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A little too much praise for Bill Maher, who has been a woke, self-righteous butthead in the past, but if we look only at Maher's words, then maybe there's something worthwhile there:

If someone like Maher wants to leave California (as Mark Wahlberg recently announced he'd be doing), things must be bad.

I can't say I've heard very good things about Herschel Walker, an ex-football player running for the Senate. But here's a more positive take on the guy (thumbnail pic: Sen. Raphael Warnock, Democrat and current incumbent):

AZ candidate for governor Katie Hobbs spills her drink in her haste to avoid questioning by Project Veritas:

Hobbs's opponent is the intellectually sharp conservative Kari Lake, a former media personality who, like Donald Trump, understands all the ins and outs of optics and knows bullshit when she sees it. I feel a lot warmer toward Lake than I do toward Tulsi Gabbard, even though I'm open to Gabbard's actually being sincere about leaving the Democrats. Hobbs has, thus far, avoided debating Lake, probably because she's a coward who knows that Lake would mop the floor with her. Hobbs, like that faker Christine Blasey Ford (the professor who accused now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual impropriety that happened years ago), is cursed with one of those high-pitched, girly voices that makes everything she says sound substance-free. It's a superficial point, of course, but if we're talking about optics, then sounding like a scared little girl doesn't exactly help your case.

People on the street are shocked to find out how racist Joe Biden is:

Democrats can't deny they want to defund the police:

Bunch of fucking idiots. As they say these days: play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Don't be surprised when, after you've stripped your town or city of its law enforcement, local crime ends up skyrocketing.