It is unprecedented that, of the five living Republicans who were nominated by their party for either president or vice president, only one is supporting the GOP presidential nominee in 2024.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has joined his daughter, former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, in endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris. Former President George W. Bush has not endorsed Harris, but he is definitely not backing former President Donald Trump, and neither is Paul Ryan, the one-time Republican Speaker of the House who ran for vice president in 2012. The guy at the top of the 2012 ticket, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, has made his antipathy to Trump very clear and he seems to be edging in the direction of a Harris endorsement.
Only the 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate, the intellectually fatuous Sarah Palin, is standing up for Trump. It is not hard to imagine that her running mate, the late, great Sen. John McCain, would never join the Trump team. McCain’s son, 1st Lt. Jimmy McCain, suggested as much when he recently joined the ranks of those supporting the Harris/Walz ticket.
And the army of conservative rebels for Harris is growing. It includes an impressive number of people who served in the Trump White House who now insist the man from Mar-a-Lago should never be allowed in the Oval Office again. There are also numerous military leaders and several veterans of Ronald Reagan’s administration who are supporting the Democratic candidate because they think Trump is in thrall to autocrats like Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Trump has an epithet he applies to everyone on this growing list of Republican detractors: RINOs — Republicans In Name Only. In truth, a more accurate moniker for the likes of Cheney and Romney would be TROUTs — Traditional Republicans Opposing Unhinged Trumpism.
These stalwarts of sane Republicanism have seen their party morph into an extremist personality cult. Far from proving themselves disloyal by opposing four more calamitous years of Trump’s self-aggrandizing misrule, the TROUTs are serving the best interests of their party — and their country.
Over 100 Former GOP Officials Endorsed Harris Today—Here’s The Full List (forbes.com) https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/09/18/former-republican-officials-endorse-harris/ Over 100 Republican former national security officials and members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a letter of support Wednesday, calling former President Donald Trump “unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust.” The list of 111 signatories includes former national security and foreign policy officials who served in Republican administrations ranging from Ronald Reagan to Trump, as well as numerous officials who worked on presidential campaigns for Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain. Some notable signatories include former CIA and FBI Director William Webster, George W. Bush’s Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, former CIA and NSA Director General Michael Hayden and former U.S. trade representatives Carla Hills and Robert Zoellick. Eight former members of Trump’s administration signed the letter, condemning Trump’s “chaotic and unethical behavior and disregard for our Republic’s time-tested principles of constitutional governance.” Former Republican Congress members, Romney adviser condemn Trump The list also includes some Republicans who did not endorse President Joe Biden in a similar open letter in 2020: former members of Congress Charles W. Boustany Jr. of Louisiana, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Dan Miller of Florida and Bill Paxon of New York. Comstock was a strategic adviser for Romney’s two presidential runs. “Vice President Harris has demonstrated a commitment to upholding the ideals that define our nation — freedom, democracy, and rule of law,” the group wrote. Among several reasons for their support, the group noted Harris’ ability to “engage in orderly national security decision-making, without the constant drama and Cabinet turnover of the Trump Administration” and her commitment to “appoint a Republican to her Cabinet in order to encourage a diversity of views and restore a measure of bipartisanship and comity to our domestic politics.” Trump, on the other hand, has “dangerous qualities,” the Republicans argued. “In our view, by inciting the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and defending those who committed it, he has violated his oath of office and brought… Read more »
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut was popular with investors, polling shows young people prefer VP Kamala Harris over her opponent, and Melania Trump released a bizarre video defending her decades-old nude photos.
One of the questions that has followed the fantastical statement that “Haitians” are eating peoples pets, cats and dogs and who knows what else, is why Springfield. Duh. We know that many of the stupid magat attack statements are created from cartoon programs on television. Springfield is where the Simpsons live. Hopefully,they watch the episode where sfb is projected to be in the ground in 2024.
pogo, yeah, I noticed the pence omission BUTthe heart of horsey’s “of the five living Republicans who were nominated by their party for either president or vice president, only one is supporting the GOP presidential nominee” is the word “supporting” and so far that’s only sarah.
Ahoy! The bilge rat says New York is in his camp. He says the crowd at the Harris debate went crazy for him. He says “they “ are calling him the G.O.A.T. President. He says Harris would destroy democracy, not him. And nearly half of voters believe this . Shiver me timbers! Arrrrrghhhh! Pirates are out today speaking their thoughts. Talk like a pirate day, 2024.
dex, IMHO he’s certainly an old goat as defined by several dictionaries as an elderly man who is disliked or a lecherous old man or (as Longman puts it) an unpleasant old man, especially one who annoys women in a sexual way
Pat
The only republicans that are worth praising are those that come out and support Harris. Just saying you find Trump deplorable isn’t enough. If you truly believe that Trump is a danger to this country. And a number of the generals who worked with him have said so on the record. Why aren’t you coming out in support of Harris. So lets not praise the Bushes , Romney and Ryan too much here. They want to distance themselves with out making any real commitment. They may deplore Trump but they will support Republicans who spew maga lies and will vote in lock step with Trump.
