I’d like to think he’s going to lose for all the high-minded reasons, but I think a lot of people are going to vote against him because they’re simply tired of him. He’s exhausting, like any abuser.
Yep, first time I was exposed to him I could see he was a jerk & a conman, & every subsequent time just reinforced that impression. I would never have expected he could even be considered for President, let alone become one.
In normal times, he wouldn't win one state. The only reason he'll win a few is because of the power of Fox and the rest of the right wing media to obfuscate his insanity, and the unwillingness of much of the mainstream media to treat him like the yugely unbalanced person he is. That second part seems to be slowly changing?
And look at the way CNN has let him have free airtime to babble lies; NBC's Meet The (de)Press had the neo-Hitler on for Kristen Welker's first appearance.
They all pander and profit, no American MSM is free of responsibility for fostering this train wreck of a fascist clown.
There really is no "right wing media", it's all for profit. And for profit they will do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g.
Very similar to the choices made about entertainment television: despite the (accidental) appearance of so-called *socially progressive* themes, the SOLE determinant of content is PROFIT! Ask any show runner 😕
I don't know if it is actually changing, as much as all the cancellation of subscriptions might be getting through. So the betrayer bosses might allow for some real reporting.
I think that’s a very limited, and incorrect, take on the election as it now stands.
I am HAPPY to vote for my former Senator and AG, as it will be my 5th time voting for her. I’m confident, having watched her for decades, that she will bring energy, intelligence, joy, and a sense of morality to the White House. Yes, I’m voting against Trump, but I’m also voting FOR a ticket that I’m proud of!
And given the dramatic shift in polling, and the rapid death of the “double haters” category of voter, I’m *far* from alone. I’m voting FOR Harris-Walz.
The way the constant propaganda machine has brainwashed the former Republicans, they believe Dems really "want to destroy America", as ridiculous as it is- so they'd vote for a ticket with Jeffrey Dahmer and Charlie Manson over Kamala Harris.
I believe a Dahmer-Manson team would be preferable to Agolf Shitler, at least they'd be different than this refried grievance-baby.
He is losing. He's not competent, smart, and rambles incoherently. It's nothing but lies and BS. He's unraveling more spectacularly than I thought was possible. He's scared. He is being publicly humiliated and the crowd numbers don’t lie! Trump is losing again and again!
This "Kamala removes stubborn orange stains" t-shirt is SO accurate 🤣 👇
Exciting to listen to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Everything about them exudes positivism, pride, optimism for America's future. On the other hand, Trump is invariably hateful, negative, cursing anything and everyone. America needs Kamala in the White house with Tim as VP.
81 days to go America to get rid of Agent Orange from our government and politics!
Especially with all of his crooked minions, who are planning to exploit 1 small Constitutional vagueness in order to not certify votes at the state level. Presumably, even if the results are overwhelmingly* in favor of Harris-Walz.
Marc Elias says bring’ em on; he’s confident he’ll repeat his 2020 election record. Elias helmed the legal efforts to win a massive 60+ case load of lawsuits (either defending election results or suing criminal MAGA manipulators) & won every case except 1 (which was a draw).
But I’m a worrywart, so there’s tension flogging me.
[*My spouse & I don’t respond to any calls (we silence unknown #s & report as spam), texts, emails, & snail-mailed surveys, nor any online surveys we stumble across.
And we’re presuming that most sane, educated people do the same.
I also add experience — gained through a temporary job at gold-standard pollster during job transition — that it’s usually the kind of people one imagines being at home during the daytime instead of working who will pick up unknown 800# calls. So that helps me stay calm among breathless reporting of polling’s apparant twists & turns.]
I so agree. MAGA won’t budge from their support of him and the fascist rest of them (and Project 2025). They see in him the Hitler they’ve been longing for. And enthusiastic rallies for anyone don’t always translate to votes. But even this born pessimist sees something very hopeful in the enthusiasm, joy and deep relief people are expressing for Harris/Walz. And the Democrats are preparing for when the Republicans do another insurrection and/or refuse to ratify the votes.
These MAGA people are just the worst kind of people. They all have serious mental malfunction..something is definitely wired differently in their brains…
Exactly. He is also very dangerous in his role as candidate. Here is a video of History Prof. Thomas Zimmer talking to Democrats Abroad about Project 2025. It is worth listening to the full talk which is moderated to get a better sense of where we are historically in this election. The best part is the very end. https://youtu.be/IqpWMH5nkPw?si=MYJlfJ3dfAB8gT6z
I don't know if his coming undone is a good thing, or a bad thing. A cornered animal is the most dangerous. It's a good thing in that it helps us elect Harris, it's a bad thing in that they will try very very hard to steal this election. It's comforting that groups like Democracy Docket are getting ahead of the game, even the ABA is getting teams of lawyers together in swing state to protect election workers and voters on election day.
Seriously, I think the issue is that his EGO depends upon it. He could lose his freedom -- election or not -- but he could STILL maintain that it is all UNFAIR!!!!
He should go to prison but I don’t think he ever will, and I don’t think he’s afraid of that. I think he’s afraid of running out of national security secrets to sell and ending up in the trunk of a car.
We need to help Harris win by a mile, not just to prevent Trump from stealing the election, but because the bigger the victory, the more fun it will be.
Hopefully, any court cases will proceed as they did last time: cases brought on mere hunches, without any verifiable examples of fraud, and the judges note the absence of evidence and toss the cases.
More pertinent this time around will be the possibility of some States refusing to certify their own results, possibly in the hope of neither candidate getting the 270 and it falling on the outgoing Congress to decide (which in itself would likely spawn mass protests).
