From ab9e0a9ef3d81b0b764adfa6ef7a5d8e311da014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Hightower <32745442+RalphHightower@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:30:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [](): +blogs, lint blogs, date, time, excerpts --- _posts/2024-09-09-Part1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md | 56 ++++----- _posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md | 5 +- ...9-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md | 8 +- _posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md | 12 +- _posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md | 18 ++- ...2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md | 4 +- .../2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md | 10 +- .../2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md | 46 +++---- _posts/2024-09-19-Part2TrumpIsDementiaing.md | 6 +- ...ereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md | 27 ++++ _posts/2024-09-26-Part3TrumpDementia.md | 4 +- _posts/2024-09-27-WTF_Trump_GibberingAbout.md | 14 +-- ...ereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md | 45 +++++++ _posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md | 51 ++++++++ ...10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md | 4 +- _posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md | 2 +- .../2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md | 6 +- ...6-HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md | 115 ++++++++++++++++++ _posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md | 2 +- .../2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md | 4 +- _posts/2024-10-08-ShitHereWeGoAgain.md | 2 +- ...2024-10-08-TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutin.md | 2 +- ...24-10-08-YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md | 5 +- ...BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md | 28 +++++ _posts/2024-10-09-InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md | 6 +- ...SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md | 2 +- ...zTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md | 79 ++++++++++++ _posts/2024-10-12-HurricaneDonald.md | 9 +- .../2024-10-12-PutinPart1TrumpPwnedByPutin.md | 31 +++++ ...-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md | 41 +++++++ ...-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md | 60 +++++++++ ...4-10-13-VladimirPutinPart2TrumpLoganAct.md | 29 +++++ 32 files changed, 614 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-) create mode 100644 _posts/2024-09-26-HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-02-HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-06-HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-09-BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-12-PutinPart1TrumpPwnedByPutin.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md create mode 100644 _posts/2024-10-13-VladimirPutinPart2TrumpLoganAct.md diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-09-Part1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md b/_posts/2024-09-09-Part1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md index ab14c0d2..d1a61f0d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-09-Part1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-09-Part1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md @@ -1,35 +1,33 @@ ---- -layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] -categories: [2024 presidential election] -date: 2024-09-09 04:30 PM -excerpt: 'The warning lights aren’t flashing because nobody covering him expects otherwise. Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing. – Mary Trump, psychologist, and niece of Trump -#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' -#description: -#permalink: -title: 'Bless His Heart – Part 1 Dementia: Trump Is Dementia-ing' ---- - - -## [Trump’s psychologist niece says he’s ‘dementing’ in wake of ‘gibberish’ answer on childcare question](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mary-childcare-dementia-b2609220.html) - +--- +layout: post +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] +categories: [2024 presidential election] +date: 2024-09-09 04:30 PM +excerpt: 'The warning lights aren’t flashing because nobody covering him expects otherwise. Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing. – Mary Trump, niece of Trump' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Trump Is Dementia-ing' +--- +## [Trump’s psychologist niece says he’s ‘dementing’ in wake of ‘gibberish’ answer on childcare question](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mary-childcare-dementia-b2609220.html) + Gustaf Kilander. Sun, September 8, 2024 at 7:49 PM EDT - -At the Economic Club of New York, Trump struggled when asked about making childcare affordable, Trump answered nonsensically: - -*“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down. You know, I was somebody — we had, Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka, was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue.* - -*"But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about — that, because look, child care is child care, couldn’t — you know, there’s something — you have to have it in this country. You have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers, compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to. But they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us. But they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have — I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.* - -*"Because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care. But those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just — that I just told you about. We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers will be taking in.* - -*"We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people. And then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about make America great again. We have to do it because right now, we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. Thank you.”* - + +At the Economic Club of New York, Trump struggled when asked about making childcare affordable, Trump answered nonsensically: + +*“Well, I would do that, and we’re sitting down. You know, I was somebody — we had, Senator Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka, was so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue.* + +*"But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about — that, because look, child care is child care, couldn’t — you know, there’s something — you have to have it in this country. You have to have it. But when you talk about those numbers, compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to. But they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us. But they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have — I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.* + +*"Because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care. But those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth, but growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just — that I just told you about. We’re going to be taking in trillions of dollars. And as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers will be taking in.* + +*"We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people. And then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re going to take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about make America great again. We have to do it because right now, we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. Thank you.”* + Mary Trump, acpsychologist and the niece of Donald Trump, has shared her analysis that the former president’s mental health is deteriorating after he struggled to answer a question on childcare. The psychologist argued that Trump is “dementing,” citing his appearance at the Economic Club of New York last week. She added that the answer was “gibberish” and the only thing that made any sense was the phrase “childcare is childcare.” She went on to slam the “corporate media” for not properly reporting on Trump’s answer, instead thinking that “they must translate Donald’s nonsensical ramblings into a version of the English language we can all understand.” Mary Trump argued that reporters were “imbuing” words with “meaning that is not there,” adding that it’s “deeply disturbing that somebody as unhinged and incoherent as Donald is allowed to run for the presidency in the first place.” The psychologist wrote that her uncle is **“demonstrably untethered from reality”** and that **“the warning lights aren’t flashing because nobody covering him expects otherwise. Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing.”** She said that Trump is **“frightened” and “desperate.”** Mary Trump argued that the former president is concerned that his very freedom relies on his ability to get back into the White House and make the pending federal cases against him go away. As she lambasted the media for its coverage of the ex-commander-in-chief, Mary Trump concluded: **“The American people deserve to know what we’re up against. We deserve to be told that there’s a maniac on the loose.”** On Saturday night, the former president vowed to jail anyone “involved in unscrupulous behavior” in connection to the election in November. “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again,” Donald Trump wrote. He added: “Please beware, that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.” -Trump has repeatedly threatened to use the presidency to enact revenge on those he believes have wronged him despite there being no evidence of the kind of fraud that he falsely insists lost him the 2020 election. - +Trump has repeatedly threatened to use the presidency to enact revenge on those he believes have wronged him despite there being no evidence of the kind of fraud that he falsely insists lost him the 2020 election. + It's a constant whining complaint of Trump, *"It's not fair! It's not fair!"* when Trump imagines a perceived wrong done against him. But it is okay when Trump does it. - + diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md b/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md index 781809f3..c1eb5344 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ title: 'Prosecutorial Logic versus Toddler Gibberish' --- ## [Election 2024: What we know about Harris' tactics from past debates / AP News](https://apnews.com/article/harris-debate-approach-trump-matchup-240d0978bd7d38d9757b5d314359b7d0) - -Updated 11:48 AM EDT, September 9, 2024
By BILL BARROW +
Updated 11:48 AM EDT, September 9, 2024
By BILL BARROW ATLANTA (AP) — From her earliest campaigns in California to her serving as President Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris has honed an aggressive but calibrated approach to debates. @@ -70,6 +69,6 @@ Castro noted that Trump is “a nasty and crafty stage presence” who makes pre “The best thing she can do,” Castro said, “is not get distracted by his antics.” -@RalphHightower: During Trump's third presidential race, his *"tossed salad of words"* have sounded more like gibberish. During his first run for president, he talked like a five year old, and that is disparaging to five year olds.
My mother taught high school English and she instilled the proper use of English and grammar. As such, I cannot listen to Donald Trump speak and mangle words and grammar. It is like listening to fingernails screech across a blackboard. +@RalphHightower: During Trump's third presidential race, his *"tossed salad of words"* have sounded more like gibberish. During his first run for president, he talked like a five year old, and that is disparaging to five year olds.
