I chose not to mention in my post about Donny stopping his speech to aid a cultist in distress, but here's what I think about it: it was fucking STAGED. there's no way the Secret Service would have let Donny wander out of his plexiglass playpen unless they knew in advance it was going to happen
Just like the bogus assassination attempt. I will never believe he was hit by AR47 or whatever it was…the miraculous healing ear! Get the fuck outta here!
It really began with the Republicans who loathed FDR and the New Deal; it went on to Joe McCarthy, and then segued to Goldwater and Nixon. Reagan was a big leap along the way, and Trump is the inevitable result. Although John Adams took the country down the path with the Alien and Sedition Acts, of course our modern scum all take their inspiration from the Confederacy, the first proto-fascist government in American history.
I can’t help but despair that Judge Merchon will grant him a postponement of his sentencing. I’m strongly hoping that just this once anus-lips won’t get his way about something, but I fear that he will.
exactly....an ear blown to pieces and then magically healed in 2 days. And his cultists swallowed it all and wore max-pads on their ears in a delusional solidarity
Bag jobs ……everything that grifter bastard ,demon does or says is a friggen ream job ! No fire 🔥 in hell burns hot enough to torment that vile scumbag sufficiently to balance the scales!🔥🔥💀😵💫
I have thought this as well. The part of this which is really heinous is that the young man that fired the shots is dead , and that was an AR-15, not the most exact weapon in the world. Would they really do that? The rifle that was used to kill the young man was a sniper rifle, one shot was fired.
If it wasn't for that dead firefighter, the others who were wounded, and the dead kid, I would think that the whole thing was nothing more than stagecraft. The miraculously-fast healing ear, the tiny little wound (have you seen the size of the round fired by an AR-15?).
But 2 people are dead, 3 others were wounded, so it's hard to attribute this to mere sympathy-building stagecraft. Although that Fat Fuck cares nothing for collateral damage when it comes to his own ego.
Not that I care about trump’s safety but something feels corrupt about the USSS. The missing text messages, the fact that they knew shooter dude was on the roof, and now this….
There's not much doubt there's still Trump cultist infiltrators in government,the entire House of Representatives and half the Senate for one,and apparently the un-fireable Louis DeJoy.
I suspect he was told who to put in, and where, because he isn't clever enough to understand how gov't actually works, much less who to put in to gum up the works!
The shit is going to hit the fan big time once Kamala is sworn in ! I can’t wait to see the the Federal Pens overflowing with the traitors of the Humps administration! Get the popcorn 🍿 it’s gonna be a laugh a minute watching them crying for their freedom….. that they planned on screwing the American people out of ! Bring back the chain gangs !🇺🇸👍
Agree! But I have full confidence that a President Harris and VP Walz will appoint STRONG DOJ officials . "Paging Allan Bragg, Tish James, Andrew Weisman -- clean up at the DOJ!"
I wish I could remember who had a Substack post about DeJoy and why his ass was still hanging around. This may have been posted about a month ago. If I can find it I’ll post it on Jeff’s page.
And I believe the spirit of 'stand your ground' was supposed to be about defending your own home,not shooting someone over a parking space,or going out 'lib hunting'.
Ah, they're just using the so-called attempt on Drumpf's life as window dressing. Who cares? If it was legit, it's too bad it failed. By the way, he looks like a defendant at Nuremburg.
I definitely feel there is core support for fascism there. They are people who like to be in control, to be seen as the final wall. It is in their DNA to admire authority.
Bingo! I’ve been thinking this for a long time. I posted on Threads not long ago that I wish for every NATO country to send one of their best military members to be added to Kamala‘s security detail. They have a lot at stake in this election as well. I worry about the USSS and Putin pay outs, etc.
And a horrific man to say the least, besides the fact the shooter (?) was registered as a republican. Everything trump does turns into fiasco. His team that helped him stage this fake assassination attempt that hurt others instead of him should be in jail, along with trump.
Some people will do anything for the right amount of dough ! Who the fuck knows if anyone really died ?If Enough DO RE MI is spread around you can shoot someone on 5 th Avenue and not loose a voter ! That sick prick believes that ,and the fucken courts are proving it to be true ! At least until Kat Woman is inaugurated! Meow 😻…..Mo fuckers !
I agree Marguerite, but Trump owes everything to simply creating the possibility of doubt. With his retarded antics we can be positive they are phony but we can’t prove it. That’s all he counts on. It doesn’t even have to look real.
The slimey prick is existing on borrowed time ( not paying interest on it ) he can tie anything up in the courts till after he’s fertilizer pushing up stink weeds!He’s getting more dangerous every day the polls show him and his mind slipping away! Even judges appointed by dems and reasonably fair are being handicapped by fear of retribution from the higher courts and public opinion from the right ! In his oatmeal brain 🧠 he’s got nothing to loose by going all out nuclear to avoid a prison cell for the scant time he’s got left ! We need a land slide asskicking popular vote to avoid the consequences of the House and the SUPREME COURT bagging the electoral college count ! Joe will never give him the car keys regardless of what happens! That will trigger a Civil War! A historical landslide is the only out !…..I hope !🇺🇸
We know from reporting that he practices facial expressions in front of a mirror, like for his mugshot closeup. And it's obvious he loves applying makeup to his face, surely on his own (no self-respecting aesthetician would ever let him go out in public looking like that).
Isn’t it peculiar? I’ve lived through every assasination or assasination attempt since J.F.K. and all of them were front page news for months and years on end !WHY is this one so totally different in every way from all those others ????
Nothing he does at his rally besides speak is ever not staged. I will accept the shooting was real. People died and were wounded (although it's interesting how no-one's followed up with them). So, I accept that wasn't staged in total, but I won't accept that all that followed hasn't been completely staged.
Totally agree with you. Something about that shooting doesn't add up. Trump spends all his waking time eating, raging and thinking of ways to try and manipulate people. They put ads on Craig's List to get fake supporters at rallies. A crowd size of 100 suddenly is 100,000 people to hear Trump tell it. I know nothing about weapons to discuss what went on regarding the shooting, but I worked for years in the ER and the OR and it's the wound/injury part that just doesn't add up. And the deafening silence about any of it since. You never hear about the wife of the dead man anymore or the people that were wounded. MAGAs drag on a story for 10 years if they can and all of a sudden, crickets about the shooting within days after it happening? Hmmm. Smell a rat here.
THAT'S exactly what bothers me, and not doubt so many others like you as well.
Why is there no followup, why isn't the media talking more about his "miraculous" healing? Why aren't they following up with those who were wounded? Why haven't we even seen a disclaimer that the ER docs who saw him won't discuss it, which is why no-one's gotten their story?
At this point of radio silence, I'm starting to wonder if the guy who died was actually shot, and didn't just conveniently die of a heart attack.
It's as if the shooting has become anecdotal and not a real event.
And I'm with you on the wound. I'm a combat vet and have seen what that size caliber bullet can do, and his utter lack of even a scab is beyond unbelievable.
Too bad the shooter missed. I really think it was a stunt that went wrong. It's weird. The media usually feeds on this stuff for months or years. We get nothing.
I think it was 100% staged but it didnt ALL go to plan as schemed out.
Imagine that.
The deaths and casualties may not have been predicted / planned except for the shooter. I think that was planned for him to die , for reasons. How a bullet grazed his ear is beyond me. I think it was a blood pack that exploded, honestly, but then again , republicans a re not that talented or creative to pull off a special effect that well.
I thought it was a blood pack because he immediately slapped his ear and bam there was blood. Plus the notorious coward stood up and did the fist pump. He must have known there was only one gun.
From the walks-like-a-duck perspective, in a culture driven by screens, we are all fairly sophisticated viewers and know viscerally when something's staged as this appeared to be, in every aspect. Plus he's just not that good an actor.
In moments of more ethical journalism (e.g., Watergate, which should be thrown in WaPo's face at every opportunity), it would have been on a loop for a month, on all "sides," would never really die down, and it would feature centrally in the campaign. A subject about him doesn't die unless he says so.
The fact that people really got hurt doesn't work for me that it wasn't staged,it just means Trump is willing to sacrifice anyone necessary for his MAGA cult,and his own lust to regain power at any cost.
What's curious to me is that, when Reagan was shot at there were stories for weeks afterward. And he was actually wounded! Same for Ford.
