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Slings and Arrows or Boomerangs
Attribution: Come Out Flinging by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com
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VP Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are reaching out to different types of undecided voters, the former president is a fan of medical marijuana, and the uber-conservative GOP candidate for governor in North Carolina was revealed to be a frequent customer of an adult video store in the 90s and early 2000s.
So Brian Kemp added sincere condolences to thoughts and prayers. That’s a real change; it should fix the problem. 🤷🏻♂️
Russia is heating up—pour on the coals.
George Conway:
The most interesting aspect of the Putin Payola indictment *isn’t* what and who it refers to—it’s all the folks *not* mentioned in it who feel the need to squeal like stuck pigs
Mother Jones
A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent right-leaning online commentators was secretly a Russian government-backed influence operation
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Rachel Bitecofer
Elon bought twitter 2 weeks before the midterms and then opened it wide to Russian propaganda
Tim Pool ( @timcast
): outed as a Russian propagandist. Tim was being paid $100,000 a week by Tenet Media. TM took millions in Kremlin cash as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging”). Don’t lie Tim, you knew
A number of high-profile, conservative influencers in the US have said they are “victims” of an alleged Russian disinformation campaign, after the Biden administration accused Moscow of carrying out a sustained campaign to influence the outcome of November’s presidential elections.
Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson published statements on Wednesday evening addressing allegations that a US content creation company they were associated with had been provided with nearly $10m from Russian state media employees to publish videos with messages in favour of Moscow’s interests and agenda, including over the war in Ukraine.
The justice department indictment does not name the company, but describes it as a Tennessee-based content creation firm with six commentators and with a website identifying itself as “a network of heterodox commentators that focus on western political and cultural issues”.
That description exactly matches Tenet Media, an online company that hosts videos made by well-known conservative influencers Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and others.
The Guardian has contacted Tenet for comment. The company has not released a statement or commented on the allegations, or responded to other media organisations’ requests for comment, including the New York Times and CBS, according to their reporting.
Tenet Media’s shows in recent months have featured high-profile conservative guests, including Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair Lara Trump, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Republican US senate candidate Kari Lake.
“The company never disclosed to the influencers – or to their millions of followers – its ties to [Russian state media company] RT and the Russian government,” US attorney general Merrick Garland said. His department described Wednesday’s indictment as the most sweeping effort yet to push back against what it says are Russian attempts to spread disinformation ahead of the November presidential election.
The Tennessee-based company published English-language videos on multiple social media channels, including TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube, according to the indictment.
Pool, a popular podcaster with more than 2 million followers on X, said “should these allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims.”
“Never at any point did anyone other than I have full editorial control of the show and the contents of the show are often apolitical.”
Johnson, who has 2.7 million followers on X, said he was “disturbed by the allegations in today’s indictment, which make clear that myself and other influencers were victims in this alleged scheme”.
Rubin said on X that he “knew absolutely nothing about any of this fraudulent activity” and that the allegations showed “that I and other commentators were the victims of this scheme.”
The justice department accuses two employees of RT, a Russian state media company, of covertly funding the Tennessee-based content company to publish videos in favour of Russia. The justice department says the company did not disclose that it was funded by RT and that neither it nor its founders registered as required by law as an agent of a foreign principal.
[continues]
If Russia was paying some of media’s biggest supporters of Kari Lake and Vivek Ramaswamy, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for Putin to find tricky ways to directly fund their campaigns.
Now would be a good time to remember this from four years ago:
GOP-led Bipartisan Senate panel “finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election”
WAPO: Officials said the shooter used an “AR-platform-style weapon” but did not provide more details. An AR-platform rifle, the AR-15, has been used in several of the most notorious and deadly mass shootings in American history.
From my notes on dumbass quotes from last night’s Hannity “Town Hall” (which featured NO QUESTIONS from the audience)..
Trump: “The one program I hated to upgrade was the nuclear program. I understand it better than anybody. My uncle was a professor at MIT…I have a smart family. It’s nice to have a smart family. I knew I understood nuclear for a long time.”
