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Joyce Vance looks at a scheme that has come to light in Georgia, in which Trump supporters are plotting to monkey-wrench the 2024 election by refusing to certify the election if Kamala Harris is the victor.
"Trump is trying to create a legal path to do what he failed to accomplish in 2020, overturning the will of the voters if he loses."
Jay Kuo provides a valuable service by reporting verbatim some of the verbal diarrhea that has streamed from the Trumpian mouth in the last several days, as the press continues sanewashing what absolutely makes no sense.
Read Trump's words at your own risk.
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Messengers On, and Off, Point
Both Harris and Trump answered questions before the public yesterday.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"They got what they wanted. the two 78-year-olds, former Republican presidents who appointed the majority of Republican Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe vs. Wade got what they wanted. Sometimes when you get what you want, more things than you anticipate come with it."
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
#abortion #Republicans #Trump #SupremeCourt #RoevWade #Georgia #women
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Lawrence on Trump's deadly abortion ban: 'Women are dying. They got what they wanted.’
Amber Nicole Thurman died after doctors delayed her life-saving abortion care. Her death was ruled “preventable” by the Georgia Maternal Mortality Review Com...YouTube
This week, we learn about Candi Miller, a Black Georgia woman who was afraid to go to the hospital to get an abortion for a pregnancy doctors had told her might kill her. She got a medication abortion, but 5% of these require an extra dose or a D&C to complete the abortion. She died at home because she knew she couldn’t get a D&C in the hospital.
~ Stephanie G. Wilson
#abortion #Republicans #Trump #SupremeCourt #Georgia #women
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Unrigging Red States. Michele Hornish, ED Every State Blue E 66
Supporting downballot candidates in red states can help candidates all across the stateStephanie G Wilson, PhD (Freedom Over Fascism)
"When a state committee of experts in maternal health, including 10 doctors, reviewed her case this year at the end of August, they immediately decided it was 'preventable' and blamed the state’s abortion ban, according to members who spoke to ProPublica on the condition of anonymity."
#abortion #Republicans #Trump #SupremeCourt #RoevWade #Georgia #women
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Miller ordered abortion pills online then found that she could not expel all the fetal tissue and needed a D&C procedure, which she knew doctors would not perform under current post-Roe Georgia law.
Surana writes:
#abortion #Republicans #Trump #SupremeCourt #RoevWade #Georgia #women
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Kavitha Surana offers another sobering report today on how the decision of the Republican-stacked Supreme Court to rip abortion rights from women is putting American women at great risk.
She reports the story of Georgia woman Candi Miller, who found herself pregnant with doctors warning another pregnancy would be highly risky. He had diabetes, lupus, and hypertension.
#abortion #Republicans #Trump #SupremeCourt #RoevWade #Georgia #women
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Candi Miller Died Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban
A Georgia committee of experts in maternal health recently deemed Candi Miller’s death “preventable,” ProPublica has learned. The group, which includes 10 doctors, directly blamed the state’s abortion ban.ProPublica
"The question of abortion rights is not only driving voter registration, it is also helping to forge a gender gap that we’ve not seen before. A recent poll in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania by Suffolk University found a gender gap in the high teens, with women favoring Harris by 17 points—a number never before seen."
~ Jay Kuo
#abortion #Republicans #Trump #SupremeCourt #RoevWade #women
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Ten Reasons To Be Optimistic About Harris Victory
With less than seven weeks left until Election Day, we all could use a bit of reassurance.The Big Picture
"A new Scripps News/Ipsos poll surveyed voters about what they thought of Trump’s plan, asking if they 'support the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.' Fifty-four percent of respondents either 'strongly' or 'somewhat support' the policy. This includes '86% of Republicans, 58% of independents, and 25% of Democrats.'”
~ Rebecca Crosby
#Trump #immigrants #MassDeportation #EthnicCleansing #Nazis
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The stark reality of mass deportation
Former President Donald Trump has promised that he will start mass deportations if he wins in November.Rebecca Crosby (Popular Information)
Donald Trump didn’t get into politics to govern; he got into politics to enjoy unfettered power, which he believed would bring him admiration and respect. But there are three issues he does actually seem to care about: Immigration, crime, and the economy. And his immigration plans are among the most dangerous.