And there were followup stories on the shooters as well. Hell, there were stories about Hinkley finally being released, yet now, there isn't a single story about the shooter, the investigation, or anything else.
And maybe this is nothing more than the ultra short term attention span of the 24/7 media cycles. But it sure does feel like journalistic malpractice.
Agree. What did law enforcement find on his phone, laptop, his room, at his house? How many neighbors, acquaintances, other students say? What evidence was recovered? Was there an empty blood packet? Where are medical reports?
I used to respect Jake Tapper. After the “debate” shitshow and now by letting Couchfuck McGhee ramble on for NINE MINUTES without asking one question ??!! any respect for him I had went down the toilet.
I Love Scott he is awesome. CNN is owned by one Robert Malone, a man so far right he thinks Fox (so-called) News, is centrist.
"The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate. (Malone was a chief architect in the merger of Discovery and CNN.)
"Malone describes himself as a “libertarian” although he travels in rightwing Republican circles. In 2005, he held 32% of the shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration.
Malone has said he wants CNN to be more like Fox News because, in his view, Fox News has “actual journalism”. Malone also wants the “news” portion of CNN to be “more centrist”.
Reports say the day after the alleged shooting, Turd was photographed in his golf cart. No bandage, ear looked normal. BUT he did "pantiliner" the ear the next week for convention.
Can't disagree with that. And I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't real, just that it's beginning to look more and more hinky as time goes by, and there's absolutely no followup to it.
Perhaps it's nothing more than the media being completely co-opted by fascist owners who don't want the truth known.
exactly, he didnt care one bit.... perhaps an explosive micro blood packer behind the ear went off on cue or manually triggered? I dont know...and the placement of that photographer who captured the well planned and staged "Pulitzer prize" shot.
Exactly. At what point is your credibility shot? The media stenographers just seem to take it all down and reprint, the least they could do is use an eyeroll emoji in their 'reports' of anything out of trump's mouth or his official spokespeople's.
Walz recently interrupted his own speech to call for someone to help a person in his crowd who was succumbing to the heat. He showed genuine concern. But directing attention away from himself in order to care for someone else isn’t something that would ever occur to Donny. It was a completely staged, copycat move.
In Las Vegas' 100+ heat: “I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,” he said, adding that he was joking.
It was at an August 7, 2024 rally that Gov. Walz stopped mid-speech to see to it that a rally goer got the aid he needed when he saw the person was in some kind of medical distress.
I agree with you Doc, I wish everyone on our side would stop it.
I don’t mind questioning why there has been zilch media follow up, why the media aren’t throwing a fit about not being allowed to see the ER Dr’s treatment report or an interview with them. Especially after the way they hounded the shit out of Biden about cognitive health & even asking him in the Holt interview “Why not take a cognitive test?”
Why haven’t they reported any progress reports on the condition of the 2 other people who were shot & seriously injured? If the family refuses to speak to the press, then they could report that, such as “We have inquired about progress of the 2 rally attendees who were injured during the assasination attempt, but the family members declined to speak to us”
It is just really, really strange that the msm has just completely moved on from the entire story.
Yes. Not only that, but remember his awful story he loves to tell about the poor old man, who fell and hit his head on MAL ballroom floor? Not a shred of sympathy, he just worried all that blood from his wound, would stain his marble floors. Also, he never asked if the guy was okay.
I couldn’t help but cry when I saw Gus so proudly wearing his heart on his sleeve. It takes a genuinely loving father to elicit such spontaneous joy from his children ❣️❣️❣️
OMG!! When Gus stood up and pointed and said "That's my Dad!" with tears running down his face...I truly lost it.
After the speech was finished, I went on the hell-hole that once was Twitter, and saw that I wasn't alone...and "Gus" was trending! I scrolled through comments, and they were different versions of mine. Believe me...that was one of the very best feelings I've had on that app for a very long time.💙
It's all the more remarkable that a teenage boy wasn't embarrassed about showing ON NATIONAL TV his deep emotions. That speaks so well of how his parents raised him, and of who Gus is.
Some heartless, despicable asshole posted a MAGA like comparison on Twitter to Gus and Barron. It went something like who would you rather have as your son, Gus or Barron? The answer is easy you twisted fuck. Gus is supported by parents who give much love and support. The son of a convicted felon and former registered sex worker in Amsterdam who tortures animals for shits and giggles can't really say the same.
Expect much more ugliness from MAGA about Gus Walz, but I suspect it's going to blow up in their grotesque faces. That might be when normal people finally say "enough".
That's for sure. It should've been over with when demented Dump mocked that disabled reporter. Now those GOP dung beetles like Ann Coulter think it's ok to go after Gus Walz. Their character flaws are endless.
And for some reason I think trump jr. is their leader, the guy has no skills but he seems to live for trying to be nasty yet clever. But on second thought, that describes the whole MAGAfied Murdoch food chain.
Baron is sadly, a white supremist fanboy, of all the worst people like the "Buttsniffer" guy, and Andrew Tate. Unless his mother intervened, and she is pretty horrible too, it was inevitable.
"Who is Ross, other than someone Barron Trump thinks is cool? Well, it’s hard to explain his career trajectory in a way that doesn’t sound completely unhinged, but essentially the 23-year-old rose to fame by playing video games such as NBA 2K on Twitch (he’s since been banned from that platform after consistently allowing hateful unmoderated content in the chat, and now streams on Kick, a less moderated and more rightwing-friendly alternative).
He then launched into a broader content creation strategy that involved him making a bunch of homophobic jokes and trolling celebrities. “A big part of Adin Ross’ whole persona is that he jokes about being gay in front of his celebrity guests and uploads videos of himself being ‘sus’ around them,” a 2021 Complex profile on Ross explains.
Part of Ross’s “sus” schtick involves … wait for it … making a big show of sniffing people’s recently vacated chairs. There are a bunch of videos of him sniffing chairs, but he’s most famous for a video where he gets a good whiff of Andrew Tate’s chair during a livestream after the guy leaves the room. This has resulted in certain people terming Ross the “butt-sniffer”.
Aligning yourself with someone who is famous for sniffing chairs in a sexually suggestive way is an interesting political strategy, especially when your nominee for vice-president is the butt of a number of jokes because of an online rumour about him once having sexual relations with a couch. Still, at least Trump and Vance, both of whom have a habit of putting their futon their mouth, are on the same page sofa.
To be fair, Ross, who has 1.36 million followers on Kick, is known for more than his weird jokes. He’s famous for hosting white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes on his show, for example."
He is the kind of father I grew up with, the man who adopted me when I was 22 months old, the man who is still, at age 76, my forever hero. Gus made me weep - but, it was happy tears. I will never tire of watching that video.
I've cried tears of joy throughout every single night of this convention! I'm not only convinced that Kamala Harris is going to win this election. I'm convinced she's going to win in a landslide, so big that Trump's going to have to crawl away with his tail between his legs and I'm going to love watching every minute of it.
Yep, any lawyers who try to overturn the election results should ask Powell, Ellis, Rudy Colludy, Eastman, Chesebro, et al if that's a good idea, career-wise
The HarrisWalz team has a huge # of attorneys working or on stand-by. Part of me silently wishes Joe Biden uses SCOTUS'S "Presidential Immunity" card to kill any fuckery 💯.
I can't find it now but I saw a clip of Tim speaking with a reporter on camera. His kids were sitting behind Tim and making rabbit ears over his head. LOL
Wow! That is LITERALLY trump jr.'s only role in this whole thing. I assume he was one of the first to insult Tim Walz's young son (younger, by the way, than Jr.'s stepbrother, who the responsible media leave alone).
At 56 seconds -- but a few seconds before that, his kids are conferring, and in retrospect it seems pretty clear that they're deciding whether to do it:
Jeff, you gotta keep up, it's not "Tampon Tim" anymore, it's "Tiananmen Tim" now. Although if he's an example of Chinese sleeper agents, I'd rather have them running the country than the Russian sleeper agents that have infested the MAGA Party.
THIS!! THIS!! THIS!! I read that Gov. Walz reason for installing free menstrual products in MN school restrooms were bc girls whose families were too poor to purchase these led the students to miss school!. For the males here who may not know, quality menstrual products are expensive!! Low quality or store brands in most cases lead to embarrassing leaks.