My mother taught high school English and she instilled the proper use of English and grammar. As such, I cannot listen to Donald Trump speak and mangle words and grammar. It is like listening to fingernails screech across a blackboard. diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md b/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md index c7958b22..aa29bd15 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md @@ -9,19 +9,17 @@ description: 'Assessment of the Debate' #permalink: title: 'Watching the Debate' --- - - ## Watching the Debate — Differences in Facial Expressions -The 'Don'[^11] is displaying the same facial expression that he displayed in his booking photo in New York City, and Atlanta. It was also that scowl sitting at the defense table during his New York false business records that were really bribery payments to porn star, Stormy Daniels. +The 'Don'[^11] is displaying the same facial expression that he displayed in his booking photo in New York City, and Atlanta. It was also that scowl sitting at the defense table during his New York false business records that were really bribery payments to porn star, Stormy Daniels. Kamala is using facial expressions that displays astonishment, disapproval of Trump's lies and *"facts"*. On the question directed to Trump about his 2020 election loss, if I were Kamala, I would have looked directly at the camera and ask, "I want to ask America a question. Do you really think that seven million citizens would have conspired to commit voter fraud and risk a felony conviction and a jail sentence? Personally, I don't know seven million people." -Typical Trump. More lies. Moderators keep bringing up actual truth and Trump denies that it ever happened. +Typical Trump. More lies. Moderators keep bringing up actual truth and Trump denies that it ever happened. -January 6, 2021, is a **block mark** in American history. Trump glorifies violence. +January 6, 2021, is a **block mark** in American history. Trump glorifies violence. 1. September 11, 2001. 2. Bombing of FBI building in Oklahoma City. April 19, 1995. diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md b/_posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md index d7974a50..7e7db926 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ layout: post tags: [terrorism, alQaeda] categories: [September 11 2001 terrorist attacks] -date: 2024-09-11 13:14:15 +ate: 2024-09-11 13:14:15 excerpt: 'When I saw the second plane intentionally crash into the second tower, I thought al-Qaeda' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: @@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ excerpt: 'When I saw the second plane intentionally crash into the second tower, title: '9/11/2001 Remembered' --- -I remember the day well. I was listening to the radio when I heard the DJ announce that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Centers; initially, they thought that it was a small airplane. I turned on the TV to watch the second passenger jet purposefully fly into the second World Trade Center. I said to myself, "al-Qaeda." This wasn’t the first time that they attacked America. +I remember the day well. I was listening to the radio when I heard the DJ announce that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Centers; initially, they thought that it was a small airplane. I turned on the TV to watch the second passenger jet purposefully fly into the second World Trade Center. I said to myself, "al-Qaeda." This wasn’t the first time that they attacked America. The news media websites were straining from the requests. They had to ditch the graphics and display updates simply as text. I got more information from [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters](https://slashdot.org/). -That night, I was moved by the unity of US Representatives and Senators united on the Capitol steps. It has been and long time since Democrats and Republicans were united. - +That night, I was moved by the unity of US Representatives and Senators united on the Capitol steps. It has been and long time since Democrats and Republicans were united. + - February 26, 1993. Van bomb in World Trade Center parking garage, North Tower. Six people killed. - August 7, 1998. Twin US Embassy bombings in East Africa. 224 killed. -- October 12, 2000. USS Cole attacked. 17 sailors killed[^11]:. 37 injured. -- September 11, 2001. 2,977 deaths[^11]. Suicide bombers ijacked passenger jets; flew into the World Trade Centers and destroyed. Pentagon attacked. Passengers overcame the hijackers and prevented another major destruction. +- October 12, 2000. USS Cole attacked. 17 sailors killed[^11]:. 37 injured. +- September 11, 2001. 2,977 deaths[^11]. Suicide bombers ijacked passenger jets; flew into the World Trade Centers and destroyed. Pentagon attacked. Passengers overcame the hijackers and prevented another major destruction. [^11]: I ain’t counting the deaths of the al-Qaeda terrorists. diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md index 8260c659..2e1191c8 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md @@ -11,24 +11,24 @@ title: 'Donald Trump is a Fucking Idiot' --- -## Reason for Starting a Blog +## Reason for Starting a Blog I initially started out putting my opinions of Trump on this page, [Opinions/Donald Trump Is a Fucking Idiot / Ralph Hightower](https://ralphhightower.github.io/RalphHightower/Opinions/DonaldTrumpIsAFuckingIdiot.html). -But it has become too unwieldy to keep it updated, so I switched to the blogging format. +But it has become too unwieldy to keep it updated, so I switched to the blogging format. -I was an independent voter, prior to Trump. I thought that it was a publicity stunt when he announced his run for president. There was no way in hell that I'd vote for Trump. I didn't think that Trump had a snowballs chance in hell of winning. But watching **The Apprentice: White House** unfold, and watching the sycophants and acolytes of the Trump Party cower in fear of Trump, I'm a Democrat straight party voter until the Trump Party dies and sanity returns returns to the Republican Party. +I was an independent voter, prior to Trump. I thought that it was a publicity stunt when he announced his run for president. There was no way in hell that I'd vote for Trump. I didn't think that Trump had a snowballs chance in hell of winning. But watching **The Apprentice: White House** unfold, and watching the sycophants and acolytes of the Trump Party cower in fear of Trump, I'm a Democrat straight party voter until the Trump Party dies and sanity returns returns to the Republican Party. Both political parties fucked up in 2016! - The Democrats chose Hillary because it was *"her turn"*. - Whereas the Republicans chose the worst of the worst. The Republican Party died in 2016. It is now the Trump Party, and also his legal defense fund for business, personal, and also government legal problems. -The Republican Party died in July 2016, when the convention chose the most temperamental, volatile, unfit, and unqualified candidate among the *"Dirty Two Dozen"*. It is now known as the Trump Party. +The Republican Party died in July 2016, when the convention chose the most temperamental, volatile, unfit, and unqualified candidate among the *"Dirty Two Dozen"*. It is now known as the Trump Party. Characteristics of Trump: -1. Belligerent +1. Belligerent 2. Boastful 3. Bully 4. Charlatan @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Characteristics of Trump: 9. Crybaby[^112] 10. Deceitful 11. Dictator -12. Draft Dodger +12. Draft Dodger 13. Egotistical 14. Felon 15. Fraud @@ -101,12 +101,8 @@ A true leader recognizes and praises their team for their successes and accepts As can be seen in the [Presidential Rankings Survey - Historians Rank the Top 10 Presidents / C-SPAN Survey on Presidents 2021](https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall), section 17 of this page, Trump places dead last among modern day president's. - - Trump may have been a breath of fresh air, but nothing has changed about Trump. He's still a *bull in a china shop.* After four years, Trump still thinks that he can run America like a dictatorship. - - ### Nepotism and Cronyism Trump's executive office and cabinet was rife with [nepotism](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nepotism) and [cronyism](http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2024/09/03/). @@ -121,4 +117,4 @@ Senator Lindsey Graham (T-SC) has the attention span of a squirrel. After the at [Senator Tim Scott (T-SC) – Meet the Press. May 5, 2024](https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/federal-funding-is-a-privilege-not-a-right-tim-scott-tells-college-presidents-full-interview-210290757680) refused to answer a simple 'yes/no' answer to the question "Will you accept the election results if Trump loses?". As one of Trump's [acolytes](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acolyte), Scott is Trump's "lawn jockey". He does not have the courage to stand for what's right. - + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md index ae2594ed..c8a05a08 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md @@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ It is no surprise that Trump holds admires strong-arm dictators, President Vladi One of the principles of America is freedom of speech and a free press. Trump wants to control what the media says about him. -America has no need for state-run media. [Faux News](https://foxnews.com) is the closest news media as state-run media. The Trump Party[^12] controls [Faux News](https://foxnews.com). +America has no need for state-run media. [Faux News](https://foxnews.com) is the closest news media as state-run media. The Trump Party[^12] controls [Faux News](https://foxnews.com). -[^12]: The Republican Party ceased to exist in 2016 when it chose the most unqualified candidate, Trump, as its presidential candidate during their July July 2016 national convention convention. +[^12]: The Republican Party ceased to exist in 2016 when it chose the most unqualified candidate, Trump, as its presidential candidate during their July July 2016 national convention convention. diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md b/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md index d9252543..08f6be2e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, oligarch] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk,0 oligarch] categories: [2024 presidential election] -date: 2024-09-13 13:14:15 +date: 2024-09-13 5:10 PM excerpt: "Musk is the latest example of a totally gearheaded, engineering-brained, Silicon Valley guy who looks at government and says ‘How hard can it be? Let me at it and I can solve it for you.' There’s been many of these characters before, and he’s just the latest." #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' description: 'Donald Trump could turn Elon Musk into an American oligarch' @@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ Patrick Blumenthal, founder of the Anomaly venture capital fund, suggested that ## Trump’s Admiration of Dictators -Trump admires strong-arm dictators, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and Victor Orbán of Turkey. +Trump admires strong-arm dictators, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and Victor Orbán of Turkey. -## Government Ain't Business +## Government Ain't Business -The first season of The Apprentice: White House demonstrated that people without any clue as to how the American government works, has no business running a country. +The first season of The Apprentice: White House demonstrated that people without any clue as to how the American government works, has no business running a country. ## Trump's Transactional Nature diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md b/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md index 140812b2..5b80819d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md @@ -27,36 +27,36 @@ Opinion by Jack Shafer Donald Trump, who regards himself as a divine king unjustly dethroned, called for his royal restoration in a Truth Social posting this week. Complaining that an FBI briefing at Facebook caused the social media site to spike mention of the Hunter Biden laptop, Trump cried foul. Insisting that he would have won the 2020 presidential election “easily” if not for the FBI’s treachery, wrote Trump, “REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020 Election irreparably