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #immigrants #MassDeportation #EthnicCleansing #Nazis
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What Trump Means For: Immigration
Mass deportations, kids in cages, ending refugee admissions, and no more birthright citizenship.Jill Filipovic
"We can no longer shrink from drawing the awful conclusion that Donald Trump is pro-Nazi when he keeps actually hanging out with, listening to, and taking advice from Nazis. 'Very fine people'? Yes, he really meant it."
#Trump #immigrants #MassDeportation #EthnicCleansing #Nazis
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"One of the signatures of the Trump era is the death of Godwin’s Law, an old internet adage meant to discourage lazy attempts to win an argument by comparing your opponent to Hitler. It is an artifact of an era when neo-Nazis were a small and highly marginalized group. That is no longer the case, and Trump is one of the people who let them out of that box."
#Trump #immigrants #MassDeportation #EthnicCleansing #Nazis
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~ Robert Tracinski
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Trump's Attack on Haitians Borrows From Neo-Nazis
His apologists want to deny that an obsession with creating a white ethnostate guides his rhetoric and conductRobert Tracinski (The UnPopulist)
"What is happening in Springfield, Ohio is not merely a distraction from the Right’s plutocratic agenda – although they certainly care about that as well; it’s not just a campaign tactic – although they do seem to think that violent chaos will help them win in November. This is the manifestation of the Right’s defining political project. And a preview of what is to come if they get back to power."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#Trump #immigrants #MassDeportation #Nazis
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Blood and Soil
The Right is committed to preserving America as a white Christian homeland. They are determined to purge the nation and radically redraw the boundaries of the body politic.Thomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)
"Donald Trump staged his first rally on Wednesday night since the second apparent attempt on his life, telling his supporters in New York that 'these encounters with death' had made him stronger and attributing his survival to divine intervention.
'God has now spared my life. It must have been God, not once, but twice,' Trump said to raucous cheers from the crowd in the Nassau Coliseum in the Long Island suburbs."
~ Clea Skopeliti
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
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First Thing: Trump stages first rally since apparent assassination attempt
Presidential nominee claims God saved him and apparent attempts on his life have made him tougher. Plus, how to win at canapesClea Skopeliti (The Guardian)
"Regardless, Routh wasn’t allowed to have firearms, period.
But we live in a country where JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, shrugged off a school shooting by saying it was a regrettable 'fact of life,' mumbled nonsense about schools being 'soft targets,' and said that Kamala Harris wants to 'take law-abiding American citizens’ guns away from them.'"
#RyanRouth #Republicans #guns #Trump #JDVance
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"We live in a country where Trump himself said, only 36 hours after a school shooting in Iowa, that they 'have to get over it, we have to move forward.'”
#RyanRouth #Republicans #guns #Trump #JDVance
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As numerous reliable commenators are noting, Trump-Vance are counting on the male vote to win the day for them in this election — and polling indicates that strategy may well be paying off as young men and more men in minority communities are flocking to Trump.
Misogyny is a powerful drug in contemporary culture and contemporary politics. And an incredibly stupefying one….
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Teamsters #labor #MaleVoters #misogyny
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"Many of the summer fears of the Joe-can’t-go crowd have proven unfounded. But the fear that Democrats would miss Biden’s strength in neutralizing Trump’s pull on culturally conservative union members seems to have been on the money."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Teamsters #labor #MaleVoters #misogyny
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"One of the bigger gut checks for Kamala Harris since she took over the Democratic ticket came yesterday afternoon, when she failed to secure the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the country’s largest labor unions. The last time the Teamsters didn’t endorse the Democratic presidential candidate: 1996."
~ Andrew Egger
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Teamsters #labor #MaleVoters #misogyny
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Suffering in the Service of Trump
The former president is fine with shutting down the government or delaying interest rate cuts so long as it helps his political chances.Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)
"There’s a reason Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, are so busy (and intentionally) stoking racial resentments, and it isn’t because they feel good about the current state of the race. Depressingly, it may even be working. A year ago, Trump was 7 points underwater among white voters. He’s now 5 points above with them.
White people are keeping Trump in the game."
#Trump #WhiteVoters
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"In 2016, Donald Trump won the white vote 57% to Hillary Clinton’s 37%, including white women 52% to 43%. (Who can forget, 'I want a woman president, just not this one...')
In 2020, Donald Trump won the white vote 58% to Joe Biden’s 41%, including white women 55% to 44%. Trump actually did better with white voters in this election despite the Democratic nominee being a boring old white guy."