Fortunately the certification is not optional. They are mandated to certify, it's not up to them to decide one way or another. Courts will enforce the mandate and congress won't have to.
Exactly. The law is very clear that states must certify election results, and it'd be helpful (for turnout purposes) if people would stop indicating otherwise.
I grew up in the Army - I polished my dad's brass and shoes. He retired a Captain in the Reserves and saw combat in Korea. Every time tRump opens his mouth about soldiers, sailors, airmen, etc. he insults them. Because he has no sense of personal honor, he cannot imagine how the recipients of his casual disregard lands on people. He is a complete and total, demented disgrace. He cannot toddle off this mortal coil soon enough for me.
The fecking imbecile simply is blissfully ignorant of the impact of his words…”…full of bullets, or they’re dead…”. Yes, you flaming git, those who were the military and recipients of the CMH did so for heroism above and beyond the call of duty, including giving their lives.
Passing out his junky presidential medals because one is a yuuge cash contributor to the GOP and to tRump’s campaigns, or to a loudmouth right-wing shock jock is worth MORE than the CMH? In whose world is that the case?
This clip MUST be part of the Harris-Walz campaign material, and Hillbilly should be confronted with tRump’s remarks at every opportunity…and these subhuman lowlifes have the cheek to insult Tim Walz’s service record!
Also, the NYT's Michael Gold was live-streaming his remarks yesterday re: Adelson, but ignored reporting on his Congressional Medal of Honor comments...however, today - after the Internets exploded - he ran a piece under his byline quoting tRump verbatim, and also did mention his years-long disparaging of military service people, and how yesterday's remarks are causing a yuuge backlash.
What I've noticed with the Times only recently, in their reporting of tRump's "rally" and "press conference" blatherings is that they let him off easily initially, then after other journalistic sites and social media go nutz savaging tRump's inanities, the paper comes in as well, a day late and a dollar short, as they say...shite rag.
I think he might be losing some of them. I think when the final vote is tallied, Dumpy's going to lose by a lot more than he did last time. Or maybe I'm just wishfully thinking.
He may end up with only his true core. I wonder how many states that would give him. I just hope if the polls start going south for him in a bigly way that we don't take the foot off the accelerator. I don't see that happening, thanks largely to women voters, who seem incredibly motivated.
true core and the ones that will vote Republican no matter who. I don't see those people being the same necessarily. I find the "Republican no matter who" people to be even worse- they know his ramblings are BS but vote mindlessly because "he's the republican"
Good point. They are also pretty mindless because they can't claim to be "Republican" and vote for these people. There's nothing at all conservative about them. It's like conservative columnist David French said in the NY Times: "To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris."
I've waited to see if the Cheney family will speak publicly for Harris/Walz. They haven't, have they? They have always voted Republican "no matter who". But .. Liz headed the Jan. 6 hearings and continues to speak out.
She said she would do everything in her power to keep djt from becoming president again. But that doesn't mean she wouldn't vote R all the way down ballot.
I believe (or at least I hope so) it’s a myth, if you’re talking about the rank and file of the military. Of course, it’s true of the rank and file of the MAGA/GQP/WCN Extremist Cult.
If you follow MRFF - Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Mikey Weinstein - https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/ - you'll read of those who are likely MAGA voters. And the number of active military or veterans who participated in the Insurrection were greater than I'd have liked to see.
I have a family member who is an Air Force retiree who supports MAGA-T. It is completely frustrating and unbelievable. Trying to figure out how to raise these issues again without making myself crazy and miserable.
A lot of our military are scions of Red states - they volunteer at higher rates than Blue state folks - who generally go to college instead. That said, they also have a very real sense of personal honor, and going into the military bolsters this. At the very least, there is gonna be a lot of conflict in a lot of minds over this BS.
Remember when “He’s campaigning from his basement” was supposed to be some kind of definitive burn on Joe Biden? Now Trump is literally campaigning from his house because he’s flat broke and can’t pay for venues for his rallies.
Is that why? I haven't seen that data -- thought he was rolling in contributions. I thought he was hiding out because he continues to create YUGE crap piles then wallow in them at each of his appearances. Cory Lewandowski will certainly help him with this self-immolation (NOT).
I know he has assets, but we’ll never know how much money he owes to Putin, MBS, the Chinese and god knows who else. Every fiber of his being, every action, every word screams “negative net worth.”
He’s a lazy f**k. Not earnest. One tool in his Gucci box and that’s to bully. Not to work harder, learn more so he’s knowledgeable and informed. So he lies because he’s lazy and he’s always been able to be lazy. According to the big f**k, if he doesn’t get things his way, it’s not because he didn’t put in the effort, it’s because someone else screwed up. Great kind of person for the POTUS. It’s amazing we survived the first term, really.
America may have survived, but how many Covid deaths are directly attributable to tfg's insane quashing of NIH information. And don't forget how he made States compete against each other for PPE supplies!
Right?!? I've been mystified for years by the Democrats' lack of back-at-ya-ness in response to the Republicans' lies and stupid outrage. Polite high-road politics were not enough to counter their attacks. Harris and Walz are (finally!) shining a much needed spotlight on the nonsense.
Pres. Biden seems to have let go of that - he called his former opponent Donald Dump. I think he's loosed up a lot and will continue to do so, and go out with a bang.
AND he looks healthier. I think this was a weight off his shoulders -- and as sad as it must be to be a sitting President and go out this way, it'll be best for his health and life - and ours.
Unfortunately, Trump is very human in his psychopathy. Too many humans just like him (yes, with faulty wiring that creates actions that are rewarded in many societies).
