I told my friend who was freaking out about Trump to keep checking 538, and then Clinton dipped into the 50s. This is extremely encouraging. I love seeing NC back in the blue!
Keeping It 1600 said if they call NC for HRC, we can all go to sleep.
538 needs an app. I need alerts for this sent to my phone. I want to see it change with every poll that hits. Nate Silver get on this already! I'll pay $3.99 for the app. Heck, I'd pay $9.99 for it.
33 days is too long. My blood pressure can't take 33 days of this nonsense.
Only with one close colleague - we've worked together for 12 years in different parts of the company. Not anything terribly specific unless he brings it up. I'm very liberal and I work for a Wall Street firm so socially, I'm on safe ground but there are a lot of mixed feelings about regulations and their impact on our industry. I'm pro-regulation even if it means my company shrinks and I lose my job. So I tend to keep my mouth shut.
Dude, Gary, you're going to get quizzed on foreign policy every day for the next five weeks. Maybe it's time to study up!
My exact thoughts. At a minimum he should have recognized that quizzing Gary Johnson on IR 101 shit is now a thing and studied up. For that lack of acknowledgement alone I can't take this guy seriously.
We had a guy running for Congress who made up these long wood signs and had someone driving around the state repositioning them every day. It was odd. I found an old article where he wasn't sure when he announced if he was running as an R or a D. Things you should know before announcing you are running.
He lost (shocker) to a woman who is going to be our first female and our first minority representative! I didn't vote for her but I'm still thrilled she won and the general is a foregone conclusion for most D's in my state. Deciding who to vote for in that election - other than the wood sign guy - was a tough decision. There were three very good candidates running for the office. The guy I backed posted a nice picture of the two of them a couple weeks back saying how much he supported her and that he was going to work for her GE campaign.
This is what I just texted my sister (mind you I saw very little of the debate). All FHTK needed to do was not suck so doing well is icing on the cake. He passed that bar. He didn't fall flat on his face.
Also, we're not going to be talking about this tomorrow evening. Trump will lose his mind that nobody is talking about him so he'll flip out and do something crazy and we'll be back on the Trump Crazy Train again.
Thank goodness I saw this before heading out to dinner. Hoping they have fish tacos not he menu. Also, I am sad that we missed a whole day of taco jpg, gifs and puns. Someone please set a reminder for next year? Is National Taco Day always on a Tuesday? If not, we have our next CEP letter writing campaign.
So over the weekend I got a notification that one of my contacts had joined twitter under the handle Glitterfor[He Who Shall Not Be Named]. I took me a bit to confirm who exactly it was (and promptly dump her and her H into the FB basket).
Last night she waited up for this announcement with multiple posts and preceded by a glitter pepe. I just...what?
I'm not following her but I am checking a couple times a day to see the latest crazy.
My 5yo came home today asking if "Hillary was going to prison for all that she's done"? I got the name of source that asked him - a girl who sits across from him - and, coincidentally I'm going to a group dinner with her mom tomorrow night. Not sure if I should bring it up. I addressed it with him but he's also been told not to mention the election at school.
He said another girl said she supports Bernie to which DS responded, "He's out you dummy!" So we have work to do at our house too.
The New York attorney general has notified Donald Trump that his charitable foundation is violating state law — by soliciting donations without proper certification — and ordered Trump’s charity to stop its fundraising immediately, the attorney general’s office said Monday.
James Sheehan, head of the attorney general’s charities bureau, sent the “notice of violation” to the Donald J. Trump Foundation on Friday, according to a copy of the notice provided by the press office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D).
The night before that, The Washington Post had reported that Trump’s charity had been soliciting donations from other people without being properly registered in New York state.
According to tax records, Trump’s foundation has subsisted entirely on donations from others since 2008, when Trump gave his last personal donation. This year, the Trump Foundation made its most wide-ranging request for donations yet: it set up a public website, donaldtrumpforvets.com, to gather donations that Trump said would be passed on to veterans’ groups.