For the MAGA who are all triggered about Tim Walz' anniversary date, DJT's wedding date with Ivanka was the day the Germans killed Dietrich Bonhoeffer. DJT's wedding date with Marla Maples was the day South Carolina seceded from the Union. And DJT's wedding date with Melania was the first day of the Russian Revolution. I think we should look into all of this, don't you?
I had just read it, of course the intellectually-challenged Moscow Ron, (MoRon for short) the ghosty-looking senator from Wisconsin claimed that makes him a Chinese communist plant. sigh
That clip of Kamala the Inquisitor is SO great. I’ll forever laugh over how she drove poor nervous li’l Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions to his fainting couch and smelling salts.
Yeah, so I'm crying - but they turn to tears of rage, rage about the utter lack (for the most part) of journalism in this country; rage that today soulless husks of human skin are calling Gus' reaction to his father's nomination "weird;" rage that this race is as close as it is. Rage that even when trump is finally wearing an orange jumpsuit, we will still have to deal with the wreckage of his assault on our country.
Chris: Spot on. My husband and I have been overwhelmed by the perfect execution ofleadership, inspiration, diversity, and wholehearted joy we have witnessed during this convention. There is an embarrassment of riches with the kind of speakers and leaders the Democratic Party is able to assemble. I am grateful.
But like you, I am furious at the recklessness of CNN and any journalistic outlet, providing normalcy and credibility to the Trump campaign. A psycho is a psycho.
Let me paint a picture: Get any of those journalists alone and say if you had to let a man spend a weekend in a condo with your daughter, would it be Donald Trump or Tim Walz? They would pick Tim Walz every day of the week because he would never harm, offend a woman. They would have an awesome experience and Governor Walz probably teach a social studies class for the heck of it.
Now, of course, neither man would ever be alone for a weekend in a condo with someone’s daughter, but I am trying to demonstrate the visceral fear of and dislike toward Donald Trump. That is a shut this shit down right now reaction. And the reaction is telling. So why can’t you, Tapper, have the guts to call it out on news that this person is dangerous, not normal, and should be held to account every single day. That is why I share your rage.
Gotta bring up the bear thing again - did you all see the meme where the bear says "I'm not mad, I want to know will you be safe with this man. Who is he?
I currently prefer to watch MSNBC. Love Rachel Maddow. But NPR or PBS also great. I read 5 newspapers/ online media (BBC, AL Jazaeera) daily to try to get balance.
I don't either. I watch CSPAN. I have a subscription to the Phila. Inquirer. I usually read Will Bunch. And then Independent Journalists. Life's too short. I don't give anybody I don't respect any of my time...not any more!
May I recommend The New Republic? Only $15 for 2 years. (No, I have no connection to it or to anyone who works there; I just respect it.) Also Mother Jones and The Nation.
Is it me or are we the only ones …I mean individual folks ..no big shots or giant foundations,are we alone holding the line against these crazy un-American treasonous bastards ?
Gotta believe 60million Magas; misogynists; hard fast republitards ; and asstd other knuckleheads will be voting for Donny Ratbrain— lets just hope we outvote him by 10 million.
God, I hope he's lost 14 milllion or so from last go-round. I know some have aged out or left this coil, but I'm basing my hopes on the chance they're just too damn bored with the old fart's crazy act at this point.
While the MAGATS tell tales of puppy murder, couch fucking and conspiracy, it is utterly refreshing to see a campaign so positive and packed with energy.
Killing the puppy was a real event— fucking the couch was a made-up story. Jeff says, it's an obvious joke, but this country has proved over and over again it can't tell the difference between story and reality.
"can't tell the difference between story and reality." You mean like thinking that a two bit con man playing a business mogul on reality tv is presidential?
So, these yellow bellied "journalists"want to interview Kamala? Good luck with that, assholes! As for the pieces of shit attacking the Walz family, YOU CAN FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF!!! For you, the forecast calls for PAIN!!😡😡😡
One of the big trump selling points is that reality can be anything you want it to be. That's a very seductive sales pitch. If we embrace that way of thinking, we are just helping the country stay sick.
We'd love to believe that JB fucked a couch. How about when someone makes up a story about Tim and Kamala getting it on to see whether they were compatible or not? But I guess that would be an obvious joke.
Given the way things are nowadays, is that really a surprise? I see many smart people on our side here on Substack who need to seriously readjust their snark-o-meters.
Maybe the majority in this country can tell it's a joke, but I bet there's 40% who believe it's the real deal. I think there are plenty of true things we can say about these jerk offs.
Yeah, I 'm reluctantly stopping my futon and couch jokes. Dee Whitman here posted that spreading hateful msgs makes us more like maga's (paraphrasing).
Well, actually, didn't the AP have to remove the fact that it was false because they couldn't confirm it was false 😂??? Or have they settled on the couch fucking is false? Lol.
Jeff thinks it's a made-up story. He calls it an obvious joke. The guy who made up the story and originally posted it online confessed that it was completely made up. See link number two. See link number three on the A P story.
No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch. This rumor started as a joke on social media and quickly went viral, but it is entirely fictional⁶⁷⁸. The claim originated from a tweet that falsely suggested Vance wrote about such an incident in his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," but there is no truth to it⁸.
I actually think most people know it’s a joke or a rumor, I’ve seen it explained as a rumor started by 1 woman posting it on X. Every time Stephen Colbert makes a joke about it, he always follows it by saying “It’s not true, it’s not true”
Hopefully the references to sofas will wear thin in a short time & there will be something real to use to make fun of JD about; such as that pic in the donut shop of his awful looking haircut. IMO that is way funnier.
It was a guy who started the rumor. I love it when we can mock someone for their real behavior—like Kristi Noem shooting her dog. A few days ago I had a long interaction with a young man who posted the rumor as fact, and when I informed him otherwise, he didn't give a damn. He said he was against practical jokes, but he didn't see any harm in making up someone else's sex life.
I am on the warpath against sexual smears. I think it's one of the worst qualities of our human nature that so many of us love to fantasize about what other people are doing behind their closed doors. It's the cheapest kind of propaganda, all almost all of us are so deeply fascinated by sex. In fact, I'm working on the biography of man about whom many sexual smears were written. Since I'm trying to really get to the truth, having to dig through all this title tattle is very depressing.
On July 15, 2024, shortly after Vance was announced as Donald Trump's running mate, a user with the handle @rickrudescalves falsely claimed that Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," contained a depiction of Vance having intercourse with a couch¹⁴. After two weeks, the man who originated the couch rumor took it down from his ex account.
Just an aside: Mike the idiot who is worshipped for selling pillows, should shove a few of his products into every orifice of his pathetic body. The 12 year old young man should receive free college all the way to a Ph.D.
Marc Elias and his group at Elias Law Group are absolute heroes for Democracy. We would really be up shit creek as a nation without the sacrifice of people like them!💙
true...it's a shame we cant pull off an equal task force of U.S. government lawyers working day and night to protect our own country. We have to rely too heavily on the private sector to save us... Just absolutely insane and sad at the same time.
IIRC, Melissa McCarthy's impression of sean spicer was the 1st time that SNL cast a woman in the role of a well-known man -- and given how bigoted the MAGAts are nad how angry that must've made them, that made it all the more brilliant.
Just like they used to call Hillary...and By the way, they called Kamala all those names here in SF, and statewide in CA...it didn't work then, and it won't work now.
I know CA, and SF are different...but the vibes I see coming through my TV screen...if we can translate it to everything we do from now on, gives me hope!
Lol! However I believe that’s a form of denial. If they thought that her probing questions were justified they wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to denigrate her.
Tapper needs to just go work for fux already. And CNN should be flushed the rest of the way down the sewer. It’s so cute when MAGAts tell me to “watch CNN even they say it” thinking that CNN ever was or still is “liberal”. Gotdamn I can’t wait for murdock to shuffle off…
Both sons are not greedy, though. James is a democratic voter he and his wife walked away from the hate and propaganda. Lachlan, however has gone from being a surf bum, to being said to be worse than his father.
Another GREAT post, Jeff, you're my go-to with coffee (or do you call it "covfefe"?) every AM.
Excellent selection of clips to illustrate your points. I'm Sending this to my sons, who are just beginning to wake up from their "All politicians are the same" stupor that their first 18 years of exposure to what passes for political discourse in this country has caused.
The DNC has been a blast to watch, and the speeches have been great.