If I hadn't read the excerpt in the New Yorker, I wouldn't have believed it. WAIT. Yes, I would. He's just pathetic. The Republican Party has lost their collective minds...their insane quest for power and profit landed Trump into their lap. Good. 🤦♀️ AND.....all the very best to you and your new family. Baby Watch continues! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
He was all set to eviscerate Biden. But, partially by his own doing, Biden passed the torch. His brain froze and he can't cope. He is afraid of Kamala because he knows she is a smart woman and is as quick on the draw as he wished he was.
I’m a veteran & his remarks are always, always!!, an insult to who we are, to the sacrifices that military service requires (and their family’s sacrifices), to everyone who served and is currently serving and especially, beyond all else, to those who end up injured, disabled or dead due to our service. Fuck him!!
Sadly, as I drove to Indy today I passed a house flying a Marine Corps flag and a new to me trump flag that read “I don’t care. I still support trump.” 🙄 I guess that veteran was owning the self defeating absurdity of their choice.
First, thank you for your service. I mean that sincerely, not just a platitude. My dear dad was a decorated, battle-scarred WWII US Army vet, who suffered injuries for the rest of his short life (died at 59). I understand exactly what you are saying, and I am enraged on your behalf for ALL veterans. Trump is a despicable ex-president -- and isn't that just crazy?? -- who says ignorant and hateful things about our self-sacrificing veterans. This time, he denigrated our veterans to butter up one of his mega-donors who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom for ... what?? He couldn't even say it.
I love our veterans, and I revere (as a humble citizen) any serviceperson who has been awarded the Medal of Honor. They will always be the pinnacle of heroes to all of us Americans.
You are welcome for my service. I was glad to serve ten years as an Army paratrooper. (I wanted 40 but my time was cut short by the rampant MST.) I’m sorry your beloved father’s life was cut short by his service injuries. You honor him with your respect, love and in telling others what he went through.
You are 100% correct - it is crazy that trump would even dare to utter the words “Medal of Honor” let alone slander those who were awarded it for their conspicuous gallantry and service above and beyond the normal call of duty with his hate crusted words.
How many times will the Magaloonies hear 45 belittle our fighting men and women and those who gave their lives for this country, and still think he's the one to vote for? I wonder what's in the water they all drink.
The myths about Democrats fuel the internal biases of these types.
They will NEVER vote Democrat because that would be unAmerican.
It’s BS of course. I think it started, the primary myths— Dems are the party of big government, in arms with communists, elitist, gay, welfare state supporting, soft on military, Black or Black supporters (sorry just racist BS), pro immigrant AND! failures on the economy—the party of “ tax and spend” .
And now we are pedos too!
These standard fallacies started
during the Nixon era and before that with McCarthyism.
And boy have they sticked. Stuck.
( Fun fact: tRmp’s mentor was Roy Cohn who was a young político in the McCarthy administration.)
All simplistic fallacies and outright lies. But deeply held beliefs by many.
Speaking from experience, growing up in a red area of Ohio— that shit runs deep.
It’s the kind of ignorance that is truly frightening.
And we’ve got to change this narrative.
I believe Harris could be the beginning of that change. 🇺🇸✨
Don't forget Dems eat babies. Probably the ones from the after birth abortions. It all started with the southern doctrine and Newt Gringrich was the one who made is ok to call a political opponent "enemy". It was down hill from there. It is time the decorum and norms make a come back. Everytime Trump calls Joe Biden things like corrupt or crime family or sleepy I get so angry. How did we end up in place where this is acceptable?
My experience tells me the trumpers have been abused in their lives, terribly sad, so this is normal discourse to them. They have been badly damaged and continue replicating his abusive behaviour.
So far, MAGA’s campaign has alienated “cat ladies”, women in general, and now military veterans with the couch Romeo swift boating TW’s service record and then cheetoskin minimizing the congressional Medal of Honor. All diaperload has to do to lose more voters is to open his pie hole. I don’t think a change of campaign leadership can stop this blood loss unless they keep him from speaking in public and let JDV do all the talking. Not an attractive option. Can’t wait for the first debate!
JD can't seem to open his mouth without getting into trouble either. He's alienated all the cohorts you mention all on his own. They make quite the pair.
I was concerned for a bit there that Trump would fire him, but I think it's just about too late for that. Early ballot printing starts in a couple weeks in some states.
"...but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for—and that’s through committees and everything else".
I would really like to hear some reporter pressing him (and FOIA-ing the records) on which "committees", who served on them and what they awarded her the medal for.
I would LOVE IT if after the Harris policy speech today they conclude by bringing out the menus at Bedford and Mar a Lago on big cardboard props and highlight the more than likely exorbitant prices charged for appetizers and entrees …
I’m seeing all of this differently. There is a large group of people out there that are only supporting Trump as a tool to achieve their goals of taking over America and imposing on us their vision of how they believe we should act and what we should believe.
Trump is only their useful idiot tool that was effective in attracting a large fan base of acolytes full of dark passions devoid of reason. This tool was easily controlled by appealing to his vanity. But now their tool is daily showing a decreasing mental capacity.
So if this tool fails are these controllers ready to launch an armed insurrection or will they wait to find another tool? Either way this cancer is still with us and will not be eliminated by a Harris victory.
Well said. Those stealth Trump supporters are incredibly dangerous. So the work will continue even if Harris/Walz win. And of course Trump is already setting the stage for claiming a second stolen election
Which these controllers will support because it keeps the chaos going. These controllers want as much chaos as possible so they can sweep in as the Knights Templars of Order.
I agree with you. This battle between freedom and those that want control is never ending. So those of us that choose freedom can NEVER rest peacefully into a state of complacency.
