Monday, October 14, 2024

Only JD dare kiss that face

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THE BUNKER IS MAR-A-LAGO BUT THE ORANGE FOUNDATION HAS FILLED IN FOR THE TOOTHBRUSH MUSTACHE. 

YES, KIDS, DONALD STANK ASS TRUMP HAS MORPHED INTO HITLER -- AS MANY PEOPLE ARE FINALLY STARTING TO REALIZE.  THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH TALK AROUND DONALD STANK ASS TRUMP SINCE 1983 AND THE RUMORS THAT DONALD WAS SCREWING THE EDGE OF NIGHT'S LARKIN MALLOY BECAUSE IVANA'S IMMENSE BELLY TURNED HIM OFF (SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH ERIC). (THOSE KIND OF RUMORS SWIRLED AROUND HITLER AS WELL.)

STANK ASS STARK RAVING TRUMP SPENT THE WEEKEND INSISTING THAT THE U.S. WAS "INFESTED" WITH IMMIGRANTS, "ALL THE SCUM THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT HATE OUR COUNTRY."

IN FAIRNESS TO STANK ASS, SOME SAY IT SOUNDED BETTER IN THE ORIGINAL GERMAN.

NOT ONLY HAS STANK ASS PRAISED HITLER ("HITLER DID SOME GOOD THINGS") HE ALSO DOES A MEAN GOOSE-STEP AIDED BY THE FACT THAT HE KEEPS S**TING HIMSELF IN PUBLIC WHICH LUBRICATES HIS FAT UPPER THIHGS AND ALLOWS HIM TO SWING THOSE LEGS HIGHER AND HIGHER.  



OF COURSE, HE ALSO USES THE LOOSE, WATERY STOOLS ON HIS FACE TO DARKEN HIS SKIN WHICH IS WHY ONLY MISS SASSY JD VANCE DARES TO KISS HIM ON THE MOUTH.


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There is so much at stake this election cycle.


Joe Arpaio did not just racially profile and abuse immigrants.  What he did was target people he suspected were immigrants.  That was bad enough.  But in order to target Latino immigrants, he had to target all Latinos -- and did.  Let's not pretend otherwise.  

Let's not pretend that will not happen again if Donald Trump claws his way back into the White House.

The video below got a lot of attention this weekend.





Miss Sassy JD Vance sat down with Lulu Garcia-Navarro and apparently thought she'd break under pressure.  We noted her back when she was covering Iraq -- as an unembeded reporter.  You have to wonder about Vance and his tiny brain that he walked into that interview after also have been a reporter from Iraq and he didn't know a damn thing to expect.

Repeatedly, she asks him if he would have certified the 2020 election and repeatedly he refuses to answer.

He also looks a lot fatter doesn't he?  Guess that's why they were using AI on his face -- to make it slimmer -- after his debate with Tim Walz.


He didn't do much better on Sunday when he faced off with Martha Raddatz on ABC's THIS WEEK.  A warning before you stream, when JD Vance tries to smile, he looks like a small child sitting on the toilet and struggling to get a poop out.  Again, you have been warned.







JD Vance couldn’t muster up a defense of Donald Trump’s repeated mischaracterizations of migrant issues in Aurora, Colorado, on Sunday, so he resorted to a familiar one for a successful author: semantics.

This Week host Martha Raddatz questioned Vance about Trump’s Springfield, Ohio-esque assailment of the town and the subsequent pushback by its Republican mayor Mike Coffman. Trump had claimed the city was “conquered” by Venezuelan gangs, while Coffman said Trump’s descriptions “have been grossly exaggerated and have unfairly hurt the city’s identity and sense of safety.”


Hannah Demissie (ABC NEWS) notes it and other moments as well.

Let me be clear, he's smarmy little liar, a tiny hen-pecked man trying to play big boy on the national stage and, no, it doesn't work for me.  

So I can't get through that entire segment but what I can get through goes to the lies he keeps telling over and over that no one's calling him on.

He says immigrant problems are due to all the executive orders Kamala Harris issued.

Why does no one scream liar in his face when he does that?

The vice president of the United States does not issue executive orders.  That right is reserved for the president.  He does this all this lie all the time.  

Only the president.

Do you get that?

