Trump’s Taylor Hate Disgusts His Fans


It could be Trump’s verbal shot at a singer yesterday that ultimately affects the presidential campaign more than a thwarted assassination. Before the golf course incident that’s what was upsetting his own supporters on Sunday.

Influential Republican Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary and longtime Trump defender, was disgusted: “I hate this message. It’s pointless. Trump isn’t running against a singer. He is running against a San Fran dangerous liberal. He should keep his sights on the target.”

Similar responses showed up in the comments section of Trump’s Truth Social account:

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81 thoughts on “Trump’s Taylor Hate Disgusts His Fans”

  1. Kudos to NBC for keeping their eye on the ball.

    NBC’s Lester Holt: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants” in Springfield, Ohio, resulting in bomb threats. — Video.. https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1835449928136462361https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1835449928136462361om/CurtisHouck/status/1835449928136462361

  3. from huffpo: on another story in today’s news

    Elon Musk drew fierce backlash on his own X (formerly Twitter) platform for what was slammed as an “appalling and indefensible” response to an apparent second attempt on the life of former president and current GOP nominee Donald Trump.
    […]
    Musk posted: “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.”
    The billionaire, who has 197 million followers, added a thinking-face emoji.
    The criticism came fast as Musk ― who has endorsed Trump’s 2024 campaign ―- was accused of stoking division and inflaming tensions.
    Musk later deleted the post.
    He explained, “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X.”
    “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text,” he added.
    Musk did not elaborate on who was in the group that he initially told the “joke” to and who he said had found it “hilarious.”
    Musk’s explanation went down as badly as his alleged “joke” did.
    Here’s how commenters responded to the initial comment:
    [continues with samples.  I liked this one best from dave itzikoff who wrote: “and they say this site has advertising problems”] 

  4. something different but at least minimally pertinent to the thread topic: cartoonists speak as well as draw about taylor and trump.  this was produced last december so it’s somewhat dated:

    Brilliant political cartoonists Jeff Koterba, Rick McKee, Taylor Jones and Daryl Cagle join nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, Jase Graves for a fun and lively discussion on‪@caglecast‬ #34 as we discuss the unlikely cartoon duo of Trump and Taylor Swift. Discover the amazing connections between these two and how they are influencing the political landscape through fantastic cartoons!

  5. Harris-Walz Campaign Responds to Trump’s “I Hate Taylor Swift” Comments With Singer’s Song Lyrics (msn.com)

    The Harris-Walz campaign referenced 28 different Taylor Swift songs in a statement Sunday morning responding to Donald Trump’s “I Hate Taylor Swift” comments issued that same day.
    The statement, titled “Trump’s Bad Week (Taylor’s Version),” came in response to the former president’s Sunday morning Truth Social post, in which he wrote without context, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”
    “We’re pretty sure it’s Safe (& Sound) to say Donald Trump’s week has him Down Bad,” the Harris-Walz campaign wrote. “Mr. Not-at-all Fine has spent this week working through his feelings, whining about his Champagne Problems, and spending exactly none of his time addressing the issues facing the American people.”
    In total, the lengthy statement references 28 different Swift songs, with lines like “Call it What You Want, but it’s Nothing New for the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “We can make sure The Story of Us is one of progress – and show Donald Trump we are not going Back to December of 2020. Like ever.” A portion of the references are attributed to campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika as well.
    The quippy release comes on the heels of the Democratic campaign’s launch of Taylor Swift-centric ads following the singer’s endorsement of Harris and Walz after Tuesday’s debate. Billboards in New York City’s Times Square and the Las Vegas strip advertised being “In Our Kamala Era” in reference to the superstar beloved and ongoing tour, and sent viewers to IWillVote.com.
    Swift’s endorsement on Tuesday, in which she proudly labeled herself a “Childless Cat Lady” in reference to Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance, led to 337,826 people visiting Vote.gov registration sites overnight.
    The songs referenced in Sunday’s statement include: “Safe & Sound,” “Down Bad,” “Mr. Perfectly Fine,” “Champagne Problems,” “The Man,” “Call It What You Want,” “Nothing New,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived,” “Shake It Off,” “Bad Blood,” “Better Than Revenge,” “Sad, Beautiful, Tragic,” “But Daddy, I Love Him,” “I Forgot That You Existed,” “Out of the Woods,” “Blank Space,” “Begin Again,” “Long Live,” “All Too Well,” “The Last Time,” “End Game,” “Breathe,” “The Story of Us,” “Back to December,” “Enchanted,” “Fearless” and “We Are Never Getting Back Together.” One bullet point also references the album title 1989.
    See the full statement below.
    [continues]

  6. This guy can have an assault rifle and threaten a former president???

    MAN WITH GUN BARRICADES SELF INSIDE BUSINESS
    Greensboro News & Record (Dec 16, 2002)

    An armed man was arrested Monday morning after barricading himself in a business during a three-hour standoff, police said.

