The Media Still Doesn’t Get the Danger that We – and They – Are In, But the Daily Show Does

Posted by on November 7, 2024 at 12:29 pm. 4 Comments :

One of the recurring themes of the Kamala Harris campaign that was highlighted in nearly every speech she gave was the insistence that “We are not going back.” And even though it appears on the surface that we are indeed regressing to a grim past, she was right. Losing the election does not mean that we have lost the will to advance the principles of democracy and freedom.

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It seems impossible to imagine that voters, given the choice between a respected prosecutor and public servant, or a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and wannabe dictator, would choose the latter. But that’s what happened on Tuesday night. There are as many plausible explanations for that major malfunction of democracy as there are pundits proposing them. And in the days ahead they will all be examined. But for now the nation must answer a couple of deceptively…

…SIMPLE QUESTIONS: What Is America? Who Votes For This?

In the meantime, we remain burdened with an aspiring authoritarian-elect and a media establishment that doesn’t realize the risks they face, which led to the abhorrent state we find ourselves in today. And for anyone who doesn’t grasp the direness of this situation, note that Donald Trump, in his victory speech Tuesday night, went out of his way to make his hostility to the free press clear, saying that “I told JD [Vance] to go into the enemy camp. He just goes: OK. Which one? CNN? MSNBC?”

Throughout the 2024 election season, Trump expressed his deep animosity toward the media, including his official Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. But for some reason, the media rarely defended itself and the unique provisions in the First Amendment of the Constitution that protects it.

However, there was a guardian of the free press that was found in an unlikely – although increasingly common – place. And it proves the not-very-old adage “I get my comedy from Fox News and my news from Comedy Central.” The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic delivered a monolog that, in addition to being hilarious, was more honest, and more profound, than most of what was seen on the mainstream media. She said in part that..

“Yeah, it’s official. America has elected its first criminal president before electing its first female president. What a day for proud felonists.”

And…

“Just think about what happened here. America voted this guy out in 2020. And what has he done since then? He tried to overthrow the government, he was convicted of 34 felonies, he spent an entire campaign promising vengeance against his enemies.”

And…

“Seems the only people you can’t blame for Trump’s victory are Black women and people in comas.”

And finally…

“Honestly, I don’t really care why she lost, I care why he won. We have spent so much time diagnosing Donald Trump and what his actions say about him. He’s a dictator, he’s a fascist, he’s a malignant narcissist whose blood type is fryer oil.

“But it’s pretty clear that America is the one that needs the diagnosis, because whatever’s wrong with him, we f**king love it. In this moment Donald Trump is holding up a mirror to the American people and it might be time to take a good f**king hard look. And I’m sorry. I told myself that this show would be uplifting tonight and give people hope and inspiration, but unfortunately, I’m too depressed. And quite frankly, very, very, hungover.”

Exactly! There will be scads of speculation about what Harris, or Democrats, or even a lazy, weak, greedy, complicit, press might have done wrong. But ultimately it was the voters who chose to pull the lever for the ignorant, profane, mentally infirm, lying, criminal, who caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths, incited a treasonous insurrection, and whose closest associates labeled him a fascist and noted his praise for Hitler.

To be sure, those voters were influenced by the media that failed in its obligation to inform the public. And that failure was evident in the desertion by viewers that indicates just how dissatisfied they are with the quality of the news they are getting. Considering the feeble response by the media to existential dangers posed by Trump and his MAGA movement, it’s no wonder that American is tuning out.

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What Is America? Who Votes For This?

Posted by on November 6, 2024 at 9:32 am. 7 Comments :

It’s hard to wake up on the morning after America affirmed the worst speculation about its character and commitment to principle. But it’s impossible to stay asleep indefinitely. And so we awake with questions: What Is America? Who votes for this?

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The person that a majority of voters chose to return to the White House, Donald Trump, has a resume of ill repute that is beyond anything imagined in the darkest dystopian fiction. For instance, he…

  • Bragged about grabbing women by the p*ssy.
  • Cheated on all three of his wives.
  • Had multiple bankruptcies and failed businesses.
  • Extorted a foreign president in order to dig up dirt on a political opponent.
  • Maligned migrants as criminals and rapists.
  • Mismanaged the COVID Pandemic causing hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.
  • Was impeached twice.
  • Disparaged the media as “the enemy of the people.”
  • Was convicted of 34 felonies, with 54 more pending.
  • Incited a violent insurrection and attempted coup.
  • Added $7 trillion to the national debt.
  • Is a pathological liar.
  • Was repudiated by his closest associates as a moron, and a fascist, and more.
  • Stole and hoarded hundreds of classified documents and lied to the FBI about having them.
  • Appointed three Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and granted him immunity for crimes.
  • Was found liable for financial fraud, ordered to pay $454 million.
  • Adjudicated as a rapist.
  • Called fallen soldiers “suckers and losers.”
  • Embraced foreign dictators and praised Hitler.

