Margaret this is probably it for us. Most likely our last presidential election. It’s been a hell of a ride. We’ve always voted, but nobody paid attention until Matthew put our words in a blog. It started with that bitch Palin. What a hoot. Along the way we met idiots like Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, and that Muslim-hating woman with the crazy hair at the John McCain rally. Oh, and let’s not forget Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Ann Coulter. One couldn’t form a coherent thought and the other couldn’t write a grammatically correct sentence and yet both were held up as leaders for the conservative movement. More like a bowel movement if you ask me. And more recently there was that horrible Sarah Michelle Gellar. No wait. She’s lovely. I mean that horrible Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She’s heinous.
Thank God for those eight years with Obama or I might not have had anything good to say. But in the end, it all boiled down to one asshat that ruled them all: Donald Trump, the orange yeast infection that has irritated us for the last four years. America has never needed an antifungal cream more than it does right now.
Normally I’d tell you to run a bath and add a half cup of apple cider vinegar and soak for at least 20 minutes. That’s usually going to get it under control. But this particular strain is infamously bad so it might take a prescription strength medicine of some sort. In fact, this strain has proven to be deadly, killing almost 230,000 Americans so far. When you talk to your doctor make sure she is aware of all the symptoms:
- Itchy rash
- Racist tendencies
- Xenophobia
- Excessive, compulsive lying
- Burning sensation
- Lack of respect for fallen soldiers
- Desire to mock the disabled
- Willingness to orphan and cage children
- Voter suppression
- Sexism
- Watery discharge
- Tax evasion
- Adultery
- Sexual misconduct Type A – groping
- Sexual misconduct Type B – rape
- Stupidity – All Types
- Treason
For the life of me, I’m not sure why 40% of Americans are willing to live with such a horrible yeast infection. I can only assume massive quantities of Tucker Carlson numbs more than just the brain.
It’s unimaginable. Forty percent of Americans are ok with hating the other 60% of their fellow Americans because Trump told them to be afraid. Forty percent of Americans are fine having a President who has 26 credible accusations of sexual assault and bragged about it on video. Forty percent of Americans watched an adult make fun of a disabled person and 4 years later they want more of that. Forty percent of Americans gladly gave up their confederate flags and white hoods and replaced them with a Trump flag and a red MAGA hat. Forty percent of Americans can kiss my ass.
We are supposed to be better than this. We are supposed to be Americans first and political foes second. Under any other Presidency we would all be wearing masks because Americans have always taken care of Americans in times of crisis. We have our flaws, but we’ve always come together when we had to. But under this guy, under Trump, we couldn’t’ even come together to fight a global pandemic. Wearing a mask is just too much to ask. Grandparents have lived long enough evidently because wearing a mask to protect them was just too much of an inconvenience. You have asthma. Heart disease. Cancer. An unknown health risk. Screw all of you because that mask is uncomfortable.
Is this who you want to be America? Is this as good as it gets? This idiot? This orange, thin skinned, balding sex offender? Margaret and I hope not. We both married and have now buried veterans who fought for this country. In their honor and in their memory, we implore you. Vote. Him.Out.
And don’t just vote. Take a friend to vote. Take your adult children to vote. Take your mothers to vote. Statistically speaking, you might want to leave your white husbands at home. But take everyone else and vote like your life depends on it.
Don’t rely on the polls. I’m not sure I believe in shy Trump supporters who aren’t showing up in the polls, but I certainly can believe some of them are too ashamed to admit it. There are more of us. Show up and we win.
Just vote. This is your moment. Seize the day and change the world. Margaret and I have enjoyed getting to know you. But our best days are behind us. It’s up to you now. Your future awaits.
Vote for Joe. He doesn’t itch. We mean it. Really.
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Before I get 1.) run over by Santa and his reindeer or 2.) hit with the COVID, I want to wish all the porch dwellers including Helen and Margaret a better Christmas than we were told to expect and definitely a better New Year than he one we had last time. God bless us everyone!
