What’s in your newspaper and what’s leading on your favorite news show?
This…
PUTIN THREATENS DIRECT WAR WITH NATO
Attribution: Putin threatens direct war with NATO by Rivers, CagleCartoons.com
or this?
POST DEBATE POLLING
Attribution: Post debate polling by Patrick Chappatte, The Boston Globe
continuing with Saturday morning cartoons David Horsey op ed at Seattle Times It is fascinating how really smart people can be surprisingly stupid. Latest case in point: Elon Musk. Musk got to be the planet’s richest person by simultaneously building the world’s most successful electric car company, Tesla, and the most successful private rocketry enterprise, SpaceX. You can’t be a dope and do that. But his acquisition of Twitter has enabled Musk’s most ignorant behavior and revealed a huge gap in his analytical abilities. After rebranding Twitter as X (what is the fascination Musk has with the 24th letter of the alphabet? Model X? SpaceX? One of his kids named X?), Musk has indulged his radical libertarian worldview by throwing open the social media platform to racist, misogynist, antisemitic trolls, right-wing conspiracy mongers and all manner of irresponsible kooks. Worse, he has amplified much of the crazy content by retweeting (re-Xing?) it on his own account, which has millions of followers. Most egregiously, Musk has promoted the lie that America’s electoral system is filled with rampant cheating. His numerous posts alleging that hordes of noncitizens are being allowed to cast ballots have attracted almost 700 million views, according to a Washington Post analysis. And a study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that 50 of Musk’s erroneous claims about election fraud were debunked by independent fact-checkers yet received almost 1.2 billion views. Beleaguered elections officials all over the country are having to deal with the threats and misplaced… Read more »
and late night comedians
click here for Bill and his guests continue their conversation after the show including Al Franken
or watch bill’s new rule
Now that we’ve shown that it’s possible to begin a campaign for President just three months before the election, let’s always do that.
or read
Bill Maher Is Amazed By Taylor Swift and George Clooney’s Influence on 2024 Election (msn.com)
Even Most Republicans Think Trump’s “Eating Pets” Stuff Is Weird
Voters overwhelmingly believe it is a weird thing to say, including 91% of Democrats, 77% of Independents, and 69% of Republicans.
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/9/13/post-debate-harris-leads-by-4-as-voters-see-her-as-more-honest-composed-and-intelligent-than-trump
Taylor Swift approved “Eras” tie-in for new DNC digital billboards going up in cities, starting last night in Times Square.
Closeup
GOP plays blame game after funding bill failure
Perfect. Just in time for Election Day voters will be getting another reminder that the Trump Cult running the House has no clue how to govern.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4879434-republicans-frustrated-government-funding-shutdown/
On last night’s show, Bill predicted Trump is Toast. When have Bill’s presidential predictions been wrong?
Ivy, not on the show but in an interview I saw yesterday Maher predicted Trump will dump Vance and replace him with Kennedy. He does have a pretty good record on predictions so I’m not dismissing this one.
Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up
The Guardian: “Springfield’s immigrant community was targeted by far-right extremists months before Trump shared racist rumors”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/neo-nazis-springfield-ohio-haitian-immigrants?CMP=share_btn_url
1834: “We know’d that nothing more could happen to us if we went than if we staid, for it looked like it was to be starvation any way; we therefore determined to go on the old saying, root, hog or die.”
—Davy Crockett, A
He might dismiss Vance but there will be no Kennedy. That’s a fetch too far, even for Mump.
I’d like to wish for that but it doesn’t sound like a good trade-off.
I’m reading there’s a deep dark Catholic conspiracy to take us back to Spain, Franco, or the Inquisition or something. Sounds far-fetched but maybe the Pope did us a favor by opening his mouth on our politics and turning everybody off. Nobody likes a butt-insky.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/sofia-nelson-jd-vance-trump-maga-post-liberal-right-rcna171095
RFKjr might still fill their bill if Vance is dumped.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/robert-f-kennedy-jr-talks-catholic-faith-abortion-title-ix-in-exclusive-ewtn-interview
It’s outrageous we didn’t get an open convention to replace Melania
Book of the Week:
ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION,
by Tom Robbins
There’s something in this book about Catholic conspiracies, but I forget what, exactly.