    Ryan Routh, 36, was arrested without incident at 1 a.m. Monday at United Roofing, 1735 W. Lee St., Greensboro police said.Routh was pulled over about 10 p.m. Sunday during a traffic stop, police said. But he put his hand on a firearm and drove to United Roofing, where he remained barricaded inside, police said.

    Routh was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, referring to a fully automatic machine gun. He was also charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer and driving while license revoked.

    https://greensboro.com/man-with-gun-barricades-self-inside-business/article_3006b4f9-9370-5b08-a54e-46c87faf6cbe.html

  7. I’m looking for substantiation but this was the Google answer to a question about when  Haitian immigrants started coming to Springfield. 

    Haitians first started arriving around 2018 and chose Springfield because of job opportunities and affordable housing, Lucken Merzius, a Haitian immigrant living in the area, told PBS News. “I got a decent job when I was in Haiti, and then had to make a difficult decision to leave. It wasn’t easy,” he told the outlet.

    now remind me, who was president in 2018 and oversaw US immigration then 🤔

  8. Springfield Daily News:

    For the last five years, many immigrants from Haiti have moved to Springfield, Ohio, and the number continues to grow.
    Some have said there are around 15,000-20,000 in the city, which has a total population of about 60,000. The influx has caused strain to government resources in Springfield and on the schools and nonprofits that offer assistance.
    Most are in the city legally and have or are eligible for Temporary Protected Status, a federal immigration designation that allows them to legally live and work in the U.S. Some have an asylum claim pending and, like immigrants across the nation, face a severely backlogged immigration system that is complicated and the subject of heated political rhetoric.
    One big question: Why did Haitians start moving to Springfield in the first place?
    Reporter Lynn Husley, who has extensively covered the Haitian community there, says this: “They are attracted to a community that has plentiful job opportunities and supportive services for them.”
    Hulsey says sources she has interviewed report those who come to Springfield will tell their family and friends back home they can find affordable living in Springfield as well.
    Our reporting also shows the Haitian population may be more around 12,000-15,000. That’s according to Mayor Rob Rue, who conducted a news conference in the city on Sept. 10. That number comes from the Clark County Health District and other partners.
    The newspaper of record in the city is the Springfield News-Sun. Reporters and photojournalists there have been reporting on this topic for a long time. Here is a guide to some of that coverage.
    >> Haitian immigrants in Springfield face complex immigration system and long delays
    Some have an asylum claim pending and, like immigrants across the nation, face a severely backlogged immigration system that is complicated and the subject of heated political rhetoric. Congress is gridlocked on reforming the system, providing funding to expedite immigration cases and approving measures to try to stem the tide of new migrants crossing the southern U.S. border. MORE
    >> Springfield’s Haitian population evolving from strangers to neighbors
    (…)

    I wonder how Dumbass is going to like Vance hanging this lodestone around his neck. 

  9. Oh, and… also from SDN:

    Congress created TPS in 1990, giving the executive branch authority to designate countries undergoing armed conflict, environmental disaster, or extraordinary and temporary conditions that prevented nationals from returning. It can only be offered to people already in the U.S. who don’t have criminal records.
    There is no pathway to citizenship with TPS and immigrants can be deported once the period of time covered by the authorization ends.

    What party was in the presidency in 1990 and a signed off on that policy?  In fairness, both houses of Congress in 1990 were controlled by Democrats. But wait, no pathway to citizenship? So no voting?

  12. Unfortunately, the assassination attempt is eating up vital campaign air time.  Right when Kampala needs to be front and center, it’s all Trump top of the block.

  14. All the crazy Mump shit since 2015,  but oh geez, attacking Taylor Swift is off the rails?
    All those people need to go wait in the truck.  

  17. Have you seen Melanoma speaking about how 
    they are trying to kill her husband and the govt is covering up because the real plotters are Dems
     
    she ‘s writing a book. 

