LOL. #WompWomp

"As it turns out, that WSB-TV 2 article that the amateurs at the #Trump campaign linked to debunked the GOP nominee's false claim on Monday that #Georgia Governor Brian Kemp couldn't get a hold of President #Biden. WSB-2 TV reported that Biden and Kemp said they spoke on Sunday."

meidasnews.com/news/oops-trump…

Via Klasfeld:

New filing:

#Trump's attys claim that prosecutors want to "disseminate witness statements that they previously sought to lock down," w an "unexplained about-face on materials" previously marked "Sensitive."

Document storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

This is yet another indication that #JackSmith's latest immunity brief incl never-before-seen witness statements that cd become public before the election.

Judge Chutkan previously indicated her inclination to release nonsensitive materials.

CORRECTED. I'd added a comment to the wrong toot. Apologies.

Of course he was.

Via Ron Filipkowski:

The #Trump-endorsed sponsor of #Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” law was held in contempt of court today for making an obscene gesture and engaging in other obscene conduct during a court hearing.

Via Kyle Griffin:

The Detroit News: #Trump has been promising #Michigan voters that he can revive the state's auto industry and return it to 'greatness,' but he failed to deliver on similar guarantees — made eight years ago — before his first term.

By the end of that term, there were 5% fewer jobs in vehicle and parts manufacturing in Michigan than when he took office. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

History casts doubt on Donald Trump's auto industry promises

Here's why experts say Donald Trump's vows to make Michigan's auto industry "hotter than it ever was" aren't likely to be fulfilled in a second term.

^{, The Detroit News (The Detroit News)}

👀
Via Brad Moss:

I can’t wait to learn the details of why #Trump backed out of the 60 Minutes interview. That is not his style to cede the spotlight unrebutted. The man lives for media attention.

The negotiations must have gone really badly.

'Night all!

I won't live toot the #debate, but I may post a couple of things I see online.

Knock 'em dead, Coach #Walz! I hope he folksy-demolishes that vile little fascist twerp #JDVance and spotlights JD's ineptitude, while also focusing on how dangerous he is.

However... Walz should not underestimate him, nor should we. JD would take the reins the minute #Trump can't fake it anymore.

We must not allow them to win. VOTE!

I.... I don't think that's how hurricanes work, Donald.

#uspol #election2024 #trump #harris #helene #hurricane

Via Kyle Griffin:

Pres. #Biden hits #Trump for lying about reaching out to the governor of #Georgia post-Helene:

"He's lying and the governor told him he was lying. The governor told him he's lying. I've spoken to the gov., I spent time w him & he told me he's lying. I don't know why he does this. & the reason I get so angry about—I don't care about what he says about me—I care what he what he communicates to ppl that are in need, implies that we're not doing everything poss. We are. We are."

@Trump #trump #treason #espionage #fraud #CONVICTEDFELON
#noimmunity #insurrectionists #alito #clarencethomas

Project 2025: The Radical Conservative Plan to Reshape America Under Trump | WSJ

WE MUST STOP HIM IN HIS TRACKS!!!

youtube.com/watch?v=y16SZhZJHk
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@Trump
#trump #treason #espionage #fraud #CONVICTEDFELON
#noimmunity #insurrectionists #alito #clarencethomas #SCOTUS

Trump once faced 91 charges. Now he faces 12.

(The biggest fraud in the world, wants to be President. But he hasn't faced TREASON & ESPIONAGE charges YET PUTIN'S POCKET BUDDY)

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tr

@Trump
#trump #treason #espionage #fraud #CONVICTEDFELON
#noimmunity #insurrectionists #alito #clarencethomas #SCOTUS

U.S. to file charges in Trump campaign hacking case, officials say

( @DOJ GO FOR THE JUGULAR)

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/u-

#trump #treason #espionage #fraud #CONVICTEDFELON
#noimmunity #insurrectionists #alito #clarencethomas

Investigating Trump, Project 2025 and the Future of the United States

RETRIBUTION part 1

youtu.be/t3jqALQgBzw?si=vKthOu

Investigating Trump, Project 2025 and the future of the United States | Four Corners

There has never been a US president like Donald Trump — and now he’s back, this time with a detailed plan for his second coming. Nearly four years after he ...