Now that Nate Silver is hooked up with Vance mentor Peter Thiel we can say he’s more than an outlier.
Presidential Election Forecasts (Sept. 13)
Chance of Winning
• @FiveThirtyEight
– 🔵 Harris 56-43%
• @RacetotheWH
– 🔵 Harris 56-44%
• @DecisionDeskHQ
– 🔵 Harris 54-46%
• @CNalysis
– 🔵 Harris 52-47%
• @jhkersting
– 🔵 Harris 51-48%
• @NateSilver538
– 🔴 Trump 61-39%
Now he’s just another liar.
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-trump-harris-election-0e0faef49ff587098f75b265e386bf22
Having fun playing with the new voter registration dashboard on TargetSmart
Post 7/21 (after Biden dropped out) registration updates for every battleground state.
All percentages are increases above same week in 2020:
22%+ overall
34%+ women
50%+ under 30
56% +Dems
58% +Black
125% +Black women under 30
Considering how sudden and quickly these increases came about, it is safe to say they’re organic, not organized. We’re in our Kamela Era!
Ivy… I don’t watch Maher anymore… but when I did… his predictions were really good. I was pissed as hell at him for predicting that Mump (thanks Sturg) would win the 2016 election. I couldn’t fathom it… but we all know how that turned out.
patd… thanks for new rules… that was a good one…
I thought the earpiece lie sounded familiar from when Trump lost the 2020 debate, but had to look it up:
“Trump ads push baseless Biden earpiece conspiracy”
https://bbc.com/news/technology-54360612
Bill Maher Predicts Vance Will Be Fired, Replaced With Kennedy
Maher: “I think he’s going to dump him … because he knows he’s losing now. So he needs an October surprise to change the parameters of the election. Trump will just go ‘I don’t like him. He was very disloyal.’ All he has to say is ‘I’m Trump. I’m doing it. It’s done.’ (His corollary prediction: Trump will run with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. instead.)
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/09/12/when-is-bill-maher-in-cincinnati/74979228007/
Craig 9:45 LoL!
TikTok astrologers are saying some sort of switch-up in the race will either happen 9/17, or happen after October 11th. October is too late unless it’s an act of gawd.
The Pope is a dope. Lose the US, and then Europe or let women make their own decisions about their health, which the loss of may result in death/harm/trauma to the woman and making any children left behind orphans. Hmmmm. Not a tough choice, Frank.
Can’t find any clip to post of Bill’s exact statement last night about Trump’s end times, but I record the show, so I have it on record. Bill said, after all his previous predictions that when others said it was over, and Bill kept (rightly) saying, no it’s not over, last night, invoking the ghost of Joe McCarthy, Bill now, at long last, “I’m saying I think it’s over.” Guest Kristen Soltis Anderson did not agree, while Al Franken said, I hope you’re right.
Of the many cats and dogs spoofs this might be the best..
He pissed off Laura Loomer too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13849611/Laura-Loomer-sue-Bill-Maher-comedian-claims-arranged-relationship-Donald-Trump.html
today’s meme…
Why, he’d have to be insane to make Bobby Kennedy his running mate.
if the rump does dump JD, it’s possible his handlers will convince him that forgiveness is next to his godliness and he’ll anoint Nikki.
if that doesn’t give him a big enough jolt of limelight, he’ll move on to someone who’ll garner even more media attention….. clint eastwood maybe? then the tucker, then… sorta an ongoing october surprise of musical veep chairs.
Yeah, watch out….he might actually give it to Haley.
Or Loomer. (Hahahahaha)
Liz Cheney and Hikky Nailey.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4869466-nikki-haley-liz-cheney-trump-support/amp/
Haley is still out there trying to claw her way into it.