We all will continue our Sisyphusian rolling up the stone or perish.
Yes. Which is why it's so important to not only elect Harris, but also to keep the Senate and take back the House. We need significant changes in SCOTUS and election laws to make sure they don't get another chance.
LC, I completely agree with you. However, the problem is that everything exists in a state of flux. Harris is the agent to arrive at a better state than exists now. However, that state will be like a mandala that will only exist for a moment in time.
The greedy and religious fascist are not stupid and will find ways to erode the mandala, as all mandalas are nothing but colored grains of sand which are blown away by natural winds.
Thus, we must recognize that as they evolve to protect their greed and ideology, we must never rest but keep evolving to keep them in check and keep constructing new mandalas constructed with the sands of compassion for all humans, all life and mother Gaia.
We may not always like the needed mandala but must strive to recognize facts and not become stuck into the quicksand of our belief systems.
He’s always been manipulated by whatever opportunists and whack jobs he surrounded himself with and it’s only gotten worse.
I believe Vance has been INSTALLED as his successor — something that would happen soon after a win. SOON.
Think of that — JD Fucking Vance as POTUS.
The conditions that created tRmp and The Heritage Foundation— the Russell Voughts of the world, is what we have to set ourselves to fixing. With force and speed. Because the fascists, opportunists and robberbarron billionaires will keep coming.
https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-in-project-2025/ read this and weep. These are the people manipulating Trump right now. It is scary as heck. Trump will go along with everything they have prepared as long as he can go golfing. The Heritage Foundation has everything prepared, every memo, every executive order everything.
🎯Yes, not to mention he was Putin's useful idiot, a chaos agent, but I think Putin has enough problems of his own these days, and he knows trump is a loser, so probably will not support him this time.
I don't know if this is the same event and apologies in advance if this is a hijacking of Xeets and Giggles, but this was just too hysterical for me not to share.
Hey Jay.... keep writing, keep observing, keep on top of truth and verifiable facts. Speaking for me only, I'm not resting. Not this time. I went to bed on election night thinking Hillary, for sure, would be our President the next morning. The most votes didn't win it--it took more. This is not done until every voting place is safe from invaders, until the votes are counted, verified, and we have President Harris sworn in. It will take more effort and work than what we think and this is the time to crawl out of our comfort zones and dig deeper for the effort to make sure we get the outcome desired.
Trump is nothing but negative energy and a vacuum that sucks all joy out of life…
I’d like to think he’s going to lose for all the high-minded reasons, but I think a lot of people are going to vote against him because they’re simply tired of him. He’s exhausting, like any abuser.
Nine years. Damned straight, we’re tired of it—time for him to land in the dustbin of history with the Joe McCarthys of the world.
I’ve been tired of his ass since the 80’s.
Me too.
Ahole.
Too bad major media didn’t report accurately on him in 2015. We could have had a real President.
Also too bad NBC and that evangelical asshole producer of his shitty reality show legitimized him in the early 2000’s, along with twatter too.
Ever so much this^^^ We knew it was out there. I felt like Cassandra, predicting the disaster that no one would listen to.
Ditto!
Yep, first time I was exposed to him I could see he was a jerk & a conman, & every subsequent time just reinforced that impression. I would never have expected he could even be considered for President, let alone become one.
And the hitlers, lenins, stalins, putins, rasputins, togos, judases, and others.
"Have you no shame, Sir?" McCarthy didn't and Trump for sure hasn't either.
And maybe the dustbin of a jail cell?
lol I’d take up religion if it would help seal that deal 😼
Hahaaaaa!!!
In normal times, he wouldn't win one state. The only reason he'll win a few is because of the power of Fox and the rest of the right wing media to obfuscate his insanity, and the unwillingness of much of the mainstream media to treat him like the yugely unbalanced person he is. That second part seems to be slowly changing?
I hope you're right about thay
that. Even Fox is now occasionally posting a story that's less than flattering about him.
Are they still giving Pete Buttigieg a fairly regular appearance or have they learned their lesson?
And the cheating threatened in red states
I think it's more a promise than a threat.
Not counting on any real changing. ALL LAME-STREAM MEDIA IS CORRUPT.
And look at the way CNN has let him have free airtime to babble lies; NBC's Meet The (de)Press had the neo-Hitler on for Kristen Welker's first appearance.
They all pander and profit, no American MSM is free of responsibility for fostering this train wreck of a fascist clown.
There really is no "right wing media", it's all for profit. And for profit they will do a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g.
Very similar to the choices made about entertainment television: despite the (accidental) appearance of so-called *socially progressive* themes, the SOLE determinant of content is PROFIT! Ask any show runner 😕
I don't know if it is actually changing, as much as all the cancellation of subscriptions might be getting through. So the betrayer bosses might allow for some real reporting.
I would imagine those former followers are either going to vote against him or not vote at all.
I think that’s a very limited, and incorrect, take on the election as it now stands.
I am HAPPY to vote for my former Senator and AG, as it will be my 5th time voting for her. I’m confident, having watched her for decades, that she will bring energy, intelligence, joy, and a sense of morality to the White House. Yes, I’m voting against Trump, but I’m also voting FOR a ticket that I’m proud of!
And given the dramatic shift in polling, and the rapid death of the “double haters” category of voter, I’m *far* from alone. I’m voting FOR Harris-Walz.
The way the constant propaganda machine has brainwashed the former Republicans, they believe Dems really "want to destroy America", as ridiculous as it is- so they'd vote for a ticket with Jeffrey Dahmer and Charlie Manson over Kamala Harris.
