The Conversation -- October 28, 2024
Marie: According to a Politico report I linked earlier today (as well as other reports I read) about Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally, "A Trump adviser said the speakers' remarks weren't vetted by the campaign." But that can't be entirely true, can it, because somebody loaded the speeches into the teleprompter. Well, it turns out the distancing is not true AT ALL. ~~~
~~~ Marc Caputo of the Bulwark: "Tony Hinchcliffe 'had a joke calling [Vice President Kamala] Harris a "cunt,"' a campaign insider involved in the discussions about the even told The Bulwark.... Campaign staffers had asked all speakers to submit drafts of their speeches ahead of time -- before they were loaded into the teleprompter -- according to ... sources. Once the objectionable 'cunt' joke was spotted, the sources said, a staffer asked Hinchcliffe to strike it. He complied. Those sources insisted that they did not spot the other objectionable lines in Hinchcliffe's speech prior to him delivering it because they were ad-libbed. Hinchcliffe couldn't be reached for comment.... 'It's a joke. People need to grow up,' one Trump adviser in the no-apology camp told The Bulwark. 'This is what we're campaigning against: PC culture run amok.'"
Robert Tait & Rachel Leingang of the Guardian: "Hundreds of early ballots cast for the US presidential election have been burned in two suspected attacks in Washington and Oregon, exacerbating tensions ahead of next Tuesday's knife-edge contest. Police said Monday that the fires in the two states were believed to be connected and that a vehicle involved had been identified, according to the Associated Press. Firefighters went to the scene after smoke was reported coming from a ballot drop box in the city of Vancouver in Washington state at 6.30am on Monday, according to local media.... The fire was reported after a similar incident in nearby Portland in Oregon, where police say an incendiary device was set off inside a ballot drop box close to a building hosting the Multnomah county elections division."
Heather Cox Richardson on Substack: "... the 2024 October surprise was the Trump campaign's fascist rally at Madison Square Garden, a rally so extreme that Republicans running for office have been denouncing it all over social media tonight.... Like [the Nazi rally of 1939], Trump's rally was supposed to demonstrate power and inspire his base to violence.... Trump advisor Stephen Miller's claim that 'America is for Americans and Americans only' directly echoed the statement of Adolf Hitler that 'Germany is for Germans and Germans only.'... But Trump perhaps gave away the game with his inflammatory language and with an aside, seemingly aimed at House speaker Johnson. 'I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House, right? Our little secret is having a big impact, he and I have a secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over,' Trump said. It seems possible -- probable, even -- that Trump was alluding to putting in play the plan his people tried in 2020."
Oh, She Wrote the Art of the Deal. Rachel Siegel & Maeve Reston of the Washington Post: "... in interviews, two dozen former aides, attorneys general, banking experts and Obama administration officials underscored that [Kamala] Harris's role as a tough negotiator [when she was a new state attorney general] set her apart. Her allies look back on the episode as an example of her ability to make gutsy decisions -- withstanding pressure from colleagues trying to get her to fall in line and going toe to toe with banking executives who said her demands were unfair." The article reports on a confrontation between Harris & JPMorgan Chase CEO cowardly blowhard Jamie Dimon.
Marie: I'm not sure why the Gray Lady was too delicate to mention this in the report, linked below, on Walz & Ocasio-Cortez's video-game session: ~~~
~~~ Kipp Jones of Mediaite: "Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz reacted live on Twitch to comic Tony Hinchcliffe speaking at the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday and were not amused.... The two aired the clip of Hinchliffe's Puerto Rico joke and reacted live: Walz: 'Who is that? Jackwad? Who is that guy?' AOC: 'Actually, I think that's Tommy Hinchcliffe. Which is super disappointing.... Yeah, I mean, it's like super upsetting. Obviously, it's super upsetting to me. My family's from Puerto Rico. The thing that is so messed up that I wish more people understood is that the things that they do in Puerto Rico are a testing ground for the policies and the horrors that they wish to and that they do unveil in working-class communities across the United States. And I need people to understand that ... when you have some A-hole calling Puerto Rico floating garbage. I know that that's what they think about you. That is like that's just what they think about you. It's what they think about anyone who makes less money than them. It's what they think about the people who serve them food in a restaurant. It's what they think about the people who.'"
Anita Hill, in a New York Times op-ed: "It's not easy to remain calm and collected in the glare of intense public scrutiny, especially when the opposition is set on denying your integrity, competence and accomplishments. But call it grace, poise or dignity, Kamala Harris has managed to make a positive case for her candidacy every day since President Biden endorsed her to take his place on the Democratic ticket. Think about it: No presidential nominees in modern history have faced such a direct challenge to the authenticity of their identity and by extension their qualifications to be the president."
