Dancing Backwards in Heels Yet

… but still not enough.

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

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  1. Despite extraordinary popular vote and qualifications, will a woman ever graduate from America’s electoral college?

  2. runner up ‘toon in a different sense

    Attribution: Eenie Meeny Miney – Are you Kidding me Voting by Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com

  3. Donald Trump aims to mimic a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, Tucker Carlon said incredibly gross and weird things about spanking a “bad girl,” and VP Kamala Harris will rally alongside Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen.

    check in at 6:30 minutes in stephen’s monologue in re the current campaign and today’s thread issue.

  4. Opinion | Donald Trump rants gibberish while Kamala Harris has to be perfect – The Washington Post

    Opinion The double standard for Harris and Trump has reached a breaking point
    Something is wrong with this split-screen picture. On one side, former president Donald Trump rants about mass deportations and claims to have stopped “wars with France,” after being described by his longest-serving White House chief of staff as a literal fascist. On the other side, commentators debate whether Vice President Kamala Harris performed well enough at a CNN town hall to “close the deal.”
    Seriously? Much of a double standard here?
    Somehow, it is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way. I don’t know the answer to the chicken-or-egg question — whether media coverage is leading public perception or vice versa — but the disparate treatment is glaring.
    This week, it became simply ridiculous.
    Retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly — who served as Trump’s homeland security secretary for six months, then as his White House chief of staff for a year and a half — said in an extended interview with the New York Times that Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”
    This followed a similar shocking assessment by retired Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the final 16 months of Trump’s presidency. Milley is quoted in Bob Woodward’s latest book, “War,” as saying that Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”
    It is hard to overstate how extraordinary this is. Two of the nation’s most honored and respected warriors, both of whom worked closely with Trump for extended periods, warned the nation about the grave danger of returning him to the White House. Respecting the tradition of keeping the armed forces out of partisan politics, neither Kelly nor Milley went so far as to explicitly endorse Harris. But they clearly intended their remarks to be understood by those who might vote for Trump as flashing red lights and blaring sirens.
    The Times published audio of the Kelly interview, in which he describes how Trump “commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too.’” In a separate interview with the Atlantic, Kelly recalled Trump telling him that he wanted obedient generals like “Hitler’s generals.” Trump “certainly prefers the dictator approach to government,” Kelly told the Times.
    During Wednesday’s town hall, CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Harris whether she believes Trump is a fascist. “Yes, I do,” she replied — and that was the headline from the event. But news stories and commentary also questioned her decision to pivot from questions about specific policy positions — almost all of which she has already spelled out in considerable detail — to attacks on Trump and warnings about the danger he poses to our democracy.
    Let’s review: First, Harris was criticized for not doing enough interviews — so she did multiple interviews, including with nontraditional media. She was criticized for not doing hostile interviews — so she went toe to toe with Bret Baier of Fox News. She was criticized as being comfortable only at scripted rallies — so she did unscripted events, such as the town hall on Wednesday. Along the way, she wiped the floor with Trump during their one televised debate.
    Trump, meanwhile, stands before his MAGA crowds and spews nonstop lies, ominous threats, impossible promises and utter gibberish. His rhetoric is dismissed, or looked past, without first being interrogated.
    Imagine if Harris were promising to end the war in Gaza on her first day in office but wouldn’t say how. Imagine if she were proposing a tariffs-based economic plan that economists say would destabilize the world economy and cost the average family $4,000 a year in higher prices. Imagine if she were promising a “bloody” campaign to uproot and deport millions of undocumented migrants who are gainfully employed and paying taxes. And imagine if Harris were vowing to use the military to go after her political opponents, as Trump repeatedly pledges.
    Kelly and Milley are hardly the only career servicemen to sound the alarm about a potential second Trump term. Two of Trump’s defense secretaries, Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis and Army Lt. Col. Mark T. Esper, and one of his national security advisers, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, have also warned about Trump’s erratic performance as commander in chief.
    They join a long list of civilians who worked in the Trump administration and say there should never be another one. Never has there been such a chorus of officials who served a president telling the nation that under no circumstances should he be elected again.
    Oops, there I go again, dwelling on the existential peril we face. Instead, let’s parse every detail of every position Harris takes today against every detail of every position she took five years ago. And then let’s wonder why she hasn’t already put this election away.

  6. Not mine, but one of the letter-writers:

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

  9. 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.

  12. 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

  14. 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.

