“folks, we are one week from an election. we americans will learn a lot about ourselves as a country. we’ll be standing before the full length mirror of democracy, buck naked. we’re going to get an eyeful of just how far we’ve let ourselves go.”
The rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was so racist it could cost him a key swing state, VP Kamala Harris rallied with two of the most popular women in the country, and Jeff Bezos created a firestorm by yanking his newspaper’s planned presidential endorsement at the last minute.
Jon Stewart tackles Trump’s racist and xenophobic MSG rally, and the former president’s plan for the mass deportation of immigrants, legal and illegal. Plus, Jessica Williams stops in to offer some hope (and levity) for the future.
There is a huge difference between Nixon and the orange moron, Nixon was not selling the U.S. to russia. Also, his crimes came out during his first term and were not settled until the second. The veterans of WWI and WWII did vote for Nixon, but they would not vote for sfb.
I realize I’m preaching to the choir, but, Michael Luttig – NYT.
This is not a difficult decision for voters, though my fellow Republicans and conservatives will finally have to decide what they have long hoped they would never have to decide — whether to put their country above their party. Republicans and conservatives have always proudly claimed they would be the first to put the country above all else when the time came. That time has come. If Republicans are unwilling to put America before their party now, they will never do so. They must be honest with themselves.
All Americans, but especially Republicans, will live with their decision the rest of their lives. This election is anything but politics as usual, no matter how desperately Donald Trump and the G.O.P. have tried to make it that.
Title of the piece –
Trump Betrayed America. My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.
Newsweek on the Lancaster and York County mail-in ballot requests. *** The York County elections office received a “large delivery containing thousands of election-related materials from a third-party organization,” including voter registration forms and mail-ballot applications, York County president commissioner Julie Wheeler said in a statement to the York Daily Record. “As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal. That process is currently underway. If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney’s Office, which will then conduct an investigation.” *** Wheeler told Fox 43 on Monday: “It’s not unusual to get large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of requests for mail-in ballots, it’s just this was an overabundance of registrations from one particular organization.” She added: “We need to do our homework before we go and make accusations when we don’t have the data to back it up.” *** Wheeler’s comments come as an investigation is underway in Lancaster County, where officials said fraudulent voter registrations had been found among 2,500 forms that arrived at the county elections office shortly before Pennsylvania’s October 21 deadline to register to vote. Election workers had “noticed that numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day with unknown signature, and some were previously registered voters (…) and the signatures on file did not match the signatures on the application,” Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams, an elected Republican, said at a news conference on Friday. About… Read more »
“Bernie Sanders makes the case for Kamala Harris to pro-Palestinian critics”
“Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are worse,” Sanders said. “Trump has said Netanyahu is doing a good job and has said Biden is ‘holding him back.’ He has suggested that the Gaza Strip would make excellent beachfront property for development. And it is no wonder Netanyahu prefers to have Donald Trump in office.”
“Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, didn’t endorse Trump explicitly. Instead, he blocked the paper’s editorial page from endorsing any candidate for the first time in decades — a not-at-all subtle nod to the Republican nominee, and one that legendary former Post editor Marty Baron called an act of cowardice.”
”That move came shortly after the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong, vetoed his editorial board’sendorsement of Harris.”
“But the fact is that Bezos has other commercial interests,” including a large stake in Amazon and a private space company, Blue Origin. And Blue Origin, of course, competes directly with SpaceX, the rocket maker owned by outspoken Trump supporter Elon Musk, for government contracts.”
“While dozens of American business leaders — your Reeds Hoffman, your Marks Cuban, etc. — have used their money and power to resist that kind of bullyingand endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, others are choosing to bend the knee. Or to keep just quiet enough to avoid being becoming a target.”
If only the wealthy-but-weak could’ve had the spine to help get rid of the bully. If only.
any minute coming up Trump is doing a presser to be live on CNN. will be interesting to see how he manages to make this PR story worse. Who knew Donald Trump himself would be our October surprise.
Catholic Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, San Juan:
“I enjoy a good joke. However, humor has its limits. It should not insult or denigrate the dignity and sacredness of people. The rally remarks do not only provoke sinister laughter but hatred”
And Trump’s rally tonight in PA just so happens to be in the state’s largest Puerto Rican community. Protests are planned.