I believe a Dahmer-Manson team would be preferable to Agolf Shitler, at least they'd be different than this refried grievance-baby.
Exhausting; THAT’S IT!!!
He is losing. He's not competent, smart, and rambles incoherently. It's nothing but lies and BS. He's unraveling more spectacularly than I thought was possible. He's scared. He is being publicly humiliated and the crowd numbers don’t lie! Trump is losing again and again!
This "Kamala removes stubborn orange stains" t-shirt is SO accurate 🤣 👇
http://libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/votek
Exciting to listen to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Everything about them exudes positivism, pride, optimism for America's future. On the other hand, Trump is invariably hateful, negative, cursing anything and everyone. America needs Kamala in the White house with Tim as VP.
81 days to go America to get rid of Agent Orange from our government and politics!
Don’t get too confident. He’s still dangerous, and there are a lot of brainwashed MAGA/GQP/WCN Extremist Cult members out there.
Yes, and a corrupt SCOTUS who will take his ridiculous claims of fraud seriously as an excuse to defy the will of the voters.
Agree.
Especially with all of his crooked minions, who are planning to exploit 1 small Constitutional vagueness in order to not certify votes at the state level. Presumably, even if the results are overwhelmingly* in favor of Harris-Walz.
Marc Elias says bring’ em on; he’s confident he’ll repeat his 2020 election record. Elias helmed the legal efforts to win a massive 60+ case load of lawsuits (either defending election results or suing criminal MAGA manipulators) & won every case except 1 (which was a draw).
But I’m a worrywart, so there’s tension flogging me.
[*My spouse & I don’t respond to any calls (we silence unknown #s & report as spam), texts, emails, & snail-mailed surveys, nor any online surveys we stumble across.
And we’re presuming that most sane, educated people do the same.
I also add experience — gained through a temporary job at gold-standard pollster during job transition — that it’s usually the kind of people one imagines being at home during the daytime instead of working who will pick up unknown 800# calls. So that helps me stay calm among breathless reporting of polling’s apparant twists & turns.]
I so agree. MAGA won’t budge from their support of him and the fascist rest of them (and Project 2025). They see in him the Hitler they’ve been longing for. And enthusiastic rallies for anyone don’t always translate to votes. But even this born pessimist sees something very hopeful in the enthusiasm, joy and deep relief people are expressing for Harris/Walz. And the Democrats are preparing for when the Republicans do another insurrection and/or refuse to ratify the votes.
My husband’s MAGA family will all vote for him absolutely no matter what he says. Fucking nuts.
My older brother actually donated to McCain-Palin.
SARAH PALIN! Why? Dan Quayle wasn't available? I'll never understand it.
Well said, Carol.
These MAGA people are just the worst kind of people. They all have serious mental malfunction..something is definitely wired differently in their brains…
He's a Dementor right out of the Harry Potter books--but one who is crazy and senile!
But not as SMART as a Dementor!!!
Exactly. He is also very dangerous in his role as candidate. Here is a video of History Prof. Thomas Zimmer talking to Democrats Abroad about Project 2025. It is worth listening to the full talk which is moderated to get a better sense of where we are historically in this election. The best part is the very end. https://youtu.be/IqpWMH5nkPw?si=MYJlfJ3dfAB8gT6z
He’s a hot mess.
Yes. They needed to smudge the Oval Office with sage after he left.
I don't know if his coming undone is a good thing, or a bad thing. A cornered animal is the most dangerous. It's a good thing in that it helps us elect Harris, it's a bad thing in that they will try very very hard to steal this election. It's comforting that groups like Democracy Docket are getting ahead of the game, even the ABA is getting teams of lawyers together in swing state to protect election workers and voters on election day.
I feel it is inevitable that he will try to undo the election should he lose. His freedom depends on it.
Seriously, I think the issue is that his EGO depends upon it. He could lose his freedom -- election or not -- but he could STILL maintain that it is all UNFAIR!!!!
He should go to prison but I don’t think he ever will, and I don’t think he’s afraid of that. I think he’s afraid of running out of national security secrets to sell and ending up in the trunk of a car.
I urge all to read Joyce Vance’s latest Civil Discourse Substack. He’s not going to get away with stealing the election.
But, we must continue to work hard to get Harris/Walz elected by huge numbers. LFG 💪🏼💙
I love Joyce Vance, and read her everyday!
Yes, she’s a treasure and great balm for our spirits.
As are her chickens. 😺
We need to help Harris win by a mile, not just to prevent Trump from stealing the election, but because the bigger the victory, the more fun it will be.
Hopefully, any court cases will proceed as they did last time: cases brought on mere hunches, without any verifiable examples of fraud, and the judges note the absence of evidence and toss the cases.
More pertinent this time around will be the possibility of some States refusing to certify their own results, possibly in the hope of neither candidate getting the 270 and it falling on the outgoing Congress to decide (which in itself would likely spawn mass protests).
Fortunately the certification is not optional. They are mandated to certify, it's not up to them to decide one way or another. Courts will enforce the mandate and congress won't have to.
Exactly. The law is very clear that states must certify election results, and it'd be helpful (for turnout purposes) if people would stop indicating otherwise.
I grew up in the Army - I polished my dad's brass and shoes. He retired a Captain in the Reserves and saw combat in Korea. Every time tRump opens his mouth about soldiers, sailors, airmen, etc. he insults them. Because he has no sense of personal honor, he cannot imagine how the recipients of his casual disregard lands on people. He is a complete and total, demented disgrace. He cannot toddle off this mortal coil soon enough for me.
