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Toto, I’ve got a feeling this isn’t Trump’s show anymore | The Seattle Times
David Horsey’s op ed accompanying his Toto, I’ve got a feeling this isn’t Trump’s show anymore | The Seattle Times: The Wizard of Oz looked frightening and powerful until Dorothy’s little dog, Toto, pulled back a curtain to reveal the silly old con man who was engineering the sham. It could be that the same thing is finally happening to the Wizard of Mar-a-Lago. Former President Donald Trump has always been a charlatan, but he was wily enough to transform himself into the avatar for millions of disgruntled Americans who projected their anger, fears and resentments onto him. He has kept the illusion going for a remarkably long time, given that his clownish nature was always pretty obvious to those who did not fall for his act. Just last month, he seemed to be at the top of his con game, having survived an assassination attempt and appearing more energetic (if not more coherent) than a diminished President Joe Biden. Democrats were despondent and Republicans were giddy with the sense that their wizard would once again take them to the land of Oz, or, at least, to the White House and to majorities in the House and Senate. Now, though, facing a new, much younger, much more articulate and much more appealing opponent, Trump does not seem so all-powerful. He looks like what he truly is: a cranky, whining old rich guy who talks nonsense and has a fetish for bogus crowd-size comparisons. The Harris/Walz campaign seems to have discovered the key… Read more »
walz-ing with kamala
Attribution: The Harris Walz by Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe, MA
and so far they’ve run rings around him as in
[above from Understanding “run rings around” Idiom: Meaning, Origins & Usage – CrossIdiomas.com]
Strange, but yes it’s the same margin in each state..
New NYT/Siena polls of likely voters:
Pennsylvania:
Harris 50
Trump 46
Wisconsin
Harris 50
Trump 46
Michigan
Harris 50
Trump 46
Post stupid campaign stand-up routine, nicknamed press event, I have watched it a couple of times, different views, no sound. The first time I thought it odd that he was not that hideous orange color, and the dead squirrel looked rather shop worn. Each time, different view, I thought the same thing.
Whoever did the lighting either hates him or he did the rigging himself. Along with he forgot to do his color and picked up the wrong squirrel. The last time I saw that facial color was on a man who was dying, and did die a few minutes later.
Yesterday and this morning while perusing the online media came across a very few references to the color and lighting. That leaves me to wonder why I saw the show as poorly lit and the actor obviously had skipped the paint room. Just another weird event and that is not in the political use of the word.
Could this mean old orange blob is losing it and not wanting to do more performance art? No campaign events, no television, just mean typing and over the phone harangues. His little pea brain having a tantrum?
for pogo, Ms Petri’s Opinion | Trump will gladly debate Harris under the following conditions – The Washington Post Dear Harris Campaign, Fine! I have agreed to the debate on ABC. But as I proposed during my wonderful speech Thursday, this should be the first of three. I propose that the second debate occur on Fox News, as follows. The debate is held in front of a rally-size crowd of women (all 10s) and big, strong men weeping and clutching at my hands and saying, “Sir, sir!” They are all weeping because they have missed me so much. I touch them and their golf handicaps decrease. The debate takes place at Mar-a-Lago, the best place in the world. A bunch of classified documents are there because they will not stop following me loyally around. “Stop following me around, classified documents!” I tell them. “Go on, git!” But they refuse. They will go wherever I go, and that includes the debate. They settle in the back rows in their cardboard boxes, rustling proudly. The moderator is Bret Bear, an actual bear. RFK Jr. (who is going to have a great job in the new Trump Cabinet) comes and disposes of the bear in his trademark manner. No one calls me weird, even though I have brought JD Vance with me. It’s good that he’s there and no one has second thoughts about him. The only second thought they have is, “I like him, a second time.” One woman says she doesn’t like… Read more »
“Walz we are saying, is give Harris your vote (this Nov 5)”
Kamala Harris ft. Tim Walz (Biden x Pelosi remix)
SundaeDivine
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Trump claims his plane had to land in Billings because of mechanical problems but in fact he couldn’t land at Bozeman because the grifter owes the airport $12,000 from the 2020 election cycle. He also still owes the Billings police department $58,830.
