11/02/2024

maybe he's born with it? maybe it's maybelline?

remember that old commercial?

the 2024 presidential election is almost over.  and at last we get to the topic of the make up wearing ticket of convicted felon donald trump and miss sassy jd vance.  josephine harvey ('huffington post') notes: 

Jimmy Fallon showed “Tonight Show” viewers a new photo of Donald Trump that makes the former president look nearly as orange as his hi-vis vest.

“He’s wearing a lot of makeup. We did not enhance that. That’s a lot of makeup,” the comic said of the image, taken in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The Republican nominee had dressed up as a worker for a photo op aboard a Trump campaign-branded garbage truck, in a swipe at President Joe Biden’s gaffe about Trump supporters earlier this week.

“That’s real, that,” Fallon added of the image. “He looks like the Oompa Loompas’ union boss.”


and curtis m. wong ('huffington post') notes:

Anderson Cooper chimed in Thursday on Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s recent claim that former President Donald Trump is likely to win the “normal gay guy vote.” 

During a panel discussion on his show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” the CNN anchor said he was curious to know exactly where Vance would make a distinction between “normal” and “not normal” gay men. 

“At first I was like, ‘Oh, JD Vance thinks there’s normal gay people.’ So I guess that’s sort of progress,” Cooper, who is gay, said. “I’m curious to know what the difference — where the line is between a ‘normal’ gay person and a ‘not normal’ gay person.”

He then suggested Vance may possibly draw the line at “anything related to drag,” before taking a cheeky dig at Trump. 

“Wearing as much makeup as Donald Trump wears, that would be considered not normal,” he quipped. “It’s fine for Donald Trump, but on a gay guy, that wouldn’t be considered normal.” 


and maria butt ('the independent') notes:

A photographer has explained the mystery behind former president Donald Trump’s varying uses of bronzer.

The tan tones of the businessman and Home Alone 2 star have been under much scrutiny throughout his political career, with countless memes dissecting their colour range.

American photographer Emily Elsie shared her theory behind the ever-changing colour palettes, and explained she believes the intensity of hue is directly correlated to the politician’s stress levels.

Although photographs of Trump’s tan lines have prompted ridicule, similar to mockery over JD Vance’s alleged use of eyeliner, she said the issue was no laughing matter.

“Why is no one covering this very important data point,” wrote Elsie in a series of viral Instagram stories.

“In July 2024, Donald Trump looked like this...” she said sharing a picture of Trump shortly after his assassination attempt. “And now he looks like this,” she added alongside a recent picture of the entrepreneur giving a speech.

“We need to talk about the bronzer,” she began. “I used to think the problem with Trump’s ‘skin tone’ was primarily an issue of photo retouching - aka a photographer’s choice in colour balancing. 


that maga trash that's been attacking drag queens for the last 4 years has a presidential team consisting of a man wearing facial make up and the other wearing eye  liner.

let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'

 Friday, November 1, 2024.  Donald Trump threatens violence against Liz Cheney, Jennifer Lopez nails down why we need to vote for Kamala, and much more





Jennifer Lopez:  The election is just five days away and there is so much at stake.  The choices facing Americans now are monumental.  And you guys have made this city a place where dreams come true, where people from all walks of life have planted a flag in hopes of creating a better future for themselves and their families.  And you are the ones who are going to send the message that Nevada is Harris country.  Kamala Harris is running for the people who dream, for the parents working overtime, the children studying by street light, the teenagers practicing in the basement.  She's the only candidate that wants to raise the minimum wage and make college more affordable, keep the Dept of Education and even put a teacher in the Vice President's job.  That's right.  On the other hand, her opponent wants to kill the Affordable Care Act and eliminated the Dept of Education.  Right now, we are on the brink of an election that demands a choice -- a choice between backwards and forwards, a choice between the past and the future, a choice between divided and united.  And if you are anything like me and you value the idea that in this country, any child, from any background, cannot only work their ass off to bring their dreams to life and to be able to do so with dignity and respect for their neighbors, then it isn't much of a choice at all.  Whether you're from Castle Hill in the Bronx -- yes, baby -- or Sunrise Manor in East Las Vegas, we all want a world where our kids feel safe and free and valued by their president because whoever lead this country matters -- that's how we make the greatest America.  Because I remember -- I remember growing up thinking my president cared about me, cared about my parents, cared about my neighbors and my community -- not just some Americans, but all Americans.  I believe that our kids and this wonderfully progressive, innovative and inclusive young generation deserve that too.  And it is in our hands -- it's our responsibility to provide that for them.  You know, when I started in TV and film, I could get roles playing the maid or the loud mouthed Latina, but I knew I had more to offer and I think there are a lot of people in this country who feel the same way, who know that they are capable of more  and we all just want a chance to prove it.  And elections are about choosing leaders who support that.  Not one who stands in the way. 



Jennifer Lopez laid out the case for Kamala Harris last night in Las Vegas.  


Surprisingly, Donald Trump also was making the case for why Americans should vote for Kamala.  Oliver O'Connell and Joe Sommerlad (INDEPENDENT) explain:


Having already addressed two gatherings of his supporters, the former president ended his day in a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson on stage in Glendale, Arizona, at which he shockingly fantasised about former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney being shot at.

He also attacked senior Democrats Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff and warned baselessly against “cheating” at the polls and forced sex-change operations in schools.

