hutton, an icon of my youth.
My sister was an extra in Turk 182, which I haven’t seen yet.