Notes from my viewing of Trump’s Montana speech last night… — “I think suburban women like me a lot. I’m gonna keep criminals out of your neighborhood. I stopped rapists from going after our women and our girls” — that’s the same message he tried in 2020, they weren’t convinced — He flew all the way to Montana for the Senate race and this is what he came up with… Trump: “His name is Jon Tester, and I don’t speak badly about somebody’s physical disability. But he’s got the biggest stomach I have ever seen. I said, I swear that’s the biggest stomach. I have never seen a stomach like that” — So he puts Ronny Jackson up there to rail against Tester for opposing his VA nomination. Doesn’t mention Tester was just citing the Navy Inspector General investigation of his misdeeds that led to his demotion from Admiral to Captain. Tester saved the VA from being run by this fool. — Funny how Trump doesn’t mention the military stuff in his laundry list against Walz, instead he lies about stuff like “he put tampons in boys bathrooms” (Walz signed a bill requiring schools to supply them but not detailing where they should be distributed). Why make up stuff when there’s plenty of facts to show the guy is a liberal? — Trump still cannot stop talking about Biden, perhaps more than he talked about Kamala. — The only effective part of the speech was a video montage of Kamala’s… Read more »
Sturg, that’s funny, where did you see that about the airport debt? I knew he owed the city, hadn’t heard about this.
…checked out the polls on 538 and rcp and they’re all still rather disgusting, don’t let the liberal echo-chamber fool you, got a lot of hearts and minds to win or we won’t
the good news is that the largest sample size poll had Harris up comfortably, the bad news is that it was just a national general election poll, which is kind of meaningless with the electoral college
CC that was the opinion posted by a tweeter called @sundaedevine
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A counter opinion by one Mike Honcho:
You commies are pathetic. Airports don’t charge people for landing you morons
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Another opinion, this by Digiform Designs:
He still flew into that airport. Nice lie
Hey everyone! Just checking in from Michigan. We had our primary this past Tuesday. Since almost all of the Democratic candidates were running unopposed, I voted in the Republican primary. It was my patriotic duty. LOL! Anyway, the controversial group “Ottawa Impact” (The Ottawa County version of MAGA Republicans) won 8 of the 9 seats on the County Commission 2 years ago. After that 2 election, 2 of the candidates who won through their association with “Ottawa Impact” disavowed their association with the controversial group. That left Ottawa Impact with a “6-3” majority in all votes that the county commission had. This primary, 4 of the incumbent Ottawa Impact members won their primaries. 2 incumbents lost their primaries. And 3 new candidates sponsored by Ottawa Impact lost their primaries by over 20 points each. So, Ottawa Impact has now lost their county commission majority. It will be 5-4 the other way after November. Meaning the county commission chair will most likely lose his gavel in November. As for the other primary results, the ones such as sheriff and county prosecutor etc…all candidates who were back by “Ottawa Impact” all lost their primaries. I was happy about that! I will be voting for all the Democrats running here in November. Fingers crossed they do well. Ottawa Impact was asked to comment on the results of the primaries on Tuesday and this was their response: “When winds blow and culture shifts, our core remains the same. We are committed to doing the… Read more »
All I could find about Billings:
In Billings, the protective measures put in place for his September 2018 rally resulted in 1,362 overtime hours between Billings PD and the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s office: 951 hours from the former, and 411 hours from the latter, bringing the total cost to $58,830.
While the Yellowstone Sheriff’s office did not bill Trump’s campaign for the $12,930 cost it incurred – a standard practice the office follows for all political campaigns – Billings PD did, and as of the publication date of this article, that $45,900 bill has been left unpaid.
Earlier that year, Vice President Mike Pence and Donald Trump Jr. also made stops in Billings. The vice president spoke at a public rally on July 25, also at MetraPark, organized by America First Policies. Donald Trump Jr. spoke at the Republican Convention in Billings on June 22.
According to an internal memo sent to city council on Sept. 13, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence’s July 25 visit required 647.50 hours of overtime pay, totalling $31,200. Donald Trump Jr.’s visit ran $5,000 in overtime pay, bringing the total amount spent by the Billings Police Department alone on security for Trump’s campaign rallies in Billings in 2018 to $82,100
They are freaking out.. NYTimes: Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign. People around the former and would-be president see a candidate knocked off his bearings, disoriented by his new contest with Kamala Harris and unsure of how to take her on.
free link..
Airports do charge fees.
Be still and know that I am toast.
Old Betman says check paragraph 19
https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1822257767198937407
Corey – Very good news!
Suburban women do not like tRUMPsky. The loss of reproductive rights. The tax cuts for the very wealthy. Being beholden to the NRA so that their kids are in danger when they go to school. The push to make public schools “Christian,” when there are multiple denominations who believe different things, and many are probably of another faith or agnostic or atheist. There are also some suburban cat moms out there who absolutely do not like him. The women he sexually assaulted aren’t fans, either.