Jack
Pennsylvania: Harris 50, Trump 46 This NYT/Siena lead for Harris in PA is so encouraging because they have an excellent track record there, one of the few predicting Fetterman win in 2022, even nailing the exact number (+5). Also got 2020 presidential on the nose. Their turnout model for PA just about the best in the biz.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/trump-new-york-republicans-analysis/index.html “In a fresh show of governing futility, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday failed to pass a six-month extension of government funding, with a measure attached to please Trump that makes it harder for Americans to vote.” “The Republican nominee’s demands for a bill that targets noncitizen voting, which is already illegal, pushed Johnson into a corner with no obvious exits, raising the possibility of a Washington crisis in the run-up to Election Day that could blow back on the GOP.” “The gambit has zero chance of producing a new law — since Democrats who control the Senate oppose it. And Johnson couldn’t even get 16 of his own members to vote for it for various reasons — including unreconcilable demands by some arch conservatives for massive budget cuts, which also have no chance of making it into law because of the reality of divided power in Washington.” “Trump seems to be setting the GOP up for an intra-party fight that could turn into a disaster in November.” “The history of government shutdowns suggests that the party with control of the House — which has initial responsibility for the public purse — usually pays the biggest political price. And if the speaker cannot beat a deadline of October 1 to fund federal operations, the government could partially shut down.” “… the ex-president wrote on his Truth Social Network on Wednesday before the House vote: “Democrats are registering Illegal Voters by the TENS OF THOUSANDS, as we speak – They will be voting in the 2024 Presidential Election, and they shouldn’t be allowed to.” There are no facts that back up the claim. But Trump warned: “If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form.” tRUMPsky is a chaos monster. I hope every Republican on the ballot in November loses bigly. I hope orangey loses by so much, there can be nothing for the corrupt members of SCOTUS to give him an assist. Of course, I don’t know how the Republicans in various… Read more »
As with Plumpty, Pence’s issues come from his father. He learned how to “take it like a man.”
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence never served in the military, but he said Saturday that he learned from his father the lingering burdens that veterans bear after their time in uniform ends.
Pence’s father, Edward, who fought in the Korean War as a second lieutenant in the Battle of Old Baldy and the Battle of Pork Chop Hill, didn’t talk about the war with his children. The Bronze Star he earned stayed in his dresser drawer.
A few years after Edward Pence died, a cousin who’d grown up with him told the vice president that the war had changed him from being “the most happy-go-lucky guy” he’d ever met.
I got to laugh along with the Morning Joe staff and Hillary Clinton this morning when HRC told of the oft-told time she was sitting beside Bush43 as Trump gave his speech at the 2017 inauguration : “He turned to me and said ‘now that’s some weird shit!’ ”
Truth is, it’s weirder now. Hey, is Melania Trump getting anywhere with her assertations and questions about Harris-Walz being behind Crooks in Butler, and lately at the golf course in Florida? It seems like yesterday we broke the 100 day measure until the election; now we are down to 46 days. My ballot won’t be mailed out to me here in Ohio for a couple weeks. I am anxious to vote, more excited to vote since Obama 2008. It pains me that last night I got into a heated argument about Trump being unfit to be President, arguing with my highly educated step-daughter. She never watches the news and is just swept up in the bullshit.
Dex – I’m dealing with someone who has a Master’s in psychology and they can’t see Adolf for what he is; they are almost a decade my junior. Very whiny victim even though they have a lot more than I’ve ever had. Looking for a savior. Believes in dogma that is not Methodist, and doesn’t believe Project 2025 is coming from the Republican side. Scrolling some crazy stuff from somewhere. Example: July’s ear incident that wasn’t resulted in a quick assessment from somewhere that the shooter was a Chinese national.
“Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is expected to go on CNN today to defend himself regarding a pending story the national network is preparing, a campaign adviser says.”
The reported story makes explosive allegations regarding statements the national network says Robinson made on an online message board in 2009, Williams says. Robinson did not hold elected office until 2021, after his successful campaign for lieutenant governor in 2020.
“The main ones I remember were that they were alleging he made some extremely racist comments about Martin Luther King, referred to himself as a Black Nazi and used antisemitic language referring to Jews,”…
“The Carolina Journal, a conservative-leaning Raleigh publication, cited sources with direct knowledge as saying that members of Donald Trump’s campaign are pressing Robinson to withdraw from the governor’s race because of the pending CNN story.”
“Tonight marks the state deadline to withdraw from the race, the Carolina Journal reported. It’s too late to remove Robinson’s name from the ballot with early voting starting in four weeks and absentee ballots going in the mail Friday.”
Let him spend the rest of the campaign trying to fight the allegations. Robinson has said enough hateful stuff into a microphone, that this story may well prove to be true. I guess there’s not as much blowback on misogyny.
