Here's real tough guy Dave Bautista with an ad on Jimmy Kimmel Live, forever puncturing the flimsy "Trump's a tough guy" balloon (amusing but NSFW language):
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Here's real tough guy Dave Bautista with an ad on Jimmy Kimmel Live, forever puncturing the flimsy "Trump's a tough guy" balloon (amusing but NSFW language):
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Whether it's overturning an election or paying off porn stars, the felonious Malignant Loser never learns:
Former President Donald Trump this summer offered a financial incentive to adult film star Stormy Daniels if she agreed to keep quiet about Trump — including about the relationship that became the center of the hush money payments that ended up the subject of a New York criminal trial — ahead of this November’s election, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported on Wednesday.
Daniels delivered blockbuster testimony earlier this year about hush money payments she received from Trump ahead of the 2016 election, in which she was paid to remain silent about an affair between the two, a relationship he has denied. The jury convicted Trump of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the payments.
In a case separate from the hush money trial, Daniels was ordered to pay for Trump’s legal fees after she lost a defamation suit she filed against him. About two months after the hush money trial, Trump’s lawyer told Daniels’ representative that the former president would agree to a lower payment if she agreed not to make any disparaging comments about Trump. [snip]
Daniels’ lawyer declined the proposal, Maddow reported. Daniels’ lawyer told MSNBC that they ultimately settled on $627,500 but she did not agree to remain silent. [snip]
In May, Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money paid to Daniels. The historic conviction marked the first time a former president has been found guilty of a crime.
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen made payments to Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump then reimbursed Cohen for the payments, listing them as legal expenses on business records. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in the case next month. (our emphasis)
That Ms. Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) refused to take the new de facto hush money deal and remain silent about the Malignant Loser's affair with her while his third wife Melon Melanie Melania was pregnant speaks to the fact that she has more courage and more honor than all the "leaders" in the MAGAt Republican Party/cult combined. Who wants more of this for 4 years? Time to turn the page.
(Photo: Stephanie Clifford's MySpace.com)
VP Harris fires back on Trump-allied Fox --
Good for her. pic.twitter.com/B6fINkz15k
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 16, 2024
New in PN: Kamala stands tall on Fox News
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 17, 2024
"Baier's thirst for a gotcha made it tough to watch, but it underlined Harris's determination to reach swing voters — a striking contrast with Trump, who's less and less willing to talk to anyone but his cult." https://t.co/QJgx5CoxQ4
Fox prepared a warm bath for Trump and an ambush for @VP. She emerged stronger while both Trump and Fox revealed their profound weakness.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 16, 2024
When Trump is praising you, it isn’t journalism. pic.twitter.com/5n2DfY5img
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 17, 2024
There was nothing wrong with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and democracy: Trump --
Listen to this carefully: he says “we” when he’s talking about the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol, injured 140 police officer, and led to the deaths of five more.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) October 17, 2024
He’s the one who brought them to DC for his coup attempt.
pic.twitter.com/xLPf9fJxkk
Ask the family of the late Trump supporter, Officer Brian Sicknick, if they thought January 6 was "full of love." #TrumpIsUNFIT
— Lesley Abravanel 🪩 (@lesleyabravanel) October 17, 2024
"Psychotic, disqualifying" --
Psychotic, disqualifying. You can’t truly love the country and support this ticket https://t.co/QDSRQXMcPl
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) October 16, 2024
The Malignant Loser's medical records have to be bad --
The reason Trump won’t release his medical records is because they’re bad. If they were even slightly ok, he would be bragging about them 24/7.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 16, 2024
Australia comes through for Ukraine. Slava Ukraini! --
Ukraine Is Getting 49 More M-1 Abrams Tanks—From Australia @forbes https://t.co/4eFSjz8i2Q pic.twitter.com/7N2GZggRnI
— David Axe (@daxe) October 16, 2024
A real pet-friendly airline --
Dog going on a holiday trip.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/737P6hHlsN
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 16, 2024
Shriveled eunuch Senate Minority "Leader" Mitch McConnell (Coward-KY) shows what your typically unprincipled MAGAt Republican will do to put party over country. He's endorsed the Malignant Loser in 2024 despite having said these things in a new biography, "The Price of Power," by Michael Tackett, to be released on October 29 (our emphasis):
On the Malignant Loser's defeat in 2020 --
"[it] only underscores the good judgment of the American people. They’ve had just enough of the misrepresentations, the outright lies almost on a daily basis, and they fired him. And for a narcissist like him, that’s been really hard to take, and so his behavior since the election has been even worse, by far, than it was before, because he has no filter now at all.”