Blue, the 2 main founders of Ottawa Impact won on Tuesday, but I think some sanity is prevailing these days. The Republicans who won on Tuesday are still too conservative for my tastes, but fingers crossed for November. The YouTube ad I’m seeing now is a Trump ad talking about how groceries are 30% higher than they were 4 years ago and asking if we are better off now than we were 4 years ago. 30% higher groceries is a small price to pay to not have Trump in office.
POTUS Joe should work on corporate price gouging. I’ve definitely noticed higher prices in my town and the surrounding towns, than in the busy TX suburbs where shopping options were many. I used to spend around $50/week and now it’s $75 and up. I buy the same items. I was surprised that produce is higher and you can’t even get a deal at a farmers market. Gas, however, was $3.07/gallon for 87 octane yesterday.
Ivy – LoL He is toast, and there’s no way in hell he’s going to show up for the debate.
I’ve seen that Billings airport tweet a couple different places now but still no link.
today’s meme…
I’ve a feeling Joe will wait until after Kamala wins in November and then he’s gonna POUNCE with some real presidential type stuff.
Most notable to me about Kamala’s Arizona’s speech last night was the maneuvering she is up to on the border. She is slipping through their fingers on their best issue. But Trump spent all day yapping about stupid stuff like Willie Brown and a helicopter.
Dems don’t have to win this issue, just neutralize it, make it closer to a 55-45 loser instead of 70-30 (or in border states it’s 80-20 right now).
My notes from the new immigration focus in her Arizona speech last night:
(1) highlighting her record as AG of “border state” California in combating transnational crime
(2) promising to fight for “strong border security”
(3) attacking Trump for killing bipartisan border legislation earlier this year; and (4) promising to sign a similar bill if she became president.
And also yesterday they released this new ad coordinating with those speech bullet points (which is how professional messaging is done)..
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/asequals/climate-change-himalayas-yak-women-as-equals-intl-cmd/ “Twenty years prior, Lhamo’s daily routine was very different. She spent her days tending to her yaks in the pastures atop the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, the easternmost state of India. As she remembers the names of her favorite yaks (Karjamu, Pema, Dokpa…) Tashi nostalgically adds: “It was an entirely different life. It was freezing cold in the mountains. We would keep moving up the mountains with the yaks as summer set in and my routine wasn’t confined to any specific daily work as a woman (in the way) it is now.” “I was my own boss. I could sell churpi [yak cheese] if I needed any money. Now I have to ask my husband for literally everything. The Tashis belong to a semi-nomadic ethnic group known as the Brokpa and like so many other Bokpa, were once yak pastoralists.” “…over the past few decades, climate change has significantly affected Brokpa pastoralists, forcing many to give up yak rearing.” “But moving down from the mountains has also meant that for Lhamo, and other Brokpa women, they’ve also moved down the social hierarchy, simply by virtue of being women.” Temperatures are rising in the Indian Himalayan region where yaks are reared. The situation is even more acute in the eastern Himalayas, where Arunachal Pradesh is situated, with records of higher temperatures in the eastern than in the western Himalayan region.In mangma councils, Brokpa women participate actively although they rarely make it to the leadership,” says Yeshe Dorje Thongchi, a prominent Indigenous writer… Read more »
This story kept me up too late.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/10/world/asia/china-border-villages.html
New ad from Preserve America PAC they are now showing here in Michigan.https://www.ispot.tv/ad/fAX4/preserve-america-pac-kamala-harris-border-czar
Thanks for flagging that, Corey. Another Miriam Adelson PAC ad. I wonder how long they’ll continue since Trump just attacked her for being a “rino”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/09/trump-plane-crash-california-00173487
“The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — despite the former president’s repeated insistence it was Brown.”
“It was Nate Holden, a former city council member and state senator from Los Angeles, who said in an exclusive interview late Friday that he remembers the near-death experience well. He and others believe it happened sometime in 1990.”
Mark Cuban sold the controlling share of the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson. Mark Cuban hates Orange Adolf. Is there anything there? No dots to connect?
The best office pool would be what date for the final crack-up?
The Abortion vote will be a huge factor. No one is going to be able to forecast it. It will be the first actual “wave” we’ve seen in quite some time.
This will be a Perfect Storm of an election.
The anti-abortion vote is probably maxed out and fairly static. It’s not apt to have a growth spurt. The pro-abortion vote on the other hand…..
