How on earth can people vote for somebody saying something so monumentally stupid?
People are not affecting climate change. You’re going to tell me that back in The Ice Age, how much taxes did people pay and how many changes did governments make to melt the ice?
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
What the crap? The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago.
How can anyone vote for somebody so profoundly ignorant?
It seems like we're getting closer and closer to a full-time legislature, which is a bit scary.
June 18, 2024
Related to this, and acknowledging that electric vehicles are coming, a draft bill for the 2025 legislature proposes to tax electric vehicle charging. While that sounds punitive, the thought it that it will make up for lost gasoline taxes used for roads. The introductory part of that bill:
September 24, 2024
The final makeup of the 2025 legislature isn't known yet, but as some other things posted today demonstrate, its fairly likely, although not certain, that the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, a populist (not conservatives) entity that's really a political party in its own right, will control the House.
If this comes to pass, it'll make for a massively contentious legislative session. The populist have already been extremely disruptive in the legislature, and now they'll be expected to advance their agenda, which in some instances are actually completely unworkable. Should their views on taxation advance, for instance, it'll bankrupt local governments and reduce Wyoming to an overall sort of Appalachia in terms of government services.
Additionally, the hypocrisy of Wyoming positions on the Federal government will rapidly come to the forefront. Can we really give the US government the middle finger, while accepting highway and disaster money?
Are we going to fight wildlands fires on our own?
Indeed, the Wyoming Freedom Caucus may be the biggest gift to the Wyoming Democratic Party imaginable.
In the meantime, it's the outgoing legislature, not the incoming one, that's working on bills for the 2025 session. These are the ones being considered right now.
October 4, 2024.
The Harris/Trump debate took place last night. I missed the first 45 or so minutes.
I don't know what happened in that time frame, but in the part I saw, watching Donald Trump was like watching a racoon on crack.
Even Fox News declared Harris the "clear" winner, while whining about ABC moderators fact checking "everything" Trump said. Given that Trump is a massive liar, the fact that they did fact check was a public service.
One newscaster, post debate, stated that it was like watching "an old man yelling at clouds", which apparently is a reference to an episode of the Simpsons. Apparently Simpson meme's went wild after Trump repeated the J. D. Vance bizarre canard about immigrants stealing pets for food (completely untrue). Trump specifically stated:
In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating – they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.
The claim was immediately debunked by moderator David Muir, but people were quick to pick up on it.
Whether it really matters or not is another matter, but post debate Taylor Swift endorsed Harris.
Wyoming's Congressional delegation declared Trump the winner of the debate, which was predictable. Seriously, however,. if even Fox News states that Harris was clearly the winner . . .
September 12, 2024
Trump found Taylor Swift coming out against him, citing herself as a "childless cat lady", two days ago. Now Linda Ronstadt has:
Stevie Nicks (whose music I can't stand) has also done so, citing herself as a "childless dog lady".
J. D. Vance has proven to be the gift that just keeps giving to the Harris campaign, given the numerous and provocative statements he's made. He also has been due to philosophical stances he's taken, which is another topic. At any rate, trends in regard to Trump aren't favorable to him, even if he should be successful in the election.
September 13, 2024
Trump on the leader of the Taliban in a press conference this week:
He called me 'Your Excellency.' I wonder if he calls that to Biden. I doubt it.
There's something really bizarre about Trump. Being called "your excellency" apparently really matters to him, so much that he thinks being called that by the Taliban is nifty.
That's weird.
Something to consider on his odd behavior:
In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseverance,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill.
If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief.
Richard A. Friedman, a psychiatrist, in The Atlantic.
September 14, 2024
Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who (supports) killing babies Both are against life.
Pope Francis on Harris and Trump.
The Pope counselled to "choose the lesser evil". If you live in a state, however, that's going overwhelmingly for one candidate or another, you don't actually have to, and can vote for a third party like The American Solidarity Party.
Laura Loomer, about whom I know nothing, but who is apparently an extreme right wing personality, has been traveling around with Trump. He's now criticizing her but she's been seen a lot with her including some photos in which they are uncomfortably close. Trump has a knack for appearing with embarrassing people.