More than 400 years after Mary’s death, a chance discovery by a trio of code breakers is offering new insights into the queen’s final years. As the researchers write in the journal Cryptologia, they originally decided to examine acache of coded noteshoused at theNational Library of Franceas part of abroader pushto “locate, digitize, transcribe, decipher and analyze”historic ciphers. Those pages turned out to be 57 of Mary’s encrypted letters, the majority of which were sent toMichel de Castelnau, the French ambassador to England, between 1578 and 1584. All but seven were previously thought to be lost.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article292628994.html
“Robinson also was asked Tuesday by an audience member to explain his comment on a 2019 Facebook live stream that abortion “is about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.” Democratic nominee Josh Stein’s campaign has used the clip in ads this election cycle.”
“On Tuesday, Robinson said the ads edited him out of context by cutting out the rest of the line, where he said “or your pants up.”
“It’s become crystal clear that the only thing Robinson wants more than a total abortion ban is for North Carolina voters to not know the truth about it,” Stein’s spokeswoman Morgan Hopkins said.
George Clooney, Mark Hamill, Mark Cuban, & countless other celebrities have shown support for Kamala Harris. So why does Trump only ‘hate’ Taylor Swift? Because he hates accomplished, successful women who oppose him
Jack, I’m happy to dispense “atta boys” to any GOPers who publicly denounce and say they won’t vote for him. the less votes he gets the better. higher applause goes to the ones who add they will vote for Kamala. the real gold medals are earned by those who actually hit the trail campaigning for her.
there are some well-known dems who won’t even do any of that.
“Trump did not discuss specifics about World Liberty Financial on Monday or how it would work, pivoting from questions about cryptocurrency to talking about artificial intelligence or other topics.”
Maybe it’s just a concept of a grift.
“World Liberty Financial is expected to be a borrowing and lending service used to trade cryptocurrencies, which are forms of digital money that can be traded over the internet without relying on the global banking system. Exchanges often charge fees for withdrawals of Bitcoin and other currencies.”
It looks like tRUMP Media is about outta gas, so it’s time to start a new con.
Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket (msn.com) […] Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the controversial jurist who tossed out the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump in July, failed to disclose her attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school. Cannon went to an event in Arlington, Va. honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, according to documents obtained from the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University. At a lecture and private dinner, she sat among members of Scalia’s family, fellow Federalist Society members and more than 30 conservative federal judges. Organizers billed the event as “an excellent opportunity to connect with judicial colleagues.” A 2006 rule, intended to shine a light on judges’ attendance at paid seminars that could pose conflicts or influence decisions, requires them to file disclosure forms for such trips within 30 days and make them public on the court’s website. It’s not the first time she has failed to fully comply with the rule. In 2021 and 2022, Cannon took weeklong trips to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for legal colloquiums sponsored by George Mason, which named its law school for Scalia thanks to $30 million in gifts that conservative judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo helped organize. Current rates for standard rooms at Sage Lodge can exceed $1,000 per night, depending on the season. With both Montana trips, Cannon’s required seminar disclosures were not posted until NPR reporters asked about the omissions this year as part of a broader national investigation of gaps in judicial disclosures. Cannon did not respond to repeated requests for comment. In response to questions from ProPublica, the clerk in the Southern District of Florida wrote in an email that Cannon had filed the Sage Lodge trips with the federal judiciary’s administrative office but had “inadvertently” not taken the second step of posting them on the court’s website. She explained that “Judges often do not realize they must input the information twice.” The clerk said she had no information about the May 2023 banquet. “Judges administer the law, and… Read more »
“Shares of Trump Media fell Thursday, just hours before former President Donald Trump is expected to be able to start selling his nearly $2 billion stake in the owner of social media platform Truth Social.”
Hooo-ray for HOLLLLEEEE-wood!
Movie stars, producers, directors, people most of us know from our viewing habits, are lining up to endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Trump doubling-down on visiting Springfield as city officials tell him he is persona non grata there. He also is heading to Aurora, CO, to stop, what the hell? Venezuelan terrorist gangs? From The Sentinel: “For weeks, a growing clan of Republican extremists, led by Republican Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, have flooded the media with disinformation, exaggerations and fear-mongering, insisting that a notorious Venezuelan gang has overrun parts or all of Aurora.
Credible police, city, state and congressional representatives have repeatedly said, and shown, that it’s a lie. “
Freelance journalist in NC writes on X: “Some major drama is shaking out in NC’s gubernatorial race. Sources tell me a CNN story is forthcoming. Robinson’s two campaign events today in Vance and Warren counties have been cancelled. Robinson’s closest advisers & Robinson himself aren’t taking my calls for comment.” — https://x.com/bryanranderson/status/1836793713709727895?s=46
Craig – Robinson reportedly referred to himself as a “Black Nazi” in 2009. Add that one to George Carlin’s list: “jumbo shrimp,” military intelligence,” etc.
“Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”
“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
“Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.”
Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.”