~ kos
#Trump #WhiteVoters
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Once again, white voters are Trump’s key to victory
In 2016 , Donald Trump won the white vote 57% to Hillary Clinton’s 37%, including white women 52% to 43%. (Who can forget, “I want a woman president, just not this one...”) In 2020 , Donald ...Daily Kos
"This sanewashing must stop. Voters need to be informed when Trump makes statements with a tenuous connection to reality at best. He’s disqualifying himself from the presidency every day that he opens his mouth, but much of the mainstream media is ignoring the words coming out."
#Trump #antisemitism #media #sanewashing
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"The phrase 'antisemitism event' usually refers to an event designed to draw attention to and denounce antisemitism. But in Donald Trump’s hands, it morphed into an event that featured antisemitism, in the form of the mind-blowing comments by the principal."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #antisemitism #media #sanewashing
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Donald “Blame the Jews” Trump is truly losing his sh*t now
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
Skopeliti adds that Twitter (excuse me: X) no longer tags posts as "disputed" but uses “community notes.”
She also notes that the study she's citing was conducted during the 2020 election. But as she maintains, its findings have pertinence for the contemporary US election cycle, since they show something about how Trump voters characteristically process news reports that call his claims into question.
#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #Twitter #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
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"Tagging posts that made false claims about election fraud as 'disputed' could make Trump voters more likely to believe the lies, a study has found, appearing to throw cold water over the platform’s previous intervention on misinformation."
~ Clea Skopeliti
#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #Twitter #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
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First Thing: Israel bombards Lebanon as Hezbollah vows ‘punishment’
Hassan Nasrallah condemns pager and walkie-talkie explosions that killed 37. Plus, how genetics explains picky eatingClea Skopeliti (The Guardian)
"Bender’s byline includes the fact that he 'traveled on Senator JD Vance’s campaign plane this week for events in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.'
And that explains a lot."
#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #NewYorkTimes
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"People sometimes ask what I mean when I criticize the New York Times and other major news organizations for sanitizing and normalizing the profoundly sick, hateful rot at the heart of the modern Republican Party.
Well here’s a great example: An article today by Michael C. Bender headlined 'How JD Vance’s Combative Conservatism Is Shaping Trumpism 2.0.'"
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #media #NewYorkTimes
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Vance’s racist attacks are just 'rabble-rousing' to the New York Times
The Times normalizes hurling invective at a vulnerable community to fire up a hateful and bigoted base as just 'combative conservatism'Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)
"Just about everything Trump and Vance have said about Springfield has been a lie, including about the death of eleven-year-old Aiden Clark."
~ Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
#Trump #JDVance #Springfield #immigrants #lies #media
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Trump and Vance Fan Flames of Hatred in Springfield, Ohio
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Since Trump and Vance launched their campaign against Springfield’s Haitian residents, the city has experienced a wave of bomb threats.Democracy Now!
"By every account, the CNN story can’t quite capture how sordid the Robinson posts it uncovered actually are. Calling himself a 'Black Nazi' is just a sampling. The well from which CNN drew makes NSFW look like a Disney movie.
It was almost comical when additional reporting chimed in that Robinson’s email was in the leak-and-dump Ashley Madison episode from a few years ago."
~ David Kurtz
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#MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis
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The 2024 Campaign Veered Off The Rails In One Bizarre Day
INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Mark Robinson ... RFK Jr.David Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"GOP politicians are currently running from Robinson like he is radioactive, with many scrubbing their social media posts of any evidence they were ever seen together. But the Harris campaign was quick with receipts. After all, Trump publicly sang Robinson’s praises not long ago.
Hard to run away from Robinson when he was a featured speaker at the RNC."
~ Jay Kuo
#MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis
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2024 Won’t Quit…And Neither Will He
Mark Robinson could be a big enough albatross to sink the entire election for Trump.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Vance’s whole political career has been about imitating Trump. Whether it’s in being a quisling for Putin or finding racist lies to divide people, Vance is determined to be the Web3 Trump, even more vicious yet less sloppy.
That’s all Peter Thiel wants.
