Notices by Mats Holberg (holberg@mstdn.social), page 2

So, Ethel Kennedy DID live to see the son named for her husband endorse not only a Republican but a Republican even former Republican presidents won’t endorse.

RFK Jr has just made it a whole lot easier for all the other black sheep in the Kennedy family.

They can live it up all they like and still get nowhere close to his disgrace.

I missed Gus Walz last night—had to go out before Tim’s speech—but he seems so on point with this convention’s theme: Joy. What a delightful young man.

Republicans have never had much starpower. But the lack of it is looking really stark by contrast in Chicago this week.

Democrats see something like this and just think, oh, how nice, some people got married.

FROM HIS OWN SIDE. That seems like a pretty important subhead concept.

The racist calls are coming from inside the racist house at the racist party he’s co-hosting.

Banning a book is basically telling a kid its ideas are—prima facie—stronger than yours. That you need more time to better establish the sanctity of a less sensible ideology.

And you know you’re dealing with a culture of indoctrination when there’s an automatic assumption that reading something is the same thing as believing it.

Because they use books for the purpose of instilling ideas—not interrogating them.

An hour since doors opened and it’s really starting to fill up.

Harris won’t inflate crowd sizes because she’s not an insecure lying putz.

I grew up in a Los Angeles of the ‘70s and ‘80s where it was very normal to have undocumented housekeepers, nannies, gardeners, etc. Because they’d work for far less than their labor’s market value.

And what’s always driven me crazy about the scapegoating—aside from the racism and ignoring how much they pay in taxes—is that it ignores HOW MUCH this country has benefited from decades and decades of exploited labor. That’s got to be a pretty big number if you add it all up.

Yet another way Trump is WEIRD:

Why isn’t he taking every opportunity—as the infinitely smarter, tougher, whiter, maler genius of statesmanship—to debate the dumb-as-a-rock Black-Asian woman who was either a DEI hire or slept her way to the top?

Any normal candidate in such an uneven matchup would want as many debates as possible.

This is hilarious and awesome. Finally, a Democratic candidate who doesn’t dance and snap in a gang fight like it’s WEST SIDE STORY.

Harris is bringing her brass knuckles—and a jaunty laugh.

Better headline than most I’ve seen. Such a little bitch. It’s like he’s running home to mommy.

My father isn’t a bad person. But he’s a complete narcissist committed to his carefully constructed narratives.

It’s exhausting. The sum total of our relationship has always been my choosing whether to accommodate or battle the self-centered prism through which he interacts with the world, then processing how it’s damaged me.

I’ve cut him off for years at a time. And I guess I’m saying this in case you need someone to tell you it’s okay to end ANY toxic relationship.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a44178122/family-estrangement-cut-off-parents/

One of the metrics I keep thinking about is so basic—but speaks so strongly to the fundamental difference in the way each treats every American.

If there’s a disaster, we know for a fact Biden’s messaging and actions will focus solely on the welfare of its victims. We also know for a fact Trump’s messaging and actions will be entirely filtered through a focus on himself.

That’s what we’re voting for. Underlying values that inform staffing and direction of crisis management—and everything else.

And for fuck’s sake, if Joe isn’t able to do it for an entire term, Kamala can.

This election isn’t about deciding which party’s candidate will do a better job. It’s an ideological battle between democratic and undemocratic ideals from which there may be no return in our lifetimes.

When it occurs to you that your Uber photo is like six years old.

And that you looked a lot younger six years ago haha.

Just got in the back of Uber Nissan Sentra that looks and feels HUGE compared to the original Sentras I remember because a high school friend had one.

40 years later, kinda like it packed on the middle age pounds.

Driver kinda terrifying me because he keeps his phone in a cupholder down by the gearshift and keeps looking down for extended periods of time to see where he’s supposed to be going.

Will accept thoughts and prayers even if they’re useless.

My favorite thing about prayer is that if something goes your way, God did something good for you he wouldn’t have maybe otherwise done. And if something doesn’t go your way, he’s not doing something good for you because reasons but you don’t know what they are. Amazing system!