And someone should tell both NYT and WaPo that just because someone says they won't do something, doesn't mean they won't. And just because the didn't succeed at something the first time, doesn't mean they won't try a second time.
And, I've been pointing out the "We don't need any more votes. We've got all we need" bullshit since the first time he said it. I have no doubt they've got some utter fuckery up their sleeve.
And, I'm sure the newest law firm hired by the RNC is Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
I chose not to mention in my post about Donny stopping his speech to aid a cultist in distress, but here's what I think about it: it was fucking STAGED. there's no way the Secret Service would have let Donny wander out of his plexiglass playpen unless they knew in advance it was going to happen
Just like the bogus assassination attempt. I will never believe he was hit by AR47 or whatever it was…the miraculous healing ear! Get the fuck outta here!
For the last 4 years the GOP has been nothing more than political stunts and conspiracy theories.
Agreed. But I would extend that to the last 50 years.....
Can't argue with that...
It's all they've got!!
Exactly Bruce, however, this shit show began under Reagan!
It really began with the Republicans who loathed FDR and the New Deal; it went on to Joe McCarthy, and then segued to Goldwater and Nixon. Reagan was a big leap along the way, and Trump is the inevitable result. Although John Adams took the country down the path with the Alien and Sedition Acts, of course our modern scum all take their inspiration from the Confederacy, the first proto-fascist government in American history.
Good point Linda.
It did.
Wag the Dog on steroids.
How’d you know? 🤣
I'm waiting for the hit he's gonna git from the Felony34
9/18/2024 in NYC!
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I can’t help but despair that Judge Merchon will grant him a postponement of his sentencing. I’m strongly hoping that just this once anus-lips won’t get his way about something, but I fear that he will.
It makes me crazy.
…perhaps you mean the elusive ‘AR45’ which only appeared at one 🍊45 event…(and then it was gone…) /s
that was a stab at my ‘once-every-ten-years’ assault weapon’ joke… 😒
😂😂
exactly....an ear blown to pieces and then magically healed in 2 days. And his cultists swallowed it all and wore max-pads on their ears in a delusional solidarity
Hope Trumpy got those ketchup stains out of his Chinese tie.
Bag jobs ……everything that grifter bastard ,demon does or says is a friggen ream job ! No fire 🔥 in hell burns hot enough to torment that vile scumbag sufficiently to balance the scales!🔥🔥💀😵💫
I have thought this as well. The part of this which is really heinous is that the young man that fired the shots is dead , and that was an AR-15, not the most exact weapon in the world. Would they really do that? The rifle that was used to kill the young man was a sniper rifle, one shot was fired.
Yes, they would do that. Trump didn't care who got killed on Jan. 6th.
🎯His latest story is no one died. So much for celebrating Ashley, the actual traitor Babit.
But 9 people died on Jan 6th.
I know several police suicided after, but that was all I could find on the subject.
We know tfg is a coward, the whole thing is just so questionable. Some day we will find the truth.
No. Nobody sane would attempt deliberately missing by 1/3 inch like that with live ammunition on a moving target.
The kid was unbalanced and missed; Agolf Shiter got another break he didn't deserve.
Bench-rested and on a stationary target at 100 yards, with all the time in the world, the best I can do is a 2-inch group using a Colt 6920 LE model.
It's not questionable at all to those with experience.
If it wasn't for that dead firefighter, the others who were wounded, and the dead kid, I would think that the whole thing was nothing more than stagecraft. The miraculously-fast healing ear, the tiny little wound (have you seen the size of the round fired by an AR-15?).
But 2 people are dead, 3 others were wounded, so it's hard to attribute this to mere sympathy-building stagecraft. Although that Fat Fuck cares nothing for collateral damage when it comes to his own ego.
Not that I care about trump’s safety but something feels corrupt about the USSS. The missing text messages, the fact that they knew shooter dude was on the roof, and now this….
There's not much doubt there's still Trump cultist infiltrators in government,the entire House of Representatives and half the Senate for one,and apparently the un-fireable Louis DeJoy.
I suspect he was told who to put in, and where, because he isn't clever enough to understand how gov't actually works, much less who to put in to gum up the works!
I posted Joyce Vance’s Substack link about DeJoy-did it as a separate post late this afternoon.
There are several listed as unindicted co-conspirators in the DC case I believe. My brain does have its limits.
You are correct
The shit is going to hit the fan big time once Kamala is sworn in ! I can’t wait to see the the Federal Pens overflowing with the traitors of the Humps administration! Get the popcorn 🍿 it’s gonna be a laugh a minute watching them crying for their freedom….. that they planned on screwing the American people out of ! Bring back the chain gangs !🇺🇸👍
This entire scenario is causing so much division. It is going to take years to clean the house/senate/scotus!
Agree! But I have full confidence that a President Harris and VP Walz will appoint STRONG DOJ officials . "Paging Allan Bragg, Tish James, Andrew Weisman -- clean up at the DOJ!"
Well, there must be a pony in there somewhere.
I prefer the guillotine.😡😡
Heads on pikes!! Heads on pikes!!
The chain gangs never left in the south. We still have them in rural Florida.
Omg!! For real?
Wow ! Thought those barbaric days were over 25 years ago! Are they still renting the inmates out to the folks with the political connections?
I wish I could remember who had a Substack post about DeJoy and why his ass was still hanging around. This may have been posted about a month ago. If I can find it I’ll post it on Jeff’s page.
Biden (or Harris) needs a majority appointed by them on the Postal Service Board to oust DeJoy.
Yes indeed.
I like that theory but I doubt Joe would be that courageous. Joe is too much of a nice guy based on what Ive seen of him
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞😳
Isn't it every Americans god-given right to be a shooter dude on a roof with an assault rifle anytime all the time? Freedom!
Great point. Maybe republicans should be denied taxpayer funded protection until they start protecting school children.
on what planet?
Unfortunately wont happen , at least not in Kentucky-Fried America.
I like the way you dream, though.
👍👍👍
Damn,I like that.
Along with assault weapon ban, make "open carry" a federal ban. I can't imagine people at the grocery store showing up with a gun.
All it tells me is they are afraid of everything, and have a micropenis.
Magagina.
I could not visit a state with open carry. Too much can go wrong in any situation.
And I believe the spirit of 'stand your ground' was supposed to be about defending your own home,not shooting someone over a parking space,or going out 'lib hunting'.
'Merrikuh!
Trust me bro.
NO, not even kidding, no.
I concur
Ah, they're just using the so-called attempt on Drumpf's life as window dressing. Who cares? If it was legit, it's too bad it failed. By the way, he looks like a defendant at Nuremburg.
100 %
And the fact that supposedly under a shooter threat they allowed his sorry carcass to show itself for a fucking photo op 🤪. That’s messed up as hell.
I definitely feel there is core support for fascism there. They are people who like to be in control, to be seen as the final wall. It is in their DNA to admire authority.
They've been wearing their 'Dictator On Day One' t-shirts recently.
Bingo! I’ve been thinking this for a long time. I posted on Threads not long ago that I wish for every NATO country to send one of their best military members to be added to Kamala‘s security detail. They have a lot at stake in this election as well. I worry about the USSS and Putin pay outs, etc.
Have to agree there.
I thought the same Jeff, staged to gain sympathy votes… after all…. he is an actor…
And a horrific man to say the least, besides the fact the shooter (?) was registered as a republican. Everything trump does turns into fiasco. His team that helped him stage this fake assassination attempt that hurt others instead of him should be in jail, along with trump.
It was a staged event that went wrong. That's pretty obvious to me.
There must be a reason we have never got a proper report on it. I suspect they will lie for him, and continue to use it as propaganda.
I hope Kamala will expose all of it.
Some people will do anything for the right amount of dough ! Who the fuck knows if anyone really died ?If Enough DO RE MI is spread around you can shoot someone on 5 th Avenue and not loose a voter ! That sick prick believes that ,and the fucken courts are proving it to be true ! At least until Kat Woman is inaugurated! Meow 😻…..Mo fuckers !
I agree Marguerite, but Trump owes everything to simply creating the possibility of doubt. With his retarded antics we can be positive they are phony but we can’t prove it. That’s all he counts on. It doesn’t even have to look real.
