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"One of the things we've learned in the past few days was that Olivia Nuzzi who wrote those very critical pieces about Biden was in fact in a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when she wrote them."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#RFKJr #KamalaHarris #Trump
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One-on-one with Heather Cox Richardson | Cap Times Idea Fest 2024
Heather Cox Richardson is a Boston College history professor whose daily digital essays (“Letters from an American”) that place current political events into...YouTube
"Kennedy is working hard to be a spoiler for Harris, fighting to keep his name on the ballot where it could harm the vice president’s campaign and to remove it where his appearance might hurt Trump. It’s a remarkably shameless ploy for a man who spent his career as an environmental attorney and is now willing to get in bed with a politician who thinks windmills cause cancer and fossil fuels are the future."
~ Liz Dye
#RFKJr #KamalaHarris #Trump
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RFK Jr's chaos campaign to support Trump
He says he doesn't want to be a spoiler, but he's spoiling pretty hard.Liz Dye (Public Notice)
"Trump has no understanding of the economy.
He was terrible at business — which is why he’s driven so many businesses into the ground. (He’s even driven casinos into the ground. How do you lose money running a casino?)
Given another chance, he’ll drive the American economy into the ground, too."
~ Robert Reich
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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"According to an analysis from the Peterson Institute for International Economics published Thursday, the devastating effects on the economy could last through 2040.
Trump promises to carry out 'mass deportations' if elected president. Doing so could 'cause a large inflationary impulse and a significant loss of employment (particularly in manufacturing and agriculture) in the US economy,' the researchers found."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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"According to independent nonprofit nonpartisan researchers, Trump’s policies on tariffs, deportations, and the Federal Reserve would, if put in action, seriously hike inflation, wipe out jobs, and slow U.S. production and economic growth.
In even the most generous modeling, inflation would reach 6 percent by 2026 and consumer prices would balloon 20 percent by 2028."
~ Paige Oamek
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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Trump Would Totally Demolish Economy With His Plans, Says New Report
A grim report reveals that if Donald Trump becomes president and carries out his plans, we’ll suffer the repercussions for a long time to come.The New Republic
"It costs a lot of money to be one of Donald Trump’s supporters. When they’re not paying his legal bills, they’re being scammed into buying gold sneakers and NFT trading cards. And then there are the silver coins he’s selling. [Act now while supplies last.]"
~ Mary Trump
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy #policy #policies #grift #grifter #ConArtist #Conman
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"There’s little evidence Republican voters give a damn about coherent policy details. If they did, they might have chosen Nikki Haley or even Ron DeSantis during the GOP primary instead of an adjudicated rapist and raving kook."
~ Stephen Robinson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy #policy #policies
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Vance keeps gaffing by actually detailing Trump's policies
"Concepts of a plan" is an easier sell than what they really want to do.Stephen Robinson (Public Notice)
"On Wednesday, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump promoted their competing visions of the economy under their prospective administrations. Their visions could not be more different."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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"I know it seems like a cliche, but this election is about the economy. In every poll, voters list the economy — and high prices in particular — as the issue most important to their vote."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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How to Convince Your Friends to Vote for Kamala Harris
Some guidance for the critical conversations we are having about this electionDan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
"For all of Donald Trump’s talk about how he will save the American economy, his actual plans are set to crush it — perhaps catastrophically."
~ Jill Filipovic
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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What Trump Means For: The Economy
Bad news for jobs, economic stability, and the value of the dollar.Jill Filipovic
"On Tuesday, Harris also received the endorsement of more than 400 economists and former policy makers who said the election is “a choice between inequity, economic injustice, and uncertainty with Donald Trump or prosperity, opportunity, and stability with Kamala Harris, a choice between the past and the future.”
~ Renee Graham
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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Opinion | Why Trump's GOP ‘enemies’ are endorsing Kamala Harris
Perhaps — just perhaps — it’s a sign that the former president is losing his grip as his party’s standard-bearer.The Boston Globe
"Yesterday, more than 400 economists and high-ranking U.S. policymakers endorsed Harris, and today, the members of former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s presidential leadership teams in Michigan, Iowa, and Vermont announced they would be supporting Harris, in part because of Trump’s economic policies."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #economy
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September 25, 2024
In 2004 a senior advisor to President George W.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"and the state of Texas is going to the Supreme Court to make sure it can continue to deny women abortions in emergency rooms when their pregnancies are in life-threatening distress, Trump has found the issue he wants to stake his campaign on: Kamala Harris’ work history at McDonalds."
