The Battleground Swing States 2024 . One thing to remember about 2020 vs 2024 numbers — 4 yrs of old trump voters have died off and 4 yrs of young pro-Roe liberal-leaning voters have come onto the rolls. Trump’s rallies are significantly smaller & fewer than 2016 & 2020; there’s far less yard signs up […]
The Battleground Swing States 2024
August 17th, 2024 · 43 Comments · Politics
Tags: Bob Casey·Hillary Clinton·Joe Biden·Josh Shapiro·Kamala Harris·Ruben Gallego·Tim Walz
The New Kamalot
July 31st, 2024 · 4 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
The events of Sunday July 21st 2024 into Monday the 22nd then all the days that followed reminded me and most of us politicos of the political ‘birth’ of Barack Obama in early 2008. Whether you experienced that on January 3rd when he won the Iowa caucus, or on the February 3rd Super Bowl weekend […]
Tags: Barack Obama·Beyonce·Ella Fitzgerald·Joe Biden·Kamala Harris·Louis Armstrong·Modern Family·Taylor Swift·will.i.am
Trump’s Losing his Mind
January 31st, 2024 · No Comments · Politics
. I hope everyone’s enjoying the heck out of the theater of the absurd that’s playing out on the national stage in the U.S. Diaper Don is losing his mind . . . and the cameras are rolling. We’re all going to witness over the next nine months [and beyond] this guy spinning more and […]
Tags: 14th Amendment·Alvin Bragg·Barack Obama·E. Jean Carroll·Joe Biden·Montreal Cognitive Assessment test·Nikki Haley·Seth Meyers·The Lincoln Project·Willie Geist
Why I Love Joe Biden
December 31st, 2023 · 35 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
First of all, he’s an Irish leprechaun, and I’m very pro Irish leprechaun. Second — he’s also an empath . . . as opposed to a sociopath. As he likes to say in his Irish way — “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” He’s smart, hard working, Gets Things […]
Tags: Amanda Gorman·Barack Obama·Chuck Schumer·Hakeem Jeffries·Joe Biden·Nancy Pelosi·Stuart Stevens·Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, the Grateful Dead and The Beat Generation
November 30th, 2023 · 28 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Music
. Why this Deadhead Beatnik Beatlemaniac loves Pop’s Princess I’ve been into Taylor Swift since a New York Times profile in 2008 talked about her confessional songwriting and use of social media — at the time, MySpace. (!) Her second album Fearless was set to come out (and would go on to win Album […]
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Vote Blue No Matter Who
June 30th, 2022 · 1 Comment · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
With the recent stacking of the Supreme Court and overturning of Roe vs. Wade and gun protections in New York, I was reminded that these events all happened because just enough people of the left spent the 2016 general election campaign trashing Hillary Clinton and either not voting or voting third party that an amoral […]
Tags: Bernie Sanders·Brian on YouTube etc.·Democratic Party·Elizabeth Warren·Hillary Clinton·Joe Biden·Supreme Court
Brian Meets Biden
December 31st, 2020 · 10 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
From Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy: Adventures in Politics 1980 – 2020 From the chapter — “Fun & Loving on the Campaign Trail 2020 — A Prankster’s Primary”. . The next day — Tuesday, February 4th, the day following the night of the Iowa caucus vote-counting debacle — I pulled off three rallies: Biden, Tulsi […]
Tags: Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy·Joe Biden·Joe Biden and Brian Hassett·New Hampshire primary 2020·Steve Schmidt
Things You Can Do Beyond Voting
October 14th, 2020 · 12 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
. No matter if you’re in a solid blue or solid red state — let alone a swing state! — every single vote that goes into the national kitty is one more voice — yours! — that history will record as voting against and putting an end to the former racist-in-chief. You want to feel […]
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Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy intro chapter
September 30th, 2020 · 16 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics
A lot of people got discouraged during 2016 — first the Berners supporting Sanders in the primary, then most of the nation with “the perfect storm” of the November electoral college disaster. Twice in my lifetime has this antiquated 1700s electoral college voting concept resulted in the loser of the vote becoming President. And both […]
Tags: Andrew Yang·Bernie Sanders·David Amram·Gary Snyder·George Walker·Granny D·Grateful Dead·Joe Biden·John Anderson·Locke McCorkle·Nancy Pelosi·Phil Lesh
Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy
February 29th, 2020 · 6 Comments · Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales
FRIDAY NIGHT DEBATE NIGHT Friday February 7th was the big nationally televised Democratic debate from Manchester. I tried every angle to get tickets, but even longtime plugged-in politicos told me they were shut out. Made me feel a smidge better. The obvious thing was to go to the DoubleTree Hotel in Manchester. Manchester’s the main […]
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