  19. KGC……I’ve seen some of that…..it’ll make you laugh; it’ll make you cry; it’ll make you wanna throw up…….
     
    They promised her:  No actual thinking or writing.  

  23. It actually seems really dangerous for tRUMPsky to tweet that about Swift because some of his more rabid incels might be inspired to try something…and then they would discover she has a better security detail than their leader. 
     

  24. Orange Adolf revoked mental health checks for gun buyers.  Karma.  (Maybe Biden reinstated?)

    Democrats could come up with some sort of gun bill and name it for Adolf, maybe taking a line from Loomer’s post; The Gun Safety Act To Protect President tRUMP At All Costs…and then see if MAGAt Republicans will kill it.

  25. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/more-bomb-threats-hit-springfield-ohio-after-trump-elevates-false-claims-about-haitians
    “Two hospitals in Springfield, Ohio, were sent into lockdown after bomb threats, police said on Saturday, marking the fourth such case in as many days that appears linked to false claims circulating among the far right that Haitian immigrants there are eating domestic pets and wildlife.”
     
    “On Friday, a Springfield woman, Erika Lee, apologized for rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets that resulted from a post she wrote on Facebook claiming that the friend of a neighbor’s daughter lost her cat – and then found the animal strung up outside the home of a Haitian family.  Lee now says she had no firsthand knowledge of the claim. The neighbor referenced in the post, Kimberly Newton, revealed that she also had heard the story from an acquaintance and not her daughter.”
     
    “Separately, an explanation for a viral photo of a man carrying two geese in Columbus, Ohio, has been made, although it also helped set off the now-discredited rumors about pet-eating in nearby Springfield.   The Ohio state division of wildlife told TMZ that the man had been picking up the two geese that had been hit by a car. The agency also reported that there was no evidence that the man was Haitian, an immigrant or that he intended to eat the geese.”
     
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/15/jd-vance-create-stories-migrants-eating-pets/75236975007/
    “JD Vance says he does not regret spreading baseless rumors of migrants eating pets”
    “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people then that’s what I’m going to do,” Vance told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
     
    So, the threats and lockdowns didn’t start until JD started spewing lies.  Is he libel for inciting hate crimes?
     

  26. Loada horseshit.  SS and local SD did the right things, nobody was hurt, and the only injury to DF was that he couldn’t even finish the front 9.  Move on.
    And here’s hoping the Harris campaign rides hard and loud the JDouche admission that he admits he’ll just make it up if he thinks the news media isn’t paying sufficient attention to the lies DF spews about “illegals”, facts and statistics be damned.

  27. Not sure whether DF’s post potential assassination attempt fundraising sounds more like Mussolini or the Wizard of Oz.  (BYW. No one has ever been killed in a potential assassination attempt except the potential assassins).

  28. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/tech/elon-musk-biden-trump-assassination-attempt/index.html
    “Elon Musk deleted a post Monday morning that questioned why former President Donald Trump has faced two apparent assassination attempts in recent months while President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not encountered any. Musk later claimed the post was a joke.”
    “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔,” Musk wrote in the now-deleted X post.
     
    That last part sounds like a call to action.  Can his US citizenship be revoked, and can he then be deported…to Mars? 

    “It’s unclear if Musk, who owns X, violated X’s terms of service with those posts. He has routinely flouted his platform’s rules with few consequences. X said it restricts “engaging in or promoting violent acts,” although Musk denied he was calling for violence.”

  29. I received 4 ads in the mail from the Michigan Republican Party last week urging me to vote for Trump. They said more Americans trust Trump on the economy. Plus, Trump had no involvement in writing “Project 2025” and he has publicly disavowed it.

  30. Crazed goofball like Artie Bremer and Hinckley and Czolgosz and Sara Jane Moore and Sirhan Sirhan all got close enough to do hellacious damage even though Moore failed.  J.W. Booth was from a totally different security situation.  My point is today’s potential assassins are rather sorry-assed in comparison to the deadly deeds their forebears accomplished.  Trump’s narrow escape was a fluke in July, but yesterday could have been a hit if Routh had not exposed his weapon through the vegetation.  The security gaps are always to be there, and I believe a highly trained killer could succeed with just a small security lapse somewhere, anywhere.  So let’s hope today’s wanna-bees are going to remain not-so-perfect beings, not 100% trained assassins.  Remember, snipers can kill from 2 miles away. Yikes.