“Writing in a forum discussing Black Republicans in October 2010, Robinson stated unprovoked: “I’m a black NAZI!”
“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote.
“In March 2012, Robinson wrote that he preferred the former leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler over the leadership in Washington during the administration of Barack Obama.”
“Trump referred to Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
“Trump said Robinson wasn’t sure how to respond when Trump compared him to the legendary civil rights leader, telling him: “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”
Cooper wouldn’t even leave the North Carolina to be vetted for VP because Robinson assumes all gubernatorial powers when the Gov is out-of-state, Roy’s a true servant 🫡
North Carolina Republican Candidate for Governor Mark Robinson appears to have made the following disgusting comments on internet forums between 2008-2012:
– “I like watching tranny on girl p-rn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
– “I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered”
– “I’d take Hitler over any of the sh*t that’s in Washington right now!” [Obama was President]
– “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,
– On Abortion that a celebrity allegedly got: “I don’t care. I just wanna see the sex tape!”
– “Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.
“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!”
Another gay republican outed. Maybe not the “gay sex” that is the problem, maybe it is because he wants “Trans sex”. Once again the hate for Trans people comes through.
One of the worst things being Trans is closeted gay men wanting to do it with a Trans woman and hitting on you when you have no interest in them, or anything like them. They convince themselves that it is “not gay sex” or something like that.
But, for many Trans people the sex business is their way to make enough money to eat. It is a terrible thing, but due to the difficulty of keeping a job or getting a new one the sex business is it.
The Crystal Ball team has just met in emergency session, and in the fastest rating change in our history, we are moving NC GOVERNOR from Lean D to LIKELY D.
This morning I did the drive from the edge of the middle of nowhere back home. It is hilarious to see the quantity of yard signs stuck all over the place in a deep magat county. It looked like the campaign came through with the signs because there were so many of them. Just like how many U.S. or confederate battle flags they can screw to their trucks or boats to prove they are magats. The more or bigger, or best of all, both quantity and size, that shows us libs up alrighty. I did see Harris/Walz signs and even flags on flag poles. But, not many as the magats will drive through tearing them down or even more exciting, shot them. It was very nice to return to Maryland.
“In a newly unearthed video from 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) scoffs at the idea that young women should have access to birth control and, repeatedly waving his hand near his groin, says they just need to “get this under control.”
“The video, recorded at a Republican Women of Pitt County event in March 2020, shows Robinson when he was a candidate for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, which he later won.”
“In the clip, he says that he heard a man ask about the phrase “Make America Great Again,” which he posited implied the America where “women couldn’t vote” and “Black people were swinging from cheap trees.”
“I would say to him, if I was standing in front of him, ‘I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,’” Robinson said.
Stump tells them at the Israel speech “This isn’t games any more “ said it a number of different ways but phrasing “no more games” and a conclusion that Israel will be obliterated and bad Jews etc. I only caught that one little part and then what you’d call a smattering of applause.
Went back with my iron butt award on and watched most of it…..so he only said the games bit once but it caught my attention. What a loathsome bug he is.
Wish I could buy the neighbor’s horse ranch, not that I’d use it for horses. It has an indoor, equestrian arena. I’d convert it I to an event space. This area needs a lot of things, like a movie theater. Nearest one is 30 miles away, and they only have one screen. There is one food truck, and they did well enough to open a restaurant. It’s interesting because they still cook in the truck, which you can see from the dining area; they have a window in the restaurant that matches up with the truck window.
op ed by David Horsey at The Seattle Times:
Over 100 Former GOP Officials Endorsed Harris Today—Here’s The Full List (forbes.com) https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/09/18/former-republican-officials-endorse-harris/ Over 100 Republican former national security officials and members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in a letter of support Wednesday, calling former President Donald Trump “unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust.” The list of 111 signatories includes former national security and foreign policy officials who served in Republican administrations ranging from Ronald Reagan to Trump, as well as numerous officials who worked on presidential campaigns for Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain. Some notable signatories include former CIA and FBI Director William Webster, George W. Bush’s Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, former CIA and NSA Director General Michael Hayden and former U.S. trade representatives Carla Hills and Robert Zoellick. Eight former members of Trump’s administration signed the letter, condemning Trump’s “chaotic and unethical behavior and disregard for our Republic’s time-tested principles of constitutional governance.” Former Republican Congress members, Romney adviser condemn Trump The list also includes some Republicans who did not endorse President Joe Biden in a similar open letter in 2020: former members of Congress Charles W. Boustany Jr. of Louisiana, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, Dan Miller of Florida and Bill Paxon of New York. Comstock was a strategic adviser for Romney’s two presidential runs. “Vice President Harris has demonstrated a commitment to upholding the ideals that define our nation — freedom, democracy, and rule of law,” the group wrote. Among several reasons for their support, the group noted Harris’ ability to “engage in orderly national security decision-making, without the constant drama and Cabinet turnover of the Trump Administration” and her commitment to “appoint a Republican to her Cabinet in order to encourage a diversity of views and restore a measure of bipartisanship and comity to our domestic politics.” Trump, on the other hand, has “dangerous qualities,” the Republicans argued. “In our view, by inciting the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and defending those who committed it, he has violated his oath of office and brought… Read more »
Growing number of former senior military officials endorsing VP Kamala Harris for President (msnbc.com)
in other news
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut was popular with investors, polling shows young people prefer VP Kamala Harris over her opponent, and Melania Trump released a bizarre video defending her decades-old nude photos.