That takes an extremely weird person.
Speaking of weird.
This is so weird. It’s like, how much more weird could it get? And the answer is: None.
None more weird.
If Dump thinks Vance is responsible for “They’re eating the dogs!” Vance is as good as gone.
Yep. Add in the abortion thing and Vance is already gone.
So since it can’t be Kennedy, who can it beee, yeah……..
Ivy, here it is…
Bill Maher predicts Trump will lose the election:
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1835004931649966562?t=OZ1OmIPvWv93oeKYewPe0A&s=19
I have to say, for me:
None of the “eating cat” memes , including the video Craig posted are humorous. Any more than I would find humor in a person running up and down the street yelling “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger” There is no humor in what J D Vance and Trump are spreading about the Haitians. It is just blatant, immoral racism.
What have we come too as a nation when a main stream presidential candidate can say those words and not have the immediate condemnation of the whole nation. But no, the media is running around asking folks in Springfield if immigrants are eating cats. To quote LBJ, “I don’t care that my opponent is not a pig fucker, I just want to get him on the record denying it” Thats where we are at. A presidential candidate spewing racist things and we are either treating it like a joke or running around trying to find out if it is true.
Sigh, Jack
Thanks, Craig!
Watching Trump’s events yesterday I could tell he is truly desperate and consumed with anger. He knows this thing is falling apart.
Just watch this closing moment of his Las Vegas rally speech midnight last night. Not a well man… https://x.com/Acyn/status/1834808089411043758?t=vyE1cU6Cuz_VBR3-7TDbBA&s=19
He screamed and hollered, pounded the podium like that throughout the speech. Much more than usual. He is in a dangerous rage. Then on the plane back he wrote the screed above.
We’ve got a psychotic narcissist in full clinical collapse on our hands, so absolutely anything could happen.
Oh thanks Jack for reminding me of that LBJ quote, certainly one of his most memorable, and sadly applicable to today’s politics.
My ever so gentle pushback on using humor in this situation is ridicule is what gets to him. Outrage at his racism empowers him in his perverted mind, but mockery defeats him.
Hmmm, Nikki said he was unfit for office. Amendment 25 might be tickling his paranoid brain stem. Plus, wouldn’t Loomer’s racist comments would carry over to Nikki.
Does Kari Lake smell blood in the water?
Maybe Adolf gets the boot and Putin puts his tool, JD, at the top.
Here’s your daily reminder: Project 2025 is Adolf’s “concepts” of a plan.
ps – Crickets on the Russian interference/Tenet Media.
pps – Is Loomer just a convenient nut job, or a Putin-paid nut job?
i appreciate when trump calls himself a genius, because everyone knows a genius, and everyone knows he ain’t one 👍
In the mood for a Coach Walz fix? He’s on stage now in Wisconsin..
They’re pulling out all the stops Poot-man is not gong like it if they can’t steal it and he’s wasted all that money and Ukraine is going to be breathing down his neck. He might threaten war with us, or something.
I think our guys got his number, though. They always have and that has not changed. Damn I wish the Flatus Man was here…..
funnily enough, a friend wanted to see more Walz at rallies, forwarding that now, thx
They don’t care WHAT he is genius-wise as long as he keeps being racist.
eh i’m in a forgiving mood because i think everyone but the dumbest racists is done with his shit
After noting Taylor Swift and Oprah endorsements, Tim Walz said,
Does Man In the Sky not know?
the guitar in this is insane, no it’s not keyboards:
here’s an independent musician trying to replicate the guitar part from that song and doing a fine job:
ok pardon me 🤐
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/13/wisconsin-voter-registrations-bumped-1300-after-taylor-swift-post/75207764007/
“Wisconsin voter registrations bumped by 1,300 after Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement”
ps – “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” is a TS song.
