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#Trump’s Baseless Claims [#lies] About the Assassination Attempt Are #Dangerous
His growing effort to blame #Biden & #Harris for the shooting isn’t supported by ANY #evidence. But experts say it could stir #violence.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#Incitement #extremism #radicalization #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism
#weird #insane #Nonsense #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-assassination-attempt-blame-biden-harris/
Trump hinter Glas
Via @stevebenen :
Where do things stand in the Arlington Cemetery fiasco?
- #Trump wants to be seen as a victim
- His campaign is picking a fight with the office of the Army secretary
- Congressional Dems are eager to get answers https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-details-suggest-trumps-arlington-controversy-wont-end-soon-rcna168944
Via Angry Staffer:
#Trump said the government will pay for IVF — he’s lying. The GOP just killed the IVF bill.
Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall — he lied. You paid for the wall.
Trump said tariffs will pay for his disastrous spending plans — he lied. You’ll pay for those too.
Smart. Keep it up #HarrisWalz
Via Josh Marcus-Blank:
New: #Harris campaign opens 50th #Pennsylvania office, aims to cut #Trump’s advantage in rural counties
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Via Katie Phang:
REMINDER: Today is the deadline for the filing of a Joint Status Report in #Trump’s DC election interference case before Judge #Chutkan.
This document will reflect what the parties believe is the proper timing and scheduling for the filing of motions, conducting of hearings, completion of discovery, trial, etc. #legal
#Doonesbury. ‘Nuff said.
Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/09/08
#Doonesbury does it again. Just… go.
Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/08/25
Via Angry Staffer:
This!
#JDVance was #Project2025’s pick for a reason - they know the chances of #Trump making it through another 4 year term aren’t great.
They lobbied hard to get their puppet on the ticket, and make no mistake: JD Vance will implement every bit of Project 2025.
Alexander S. Vindman:
Are people really going to vote to a rapidly declining 78 year old @ realDonaldTrump ? He’s not healthy enough to survive a full term. And @JDVance would be a disaster as President.
Margaret Sullivan, in a critique of the #NYT's dangerous embrace of false equivalence in its articles about #Trump and #Harris, quotes former marine, Ben Kesling, who writes this about the media coverage of Trump's criminal activity at #ArlingtonNationalCemetery :
It came off, he wrote, “like a bureaucratic mix-up or some tedious violation of protocol,” not a deeply disrespectful moral failure, which it surely was. “The sacred had been profaned.”
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in
Via Emptywheel:
We're still early in discussion of how much damage the JD pick will do to #Trump campaign
But these near-daily releases of vids in which JD says women must be breeders are doing something really tangible: making presumed patriarchy at core of Trump's coalition visible
Kamala HQ:
Unearthed vid: #JDVance attacks women “who can't have kids” bc they “passed the biological period when it was poss.” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” & struggle to find “meaning”
“Arlington cemetery controversy shines spotlight on #Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's sudden embrace of #Trump
A few months ago, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was one of the few prominent Republicans consistently keeping his distance from Donald Trump”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arlington-cemetery-controversy-shines-spotlight-utah-gov-spencer-113307445
"JD #Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases #Trump"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/politics/jd-vance-trump-vp.html
The #NYTimes (@nytimes) doesn't understand what "confounds" means. Dems are not "confounded" by Vance's rhetoric. They understand it, answer it, denounce it, refute it, ridicule it.
By contrast. Trump and Vance are confounded by #Harris and #Walz. They're floundering for an effective line of attack.
Jesus fucking Christ, NYT, was the Holocaust also an affordable housing plan?
These people have lost their damn minds.
#media #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #fascism #immigration #trump
Many of you have wondered about this. Maybe this will help.
NYT—“Liz #Cheney, who cont’s to describe #Trump as “unstable” & “depraved,” decided that Sept will be her moment to weigh in..when early voting has begun & her voice will not be lost in sea of back-to-back convention speeches.
Her objection to speaking in Chicago was almost entirely about timing.. It was a polit calculation—which some of her allies disagreed w—abt when she could maximize her impact on outcome of the race”
Emptywheel always nails it:
Pt I keep making abt this yr's sched is reporters need to adjust their thinking of time. Sure Labor Day is trad'l start of low-info voters tuning in. But it's also 91% of way thru #Trump's campaign but only 40% thru #Harris's
https://nytimes.com/live/2024/09/01/us/harris-trump-election
Mind you there are abt 10 foundational q's (like his biz ties w/Gulf states) that supine press hasn't bothered to ask Trump in 21 mos he;s been running
Ah well, I'm sure they'll get around to the basics 1 of these days
Unprecedented loss of value but just wait until #Trump Media hits its fundamental price of like $4 per share.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/01/musk-twitter-investors-underwater/