On the Malignant Loser withholding the coronavirus relief package --
“This despicable human being is sitting on this package of relief that the American people desperately need.”On the Malignant Loser's press conferences --
"[I]t’s not hard to look more knowledgeable than Donald Trump at a press conference.”
On the Malignant Loser following the party's losses in the 2018 mid- terms --
”[Trump] has every characteristic you would not want a president to have,” McConnell said in an oral history at the time, and was “not very smart, irascible, nasty.”
On the Malignant Loser's criticisms of him and the Malignant Loser's racist remarks about his wife --
“I can’t think of anybody I’d rather be criticized by than this sleazeball.”
Well, all we can say is that, in putting party over country by cowardly endorsing the person you've spoken about in those words, McConnell will go down in history as just as "despicable" and every bit as much of a "sleazeball" as the Malignant Loser, because you are who you vote for. In McConnell's case, as the book's title says, that's the price of power.
The depraved, pathological liar the Malignant Loser said yesterday that the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol was a "day of love." Appearing at a town hall on Univision, the sociopathic Malignant Loser downplayed the violent attack on the Capitol, in which over 140 police officers were injured, with two of them dying afterwards. One lie followed another, as NBC News reports:
"Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off the idea that his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, should cost him the backing of Republican voters after a former supporter confronted him at a televised town hall and said he would not cast a ballot for the former president because of his actions that day.
In his response at the Univision event, Trump also distanced himself from the attack on the Capitol while minimizing the damage done by a mob of his supporters.
'Nothing done wrong at all,' Trump said in a lengthy response after a Republican voter from Florida said he had lost his vote because of his responses to the riot and the Covid pandemic. [snip]
He then argued that the thousands of supporters who went to Washington for Jan. 6 were not there because of him, even though he tweeted on Dec. 19, 2020: 'Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild.'
'They didn't come because of me,' Trump said Wednesday. 'They came because of the election. They thought the election was a rigged election, and that's why they came.'
In 2020, and in the years since then, Trump has falsely claimed that the election was stolen. Many of those charged in the Jan. 6 riot have cited his election lies. [snip]
At the town hall, Trump also called Jan. 6, when rioters who delayed the electoral vote count for hours injured over 140 police officers, as "a day of love."
'There were no guns down there. We didn’t have guns. The others had guns, but we didn’t have guns. And when I say we, these are people that walked down — this was a tiny percentage of the overall which nobody sees and nobody, nobody shows. But that was a day of love,' he said." (our emphasis)
As he infamously lies about the 2020 election being stolen, the Malignant Loser wants everyone to disregard what their lying eyes saw, and believe him. He's under Federal indictment for his central role in orchestrating efforts to overturn the 2020 election, from directing the production of fake state electors, to urging State officials to "find" votes for him, to ultimately the MAGA mob action on January 6. He needs to be held accountable for that, and hopefully after the election, he will be.
(photo: Trump cultists breaking into Capitol. Reuters)
Just three items after a brief scan of this morning's news that demonstrate the cruelty of the Republican party/cult.
No family planning freedom for you!
Four months after the Supreme Court tossed out a high-profile challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone, and as abortion access is a major flashpoint in the presidential election, three conservative states are following through on a promise to bring the issue back to the forefront with a new lawsuit.
The states – Missouri, Kansas and Idaho – filed an amended suit in a federal court in Texas asking US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to rollback efforts the Food and Drug Administration has taken over the past eight years to ease access to the drug, such as allowing it to be dispensed through the mail.
The suit may thrust the issue of mifepristone access back on track for Supreme Court review in the next presidential administration, once again threatening the widespread availability of the drug even in states where abortion is legal and at a time when roughly half of states have imposed severe restrictions on in-clinic abortions.
“These dangerous drugs are now flooding states like Missouri and Idaho and sending women in these states to the emergency room,” the states argued in the new lawsuit.
The claim that mifepristone is unsafe has been widely refuted by mainstream medical organizations. Medication abortions account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US....
