I watched an interview of Ann Selzer, the Iowan pollster known for her accuracy who says that Harris is 3 points ahead. She said that it appears that it is the women who are driving the uptick and that 2/3 of the women over 65 are voting for Harris. Gee, who woulda thought?
Yeah, what the bad guys keep forgetting is that women VOTE. Just like seniors vote. Don't piss off the largest and most consistent voting blocs in thecountry!
I mayyy vote, but... I wouldn't complain if E. Jean made some kind of hard-hitting public appearance/statement(s) before/on Election Day. I know she's in a lawsuit, but... "win the lawsuit, lose the country" doesn't seem like a good deal to me. Excuse me for saying. (This Substack is voting for Harris; but most of the U.S. isn't on this Substack! And Kamala's in a verrry tight race!!) -- In somewhat happier news, my rap song "Donald Trump Is a Rapist", which references E. Jean's story in some detail, got played on WCBN (U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor) student radio station earlier today, c. 3:57 a.m., see https://spinitron.com/WCBN/pl/19738409/The-Lush-Situation. And I've put the song up as a video at YouTube, check it out, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSqRVQk2R4. ...If I see E. Jean do a big public appearance -- I may even vote! ;D Peace to all.
You know, David, this is a very important election, really super important, and although Joe Biden is currently the best president of my lifetime, I won't be surprised if Kamala takes over that title! And now, if you'll excuse me while I go enjoy your song!
why yes, dear heart, I drove my 93-year-old Mom to a rec center here in Asheville for first-day early voting two weeks ago. the joint was jumpin'! happy crowd, so glad to be together voting. even still dealing with major impacts from Helene (no potable running water for at least another month and could be considerably longer), we have broken records here in NC for early voting, yay!
I wish my mother was still around (it's been 24 years). She'd be 101. Back in 1960, she took me into the voting booth with her, to show me how it was done, and to instill in me the importance of voting. (I still remember going with her.) Turns out she did the same with my older brother and my much younger sister. It's not surprising. Her uncle ran the Colorado Democratic Party for close to 50 years. Very political family. Anyway, it's nice to hear you drove your mother to vote!
lovely remembrance, David, and what a proud history in the Colorado Democratic Party.
I remember going to my brother's elementary school with my mom when she voted. it was exciting in the gym with the machines, and I think she let me pull the lever. it all felt serious and important. I couldn't wait till I could vote.
Following my usual tradition of walking to the polls first thing Tuesday morning. It seems like the most important day of my life so far (I mean politically—not like giving birth). Thank you, E. Jean, for standing up to the bully!
In all fairness, it was my dad's idea. He pinned a campaign badge to my blanket, handed ma a campaign sign bigger than me, and taught me to say "Kennedy" only it came out "Kendedy" because I was maybe 16 months old. Still glad I did it, though.
Oh hell yeah! Dropped my ballot in the box a few weeks ago. Mr. Spouse dropped his last week. We are in PA, proudly voting all blue all the way down the ballot. We got this!
I was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago because my defibrillator triggered. I took my ballot along and filled it out between pokings, proddings and blood tests. The docs wheeled me into surgery and maneuvered two stents into my heart while I was awake and enjoying their conversations. They sent me home the next day, and I promptly went to my mailbox and sent the MAIL-IN Ballot. Kamala of course. If I could take time out of my busy schedule to vote, anyone can. 82-year-old white male in Aloha, OR.
You are too kind. Aside from the inconvenience of the stay, I got to see Stop Making Sense with Talking Heads on the hospital TV. It was more like a mini vacation. I am blessed, and I got to vote.
I’ve never seen a less relatable person than Donald Trump, so it’s impossible to imagine what it’s like inside that pumpkin head, but it must take a lot of energy to live in that kind of superhuman denial. That energy is running down now, like a windmill when there’s no wind and no one can watch TV.
Right on time, his self-destructive urge has kicked in. This ridiculous egomaniac is also a raging idmaniac, and all his inner guardrails are gone. He’s increasingly profane. (I mean, blowing the mic.) His response to having been exposed as a Hitler lover was to stage a fascist rally at the very venue where a similar event took place 85 years earlier. Feeling challenged by his people telling him to stop referring to himself as the “protector of women,” he steps on a rake and insists that he’s going to protect them “whether the women like it or not.”
