Dirty Laundry

General 4 Minutes

We all know the critters in Washington DC have plenty of dirty laundry, but that’s not the type I am discussing here.  This is about real stains and how to clean them.  After all, life’s messy…let’s clean it up!  The following list is SOME of the stains and the removal tips I saw on the American Cleaning Institute’s (ACI) website. 

Disclaimer: I didn’t even know we HAD an American Cleaning Institute. (LOL)

General Tips

How to remove stains from clothes

  1. Deal with it as early as possible. The less time a stain has to soak in, the easier it will be to remove, although there are ways to remove old stains out of clothes as well.
  2. Pre-treat with a stain remover, then let it soak in.
  3. Launder according to the fabric care instructions. Regular stains should come out in cold water but for extra dirty clothing or very tough stains, use the warmest setting safe for the fabric. If the stain remains, repeat the steps above. Do not put it in the dryer until the stain is removed.

Blood

Fresh Stains

  1. Soak in cold water (do not use hot water as it will set blood stains).
  2. Launder. 

Dried Stains

  1. Pretreat or soak in warm water with a product containing enzymes.
  2. Launder. 

 NOTE: If stain remains, rewash using a bleach safe for fabric.

Chocolate

  1. When the stain strikes, gently scrape off any excess chocolate.
  2. Once you get the item home, soak it in cool water.
  3. Then pretreat with a prewash stain remover.
  4. Launder in the hottest water that’s safe for the fabric. 

NOTE: If stain remains, rewash using a bleach safe for fabric.

Coffee or Tea

  1. Sponge or soak stain in cool water.
  2. Pretreat with prewash stain remover, liquid laundry detergent, liquid detergent booster or paste of powder laundry product and water.
  3. Launder using sodium hypochlorite bleach, if safe for fabric, or oxygen bleach. (Note: Older stains may respond to pretreating or soaking in a product containing enzymes, then laundering.)

Dairy Products

  1. Pretreat or soak stains using a product containing enzymes.
  2. Soak for at least 30 minutes or several hours for aged stains.
  3. Launder.

Grass

  1. Pretreat or soak in a product containing enzymes.

NOTE: If stain persists, launder using sodium hypochlorite bleach, if safe for fabric, or oxygen bleach.

Grease or Oil

Light Stains

  1. Pretreat with prewash stain remover, liquid laundry detergent or liquid detergent booster.
  2. Launder using hottest water safe for fabric.

Heavy Stains

  1. Place stain face down on clean paper towels. Apply cleaning fluid to back of stain.
  2. Replace paper towels under stain frequently.
  3. Let dry, rinse. Launder using hottest water safe for fabric.

Ink

  1. Sponge the area around the stain with rubbing alcohol or cleaning fluid before applying it directly on the stain.
  2. Place stain face down on clean paper towels. Apply alcohol or cleaning fluid to back of stain. Replace paper towels frequently.
  3. Rinse thoroughly. Launder.

Alternate Method:

  1. Place stain over mouth of a jar or glass; hold fabric taut.
  2. Drip the alcohol or cleaning fluid through the stain so ink will drop into the container as it is being removed.
  3. Rinse thoroughly. Launder.

NOTE: Some inks in each of the following categories _ ballpoint, felt tip, liquid- may be impossible to remove.

Ketchup

  1. Remove any excess ketchup with a spoon or knife, but be careful not to rub it into the fabric.
  2. If the garment is washable, remove the garment as soon as possible and run cold water through the stain from the backside to force the stain out of the clothing.

 Note: Avoid dabbing at it as this can spread the stain. 

Mildew

  1. Launder stained items using a bleach safe for fabric and hottest water recommended for fabric.

 NOTE: Badly mildewed fabrics may be damaged beyond repair.

Paint

Water-based Paint

  1. Rinse fabric in warm water while stains are still wet.
  2. Launder.

 NOTE: Once paint is dry, it cannot be removed.

Oil-based Paint and Varnish

  1. Use the same solvent the label on the can advises for a thinner.
  2. If not available, use turpentine.
  3. Rinse.
  4. Pretreat with prewash stain remover, bar soap or laundry detergent.
  5. Rinse and launder.

Wine

  1. Sponge the stain with cool water or soak it in cool water for about 30 minutes.
  2. Pretreat with a prewash stain remover.
  3. Launder; if safe for the fabric, add chlorine bleach to the wash.