But the Trump Foundation never registered under article 7A of New York’s Executive Law, as is required for any charity soliciting more than $25,000 per year from the public. One important consequence: Trump’s foundation avoided rigorous outside audits, which New York law requires of larger charities which ask the public for money.
“The Trump Foundation must immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fundraising activities in New York,” Sheehan wrote to the Trump Foundation, of which Trump himself is still president. The Trump Foundation has no paid employees, and its board consist of Trump, three of his children, and one Trump Organization employee. They all work one half-hour per week, according to the charity’s most recent IRS filings.
Schneiderman ordered the Trump Foundation to supply the state, within 15 days, with all the legal paperwork required of charities that solicit money from the public.
In addition, Sheehan ordered that Trump’s foundation provide all the financial audit reports it should have provided in prior years, when it raised money without legal permission. He said that if Trump’s foundation did not stop its fundraising and file the proper paperwork, that would be considered “a continuing fraud upon the people of New York.”
Trump’s campaign has not responded to The Post’s questions about the Trump Foundation’s registration in New York state. The campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Schneiderman’s order, sent early Monday afternoon.
I'm a Yankees fan but live in DE so we typically get tix to see them play the Orioles since it's closer and cheaper. Next year I'm making sure we go on a Friday.
I remember the '94 strike and how they wouldn't use replacement players but I always associated it with Ripken's consecutive game streak.
I feel a very deep despair after reading it. Like, I feel bad for this woman, obviously. Terrible things have happened to her, some of which were out of her control. And she is very clearly suffering from some kind of mental illness. Yet I also feel this blinding rage toward Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Michael Savage, all these fuckfaces who prey on these obviously vulnerable people with their conspiracy theories and outright lies. And then I am wondering how we've created a country with millions of people in it just like this woman.
Seriously this article will make you scream or cry or both:
Just finished this and was coming in here to post it. Screaming and crying. I just shake my head at whatever this craziness is and be continued mistaken believe that any R is going to do anything for such folks.
I also loved the phrase parallel reality (or something like that). I've been using alternate reality but parallel is more accurate. It's the sliding doors of political reality.
I think the last part is pretty much the bottom line. This boils down to feelings vs. reality. Some of those feelings, such as feeling the economic pinch of a new service based economy, is real. It doesn't mean we should cater to it but it's not 100% an illusion. It is actually finally trickling down to impact lower income whites. But they also said that these changes first impacted minorities.
So basically, deal with it and let's address how the service economy is impacting people. Still not a reason to vote for Trump. I have no sympathy though - between this, the racism and the other thread about the religious right I just...don't care anymore about their issues. I should. I know I should but HRC isn't stupid. She'll address as much as she can the failings of the service economy. Trump won't and manufacturing - albeit up a bit recently - is not coming back. There will never be a huge increase and suddenly every Joe Smith out of high school can go to work in the neighborhood factory and make a solid middle class living. That is just reality - the place where I prefer to live for all it's warts.
Also, I had issues in the beginning when it was framed as a "we don't understand those stupid southern voters" thing. Ohio isn't the south. Neither is Pennsylvania for all the Pennsyltucky jokes. Neither is upstate NY. So that's why I keep coming back to economy / entrenched systemic racism and the ongoing tangle of those two issues. As a diehard Dem from birth I just shake my head that all these voters see this as their reality, want someone to help them...and then they vote republican.
I have more thoughts - yesterday I had a whole thing about the environmental laws and the impact that had on the Dems relationships with labor unions but I need to do some more digging into that before talking about it. And I have to run out the door now so I'm saving that for my hangover reading tomorrow.
H and I have Brew at the Zoo tonight. It is rain or shine. I want to send him and then spend the night alone in the dark, in silence with a bottle of wine. I had to go to north Jersey yesterday for a semi-work thing and it was a 7.5 hour round trip journey so I got to listen to a bunch of podcasts but I also need to retreat from the world for a bit.
DS1 was a preemie. The day after his discharge (128 days in the NICU) he was seen by our pedi (who thankfully immediately put him on reflux meds and set up an appointment with GI). Then he had a bunch of visits from a nurse in our home - weight checks included.
