Behold the latest from our free-speech-lovin' former president:
Trump and his fans are getting desperate. They've been trying for the past week to get someone, anyone, interested in their latest scandals—a trivial plagiarism tiff, an inconsequential clip from 60 Minutes, Tim Walz unloading a shotgun, Biden supposedly withholding aid to red counties—to no avail. That's because the right-wing Wurlitzer, usually so effective at setting the agenda, can't manage to make any of them worth even a "Trump Floods the Zone With Crap" thumbsucker.
Meanwhile, Trump is canceling appearances, threatening to call out the National Guard on voters who oppose him, demanding CBS be taken off the air, declaring that it should be illegal to criticize judges he likes, and threatening to prosecute Google for "only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump."
I recommend that no one vote for this guy.
With Dick Cheney and Bernie Sanders voting for Kamala ... if I had to bet my life, I'd have to bet that TFG is the next president.
IMO, the (lazy / click-driven) media want him so much that they will overcome sanity.
Drax the Destroyer disagrees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1LMC9sPVWY
He scared.
Chutkan denied Trump's request to stay the release of the appendix to Smith's 165-page filing that was required by SCOTUS to address their expansive immunity ruling on evidence. Tomorrow, she's set to sign the order to release the appendix.
He needed something to counter-program the appendix.
I love how the Harris campaign continues to get in his head. You can hear it in a lot of his ramblings, like how he keeps babbling non sequiturs about how people don't leave his
2 Minutes Hatedance recitals.Not sure what you call that. I don't think that's OCD, but it does seem like some sort of compulsive self-soothing behavior.
KAMALA TO HECKLER: "Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally — I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street."
That woman can think on her feet. Though we already knew that. She's just turning the knife now. Good.
hahaha
Dance recital? That's no dance recital. He's just jacking off two giraffes in his imagination. From now on whenever he does his dance move that will be the image in my mind.
This is all tiresome projection. Sue Trump for election interference and Trump accuses a news organization of election interference. Point out that Trump is losing his mental acuity and Trump characterizes his opponent as low IQ. The wonder is that his merry band of supporters ignores all of his psychosis.
Republican ideology summed up in one neat image,
https://imgur.com/gallery/dumperoony-flim-flam-floomy-pt2-3ztFIVJ
MAGA ideology summed up in one neat image,
https://imgur.com/MbOZMjl
Solid recommendation!
He's going out of his mind waiting for that deus ex machina, ie the Russian data dump/Comey lightning bolt of this cycle. Without it he's got nothing and he's getting about as desperate as he can be, as D_Ohrk_E1 says. We're just about past the point where his hidden gods should have done their work.
There could still be something out there for these final 2-1/2 weeks, lord knows. OTOH the structures are vastly different than they were in 2016-- the Mighty Wurlitzer is still there and with even more outlets but it's a nearly-closed universe that's siloed itself off from the rest of the country now, twitter is so openly a Nazi bar that it can't have anywhere near the same traction this time around, DHS and even some of the private data firms have their guard up, and it's an open question whether the hidden caches of trumpist resentment have all been unearthed and exploited after 9 years of constant spelunking and grifting.
It's really remarkable how hard he's running away from interviews and events the past few days. Has the BS generator gotten too depleted, or has it just lost confidence in its powers?
According to a new book by AP's Michael Tackett, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2020 said then-president Donald Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/17/trump-mcconnell-jan-6-capitol/
"Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham, and others have said about him,” McConnell told the Associated Press. “But we are all on the same team now.”
They certainly are. *Team Despicable*
They can't throw each other under the bus fast enough for me. I am so heartily sick of this bunch of unprincipled sleazeballs.
>>Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in 2020 said then-president Donald Trump was a “despicable human being,” a “narcissist,” “stupid” and “ill-tempered,”<<
...and then turned right around and said "I'm voting for him, though." I'm not sure who's more horrible. Trump, or the people who see right through him but still want to make him president because they think they'll benefit from the chaos and/or don't want to piss off MAGA voters. There aren't enough rusty farm implements in the world to fuck Mitch McConnell with.
Look for the video by Dave Bautista tearing into trump for being a weakling. Awesome and funny. More makeup than Dolly Parton. His gut looks like a bag full of buttermilk.
https://x.com/jessejoyce/status/1846764158945317381
Even Karl Rove is now supporting Kamala.
Is there anyone still supporting Trump?
😂😂😂 Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh.
Love that video. Jimmy keeps kicking ass every night
About Karl Rove: not exactly supporting Harris, though clearly doesn't want Trump:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4936179-karl-rove-fact-checks-viral-post-i-have-not-been-rallying-for-kamala-harris/
I lost it at the jacking-off-giraffes part. That writer owes me a new keyboard.
Behold the biggest Asshole NY has ever known! The act is old here in NYC and he will get his ass kicked here. Rest of the rubes in America deserve what they get. About all I can say about the lying piece of shit Trumpilini.
I think the only borough where he came close to winning a plurality of votes was Staten Island. He only got something like 10%-15% of Manhattan, and most of those were probably cast by old people who couldn't see what bubble they were filling in. You'd think people might ask why the city that knows him best hates him most, but they'll just say that it's because NYC sucks so much or something.