And Trump has now won reelection over his opponent, Kamala Harris, who was deemed unacceptable due to her being an extraordinarily well qualified Black woman with a sterling reputation and resume.

So What Is America? Who votes for this? It can be spun a hundred ways, but there is no rational explanation. There is little point in rashly casting blame or manufacturing excuses. It may just be that fear and hate can be more powerful motivators than hope and unity. Certainly the media failed us on a grand scale. However, the bottom line is that enough voters actually wanted this to happen, so it did. And that’s a nauseating statement about where and who we are.

Trump’s “Day One” agenda is a nightmarish collection of the wish lists of brutal, oppressive totalitarians. It includes…

  • Mass incarcerations and deportations.
  • More tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.
  • Abandonment of Ukraine and our NATO allies.
  • Repealing ObamaCare and obstructing access to reproductive healthcare.
  • Cuts to funding for climate change and environmental programs.
  • Ending equity initiatives such as CRT and DEI and measures benefitting minorities, women, and LGBTQ+.
  • Pardoning January 6th insurrectionists who attacked the Capital and assaulted Police officers.
  • Imposing tariffs on foreign goods that will burden Americans.
  • Weaponization the Justice Department to attack judges and political critics.
  • And suppression of the free press.

That isn’t exactly something to look forward to. There will be talk about regrouping for the battles ahead and redoubling commitments to progressive ideals. But more immediately there will be shock, and disgust, and confusion as to how such an unthinkable outcome could befall a great nation founded on liberty for all.

And working through that will not be easy. Nevertheless, it will be done in time. And citizens who cherish democracy will rise to the occasion. With heavy hearts, concern for the future, and love for our families and neighbors, we will go on. But we may need some time to heal and digest the magnitude of the struggle before us. Because absorbing the results of the 2024 election requires answering a couple of challenging questions: What Is America? Who votes for this?

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Trump’s Election Morning Madness Soars as He Declines to Renounce Violence and Attacks Fox News

Posted by on November 5, 2024 at 12:07 pm. NO Comments :

It’s finally here. Election Day has arrived and millions of Americans, who have not already voted early or by mail, will be heading to the polls to cast their votes. It’s still surprising that some people are having a hard time deciding between Vice-President Kamala Harris, a uniquely qualified and compassionate leader who cherishes democracy, and Donald Trump, a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and business failure/fraudster, with authoritarian aspirations.

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For his part, Trump seems to be making it easier for voters to decide by cementing in their minds the derangement and division that he offers, which has been the hallmark of his political life. His last rallies of the campaign season were rife with his standard supply of lies and hatred toward minorities, migrants, women, and anyone else that triggers his monstrosity…

SDEE THIS: Kamala Harris Presents: The Creature from the Orange Lagoon

On Tuesday morning Trump answered a few questions at his Mar-a-Lago bunker that were wholly in line with his character, or lack thereof. For instance…

Trump was upset with Oprah Winfrey because she said that a Trump victory could mean that there won’t be any more elections. However, Trump has said the very same thing about a Harris victory. “If we don’t win this election,” he said, “I don’t think you’re going to have another election in this country,” That led Trump to lash out at Oprah, which somehow turned into an attack on Fox News (was he weaving?)…

“Oprah should be ashamed of herself…You know who else should be ashamed? Fox…I think it’s a disgrace what Fox does. Everyone thinks that Fox is so pro-Trump. They’re not pro-Trump at all.”

No, Fox News isn’t pro-Trump at all. Except for all of the unabashed slobbering done by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, and pretty much everyone else on the network that is Trump’s official Ministry of Propaganda. And Trump is so disgusted by all the anti-Trump “reporting” on Fox that he appears on it almost exclusively…

SEE ALSO: Scaredy Trump Has Retreated to the Safety of His Fox News Bunker While Canceling Other Media

The non-stop Trump-fluffing at Fox News makes it possible for Trump make the most absurd comments, knowing that they will defend him at all costs. Even when he praised Hitler and expressed his desire to have generals like the Nazi fuehrer. Which leads us to his next election morning excremental exchange…

Reporter: Would you tell your supporters there should be no violence?
Trump: I don’t have to tell them that, that there’ll be no violence. Of course there’ll be no violence. My supporters are not violent people. I don’t have to tell them that…These are people that believe in no violence. Unlike like your question. You believe in violence!