The slimey prick is existing on borrowed time ( not paying interest on it ) he can tie anything up in the courts till after he’s fertilizer pushing up stink weeds!He’s getting more dangerous every day the polls show him and his mind slipping away! Even judges appointed by dems and reasonably fair are being handicapped by fear of retribution from the higher courts and public opinion from the right ! In his oatmeal brain 🧠 he’s got nothing to loose by going all out nuclear to avoid a prison cell for the scant time he’s got left ! We need a land slide asskicking popular vote to avoid the consequences of the House and the SUPREME COURT bagging the electoral college count ! Joe will never give him the car keys regardless of what happens! That will trigger a Civil War! A historical landslide is the only out !…..I hope !🇺🇸
You will have your landslide asskicking win, Runkal. No doubt in my mind.
He's a snake oil salesman and the rubes love buying his shit.
I have a meme with a door to door salesman. that says "I saw your "trump" sign and know you'll buy anyrthing."
Now that is great!
My first lol of the day ! 😂👏👏
He's dabbled in acting; but he's a lifelong pro-wrestling fan. Staging fake incidents is what WWE is known for.
We know from reporting that he practices facial expressions in front of a mirror, like for his mugshot closeup. And it's obvious he loves applying makeup to his face, surely on his own (no self-respecting aesthetician would ever let him go out in public looking like that).
Kevin, the way Donald acts and talks I would correct your dabbled comment and just say Donald is dabbing along with snorting some white substance😃
Does his own makeup and hair. Explains a lot.
Same. Too bad a couple of people died, although we haven't heard much about them lately...
Isn’t it peculiar? I’ve lived through every assasination or assasination attempt since J.F.K. and all of them were front page news for months and years on end !WHY is this one so totally different in every way from all those others ????
Where are the detailed medical reports?
The damn hug at the end of his performance was so nauseating! How he must have sounded and smelled 🫣
A bad one, but yes.
A fucking awful one at that!
Right? They would have handed him a rattle instead.
He’s trying to replicate Tim’s genuine help for someone in an audience
Nothing he does at his rally besides speak is ever not staged. I will accept the shooting was real. People died and were wounded (although it's interesting how no-one's followed up with them). So, I accept that wasn't staged in total, but I won't accept that all that followed hasn't been completely staged.
Totally agree with you. Something about that shooting doesn't add up. Trump spends all his waking time eating, raging and thinking of ways to try and manipulate people. They put ads on Craig's List to get fake supporters at rallies. A crowd size of 100 suddenly is 100,000 people to hear Trump tell it. I know nothing about weapons to discuss what went on regarding the shooting, but I worked for years in the ER and the OR and it's the wound/injury part that just doesn't add up. And the deafening silence about any of it since. You never hear about the wife of the dead man anymore or the people that were wounded. MAGAs drag on a story for 10 years if they can and all of a sudden, crickets about the shooting within days after it happening? Hmmm. Smell a rat here.
THAT'S exactly what bothers me, and not doubt so many others like you as well.
Why is there no followup, why isn't the media talking more about his "miraculous" healing? Why aren't they following up with those who were wounded? Why haven't we even seen a disclaimer that the ER docs who saw him won't discuss it, which is why no-one's gotten their story?
At this point of radio silence, I'm starting to wonder if the guy who died was actually shot, and didn't just conveniently die of a heart attack.
It's as if the shooting has become anecdotal and not a real event.
And I'm with you on the wound. I'm a combat vet and have seen what that size caliber bullet can do, and his utter lack of even a scab is beyond unbelievable.
Had he been hit by an AR-15 bullet, the impact would have torn his ear off at the least, if not create further injury to the side of his head.
Too bad the shooter missed. I really think it was a stunt that went wrong. It's weird. The media usually feeds on this stuff for months or years. We get nothing.
Even they know it is fake.
Exactly. The whole thing stinks to fucking high heaven!😡😡
I think it was 100% staged but it didnt ALL go to plan as schemed out.
Imagine that.
The deaths and casualties may not have been predicted / planned except for the shooter. I think that was planned for him to die , for reasons. How a bullet grazed his ear is beyond me. I think it was a blood pack that exploded, honestly, but then again , republicans a re not that talented or creative to pull off a special effect that well.
I thought it was a blood pack because he immediately slapped his ear and bam there was blood. Plus the notorious coward stood up and did the fist pump. He must have known there was only one gun.
I do too!
They know wrestling, and phoney violence type acting though.
From the walks-like-a-duck perspective, in a culture driven by screens, we are all fairly sophisticated viewers and know viscerally when something's staged as this appeared to be, in every aspect. Plus he's just not that good an actor.
In moments of more ethical journalism (e.g., Watergate, which should be thrown in WaPo's face at every opportunity), it would have been on a loop for a month, on all "sides," would never really die down, and it would feature centrally in the campaign. A subject about him doesn't die unless he says so.
The fact that people really got hurt doesn't work for me that it wasn't staged,it just means Trump is willing to sacrifice anyone necessary for his MAGA cult,and his own lust to regain power at any cost.
I certainly wouldn't argue with that.
What's curious to me is that, when Reagan was shot at there were stories for weeks afterward. And he was actually wounded! Same for Ford.
And there were followup stories on the shooters as well. Hell, there were stories about Hinkley finally being released, yet now, there isn't a single story about the shooter, the investigation, or anything else.
And maybe this is nothing more than the ultra short term attention span of the 24/7 media cycles. But it sure does feel like journalistic malpractice.
Agree. What did law enforcement find on his phone, laptop, his room, at his house? How many neighbors, acquaintances, other students say? What evidence was recovered? Was there an empty blood packet? Where are medical reports?
All of the above. The whole thing doesn't pass the smell test.
I agree, Scott is on a mission to get msm to actually print the truth.
I used to respect Jake Tapper. After the “debate” shitshow and now by letting Couchfuck McGhee ramble on for NINE MINUTES without asking one question ??!! any respect for him I had went down the toilet.
I Love Scott he is awesome. CNN is owned by one Robert Malone, a man so far right he thinks Fox (so-called) News, is centrist.
"The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate. (Malone was a chief architect in the merger of Discovery and CNN.)
"Malone describes himself as a “libertarian” although he travels in rightwing Republican circles. In 2005, he held 32% of the shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration.
Malone has said he wants CNN to be more like Fox News because, in his view, Fox News has “actual journalism”. Malone also wants the “news” portion of CNN to be “more centrist”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/the-changes-at-cnn-look-politically-motivated-that-should-concern-us-all
That tracks with Hitler, Stalin, Mao Pol Pot, etc.
His spokes-ghoul Stephan Miller, is well versed in Nazi history.
Reports say the day after the alleged shooting, Turd was photographed in his golf cart. No bandage, ear looked normal. BUT he did "pantiliner" the ear the next week for convention.
I feel like the shooting was real but he wasn’t hit and was never a target. Didn’t matter to him that other people would die.
Can't disagree with that. And I didn't mean to suggest it wasn't real, just that it's beginning to look more and more hinky as time goes by, and there's absolutely no followup to it.
Perhaps it's nothing more than the media being completely co-opted by fascist owners who don't want the truth known.
exactly, he didnt care one bit.... perhaps an explosive micro blood packer behind the ear went off on cue or manually triggered? I dont know...and the placement of that photographer who captured the well planned and staged "Pulitzer prize" shot.
And how he got the American flag in it I'll never know. I did not see one in the video.
Trump has cried wolf too many times to believe him anymore.
Exactly. At what point is your credibility shot? The media stenographers just seem to take it all down and reprint, the least they could do is use an eyeroll emoji in their 'reports' of anything out of trump's mouth or his official spokespeople's.
He saw Tim do it, that's all. Since Trump doesn't know how to be human, he has to be a copy-cat and pretend.
Walz recently interrupted his own speech to call for someone to help a person in his crowd who was succumbing to the heat. He showed genuine concern. But directing attention away from himself in order to care for someone else isn’t something that would ever occur to Donny. It was a completely staged, copycat move.
August 7, 2024, Walz Michigan rally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIKCSa39lRU
Then in Wisconsin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml72aisBHWw
Here's article from two months ago about what Trump did for one of his supporters
(seems closer to the truth):
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-ridiculed-for-drinking-water-while-one-of-his-supporters-receives-medical-attention-at-bronx-rally/ar-BB1n0tXs
In Las Vegas' 100+ heat: “I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,” he said, adding that he was joking.
