US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

see like this is the shit that needs to be pointed at. Roger Stone is one of Trump's main righthand men and he's offering to impregnate a mentally imbalanced Nazi lady who for some reason has been palling around Trump as of late to the point where people are thinking they're having an affair. you'd never want people like that to make a serious decision for you and Trump is promising to staff the federal government with nothing BUT people like that. you vote for these freaks then you're one of them.

I lament the death of the editor

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-trump-started-the-fire-and-everyone-knows-it

The city has been rocked over the last week by repeated bomb threats, school evacuations, the shuddering of one local college which has moved to remote study.

There’s precedent for this. On September 5th, 1975 a Charles Manson follower named Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme” tried to shoot President Ford. She pointed a gun directly at Ford’s face when he was out in public before a Secret Service agent grabbed her arm and disarmed her. Two weeks later on September 22nd, 1975 Sara Jane Moore, an accountant and a divorced mother of four fired a .38 pistol at Trump but missed. Moore was on the radar of San Francisco police as a possible threat to Ford and had a history of psychiatric issues.

we need more time traveling assassins

Things have gone so far off the rails lately, RFK’s adventures with dead bears and whales already feel like a minor footnote.

overheard a guy at the gas station talking about the attempt he said it was actually the third cause there was a secret one by iran that theyre not telling you about

that one was successful

I'm slowly getting used to it, DJP. I can tell because I don't flinch as hard as I once did.

I thought they actually were planning to lol

That moron Yashir Ali was speculating that it was an Iranian special forces attempt in the brief period yesterday when no one knew who the guy was.

editor-in-chief of the National Review accidentally says the N-word live

Having a hard time coming to any conclusion besides the obvious one about what Rich Lowry catches himself blurting out here pic.twitter.com/PFHQMCS8UP

— Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) September 16, 2024

ehh

i'm more fascinated by the contortions they're going through to justify the lies about Haitians migrants, some real Kenobi "from a certain point of view" shit.

if that's what they're talking about, he lost me with geese stuff.

Now the lie is "Vance is just the conduit for concerned citizens."

it's really ugly, clearly it was Nazi-type propaganda aimed at making an entire race look like inhuman savages but none of these guys can just straight up say "yeah it's made up" even though we all know it was, instead they need to flail around on TV figuring out exactly how far they need to crank the racism dial to take the heat off without offending Trump

Of course the media is obsessed with whether Vance made up the dogs and cats stories rather talking about how insane it is for a US Senator to be attacking a group of his constituents based on their ethnicity.

Vance keeps saying he's "responding to constituents," any communication from constituents would be public record, someone should make him produce the emails or letters or whatever. (Except he probably can't because they don't exist.)

not everything we claim is true, but it could be true, and that's what matters

he has been doing the job of elected official with a constituency for ONE YEAR and already he is spewing racist lies about...his constituents

Gov DeWine has been pretty forceful in his defense of the Springfield Haitians, to his credit

Dana Bash is getting credit for challenging Vance but I wish she had done more. There’s an interview in The NY Times and a filmed one elsewhere with a Springfield factory head praising his Haitian workers . Bash never asked Vance about those constituents. She let him say unsubstantiated lies about health issues also without challenging him really on that . She also never spelled out the benefits of immigrants who are working there and are paying taxes , and made him address those positives.

Maybe Dana Bash is mediocre

It's funny how so much of cable news "journalists"' job involves knowing what questions not to ask.

Re assassination attempts

that one was successful

If you play Vance's convention speech backwards, it says "the walrus was Don."

a filmed one elsewhere with a Springfield factory head praising his Haitian workers

I heard the audio for this, and the factory owner dude said something like "I have twenty Haitian employees and I wish I had twenty more.. they never call in sick" or something like that

Yeah, factory owner very much looks at things from a....factory owner perspective. But any positive pushback is important at this time I guess.

so gross

This documentary is gonna be on Max starting tomorrow, and I just learned about it today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYiPxpSBhRo

"Gov DeWine has been pretty forceful in his defense of the Springfield Haitians, to his credit"

he sounded like an ass on television today. he is parroting the new Republican line which is, if someone asks you about Trump and Vance lying about immigrants you say: "I'll tell you what IS outrageous, the situation at the border, blah, blah." instead of condemning their dangerous lying asses. so fuck that guy.

all the Republicans have been told what to say. their other favorite is "well, both sides are being divisive and i'm not going to point fingers at one side...blah, blah."

these people are the pits.

otm

yes

"Vance is just the conduit for concerned citizens."

Well, being "just a conduit" implies that the rest of the time he's empty.

Yet he's entirely full of shit

“We are sending our thoughts and prayers…(sic)”

Funny how VD Jance doesn't feel compelled to serve as the conduit for pro-immigrant residents, let alone or residents who are immigrants.

Oh wait, that is what a person with a soul would do, instead of an irredeemable fuckstick.

Springfield police have said they’re a no credible evidence. Why do Trump and Vance not back the blue? If Vance has constituents with proof, bring them forward. He doesn’t. (Side note, some of his supporters are probably mentally ill.) Just like the “election fraud” proof, they’ll just keep doubling down on the lies.

outside of that obvious case in Canton OH by the crazy non-Haitian lady, wouldn't there be some kind of paper trail for the cat-eating? Police reports? Actual documented citizen complaints?
He says he's just repeating what his constituents are telling him, back it up with actual evidence you bearded dolt or stfu

What Dan said^^^^

Side note, some of his supporters are probably mentally ill

these are the ones that actually want to eat the cats and don't feel like haitian immigrants have earned that right

good for them

pic.twitter.com/OmQ96pyQEJ

— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) September 16, 2024

Good Pennsylvania poll for Harris. Who knows what anything means right now, but happier to see good polls than bad ones.

Suffolk/USA TODAY PA Likely Voter Polls
Statewide and 2 BW Counties:

Statewide - KH 49, DT 46, Others 1, Und 5
Erie - KH 48, DT 44, Others 3, Und 5
Northampton - KH 50, DT 45, Others 1, Und 4

All 3 polls show huge gender advantage for KH

KH winning Northampton Hispanics 60-25

— David Paleologos (@davidpaleologos) September 16, 2024

If you're wondering what "huge gender advantage means," it's this:

Harris leads female voters in Pennsylvania 56%-39%, while Trump tops male voters by a slimmer 53%-41%.

"Trump tops male voters"

I hear it’s strictly blowjobs these days though

starting to get sort of an ominous feeling here with Vance directly blaming Kamala for the assassination attempt and Trump planning to visit Springfield. this campaign feels really desperate right now and Trump's sanity is hanging on by a thread, think we're in for a wild 7 weeks

I wonder if he's going to keep golfing.

still pretty fuckin weird to me that 39% of pennsylvania women would vote for trump

they’re white supremacists