Vice President Harris closed out Thursday with a raully in Las Vegas in which singer and actor Jennifer Lopez emotionally endorsed her.


But we were also supposed to be in mourning when Trump went around with the maxipad taped to the side of his head.  He can talk about someone shooting Liz Cheney, but he wants sympathy when one of his nut job supporters takes a shot at him?  





Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Trump also hurled insults at Cheney, once the third-ranking Republican in House leadership, calling her “very dumb,” a “stupid person” and “the moron.”     

             Trump’s suggestion that Cheney be fired upon represents an escalation of the violent language he has used to target his political foes. And it comes days before an election in which the former president — who never accepted his 2020 loss — has already undermined public confidence. In recent weeks, he has also suggested a military crackdown on political opponents he has described as “the enemy within.”

Cheney is perhaps the most vocal Republican critic of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his role in his supporters’ January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. She played a leading role on the House select committee that investigated the attack, and later was ousted from her deep-red Wyoming House seat by a Trump-backed primary opponent in 2022.

Cheney responded to Trump’s comments overnight, saying: “This is how dictators destroy free nations.”     



Trump is a danger to this country.  He cannot be allowed back in the White House.  We have all got to vote in this election.


As for his continued lies about transgender operations taking place at schools?  

Maybe he's scared or insulted.  Maybe someone's suggested to him that he have top surgery?

Watch Dave Bautista in the video below.


2.2. million views in less than two weeks.  "He's got jugs.  Big ones.  Like Dolly Parton," Dave notes. So maybe people have suggested breast reduction surgery to Donald one time too many and that's what has him obsessing over trans surgery?  Donald, don't panic.  Just buy yourself a bra.




Over the course of just four years, male voters under 30 have shifted a net of 14 points towards Republicans, according to polling by the Harvard Kennedy School of Politics.

Citing inflation, immigration, the withering of the American dream, the left’s war on “toxic masculinity,” and the former president’s ability to bro-out with their favorite podcasters, young men told The Post what made them ready to get behind Trump this November.

“As far as young male voters are concerned, I feel like the Democrats have no message for them. The Democrats have totally ignored that base,” Alex Bruesewitz, a 27-year-old campaign advisor for Trump, told The Post.


Is that what the incel feels?  He's been for Trump since he could vote.  He published a (bad, really bad) book in 2022 with additional lies because that's what a liar does.  And I guess Rikki's a liar as well since no research was done before rushing to quote the impotent male.

That's what's behind this -- impotency.  

"Toxic masculinity."  The term's been misunderstood by many -- especially by idiots like Impotent Alex.  

Masculinity is not toxic.  No feminist has argued that.  There is a strand of masculinity that is toxic.  That's the sort that bullies and batters.  

And while that strand is toxic, it doesn't just apply to men.  Ava and I long ago dubbed Ellen Barkin's Smurf on  ANIMAL KINGDOM as the best example of toxic masculinity -- see 2017's "TV: Conventions ingrained."

It's a point lost on Alex who'd rather spend time styling his hair -- what a big strong man he is using hairspray for his professional photo on AMAZON! -- than actually thinking.

These impotent incels worship a fat man with droopy boobs who craps himself -- as DeSantis' campaign kept whispering to the press (DeSantis had an accident in a Congressional bathroom, Trump knew about it and made jokes about it and whispered it to the press, in response DeSantis' campaign tried to get it known that Trump was crapping himself due to his age) -- and that's because they never learned what masculinity was -- toxic or otherwise.  

That's why they are afloat and aimless. Alex wanted to run against a sitting Republican in the House and thought he could win because he's just that stupid.  Then it was pointed out to him that the gay rumors swirl around him like no one since George Michael, that he's accomplished nothing with his life, and that his would be opponent was a  military veteran who served in Iraq (really served, not in some glorified steno pad like Miss Sassy).  Even though the US House Rep stepped down, the humiliating reality that Alex was greeted with prevented him from running for office.  Maybe he can get some life experience?

Incels do feel powerless and do dream of  Donald Trump's massive, saggy boobs.  

When I was gifted with a drive of Glenn Greenwald's web life -- it was left with my agent by someone I do not know -- a number of outlets were interested.  But then I guess it just didn't look believable.  That these incels could be as disgusting as they actually are.  But now they realize that, yes, that wasn't just Glenn's weird surfing habits, this was an actual movement of weak and powerless men trying to beat up women, beat up Black men and force themselves on gay men (submissives into humiliation like Glenn).  That is MAGA.  They pretend otherwise, but that is who they are.  And their violence against women was especially disturbing.  And you can find all that garbage on Elon Musk's Twitter.  

They're also strangely obsessed with Hasan Piker.  In the last few months, we've highlighted some videos by Hasan.  But when that drive was dropped off, I had no idea that Hasan was a real person.  I thought maybe he was a character on some teen show.  But they have all these fantasies -- these MAGA 'men' - of "breaking" Hasan -- of Charlie Kirk spanking him over the knee on live television, of them 'breeding' him, etc etc.  They are incels and they get really excited about sex with men despite their use of the f-term and their supposed hatred of gay men.

Since we're bringing up Glenn, the prisoner claiming to have had a relationship with Glenn, who's due out of prison shortly?  He specializes in humiliating other men.  So if he and Glenn did have a relationship, as the prisoner claims, let's be clear that Glenn was paying for degradation and humiliation.   Severe degradation and humiliation. 

