Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

There isn't anything honest about MAGA cultists.

 

Deception, manipulation, and lies, are MAGA's lifeblood:



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Sorry, MAGA, but giving Vance a chiseled chin doesn't make his lies look any better on him.


Don't forget that during last night's debate, JD Vance said Trump oversaw a "peaceful transition of power" on January 6 -- a blatant and damnable lie by a man who hasn't an authentic bone in his flip-flopping body.


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JD VANCE IS A YOUNGER VERSION OF TRUMP THE LYING LIAR

 

Vance wanted to be able to lie with impunity and NOT get fact checked on those lies!



"The Rules Were You Guys Weren’t Going To Fact Check!" --JD Vance




Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
"On the debate stage, Vance refused to acknowledge that Trump lost...That moment tells you the most important thing about Vance: When democracy is in peril, he will bow to Trump, not to the people or the Constitution. He must never be given that chance."





 

VANCE IS AS MUCH OF A HYPOCRITICAL FLIP-FLOPPER AS THE SPINELESS NIKKI HALEY IS:
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Vice Presidential debates don't move the needle on presidential elections, but...





BREAKING: In a stunning response, swing voters are saying it was JD Vance’s refusal to admit Donald Trump lost in 2020 that made them swing to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s side. 



Ana Navarro-Cárdenas
@ananavarro
JD Vance’s an able shape-shifter. He’s been a Hillbilly. A Hollywood elite. A Never-Trumper. A Trump psychophant. Demeaning of women. A bigoted liar. He’s been consistent at being slick. Yesterday, he took the shape of a cordial guy discussing policy. Believe him at your peril.



 



 Here's Trump talking about the governor of Minnesota, and a candidate for vice president of the United State. He uses language that an 8-year old bully in a schoolyard would envy. Trump's cultists love him when he acts like a little schoolyard bully:


Jones: Vance lied the entire night. American energy production is up. He said it's down. He said Donald Trump saved Obamacare. He lied about the insurrection, he said we had a peaceful transfer of power. He lied and said he never supported a national abortion ban
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

OMG! He babbling and making no sense!

 

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Trump says VP debate tonight will be "rigged."



h/t to Dave Miller on the fake Kimble post! I usually check out the more outrageous posts, but did not do that this time! My mistake!


Meanwhile:


JD Vance calls rape an "inconvenience."





But this is actually true:



Trump has called Governor Waltz a "moron," just a few days after he said Vice President Harris is "mentally disabled." 

There are people in this country who want this disgrace of a human being to be the leader of our country. He has debased, cheapened, and demeaned who we are as a nation with his juvenile taunts and name-calling, and his followers are complicit in all of this by their blind allegiance to him.




Outside the venue where tonight's VP debate will be held:








Trump's cultists -- MAGAs:


 
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Conservative writer, David Frum:

 



DAVID FRUM:


There's no mystery about this election. Trump's party talked itself into the idea that their guy led some mighty popular movement. In fact a voting majority of Americans have rejected Trump and Trumpism every chance they got since 2015. Now they're readying to do it again.

Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million in 2016. He lost the popular vote by 7 million in 2020. He was under 50% approval in every reputable poll every single damn day of his presidency.

Trump's party lost the House in 2018. Trump's party lost the US Senate in 2021, because Trump personally cost the GOP two Senate seats in Georgia. In 2022, Trump's party lost -1 in Senate, -2 governorships, -4 state chambers. An expected "red wave" in the House proved a trickle.

For Trump, Republicans repudiated their former political principles on everything from NATO to trade. For Trump, they acquiesced in a violent coup against the Constitution. For Trump, they jettisoned the family and sexual morality they supposedly cherished. All - to lose.

How to explain this self-deception? Some of the self-deceived lived in ideological ghettoes sealed from real-world information. Some were just eager to believe self-gratifying lies no matter how plainly false. But I think two other things entered it ...

1) Because Trump is himself so financially corrupt, he wrecked many of the formal and informal restraints against using politics as a vehicle for self-enrichment. Many grifters got a lot richer in the Trump era than they would have under other management.

