Well, Asheville is my longtime hometown. It’s a 🔵 in the mountains, well known for its great beers, hiking and other touristy things, surrounded by a sea of red. The city got stiffed by his campaign the first time so they got smart this time and made them pay ahead, as you said. I despise the man and wish he’d crawl off somewhere and fade to black(his favorite color).
Jeff, thanks for the details on Ashville, NC's smart move to get paid up front from this deadbeat who owes lots of cities for venues, police overtime, etc. I've tweeted Fixed Noise to ask why reporter didn't press for a reply & let him lie more.
Not any longer unfortunately. I miss my mountains but that part of the country got too expensive for a retiree so I “invaded” Panamá in Central America. It’s much more reasonable. I grew up across the street from Asheville High(Lee Edward’s, class 1964).
Roseanne Roseanadanna was a SNL character, played by Gilda Radner back in 1977 or so, she was a dingy New Yorker who was always getting mail from NJ which as a NYer she would always say cattily "You ask good questions for a person from NJ."
"The name Hackensack, New Jersey comes from the Achkinheshcky language and means "mouth of a river". The Lenni Lenape Native Americans originally lived in the area and called it "Ackingsah-sack"." Take a hint from Jeff and use Google when YOU DON'T "FKING" KNOW!
"The name Hackensack, New Jersey comes from the Achkinheshcky language and means "mouth of a river". The Lenni Lenape Native Americans originally lived in the area and called it "Ackingsah-sack"." Google search.
I was born Middletown Connecticut, incorporated in 1651, although some cities have British names,most still have some connections to their Native American roots.
Hell yes, I sure care, & I wish the msm would cover what is going on in Ukraine much more than they do.
The daily genocide in Gaza has fallen off their radar too.
If it weren’t for Zeteo & Ayman Moylhedin I wouldn’t know about the sexual abuse torture of a male Palestinian prisoner by Israeli prison guards. It’s stomach churning & I’m ashamed that the US just signed an agreement for another $20B in arms sales to them.
Holy shit, that was hilarious. 😂 Has anybody checked to see if he's leaking spinal fluid? He has mastered the art of self sabotage. Agent Orange is doing great and is VP, who apparently is still upset about having mommy sex dreams, is doing great also. 👍
I am excited about Kamala and the Coach's campaign, but I am still worried about the Bad Billionaire Bros bucks in this campaign. The momentum is with Harris and Walz going into the Democratic convention in my home town, but it is early days and there are issues that will be harped on in commercials that will shake things up. We need to be strong and help the momentum along.
The Democrats need to be on the offense not defense. They should be dumping money in ads. They need to stay ahead of the game. Especially, red states. They need to be present in these communities. They sucked in Florida. They gave up.
Solidly Red States, even if they could be purple, are not going to get the monies needed to turn swing states, just as the Blue States may not get this attention either. Dollars go where they are most needed. I hope Florida's Democratic party does well, and gives people reason to think it too can be purple. One way to do that is to get rid of the horrid DeSantis. He is a bad governor and a bad person.
But especially when the campaign has approximately a kajillion dollars, and doesn't even put forth an effort in red states, we'll never get them back. FFS, iowa Idaho & Indiana went for Obama in 2008.
Iowa and Indiana, but not Idaho. However, Missouri was close enough that Obama was entitled to an automatic recount if he asked for it (but didn't because a. recounts rarely change the outcome, and b. it would have just been pointless running up the score).
Threehundred or even 400 million is far from a kajillion dollars. The campaign that has a lot of Bad Billionaire Bros bucks, as well as other types of billionaires is the Trump campaign. Remember he is going to cut their taxes and let the rest of us pay for them the rest of our lives. Did you hear that Musk has pledged 45 mil a month. That is not what the Harris Walz campaign has and that has its advantages. Would you want your candidate beholden to Musk. My home state is Illinois, which is Blue, it is going to get attention because my city is hosting the DNC. But, if it were not, I would not expect them to come to town other than to fundraise, because we are True Blue! Is that true of Florida? If not, then with no chance of winning, and not much money coming from the state, it is a less efficient, effective way to win. And a huge amount of energy being expended to rally the Swing states, which Florida is not considered to be, how much can you expect them to do everything. If there are signs that that is changing then we will probably see them going to Iowa, Idaho and Indiana. However, Florida, the state of hanging chads and the stolen election from Gore is not a democratic favorite I am afraid. Of course, I am not the campaign manager, so perhaps if things look good in swing states necessary to get enough electoral votes to win look locked up, then they might swing to states that do not have any hope, just to back up the Blue Candidates.
Texas sees your silly town names and raises: Marfa (where the "alien" lights are, but it's also a good place to party; they've even got a Prada lol), Cut and Shoot, Hoop and Holler -- maybe they meant "Whoop and Holler" but didn't know how to spell it? sounds like a party town, but I think I'll stick to Austin, Houston, & Marfa. There's Dime Box, Muleshoe, Bug Tussle, Uncertain, Tarzan, Nada, Frognot, Fluvanna, Trout, Sunrise, Sunset, Sundown... lots to mock here...
They don't seem to think the vote matters, or else they would be working overtime. They aren't planning to honor the results if he loses, it doesn't matter what the margin is or the reaction if he's declared the winner despite evidence to the contrary. They're jonesing for civil war.
This is Jim Stewartson’s explanation for the possible constitutional crisis if the corrupt Supreme Court is involved with the certification of the election. It’s scary.
The Electoral Count Act, which was passed by both the House and the Senate in December 2022, prevents anyone, including state electors, from casting their vote for whichever candidate did not get enough votes. It also prevents Congress from refusing to certify the vote. All of this talk about TRump stealing the election is stirring up unnecessary fear. We just need to vote en masse for the Harris/Walz ticket and soundly defeat TRump.
It used to seem that only John Roberts on the conservative side had a sense of the gravity and loftiness of SCOTUS, but that to me has gone out the window after Dobbs and now with the whole immunity bullshit. This version of SCOTUS will be damned for a long as America exists as a blatantly corrupt and dictatorial body, functioning as a legislative arm for the small minority who want dominion over all citizens.
Wait until the fuckface states have their monies for welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment,etc. eliminated if LDFF is elected. It will be to late then you dumb mf’ers.
This has gotten lost in all the fear mongering. The Harris- Walz ticket has calmed me down a bit, but the news about the certification denial scheme has me spooked again.
What happens when an election official refuses to certify is that the judge orders him to and throws him in jail for contempt. This trick doesn't actually work.
It is not unnecessary fear. The Electoral Count Act does nothing about the person(s) in charge of elections in county XYZ from refusing to certify their ballots, thereby preventing the Secy of State from completing the certification of the state’s final vote count.
It is a fact that the Republicans have put into place at least 70 election deniers in place to administer the elections in 70 counties scattered over the 7 swing states. If they all decide to refuse to certify their ballots, it’s going to be an enormous mess, multiple legal battles, probably ending up at the Supreme Court. Do you trust those 6 corrupt liars to do the right thing?
I don’t. Fortunately Marc Elias is on the case with his group Democracy Docket, & I’ve heard that the Biden admin has attorneys ready to fight back, so at least they aren’t clueless.
No matter what, it’s going to be a mess, & it’s highly likely that there will be violence.
"The Electoral Count Act, which was passed by both the House and the Senate in December 2022, prevents anyone, including state electors, from casting their vote for whichever candidate did not get enough votes. It also prevents Congress from refusing to certify the vote. All of this talk about TRump stealing the election is stirring up unnecessary fear. We just need to vote en masse for the Harris/Walz ticket and soundly defeat TRump."