Bink – Like I said, the Pope is a dope; too scared to say what he knows is right, but then the whole we-need-to-make-more-Catholics thing goes out the window.
Harris tonight on CSPAN 8:30pm
President Biden and and Vice President Kamala Harris deliver remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2024 Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, DC.
Craig
I’m not interested in getting under his skin, there are plenty of ways to do that that doesn’t normalize racism.
Instead of creating memes that trivializes what he said we need to push its uglyness out front and center, call it what it is. Get it in front of the voters that count, those upper middle-class professionals who are all too proud that racism is a thing of the past.
Make them understand that their vote says a lot about who they are. If they want to vote for Trump , then they need to understand just how ugly that is. Be it billboards on their trip to the mall, ads to the zip codes or mailings to every registered voter in those zip codes of affluence.
Make it simple, his words and a question. Is this what you want our nation to be? If not, it is your vote, the choice is yours.
i actually had a pretty good sexual and reproductive health education in public school, and i paid attention, so i probably i understand more about that physiology than certainly most men and a surprising number of women, and despite that i still didn’t appreciate the challenges and frequency of pregnancy complications, it’s rather horrific to what republican policy would subject women and the families that love them
You’d think the Pope would understand with all that access to omniscience
ok sorry, you invoked me, re-shutting up
We’ve been calling out his Loomer and incel -inspired racism, here, for months, Jack
in fact, Craig was highlighting his Loomer connection a month before the MSM even bothered to look into it
BTW, I’ve been going through a lot of old memories. picture from the years Mrs Jack and I lived in the old neighborhood. So that may have a lot to do with my anger. It is not the first time I’ve heard this type of crap. The difference is that it used to be some old drunk that could be ignored. Not some national politician.
Jack
We need people like you (with an understanding of blue-collar Midwestern culture) speaking out against racism, Jack, keep it up 🫡
We all on the same team
Possibly, Vance will be dumped the day after whatever flub he makes at his debate (assuming he shows up for it.)
Vance was formally nominated, right? So can Dump do the dumping unilaterally? Another way to create drama and steal the spotlight, so of course, we should expect it.
Ivey, the Tide done gud today.
Hannibal Smith!
Pogo, I miss Nick Saban’s having his tantrums even when they were winning.
What’s really weird is the profusion of television ads…….and they go like this:
Pay us this amount every month and:
A. We will fix your car
B. We will fix your appliances and house. C. We will fix your payday.
Corey from DOWNTOWN!
watched ur vid, sturge, i made a tele and les paul, been craving a tremelo and don’t have time to be building guitars in my old age
hardware ain’t cheap these days either, not more economical to build
Text from some entity: “We’ve asked you SEVEN TIMES if you support Kamala Harris.”
Another delete & report as junk.
538 Forecast moves Kamala up from 46% chance before the debate to 60%.
Harris wins 60 times out of 100
Trump wins 40 times out of 100.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Every show had an announcer guy like Garrett is playing.
BID, i got that one too! I’m deleting any seemingly posing as nudniks or insult comics. Actually deleting them all except 30330
60-40 hooray, what i’ve been hoping and praying for!
ABC under investigation? Same crack team that investigated Obama’s birth certificate? Bwahahahahahah. Dumbshit.
well, a 60% rate of a Kamala win in simulations run with data in Nate Silver’s model, that probability is only as good as Silver’s data and model
it’s a good trend but we ain’t won nuthin’ yet, let’s goooooo 🦅
Tonight’s Monster Movie.
“The Incredible Shrinking Man”
Wo….must be about the gop vp.
Pogo, we got this Rocky Mountain Showdown-thing going on in our new hometown with some guy called Coach Prime. Crazy, like the Iron Bowl at the start of the season instead of the end.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/colorado-vs-colorado-state-prediction-odds-2024-college-football-expert-picks-deion-sanders-bets/
President-for-All-Americans ad on CBS during the 1st half.
