Dancing Backwards in Heels Yet

… but still not enough.

Attribution: Harris Trump double standard by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Pogeaux
5 months ago

Thanks Pat for posting Gene’s column. 

IvyGreen
5 months ago

Not mine, but one of the letter-writers:

I think Van Jones said it well: “Trump is Lawless. Kamala must be flawless”.

IvyGreen
5 months ago

JIT Delivery

The Bureau of Prisons said in a letter to Bannon on Monday that his release date will remain October 29, as originally set. That means he will serve his full 120-day sentence for contempt of Congress behind bars.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/steve-bannon-early-release-bureau-of-prisons/index.html

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Half of Americans see Donald Trump as a fascist, 2/3 say he’s a liar: ABC News poll
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-fascist-concerns-poll/story?id=115083795

The poll question defined fascist as “a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator, disregards individual rights and threatens or uses force against their opponents”

blueINdallas
5 months ago

Hmmm, Kelsey Ballerini patter during a song on the Today Show: “Are we all feeling a little UNHINGED?”  Camera cuts to two, blonde, 40-something Karens who look at each other and laugh and clap.    Folks, I think they’ve embraced “unhinged” as a badge of honor.  Or, I’m just reading into it.

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Top 20 rated Michigan polls
Quinnipiac
Harris 49 (+3)
Trump 46
————–
Michigan State
Harris 52 (+4)
Trump 48

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Undecideds Moving Toward Harris

An upside that is inside today’s NYT poll showing it tied overall (48-48):
Harris leads undecideds by 10 points (poll asked how they lean). Two weeks ago the same pollster found they were tied among these so-called “not fully decided” voters, who are 15% of the entire sample.

So Kamala is gaining among how undecideds say they’re leaning.
I’d much rather be her in this poll.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/poll-harris-trump-times-siena.html

blueINdallas
5 months ago

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/25/kamala-harris-trump-ted-cruz-allred-texas-beyonce-joe-rogan/

“Harris will deliver remarks at a rally in Houston, where she’ll focus on abortion and women’s health and flex her star power support with a performance by Beyoncé, according to media reports.” (Location: Shell Energy Stadium Capacity: 22,039)
 
“Just hours before, Trump will speak to reporters at a private jet terminal in Austin…”

LoL! Capacity 39?

”.. and at a rally in Houston at Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale’s store.”

LoL! At a mattress store, probably in the parking lot. I don’t this what The Godfather meant by “to the mattresses,” Don-Old.

craigcrawford
5 months ago

I guess this is his version of the bizarre “good people on both sides” — JD Vance criticizes “American leaders” who pick a side in the war in Ukraine: “Unfortunately, you got a lot of American leaders who like to beat their chest and say; this [Ukraine] is the good guy and this [Russia] is the bad guy.”..

craigcrawford
5 months ago

“The last best hope of earth”

     — Abraham Lincoln

“The shining city upon a hill”

     — Ronald Reagan

“A garbage can for the world”

    — Donald Trump

whskyjack
5 months ago

This race can’t possibly be as close as the polls are predicting. 
The Democrats are running a centrist campaign, with a booming economy (my ira is up 25% year over year) their base is secure and they are making inroads on the Republican base with many core Republicans either refusing to support their candidates or jumping on the “Republican voting the Democrat” wagon.
The “who would you drink a beer with” test favors the Democrats too.
This election is starting to look like 1972, with the party roles reversed. Nixon almost ran the table that time. Explain to me why we shouldn’t expect much the same for Harris?
Jack

whskyjack
5 months ago

Add Drudge’s comment.
Who is the candidate pushing the American myth Reagan style?
Tied? Really?
Jack

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Was just looking at Taylor Swift’s tour schedule again and noticed an unusually long gap next week between New Orleans and Indianapolis???

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Jack, I see more reasons the polls are overestimating Trump than anything else.

For starters a trend in recent elections has grown exponentially, which is at least a couple dozen Republican funded polls with questionable methodology skewing the averages we follow at realclearpolitics, 538 etc.

