#trump tfg

[thylacine1]

#Felon47 surrounds himself with ass-kissers who are hoping to get a piece of his action, which consists of sex, drugs, and a fruitless search for increased wealth, because he is a terrible businessman. But they're like people who splurge on lottery tickets: this will be their day, right? The ones who support him are the billionaires who know that they can get richer, but not through his policies, because he doesn't have any. They'll get rich because under his regime no laws will apply to them. They can ignore unions, lengthen hours and reduce pay, ignore environmental regulations, ignore health and safety regulations, ignore product safety, and ignore any attempts to rectify things. Project 2025 will be the de facto government, and anyone, at any level, who opposes them, will be imprisoned. It will be rule by decree, with no courts or lawyers. The bloated orange shitpile will become a mere figurehead within days of inauguration, spending the rest of his hopefully short life on golf courses, in between bouts of drug fueled orgies with underage women. Those at the top will be allowed to get away with the things that will be denied to those who aren't in the ruling class. Project 2025 wants to outlaw pornography, and regulate sexual activity, and drug use, but it won't apply to the elites. Indeed, they will indulge in even more debauchery of every kind, because they will be above the law. Slavery will replace labour, enforced by police who are required to swear loyalty to the rulers, the new royalty. The military will no longer obey the constitution, because there won't be one. Generals and admirals who refuse to take an oath to the president will be immediately fired and replaced by sycophants. America's best, and perhaps only hope, is a military coup, and the utter destruction of the fascist elements that have bought their way into power.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Russia, Russia, Russia. It’s always Russia!”

October 9, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

New disclosures about Trump's ties to Putin

Bob Woodward (of WaPo Watergate fame) has written a new book that will be released this week. It contains shocking new revelations about Trump's private dealings with Vladimir Putin that again raise serious questions about whether Trump has been compromised by Russian intelligence. See NYTimes, Book Revives Questions About Trump’s Ties to Putin. (Accessible to all.)

The NYTimes identifies two areas of grave concern: Trump's ongoing private conversations with Putin during the 2024 presidential campaign and a secret transfer of a prototype Covid test machines during the early days of the pandemic. Per the Times,

The book by the journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that the former president and current Republican nominee had spoken with Mr. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office in 2021, even as Mr. Trump was pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders. The book also said that Mr. Trump, while still in office in 2020, sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Mr. Putin early in the pandemic for his personal use.

Woodward’s report is sourced to a single Trump aid (not identified by Woodward). But the allegations are subject to confirmation by witnesses and government records. Given the limited backup for Woodward’s claims, we should proceed with caution until there is further confirmation.

But proceeding with caution does not mean that we should act naively. Trump has a long history of inexplicable favoritism toward and affection for Putin that is consistent with the actions described by Bob Woodward in his new book.

If the allegations are true, both suggest anew that Trump is subject to blackmail by Putin. As described by Woodward, when Putin received the Covid test machines, Putin told Trump,

I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you [Trump], not me [Putin].

Putin was telegraphing to Trump that disclosure of the transfer of Covid test machines would be damaging to Trump—and keeping that transaction secret would prevent that damage. That situation is a setup for blackmail.

So, too, is the fact of Trump's continued contacts with Putin up to and including the timeframe of the 2024 presidential campaign and Russia’s war against Ukraine. If Joe Biden were in frequent, “off the record” conversations with President Xi of China, Republicans would demand impeachment and removal from office.

Trump's continued “off the record” contacts with Vladimir Putin are presumptively nefarious—especially at a time when US has seized 30 Russian websites that were attempting to influence the US presidential election in favor of Trump.

In short, it stinks to high heaven and should be a cause for a five-alarm response from any American concerned about US national security. The sad truth is that neither GOP elected officials nor Trump's base will care that he may be secretly and directly coordinating with Putin to interfere in the 2024 election.

Let’s hope that the US intelligence community is aware of the contacts and any nefarious efforts by Trump and Putin. Let’s also hope that the media will not yawn in the face of a story that would bring down any other presidential candidate.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

May 30, 2024

Destial squad, you know what to do.

[skarletkardinal]

Donald Trump being found guilty on all four of his 34 felony counts in the hush money trial is awesome news.

Get fucked, Orange Crush-flavored ass buffoon. 🖕🖕🖕 Go eat a bowl of diarrhea soup. Mix some urine and menstrual blood into it as well for an extra nasty concoction.

[dicapiito]

Dumbfuck leftists: Joe Biden is a meanie! >:(

Meanwhile Trump and the GOP plan:

[porterdavis]

Quote of the Day

Anyone who thinks it is impossible for Trump to return to power hasn’t been paying attention. I’m betting that he is very pleased with the landscape right now. He is the worst president in American history, twice impeached, utterly disgraced, the father of an insurrection — and he is still winning.

Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

[rickladd]

Fitting

Did you know Donald John Trump is an impressionist? Here he is, captured by a courtroom artist, doing his impression of Sleepy Joe.

[wetterschneider]

Collect them all, a steal at $99 or 3 monthly payments of $33. Limited to 45,000 portraits, hurry, before time runs out. Tech deets - first of all I hope IG doesn't flag this as an advertisement but you know it's going to. Secondly - this series is NOT Midjourney, it's Stable Diffusion. MJ has banned the terms "Cronenberg" and "Flesh Monster" and trust me, it's impossible to capture the true spirit of this individual without relying on those prompts. If you scrub back through my timeline/feed, you should be able to pick out which images are made with which engine. Thirdly - I'm a Wacky Packages, Mad Magazine, gross-out humor baby so this kind of stuff runs in my blood.

[thylacine1]

Just a heads up: If you are sending extremely graphic pornography through the mail, without a return address on the envelope, do not make the mistake of addressing it to:

The Heritage Foundation

214 Massachusetts Ave NE

Washington D.C. 20002-4999

They really don't want that since they've pledged to make porn illegal. So don't send it there, especially if you use a return address that would be that of a Trump supporter. Okay?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Why can't other newspapers do this?

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Don't give permission to others to demotivate or mislead you!

September 18, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

Remain steadfast, dear readers! I received a dozen(-ish) emails today expressing worry about a report from a respected polling organization claiming that “the presidential race is tightening.” I also received a similar number of emails touting reports from a respected polling firm showing VP Harris expanding her post-debate lead to a number that is “larger than the margin of error.”

Here’s the deal: It doesn’t matter which of the above polling narratives is true. Indeed, both could be correct or both could be wrong. Regardless of what the polls show—good or bad—you should not change anything that you plan to do in the next 50 days. We are stuck in a noisy, volatile information environment that is being actively manipulated by the MAGA disinformation machine and Russia. See Axios, Russia amplifies disinformation campaigns against Harris-Walz campaign, Microsoft warns.

Per Axios,

Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign, according to a Microsoft report released Tuesday.

[And] the Justice Department exposed a $10 million scheme earlier this month in which employees of a Russian state media network infiltrated a U.S. company to spread Russian propaganda.

Let’s be clear: You are the target of the disinformation being peddled by the GOP and Russia. Their goal is to demotivate you. Do not give them permission to do so!

So, if you have mistakenly over-invested in the polls, knock it off! (And I mean that in the nicest way possible!) It is completely understandable and perfectly human to seek reassurance from polls. No one wants a repeat of the nasty surprise in 2016. But the bad guys have figured out our need for positive feedback and weaponized it against us. They are con men, and we are the mark.

Instead of looking to the media for reassurance, believe your own eyes and ears. You can see the surge in enthusiasm, you know that the number of volunteers at your grassroots organization has increased, and you have been surprised by people in your life who are planning to vote for the first time or will vote for Kamala Harris after voting for Trump in 2016 or 2020. That information is anecdotal, but it is not filtered or manipulated to mislead you.

Of course, we shouldn’t delude ourselves. We must recognize that remaining in touch with real news is important. The question is, how do we stay current without subjecting ourselves to manipulation?

I attended a Swing Left San Gabriel Valley meeting over the weekend where Jessica Craven and I spoke to the grassroots volunteers. One audience member asked which news sources we trust. Our combined answers included the following:

Heather Cox Richardson | Substack

Jessica Craven | Substack

Simon Rosenberg | Substack

Jay Kuo | Substack

Lucian K. Truscott IV | Substack

Joyce Vance | Substack

Judd Legum | Substack

Lawrence O’Donnell | MSNBC

Josh Marshall | Talking Points Memo

The Guardian (for general news but especially commentary by Rebecca Solnit)

Of course, I read dozens of other sources to prepare this newsletter, but the above are my “go to” sources for fair reporting on the news. On legal matters, I rely on Laurence Tribe, Mark Joseph Stern, Ian Millhiser, and Dahlia Lithwick. I also rely on Aaron Rupar on Twitter (@atrupar) and his Substack, Public Notice, to provide real-time, unvarnished tracking of statements by Trump, which are often sane-washed by major media.

I use the above sources to give me an objective view of the news—which I then employ as a lens when I read other sources. If your favorite source is not listed above, please do not take offense! If you have identified a source you trust, reward them with your support.

It is going to be seven long weeks until Election Day. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated by the news. Instead, make the news by motivating new and existing voters to show up on Election Day. The antidote to anxiety is action. And there is plenty to do!