Someone who will end democracy, and insist that’s what sweet ole Mamaw would want."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #lies #democracy
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JD Vance's con threatens all of us
Silicon Valley has updated the most destructive technology in the history of American politicsL O L G O P (The Cause)
"Rarely, if ever, has a presidential campaign collapsed from seeming assurance into utter chaos as Trump-Vance has. The campaign seems to have stumbled into a strange unintended message: 'Let’s go to war with Taylor Swift to stop Haitians from eating dogs.'”
~ David Frum
#Trump #JDVance #TaylorSwift #immigrants #Haitians #lies
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Gift link below is from Jim Swift at the Bulwark. If it doesn't work here, I suggest clicking the link at Swift's Substack blog.
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What a Losing Campaign Looks Like
How does Donald Trump’s running mate have so much time on his hands?David Frum (The Atlantic)
"Donald Trump doesn’t want you to focus on the economy, because the news is very good."
~ Dan Rather
#Biden #KamalaHarris #Trump #economy #EconomicRecovery
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News Trump Doesn’t Want You to Hear
Stocks soar, interest rates fall. Will it help Harris?Dan Rather (Steady)
Richardson also notes that the Mark Robinson story distracts from another major news story yesterday: the continued stellar performance of the US economy under President Biden. She says,
"Bringing the U.S. economy out of the pandemic more successfully than any other major economically developed country meant clear goals and principles, and careful, informed adjustments."
#Biden #economy #MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis
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As Heather Cox Richardson notes, "That this scandal dropped on the last possible day Robinson could drop out of the race suggests it was pushed by Republicans themselves because they recognize that Robinson is dragging Trump and other Republican candidates down in North Carolina. But here’s the thing: Republican voters knew who Robinson was, and they chose him anyway."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis
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September 19, 2024
Yesterday morning, NPR reported that U.S.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Emily Tamkin notes that Mark Robinson "has always been antisemitic — so why are Republicans only panicking about him now?" She says,
"While Robinson’s comments reported in the piece are horrific, and should by any measure be considered disqualifying, they’re also par for the course for him. His antisemitism, in particular, has been well-reported; it is not news that the man is a bigot."
#MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis #antisemitism
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Mark Robinson has always been antisemitic – The Forward
Is Mark Robinson dropping out of North Carolina's gubernatorial race? If so, why didn't Republicans panic about his open antisemitism before?The Forward
Commentators are now speculating about a "reverse coattails" effect for Trump in North Carolina: as Mark Robinson goes down, he may take Trump with him. These commentators include Carter Wrenn, cited by Marc A. Caputo and Sam Stein, and Larry Sabato, cited by David Badash.
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#MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis
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The North Carolina “Black Nazi” Who Could Cost Trump the Presidency
Will Mark Robinson’s gross posts drag down the other Republicans on the ballot?Marc A. Caputo (The Bulwark)
"A few days ago I wrote a piece on The Left Hook arguing we need to use 'Nazi' to describe where MAGA is headed. I brought out all the receipts. For a party and movement that is so hostile and allergic to diversity, equity, and inclusivity, I am curious to see if they are willing to expand the tent and continue supporting Mark Robinson, a man who referred to himself as a 'Black Nazi.'”
~ Wajahat Ali
#MarkRobinson #Trump #Republicans #NorthCarolina #Nazis
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Will the GOP Embrace Diversity and Stand with Their Black Nazi?
Republican nominee for Governor Mark Robinson allegedly referred to himself as a "Black Nazi" and wrote other inflammatory comments on a porn site. Will MAGA continue to embrace him?THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"In another era, [Mark Robinson's] candidacy wouldn’t have survived his almost beyond-belief scandals. But he’s staying in the race. So in North Carolina, it’s perfectly proper to talk about the Trump-Robinson Republican ticket. It’s perfectly proper to run ads of Trump praising Robinson and Robinson praising Trump. It’s perfectly proper to make the election not just a referendum on Trump personally but on Trumpists.
~ William Kristol
#MarkRobinson #Trump
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How Dumb Do They Think You Are?
Mark Robinson is barely even trying to beat the allegations. He thinks his voters won’t notice.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
There was Trump blaming Jewish voters if he loses to Kamala Harris — his tired old antisemitic trope never quite identified as such by journalists.
There was more shocking dirt — allegations seemingly substantiated — about Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz's sexual encounters with minors at drug-flooded parties.
And there was Oprah Winfrey's interview with Kamala Harris.
#MarkRobinson #Trump #antisemitism #KamalaHarris #OprahWinfrey #MattGaetz
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