Well, Kevin, you can "recommend" to your little heart's content, but Trump is, I am sad to say, winning. He's been getting about .2 or .3 percent a week for the last four weeks. That has chipped almost a whole percent off Harris's lead, and she has fallen below the "Democratic minimum" of 2.6% nationally.
Now maybe her Fox interview will shake up the race, but I doubt it. We have to work really hard to regain the House to block a MAGA tri-fecta that will almost certainly convert everyone's Social Security accounts into annuities and sell Medicare to the private insurance industry.
Sure, doing so will tank the economy by brutally reducing "senior" spending, but who cares? Once they're gone they can't be reconstituted. And you can be sure that Daines will kick the filibuster down to the Everglades to get it done.
Well, Kevin, you can "recommend" to your little heart's content, but Trump is, I am sad to say, winning. He's been getting about .2 or .3 percent a week for the last four weeks
That seems something of an overstatement.
I highly recommend not relying on individual polls. Looks at aggregators, and, better yet, loot at multiple aggregators. That's what I do. I average five of them every 6-7 days or so.
Harris's lead, at 2.5 points (as of Thursday) is higher that it was a month ago (1.9 points). It is lower than it was on October 1st (3.1 points), so Trump's had a decent October in terms of polling. But the average has settled into what is is now, 2.5 points, for the last ten days (my last two averages have yielded identical spreads.) The aggregators don't show a steady, ongoing erosion of Harris's lead. And I include Real Clear Politics—a highly GOP-friendly aggregator—in the average I calculate. Take them out (their methodology is arguably suspect) and Harris's numbers looks better, still.
Trump may win, sure. But it's an overstatement to say he's winning, in real time, based on what we know. It continues to be a tossup, which is more or less where it's been since mid August. Also, a 2.5 point win in the popular vote probably means Harris prevails the Electoral College. To be sure, her EC odds decline toward 50% as the margin shrinks below that, and Trump is pretty likely to prevail if he can hold her to under two points.
But if the polling is accurate and the voting ended tomorrow, I think Harris is a modest (60%+ favorite). Forty percent odds of a criminal lunatic running the country isn't good, of course! So the fear a lot of people are feeling is pretty rational.
Obviously all depends now on how the two candidates close. I think Democrats are better positioned than the GOP for these final two+ weeks given the seeming collapse of Trump's ability to vigorously campaign. There's also evidence based on some of the polling details that Trump's Electoral College edge may be more modest than in 2016 and 2020. Finally, I think there's reason to suspect the under-polling of Trump's vote won't happen a third time in a row. IOW, if Harris is really up by more like three points+ right now, she could well win fairly comfortably.
Don't agree. The race is a coin flip, within the margin of turnout uncertainties, and will remain so through at least the evening of election day. If anything will shake up the race, it is Trump's increasingly delirious, bordering on insane, public appearances; but frankly I doubt anything will. We will all just need to do what we can, then say ooohhhhhhmmmmmm election afternoon/evening ...
I am more optimistic, because Harris has a real GOTV operation that one can reasonably hope to lead to results that exceed whatever the underlying reality of viewpoints is by about 0.5%.
He’s just kidding around… because that’s what his supporters want. They want you to feel threatened and afraid. Maybe we should threaten them.
"Center for American Rights"
Dan and his modem.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/daniel-suhr-1
I keep seeing articles in which the reporter questions Trump supporters regarding some of the really awful things he says and they tell the reporter they don’t think he is serious when he says those things and won’t do them. But I never see follow up questions like “would you support him if you thought he would do those things?” Or, “If he is elected and said that based on his election victory he has a mandate to do them and actually closed down TV stations that he doesn’t like and used the military to round up his enemies and put down protests if that would be ok with them and would they feel any responsibility for it happening?” Or ask the business people who support him “what if he actually does impose 600% tariffs on imports do they think they would have any responsibility for the consequences?”
It just seems to me that somehow Trump gets to have it both ways. The rubes believe him and think those are good ideas and the “smart” people think it’s just bluster and he’ll just lower their taxes and cut back on regulations.
RE: Trump and his fans are getting desperate.
I see it differently. Internal polls for both candidates indicate a likely Trump win* and I'm sure he knows that. So what would Trump do if he's confident he'll win? Act like the tyrant he's going to be. And he has.
* Unfortunately and reluctantly, I share that view. There's a point in this nightmare where Americans finally lose the benefit of the doubt that they don’t understand what they’re voting for by voting for Trump. They understand. That fact will hit Harris’ supporters like an asteroid next month if he wins. No one is prepared for how profound the impact will be.
Also get ready for tons of obloquy directed at Biden and Garland for being slower than molasses in winter (for not dropping out sooner or starting prosecution of Trump sooner).
"No one is prepared for how profound the impact will be." Least of all his most rabid supporters. They might enjoy the racism and misogyny but Grandma losing her Medicaid and or Medicare or themselves losing their disability insurance might not be an enjoyable experience.
Though his cult might not care even if it does negatively affect them. As long as they think someone else has it just as bad, or better yet, worse than them.