#Trump #KamalaHarris #MentalDecline #age #McDonalds
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"With 39 days left before the election in November, at a time when the Middle East is blowing up, Russia is drawing a brand new red line threatening to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine,"
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #KamalaHarris #MentalDecline #age #McDonalds
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Trump has an issue: McDonald's-gate
Trump is obsessively claiming that Kamala Harris never worked at McDonald’s. He is saying it over and over and over again at his rallies. “It was a lie,” Trump told a rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina. “It was a fake story.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"Then, in his press conference, Trump bizarrely suggested that he was not at fault for the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The person to blame, he said, was then–House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), whom he also accused of stock fraud. "
#Trump #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #RageMachine
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"The filing is sealed and includes previously unseen material, including interview and grand jury transcripts. Trump’s team can respond; its answer is due October 17.
The filing is clearly on Trump’s mind. This morning, he posted on social media that 'Deep State subversives' had ignored his orders to prevent unrest on January 6, 2021."
#Trump #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #RageMachine
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"Trump had a number of reasons to melt down today.
Special counsel Jack Smith filed with U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan his detailed report on the evidence he will use to prove that Trump broke the law when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump lawyers tried unsuccessfully to put this filing date off until after the election."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #RageMachine
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September 26, 2024
Today, President Joe Biden signed the continuing resolution Congress passed yesterday to fund the government until December 20.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The real cause of Trump’s fury? Smith is set to submit a court filing detailing his evidence of Trump’s alleged January 6–related crimes, some of which may become public."
Sargent interviews Kyle Cheney, who says it's no accident Trump is exploding now about Smith's findings, since they're likely to contain damning new information about Trump's Jan. 6 involvement we have not yet heard.
#Trump #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #RageMachine
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"Donald Trump has been quiet about January 6 lately. But this week, he suddenly unleashed an epic rant on social media about special counsel Jack Smith, raging about false new claims on the right that the 'deep state' deliberately allowed the insurrection to go forward—against Trump’s will."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #JackSmith #Jan6 #insurrection #RageMachine
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Trump’s Sudden Eruption of Rage at Jack Smith Reveals a Deeper Fear
As Smith prepares to detail new evidence about Trump to the court, a reporter who closely covers the January 6 case sheds light on potentially shocking revelations we may soon learn about.The New Republic
"The danger of the Christian nationalist worldview is that it raises the stakes of political contests exponentially, transposing political opponents into existential enemies. Politics are no longer understood to be disagreements between fellow citizens of goodwill but to be apocalyptic battles over good and evil, fought by agents of God against agents of Satan."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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Donald Trump has turned Christian nationalism toxic, religious polling expert Robert P. Jones explains
"Two-thirds of the country rejects this anti-democratic ideology," explains Robert P. Jones of PRRISalon.com
"Because it is immoral, I believe Christian nationalism is inevitably doomed. But in the meantime, the pain, suffering, and injury it will inflict will be enormous—just consider women facing difficult pregnancies, trans children seeking care, librarians attacked for certain books."
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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"To claim that one political figure uniquely represents God’s will for the body politic is a form of anti-Christian idolatry. To elevate one set of spiritual beliefs above another and do it by force of law removes a nonnegotiable tenet of evangelical faith—free will. We are born again when we choose to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, not when we’re forced to do so."
~Rob Schenck
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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I was once an architect of the Christian nationalist agenda. I regret it all.
When religion is placed at the service of a political party, it corrupts both.Mother Jones
"f you assume all evangelical Christians are motivated by the thought of a coming Rapture today, you may have missed the new end-of-days mood that has taken hold within American evangelicalism. For many Christians on the right, the end times are no longer a source of dread and anxiety so much as an expected and even welcome opportunity for God’s soldiers to conquer the earth."
~Matthew D. Taylor
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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How ‘Left Behind’ Got Left Behind
A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.Matthew D. Taylor (The Bulwark)
"For Americans unfamiliar with the evangelical world, it can be hard to grasp how rapidly this right-wing movement is changing Christianity in the U.S. and turning politics, in many Christians’ minds, into a zero-sum war between the forces of evil and the armies of God."
~ Molly Olmstead
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism #ChurchandState
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I Went to a Pro-Trump Christian Revival. It Completely Changed My Understanding of Jan. 6.
A wild evangelical movement is storming swing states.Molly Olmstead (Slate)
"In his decade as the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump has been steadily reshaping the Southern Strategy into something different than it was. It’s still about fear and resentment, but the relative importance of anti-Black resentment and anti-immigrant resentment has flipped. And there’s good reason to believe the new strategy will endure well after Trump departs."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #SouthernStrategy #PoliticsofHate #racism
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“'The whole secret to politics,' Nixon aide Kevin Phillips, the architect of the 'Southern Strategy,' told author Gary Wills in 1968, is 'who hates who.' But hatred is not merely organic; while it arises on its own, it can also be cultivated and directed."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #SouthernStrategy #PoliticsofHate #racism
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The New Southern Strategy
Encouraging racial division was the GOP strategy for half a century. Now it's all immigration.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"Dig deeper into the $100,000 Trump Watches and who might buy it:
-You can buy w bitcoin (untraceable)
-Foreigners and foreign entities can buy.