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By: Mageen in old Virginny on December 22, 2020
at 7:20 AM
As I keep reminding my friends, we will all get through this together. I’m not just talking about the pandemic – I’m also talking about the DUMBDEMIC which is how I like to think of our present administration of tRump and Pope Pence the Pius. They have created or rather brought to our attention, the underbelly of division fueled by racism and White supremacy. Instead of draining the swamp tRump selected creatures lurking there to fill the posts he had the obligation to fill. How ironic that everyone he chose was the exact opposite of what was required for that post! I mean you can’t make up this sh*t – or maybe you can if you’re a reality tv star. Now I’m waiting to see the “F-U-Haul” van drive away from the White House with his “stuff”.
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By: Terry Waggle on December 6, 2020
at 5:30 PM
Easier-
Fooey on calling yourself simple.You are a kind and sensible woman who cares a great deal about our country.
As I said , I do not disagree with you by and large. I too find Mr Biden and Ms Harris a breath of much needed fresh air and look forward to their administration.
I simply take issue with saying DJT is not an adult/ acting like an adult/acting like a child because it frees him from rightful censure.
DJT is an adult legally and physically (age). He fails over and over to meet the obligations and responsibilities we expect of mature adults but expects all the perks- deference to his views and work, etc. In the strictest sense , he is indeed childish in all his failures to behave with maturity.
To me however , we let him get away with so many, many crappy behaviors early on in the last election period by pointing to his “childish” behavior and laughing. ( Not me and you “we”- general “we” ) Personally, if my son had acted like DJT from about 4 onward, he’d have been time-outed til he regained his senses.
With the failures of his endless court challenges and the growing acceptance by Rs ( not near enough yet! ) that he lost, he is battling having to face the loss of something he cannot bully his way into having. As this crap always worked for him before, I do understand why he keeps trying it on.
He’s a weak, nasty, insecure bully who finally hit a wall of adults who won’t back down.
It isn’t childish- his pouting and yelling- it is a clear abdication and dereliction of the adult duty he swore to us and the Constitution. Fecking Pffft!
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By: alaskapi on December 6, 2020
at 2:05 PM
Hi alaskapi,
I have read your comments for many years as well. I think you are a woman of great intellect who can express herself very maturely, with whatever you say coming from deep experience. I am just a simple woman really. We can agree to disagree here but I don’t think the current occupant of the White House generally behaves like a mature individual. He is conning and knows how to bully his way through life. However, most adult don’t lie and engage in deceit in order to create an alternate reality they may find more pleasing. Children would sometimes behave in such a manner to get themselves out of trouble. How else would he not accept the results of this election? Any adult would have seen it already that all is lost but he is not one. It is always about him and it was refreshing to hear President Elect Biden speak about what he intends to do for this country. He projected to me the sense he wants to serve us and not the other way around. That was what I meant by having adults in the room and having them express themselves in complete sensible sentences and not word salads was also refreshing.😀Like I said I am just a simple woman. Peace.
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By: Easier on December 5, 2020
at 7:52 PM
Easier@ December 4-
I am not arguing with you nor disagreeing with your comment.
I do wish, however, that we could all talk more clearly about what we mean by adult and grown-up as well as many other terms and phrases.
I think we need to take back everyday language definitions co-opted by twits in the last 30 years plus.
I have read your comments for years and have a decent sense of what you mean but am damn-all tired of the twisting and re-defining that is the stock in trade of the current administration and dingbat wing of the GOP.
I well remember being told to get-off-the-rag or grow-up-! in my early years in male dominated trades work when I called bullshit on unsafe job sites and/or practices- the underlying assumption being that only wussies/babies worried about safety.
Pffft!! Tell that to the guy who took the chainsaw kickback in his face, the plumber whose arm was pulled out of the shoulder socket by the power drain auger, the kid fighting fires who ended up with a pulaski stuck in his calf…
Anyway-
DJT is an adult- an immature, nasty, self absorbed, bigoted, bullying adult. I think we do ourselves no favors if we deny this.
As humans we really want to set broken people outside the group – whether we call them inhuman or deny their existence (not an adult)
I think it better to be clear about the difference between a MATURE, functioning adult and a doof adult like DJT.
most of the reasons I think the distinction is important are here:
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By: alaskapi on December 5, 2020
at 12:04 PM
@ Linda Starr on December 3, 2020
Oh honey-
You made such a hash of sound, basic logical reasoning here it is difficult to know where to begin –
“To get rid of your deep ingrained hatred of all things logical and patriotic towards the best country in the world, I recommend a dose of self examination away from all the liberal bs and biased media sources; I continue to be amazed at the number of sheep in our country; what a bunch of fake news you espouse; good luck with the buydin crooks, higher taxes, higher fuel prices, higher food prices, higher this and that while the swamp brainwashed by lies, social media censors and fake news Good luck when our country is taken over the the nwo and you are lving like a ughur in China or a resident of venezuela”
A- to assume hatred because someone disagrees with your take is a classic appeal to motive.