Spokesperson Tries to Defend Trump. Colby Hall of Mediaite: "Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt woke up very early Monday morning so that she could appear on Fox & Friends in the 6 AM hour.... [Speaking of Trump's rally Sunday, she said,] 'It was amazing... And it was such a diverse group of people in that stadium packed to the house.... You had black Americans, Latino Americans, Jewish Americans, men, women of all ages coming in support of President Trump and unafraid to show it.' Steve Doocy then asked..., 'You know, this morning, mainstream media has picked up on the comic's comments, which were offensive, have been denounced by the campaign and everybody else. What went on with that?' 'Look, it was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste,' she replied. 'Obviously, that joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or our campaign. And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had.'... 'The crowd, they didn't mind,' she said of the racist jokes." ~~~
~~~ Marie: For context, I should say that Leavitt is as blonde & White as the driven snow. Second, I suspect that by "such a diverse group at the rally" she meant "all the way from Bavaria to Prussia." The Blacks, Latinos & Jews who may have been there showed up as props for all the racist slurs. As you can tell from a few of the links below (which don't cover the breadth of the slurs), the racist attacks made at the rally were by no means limited to one speaker or against one group of "floating islanders." It's true, though, that "the crowd didn't mind." Apparently they roared their approval of some of the racist remarks.
Here's the part of Michelle Obama's speech -- delivered Friday in support of Kamala Harris -- where she lays out the effects and potential effects of Donald Trump's attacks on "the entirety of women's health." Thanks to RAS for the lead:
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Presidential Race
Marie: Sunday was Puerto Rico Day in the presidential campaigns. Kamala Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Philadelphia where she spoke of plans to build new economic opportunities for Puerto Rico, Tim Walz played video games with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who is of Puerto Rican heritage. And in Madison Square Garden, a speaker kicked off a rally for Donald Trump by calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage."
"Sí, Se Puede." Erica Green of the New York Times: "Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign moved quickly on Sunday to elevate and denounce racist and inflammatory remarks made by speakers at a rally for ... Donald J. Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York.... Ms. Harris wrapped up a day in Philadelphia, where she spent time courting Pennsylvania's significant Puerto Rican population by visiting a local Puerto Rican restaurant. While there, she talked about a new plan she announced on Sunday to bring economic opportunities to Puerto Rico, discussed her visit there after Hurricane Maria, and said that even as a senator she had 'felt a need and an obligation' to 'make sure Puerto Rico's needs were met.... This is not a new area of focus for me,' she said. She received a warm reception from the crowd, with chants of 'Sí, se puede.'... In neighborhoods across the city, Ms. Harris delivered tailored messages to different groups of voters as she continued her effort to secure the crucial 'blue wall' states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It was Ms. Harris's 14th visit to Pennsylvania since she became the Democratic presidential nominee, and her seventh to the Philadelphia area."
Benjamin Oreskes of the New York Times: "Wearing a camouflage Vikings hat, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota joined Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, on Sunday to play Madden NFL 25 and talk about the election. 'Are we going to play some ball? Are we ready to do it?' Mr. Walz said to the audience watching via the streaming platform Twitch, cautioning that he was prepared to lose. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, played as the Buffalo Bills, while Mr. Walz, a former high school football coach, went with the Vikings. He and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez talked about the politics of Congress, where Mr. Walz served before he became governor and the Democrats' vice-presidential nominee. They compared the House to 'public school,' with the Senate being more like 'private school.'" MB: AOC, who was born in the Bronx, is of Puerto Rican heritage.
Sabrina Rodriguez of the Washington Post: "Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican recording artist and one of the biggest superstars in the world, on Sunday offered his support for Kamala Harris's candidacy for president, sharing a video of her plans for Puerto Rico on his Instagram -- a move that came just moments after a speaker at Donald Trump's rally in New York City referred to the U.S. territory as a 'floating island of garbage.' Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny, shared on his story to his 45.6 million Instagram followers a video from Harris's official account in which the vice president outlines her vision for Puerto Rico. A source close to Bad Bunny confirmed the post was the artist announcing his support for Harris. 'I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader,' Harris said in the video, which he shared four times, focusing on this portion of her remarks in three of the shares. 'He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.'" ~~~
~~~ Marie: No, no, it cannot be possible that a person can be "one of the biggest superstars in the world" if I, Marie Burns, never heard of him until Sunday. What, you say I'm a remarkable know-nothing? Maybe so.