OMG Susan, that's pretty terrifying,and definitely a distinct possibility,the MAGA movement is obviously fading significantly,and obviously also the Supreme Cult are colluding with the insurrectionists,and have declared themselves above the law. They are not, Roberts didn't appear for Congress,and obvious act of outright defiance,Alito,Thomas and Gorsuch declare Congress has no power to regulate them, Gorsuch made thinly veiled threat to the President,of course on Fox News, another co-conspirator,not only maybe lock them out of the court,defund them,(Whatcha ya gonna do about that Gorsuch?)the 1807 Insurrection Act may be necessary. Democrats have been asleep at the wheel for decades,and another failure of imagination that it can't happen here.
I try not to think about the weeks after Nov 5. Joe Biden is highly principled MN, but SCOTUS may have handed him the power to overcome the deniers/fraudsters. I hope there is a foolproof way to deal with election fraud, riots.
I completely agree Bruce, our elected Democrats have been asleep at the wheel for decades, & when not asleep, they’ve failed to meet the underhanded tactics of Mitch McConnell with the appropriate amount of pushback. I still can’t believe that with a 50/50 split in the Senate, that they allowed ACB to get confirmed!! One or two Democrats had to have voted yes on her.
Whomever it was should be voted out
When we regain control of the House & keep the Senate, they should definitely cut the budget for the court drastically until they come to realize that they are not all powerful. Allowing them to continue to run amok is just unacceptable.
Moscow Mitch suspended the filibuster for court nominations,he just made up rules when it suited him,like no nominations in election years for Dems,but anything goes for Repubs,Mitch is a disgrace,started his political career with funding from the tobacco industry.
The Supreme Court has no business trying legislate morality,it was done with Prohibition,it was repealed because it was so unpopular it was unenforceable,and just made the majority of people criminals.
that's what is screamin' sounds like and looks like....
and I read about nothing, absolutely nothing about any preemptive movements brewing behind the scenes to circumvent this colossal scale of Trump corruption via FBI, CIA, Pentagon, DOJ, U.S. Marshals, Secret Service, and wait for it, Attorney General?
Nothing.
Crickets.
They may be working on it, perhaps, but why be non-transparent about it?..
There is nothing to hide or be secret about decimating the biggest republican corruption scandal in the history of America.
Poor tactics to advise your enemy how you're going to counter them. Why give away an advantage, compromise your intelligence and allow them to circumvent you?
Marc Elias & Democracy Docket are hard at work preparing to fight them in court. Don’t know what our DOJ with Garland at it’s head is doing?? I hope they are preparing.
That may be, but We the People have to stand up and protest if that happens. In the meantime, get out the vote. I love Jeff's videos. Here is another one that caught my eye while watching one of his. It is David Shuster talking about what Walz brings to the ticket. I like it too. https://youtu.be/1t3EZtsBbhE?si=N0VFk1nraj2t8HPZ
With respect, the size of the margin will make no difference to those who choose to ignore verifiable reality (= virtually all MAGAts).
kari lake, in a recent interview with Emily Maitlis (a very good British reporter who oushed her on the big lie), responded: "Do you believe that Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama?" But if lake had bothered to google for a minute, she'd have seen that turnout in 2020 was much higher than it had been in 2008 and 2012 (presumably bc so many people finally understood how dangerous djt is), *and* that the US population has grown since then, meaning a bigger number of eligible voters. So it is indeed believable that Biden earned 81mil votes.
Some MAGAt recently posted (on ts, I think) that if djt said he has the support of 75% of all Americans, then it *must* be true (can't remember whether Jeff wrote about this in the past few days) -- again, someone who refuses to look beyond the bubble and get the facts, bc he can't tolerate verifiable reality.
These people are psychologically damaged. That's why they cannot accept verifiable reality -- and the rest of us have paid a huge price. I believe that KHTW will win by a pretty big margin, but I also know that it won't make a difference to The Faithful. (ETA) So we can't rely on a big margin -- we have to fight in every way that we can. (As others have noted, donating to Democracy Docket is a good start.)
Actually - this bothers me… why can’t we win by one vote with a hanging Chad like anybody else? A blue tsunami would be great, but thinking that’s the only way we can win-for-sure makes this election ‘advantage R’ imo…
To me it proves that we are still under the icky cloud of Roy Cohn's influence / shenanigans - and LDFF is (somewhat) masterfully messing with the court system as instructed...
So what is the Federal government enacting to prevent the election denying MAGAts from not certifying the results?? This has me so worried because NOTHING is being done
Yeah, that’s not not true. The Democrats have multiple legal teams in place to combat these efforts to overturn the vote. Also Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket is working on multiple fronts as well.
Also, the one thing that is different this time is that Biden is President and Kamala is the one that certifies the election in the House. I think that may be important at some point...it's not like we have to worry about whether Pence will or won't accept fake electors like last time!
Good article, Dean. Vigilance required of honest voters to sniff out people who say they won’t certify an election. Seems small rural counties are targets to “gum up the works”
Yes, he does. Even though his newsletter is scary at time, the fact that he has always been so on top of everything, starting back in 2020, and all through the midterms (I don't know how many times he's sued Kari Lake over her spurious lawsuits to try to get herself appointed AZ governor😵💫), and now fighting MAGA trying to keep voters from voting!
The Electoral Count Act was passed in December 2022 and prevents electors and Congress from refusing to certify the votes for the winner. PBS did extensive reporting on this. I'm sure if you Google it you can find the information. 👍
I'm grateful to you for reminding us of this. I'm also noting that MAGAts will do whatever they can to skirt or flout laws -- and that GA has recently passed a new law that will fkkk things up. (See below.)
I would think that a federal law would supersede a state one, even a newer state law, but I don't know. And my understanding is that delays in certification beyond Jan. 6 would send the issue to Congress, which would send the issue to each state legislature, whereby each gets one vote -- and 26 state legs. are GOP-controlled.
Election-law powerhouse Marc Elias has appeared on MSNBC a few times lately; if he's not certain that certification will go off without a hitch, then I think we all need to be prepared.
From TPM, on the new GA law: The rule change passed by the GOP-run State Election Board gives that very board — which is meant to hold a largely ministerial responsibility in the certification process, according to state law — the power to not certify election results until a “reasonable inquiry” into any discrepancies in the voting process at the county level has been conducted by election officials there. The problem is, the full text of the new rule does not define what constitutes a “reasonable inquiry.”
Well done it’s been THE topic because magats see they are going to lose fairly and have been getting pledges from R delegates that they will only count one side and vote one way.
it does not look like they are doing anything to circumvent it...if they are, they're being very secretive about it...we the people deserve to know things are being watched and done about it.
Spend a little time reading what is being done instead of demanding to be told about it. That’s how I became confident that this time we will be ready.
It takes your time and effort to see what is being done.
Remember Donald lost the last election and was a bit saner than he is now. I think he’s losing Republican voters, too. Some Republicans just might care about this country and not happy about getting a Hitler lover into office. Also, Donald is so losing it that even his cohort is trying to keep him quiet.
Per Rachel: With 70 rumpers in election certification positions in the swing states - the plan is to block certification in several small counties - derailing the whole state.
There's tens of thousands of election workers in every state,70 is an insignificant number,and Trumpy is so completely stupid he called them out BY NAME in Georgia,like all the grandiose plans the GOP has for election subversion and denial, they're ultimately undone by their absolute STUPIDITY AND INCOMPETENCE,(See Rudy,Powell,Cheseboro, Mitchell,etc) The legal efforts now are being led by the likes of shitweasels like Stephen Miller(not a lawyer,but plays one on TV)and Tom Fitton(again,not a lawyer) Insurrection/Holy Mike might make some noise in the House,but Marc Elias has already slapped down that ignorant jackass in court about 64 times now,and counting, enough with the fear-mongering,I have absolute faith in Marc Elias and his team.