It was at an August 7, 2024 rally that Gov. Walz stopped mid-speech to see to it that a rally goer got the aid he needed when he saw the person was in some kind of medical distress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIKCSa39lRU
Perhaps that's where Bone Spurs got the idea to do the same?
His advisors more likely, trump is a sociopath. That would never occur to him, nor would the SS allow it.
And every medical professional knows that after fainting from the extreme heat, you should be embraced by 98.6° of lard. 🙄
Like the assassination attempt
This "theory" is frankly as loony as any of the MAGA Q-ideas. I wish people would drop it, it makes us look nuts.
I agree with you Doc, I wish everyone on our side would stop it.
I don’t mind questioning why there has been zilch media follow up, why the media aren’t throwing a fit about not being allowed to see the ER Dr’s treatment report or an interview with them. Especially after the way they hounded the shit out of Biden about cognitive health & even asking him in the Holt interview “Why not take a cognitive test?”
Why haven’t they reported any progress reports on the condition of the 2 other people who were shot & seriously injured? If the family refuses to speak to the press, then they could report that, such as “We have inquired about progress of the 2 rally attendees who were injured during the assasination attempt, but the family members declined to speak to us”
It is just really, really strange that the msm has just completely moved on from the entire story.
Kind of like when Rudy took a call from his wife while he was making a campaign speech a few years back. Total baloney!
Yes. Not only that, but remember his awful story he loves to tell about the poor old man, who fell and hit his head on MAL ballroom floor? Not a shred of sympathy, he just worried all that blood from his wound, would stain his marble floors. Also, he never asked if the guy was okay.
I haven't seen that. Does anyone have a link?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i6L71frcH4o
I didn’t know about that. Looks like no one else is mentioning it either. It’s not in any of the news that I’ve seen.
Google it
Yeah, the ONLY reason that was staged was Walz' very genuine call for aid to a rally-goer.
I couldn’t help but cry when I saw Gus so proudly wearing his heart on his sleeve. It takes a genuinely loving father to elicit such spontaneous joy from his children ❣️❣️❣️
OMG!! When Gus stood up and pointed and said "That's my Dad!" with tears running down his face...I truly lost it.
After the speech was finished, I went on the hell-hole that once was Twitter, and saw that I wasn't alone...and "Gus" was trending! I scrolled through comments, and they were different versions of mine. Believe me...that was one of the very best feelings I've had on that app for a very long time.💙
“That’s my dad” wiped me out. 😭
what loving child wouldn't feel such strong emotion. Hell, I teared up watching him.
It's all the more remarkable that a teenage boy wasn't embarrassed about showing ON NATIONAL TV his deep emotions. That speaks so well of how his parents raised him, and of who Gus is.
Me too. 😭
My entire household. 😭
Gus showed something that will NEVER happen with tRump's family
Unless he paid them a huge sum of money, no. Money is the loved one in the trump family.
Universally felt expression of love and unfettered emotion: Gus’ reaction was worth a thousand words
And every time I see the video I'm wiped out yet again!
Me, too! 😹
Me too! I love that kid! Reminded me of how proud I was of my own Dad.
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Some heartless, despicable asshole posted a MAGA like comparison on Twitter to Gus and Barron. It went something like who would you rather have as your son, Gus or Barron? The answer is easy you twisted fuck. Gus is supported by parents who give much love and support. The son of a convicted felon and former registered sex worker in Amsterdam who tortures animals for shits and giggles can't really say the same.
Expect much more ugliness from MAGA about Gus Walz, but I suspect it's going to blow up in their grotesque faces. That might be when normal people finally say "enough".
Dems, being decent people, laid off Barron. We know that MAGAts won't observe any code of decency with regard to the Walz kids.
ETA: I remember some GOP making a very cruel comment about Chelsea Clinton when she was somewhere between 13 and 16. Deplorables indeed.
Right- she had braces then- which give kids an awkward look-
I sure hope so. They keep sinking lower by the day.
You would think...but not likely I'm afraid...
Hope you're wrong. I guess this election will show us just how sick this country really is.
That's for sure. It should've been over with when demented Dump mocked that disabled reporter. Now those GOP dung beetles like Ann Coulter think it's ok to go after Gus Walz. Their character flaws are endless.
Agree. Turd mocking a disabled person was a full on 5 alarm fire. Magas didn't care. Vote 💙💙💙💙 all down the ballot! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's certainly ultrasick online. I just hope it's confined there to that ultra-online segment of MAGA.
Yeah…I wouldn’t go there if I were them, but they’re heartless so they will.
How black and empty can their hearts be? It's absolutely being blotted out now by the JOY, GOODNESS & OPTIMISM of Kamala & Tim!
They've already started, and the comments are evil and vicious beyond belief.
And for some reason I think trump jr. is their leader, the guy has no skills but he seems to live for trying to be nasty yet clever. But on second thought, that describes the whole MAGAfied Murdoch food chain.
He's still pathetically trying to troll his way, into his father's black, shriveled, heart.
So far Barron has accomplished being tall.
And being an edge-lord fanboy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/donald-trump-adin-ross-young-men
Baron is sadly, a white supremist fanboy, of all the worst people like the "Buttsniffer" guy, and Andrew Tate. Unless his mother intervened, and she is pretty horrible too, it was inevitable.
"Who is Ross, other than someone Barron Trump thinks is cool? Well, it’s hard to explain his career trajectory in a way that doesn’t sound completely unhinged, but essentially the 23-year-old rose to fame by playing video games such as NBA 2K on Twitch (he’s since been banned from that platform after consistently allowing hateful unmoderated content in the chat, and now streams on Kick, a less moderated and more rightwing-friendly alternative).
He then launched into a broader content creation strategy that involved him making a bunch of homophobic jokes and trolling celebrities. “A big part of Adin Ross’ whole persona is that he jokes about being gay in front of his celebrity guests and uploads videos of himself being ‘sus’ around them,” a 2021 Complex profile on Ross explains.
Part of Ross’s “sus” schtick involves … wait for it … making a big show of sniffing people’s recently vacated chairs. There are a bunch of videos of him sniffing chairs, but he’s most famous for a video where he gets a good whiff of Andrew Tate’s chair during a livestream after the guy leaves the room. This has resulted in certain people terming Ross the “butt-sniffer”.
Aligning yourself with someone who is famous for sniffing chairs in a sexually suggestive way is an interesting political strategy, especially when your nominee for vice-president is the butt of a number of jokes because of an online rumour about him once having sexual relations with a couch. Still, at least Trump and Vance, both of whom have a habit of putting their futon their mouth, are on the same page sofa.
To be fair, Ross, who has 1.36 million followers on Kick, is known for more than his weird jokes. He’s famous for hosting white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes on his show, for example."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/donald-trump-adin-ross-young-men
Thanks, one of the more disturbing things I’ve read today!
They really are some demented twisted people.
There were tears here!
Truth!
Same....it was beautiful. I kept thinking, we're gonna be ok. It's going to be ok.
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Yes!!
Not ashamed to admit the waterworks were on here.
Oh boy, my tear ducts went crazy over Gus Walz!!!! Didn't think I could love Tim more. I'm 68. Tim is the kind of father I wish I grew up with. ❤️
He's America's dad, now.
My thoughts exactly
Me too!
He is the kind of father I grew up with, the man who adopted me when I was 22 months old, the man who is still, at age 76, my forever hero. Gus made me weep - but, it was happy tears. I will never tire of watching that video.
I've cried tears of joy throughout every single night of this convention! I'm not only convinced that Kamala Harris is going to win this election. I'm convinced she's going to win in a landslide, so big that Trump's going to have to crawl away with his tail between his legs and I'm going to love watching every minute of it.
Lets do it! Fuckin’. A!!!!!!!!
We really need to stop marketing hate against fellow Americans profitable for billionaires,media and politicians.
I don't hate them, I pity them.
'Hate' would imply I ever gave a shit about them.
👍👍👍
Yep, any lawyers who try to overturn the election results should ask Powell, Ellis, Rudy Colludy, Eastman, Chesebro, et al if that's a good idea, career-wise
The HarrisWalz team has a huge # of attorneys working or on stand-by. Part of me silently wishes Joe Biden uses SCOTUS'S "Presidential Immunity" card to kill any fuckery 💯.
“trumpanzees” 🤣
It has been a real pleasure to see normal people acting in normal ways for a change.