Three Republican attorneys general argued in a federal courtroom in North Dakota on Tuesday that a federal rule allowing some undocumented immigrants to receive subsidized health insurance should be stopped – or at the very least, delayed.
The attorneys general for Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota led the hearing on behalf of 19 states — including Nebraska — challenging the rule, which would allow undocumented immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to access health care plans under the Affordable Care Act.
The immigration program, also known as DACA, temporarily delays the deportation of people who immigrated to the United States without documentation when they were children.
Health benefits under the Affordable Care Act are limited to U.S. citizens, nationals or immigrants “lawfully present” in the country.
Previously, DACA recipients were not explicitly defined as meeting this definition in administrative regulations implementing the law.
The federal agency this year adopted a rule that clarifies, among other things, that “lawfully present” immigrants does include participants in DACA. The rule also extends the definition to include undocumented immigrants with certain employment authorization documents...
No school for you! Children need to work!
State governments across the US are taking steps to eliminate protections for minors as rates of child labor violations, injuries and chronic school absenteeism rise, according to a report released on Wednesday.
The report by Governing for Impact, the Economic Policy Institute, and Child Labor Coalition proposes actions the Biden-Harris administration can take in response to a recent surge in child labor violations around the country and a trend of some states passing legislation that rolls back state-level child labor protections.
Its authors also warn that moves to weaken child protections will probably escalate under a second Donald Trump presidency.
Injury rates among workers under the age of 18 nearly doubled from 2011 to 2020. All child labor violations almost increased by four times between 2015 and 2022, and hazard occupation violations more than doubled during the same period.
At the same time, legislators in more than 30 states have moved to weaken child labor protections since 2021, often citing claims of labor shortages and backed by industry groups in these pushes. The report noted these rollbacks at the state level have often either conflicted with federal law or sowed confusion among employers over which are applicable to them, leading to more child labor violations.
Project 2025, a conservative guide for a second Trump administration, which aligns closely with Trump’s policies and was authored and promoted by numerous former Trump officials and allies, advocates for rolling back child labor protections, the report cites... (our emphasis)
More of the same mindless punching- down of the kind expressed in "Wilhoit's law" -- "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
These extremists (let's be more specific -- fascists) want to turn the clock back over 100 years to a dystopian America where the weak and powerless are preyed upon and the powerful and wealthy rule without guardrails. That's all on the line next month, up and down the ballot.
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Rolling Stone has an article detailing the ongoing problems that the Malignant Loser's get-out-the vote operation is experiencing less than three weeks before the election. As we noted on October 7 and October 14, the Malignant Loser's decision to outsource his get-out-the vote effort to supportive political action committees like Turning Point, may be a fatal error, and the most significant player is none other than illegal immigrant, South African fascist and weirdo Elon Musk's America PAC. From the article:
"In recent weeks, several Republican operatives and other figures in the national party have bluntly and directly informed Trump they fear Musk’s organization is falling down on the job of mobilizing voters to cast their ballots for the Republican nominee.
According to two sources familiar with the situation and another person briefed on it, these close Trump allies have told him that they are worried that America PAC, an outside group that Musk created to boost turnout for Trump, is failing in critical battleground states that are likely to be won by razor-thin margins, with only weeks left to go before Election Day. Some partly blame, including when they’ve spoken to Trump, the group’s lead strategists, who are linked to the failed 2024 primary run of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis." (our emphasis)
Ah, Ron "Bootsie" DeSantis eventually gets his revenge, if only tangentially. The article continues:
“'We were upfront about our concerns,' says a GOP operative close to the former president and 2024 Republican nominee, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations with Trump. Rolling Stone was shown a screenshot of written communications further corroborating that these sentiments were conveyed to Trump himself.
This source adds that they relayed to Trump that they have been in touch 'constantly' with conservative activists and other top Republicans based in key swing states, and few of them have had any positive comments lately about the Musk-supported America PAC’s impact in their respective states. Some say they are seeing a relatively small GOTV presence on the ground, despite the Super PAC’s massive spending to boost Trump — $75 million since Joe Biden withdrew from the Democratic ticket in July." (our emphasis)
The good news is they've run out of time to recover and they've blown through a lot of the money provided by the South African fascist. But it will come to nothing if Dems get-out-the-vote efforts don't get voters to the polls, either through mail voting or in-person voting, and if we don't show up and vote.
(photo illustration: Getty)
Dementia Don wishes they could start playing music again --
Q: Should Google be broken up?