B- Assuming you get to define what patriotic is is a bit over the top- especially since it is uses the fallacy of loaded language. Ditto the way you use “biased”,”fake news”, et al.
C- Falling off the rail into the multifaceted mess of a parade of horribles and appeal to ridicule would be funny if I thought you were playing- but I don’t.
D- with the NWO ( new world order) crack you have left Terra Firma entirely , dear.
The furtive fallacy or its older identified relative, the animistic fallacy, is a fundamental failure to understand correlation, causation, and sound reasoning- it swaps out conspiracy theories for reason. Pffft.
I gave my teenage grand daughter a book on logic for Christmas- to prepare her to understand the rhetoric in our public sphere. I think I will send her your comment here for an exercise/practice piece.
Sincerely, Baaaa-Alaskapi-Baaabaaabaa
Ps- what’s up with endlessly insulting sheep ? Pffft!
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By: alaskapi on December 5, 2020
at 11:19 AM
I watched the CNN interview President Elect Joe Biden and VP Elect Kamala Harris gave to the network yesterday. I soaked it in. I did not know how hungry I was for intelligent conversation. Grown ups were in the room and I felt, listening to them, that I along with this country, will be taken care of, by competent and knowledgeable leaders. President Elect Biden and President Obama brought our country back from the brink after 2008 and it will be done again because Mr. Biden has traveled this road before.
There is not much I can do for anybody that wants to be conned with lies and deceit, truth and honor be damned, with love of country being paid lip service to. If gold toilets and flashy stuff speak to these people, that Is their prerogative. I for one prefer to be led by grown ups. This country needs grown ups at the helm to help it recover from the horrors of 2020. We all need to take in a deep breath and to start feeling hopeful again, to feel that things will work out.
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By: Easier on December 4, 2020
at 7:06 PM
To get rid of your deep ingrained hatred of all things logical and patriotic towards the best country in the world, I recommend a dose of self examination away from all the liberal bs and biased media sources; I continue to be amazed at the number of sheep in our country; what a bunch of fake news you espouse; good luck with the buydin crooks, higher taxes, higher fuel prices, higher food prices, higher this and that while the swamp brainwashed by lies, social media censors and fake news Good luck when our country is taken over the the nwo and you are lving like a ughur in China or a resident of venezuela
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By: Linda Starr on December 3, 2020
at 7:20 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to Margaret and Helen and all the Porch Dwellers. This year we can breathe a little easier!
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By: mageen in old virginny on November 24, 2020
at 9:54 AM
Well, its not only tRump that is of concern where his mental health and soul are concerned. Its also down ballot like with Louie Gohmert, Greg Abbott and his merry band of plunderers, and on and on. I’m hoping that tRump will not be able to control the Trumpists in this country any more as he sits in a jail cell courtesy of the prosecutor and the Southern District of New York. That will help greatly. Louie et al. need to be voted out and live in oblivion forever more. And no, I can’t see myself even shaking hands with defeated Trumpers like our GI’s did in the Second World War with the Russian Army someplace in eastern Europe. A lot of good that did us! We immediately ended up fighting Moscow-based Communism for decades. I am praying that Joe Biden stays alive and healthy for the swearing in and for the next four years at least. Thats what I go with.
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By: mageen in old virginny on November 16, 2020
at 7:29 AM
My feelings exactly Terry. We have eyes but we don’t see and we have ears but we don’t hear. I fail to understand the attraction to this self-involved individual. At this critical juncture when his love of country should be winning over, it is obvious to all that his self love is paramount. However, people still fail to put 2 and 2 together. Let us pray for our country and its future.
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By: Easier on November 13, 2020
at 10:09 PM
Yes, I’ve often commented that certain people must be worshipping a different God from the one I worship. They tend to make God in their image rather than the reverse. All the years of Bible study I’ve done, including auditing Old Testament and New Testament at a seminary, didn’t prepare me for how the so-called Christians could find no fault in our president. One even declared he thought God had sent him to us. To my way of thinking it would have had to have been a punishment for our getting the message wrong and in hopes that we would wake up and try to be worthy of being called Christians.