-Photos on site are not the actual watch but 'illustrations' of what it might look like per disclaimer.
-No guarantee when, or if, watch will arrive and Trump not liable for shipping timing per disclaimer."
~ Ben Meiselas as quoted by Kamala Rocks!
#Trump #grift #grifter #ConArtist #MAGA
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Orange Grifter's newest scam: Fake gold watches for $100,000.
Can you imagine if Kamala was grifting her voters with cheap trinkets for absurd prices?Kamala rocks! (Bad Choices Make Good Stories)
Jonathan V. Last looks into the materials and parts used to make the $499 watch and the $100,000 one, and finds the former has parts worth about $60, the latter parts worth about $20,000 and possibly much less. A scam….
#Trump #grift #grifter #ConArtist #MAGA
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About the Trump Watch
Surprise! It’s a scam.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"There are much, much worse things about Donald Trump than his shameless hucksterism, but leveraging the presidency in this way is truly grotesque. Despite the fact that we’ve learned to expect nothing, it’s still shocking that corporate media considers that this ugly aspect of a presidential candidate is something we all should ignore—or accept."
"In a slimy video that would be stunning in its ridiculousness coming from any other presidential candidate, Donald tells us the $100,000 watch is made with almost 200 grams of gold and 'more than 100 real diamonds. That’s a lot of diamonds. I love gold. I love diamonds. We all do.'
Jesus."
"Sometimes the grift comes in the form of asking for campaign contributions that go to fund his legal expenses and not his campaign. Sometimes he hawks cheap products somebody pays him to slap his name on. In the last year alone we’ve gotten gold sneakers, non-fungible trading cards, bibles, and, most recently, watches."
Mary Trump writes about her uncle:
"Donald is not a builder—he has, in fact, created very few things in his life, unless you count the smoke and mirrors. Since he’s been unemployed over three years, he’s spent the bulk of his time playing and cheating at golf; but he’s also spent a considerable amount on his lucrative side-hustle: grifting his followers."
Now that journalist Ken Klippenstein has published the Trump campaign dossier on JD Vance linked by, ostensibly, pro-Irian hackers, Craig Calcaterra remarks that tthe dossier serves “as a 271-page reminder of just how thoroughly Vance has traded in his principles for power. Just page after page documenting how utterly phony that guy is.”
~ David Badash
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What the alleged Trump campaign dossier on JD Vance may actually be telling us
The alleged Trump campaign dossier on JD Vance, reportedly obtained by Iranian hackers and sent to several media outlets that refused to publish it, has now been published.David Badash (Alternet.org)
"On Thursday, American Muckrakers posted about emails it received detailing how the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports, which claims to be nonpartisan, shared polling results with Trump advisers and campaign officials like Dan Scavino, Susie Wiles, and John McLaughlin."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#Rasmussen #Trump #Republicans #media #AmericanMuckrakers #polls
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Major Conservative Poll Cited by Media Secretly Worked With Trump Team
Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reports—and the way the Trump campaign is breaking election law.The New Republic
"The gender gap between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump could not be more vivid. In a new NBC poll, Harris is winning among women 58 percent to 37 percent, while Trump is leading Harris among men 52 percent to 40 percent."
~ Steven Beschloss
"As it is, the two are clashing in an election marked by a gulf so wide, the phrase 'gender gap' doesn’t do it justice. In ways that go deeper than mere politics, and with implications for the world beyond the US, the presidential election is increasingly looking like a war between men and women."
"I hesitate to give JD Vance any ideas, but if American women were denied the vote, Donald Trump would be restored to the White House in a landslide. Similarly, if men were removed from the franchise, Kamala Harris would be swept into the Oval Office in an even bigger earthquake."
~ Jonathan Freedland
#KamalaHarris #Trump #gender #FemaleVoters #MaleVoters
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It’s not just Trump v Harris: America’s men and women are also locked in battle now
There are clear reasons why women are running from Trump, but men are flocking to him – and it’s vital to understand why, says Guardian columnist Jonathan FreedlandJonathan Freedland (The Guardian)
“'They’re eating the cats,' will go down in history as one of the most unhinged things to ever be said during a US presidential debate. Now Trump’s immortal line is being sampled in a viral parody song by the Kiffness. And all the earnings are reportedly going to help pets and stray cats and dogs in Springfield. All of which sounds very much like a Simpsons episode."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
#Trump #Springfield #cats
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Kimberly Guilfoyle’s grudge against Harris sure is convenient for Trump
Guilfoyle has a personal interest in tearing the Democrat down at a time when Trump’s allies have warned him to lay off the attacks – but it isn’t very successfulArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)