Long story short, shouldn’t the opinion editor of a paper (as Colbert pointed out) like HAVE AN OPINION?
Sorry, Mr Millbank, your fine and valid points notwithstanding, if I had a subscription—I’d cancel it. Twice.
If the dickhead owner does what he did NOW, what will he do down the road apiece? I’d be looking for a new gig.
To the women sitting behind the podium at the MAGAt-n@zi rally: It’s sad that you are so hateful toward non-whites that you were, apparently, oblivious to the misogyny. You are not immune.
ps – JD, They were all talking about your wife and your kids, you dumbass.
pps – I really hope those unvaccinated goons at the rally are too under the weather to go vote for their fascist idol.
Trump is low energy again through this presser. Old smears and lies about immigrants, Harris, crime, the border and other favorites he likes to trot out.
Still has no apologies for the torrent of misogyny, bigotry and racism that flowed from the MSG rally.
“Steve Bannon was released from federal prison Tuesday, according to a source with knowledge, emerging just a week before Election Day to retake the helm of his weakened right-wing media platform.”
“While in prison, Bannon digitally kept in touch with a small group of loyalists, including some who served as guest hosts for the podcast, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
“I think it’s going to take some time to bring the audience back and to mobilize them,” Peltz said. “I don’t think the one-week period between now and the election is enough time to complete that, but I think really, you’ll see it kick into high gear in the post-election chaos that we’re all sort of anticipating.”
FOX had to call out Big Lie again. Host Harris Faulkner fact checks Trump immediately after press conference:
“You heard the former president talk about a stolen election. And while he may feel a certain way, the facts remain Joe Biden was declared the winner with 51% of the vote.”
“I resent it when they write the part of a woman who’s just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that’s how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit,” Garr reflected.
“Since the Trump administration abandoned the nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, to put curbs on its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has been gradually ramping up enrichment of uranium, a key ingredient of a nuclear bomb if purified to a high level. Its stockpiles have reached 60% purity, a short step away from weapons-grade, which is 90%.”
“As Israel continues disintegrating Iran’s deterrence capability, the minority voices in the Islamic Republic favoring the weaponization of its nuclear program are becoming stronger, Parsi said. “The trajectory and momentum are with those who are saying if Iran actually had a nuclear deterrence this would not be happening.”
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have been authorized to take possession of Rudy Giuliani’s NYC apartment today. The judge presiding over the defamation case which cost Rudy $148 million said that the two plaintiffs can rent a truck to pick up their new items today and may take possession of his NY apartment immediately. Rudy must hand over the following to Moss and Freeman: 1. His NYC apartment, which he valued at $6 million but was unable to find a buyer. 2. His 1980 Mercedes previously owned by actress Lauren Bacall. 3. A signed picture of Yankee Stadium. 4. 26 watches, some of which have considerable value. 5. All his other jewelry. https://meidasnews.com/news/rudys-property-goes-to-moss-freeman-today
I don’t know where I’ve been—for years. —The Commodore’s drunk daughter after Columbo asks her where she’d been the night before when the Commodore was murdered.
So sad Teri has missed the election. The thought of missing this election gives me sweats and nightmares.
I wouldn’t mind being in a coma and then waking up later…… but croak in the final days?
Ye gods and little fishes.