Of course there’ll be no violence. Who would ever imagine that Trump supporters would engage in violence after he loses an election? Certainly the events of January 6, 2021, tell us nothing about that possibility. Just ask those who died that day…oh wait. Ask the 140 police officers who were hospitalized, or the members of Congress and their staff, or the hundreds of violent insurrectionists who pleaded guilty, whether his supporters are violent people or not.

He doesn’t have to tell them to refrain from violence now, just like he failed to tell them then, because he was enjoying watching that “day of love” (as he now calls it) on TV while it was in progress.

And we can’t ignore Trump’s casual accusation that the reporter’s question was the true display of who believes in violence. It was another example of his deft use of the old “I know you are, but what an I” defense.

Finally, Trump was asked what he would say to those who are concerned that he will not concede this election if he loses, He replied that “I think they’re crazy.” Why would they be concerned about that? Just because he still hasn’t conceded the election of 2020, and has been lying about it continually for four years, creating a disinformation industry around his bullsh!t?

These examples of Trump’s dangerously demented mental state are coming too late for most voters to factor them into their decisions. But they are representative of what he’s been saying for years. So everyone ought to know. Here’s hoping that enough them do know and are voting for Kamala Harris so that the nation can have stable leadership that respects the law and the people. Stay tuned.

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Maybe Kamala Harris Should Declare Victory Early to Preempt and Mock Trump

Posted by on November 4, 2024 at 12:32 pm. 1 Comments :

It’s Election Eve and the nation is understandably on edge as voters make a decision between Vice-President Kamala Harris, a uniquely qualified and compassionate leader who cherishes democracy, and Donald Trump, a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and business failure/fraudster, with authoritarian aspirations.

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The candidates are spending the last full day of the campaign visiting the swing states that will have the greatest impact on the outcome of the election. And they are making their closing arguments, highlighting the issues that they regard as the most important to voters. To Harris that means the economy, healthcare and reproductive rights, and the preservation of our constitutional republic. To Trump it means fear mongering, exacerbating division and hate, and advancing his mission to undermine American democracy.

SEE THIS: HOLY CR&P! Fox News Defends Trump Wishing that He Had ‘the Kind of Generals that Hitler Had’

With the race so close – at least according to polls that have proven to be flawed – most political pundits are loathe to make any predictions as to who will emerge victorious. But one thing that everybody seems comfortable predicting is that Trump will declare victory on Tuesday night no matter what the early results show. It’s his way of priming the pump so that he can allege that the election was “rigged and stolen” in the event that he loses. Which he seems to be expecting…

Given the likelihood that Trump will try to crown himself King of America before all the votes are counted, the Harris campaign should be prepared in advance to let the air out of his clownish stunts. That could be done after the fact by simply refuting his self-congratulatory lies, but why wait just to go on defense? Perhaps a better method would be to preempt Trump’s hubris on early Tuesday night.

By getting out in front of Trump, Harris could achieve two goals: First, she would make it clear that Trump is a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur who couldn’t care less about the will of the people. And Secondly, she could humiliate him with well-deserved mockery for even trying to pull off such a blisteringly stupid and egomaniacal maneuver.

The Harris “acceptance” speech could feature celebrations of the forty-gazillion votes she received. She could thank her supporters from the great state of Wiscmichylvania. And she could show her appreciation for those who helped her to rise to this occasion. Most notably Rudy Giuliani, for sacrificing his reputation and legal career by faithfully kissing Trump’s…let’s say ring; RFK, Jr, for elevating crackpottery to new levels of absurdity; and MAGA Mike Johnson, for promising to enact Trump’s Project 2025 if returned to power. She couldn’t have done it without them.

But don’t forget about Donald Trump himself. His commitment to destroying his own prospects was unparalleled. After all, he didn’t have to talk about Haitians eating cats and dogs during the debate with Harris. He didn’t have to promise to protect women, “whether they like it or not.” He didn’t need to assure the country that he would tack another $8 trillion dollars onto his previous debt burdens by swearing to give the wealthy more tax cuts and imposing tariffs on the rest of the world.

Trump also didn’t have to brag about ending Roe v Wade and the constitutional rights that women had for the last fifty years. He didn’t have to suck up to America’s tyrannical enemies such as Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un, all of whom he admires and seeks to emulate. He didn’t need to threaten the free press with revocation of licenses (that they don’t actually have) just because they tell the truth about him.