  31. Corey, not to put too fine a point on it, but reportedly shit tons of his former WH staff were involved in writing portions of it, the primary author briefed him on it during a plane ride and Dumbass endorsed it, he addressed Heritage Fdn., who funded it and thanked them, said he’d implement it as his policy platform if elected, and his FUCKING RUNNING MATE, JDouche  wrote the foreword for it.
     
    BTW, not sure if i posted this after the debate, but it was at WaPo,

    In their first and perhaps only presidential debate in the 2024 election, a defensive former president Donald Trump relied on many of his favorite falsehoods to combat attacks from Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris stretched the truth on occasion, but she was no match in the falsehood department against Trump.

    Here’s a roundup of 55 claims that caught our interest, in the order in which they were made. (In some cases we have grouped similar Trump statements together.) As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios when we do a roundup of facts in debates.
     

    “Economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result, for middle-class families, in about $4,000 more a year.”
    — Harris
    This may be a high estimate. Trump suggested he wants to impose a 10 percent tax on every imported good entering the United States and a 60 percent tax on every imported good from China. The pro-trade Peterson Institute for International Economics has estimated that this would cost a typical U.S. household in the middle of the income distribution about $1,700 in after-tax income. That’s because tariffs are typically passed on to consumers by importers — a standard economic concept that Trump rejects.
    But in one recent campaign rally, Trump mused that he would impose a 20 percent tariff. Peterson redid the numbers and estimated this would cost that typical household more than $2,600 a year.
    Harris is relying on an estimate from the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund, which calculates the cost would be $3,900.
    But economist Kimberly Clausing, co-author of the Peterson study, says these studies are underestimates because they do not consider the increase in the price of goods that compete with imports. “We have every reason to think U.S. domestic prices would rise in those sectors that compete with imports,” and “that effect is very large,” she said in an email. “The true cost I’d guess is roughly twice as high as our number.”

    “I have no sales tax. That’s an incorrect statement. She knows that we’re doing tariffs on other countries. Other countries are going to finally, after 75 years, pay us back for all that we’ve done for the world, and the tariff will be substantial in some cases.”
    — Trump
    Trump is flat wrong to claim that the entire tariff is paid by a foreign country. 
    There is no controversy among economists, who agree that tariffs — essentially a tax on domestic consumption — are paid by importers, such as U.S. companies, which in turn pass on most or all of the costs to consumers or producers who may use imported materials in their products. As a matter of demand and supply elasticities, overseas producers will pay part of the tax if there are fewer goods sold to the United States. Domestic producers in effect get a subsidy because they can raise their prices to the level imposed on importers.
    Through the end of his presidency, Trump-imposed tariffs garnered about $75 billion on products from China. So, ultimately, Americans footed the bill for Trump’s tariffs, not the Chinese. Moreover, the China tariff revenue was reduced by $28 billion in payments the government made to farmers who lost business because China stopped buying U.S. soybeans, hogs, cotton and other products in response.

    That’s 2 of 55.  Feel free to read the others.  Never know when that kind of info might come in handy – maybe at a cocktail party? (Do people still have cocktail parties?)

  32. A couple or three more:

    “I had tariffs, and yet I had no inflation. … I had no inflation, virtually no inflation. They had the highest inflation perhaps in the history of our country because I’ve never seen a worse period of time.”

    “We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before, probably the worst in our nation’s history.”

    — Trump

    PresidentJoe Bidendid not have the highest inflation in U.S. history.Inflation spiked to 9 percent in mid 2022, a 40-year-high, but is now below 3 percent. (For all of 2022, inflation was 6.5 percent.) Inflation was 12.5 percent in 1980, 13.3 percent in 1979 and 18.1 percent in 1946 — and many other years were higher than 6.5 percent.

    Higher prices for goods and services would have happened no matter who was elected president in 2020. Inflation initially spiked because of pandemic-related shocks — increased consumer demand as the pandemic eased and an inability to meet this demand because of supply-chain problems, as companies reduced production when consumers hunkered down during the pandemic. Indeed, inflation rose around the world — with many peer countries doing worse than the United States — because of pandemic-related shocks that rippled across the globe.

    “We have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums.”

    —Trump

    This is poppycock. Immigration experts know of no effort by other countries to empty their prisons and mental institutions. As someone who came to prominence in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Trump appears to be channeling Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s 1980 Mariel boatlift. About 125,000 Cubans were allowed to flee to the United States in 1,700 boats — but there was a backlash when it was discovered that hundreds of refugees had been released from jails and mental health facilities.