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 15, 2024
Trump: I just haven't gotten over something the Justice Department did yesterday where Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes… I haven't gotten over that…
Q: The question is about Google
Trump:… pic.twitter.com/zFDDcrF0Bk
Q: 40 million jobs rely on trade. It accounts for 27% of GDP. If you cut that off, it’s going to affect many Americans. Isn’t that something you have to acknowledge?
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 15, 2024
Trump: No
Q: You could be plunging America into the biggest trade war…
Trump: No pic.twitter.com/VKrsv26nKD
Trump belittles auto workers, saying they just assemble parts “out of a box” and says children could do their jobs: “We could have our child do it” pic.twitter.com/J3LPRyZnIy
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 15, 2024
Trump: You can get the prices down
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 16, 2024
Fox host: How? How would you do that? The inflation rate is already coming down
Trump: You make donuts. You have the stoves. You have the this. Everything has evolved pic.twitter.com/4utYdAHcyt
FAULKER: How can we help people afford bacon?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 16, 2024
TRUMP: There wouldn't have been a Ukraine and Russia. There wouldn't have been an October 7. pic.twitter.com/GQvCHraNqz
HANNITY: In one of his most heroic moments, Trump overcame senseless liberal water regulations to make his vehicle beautiful https://t.co/kdrKB2v25S pic.twitter.com/JW1lAaurQc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 16, 2024
Just say it! --
Harris: In this election, "you have two choices." One, "mine, that is about taking us forward."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 15, 2024
Charlamagne: "The other is about fascism. Why can't we just say it?"
Harris: "Yes, we can say that."
It's a cult --
I can't stop laughing at this! pic.twitter.com/uIealQfQaJ
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) October 16, 2024
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 16, 2024
Colin Allred reminds Texans who Cancun Ted Cruz is --
"When the lights went out in the energy capital of the world, [Cruz] went to Cancún. On J6, when a mob stormed the Capitol, he hid in a supply closet.
— Texas Democrats (@texasdemocrats) October 16, 2024
And when the toughest border bill in a generation was up for a vote, he took it down. " -- @ColinAllredTX #TXSenateDebate pic.twitter.com/suBWYh2s3S
Wins in battleground Georgia --
The Georgia State Election Board’s hand count rule has been enjoined by Fulton County Judge McBurney. Successfully blocked! #gapol #seb
— Rep. Saira Draper (@SairaForGeorgia) October 16, 2024
As early voting begins in Georgia state judge rules that county election boards must certify election results. This is big victory for democratic norms & loss for Trump-allied election deniers trying to subvert 2024 outcome https://t.co/YcdE5rslQM
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 15, 2024
What's that Musk-y smell? Illegal immigrant makes a donation --
Elon Musk donated $74,950,000 in Q3 to the America PAC primarily supporting Donald Trump and opposing Kamala Harris, per campaign-finance filing tonight:https://t.co/TlhrEIzZ76
— Greg Giroux (@greggiroux) October 16, 2024
Don't try mounting it on a wall! --
Incredible anamorphic art
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 16, 2024
📹by artist Patrik Prosko
pic.twitter.com/uhCvRovMEL
Coldplay is out with a new album, "Moon Music." Here in a live performance, accompanied by Elyanna, Little Sims, and Burna Boy at Croke Park, Dublin, of a song from that album, "WE PRAY". Enjoy.
The Malignant Loser's cult has a quaint image of their leader as a highly successful businessman, despite his six bankruptcies, convictions in New York on business fraud, and the fact that he inherited his wealth from his daddy. Selling gold high tops, non-fungible tokens with comic book images of him, and $100,000 watches have some of his rubes eager to buy their demi-god's goods. However, his latest scam "businesses, " DJT Media and his crypto coin venture are showing signs of his fatal touch:
The Malignant Loser's crypto coin scam fell well short when yesterday's token sale was marred by continual crashes of the internet site:
"Donald Trump’s new crypto project is off to a rough start.
World Liberty Financial, which aspires to be a sort of crypto bank, launched its token sale on Tuesday, a day after project co-founder Zachary Folkman said “well over 100,000 people” are on the whitelist to invest.
But WLF’s website suffered regular and lengthy outages for much of the morning and early afternoon, contributing to a limited number of sales. Only about 4,300 unique wallet addresses hold the token as of Tuesday afternoon, according to blockchain data tracked by Etherscan, representing roughly 4% of the total number of people who registered."