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By: Terry Waggle on November 12, 2020
at 3:37 PM
Bacon loving pie eaters on the porch! tRump is holed up and shedding hate no matter what. He is purging a bunch of people in intelligence positions and filling the slots with his lackeys. One of them is named General Tata. No joke! This is to prevent Joe Biden from having the necessary intelligence briefings vital to the security of this country. Frankly, this should convince enough people to have tRump arrested for treason and his poisonous posse with him.eh invertebrates among the Rs in the Senate are protecting him. Lindsey should hauled out in shackles! tRump is OVER! There is nothing to fear from him. He will never run for the office again. He will be too busy doing time in jail after the prosecutor from the Southern District of New York gets through with him.
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By: mageen inold virginny on November 11, 2020
at 7:25 AM
I have been on cloud nine since mid morning Saturday when the election was called for VP Joe Biden. The concept of decency, empathy and caring for this country as a whole, won. I should have left well enough alone and should not have read the article about how evangelicals are crushed that their candidate did not win. Based on the article he gave them everything they wanted and they felt powerful. They are fearing losing such power under a Biden presidency? Power? What does power have to do being a Christian? I don’t know under what rock I have been hiding. But this huge disappointment washed over me upon reading all that. Christ would be disappointed.
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By: Easier on November 9, 2020
at 8:18 PM
Wow! For the first time in 4 years I am breathing better. After the inaugural, I may even be able to sing! Note for Mike Cohen: I don’t really care if tRump chooses to stay in Mar A Lago after the holidays. He can take his poisonous posse with him. The White House needs to be sanitized anyway before Joe and his family move in. What does bug me somewhat is the shiftiness of a Lame Duck Senate under the leadership of the Majority Quacker. Mitch could always fall back on his usual stuff and insist that nothing be done until the next president is sworn in. That would mean excruciating hardship for all those suffering job loss and illness and even death from the total lack of decent leadership of the outgoing POTUS who claimed he wanted to save the stock market. What His Crookedness meant is he wanted to save the stock market, most particularly for his own stock ventures. He was to selfish and too stupid to realize that the virus and the stock market is conjoined twins!
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By: mageen n old virginny on November 9, 2020
at 7:18 AM
From
Margaret and Helen’s Twitter:
“Someone who knows better than me, please tell me if I am wrong:
For some reason by law Alaska doesn’t count mail in votes until next week. They are reporting 50% of the vote and right now it stands:
Trump – 118,000
Biden – 64,000
If Biden performs like he did in early mail votes in other states, he could get 70% of the remaining… votes”
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Ms Helen-
A couple things-
1-
While some media is reporting the delay as law
it is not law- it is procedure by current election head:
https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/11/05/alaska-has-the-slowest-ballot-counting-process-in-america-the-top-election-official-says-security-is-the-priority-not-speed/
2-
Under state law any Alaskan voter may vote absentee for any reason.
This year, in response to the pandemic, the Lt Gov sent applications to vote absentee to all registered voters 65 years and older and tooted up the info that anyone could vote absentee.
An extraordinary number of folks chose absentee ballots ( and early voting in person)
While I wish with all my heart that Mr Biden will get 70% of the votes left to be counted it is not likely to happen. Nor are we likely to dump our R Senator- Pffft.
The urban/rural divide here is backwards of the rest of America.
Those of us off the road-railbelt tend to vote blue- a map shows the largest portion of the state as blue but we can’t outvote the urban ( or what passes as urban in Alaska) anymore. There just are not enough of us.
There is a special conceit here that Alaskan voters are independent- most folks are registered as N (nonpartisan) and U (undeclared) (Ds and Rs are in the minority registration wise, esp Ds. )- but most folks vote party tickets.
Alaska has a set of state legislative races hanging in the balance which are likely to have a strong effect on the federal totals. Rs are in line to take over both arms of the Leg. It would/will mean the end of our bipartisan majority in the House- something we have been rightfully proud of and which serves all Alaskans much better than one party rule.
I hope I am completely wrong but I think we’ll find we have shot ourselves in both feet after absentee ballots are counted.