Whooooooooooooooo could imagine…..
That they would freak out in Minnesota….
—Frank Zappa
https://delawareliberal.net/2024/08/10/dl-open-thread-august-10-2024/
Hungry freaks, Daddy…..
Who could imagine.
Harris-Walz Las Vegas rally tonight
Program starts at 7:30pm ET
Kamala and Coach at 8:30pm ET
Do you mean the “ultimate” goodbye freak out don’t go quietly into the dark final? I think he has already cracked and is in his own little universe. What we see is him interacting in his universe with this real one. Cool scifi thing. For many months I have been expecting him to blow out some of the plumbing and go room temp for us. Great performance art thing. Leave us laughing.
BB – He thinks too highly of himself to do that. No, he might take out a bunch of folks and get confined to a padded cell. He won’t go quietly, nor will his base, which is why we need to win by a landslide.
There’s no such thing as a “landslide” in American politics, anymore.
You gotta scrape for every inch
Luckily, the only republicans with national profile are contemptible goons, that’s our advantage
Love the last line. It was the Titanic song, of course
i don’t know if JD wears eyeliner but he definitely is wearing that bronzer the pasty-boyz have grown fond of
White supremacists really hate being white, how ironic
keep that bronzer away from Tim plz
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/isaac-hayes-family-legal-action-210046056.html
“Isaac Hayes’ Family To Take ‘Legal Action’ As Trump Continues To Use His Song”
“On Sunday, the Trump campaign used the song “Hold On, I’m Comin’” at the end of the former president’s Atlanta rally.”
“On Sunday, Isaac Hayes III, son of the late singer and songwriter, emphasized on X that his father’s estate did not authorize Trump to use the song and indicated that Hayes and the Primary Wave music publishing company “are taking legal action to stop the unauthorized use of this song.” Hayes III added that “Donald Trump represents the worst in honesty, integrity and class and [we] want no association with his campaign of hate and racism.”
“Trump and his campaign have a long history of using musical artists’ songs without permission. Including Hayes, at least two dozen artists or their families and estates have objected to Trump using their music at events. These include Phil Collins, Panic! at the Disco, Elton John, R.E.M., Adele, Pharrell Williams, the Rolling Stones and the estate of Prince, among others. Trump’s initial campaign launch in 2015 featured Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” leading Young to object and announce his support for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 race. When a reporter noted that Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” was played at a Trump rally in 2018, the singer tweeted “not for much longer…”
Maybe he can get a sponsorship deal. Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Maybelline. If you look at old pics of JD, his baby blues didn’t pop like they do now.
These vampires love stealing black and lgbt culture because they have none
Maybe contemporary American conservatism is just a mass manifestation of self-loathing and all these people need are a hug and a compliment
Those plastic cowboy hats are really cool, y’all 👍 🤗
That’s the premise of “Citizen Kane”, isn’t it
Oh well, pardon me ✌️
Bink, enjoyed the last music vid you posted last night. That girl can sing. And I believe the guitar is a Gibson Memphis ES 275 thin line – semi hollow body. They are really nice instruments and you won’t see many of them.
So how was SFB’s Bozeman gig last night? I hear Kamala’s AZ rally was gangbusters and AZ’s gov said he wasn’t getting on the Dumbas Crazy Train this time. Pity, no?
Harris-Walz Vegas rally program just started..
Kamala and Coach on next
Non-cult Republicans will publicly endorse Harris (if they are brave enough) or silently vote for Harris (and possibly against MAGAts down ballot), just this election, to get things back on track.
was there a headcount for Bozo in Bozeman?
Vance rolling out tomorrow, doing ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’ “Face the Nation” and CNN’s “State of the Union,”
Harris and Walz finally coming on
What a crowd
Networks fall all over themselves to carry Trump 90 minutes of lies and witless blathering. 20,000 brave 105 degree heat to watch Kamala and you can only watch it on YouTube!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/23/border-security-immigration-bill-lankford-senate/
i was speaking to reliable registered Democrat voters yesterday who didn’t know who Mayor Pete is, and i know what you may be thinking, but most people don’t have the time or care enough about politics to know who the Transportation Secretary is.
Point being, there is a role one can play in simply informing one’s peers of as much as is politely possible. How you do that without being perceived as abrasive in casual company, i don’t know, figure something out 🫡
(if have any clever ways of deftly working “Lankford’s Border Bill” into polite conversation, feel free to share! ❤️ )