compromised and have a new Election, immediately!” -- Trump’s delusion that he is the forever president emerged about midway through his term and has gelled into the stuff cults are made from. -- Abandoning all rationality, he continues wearing his red baseball cap like a crown and expounds on issues like a monarch. -- His most ardent followers’ minds have become pudding as they predict and repredict his restoration like a messianic cult or a doomsday sect. +- Trump’s delusion that he is the forever president emerged about midway through his term and has gelled into the stuff cults are made from. +- Abandoning all rationality, he continues wearing his red baseball cap like a crown and expounds on issues like a monarch. +- His most ardent followers’ minds have become pudding as they predict and repredict his restoration like a messianic cult or a doomsday sect. - Like a perpetual going-out-of-business sale run by a shady merchant, Trump’s second-coming is never-ending. Trump’s loyal subjects have never doubted his perma-president status, no matter how many deadlines he’s missed in taking back power. -- First, he and his supporters believed that the Jan. 6 riots and the blocking of congressional certification would extend his presidency. -- When the Capitol siege turned out to be a bloody, tear-gas-stained dud, QAnon theorists asserted that Jan. 20, 2021, — Inauguration Day — would be the day of the Great Awakening following Trump’s signing of the Insurrection Act to declare martial law and conduct mass arrests of his enemies. -- Michael Flynn, who served as Trump’s national security adviser for about 15 minutes in 2017, had claimed in December that Trump could “basically rerun an election” in several states. -- Then Trump’s reinstatement was pegged for the “real” inauguration day, March 4, 2021. -- Do you notice a pattern? Following the cult dictum to predict often and grandly as nobody will remember long enough to hold you accountable, that day came and went. +- First, he and his supporters believed that the Jan. 6 riots and the blocking of congressional certification would extend his presidency. +- When the Capitol siege turned out to be a bloody, tear-gas-stained dud, QAnon theorists asserted that Jan. 20, 2021, — Inauguration Day — would be the day of the Great Awakening following Trump’s signing of the Insurrection Act to declare martial law and conduct mass arrests of his enemies. +- Michael Flynn, who served as Trump’s national security adviser for about 15 minutes in 2017, had claimed in December that Trump could “basically rerun an election” in several states. +- Then Trump’s reinstatement was pegged for the “real” inauguration day, March 4, 2021. +- Do you notice a pattern? Following the cult dictum to predict often and grandly as nobody will remember long enough to hold you accountable, that day came and went. - Then the Trump cult set a new date of March 20 for his return because he would somehow have legal control of the military until then. -You might take pity on the citizen who fell for the cult’s mumbo-jumbo, but they number in the tens of millions, and they gladly donate to his political fronts to help him unsteal the 2020 election he clearly lost. A June 2021 poll found that 29 percent of Republicans believed Trump had a chance of being reinstated by the end of the year. +You might take pity on the citizen who fell for the cult’s mumbo-jumbo, but they number in the tens of millions, and they gladly donate to his political fronts to help him unsteal the 2020 election he clearly lost. A June 2021 poll found that 29 percent of Republicans believed Trump had a chance of being reinstated by the end of the year. -- Even though there is no constitutional mechanism for a rejection of the 2020 results or a do-over election, Trump was telling people he expected his reinstatement by August. -- He’s coming! He’s coming! -- My Pillow magnate Mike Lindell fired up the cult that summer by pegging the second coming as Aug. 13, 2021. +- Even though there is no constitutional mechanism for a rejection of the 2020 results or a do-over election, Trump was telling people he expected his reinstatement by August. +- He’s coming! He’s coming! +- My Pillow magnate Mike Lindell fired up the cult that summer by pegging the second coming as Aug. 13, 2021. That proved to be a wash, too, as was the revised date of Thanksgiving. Like any true believer, Lindell is still at it, recently staging a flop of a stolen-election conference in Springfield, Mo. Lindell — along with Flynn, John Eastman and Steve Bannon — has also trumpeted the cockamamie idea that Biden’s 2020 win could still be “decertified” in key states. By touting Trump’s second coming no matter how many times he fails to return, Trump’s followers have branded themselves a cult. -How did Trump and his believers come by these preposterous notions? +How did Trump and his believers come by these preposterous notions? -- As a serial bilker of creditors, investors, donors to his philanthropy and his fund-raising organization, students at his “university,” workers, and contractors, Trump was already well positioned for such a role. -- And then he learned during the 2016 campaign what an easy touch the religious community could be. -- Preachers as varied as Jeremiah Johnson and, later, Franklin Graham[^11] vowed that God was moving the scenery in support of his 2016 victory. -- By 2020, a poll by Pew Research of U.S. adults found that 27 percent believed God had chosen Trump for the office. +- As a serial bilker of creditors, investors, donors to his philanthropy and his fund-raising organization, students at his “university,” workers, and contractors, Trump was already well positioned for such a role. +- And then he learned during the 2016 campaign what an easy touch the religious community could be. +- Preachers as varied as Jeremiah Johnson and, later, Franklin Graham[^11] vowed that God was moving the scenery in support of his 2016 victory. +- By 2020, a poll by Pew Research of U.S. adults found that 27 percent believed God had chosen Trump for the office. - Small wonder Trump rallies resemble religious assembles in which the faithful worship their god. [^11]: @RalphHightower: I find it amazing that Trump, a person who routinely violates numerous "10 Commandments" (lying, adultery[^12], theft[^13]) has bamboozled the clergy. @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ How did Trump and his believers come by these preposterous notions? [^13]: @RalphHightower: I call thievery as paying contractors, suppliers, and retailers, 20 to 40 percent off the contracted value as stealing. One retailer that sold multiple grand pianos for his casinos went out 9f business because Trump paid less than half the value of the agreed upon price. -It’s one thing for the religious rank and file to believe in Trump’s status as God’s right-hand man, but how do we account for the prominent Republicans who endorsed the idea? +It’s one thing for the religious rank and file to believe in Trump’s status as God’s right-hand man, but how do we account for the prominent Republicans who endorsed the idea? -- Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, called him a “savior” called into service by God. -- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Christian Broadcasting Network viewers in 2019 that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president.” -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not normally a supernatural theorist, speculated that Trump had been sent to save Israel from Iran. -- Trump took to the testimonials with the enthusiasm of a convert. -- During a 2019 scrum with reporters, he looked to the skies and stated, “I am the chosen one.” He later claimed he was being sarcastic, but not everybody believed that excuse. Two months later, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry confided that he had informed Trump he was the “chosen> one” designated to lead the country. +- Brad Parscale, his campaign manager, called him a “savior” called into service by God. +- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Christian Broadcasting Network viewers in 2019 that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president.” +- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not normally a supernatural theorist, speculated that Trump had been sent to save Israel from Iran. +- Trump took to the testimonials with the enthusiasm of a convert. +- During a 2019 scrum with reporters, he looked to the skies and stated, “I am the chosen one.” He later claimed he was being sarcastic, but not everybody believed that excuse. Two months later, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry confided that he had informed Trump he was the “chosen> one” designated to lead the country. - In 2020, Sen. David Perdue of Georgia fluffed Trump’s ego by calling him “providential.” As Trumped settled into his presidency, he began to regard it as a potentially permanent position. If God has chosen you to lead, who are you to surrender the position? In 2018, he “joked” that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s status as “president for life” was “great,” continuing, “Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.” In 2019, he “joked” again saying he might remain in the White House “at least for 10 or 14 years.” These forever president sentiments blossomed again two months later in his retweet of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s view that a two-year extension on his first term was warranted for the time the Mueller probe had stolen from his presidency. diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-19-Part2TrumpIsDementiaing.md b/_posts/2024-09-19-Part2TrumpIsDementiaing.md index 4847295b..189138f8 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-19-Part2TrumpIsDementiaing.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-19-Part2TrumpIsDementiaing.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ excerpt: "They didn’t correct her once. And they corrected me, everything I sa #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: -title: 'Bless His Heart – Part 2 Dementia: Trump forgets there was no debate audience, claims crowd "went crazy"' +title: 'Trump forgets there was no debate audience, claims crowd "went crazy"' --- @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ News Fellow Not only is Trump forgetting what the question was when he veers off topic and starts answering with gibberish, but he is now **seeing people** where there are none. -Faux News did not bother to correct Trump that there was no studio audience as agreed upon by ABC New and both the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign. +Faux News did not bother to correct Trump that there was no studio audience as agreed upon by ABC New and both the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign. Former President Donald Trump appeared on a taped segment of Fox News' "Gutfeld!" Wednesday, complaining once again that the ABC News debate moderators bothered to fact-check him while falsely claiming that the debate audience ***"went crazy"***[^21] for his performance. Host Greg Gutfeld chose not to fact-check Trump over the fact that there was no debate audience whatsoever, per the rules set by ABC News and agreed to by both campaigns. @@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ About that scorecard tally of lies: [Fact check: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris debate on ABC News / CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/10/politics/fact-check-debate-trump-harris/index.html) By CNN Staff 38 minute read -Updated 11:57 AM EDT, Wed September 11, 2024 +Updated 11:57 AM EDT, Wed September 11, 2024 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-26-HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md b/_posts/2024-09-26-HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b91b6319 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-09-26-HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Donald Trump, 2020 Election Overthrow Attempt] +categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6, 2021 Insurrection] +date: 2024-09-26 4:00 PM +excerpt: 'The rest of the nine-page opposition rehashes Defendant's position that immunity briefing should not begin until he files a motion to dismiss several months from now. The court has already addressed the scheduling objections Defendant raised when he was given an opportunity to do solemnly – Judge Chutkan' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "Here Comes Da Judge Part 1: Judge Unimpressed With Trump’s Sneaky Strategy" +--- + + +## [Judge Chutkan Unimpressed by Donald Trump's 'Sneaky Strategy': Attorney](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jack-smith-tanya-chutkan-indictment-election-fraud-january-6-1959699). +Story by Sean O'Driscoll. September 26, 2024. + +- **Judge's Decision**: Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Donald Trump's attempt to delay his election-fraud case by allowing a 180-page opening brief from the prosecution. +- **Trump's Indictment**: Trump faces charges for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election results, with the prosecution aiming to present comprehensive evidence early in the trial. +- **Prosecutor's Strategy**: The detailed brief aims to address all immunity challenges upfront, preventing mid-trial objections. +- **Political Implications**: The prosecution's evidence could be damaging for Trump during the presidential election season. + +In her order, Judge Chutkan wrote: "The rest of the nine-page opposition rehashes Defendant's position that immunity briefing should not begin until he files a motion to dismiss several months from now. The court has already addressed the scheduling objections Defendant raised when he was given an opportunity to do so." + +## [Judge Tanya Chutkan gives Trump deadline to object to unsealing Jan. 6 evidence](https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/09/27/judge-tanya-chutkan-trump-deadline-object-unsealing-jan-6-evidence/) + +Story by Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News. September 27, 2024. + diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-26-Part3TrumpDementia.md b/_posts/2024-09-26-Part3TrumpDementia.md index e73ad7f4..3644fa49 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-26-Part3TrumpDementia.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-26-Part3TrumpDementia.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ excerpt: "The problem is twofold. One, they’re not telling us that’s what th #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: -title: "Bless His Heart – Part 3 Dementia: – Bless His Heart: Mary Trump Slams Media's 'Dangerous' Interpretations Of Her Uncle's 'Gibberish'" +title: "Part 3 – Bless His Heart: Mary Trump Slams Media's 'Dangerous' Interpretations Of Her Uncle's 'Gibberish'" --- @@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ The Republican nominee has fumbled through speech after speech on the campaign t She said it’s “shocking” to see this treatment of her uncle, considering the “laser focus” that was placed on President Joe Biden’s age and mental acuity before he dropped out of the 2024 race. At 78, Donald Trump is now the oldest presidential nominee in U.S. history. -Mary Trump went on the program to discuss her latest book, “Who Could Ever Love You,” which unpacks her family trauma and its lasting consequences on her well-being, Donald Trump’s character and the country. +Mary Trump went on the program to discuss her latest book, “Who Could Ever Love You,” which unpacks her family trauma and its lasting consequences on her well-being, Donald Trump’s character and the country. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-27-WTF_Trump_GibberingAbout.md b/_posts/2024-09-27-WTF_Trump_GibberingAbout.md index 9f04b10e..f0b3e154 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-27-WTF_Trump_GibberingAbout.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-27-WTF_Trump_GibberingAbout.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ title: 'WTF is Trump Gibbering About?' By Lee Moran, Huffington Post. Sep 26, 2024, 02:55 AM EDT. -### Huffington Post Article +### Huffington Post Article Trump Speech Takes Seriously Bonkers Turn With ‘Birds And Bees’ Twist The former president's latest weird attack on Kamala Harris had critics buzzing. @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Then came the wild tangent: We had a woman debating. She just talked about, like, the birds and the bees. She didn’t talk about … when you asked a question, there was never an answer. There was never any knowledge. When you saw her the other day, and by the way, when she did the interview previous with the Pennsylvania person who was a nice person, I know him very well, they were the softest questions, she was unable, literally unable to answer the questions. We can’t have that. We cannot have it. We need four strong years, we have to bring our country back. - @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ The former president then returned to his script, but not before critics on soci Donald Trump: “We got great marks on that debate. We had a women debating, she just talked about, like, the birds and the bees…There was never an answer. There was never any knowledge.” -## My Take +## My Take Listen you Trumpers, sure Biden is 81 years old. Yes, at the first and only debate with Trump, he seemed out of it. Many called for him to step down. He'll turn 82 this November. Trump puts together an endless stream of words, hoping that it'll make sense. @@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ Now, I'm not talking about him being assassinated while in office even though th No, I'm talking about the insurance actuarial odds of him completing the full term of office. Trump is in the twilight of his life. Let him do what he does best. -- Running his family-owned business, Trump Organization, towards its fifth bankruptcy. -- Running another company to its death, Truth Social. Watching it do a death spiral into the ground. +- Running his family-owned business, Trump Organization, towards its fifth bankruptcy. +- Running another company to its death, Truth Social. Watching it do a death spiral into the ground. - Turning large fortunes into small fortunes. -- Playing golf, and cheating on his golf score. +- Playing golf, and cheating on his golf score. -— Ralph Hightower +— Ralph Hightower diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-02-HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md b/_posts/2024-10-02-HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c1bfd744 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-02-HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Donald Trump, US Government, 2021 Election Overthrow Attempt, court filing unsealed] +categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6 2021 Insurrection, federal crimes trial] +date: 2024-10-02 3:47 PM +excerpt: 'I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID!FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH A CASE. THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE. I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED! – One guess as to who used their TwitterPhone. @RalphHightower ' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Here Comes Da Judge Part 2: Trump Throws a Trumper Tantrum When Judge Unseals Government Evidence Dump' +--- + +## [Judge unseals Jack Smith’s evidence dump against Trump weeks out from election: ‘Make them riot’](https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/us-news/trump-resorted-to-crimes-after-losing-2020-election-in-failed-bid-to-cling-to-power-feds/) + +Story by Caitlin Doornbos, Ryan King. October 2, 2024. + +Trump cries, **‘I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID!’[^61]** as judge unseals Jack Smith’s evidence dump against ex-prez weeks out from election. + +Trump responded to the unsealing of the filing by raging on Truth Social: **“FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH A CASE. THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE. I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED!”[^61]** + + +“[H]e is a person who is trying — and he works for Kamala and he works for Joe,” the GOP nominee added. “This was a weaponization of government, and that’s why it was released 30 days before the election.” “And it’s nothing new in there, by the way. Nothing new.” + +Trump accused the Biden-Harris administration of appointing Smith “to screw up the election for the Republican Party,” and he said the filing was unsealed for the same reason. + +“They should have never allowed the information to come before the public, but they did that because they want to hurt you before the election,” he said. “The public doesn’t buy it.” + +In the filing unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors argued at length that Trump’s alleged actions pressuring Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election were conducted in a private, unofficial manner and are therefore exempt from presidential immunity. In one example, Smith argued that a Jan. 4, 2021, Trump meeting with Pence and one of his personal attorneys was considered private because the then-president dismissed his official White House counsel from the meeting. + +“It is hard to imagine stronger evidence that conduct is private than when the president excludes his White House Counsel and only wishes to have his private counsel present,” the filing said. + +Prosecutors also went through Trump’s and his allies’ efforts in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to overturn his election loss, listing well-known incidents such as Trump’s infamous Jan. 2, 2021, call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger underscoring the need to “find” 11,780 votes and efforts to produce a fake slate of electors. + +Smith also argued that Trump’s phone calls with governors and other elected officials in Georgia and Arizona were conducted as Trump the candidate, not Trump the president. The prosecutors drew this conclusion in part because Trump only called officials in swing states with GOP governors, having “made no efforts to contact equivalent individuals holding the same offices in Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, all of whom were Democrats.” + +But what really sealed the deal, according to Smith, is that as president, Trump “had no official role in the process by which states appointed and ascertained their presidential electors,” therefore he could not be acting in his official capacity during the calls. “The content, form, and context of the defendant’s interactions with these state officials firmly establish that his conduct was unofficial,” he wrote. + +“The throughline of these efforts was deceit: the defendant’s and co-conspirators’ knowingly false claims of election fraud,” Smith’s team insisted. + +“He raised fraud claims in this context—about whether he could still win Arizona—not in the larger context of election integrity,” he wrote. “This call … was solely focused on the vote count in the presidential race and the defendant’s fraud claims.” + +One unidentified Trump campaign employee did push hard for litigation in Democrat-run Michigan: When a colleague “suggested that there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot,’ a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election, P5 [the unnamed employee] responded, ‘Make them riot’ and ‘Do it!!!’” + +[^61]: There Trump goes again again. Trump is having another **Trumper Tantrum** with his use of **ALL CAPS.** + diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..faa5b82a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [legal immigrants, hoaxes, lies, JD Vance, Donald Trump] +categories: [2024 presidential election] +date: 2024-09-12 5:11 PM +excerpt: "I’ve seen people on television. The people on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food.'" +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "Eat Mor' Kittens" +--- + +## [How J.D. Vance and the Online Right Sabotaged Trump’s Debate](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-debate-eating-pets-j-d-vance-cats-dogs-springfield.html) + +By Jonathan Chait, who’s been a New York political columnist since 2011. NY Magazine. Sept. 11, 2024 + +The worst moment of the presidential debate for Donald Trump was likely the point when he began ranting about the imagined epidemic of pets being kidnapped, murdered, and eaten. “In Springfield, they are eating the dogs, they are eating the cats, they are eating the pets of the people who live there,” he shouted wildly. + +ABC moderator David Muir gently noted that the Springfield town manager reported nothing of the kind had taken place. “I’ve seen people on television,” Trump replied feebly. “The people on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food.’” + +The term presidential has always been elastic, and in the Trump era, its meaning has been stretched out like a pair of pants worn around for a week by a man 20 pounds too heavy for them. Yet, even by the distended contemporary standards, Trump’s claim about the dogs was weird, ridiculous, and the opposite of presidential. + +There is poetic justice here. Trump is the victim of the sealed-off information ecosystem that produced and sustained his political career. + +The conservative movement was built on the premise that the main organs of knowledge — journalism, academia, science — are hopelessly and even consciously biased toward liberalism. In response to this belief, the right constructed its own bubble in which only a claim originating from within the movement can be taken as true. Julian Sanchez once called this “epistemic closure,” meaning that its beliefs were not open to correction from outside sources. + +The lie that migrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, is a classic example of that method in operation. The story originated from white-supremacist sites online, which relentlessly promote the idea that non-white immigrants are dirty and dangerous. It quickly worked its way from the far right into mainstream conservative channels. Republicans seemed to think the idea gave them a potent meme. + +J.D. Vance, an important bridge between the GOP and elements of the radical right that have been activated by Trump, played a key role. “Reports now show that people have had their pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country,” Vance tweeted. + +When reporters discovered the story was baseless — the closest thing to a factual basis for it appears to be a woman in a different city, Canton, who is not Haitian, arrested for killing a cat — Vance pivoted in a revealing fashion. “It’s possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false,” he conceded. But then he insisted other facts about immigration were true. (“That local schools have struggled to keep up with newcomers who don’t know English. That rents have risen so fast that many Springfield families can’t afford to put a roof over their head.”) And so, he urged his “fellow patriots” to continue spreading the lie about pet murder: + +This was a familiar sentiment on the right, a smug indifference to truth. The libs would whine, and they would win. + +In the immediate term, that is what seemed to happen. The wild tale spread and was gleefully repeated by fellow Republicans in Congress. Inevitably, it found its way into Trump’s media diet. And while Trump’s debate handlers surely did not instruct him to talk about pets being abducted and consumed, they couldn’t dislodge it from his addled mind. + +And there he was, standing before the country, repeating a ludicrous tale and insisting it must be true because the people on television had said it. He sounded more like an intoxicated adult or a dim child than a plausible leader of the free world. + +Politics, like life, is not a morality play. Virtue is not always rewarded, nor is sin punished. But in this instance, justice prevailed. The conservative fever swamp that has sealed the Republican Party from reality and rendered it unable to effectively govern trapped its own candidate in a lie so transparently wild that it exposed his unfitness to the country. + +## Eat Mor Kittens[^11] + +Boy, did Trump find the perfect sycophant in J.D. *"John Boy"*[^12] Vance. This lie that Haitian immigrants eating people’s d9gs and cats has taken a life 9f its own. Trump and Vance aren't refuting the lies. They're doubling down. + +Mike Pence turned out to be too much of a "goody two-shoes" for Trump, not even shirking his ceremonial duty as vice president to certify the 2020 election results. + +Vance? He has no ethics to uphold the constitution. There are other Trumpers who would not honor their constitutional duty if they were VP. Senator Tim Scott (T-SC) refused to answer the straight question if he would certify the election results if a Democrat won[^13]. + +[^11]: With apologies to [Chick-fil-A®](https://www.chick-fil-a.com) and their advertising using cows spray painting graffiti, *"Eat Mor Chikin"* +[^12]: J.D. Vance wrote a book called Hillbilly Eligy, so I'd give J.D. the nickname of "John Boy" from the TV series, The Waltons. +[^13]: [Sen. Scott refuses to say he will accept 2024 election results, says Tru...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DdeuagPSVQc&). Meet The Press. May 5, 2024 L diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md index 4025fcfa..421d9df4 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md @@ -11,10 +11,8 @@ title: 'Harris Plans to Call Trump a Spoiled Brat/Sore Loser During Alabama/Geor --- ## [Harris plans to troll Trump over second debate during Alabama football game / CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/28/politics/harris-trump-alabama-football-game/index.html) - -By Kaitlan Collins, CNN +
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Published 12:00 PM EDT, Sat September 28, 2024. - When former President Donald Trump looks up from his seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium Saturday night during the Alabama-Georgia football game, he may see more than just 100,000 fans watching a high-stakes college football showdown. That’s because Vice President Kamala Harris plans to troll her opponent over his refusal to debate her for a second time — from the skies. The Harris campaign has arranged to have a small plane fly over Tuscaloosa during the game with a banner declaring, “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate.” diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md index e8d5b006..402ca6ff 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md @@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ The former president’s indulgence of the conspiracy theory is among the ways T If Trump wanted Hillary locked up, then he should've hired her. -Roger Stone. Steve Bannon. All Trump confidants that have served time in prison. +Roger Stone. Steve Bannon. All Trump confidants that have served time in prison. diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md b/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md index 7bbcc34e..dc3186bf 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md @@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ excerpt: "However, the company's future is uncertain, and a lot seems to be hing #permalink: title: 'Q: How Does One Make a Small Fortune? A: Start With a Large Fortune!' --- - + ## Is Another Trump Stock Nosediving into the Ground? -It won't be the first time that the paper that the stock certificate is printed on is worth more than the share price. +It won't be the first time that the paper that the stock certificate is printed on is worth more than the share price. [Is Trump Media & Technology Stock Heading for $0?](https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/09/17/is-trump-media-technology-stock-heading-for-0/?)
By David Jagielski – Sep 17, 2024 at 9:45AM. Motley Fool @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Personally, I terminated myX/Twitter account on April 27, 2023 when Musk revoked - gold watches - [$99 NFT 'digital trading cards' showing Trump dancing, wearing superhero suit](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/27/donald-trump-nft-digital-trading-cards/74969573007/) - pieces of the suit that he wore at the debate -- "Melania" – Melania Trump's fictional autobiography +- "Melania" – Melania Trump's fictional autobiography [As Trump hawks expensive watches, corruption concerns linger](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-hawks-expensive-watches-corruption-concerns-linger-rcna173260).
Story by Steve Benen. September 30, 2024. diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-06-HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md b/_posts/2024-10-06-HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9961386e --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-06-HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Donald Trump, Overthrow 2020 election, federal crimes] +categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6 2021 Insurrection] +date: 2024-10-06 4:30 PM +excerpt: 'the defendant must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Here Comes Da Judge Part 3: Trump Is Center Stage' +--- + + +I live in a county, [Lexington County](https://lex-co.sc.gov/), that is so red that the +Republican primary is the general election for county officials. + +From April to mid-May 2021, I was hospitalized at [Lexington Medical Center](https://www..lexmedlcom/). +Even then, four months after he was evicted from the [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/), +Trump was still whining, *"I won! I won!"* Each morning during the daily cognitive +test, "What year is it?", "Do you know where you are?", etc., that I'd have a little fun +with the nurses. + +I would also add one of the following statements: + +1. "Biden is still president." +2. "Trump is no longer president.$ + +Consider this, if a Democrat had acted the same as Trump, the "Republicans" would be +jumping up and down, screaming for justice. + + +## [Calmes: Jack Smith's filing shows that Trump is already starring in a Jan. 6 sequel](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-06/jack-smith-donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-jan-6-insurrection) + +Opinion by Jackie Calmes. October 6, 2024. + +- **Trump’s 2020 Election Actions:** The article details Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, including false claims of fraud and refusal to accept the outcome. +- **Parallels to 2024 Campaign:** Trump is repeating similar tactics in his 2024 campaign, alleging election fraud and undermining trust in the electoral process. +- **Legal and Political Implications:** The unsealed government case against Trump highlights the potential consequences if he is not held accountable and re-elected. +- **Call to Action:** Figures like Liz Cheney urge voters to prioritize patriotism over partisanship to prevent Trump’s return to power. + +Trump has demonstrated time and time again, over and over, that Donald Trump has no respect for the rules of law, except when he is the beneficiary. + +Yes, there are voters who will vote for Trump no matter what just because he is their party's nominee. Ignore those comments that she's a communist, or a socialists; that's just Trump who never graduated from elementary school of childish behavior using taunts, and name calling. + +But I urge y'all to vote for Harris/Walz, I'll use a phrase that Trump uses, "Vote for Kamala, or you won't have a country anymore." + +I've done my best to replicate the front page of the document filed in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA of the case, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONALD J TRUMP. + +That document is 165 pages long. I am not going to screenscrape a document that large and separate the words with spaces. It is also quite damning. My copy and paste brought in the text with as many as five to seven words strung together without separation[^11]. The court document is available from many different news media websites. Heck, it may even be available on Faux News. + +[^11]: Sort of like *"Trump-Speak"* where Trump strings random thoughts into a *"tossed salad of words",* and hopes it makes sensel + +One thing that attorney Jack Smith laid out in this document is that although Trump was indeed president at the time that these crimes were committed, in the reelection, he was also candidate Trump, an ordinary citizen that cannot claim presidential immunity, which the Supreme Court sent back to the district Court to determine immunity. + +## [UNITED States OF AMERICA v. DONALD J TRUMP](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf) + +
+ +Case 1:23-cr-00257-TSC Document 252 Filed 10/02/24 Page 1 of 165
+
+
+IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
+
+FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
+ +| | | | +|---|---|---| +| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | * | | +| | * | | +| V. | * | CRIMINAL NO. 23-cr-257 (TSC) | +| | * | | +| DONALD J.TRUMP, |*| +| | * | | +| Defendant.| * | | +| | * | | + + +**GOVERNMENT'S MOTION FOR IMMUNITY DETERMINATIONS**
+
+The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to
+overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct. Not so.
