They’re good at being very online
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Brad Raffensperger’s #Voter Registrations Targeted in Georgia’s New Online Portal
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Days after #Georgia #Democrats warned that the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations could be abused, officials have confirmed misuse attempts — including efforts to cancel the registrations of prominent #Republicans.
#News #Voting #election2024 #Election #Politics #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-voter-registration-cancellation-portal-mtg-raffensperger
I've read several pieces this AM about Trump's mutual masturbation session with Elon and I couldn't help but notice that after running thousands of stories about Biden's apparent cognitive issues, reporters don't seem to think it's even worth mentioning that 78-year-old Trump could not make words with his mouth and slurred his way through the whole two hours.
Always interesting to see what journos choose to highlight. I've seen no mentions of #Biden saying, "All this talk about how I’m angry with those people who said I should step down—that’s not true."
This has been the subject of so much coverage but they love intra-party drama so they ignore it.
Republicans are demonstrating how not weird they are with an explosion of dumb race science about #KamalaHarris.
The fact that Republicans only have to win an election while Dems have to first win and then successfully fend off the right’s relentless efforts to overturn their victory, under the constant threat of violence, is just an intolerable asymmetry. #fascism #Election2024 #maga #trump
Sounds about right
Judge Rules That #RFKJr Cannot Appear on #NewYork Ballot
The ruling was a blow to Mr. Kennedy’s *independent* campaign for president. The judge said that he had used a “#sham” address to claim #residency in #NY.
#fraud #Election2024
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/nyregion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-new-york-residency.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Citizens,
Justin says that this song has been on his mind for many months. It speaks to me. We are not going back. Rally from the hillside, rally from the plains ya'll.. shouting the battle cry of freedom.
Bon Iver performs at the Harris-Walz rally in Eau Claire Wisconsin.
Justin Edison Vernon an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known as the primary songwriter and frontman of indie folk band Bon Iver.
Yes we’ll rally round the flag, ya'll, we’ll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom,
We will rally from the hillside, we’ll gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
Chorus:
The Union forever! Hurrah, Down with the TRAITOR, up with the star;
While we rally round the flag, ya'll, rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!
This arrived in my inbox this morning. I I have no idea who is behind it, but it's absolutely brilliant.
They're completely tearing this guy apart.
“There’s two options that we're looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a #HarrisWalz presidency because we draw more votes from Trump.
"Or we walk away right now and join forces with Donald #Trump”
-Billionaire tech-broette and #RFKJr running mate Nicole Shanahan
I absolutely loathe all these rich narcissistic crackpots.
Seriously, the NYT has to be intentionally trolling us at this point.
Imagine being a reporter at the “paper of record” and writing with a straight face that a “large swath of the public” gave a flying fuck through a rolling donut about Obama’s tan suit. And then quoting Lou Dobbs.
"There are efforts around the country to subvert the integrity of the ballot, many of them coming from a collection of conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives pushing West’s candidacy.
"Republicans and their allies have worked to get West on the ballot in Arizona, Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Maine."
I’m usually very supportive of protests but I must admit that I find this annoying when we’re trying to keep a narcissistic crackpot and his coterie of fascist grifters out of power.
Not counter-protesting Jan 6 proved to be one of the smartest decisions in recent memory and I’d like to see more of that.
#DNC2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/18/dnc-protests-gaza-kamala-harris-00174497
Interesting that WaPo gives numbers for registered voters—with #Harris up by four points—noting that it isn’t a statistically significant lead given the margin of error, while ABC reports that she’s up by 6 among likely voters in their joint poll, which is.
#media #polling #trump #Election2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/18/harris-trump-post-abc-ipsos-poll/
This piece says that Alison Esposito has made a name for herself in conservative media by talking about law and order and the "border crisis."
Not mentioned is that NYC paid out $120K to settle lawsuits against her for abuse when she was a cop, including assaulting and handcuffing an infant and falsely arresting some church ladies for shopping while black.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-republicans-house-of-representatives-new-york/
Less than 200 people showed up.
He couldn't afford to pay anyone to show up and hold signs?
He couldn't recruit any Blacks from the South Side and West Side of Chicago to show up.
#trump #illinois #mchenrycounty #USPolitics #Election2024 https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-dnc-2024-donald-trump-supporters-hold-rally-woodstock-illinois-ahead-democratic-national-convention/15201140/
Pundits don’t talk about it bc it kills the drama around potential spoilers but the reality is that most 3rd party voters’ political identity is tied to their disdain for "the duopoly" and they tend to vote 3rd party consistently.