    Helen Fair, research associate at the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research in Britain, which tracks the world prison population (except for a handful of countries), says the numbers keep growing. In 2013, 10.2 million people were in prison globally — and that had grown to 10.77 million in 2021. A preliminary estimate for February 2024, not ready to be published, indicates the population has grown even more. “In short, I would disagree with Donald Trump’s assertion,” she said.

    “You look at Springfield, Ohio, you look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They’re taking over buildings. They’re going in violently. … They’re at the highest level of criminality, and we have to get them out.”

    “A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”

    — Trump

    Trump is channeling right-wing social media sensations. On Springfield, Trump is referencing a ridiculous social media hoax, supposedly centered on Haitian immigrants eating cats and other animals, that has spawned thousands of memes across right-wing social media. There is no evidence that Haitians are doing this. As for Aurora, police in this Denver suburb say this claim is false — a Venezuelan gang has not taken over an apartment complex.

    “I’m not saying that there’s not gang members that don’t live in this community, but what we’re learning out here is that gang members have not taken over this complex,” Heather Morris, the interim police chief in Aurora, said in a recent video taped outside the complex.

    Some tenants held a news conference recently and also disputed the notion that the gang had taken over the complex. Instead, they said, the problem was that the apartment block had fallen into disrepair and was infested with bedbugs, cockroaches and rats.
     

    “I created one of the greatest economies in the history of our country. … We had the greatest economy.”

    — Trump

    This is false. Before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered businesses and sent unemployment soaring, the president could certainly brag about the state of the economy in his first three years. But he ran into trouble when he made a play for the history books to say it was the best economy in U.S. history. By just about any important measure, the economy under Trump did not do as well as it did under Presidents Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson or Bill Clinton.
    The gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in 2019, slipping from 2.9 percent in 2018 and 2.4 percent in 2017. But in 1997, 1998 and 1999, GDP grew 4.5 percent, 4.5 percent and 4.7 percent, respectively. Yet even that period paled in comparison with the 1950s and 60s. Growth between 1962 and 1966 ranged from 4.4 percent to 6.6 percent. In postwar 1950 and 1951, it was 8.7 percent and 8 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate reached a low of 3.5 percent under Trump, but it dipped as low as 2.5 percent in 1953.
    (Continues)

    Plenty more where those came from.

  33. One last one on Project 2025.  This is close to my understanding.

    “What you’re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025, that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected.”

    — Harris

    “I have nothing to do as you know, and as she knows better than anyone, I have nothing to do with Project 2025 that’s out there.”

    — Trump

    Project 2025 is not an official campaign document, and we’ve called out Democrats for sometimes falsely suggesting policies that are not in it, such as on Social Security and the  Mandate for Leadership,” a 922-page manifesto filled with detailed conservative proposals that is popularly labeled Project 2025. But there are definitely Trump connections.

    A CNN review found that 140 people who worked in the Trump administration contributed to the report. In April, at an event for the Heritage Foundation, which produced the document, Trump praised Kevin Roberts, its president, and appeared to endorse Project 2025. “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America,” Trump said.

    “[N]ot a campaign document” but his people drafted it, he knew about  it and endorsed it and said it is “…plans for exactly what our movement will do and what your movement will do when the American people give us a colossal mandate to save America.”  No reading between the lines necessary.

  34. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13847227/donald-trump-jr-caught-kissing-bettina-anderson-fiancee-kimberly-guilfoyle.html
    “Donald Trump Jr. is ‘caught kissing’ glamorous Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson during brunch date without fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle”
     
    “Don Jr. was last seen with his 55-year-old fiancée at the MAGA Boat Parade in Palm Beach County on August 18, the day after his intimate meal with Bettina.”
    “They also clearly knew the waiter, telling him at one point that they were planning a trip to Islamorada, a resort destination in the Florida Keys.”
    Can’t help but read this trashy writing in a late-1940’s Hollywood news voice. Ha!   Yeah, it’s a distraction, but if it’s real…the gargoyle probably knows where the bodies are buried aka Russian ties. 
     