I’ve been visiting the beautiful city of Asheville NC for about 20 years and one thing that I know is that most of Asheville hates Trump. He used the smallest venue there and it wasn’t filled.
come to think of it, $82k for a 2,400 seat venue seems like a lot. when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard plays the room on Aug 30th, will they be charged that amount?
13 different cities Trump has stiffed for police and fire services,Trumpy is literally 'defunding the police', because ultimately taxpayers eventually are going pay his bills for him.
Well well… with the prices foreign corrupt businessmen and other corrupt not so friendly conmen have to cough to rent some space in his golden tower, von trump can easily afford these 82’000 bucks. Lol
I live in Asheville and you’re correct that there’s no love for ConOLD here. However, Asheville is a blue dot in a sea of red surrounding counties. A lot of the people who attend the hate fest in Asheville came from East Tennessee. That stupid hate fest created a traffic nightmare yesterday. Two major interstate highways were shut down for hours yesterday.
I feel for you. One of my dearest friends moved there from NY (don't ask); I worry about him a lot. Initially I was concerned about culture shock, about his being unable to get good medical care or a good haircut, and about some anti-gay comments; now I worry for his + his longtime partner's safety and well-being.
If you're comfortable sharing your reasons for being there, I'm curious -- but I realize that I'm prying (I apologize), and I'd understand if you don't want to reply. Take care over there!
My late husband was an attorney and was a partner in a huge DC law firm, but he always wanted to work in-house for a corporation.
An opening came up with a client of his firm and he took it. It was a great move for his career, but I fought it. I lived in the DC area most of my life and my friends and family were there. But I had no choice and we moved. It’s a beautiful area, but I had total culture shock.
My husband suddenly passed away and I got sick and became disabled. I can’t get out.
The gay community here is strong and I haven’t heard of any hate crimes. My neighbors across the street are fantastic and own a very popular gay club. RuPaul even spent a weekend with them.
So, I think your friends will be ok after some adjustment.
In Knox County, TN, (2hours from Asheville)we had more dems than ever running for positions on County Commission and school board. I'm proud💙 of those candidates!! They didn't all win, no, but the percentages were high enough to make us feel good about the effort, AND PERSIST!!
(I'm also pumped about the number of Susan's on Substack!😘)
According to WBTV out of Charlotte, the auditorium was full and there were people outside waiting to come in. However, 4000 people is still not anywhere close to Harris and Walz's rallies. You're right about Asheville residents not goung to the rally, but I think there were enough rural areas full of MAGAts in western NC who went.
The nice thing about a small venue is that it's easy to fill up, even if you're Trump. So the optics are SRO attendance. And should Kamala come through town in a few weeks and want to use that venue, she's not going to be able to fill it any fuller than Trump did, so there won't be a comparison. Of course, she could fill a much larger venue to the gills in the same city.
The actual civic center in Asheville has a capacity for approx 7500. ConOLD had to choose a smaller venue within the civic center that has a 2500 seat capacity. Harris and Walz would fill 7500 seats easily. No doubt.
Let me take just a few minutes to explain why I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote for you......
Let me begin by saying that you are a blatant serial liar, you are the ultimate con, you are a fraud, you are a grifter, you are a total bull-shitter, and you are a scumbag. In my humble opinion, you are a racist, a misogynist and a total fucking asshole. And, a Hitler-adoring fascist as well. Almost every time you open your rotten, nasty mouth, you lie about something. You are a totally disgusting person.
And, you are Putin’s Puppet; Putin helped you squeak out a win in 2016, but his attempt to help you get re-elected in 2020, thank God, failed miserably. Putin is trying to get you elected for a second term; he knows that you will hand Ukraine to him on a silver platter and that you will pull the USA out of the NATO Alliance. In my mind, you are a traitor! A god damn fucking traitor!
And, you are a terrible businessperson. Every intelligent person in America knows that had you simply invested in the stock market every penny your KKK- racist father left you, you would, today, be a REAL billionaire many times over. The fact that you are not really a billionaire means that you aren’t a successful businessperson. The only two things that generated whatever wealth you do have today stemmed from two things. The Fake/Fraud/Con Apprentice reality TV show and the hundreds of millions of dollars Putin-directed Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia laundered through your condo projects.
Continue to demean women, asswipe. Continue your racist ways, asswipe. You will find out in November that the vast majority of Americans believe, like I do, that you were America’s Presidential Accident and that you are America’s Disgrace.
I hope you rot in hell, scumbag. Perhaps today would be a good day for you to go grab some woman by her pu__y. Or shoot someone on 5th Avenue. Or call someone the “n-word” like you did during a planning session for an Apprentice episode. Or reflect on your memories of playing with your former buddy pedophile sex-abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Or invite a fellow racist and a fellow anti- Semite over for drinks and dinner. Or, join a march with your torch-carrying “fine-people” Neo-Nazi’s. Or, work on our next rambling, idiotic, nonsensical, hate-filled, divisive, dumbass rally speech. (I do enjoy listening to you make a fool out of yourself.)
It pisses me off that newspapers and news websites, all across America, don’t have the balls to call you out for the blatant liar you are. The title of the article: “Donald J Trump is a Liar, a Con and a Fraud”. You put up a post on TruthSocial that said, “I know nothing about Project 2025”. You fucking liar. After you said that, someone posted, in the Internet, a photo of you sitting next to Scum, Piece-of-Shit, Fascist Kevin Roberts (President of the Heritage Foundation) on a private jet on your way with Roberts to a Heritage Foundation conference, and you were a speaker at that conference. “Trump told the audience that the Heritage Foundation was ‘going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.’" You god damn fucking liar.
Unfortunately for you (but, fortunately for Americans) your next “term” will be a prison term. I’ve reached out to Honorable Judge Juan Merchan to ask him to start your prison sentence on President Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day!
Disrespectfully yours,
Joel
p.s., for intelligence/intellectually-challenged MAGAts (rhymes with maggots), President Kamala Harris’ first name is pronounced “, LA”. That said, YOU can address Kamala Harris as “MADAM PRESIDENT”!
A friend of mine (who owns a printing company) is printing it for me as a 36" x 54" vinyl banner! It will arrive at Mar a Lago in a tube. Will be ready for me to pick up and ship on Saturday.
J.D. Vance continues to assist in shrinking their base further with his view that the sole purpose of post-menopausal women is to raise grandkids. I am ready for the Post-Menopausal Women for Harris/Walz national zoom call.
The loveliest thing about being older than 50 is the "I have zero fkkks to give about anyone's nonsense," and jd's nonsense is at the top of that list.
That F'ing jackass is now turning his wrath to "unhappy people at dog parks" + post menopausal women. So does Project 2025 have a nefarious plan for senior females when we can no longer breed? And WTAF is he going after dog park people? I've spent decades at dog beaches, off leash hiking trails + dog parks. F Disneyland, a dog park IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. There is something seriously wrong with Couch boy mentally, psychologically. So much hate!
Maybe deadbeat dads and domestic abusers should be punished instead JD,oh wait!! You're political party and religion only women get punished,never the old,white guys.
Every time I go through check-out at the grocery and see the TicTac display, I think about the “Hollywood Tape”, I wonder how they stayed in business afterwards. I haven’t bought any since that tape.
Shrinkflation is indeed a thing, but as a Tic Tac fan, the normal size has not shrunk to something so tiny you can't see it. Might be a travel size with 5-10. Will look next grocery trip.