The fecking imbecile simply is blissfully ignorant of the impact of his words…”…full of bullets, or they’re dead…”. Yes, you flaming git, those who were the military and recipients of the CMH did so for heroism above and beyond the call of duty, including giving their lives.
Passing out his junky presidential medals because one is a yuuge cash contributor to the GOP and to tRump’s campaigns, or to a loudmouth right-wing shock jock is worth MORE than the CMH? In whose world is that the case?
This clip MUST be part of the Harris-Walz campaign material, and Hillbilly should be confronted with tRump’s remarks at every opportunity…and these subhuman lowlifes have the cheek to insult Tim Walz’s service record!
Also, the NYT's Michael Gold was live-streaming his remarks yesterday re: Adelson, but ignored reporting on his Congressional Medal of Honor comments...however, today - after the Internets exploded - he ran a piece under his byline quoting tRump verbatim, and also did mention his years-long disparaging of military service people, and how yesterday's remarks are causing a yuuge backlash.
What I've noticed with the Times only recently, in their reporting of tRump's "rally" and "press conference" blatherings is that they let him off easily initially, then after other journalistic sites and social media go nutz savaging tRump's inanities, the paper comes in as well, a day late and a dollar short, as they say...shite rag.
This is why I finally cancelled my NYT subscription, that and the relentless trolling and haranguing of Biden.
I canceled my subscription the after the 2016 elections. I sent the publisher a real flamer.
That's because they are afraid of him, and do us all a disservice.
Is he unaware, or just doesn’t give a F?
And yet the rank and file seem to vote for him. Or is that a myth?
I think he might be losing some of them. I think when the final vote is tallied, Dumpy's going to lose by a lot more than he did last time. Or maybe I'm just wishfully thinking.
He may end up with only his true core. I wonder how many states that would give him. I just hope if the polls start going south for him in a bigly way that we don't take the foot off the accelerator. I don't see that happening, thanks largely to women voters, who seem incredibly motivated.
true core and the ones that will vote Republican no matter who. I don't see those people being the same necessarily. I find the "Republican no matter who" people to be even worse- they know his ramblings are BS but vote mindlessly because "he's the republican"
Good point. They are also pretty mindless because they can't claim to be "Republican" and vote for these people. There's nothing at all conservative about them. It's like conservative columnist David French said in the NY Times: "To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris."
I've waited to see if the Cheney family will speak publicly for Harris/Walz. They haven't, have they? They have always voted Republican "no matter who". But .. Liz headed the Jan. 6 hearings and continues to speak out.
She said she would do everything in her power to keep djt from becoming president again. But that doesn't mean she wouldn't vote R all the way down ballot.
I wonder if W will crawl out of his self-imposed banishment and speak out?
Dick Cheney posted this.
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro8rkZ4HQZQ
Yes! BIGLY !!
I believe (or at least I hope so) it’s a myth, if you’re talking about the rank and file of the military. Of course, it’s true of the rank and file of the MAGA/GQP/WCN Extremist Cult.
I do know a couple military folks (it's not my background at all). They hate the guy. Small sample size, but their loathing is kind of intense.
If you follow MRFF - Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Mikey Weinstein - https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/ - you'll read of those who are likely MAGA voters. And the number of active military or veterans who participated in the Insurrection were greater than I'd have liked to see.
I have a family member who is an Air Force retiree who supports MAGA-T. It is completely frustrating and unbelievable. Trying to figure out how to raise these issues again without making myself crazy and miserable.
Thanks for trying.
A lot of our military are scions of Red states - they volunteer at higher rates than Blue state folks - who generally go to college instead. That said, they also have a very real sense of personal honor, and going into the military bolsters this. At the very least, there is gonna be a lot of conflict in a lot of minds over this BS.
My question, too.
I plan to pour a bottle of champagne on Trumps' grave.
After drinking it, of course.
*Clinks glass to yours* See you there.
lolololololo😂
Exactly
Agreed.
Remember when “He’s campaigning from his basement” was supposed to be some kind of definitive burn on Joe Biden? Now Trump is literally campaigning from his house because he’s flat broke and can’t pay for venues for his rallies.
He also has a history of not paying his venues, so they likely won’t allow him back.
I read somewhere on Substack yesterday that he has had to pay up front for his latest venue which holds fewer than 2500 people.
Wow - what a crowd!
The one in Ashville NC, because he burned either them, or another venue in the area.
And Palm Beach has about had it with him. They may shut him down . As SS has now closed one of only two main roads on the island to keep PAB “ safe”.
This as reported on Legal AF.
What is PAB?
One version is Punk-A**-B*tch.
I still love Chrissy Teigan for her version.
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https://www.thecut.com/article/chrissy-teigen-says-she-fears-donald-trump-coming-after-her.html
Is that why? I haven't seen that data -- thought he was rolling in contributions. I thought he was hiding out because he continues to create YUGE crap piles then wallow in them at each of his appearances. Cory Lewandowski will certainly help him with this self-immolation (NOT).
They're broke.
The Drumph family has taken over the RNC and most of the money is being diverted to pay for the criming and resultant legal fees.
As Chalmers Johnson sagely observed, "things that can't go on forever... don't."
I don’t think he is broke, he just hates letting go of a nickel. He is gonna need all his money when he flees to Venezuela to escape prison. 🤓
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Like the "underpants gnomes" he has a plan.
!. Take in money from RNC.
2.
3. Profit
I know he has assets, but we’ll never know how much money he owes to Putin, MBS, the Chinese and god knows who else. Every fiber of his being, every action, every word screams “negative net worth.”
The magadude headline writer on WaPo said that...while Biden was on the road campaigning, they are so out of touch with reality.
