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.
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
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 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… Read more »
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.
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… Pittsburgh Post-GazetteTrump 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… Read more »
“…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.
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.
“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… Read more »
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.
“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.”
“…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.
“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:
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
———
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 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… Read more »
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-GazetteTrump 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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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