HANNITY: We have this terrible shooting in Georgia TRUMP: Right … it’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons. And we’re gonna make it better and we’re gonna heal our world. Then he touts his endorsement from “strong man” Viktor Orban, says “Sometimes you have to have a strong man”
BREAKING: President Biden takes action where Donald Trump never would and announces massive, sweeping actions to thwart Russia’s sinister efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election. This is what real leadership looks like… The new efforts from the Biden administration include criminal charges against two Russian nationals, potent sanctions over ten individuals and entities, as well as the seizure of 32 internet domains. US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco also revealed that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has ordered three Russian companies to use fake profiles to push disruptive false narratives on social media, sowing division in the process. Two employees of Russian state media RT were indicted as part of a plot to funnel close to $10 million to run a Tennessee-based front company aimed at pumping out misinformation and propaganda. Commentators are describing these Biden administration actions as their most significant yet to to combat Russian influence operations.
We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing – anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious.”
— Mike Davis, a former clerk for Justice Gorsuch, to Bennie Johnson.
I guess this could work. His over-the-top attacks dominated the Pennsylvania coverage of last night’s town hall, but seem silly to me…
HARRISBURG — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday painted a bleak picture of the U.S. during a potential Kamala Harris presidency — predicting war and depression — and said it appears the vice president avoids freeranging interviews and press conferences. “This is a woman who is dangerous,” Trump said during a television show taping before a live audience in a large arena. “She loses her train of thought a lot. That’s why she doesn’t want to do interviews.” The jabs by the Republican presidential nominee at Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, came with the election two months away and the first debate faceoff between the candidates only six days away. Fox News host Sean Hannity, who taped the town hall interview, did not challenge Trump’s assertions.
We have to make sure she gets a House and a Senate.
She loses her train of thought a lot.
Lol, he is the one with the loose caboose.
“…loses train of thought…” Every accusation is a confession.
ps – Adolf has had a shit-ton of filler in his face recently, based on yesterday’s so-called “town hall” which, as Pogo said, was not actually a town hall.
Trump is delivering the American Carnage speech 2.0 to the New York Economic club. He’s being met with complete silence. Now live on C-SPAN.
Slam dunk. “She will seek a tax on unrealized capital gains. Most people don’t even know what that means. What does it mean?”
I’ve spent times in trailers that looked like that.
lol
Marge’s Palace of Malice
Trump to the NY Economic Club: “A couple of nukes and your bank doesn’t mean a thing”
She will seek a tax on unrealized capital gains. Most people don’t even know what that means. What does it mean?
He poses this as if it is a secret – of course she’s announced it – and poses it to the New York economic Club, who I’m certain a good portion of know what unrealized capital gains are. Question is whether they think Dumbass or those who (don’t have assets of $100 million and won’t be subject to that tax and) don’t know what those are are the bigger morons. My money is on Dumbass.
Apparently he thinks banks keep the money in a vault instead of computer servers. Those banks also won’t mean much if he is elected and emulates Vlad and Orban.
Sturg – That Buck clip was wild. Subtitles partially in English and partially in Russian transliterated into the English alphabet.
“Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a 28% tax on long-term capital gains for any household with an annual income of $1 million or more, lower than the 39.6% rate that President Joe Biden laid out in his 2025 fiscal year budget.”
“Harris has not announced any plans to diverge from Biden’s proposal, which would tax unrealized gains for households worth at least $100 million.”
His diminished mind really cannot process serious questions anymore.
Trump at NY Economic Club today…
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?
“Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn’t, you know, there’s something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it… I want to stay with child care… So we’ll take care of it. Thank you”
I have been closely watching Trump at rallies, and in interviews for well over a year and there is an obvious decline in mental agility from what was already a fairly low starting place. Increasingly he can only recite memorized lines and stories. He cannot handle questions that change the topic currently on his mind or that present something to which he has given little thought.
Unless he somehow manages to camouflage this or gets away with sticking to his routine talking points, the debate will be the first chance a lot of voters will see his childlike mental processing skills. All the focus was on Biden in the last one, even though these issues for Trump were evident then.