I can't find it now but I saw a clip of Tim speaking with a reporter on camera. His kids were sitting behind Tim and making rabbit ears over his head. LOL
I saw that. Tim has a wonderful family.
Salt of the earth that guy and his family!!
And Drumpf & his are salt rubbing into wound kind of family.
Wow! That is LITERALLY trump jr.'s only role in this whole thing. I assume he was one of the first to insult Tim Walz's young son (younger, by the way, than Jr.'s stepbrother, who the responsible media leave alone).
At 56 seconds -- but a few seconds before that, his kids are conferring, and in retrospect it seems pretty clear that they're deciding whether to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW5cfkrvhrY
Love it..thank you!
Hello lightness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Triple heart.
Yes, same! 🇺🇸💙
Yes!!!
You don't go in for hateful, nonsensical ranting?
Isn’t that the truth???!
Kavanaugh’s famous quote, “I like beer, I still like beer.” says it all. 😂 Me, “I like Roe, I still like Roe.” So much for settled law Brett. 🙄
Jeff, you gotta keep up, it's not "Tampon Tim" anymore, it's "Tiananmen Tim" now. Although if he's an example of Chinese sleeper agents, I'd rather have them running the country than the Russian sleeper agents that have infested the MAGA Party.
Tampon Tim vs. The Menstrual Surveillance Hawk. 😄
THIS!! THIS!! THIS!! I read that Gov. Walz reason for installing free menstrual products in MN school restrooms were bc girls whose families were too poor to purchase these led the students to miss school!. For the males here who may not know, quality menstrual products are expensive!! Low quality or store brands in most cases lead to embarrassing leaks.
For the MAGA who are all triggered about Tim Walz' anniversary date, DJT's wedding date with Ivanka was the day the Germans killed Dietrich Bonhoeffer. DJT's wedding date with Marla Maples was the day South Carolina seceded from the Union. And DJT's wedding date with Melania was the first day of the Russian Revolution. I think we should look into all of this, don't you?
Well researched! Garland will look into
all of this STAT!
Get Fox Noise right on it!
What's this about Tim & Gwen's anniversary date?! Do tell!
They picked the date of the Tianamen square massacre, to honor those brave students.
Thank you.
I had just read it, of course the intellectually-challenged Moscow Ron, (MoRon for short) the ghosty-looking senator from Wisconsin claimed that makes him a Chinese communist plant. sigh
Not even sure you can call them "sleeper" agents given their seemingly very overt support of Russia.
How much money is Ivanka still making off her Chinese patents?? And some for gawdsakes for voting machines??!!
And coffin and/or body bag parents a couple months into COVID.
Goddamn MTG bought pharmaceutical stocks while raging about the vaccine!!!
That clip of Kamala the Inquisitor is SO great. I’ll forever laugh over how she drove poor nervous li’l Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions to his fainting couch and smelling salts.
I still think of him as the Keebler Elf.
Makes it hard to enjoy their cookies.
Yeah, so I'm crying - but they turn to tears of rage, rage about the utter lack (for the most part) of journalism in this country; rage that today soulless husks of human skin are calling Gus' reaction to his father's nomination "weird;" rage that this race is as close as it is. Rage that even when trump is finally wearing an orange jumpsuit, we will still have to deal with the wreckage of his assault on our country.
Chris: Spot on. My husband and I have been overwhelmed by the perfect execution ofleadership, inspiration, diversity, and wholehearted joy we have witnessed during this convention. There is an embarrassment of riches with the kind of speakers and leaders the Democratic Party is able to assemble. I am grateful.
But like you, I am furious at the recklessness of CNN and any journalistic outlet, providing normalcy and credibility to the Trump campaign. A psycho is a psycho.
Let me paint a picture: Get any of those journalists alone and say if you had to let a man spend a weekend in a condo with your daughter, would it be Donald Trump or Tim Walz? They would pick Tim Walz every day of the week because he would never harm, offend a woman. They would have an awesome experience and Governor Walz probably teach a social studies class for the heck of it.
Now, of course, neither man would ever be alone for a weekend in a condo with someone’s daughter, but I am trying to demonstrate the visceral fear of and dislike toward Donald Trump. That is a shut this shit down right now reaction. And the reaction is telling. So why can’t you, Tapper, have the guts to call it out on news that this person is dangerous, not normal, and should be held to account every single day. That is why I share your rage.
Gotta bring up the bear thing again - did you all see the meme where the bear says "I'm not mad, I want to know will you be safe with this man. Who is he?
Woman: Tim Walz,
Bear: TIMMY? OMG TELL HIM I SAY HELLO!"
Stopped watching CNN a few years ago. Before that I had a steady diet. Their effort to be "neutral" is pathetic.
I like MSNBC. Does it work for you? If not, how about The NewsHour on PBS, or NPR?
I currently prefer to watch MSNBC. Love Rachel Maddow. But NPR or PBS also great. I read 5 newspapers/ online media (BBC, AL Jazaeera) daily to try to get balance.
All three. With a grain of salt when needed.
I have CNN right up there with the NYT and WaPo when it comes to sh*tty journalism. We have identified them as enemies of We The People.
Tapper is employed by Trumpers. He’s not brave enough to walk away from his salary - YET.
I don't read those publications anymore and maybe that's why I'm not feeling the rage. I'd rather feel the joy!
I don't either. I watch CSPAN. I have a subscription to the Phila. Inquirer. I usually read Will Bunch. And then Independent Journalists. Life's too short. I don't give anybody I don't respect any of my time...not any more!
May I recommend The New Republic? Only $15 for 2 years. (No, I have no connection to it or to anyone who works there; I just respect it.) Also Mother Jones and The Nation.
I get both ..mags also ,..pretty fair journalism and opinions! I’m not disappointed by either publication. Reader supported.
So refreshing to just watch the speeches wo the inane commentary.
Yes! We don't need any of these over-rated talking-heads telling us what we're supposed to think about what we hear. I'm so done with that!
Huzzah!!
Same!
I don't ether, but Jeff keeps brining them up! It's okay I don't blame him. 🤣
Yes,I agree.That this race is even close speaks volumes about our country.
Cowardly journalists are seriously pissing me right off,seems like CNN is being run by the Murdochs.
Is it me or are we the only ones …I mean individual folks ..no big shots or giant foundations,are we alone holding the line against these crazy un-American treasonous bastards ?
Oops !I should have read a bit further on !😬🤐
Close, Robert Malone, one of his investors.
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
Gotta believe 60million Magas; misogynists; hard fast republitards ; and asstd other knuckleheads will be voting for Donny Ratbrain— lets just hope we outvote him by 10 million.
God, I hope he's lost 14 milllion or so from last go-round. I know some have aged out or left this coil, but I'm basing my hopes on the chance they're just too damn bored with the old fart's crazy act at this point.
While the MAGATS tell tales of puppy murder, couch fucking and conspiracy, it is utterly refreshing to see a campaign so positive and packed with energy.
Killing the puppy was a real event— fucking the couch was a made-up story. Jeff says, it's an obvious joke, but this country has proved over and over again it can't tell the difference between story and reality.
"can't tell the difference between story and reality." You mean like thinking that a two bit con man playing a business mogul on reality tv is presidential?
So, these yellow bellied "journalists"want to interview Kamala? Good luck with that, assholes! As for the pieces of shit attacking the Walz family, YOU CAN FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF!!! For you, the forecast calls for PAIN!!😡😡😡
One of the big trump selling points is that reality can be anything you want it to be. That's a very seductive sales pitch. If we embrace that way of thinking, we are just helping the country stay sick.
We'd love to believe that JB fucked a couch. How about when someone makes up a story about Tim and Kamala getting it on to see whether they were compatible or not? But I guess that would be an obvious joke.
Given the way things are nowadays, is that really a surprise? I see many smart people on our side here on Substack who need to seriously readjust their snark-o-meters.
:D
Or maybe the majority in this country enjoy a good joke!
Maybe the majority in this country can tell it's a joke, but I bet there's 40% who believe it's the real deal. I think there are plenty of true things we can say about these jerk offs.
Then we should say them instead of stupid stuff.
Yeah, I 'm reluctantly stopping my futon and couch jokes. Dee Whitman here posted that spreading hateful msgs makes us more like maga's (paraphrasing).
Yes, but it is a strategy. You don't have to participate but it does work.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/so-what-is-counterdisinformation
Let the former fact-checker for Snopes explain this to you.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/so-what-is-counterdisinformation
Excellent post. I just read it.