Kamala Harris’s measured interview with National Association of Black Journalists

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sat for interviews on Tuesday. The interviews were, as expected, windows into competing versions of America under the respective candidates. Kamala Harris’s responses were measured, thoughtful, and linear. The media is still trying to decipher what Trump said or meant on several topics.

But . . . Kamala Harris received relatively little notice in the media for her interview, despite the drumbeat of demands that she sit for more interviews. The New York Times complained that her answers “often echoed her stump speech”—as if consistency and discipline in messaging is a bad thing. The Times instead gave top billing (in two articles) to Trump’s unpredictable and baseless promises in his appearance in Flint Michigan. Michael Gold of the NYTimes wrote,

[Trump] made grand promises to restore auto-making jobs to the state, the heart of the American auto industry, as he gave long-winded, often meandering responses to only a few questions.

“Meandering” is an understatement. “Incomprehensible” and “bonkers” are more descriptive.

The complete video of Kamala Harris’s interview is here: PBS Newshour, Harris participates in National Association of Black Journalists event in Philadelphia. If you don’t have time to watch the entire 45-minute interview, I recommend watching two answers to get a flavor of how well the VP conducted hereself.

In this segment, she responds to the efforts to incite racial hatred toward Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. See Springfield: It's a crying shame . . . This answer is notable for many reasons, including the fact that Kamala Harris interrupted the interviewer, stopped herself, apologized, and invited the interviewer to finish her question.

In a second segment worth watching, she answers a more challenging question (in tone and substance) about the war in Gaza and the path to peace: Question on Gaza War.

Trump, on the other hand, gave a series of non-sensical answers in his town hall in Flint, Michigan, any one of which would have resulted in howls from the major media if delivered by Kamala Harris. For example,

When asked about the biggest threat to auto manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Trump responded that the biggest threat to auto jobs was “nuclear weapons.” On the one hand, Trump isn’t wrong; on the other hand, “nuclear weapons” are the biggest threat to everything on earth, so the answer was not specific to the question about auto manufacturing jobs.

When asked how he would decrease the cost of groceries, Trump descended into a rant about windmills. He got there by promising that he would reduce the price of groceries by cutting energy costs by 50% in the first year of his term as president. Of course, presidents have virtually no power to regulate energy prices, which are set by global market conditions. That is the type of answer that the NYTimes described as “meandering” when the correct description was “bonkers.”

Trump said that global warming would be good for Michigan because people in that state would have “more beachfront property.” Trump meant his comment to be a joke, showing that he has no conception of how global warming threatens the United States.

Trump said that the US could become energy self-sufficient because the US has “Bagram” in Alaska, which he claimed “is bigger than Saudi Arabia.” Bagram was a US military airbase in Afghanistan and has no connection to Alaska or oil production.

Most of Trump's other remarks were impossible to follow and often ended by discussing a subject far afield from the question. It was a performance indicative ongoing mental decline. No wonder he is afraid to debate Kamala Harris a second time!

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

[thesocklesswonder]

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In the first panel, a fuzzy, wolf-like anthropomorphic character with large eyes and a smiling mouth full of sharp teeth wearing a black business suit and white fedora asks, "So, what are we going to do?" In the second panel, there are three anthropomorphic characters wearing black suits. The first, on the left side, looks like a small insect with two bulging eyes on either side of its head. The second character, in the middle, is a bit larger and looks like a preying mantis with an inverted triangular head and eyes at both of the two top corners. The third, on the right and much larger, looks like a great white shark with many teeth protruding from a frowning mouth. They all have half-lidded expressions of resignation on their faces. They answer simultaneously, "Be prepared. Be professional. Convict Trump." In the third panel, the wolf man, eyes still large, but whose mouth has become a small scowl with two fangs jutting from the lower lip, asks, "What are we NOT going to do?" In the fourth panel, the anthropomorphic characters, with the same expressions of resignation, answer simultaneously, "Fuck this up." /.End ID]

[aunti-christ-ine]

Remember this one?

Courtesy @mmpadellan on Twitter.

Holds more importance now than ever.

[misfitwashere]

A ten minute read that may open your eyes.

[porterdavis]

Trump will definitely be using this in any campaign against DeSantis, but he'll have to have the diaper line under his jacket smoothed out.

[notitlemp3]

WHAT

I FELL ASLEEP AND TOOK A NAP A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND SLEPT THROUGH JAN 6TH. I FELL ASLEEP A COUPLE DAYS AGO AND MISSED TRUMP GETTING SHOT. I JUST TOOK MY FIRST AFTERNOON NAP IN A BIT AND NOW THIS?