For some reason the news media is just not finding a way to cover Trump’s decline (certainly not as well as they covered Biden’s).
Last night and today there were numerous clips where he comes across batshit crazy, but I’m not seeing that reflected in the coverage.
All his followers will hear is, “child care…you have to have it…we’ll take care of it.”
Craig – It’s almost like the MSM is in on it.
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?
“Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn’t, you know, there’s something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it… I want to stay with child care… So we’ll take care of it. Thank you”
This from the man who says Harris sometimes loses her train of thought. Ay caramba.
it’s almost as if trump specifically targets media members for his mob to intimidate and attack in every public appearance, the way they cover him
oh wait
they are actively engaged in smear campaign of a military cemetery worker, they’ll try to ruin anyone that crosses them
“J.D. Vance Proves He’s an Idiot With Answer on Rising Daycare Costs”
“…maybe grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little bit more. Or maybe there’s an aunt or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more,” Vance said. “If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all of the resources that we’re spending on daycare.”
2-inch heels? Is that why he wouldn’t leave the scene of his alleged shooting without his shoes?
OK. Project 2025
“…but I never threw crooked Hillary in jail as I thought what a terrible thing to do but they want to throw ME in jail, but that’s OK…blah blah blah…”—– just hours ago in New York.
I’ll be 75 in a few days and my family and myself have not noticed any mental decline in me, but this creep who is just 3 years my senior is indeed batshit crazy and even deranged…and as a presidential candidate, damn radioactive.
And I have learned more than I knew about the quirks of an Alford plea. Hunter Biden surely shook up that courtroom a few hours ago.
CNN Economics commentator Catherine Rampell:
“Trump’s economic speech today sounded like it was just words randomly chosen out of the dictionary. To the extent that he said anything coherent, it was a promise of more corporate tax handouts and higher tariffs, which would raise costs for everyday Americans”
So much legal things happening all at once. To stupid, his NYC trial is not delayed. To russian agents, they are losing their source of income and russia is getting a dent in its media operations. To groups that are actively supporting terrorism, they are getting court dates (CodePink). A lot of people not named in todays action might be lawyering up.
Boom! The evidence likely comes out before the election. Judge Chutkan issues an expeditious scheduling order in the Trump Jan. 6 case and allows the Special Counsel to file first:
> SCO Opening Brief on Immunity due Sep 26
> Trump Response and Motion to Dismiss due Oct 17
> SCO Reply and Opposition due Oct 29
Even just getting transcripts of Pence’s Grand Jury testimony will be newsmaking
And since this is just a scheduling order there’s nothing to appeal
The indictment is our guide to what sort of evidence will likely be coming out before the election..
Best idea for Trump lawyers I can imagine is trying to get the judge to seal all these filings before the election, but she made it clear today the campaign is irrelevant in this case.
Jeez, Adolf doesn’t even understand how tariffs work. Neither do his followers, who applaud for higher prices.
“Trump’s tariffs are a $1,600 tax hike…Trump’s proposed tariffs and economic policies disproportionately harm the middle class, particularly in red states. Rattner highlights how “income redistribution benefits red states,” despite their leaders criticizing so-called socialism.”
Five days for Adolf to flee.
Tim Walz rally right now in the battleground county of the battleground state: Erie PA
Tim speaking to regular folks about everyday stuff, like grocery prices.
Erie is an ultimate swing county — went for Obama twice, then Trump in 2016, and narrowly for Biden in 2020. Biden won Erie County in 2020 by less than 1,500 votes, or 1.03 percentage points. In 2016, the margin was less than 2,000 votes for Trump.
Walz: “Eleven times last night Donald Trump explained to us that he isn’t weird. I think we might be getting under his skin a little bit”
Very weird and also warped.
Rick and I had a great day. We went to Bretton Woods ski area… took the gondola to the top and had lunch while looking straight at Mt Washington … and seeing the Mt Washington hotel in the valley. Then we drove over to the hotel and saw the room where the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed. Really posh hotel… and beautiful scenery all around. Our last day is tomorrow…. Will enjoy the pools and hot tubs.