For more stain removal tips for specific stains, please see their website:

https://www.cleaninginstitute.org/cleaning-tips/clothes/stain-removal-guide

NOTE: While I was researching this open, these lyrics, from Don Henley’s Dirty Laundry, kept running through my mind…

“Dirty Laundry”

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something
Something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor
But I wound up here
I just have to look good
I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

(Chorus)
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em all around

We got the bubble headed
Bleached blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation
Is the head dead yet
You know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry

You don’t really need to find out
What’s going on
You don’t really want to know
Just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
(Chorus)
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers
In everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done
We haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry

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        1. I can’t possibly remember the number of times I’ve danced to that one! LOL – I knew there were other songs of his that I liked but couldn’t remember the names so I went looking. “The End of the Innocence” (with Bruce Hornsby)was another good one but I did NOT know this!!!

          Excerpt: “The “Tired old man that we elected king” is a reference to US president Ronald Reagan. There are a lot of political overtones in the song, as Henley strongly opposed Reagan’s agenda.”

          https://www.songfacts.com/facts/don-henley/the-end-of-the-innocence

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          1. you made me find my best of Don Henley cd…LOL..
            members of the Heartbreakers (tom petty) played with him on that cd–the drummer Stan Lynch and guitarists Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell…GREAT MUSIC

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              3. funny…especially as a biker…
                tim allen, john travolta, ray lolita…
                4 friends who ahve bikes decide to take a cross country trip–run into bad biker dudes…but it’s funny

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    1. Because the current pRESIDENT is a pedophile.

      The correct thing to do in such a case is

      to force US citizens to accept pedophilia…

      After which we’ll work on incest … it was good enough for Egyptian Royalty!

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              1. i used to wear them…then go out and make mud pies–i liked to bake even way back when…LOL
                mom would get furious with me…but she cleaned them up, put them on me and let me go out to play.

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              2. That’s why I love white … cleans up so easily.

                Enjoyed your Open … I use HOT water with clorax (cold with colors and unstained) … ol’ school here. Gr/grandmother said clorax didn’t work as well unless water was hot!

                Anyway, the gowns have to be 100% cotton… which seems to be disappearing …

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        1. Good Morning Filly!

          At least ignored. I believe both boys were abused by their Dad. Explains why first wife left home with all 3 children, including an infant, in such a hurry, that she ran a Stop sign, causing collision – death of herself and infant.

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      2. WADR, PR, what he said is accurate, considering that a Constitutional Republic is a form of “democratic governance,” but, as you say, NOT a “democracy.” They’ve also done the same with the Democrat Party, calling it the “Democratic Party.” Misleading wordsmithing again!

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          1. I’m just now watching Tucker from last night – he MUST stop calling the US a democracy but I’ve e-mailed them multiple times about that and posted on his FB page as well. He’s still saying it!

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  12. unelected governor of NY tells Trump and other Republicans to leave the state…Zeldon responded
    FTA

    This is reason enough to toss Kathy Hochul out of office November 8. I’m not going anywhere. I’m a lifelong New Yorker, born and raised. I’m going to stay and fight to Save Our State from the continued rule of the most arrogant, power-hungry, elitist Governor in America. pic.twitter.com/xQaGHJvIC9

    — Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) August 26, 2022

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/08/26/ny-gov-hochul-tells-republicans-to-get-out-of-town-n618472

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  15. good questions and analysis…
    FTA
    Based on my education, training, and experience, there is more than enough probable cause to believe that the DOJ and FBI lied or lied by omission in this affidavit violating 18 USC 242 if not more.

    This affidavit must be unsealed immediately with only minimal redactions.

    These are the questions that need answers.

    Did the DOJ and FBI disclose Trump’s ongoing negotiation with the National Archives and the cooperation with Trump?

    What were the exigent circumstances requiring a search warrant issuance when some lesser means were available?

    Why wasn’t safe listed on the places to be searched? Was the safe mentioned in the affidavit? If not, bringing a safecracker along shows intention to search beyond the scope of the warrant.

    Did the DOJ and FBI judge shop to get a sympathetic judge? I would argue the FBI waited for this magistrate to be the duty judge. This magistrate should have recused himself because of his prior recusal in a Trump matter.

    Did the DOJ and FBI mislead the magistrate, alleging crimes committed by the President without saying that a sitting President categorically is exempt?

    Was the magistrate misled as to the dual purpose of this warrant?

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/the_raid_on_maralago_a_desperate_act_by_the_deep_state.html

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      1. EXACTLY!
        protecting their agents from WHAT EXACTLY???
        they “have to protect” their agents names…from….??????
        unlawful prosecution or LAWFUL prosecution? from the rest of us finding out the same fibs are involved that were involved in other “get trump” schemes?

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  16. differing views as to whether or not the debt forgiveness will be tax free…
    FTA
    Many questions are being asked about the legality of Biden’s ability to forgive college debt by executive order. There is no doubt, however, that the tax code can be altered only by an act of Congress. There were so many short sales during the ’08 recession that Congress and the IRS did impose a temporary moratorium on taxing debt forgiveness. Not so for the state of California, which, of course, taxes debt forgiveness as well as capital gains.