There is THAT!
He’s a lazy f**k. Not earnest. One tool in his Gucci box and that’s to bully. Not to work harder, learn more so he’s knowledgeable and informed. So he lies because he’s lazy and he’s always been able to be lazy. According to the big f**k, if he doesn’t get things his way, it’s not because he didn’t put in the effort, it’s because someone else screwed up. Great kind of person for the POTUS. It’s amazing we survived the first term, really.
America may have survived, but how many Covid deaths are directly attributable to tfg's insane quashing of NIH information. And don't forget how he made States compete against each other for PPE supplies!
All wealth and treachery inherited and passed on to his progeny.
...which scares me as much. HOW can they and then to theirs?
Malignant narcissist sociopath.
With A LOT of money all his life.
Pure poison.
It really is, but I would point out that he killed a huge number of us, with his mishandling of the pandemic.
Love the humor, energy and right back at ya-ness of the Harris campaign. We needed that!
Right?!? I've been mystified for years by the Democrats' lack of back-at-ya-ness in response to the Republicans' lies and stupid outrage. Polite high-road politics were not enough to counter their attacks. Harris and Walz are (finally!) shining a much needed spotlight on the nonsense.
I love Uncle Joe, but he was way too polite in his dealings with the orange man.
Pres. Biden seems to have let go of that - he called his former opponent Donald Dump. I think he's loosed up a lot and will continue to do so, and go out with a bang.
AND he looks healthier. I think this was a weight off his shoulders -- and as sad as it must be to be a sitting President and go out this way, it'll be best for his health and life - and ours.
I agree, it’s nice to see him being honest- some of his remarks are quite cutting and I love it!
Biden is a super nice human and Trump is not human; Droid maybe? With faulty wiring…
Unfortunately, Trump is very human in his psychopathy. Too many humans just like him (yes, with faulty wiring that creates actions that are rewarded in many societies).
If I hadn't read the excerpt in the New Yorker, I wouldn't have believed it. WAIT. Yes, I would. He's just pathetic. The Republican Party has lost their collective minds...their insane quest for power and profit landed Trump into their lap. Good. 🤦♀️ AND.....all the very best to you and your new family. Baby Watch continues! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
They HAVE lost their collective minds. And spines if ever there was one amongst them.
BUT! What does it say about us as a country, that President Biden was at risk of losing to this total POS ?!
And a candidate like Harris is more or less TIED with him?!
( She may be up by 4%. I believe she is and will win but we’re in the margin of error.)
This America of ours has problems bigger than tRmp.
Believe it. And get to work . 👊🏽✨
He was all set to eviscerate Biden. But, partially by his own doing, Biden passed the torch. His brain froze and he can't cope. He is afraid of Kamala because he knows she is a smart woman and is as quick on the draw as he wished he was.
Sometimes I wonder if some things done innocently by the Dems freaked Trump’s EGO out big time?
I’m a veteran & his remarks are always, always!!, an insult to who we are, to the sacrifices that military service requires (and their family’s sacrifices), to everyone who served and is currently serving and especially, beyond all else, to those who end up injured, disabled or dead due to our service. Fuck him!!
Sadly, as I drove to Indy today I passed a house flying a Marine Corps flag and a new to me trump flag that read “I don’t care. I still support trump.” 🙄 I guess that veteran was owning the self defeating absurdity of their choice.
First, thank you for your service. I mean that sincerely, not just a platitude. My dear dad was a decorated, battle-scarred WWII US Army vet, who suffered injuries for the rest of his short life (died at 59). I understand exactly what you are saying, and I am enraged on your behalf for ALL veterans. Trump is a despicable ex-president -- and isn't that just crazy?? -- who says ignorant and hateful things about our self-sacrificing veterans. This time, he denigrated our veterans to butter up one of his mega-donors who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom for ... what?? He couldn't even say it.
I love our veterans, and I revere (as a humble citizen) any serviceperson who has been awarded the Medal of Honor. They will always be the pinnacle of heroes to all of us Americans.
You are welcome for my service. I was glad to serve ten years as an Army paratrooper. (I wanted 40 but my time was cut short by the rampant MST.) I’m sorry your beloved father’s life was cut short by his service injuries. You honor him with your respect, love and in telling others what he went through.
You are 100% correct - it is crazy that trump would even dare to utter the words “Medal of Honor” let alone slander those who were awarded it for their conspicuous gallantry and service above and beyond the normal call of duty with his hate crusted words.
I think that’s how his base feels - he can insult them to their face and that would be their response. Sad.
They must be a JD Vance type Marine.
How many times will the Magaloonies hear 45 belittle our fighting men and women and those who gave their lives for this country, and still think he's the one to vote for? I wonder what's in the water they all drink.
"Magaloonies" That’s good.
The myths about Democrats fuel the internal biases of these types.
They will NEVER vote Democrat because that would be unAmerican.
It’s BS of course. I think it started, the primary myths— Dems are the party of big government, in arms with communists, elitist, gay, welfare state supporting, soft on military, Black or Black supporters (sorry just racist BS), pro immigrant AND! failures on the economy—the party of “ tax and spend” .
And now we are pedos too!
These standard fallacies started
during the Nixon era and before that with McCarthyism.
And boy have they sticked. Stuck.
( Fun fact: tRmp’s mentor was Roy Cohn who was a young político in the McCarthy administration.)
All simplistic fallacies and outright lies. But deeply held beliefs by many.
Speaking from experience, growing up in a red area of Ohio— that shit runs deep.
It’s the kind of ignorance that is truly frightening.
And we’ve got to change this narrative.