“…maybe grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little bit more.
Maybe they do but they can’t afford to retire.
Sounds idyllic, Renee.
I watched that whole speech he made of real words in NYC where he explained how ….well….he told how he would……would……well his answer to the childcare question was really, um. It was made of the best words, words like Ivanka and Marco Rubio.
By god.
Harris More Than DOUBLES Trump’s $130M Fundraising Haul in August
Weird Word Salad is not a problem for his peeps. They are fluent in it.
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?
Trump: Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn’t, you know, there’s something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it… I want to stay with child care… So we’ll take care of it. Thank you
Just wait till the Libtards try to decipher THAT one.
It’s not complete, though, here’s the whole answer…….it’s priceless.
shannonrwatts
The father purchased the gun AFTER his son was questioned by the FBI in May of 2023 for making school shooting threats.
Larry Kudlow understood every word of it.
There are plenty of Americans with no business having access to guns, everyone knows that, and everyone knows at least 3 people that meet that description, and 2 of them have guns
Republicans don’t care because they have their own guns, their neighborhoods are well policed, and their kids are in private school, they don’t give a shit if you get shot
JD Vance says school shootings are just a ‘fact of life’…
“…Governor Brian Kemp said he was “praying for the safety of those in our classrooms.”
“In 2022, Kemp signed a bill into law that expanded gun rights, allowing Georgians to carry handguns in public without a license or background check. A “lawful weapons carrier,” or any person who is eligible to purchase a firearm, can now concealed-carry a handgun. Long guns could already be carried in many places without a permit.”
“The governor has previously flagrantly defended his anti–gun control agenda to skeptics. After Georgia’s public media station in 2021 reported that the Giffords Law Center gave Georgia a failing grade on gun control, even before Kemp’s expansion of gun access, Kemp proudly delcared, “I’ll wear this ‘F’ as a badge of honor.”
“A new gun rights group is launching a six-figure ad buy in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, focusing on the millions of Americans who became gun owners during and after the COVID pandemic.” “Why it matters: The NRA — the longtime premier gun-rights group in the U.S. — cut its political spending from $54 million in 2016 to $29 million in 2020, according to OpenSecrets data. It has reserved $1.3 million in ad spending in 2024, according to AdImpact.”
“The big picture: The goal is to convince new gun owners, especially women and minorities, that their rights are under attack by the Biden administration and progressive politicians.”
“Zoom in: The NRA, founded after the Civil War, declared bankruptcy in 2021 and tried to reincorporate in Texas. But its influence and its revenue has dwindled.”
I only wish the NRA and its jellyfish, well-paid supporters in legislatures both State and Federal would be careful to recite the whole of it, and then tell us how a heavily armed man, woman, or child, recruited by no official, led by no official, given no goals by any official, motivated or restrained only by his or her personality and perceptions of what is going on, can be considered a member of a well-regulated militia.
JD Vance says school shootings are just a ‘fact of life’…
i guess you don’t need me to tell you, just listen to them
JD is right there with Orange Adolf, who said “get over it,” after a school shooting in Iowa. Weird? Heartless.
the whole “better security” argument implies there exists some mass un-or-otherwise employed labor force with a professional law-enforcement skillset that you could also trust with guns around kids and would be willing to sit around a school doing nothing for low-pay, it’s nonsense
Bink, absofuckinglutely. Just put pistols in the desk drawers of all the teachers. That should do it.
I played the Dumbass child care response for Mrs. P. Let me tell you one thing family lawyers know well-verbal bullshit. She said (in her inimitably pleasant way) WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? I asked her if she could tell from the answer what the question was. She said, “tariffs?”
“Trump has embraced tariffs as he appeals to working-class voters who oppose free-trade deals and the outsourcing of factories and jobs. But in his speech Thursday and his economic plans as a whole, Trump has made a broader — to some, implausible — promise on tariffs: that they can raise trillions of dollars to fund his agenda without those costs being passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices.”