Back to old man Trump, the busty babe the incels worship.  Meanwhile, Brad Reed (RAW STORY) reports:



Former President Donald Trump's most recent campaign speeches are not nearly as succinct or energetic as they once were, and riddled with gaffes, according to a new National Public Radio review.
The 78-year-old Trump's speeches are marked by "lower energy" and also a tendency to go off on "nonsensical tangents," NPR reported Tuesday. What's more, Trump seems to at times have difficulty recalling very basic vocabulary.

"When ad-libbing about a visit to a McDonald’s where he served food to supporters in a campaign stunt meant to attack Vice President [Kamala] Harris, he couldn’t remember the word fryer," NPR reported.

During the event, Trump reportedly said he took French fries "right out of whatever the hell they may come out of.”


Senile and getting worse.  Melody Schreiber (THE NEW REPUBLIC) reports:

In June 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Samoa with his anti-vaccine organization, Children’s Health Defense, meeting with local anti-vaxxers and government officials at a time when the country’s measles vaccine was under attack. Prominent anti-vax voices, including CHD, blamed the vaccine for two infant deaths the prior year, even after the true reason was discovered. Amid the swirling misinformation, vaccine rates plummeted from 60–70 percent to 31 percent.

A few months after RFK Jr.’s visit, measles swept through the freshly vulnerable Pacific island nation, killing 83 Samoans—mostly children. Kennedy doubled down, writing to the Samoan prime minister to question whether a “defective vaccine” was responsible for the outbreak. Even two years later, in 2021, Kennedy called a Samoan anti-vaxxer who had reportedly discouraged people from getting vaccinated during the 2019 crisis a “medical freedom hero.” Kennedy has also insisted for years, against all available scientific evidence, that vaccines cause autism, blaming them for a “holocaust” in the United States.
 

This week, Kennedy told supporters that if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins, he has promised Kennedy “control of the public health agencies,” including the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnik later denied that Kennedy would have a job with HHS—although, at the same time, he said Kennedy had convinced him to pull vaccines from the market. Trump himself, at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, seemed to lend credence to the idea of Kennedy leading on health: “I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines,” Trump said. Trump also said on a three-hour podcast episode with Joe Rogan last week that he’s told Kennedy, “Focus on health, focus—you can do whatever you want.” It’s not clear whether such a promise would have been made in exchange for Kennedy’s political endorsement, which would be illegal. But if Kennedy were to be put in charge of HHS, he would be leading the executive department that oversees the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health, among others. In the meantime, Kennedy is an honorary co-chair on the Trump transition team, and claims to be “deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run FDA, NIH, and CDC.”

In his own speech at Madison Square Garden, Kennedy took aim at Democrats, saying they were once “the party that wanted to protect public health, and women’s sports”—a bizarre pairing that highlights his recent pivot to attacking trans athletes and gender-affirming care. Kennedy, who ran as a Democratic and then independent presidential candidate before throwing his support behind Trump, is also spreading misinformation on chronic health issues such as obesity, diabetes, drug overdoses, and autism; on Tuesday, for example, he said diabetes could be “cured with good food.” In his Sunday speech, Kennedy characterized Trump as a president who would “protect our children … and women’s sports,” as well as “end the corruption at the federal agencies—at FDA, at NIH, at CDC, and at the CIA”—a constellation of bodies rarely joined together, which he implied are conducting surveillance upon and acting against the interests of the American people.

“This unbridled assault on science and scientists, it’s highly destabilizing for the country,” Baylor College of Medicine dean Peter Hotez, author of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science, told me earlier this year, a few months after Kennedy announced his run. But it’s not just Kennedy—Trump and other Republicans in Congress are also leading the charge to undermine expertise and further erode public trust in the government, he said. “This is what authoritarianism is all about,” Hotez said, lamenting “the collateral damage that it’s going to do to our democracy” and pointing to the ways Stalin portrayed scientists as public enemies during the Great Purge.





Junior as Secretary of HHS?  That's the death Donald wants to sentence us all too.  

He is a menace who must be defeated at the ballot box -- a fact most Americans recognize.  Susan Benjamin -- better known by her stage name Medea -- has never been one to express patriotism so her decision to put her name to another column written by the man who controls her really isn't a surprise nor is its nonsense of pretending grifter Jill Stein is the 2024 answer for the United States.  

No link to trash -- and Susan made it clear she was trash when she wanted to share the stage with the Proud Boys because cameras would be present.  We will, however, note this comment to her garbage:


Mitchell_Zimmerman
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Benjamin and Davies write: “Most Americans have been persuaded that Stein cannot win the election.” It’s not a matter of being “persuaded”, any more than we are “persuaded” that Trump did not win the last election. It’s simply a fact. No one seriously imagines that Jill Stein will get more than a few percent of the votes anywhere, so I don’t understand what is served by encouraging anyone to think maybe she’'ll actually win. It’s not honest.
I also don’t see that we should regard voting for Jill Stein as just another individual decision, for which no one need be apologetic. If it leads to a disaster, you should feel bad about it. And it very well may.
I’ve fleshed out some of the reasons voting for the Green Party is destructive, in these pages; I won’t repeat them all. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kamala-harris-gaza-2669543360.
Two points. First, I don’t see how anyone here can honestly take the position it doesn’t matter whether Trump or Harris is elected. We now have a full fledged fascist party, the Republican Party. The Democrats are far from a fascist party. Are progressives so locked into hating the Democrats that they cannot see the dangers of fascism? Is Gaza the sole issue that matters? Not whether we have a president who plans to deport 11 million people? Not climate change, not the elimination of honestly counted elections? Not abortion rights? Not whether reactionaries control the Supreme Court for another generation?
Yes, I know the Democratic Party is a capitalist party dominated by capital. But that doesn’t mean all the differences between Democrats and Republicans are trivial. I’m actually mystified anyone could believe that or pretend to.
Second, on whether building a third party is a realistic goal: There are structural issues that make this very challenging in a political system with single member districts, as opposed to multiparty list systems. The single-member district system pushes very hard toward two major parties. The trend is supported by the fact that – as is obviously the case here – third parties tend to injure the party closest to them, and voters grasp that, actually, yes, the lesser of two “evils” is better than the worse of two evils. Especially when the supposedly ideal party has no plan that would lead to victory.
Below is the Green Party’s percentage of the popular vote for President for every presidential election of this century:
2000 2.74%
2004 0.38%
2008 0.10%
2012 0.36%
2016 1.07%
2020 0.26%

There have been downs and ups. But the Greens have had more than twenty years, and we see no progression toward the Green Party playing a significant role in American politics. Other than as a spoiler.
Can someone explain to me what the plan is to break out of this role, in which the Greens are either irrelevant or destructive?


There is no plan.  The Greens committed political suicide this year by making Jill their presidential nominee for the third time. At 74, she's too old to run.  The Green Party was supposed to be a different party, a new party.  Yet they've run Jill three times now.  And she just gets older.  They could have made a break with the past, they could've run someone young and vital.  Instead, they went with tired, old Jill making it clear that there is no life left in the party.  

Jill's a gifter and a con artist sitting on millions but her fans don't know that.  Just like they didn't know she even had children, let alone that they weren't voting for mom.  

She's a grifter and a con artist.  

Maybe in 2025, the Green Party can rebuild and maybe they'll start focusing on real races and on building up a presence in the US Congress?  








LeBron James endorsed Kamala yesterday and Tavis Smiley participated in a discussion about that on CNN.




 I believe today's the last day of early voting in states that allow it.  Absentee ballots need to be mailed off as well.  Tuesday will conclude voting.  We have to vote.

And we have to vote wisely.

But we have to do more than that.

I'm tired and I know you're tired.  We've all done everything we could.  Or we think we have.

None of us like having to justify ourselves.  Having to explain ourselves.

Dana Bash tried to pull that trick on Kamala, remember.  'Trump says you're not Black.'  Whether it's your race, your gender, your sexuality, your religion, your ethnicity, whatever.  We are a nation of people with various possibilities and traits.  And we don't often fit the straight, White,  hateful model that Donald Trump represents.  

But we do usually have friends and lovers and spouses that care about us but may not grasp how much is at stake this election.  It can really be tiring to feel that you are always having to explain yourself to other people or to justify yourself.  But if you know even one undecided voter or one voter planning on staying at home and sitting this election out, there's one more thing you can do and that's share your own story with that person.  Share what Trump back in the White House means for you, how your life will suffer.  Try to enlarge just one person's understanding of how much damage Trump can cause to someone they know.  

The election will wrap up Tuesday night.  I think Kamala's run a great campaign.  I think she's brought real hope that we did not have in June -- 'we' meaning We The People as well as the Democrats running for office lower on the ballot.  She's done an amazing job in such a short time.  When I started THE COMMON ILLS, it was right after the 2004 election and it was after a meeting where we talked about what worked and what failed and what we could do differently.  Since starting THE COMMON ILLS, I have campaigned to end the Iraq War but not for politicians.  I haven't used this space for that.  But this is a very important election that determines the fate of our country and whether or not we have a democracy.

We've spoken in 48 states since Kamala became the nominee (all but Hawaii and Alaska) and there is so much excitement for Kamala to be our next president.  But to make that happen, we need everyone to vote.  So if you know anyone on the fence, please reach out to them this weekend.  And if you have the time on Tuesday to drive someone to the polls so they can vote, consider doing that.

Every vote counts -- even 'safe' states.  We've got until Tuesday and then we can all take a deep breath again.

Lastly, a number of e-mails on why I didn't post in the afternoon yesterday.  I did:


I just posted them to THIRD by mistake.  I was in the wrong account and didn't even realize it.  That's how tired and exhausted I am.  But we're almost there.



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10/31/2024

watch kamala's las vegas rally taking place now

sorry, it's halloween.  my daughter and i just got home and i'm exhausted.  but kamala's las vegas rally is just getting started so check it out below.




let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


Thursday, October 31, 2024. MAGA liars and whores try to lie about Joe Biden because they can't defend Convicted Felon Donald Trump.



Happy Halloween.  But don't open the door if these freaks come to it.



From left to right, that's Jill Stein, Elon Musk, Convicted Felon Donald Trump and Miss Sassy JD Vance in Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Trick or Treason," If they show up on your porch, do not open the door, just immediately call the police.