Because I don't see anyone in the media who does grasp that.

Miss Sassy may be lying -- and should be confronted -- but then again maybe JD is just that damn stupid.

If that's the case, he especially does not need to be running for office because he doesn't understand how the government works.  

Kamala Harris has issued zero executive orders.  When he claims she's issued even one, he's lying.


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Dystopian Days

 

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IT'S THE YEAR 2029 AND GOLDEN TOILETS DUBBED "TRUMPERS" ROAM WHAT WAS ONCE THE UNITED STATES EATING CHILDREN AND, YES, CATS AND DOGS.  PEOPLE HAD PRAYED FOR YEARS THAT IF ONLY THEY COULD SURVIVE UNTIL JANUARY 2029 THEY WOULD BE FREE OF DICTATOR DONALD TRUMP.

BUT THAT WAS NOT TO BE.  WHEN HE WON THE 2024 ELECTION, HE REFUSED TO LEAVE.  HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS NATIONALIZING THINGS.

NOT CORPORATIONS -- KNOW HE WAS ALWAYS FOR THE EXTREMELY WEALTH.

HE NATIONALIZED EVERYTHING ELSE.  HE STARTED WITH OUR STATE PARKS AND OTHER FEDERAL LANDS BY STATING, "IN THE NAME OF THE GREAT DONALD TRUMP AND WITH MY SEAL OF APPROVAL" A TWO-POUND PERSONAL TURD STRAIGHT FROM THE ASS OF THE ASS "I CLAIM THIS FOR TRUMPLANDIA."  

THE PRESS LAUGHED AND CHORTLED AND SOME WENT TO THE TROUBLE OF EXPLAINING WHAT THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF TURDS MIGHT MEAN.  JONATHAN TURLEY, POSING AS A LEGAL SCHOLAR, INSISTED THAT AS LONG AS THE TURD WAS CORN FREE, IT WAS LEGAL.  BUT IF THE TURD HAD CORN?  JONATHAN TURLEY SAID HE WOULD EAT HIMSELF.

WHICH HE DID.

WITH GREAT ZEAL AND RELISH.

AT LEAST EIGHTY TIMES OVER.


SO DONALD TRUMP WENT AROUND 'NATIONALIZING' OTHER THINGS.  EVENTUALLY, HE GOT TO 'NATIONALIZING' CONGRESS.  

FINALLY, A FEW PUSHED BACK AND SAID THAT SURELY THIS WAS NOT AUTHORIZED IN THE CONTITUTION -- NOT EVEN IN THE FORMER UNITED STATES NOW KNOWN AS TRUMPLAND.

JONATHAN TURLEY SHOOK HIS HEAD VIGOROUSLY INSISTING THAT IT WAS LEGAL AS HE CONSUMED A PARTICULARLY LENGTHY TURD.


SEXY BEAST -- AS DONALD TRUMP NOW INSISTED ON BEING CALLED; FULL TITLE "THE SEXY BEAST OF THE WORLD AND UNIVERSE" -- INSISTED IT WAS FULLY LEGAL.  HE POINTED OUT THAT HE NOT NATIONALIZED THE SUPREME COURT AND HE TOOK THE CASE TO THEM.

THEY FOUND IN HIS FAVOR WITH BRETT KAVANAUGH PRAISING "THE FLAVOR" OF SEXY BEAST'S URINE AS HE DOWNED BOTTLE AFTER BOTTLE OF IT.


IT WAS AT THAT TIME THAT THE UNITED STATES AND DEMOCRACY OFFICIALLY ENDED.

AND THE ABANDON HARRIS MOVEMENT ISSUED A STATEMENT, "WE ARE HOMOPHOBES WHO LOATHE ALL LGBTQ+ PEOPLE BECAUSE WE ARE EXTREMISTS IN OUR RELIGION.  WE NEVER LIKED AMERICA AND OBVIOUSLY NEVER CONSIDERED OURSELVES AMERICANS SINCE WE PLACED WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AHEAD OF WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR OWN COUNTRY.  WE ARE PLEASED WITH SEXY BEAST AND LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING SEXY BEAST FOR ALL ETERNITY PLUS TEN YEARS MORE."