“Kimberly Clausing, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has repeatedly warned in economic analyses about the likely damage to people’s finances from Trump’s tariffs. She noted that Trump wants tariffs to pay for everything, even though they can’t.”
“I believe Trump has already spent this revenue, to pay for his tax cuts (which it doesn’t), or to perhaps end the income tax (which it cannot),” she said in an email. “It is unclear how there would be any revenues left over to fund child care.”
Six corporate bankruptcies. Six. Just sayin’.
Warped AF.
They’re quick
Nimble, Poobah, nimble.
A good time for them to mention down ballot races. Let’s give them a do-something-good Congress.
VP Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are reaching out to different types of undecided voters, the former president is a fan of medical marijuana, and the uber-conservative GOP candidate for governor in North Carolina was revealed to be a frequent customer of an adult video store in the 90s and early 2000s.
FYI
Read the full federal indictment accusing Russians of funding divisive online content in the U.S. | PBS News
don’t look now but they’re still at it
So Brian Kemp added sincere condolences to thoughts and prayers. That’s a real change; it should fix the problem. 🤷🏻♂️
Russia is heating up—pour on the coals.
George Conway:
The most interesting aspect of the Putin Payola indictment *isn’t* what and who it refers to—it’s all the folks *not* mentioned in it who feel the need to squeal like stuck pigs
Mother Jones
A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent right-leaning online commentators was secretly a Russian government-backed influence operation
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Rachel Bitecofer
Elon bought twitter 2 weeks before the midterms and then opened it wide to Russian propaganda
Tim Pool (
@timcast
): outed as a Russian propagandist. Tim was being paid $100,000 a week by Tenet Media. TM took millions in Kremlin cash as part of “a scheme to create and distribute content to U.S. audiences with hidden Russian government messaging”). Don’t lie Tim, you knew
stuck pigs squeal
the guardian
If Russia was paying some of media’s biggest supporters of Kari Lake and Vivek Ramaswamy, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for Putin to find tricky ways to directly fund their campaigns.
Now would be a good time to remember this from four years ago:
GOP-led Bipartisan Senate panel “finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election
WAPO: Officials said the shooter used an “AR-platform-style weapon” but did not provide more details. An AR-platform rifle, the AR-15, has been used in several of the most notorious and deadly mass shootings in American history.
From my notes on dumbass quotes from last night’s Hannity “Town Hall” (which featured NO QUESTIONS from the audience)..
Trump: “The one program I hated to upgrade was the nuclear program. I understand it better than anybody. My uncle was a professor at MIT…I have a smart family. It’s nice to have a smart family. I knew I understood nuclear for a long time.”
HANNITY: We have this terrible shooting in Georgia
TRUMP: Right … it’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons. And we’re gonna make it better and we’re gonna heal our world.
Then he touts his endorsement from “strong man” Viktor Orban, says “Sometimes you have to have a strong man”
Nancy Mace (AKA Nitwit) appearing with paid Russian asset.
https://x.com/geno_kusa/status/1831494738052313435
BREAKING: President Biden takes action where Donald Trump never would and announces massive, sweeping actions to thwart Russia’s sinister efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election. This is what real leadership looks like… The new efforts from the Biden administration include criminal charges against two Russian nationals, potent sanctions over ten individuals and entities, as well as the seizure of 32 internet domains. US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco also revealed that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has ordered three Russian companies to use fake profiles to push disruptive false narratives on social media, sowing division in the process. Two employees of Russian state media RT were indicted as part of a plot to funnel close to $10 million to run a Tennessee-based front company aimed at pumping out misinformation and propaganda. Commentators are describing these Biden administration actions as their most significant yet to to combat Russian influence operations.
We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing – anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious.”
— Mike Davis, a former clerk for Justice Gorsuch, to Bennie Johnson.