“Notice what was missing tonight — no desperate need for validation, no rage-baiting, no persecution fantasies. Just adults focused on democracy’s future”
November. Ted Hughes. The month of the drowned dog. After long rain the landWas sodden as the bed of an ancient lake,Treed with iron and bird less. In the sunk laneThe ditch – a seep silent all summer – Made brown foam with a big voice: that, and my bootsOn the lane’s scrubbed stones, in the gulleyed leavesAgainst the hill’s hanging silence; Mist silvering the droplets on the bare thorns Slower than the change of daylight.In a let of the ditch a tramp was bundled asleep;Face tucked down into beard, drawn inUnder his hair like a hedgehog’s. I took him for dead, But his stillness separated from the deathFrom the rotting grass and the ground. The wind chilled,And a fresh comfort tightened through him,Each hand stuffed deeper into the other sleeve. His ankles, bound with sacking and hairy band,Rubbed each other, resettling. The wind hardened;A puff shook a glittering from the thorns,And again the rains’ dragging grey columns Smudged the farms. In a momentThe fields were jumping and smoking; the thornsQuivered, riddled with the glassy verticals. I stayed on under the welding cold Watching the tramp’s face glisten and the drops on his coatFlash and darken. I thought what strong trustSlept in him- as the trickling furrows slept,And the thorn-roots in their grip on darkness; And the buried stones taking the weight of winter;The hill where the hare crouched with clenched teeth. Rain plastered the land till it was shiningLike hammered lead, and I ran, and in the rushing wood Shuttered… Read more »
paraphrasing Ben, this week we have a democracy but can we keep it.
“folks, we are one week from an election. we americans will learn a lot about ourselves as a country. we’ll be standing before the full length mirror of democracy, buck naked. we’re going to get an eyeful of just how far we’ve let ourselves go.”
The rhetoric at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was so racist it could cost him a key swing state, VP Kamala Harris rallied with two of the most popular women in the country, and Jeff Bezos created a firestorm by yanking his newspaper’s planned presidential endorsement at the last minute.
jon’s take on where we’re at
Jon Stewart tackles Trump’s racist and xenophobic MSG rally, and the former president’s plan for the mass deportation of immigrants, legal and illegal. Plus, Jessica Williams stops in to offer some hope (and levity) for the future.
There is a huge difference between Nixon and the orange moron, Nixon was not selling the U.S. to russia. Also, his crimes came out during his first term and were not settled until the second. The veterans of WWI and WWII did vote for Nixon, but they would not vote for sfb.
Jon was on fire last night. Great show. Same for John Oliver Sunday night. And btw, screw that lying slimeball JDouché. Hadn’t heard the joke my ass.
I realize I’m preaching to the choir, but, Michael Luttig – NYT.
Title of the piece –
Trump Betrayed America. My Fellow Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.
Good luck with that, Michael.
Elon’s PAC posted this on X, the platform he owns. After it attracted half a million views and provoked a backlash, they pulled it.
Musk super PAC pulls controversial ad that used vulgar wordplay about Harris..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/politics/video/musk-super-pac-ad-harris-c-word-ebof-digvid
And so it begins.
Even if Kamala gets 99 and 44/100 % of all votes, Plumpty will still claim the election was stolen from him.
Newsweek on the Lancaster and York County mail-in ballot requests. *** The York County elections office received a “large delivery containing thousands of election-related materials from a third-party organization,” including voter registration forms and mail-ballot applications, York County president commissioner Julie Wheeler said in a statement to the York Daily Record. “As with all submissions, our staff follows a process for ensuring all voter registrations and mail-in ballot requests are legal. That process is currently underway. If suspected fraud is identified, we will alert the District Attorney’s Office, which will then conduct an investigation.” *** Wheeler told Fox 43 on Monday: “It’s not unusual to get large stacks of voter registrations or large stacks of requests for mail-in ballots, it’s just this was an overabundance of registrations from one particular organization.” She added: “We need to do our homework before we go and make accusations when we don’t have the data to back it up.” *** Wheeler’s comments come as an investigation is underway in Lancaster County, where officials said fraudulent voter registrations had been found among 2,500 forms that arrived at the county elections office shortly before Pennsylvania’s October 21 deadline to register to vote. Election workers had “noticed that numerous applications appeared to have the same handwriting, were filled out on the same day with unknown signature, and some were previously registered voters (…) and the signatures on file did not match the signatures on the application,” Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams, an elected Republican, said at a news conference on Friday. About… Read more »
Per AP Mitch McConnell will step down in November.
When is Orange Adolf’s sentencing?
To where will he flee when he’s not prez-elect?
Will anyone want him if he has no access to government secrets or government contracts?
