George Conway, ex-husband of Trump senior advisor KellyAnne, has created a website and group to call out Trump. It’s called “Anti-Psychopath PAC.”
Its first action was to create billboards on a mobile truck that circled the GOP convention in Milwaukee with a sign that said “Thanks for nominating a felon.”
It takes an insider to tell the truth. Conway is one of my personal heroes. He despises Trump, he loves Corgis.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Corgis good. Trump bad.
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Here’s the PAC’s website:
About the Anti-Psychopath PAC – Anti-Psychopath Political Action Committee (psychopac.org)
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Just joined and contributed.
Contributed to Kamala last night.
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I read that Kamala’s new campaign raised over $100 million in less than 24 hours.
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Wow!!!!
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One of the reasons why I have long supported Kamala Harris for President in 2024 is that she will not be all namby pamby about Trump. She will tell it as it is. The unvarnished and utterly ugly truth. And that is what it will take to win this election. No taking the high road. This is a street fight.
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I can’t wait to hear people say, “Madam President.”
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I just came across this disturbing survey. I suspect that readers of this blog are well-represented in this 1/3 figure.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/third-of-democrats-wish-donald-trump-had-been-killed/
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If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you would know that a great many of the commenters here expressed their outrage at the attempted assassination and relief that it failed.
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I expect that Chelsea Johnson is a troll.
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I would like to see Trump safe and secure in an institution for the criminally insane.
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As a research methodologist, I will try to be brief…
However, I’ll begin by saying anyone who wishes the assassin hadn’t missed is no better than those who support the attacks of Jan. 6.
The author states, “…this question came out as so statistically significant it relegated all other variables to irrelevance” (para. 4).
I wouldn’t even accept a statement like this from one of my dissertation students, and I address such misstatements when reviewing submissions for peer reviewed journals.
The statement suggests the author is comparing p-values to each other and then interpreting the p-values as if they were effect sizes. It’s not even unusual to see these issues in the work of otherwise very accomplished researchers, but both are wrong.
“Statistical significance” is so commonly overvalued and misunderstood in research that the American Statistical Society released a statement regarding p-values.
Even the some of the most widely used stats textbooks describe statistical significance incorrectly.
I’d also be interested in knowing more about the author’s sampling procedure for the snap poll, the construction of the items on the survey, and validation process used in constructing the survey itself.
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J. Nashville,
I totally agree. No one should celebrate that Trump was not assassinated. That would have been a tragedy for our country. It could have set off riots and civil disorder. We settle our differences with ballots, not bullets.
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Beautifully said, Nashville
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Chelsea,
That’s ridiculous.
No one on this blog expressed disappointment that Trump did not die.
I despise him. He curdles my blood.
But I want to see him lose in an election— by huge numbers.
I oppose Violence. End of story.
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Chelsea, are you a Trump troll?
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Chelsea, at least one person suggested that Trump should be kept physically safe in a very secure location.
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Yes. I suggested in institution for the criminally insane. Give him the Hannibal Lecter treatment.
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Schiff just endorsed Harris and spoke of the overwhelming support for her candidacy.
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Whenever I interact with tRump supporters/cultistas I gently remind them that they are supporting a CONVICTED FELON.
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“Heritage does such an incredible job. They’re going to lay the groundwork and detailed plans for exactly what our movement will do and your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America, and that’s coming.”
–Donald Trump, 2022, on Project 2025
So, Heritage published its plan for the new Trump maladministration, and it immediately got an enormous amount of bad press, so flexible-with-the-truth Donald Trump is now pretending he never heard of it.
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Pete Buttigieg would make an excellent Secretary of State. Yes, I know that he does not have enormous foreign policy experience, but again, he might well be the smartest guy in politics today, he’s a very quick study, he has the right values, he has military experience, and he speaks eight languages–English, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Dari, and French.
Compare with Donald Trump, who can’t speak one.
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I agree, Bob.
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O what shall befall to Hunter Biden conspiracy theories!
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I am pretty sure they are now in the same file cabinet as “Benghazi”. And “Swiftboat!” And “Willie Horton”.
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ROFL. Well said.
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Exactly. It’s the party of fabricated issues. Because they can’t run on what they actually want to do to ordinary people.
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I hope Joe pardons Hunter now that he is not running
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Agreed.
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Yes. After the election, though.
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YESSSSS!!!! Agree!!!!
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Maybe Hunter Biden will get a more reasonsable sentence now that there is no need to extract a pound of political flesh from Joe Biden.
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This is “retired teacher.” I’ve been shut out the past two days. Word Press must have updated its verification process, and in my old account that was over ten years old there was no path to verify that account. It kept me going around in circles. Even my son with a degree in networking couldn’t unlock it. I’m sure it may keep out some trolls and vendors. In any case I suppose I’m now a verified lollapalooza etc. poster.
