Virginia Stew

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Virginia has never elected a woman governor. That changes on Tuesday.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is facing off against Republican Winsome Earle-Sears for the Old Dominion State's top job. Spanberger is white, Earle-Sears is Black. Spanberger is a former CIA officer, Earle-Sears a former Marine, so both are made of steel and apple pie.

And in the case of Earle-Sears, bile. As the Marines famously planted the flag on Iwo Jima, she's infamously planting hers in a toilet.

She stands outside school board meetings to fuss over which bathrooms transgender students use. Her campaign ads, like Donald Trump's last year, characterize her opponent as "being for they/them." Earle-Sears and the Virginia Republicans have pounded on this "issue," obviously mistaking trans kids for the Viet Cong.

Spanberger leads in the polls, but we know how potent the culture wars can be. On the other hand, how many transphobic Trump fans will be willing to vote for a Black woman? This Virginia race is quite a study in the impacts of transphobia, racism, and sexism.

It's hard to keep track of who should be hating whom. I bet even the bigots are getting confused.

Make Up Your Mind!

 

This Week's Quote

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Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott got very nervous after Pete Hegseth banned "troops with beards", until someone explained that Hegseth was referring to facial hair.

Paul Rudnick

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The Fall Guys and Gals

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Thanks to the government shutdown, the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP will be SOL come Nov. 1. That, folks, is this Saturday.

The USDA, which oversees the food program, posted on its website yesterday that "the well has run dry." But in a service to every American, the USDA also informed us who's to blame: transgender people and immigrants.

Of course. Who else could it possibly be?

"We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats," opines the USDA site. "They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance."

I'm old enough to remember a time—a year ago—when the government worked for all Americans. Now it's a nauseating study in partisanship.

According to Trump's USDA, Democrats are literally taking food from the mouths of babes in order to provide healthcare for transgender lunatics and villainous foreigners.

It's the cost of health-care premiums that concern the Democrats, but why let an opportunity to scapegoat trans folk and the undocumented go to waste? It's as if the American government is channeling Claude Rains:  "Round up the usual suspects."

Genius

 

It's a Full Day

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It took some doing, but I laid my hands on one of Donald Trump's recent daily schedules:

9:00 am     Pardon a criminal. Collect his soul.

9:30 am     Take a turn at the East Wing wrecking ball.

10:00 am   Place calls to leaders of shithole countries demanding they nominate me for next year's Nobel Peace Prize.

11:00 am    Crank call Nobel committee.

11:30 am    Revive plan to get my face added to Mt. Rushmore.

12:00 pm    Lunch. Send underlings to KFC and McDonald's. They pay.

1:00 pm      Nap

3:00 pm      Order Hegseth to bomb possible drug boats on Walden Pond.

3:30 pm      Order JD to push peanut around Resolute desk with his nose.

4:00 pm      Remind Bondi to fork over $230 million, or I'll sue.

4:30 pm      Swap hair secrets with president of Argentina.

5:00 pm      Blame everything on Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and Barack Hussein Obama. Consider adding Michelle—"Obama Lama Ding Dong?" 

5:15 pm      Order Bondi to prosecute that girl at Penn who wouldn't sleep with me. Float death penalty.

This Week's Quote

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No American president has ever had so many people protest against him, because no American president has ever been so deserving.

Dan Rather

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