    My CPA said she thinks Biden said the new forgiveness would be tax-free. I reminded her that the tax code is made by Congress, not by the president — as are all other laws. If, however, Biden truly intends on ordering his gathering army of IRS agents to not enforce the law against politically valuable individuals, then our republic is in serious trouble.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/left_unsaid_about_college_debt_forgiveness.html

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  17. interesting point brought up @ tcth

    Jenevive
    Jenevive
    August 27, 2022 8:51 am

    Something that should be pointed out (by the news or anyone else)
    with regards to the classified documents at MAL. POTUS didn;t
    follow tradition so when he LEFT on Jan20 and ARRIVED back
    in FL on that day he was STILL POTUS for like about an hour
    so anything in his possession at that time he had the power
    to declassify. so when they arrive at his house he was still
    President then they had to try and get them back..

    But they want people to believe he took them with him
    when he left but since he left as POTUS and still had
    legal authority to declassify ANYTHING they were;t
    classified when he took them with him.

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  20. ” … If, however, Biden truly intends on ordering his gathering army of IRS agents to not enforce the law against politically valuable individuals, then our republic is in serious trouble.”

    Understatement of the … some of us believe our Republic is hanging on by a thread.

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    1. true…but it signals some direction for MAGA to attack this…and IF those who got loan forgiveness have to pay taxes on it? they ain’t gonna like that

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      1. I read somewhere while he was still ‘pondering’ how much forgiveness ,,,

        ONLY IT degrees were being considered (didn’t know IT was a degree 😉 )

        If true, they won’t care …

        Then there’s the business about being able to gift someone up to $13/14,000 a year tax-free (for them). By forgiving only $10,000 of the loan, it can be tax-free. Perhaps?

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        1. but the executive branch has no power over giving money. if congress approves a blanket amount i think he can decide how much erbody gets but he can’t unilaterally decide to spend taxpayer’s monies—separation of powers, no? they wouldn’t let Pres Trump reallocate money WITHIN the defense budget to build the wall

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          1. Congress is supposed to be the one to declare war …

            Who authorized DoD to send weapons and “experts” (boots on the ground actually) to Ukraine? Wasn’t Congress .. war by ‘proxy’ is still WAR … and US has been doing for decades. We’re at war with Syria…boots on the ground and several mil bases there. That’s what USG wants on Taiwan … Mil base

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    1. I’m not seeing hardly ANY butterflies this year – same for the Starlings (not even one!) and the blackbirds, which I did not miss at all! The male woodpecker was back yesterday and I’m still seeing an occasional Oriole and hummer – I expect they will be gone soon. Much lower temps predicted for next week, and into the 50’s at night.

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      1. we still have tons of hummers…no orioles at all for s long time. but yesterday we saw a bright yellow finch on the railing…the hummers drove him off…lol…plenty of peckers around…LOL

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        1. Ah! Gold Finch! I want them back so bad….I need to put in another Red Bud tree, which they love. Mine died the first full winter I was here. I saw a couple of them a few days ago but all the other finches chased them away. Plus, I no longer have a thistle feeder out, which is what they like best.

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  31. EXCERPT: “This is a political and subversive word created and promoted by the establishment as a major key to formulate and channel the public mind. It has more than saturated the public conscience. Very “intellectual” people spout this word assuming that it means human freedom and liberty.

    The truth and purpose of this word is for a cover and disguise for fascism and socialism. This word is the workhorse of the American propaganda ministry. Every person is taught this word, from politicians to school children. The government indoctrination centers (also known as schools) and the corporate media use it religiously. Politicians love its sound. It is one of President Barack Obama’s favorite words.

    It was an important word to Hitler and Joseph Goebbels.

    What is this word? It’s “Democracy.”

    Let’s play a little game. See how many times you hear this word in a day from the elites, from the media and from your friends. Six; a dozen, 20 or more?

    The U.S. was founded as a Republic. When asked what type of government they had created, Benjamin Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” We could not. Our republic has been transformed into a democracy.

    Democracy is an esoteric belief system that manipulates the people in such a way that all power flows to the state. As with pure dictatorships, power flows from the top down.

    Democracy implies freedom in the public’s mind while power and wealth is constantly channeled to the Federal government. Human liberty is regressively crushed under the one simple word, “democracy.”

    Democracy is a political word that is embraced by all political parties and all politicians under many labels in every country of the modern world. It is a cover and a facade for communism, socialism, fascism, for class warfare, for the exploitation and manipulation of minorities against stability, cultural heritage and private property. (By the way; communism, socialism and fascism are all equal. Don’t be fooled by claims that one is a right wing and another is a left wing philosophy. They all transfer power to the state. The difference is simply semantics.)