Such a speech would be a watershed moment for the Harris campaign, and for American politics. And after her brilliant appearance on Saturday Night Live, we know she can handle comedy. Plus, it would have the added benefit of annoying all of Trump’s MAGA minions who think there is something untoward – or even evil – about laughing.

SEE ALSO: Crybaby Trump: I Hate it When People Laugh at Me, and When Kamala Harris Laughs at All

So let’s have a bit of fun at the expense of Trump and the MAGA clan who we know are going to push their imaginary election results, perhaps even while people are still voting. In fact, why wait until tonight? Let’s celebrate Kamala winning right now (and hope it doesn’t come back to bite us in that arse). She has has a better than even shot at victory. Especially considering that Trump is actually demotivating his cult disciples from voting at all.

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Trump Says ‘I Don’t Mind’ If ‘Somebody Would Have to Shoot’ Through the Media at His Cult Rally

Posted by on November 3, 2024 at 11:01 am. 2 Comments :

The evidence of Donald Trump panicking is becoming less possible to ignore with each day as the election comes to a close. Along with his standard derogatory slurs about anyone – Democratic or Republican – who isn’t unwaveringly worshipful of him, he is ramping up grossly violent rhetoric that runs the risk of inciting real harm to innocent people.

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Last week Trump spoke menacingly about Liz Cheney, maligning her as a “war hawk,” but asserting that she would fold under pressure. In what some people have interpreted as a thinly veiled desire to see her shot by firing squad or in battle, Trump said “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Whatever the interpretation, it is profoundly inappropriate and reeks of the violent desires he harbors for those he perceives as enemies. However, this particular outburst suggesting cowardice on Cheney’s part is especially ludicrous considering the fact that Trump dodged the Vietnam draft with five deferments for phony bone spurs. He’s even to scared too debate Harris a second time.

SEE THIS: Trump Confesses to Bouts of Rage and Gluttony After Liz Cheney Reports His Reaction to January 6

At his cult rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Trump went off script to discuss the state of his security. In the description of the protective glass barriers that shield him on his stage he noted that there was an opening that provided an opportunity that he couldn’t pass up pointing out to his audience of glassy-eyed cult disciples. He said that…

“I have a piece of glass here. And I don’t have a piece of glass over there. And I have a piece of glass here. But all we really have over here is the fake news. And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind. I don’t mind that.”

It is difficult to imagine that this would not be seen as anything but an invitation to the more unbalanced members of his innately hostile hoard to shoot the reporters in the press risers who are covering his rally. And this is not an isolated incident.

Trump has been saying for years that the media is “the enemy of people.” He has threatened to revoke the licenses of any news network that criticizes him [Note: News networks are not licensed by the federal government]. The most recent such threat by Trump was triggered by the interview of of Kamala Harris by “60 Minutes” on CBS. But he didn’t constrain his rage to just that one network.

MORE HERE: Tyrant Trump Demands ALL TV News Licenses Be Revoked and Kamala Harris Concede the Election

Trump is proving that his hatred for any media that hasn’t pledged its allegiance to him is more than just emblematic of his infantile character. It is downright reckless. And his inability to refrain from this sort of rhetoric during his campaign runs the risk of getting somebody killed. Just imagine what he would be capable of if he were reelected and had the “immunity” granted to him by the Supreme Court. And after these remarks, will the press continue to “sanewash” his rancid rhetoric?

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Trump Celebrates Bad News for American Workers, Because He Thinks it’s Good News for Him

Posted by on November 2, 2024 at 2:01 pm. 1 Comments :

On the last weekend before Election Day, candidates ordinarily try to leave voters with a positive impression that might seal the deal and motivate them to go to the polls. But it goes without saying that Donald Trump is anything but ordinary. His deal sealer was to give a blow job to a microphone (No, REALLY).

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The repulsive behavior of Trump stopped being surprising years ago. But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t still nauseating to decent people who aren’t glassy-eyed cult disciples of the Orange Messiah. His words and deeds reflect the monstrous character (or lack thereof) that Trump presents on a daily basis. The Kamala Harris campaign recently captured the horror of Trump in a hilarious new ad.

SEE THIS: Kamala Harris Presents: The Creature from the Orange Lagoon

Saturday morning Trump put on another one of his traveling salvation shows. In the critical swing state of North Carolina, Trump played his most grating hits for an audience of raptured rubes. However, on this occasion Trump added a bit about the just released jobs report for October. In that report there were only 12,000 jobs created, an unexpectedly low number. There was, however an explanation. During the month of October there were two devastating hurricanes, as well as a nationwide strike against Boeing.