Ok, now I'm laughing again today. One of your best, Jeff.
Also, Re: the tic-tacs. He couldn't even get the point across using a PROP. Which isn't surprising since he has no idea what shrinkflation is, or net zero, or...well, how anything works. What's most telling is making it about himself yet again when he says he's never met anyone from the company so he doesn't know how he feels about them. Like they stay up late worrying about his opinion of them.
I bought a mini-bag of Doritos from the vending machine at work. $2.00. There were 5 chips in it. I kid you not. I took it around the office and showed everyone. Crazy shit that!
Somehow the super-mega monopolies are trying convince people that less is more,bigger packaging,with less in them. I got big box of Raisin Bran recently,it had 2 bowls of cereal in it.
“Donny No Crowds”- perfect; “let’s make fun of shit we can’t comprehend”-spot on; net zero reduces carbons-can it reduce HIM?!!! He NEVER answers a question——I’m still shocked there are so many dumb people who will vote for this moron. Calgon-take me away! lol
I watched as much as I could stomach, roughly 20 seconds, and I caught this gem: "This is supposed to be an *pause* in-tell-eck-chual speech *accordion hands/eyeroll/shrug*." He goes right back to off-teleprompter nonsense because he can't talk about economics and his audience wouldn't understand him if he did. If he had never run for president, he'd be a low-rent Howard Stern, just riffing into the mic for the amusement of the bros.
Watch out for the for intentional rally at the Four Seasons landscaping business where they accidentally held an event before the 2020 race. The trump stain purposely meeting there will be a full circle of irony so profound it may rip a hole in the space-time continuum.
apologies to Hackensack, New Jersey. I have friends and family who live there! it's not my fault that it's a town with an extremely mockable name
Well, Asheville is my longtime hometown. It’s a 🔵 in the mountains, well known for its great beers, hiking and other touristy things, surrounded by a sea of red. The city got stiffed by his campaign the first time so they got smart this time and made them pay ahead, as you said. I despise the man and wish he’d crawl off somewhere and fade to black(his favorite color).
Jeff, thanks for the details on Ashville, NC's smart move to get paid up front from this deadbeat who owes lots of cities for venues, police overtime, etc. I've tweeted Fixed Noise to ask why reporter didn't press for a reply & let him lie more.
I totally get it. I'll bet their insurance rates went up just having him there.
You must be a neighbor!
Not any longer unfortunately. I miss my mountains but that part of the country got too expensive for a retiree so I “invaded” Panamá in Central America. It’s much more reasonable. I grew up across the street from Asheville High(Lee Edward’s, class 1964).
I think the Chuckle Hut is in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where all of Roseanne Roseannadanna's viewer mail came from.
Roseanne Barr SNL may be toxic and stupid, but even Evangelical Christians, who have overlap with Christian Nationalists considered Trump's base, are seeking the light of Kamala and the Coach. https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/wait-evangelicals-for-harris
I like your reference!
Roseanne Roseanadanna was a SNL character, played by Gilda Radner back in 1977 or so, she was a dingy New Yorker who was always getting mail from NJ which as a NYer she would always say cattily "You ask good questions for a person from NJ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYGtXIqDa0
It was a parody of Roseanne Scamardella, a local newscaster familiar to New Yawkers in the day.
Thank you, not being a nyer I did not know that.
Sir, that name was good enough for Preston Fking Sturges himself to mock.
"The name Hackensack, New Jersey comes from the Achkinheshcky language and means "mouth of a river". The Lenni Lenape Native Americans originally lived in the area and called it "Ackingsah-sack"." Take a hint from Jeff and use Google when YOU DON'T "FKING" KNOW!
"The name Hackensack, New Jersey comes from the Achkinheshcky language and means "mouth of a river". The Lenni Lenape Native Americans originally lived in the area and called it "Ackingsah-sack"." Google search.
I was born Middletown Connecticut, incorporated in 1651, although some cities have British names,most still have some connections to their Native American roots.
Meanwhile Russia has been invaded! Anybody care I swear trump sucks all the oxygen!!! Remember Russia?
Hell yes, I sure care, & I wish the msm would cover what is going on in Ukraine much more than they do.
The daily genocide in Gaza has fallen off their radar too.
If it weren’t for Zeteo & Ayman Moylhedin I wouldn’t know about the sexual abuse torture of a male Palestinian prisoner by Israeli prison guards. It’s stomach churning & I’m ashamed that the US just signed an agreement for another $20B in arms sales to them.
I came from Owatonna a Sioux Indian Princess, in the State Minnesota, I could google it but it is also native and refers to lakes.
Holy shit, that was hilarious. 😂 Has anybody checked to see if he's leaking spinal fluid? He has mastered the art of self sabotage. Agent Orange is doing great and is VP, who apparently is still upset about having mommy sex dreams, is doing great also. 👍
I am excited about Kamala and the Coach's campaign, but I am still worried about the Bad Billionaire Bros bucks in this campaign. The momentum is with Harris and Walz going into the Democratic convention in my home town, but it is early days and there are issues that will be harped on in commercials that will shake things up. We need to be strong and help the momentum along.
The Democrats need to be on the offense not defense. They should be dumping money in ads. They need to stay ahead of the game. Especially, red states. They need to be present in these communities. They sucked in Florida. They gave up.
Solidly Red States, even if they could be purple, are not going to get the monies needed to turn swing states, just as the Blue States may not get this attention either. Dollars go where they are most needed. I hope Florida's Democratic party does well, and gives people reason to think it too can be purple. One way to do that is to get rid of the horrid DeSantis. He is a bad governor and a bad person.
But especially when the campaign has approximately a kajillion dollars, and doesn't even put forth an effort in red states, we'll never get them back. FFS, iowa Idaho & Indiana went for Obama in 2008.
Iowa and Indiana, but not Idaho. However, Missouri was close enough that Obama was entitled to an automatic recount if he asked for it (but didn't because a. recounts rarely change the outcome, and b. it would have just been pointless running up the score).
Threehundred or even 400 million is far from a kajillion dollars. The campaign that has a lot of Bad Billionaire Bros bucks, as well as other types of billionaires is the Trump campaign. Remember he is going to cut their taxes and let the rest of us pay for them the rest of our lives. Did you hear that Musk has pledged 45 mil a month. That is not what the Harris Walz campaign has and that has its advantages. Would you want your candidate beholden to Musk. My home state is Illinois, which is Blue, it is going to get attention because my city is hosting the DNC. But, if it were not, I would not expect them to come to town other than to fundraise, because we are True Blue! Is that true of Florida? If not, then with no chance of winning, and not much money coming from the state, it is a less efficient, effective way to win. And a huge amount of energy being expended to rally the Swing states, which Florida is not considered to be, how much can you expect them to do everything. If there are signs that that is changing then we will probably see them going to Iowa, Idaho and Indiana. However, Florida, the state of hanging chads and the stolen election from Gore is not a democratic favorite I am afraid. Of course, I am not the campaign manager, so perhaps if things look good in swing states necessary to get enough electoral votes to win look locked up, then they might swing to states that do not have any hope, just to back up the Blue Candidates.
Texas sees your silly town names and raises: Marfa (where the "alien" lights are, but it's also a good place to party; they've even got a Prada lol), Cut and Shoot, Hoop and Holler -- maybe they meant "Whoop and Holler" but didn't know how to spell it? sounds like a party town, but I think I'll stick to Austin, Houston, & Marfa. There's Dime Box, Muleshoe, Bug Tussle, Uncertain, Tarzan, Nada, Frognot, Fluvanna, Trout, Sunrise, Sunset, Sundown... lots to mock here...