    When politicians utter the word democracy, they are using a code word that signifies their total allegiance to the state. They are using mass hypnosis to manipulate the people against human liberty.”

    https://personalliberty.com/deceptive-word-english-language/

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        1. When I was looking for a p/t job here, I talked to Family Dollar and they required a drug test. I refused and told them I would take a drug test when people on welfare had to be tested. This is BS!!!!

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  35. The US government is hiring 87,000 new IRS agents to make sure more of its citizens’ money goes to Ukraine, where parliamentarians just voted to give themselves a 70% pay raise financed by international aid https://t.co/HQzMXVy3sA pic.twitter.com/b6B9jUgoWr

    — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) August 26, 2022

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  41. My sister sent me a link to the FB video, posted yesterday by the Global Freedom Movement but CHD also has it, with a transcript included.

    EXCERPT: “On August 20, a compelling line-up of international speakers traveled to Nuremberg to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of The Nuremberg Code. Now of all times, in its jubilee year, this achievement of mankind is facing the greatest hardship since it was written. WATCH the historical event REPLAY here (from Monday 22th August).

    Speakers include CHD President Mary Holland, Holocaust Survivor & Public Advocate for Human Rights Vera Sharav, CHD Africa Executive Director Shabnam Palesa Mohamed, Dr. Tess Lawrie, Martin Michealis, Steffi Bresnik, Rolf Kron + more.”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/eu-issues/vera-sharav-unless-all-of-us-resist-never-again-is-now-75th-anniversary-of-the-nuremberg-code/

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  43. Entire Article @ FB: “Several federal agencies have no system in place to monitor whether remote workers are actually clocking in for the job—a fact one Republican senator said is “unacceptable and baffling” as the Biden administration pushes to expand telework options for its growing number of federal workers.

    Four federal agencies told the Washington Free Beacon they have no specific oversight of remote employees: the Department of the Interior, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Housing and Urban Development. The agencies said their usual productivity measurements are adequate to track employees who shifted to remote work at the start of the pandemic. Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.) received a similar response from the Department of Labor when he asked about the agency’s telework policies—and said this justification is “wholly inadequate and non-responsive.”

    “Taken together, this evasiveness does not inspire confidence that the Biden administration even cares whether the federal workforce is, in fact, working while remote,” Burr wrote in an August letter to the Office of Personnel Management, which manages federal telework policies.

    Burr justified his push for transparency on telework policies by citing a Free Beacon report in June that found at least a quarter of remote employees at the Department of Health and Human Services failed to log on to their agency’s software suite, which includes their email, video conference calls, and other applications needed to perform remote work. HHS did not respond to letters from Burr nor a Free Beacon request for comment on how it plans to address the lack of activity from remote workers.

    The Biden administration this year has pushed to make lenient pandemic telework policies permanent as agencies prepared to return to the office. The White House plan is backed by House Democrats, who in June advanced a bill that would require agencies to notify Congress and the Office of Personnel Management if they want employees to return to the office.

    The Free Beacon reached out to all 15 federal agencies about their telework accountability policies. The Department of Energy directed requests to the Office of Personnel Management. A spokesman for the State Department told the Free Beacon the department has a range of tools to assess workers who fall short of expectations or engage in misconduct regardless of whether those employees are in office or work remotely. The remaining nine agencies did not respond to requests for comment.

    Kiran Ahuja, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, said in a July subcommittee hearing that she was unaware of the Free Beacon report on HHS remote work but said she would look into the matter. She added that expanded telework can “enhance productivity.” Her office has yet to respond to follow-up questions Burr sent in August and did not respond to a request for comment from the Free Beacon.

    As remote work grew more popular since the start of the COVID pandemic, companies deployed technology to track employees’ online behavior through their emails, browser activity, and use of other online work software. A survey of 1,250 employers in the United States last year found that 60 percent of respondents use some version of this online monitoring software for remote workers—and another 17 percent were considering adopting one. Roughly 15 percent of the federal government’s 2.1 million employees worked remotely last month, according to a Labor Department survey.

    The leaked HHS memo tracked the online activity of remote employees through their Microsoft accounts and virtual private network. Burr said the Department of Education is the only agency that when requested provided these data, which showed that employees averaged seven Microsoft Teams calls per day. But the other five agencies that responded to the Free Beacon and Burr said the data are unnecessary to track productivity.

    Nearly half of federal employees worked remotely in 2020 when then-HHS chief of staff Brian Harrison commissioned a report on online activity at his agency after he noticed poor office attendance and overall productivity. A whistleblower later leaked the memo to the Functional Government Initiative, which shared the report with the Free Beacon. Harrison said other agencies need to measure this online activity, which he fears may show similar results.

