Kamala Harris for President
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UPDATED: Tuesday, January 28, 2025 18:14
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Holy shit he did it again. Trump abandons his flock. And they keep coming back for more.
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Trump fans reach BREAKING POINT as chaos ERUPTS at rally
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WOW! MASSIVE ENTHUSIASM for Kamala Harris in North Carolina
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Two more cope clickbait videos from Ted today, huh?
*yawn*
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President. 
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Quote:Trump stares vacantly, swaying to music, for half an hour at town hall
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Two more cope clickbait videos from Ted today, huh?
*yawn*
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
After a couple of people fainted at Donald Trump's town hall tonight, he got flustered and decided to give up and just play a bunch of his musical faves instead of continuing:
“Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Let’s make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?” he said.
For 39 minutes, Trump swayed, bopped — sometimes stopping to speak — as he turned the event into almost a living-room listening session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist.
Trump did this for more than half an hour, just nodding at the audience as he swayed awkwardly to the music. What in God's name is going on with this man? He's crumbling practically hour by hour in front of our eyes.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-stares-vacantly-swaying-to-music-for-h
alf-an-hour-at-town-hall/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How reported threats in North Carolina trace to Trump-fueled misinformation
October 14, 2024
Aaron Blake writes:
For weeks, misinformation about the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Hurricane Helene response has spread far and wide on social media platforms — with more than a helpful nudge from Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the relaxed moderation policies of Musk’s platform, X.
The real consequences of that have begun to show.
The Washington Post reported late Sunday that federal emergency responders were ordered evacuated from Rutherford County, N.C., on Saturday due to a reported threat from militia. An official with the U.S. Forest Service said the National Guard “had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.”
Earlier in the day, a resident threatened FEMA personnel in a trailer in the same county, according to two volunteers with Cajun Navy, a relief organization. Former Forest Service official Riva Duncan also said people had been harassing federal employees who were delivering aid to the area, saying they didn’t want the help.
Ashe County, N.C., Sheriff Phil Howell cited “threats” made against FEMA employees in nearby counties — though not in his, he said — and said the officials had “paused their process as they are assessing the threats.”
Separately, Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) told MSNBC on Sunday that “we had two counties [where] folks reported different militia groups attacking and threatening FEMA.”
The origin of the threats and how serious they have been isn’t yet known. The North Carolina National Guard has reportedly said it has no actual reports of encountering militia, though authorities in the state arrested an individual Saturday and charged him in connection with alleged threats made against FEMA.
But it’s clear that the situation has led to heightened tensions, and that has now delayed recovery efforts. And it’s easy to connect that to the volatile environment that social media misinformation has created in the areas most affected by Helene in western North Carolina. Both Musk and Trump have contributed to that.
It’s now the second time in a month that a Trump-fueled conspiracy theory has preceded apparent threats made in the relevant area — with the last one being Trump’s false claims about Haitian migrants stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Each time, local Republican officials have sought to combat the conspiracy theories and warned of the harm they could do.
Both instances reinforce the potential danger of Trump’s conspiratorial bent and willingness to deploy such misinformation and political tactics even in tense and tragic situations. Trump unleashed a torrent of similar misinformation early in the coronavirus pandemic and after the 2020 election as he sought to overturn the results — the latter of which culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Most prominent among the Helene conspiracy theories has been that FEMA has blocked materials and seized property from affected areas. Rutherford County is a focal point of such theories, with users falsely claiming that the government aimed to seize lithium deposits in Chimney Rock in Rutherford County.
Edwards last week cited that false claim at the very top of a news release seeking to debunk various conspiracy theories related to the hurricane. North Carolina state Sen. Kevin Corbin (R) also prominently cited the theory while seeking to combat misinformation.
The government in neighboring Buncombe County reported last week that it was inundated with calls about FEMA purportedly rejecting donations and seizing property.
As far back as last week — before the most recent events — a nonprofit group warned of potential militia activity related to such claims. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue connected the conspiracy theories to “calls to send militias to face down FEMA for the perceived denial of aid, or to shoot and/or harm FEMA officials and the agency’s emergency responders.”
To be clear,
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Two more cope clickbait videos from Ted today, huh?
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What Happened to the Red Wave?
Before Election Day, the narrative for Democrats was dire – big losses were predicted in the midterms and Republicans were poised for a historic red wave.
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-happened-red-wave#:~:text=Polling%20
never%20predicted%20a%20red%20wave%20-%20certainly,on%20more%20moderate%20GOP%20gains%20in%20the%20House.