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By: alaskapi on November 8, 2020
at 5:15 AM
Now we need Hilary appointed Attorney General..Find the rattiest old Greyhound bus, pull up on Pen. ave, load the crooks up in chains..Drive them down to Florida, get an old garbage scow, ship them to Gitmo..Put them all in the same cell and break the key off!
I have no idea what is wrong with supposedly good folks losing all brain cells and following those slimes..
Welcome back U.S.A.!
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By: Upriverdavid on November 7, 2020
at 9:40 PM
[…] Philpot writes to her friend Margaret with advice on how to get over a bad case of Trump itch. One of her best bits of humor. Sadly, I read the vote part a day late. Happily, I had […]
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By: Poll Workers Count, DisElect College, Misinfo, Lotsa Luck Biden, Bye Bond – FairAndUNbalanced.com on November 7, 2020
at 3:09 AM
Wow! This really is going the correct way! Joe is already behaving Presidential wheres the Toddler in Chief is behaving just like a toddler with wet pants. This is the biggest vote apparently in the country’s history. I think that is what is scaring the Toddler. He never expected that and he doesn’t know what to do except whine cry, scream fraud, etc. PA and GA look to be wins for Joe. Nevada also looks that way, too. North Carolina might not go for Joe but then he really doesn’t need it. Imagine! the first female Vice President and she is a woman of color! Take that Stephen Miller right in her Nazi little head!
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By: mageen in old virginny on November 6, 2020
at 7:20 AM
I’m fairly new here, and this old, white male thing thinks you are great, and will miss yo, if you do retire.
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By: MITCH D. on November 5, 2020
at 8:12 PM
Thank you for your always bracing perspective. Hope we can all ride this out and that you can rest easy in the idea that this too shall pass. I have hope in the Millennial generation to call bullshit! Thanks for everything.
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By: Liz Denius on November 5, 2020
at 12:36 PM
can I get drunk now?
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By: yellowdoggranny on November 5, 2020
at 11:38 AM
Margaret and Helen – thank you for another fun and witty commentary filled with so much meanungful truth.
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By: Christine Derby on November 5, 2020
at 8:57 AM
God do I love this blog
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By: Kaarin Alsop on November 4, 2020
at 4:49 PM
Helen, Margaret, I know there is a lot of angst going on the day after the election. We need to stay calm and be patient and let the normal actions unfold and let people make sure all votes are counted. The true winners in all of this are the conscientious election workers who are trying to get this right.
Trump is within his right to claim a recount when the process is finished. Any judge worth his salt will say let’s follow normal processes and not stop them from occurring. Suing is just grandstanding, which is what the president has been posturing for over six months.
This post I wrote this morning adds a few more thoughts. Keith
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By: Keith on November 4, 2020
at 1:42 PM
You’ve probably seen it already!🤣 You thought of it first too! Love, Jen
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By: Jennifer V. on November 4, 2020
at 12:47 PM
Thank you, Ladies for speaking the truth.
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By: Brenda Nelson on November 4, 2020
at 5:09 AM
[…] From the glorious blog of Margaret and Helen comes this advice—too late for Election Day but still worth pondering: […]
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By: Election Day Filled with Intimidation, Finishes with DDT’s Demented Speech | Nel's New Day on November 4, 2020
at 2:57 AM
Hey, you called the orange yeast infection, thin? That ain’t right!
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By: Sarah on November 3, 2020
at 9:31 PM
Bless your hearts! Its been a ride, hasn’t it! I worked on getting people to vote for Joe. So did my entire family. Right now I’m exhausted. I think I can wait until morning to find out the tally. What I’ve seen so far says its too close to call and all the precincts have not yet reported. Good night, y’all!
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By: mageen in old virginny on November 3, 2020
at 8:41 PM
THANK YOU for the many missives of joy and common sense you have sent to us. You have been the highlight of any day you have written. If you can ever share more, you know you have a built-in audience that would be delighted to hear from you.
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By: Sue Katz on November 3, 2020
at 6:23 PM
Thank you! I really hope this isn’t your last post as you say what needs to be said. But if it is, I will surely miss your wit and wisdom. Thank you again.
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By: Gay on November 3, 2020
at 6:11 PM
Margaret and Helen, your words have kept me laughing and going for the last 4 years. Please stay with us and keep your blog going, regardless of the election outcome.