    “The American people deserve complete transparency on whether they have been paying thousands of federal employees billions of dollars not to work,” Harrison told the Free Beacon.

    The Internal Revenue Service, which is set to more than double its workforce through President Joe Biden’s climate and tax bill, did not respond to requests for comment on how it monitors remote employees.

    Peter McGinnis, the communications director for the Functional Government Initiative, said he hopes to see Congress hold HHS accountable for its incompetence amid the pandemic. “Shockingly, the federal agency directly responsible for responding to the global pandemic appears to have rarely, if ever, been working at full strength,” McGinnis told the Free Beacon.”

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    1. EXACTLY!!
      you call the IRS during tax season and you never get a response. i waited for 5 months for a refund, when i sent in my return in February! this is all bullshit–pay people NOT to work, not to be productive, but lazy mooches!!
      who have top of the line benefits and protections.

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  44. IF you still believe polls…..which I don’t.

    From FreeBeacon: “The 2022 election grows more mysterious by the day. Republicans enter this cycle with the wind at their backs: President Biden is unpopular, voters say we are in a recession, Democratic majorities are razor-thin, and midterms favor the opposition party. The issue set—inflation, border security, crime, and the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan—is well-suited for Republican candidates. Many Democrats are retiring. GOP voters are enthusiastic. And did I mention the president is unpopular?

    Yet Democrats are increasingly bullish about their electoral prospects. They have closed the gap with Republicans on the congressional generic ballot and lead the GOP for the first time this year. They are even or tied with Republicans in (admittedly spotty) polling averages of seven marquee Senate races. Since June 24, when the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and restored abortion law to the political sphere, Democrats have outperformed their expected margins in special elections. The reversal of Roe has mobilized an important Democratic constituency: voters, especially women, with high levels of educational attainment. On August 2, Kansans dealt pro-life forces a setback by defeating a referendum that would have forbidden state judges from reading abortion rights into the state constitution. On August 23, Democrat Pat Ryan defeated Republican Marc Molinaro in a closely watched congressional special election in New York. Ryan staked his campaign on preserving abortion rights. Molinaro focused on inflation. Voters had a clear-cut choice between the two parties’ messages. Abortion won.

    Suddenly, the political class is revising its expectations for the fall. “Red Wave Looks More Like a Ripple,” says the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. “Democrats sense a shift in the winds, but it may not be enough,” says the New York Times. “Democrats’ Outlook for Midterm Elections Brightens After New York Win,” says the Wall Street Journal. The Journal‘s op-ed page says the GOP has an abortion problem. The problem? Republicans have no idea what to say about abortion. Some are reticent, some are all over the place, and others support restrictions that go against public opinion. The Democrats are free to define the landscape and press the attack that Republicans will take away women’s rights. It’s a replay of past Democratic accusations that the GOP will cut entitlements such as Medicare or Social Security—except this entitlement is sexual, personal, and not a question of dollars and cents. This summer, Democrats have spent tens of millions of dollars on pro-choice television ads targeting Republicans. Why? Because it works.

    There may be more behind the changing dynamics of this election than falling gas prices and abortion rights. Typically, midterm results depend on a president’s approval rating. If that were the case this year, Democrats would be running behind expectations. As it stands, Democrats are running ahead of Biden’s approval rating in the congressional generic ballot, in Senate polling, and in special elections. Voters are not translating their disapproval of Biden into disgust with Democrats in general. They are not factoring Biden into their down-ballot calculations. They have tuned him out.

    Jeff Bell, the late Republican consultant, wrote an essay 22 years ago that resonates today. Called “The Politics of Bifurcation,” Bell’s article tried to explain why primary voters in both the Democratic and Republican parties during the 2000 election cycle were more interested in a candidate’s character than in political ideology. The reason, Bell argued, was that voters held a “bifurcated” view of the Clinton presidency: They disapproved of Clinton’s personal conduct but applauded his job performance. Hence, they elevated candidates who displayed honor and integrity over candidates who proposed major policy changes.

    That helped figures like John McCain, George W. Bush, and Bill Bradley, and hurt the politician with the closest ties to Clinton the man: Vice President Al Gore. “Without the bifurcation,” Bell wrote in the March 13, 2000, issue of The Weekly Standard, “the Republicans would have far less chance than they do of retaking the White House, given the positive economic and social trends over which Bill Clinton and Al Gore preside.” The split decision on Clinton put Bush in the Oval Office—with an assist from the Supreme Court.