And this, as much as any other single thing he’s said or done, is what will bring him down. Whether the women like it or not. And suddenly everybody is reminded of the Access Hollywood tape and remembers what a filthy piece of shit he is.
That single phrase, tossed off mindlessly as an expression of brute power — no one tells him what to do! — came to our rescue. It brought “Grab ‘em by the pussy” to a new generation of first-time voters who were too young to have been aware of it back then. It’s going viral on TikTok over the last weekend of the campaign. The Washington Post has a link to the full three-minute video, which fills out the original like a 10-minute “All Too Well.”
He’d gotten away with it, but deep self-loathing had its own agenda, like O.J. getting away with murder and then going to prison for robbery. The culture wasn’t quite ready to condemn Trump in 2016, but today, in this post-#MeToo era and with him now being a multiply accused sexual offender — #27 weighed in last week — and an adjudicated rapist, the price will finally be paid.
Not only are women going to vote against him — in, as he would say, numbers like nobody’s ever seen before — but the husbands and fathers are going to be told by their wives and newly aghast daughters, “You cannot vote for this filth.” MAGA men who thought their wives had been browbeaten into voting for Trump will now find themselves pressured by their kids —- Eeew, Dad, he’s so gross — to vote for Harris.
I’ve been writing about the theater of politics for 50 years, and I can say with certainty that Donald Trump, on every conceivable level and by whatever metric one employs, is the very worst human being — and let’s give him that, he is technically human — I’ve ever seen. He is going to get the public beating he’s been earning for his entire life. Then, powerless, he will live with the dread — however improbable he may think it is — of dying in prison.
I have several friends, still suffering from the PTSD of 2016, who insist that he’s going to win. I don’t think he was ever going to win, and his behavior over the past two weeks, and especially the past few days, makes it even less likely. I think the majority of the electorate sees him clearly enough to recognize the fatal folly of making this ignorant toxic predatory depraved buffoonish traitorous psychopath the most powerful person in the world.
And, as if there weren’t enough October Surprises, we just got a November Surprise. Michael Wolff, who had recorded hours of tape with Jeffrey Epstein for a Trump book, just released portions offering up sleazy details about his “good friend,” Donald Trump. Epstein said, among much else on the 100 hours of tape Wolff has, that “the first time he slept with [Melania] was on my plane,” and quoted him saying, “The only thing I really like to do is fuck the wives of my best friends. That is just the best.”
And even more good news! A very reputable poll has Kamala UP BY 3 IN IOWA.
Now, all that has to happen to finish him off is Pennsylvania native Taylor Swift showing up at Kamala’s Monday night rally in Philadelphia. As a connoisseur of revenge, she must realize that this would be beyond epic.
I think Kamala is going to win big. And if I’m wrong, then we are living in a newly-foreign country.
You summed it up perfectly. I hope we aren't going to be living in a newly-foreign country. I can't go there yet. I have to believe there are so many people that are not showing up in the polls. They have been quiet but their votes will send the despicable one to his just end.
I remember "All Souls Day" from my childhood as the day after Halloween since I was dragged to Episcopal church in the 1980s as a child 2 days after my October 30th birthday and I did not understand why.
However, Google says I am wrong and "All Souls Day" is 11/2. I am just learning this at 48! 😲
11/1 is All Saints Day following the All Hallowed Even , then All Souls Day- this is a world of inclusion-in a human way to “do no harm and do as love will”
Yep! Looks like us over 65 women have a chance to save the nation’s democratic and soul bacon. But pushing through to the tape at the finish line!
Pamelyn!! 🤺
I watched an interview of Ann Selzer, the Iowan pollster known for her accuracy who says that Harris is 3 points ahead. She said that it appears that it is the women who are driving the uptick and that 2/3 of the women over 65 are voting for Harris. Gee, who woulda thought?
I am still holding my breath though.
Yeah, what the bad guys keep forgetting is that women VOTE. Just like seniors vote. Don't piss off the largest and most consistent voting blocs in thecountry!
YES! Harris for the WIN!!!
I mayyy vote, but... I wouldn't complain if E. Jean made some kind of hard-hitting public appearance/statement(s) before/on Election Day. I know she's in a lawsuit, but... "win the lawsuit, lose the country" doesn't seem like a good deal to me. Excuse me for saying. (This Substack is voting for Harris; but most of the U.S. isn't on this Substack! And Kamala's in a verrry tight race!!) -- In somewhat happier news, my rap song "Donald Trump Is a Rapist", which references E. Jean's story in some detail, got played on WCBN (U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor) student radio station earlier today, c. 3:57 a.m., see https://spinitron.com/WCBN/pl/19738409/The-Lush-Situation. And I've put the song up as a video at YouTube, check it out, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSqRVQk2R4. ...If I see E. Jean do a big public appearance -- I may even vote! ;D Peace to all.
VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably, but... I could use encouragement. :D :D
You know, David, this is a very important election, really super important, and although Joe Biden is currently the best president of my lifetime, I won't be surprised if Kamala takes over that title! And now, if you'll excuse me while I go enjoy your song!
Excused! :D
Great song!!!
Great song - thanks for sharing and please vote. Bring a friend.
Thanks for listening! ...I suspect I'll vote, though it wouldn't hurt if you-know-whom made a surprise media appearance, heh heh... :D
Just please vote!
Thanks David!
why yes, dear heart, I drove my 93-year-old Mom to a rec center here in Asheville for first-day early voting two weeks ago. the joint was jumpin'! happy crowd, so glad to be together voting. even still dealing with major impacts from Helene (no potable running water for at least another month and could be considerably longer), we have broken records here in NC for early voting, yay!
Drove my 93-year-old mother as well. We waited for the second day of early voting in Gastonia. It was packed but moved quickly. BIG love to Asheville.
hey Judy, all best to you and your mom as well! and Asheville says hey!
That's great to hear! I keep wondering when NC will actually vote a majority blue!
I wish my mother was still around (it's been 24 years). She'd be 101. Back in 1960, she took me into the voting booth with her, to show me how it was done, and to instill in me the importance of voting. (I still remember going with her.) Turns out she did the same with my older brother and my much younger sister. It's not surprising. Her uncle ran the Colorado Democratic Party for close to 50 years. Very political family. Anyway, it's nice to hear you drove your mother to vote!
lovely remembrance, David, and what a proud history in the Colorado Democratic Party.
I remember going to my brother's elementary school with my mom when she voted. it was exciting in the gym with the machines, and I think she let me pull the lever. it all felt serious and important. I couldn't wait till I could vote.
Thank you Lesley! it's fun to read your memory of a very similar event! We both had great mothers!
Following my usual tradition of walking to the polls first thing Tuesday morning. It seems like the most important day of my life so far (I mean politically—not like giving birth). Thank you, E. Jean, for standing up to the bully!
Yes! I voted for every democrat on my ballot.
And then I grabbed him (he who must not be named) by his pussy!
His worst day is nigh!
You go girl!
Yes, indeed, and proudly for Vice President Harris. My first vote was for President Kennedy in 1960, and I was as excited this time.
Fun fact: I campaigned for JFK!
In all fairness, it was my dad's idea. He pinned a campaign badge to my blanket, handed ma a campaign sign bigger than me, and taught me to say "Kennedy" only it came out "Kendedy" because I was maybe 16 months old. Still glad I did it, though.
I actually did as a teenager helping in an office in Boston. I loved it!
My husband and I voted Oct 25. My husband and I do NOT vote for Rapists. KAMALA FOR THE WIN!! LETS GO!!!!💖💖💖💖💖
Oh hell yeah! Dropped my ballot in the box a few weeks ago. Mr. Spouse dropped his last week. We are in PA, proudly voting all blue all the way down the ballot. We got this!
I voted last week Friday at my local library 💙
I was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago because my defibrillator triggered. I took my ballot along and filled it out between pokings, proddings and blood tests. The docs wheeled me into surgery and maneuvered two stents into my heart while I was awake and enjoying their conversations. They sent me home the next day, and I promptly went to my mailbox and sent the MAIL-IN Ballot. Kamala of course. If I could take time out of my busy schedule to vote, anyone can. 82-year-old white male in Aloha, OR.
Bravo, Dean!!!!
Especially from you, this means a great deal. Thank you.
You are a true joyous warrior Dean.
You are too kind. Aside from the inconvenience of the stay, I got to see Stop Making Sense with Talking Heads on the hospital TV. It was more like a mini vacation. I am blessed, and I got to vote.
Thank you!!
The least I could do.
My god you are fantastic man!
Thank you. I am humbled by the support.
YES, voted BLUE all the way.
