Thank you to Ann for "Are you watching Kamala's rally" which covers Elon Musk and his efforts to elude the court. Ann did a great job.
Guess what though?
I'm not in the mood to talk Elon tonight. I'm tired and I think we all are. This week, Joe Biden called racists "garbage." Not controversial. But the MAGA nuts tried to make it a big thing. They are trash.
C.I . refuted that garbage and did so with multiple arguments including citing singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith's "It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go."
Nancy died at 68 a few years ago (2021). Like a lot of Americans, I discovered her via PBS. She had a beautiful voice to sing with and she also had a great writing voice.
So tonight, I'm just going to note five of my favorite songs by Nanci.
1) "Once In A Very Blue Moon."
2) "There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)."
3) "You Made This Love A Teardrop."
4) "Across The Great Divide" with Emmylou Harris.
5) "More Than A Whisper."
So those are five of my favorite Nanci Griffith's songs that she wrote or co-wrote and one that she covered ("Across The Great Divide" was written by Kate Wolf).
Get some much needed rest and spend Sunday and Monday reaching out to friends you know who haven't voted yet and seeing if you can do anything to help -- like giving someone a ride so they can vote on Tuesday.
Kamala's the only sane choice. I am so glad she's running. We have a real chance at winning as a result and she has some great plans. Donald has nothing but hate and his wish to destroy.
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.
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.
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.”
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:
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.
The choice is simple: contrast the glorious freedom and decency of a Harris/Walz administration with the horror of Trump/Vance bankrupting the country, passing a national abortion ban and destroying America's global reputation. It's sunlight versus the ugliest tyranny
"Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
Yes,
the country is. But MAGA Garbage denies that reality. They want to
point to inflation -- which started under Trump -- and things like
that. The question also takes on a different answer when you factor in
what Trump has planned. ABC NEWS reports:
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has vaulted to the forefront of the presidential campaign as a top donor and impassioned speaker in support of former President Donald Trump.
Still, Musk has said in recent days that the candidate’s economic plans could cause financial pain, at least in the short term.
Are you better off enough, the question should be, that you can watch your finances be wrecked and destroyed?
To pursue their goals, Trump and Musk want to destroy the economy. They want to destroy Medicare. They want to tank it all.
Are you really comfortable voting for that?
You should be alarmed. Most sane people -- regardless of left or right -- are alarmed.
In
a column for the Bulwark, longtime conservative journalist Mona Charen
stated all the warning signs are there that a return of Donald Trump to the White House will come hand-in-hand with some of his billionaire supporters getting unprecedented access to the levers of power in Washington, D.C.
According
to Charen, the former president has gained overt support from
billionaire Elon Musk, who is campaigning for him, and covert support
from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who used his power as owner of the Washington Post to overrule an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
As she explained, a Trump win would usher in a golden age for oligarchs who placed their bets on Trump.
"This
is what a second Trump term would bring: fat cats getting theirs," she
argued. "Trump is the most corrupt figure ever to disgrace the White
House and has made no secret of his intention to reward friends and
punish enemies if he regains power. The would-be oligarchs recognize the
new game and are preparing to operate in a world where government
impartiality and above-board decision making are relegated to the
dustbin of history."
Mona Charen grasps the danger. She's no liberal -- flaming or otherwise. But she can see the very obvious danger.
A
slew of businesses across the U.S. say they're preparing to spike
prices should former President Donald Trump regain the White House in
2025, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Companies
that rely on foreign suppliers for baby products, auto parts and
clothing — to name just a few — say the only way to survive Trump's
promised tariffs on foreign imports will be to offload the cost on
consumers, according to the report.
They
knew this was part two. Part one was the tariffs and many, many people
-- economists and leftists who are economists and are not economists --
explained how tariffs worked. But the press only gave part one. Part
two was talking about the above. They did not do that. Now days before
voting ends, they finally get to that.
You
know who could have helped? Amy Goodman. If she could have taken time
out from attacking Kamala Harris, she could have reported on what
tariffs meant. Done an economic roundtable on the issue. But she was
too busy attacking Kamala daily.
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...
9:30 AM · Oct 30, 2024
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Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...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...
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.
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 Chicago The fat man in front of me Is calling black people trash to his children He's the only trash here I see And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood In the night when his children should sleep But, they slip to their window and they see him And 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.”
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.