Pennsylvania has Intercourse, King of Prussia, Eighty Four, Nanty Glo, Bala Cynwyd, and many other weird names.
Oddly, I don't believe Texas has Intercourse, but we do Bang...
Better than Piscataway!
There's always Hamtramck, Michigan.
They don't seem to think the vote matters, or else they would be working overtime. They aren't planning to honor the results if he loses, it doesn't matter what the margin is or the reaction if he's declared the winner despite evidence to the contrary. They're jonesing for civil war.
The Republicans are just going to refuse to certify the election.
This is Jim Stewartson’s explanation for the possible constitutional crisis if the corrupt Supreme Court is involved with the certification of the election. It’s scary.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/elephant-in-the-room?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The Electoral Count Act, which was passed by both the House and the Senate in December 2022, prevents anyone, including state electors, from casting their vote for whichever candidate did not get enough votes. It also prevents Congress from refusing to certify the vote. All of this talk about TRump stealing the election is stirring up unnecessary fear. We just need to vote en masse for the Harris/Walz ticket and soundly defeat TRump.
yeah, no mere wave or even a tsunami: a meteor strike of blue! https://a.co/d/2wQJSQG
The power does rest with the people, despite what the Supreme Cult says.
It used to seem that only John Roberts on the conservative side had a sense of the gravity and loftiness of SCOTUS, but that to me has gone out the window after Dobbs and now with the whole immunity bullshit. This version of SCOTUS will be damned for a long as America exists as a blatantly corrupt and dictatorial body, functioning as a legislative arm for the small minority who want dominion over all citizens.
Thinking Roberts was a moderate was a big mistake,he allowed Citizens United,and gutted the VRA.
Amen Bruce!! It’s up to us…and that stands for United States.. not the Orange Fuckface States..
Wait until the fuckface states have their monies for welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment,etc. eliminated if LDFF is elected. It will be to late then you dumb mf’ers.
Lol'd! Comments are excellent today.
"Supreme Cult" !!!!
OK, consider that stolen.
IKR? It is perfection!
Thank you, Megan,
This has gotten lost in all the fear mongering. The Harris- Walz ticket has calmed me down a bit, but the news about the certification denial scheme has me spooked again.
What happens when an election official refuses to certify is that the judge orders him to and throws him in jail for contempt. This trick doesn't actually work.
Unless you get a Judge Aileen Cannon??
And vote early so the numbers look good right away.
I'm going to quote you in various points in this comments section, Megan.
It is not unnecessary fear. The Electoral Count Act does nothing about the person(s) in charge of elections in county XYZ from refusing to certify their ballots, thereby preventing the Secy of State from completing the certification of the state’s final vote count.
It is a fact that the Republicans have put into place at least 70 election deniers in place to administer the elections in 70 counties scattered over the 7 swing states. If they all decide to refuse to certify their ballots, it’s going to be an enormous mess, multiple legal battles, probably ending up at the Supreme Court. Do you trust those 6 corrupt liars to do the right thing?
I don’t. Fortunately Marc Elias is on the case with his group Democracy Docket, & I’ve heard that the Biden admin has attorneys ready to fight back, so at least they aren’t clueless.
No matter what, it’s going to be a mess, & it’s highly likely that there will be violence.
I am still terrified of the corrupt Supreme Court. Thanks for this.
Megan Ross posted,
"The Electoral Count Act, which was passed by both the House and the Senate in December 2022, prevents anyone, including state electors, from casting their vote for whichever candidate did not get enough votes. It also prevents Congress from refusing to certify the vote. All of this talk about TRump stealing the election is stirring up unnecessary fear. We just need to vote en masse for the Harris/Walz ticket and soundly defeat TRump."
I absolutely worry about the corrupt 6 on our Supreme Court. After all, they were put on that court to accomplish very specific goals.
OMG Susan, that's pretty terrifying,and definitely a distinct possibility,the MAGA movement is obviously fading significantly,and obviously also the Supreme Cult are colluding with the insurrectionists,and have declared themselves above the law. They are not, Roberts didn't appear for Congress,and obvious act of outright defiance,Alito,Thomas and Gorsuch declare Congress has no power to regulate them, Gorsuch made thinly veiled threat to the President,of course on Fox News, another co-conspirator,not only maybe lock them out of the court,defund them,(Whatcha ya gonna do about that Gorsuch?)the 1807 Insurrection Act may be necessary. Democrats have been asleep at the wheel for decades,and another failure of imagination that it can't happen here.
Perfectly spot on Bruce!! You’re on a roll my friend!! Preach IT🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽
I try not to think about the weeks after Nov 5. Joe Biden is highly principled MN, but SCOTUS may have handed him the power to overcome the deniers/fraudsters. I hope there is a foolproof way to deal with election fraud, riots.
I completely agree Bruce, our elected Democrats have been asleep at the wheel for decades, & when not asleep, they’ve failed to meet the underhanded tactics of Mitch McConnell with the appropriate amount of pushback. I still can’t believe that with a 50/50 split in the Senate, that they allowed ACB to get confirmed!! One or two Democrats had to have voted yes on her.
Whomever it was should be voted out
When we regain control of the House & keep the Senate, they should definitely cut the budget for the court drastically until they come to realize that they are not all powerful. Allowing them to continue to run amok is just unacceptable.
Moscow Mitch suspended the filibuster for court nominations,he just made up rules when it suited him,like no nominations in election years for Dems,but anything goes for Repubs,Mitch is a disgrace,started his political career with funding from the tobacco industry.
Funny, that... :/
JUST IGNORE THE SUPREME COURT!
Truly. Even if they're heavily armed, there are only five of them. A blue tsunami will show them how irrelevant they will be.
It has been done before.
The Supreme Court has no business trying legislate morality,it was done with Prohibition,it was repealed because it was so unpopular it was unenforceable,and just made the majority of people criminals.
Biden simply should have perpetrators arrested and sent to GITMO....don't leave office
If they try the same nonsense again,the Capital will be well-defended this time.
They should put up signs like around Area 51 in Nevada: Deadly Force Authorized Beyond This Point. Fair warning, assholes.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!! 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
agreed...something tells me he will not take advantage of his presidential immunity when he absolutely can still make a difference in saving democracy
Absolutely Susan!
that's what is screamin' sounds like and looks like....
and I read about nothing, absolutely nothing about any preemptive movements brewing behind the scenes to circumvent this colossal scale of Trump corruption via FBI, CIA, Pentagon, DOJ, U.S. Marshals, Secret Service, and wait for it, Attorney General?
Nothing.
Crickets.
They may be working on it, perhaps, but why be non-transparent about it?..
There is nothing to hide or be secret about decimating the biggest republican corruption scandal in the history of America.
Yeah, actually there is.
Poor tactics to advise your enemy how you're going to counter them. Why give away an advantage, compromise your intelligence and allow them to circumvent you?
🎯
nice optimism there, that's always been the excuse. "top secret"...any citations on that? or is that just a logical guess
Isn’t citation & top secret creating an oxymoron??
Marc Elias & Democracy Docket are hard at work preparing to fight them in court. Don’t know what our DOJ with Garland at it’s head is doing?? I hope they are preparing.
That may be, but We the People have to stand up and protest if that happens. In the meantime, get out the vote. I love Jeff's videos. Here is another one that caught my eye while watching one of his. It is David Shuster talking about what Walz brings to the ticket. I like it too. https://youtu.be/1t3EZtsBbhE?si=N0VFk1nraj2t8HPZ
Exactly
No.