  16. “The last best hope of earth”

         — Abraham Lincoln

    “The shining city upon a hill”

         — Ronald Reagan

    “A garbage can for the world”

        — Donald Trump

  17. 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

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

  20. 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.

  21. 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.  

  22. 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”

  23. 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

  24. 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.
     
     

  26. 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

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

  29. from law.com Conflict or Earned? Judge in Trump Cases Floated as Potential AG Pick

    Donald Trump is considering U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida Aileen Cannon as a nominee for the nation’s top prosecutor, according to numerous reports.
    ABC News first reported the former president, currently running for re-election, had named Cannon to a list of potential nominees for Attorney General, if he wins the election on Nov. 5.
    The news has sparked debate in the legal community for a number of reasons.
    On one hand, some say Trump recognized Cannon’s skillset when he appointed her to the bench long before she ever presided over any cases directly involving him.
    But on the other hand, some court watchers say awarding Cannon the top job would seem like a reward for her adjudication in Trump’s favor.
    ‘A Grain of Salt’
    In July, Cannon ruled that Trump’s federal classified documents trial be dismissed. She found Special Counsel Jack Smith’s “appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.” Smith is appealing that ruling.
    Cannon is also presiding over the case against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man accused of trying to assassinate Trump at a golf course in Florida. Court records suggest the judge was randomly selected for that case.
    But the question for some lawyers is whether the judge has a conflict—and if the reports of her consideration for a top job under a potential Trump presidency are true.
    Cannon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    “Anything said about a political candidate in the month of October should be taken with a grain of salt,” said South Florida attorney Blake Dolman of Krupnick Campbell Malone. “Less than two weeks before the election, the media is citing only anonymous sources in connection with reporting on this story. The reporting from ABC is clear that the document the outlet claims to have reviewed was drafted by Trump advisers and not the former president himself. In fact, there is no indication or allegation that President Trump has seen, reviewed or blessed this list.”
    Dolman said the former president, his advisers and the United States Senate recognized Cannon’s merit in 2020 when she was nominated, confirmed and appointed for life to be a United States federal judge for the Southern District of Florida where she previously served as a prosecutor for many years.
    “This was long before she became affiliated with any cases involving Donald Trump,” Dolman said. “This development carries notable legal implications, both for Trump’s future administration and for ongoing litigation involving Judge Cannon.”
    ‘Something Icky’
    Miami attorney Etan Mark of Mark Migdal & Hayden has a different take.
    “There’s something icky about a presidential candidate floating a promotion to a federal judge— in front of whom he was being prosecuted—if he succeeds in his reelection campaign,” Mark said. “Presumably, Judge Cannon has the integrity to ignore these flirtations. Otherwise, if the rumors are true, she should recuse herself from any pending cases involving the former President.”
    Trump’s team has not publicly commented on the ABC News reports.
    Trump nominated Cannon as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida in 2020 and has repeatedly praised her for dismissing the 40 criminal counts brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith related to Trump’s handling of classified materials after leaving the White House.
    ‘Much Cleaner to Go With Somebody Else’
    Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Edward J. Kone is skeptical about the news of Cannon’s potential elevation.
    “I’d be very suspect of the sources and things like that, because there’s a lot of misinformation floating around—a lot of no-truths and partial truths and half truths,” Kone said. “I’d be very skeptical about it.”
    Kone said he has great respect for the judge, but doesn’t think she would be the choice for two reasons.
    “Number one, it’s just too complicated and too controversial, … even though it would be legal,” Kone said. “But then there’s the issue … she’s the judge on the second assassin case. So that complicates things even more, and it’s much cleaner to go with somebody else.”
    Kone speculated different choices he considers better picks than Cannon, and doubted the former president would select the judge.
    “There are so many qualified candidates,” he said. “I don’t know why [Trump] would go down that road, and I don’t think he would.”

  32. craig, wonder if the freedom caucus guy is also demanding the refs go ahead and call unc and duke winners of tomorrow’s va  and smu games.   heck, he might as well officially swear in today the house speaker and senate majority leader for next congress.

    save us all the waste of time on stuff like actually playing/watching/betting on the games and going down to the polls to vote.

  33. 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.

  34. 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*.

  35. 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

  36. 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

  38. 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.

  39. 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.

  42. 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. 

  44. 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! 

  45. 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.

  49. 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”.

  50. 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.”

  54. 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.

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