Undeterred by pesky facts, Trump sought to take advantage of the lower than expected numbers. However, he did not merely take advantage, he reveled in them with conspicuous and sinister glee…

“The worst numbers I’ve ever seen. How good was that? To get those numbers four days before the vote was… Thank you very much, sir. Thank you, sir… But no, she gets those numbers – She gets the worst numbers I think like maybe sort of ever?

“How good was that?” He thinks that was good? For who? Trump obviously doesn’t give a whip about the American people. He’s thrilled that this report came out just prior to the election because he believes that it will help him to win. In fact, he has been rooting for the downfall of the nation for months, maligning it as “failing,” “a third world country,” “dirty,” “corrupt,” “a banana republic,” and most recently, “a garbage can.” Apparently Trump’s strategy for winning is to grossly insult the country and its citizens.

It is also notable that while cheering the low jobs numbers, Trump looked to the heavens to thank God. As if he believes that God answered his prayers for Americans to suffer so that he could resume his quest for Earthly power. It would be safe to assume that Trump is now praying for more hurricanes, earthquakes, locusts, or other natural disasters targeting blue precincts in swing states to prevent Democrats from voting. He thrives on the pain of his foes.

Finally, Trump’s assertion that the October numbers were “the worst numbers I think like maybe sort of ever,” was not only painfully infantile grammar. It was evidence of his pitifully poor memory. During his occupation of the White House, he presided over not just low gains, but huge losses. In fact he was responsible for the worst loss of jobs since the administration of Herbert Hoover.

The last thing America needs is a president who gets pleasure from the misfortune of Americans. Trump has always been solely focused on his own welfare. He would sell the nation out to its enemies in the blink of an eye if it brought him some profit personally or financially. And in the next few days we have the opportunity and the obligation to make sure that he never gets gets a chance to do that.

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Trump’s Truth Social Scam Crashes as He Brags that It’s Booming Because He’s Winning (He’s Not)

Posted by on November 1, 2024 at 3:37 pm. 1 Comments :

Donald Trump is fond saying that any good news that happens anywhere in the world is due to him or the perception that he is likely to return to power. And conversely, that his not having control of the reins of government is responsible for any bad news. It’s a win-win perversion of reality that feeds his massive, yet fragile, ego.

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However, many psychological experts and academics agree that the debilitating severity of Trump’s psychoses make him unfit for any position of authority. His obvious cognitive deficiencies forebode catastrophe were he to reoccupy the White House. A warning was issued recently in “a letter signed by more than 200 mental health professionals” who said that…

“Donald Trump is dangerous because of ‘his symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder – malignant narcissism’, which makes him ‘grossly unfit for leadership.’ [and that he poses] an existential threat to democracy. [and that he] shows a lifetime pattern of ‘failure to conform to social norms and laws,’ ‘repeated lying,’ ‘reckless disregard for the safety of others,’ ‘irritability,’ ‘impulsivity,’ ‘irresponsibility,’ and ‘lack of remorse.

Those symptoms were evident in remarks Trump made at his cult rally Thursday in Nevada. Among his diversions from the real world was a detour he took lauding his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social. As usual, he sought to portray everything that he touched as golden, no matter how absurdly misguided (video below). He said that…

“‘Sir. You’ll never get the name ‘Truth,’ sir. That’s a term that you will never get.’ I said I only need five letters, right?. I said ‘Wouldn’t ‘Truth’ be great?’ They said ‘Sir, you won’t get it. You won’t get it.’ I said ‘Check.’ They said ‘Sir, I will, but you’re not gonna get it.’ ‘CHECK!’ And they came back, ‘Sir, it was available and we bought it for $2,000.’ Can you believe it?”

Let’s pause here to note that this is another one of Trump’s wholly imaginary discussions with the voices in his head who always call him “Sir.”. However, the fact is that he did not get the name “Truth” for his website. He got “Truth Social.” The “Truth” dot com domain is currently owned by a hardware business in Owatonna, Minnesota. Undaunted, Trump continued…

“And then it had a little burst. I don’t know what the hell’s going on. So. here’s my friend, he said they deplatform you, they take it all away, they try to destroy you. And you open up something and, as of yesterday it was worth 10 billion crazy dollars. Did you see that? Ten billion dollars, Mr. Senator. And they are going crazy.”

It’s pretty safe to agree with Trump when he admits that “I don’t know what the hell’s going on.” Although he’s also right about the current net asset value of the stock of Truth Social’s corporate parent, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG). However, that value is entirely the result of the rubes who invest because they are indoctrinated members of the Trump cult.