  35. Chump IS Project 2025.  He SAYS he’s not but he’s a liar. Everybody knows he’s a liar , and he’s lying about that because it’s politically expedient to follow his natural inclination to lie about it.  Hell, he lies IN COURT……INDER OATH……….lol
    That boy ain’t right.  He told his dad that Fred jr cut down that cherry tree and said (with a straight face), “I cannot tell a lie.”
    He was lying again.

  36. Only the good ol’ American MSM could take a racist non-sequitur blurted out by a flailing simpleton amid an embarrassing debate performance and turn that into into a week’s worth of cultural and political analysis, all based on disinformation, great job, corporate media 👍 😒

  38. i had thought that the topic of Haitian immigrants might bring the absolute political catastrophe that has been occurring in Haiti for years into the media’s focus, but nope, it’s electoral pro-wrestling season, let’s parse lies, instead

  39. Bink, close to half the country believes whatever racist non-sequitur blurted out by the flailing simpleton amid an embarrassing debate performance, all based on disinformation, says. It is odd that it takes a week to fact check what was denied at all levels of OH government (well, except their Senators and Reps) and debunked in the next 2 days.  Adding the geese to the dogs and cats was genius – in that inimitable flailing simpleton way JDouche and Dumbass have.

  40. Another thing: the Secret Service can only do so much when trump continues to insist on putting himself in vulnerable, exposed situations.  Enough with the golfing, it’s juvenile escapism 

    How many times has Kamala golfed in the last 4 years??

  41. Yo what kind of guitar is neo-classical jazz guitarist Phil Chapin playing on his debut album “Steel String Savant”?

  44. Bink, he’s a Japanese luthier who is now in Redwood City, CA.  That one is a base model of his, nothing fancy at all, and I have to say it’s a really nice sounding guitar in person.

  45. Well, Chafin makes it sound good on “Steel String Savant” 👍 
     
    Ok, pardon the guitar talk, again, those uninterested in it.  Back to the circus! 🐘 🎪 🇺🇸 

  47. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/europe/germany-land-border-control-schengen-intl/index.html

    “The German government under Angela Merkel welcomed more than one million new arrivals during the migrant crisis of 2015-2016 but is now following other European countries in toughening up rules as it faces a surging far-right opposition.
    Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger among its European neighbors.”

    “From Monday, as well as existing border controls with Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Poland, Germany will now also have internal border controls with France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.”

    “Germany is part of the Schengen border-free area. Under European Union rules, member states have the ability to temporarily reintroduce border control at internal borders in the event of a serious threat to public policy or internal security. However, this must be applied as a last resort.”

    “The current policy goal of turning back (migrants) seeking protection at Germany’s borders represents a dangerous form of populism in the migration policy debate,” a statement said, which called for an “evidence-based debate on migration policy in Europe.”

     Folks don’t typically leave home if they have a safe home, food, jobs, etc.

  49. Thanks – now if he only gets clicks or whatever produces some revenue (very little I expect) he’ll be one step further up the “I want my career to be music” ladder.

  50. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/12/texas-power-plant-expansion-granbury-bitcoin-mine-pollution/

    “Marathon Digital, a Florida-based cryptocurrency company, operates a 300-megawatt Bitcoin mine on Constellation Energy’s property. For months, residents have complained about the constant noise emanating from thousands of fans cooling Marathon’s computers that run round-the-clock processing Bitcoin transactions.”

    “The unyielding low-frequency sound waves have caused loss of sleep, and residents believe it may also be responsible for a host of unexplained health problems that have arisen since the Bitcoin mine opened in 2022.”

    “Constellation’s plan is to erect eight new turbines powered by natural gas to generate electricity. The company applied for air permits to release more than 796,000 additional tons of carbon dioxide per year. To sequester that amount of CO2 would require planting nearly 12 million trees and allowing them to grow for 10 years, according to EPA estimates.”

    “The permit also proposes increased emissions at the site for a host of other pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.”

    “…the crowd of largely white elderly and middle-aged Texans — several donning Trump campaign attire — showed that fossil fuel power plants can face opposition from all political stripes, especially when tied up with loud Bitcoin mines. United by concern for how more air emissions coupled with noise pollution could impact their health, the community also expressed mistrust in the process itself, believing that the meeting was for show, and the permits will be approved.”

    “What I’m hearing,” said Jim Brown of Granbury, “is as long as the government is OK with it, the public just has to submit.”

    All for a Ponzi scheme.  It’s just weird, but probably a good way launder money.

    Spent many summers there. Sad what they’ve done to the area.