Hell yeah
LFG
I’ve never seen a less relatable person than Donald Trump, so it’s impossible to imagine what it’s like inside that pumpkin head, but it must take a lot of energy to live in that kind of superhuman denial. That energy is running down now, like a windmill when there’s no wind and no one can watch TV.
Right on time, his self-destructive urge has kicked in. This ridiculous egomaniac is also a raging idmaniac, and all his inner guardrails are gone. He’s increasingly profane. (I mean, blowing the mic.) His response to having been exposed as a Hitler lover was to stage a fascist rally at the very venue where a similar event took place 85 years earlier. Feeling challenged by his people telling him to stop referring to himself as the “protector of women,” he steps on a rake and insists that he’s going to protect them “whether the women like it or not.”
And this, as much as any other single thing he’s said or done, is what will bring him down. Whether the women like it or not. And suddenly everybody is reminded of the Access Hollywood tape and remembers what a filthy piece of shit he is.
That single phrase, tossed off mindlessly as an expression of brute power — no one tells him what to do! — came to our rescue. It brought “Grab ‘em by the pussy” to a new generation of first-time voters who were too young to have been aware of it back then. It’s going viral on TikTok over the last weekend of the campaign. The Washington Post has a link to the full three-minute video, which fills out the original like a 10-minute “All Too Well.”
He’d gotten away with it, but deep self-loathing had its own agenda, like O.J. getting away with murder and then going to prison for robbery. The culture wasn’t quite ready to condemn Trump in 2016, but today, in this post-#MeToo era and with him now being a multiply accused sexual offender — #27 weighed in last week — and an adjudicated rapist, the price will finally be paid.
Not only are women going to vote against him — in, as he would say, numbers like nobody’s ever seen before — but the husbands and fathers are going to be told by their wives and newly aghast daughters, “You cannot vote for this filth.” MAGA men who thought their wives had been browbeaten into voting for Trump will now find themselves pressured by their kids —- Eeew, Dad, he’s so gross — to vote for Harris.
I’ve been writing about the theater of politics for 50 years, and I can say with certainty that Donald Trump, on every conceivable level and by whatever metric one employs, is the very worst human being — and let’s give him that, he is technically human — I’ve ever seen. He is going to get the public beating he’s been earning for his entire life. Then, powerless, he will live with the dread — however improbable he may think it is — of dying in prison.
I have several friends, still suffering from the PTSD of 2016, who insist that he’s going to win. I don’t think he was ever going to win, and his behavior over the past two weeks, and especially the past few days, makes it even less likely. I think the majority of the electorate sees him clearly enough to recognize the fatal folly of making this ignorant toxic predatory depraved buffoonish traitorous psychopath the most powerful person in the world.
And, as if there weren’t enough October Surprises, we just got a November Surprise. Michael Wolff, who had recorded hours of tape with Jeffrey Epstein for a Trump book, just released portions offering up sleazy details about his “good friend,” Donald Trump. Epstein said, among much else on the 100 hours of tape Wolff has, that “the first time he slept with [Melania] was on my plane,” and quoted him saying, “The only thing I really like to do is fuck the wives of my best friends. That is just the best.”
And even more good news! A very reputable poll has Kamala UP BY 3 IN IOWA.
Now, all that has to happen to finish him off is Pennsylvania native Taylor Swift showing up at Kamala’s Monday night rally in Philadelphia. As a connoisseur of revenge, she must realize that this would be beyond epic.
I think Kamala is going to win big. And if I’m wrong, then we are living in a newly-foreign country.
You hit the nail on the head, Paul!!
Oh, and yes, I voted.
You summed it up perfectly. I hope we aren't going to be living in a newly-foreign country. I can't go there yet. I have to believe there are so many people that are not showing up in the polls. They have been quiet but their votes will send the despicable one to his just end.
I voted on All Souls Day (11/1) for Kamala Harris and every other Democrat on the ticket! 😃
Take Care, E Jean 💙!
I remember "All Souls Day" from my childhood as the day after Halloween since I was dragged to Episcopal church in the 1980s as a child 2 days after my October 30th birthday and I did not understand why.
However, Google says I am wrong and "All Souls Day" is 11/2. I am just learning this at 48! 😲
That's why we love you Caroline! I ALL are still learning ....every hour!
Thanks, E Jean 💙!
11/1 is All Saints Day following the All Hallowed Even , then All Souls Day- this is a world of inclusion-in a human way to “do no harm and do as love will”
Thanks, Lee!
YES!
I understand the assignment!
Heeee!