^YouTube

#trump #treason #espionage #fraud #CONVICTEDFELON
#noimmunity #insurrectionists #alito #clarencethomas

ONE-TERM LOSER, CONVICTED FELON, FRAUDULENT BUSINESS OWNER , SUCKED FROM INDUSTRY AND OUR GOVERNMENT, INCOMPETENT, PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, FASCIST, RAPIST, SELF-SERVING SOAB.
(these are his good traits)

VOTE BLUE 2024 HE'S A NO BRAINER!

Hi Republican voters. #ProLifeMyAss

“An Ohio Businessman Faces Death Threats for Praising His Haitian Workers

The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since #Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.”
nytimes.com/2024/09/30/us/spri…

The Most In-Your-Face Look Yet Trump's Violent Power Grab

#presidential #trump

thedailybeast.com/64-days-revi…

“#Trump says he concocted a private-sector scheme to avoid paying his own employees overtime compensation….”

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/m…

On overtime pay, Trump slips up by accidentally telling the truth

Donald Trump admitted that he concocted a private-sector scheme to avoid paying his own employees overtime compensation. So much for his "pro-worker" pitch.

^{Steve Benen (MSNBC)}

“Those disqualifying characteristics are compounded by everything else that limits his ability to fulfill the duties of #POTUS: his many #criminal charges, his advancing age, his fundamental lack of interest in #policy & his increasingly bizarre [#weird] cast of associates.

“This unequivocal, dispiriting truth— #Trump is not fit to be president—should be enough for any voter who cares about the health of our country & the #stability of our #democracy to deny him re-election.”

#HarrisWalz2024

The start of the NYT #endorsement article is pretty good though:

“It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as #president of the #UnitedStates than Donald #Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the #nation above self-interest. He has proved himself temperamentally #unfit for a role that requires the very qualities — wisdom, honesty, empathy, courage, restraint, humility, discipline — that he MOST lacks.

#HarrisWalz2024

The #NewYorkTimes editorial board has #endorsed #KamalaHarris for president. In an editorial published Monday, the editorial board called #Trump #unfit for office & declared the VP the “only patriotic choice for president.” While the editorial board was harshly critical of Trump, it also suggested #Harris should offer more policy details [🙄] in her campaign & take part in more media interviews [🙄🙄].

[she has done both, which the NYT has barely covered]
#HarrisWalz2024
nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion…

"Trump has turned his campaign into a pitch for hyper-traditional masculinity. At this year’s Republican national convention, he walked on stage to the James Brown song It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World and was introduced by Dana White, the president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship who was caught slapping his wife on camera."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #gender #MaleVoters #sexism #misogyny
/6

Carter Sherman looks at the Lincoln Project's new video featuring Sam Elliott saying, “It’s time to be a man and vote for a woman,” and concludes that "masculinity and people’s views on gender roles may be more important than ever in 2024."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #gender #MaleVoters #sexism #misogyny
/5

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

‘Be a man and vote for a woman’: Kamala Harris’s unlikely edge in America’s masculinity election

Republicans are making anxiety around masculinity a key voting issue – but the Democratic nominee is hoping to turn it to her advantage

^{Carter Sherman (The Guardian)}

"Vance and his far-right colleagues may attack childless women and exalt mothers, but the truth is that they don't want everyone to procreate, at least inside the borders of their nations. Like authoritarians of the past, today's extremists see population management as the answer: encouraging some births, and finding ways to lessen others."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #misogyny #women #ReproductiveRights #fascism
/4

"Among today's far-right in Europe and America, Fascist ideas are finding new life. Misogynistic impulses to link women's societal value to their roles as mothers and limit or abolish their bodily autonomy find justification in the belief that populations must increase in response to fears of White extinction by non-White births."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #abortion #misogyny #women #ReproductiveRights #fascism
/3

lucid.substack.com/p/the-fasci…

The Fascist Roots of the Far Right's Obsession with Childlessness and Population Management

Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers!

^{Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)}

"That’s the highest number the group has identified over any 12-month period in research projects that have looked back as far as 1973."