Libby Cathey of CBS News: "The Democratic National Committee is projecting digital messages on Madison Square Garden's exterior during ... Donald Trump's campaign rally on Sunday about recent reports that he once praised Adolf Hitler and his generals and that cast him as unhinged.... Some Democrats [have made] comparisons [between Trump's MSG rally and] a 1939 rally [there] supporting Hitler and the Nazi party.... 'Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden, [Gov. Tim] Walz said, speaking to voters in Nevada [on Sunday]. 'There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid 1930s at Madison Square Garden. And don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there.'"
Shane Goldmacher, et al., of the New York Times: "Donald J. Trump's closing rally at Madison Square Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him, a vivid and at times racist display of the dark energy animating the MAGA movement. A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a 'floating island of garbage,' then mocked Hispanics as failing to use birth control, Jews as cheap and Palestinians as rock-throwers, and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to watermelon. Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with 'pimp handlers.' A third called her 'the Antichrist.' And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris -- the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father -- with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become 'the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president." ~~~
~~~ Meredith McGraw of Politico: "Donald Trump's opening acts here at Madison Square Garden have been loud, vulgar and at times bigoted. And the thousands of Trump supporters who packed into the Midtown Manhattan arena -- some of whom slept on city sidewalks overnight -- loved it, and cheered, clapped and laughed, as the speakers dropped F-bombs, insulted Democrats and minorities and implored people to get out and vote for Trump.... Radio host Sid Rosenberg called Hillary Clinton a 'sick bastard.' 'Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party. A bunch of degenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives.... Every one of 'em,' said Rosenberg. Painter Scott LoBaido -- who painted an American flag live on a canvas set up on stage -- said to cheers, 'I'm opening up for the greatest fucking president in the world.'" ~~~
~~~ Meredith McGraw & Lisa Kashinsky of Politico: "Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, billed as a triumphant homecoming, turned into a political fiasco on Sunday night as a pro-Trump comedian's racist diatribe drew furious condemnation, including from prominent Republicans. The rally, held just more than a week before Election Day, was intended to serve as a platform for Trump to make his closing argument. But the racist slurs and vulgarity of the former president's opening acts were so striking -- and sparked such backlash -- that his campaign was left on the defensive and issued a disavowal.... In his own speech, Trump reprised some of his harshest remarks about immigration, with his calls to weed out 'the enemy from within.'Trump, who has demonized migrants, called for the death penalty for 'any migrant who kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer,' and at one point stopped to show a video about Venezuelan migrants and gang activity in New York. The crowd responded by chanting: 'Send them back.'" ~~~
~~~ Allan Smith of NBC News: "Grant Cardone, a conservative influencer and investor, said [Vice President] Harris and 'her pimp handlers will destroy our country' and raised his middle finger to the camera to show what message a Trump victory would send to 'the elites.' 'It needs to be a landslide," he said. "We need to slaughter these other people..... David Rem, who announced his candidacy for mayor of New York on stage, echoed a rallygoer who called Harris 'the devil' and added that she is 'the Antichrist.'...
"But no comments generated more attention than an opening routine from ... Tony Hinchcliffe, who spoke early in the afternoon. His jokes included saying Latinos 'love making babies' because 'there's no pulling out. They don't do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.' Then he targeted Puerto Rico, describing it as 'a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.' Then he told a joke about how he and a Black friend 'carved watermelons' together. There was an uncomfortable reception to his punch lines in the arena. Within hours of his remarks, multiple pro-Trump GOP members of Congress condemned him." ~~~
~~~ Marie: There are three main words in "floating island of garbage," and two of them are wrong. Obviously, the use of the term "garbage" to describe millions of people, their homes and their homeland is reprehensible. It makes me sick to hear it and read it. But let me just add that Puerto Rico is not "floating." I don't know if Hinchcliffe uses "floating" as a slur to suggest Puerto Ricans are aimless or if I should give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's so stupid he thinks islands float around the ocean and, what the hell, might bump up against the rest of the U.S. ~~~
~~~ Marie: Every MSM story I read about Trump's rally focused on the racist & xenophobic remarks that dominated the speeches. Except this Fox "News" report, which said nothing about racism. At all. heir report about "race" at the rally went like this: "Trump added that under his leadership, the Republican Party has become the 'party of inclusion.' 'Jews and Muslims and Catholics and evangelicals and Mormons, and they're all joining our cause in large numbers, larger than anyone has ever seen in this country before, larger than they've ever seen in any country,' he said. 'And we're a big, powerful party, and they're losing it. They're really losing it. Together we will lift America to glory beyond your wildest dreams. It's going to happen fast, too.'" ~~~
~~~ Marie: If the most shameful 21st-century moment in American history was January 6, 2021, then yesterday was the second-most. It happened nearly in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. There is a photo accompanying the Times piece about Trump's racist rally that includes Speaker Mike Johnson smiling and clapping at the hate-fest. Bear in mind that Mike and the Turtle have urged Vice President Harris to turn down the rhetoric because it's so dangerous: ~~~
This is probably my favorite segment EVER by @jaketapper. đź‘Ź đź‘Źpic.twitter.com/zVB1TyY3mh
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) October 25, 2024
~~~ Thanks to RAS for the link.