Poor Jack, he has a very selective memory as he posts Cliton's poll numbers from 8 years ago. I remember him posting on threads in a rage about the lack of a red wave. I remember him blaming the abortion issue.
Well Jack, tick tock abortion is back. And it's bigger than ever.
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CNBC host says Trump canceled interview
Former President Trump was set to appear on CNBC this week but ultimately canceled on the network, a leading anchor said on Tuesday.
“Well, Trump canceled,” CNBC’s Joe Kernen said on “Squawk Box.” “And he was going to come on … and I told him when you come on, we’ll be able to say you came,” the host continued, adding he did not speak to Trump personally about an appearance.
Allies of Vice President Harris circulated a clip of Kernen’s comments on social media.
The Hill has contacted the Trump campaign for further comment.
Trump’s apparent cancelation comes just days after he backed out of a planned sit-down with “60 Minutes” after CBS News said it would fact-check him.
Trump is slated to appear Wednesday morning on Fox News for a town hall with voters focusing on women’s issues.
Vice President Harris participated in a sit-down with “60 Minutes,” went on a media tour last week and will be interviewed by Fox News’s chief political anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday evening, her first ever on the network.
CNBC is owned by Comcast, one of the media conglomerates Trump has recently railed against and called for the federal government to investigate over coverage he says is not fair to him.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnbc-host-says-trump-canceled-
interview/ar-AA1sjynj?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=1445fc5af96643afb646cddaee6ffbe7&ei=24
Hey comrade signym, Jack, your boys a pussy. He is such a liar he can't do any kind of interview where he will be fact checked. And don't think for a minute, this doesn't reflect on you two for backing him.
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Voters in Pro-Trump County TURN AGAINST Him
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Kamala Harris Is Not a Realist. I’m Voting for Her Anyway
The only realist choice in this year’s election is to reject Trump.
By Stephen M. Walt | October 16, 2024
Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/16/kamala-harris-realist-trump-elect
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At this point, there might only be a few dozen undecided voters left in the United States, so writing a column to convince people to vote the right way may be pointless. But given that the election may come down to a few votes in some swing state, I’d feel bad afterward if I hadn’t done all I could. So here’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris and why you should, too.
You might think a realist/restrainer like me would be leaning toward Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, especially given my dismay at how Biden and his colleagues have handled Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and some other foreign policy issues. Harris wasn’t responsible for those policies, but she has declined to say they were wrong when given the opportunity. Although her principal foreign policy advisor, Philip Gordon, has written sensible things about the limits of U.S. power and the folly of trying to remake whole regions in our image, there’s no sign that Harris’s own views on foreign policy lie outside the Beltway consensus or reflect a realist view of international affairs. By contrast, Trump and Vance say they want U.S. allies in Europe and Asia to bear more of the burden when it comes to their own defense, think it’s time to bring the war in Ukraine to a close, and regard the foreign policy “Blob” with skepticism if not outright contempt. That’s why some self-described realists are enamored with them, and you could easily conclude that I shared their view.
So why am I not ignoring Trump and Vance’s troubling deficiencies of character—which is putting it mildly—and planting a Trump-Vance sign in my yard? Let me count the ways.
First, as I noted repeatedly when Trump was president, he is not a realist, and you’re as likely to get sensible foreign policy from him as you were to get an education from Trump University. He is more accurately seen as a crude nationalist and unilateralist, and the “ism” that best captures him is narcissism. During his first term, he was better at garnering attention than making constructive diplomatic gains, which is why his reality show summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin went nowhere. He didn’t end any “forever wars” during his first term, gave the Defense Department more money that it didn’t need, and was perfectly content firing missiles into foreign countries to kill leaders he didn’t like. He was impulsive, crude, inattentive, and incapable of forging a clear strategy and sticking to it, which is why his four years in office were devoid of genuine foreign-policy achievements. The much-ballyhooed Abraham Accords don’t count, as they helped lay the groundwork for the carnage that is now convulsing the Middle East, just as critics had warned. (That’s what you get when a president lets his unqualified son-in-law play diplomat in a volatile region.)
And let’s not forget that Trump allowed Iran to restart its nuclear program by leaving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, abandoned the Paris climate accord, and weakened efforts to balance China by jettisoning the Trans-Pacific Partnership and picking fights with Asian allies instead. This is a foreign-policy record no serious realist should support. Nor would a realist think that sowing division and telling Americans to fear each other is the best way to strengthen the country, let alone make it great. Yet that is exactly what Trump has done throughout his career, and especially during this campaign.
None of this is surprising, given the long record of incompetence that is Trump’s business career. Its distinguishing features are not adroit dealmaking and s
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