+Although the defendant was the incumbent. President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme
+was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant
+acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit,
+the government function by which votes are collected and counted a function in which the
+defendant, as President, had no official role. In *Trump v. UnitedStates,* 144 S. Ct. 2312 (2024),
+including the defendant's use of the Justice Department in furtherance of his scheme, as was
+alleged in the original indictment — and remanded to this Court to determine whether the remaining
+allegations against the defendant are immunized. The answer to that question is no. This motion
+provides a comprehensive account of the defendant's private criminal conduct; sets forth the legal
+framework created by Trump for resolving immunity claims; applies that framework to establish
+that none of the defendant's charged conduct is immunized because it either was unofficial or any
+presumptive immunity is rebutted; and requests the relief the Government seeks, which is, at
+bottom, this: that the Court determine that the defendant must stand trial for his private crimes as
+would any other citizen. + +## [Read Jack Smith's Trump presidential immunity redacted motion](https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-presidential-immunity-jack-smith-redacted-motion-document-pdf-rcna173714) + +*Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed the 165-page motion in the federal election interference case on Wednesday.* +Oct. 2, 2024, 4:16 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 2, 2024, 4:38 PM EDT + +This page has the court filing of the government’s case against Donald Trump. + +## [Judge Chutkan Hands Jack Smith a Win in Case Against Donald Trump](https://www.newsweek.com/judge-chutkan-hands-jack-smith-win-case-against-donald-trump-1958815) + +Story by Kaitlin Lewis. September 24, 2024. + +Trump's defense team argued in a motion on Monday that the "fundamentally unfair" request from Smith should be shot down. + +But Chuktan wrote in her order a day later that the court would grant Smith's request "to file an oversized brief" and shot down the defense's arguments about the legality of the briefing, including claims that prosecutors were seeking "to proffer their untested and biased views to the Court and the public as if they are conclusive." + +"Allowing a brief from the Government is not 'contrary to law procedure, and custom,' as Defendant claims...it is simply how litigation works," Chutkan's order read in part. + + + diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md index 6e199030..c59b3e82 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ layout: post tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, national debt] categories: [2024 presidential election] -date: 2024-10-07 13:14:15 +date: 2024-10-07 5:09 PM excerpt: 'Neither candidate has meaningfully stressed budget deficit reduction in their pitch to voters. But multiple analyses show a clear difference of Harris being much more fiscally responsible than Trump.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md index ad4b2180..c0491031 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md @@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ One individual, a 72-year-old man, reported chatting with a “beautiful” woma [^11]: [Pig butchering • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam?wprov=sfla1): "Sha Zhu Pan" or Shazhupan, (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Game, is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. They are commonplace on social apps. The scammer builds trust with the victim through online communication, subsequently persuading them to invest in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. The "butchering" or "slaughtering" of the victim transpires when their assets or funds are stolen. -[^12]: Truth Social is a social media platform that was launched by Trump after he was permanently banned from Twitter (B.M.)[^13] for inciting and encouraging the January 6, 2021 riot and melee at the U.S. Capitol to halt the certification of Biden as president and the peaceful transfer of power. +[^12]: Truth Social is a social media platform that was launched by Trump after he was permanently banned from Twitter (B.M.)[^13] for inciting and encouraging the January 6, 2021 riot and melee at the U.S. Capitol to halt the certification of Biden as president and the peaceful transfer of power. [^13]: B.M.: Similar to the time periods, B.C. and A.D., B.M. is that time period of Twitter, *'Before Musk.'* -[^14]: @RalphHightower: *"Whoops! I wonder what she'll do when she finds out."* +[^14]: @RalphHightower: *"Whoops! I wonderwhat she'll do when she finds out."* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-ShitHereWeGoAgain.md b/_posts/2024-10-08-ShitHereWeGoAgain.md index 9579b247..717bde3e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-ShitHereWeGoAgain.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-ShitHereWeGoAgain.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ excerpt: 'I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend th #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: -title: 'Shit! Here We Go Again. The Trump Party Wants to Overturn States Election Results' +title: ''Shit! Here We Go Again. The Trump Party Wants to Overturn States Election Results' --- diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutin.md b/_posts/2024-10-08-TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutin.md index afbed20b..dd7ccb0c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutin.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutin.md @@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ By Isaac Stanley-Becker. October 8, 2024 at 8:56 a.m. EDT Trump demonstrated during his term as president, 1/2017 - 1/2021, that he is friends with our enemies and that our allies are enemies. Were you still trying to put your name on a building in Russia? -[^11]: I trust a respected journalist like Bob Woodward, who helped bring down a presidency and chronicled the events of Watergate in *All the President's Men.* Trump is nothing more than a pathological liar. Richard Nixon almost the nation to a constitutional crisis. The conservative justices on today's Supreme Court are in Trump’s back pocket. \ No newline at end of file +[^11]: I trust a respected journalist like Bob Woodward, who helped bring down a presidency and chronicled the events of Watergate in *All the President's Men.* Trump is nothing more than a pathological liar. Richard Nixon almost the nation to a constitutional crisis. The conservative justices on today's Supreme Court are in Trump’s back pocket. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md b/_posts/2024-10-08-YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md index 5a0c4464..b6fc27ad 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ title: 'Yadda, yadda, yadda. And the check is the mail' ## [Elon Musk's Trump rally appearance just sealed his legacy](https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/elon-musk-donald-trump-butler-rally-endorsement-rcna174314) + Story by Ayman Mohyeldin and Andrew Kenlon and Allison Detzel. October 7, 2024. - **Elon Musk's Promise**: Musk initially vowed to keep Twitter[^11] politically neutral, aiming to upset both the far right and far left equally[^12]. @@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ Story by Ayman Mohyeldin and Andrew Kenlon and Allison Detzel. October 7, 2024. Two years ago, when billionaire Elon Musk bought what was once called Twitter, he vowed to keep it a nonbiased platform. In fact, that was his mission statement. Just days after purchasing the platform, Musk said, “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.” [^11]: X/Twitter – Musk has this obsession with the letter *'X'*: SpaceX, after remaining Twitter, a known social media platform since 2006, to X in 2023, nobody knows what to call it. I've started calling it X/Twitter; that covers both bases. It wouldn't surprise me if Musk rebranded Tesla as X/Tesla, or Tesla/X. Hmm, maybe I should trademark those derivations... -[^12]: @RalphHightower: Yeah, yeah. And the check is in the mail[^15]. +[^12]: @RalphHightower: Yeah, yeah. And the check is in the mail[^15]. [^13]: As a matter of fact, [Elon Musk said that Trump should ‘hang up his hat and sail into the sunset,’ too old to run for president again, as reported in The Washington Post on July 12, 2022 at 9:46 a.m. EDT, by.Timothy Bella](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/12/elon-musk-trump-twitter-president-2024/). -[^14]: @RalphHightower: Did Trump find the "Fountain of Youth" that Ponce de Leon was looking for? Trump Trump ain't getting younger days by day. In fact, various news media, with the exception of perhaps Faux News, have finally begun reporting on the mental decline of Trump; that his *"tossed salad of words"* has become increasingly incoherent. +[^14]: @RalphHightower: Did Trump find the "Fountain of Youth" that Ponce de Leon was looking for? Trump Trump ain't getting younger days by day. In fact, various news media, with the exception of perhaps Faux News, have finally begun reporting on the mental decline of Trump; that his *"tossed salad of words"* has become increasingly incoherent. [^15]: *"The check is in the mail"* is a euphemism that often used in a dismissive or sarcastic context, suggesting that the speaker is avoiding responsibility or is unreliable. diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3d16a23a --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives] +categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] +date: 2024-10-09 04:15 PM +excerpt: 'Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Bless Her Heart – Part 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says "They" Can Control the Weather ' +--- + + +## [MTG doubles down on weather modification conspiracy theory despite experts rubbishing ‘hurricane control’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-weather-control-hurricane-b2626699.html) + +Story by Katie Hawkinson. October 9, 2024. + +MTG: "Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. + +- **Weather Control Claims**: Marjorie Taylor Greene reiterated her debunked claim that the government can control the weather, citing cloud seeding as evidence. +- **Debunking**: Experts and agencies, including NOAA and FEMA, have debunked these claims, stating that current technology cannot create or modify hurricanes. +- **Conspiracy Theories**: Various conspiracy theories have emerged, including claims that hurricanes are geoengineered for political or economic reasons. +- **Official Statements**: Officials, including Congressman Chuck Edwards, have issued statements to counter these false claims and reassure the public. + +Bless her heart[^11]. MTG watch overhead for black helicopters[^12] armed with "Jewish Space Lasers". + +[^11]: [Bless your heart • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_your_heart) – is a phrase common to the Southern United States. The phrase is used sometimes as an insult that conveys condescension, derision, or contempt. +[^12]: [Black helicopter • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter?wprov=sfla1) – symbol of an alleged conspiratorial military takeover of the United States in the American militia movement, and has also been associated with UFOs, diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md index 14618f98..e4b11118 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-09-InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md @@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ By Isaac Stanley-Becker. 