lincoln project effort yesterday
https://x.com/i/status/1836586009049600401
One of the questions that has followed the fantastical statement that “Haitians” are eating peoples pets, cats and dogs and who knows what else, is why Springfield. Duh. We know that many of the stupid magat attack statements are created from cartoon programs on television. Springfield is where the Simpsons live. Hopefully,they watch the episode where sfb is projected to be in the ground in 2024.
Patd, Horsey didn’t mention Mike Pence among the living former GOP Pres & VP nominees. Did Dumbass’ acolytes finally find him?
Sturge, if he reads this blog, SteveM no doubt approves.
pogo, yeah, I noticed the pence omission BUT the heart of horsey’s “of the five living Republicans who were nominated by their party for either president or vice president, only one is supporting the GOP presidential nominee” is the word “supporting” and so far that’s only sarah.
Ahoy! The bilge rat says New York is in his camp. He says the crowd at the Harris debate went crazy for him. He says “they “ are calling him the G.O.A.T. President. He says Harris would destroy democracy, not him. And nearly half of voters believe this . Shiver me timbers! Arrrrrghhhh! Pirates are out today speaking their thoughts. Talk like a pirate day, 2024.
dex, IMHO he’s certainly an old goat as defined by several dictionaries as an elderly man who is disliked or a lecherous old man or (as Longman puts it) an unpleasant old man, especially one who annoys women in a sexual way
Can’t talk like a pirate, but I can sing like one.
he not only is an old goat but uses them in dastardly ways
How Trump Used Goats to Save Millions of Dollars, and Pay Just $700 Local Property Taxes – Business Insider
Today’s Data
Marist polls (A+ rated)
MICHIGAN 🟦 Harris 52% 🟥 Trump 47%
PENNSYLVANIA 🟦 Harris 49% 🟥 Trump 49%
WISCONSIN 🟦 Harris 50% 🟥 Trump 49%
NYT/Siena (A+)
National: Harris 47, Trump 47
Pennsylvania: Harris 50, Trump 46
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/media/elon-musk-trump-rally-bomb-election-misinformation/index.html
“Elon Musk is using his social media platform to promote misinformation about the presidential candidates in the lead up to the November…”
Dex – The number of views and shares are staggering, and some of this stuff I haven’t heard of except in this article, because it’s just fiction on X.
Pence is too afraid to endorse Harris. He doesn’t want the MAGAt mob after him, again. The whitest man is yellow, but I get it.
Pat
The only republicans that are worth praising are those that come out and support Harris. Just saying you find Trump deplorable isn’t enough. If you truly believe that Trump is a danger to this country. And a number of the generals who worked with him have said so on the record. Why aren’t you coming out in support of Harris. So lets not praise the Bushes , Romney and Ryan too much here. They want to distance themselves with out making any real commitment. They may deplore Trump but they will support Republicans who spew maga lies and will vote in lock step with Trump.
Jack
i don’t think Pence is afraid, i think he’s too principled to bother to understand why bodily autonomy is important
“belief system established, does not compute beep boop 🤖 “
Pennsylvania: Harris 50, Trump 46
This NYT/Siena lead for Harris in PA is so encouraging because they have an excellent track record there, one of the few predicting Fetterman win in 2022, even nailing the exact number (+5). Also got 2020 presidential on the nose. Their turnout model for PA just about the best in the biz.
Kamala/Oprah Tonight! 8p ET live on YouTube at
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/trump-new-york-republicans-analysis/index.html “In a fresh show of governing futility, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday failed to pass a six-month extension of government funding, with a measure attached to please Trump that makes it harder for Americans to vote.” “The Republican nominee’s demands for a bill that targets noncitizen voting, which is already illegal, pushed Johnson into a corner with no obvious exits, raising the possibility of a Washington crisis in the run-up to Election Day that could blow back on the GOP.” “The gambit has zero chance of producing a new law — since Democrats who control the Senate oppose it. And Johnson couldn’t even get 16 of his own members to vote for it for various reasons — including unreconcilable demands by some arch conservatives for massive budget cuts, which also have no chance of making it into law because of the reality of divided power in Washington.” “Trump seems to be setting the GOP up for an intra-party fight that could turn into a disaster in November.” “The history of government shutdowns suggests that the party with control of the House — which has initial responsibility for the public purse — usually pays the biggest political price. And if the speaker cannot beat a deadline of October 1 to fund federal operations, the government could partially shut down.” “… the ex-president wrote on his Truth Social Network on Wednesday before the House vote: “Democrats are registering Illegal Voters by the TENS OF THOUSANDS, as we speak – They will be voting in the 2024 Presidential Election, and they shouldn’t be allowed to.” There are no facts that back up the claim. But Trump warned: “If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form.” tRUMPsky is a chaos monster. I hope every Republican on the ballot in November loses bigly. I hope orangey loses by so much, there can be nothing for the corrupt members of SCOTUS to give him an assist. Of course, I don’t know how the Republicans in various… Read more »
White Dudes for Harris roll out a new $10 million ad campaign in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin..