Well, actually, didn't the AP have to remove the fact that it was false because they couldn't confirm it was false 😂??? Or have they settled on the couch fucking is false? Lol.
Jeff thinks it's a made-up story. He calls it an obvious joke. The guy who made up the story and originally posted it online confessed that it was completely made up. See link number two. See link number three on the A P story.
No, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch. This rumor started as a joke on social media and quickly went viral, but it is entirely fictional⁶⁷⁸. The claim originated from a tweet that falsely suggested Vance wrote about such an incident in his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," but there is no truth to it⁸.
(1) Why The Internet Thinks JD Vance Made Love To A Couch - The Daily Dot. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jd-vance-make-love-couch-rumor-debunk/.
(2) Guy Who Started Bogus J.D. Vance Couch Rumors Breaks His Silence. https://www.thedailybeast.com/guy-who-started-bogus-jd-vance-couch-rumors-breaks-his-silence.
(3) JD Vance couch memes, explained: Why AP pulled its story - For The Win. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/07/jd-vance-couch-memes-associated-press.
(4) JD Vance's Unpopularity is Now in the Double Digits. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jd-vance-s-unpopularity-is-now-in-the-double-digits/ar-AA1pgei6.
(5) JD Vance to make fundraiser appearance in Pikeville. What we know. https://news.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-fundraiser-appearance-pikeville-162547514.html.
(6) JD Vance Appears to Suggest Democrats 'Tried To Kill' Donald Trump. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jd-vance-appears-to-suggest-democrats-tried-to-kill-donald-trump/ar-AA1pffek.
(7) JD Vance - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance.
(8) JD Vance once thought he was gay, changed his name twice - Advocate.com. https://www.advocate.com/election/jd-vance-gay-name-change.
(9) AP pulls story fact-checking whether JD Vance had sex with a couch - SFGATE. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/ap-pulls-story-over-claim-vance-had-sex-with-couch-19597264.php.
(10) undefined. https://twitter.com/Rainbow08241763/status/1815965119442030817.
I actually think most people know it’s a joke or a rumor, I’ve seen it explained as a rumor started by 1 woman posting it on X. Every time Stephen Colbert makes a joke about it, he always follows it by saying “It’s not true, it’s not true”
Hopefully the references to sofas will wear thin in a short time & there will be something real to use to make fun of JD about; such as that pic in the donut shop of his awful looking haircut. IMO that is way funnier.
It was a guy who started the rumor. I love it when we can mock someone for their real behavior—like Kristi Noem shooting her dog. A few days ago I had a long interaction with a young man who posted the rumor as fact, and when I informed him otherwise, he didn't give a damn. He said he was against practical jokes, but he didn't see any harm in making up someone else's sex life.
I am on the warpath against sexual smears. I think it's one of the worst qualities of our human nature that so many of us love to fantasize about what other people are doing behind their closed doors. It's the cheapest kind of propaganda, all almost all of us are so deeply fascinated by sex. In fact, I'm working on the biography of man about whom many sexual smears were written. Since I'm trying to really get to the truth, having to dig through all this title tattle is very depressing.
On July 15, 2024, shortly after Vance was announced as Donald Trump's running mate, a user with the handle @rickrudescalves falsely claimed that Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," contained a depiction of Vance having intercourse with a couch¹⁴. After two weeks, the man who originated the couch rumor took it down from his ex account.
(2) Couches, dolphins and eyeliner: The truth behind JD Vance memes. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/08/05/jd-vance-couch-dolphins-eyeliner/74617348007/.
(6) Why “JD Vance Couch Story” Is Trending and the Truth Behind It. https://thenerdstash.com/why-jd-vance-couch-story-is-trending-and-the-truth-behind-it/.
Just an aside: Mike the idiot who is worshipped for selling pillows, should shove a few of his products into every orifice of his pathetic body. The 12 year old young man should receive free college all the way to a Ph.D.
That kid is definitely going to be heard from again.
Lindell belongs in prison and/or a mental hospital.
I’d go for the mental hospital, permanent admission and a hard pillow.
Pillow-man is such a pathetic loser. These idiot MAGAs now have to dress up to try to make trouble at the DNC...smh😡
I don’t know what Mike uses to stuff his shitty pillows …..but it’s certainly more substantial than what’s between his ears ! 🫛🧠
Lumpy shitty pillows.
GOOD NEWS: "Team Kamala has hired a massive number of lawyers to deal with the inevitable post-election shit-show."
BOTTOM LINE: If you contribute to DFF, you are hiring lawyers to defend him. If you contribute to Kamala, you are hiring lawyers to defend US.
There are also a slew of attorneys signing up to volunteer as well.
Shout out to Marc Elias!!! Who the GOP tried to buy off with a half a billion dollar BRIBE to stop his work defending democracy!!!
Marc Elias and his group at Elias Law Group are absolute heroes for Democracy. We would really be up shit creek as a nation without the sacrifice of people like them!💙
true...it's a shame we cant pull off an equal task force of U.S. government lawyers working day and night to protect our own country. We have to rely too heavily on the private sector to save us... Just absolutely insane and sad at the same time.
Elie Mystal, who I love to listen to, said that he was doubling his contribution to Kamala when he heard that Marc Elias was going onto her staff!
Thats a great observation!
Gosh, I'd forgotten all about Jeff Sessions...
he's eminently forgettable
Sessions: Forgettable but great fodder for humor!
the only reason I remember Sessions at all is because of Kate McKinnon's imitation of him on SNL
IIRC, Melissa McCarthy's impression of sean spicer was the 1st time that SNL cast a woman in the role of a well-known man -- and given how bigoted the MAGAts are nad how angry that must've made them, that made it all the more brilliant.
Stephen Colbert treated him like a Keebler elf.
She was great 😊
Then Senator Kamala Harris owned those RWNJs during the hearings and that’s a fact that nobody can deny.
They don't deny it. But they called her nasty, a bitch, spewed a bunch of hate and misogyny, attacked her. Buttheads!
Just like they used to call Hillary...and By the way, they called Kamala all those names here in SF, and statewide in CA...it didn't work then, and it won't work now.
I know CA, and SF are different...but the vibes I see coming through my TV screen...if we can translate it to everything we do from now on, gives me hope!
Lol! However I believe that’s a form of denial. If they thought that her probing questions were justified they wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to denigrate her.
They are so non-eloquent
Besides stupid
Tapper needs to just go work for fux already. And CNN should be flushed the rest of the way down the sewer. It’s so cute when MAGAts tell me to “watch CNN even they say it” thinking that CNN ever was or still is “liberal”. Gotdamn I can’t wait for murdock to shuffle off…
CNN is owned by a Murdoch investornamed Robert Malone.
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
Yep, wish more people knew this!
I'm trying! I keep two articles to post so people understand why Cnn has soured.
We can always count on you !!
But Murdoch has left his spawn behind him. They shall carry on.
I still stand by my statement
I only commented that as long as Fox remains profitable it will stay Fox. Greedy billionaire Murdoch has taught his greedy sons well.
Both sons are not greedy, though. James is a democratic voter he and his wife walked away from the hate and propaganda. Lachlan, however has gone from being a surf bum, to being said to be worse than his father.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/james-murdoch-rupert-murdoch-interview-news-corp-resignation-b992518.html
As with Rush Limpblob, he has imitators, but his demise still improved the planet
Exactly!!
Another GREAT post, Jeff, you're my go-to with coffee (or do you call it "covfefe"?) every AM.
Excellent selection of clips to illustrate your points. I'm Sending this to my sons, who are just beginning to wake up from their "All politicians are the same" stupor that their first 18 years of exposure to what passes for political discourse in this country has caused.
Great news to hear they're waking up. Joyce Vance says that if voting makes no difference, why do they try so hard to keep us from voting?
The DNC has been a blast to watch, and the speeches have been great.
And someone should tell both NYT and WaPo that just because someone says they won't do something, doesn't mean they won't. And just because the didn't succeed at something the first time, doesn't mean they won't try a second time.
And, I've been pointing out the "We don't need any more votes. We've got all we need" bullshit since the first time he said it. I have no doubt they've got some utter fuckery up their sleeve.
And, I'm sure the newest law firm hired by the RNC is Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
Preach!
A 3 Stooches reference!! I love it!!