PERENNIAL GREEN PARTY JOKE JILL STEIN DECLARED THAT SHE WAS THRILLED WITH TRUMPLAND AND GLAD THAT ALL THE PEOPLE WITH SKIN NOT LIKE HER OWN WERE BEING ROUNDED UP.  "THIS WILL BRING ABOUT THE REVOLUTION!  AND I WILL LEAD IT!" SHE EXCLAIMED A DAY BEFORE SHE WAS PUBLICY EXECUTED.  TO BE CLEAR, NO ONE BELIEVED SHE COULD LEAD ANYTHING -- LET ALONE A REVOLUTION.  SHE WAS KILLED JUST BECAUSE SEXY BEAST FOUND HER FACE SO UGLY.  

THERE WAS SOME HOPE -- AMONG THE MOST EXTREMELY NAIVE -- THAT OUR BRAVE PUBLICATIONS AND PROGRAMS MIGHT CHALLENGE SEXY BEAST AND ARGUE FOR THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY AND OF THE UNITED STATES.  BUT INSTEAD, IN THESE TIMES, DEMOCRACY NOW!, THE NATION, THE PROGRESSIVE AND OTHER ISSUED A STATEMENT:  "WE GLADLY ACCEPT CREDIT FOR DESTROYING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  THAT WAS OUR PLAN  ALL ALONG.  DEATH TO REALISM!  DEATH TO REALISM!  DOWN WITH FREEDOM! DOWN WITH EQUALITY!"  

PEOPLE BEGAN TO WONDER WHAT THE POINT IN EVEN LIVING NOW WAS AS AMY GOODMAN RENAMED HER LOUSY PROGRAM THE WHORE AND PROPAGANDA REPORT AND SPENT HOUR UPON HOUR TRASHING KAMALA HARRIS AND TELLING THE WORLD THAT HARRIS WAS DEAD.  

BUT DEEP IN THE HEART OF AMERICA, A FEW STALWARTS REMAINED HOPEFUL AND BELIEVED HARRIS WAS ALIVE AND THAT, SHORTLY, SHE WOULD SEE TO IT THAT DONALD TRUMP WAS TRIED FOR TREASON IN A REAL COURT -- NOT A TRUMPLAND COURT -- A REAL COURT.   THE ONLY QUESTION WAS: IF SHE WAS ALIVE WOULD THE PROGRESSIVE, THE NATION, IN THESE TIMES, ZNET, DEMOCRACY NOW! AND SO MANY OTHERS BETRAY HER AND THE UNITED STATES AGAIN?


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It's amazing to watch this election cycle. Robert Kennedy Jr. thinking he can deny attempted rape accusations -- as though William Kennedy Smith never happened?  Thinking he can be accused of assaulting the baby sitter and still go around to the press and get away with insisting he never said he was a choirboy?  Maybe even more amazing would be that media outlets would speak to him after that or his denial of the known affair with the reporter -- the one that got her fired but he can go on TV and just insists he never speaks about his personal life.  

It's really something to see.  

There's freak show Jill Stein.  Let's zoom in on the Green Party v.p. slot.  No, not Butch Ware, but the v.p. she wanted to start with:  Abdullah Hammoud.  She had to move back from that choice and she finally selected Butch Ware.

But for awhile she wanted Abdullah Hammoud.  And he was a rising star for some unknown reason.  The right-wing doesn't really like him.  Some elements of the left have promoted him.  And, golly gosh, MOTHER JONES is now.

And the real reason is why?

He's anti-genocide?

So am I.  So are most people.  There's not really a big pro genocide group in the US.  That's why so many refuse to apply the term genocide to what's taking place in Gaza.  But that is genocide.  And the genocide has flared and increased as it does every now and then -- but even in what passes for 'peace' has been a genocide against the Palestinian people.

The problem with Abdullah for Jill was first off that he was too young to be her running mate -- had she won (I know, I know, stop laughing, we're just making a point) and been sworn in January 20th then died in her sleep the night of, Abdullah would have been too young to be president.  He's the Mayor of Dearborn but he's too young to be the president of the United States.

So that was the main problem but what finally had Jill relinquish her fantasy were two Green Party big wigs who pointed out to her that Abdullah was the Mayor of Dearborn.

And if you've read the fawning coverage over him, you might just be nodding blankly like Jill did.