So much to cover.  Let's start with US President Joe Biden and how MAGA lies and the press then dances like a trained dog.  Joe said something outrageous!!!!!

No, he didn't.  Nor was anything for us to have waste time on.

MAGA liars and their paid whores like Jonathan Turley tried to gin up some outrage.  Didn't work, wouldn't work but they knew the media would cover it for 'both sides.'   

Reality was it never mattered and even the garbage knew -- and, yeah, I called them garbage.  That's what they are.  Trash is you prefer and will include a music video underscoring that in a minute.

Like most Americans, I learned years ago that Joe Biden rarely said the right thing.  When we would cover Senate hearings every month here, some reporters would ask me, on the way out of hearing, what did Joe -- then a US Senator -- mean because there's what Joe means and what Joe says.  So I'd translate.  That was in Joe's good days.  Most of us had to face the fact that those days were gone a few months back.  For some, it was the debate performance.  For me, it was after the debate when he sat down with George Stephanopoulos (see Ava and my "Media: It's Time For Joe To Go").  Joe is not on my mind these days.  I'm speaking every day -- seven days a week -- about Kamala Harris and the importance voting for her.  I don't have time for a lot of garbage -- and garbage is the term that has idiots upset.




Republicans’ latest entry on the eve of the 2024 campaign — President Joe Biden’s “garbage” comment Tuesday night — is more plausible than most as their hoped-for “deplorables” moment. But it’s still not nearly as ironclad as Clinton’s comments.


And Biden’s increasing tendency to stumble over his words, which marred these very comments, makes it entirely plausible that he didn’t intend to tar large numbers of Trump supporters — as he soon clarified that he hadn’t.


It may come down to the placement of an apostrophe, and it’s worth a parse.

The controversy centers on jumbled comments Biden made on a call with Latino voters. Biden invoked comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s quip at a Trump rally Sunday labeling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” — comments that many Republicans and even the Trump campaign have distanced themselves from.

“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’ ” Biden said, before his stumbles began.

“Well, let me tell you something,” Biden said. “I don’t — I — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or Puerto Rico where I’m fr — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people.”


And then the key line. I’ll offer three different versions which significantly change Biden’s meaning (with the key part bolded) [C.I. note, italicized for us here]: 

  • “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
  • “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters’ — his — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
  • “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”


Which one is it?  Read Aaron's article in full for his take.  My take?  I'd go with the third one.  When Joe stammers, he tends to do so as he's clarifying.   That's my take.

Joe -- and he shouldn't be the focus of this to begin with -- did a great thing last week and has also done some great things in recent weeks.  Sorry.  Joe's not our focus.  Our focus is getting Kamala elected.  

But the reason we're bringing this in is because of the greasy faced lying weasel Jonathan Turley.  In classes, he's refused to comment on his god Donald Trump's hate rally on Sunday.  He's done the same online at his non-stop Twitter feed -- there are 13-year-old girls who are on social media far less than Swirley Turley -- as one commentator on his Twitter feed noted this week -- even called him Swirley Turley (Mike's pet name for the never-ending liar).  So now, all the sudden, Lying Trash thinks this is an issue.

He Tweeted -- and we do Tweets like this because we're not promoting their accounts -- twice yesterday:


Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Harris's muted response to Biden calling all Trump supporters "garbage" is strikingly in contrast to the two days of her campaign hammering on a line from a comedian at a Trump campaign event. However, the most significant contrast is with the media...
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...Politico immediately rephrased Biden's line to adopt a new meaning. It was widely criticized for the effort. However, now even Harris and other politicians are renouncing the attack. . . leaving Politico and others in a curious position...
9:31 AM · Oct 30, 2024
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We won't note the third Tweet which is just a promo for his bad book -- his bad error riddled book (see Ava and my "Media: The lying pundits with a focus on Jonathan Turley").



We will note the sack of s**t is a lousy, lying hypocrite.


The outrage resulting from Sunday's KKK rally by the Trump campaign is something ManBoobs Turley refuses to comment on -- even now.  He ignored it.  

All the sudden when he thinks he can land a blow on Kamala, he wants to comment.

Turley, you may not be able to see your penis anymore as you get fatter and fatter; however, you should be able to see that we were never, ever talking about "a line from a comedian."

In fact, your university needs to sit you down and test your competency skills for the lie line alone.



Puerto Rico itself was called garbage, yes.  That wasn't the only line.  From ALJAZEERA:


Hinchcliffe, whose set was intended to warm up the crowd, veered into what many described as offensive territory, quipping that Latinos “love making babies”, before likening their presence to an “invasion of the country”.

He then went on to say: “There’s a lot going on, like, I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”

Hinchcliffe, 40, continued with racially insensitive jokes, mentioning Black friends he “carved watermelons” with and suggesting that Jewish people “have a hard time throwing paper”. His punchlines drew only scattered applause from the crowd.



That was the 'comedian.'  As best I know, that's all he said.  Let me repeat yet again that, on Sunday, I was speaking to one group after another about the importance of voting for Kamala and making her our next president.  It was after 10:00 pm when we finally got done speaking.  At which point, Ava and I wrote "Media: The double standard."  I then wrote the Sunday night piece here.  I was pulling from things that had happened that day -- and that's when I learned of the rally.  And I came across garbage.

 

So there may be more.