And legitimate pollsters are still spooked by under estimating hidden Trump vote in 2016 and 2020 (to a lesser extent). They are even talking among themselves and occasionally in public that there’s a chance they’re overcompensating for that.

Also, we saw in the 2022 midterms how much pollsters missed what I call the Alito Surge, the post-Dobbs rise of reproductive freedom voters who irregularly show up for elections. It doesn’t seem like that’s getting factored into current polls.

blueINdallas
5 months ago

Craig – It’s only a four-day gap from New Orleans to Indy.   Maybe she’s recording, doing a video, or finally releasing Reputation tv and doing press for it…or maybe she is doing something with Harris?  IDK. Those tour dates have been set for a long time.  

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Last night in the Atlanta rally Kamala further refined what appears to be her closing argument, and I like it!

“Our choice is clear. It’s either Donald Trump in the Oval Office stewing over his enemies list, or me working for you checking off my to-do list”

whskyjack
5 months ago

Craig 
That is a great closing line. The great thing about it is that the Trump campaign isn’t denying it. Instead they are saying “Hell Yes!”.
Just a thought, in a crazy election year for some billionaire Democratic supporter. Your biggest bang for the buck isn’t TV or internet ads. It is free  beer in all the maga world counties on election day. They will be too busy drinking to go vote. 
Jack

whskyjack
5 months ago

An interesting bit from Bloomberg about major newspapers publishers/owners blocking planned endorsement from their editorial board.

 

The paper, which is owned by Amazon.com Inc. co-founder Jeff Bezos, had drafted an endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to Oliver Darcy’s newsletter Status.
Top editorial page editors at the Los Angeles Times resigned this week after the newspaper’s owner blocked a planned endorsement for Harris.
 
 

craigcrawford
5 months ago

@KamalaHQ

Trump has an enemies list.

I have a to-do list.

whskyjack
5 months ago

Craig
Trumps enemies list threat seems to be working with the major newspapers in the US, from the link above. It, also, explains NYtimes using different standards for the candidates. Major media companies are either in bed with Maga world or they are running scared. Which explains (not forgives) the weird take on an election that by any traditional standards isn’t even a race. 
Jack

whskyjack
5 months ago

I try not to engage in conspiracy theories but sometimes it is not paranoia. Sometimes they really are out to get you.
Jack

RebelliousRenee
5 months ago

today’s meme…
 
 

craigcrawford
5 months ago

And the next coup attempt begins..

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris said last night that North Carolina legislators should consider awarding their state’s electors to Donald Trump before votes are counted, due to the impact of Hurricane Helene.. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/trump-freedom-caucus-north-carolina-electors-00185520

Pogeaux
5 months ago

Well my vote is in.  To indicate how effective it might be, of the 15 or so local and statewide offices on the ballot, half a dozen did not have a dem even running for the office.
 
Oh, and would Dumbass go down that (Cannon) road?  Hell yes he would.

Corey
5 months ago

My mailbox was full of all kinds of fliers from the Michigan Republican party, as well as fliers from “Securing American Greatness”. I also received a free complimentary issue of “The Epoch Times” in my mailbox. With and enclosed envelope should I want to subscribe to their paper. *SMH*.

whskyjack
5 months ago

Pogo
With Trump, if you start a sentence with: “I can’t believe anybody would…” Odds are he will do it and that is where you place your bet. If he says it he will do it. The only thing that would hold him back is the total incompetence of his staff
Jack

Bink
5 months ago

polls seem accurate to me, that electoral college is the rub

even if polls were 100% accurate and they’re not people can still change their mind in the voting booth

craigcrawford
5 months ago

ABC News: Ex-model who accused Trump of groping her in 1990s says Epstein mentioned Trump ‘every time we spoke’

https://abcnews.go.com/US/model-accused-trump-groping-1990s-epstein-mentioned-trump/story?id=115140529&cid=social_twitter_abcn

Blue Bronc
5 months ago

Quite the well known names dumping their WashPoo subscriptions on twit and other intertube sites.  Nothing like the great goodbye of the LA Times subscriptions.  LA Times was finally making a good return from the dead, and now a retreat to the grave. 
 