But what Green Party thinkers understood -- and finally got through Jill's thick head -- was that the Green Party could not build a future with Abdullah because he is Mayor of Dearborn.


Dearborn is where many Muslims joined the hate brigade with the fright wing.  It is very anti-LGBTQ+ at this time.  That coincides with Abdullah's term as Mayor.  Like all Democrats representing that area in any form, he was called out by a number of Muslims who felt he was pro-gay because he was a Democrat.

Is he?

As Mayor he hasn't helped the LGBTQ+ population.  

Common sense would dictate that when you do a lengthy interview with him, you get him on the record.

But no one does and MOTHER JONES didn't.

I'm not promoting homophobes.  I'm not promoting politicians who betray Americans.  

MOTHER JONES seems to be okay with it.

They and others create this myth of Abdullah.  And I'm not a myth maker.  

Tim Walz did awful in the debate and I said so. 

The open prejudice and hatred that LGBTQ+ people face now since Abdullah became mayor is not something that you overlook.  

And it's amazing how much attention he's gotten from left media for his attacks on Joe Biden and now on Kamala Harris with no one wanting to put him on the record about the hate in Dearborn that has only increased in the last two years, at the efforts to ban books, to strip away rights.

Shame on MOTHER JONES. 

Abdullah's the new Rocky Anderson and if you're asking "Who?" -- exactly.  THE NATION and others spent forever trying to make Rocky happen.  He never did.  He became famous for being a mayor in leftist circles and then he never delivered on anything.



Kamala Harris has done an amazing job.  Unlike others in the 2024 election cycle, she hasn't had a year or more to build a campaign.  She had to hit the ground running   She'd done and is doing an incredible job.

And that bears stating since this is a left site and I am a leftist. 

I thought THE NATION was left and THE PROGRESSIVE and MOTHER JONES and go down the list.  But I see all these attacks on her.  And we're 25 days away from the end of the election -- voting's already taking place, November 5th will be the final day of voting -- and they're running garbage articles?  They're attacking her.  

She's not doing this and she's not doing that!

I've never in my life seen the left media pile on a Democratic Party presidential candidate like this.  It's appalling.  

But fortunately, she doesn't have to depend upon them.  



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    Trump's mountain of depth, Mike Johnson's lack of Christianity

    Grifters and con artists.  What you writing about, Mommy? 
     
    My oldest asked me that.  
     
    I said, "Grifters and con artists."  Ron Filipkowski (MediasTouch News) reports:


    In his initial filing for bankruptcy to attempt to delay the collection of the massive defamation judgment obtained by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, Rudy Giuliani was forced to admit that the Trump campaign owed him $2 million in unpaid legal fees. Now he is begging a court not to collect that money since it will make it look like he is suing Trump right before the election.

    The bankruptcy court recently dismissed his case as being fraudulently filed in an attempt to simply delay collection of the judgment. So now the case is back in court with the plaintiffs attempting to seize Rudy's assets without delay. Rudy filed a motion today regarding his most substantial assets - one of which are the legal fees he accrued trying to overturn the 2020 election for Trump. Trump never paid him a single dollar for his work.

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    Finally, he asks that the court delay enforcement of the $2 million owed by Trump until the day after the election. He says that should be done because there will be a "media frenzy" if Trump is forced to pay Rudy the money he has owed him for three years, and it will make it look like Rudy is suing Trump right before the election for stiffing him. 


    Of course he wants to delay it.  Trump's mountain of debt could collapse at any moment and Rudy doesn't want that pinned on him.  Everything about Trump is a lie including his supposedly great wealth.  You know Ike Turner -- a con artist who abused women just like Trump -- used to explain how you manipulated the bank.  And he'd talk about how you could ride high for years.  But one stumble and everyone panics and starts calling in the debts and that's when you're bankrupt.

    In other news, I guess conversion camp only accomplishes so much.  Doesn't appear to have left Speaker of the House Mike Johnson with a functional brain.  Charles R. Davis (Salon) reports:


    House Speaker Mike Johnson is a man of faith — a “Bible-believing Christian,” as he puts it, who by his own account does his best to reflect the fact that God is love, not hate.
    “If you truly believe in the Bible’s commands,” the Louisiana Republican told Fox News last year, “and you seek to follow those, it’s impossible to be a hateful person because the greatest command in the Bible is that you love God with everything you had, and you love your neighbor as well.”