We have to vote in such huge numbers that the results are incontrovertible.
With respect, the size of the margin will make no difference to those who choose to ignore verifiable reality (= virtually all MAGAts).
kari lake, in a recent interview with Emily Maitlis (a very good British reporter who oushed her on the big lie), responded: "Do you believe that Joe Biden got more votes than Barack Obama?" But if lake had bothered to google for a minute, she'd have seen that turnout in 2020 was much higher than it had been in 2008 and 2012 (presumably bc so many people finally understood how dangerous djt is), *and* that the US population has grown since then, meaning a bigger number of eligible voters. So it is indeed believable that Biden earned 81mil votes.
Some MAGAt recently posted (on ts, I think) that if djt said he has the support of 75% of all Americans, then it *must* be true (can't remember whether Jeff wrote about this in the past few days) -- again, someone who refuses to look beyond the bubble and get the facts, bc he can't tolerate verifiable reality.
These people are psychologically damaged. That's why they cannot accept verifiable reality -- and the rest of us have paid a huge price. I believe that KHTW will win by a pretty big margin, but I also know that it won't make a difference to The Faithful. (ETA) So we can't rely on a big margin -- we have to fight in every way that we can. (As others have noted, donating to Democracy Docket is a good start.)
But having the Really Big Margin is a requisite first step.
Actually - this bothers me… why can’t we win by one vote with a hanging Chad like anybody else? A blue tsunami would be great, but thinking that’s the only way we can win-for-sure makes this election ‘advantage R’ imo…
Reference Bush v. Gore.
You are on fire today.
To me it proves that we are still under the icky cloud of Roy Cohn's influence / shenanigans - and LDFF is (somewhat) masterfully messing with the court system as instructed...
So what is the Federal government enacting to prevent the election denying MAGAts from not certifying the results?? This has me so worried because NOTHING is being done
Yeah, that’s not not true. The Democrats have multiple legal teams in place to combat these efforts to overturn the vote. Also Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket is working on multiple fronts as well.
https://www.democracydocket.com/author/marc_elias/
https://www.democracydocket.com/support/
This is the contribution page. I have been contributing for close to a year. They will have teams of lawyers in a swing states in November.
Thanks for the link. Year after year, Elias and staff tirelessly slog in legal trenches. Glad finally to snap out of it and offer my support.
Just donated.
I've had Dem Docket on a monthly for MANY years. A solid investment in a livable future.
Donated
Same here,not certifying election results is a crime,and Marc Elias is going to be all over it.
Donated and bought a cool "Democracy is on the Docket" sweatshirt!
Better beilieve! And keep donating to Mark. He has a killer team that works it's collective asses off.
Also, the one thing that is different this time is that Biden is President and Kamala is the one that certifies the election in the House. I think that may be important at some point...it's not like we have to worry about whether Pence will or won't accept fake electors like last time!
Or that asshat Vance. If that IS his name. Batguano.
What about gerrymandering and voters’ rights suppression please? They must be stopped pdq. Tks
Democracy Docket is working on that too.
https://www.democracydocket.com/support/
Good article, Dean. Vigilance required of honest voters to sniff out people who say they won’t certify an election. Seems small rural counties are targets to “gum up the works”
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that if we the public are aware of possible nefarious goings-on, then the Dems and various others are on it.
Yes, that is true but it’s REPUBLICANS that are on the election boards. Marc Elias can’t win every battle
No, but they've targeted the most critical areas. This time no one will be caught off guard.
He wins about 95% of them Lynn.
Yes, he does. Even though his newsletter is scary at time, the fact that he has always been so on top of everything, starting back in 2020, and all through the midterms (I don't know how many times he's sued Kari Lake over her spurious lawsuits to try to get herself appointed AZ governor😵💫), and now fighting MAGA trying to keep voters from voting!
I sure hope that is right....
Good to know. Thank you. ✌️
The Electoral Count Act was passed in December 2022 and prevents electors and Congress from refusing to certify the votes for the winner. PBS did extensive reporting on this. I'm sure if you Google it you can find the information. 👍
I'm grateful to you for reminding us of this. I'm also noting that MAGAts will do whatever they can to skirt or flout laws -- and that GA has recently passed a new law that will fkkk things up. (See below.)
I would think that a federal law would supersede a state one, even a newer state law, but I don't know. And my understanding is that delays in certification beyond Jan. 6 would send the issue to Congress, which would send the issue to each state legislature, whereby each gets one vote -- and 26 state legs. are GOP-controlled.
Election-law powerhouse Marc Elias has appeared on MSNBC a few times lately; if he's not certain that certification will go off without a hitch, then I think we all need to be prepared.
From TPM, on the new GA law: The rule change passed by the GOP-run State Election Board gives that very board — which is meant to hold a largely ministerial responsibility in the certification process, according to state law — the power to not certify election results until a “reasonable inquiry” into any discrepancies in the voting process at the county level has been conducted by election officials there. The problem is, the full text of the new rule does not define what constitutes a “reasonable inquiry.”
Well done it’s been THE topic because magats see they are going to lose fairly and have been getting pledges from R delegates that they will only count one side and vote one way.
👍👍👍👍
it does not look like they are doing anything to circumvent it...if they are, they're being very secretive about it...we the people deserve to know things are being watched and done about it.
James
Spend a little time reading what is being done instead of demanding to be told about it. That’s how I became confident that this time we will be ready.
It takes your time and effort to see what is being done.
I read more than you assume. And I would never guess or assume how much you do of anything. I was not demanding anything. STFU
Exactly, Lynn!
Well, googling it might be a better idea than asking somebody to provide the information to you. It's the reality version of doing your own research.
True
Yup -and I hope we have a plan in place.
Where is that plan? Republicans will battle it out in the courts, taking it up to the corrupt Supreme Court
The lower courts should be alright, SCOTUS is a criminal cabal!
Exactly, which is why he told his supporters they don’t need to vote.
Remember Donald lost the last election and was a bit saner than he is now. I think he’s losing Republican voters, too. Some Republicans just might care about this country and not happy about getting a Hitler lover into office. Also, Donald is so losing it that even his cohort is trying to keep him quiet.
He's a Trojan horse. They only need him until Nov 5, and maybe not that long with Vance on the ticket
It’s a possible scenario but are the Retrumplicans really that smart?? I sure as hell hope not.
The problem for them in a civil war is the same as in an election: there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
Rachel: https://x.com/politvidchannel/status/1824100331485360143
Per Rachel: With 70 rumpers in election certification positions in the swing states - the plan is to block certification in several small counties - derailing the whole state.
There's tens of thousands of election workers in every state,70 is an insignificant number,and Trumpy is so completely stupid he called them out BY NAME in Georgia,like all the grandiose plans the GOP has for election subversion and denial, they're ultimately undone by their absolute STUPIDITY AND INCOMPETENCE,(See Rudy,Powell,Cheseboro, Mitchell,etc) The legal efforts now are being led by the likes of shitweasels like Stephen Miller(not a lawyer,but plays one on TV)and Tom Fitton(again,not a lawyer) Insurrection/Holy Mike might make some noise in the House,but Marc Elias has already slapped down that ignorant jackass in court about 64 times now,and counting, enough with the fear-mongering,I have absolute faith in Marc Elias and his team.
Bravo and amen.
I’ve been visiting the beautiful city of Asheville NC for about 20 years and one thing that I know is that most of Asheville hates Trump. He used the smallest venue there and it wasn’t filled.
Why did he bother?