I guess this could work. His over-the-top attacks dominated the Pennsylvania coverage of last night’s town hall, but seem silly to me…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Trump delivers harsh attack
HARRISBURG — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday painted a bleak picture of the U.S. during a potential Kamala Harris presidency — predicting war and depression — and said it appears the vice president avoids freeranging interviews and press conferences. “This is a woman who is dangerous,” Trump said during a television show taping before a live audience in a large arena. “She loses her train of thought a lot. That’s why she doesn’t want to do interviews.” The jabs by the Republican presidential nominee at Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, came with the election two months away and the first debate faceoff between the candidates only six days away. Fox News host Sean Hannity, who taped the town hall interview, did not challenge Trump’s assertions.
Kamala Harris will win the 2024 presidential election, predicts historian Alan Lichtman, who accurately predicted 9 of last 10 presidential elections — https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/05/historian-allan-lichtman-2024-election-prediction/75082875007/
We have to make sure she gets a House and a Senate.
Lol, he is the one with the loose caboose.
“…loses train of thought…” Every accusation is a confession.
ps – Adolf has had a shit-ton of filler in his face recently, based on yesterday’s so-called “town hall” which, as Pogo said, was not actually a town hall.
Trump is delivering the American Carnage speech 2.0 to the New York Economic club. He’s being met with complete silence. Now live on C-SPAN.
Slam dunk. “She will seek a tax on unrealized capital gains. Most people don’t even know what that means. What does it mean?”
Former Colorado gop rep Ken Buck telling the truth about mtg and Russia.
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1831670200145481829
We know their playbook, they’re not clever
The Russians are here! The Russians are here!
I’ve spent times in trailers that looked like that.
lol
Marge’s Palace of Malice
Trump to the NY Economic Club: “A couple of nukes and your bank doesn’t mean a thing”
He poses this as if it is a secret – of course she’s announced it – and poses it to the New York economic Club, who I’m certain a good portion of know what unrealized capital gains are. Question is whether they think Dumbass or those who (don’t have assets of $100 million and won’t be subject to that tax and) don’t know what those are are the bigger morons. My money is on Dumbass.
Apparently he thinks banks keep the money in a vault instead of computer servers. Those banks also won’t mean much if he is elected and emulates Vlad and Orban.
Sturg – That Buck clip was wild. Subtitles partially in English and partially in Russian transliterated into the English alphabet.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/04/harris-biden-capital-gains-tax-hike-trump-election.html
“Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a 28% tax on long-term capital gains for any household with an annual income of $1 million or more, lower than the 39.6% rate that President Joe Biden laid out in his 2025 fiscal year budget.”
“Harris has not announced any plans to diverge from Biden’s proposal, which would tax unrealized gains for households worth at least $100 million.”
His diminished mind really cannot process serious questions anymore.
Trump at NY Economic Club today…
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?
I have been closely watching Trump at rallies, and in interviews for well over a year and there is an obvious decline in mental agility from what was already a fairly low starting place. Increasingly he can only recite memorized lines and stories. He cannot handle questions that change the topic currently on his mind or that present something to which he has given little thought.
Unless he somehow manages to camouflage this or gets away with sticking to his routine talking points, the debate will be the first chance a lot of voters will see his childlike mental processing skills. All the focus was on Biden in the last one, even though these issues for Trump were evident then.
For some reason the news media is just not finding a way to cover Trump’s decline (certainly not as well as they covered Biden’s).
Last night and today there were numerous clips where he comes across batshit crazy, but I’m not seeing that reflected in the coverage.
All his followers will hear is, “child care…you have to have it…we’ll take care of it.”
Craig – It’s almost like the MSM is in on it.
This from the man who says Harris sometimes loses her train of thought. Ay caramba.
it’s almost as if trump specifically targets media members for his mob to intimidate and attack in every public appearance, the way they cover him
oh wait
they are actively engaged in smear campaign of a military cemetery worker, they’ll try to ruin anyone that crosses them
sure journalists are afraid, who wouldn’t be
Anthony Scaramucci says Trump wears a girdle and 2-inch heels . https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8JMo28d/
Same as his voters. Both make me nervous.