It is hard to judge how much impact the cowtowing to sfb by the billionaires is affecting the newspapers as they are private playtoys and do not need to put out numbers.  Bezos has the jungle site to keep the dollars flowing in so he has no reason to be concerned about life.  He probably is so numb to be called names that a few more is not even in his sight.

Sturgeone
5 months ago

Any paper refusing to point out stump’s actual state of mind is a pawn of Russia.
No more excuses.    

We either vote them out or Kruschev was dead right.

His candidacy should have feathered, crashed, and burned LONG AGO. Who or what has been keeping him afloat all. this. time. Who or what.

And….why?

Treachery, within the walls.

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Kamala Houston Beyonce rally. PBS live stream..

Blue Bronc
5 months ago

Surprise surprise, surprise.  Bezos, billionaire of jungle site and WashPoo, met with sfb today.  So we know the orange blob is not powerful, but russia is.  Not to speculate about it, but something seems very off when the billionaires suck hind teet to an orange moron.

IvyGreen
5 months ago

Bet-hedging moguls have nothing to lose if Kamala wins, everything to lose if Donald wins. I’d like to hope this “anticipatory surrender” by the media will rattle us enough to rally our votes and, alternately make moogoos overconfident so to not bother. 

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Washington Post editor at large Robert Kagan has resigned following Jeff Bezos overruling Harris endorsement.

blueINdallas
5 months ago

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/25/ted-cruz-colin-allred-texas-senate-ethics-complaint/
“Sen. Ted Cruz accused national Democrats on Thursday of illegally exceeding contribution limits to his opponent U.S. Rep. Colin Allred’s campaign.”
“But Democrats say they’re simply doing what Republicans have been doing in their ads.”
“Cruz’s complaint focuses on four ads by the Allred campaign and the DSCC. One of the ads dedicates roughly half of its time to abortion, featuring Kate Cox, a Texas woman who had to leave the state to terminate her nonviable pregnancy. Cruz asserts that the ad does not include any references to “generically referenced candidates” and therefore does not follow FEC guidance. The other ads include references to Cruz “and extremists” featuring images of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but Cruz asserts that is not enough to constitute an attack on “generically referenced candidates.”
“But in a recent ruling, the FEC failed to determine whether similar cases violated the law.”
“A deadlock effectively allows candidates to continue as they had prior to the ruling.”
“The recent FEC ruling was in response to a complaint by the DSCC over Republicans’ frequent use of hybrid ads to get lower rates.”
 
You know what this means, kids! Ted knows he’s losing! 

blueINdallas
5 months ago

Probably more attention to Bezos blocking the endorsement than if it had been allowed, plus blowback for his other businesses.   His uppance will come. 

Time wounds all heels.

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Bezos made decision to kill Harris endorsement, reports Washington Post

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4954012-bezos-washington-post-endorsement/

blueINdallas
5 months ago

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/entertainment/phil-lesh-death/index.html
“Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh has died at 84”

IvyGreen
5 months ago

I was not waiting around to see how Bezoz would blow. 

Sturgeone
5 months ago

Robert Kagan, hero.  

Washington Post, Zero.
See ya, hate to be ya.

Look at em……sfb, Muks, bezoose, pootin, thiel, Shady Vance, all of ‘em acting like they invisible.

Mr Beeezoose has joined the conspiracy.
I guess that’s what ya gotta call “obvious”.

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Statement from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein:

“We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page, but this decision 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Post’s own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process.”

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Kamala Beyonce Rally starting now, huge crowd..

craigcrawford
5 months ago

Willie Nelson playing now at Kamala rally

Bink
5 months ago

icymi

blueINdallas
5 months ago

Yep, a 22,000 seat arena  vs  Mattress Mack’s parking lot.  It must be killing him. 

Oops, it was 30,000 with folks on the floor.

blueINdallas
5 months ago

Traverse City rally playing a funeral dirge. Weird.