DS2 was full(ish) term C-section on a Tuesday. He was seen daily in the hospital Weds, Thurs, Fri. Discharged Friday and had a pedi appt either Saturday or Monday (I can't remember).
I had LOTS of issues BFing and pumping. With both kids but got a shitton of guilt for DS1 which then triggered some PTSD with DS2 when I again failed at pumping. It put me firmly in the do what is best for you the food provider category. BF works for you? Great! EP works? Great! Formula? Fantastic!
I think I would have felt put upon if a hospital sprung a requirement to hand express before BFing. That is something you should have a heads up on. But I also think it's useful and necessary. My cousin had an issue similar to the founder and her son went a few weeks underfed. It was a nightmare scenario for them and factored into their decision to be one and done.
I need to send the evite for our annual Halloween party this weekend. Party is in two weeks and I'm just not feeling it. I don't want to organize a menu or figure our catering or kid activities or clean the house. I mean, there's actually fairly little to do but it feels like too much so I'm thinking of cancelling. Maybe I'll just push it back? IDK.
On the bright side, both of DS2's teachers have told me that he's their favorite. Both prefaced it with "I know I'm not supposed to have favorites but...". They probably say this to all the parents but I'm going to pretend they don't and he really is that awesome.
DS1 lost a check mark for 'is respectful of teachers and adults' his positive behavior list for his "Can we move this along?" comment last week. I laughed so yeah, probably not modeling the right behavior for him.
FiveThirtyEight is also doing a three part series on voters. This week was republicans, next week is democrats, the following week is everyone else - I forgot how they tagged that group.
Need something suitable for the morning trudge (1.5 blocks but with slow, whiney kids it feels like 10 blocks) to school. Boots and some sort of parka since an umbrella is useless. Nothing fancy needed. I WFH so I just need to stay warm and dry and be able to carry stuff.
I also need something for soccer/lax mom sidelines watching. Kids games are never scheduled concurrently - or even consecutively so it can be an all morning/early afternoon Saturday thing.
Bonus points if it's anything I can grab today as I have Brew at the Zoo tonight and it's cold, wet and generally not nice outside.
No personal @ today. I found out at lunch that my company has increased paid maternity leave from 13 weeks to 16 weeks and have raised paternity leave from 2 weeks to 8 weeks. It's in line with the rest of our industry so I expected the change.
Not in a red state but a friend who lives in Texas posted an article in favor of HRC after the debate. The comments were mostly her non-red state friends supporting it but that was after some heinous woman posted a long comment detailing all of HRCs failings including Benghazi (automatic idiot marker for me) and how's she's for late term abortions. And then this person twisted the knife by saying that my friend should know better about late term abortions since she'd had a preemie and shouldn't that make her see how precious all life is?
I give my friend a lot of credit. She very calmly responded to the points and said that in fact, her experience with her both her preemie daughters proved to her that all such decisions on reproduction and childbirth should be left to the woman/couple and her/their doctors.
A couple red state people chimed in then saying how much they dislike both but respect my friends opinion and are having a hard time deciding who to vote for/against.
I do, I was 13, which is probably the prime age for body conscious issues and insecurity. I still remember feeling uncomfortable about it. I remember thinking that Ms. America/Ms. Universe were largely about finding extremely accomplished women who happened to be beautiful. I idolized those women and watched the pageants. Then to see that Ms. Universe's entire value (as perceived by others) was wrapped up in her weight/appearance. It was shocking to me - like she's broken/worthless, toss her aside.
I remember this happening. I think I posted about it in the debate thread the other night. I was older, 23 or so at the time. It was covered on Access Hollywood or Entertainment Tonight so him saying this was a five minute conversation was absolutely not the case. I wasn't a fan of beauty pageants at this point - and even when I did like them thought it was nothing but idolizing beauty. Even then, the whole thing was gross because this just isn't an acceptable way to treat anyone. He humiliated her on tv - there may have been some coverage in magazines like People too