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Eric Swalwell's political career died so fast it's like JD Vance endorsed him.

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Today in Florida, a Democrat defeated a Trump-backed Republican in the race for the open District 87 state House seat. District 87 happens to include . . . Mar-a-Lago.

Feel free to bask in the moment.

I'm not so optimistic as to say the flipping of this seat is a harbinger of things to come, but I sure am digging the symbolism.

By the way, for all his carping on the subject, Trump voted by mail. And probably always will, until they put a polling place on a golf course.

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Raging narcissist claims that an election that rejected everything he stands for wasn't about him. Good try, Donald. Loser.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters has hit back at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her mockery of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, suggesting the New York Democrat secretly wants to sleep with the immigration hardliner.

Joe Sommerlad

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What Coulda Shoulda Been

 

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Can't wait until the next Democratic president puts 2 pride flags up on those Trump flagpoles.

MAGAs will try to overthrow the government again.

Alex Cole

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Donald Trump and his sycophants spent yesterday bragging about the speed with which they’ve moved during these first 100 days. They’re right. Never has a president failed so spectacularly, so often, so quickly, as Donald Trump.

Hakeem Jeffries

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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

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Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Democrats send their criminals to jail.

Republicans send theirs to the White House.

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Another tiny ray of sunshine: Democrat Tom Suozzi won convicted felon George Santos's former congressional seat, causing George to throw a fit and shoplift five more Hermes sweaters and stress-eat an entire Little Debbie display at Stop and Shop.

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Before his milestone 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter told his family he wanted to hold on to support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, he cast his ballot for the vice president.

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Largesse

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I found the Democratic Convention moving, and it gave me hope. So like many folks, I donated to the Harris-Walz campaign.

I had to keep the donation amount within my means as a writer. But I'm optimistic that $1.50 will put them right over the top.

Dana For the Win

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Speaking at the Democratic National Convention yesterday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel turned a line made famous by former NRA president Charlton Heston on its ear.

She declared, "By the way, I've got a message for the Republicans and the justices of the United States Supreme Court: You can pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay hand."

I'm not worthy.

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Veep Kamala Harris has chosen Minn. Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, and the Human Rights Campaign is over the lavender moon.

In an email today, HRC trumpeted how Walz, as a high-school history teacher and football coach in 1999, sponsored his school's first gay-straight alliance. The email goes on to list his considerable pro-LGBTQ efforts in Congress and as governor.

But honestly, HRC had me at the first point. A straight Midwestern football coach offers to serve as faculty adviser for his school's newly formed gay-straight alliance student group? How refreshing is that?

I should add that I'm available to write the musical.

He Did It

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Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race.

Uncharted waters ahead. Grab a life preserver and some Xanax. But above all, your resolve.

Survey Says

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Yesterday evening, as I sat down to watch the news, I just had a feeling I'd regret it.

Sure enough, PBS brought me a story about a major survey that found support for LGBTQ rights has, for the first time, gone down in the U.S. 

Note to self:  must avoid the Sunday news if I don't want to start the week depressed. Or bitchy.

The Public Religion Research Institute interviewed over 22,000 adults in 2023, and found that support for same-sex marriage dropped two percentage points, and backing for non-discrimination protections dropped four points.

The CEO of the Institute said the downward tick surprised them. I can't say it surprised me, not with all the anti-LGBTQ legislation hovering about, but it was still hard to hear. I had to watch comedy for the rest of the evening to compensate.

The drop, said the CEO, was "largely driven by party polarization." She noted that her team "saw much deeper declines, for example, among Republicans in terms of their support for these issues, whereas Democrats tended to stay relatively stable."

This would be the moment to crack that Democrats are always more stable, but I won't.

She continued, "And I think what's happening is that you see many Republican leaders in red states, really trying to amp up the volume, so to speak on LGBTQ rights, and really trying to claw back some of those rights across the country."

And really being complete assholes.

The CEO finished, "And I think that's had a spillover effect nationally in terms of the attitudes of Republicans, especially on issues with respect to LGBT rights."

The red states have floated a cloud of bigotry across the country that other Republicans are getting high on. I never thought I'd write these words, but it's a shame Nancy Reagan isn't around to urge people to Just Say No.

Please Be Certain

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Democrat Tom Suozzi won yesterday's special election in New York to succeed Republican Rep. George Santos, the serial fabulist and accused crook who was expelled from Congress late last year. The only thing Santos told the truth about was being gay.

Maybe I'm a tad paranoid, but are New York officials sure Suozzi is who he says he is, and not Santos in Democratic drag?