Glad he had to pay the rent up front and it wasn’t cheap!
come to think of it, $82k for a 2,400 seat venue seems like a lot. when King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard plays the room on Aug 30th, will they be charged that amount?
no really: https://x.com/RexHuppke/status/1823773891434602693
Might have included the cost of police.
13 different cities Trump has stiffed for police and fire services,Trumpy is literally 'defunding the police', because ultimately taxpayers eventually are going pay his bills for him.
I believe it also included payment of his bill from before.
Uh, that is like $33.73 for each seat, that is stupid expensive
If you add the $75 they are paying per Craigslist attendee, and the swag they need to provide those "extras" that is a really expensive event
Maybe Ashville set the price to recoup the money Trump owed to them from the last event as well.
I think I paid less than that the last time I saw The Scorpions play (circa 1986)
Let's hope they all do!
And don’t forget Seether and Skillet! 😂
Well well… with the prices foreign corrupt businessmen and other corrupt not so friendly conmen have to cough to rent some space in his golden tower, von trump can easily afford these 82’000 bucks. Lol
I live in Asheville and you’re correct that there’s no love for ConOLD here. However, Asheville is a blue dot in a sea of red surrounding counties. A lot of the people who attend the hate fest in Asheville came from East Tennessee. That stupid hate fest created a traffic nightmare yesterday. Two major interstate highways were shut down for hours yesterday.
The reason I spend so much time in Asheville is because I’m stuck in East Tennessee.
Democrats don’t even bother to run for office there because it’s such a MAGA pit. 🤬
On the other hand, we do have Gloria Johnson
I’m trying to help get her elected and kick Marsha Blackburn to the curb.
Please do so! You are a hero!.
GloJo is a hero. I’m just trying to help get her where she needs to be.
My Talibangelical Xitian Nationalist brother just moved from Floriduh to E Tennessee to be among his people.
East Tennessee is worse than Florida. SMDH
I live in Florida, you have my absolute sympathy amd internet hugs if you want them.
I appreciate that. 🙏
I feel for you. One of my dearest friends moved there from NY (don't ask); I worry about him a lot. Initially I was concerned about culture shock, about his being unable to get good medical care or a good haircut, and about some anti-gay comments; now I worry for his + his longtime partner's safety and well-being.
If you're comfortable sharing your reasons for being there, I'm curious -- but I realize that I'm prying (I apologize), and I'd understand if you don't want to reply. Take care over there!
My late husband was an attorney and was a partner in a huge DC law firm, but he always wanted to work in-house for a corporation.
An opening came up with a client of his firm and he took it. It was a great move for his career, but I fought it. I lived in the DC area most of my life and my friends and family were there. But I had no choice and we moved. It’s a beautiful area, but I had total culture shock.
My husband suddenly passed away and I got sick and became disabled. I can’t get out.
The gay community here is strong and I haven’t heard of any hate crimes. My neighbors across the street are fantastic and own a very popular gay club. RuPaul even spent a weekend with them.
So, I think your friends will be ok after some adjustment.
May they all do so, it would improve FL greatly!
In Knox County, TN, (2hours from Asheville)we had more dems than ever running for positions on County Commission and school board. I'm proud💙 of those candidates!! They didn't all win, no, but the percentages were high enough to make us feel good about the effort, AND PERSIST!!
(I'm also pumped about the number of Susan's on Substack!😘)
Where I live, we aren’t so lucky. No Dems running. 😢
I’ve never seen so many Susans in one place. 😊
Wow. I used to be a river guide on the Pigeon River in Knox Co. Seemed like the wild Wild West in the late 90s.
Hey! You might be a neighbor of mine!
I live in East Jesus TN. 😘
He definitely should have picked a different location than Asheville
According to WBTV out of Charlotte, the auditorium was full and there were people outside waiting to come in. However, 4000 people is still not anywhere close to Harris and Walz's rallies. You're right about Asheville residents not goung to the rally, but I think there were enough rural areas full of MAGAts in western NC who went.
I saw the video of the Wolf Auditorium during Trump’s speech and it definitely was not full.
Trump couldn’t fill a 2431 seat auditorium. Sad.
The nice thing about a small venue is that it's easy to fill up, even if you're Trump. So the optics are SRO attendance. And should Kamala come through town in a few weeks and want to use that venue, she's not going to be able to fill it any fuller than Trump did, so there won't be a comparison. Of course, she could fill a much larger venue to the gills in the same city.
The actual civic center in Asheville has a capacity for approx 7500. ConOLD had to choose a smaller venue within the civic center that has a 2500 seat capacity. Harris and Walz would fill 7500 seats easily. No doubt.
August 15, 2024
Donald J Trump
Mar-A-Lago
1100 S Ocean Blvd
Palm Beach, FL 33480
Dear Piece-of-Shit Donald,
Let me take just a few minutes to explain why I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote for you......
Let me begin by saying that you are a blatant serial liar, you are the ultimate con, you are a fraud, you are a grifter, you are a total bull-shitter, and you are a scumbag. In my humble opinion, you are a racist, a misogynist and a total fucking asshole. And, a Hitler-adoring fascist as well. Almost every time you open your rotten, nasty mouth, you lie about something. You are a totally disgusting person.
And, you are Putin’s Puppet; Putin helped you squeak out a win in 2016, but his attempt to help you get re-elected in 2020, thank God, failed miserably. Putin is trying to get you elected for a second term; he knows that you will hand Ukraine to him on a silver platter and that you will pull the USA out of the NATO Alliance. In my mind, you are a traitor! A god damn fucking traitor!
And, you are a terrible businessperson. Every intelligent person in America knows that had you simply invested in the stock market every penny your KKK- racist father left you, you would, today, be a REAL billionaire many times over. The fact that you are not really a billionaire means that you aren’t a successful businessperson. The only two things that generated whatever wealth you do have today stemmed from two things. The Fake/Fraud/Con Apprentice reality TV show and the hundreds of millions of dollars Putin-directed Russian Oligarchs and Russian Mafia laundered through your condo projects.
Continue to demean women, asswipe. Continue your racist ways, asswipe. You will find out in November that the vast majority of Americans believe, like I do, that you were America’s Presidential Accident and that you are America’s Disgrace.
I hope you rot in hell, scumbag. Perhaps today would be a good day for you to go grab some woman by her pu__y. Or shoot someone on 5th Avenue. Or call someone the “n-word” like you did during a planning session for an Apprentice episode. Or reflect on your memories of playing with your former buddy pedophile sex-abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Or invite a fellow racist and a fellow anti- Semite over for drinks and dinner. Or, join a march with your torch-carrying “fine-people” Neo-Nazi’s. Or, work on our next rambling, idiotic, nonsensical, hate-filled, divisive, dumbass rally speech. (I do enjoy listening to you make a fool out of yourself.)
It pisses me off that newspapers and news websites, all across America, don’t have the balls to call you out for the blatant liar you are. The title of the article: “Donald J Trump is a Liar, a Con and a Fraud”. You put up a post on TruthSocial that said, “I know nothing about Project 2025”. You fucking liar. After you said that, someone posted, in the Internet, a photo of you sitting next to Scum, Piece-of-Shit, Fascist Kevin Roberts (President of the Heritage Foundation) on a private jet on your way with Roberts to a Heritage Foundation conference, and you were a speaker at that conference. “Trump told the audience that the Heritage Foundation was ‘going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.’" You god damn fucking liar.
Unfortunately for you (but, fortunately for Americans) your next “term” will be a prison term. I’ve reached out to Honorable Judge Juan Merchan to ask him to start your prison sentence on President Kamala Harris’ Inauguration Day!