Trump Ad Shows U.S. Went "to Hell" During His Presidency*. Adam Wren of Politico: "Donald Trump's two-minute ad that aired during Sunday's Philadelphia Eagles game and said the country had 'gone to hell' during the Biden and Harris administration featured an image from a protest during Trump's presidency, not Biden's. The 'Never Quit' spot featured an image from a photo gallery published by KPIC, a CBS affiliate, from a story headlined 'After day of fiery protests, uneasy calm in Seattle' -- in 2020. The protests erupted in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd." The ad is here on Instagram.
Yay! Top-Secret Docs for One & All! No Vetting Required! Shady Characters Welcome! Maggie Haberman, et al., of the New York Times: "A memo circulating among at least half a dozen advisers to former President Donald J. Trump recommends that if he is elected, he bypass traditional background checks by law enforcement officials and immediately grant security clearances to a large number of his appointees after being sworn in.... The proposal is being promoted by a small group including Boris Epshteyn, a top legal adviser to Mr. Trump who was influential in its development.... It is not clear whether Mr. Trump has seen the proposal or whether he is inclined to adopt it if he takes office. But it would allow him to quickly install loyalists in major positions without subjecting them to the risk of long-running and intrusive F.B.I. background checks, potentially increasing the risks of people with problematic histories or ties to other nations being given influential White House roles. Such checks hung up clearances for a number of aides during Mr. Trump's presidency, including Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Mr. Epshteyn himself." (Also linked yesterday.)
Peter Baker of the New York Times: "... in the nine years that he has been running for or serving as president, Mr. Trump has regularly evoked the language, history and motifs of fascism without hesitation or evident concern about how it would make him look.... No American commander in chief ... has so aggressively sought to discredit the institutions of democracy at home while so openly embracing and envying dictators abroad.... He goes out of his way to portray himself as an American strongman, vowing if re-elected to use the military to crack down on dissent, to use the Justice Department to prosecute and imprison his foes, to shut down news media outlets that displease him, to claim authority that his predecessors did not have and to round up millions of people living in the country illegally and put them in camps or deport them en masse. He has already sought to overturn a free and fair election..., something no other sitting president ever tried to do. When that did not work, he spread demonstrable lies about the 2020 vote so pervasively that he convinced most of his supporters that Mr. Biden's victory was illegitimate..., eroding faith in the democratic system.... He then called for the 'termination' of the Constitution so that President Biden could be instantly removed from power and himself reinstalled without a new election." (Also linked yesterday.)~~~
~~~ The online New York Times is rerunning its anti-Trump "Believe Him" editorial. (Also linked yesterday.)
Charles Homans & Alexandra Berzon of the New York Times: "In recent interviews and speeches, [retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn] and an associate are warning that this year's election will be stolen from Mr. Trump, advising supporters to take action to prevent a theft and vowing retribution once Mr. Trump is back in power.... Mr. Flynn's close associate [Ivan Raiklin] has discussed plans to overturn the election if Mr. Trump loses.... Mr. Flynn and Mr. Raiklin ... have been prominent exponents of false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election for years. But they have recently focused on specific tactics to avoid what they predict will be the theft of the 2024 election.... On Oct. 11, Mr. Raiklin told a small group of livestreamers that he was planning for a range of scenarios in the days after the election. 'I have a plan and strategy for every single component of it,' he said. 'And then Jan. 6 is going to be pretty fun.'"
Annals of "Journalism," Ctd. Gene Weingarten, a former humor columnist for the Washington Post and a two-time Pulitzer-winner, contrasts former Post publisher Kate Graham and current owner Jeff Bezos. MB: Weingarten's depiction of Graham's courage is moving.