    A generation ago, voters differentiated between their views of the president’s personality and of his job performance. The Democrats picked up five House seats one month before the Republican-controlled House of Representatives impeached Clinton. Might it be that voters now distinguish between their views of Biden the president and of down-ballot Democrats? In the new politics of bifurcation, voters separate their attitudes toward Biden, whom they see as a lost cause, from their feelings toward the Democratic Party. They might not be happy with either their president or the economy. But unlike last year, they see today’s Republicans as more frightening than the alternative. The upshot: a Democratic revival.

    The new politics of bifurcation explains why 18 percent of voters disapprove of Biden but say they will vote for Democrats in the fall. It explains why a recent Pew survey found that Biden’s job approval is a pathetic 37 percent, but voters who disapprove “not so strongly” of Biden favor Democratic candidates by double digits. The not-so-strong disapprovers are a mix of voters who probably were never enthusiastic about Biden to begin with but accepted him as the best way to remove his predecessor from the White House. The economic mismanagement, border insecurity, breakdown of law and order, persistence of viral threats, and chaotic international scene of the past year and a half remind them of Biden’s many flaws. Still, they are not ready to embrace Republican candidates who hold marginal positions on abortion and long for a Trump restoration.

    Bifurcation works in paradoxical ways. The last two Democratic presidents had terrible midterms but rebounded in time for reelection. That might not happen with Biden. The electorate views him so poorly that it may be difficult for him to recover—and his job will be more difficult still if surprising Democratic strength in November deprives him of Republican foils in Congress. CNN’s July poll found that 75 percent of Democrats want someone other than Biden to run for president in 2024. The most important number in the Pew poll was 35 percent. It’s the percentage of voters who say Biden is “mentally sharp.” He’s not getting sharper.

    The safe bet is that undecided voters will swing toward the opposition party in the closing days of the campaign. In this likely scenario, Biden’s dismal approval rating will bring down the Democratic congressional majorities. That, after all, is how the world works. And yet the world hasn’t been working as expected for the last six years. The most unpopular candidate in the history of the Gallup poll became the first U.S. president with no experience in government or the military. That president became the first chief executive to lose reelection in 28 years. We have had a once-in-a-century pandemic, the largest single-year jump in violent crime ever recorded, the breakdown of the southern border, the worst inflation in 40 years, the first cross-border invasion in Europe since 1945, and a Supreme Court decision that reversed a half-century-old precedent. Things are weird. And if I am right about the new politics of bifurcation, things are about to get weirder.”

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    1. Another FB article: “President Joe Biden’s plan to have taxpayers pay for student loans could cost more than $1 trillion, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.

      Debt cancellation alone will cost up to $519 billion, the model found, with loan forbearance costing another $16 billion. In light of behavioral changes and program details, though, the total sum could be over $1 trillion.

      The estimate is even more than the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, which analyzed the budget model, expected. The foundation found that debt cancellation will cost the average individual taxpayer over $2,000, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

      Both Republicans and Democrats have blasted the plan, with Army colonel and congressman Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) calling the cancellation “a slap in the face to veterans.” Biden used a law intended to help veterans to justify canceling loans for all borrowers. Swing-district congressman Jared Golden (D., Maine), meanwhile, said the plan is “out of step with the needs and values of working-class Americans.”

      Experts, including liberal economists, say the plan will worsen inflation, with former Obama administration adviser Jason Furman calling the move “gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning.”

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      1. i know this is politically a hail mary type thing, but look at how much we have lost just by suspending their payments for 2 years…
        end the damn national emergency and his ability to keep freezing repayments!

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  45. SMDH – talk about hypocrisy!!!

    Entire Article @ FB: “Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), a member of the radical left-wing “Squad,” has been one of the Democratic Party’s most vocal critics of law enforcement. She has called for an end to policing and incarceration in America. The country’s police force, she has argued, is an “inherently and intentionally racist” institution that condones “government-funded murder” and “can’t be reformed.”

    Alas, the congresswoman’s allies in the movement to abolish the police and empty federal prisons will be outraged to learn that Tlaib recently snitched to the Detroit Police Department after checking her home security system and seeing that an individual fleeing the cops was hiding in her trash can.

    “The congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, happened to look at her monitoring system and saw the guy in her backyard,” one of her neighbors told the local Fox affiliate in Detroit. “So once we found out where he was located, she called us back and told us where he was and we relayed that information to the police.”

    The male suspect ended up in Tlaib’s yard after leading police on a high-speed chase after witnesses reported an attempted kidnapping. A woman was also found hiding in a trashcan several houses down. The pair sped off in an SUV after police orchestrated a traffic stop. Perhaps they shared Tlaib’s view that police officers are irredeemably violent and did not wish to become victims of “government-funded murder.”

    By ratting out the suspect to police, some would argue that Tlaib was exposing the innocent-until-proven-guilty citizen to a violent death at the hands of law enforcement. Body camera footage of the arrest shows at least an “inherently and intentionally racist” police officer pointing an assault rifle at the terrified suspect as he emerges from Tlaib’s trash can.