TMTG makes a relative pittance and is losing millions. Were it to be valued according to its earnings it would be a penny stock. However, when the stock recently rose in value, Trump declared that it was because he was beating Kamala Harris in the polls by a lot (he wasn’t), and that investors believed he was going to be the victor in the election. But that would be a preposterous foundation on which to invest. He is more than likely to lose, and the company would still be pretty much worthless if he won.

That said, as Trump was bragging about the value of the Truth Social, it’s value was taking a nosedive. This week it dropped about 46% from its intraweek high. Would Trump now say that the reason for that collapse is that he’s losing in the polls and and investors expect Harris to beat him next week? Not likely. That’s where the defense mechanism of his mental maladies kicks in. His psyche is immune from harm because all he can see is his perceived greatness.

BONUS UPDATE: Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Even as Trump Pushes “America First”

In the meantime, here is a brief record of the disastrous existence of Truth Social and TMTG…

Trump Media is Purging Those Too Weak to Keep Up the Crumbling Truth Social Scam (ProPublica)
An investigation of TMTG by ProPublica has just uncovered yet another example of the company’s corruption. The report found that “people with knowledge of the company” have confirmed that several top executives of the company appear to have been ousted following an internal investigation by a lawyer that the company hired to examine allegations of “mismanagement” and “misuse” of funds by it’s CEO, and Trump flunky, Devin Nunes.

LOSER Trump’s Truth Social is Well on its Way to Becoming His Next Bankruptcy
TMTG reported its earning for the second quarter of 2024. And it was not a pretty sight. As reported by Investor’s Business Daily, “Trump Media reported net sales of $836,000, down 30% vs. a year earlier. Operating costs soared to $19.5 million vs. $4.9 million a year earlier.”

Trump’s Truth Social is Shedding Users Like a Miserable Childless Woman’s Mangy Cat
The Donald Trump-controlled Truth Social platform recorded its third straight month of declining traffic. Truth Social attracted 2,112,000 unique visitors, down 38% compared to June 2023 when the site generated 3,407,000 unique visitors. It was the platform’s second worst traffic performance since June 2022 when Truth Social had only 1,891,000 unique visitors.

Trump Crime Syndicate: Investors Arrested for Insider Trading in Failing Truth Social Scam
Trump’s associates in his truthless, anti-social media venture were arrested and charged with insider trading. Reports indicate that “the three individuals together made more than $22 million in illegal profits.”

Truth Social Disease: Ads on Trump’s Twitter Ripoff are Mostly Scams and Trump-Fluffing Merch
Advertisers are afraid of their ads being juxtaposed with hate speech and other noxious content. Consequently, the only advertisers who are willing to shell out are sketchy scammers, conspiracy theorists, and junk peddlers.

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Kamala Harris Presents: The Creature from the Orange Lagoon

Posted by on October 31, 2024 at 1:06 pm. 1 Comments :

The arrival of Halloween this year precedes another day that may bear some measure of horror for America and the world. Next Tuesday marks the end of the 2024 election season. And with the polls indicating a historically close finish, the nation awaits the frightful possibility of another four years of Donald Trump steering the country toward doom.

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The fear that is produced by Trump and his MAGA movement is wholly justified considering the harm that he did the last time he occupied the White House. More than a million Americans died due to his gross mismanagement of a deadly pandemic. And the economic catastrophe that ensued, the loss of jobs, the racial division, the reversal of constitutional rights, the ridicule from international allies, and so many more monstrous consequences of the Trump years, make it understandable why he is too scared to face any scrutiny.

SEE THIS: Scaredy Trump Cowers Behind Sean Hannity – Still Too Afraid of Non-MAGA Media and Kamala Harris

As a warning about the wretchedness that would result in the wake of a Trump victory, Kamala Harris released a video that should scare the bejeebus out of rational, patriotic Americans: “The Creature from the Orange Lagoon.”

Holy Smokes! That’s petrifying. And voters need to heed this warning and do everything possible to prevent the plague of Trumpism from taking hold.

For his part, Trump is lashing out at Harris in the the most typically Trumpian manner. He posted a comment to his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social that raged…

“Just watched Kamala’s Fake News Conference – ALL LIES! She is desperate but, more importantly, she looks totally EXHAUSTED! She should rest now, and leave the Campaigning to me!”

That tirade was another festival of psychotic projection by Trump. He is notorious for his pathological lying, his persistent and whiny desperation, and his physical feebleness. So he’s accusing Harris of suffering from the maladies that afflict him. In a previous posting, Trump was more elaborate, saying that…

“Lyin’ Kamala is giving a News Conference now, saying that I want to end the Affordable Care Act. I never mentioned doing that, never even thought about such a thing. She also said I want to end Social Security. Likewise, never mentioned it, or thought of it. She is the one that wants to end Social Security and, she will do it, by putting the millions of Migrants coming into our Country into it. Kamala is a LIAR! Everything that comes out of her mouth is a LIE. It’s MADE UP FICTION, and she’s doing it because she’s losing, and losing BIG!”