    But Johnson is also a loyal ally of Donald Trump, a man who has repeatedly made false, outlandish and blatantly offensive claims in pursuit of political power, and has spent the last nine years blaming people born elsewhere for almost every problem facing America. But Johnson is far more than a modest disciple of a 78-year-old demagogue who hawks his own sacrilegious version of Christianity's sacred text, nor is he just another Republican who swallows his unease over the racist invective in order to get lower corporate taxes.

    No, Mike Johnson is also in it for power. Like his party’s leader, he's given to self-aggrandizement (“entire industries,” he has claimed, are trying “to take down … effective political leaders like me”). In his uphill quest to preserve the Republicans' slender House majority and hold onto the speaker's chair, Johnson is participating — and even leading — a campaign of demonization directed at immigrants, one that he either knows is false or has somehow willed himself to believe is true. (Neither is an excuse, according to the dictates of Johnson's faith, that is likely to satisfy St. Peter).

    Speaking to Politico while on the campaign trail in Texas, Johnson this week reiterated a false GOP talking point he has echoed many times before.


    “We know that states are not requesting proof of citizenship … so there's going to be thousands upon thousands of noncitizens voting,” he claimed. “If you have enough noncitizens participating in some of these swing areas, you can change the outcome of the election in the majority.”

    He made much the same fanciful claim in July, when the House passed legislation requiring states to ask for proof of citizenship from anyone filling out a voter registration form. To be clear, it's already a felony for any noncitizen to vote, but voting-rights advocates believe that requiring a passport or a birth certificate — documents many citizens do not possess — amounts to voter suppression. 

    At the risk of tiresome repetition, these claims that thousands of noncitizens are voting are simply not true. Don’t take the liberal media’s word for it: Consider the audits of voter rolls conducted by Republican politicians.



    As a religious person, I don't get it.  He apparently has no real faith, that's the only answer.  Everything he does is motivated by hate.  That's not love.  That's not representative of Jesus' love.  

    If we are tested on this earth, we are tested to show love and forgiveness.  I don't see anything in Mike's attitude or remarks that speak to that or that show any appreciation for Jesus dying for our sins.  All he offers is hate.  

     

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    Some days you just aren't in the mood for the nonsense lies.  That's me this morning after seeing way too many e-mails to the public account from idiots and liars who insist that Donald Trump is the answer to free speech.  It's as though Glynneth Greenwald, Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk had their sock puppets astroturf the public e-mail account.

    But since the liars have bothered me, let's be really clear on something.

    Elon Musk, Greenwal, Taibbi and Robert Kennedy Jr are not for free speech.  They say they are, but they're not.  


    If you're for free speech, you don't, as Elon did, donate to Ron DeSantis who's currently going after TV stations that air commercials about Florida's proposed amendment on abortion. And most importantly, you don't believe in book banning.  Moms For Bigotry backed Ron, was supported by Ron, was appointed to offices by Ron.

    That's not free speech.

    But Matt and Glennie and Junior have been allowed to define free speech as they see it without any real pushback -- and that basically boils down to, I don't believe in vaccines!!!!!

    Now you can go sell that lie on FOX "NEWS."  But in the real world, when you're calling for book bans you're not for free speech and stop pretending that you are.   When others are calling for book bans and you can't say a word about it, then you aren't for free speech.

    As for Donald?  His threats against the press, his threats against comedians -- His threats against the world.  

    I don't have time to waste on stupidity.  

    But looking at some of those e-mails from deeply deluded and disturbed people, I thought it at least called for a clarification that book banning is not free speech and that none of your self-appointed fright-wing Free Speech 'defenders' has pushed back on book bans.

    Donald's 'free speech' beliefs are that he can lie repeatedly and try to pass those lies off as free speech.




                 Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday said she thinks former President Donald Trump has no empathy for others as he continues to spread misinformation about the federal response in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

    “It’s profound, and it is the height of irresponsibility and frankly callousness. … Lives are literally at stake right now,” Harris said during an interview on ABC’s “The View.” “I mean we’re talking about real human beings and their lives and they’re losing everything, everything.”