2) Because Trump is such an all-around terrible person, his example gave permission to many people to explore and indulge the darkest parts of their own personalities. People who might once have struggled to be better delighted in being worse. Bad politics; potent psychology.

For the millions of people for whom politics is about self-validation rather than governance - Trump made life more fun, more fulfilling. *He* said it from the White House. *They* could say it on Facebook or at the PTA. That was worth losing a few state legislative chambers!

If this explanation of Trump's otherwise destructive hold on the GOP is correct, one more election loss may not change anything. A Harris presidency opens the door to four exciting years of trash-talking, if that's what you like to do. As we've learned, many people do like it.

An elite few in the GOP care about outcomes. Trump seemed to offer a mesmerizing opportunity: a way to convert 46% of the vote into control of the executive branch. Some racism, some corruption, some authoritarianism was (to them) well worth the prize.


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Monday, September 30, 2024

Trump lying to his cultists about President Biden's response to Hurricane Helena in Georgia

 

Trump blatantly lies to his cultists because they're easy marks; they'll believe any lie he tells them and, most likely, they're are uninformed and easily bamboozled by a con man.








Greg Bluestein
@bluestein
Here’s what Kemp said today in Augusta about his call with President Biden last night. “He offered that if there's other things we need, just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.” #gapol x.com/bluestein/stat…












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Trump calls the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, "mentally disabled..."

 







Here he shows America and the world that he's deteriorating before our eyes:


 



Here he admits to stiffing contractors because he doesn't like to pay overtime. And his working class cultists give cheers to the guy who stiffs them! 


Trump had non-union, undocumented Polish workers build Trump Tower. He worked them in 24 hour shifts and didn’t pay even the slave wages he agreed to pay them. When he was forced to use union workers he under paid the pension and health fund. They had to sue him to get it.
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Sunday, September 29, 2024

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 



"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be." - Marcel Pagnol
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Saturday, September 28, 2024

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC AND DANCING

 




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Friday, September 27, 2024

REMINDER:

 

President Biden approved $1B in Emergency relief funds to Florida on THE DAY the Hurricane hit. 



And THAT is this difference between Democrats and Trumpublicans. Between a REAL President and a vengeful little brat.
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ANOTHER GOOD OBSERVATION BY CONSERVATIVE DAVID FRENCH





My Sunday column was about Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, and why MAGA keeps nominating corrupt and unhinged candidates for public office. A CNN report documented that Robinson had posted vile messages on a pornography message board, including messages in which he said he was a “Black Nazi” and “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few.” Robinson is denying the posts are his and is staying in the race. I’m not surprised:

In nine years, countless Republican primary voters have moved from voting for Trump in spite of his transgressions to rejecting anyone who doesn’t transgress. If you’re not transgressive, you’re suspicious. Decency is countercultural in the Republican Party. It’s seen as a rebuke of Trump.

This has changed the composition of the party. While many decent people remain — and represent the hope for future reform — Trump’s Republican Party has become a magnet for eccentrics and conspiracy theorists of all stripes. In a sharp essay (which my colleague Ross Douthat also highlighted), Matthew Yglesias calls this phenomenon the “crank realignment.”

Speaking of MAGA, I was also a guest on the “Opinions” podcast to talk about why MAGA keeps sharing cat memes about Springfield, Ohio, long after the claim that Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats had been debunked. The short answer is that they’re having a great time. They love making decent people angry:

I knew that MAGA was going to take this torch and carry it as far as it possibly could. And they did it in that particular way that MAGA interacts with the larger world, with this sense of gleeful transgression. They have fun being outrageous. They have fun being provocative. They like to “trigger the libs.” What MAGA is very good at doing is turning around back to its own people and saying, “See, we struck a nerve.” They’ll use words like, “If you’re taking flack, it means you’re over the target.” And so they use the backlash almost as proof that they’ve hit a nerve and all of this just creates an endless process of doubling down.

The people who are in on the joke, the core MAGA people who are pushing the memes out, look, if it’s true, great. If it’s not true, who cares? They’re having a good time.

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