For the record, Trump and the Republican Congress tried dozens of times to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). And MAGA Mike Johnson recently said that he is still planning to try again. When Sen. John McCain famously gave a thumbs down on one of those attempts. Trump went ballistic on him. And in December of 2023, he promised to get rid of Obamacare and replace it with his own plan that he never actually produced, despite repeatedly claiming that it would be revealed in “two weeks.”

“Obamacare is too expensive, and otherwise, not good healthcare. I will come up with a much better, and less expensive, alternative! People will be happy, not sad!”

As for Social Security, Trump’s budget contained cuts to the beloved program every year that he was in office. And a recent analysis of his plans should he be reelected were decidedly gloomy. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget…

“[E]very one of Trump’s favorite ideas in this campaign would accelerate Social Security’s time to insolvency and increase the resulting cuts to benefits.”

Just the thought of Trump returning to any position of power is terrifying. His blueprint for his neo-fascist regime, Project 2025, is ghastly. And his aspirations of authoritarianism are spine-chilling. But these are not Halloween pranks. They are the manifestation of a Trump nightmare administration that even his closest associates fear. Which makes it all the more imperative that we spend the next few days making certain that he will never again step his bone-spurred feet into the White House.

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Scaredy Trump Cowers Behind Sean Hannity – Still Too Afraid of Non-MAGA Media and Kamala Harris

Posted by on October 30, 2024 at 1:57 pm. 4 Comments :

The final week of a close presidential campaign generally sees the candidates making their last pitch to attract and motivate voters and to persuade those who are undecided. They fill their schedules with opportunities to seal the deal, particularly among communities where they might be weak.

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To that end, Kamala Harris gave a rousing and unifying speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that drew 75,000 people (22,000 more than Trump’s speech there on January 6, 2021). Her speech was aimed directly at Americans who are exhausted by the chaos and discord that epitomized Donald Trump’s occupation of the White House and the years that followed.

Trump, on the other hand, held a rally at Madison Square Garden that reeked of hostility, division, and hatred for anyone that wasn’t unwaveringly worshipful and devoted to Dear Leader.

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In recent days, Harris has granted interviews to a wide variety of media, including “The View,” “Late Night with Stephen Colbert,” Howard Stern, Univision,” “60 Minutes,” and even Fox News. As the campaign season winds down, Harris continues to make more of these sort of broadly diverse appearances before millions of people.

Meanwhile, Trump has been sequestering himself within his MAGA media bubble where he knows that he will never face any challenging questions or pesky fact-checks. (Well, almost never). And he was too chicken to debate Harris after his first whooping. Instead, Trump has been studiously avoiding any situations that he fears will be unfriendly. Which leaves Fox News, where he has appeared ten times – more than twice a week – in just the past month.

That may not be the best way to expand voter outreach, but it makes sense for someone who is utterly incapable of completing a rational thought, expressing an intelligent opinion, or avoiding humiliating gaffes. Although Trump still manages to embarrass himself, even within the hospitable confines of his Fox fortress.

For instance, on Tuesday night Trump made another visit to his Minister of Propaganda, Sean Hannity. While there he touched on several subjects that are unlikely to advance his electoral aspirations. Among them was his resolutely racist rant about rampant crime, about which he lied that…

“Our country is a crime ridden country. When they go into department stores and strip the store and our police stand out there wanting to do their job but they’re told ‘stand down. Don’t touch anybody.’ And they’re walking out with refrigerators. And they’re walking out with air-conditioners.”

First of all, crime is way down, and Trump’s dystopian tales of stripped department stores and constrained police are pure fiction. Secondly, does he really expect anyone to believe that criminals are “walking out with refrigerators”? Those must be some pretty muscular thieves.

Trump also addressed the recent uproar over a speaker at his MSG rally insulting Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” Without renouncing the remarks, or apologizing, Trump said that…

“Somebody said there was a comedian that joked about Puerto Rico or something. I have no idea who he is. Never saw him. Never heard of him. Don’t want to hear of him…You throw comedians in, you don’t vet them and go crazy. It’s nobody’s fault…and they try to make a big deal.”

This is a common Trump dodge wherein he just claims ignorance. Which for him is believable. However, this comedian was vetted and his script was reviewed and edited prior to it being loaded into the TelePrompTer. And contrary to Trump’s futile wishes, it has become a big deal, with a potentially significant impact on the election.