But just that above is not one line.  Grasp that, you sack of s**t liar, Jonathan Turley.  And let's all note his lie and his distortion and what a creep he is for molesting the truth.



I've read several reports on this and seen clips.  Which is how I also know about Dr Phil and his racist and insulting remarks which overlooked/ignored slavery -- rewriting history is all Dr Phil can do.   Which is how I know that one speaker came on to the stage due to the Confederacy anthem "Dixie" and left the stage to it.  And praised the song -- a song glorifying the losers -- the garbage, if you will -- of the Civil War.  Oh, I'm sorry, does it hurt your sensibility, Jonathan, for me not to both-sides the Civil War? There was Stephen Miller raging that "America is for Americans only!"  Really?  MAGA doesn't like green card holders now?  Grant Cardone insinuating that Kamala is a whore handled by "pimps."  Did you miss all of this or are you just trying to become even bigger liar than you already are?


There were multiple speakers.  Again, I didn't watch it and I don't have to subject myself to it.  No one has to.  Reading about it is more than sufficient.  I learned yesterday, for the first time, what Rudy G was saying and, yes, those were hateful statements as well attacking and offering racial stereotypes and lies about Palestinians.  


Also, Jonathan, I know a thing or two about comedy.  Whereas your 'comic' skill appears to be appearing before women naked.  

I understand that brings the house down and, yes, I understand why.  

But although you yourself and your body may be a joke, you can't tell one, you can't structure one and you'd be better off sitting your fat ass down.

Now let's deal with Jonathan's claim about Kamala.  Kamala made so much out of the hate rally?  Of course, she did.  The remarks were outrageous and attacked so many groups in this country.  Kamala's running to be the president of all of America -- all Americans -- so of course she would defend everyone.

But Jonathan wants to ignore the fact the comedians lines -- multiple, not just one -- were also called out by . . . Republicans.  That's Trump's buddy from Florida, Senator Rick Scott.  That's the Trump campaign's Peter Navarro. That's US House Rep María Elvira Salazar.  That's US House Rep Carlos Gimenez.  These are Republicans that I'm naming.  And there are more who have called it out.  

So stop your lying.  You have become the biggest embarrassment in the US legal community.  People talk about how craven and corrupt you've become and they do so for a reason.

Yes, Trump's hate rally is connected to him not just because his rally and not just because all the comments made on stage were vetted ahead of time -- live by the teleprompter, die by the teleprompter.  But also because the comments reflected comments made by Donald Trump.  

Andrew Howard (POLITICO) pointed out of the remarks made by the 'comedian' sounded like other remarks made by . . . 



The comments, while reminiscent of many made by Trump in the campaign’s final weeks, were made by a comedian early in the night’s schedule and were supposed to be jokes. Now, they are dominating the news cycle and putting Trump’s campaign on the backfoot with just under a week until the election.


That's why they were said in the first place.  Those statements are perfectly in keeping with Trump's own words.

To liken that to Joe Biden's use of "garbage"?  

You are so damn pathetic and such a damn liar.  

Not since Raymond Burr played Perry Mason has a bigger liar played an attorney.  And that's really saying something.  (Twice divorced and father Burr was never married and had no children.  He was gay.  Burr also never served in the US military despite lying about that over and over.  I could go on and on. But we'll stop there.)


And as for those 'jokes'?  If you're not getting it, Miss Sassy JD Vance claims not to know what was said.  Then Donald Trump does the same thing.  I wasn't there.  They were present.  They're lying because it's caused them such a huge problem and they're hoping liars and whores like Turley can dig them out of their hole if they just play dumb a little while longer.
 



Here's the late Nanci Griffith performing "It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go."



It's one of the many great songs she wrote in her short lifetime.  Here's the music video she made for the song.


A cafeteria line in ChicagoThe fat man in front of meIs calling black people trash to his childrenHe's the only trash here I seeAnd I'm thinking this man wears a white hoodIn the night when his children should sleepBut, they slip to their window and they see himAnd they think that white hood's all they need
It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in Chicago for These kids to go 


Nanci called racists trash!!!!!  Oh, no!!!! Jonathan Turley must be sh**ting himself!!!!

Probably.  But racists are trash.  And if that statement's too much for you, I really think you're in the wrong century. 

Grasp also that Donald threw a hate rally in New York on Sunday and that it lasted hours with one attack after another on one group after another.  

And what the whores and liars pretend to be outraged by now?  That one line from Joe Biden?  They zero in on that to distract you from the points he was making.  Here's the transcript.


 
THE PRESIDENT:  (In progress) — and your friendship.  And thanks to everyone —
 
MS. TERESA:  So, President —
 
THE PRESIDENT:  — at Voto Latino.  (Inaudible.)
 
MS. TERESA:  So, President Biden, before we get started — before we get started, I just want to say, literally, three and a half years ago, we — when we were hunkered down, we were doing Zoom calls very similar to this, you came in and you talked to our community, and you said, “Maria Teresa, we are going to have the largest climate change legislation, the biggest infrastructure,” and you listed 20 things, and he’s like, “Will you be there with me?”  And I said, “Absolutely.”  And I said, “Do you think we’re going to get it done?”  You’re like, “Absolutely.”  And you know what?  You have. 
 
So, I’m incredibly grateful for all the work that you’ve done, and I would love for you to say a few words to — to the community based on your ability to deliver every single time.
 