Tonight on YouTube..
https://www.youtube.com/@kamalaharris
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/politics/bernie-sanders-kamala-harris-israel-gaza/index.html
“Bernie Sanders makes the case for Kamala Harris to pro-Palestinian critics”
“Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are worse,” Sanders said. “Trump has said Netanyahu is doing a good job and has said Biden is ‘holding him back.’ He has suggested that the Gaza Strip would make excellent beachfront property for development. And it is no wonder Netanyahu prefers to have Donald Trump in office.”
Sign up for attending tonight’s Harris rally at the Ellipse..
https://events.democrats.org/event/734570/?utm_source=social_kdh
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/business/ceos-trump-revenge-nightcap/index.html
“Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, didn’t endorse Trump explicitly. Instead, he blocked the paper’s editorial page from endorsing any candidate for the first time in decades — a not-at-all subtle nod to the Republican nominee, and one that legendary former Post editor Marty Baron called an act of cowardice.”
”That move came shortly after the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong, vetoed his editorial board’sendorsement of Harris.”
“But the fact is that Bezos has other commercial interests,” including a large stake in Amazon and a private space company, Blue Origin. And Blue Origin, of course, competes directly with SpaceX, the rocket maker owned by outspoken Trump supporter Elon Musk, for government contracts.”
“While dozens of American business leaders — your Reeds Hoffman, your Marks Cuban, etc. — have used their money and power to resist that kind of bullyingand endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, others are choosing to bend the knee. Or to keep just quiet enough to avoid being becoming a target.”
If only the wealthy-but-weak could’ve had the spine to help get rid of the bully. If only.
What country is going “allow” busloads or planeloads or boatloads or trainloads of people to be dumped in their sovereign territory on Day One?
Love that Harris is having her rally at the scene of his crime.
today’s meme…
any minute coming up Trump is doing a presser to be live on CNN. will be interesting to see how he manages to make this PR story worse. Who knew Donald Trump himself would be our October surprise.
Catholic Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, San Juan:
And Trump’s rally tonight in PA just so happens to be in the state’s largest Puerto Rican community. Protests are planned.
Was Sid always disgusting like that? Why does he have a show?
And s o it begins.
That was actually Jan 6, 2020. Or Nov, Dec before that.
I have a feeling this now hour-late Trump press conference is going to be one for the ages
Long story short, shouldn’t the opinion editor of a paper (as Colbert pointed out) like HAVE AN OPINION?
Sorry, Mr Millbank, your fine and valid points notwithstanding, if I had a subscription—I’d cancel it. Twice.
If the dickhead owner does what he did NOW, what will he do down the road apiece? I’d be looking for a new gig.
To the women sitting behind the podium at the MAGAt-n@zi rally: It’s sad that you are so hateful toward non-whites that you were, apparently, oblivious to the misogyny. You are not immune.
ps – JD, They were all talking about your wife and your kids, you dumbass.
pps – I really hope those unvaccinated goons at the rally are too under the weather to go vote for their fascist idol.
Will anyone want him if he has no access to government secrets or government contracts?
He still has a stash in the coffin at the golf course
Trump is low energy again through this presser. Old smears and lies about immigrants, Harris, crime, the border and other favorites he likes to trot out.
Still has no apologies for the torrent of misogyny, bigotry and racism that flowed from the MSG rally.
Trump just called Madison Square Garden rally a “love fest”.
Took no questions at his “Press Conference”
Trump says “I am not a Nazi” — not where you want to be a week out
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/politics/steve-bannon-released-prison/index.html
“Steve Bannon was released from federal prison Tuesday, according to a source with knowledge, emerging just a week before Election Day to retake the helm of his weakened right-wing media platform.”
“While in prison, Bannon digitally kept in touch with a small group of loyalists, including some who served as guest hosts for the podcast, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
“I think it’s going to take some time to bring the audience back and to mobilize them,” Peltz said. “I don’t think the one-week period between now and the election is enough time to complete that, but I think really, you’ll see it kick into high gear in the post-election chaos that we’re all sort of anticipating.”
Anticipating. Creating. Potato. Potato.
FOX had to call out Big Lie again. Host Harris Faulkner fact checks Trump immediately after press conference:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/entertainment/teri-garr-death/index.html
“I resent it when they write the part of a woman who’s just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that’s how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit,” Garr reflected.