So while some of the small number of voters who would’ve actually cast a ballot for RFK will go to #Trump or #Harris, many will gravitate toward Jill Stein or Libertarian Chase Oliver. And I guess some single-issue antivaxxers will just stay home. #RFKJr #Election2024
At this point I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but GOP Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance is a fascist and it's important to say that. Merely calling him Peter Thiel's puppet, or a techbro authoritarian doesn't go far enough; Vance is an out and open fascist, and there's no "crypto" about it. From my perspective, this reality is obvious when you listen to the things Vance says and the policy positions he endorses; now that the Pig Empire media has gotten interested enough to dig into his short political career however, the evidence of Vance's support for overt fascism is piling up high enough that it's literally undeniable. For a good example of what I'm talking about here, let's turn to a piece in today's edition of The Guardian talking about that time oh so long ago (you know, literally December 2023) when Vance defended noted white nationalist shitlord Douglass Mackey (aka Ricky Vaughn on Twitter) and then praised a book full of right wing extremist essays published by the minions at noted (fascist) think tank the Claremont Institute.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/jd-vance-speech-extremist-far-right-book
Revealed: JD Vance promoted far-right views in speech about extremists’ book
"In his speech, Vance first offered “congratulations on such a great book, and thanks for getting such a good crew together”, and then warmed to themes similar to Milikh’s.
“Republicans, conservatives, we’re still terrified of wielding power, of actually doing the job that the people sent us here to do,” Vance said, later adding: “Isn’t it just common sense that when we’re given power, we should actually do something with it?”
Brad Onishi, author of Preparing for War, a critical account of Christian nationalism and the host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, said: “Vance, many Claremont people, including some folks in this volume, and especially the ‘post-liberal’ conservative Catholics that he hangs out with, have advocated for a form of big government that will wield its power in order to set the country right.”
He added: “And you may think, well, OK, that doesn’t sound so bad. But here the common good is rooting out queer people, making sure non-Christians don’t immigrate to the country and outlawing things like pornography that are currently a matter of personal choice.”
Despite the Guardian's inexplicable squeamishness about calling all of this what it is, fascism, I strongly encourage you to read the entire article because the more of it you read, the more obvious it becomes that Vance supports overt, bald-ass fascism. However, for purposes of summarization we can divide its contents into two major issues.
First, JD Vance expressed support for and told lies to protect a white nationalist influencer who used to post on Twitter; the aforementioned Douglas Mackey, aka "Ricky Vaughn." For those of you unfamiliar with his work, in addition to being an admitted white nationalist, Mackey was also convicted (in 2023) of "conspiracy against rights" for trying to rig the 2016 election for Trump using online disinformation.
"Prosecutors said that on 1 November 2016, Mackey as Vaughn produced an image depicting a Black woman standing in front of a sign that said “African Americans for Hillary Clinton”, with a caption falsely claiming that voters could “avoid the line” and “vote from home” via text. Another fine-print caption at the bottom of the image read “Paid for by Hillary for President 2016”.
Prosecutors say that at least 4,900 people texted the candidate’s name to the number on the image in following days, as instructed by the disinformation image."
During his speech, given after Mackey was charged but before he was convicted, Vance accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of trying to throw Mackey in prison for "posting a meme" and said the post describe above was somehow "a joke." Obviously, a federal jury did not agree, but Mackey is still appealing the conviction. Vance also suggested, I shit you not, a solution to cases like Mackey's would be stacking the judiciary with fascist loyalists, saying “maybe we should be appointing people at the Department of Justice who actually take a side in the culture war, the side of the people who elected us, and not just pretend we don’t have to take sides at all.”
(Continued)
#Fascism #JDVance #GOP #USPol #DouglasMackey #DOJ #Trump #Election2024
Mark Knoller’s been around for a long time. He’s covered every POTUS since Gerry Ford. He absolutely knows that there’s a tradition of newly nominated tickets giving joint interviews after their party’s convention.
He’s just a fucking hack. Has been for a long time.
Rapist, fraud Donnie: "Kamala just one day decided to breath oxygen."
Rightwing media: "Has she always breathed oxygen?"
Reporter: "Vice President Harris, do you breath oxygen?"
VP Harris: "Let's talk about working class families."
Politico: "Harris evades questions about oxygen intake."
MSM ask about the rapes.
MSM ask about the jury verdicts.
MSM ask about the $600 MILLION fraud verdict.
MSM ask about the $91.3 MILLION sex assault & defamation of the victim verdict.
MSM ask about the fraud.
MSM ask about the treason.
MSM ask about the Stolen and concealed National Defense documents.
MSM ask about telling workers to move and hide the boxes from the FBI.
MSM .... MSM . . where the fuck are you?
Trump will be playing golf on Labor Day.
#trump #USPolitics #Election2024 https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/kamala-harris-pittsburgh-rally-schedule-donald-trump-campaign-20240830.html
Trump is defending a cutting blow about his election fraud bullshit by citing Viktor Orban and then attacked Biden. That was truly deranged. I hope it’s covered as such. Everyone should see that exchange.
#HarrisWalz2024 #trump #Election2024 #debate
Since Jill Stein only shows up every 4 years I wanted to quickly remind everyone, not just of this photo, but how notoriously difficult to it is to have access to war criminal Vladimir Putin, let alone *a seat at a table with him*. Backing Jill Stein is willful ignorance.
“The altercation came moments after #Trump criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage”
Then, as the cops hailed him out Trump said, “is there anywhere that’s more fun to be than a Trump rally?”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c
#fascism #Election2024