THE PRESIDENT:  We got it done.  I didn’t get it done.  Every major thing we tried to do, from over a trillion dollars in infrastructure to work on communities that need help to health care to — I mean, a whole range of things, and we got it done.
 
As I said earlier, your partnership, your friendship, and your leadership has really made a big difference.  And thank everyone at Latino — you know — excuse me, thank everyone at your organization, Voto Latino, for all you do.  You know, you’ve always had my back, and I think it’s fair to say I’ve always had yours.
 
This is it.  This is it.  Seven days to Election Day, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.  And that’s not a — that’s not an exaggeration.  The choice couldn’t be clearer.
 
Presidential historians tell us the most important thing about a president is character — does he or she have character.  Kamala has character.  She’ll always stand up for Latinos, but not just Lati- — she’ll stand up for everyone who deserves to be stood up for, and that’s all Americans.
 
Donald Trump has no character.  He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community.  He’s failed businessman.  He’s — he only cares about the billionaire friends he has and accumulating wealth for those at the top.

You know, he says immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of our country.  Give me a break.  He wants to do away with the birthright citizenship.  Who the hell else said that in the last 100 years? 

And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”  Well, let me tell you something.  I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people.  The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.  It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.  
 
Now, Trump has di- — tried to divide the country based on race, ethnicity, anything that does harm, to take their eye off the ball about what the terrible things he’s done and will do.  But Kamala Harris has fought for all Americans and will be a president for all of America.
 
Look, folks, we’ve gotten a lot done together, as you pointed out.  Look, Maria Teresa, we did everything from the infrastructure bill to health care to making sure that veterans are taken care of.  I mean, across the board, we’ve done so much.  We’ve created over 16 million jobs.  More Latinos have jobs than ever before.
 
Look, a quarter of all — here’s the way I look at it.  A quarter of all the children in our schools today are Latino — are Latino, a quarter of them.  How could we possibly not invest everything we have in a quarter of our population that’s going to be our future?  It’s going to make a major, major, major, major piece of what this country looks like and what we think and what we believe.  So, these are going to have to be the doctors, the teachers, the scientists, and, yes, presidents.
 
You know, I know we’ve asked a lot of each other, but I’m talking to you about one more thing and asking you, as a favor, all of you listening, to vote.  Get out early and vote.  Do it early.
 
You know, I — I know the long waits on Election Day are all too common, especially in Latino communities.  You know, I cast my ballot yesterday.  I stood in line for 40, 45 minutes with all the people in Delaware, and I cast my vote yesterday in my home state.  I waited in line with a lot of other people. 
 
There was a woman ahead of me, an elderly woman, who was in her 90s in a wheelchair, and it was a heavy wheelchair and the person pushing it was having trouble, so I spent time with her.  She — she’s — she’s over 90 years old, and she’s breaking her neck to vote because she knows how important it is.
 
Today is National Vote Early Day.  Let me say it again.  Today is National Vote Early Day.  Remind folks to vote early, to return mail-in ballots. 
 
Vote for access to a good education so everyone has an opportunity.  Vote to eliminate not — what Trump wants — he wants to eliminate the Department of Education and no early education.  We’re fighting like hell, and we’re fighting like hell for early education because, you know, it increases exponentially the prospect of success for our sons and our daughters. 
 
Vote to give our daughters the same opportunities we give our sons, instead of taking away their rights. 
 
Vote to make sure we maintain a significant health care that would provide for our parents and our families and basic health care for all Americans.  Trump is trying like hell to get rid of it.  More people have health care now than ever before.  He says he’s going to — wants to get rid of it.
 
Vote to continue the progress we made on job growth — the growth in jobs for everyone, including Latinos — a significant job growth.
 
Vote for comprehensive imm- — immigration reform instead of mass deportation.  What’s he talkin- — think about it. 
 
You know, I travel the world because of my role as president and my knowledge of foreign policy.  I get inquiries from other heads of state, “Does Trump really mean it?  Are you really going to send out the police to gather up thousands and millions of people and deport them?”  What the hell is going on here?  Vote for comprehensive immigration reform instead of mass deportation. 
 
In short, vote to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.  He’s a true danger to not just Latinos but to all people, particularly those who are in a minority in this country. 
 
You know, we have to vote to elect Kamala as president, Tim Walz as vice president.  It’s (inaudible) — it’s never been more important.
 
We’ve known each other a long time, Maria Teresa — a long time.  And I want to tell you something I can say without equivocation.  Our democracy is at stake.  And to translate that into pure English — and that’s wh- — I should be able to speak Spanish, but I can’t.  We should be able to talk about what this means.
 
He wants to fundamentally change the way our Constitution works.  He wants to take away people’s rights.  He wants to concentrate power in the hands of a very few — people like him.
 
So, go to IWillVote.com and make your plan to vote early.  Make it today, because voting early (inaudible) now basically through election.  Make a plan to vote, please, please, please.  Your vote is critical.  A Latino vote is critical.  Let’s make it heard.
 
I want them to remember who you are and who we are.  We’re the United States of America.  And there’s nothing, nothing at all beyond our capacity when we do it together.
 
So, God bless you all.  And God bless you, Maria Teresa, for all you’ve been doing.  We have more to do, but we got to get it done. 
 
This el- — this election is the most consequential election we’ve ever voted in, no matter how old or how young you are — this election.
 