    She added, “The idea that somebody would be playing political games for the sake of himself – but this is so consistent about Donald Trump.”

                 “He puts himself before the needs of others. I fear that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level to care about the suffering of other people and then understand the role of a leader is not to beat people down, it’s to lift people up especially in a time of crisis,” she added.

    Following Hurricane Helene, and with Hurricane Milton barreling toward Florida, Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed, without evidence, that the White House is diverting disaster relief aid to unrelated migrant programs. While FEMA does manage grants for housing and helping migrants, that is a separate account and unrelated to the disaster relief funds.

    Trump has also repeatedly criticized the Biden administration’s response to Helene, including falsely saying that the president wasn’t picking up the calls and that there is an anti-Republican bias in how President Joe Biden and Harris are responding to the crisis.     


    Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris was on THE VIEW yesterday addressing a number of topics.  Here's the clip of her discussing the government's response to Hurricane Helene.




    Harris described personal stories she heard from those affected by Hurricane Helene and its aftermath after traveling to Georgia and North Carolina.

    "People are losing their home with no hope of ever being able to reconstruct or return, and the idea that somebody would be playing political games for the sake of himself -- but this is so consistent about Donald Trump," she said. "He puts himself before the needs of others. I fear that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level to care about suffering of other people and understand the role of a leader is not to beat people down, it's to lift people up."

    Harris' sit-down on "The View" marked her first live interview since becoming the Democratic nominee. She is ramping up her media appearances this week with now just one month until Election Day.



    Kamala has one of the hardest jobs in the world right now.  She's got to put forward ideas -- as any presidential candidate would be expected to do -- but she also has to spend a significant amount of her campaign time each day refuting some of Donald Trump's lies.  Some.  Not all.  The media -- even when they're trying to -- is unable to refute all of Donald Trump's lies because the lies never end.




    Former President Donald Trump’s deadly lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene — and soon, inevitably, Hurricane Milton — depend on the impermeability of the right-wing information bubble.

    President Joe Biden has directed an ongoing federal and state response to the swath of death and destruction Hurricane Helene left on the southeastern United States, an effort which includes tens of thousands of personnel helping victims across several states. 

    Trump’s Helene response has been characterized by conspiracy theories and grievance-mongering for political gain.

    The Biden administration won plaudits from GOP elected officials across the region, but Trump falsely claimed the federal government abandoned the public. Americans affected by the storm can access a robust program of federal assistance, but he falsely claims they could only get $750 in aid. The White House stressed there’s plenty of FEMA funds to respond to both Helene and Milton — and Republicans are reportedly the ones blocking additional funding — but Trump falsely claims Vice President Kamala Harris blew “all her FEMA money” housing immigrants. 

    The former president, through these deranged fabrications, is trying to win votes in the coming election. He is summoning an alternate reality in which Biden and Harris are blithely unconcerned with the fates of millions of victims because many of those victims are Republicans and they instead prioritize immigrants. And he is doing so despite his own record  as president of allegedly withholding disaster aid for political reasons.

    The only reason this strategy is remotely plausible is that the right-wing media ecosystem is willing to play along with it. The news sources Republicans rely on, from MAGA influencers to Fox stars, have bolstered Trump’s lies at every turn. The result is that right-wing audiences are bombarded with falsehoods from within an echo chamber.

    The MAGA media ecosystem responds in this same fashion to every news event because its function isn’t to report on what is happening. Instead, right-wing pundits offer a scapegoat — immigrants, Jews, journalists, teachers, trans people, Democrats, anti-Trump Republicans — in order to hold their audience’s attention, make money, and support the GOP’s core agenda of tax cuts for rich people and abortion bans.

    This incentive structure is universally toxic. But when it collides with issues like disaster relief, the consequences can turn deadly. Before, during, and after a hurricane, people on the ground need credible information about what to do, what help is available, and how to get it. Right now, the sources many victims depend on for news are lying to them.

    Hurricane misinformation is plaguing the response to Helene. Local media outlets, federal and state officials, and emergency responders all are desperately trying to swat down rumors and falsehoods — some promoted by the former president. Republican officials in affected areas are begging the people pushing “conspiracy theory junk” to stop lying and pitch in instead.