'October 8, 2024 at 8:56 a.m. EDT - **Biden's Leadership**: The book contrasts Trump with President Biden, portraying Biden as exhibiting steady leadership despite some mistakes. Trump’s advisers having clandestine meetings with foreign country officials? Trump is a r9gue loose cannon. Regarding -Hurricane Helene relief, Trump is undermining government relief by spreading falsehoods; but lies are expected from pathological liar. +Hurricane Helene relief, Trump is undermining government relief by spreading falsehoods; but lies are expected from pathological liar. Seven phone calls to Putin as a private citizen? Trump is a ro7ge, loose cannon. - + In one scene, Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so “he could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” “According to Trump’s aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021,” Woodward writes. - + Woodward also writes about Trump’s decision to run for president again, including a series of conversations with his ally and golfing buddy, Sen. Lindsey Graham. “Going to Mar-a-Lago is a little bit like going to North Korea,” Graham said. “Everybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.” The South Carolina Republican diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md b/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md index 2cf7e3bc..50fe7ee2 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ image: 'https://ralphhightower.github.io/blog/img/SharpiePrezDorianConeUncertain #'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' description: '#SharpiePresident Trump Showing an Altered Cone of Uncertainty of Hurricane Dorian' #permalink: -title: '#SharpiePresident Trump Shows a Cone of Uncertainty of Hurricane Dorian (2019) That He Altered to Include Alabama' +title: '#SharpiePresident Trump Shows a Cone of Uncertainty of Hurricane Dorian (2018) That He Altered to Include Alabama' --- ## [An Oval Office mystery: Who doctored the hurricane map? - POLITICO](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/04/donald-trump-sharpie-hurricane-map-1481733) diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md b/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..46ea9454 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-10-SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [major hurricanes, falsehoods, misinformation, 2019 Hurricane Dorian] +categories: [2024 presidential election] +date: 2024-10-10 1:16 PM +#excerpt: '' +There are a lot of statements he makes to protect his base, but this is not him protecting his base. His base does not care about the hurricane. This is a personal thing. He just can’t be wrong. – Barbara Res, a former executive vice president of the Trump Organization.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Trump Puts Needless Lives at Risk During and After Hurricanes With Lies, Falsehoods, and Misinformation.' +--- + + +## [The short arc of a Sharpie captures the long arc of Trump - POLITICO](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/05/hurricane-dorian-sharpie-trump-1482839) + +By NANCY COOK. 09/05/2019 06:36 PM EDT + + +@RalphHightower: 10/10/24 1:04 PM: +With two major category hurricanes, Helene and Mitch, +striking the United States in less than two weeks, it is important for +voters and citizens to realize that the only person that Donald Trump +cares about is, Donald Trump. Right now, FEMA, state and +local relief workers and volunteers have to waste time rebutting +the falsehoods and misinformation that Trump is spewing of the +rescue and recovery teams on the ground. + +- **Trump's Sharpie Incident**: President Trump used a black Sharpie to alter a hurricane map, falsely extending Hurricane Dorian's path to include Alabama, sparking controversy and media backlash. +- **Media Feud**: Trump repeatedly attacked the media for correcting his inaccurate statements about the hurricane's path, turning it into a prolonged dispute. +- **Historical Pattern**: The incident reflects Trump's long-standing approach of never backing down from false statements, a tactic he has used in both his business and political careers. +- **Distraction Concerns**: Meteorologists and officials expressed concern that the controversy distracted from the serious threat posed by Hurricane Dorian to the Carolinas. + +![SharpiePresident Trump Showing an Altered Cone of Uncertainty of Hurricane Dorian](../img/SharpiePrezDorianConeUncertainty.jpeg) + +“There are a lot of statements he makes to protect his base, but this is not him +protecting his base. His base does not care about the hurricane,” said Barbara Res, +a former executive vice president of the Trump Organization, who worked for Trump +on and off from 1978 until 1998. **“This is a personal thing. He just can’t be +wrong.”[^11]** + +The National Weather Service office in Birmingham quickly corrected him online, +writing on Twitter: “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from #Dorian. We repeat, +no impacts from Hurricane #Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will +remain too far east.” + +As the controversy escalated with “Sharpiegate” trending on Twitter, Trump tweeted +out an early map of the storm — issued days before the president’s first Alabama +tweet — that did not come from the National Hurricane Center: “This was the +originally projected path of the Hurricane in its early stages. As you can see, +almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and +Alabama. I accept the Fake News apologies!” + +Just as the backlash over the hurricane gaffe appeared to die down on Thursday, +Trump revived it by tweeting that “Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then +Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast). The Fake News +knows this very well. That’s why they’re the Fake News!” + +“There is a potentially life-threatening hurricane headed for the Carolinas, and any +distraction from making people aware of the potential consequences is not doing +anyone a favor,” said Dan Sobien, president of the National Weather Service +Employees Organization. “This is a distraction from what the official government +message should be right now.” + +“What is most important is that people listen to and trust the National Weather +Service,” Sobien said. “I would hate it if someone from the coast of North Carolina +might have gotten a mixed message.” + +During the early days of Trump’s presidency, aides often would rush into the +Oval Office and try to tell the president not to convey information a certain way +or to inform him a fact was inaccurate. But aides soon learned Trump would +inevitably tweet about it again anyway. + +“It was clear it was a futile effort,” said one former senior administration official. +“He has his own reality, and he will maintain that reality regardless of facts or +evidence. My impression is that most people have given up on this.” + + +[^11]: Cue up [Carly Simon's You're So Vain](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=j13oJajXx0M&si=jq2QIZtbPje-Dqbs) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-12-HurricaneDonald.md b/_posts/2024-10-12-HurricaneDonald.md index 9c993e34..19be45e9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-12-HurricaneDonald.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-12-HurricaneDonald.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [noaa, project 2025, hurricanes, fema, us versus them, red state versus blue state] +tags: [noaa, project 2025, hurricanes, fema, us versus them] categories: [2024 presidential election] -date: 2024-10-12 10:00 AM -excerpt: 'Former Trump administration official Olivia Troye told The New York Times that he viewed disaster relief as a matter of “red states vs. blue states.”' +date: 2024-10-11 5:16 PM +excerpt: 'Just weeks before the November election, we are again reminded of the dangers of disinformation amplified by the ex-president. In the aftermath of Helene, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein joined MSNBC’s “The Weekend” to address how Trump’s lies about FEMA undermine the government’s response in the western part of his state. “It’s devastating psychologically to those people because they now believe, some of them, that FEMA is going to be contrary to their interests rather than trying to help them get back on their feet.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: @@ -34,8 +34,7 @@ a *"Republican"[^12].* Who can forget that photo of Trump lobbing rolls of paper towels into the crowd as if he were tossing out MAGA hats at a campaign rally? -![Trump Tossing Paper Towel Rolls Into Puerto Rican Crowd After Hurricane Dorian As If He Were Tossing MAGA Baseball Caps At a Campaign Rally](https://ralphhightower.github.io/blog/img/241010-donald-trump-paper-towels-al-1022-242643.jpg) - +![President Trump Tossing Rolls of Paper Towels into Puerto Rican Crowd After a Hurricane.](../img/241010-donald-trump-paper-towels-al-1022-242643.jpg) The Trump administration would later stall $20 billion in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico, relief that Congress approved. In a closed-door meeting with Republicans, diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-12-PutinPart1TrumpPwnedByPutin.md b/_posts/2024-10-12-PutinPart1TrumpPwnedByPutin.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6d88407f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-12-PutinPart1TrumpPwnedByPutin.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, national threat, security risk, United States of America, Russia] +categories: [2024 presidential election] +date: 2024-10-12 5:33 PM +excerpt: 'Trump may have had up to seven phone calls with Putin since leaving office in 2021, citing a Trump aide.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Vladimir Putin Part 1: Trump Pwned By Putin' +--- + + +[Trump's close relationship with Putin could come back to haunt the US](https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-relationship-putin-back-to-us-woodward-book-ukraine-russia-2024-10) + +Analysis by Tom Porter and Hannah Abraham Oct 9, 2024, 12:06 AM EDT + +- **Trump-Putin Relationship**: The relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has been controversial, with claims of a close friendship and multiple phone calls since Trump left office. +- **Ukraine Peace Deal**: Trump has suggested he could broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, potentially on terms favorable to Russia, which could have severe global consequences. +- **Economic Impact**: Experts warn that a peace deal favoring Russia could lead to global economic instability, including potential conflicts and market disruptions. +- **US Alliances**: Such a deal could damage US alliances, particularly with Europe, and embolden other autocratic leaders like China's Xi Jinping. + +Trump may have had up to seven phone calls with Putin since leaving office in 2021, citing a Trump aide[^11]. + +@RalphHightower: I used the *"black hat hacker"*[^12] term, pwned[^13], to amplify the significant security risk that Trump is to America's national interest and security. Pwned is a term that black hat hackers use when they seize control of computer systems. Putin is former KGB. He knows how to cultivate resources for his use. With flattery, Trump will be at their control. + +[^11]: @RalphHightower: **What the fuck was Trump doing, calling Putin while he was a private citizen?