I have to believe that Joe comes out ahead tonight and in the coming days. Americans must know in their hearts that he’s the guy who can get us back on track to civility, empathy, strength of character and leadership. We need to regain our standing in the world as a country that cares for its citizens as well as those around the world.
While we anxiously watch the returns I know that you are both watching with us and hoping for the same result. That is a bit of comfort.
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By: Linda Bylow on November 3, 2020
at 6:08 PM
Your blogs are the highlight of my reading. I hope you keep writing this blog as long as you can. AND who knows, you might make it to the next election. This lovely dose of humor and sanity is most valued. Best to you and yours this coming year. Thanks so much for being so sassy, love it
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By: fets on November 3, 2020
at 2:37 PM
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You have been my favorite emails from the beginning of your posts. Today’s is both a real hoot and so totally true. Along with all your other fans, I wish you both good health, and the energy to put out an occasional post here and there if you can. Thank you for putting it out there for the past 4 years plus, and giving us something to keep us going through this horror. I mean it. Really!
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By: Lucy Smalls on November 3, 2020
at 2:14 PM
But I don’t have a Twitter account 😞 I have certainly enjoyed your messages, sorry this is the last one.
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By: C. Eddy on November 3, 2020
at 2:12 PM
See you at thanksgiving hopefully!
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By: crocksta on November 3, 2020
at 1:52 PM
As usual this makes my day and today of all days I certainly need to have it made. I’ve told fellow Democrats to “Vote Early and Vote Often”! I mean tRump did tell us to mail in our vote and then go vote in person. Maybe he said that because he was messing with the US Postal Service and wanted to make sure his supporters’ votes were counted. Or maybe he wanted his opponents to get arrested and/or have their votes not counted at all. Who knows? This old grandma would say “The Shadow Knows!” and if you’re as old as I am you’ll recognize that statement.
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By: Terry Waggle on November 3, 2020
at 1:16 PM
LOL. They’re great.
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By: ThugDog on November 3, 2020
at 1:10 PM
Thanks Helen and Margaret for this post and for the past 12 years I have been following your blog. I remember being prompted to visit by Andrew Sullivan when I was browsing one day on the HuffIngton Post back in 2008. I am glad I did. You gave me hours of reading pleasure. Regardless of what happens today, you have fought the good fight. You two are patriots. Thank you.
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By: Easier on November 3, 2020
at 12:54 PM
I hope she just means they probably won’t live until the next election, not that the blog is finished. If Biden doesn’t win, I don’t want to live until the end of the year! Except that….I broke a tooth last Thursday night, saw the dentist yesterday. I get the new crown on the 16th so I guess I had better hang around and chew on it. I told them I should have waited until Wednesday to come in, that got a chuckle!
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 4:44 AM Margaret and Helen wrote:
> Helen Philpot posted: ” Margaret this is probably it for us. Most likely > our last presidential election. It’s been a hell of a ride. We’ve always > voted, but nobody paid attention until Matthew put our words in a blog. It > started with that bitch Palin. What a hoot. Along the way” >
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By: Elizabeth Danz on November 3, 2020
at 12:54 PM
Thank you so much, Helen and Margaret! You’ve been my voice for a long time now. Please don’t leave us now.
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By: Cynthia M Shaler on November 3, 2020
at 12:20 PM
You two MUST stick around to see our first female president elected in 2024. Really! It just won’t be the same without you.
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By: NANCY CROCKER on November 3, 2020
at 11:34 AM
Love you sassy ladies! I voted for Biden as did my daughters. Sadly my elderly parents voted for IMPOTUS (again) and I am so disappointed and angry that I am currently not speaking to them. I just don’t get it, I thought they were good people. In my opinion anyone who votes for that asshat needs to have their head examined!
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By: Michele on November 3, 2020
at 11:29 AM
If you see an ad for trump he doesn’t pay unless you click on it. So CLICK CLICK CLICK!!! Thanks for letting me know there are others like me.
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By: Anonymous on November 3, 2020
at 11:11 AM
I hope this does not mean that you are retiring. You have made the last four year bearable many times and have certainly made me smile when nothing else did. I have already voted and encouraged all I know to vote… thank you for speaking out, thank you for being honest and bold! I hold out hope….