As with Plumpty, Pence’s issues come from his father. He learned how to “take it like a man.”
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/11/vice-president-mike-pence-learned-his-father-lingering-burdens-veterans-bear/855145001/
I got to laugh along with the Morning Joe staff and Hillary Clinton this morning when HRC told of the oft-told time she was sitting beside Bush43 as Trump gave his speech at the 2017 inauguration : “He turned to me and said ‘now that’s some weird shit!’ ”
Truth is, it’s weirder now. Hey, is Melania Trump getting anywhere with her assertations and questions about Harris-Walz being behind Crooks in Butler, and lately at the golf course in Florida? It seems like yesterday we broke the 100 day measure until the election; now we are down to 46 days. My ballot won’t be mailed out to me here in Ohio for a couple weeks. I am anxious to vote, more excited to vote since Obama 2008. It pains me that last night I got into a heated argument about Trump being unfit to be President, arguing with my highly educated step-daughter. She never watches the news and is just swept up in the bullshit.
Dex – I’m dealing with someone who has a Master’s in psychology and they can’t see Adolf for what he is; they are almost a decade my junior. Very whiny victim even though they have a lot more than I’ve ever had. Looking for a savior. Believes in dogma that is not Methodist, and doesn’t believe Project 2025 is coming from the Republican side. Scrolling some crazy stuff from somewhere. Example: July’s ear incident that wasn’t resulted in a quick assessment from somewhere that the shooter was a Chinese national.
BID: there’s a thin line between the therapist’s chair and the comfy couch.
if you’re a racist, anti-lgbtq misogynist, trump’s your guy
that’s not something a position you claim in an argument, though
Al and a republican. Republican loses https://x.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1836546715039526959
Pirates are not the only ones with a code.
You have to be a pirate for the Pirates Code to apply. Anyway, they’re just guidelines.
To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan
“Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is expected to go on CNN today to defend himself regarding a pending story the national network is preparing, a campaign adviser says.”
The reported story makes explosive allegations regarding statements the national network says Robinson made on an online message board in 2009, Williams says. Robinson did not hold elected office until 2021, after his successful campaign for lieutenant governor in 2020.
“The main ones I remember were that they were alleging he made some extremely racist comments about Martin Luther King, referred to himself as a Black Nazi and used antisemitic language referring to Jews,”…
“The Carolina Journal, a conservative-leaning Raleigh publication, cited sources with direct knowledge as saying that members of Donald Trump’s campaign are pressing Robinson to withdraw from the governor’s race because of the pending CNN story.”
“Tonight marks the state deadline to withdraw from the race, the Carolina Journal reported. It’s too late to remove Robinson’s name from the ballot with early voting starting in four weeks and absentee ballots going in the mail Friday.”
Let him spend the rest of the campaign trying to fight the allegations. Robinson has said enough hateful stuff into a microphone, that this story may well prove to be true. I guess there’s not as much blowback on misogyny.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/codebreakers-discoverand-decipherlong-lost-letters-by-mary-queen-of-scots-180981613/
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article292628994.html
“Robinson also was asked Tuesday by an audience member to explain his comment on a 2019 Facebook live stream that abortion “is about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.” Democratic nominee Josh Stein’s campaign has used the clip in ads this election cycle.”
“On Tuesday, Robinson said the ads edited him out of context by cutting out the rest of the line, where he said “or your pants up.”
“It’s become crystal clear that the only thing Robinson wants more than a total abortion ban is for North Carolina voters to not know the truth about it,” Stein’s spokeswoman Morgan Hopkins said.
George Clooney, Mark Hamill, Mark Cuban, & countless other celebrities have shown support for Kamala Harris. So why does Trump only ‘hate’ Taylor Swift? Because he hates accomplished, successful women who oppose him
Jack, I’m happy to dispense “atta boys” to any GOPers who publicly denounce and say they won’t vote for him. the less votes he gets the better. higher applause goes to the ones who add they will vote for Kamala. the real gold medals are earned by those who actually hit the trail campaigning for her.
there are some well-known dems who won’t even do any of that.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-crypto-digital-assets-a08456edc5947451f3f23b184ed9fb29
“Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump launched his family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, with an interview on the X social media platform…”
“Trump did not discuss specifics about World Liberty Financial on Monday or how it would work, pivoting from questions about cryptocurrency to talking about artificial intelligence or other topics.”