    On THE VIEW, she spoke of other things, such as Medicare, as well.





    Labor unions and consumer advocates were among those applauding Tuesday after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced her proposal for home healthcare coverage under Medicare—a broadly popular idea, according to polls, that supporters said would be a "game-changer" for millions of families.

    On the ABC talk show "The View," Harris spoke about the "sandwich generation"—middle-aged Americans who find themselves caring for aging parents while they're also raising their own children.

    "There are so many people in our country who are right in the middle," said the Democratic presidential nominee. "And it's just, almost, impossible to do it all, especially if they work. We're finding that so many are then having to leave their job, which means losing a source of income, not to mention the emotional stress. And so what I am proposing is that basically what we will do is allow Medicare to cover in-home healthcare."

    Medicare currently only covers in-home healthcare for short periods of time, such as in cases of a patient recovering from surgery. But the number of aging Americans who need need prolonged healthcare at home is expected to explode in the coming years as members of the baby boomer generation reach their 80s.

    Medicaid covers home care for low-income people who are elderly or have disabilities, but waiting lists are long and beneficiaries are required to max out their savings before qualifying.

    Covering at-home healthcare for Medicare's 67 million beneficiaries would "provide much-needed relief and financial support" to about 37 million people who currently provide unpaid eldercare to their family members, said former Labor Secretary Robert Reich.

    Lisa Gilbert, co-president of consumer advocacy watchdog Public Citizen, said that "home health expansion through Medicare is a smart and desperately needed place to start" on the road to expanding and improving Medicare.

    "This important expansion would finally allow Medicare to cover crucial services where many beneficiaries would prefer to receive them—in the safety and comfort of their homes," said Gilbert. "Such an expansion would lay the groundwork for even further improvements and expansions to Medicare including hearing, dental, and vision services. A low out-of-pocket cap on medical expenses would ensure seniors can afford to get the care they need, and by reining in Medicare Advantage overpayments, we could fund many of these priorities."

    Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president April Verrett said the plan offers the latest contrast between Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who aims to repeal the Affordable Care Act and has said he has "concepts of a plan" to replace the law.

    "Along with her proposals to invest in childcare, in paid leave, and to make Medicaid investments in home care, as well as lower costs for working families and raising wages for care workers, Kamala Harris is showing that she's been listening to working families," said Verrett. "In this presidential election, we have the choice between a candidate who has a plan for working families and one who has only offered 'concepts of a plan,' including gutting the Affordable Care Act and the nonsensical idea of paying for childcare through tariffs, which would actually raise prices."

    "Care workers rallied to elect President [Joe] Biden and Vice President Harris, and this administration has demonstrated again and again that they stand with us," added Verrett. "Now we need to finish the job with Kamala Harris as president, making home care accessible to all and delivering the historic investment in care that our nation desperately needs."

    The vice president said Medicare negotiations over drug prices, which were begun under the Biden administration over the objections of Republicans and which she supports expanding, would pay for the new Medicare benefit.

    "Part of what I also intend to do is allow Medicare to continue to negotiate drug prices against these big pharmaceutical companies, which means we are going to save Medicare the money, because we're not going to be paying these high prices, and that those resources are best then put in a way that helps a family," said Harris.

    Gilbert expressed hope that the new benefit, which would need to be approved by Congress, would be just one step toward expanding Medicare coverage to all Americans.

    "We must continue to expand the availability of Medicare by lowering the qualifying age," she said, "so we can finally build a healthcare system that ensures that every American can get the care they need when they need it without going bankrupt."

     
    Convicted Felon Donald Trump is in the news cycle for healthcare as well.  At the height of the pandemic, when Americans needed test kits to determine if they had COVID and these test kits were in short supply, Donald sent them to Russia for his buddy Vladimir Putin, as Mike put it, "Donald gives it away to Vlad."





    Vice President Harris is criticizing Donald Trump following new reporting by the journalist Bob Woodward that the former president secretly shared COVID-19 test machines with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a moment in 2020 when tests were out of reach for most Americans.

    The revelation, first reported by CNN and The Washington Post on Tuesday, is detailed in a forthcoming book called War by the famed Watergate journalist, about Trump’s record on the international stage, as well as President Biden’s.