** Trump did remove classified and top-secret documents from the [White House](https://whitehouse.gov/) at [Mar-a-Lago](https://www.maralagoclub.com/) in various places like supply closets, and his bathroom. +[^12]: A black hat hacker is a computer criminal who gains unauthorized access to computer systems and networks for malicious purposes. Black hat hackers are also known as crackers. +[^13]: [pwned • Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pwned): *slang* : to dominate and defeat (someone or something) + + diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..355feb62 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk] +categories: [2024 presidential race] +date: 2024-10-13 3:37 PM +excerpt: 'They know that Kamala is far more stable, open minded, she has done a great job communicating with business leaders, she is not an ideologue, she takes feedback from Republicans, independents and more.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Newsweek Q&A with Billionaire Mark Cuban Supporting Harris' +--- + + +## [Exclusive: Mark Cuban on Backing Kamala Harris and His Concerns About Trump - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-mark-cuban-backing-kamala-harris-his-concerns-about-trump-1967910) + +Published Oct 12, 2024 at 11:43 AM EDT. Updated Oct 13, 2024 at 7:47 AM EDT + +I deal with three types of businesses, the big ones, with say more than 100 employees. Subchapter S and LLC businesses and sole proprietors. + +The biggest companies that are in oil and gas are more open to Trump. The rest I haven't seen many people get excited about him. Yes, they may prefer his lower tax rates, but the lack of stability, the possibility of tariffs, particularly hate tariffs like he threatened John Deere with and just the general uncertainty is a huge negative. + +They know that Kamala is far more stable, open minded, she has done a great job communicating with business leaders, she is not an ideologue, she takes feedback from Republicans, independents and more. + +She has also been clear that she will support and deploy new tech to make permitting and other government functions smaller and more efficient. That's been a big plus. + +- **Mark Cuban's Support**: Mark Cuban, a billionaire entrepreneur, is vocally supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, believing her policies are beneficial for the country. +- **Criticism of Trump**: Cuban views Donald Trump's first term as "bad" and warns that a second term would be "worse," expressing concerns about Trump's stability and policies. +- **Economic Policies**: Cuban highlights Harris' economic policies, such as "no tax on tips" and tax credits for new home buyers, as beneficial for everyday Americans and small businesses. +- **Prescription Drug Costs**: Cuban discusses his efforts to reduce prescription drug costs through transparency and efficiency, advocating for similar approaches in Harris' healthcare policies. + +I found these two questions invaluable. + +**Newsweek:** Many Democrats have said that democracy is on the line and Trump has threatened to arrest political opponents and critics. Do you think these are valid concerns and that Trump would follow through on those threats? + +**Cuban:** Yes. + +**Newsweek:** Trump is doing particularly well with men. Elon Musk, who you've criticized, also has a largely male fanbase. What do you think it is about these male billionaires that is so appealing to many men? And as a fellow male billionaire, what would you say to those men who admire Musk and Trump? + +**Cuban:** The American Dream is alive and well. I admire Elon the entrepreneur. I also think Elon the Twitter (X) owner is a world class troll[^11]. + +[^11]: @RalphHightower: His comment of Musk being a world class troll on X/Twitter is insightful. Musk stated that X/Twitter would be a free speech platform. Instead, he's blocking and banning journalists who post negative, but truthful Newsom Trump. diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c53626b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [] +categories: [] +#date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15 +#excerpt: '' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'title' +--- + +[Melania by Melania Trump review – a blame-dodging masterclass](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/melania-trump-memoir-review) +Story by Lloyd Green. October 13, 2024. + +- **Blame and Deflection**: Melania frequently blames staffers for various issues, including the plagiarism of Michelle Obama's speech, while also stressing her love for her husband.[^12] +- **Policy Stances**: She strongly supports abortion rights, which contrasts with her husband's actions and the Republican party's stance. +- **Selective Narratives**: The memoir omits significant details about other women in Donald Trump's life and controversial events like January 6. +- **Personal Independence**: Melania emphasizes her financial independence and personal brand, highlighting her business ventures. + +[^11]: @RalphHightower: Ah, the blame game. She learned from her hubby to shift the blame to others, + +“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” she thunders. “Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.” + +Simply put, such words jar with her party’s record. And yet, another chapter is more telling still. + +### The Blame Game + +Melania dumps on staffers for drafting the speech to the 2016 Republican convention in which she plagiarized Michelle Obama. Except Melania manages also to point the finger at herself. “During my review of many speeches of previous first ladies, Michelle’s emphasis on the fundamental values of hard work, integrity, and kindness resonated deeply,” she writes, of a conversation with the aide who wrote the speech. In other words, Melania shows she was familiar with Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech to the Democratic convention, portions of which she would repeat to Republicans in Cleveland in 2016. + +There’s more. Before speaking at the RNC, Melania “rehearsed multiple times with the teleprompter, feeling confident in my delivery”. And yet, she claims, when the plagiarism was noticed and a media firestorm blew up, she was shocked. + +“Upon closer examination, the undeniable similarities between the two speeches left me reeling.” + +Really? + +“I trusted that any and all political and legal vetting had been taken care of, but now I realized that the campaign and RNC had left me on my own.” + +Talk about throwing the staff under any passing bus. And yet, to quote the deathless words of Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Jr’s fiancée: “The best is yet to come.” + +“‘Why was the speech not vetted?’, I asked Donald in frustration … From then on, I realized the importance of being intimately involved with every detail of my public life. No longer would I delegate specific tasks or trust others to ensure my reputation was protected.” + +Specifically, Melania blames Meredith McIver of the Trump Organization – to whom she says she herself read Michelle Obama’s words, words Melania then repeatedly practiced. As the saying goes, shit rolls downhill. + +### The January 6, 2021 Insurrection at the US Capitol + +When it comes to her husband, too, Melania is not in the blame game. The chaos of January 6 is dealt with as swiftly as anything inconvenient that actually makes it to her pages. She wags her finger at those who assaulted the Capitol in an attempt to overturn Donald’s 2020 defeat but also claims to have been unaware of events for most of that terrible day. + +“The violence we witnessed was unequivocally unacceptable,”[^12] she writes. But in her next breath, she adds that she “recognized that many individuals felt the election was mishandled and that the vice president should halt the confirmation process”[^13]. + +[^12]: @RalphHightower – Okay, she does have a conscience. +[^13]: @RalphHightower – Although she does believe her hubby's lies that he won. + + +As for her husband’s exhortation to the far-right Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” around the election, or his forecast of a “Big protest in DC on January 6th[,] Be there, will be wild!”, or his exhortation to followers to “fight like hell”? + +Crickets. + + + diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-VladimirPutinPart2TrumpLoganAct.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-VladimirPutinPart2TrumpLoganAct.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3c870cef --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-VladimirPutinPart2TrumpLoganAct.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, federal crime, Logan Act] +categories: [2024 presidential election] +#date: 2024-10-13 4:39 PM +#excerpt: 'A violation of the Logan Act carries with it up to three years in prison. So yes, we all want to know; Did Donald Trump violate the Logan Act? And here's the answer. He might have,' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "Vladmir Putin Part 2: Add Another Federal Crime to Trump’s Legal Woes" +--- + + +## [Donald Trump May Have Violated Another Federal Law—Legal Analyst](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-may-have-violated-logan-act-glenn-kirschner-1968212) + +Story by Natalie Venegas. October 13, 2024. + +- **Alleged Phone Calls**: Bob Woodward's new book claims that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had up to seven phone calls since early 2021. +- **Logan Act Violation**: Legal analyst Glenn Kirschner suggests these calls might violate the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized diplomacy with foreign governments. +- **Denials**: Both Trump and Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov have denied the allegations, calling them false. +- **Historical Context**: The Logan Act has rarely been enforced, with only two prosecutions in its history, neither resulting in a conviction. + +"A violation of the Logan Act carries with it up to three years in prison. So yes, we all want to know; Did Donald Trump violate the Logan Act? And here's the answer. He might have," Kirschner said. + +He added: "And the reason I have to phrase it that way is because what we know based on blockbuster new reporting by Bob Woodward...there are reports Donald Trump has as many as seven phone calls, private phone calls with Vladmir Putin. Here is the sticking point right now, the devils in the details, what we have no reporting on is precisely what those phone conversations involve." + +Kirschner said that "based on the evidence that's been reported there is enough evidence of potential crime that the FBI can and should have open investigations into the nature of these phone calls." +Here are the key points from the article: +