Lest we forget.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185628/jd-vance-answer-daycare-costs
“J.D. Vance Proves He’s an Idiot With Answer on Rising Daycare Costs”
“…maybe grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little bit more. Or maybe there’s an aunt or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more,” Vance said. “If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all of the resources that we’re spending on daycare.”
2-inch heels? Is that why he wouldn’t leave the scene of his alleged shooting without his shoes?
OK. Project 2025
“…but I never threw crooked Hillary in jail as I thought what a terrible thing to do but they want to throw ME in jail, but that’s OK…blah blah blah…”—– just hours ago in New York.
I’ll be 75 in a few days and my family and myself have not noticed any mental decline in me, but this creep who is just 3 years my senior is indeed batshit crazy and even deranged…and as a presidential candidate, damn radioactive.
And I have learned more than I knew about the quirks of an Alford plea. Hunter Biden surely shook up that courtroom a few hours ago.
CNN Economics commentator Catherine Rampell:
So much legal things happening all at once. To stupid, his NYC trial is not delayed. To russian agents, they are losing their source of income and russia is getting a dent in its media operations. To groups that are actively supporting terrorism, they are getting court dates (CodePink). A lot of people not named in todays action might be lawyering up.
Boom! The evidence likely comes out before the election. Judge Chutkan issues an expeditious scheduling order in the Trump Jan. 6 case and allows the Special Counsel to file first:
> SCO Opening Brief on Immunity due Sep 26
> Trump Response and Motion to Dismiss due Oct 17
> SCO Reply and Opposition due Oct 29
Even just getting transcripts of Pence’s Grand Jury testimony will be newsmaking
And since this is just a scheduling order there’s nothing to appeal
The indictment is our guide to what sort of evidence will likely be coming out before the election..
https://t.co/z0C2clhxSk
Best idea for Trump lawyers I can imagine is trying to get the judge to seal all these filings before the election, but she made it clear today the campaign is irrelevant in this case.
Jeez, Adolf doesn’t even understand how tariffs work. Neither do his followers, who applaud for higher prices.
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-trump-s-tariffs-are-a-1-600-tax-hike-rattner-warns-of-regressive-impact-218666053753
“Trump’s tariffs are a $1,600 tax hike…Trump’s proposed tariffs and economic policies disproportionately harm the middle class, particularly in red states. Rattner highlights how “income redistribution benefits red states,” despite their leaders criticizing so-called socialism.”
Five days for Adolf to flee.
Tim Walz rally right now in the battleground county of the battleground state: Erie PA
Tim speaking to regular folks about everyday stuff, like grocery prices.
Erie is an ultimate swing county — went for Obama twice, then Trump in 2016, and narrowly for Biden in 2020. Biden won Erie County in 2020 by less than 1,500 votes, or 1.03 percentage points. In 2016, the margin was less than 2,000 votes for Trump.
Walz: “Eleven times last night Donald Trump explained to us that he isn’t weird. I think we might be getting under his skin a little bit”
Very weird and also warped.
Rick and I had a great day. We went to Bretton Woods ski area… took the gondola to the top and had lunch while looking straight at Mt Washington … and seeing the Mt Washington hotel in the valley. Then we drove over to the hotel and saw the room where the Bretton Woods Agreement was signed. Really posh hotel… and beautiful scenery all around. Our last day is tomorrow…. Will enjoy the pools and hot tubs.
Maybe they do but they can’t afford to retire.
Sounds idyllic, Renee.
I watched that whole speech he made of real words in NYC where he explained how ….well….he told how he would……would……well his answer to the childcare question was really, um. It was made of the best words, words like Ivanka and Marco Rubio.
By god.
Harris More Than DOUBLES Trump’s $130M Fundraising Haul in August
https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-kamala-harris-more-than-doubles-trumps-130m-fundraising-haul-in-august/?s=01
Weird Word Salad is not a problem for his peeps. They are fluent in it.
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?
Trump: Well, I would do that and we’re sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn’t, you know, there’s something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it… I want to stay with child care… So we’ll take care of it. Thank you
Just wait till the Libtards try to decipher THAT one.