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I tried to post a funny blog essay, for everyone’s amusement, but I suspect it didn’t post because it had profanity in the title. (If it does eventually post a second time, my apologies for posting twice.)
It is from Jeff Tiedrich’s blog “everyone is entitled to my own opinion”. I will post a link separately to the main page. Then click on the link to “chill the f*** out, we’ve got this; there’s no need for panic”.
Trigger warning: it includes media criticism. And a lot of profanity.
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https://www.jefftiedrich.com/
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NYCPSP,
I did not see that essay. It is not in moderation.
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Thanks, Diane. I think wordpress may have censored it because the URL link I posted had f**k in it. I would have changed the actual word to “f**k” if it was in the essay itself, but because the f-word was spelled out as part of the URL link directly to the essay, I couldn’t fix it. But if you go to the blog – http://www.jefftiedrich.com – it’s obvious which essay it is, since the f**k is pretty prominent in the title.
Jeff Tiedrich’s essay has so many f**ks that I won’t even try to copy and paste a section, he’s just sort of ranting about the press, which is how I felt yesterday. Today, I feel more optimistic with Kamala having the delegates and the Democrats in unity behind her.
So I am borrowing this from something I just read on DailyKos. Someone else wrote it, but it expresses my own feelings:
“Now that it is clear the Vice President all but has the nomination sewn up, the swiftness of the movement to her camp has shocked and delighted me today. Somehow the Democrats pulled off eliminating a huge liability and unified the party around the literal face of the future. In like 24 hours. Maybe we aren’t as bad at this as I thought.
I always say I hope to be wrong when my doominess and gloominess prevail, and boy am I thrilled to be proven oh-so-wrong this time. Yesterday I said I was out. That was incorrect. I am in. Very, very in for MVP, soon to be Madam President (shivers every time I think it). Let’s go.
The crow I am eating today, lightly braised in lemon butter sauce, is absolutely delicious. “
Happy to eat crow if Kamala continues to excite and can beat Trump! and h/t to “PaulDem”, whoever that is, who wrote exactly how I feel.
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Thanks. I stuck by Joe until all the party leaders—esp Pelosi—pulled out. I had to admit to myself that I worried whenever Biden was in front of a camera that he might have a gaffe or stumble.
I think Kamala is great. She will chew Trump up and spit him out if he dares to debate her. I don’t think he will.
I saw Trump and Vance trying to smear her tonight and it was pathetic. They said she’s not a patriot. She doesn’t love America. Horse manure. They say the U.S. is declining, failing. More horse manure.
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I agree.
I also believe Biden’s wisdom had a lot to do with why the Dems so quickly got behind Kamala. The Jeff Tiedrich link refers to it a bit — Biden waited until the RNC was over which was brilliant and he seemed to have quietly made sure that people would fall in line and endorse Kamala. It happened so fast that probably some of the people that planned to challenge her realized they would just look like spoilers.
Plus I love how the timing knocked the Republicans politicized grilling of the Secret Service off the news! The assassination is becoming old news and Republicans are hopping mad!
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Thought I’d post a snippet from Jeff Tiedrich’s essay “chill the f**k out, we’ve this, there’s no need for panic”:
“Joe Biden remains a master at doing politics. Dark Brandon dark-brandoned the s**t out of his passing of the torch. clearly, this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision. Joe had to have worked behind the scenes to shore up this much immediate support for Kamala. he made sure not one word of any this leaked. he timed the announcement of his decision so that Donny and the Republicans spent the entire convention running against the wrong candidate. and the pièce de résistance —
look, I didn’t want any of this to happen. Biden was my guy, and I was prepared to back Joe all the way to November and beyond. but, that said, I have to admit that last night I slept better than I have any time in the last month.
now let’s turn our attention to all the people who need to f**k all the way off.”
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Kamala Harris quote: “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds — predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain,” she said. “So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
That’s a good start; if Harris and Trump have a debate, she should bring brass knuckles, a cudgel, a taser, mace, and, for good measure, a flame thrower. You can’t show any mercy for a vicious felon and demagogue like Trump. Vance is even worse because he’s a smarter Trump and only 39.
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Just to be clear, I was using hyperbole and exaggeration, I am not calling for any kind of violence or physical mayhem. That’s for any trolls who might want to twist my words into some kind of actual physical threat.
Harris will mop up the floor with Trump with her words and superior intelligence.
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agree
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I thought that being married to one’s children was against the law. From the geniuses at Project 2025:
(1) Facebook
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