    Tlaib was a vocal proponent of the BREATHE Act in 2020. The legislative proposal called for “divesting federal resources from incarceration and policing,” and the abolishment of federal prisons within 10 years. Her attacks on law enforcement did not go over well with James Craig, the former chief of the Detroit Police Department. Craig, who is black, slammed Tlaib’s “disgusting” suggestion that police officers were racist murderers.

    “To say policing should be abolished gives no consideration to the people who live in our neighborhoods who rely on police to provide service,” he told the Detroit News in 2021. “The people who live in our city don’t want to abolish the police, so the million-dollar question is: Who does [Tlaib] represent?” Craig added that he “would love to see [Tlaib] resign” and would even “throw her a goodbye party.”

    In addition to her anti-police activism, Tlaib is best known for being an outspoken anti-Semite whose frequent tirades against Israel have been condemned by her fellow Democrats. In May, the congresswoman spoke at a rally in Dearborn, Mich., alongside a pro-Hamas newspaper publisher who urged Arabs around the world to “fight within [their] means” to ensure that “Palestine would be liberated and restored.”

    Tlaib shared the stage with the publisher, Osama Siblani, who has an extensive history of praising the anti-Israel terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.”We are the Arabs who are going to lift Palestinians all the way to victory, whether we are in Michigan and whether we are in Jenin,” he said at the rally. “They will fight with stones, others will fight with guns, others will fight with planes, drones, and rockets, others will fight with their voices, and others will fight with their hands and say: ‘Free, free Palestine!'”

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  47. EXCERPT: “EXCLUSIVE: A former American Express employee filed a class-action complaint Tuesday alleging that the credit card company exhibited “callous indifference” to civil rights law by terminating him because he is White and spoke out against its “racially discriminatory” policies.

    Brian Netzel, who worked a decade for Amex until he was terminated in 2020, told FOX Business that he sued the company on behalf of himself and potentially thousands of other similarly situated employees following “an avalanche of bad things coming to White people in that company once George Floyd was killed.”

    The lawsuit alleges that amid the racial tensions roiling the U.S. in 2020, Amex implemented “anti-racism” policies throughout its corporate structure that “gave preferential treatment to individuals for being Black and unambiguously signaled to White employees that their race was an impediment to getting ahead in the company.”

    Netzel said such policies fostered a workplace rife with “a tremendous amount of animosity” in which White employees were unfairly punished or passed over for promotions, while some Black employees were promoted merely to meet racial quotas and employees were encouraged to “root out in McCarthy-era fashion people who didn’t agree with this overall philosophy.”

    AMERICAN EXPRESS ENGAGES IN ‘REVERSE DISCRIMINATION’ AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE, CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYEES SAY

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/american-express-slapped-lawsuit-alleging-discrimination-white-employees

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  48. U.S. — The Department of Justice has released the redacted affidavit leading to the search of former president Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, and it appears every single word was blacked out except three in the middle: ORANGE MAN BAD.

    According to Justice Department insiders, after looking into Mr. Trump’s dealings and listening to his phone calls for the past four years, they were left with only one conclusion: the orange man is bad.

    “We think this gives us sufficient reason to raid Mr. Trump’s home, take his passports, and steal his wife’s clothes,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “The evidence is clear: the orange man is bad and must be stopped at all costs.”

    “Now, if all the reporters here today would join me in our customary chant: ORANGE MAN BAD! ORANGE MAN BAD! ORANGE MAN BAD!” The reporters dutifully obliged.

    At publishing time, the Justice Department had agreed to declassify more of the document, showing the final line was just, “REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”

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  49. More from The Bee:

    BOCA RATON, FL — Authorities responded to a level 5 event in Boca Raton Friday after Ben Shapiro casually strolled through a Whole Foods Market, resulting in the death of thousands.

    The popular political commentator and founder of The Daily Wire had a “hankering for some peaches” when he stopped by earlier in the day, say survivors who witnessed the horrific event.

    “He walked in like it was no big deal — like he wasn’t the Jewish face of white supremacy!” wailed Julia Lacrosse, a 23-year-old twin-spirit dragonkin who had been shopping for her cat. “I could feel it in my bones as I was being triggered. Like he was raping me by just being on the other side of the store!”

    According to sources, hundreds in the store that day dropped dead as Shapiro walked by them. Others fled the store in a panic but their escape would be only temporary. Whole Foods was only the epicenter of what turned out to be a massacre along a three-mile radius. Chaos spread down the streets of the once peaceful city. Distracted drivers pancaked into each other, driven by a maddened panic that invaded their hearts. Metal tore through flesh and bone, glass shattered, and there arose a great cry throughout all Boca Raton, such as was not like it before, nor shall be like it again.