RIP Terry Garr
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/middleeast/israels-strikes-on-iran-shattered-a-forty-year-taboo-mime-intl/index.html
“Since the Trump administration abandoned the nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, to put curbs on its nuclear program, the Islamic Republic has been gradually ramping up enrichment of uranium, a key ingredient of a nuclear bomb if purified to a high level. Its stockpiles have reached 60% purity, a short step away from weapons-grade, which is 90%.”
“As Israel continues disintegrating Iran’s deterrence capability, the minority voices in the Islamic Republic favoring the weaponization of its nuclear program are becoming stronger, Parsi said. “The trajectory and momentum are with those who are saying if Iran actually had a nuclear deterrence this would not be happening.”
We were so close to a diplomatic relationship with Iran, and then trump decided to antagonize them for no benefit, idiot
Goodnight, Teri….:
NBC local affiliate: Harris rally on the Ellipse may attract more than 52,000 people, D.C. Chief of Police Pamela Smith said
One of Teri Garr’s first appearances on Letterman..
i watched a terrible, forgotten Scorcese movie recently, and as usual, Garr was the best thing about it
it was “After Hours”, avoid or FF to Garr
Harris campaign distributing excerpt from tonight’s speech
JUSTICE IS SERVED!
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have been authorized to take possession of Rudy Giuliani’s NYC apartment today. The judge presiding over the defamation case which cost Rudy $148 million said that the two plaintiffs can rent a truck to pick up their new items today and may take possession of his NY apartment immediately. Rudy must hand over the following to Moss and Freeman:
1. His NYC apartment, which he valued at $6 million but was unable to find a buyer.
2. His 1980 Mercedes previously owned by actress Lauren Bacall.
3. A signed picture of Yankee Stadium.
4. 26 watches, some of which have considerable value.
5. All his other jewelry.
https://meidasnews.com/news/rudys-property-goes-to-moss-freeman-today
behold the consequences of hitching one’s wagons to trump
Posting “I Voted” stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s headstone.. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8871Q3P/
Harris Ellipse rally begins..
Hope they use a lot of sanitizing spray, gloves and masks to go through their new home. Toss out all the shoe polish too.
I don’t know where I’ve been—for years. —The Commodore’s drunk daughter after Columbo asks her where she’d been the night before when the Commodore was murdered.
I definitely have election anxiety and a light depression.
So sad Teri has missed the election. The thought of missing this election gives me sweats and nightmares.
I wouldn’t mind being in a coma and then waking up later…… but croak in the final days?
Ye gods and little fishes.
good episode of Pod Save today, the boys get in a nerd fight and then a fun conversation with Pelosi, who we all know is awesome
What a crowd!
Mary Trump:
it’s a terrible fucking idea to have these consequential elections when the short days and colder weather make everyone miserable
November. Ted Hughes. The month of the drowned dog. After long rain the landWas sodden as the bed of an ancient lake,Treed with iron and bird less. In the sunk laneThe ditch – a seep silent all summer – Made brown foam with a big voice: that, and my bootsOn the lane’s scrubbed stones, in the gulleyed leavesAgainst the hill’s hanging silence; Mist silvering the droplets on the bare thorns Slower than the change of daylight.In a let of the ditch a tramp was bundled asleep;Face tucked down into beard, drawn inUnder his hair like a hedgehog’s. I took him for dead, But his stillness separated from the deathFrom the rotting grass and the ground. The wind chilled,And a fresh comfort tightened through him,Each hand stuffed deeper into the other sleeve. His ankles, bound with sacking and hairy band,Rubbed each other, resettling. The wind hardened;A puff shook a glittering from the thorns,And again the rains’ dragging grey columns Smudged the farms. In a momentThe fields were jumping and smoking; the thornsQuivered, riddled with the glassy verticals. I stayed on under the welding cold Watching the tramp’s face glisten and the drops on his coatFlash and darken. I thought what strong trustSlept in him- as the trickling furrows slept,And the thorn-roots in their grip on darkness; And the buried stones taking the weight of winter;The hill where the hare crouched with clenched teeth. Rain plastered the land till it was shiningLike hammered lead, and I ran, and in the rushing wood Shuttered… Read more »
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