I believe Harris could be the beginning of that change. 🇺🇸✨
Don't forget Dems eat babies. Probably the ones from the after birth abortions. It all started with the southern doctrine and Newt Gringrich was the one who made is ok to call a political opponent "enemy". It was down hill from there. It is time the decorum and norms make a come back. Everytime Trump calls Joe Biden things like corrupt or crime family or sleepy I get so angry. How did we end up in place where this is acceptable?
Don't forget the role Newt Gingrich played in getting repubs to view Democrats as mortal enemies!
My experience tells me the trumpers have been abused in their lives, terribly sad, so this is normal discourse to them. They have been badly damaged and continue replicating his abusive behaviour.
Lots of lead... really.
So far, MAGA’s campaign has alienated “cat ladies”, women in general, and now military veterans with the couch Romeo swift boating TW’s service record and then cheetoskin minimizing the congressional Medal of Honor. All diaperload has to do to lose more voters is to open his pie hole. I don’t think a change of campaign leadership can stop this blood loss unless they keep him from speaking in public and let JDV do all the talking. Not an attractive option. Can’t wait for the first debate!
JD can't seem to open his mouth without getting into trouble either. He's alienated all the cohorts you mention all on his own. They make quite the pair.
I was concerned for a bit there that Trump would fire him, but I think it's just about too late for that. Early ballot printing starts in a couple weeks in some states.
Ballot printing AND early voting!
(jvd likely also alienated furniture manufacturers.)
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Me, too. Kamala will eat him alive.
"...but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and she got it for—and that’s through committees and everything else".
I would really like to hear some reporter pressing him (and FOIA-ing the records) on which "committees", who served on them and what they awarded her the medal for.
AGREE! Per the NYTimes in 2018, the award was apparently for major $$ given to Trump/campaign. Here's the link. The writer was circumspect, to say the least.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/politics/presidential-medal-freedom-adelson.html
I would LOVE IT if after the Harris policy speech today they conclude by bringing out the menus at Bedford and Mar a Lago on big cardboard props and highlight the more than likely exorbitant prices charged for appetizers and entrees …
I’m seeing all of this differently. There is a large group of people out there that are only supporting Trump as a tool to achieve their goals of taking over America and imposing on us their vision of how they believe we should act and what we should believe.
Trump is only their useful idiot tool that was effective in attracting a large fan base of acolytes full of dark passions devoid of reason. This tool was easily controlled by appealing to his vanity. But now their tool is daily showing a decreasing mental capacity.
So if this tool fails are these controllers ready to launch an armed insurrection or will they wait to find another tool? Either way this cancer is still with us and will not be eliminated by a Harris victory.
Well said. Those stealth Trump supporters are incredibly dangerous. So the work will continue even if Harris/Walz win. And of course Trump is already setting the stage for claiming a second stolen election
Which these controllers will support because it keeps the chaos going. These controllers want as much chaos as possible so they can sweep in as the Knights Templars of Order.
I agree with you. This battle between freedom and those that want control is never ending. So those of us that choose freedom can NEVER rest peacefully into a state of complacency.
We all will continue our Sisyphusian rolling up the stone or perish.
Yes. Which is why it's so important to not only elect Harris, but also to keep the Senate and take back the House. We need significant changes in SCOTUS and election laws to make sure they don't get another chance.
YES! We want ALL of it!
House, Senate and the White House!
Then we’ve got a chance.
LC, I completely agree with you. However, the problem is that everything exists in a state of flux. Harris is the agent to arrive at a better state than exists now. However, that state will be like a mandala that will only exist for a moment in time.
The greedy and religious fascist are not stupid and will find ways to erode the mandala, as all mandalas are nothing but colored grains of sand which are blown away by natural winds.
Thus, we must recognize that as they evolve to protect their greed and ideology, we must never rest but keep evolving to keep them in check and keep constructing new mandalas constructed with the sands of compassion for all humans, all life and mother Gaia.
We may not always like the needed mandala but must strive to recognize facts and not become stuck into the quicksand of our belief systems.
Agreed.
He’s always been manipulated by whatever opportunists and whack jobs he surrounded himself with and it’s only gotten worse.
I believe Vance has been INSTALLED as his successor — something that would happen soon after a win. SOON.
Think of that — JD Fucking Vance as POTUS.
The conditions that created tRmp and The Heritage Foundation— the Russell Voughts of the world, is what we have to set ourselves to fixing. With force and speed. Because the fascists, opportunists and robberbarron billionaires will keep coming.
https://climate-reporting.org/undercover-in-project-2025/ read this and weep. These are the people manipulating Trump right now. It is scary as heck. Trump will go along with everything they have prepared as long as he can go golfing. The Heritage Foundation has everything prepared, every memo, every executive order everything.
🎯Yes, not to mention he was Putin's useful idiot, a chaos agent, but I think Putin has enough problems of his own these days, and he knows trump is a loser, so probably will not support him this time.
I don't know if this is the same event and apologies in advance if this is a hijacking of Xeets and Giggles, but this was just too hysterical for me not to share.
https://bsky.app/profile/craighillman.bsky.social/post/3kzs7fc3e3u2v
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That's great!
Hey Jay.... keep writing, keep observing, keep on top of truth and verifiable facts. Speaking for me only, I'm not resting. Not this time. I went to bed on election night thinking Hillary, for sure, would be our President the next morning. The most votes didn't win it--it took more. This is not done until every voting place is safe from invaders, until the votes are counted, verified, and we have President Harris sworn in. It will take more effort and work than what we think and this is the time to crawl out of our comfort zones and dig deeper for the effort to make sure we get the outcome desired.