#Trump #abortion #women #healthcare #ReproductiveRights #RoevWade #SupremeCourt
/2

"In the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, at least 210 women across the country were charged with crimes related to their pregnancies, according to the report released by Pregnancy Justice, an advocacy organization."

~ Geoff Mulvihill

#Trump #abortion #women #healthcare #ReproductiveRights #RoevWade #SupremeCourt
/1

apnews.com/article/pregnancy-c…

More women are charged with pregnancy-related crimes since Roe's end, study finds

A study has found that the number of women charged with crimes related to their pregnancies jumped in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way for abortion bans across the country.

^{GEOFF MULVIHILL (AP News)}

"This represents a sharp rise from 2019, when just 21 percent of Republicans said that this increasing racial and ethnic diversity was threatening. Back then, Republicans said by a 48-point margin that it was actually more enriching than threatening.

So, from 21 percent in 2019, to 41 percent last year, to 55 percent today."

#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate #racism
/2

"And Donald Trump will be only the second major party nominee to lose the popular vote three times since the Civil War (William Jennings Bryan is the other).

Now, in a rational democracy, that would be the end of the story. But we live in America. We cannot be as confident of the result in the Electoral College states."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #PopularVote #ElectoralCollege #democracy
/2

"This will be Democrats’ fifth consecutive popular vote win, which has happened only once before since the Civil War (Truman in 1948). It will also mark their eighth popular vote win out of the previous nine presidential elections, which has never happened before."

~ Michael Podhorzer

#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #PopularVote #ElectoralCollege #democracy
/1

weekendreading.net/p/kamala-ha…

Kamala Harris Will Win the Popular Vote

Here’s how we know.

^{Michael Podhorzer (Weekend Reading)}

"A new CNN poll showed that a majority of the Republican Party now agrees that 'an increasing number of people of many different races, ethnic groups, and nationalities in the U.S.' is mostly threatening (55 percent) rather than enriching (45 percent) to American culture."

~Aaron Blake

#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate #racism
/1

washingtonpost.com/politics/20…

"What Higgins wrote is despicable, but he got permission to write it from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance."

~ Mary Trump

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/6

marytrump.org/p/a-very-princip…

"A Very Principled Man"

Morning Dispatch

^{Mary L Trump (The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)}

#ExpelHiggins

~ Scott Dworkin

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/5

dworkinsubstack.com/p/expel-cl…

Expel Clay Higgins for His Racist Attack

It has to be said

^{Scott Dworkin (The Dworkin Report)}

"The Republican party is always going to struggle to disassociate itself from cranks and racists. But it becomes futile even to try when a racist crank sits atop the party as god-emperor."

~ Andrew Egger

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/4

thebulwark.com/p/trump-walked-…

Trump Walked So Clay Higgins Could Run

The only notable thing about the congressman’s racist tweet was that his GOP colleagues bothered to admit it was horrible.

^{William Kristol (The Bulwark)}

"Higgins has styled himself a 'Cajun John Wayne,' which again is code for 'willing to commit violence in the name of white justice.' The GOP is now openly racist and proud of it, but the hate and violence was always just on simmer, ready to boil over as soon as the heat could be turned back up by a demagogue like Trump."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/3

"As the Washington Post reported, back in 2016 Higgins, the 'brash, outspoken captain of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office' in Louisiana, resigned after appearing in a video calling a group of predominantly black gang members 'animals,' 'thugs' and 'heathens.'

Higgins’s behavior is part of a long pattern of using his office to promote racism, violence and lies."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/2

Kuo notes:

"Higgins also has a telling, disturbing past in law enforcement, having had to resign twice from different police forces. The first was from the Opelousas police force in 2007 after assaulting an unarmed Black man and lying about it. ….

The second incident bears remarkable similarity to his tweet yesterday that created a political storm."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/2

Jay Kuo comments on the vile racist tweet Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins made yesterday attacking Haitian immigrants and telling them to get "their ass out of our country before January 20th.”Higgins later deleted the tweet. A screenshot of it is in Kuo's posting.

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/1

statuskuo.substack.com/p/there…

There Is No Bottom

But where Rep. Clay Higgins would take us is truly terrifying

^{Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)}

"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
/2

youtube.com/watch?v=LLV3KBFpmJ…

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
/1

publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-chaos…

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)}