Maybe it’s just a concept of a grift.
“World Liberty Financial is expected to be a borrowing and lending service used to trade cryptocurrencies, which are forms of digital money that can be traded over the internet without relying on the global banking system. Exchanges often charge fees for withdrawals of Bitcoin and other currencies.”
It looks like tRUMP Media is about outta gas, so it’s time to start a new con.
Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket (msn.com) […] Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the controversial jurist who tossed out the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump in July, failed to disclose her attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school. Cannon went to an event in Arlington, Va. honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, according to documents obtained from the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University. At a lecture and private dinner, she sat among members of Scalia’s family, fellow Federalist Society members and more than 30 conservative federal judges. Organizers billed the event as “an excellent opportunity to connect with judicial colleagues.” A 2006 rule, intended to shine a light on judges’ attendance at paid seminars that could pose conflicts or influence decisions, requires them to file disclosure forms for such trips within 30 days and make them public on the court’s website. It’s not the first time she has failed to fully comply with the rule. In 2021 and 2022, Cannon took weeklong trips to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for legal colloquiums sponsored by George Mason, which named its law school for Scalia thanks to $30 million in gifts that conservative judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo helped organize. Current rates for standard rooms at Sage Lodge can exceed $1,000 per night, depending on the season. With both Montana trips, Cannon’s required seminar disclosures were not posted until NPR reporters asked about the omissions this year as part of a broader national investigation of gaps in judicial disclosures. Cannon did not respond to repeated requests for comment. In response to questions from ProPublica, the clerk in the Southern District of Florida wrote in an email that Cannon had filed the Sage Lodge trips with the federal judiciary’s administrative office but had “inadvertently” not taken the second step of posting them on the court’s website. She explained that “Judges often do not realize they must input the information twice.” The clerk said she had no information about the May 2023 banquet. “Judges administer the law, and… Read more »
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/djt-trump-media-stock-lockup.html
“Shares of Trump Media fell Thursday, just hours before former President Donald Trump is expected to be able to start selling his nearly $2 billion stake in the owner of social media platform Truth Social.”
Currently trading at $14.88.
Hooo-ray for HOLLLLEEEE-wood!
Movie stars, producers, directors, people most of us know from our viewing habits, are lining up to endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Trump doubling-down on visiting Springfield as city officials tell him he is persona non grata there. He also is heading to Aurora, CO, to stop, what the hell? Venezuelan terrorist gangs? From The Sentinel: “For weeks, a growing clan of Republican extremists, led by Republican Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, have flooded the media with disinformation, exaggerations and fear-mongering, insisting that a notorious Venezuelan gang has overrun parts or all of Aurora.
Credible police, city, state and congressional representatives have repeatedly said, and shown, that it’s a lie. “
Freelance journalist in NC writes on X: “Some major drama is shaking out in NC’s gubernatorial race. Sources tell me a CNN story is forthcoming. Robinson’s two campaign events today in Vance and Warren counties have been cancelled. Robinson’s closest advisers & Robinson himself aren’t taking my calls for comment.” — https://x.com/bryanranderson/status/1836793713709727895?s=46
I agree…
Craig – Robinson reportedly referred to himself as a “Black Nazi” in 2009. Add that one to George Carlin’s list: “jumbo shrimp,” military intelligence,” etc.
Oh, wow. Robinson apparently had a bunch of pervy comments, too graphic to publish.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
“Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”
“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
“Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.”
Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.”
“Writing in a forum discussing Black Republicans in October 2010, Robinson stated unprovoked: “I’m a black NAZI!”
“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote.
“In March 2012, Robinson wrote that he preferred the former leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler over the leadership in Washington during the administration of Barack Obama.”
lol every one of these “social issue” republicans are closeted self-loathers
(wow, multi-faceted self-loathing, very impressive)
i’m always reminded of the foot-tapping one
lol @ the “political discourse” circa 2024
CNN doing Robinson story now
CNN: “Too disturbing for TV”
He’s going to have to cry for forgiveness now, like, on camera
Orange Adolf endorsed Robinson last spring.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-donald-trump-endorsement-governor-cf9092cc8c10d0f2106aacedc63fd8af
“Trump referred to Robinson as “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
“Trump said Robinson wasn’t sure how to respond when Trump compared him to the legendary civil rights leader, telling him: “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”
this guy is ACTiNG Lieutenant Governor 🤦♂️
Cooper wouldn’t even leave the North Carolina to be vetted for VP because Robinson assumes all gubernatorial powers when the Gov is out-of-state, Roy’s a true servant 🫡
‘I’m a black NAZI!’: NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum?s=03
North Carolina Republican Candidate for Governor Mark Robinson appears to have made the following disgusting comments on internet forums between 2008-2012:
– “I like watching tranny on girl p-rn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
– “I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered”
– “I’d take Hitler over any of the sh*t that’s in Washington right now!” [Obama was President]
– “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,
– On Abortion that a celebrity allegedly got: “I don’t care. I just wanna see the sex tape!”