    According to the book, Trump sent the secret shipment of testing equipment to the Russian leader at the height of the pandemic in 2020, even as the U.S. and other nations were facing crippling shortages of testing kits.









    Imagine, for just a moment, if Kamala Harris’s supporters were prone to the sort of political idolatry that characterizes Donald Trump’s devotees. It’s a thought experiment suited to an election for which the word historic feels inadequate to capture either Harris’s political ascent or the sheer number of unprecedented events that led to it. There is the aberration of Trump, the twice-impeached, feloniously convicted, rape-adjudicated former president—a bitter old racist returned for a third time to usher in the white supremacist autocracy that his attempted coup failed to. In any election, President Joe Biden’s age and enfeeblement since taking office would have been an issue of concern, but under the threat of Trumpism, Biden’s disastrous debate performance jettisoned the false narrative that he alone was a bulwark for democracy. Harris—elected in 2020 as the first woman, first Black, and first South Asian vice president because her résumé of legislative and prosecutorial public service made her uniquely suited for the job—should have been recognized as a better candidate than both of those men from the start. And yet, as Biden’s post-debate numbers waned and Trump’s bandaged ear crystallized his MAGA martyrdom, but her unpopularity became a tired echo of 2016’s but her emails. The commentariat, which began sowing doubts about Harris’s viability nearly as soon as she assumed the vice presidency, even floated other names for consideration as Biden’s exit became increasingly probable. Minyon Moore, chair of the Democratic National Convention, said she watched with “fascination” as the media spun a tale she always knew was divorced from reality.
    “The rules dictated a lot. What they did not understand was the rules,’’ Moore told me. “First of all, she campaigned for two years with Joe Biden. She raised money for Joe Biden. She took no shortcuts. What they were trying to do was put in place a process that did not exist…. Those 4,000 delegates literally voted for Joe Biden—but they also voted for his ticket. And she was a part of that ticket.”

    When Biden, a record-breaking 107 days before the election, finally left the race and endorsed Harris, the act unexpectedly unleashed an outpouring of enthusiasm and joy, emotions rarely associated with politics in recent years. The mood shift not only proved Harris’s naysayers wrong but also revealed how Biden’s frailty and Trump’s darkness had drained the party to sepia tones. Harris’s run, quite unexpectedly, infused it with color and light again. If the left had the same sanctification tendencies as the Trumpian right, the improbable events leading to Harris’s nomination might have been cast as divine intervention—Jesus taking the wheel, only to hand the keys to Harris, so she might steer America away from Trumpism and back onto a righteous road.

    But the Democratic Party is not a cult of personality, a fact proved by Biden’s withdrawal. Harris’s run produced a jubilance incomparable to anything seen since at least Barack Obama’s first run, and it may even have eclipsed that. Within hours of becoming the presumptive nominee, Harris was buoyed by organizers who had begun laying the groundwork for her run years before. A Zoom organized by Win With Black Women drew 44,000 participants, an unprecedented number that required the site’s engineers to increase capacity. The call ultimately raised $1.5 million in just three hours. At least a dozen other calls followed—South Asian Women for Harris, Win With Black Men, White Women: Answer the Call—each enlisting volunteers and strategizing for a Harris win. In mid-September, Voto Latino reported a 200 percent surge in its voter registrations since the day Harris replaced Biden. A senior analyst at TargetSmart, a data research firm, reported that registrations are up more than 85 percent among Black voters overall and a staggering 98 percent among Black women. Potential youth voters increased most impressively. In 13 states, registrations have gone up nearly 176 percent and 150 percent among 18- to 29-year-old Black and Hispanic women, respectively. Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated endorsement of Harris, which came moments after Harris thrashed Trump in the debate, drove “a 400 or 500 percent increase” in people going to vote.gov to register, according to a TargetSmart analyst. What’s more, young Democrats are 14 percent more enthusiastic about voting than their Republican counterparts. While party killjoys such as David Axelrod suggested Democrats were feeling “irrational exuberance,” and James Carville chastised their “giddy elation,” organizers were getting down to work and galvanizing people to get Harris elected. Those on the ground, doing the real heavy lifting, helped consolidate support for Harris, building a campaign powered not from the top down, but from the grassroots up.







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