I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

Best of luck at the polls Ruth!

Ruth, happy election work and I'm loaning you my stamina ( I know, sometimes questionable ) because it will be another scorcher outside and I don't plan on needing much to sit around in air conditioning.

Hope your day goes well, Ruth!

I haven't been listening to the hearings, but have heard a few summaries of what's being said. My thoughts go back to the time that NFL quarterback Colin Kapernick took a knee during the National Anthem in peaceful protest of racial inequality which started a tsunami of other players doing the same. Teams didn't know the right way to address the matter. I'm in Pittsburgh Steeler country, and for one game their players all decided not to come on to the field for the National Anthem. This created such a backlash towards a team infamous for its legions of fans all over the U.S. The news stories started showing some fans taking their massive collections of Steelers memorabilia and throwing it all in the trash, burning it, doing away with the room in their house decorated in all things Steelers, and claiming they would never watch another Steelers game, ever.

All over not standing for the Star Spangled Banner.

And yet. Many of these same people are okay with the attempted violent overthrow of the Capital and the domestic terrorists trying to disrupt the peaceful transition of power? WTF????

I would like to see the hearings change some minds of Trump ass kissers. Anyone still following Fox is certifiably mental in my book.

Dh and I live in Trump country and riding on some back roads last week we saw a two story house with a great big banner that said, “Trump Lost. Get Over It." We both laughed and cheered. Such sentiments are not often publicly displayed around here.

I think the Trump Thanksgiving was usually celebrated in the dining room (with audience of sycophants) of Mar-A-Lago rather than in private quarters. Not your normal folksy tradition. Not sure how much contact DD has had with deranged dad since they moved to FL. Talk about choking down dinner in that presence.

Loved the meme even if not what it represented. If he continues to spew his rhetoric about the hearings, he will supply the rope for his own hanging. Colbert's monologue showed footing of some of his infamous utterings.

Well Divine and Betrayal. I'm not surprised if the Trumps don't do Normal Rockwell at Thanksgiving. Trump thanks no one, at any time. Thankful people have a sense of humbleness, and feel enough humility all the time to be able to give sincere thanks for the bounties of life. Trump thnks he is the bounty. No one is as good as worshiping Trump as he is towards himself. Thanksgiving is too much about others and not enough about Trump. So, zero interest to him for any celebration where someone or something else is celebrated.

I hope soon he will have less and less to celebrate -- as these hearings go on. I hope we are told later why the hearing for tomorrow was put off till Thursday. Probably will turn out to not be a big deal at all -- or a stunning bombshell. I will await the outcome. It seems that a good deal of them are hitting home in large part. They are fairly revealing although a lot of the time I feel fairly famaliar with the information presented. I do think plenty of people are shocked now. I have to remember that time as something that I knew and felt all along -- so some relations are not new to me, but sound more like confirmations. Some people though were likely less into pollitics and moved on waiting for developments -- I think many of them in the middle -- willing to believe, but realizing that more information was needed. Those are the ones getting the surprise now.

I think the Reps. are feeling a GREAT pinch and know that McCarthy really messed it up for them and they will be stuck with that gigantic mistake --likely never erase that stain. Then again, their could have been confusion, but hard to shild and hide the truth. It tends to stand alone where lies needing constant fuel don't survive.

Makes perfect sense, something MAGATS have no comprehension of!

Thanks great news miriandra!

I have to PVR the hearings It is just a little too early in the a.m. here for me. These days (PVR'd) I have been watching "Watergate:Blueprint for a Scandal" "Gaslit" (Watergate) and the Jan 6 hearings. I think my head might explode.

I just have a sinking feeling that the DOJ will do squat. There will be "insufficient" evidence to proceed beyond fact finding. I do not understand the fear of indicting a former president. If a crime was committed then indict. Really -- if Trump had shot someone dead on 5th Avenue they would not indict? What level of crime has to rise to the threshold of being indictable?

I would like to be fly on the wall at Mara-Lago. Trump must be having amazing tantrums.

LOL, cardplayer!

I survived my 12 1/2 hours of working the polls. It was actually very interesting and civil. There were no big contested races or hot button measures, so the crowd was steady but not overwhelming. I was impressed by the amount of planning and safety measures that take place (in North Dakota anyway). I don't know that anyone who actually works at an election would ever be able to think that it was corrupt, or be corrupted.

Interestingly, in talking with some of the Republican workers (both parties have an equal number, everything done is observed by, and signed off by a member of both parties), the big problem for the more mainstream Republicans is a nasty wildly right-wing group who is trying to wrest power from the more moderate wing. They are more worried about them an they are of any Democrat.

Glad all went well working at the polls Ruth. Interesting that main stream republicans are worried about the right wing crazies.

Speaking of crazies…

Well, obviously cardplayer -- you are unaware of the possible effects of diet pepsi. I will forever be amazed at the Reps. They are so transparent, but you might not know it when they start spewing things like Guiliani trying to defend his drinking habits. The average person ( I consider myself one of those -- you know, part of the NORMAL group ) would likely easily accept that anyone who was a drinker of any amt. might easily choose to imbibe on an election day/night. That to me would be quite normal -- in fact to do so during evening hours even more understandable. So Rudy claiming Diet Pepsi -- so ludicrous it is laughable.

Reps. have done this about many things. To me, most of them no longer make much sense at all and it just mystifyies me that they seem to think they will get away with convincing people they are upright, stalwart Constitutional defenders and nothing else. Patriots of the highest order. I think they are deeply concerned about 1/6 and the information that is turning up. I read on the way here ( so far and I'm keeping fingers crossed ) there have been plenty of people tuning into those hearings and Fox is getting trounced. The evidence of wrong-doing on the Loon's part and those of very high up people around him is something that is and has a trail in recordings of video evidence and email evidences -- so they all should be extremely nervous. If it is this bad now when we have barely gotten a good start into the hearings and you can finish that sentence.

I'm hoping this is and will be what I was hoping for -- a bridge for those who couldn't or didn't keep up like those of us who follow closely as much of the workings of our government as we can, always.

They are insidious , like fleas.