– “Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.
“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!”
Another gay republican outed. Maybe not the “gay sex” that is the problem, maybe it is because he wants “Trans sex”. Once again the hate for Trans people comes through.
One of the worst things being Trans is closeted gay men wanting to do it with a Trans woman and hitting on you when you have no interest in them, or anything like them. They convince themselves that it is “not gay sex” or something like that.
But, for many Trans people the sex business is their way to make enough money to eat. It is a terrible thing, but due to the difficulty of keeping a job or getting a new one the sex business is it.
Larry Sabato (UVA):
That didn’t take long. Harris campaign posting video of Trump calling Robinson MLK on “steroids”. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1836851875670331661?t=yJ_kpr3-bTkP7i88Y9BbbA&s=19
is that a joke or data-based
Team Harris has a great ad; a pic of Robinson and tRUMPsky together, giving their thumbs up with the simple caption: “google Mark Robinson.”
This morning I did the drive from the edge of the middle of nowhere back home. It is hilarious to see the quantity of yard signs stuck all over the place in a deep magat county. It looked like the campaign came through with the signs because there were so many of them. Just like how many U.S. or confederate battle flags they can screw to their trucks or boats to prove they are magats. The more or bigger, or best of all, both quantity and size, that shows us libs up alrighty. I did see Harris/Walz signs and even flags on flag poles. But, not many as the magats will drive through tearing them down or even more exciting, shot them. It was very nice to return to Maryland.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-robinson-young-women-sex-birth-control_n_66e87182e4b06998fbec7ceb
“In a newly unearthed video from 2022, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) scoffs at the idea that young women should have access to birth control and, repeatedly waving his hand near his groin, says they just need to “get this under control.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/north-carolina-gop-candidate-mark-robinson-wants-america-where-women-could-not-vote-1234982773/
“The video, recorded at a Republican Women of Pitt County event in March 2020, shows Robinson when he was a candidate for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, which he later won.”
“In the clip, he says that he heard a man ask about the phrase “Make America Great Again,” which he posited implied the America where “women couldn’t vote” and “Black people were swinging from cheap trees.”
“I would say to him, if I was standing in front of him, ‘I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,’” Robinson said.
Texas Senate General Election Poll
🔵 Allred 45% (+1)
🔴 Cruz (Inc) 44%
@MorningConsult
Larry wasn’t kidding, Bink
Trump speech coming up shortly. Interested to see if he talks about Robinson.
“If Haysha dropped ‘em off, why can’t she come get ‘em?
https://x.com/LoViLu/status/1836765256481194239
When exactly was it games?
Kamala/Oprah in 2 minutes..
Here is wide screen version…
i forwarded the Oprah tube to a bunch of people, like a patriot 🇺🇸
I wanna know at what part of Israel’s existinence since 1948 were there any what you’d call “games”?
I know this guy is a stone idiot, but who the fuckin hell does he think he’s talking to?
…missed to what it is you’re referring, Mr S.
Stump tells them at the Israel speech “This isn’t games any more “ said it a number of different ways but phrasing “no more games” and a conclusion that Israel will be obliterated and bad Jews etc. I only caught that one little part and then what you’d call a smattering of applause.
And I know a smattering when I hear one.
Olbermann is pretty on-target with how his anti-Semitism manifests itself in his speech
Kamala Harris: Nobody can start a small business with $5000.
Oprah: That’s a tiny business.
Kamala Harris: A concept of a business.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1836929389172498698
$25k min for a service biz
(if you’ve got a lot of hustle)
i think it’s around $200k+ to get into the food truck biz
Went back with my iron butt award on and watched most of it…..so he only said the games bit once but it caught my attention. What a loathsome bug he is.
oh yeah i forgot you got the IronButt title to defend
the price one pays for glory…
It must really get under his peel, all of the beautiful, famous folks giving their endorsement and attention to Harris. Good.
But to Meryl Streep’s point, oof, it’s gonna get ugly.
In bed he cries, which is but slim consolation. Probably why he’s up all night.
Alone again, naturally.
There goes a guy who suffers from a lifetime of bad decisions.
Sturg, at least his crying doesn’t keep Melanoma awake.
North Carolina GOP defends Robinson following explosive CNN report
One thing we know……the wax wings melt when they get too close to the son.
That boy done got above his raisin’s ……what they was of ‘em.
Wish I could buy the neighbor’s horse ranch, not that I’d use it for horses. It has an indoor, equestrian arena. I’d convert it I to an event space. This area needs a lot of things, like a movie theater. Nearest one is 30 miles away, and they only have one screen. There is one food truck, and they did well enough to open a restaurant. It’s interesting because they still cook in the truck, which you can see from the dining area; they have a window in the restaurant that matches up with the truck window.
weddings
You’re probably like “yeah, duh…”
Good idea, ‘Muricans love that stuff 👍
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