Trump also thought it would be a good idea to talk about the speculation that he is a Hitler loving fascist. Because what candidate wouldn’t want to keep that on the top of mind of voters? He began by telling Hannity that his father had told him to “never mention that name.” So naturally, Trump said that…

“They accuse me of being a Nazi. They accuse me of being a Hitler-type guy or a Hitler lover, and I’m not; I’m the opposite. They are the ones that are doing it. They are oppressive. This is like an oppressive machine.”

Way to rub it in, Donald. And by the way, what’s the “opposite of Hitler”? If Hitler’s “master race” rhetoric was promoting White supremacy, then is Trump a proponent of White inferiority? Does Trump have any idea what he’s even talking about?

Furthermore, when trump complains that “they” are the ones “doing it,” he’s talking about his own White House Chief of Staff (Gen. John Kelly), Defense Secretary (Gen. James Mattis), and others who worked closely with him in his administration who are the ones that branded him as a fascist who praises Hitler.

So even with his pal Hannity, on his favorite network, Trump still makes a fool of himself. But not to worry, he’s speaking to an audience that is already committed to voting for him no matter what awful things he says or does.

However, that isn’t going to be much help. Because while Harris is out in the field rounding up every vote she can, Trump is preaching to his hideously off-key choir. Which he will continue to do because he’s too afraid to face anyone – pundits or voters – who haven’t already pledged their allegiance to him.

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Trump Held a ‘Press Conference’ Where He Took No Questions and Gets Fact-Checked By – Fox News?

Posted by on October 29, 2024 at 2:12 pm. 2 Comments :

One of the best indicators that the Donald Trump campaign has suffered yet another catastrophic collapse is the scheduling of an emergency media event to stir in some irrelevancies intended to deflect from the damage he’s done.

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The frantic rush to fumigate his political house drove Trump to hold what he called a “press conference” following the fiasco of his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. The interminably long and unbearably tedious affair was rife with the sort of demagogic White supremacism that marked the previous “America First” rally staged at MSG 85 years ago by the American Nazi Party.

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Trump and his campaign knew that they had laid a rotten egg shortly after a featured guest speaker insulted Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” And while the campaign made a mild statement that the “joke” didn’t “reflect the views” of the campaign, Trump himself has still failed to repudiate it or apologize. And that slur only scratched the surface of the hostility that was rampant at the Garden.

Instead, Trump held a phony press conference that was nothing more than another opportunity to spew the very same repulsive rhetoric that he unloads at his cult rallies. The venue for this sham was his own Mar-a-Lago home/hotel, and he was still more than an hour late arriving. Plus, he packed the room with his supporters who were cheering on cue for everything he said.

Trump never mentioned the demeaning of Puerto Rico and the millions of Puerto Rican citizens throughout the United States. But he did launch ludicrous and baseless attacks on Kamala Harris for running a “campaign of hate” and “trying to destroy our country.” Which was pure projection on Trump’s part. What’s more, he ducked out the back way without taking a single question from the assembled reporters. Why on Earth would any journalist bother to show up for this sort of charade?

In a fit of deliberate deception Trump repeatedly referred to the MSG hate-mongering as a “love fest.” Which, ironically, is the very same way he described the deadly January 6th insurrection that that he incited.

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Fox News carried Trump’s so-called press conference without correcting any of the obvious lies he told on a variety of subjects. However, there was one thing that Fox’s Harris Faulkner felt compelled to correct…

“At the very beginning, you heard the former president talk about a stolen election. And while he may feel a certain way, the facts remain, Joe Biden was declared the winner with 51% of the vote. The states certified those results of the 2020 election, and Congress accepted those results. Now, the nation is moving toward November 5th.”

UH-OH. Faulkner just contradicted Trump about his insistence that the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” from him. That’s likely to earn her a Truth Social shoutout from him saying that “I HATE HARRIS FAULKNER AND FOX NEWS!!!” But she may have felt some pressure to make this particular correction because it’s on the same subject for which Fox News lost a $787 million defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems.

As for Faulkner’s observation that “nation is moving toward November 5th,” that’s something that the calendar makes irrefutable. But it doesn’t stop Trump or Fox News from setting up another round of election denying after the 2024 results are in. In fact, they have already started. And the spectacle of Trump continuing to rant about 2020 at this mockery of a press conference is proof of it.

For the record, when Trump completed his prepared whining, he left the room to the applause of his MAGA audience, and his campaign anthem, “YMCA.” So what exactly made this “press conference” different from his rallies?

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