Disrespectfully yours,
Joel
p.s., for intelligence/intellectually-challenged MAGAts (rhymes with maggots), President Kamala Harris’ first name is pronounced “, LA”. That said, YOU can address Kamala Harris as “MADAM PRESIDENT”!
And who could argue with that!
Oooh, your fingers must be on fire from that burn. BRAVO!
👏👏👏👏
Joel- didn’t you post this 3days ago?
Did you send letter?
Revised/updated the letter somewhat.
It's not being sent as an 8 1/2 x 11 letter.
A friend of mine (who owns a printing company) is printing it for me as a 36" x 54" vinyl banner! It will arrive at Mar a Lago in a tube. Will be ready for me to pick up and ship on Saturday.
For security reasons, don’t put your name on return address. It’s a great banner! You hit him hard l, that slime bag !
Thanks for the advice, Dave
This letter is 2 pages of a 144 page (free to all) “book” I’ve just finished writing about scum Trump!
When i figure out how to post the book on my Substack, I’ll figure out how to let people know it’s available
😮😮😮😮🗽🗽🇺🇸🇺🇸 🏆🏆🏆
Joel,we might of been separated at birth.
Amen Joel!!! America’s Presidential Accident—- fucking beautiful! 🇺🇸
Too subtle, but excellent nonetheless!
Subtle?
LOL
😉
Now put that on a t-shirt 😂🤣😜🤪
Hope you feel better!! 🏆🏆🇺🇸
Teri, I do!
This letter is 2 pages of a 144 page (free to all) “book” I’ve just finished writing about scum Trump!
When o figure out how to post the book on my Substack, I’ll figure out how to let people know it’s available
J.D. Vance continues to assist in shrinking their base further with his view that the sole purpose of post-menopausal women is to raise grandkids. I am ready for the Post-Menopausal Women for Harris/Walz national zoom call.
I’ll be there
Same
Yep
Me, too.
I’m ready for the post menopausal women sit JD Vance down and tell him some cold hard truths call.
The loveliest thing about being older than 50 is the "I have zero fkkks to give about anyone's nonsense," and jd's nonsense is at the top of that list.
I'll bring the Ball-Gag to use on him.
That's the problem with MAGAs, I actually feel like my IQ drops a few points every time I listen to one.
Kinda numbs you up after awhile. Personally I cannot stand his voice.
That F'ing jackass is now turning his wrath to "unhappy people at dog parks" + post menopausal women. So does Project 2025 have a nefarious plan for senior females when we can no longer breed? And WTAF is he going after dog park people? I've spent decades at dog beaches, off leash hiking trails + dog parks. F Disneyland, a dog park IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. There is something seriously wrong with Couch boy mentally, psychologically. So much hate!
I’m there!
Obviously something is absolutely broken inside with JD,he has a pathological hatred of women.
That's dumb, then what does he think women who chose not to reproduce... never mind, he probably wants to send us to the Soylent Green factory.
Maybe deadbeat dads and domestic abusers should be punished instead JD,oh wait!! You're political party and religion only women get punished,never the old,white guys.
And me!
As Donny’s brain shrinks, so goes his venues. I did not have hawking TicTacs on my bingo card.
Yeah, the Tic Tak thing...WTF??
The madness of a Shitgibbon.🥴🥴🥴
Always mad and forever full of shit. Tic Tacs wouldn't even come close to neutralizing what lives in that decaying orafice.
Every time I go through check-out at the grocery and see the TicTac display, I think about the “Hollywood Tape”, I wonder how they stayed in business afterwards. I haven’t bought any since that tape.
It amazes me to think someone thinks a breath mint will overcome being a bloated rotting orange corpse.
TicTaks don’t do squat. Donold would need a handful of altoids and a pint of Listerine.
Bleach would work fine too!
Right. I used to love them…and that did it for me. UGH
He definitely will be reeking of Brut or something too...oh lord.
Brut!!??!🤮🤮🤮
Shrinkflation is indeed a thing, but as a Tic Tac fan, the normal size has not shrunk to something so tiny you can't see it. Might be a travel size with 5-10. Will look next grocery trip.
Ok, now I'm laughing again today. One of your best, Jeff.
Also, Re: the tic-tacs. He couldn't even get the point across using a PROP. Which isn't surprising since he has no idea what shrinkflation is, or net zero, or...well, how anything works. What's most telling is making it about himself yet again when he says he's never met anyone from the company so he doesn't know how he feels about them. Like they stay up late worrying about his opinion of them.
The association of TicTacs with Donald Trump should drive their sales down. Gag.
Fun fact: Tic-tacs are made by an Italian company, Ferrero. The same company that makes Nutella and Ferrero Rocher candies.
But, donOLD apparently doesn't also know how to ask someone "Who makes Tic-tacs?".
Fuhrer's brain synapses are seriously misfiring.
I bought a mini-bag of Doritos from the vending machine at work. $2.00. There were 5 chips in it. I kid you not. I took it around the office and showed everyone. Crazy shit that!
Somehow the super-mega monopolies are trying convince people that less is more,bigger packaging,with less in them. I got big box of Raisin Bran recently,it had 2 bowls of cereal in it.
TicTac case looking like a shoebox in those little baby hands
Sexual-assault-tacs.
😂😂
“Bottomless pit of need” that is so bigly sad.
tRump’s brain is Net Zero
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Is anybody else just waiting for trump to publicly call Harris a bitch or use the n-word? Maybe during today's presser.
Yes. I think it’ll slip out during the debate because he’ll get so rattled. I’m hoping for Kavanagh/Jeff sessions level rattled.
At the very least, she'll be a "nasty women."
Or, Lindsay Graham!! I can't "unsee" that!
Yeah, I still have $20 that says he blurts the N word into a hot mike before Labor Day
You know how he'll wiggle out of it? he'll claim he has a friend named Igor, he was saying "Nah Igor!"
“It’s Eygor!”.
marty feldman
What hump?
Abby Normal.
That's EYEgore. 😉
That's a "sucker bet".
He already has.
Yes,the 'B' word.
It seems inevitable.
“Donny No Crowds”- perfect; “let’s make fun of shit we can’t comprehend”-spot on; net zero reduces carbons-can it reduce HIM?!!! He NEVER answers a question——I’m still shocked there are so many dumb people who will vote for this moron. Calgon-take me away! lol
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TicTac's will be OK for a while. I was getting tired as shit of low flow toilets and, batteries, and sharks.
Does Hannibal use tic tacs?
Yes. Post brain eating mints.
Still stuck on the windmills unfortunately.
Don Qui-shitty still tilting at windmills.
I watched as much as I could stomach, roughly 20 seconds, and I caught this gem: "This is supposed to be an *pause* in-tell-eck-chual speech *accordion hands/eyeroll/shrug*." He goes right back to off-teleprompter nonsense because he can't talk about economics and his audience wouldn't understand him if he did. If he had never run for president, he'd be a low-rent Howard Stern, just riffing into the mic for the amusement of the bros.
Howard Stern, who hates liar Trump, might find your post insulting (but he would LOL)
That would be Joe Rogan.
Bingo!
Howard Stern libels!
Watch out for the for intentional rally at the Four Seasons landscaping business where they accidentally held an event before the 2020 race. The trump stain purposely meeting there will be a full circle of irony so profound it may rip a hole in the space-time continuum.
High concept film! Bill Murray as Trump's campaign manager. Alec Baldwin as Trump. And Danny Devito as Rudy Giuliani.
Or a Rick and Morty episode.
Or Beavis and Butthead.
Intellectually, too close to reality!
Madonna as Melania 😯
The only people who still support him are excessively stupid or greedy and the ones who are completely insane.
The griftees and the grifters.
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