  51. NEW: Big Village General Election poll

    Likely Voters 

    🔵 Harris 51% (+8)

    🔴 Trump 43%

    – Harris had a 4% lead in a previous, pre-debate poll (9/8) from Big Village. 

    Big Village #C | 1568 LV | 9/11-15

  54. Bink, it was referred to as a “potential assassination attempt”.  I was just gigging on the “potential” part of the phrase. And whether it was a plot or a plan, it was certainly foiled. And unless someone else was part of the plan, could it be a plot?

  55. Oh, sorry, my previous comment wasn’t directed to you at all. Pogo.  It was directed towards pop-political media 

    Every headline says “assassination attempt” and that is just not accurate, just more sensational

    …could just as accurately say “Trump Voter Exercising His 2nd Amendment Right To Open Carry Is Fired On By Jittery Security Staff”

  56. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/politics/ryan-routh-trump-suspect-invs/index.html

    “…Routh had a history of run-ins with the law in his native North Carolina.
    In 2002, the Greensboro News and Record newspaper reported that he had been arrested after barricading himself inside a local business with a machine gun.
    Court records show he was charged with felony possession of a weapon of mass destruction, among other charges, and pleaded guilty.
    Tracy Fulk, a Greensboro police officer at the time, told CNN that the incident started when she pulled Routh over for a traffic stop. She said she saw a gun in his car, and after she pulled out her gun, he drove away and ran into his business. That led to a standoff with a police special response team, and Routh later surrendered…”

  57. Nah, I didn’t take it that way anyhow.  It was the pop-political media description I was gigging on.  Hell, I question the use of the term assassination, but I think I’d lose that one.

  61. MikeyJ – clueless git.

    House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he and his wife spent “a few hours” with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the shooting. Johnson wrote on social media that he and his wife “are thanking God for protecting [Trump] today — once again,” and said, “No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient. He is unstoppable.”

    Sounds almost like a challenge to me…Please – one nutjob’s bullet nicked his ear (Not leaving a scar, and that is almost beyond comprehension) and another nutjob didn’t get a shot off.  And somehow the name Gerry Ford comes to mind. Oh, and leader?  As Bink noted, words matter.

  62. I think there was a movie (or was it a play?) about that Babington thing – had a great plot as I recall. 🕵️‍♂️🙄

  63. Irony upon irony, Mikey. It’s Trump’s own rhetoric that’s fueling his attackers. Media need to quit with the both-siderism and spotlight the both-waysism. 

  69. I’ll be interested in what they can charge him with if they can’t prove he intended to shoot Trump. How ironic if his would-be assassin uses the same no-intent defense as he does.

  70. Tell the young guys the MAGAts are going after birth control next, and their wages will be garnished to pay child support.   Might get their attention.   

  71. Suffolk just released 3 polls from Pennsylvania that each paints similar picture:

    —Statewide: Harris up 49% to 46%

    —just Erie County: Harris up 48% to 44%.
    (Erie went for Biden by 1% in 2020.)

    —just Northampton County: Harris up 50% to 45%
    (Also went for Biden by 1% in 2020.)

  72. We can’t let the significance of Trump’s “hatred” of Taylor Swift pass by just because a crazed maga “plotted” to shoot him. Trump is a self-loathing malignant narcissist which means the source of all his hatred is in his bathroom mirror.

  74. …actually Pogo was on the right track from my misnomer, a “plot” would imply a conspiracy, one’s independent intent would constitute a “plan” 
     
    We’ve just discussed accuracy of verbiage more than apparently every editorial board in corp. news

    Furthermore!

    Definitions in the most accessible online dictionaries don’t state that a plot needs more than a singular participant, but it is a top synonym for “conspiracy”. i used “plot” because it’s more impactful, the same reason the MSM uses “assassination attempt”, except i’m being more truthful, and don’t influence ostensibly millions of people

    OR

    the editorial boards aren’t as stupid as i’d purport and are participating in the trump narrative deliberately

  75. Jesus H. Christ, there is no “play responsibly” with this online gambling bullshit and its highly-exploitative behavioral mechanics. i’d castigate KO for having such companies as sponsors but online gambling sponsors everything now
     
    plenty of easy revenue to put into marketing

  79. Well, this evening Mrs. P and I went out to celebrate our 28th. Had a wonderful time. Sat next to 4 old friends and got the rare opportunity to casually shoot the shit with folks we know. 

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