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Japan. Motoko Rich, et al., of the New York Times: "Japan's governing party lost its majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, as voters delivered an emphatic rejection of the status quo, throwing Japanese politics into its most uncertain period in years. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955, lost more than 50 seats in an election for the House of Representatives, the influential lower chamber of Parliament, according to the public broadcaster, NHK. For more than a decade, elections in Japan had taken on a rubber-stamp quality for the conservative Liberal Democrats. This time, a wearied public angered by a long-simmering political finance scandal, rising inflation and the burdens of raising families inflicted a humiliating blow to the party just one month after it anointed Shigeru Ishiba as the new prime minister."
Israel/Palestine, et al.
The New York Times' live updates of developments Sunday in Israel's wars are here: "Iran's leaders stressed on Sunday that they had a right to respond to Israel's attack but appeared to take a measured tone, which could help ease concerns that the region's two largest militaries were gearing up for all-out war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said that the retaliatory attack on Iran had achieved all of its objectives, as analysts questioned how his government might leverage its recent military gains on the diplomatic front. On Sunday, U.S. and Israeli officials were scheduled to travel to Qatar for meetings aimed at reviving negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages held there." (Also linked yesterday.)
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No crystal ball and don't have any clear idea about how it's going to go next week but I'm already thinking of what I might write about regardless of the outcome.
I'm thinking Daddy Issues would be a good subject. All the claptrap about the Deep State is really a series of attacks on a daddy the Right doesn't like, the one that tells them what to do, like don't pollute, don't abuse your workers, and cheat on your taxes and don't be intolerant of others. In other words, be nice. Likewise the Pretender's and the Right's fascination with strong men seems a manifestation of my daddy can beat up yours....which makes me somehow tougher than you...
And there's so much more about the place and type of Daddy that America wants that thinking and writing about Him (yes, He's a daddy, too) might get me through what is for me going to be a every tough week.
True to Trumpian form, that “floating island of garbage” shithead Fat Hitler invited to his fascist hootenanny at Madison Square, after hearing about the backlash to his bigoted stupidity claimed it was just a joke, then followed it up by insulting the millions he already insulted, saying “These people can’t even take a joke.”
And like Marie, my second thought (right after “What a piece of shit!”) was “Dear Moron. Islands like Puerto Rico don’t float.”
But this is quintessential Trump: stupid, ignorant, racist, insulting, and vicious, followed by “Poor me” whining.
Commentators saying this was Trump’s final message to voters get it wrong. This was a needy little boy giving the finger to a city he claims “has treated me very badly”, as if New York City owed him something. Fatty has no interest in trying to win over new voters. This was a paean to the MAGA droolers, racists, white supremacists, and ultra-nationalist fascists, and a way for him to admire himself in the spotlight at a historic NYC location.
Years before, in the late 70’s and early 80’s, the Orange Monster demanded everyone see him as the greatest developer in the world. He promised to build a city within a city, on Manhattan’s west side, at the old Penn railroad yard. He promised 20,000 apartments, glorious attractions, 10,000 parking spaces, and the tallest building in the world, which would provide at its tippy top, a domicile for the great and powerful Donald. It would be called, unsurprisingly, TRUMP CITY!!!!
He failed. As he so often does.
But he weaseled money out of it. Always tried to weasel something. Even in ridiculous failure, he turned his blundering, with bluster, braggadocio, and bullshit, into a TV career that promoted him, despite his abysmal failures, as a genius bidnessman.
Now, blocks away from that busted bullshit, he strides onto the stage at Madison Square Garden and pumps himself up while continuing his ever lengthening litany of grievances, lies, and hatreds.
He doesn’t care about getting votes because he plans to win another way. By stealing the election.
Meantime, he shows his fat ass.
And don’t miss that other needy little boy, TuKKKer KKKarlson, with his oh-so-clever (for a fifth grader) snide remark about Vice President Kamala Harris being a low IQ Samoan, or some other ignorant thing.
Unlike KKKarlson, a poncy little rich prick who went to posh schools in places like Geneva, on his parents dime (lotsa frozen dinners), Kamala Harris was not handed anything. She had to work hard to get where she is. Little TuKKKums tried to get into the CIA (another delusional douchebag) and when they laughed him out, his rich daddy told him to try journalism. “They’ll take anyone” he said.
He was right there. Without their rich families, Trump and KKKarlson would be selling cubic zirconium wedding rings on the QVC channel. Now they’re insulting hard working Americans whose shoes they aren’t fit to shine.