    Whole Foods has since apologized for the incident with a heartfelt tweet in which they stated, “We are very sorry. Ben Shapiro briefly visited our store to buy some food. Though we do not control his actions, we take full responsibility for the thousands of lives lost.”

    The manager of the Whole Foods Market on 15th Avenue has since hung appropriate signage on the building to warn that a triggering event had recently taken place there. Their sanitation rating also dropped to a B.

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    1. TOKYO — Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced a new drug to fix the side effect from their last new drug, which was developed to fix the side effect from the one before that.

      “Finally, relief for the massive hemorrhoids caused by our last medication is on the way,” said Pfizer CEO Ronald Porter. “And with that last medication having basically solved the exploding spleen issue from the drug before that, we are really in business.”

      Pfizer had initially released the medication “Pytriq” to help treat mild cases of seasonal allergies. “Our studies showed excellent results, with less runny nose and cough. However, about half of the people on Pytriq experienced the sudden, violent explosion of their spleen,” explained medical director Allan Watson. “Luckily, we developed a drug called ‘Splenapril’ which stopped the spleens from exploding. However, within days of starting Splenapril, people developed absolutely gargantuan hemorrhoids. Like, I could hang Christmas lights on these bad boys.”

      After discovering the hemorrhoid issue, Pfizer got right to work developing their newest product, “Analprotafib”, which luckily can fix the hemorrhoids. “We are very excited about this. So excited, I haven’t been able to sit down for weeks – which granted, is mostly because of the hemorrhoids,” said Mr. Watson. “We will immediately begin selling all three medications in one convenient pack, for the low cost of seven thousand dollars per month.”

      At publishing time, Analprotafib was discovered to cause cerebrospinal fluid to come gushing out people’s noses, which Pfizer will try to stop with its next drug.

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    2. U.S. — The nation is reportedly facing yet another shortage under the Biden administration, this time on black printer ink. The culprit appears to be the affidavit justifying the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, as nearly the entire packet was redacted with black lines through just about everything the Justice Department typed up to support the raid. Staples and Office Depot locations across the country put up “out of stock” signs earlier today, their whole stock having been snapped up by the Department of Justice as they attempted to print the document this morning. Interns were seen frantically running into various office supply stores all over the country and asking for all the black ink they could get. Several also purchased Snickers bars at the checkstand. The Biden administration says they are trying to solve the problem by sending $1 billion in black ink to Ukraine and passing more regulations on the manufacture and sale of the product.

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  50. Tucker played a short clip of Tate:

    Entire Article @ Reclaim The Net: “Kickboxer and self-help coach Andrew Tate has joined free speech video sharing platform Rumble after he was recently mass deplatformed by all of the major Big Tech platforms. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok are some of the many platforms that banned Tate earlier this month after an online cancel campaign.

    Tate responded to the mass deplatforming by joining Rumble. His channel already has over 65,000 subscribers and his most popular video on the platform has racked up over 240,000 views. Videos from his “TateSpeech” YouTube channel dating back to July 2020 are also archived on Rumble.

    And Rumble revealed that Tate plans to live stream exclusive content to Rumble. “Rumble will hold the line for free speech, whether we agree or disagree with whats said,” Rumble tweeted. “If you need earmuffs, there are other platforms for that.”

    During a recent appearance on Tucker Carlson Today, Tate discussed Big Tech deplatforming him and praised Rumble for allowing him to post his content without censorship. “You lose your Facebook, then your Instagram, then your Gmail, then your Discord, then your website hosting, then your domain name, then your payment processor, then your bank,” Tate said. ”

    Tate continued by stating that Big Tech banned him over a joke and told Tucker that he’d moved to Rumble because senior management promised he’d be allowed to make jokes.

    “One of the reasons I’ve moved to Rumble…[is] because I’ve had long conversations with senior management there and they’ve promised that I can make jokes without being destroyed and annihilated which is quite refreshing,” Tate said. “So I very much look forward to continuing my…legacy and continuing my work on Rumble… rumble.com/tatespeech. And I know for a fact that my young fans will come with me. And this is just the beginning of a…mass exodus away from the influence of control by tech companies.”

    Tate is one of many creators to embrace Rumble after facing Big Tech censorship. Others who have moved to the platform include lofi hip hop creator Lofi Girl, conservative commentator and comedian Steven Crowder, and former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul.

    As creators move to Rumble, it has reported record growth and continued to introduce new features. Rumble reported 76% year-on-year growth in monthly active users for Q2 2022. And it recently launched its ad platform, Rumble Ads, in beta and introduced free live streaming for creators.”

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