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By: Gloria on November 3, 2020
at 10:38 AM
You go, girls!
Onward.
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By: Sheila Morris on November 3, 2020
at 10:18 AM
I voted right after the polls opened this morning. I am hopeful that it is part of a blue wave to remove the scourge from the land.
Please don’t stop sharing your wisdom. We need the inspiration!
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By: jono51 on November 3, 2020
at 10:10 AM
I should start a new movement: White Husbands for Biden! There’s got to be more around than just me…
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By: bluzdude on November 3, 2020
at 9:53 AM
You two are the best! Pleas don’t ever stop sharing your thoughts and humor!
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By: Sylvia on November 3, 2020
at 9:50 AM
Thank you!
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By: gayjeg on November 3, 2020
at 9:43 AM
Great editorial, as always. As for this being most likely your last Presidential election, I sincerely hope not. You ladies HAVE to hang around at least until Harris or Warren becomes President. That said, keep preachin’ until God says he’s heard enough because your words are right on the money.
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By: Bill on November 3, 2020
at 9:41 AM
Been following this blog since Palin, and always gives me a lift.
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By: bigsurkate on November 3, 2020
at 9:32 AM
I have enjoyed your thoughts for awhile now. You are my role model for the next, hopefully, 20 years. Hugs to you both and thanks for all you have done to try to keep this nation sane! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!! Enjoy the jello! Love you both!
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By: Carolyn Helbert on November 3, 2020
at 9:30 AM
I hope you two receive the Kennedy Center Honors next year when the event will be attended by President Biden. The first time in four years that the event will actually be attended by a President
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By: TerryG on November 3, 2020
at 9:22 AM
NATIONAL TREASURES!!!
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By: Amy R on November 3, 2020
at 9:19 AM
OHMYGAWD, I’ve been handing out dem ballots to people who want them at the polls in Catawba, NC, There is a repub woman handing out thug ballots who refuses to wear a mask and is such a BITCH!! I asked her why she was not wearing a mask and she said it is because she is outside! She is in people’s faces all day long. I took my mask down for a minute while I was way away from people so I could see my phone and she said, “what about your mask??” in a really snotty childish way. Wanting to kill her I actually flipped her off. Yes, a 66-year-old woman flipped her off.
Sort of shame on me….
She is the perfect example of a trumpet. Loud, obnoxious and ignorant as can be,
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By: carolinaclaywomangmailcom on November 3, 2020
at 9:03 AM
I love hearing her call him “the orange yeast infection”!
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By: ellieindy on November 3, 2020
at 8:36 AM
Thank you for always putting a smile on my face with your frank honesty. We need to send that entire grifting family packing if we want to save our democracy.
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By: Sharon E. Cathcart on November 3, 2020
at 8:34 AM
Per the words of the Rush song “Free will,” “when you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.” A key reason the president won in 2016 is he convinced enough voters to stay home, as he won by only 100,000 votes spread across three states. Right now, it boggles my mind that the president of the United States is doing his level best to discredit the voting process. Not only is he not being presidential by ensuring and reassuring us the process is safe and secure, he is doing the opposite, even to the chagrin of folks in his own party.
So, the president does not want people who do not favor him to vote. And, if they do, he wants to make sure they are not all counted. I do not care what party is doing this, it is simply not right. So, please vote. I am obviously asking folks to vote for Joe Biden, who will try to bring us together. As former Secretary of Defense (under Trump) General James Mattis noted about Biden’s opponent, the president is not even trying to bring us together.
Keith
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By: Keith on November 3, 2020
at 8:32 AM
These words over the last year are better than any good mental health supports out there!
Please continue – fulsome thanks.
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By: Vinny on November 3, 2020
at 8:31 AM
Thank you ladies- I’ve loved your commentary and your acerbic, dead-on wit. I’m on my way to vote which I’ve done for over 40 years. It has never seemed so important!
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By: Robin Hallquist on November 3, 2020
at 8:31 AM
How sad that you think this is your last election. I hope Matthew will make sure your words live on after you both are gone.
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By: Shelley on November 3, 2020
at 8:23 AM
Thank you for keeping me sane during the last several years. Please continue.
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By: Christine Black on November 3, 2020
at 8:17 AM
Thank you for speaking our minds. Keep writing. I look forward to each and every post.