Kamala at podium in a smokin dress, CSPAN. Sounds like she’s got a cold
Things are getting interesting in Trump world. This is Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right former Breitbart editor..
This could be getting legs. Daily Mail is on the case.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13850061/laura-loomer-donald-trump-kennedy.html
Not glamorous, doesn’t look a day over 51.
The MSM wouldn’t cover Trump and Loomer’s overt racism, but they love a sex scandal!
Well at least she’s defending herself. Laura Loomer: “I know that Kamala Harris sucked di*k to get where she is today… I’m not like her, okay? I don’t suck di*k to get to the top.”… VIDEO — https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1835135299933921402
Virulently racist and classy! What a combo
Not exactly a defense, closer to a fallacy.
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tenet_media_indictment_russia.php
“The Tenet Media Incident”
“… reported that a mysterious network paid influencers to promote sexual smears about Kamala Harris. The rates were generous; one participant made more than twenty thousand dollars over several weeks by boosting certain messages”
Hmmm. Laura Loomer, are you one of them?
“Without disclosing how the company was funded, Chen approached the six right-wing influencers—referred to as “its talent”—and offered them an astonishing amount of money to sign on. The influencers, who included Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin, were tasked with posting original content on Tenet’s platform.”
“For their services, one of the influencers was paid four hundred thousand dollars per month, a hundred-thousand-dollar signing bonus, and an additional performance bonus.”
She isn’t mentioned, but Laura Loomer has been on a podcast with Tim Pool, so is Putin paying her, too?
ps – The body language in those pics says it ain’t just nothing. Both of them sure have a taste for sh/t.
i’m not saying she’s a Russian asset (yet), but she doesn’t seem like the type to turn down an easy payday (from Putin), her technique has already been established to be effective, she’s as close as you can get to the man
you can’t vote to give that guy the nuke codes
i humbly request you don’t vote to give that guy the nuke codes, thank you
I was rooting for Colorado State.
He’s being terrible to Barron’s mother. Can we get two, more endorsements?
Same here, BID. Wasn’t to be, but the loss is not stopping any parties tonight here in the ‘hood.
Brooklyn Dad Defiant.
Holy shit, one of the most conservative people in America, George Will, has endorsed Kamala Harris for President over trump.
I don’t care how reluctant he was to do so; I care that he did it. Every single Republican who cares about the future of America needs to follow his example. Country over party.
KamalaHQ
Gov. Walz: Look, we all deal with it. Friends, neighbors, family. ‘Oh, I like Donald Trump. I don’t really like how he swears and gets convicted of felonies and found liable for assaulting women. I like his proposals.’ Which one? Forcing women to bleed out in parking lots because they can’t get health care? Tax cuts for billionaires? No one wants that agenda
How to shut down a Loomer.
https://x.com/MamaHeezy/status/1835080928525168756
Bruce Bartlett
If you like getting Listeria from the Boar’s Head lunch meat sandwich you ate, you are going to love Project 2025, which eliminates much of what little regulation of the food industry that still exists
Food-borne illnesses are God’s domain, not Man’s
obviously
ill once again recommend Freakonomics radio if you’re looking for something to listen to, the smartest podcast you’ll hear
the host, Steven Dubner, is a natural born skeptic, no bullshit claims are getting past him 👍
https://freakonomics.com/series/freakonomics-radio/
Bette Midler
Oh, please. #LauraLoomer is a zero, a cipher, a nothing. She’s the newest shiny object Trump dangles in front of us, meant to distract the lazy press and those of us who are idiots, from his SHITTY DEBATE PERFORMANCE last Tuesday. That was THE WORST! Do it again, #Don-old!
trump ain’t that calculating
he isn’t creating more bad press to deflect from other bad press, he is just vain and susceptible to flattery and all bad press
he has crossed some insanity threshold in the last 48 hours also, judging from his latest appearances
down 5pts will do that to a convict awaiting sentencing
you can tell when trump camp gets awful internal polling back because he does something really stupid the next day
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