Similarly, his "media" company has been nosediving in value for many months, and yesterday was another bad day:
"Former President Donald Trump’s social media company suffered a sudden nosedive in the stock market Tuesday that briefly halted trading and left traders scratching their heads.
Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group was trading sharply higher during a volatile session at about $31 per share when it swiftly collapsed below $29 shortly after 2:40 p.m. ET on heavy trading volume.
Nasdaq paused trading for Trump Media at 2:42 p.m. ET for five minutes, a routine cooling-off period that exchanges are required to impose during times of heavy volatility.
When trading resumed, Trump Media initially bounced back before plunging below $27."
More and more people are seeing the Malignant Loser as a fading figure, despite his strength among the faithful cultists that will follow him into bankruptcy and worse. For his part, he's seeing his ventures failing and is freaking out, obsessed as he is with his wealth.
While future President Kamala Harris has been doing a very effective media blitz, future Vice President Tim Walz has bee on the campaign trail in battleground States. Here are some fresh clips of him on the campaign trail.
Talking about Dementia Don's cognitive issues and January 6:
Talking about jobs and manufacturing:
Talking about improving rural quality of life:
He's a salt- of- the- earth guy who really connects with people. What a great running mate and governing partner for future President Harris.
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Trump appears lost, confused, and frozen on stage as multiple songs play for 30+ minutes and the crowd pours out of the venue early pic.twitter.com/6r0TE2qCYM
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 15, 2024
A much easier way to do a town hall when you’re in cognitive decline- Trump decides to abandon taking questions and just play music. He sways uncomfortably, as his supporters file out. Notice how the host Kristi Noem talks to him like a toddler. pic.twitter.com/yZjJZQMvkZ
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) October 15, 2024
It’s time to wheel him into a fake Oval Office on the back nine of Trump National, tell him he won, hand him a Diet Coke, a “Noble Prize”, a pic of Ivanka and a Happy Meal, play a montage video of despots praising him, quietly close the door & walk away.pic.twitter.com/ChJzjJ8Ecx
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) October 15, 2024
"This is not normal behavior. This is not a competent, normal person. This is crazy, but there he is. "
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) October 15, 2024
— @Eugene_Robinson reacts to Trump's "bizarre" PA rally on Monday night, where he stood onstage swaying to songs like "YMCA" and "November Rain" for nearly 40 minutes pic.twitter.com/jd2cVVpCVN
That DJT rally last night was like actually being in the White House to see Nixon talking to the pictures on the wall.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 15, 2024
Something has gone very wrong with him https://t.co/59NSiAxN8R
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 15, 2024
The NYT says Trump was just doing an "improvisational departure," like John Coltrane or something, when he behaved like a complete madman on stage tonight pic.twitter.com/iZdiuJjSgy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 15, 2024
Note to MAGAts: Your senile leader says vote on January 5. Do it! --
MAGA, you heard the man. Hit those ballot boxes on *January 5th* and no sooner! https://t.co/hTw0h3sk5Z
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 14, 2024
Meanwhile the media ignores Gov. Walz's barnburner in Detroit --
My new piece: This Awesome Walz Speech Got Almost No Press Coverage. Coach revs up the Motor City
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 15, 2024
A must read: https://t.co/4Ql5K5XRsY
Trump militia thugs threatening FEMA workers in NC. Throw the thugs in jail NOW --
NOW: You can thank Trump!
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) October 14, 2024
Some FEMA operations paused in North Carolina after reports National Guard troops saw ‘armed militia’ threatening them - CNN https://t.co/0aeDFZ9EjZ
Elect the Malignant Loser and you'll get economic decline --
WSJ survey of economists:
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 14, 2024
"Most think inflation, interest rates and deficits would be higher under the policies Trump would pursue than under those proposed by Harris." https://t.co/XSuOole3GP
CA firefighters union endorse Harris, breaking with intimidated national union --
The California Professional Firefighters union just endorsed Vice President Harris — breaking with the national union (which endorsed no one) — citing Trump's threats to withhold wildfire aid from the state.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 15, 2024
"California's firefighters and residents alike can’t afford a President…
On-the-job emotional support pet --
— cats with jobs 🛠 (@CatWorkers) October 14, 2024