Laffy
Laffy  ·  2 days ago
🚨Via Kyle Griffin:

The #Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that would create a board to purge three- and four-star generals 'deemed unfit for leadership.'

Such a panel could upend the traditional military review process and raises concerns about politicization of the military. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-draft-executive-order-would-create-board-to-purge-generals-7ebaa606

Laffy
Laffy  ·  2 days ago
Via Scott MacFarlane:

ALERT: DC federal judge has just rejected #Jan6 defendant Terry Allen’s request to postpone sentencing until after #Trump Inauguration

Judge Amit Mehta: “Defendant’s speculation that he may receive a pardon is not good cause to continue his sentencing hearing”

input.translation
input.translation  ·  6 days ago
"To give some idea of what banning #fluoride might look like, Calgary, Canada, banned fluoride in 2011. In the eight years afterward, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy for children to avoid death from #infection skyrocketed 700 percent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital."

Aside: This is because bacteria in untreated, infected #cavities can sometimes spread to other body parts, including the bloodstream, and lead to #sepsis.

https://newrepublic.com/post/188095/donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-plan-health-fda
#rfkjr #trump #dental #publichealth

Kamala Harris News Group 2.0
Kamala Harris News Group 2.0  ·  2 weeks ago
"In close races, nothing is more important than closing strong. And with four days to go, Donald Trump is most definitely not closing strong....

Kamala Harris, on the other hand, has been closing very strongly. I have seen polling on her ellipse speech in front of 75,000 people, and she knocked it out of the park. Over the last week, her campaign played offensively, dictating the terms of the political conversation. Trump is reacting to her and is clearly off his game....

Why Closing Well Matters

While most voters made up their mind months if not years ago, there is a slice of voters who don’t decide until the final week.

The news environment in the final week is very influential with these voters....

On Friday, Plouffe tweeted:

It’s helpful, from experience, to be closing a Presidential campaign with late deciding voters breaking by double digits to you and the remaining undecideds looking more friendly to you than your opponent.

Let’s hope we get a few more days of Trump being Trump."

#KamalaHarris#Trump

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/trump-stumbles-to-the-finish-line?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=1f8bf&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  2 weeks ago
"As the election approaches, the reporting gets worse — policy issues are pushed aside, the most ludicrous micro-controversies are given front-page treatment, more and more attention is paid to increasingly useless polls and pointless speculation, and they ride into election day on a wave of triviality. ...

The most disheartening thing about all this is how it shows our elite media have learned nothing."

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/10

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  2 weeks ago
"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."

~ Seth Abramson

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/11

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/fact-check-no-president-biden-didnt

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  2 weeks ago
"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/12

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  2 weeks ago
"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'

That really did happen.

And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?

If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/13

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  2 weeks ago
Lincoln Project helpfully provides us with a beaucoup of times when the Garbage Can Man Trump has called Kamala Harris' supporters — and America itself — garbage.

I'm continuing to hashtag New York Times and Washington Post as I post this item because both media outlets should be royally shamed, though they're evidently well beyond shame.

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvr7KfJPgA

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  2 weeks ago
"Donald recently called America 'the garbage can of the world,' and this is what he had to say about actual human beings back in September:

'The people that surround [Kamala Harris]—they’re Scum. They’re scum. And they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage.'

Good to know.

We’re five days out. The media keeps getting it wrong."

~ Mary Trump

#NewYorkTimes#WashingtonPost#Trump #garbage#MediaFail
/15

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-garbage-can-of-the-world

Laffy
Laffy  ·  3 weeks ago
Via Justin Baragona:

Just a few hours ago, #JDVance was arguing to Jake Tapper that Trump was being taken out of context and misrepresented.

#Trump: When I say the enemy within the other side goes crazy. They have done very bad things, they are indeed the enemy from within

Laffy
Laffy  ·  2 weeks ago
Via Angry Staffer:

Holy shit. I missed this one.

This is vile.

CNN:

“The #Trump rally comedian also had anti-Palestinian and anti-Semitic bit:

“You know Palestinians will throw rock every time. And also we know Jews have a hard time throwing that paper."

The crowd laughed at both of those too”

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 weeks ago
"Of all the expectations I had for these final weeks of the election, canceling two of my newspaper subscriptions wasn’t one of them.

I’ve always believed newspapers are essential to our democracy."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#LosAngelesTimes#PatrickSoonShiong#EconomicElites
/6

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/canceled-subscriptions

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 weeks ago
"But here we see billionaires, who own press operations as side businesses, out of their back pocket, as it were, seeming to decide that it’s easier to pull up stakes in advance, get out of the way of the freight train, lay down before Trump has even won the election."

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/5

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 weeks ago
"It’s been suggested to me that Jeff Bezos’ decision here may be based on more than just fear. Perhaps carrots are operating in the background as well as sticks. I don’t know if that’s true. But I mention the possibility because I think it’s a critical driver of what I’ve called that climate of bewilderment. The choice has the whiff of decisions or deals made off stage, out of public view."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/3

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trust-bewilderment-and-billionairedom-understanding-the-backlash-against-bezos

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 weeks ago
"A lot of the country is convinced that a second Trump presidency will push America into the kind of elective autocracy we see in degraded democracies like Russia, Turkey and India. That brings with it the standard package of curtailments of press and other civic freedoms."

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/4

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  3 weeks ago
"It’s been suggested to me that Jeff Bezos’ decision here may be based on more than just fear. Perhaps carrots are operating in the background as well as sticks. I don’t know if that’s true. But I mention the possibility because I think it’s a critical driver of what I’ve called that climate of bewilderment. The choice has the whiff of decisions or deals made off stage, out of public view."

~ Josh Marshall

#Trump #fascism#WashingtonPost#JeffBezos#EconomicElites
/3

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trust-bewilderment-and-billionairedom-understanding-the-backlash-against-bezos