It’s not complete, though, here’s the whole answer…….it’s priceless.
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1831753100446589285
Father arrested for buying killer’s gun for him
shannonrwatts
The father purchased the gun AFTER his son was questioned by the FBI in May of 2023 for making school shooting threats.
Larry Kudlow understood every word of it.
There are plenty of Americans with no business having access to guns, everyone knows that, and everyone knows at least 3 people that meet that description, and 2 of them have guns
Republicans don’t care because they have their own guns, their neighborhoods are well policed, and their kids are in private school, they don’t give a shit if you get shot
JD Vance says school shootings are just a ‘fact of life’…
https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-georgia-shooting-7d7727a1aff8491f66914a4d8a14cd8c
https://newrepublic.com/post/185608/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-guns-school-shooting
“…Governor Brian Kemp said he was “praying for the safety of those in our classrooms.”
“In 2022, Kemp signed a bill into law that expanded gun rights, allowing Georgians to carry handguns in public without a license or background check. A “lawful weapons carrier,” or any person who is eligible to purchase a firearm, can now concealed-carry a handgun. Long guns could already be carried in many places without a permit.”
“The governor has previously flagrantly defended his anti–gun control agenda to skeptics. After Georgia’s public media station in 2021 reported that the Giffords Law Center gave Georgia a failing grade on gun control, even before Kemp’s expansion of gun access, Kemp proudly delcared, “I’ll wear this ‘F’ as a badge of honor.”
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/04/nra-guns-secure-our-freedom-alliance
“A new gun rights group is launching a six-figure ad buy in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, focusing on the millions of Americans who became gun owners during and after the COVID pandemic.”
“Why it matters: The NRA — the longtime premier gun-rights group in the U.S. — cut its political spending from $54 million in 2016 to $29 million in 2020, according to OpenSecrets data. It has reserved $1.3 million in ad spending in 2024, according to AdImpact.”
“The big picture: The goal is to convince new gun owners, especially women and minorities, that their rights are under attack by the Biden administration and progressive politicians.”
“Zoom in: The NRA, founded after the Civil War, declared bankruptcy in 2021 and tried to reincorporate in Texas. But its influence and its revenue has dwindled.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8971043-i-only-wish-the-nra-and-its-jellyfish-well-paid-supporters
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
-me
i guess you don’t need me to tell you, just listen to them
JD is right there with Orange Adolf, who said “get over it,” after a school shooting in Iowa. Weird? Heartless.
the whole “better security” argument implies there exists some mass un-or-otherwise employed labor force with a professional law-enforcement skillset that you could also trust with guns around kids and would be willing to sit around a school doing nothing for low-pay, it’s nonsense
Bink, absofuckinglutely. Just put pistols in the desk drawers of all the teachers. That should do it.
I played the Dumbass child care response for Mrs. P. Let me tell you one thing family lawyers know well-verbal bullshit. She said (in her inimitably pleasant way) WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? I asked her if she could tell from the answer what the question was. She said, “tariffs?”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-harris-corporate-taxes-15ba5ecfdf5e907bd9b2c349b07222b8
“Trump has embraced tariffs as he appeals to working-class voters who oppose free-trade deals and the outsourcing of factories and jobs. But in his speech Thursday and his economic plans as a whole, Trump has made a broader — to some, implausible — promise on tariffs: that they can raise trillions of dollars to fund his agenda without those costs being passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices.”
“Kimberly Clausing, an economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has repeatedly warned in economic analyses about the likely damage to people’s finances from Trump’s tariffs. She noted that Trump wants tariffs to pay for everything, even though they can’t.”
“I believe Trump has already spent this revenue, to pay for his tax cuts (which it doesn’t), or to perhaps end the income tax (which it cannot),” she said in an email. “It is unclear how there would be any revenues left over to fund child care.”
Six corporate bankruptcies. Six. Just sayin’.
Warped AF.
They’re quick
Nimble, Poobah, nimble.
A good time for them to mention down ballot races. Let’s give them a do-something-good Congress.
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