God bless you all.  And God protect our troops.
 
MS. TERESA:  Thank you so much, President Biden.  And I have to tell you, what you really — what you are saying is a clarion call.  It’s a multicultural democracy, and it’s us, as Americans first, that will save this country and our democracy.  And I’m so grateful for the time —
 
THE PRESIDENT:  The reason why we’re strong.
 
MS. TERESA:  — you’ve spent with us.  (Inaudible.)
 
THE PRESIDENT:  We’re the most diverse country, and that’s why we’re strong.  That is our strength.
 
MS. TERESA:  Right.  (Laughs.)
 
THE PRESIDENT:  (Inaudible) our weakness.  It’s our strength.
 
MS. TERESA:  No, I call it our superpower — our superpower.  And I always say, like, you don’t have to take my word for it.  The reason that you have disinformation around race is because the Russians and the Chinese recognize that racism is our Achilles heel, but it — they also recognize that it’s our multiculturalism that is our superpower and our strength.
 
THE PRESIDENT:  We bring all the best of every culture together.  We really do.  It’s not hyperbole.  That’s a fact.
 
MS. TERESA:  It’s true.
 
THE PRESIDENT:  Sometimes I think our folks (inaudible) don’t realize it, but it’s truly a fact.  Anyway.
 
God love you for what you’re doing.  Keep it going, kid.
 
MS. TERESA:  I’m super grateful.
 
THE PRESIDENT:  Keep it going.
 
MS. TERESA:  Yeah, we’re not done yet.  We’re just getting started.
 
THE PRESIDENT:  We’re not even close to done.
 
MS. TERESA:  (Inaudible.)  (Laughs.)
 
THE PRESIDENT:  And I may be — I may be leaving office on January 20th, but I’m not leaving. 
 
MS. TERESA:  I — I —
 
THE PRESIDENT:  I’m not leaving.
 
MS. TERESA:  You promise?
 
THE PRESIDENT:  I’m leaving office, but I’m not leaving this fight. 
 
MS. TERESA:  (Laughs.)
 
THE PRESIDENT:  God love you.  Thank you so much.
 
MS. TERESA:  I’m going to remind you of that.  Much love.  Say hello to Jill.
 
THE PRESIDENT:  Well, you don’t (inaudible) — I’m going to ask for your help and let me join you.
 
MS. TERESA:  I will always be there, President. 


There is nothing wrong in any of Joe's remarks above.  But whores gotta whore and trash has to stink -- what else would Turley do?



Elaine's covering Donald Trump and Elon Musk's plan to wreck the American economy (see her "Trump's plan is to wreck the economy" and "Elon Body Odor").  You may have missed it because what should be front page news -- Donald Trump plans to wreck the economy to do away with our safety net programs such as Medicare and Elon Musk revealed that publicly -- is really not being covered.  That's why Jonathan Turley and other paid whores are serving up nonsense, to try to distract people so they don't know what Donald's really plotting.  As Elaine pointed out:

Don't you think Donald Trump should have been sharing this plan -- and doing so a long, long time ago.  How does FOX "NEWS" plan on explaining this proposal to their audience?  They betrayed their audience with those puff pieces on Trump and the FOX "NEWS" audience is the 'news' network with the highest number of senior viewers.   Imagine if this had been presented accurately?  "Are you over 65?  Well a vote for Trump could mean the end of Medicare for you so, answer us this, are you ready to go back to working eight hour days five days a week?  It's that or going homeless, seniors."




Wall Street economists are warning that Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs would add more to inflation than Harris’s proposals. 

As reported here at MarketWatch just one day ago, Musk’s brutal budget-cutting math is way more severe than most Americans, including most MAGA fans, realize. Two-thirds of the entire federal budget already goes toward Social Security, Medicare, debt interest, defense, and veterans (Note that does NOT include Medicaid).

Everything else (including Medicaid) adds up to $2.35 trillion this year. So Musk’s promise to cut “at least $2 trillion” from the federal budget either means he is going to abolish pretty much everything else — Medicaid, Transportation, Justice, Homeland Security, Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and so on — or he is going to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Or as Musk put it, when it comes to cutting federal programs there will be “no special cases… no exceptions.”


For the record, this plan would match cuts implemented by Argentina's far-right, pro-Trump president, Javier Milei, who has developed a cult following in today’s GOP. And if that’s Musk’s model, Americans have a lot to fear. 

Those policies have helped skyrocket Argentina’s poverty rate to over 50% in the first six months of Milei's presidency. The hardship Musk is predicting sounds quite hard, indeed. Between Trump repeatedly praising the Gilded Age and Musk priming everyday Americans for "hardship" if MAGA retakes the White House, it seems quite obvious that a vote for Trump is a vote for extreme wealth inequality and all the suffering that comes with it.


And instead of that reality?  We've got racist whores like Amy Goodman who did yet another segment on Kamala Harris attacking Kamala and did so by refusing to book -- not in August, not in September and not in October -- a single guest who supports Kamala Harris.  Not one.  Grasp that.  Grasp that everyone she brings on attacks Kamala.  Grasp that to support Kamala and her campaign -- something millions of us are doing in this country -- is to be ignored by Amy Goodman who claims to do journalism.  


 Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Donald and His Bro Squad" went up last night.  The following sites updated:





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