In a campaign speech over the last couple of days Trump promised the largest mass deportation in history, starting in Springfield Ohio and Colorado.
September 15, 2024
Penultimate conservative George F. Will endorsed Kamala Harris.
September 16, 2024
A second assassination attempt on Donald Trump occurred yesterday. In this instance, the Secret Service spotted the would be assailant before he staged his attempt and opened fire first.
The assailant was Ryan Wesley Routh, who had been convicted in 2002 for possessing a machine gun. He used that weapon in a stand off with the police. How he had a AK47 type rifle in this instance is an obvious question. Based on news reports of his social media, he at one time claimed he was going to go to Ukraine and fight (he clearly didn't), and he had pro Palestinian and anti Chinese posts as well.
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Trump and Canada's big water faucet: Canada Has A Big Water Faucet.
What the crap?
September 17, 2024
Scientific American endorsed Kamala Harris.
September 20, 2024
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This is, quite frankly, stupid.
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September 24, 2024
Recognizing voter concerns over non-citizens attempting to vote nationwide, Governor Mark Gordon issued an Executive Order (EO) directing state agencies to take further steps to ensure Wyoming’s elections continue to be safe and secure.
“Recognizing the Biden/Harris Administration’s disastrous border policies compel us to do all we can to protect the integrity of our elections, I, alongside fellow Republican Governors, have taken the action afforded to me by the Constitution and the Laws of Wyoming to confirm the security of Wyoming’s elections,” Governor Gordon said.
“I remain confident Wyoming’s elections are the most secure in the nation,” the Governor added. “As required by the laws enacted by the legislature, our county clerks are thorough and diligent when determining, investigating and verifying voter citizenship. With this Executive Order, I reaffirm my commitment to that ideal.
Residents can be confident that this order removes any confusion and clarifies for our agencies – should there be any doubt – that they will not enable or facilitate any noncitizen to register to vote or help them to vote.”
Executive Order 2024-11 directs State agencies to take a variety of actions to ensure that non-citizens do not vote or register to vote. State agencies may not provide voter registration materials to non-citizens and must confirm that they are not required to provide those materials to non-citizens when contracting with federal programs or agencies.
In addition, the EO encourages the Secretary of State and the County Clerks to continue to effectively and efficiently use the tools provided to each of them by Wyoming’s election code to investigate and verify voter registration. The Wyoming Constitution requires every person to be a citizen of the United States before they can legally register and vote in Wyoming.
As he did earlier this year, the Governor continues to urge the legislature to provide clarity on the definition of the term “bona fide resident.” Wyoming’s county clerks have indicated to the Legislature that this clarification is needed, and the Governor agrees.
A poll places incumbent Senator Ted Cruz in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, Colin Allred.
Cruz going down in defeat would be a major blow to Republican efforts to secure the Senate.
September 27, 2024
First shoes, then Bibles, now watches.
October 1, 2024.
You just can't make this stuff up.
I will shut down all entries through Kamala’s migrant phone app. She’s got a phone app. It’s meant for the cartel heads. The cartel heads call the app, and they tell them where to drop the illegal migrants… It’s not even believable.
Donald Trump. Indeed, for the rational, that is not believable.
They come from the Congo in the Africa. Many people from the Congo. I don't know what that is, but they come out of jails in the Congo.
Many people, from the Congo, which he doesn't know what it is?
October 2, 2024
October 4, 2024
Melania Trump has cut a Trump/Vance ad in which she notes that she's pro infanticide, one more step in the GOP abandoning its formerly pro life plank. Vance has already boarded the IVF ship fully, in spite of that involving the death of fertilized eggs. Melania was baptized a Catholic, although there's no real evidence that she's practiced in any recent period, and Vance is a convert who is now demonstrating again that politics will prevail over conviction for him.
The American Solidarity Party is the only real pro life party in the race that I"m aware of.
For at least those who are not in a swing state, this is one more reason that the American Solidarity Party candidates should be voted for, and are perhaps the only moral vote in such states.
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