Poncy little prick.
Akhilleus,
And that poncy prick's creepy fantasy about Daddy spanking 15 year old daughters (I'm guessing bare-assed) just might fit into what I might get around to writing this week.
Will probably leave the "poncy prick" out, much as I like it, tho'.
These Madison Square Nazi replicants are intrinsically evil, but just like Bugs Bunny got yuks out of Hitler's absurdities, today's observers can too. I was lucky not to be drinking coffee when I read in a Digby piece this morning that an Xterminator "... John Pavlovitz quipped on FKA Twitter, “Stephen Miller’s pronouns are He/Himmler.”
Biddabiddabidda that's all, folks!
So a Fatty flack races on to Faux this morning to try to put out the inferno of reactions from Trump’s very own Nazi Bund rally, whining…
“And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian rather than the truths that were shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had.“
Boo-hoo. All those wicked cool truths, huh? Like these, maybe?
“Doug Emhoff, that crappy Jew…”
“Hillary Clinton, a sick son of a bitch…”
“All Democrats, degenerates and lowlifes…”
“Kamala Harris is evil, the antichrist, the least qualified person to ever run for office, and she has PIMP handlers!!”
“Harris is bringing Palestinians here who learn to murder two year olds!!!”
“America is for America!” sez Steven Miller. (He forgot the “Sieg heil!” after that one…)
“Black guys carve watermelons instead of pumpkins for Halloween.”
Did she mean “truths” like those?
Btw, loved the He/Himmler quip. Also from Digby,…the 1939 Nazi rally was classier. Trump gutters everything. He can’t help it. And oh, trying to say stuff like “That comedian who was telling truths about Puerto Rico, we don’t agree, I mean we hardly know him. How did he even get in here?” doesn’t even rate a raised eyebrow.
Sorry. Every single Trump “pimp handler” on that stage was purposely invited. And not for their civilized, genteel conversational skills. Being a racist pig is bad enough. But a racist pig who, after insulting millions of voters, protests that he’s really a good guy? That’s adding cowardice to the yuuuge list of stupefying disqualifications. At least have the cojones to own your disgusting convictions.
Wait, are you telling me that Republicans actually DO pay attention to Trump's speeches and what goes down at his rallies? I have been assured that they are too busy and important to pay attention to what the leader of their party does day to day. Hopefully a little of this trash reaches the people who haven't voted yet.
All the "best people" of coarse.....
I’ve been reading about how a fair number of Hispanic voters are leaning toward Trump, the idea being cuz he’s so upright, moral, and religious. Right. Just like Michael Corleone.
Puerto Ricans number about 9% of New York City residents. Hispanics about 32%. Hispanics make up over 20% of the Florida population. Maybe those Trump leaning voters have an idea now of what he really thinks of them.
But really, this shouldn’t just piss off Hispanic voters, this should piss off anyone with a shred of decency.
Will it?
Soooo…Party of Traitors pols and apparatchiks (some of them) are trying to distance themselves from Fatty’s snakebite rally?
Sorry, traitors, you all hitched your sorry-ass wagons to this monster years ago. You own it now. You all dove head first into the shit pile hoping, like that yokel in the Boccaccio story, to come up with a gold ring. Instead, you all got a grenade. Now you’re all trying to scrape the shit off protesting that you don’t stink at all.
You all pissed on the constitution, ripped anyone who called your Fuhrer a racist, violent pig, applauded the Nazi Supreme Court decision to take away women’s rights, made excuse after excuse for this monster, and defaulted on your oath of office. Like they say in the song, “You break that thing, you bought it”. It’s yours. You own it.
No pretending you don’t. Just cozy back up into the shit pile. It’s where you all belong.
Yeah…objecting to calling the Vice President of the United States, a candidate for president, a Senator, a former California Attorney General, and San Francisco District Attorney as a “cunt” is PC culture run amok.
These are the same assholes who whine that it’s beyond the pale, outrageous, and treasonous to refer to Trump as a felon, even though he’s been convicted of multiple crimes by a court of law.
An official act
I expect to see more ballot burning by the MAGA horde. There’s no chance these drop off locations were not specifically targeted. These fires were not random. It’s well known that Democrats take advantage of this form of voting far more than Republicans so destroying a bunch of ballots will impact votes for Harris far more than for Fat Hitler.
MAGA has made ratfucking the vote a specialty. If vote suppression doesn’t work, just burn the ballots. Anything to destroy democracy and put that fat traitor back in power.