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By: Christine Lockmon (@BuildingALife) on November 3, 2020
at 8:09 AM
Nooooo. Please say you will keep writing. I beg you. I need you. We need you. Pray for peace as we navigate the coming days and weeks. Is a peaceful transition of power too much to ask? Dear God let us transition to Biden-Harris. Thank you for your informed and hilarious words. I have loved every post.
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By: Carol Poling on November 3, 2020
at 8:04 AM
Please don’t stop writing. I.have enjoyed your not so pithy comments immensely.
Hopefully Joe will bring normalcy back.
I’m sure the ensuing riots will give you plenty of observations in the days to come.
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By: Ilene F Silverman on November 3, 2020
at 8:03 AM
I have enjoyed your wisdom, humor and truthfulness over the years. Being a former Marine I luv how whatever comes up, comes out. Hope we both still here the next go around.
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By: Tony on November 3, 2020
at 7:54 AM
well said – as usual!
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By: TheSpoonMage on November 3, 2020
at 7:45 AM
You will be missed. You gave me smiles when I thought I could never smile. You gave me hope. I hope Americans do the right thing today too!
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By: Anonymous on November 3, 2020
at 7:37 AM
As bad as this 4 years have been, there has been so much good! You , Helen and Margaret, are some of the good. The blue wave is coming! Thanks for doing your part to lead the charge!
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By: Jill Nadel Laufer on November 3, 2020
at 7:26 AM
Ladies, I certainly hope this isn’t the last time I hear from you!! When I see you pop up in me email, a smile appears on my face and grin in my heart even before I open that darned thing! I’ve voted and everyone I know has voted and not for the asshat! Fingers crossed we can get back to just being Americans. Take care – Laura
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By: Anonymous on November 3, 2020
at 7:20 AM
If you retire, I’ll miss you deeply but I’ll understand. But no one says it like you do! Thank you and stay safe.
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By: Becca Huston on November 3, 2020
at 7:07 AM
I hope you continue blogging for quite a few more years! You have kept me sane and hopeful, two very important qualities. I voted from overseas, a month early, by registered mail, to a swing state. I hope it swings in the correct direction for all of us.
Thanks so much to both of you, and to Matthew who started you posting.
Love Nora
El mar., 3 nov. 2020 13:36, Margaret and Helen escribió:
> Helen Philpot posted: ” Margaret this is probably it for us. Most likely > our last presidential election. It’s been a hell of a ride. We’ve always > voted, but nobody paid attention until Matthew put our words in a blog. It > started with that bitch Palin. What a hoot. Along the way” >
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By: Nora Comiskey on November 3, 2020
at 7:06 AM
As always, you nailed. And reminded me of why I hope for better.
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By: janpriddyoregon on November 3, 2020
at 6:57 AM
Love it
Vern Hoppes
Stay safe and healthy
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By: Vern Hoppes on November 3, 2020
at 6:56 AM
I surely needed this today! I’m off soon to be an outdoor Election monitor. I will be more than ready to report anyone who is violating anyone else’s rights.
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By: Emilie on November 3, 2020
at 6:54 AM
It’s been a great ride with you ladies! When my wife first introduced me( a bald old white guy) to you I couldn’t believe you’d write anything I’d be interested in. I was wrong! I’ve always been liberal, even more so than my wife, but your observations were spot on and very entertaining! I’ll understand if you choose to ‘retire’ from posting, but will miss your honest and pointed statements. If not, thank you for lightening the burden of the orange crush on our souls. We love you and bless you for all you’ve done!
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By: Tom Perna on November 3, 2020
at 6:53 AM
As always, you nailed it. I have already cast my vote for Biden and there are three more family members voting this morning for Biden. Hoping this is the beginning of a “HUGE BLUE WAVE”.
Let’s send the ORANGE ASSHAT packing!
Love you ladies!
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By: Annie in Maine on November 3, 2020
at 6:45 AM
Good for you, Helen! If this Abomination, “wins” another election, this is likely the last presidential election any of us see. And his followers will line up ready to throw their babies into Moloch’s fire if he says they should, and are more than ready to kill, not love, their neighbors, as he smirks, and continues to pretend he is young. LOL!
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By: Ellie on November 3, 2020
at 6:45 AM