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My God. Is this for real?
Donald Trump: “Would you rather have the Black president or the white president…I think they want the white guy.” pic.twitter.com/YMqgf8iwT2
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 12, 2024
God, he's so crazy:
BREAKING: In a senile moment, Donald Trump refers to Jimmy Carter as Jimmy Connors. Retweet to make sure every voter knows Donald Trump is losing his mind. pic.twitter.com/9glj9SfzhQ
— Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) May 12, 2024
And this is interesting... Now it's working. No more blocked "pop-ups" that aren't popups.
But who knows what'll happen tomorrow?
Even so, I feel momentarily powerful.
lololol... Unfortunately, I've used hotmail since 1999. And I need to use Word for the writing I do. It wouldn't necessarily be my choice, but it's most other people's choice, and has been since the late '80s..
You should demand a refund!
I know. I've been putting off doing that. I have created a folder called FOOD. Just haven't fixed it so food stuff goes there automatically.
MSFT is just so... shitty. I can't say the same about Apple. I've rarely had problems, and when I have, their tech support knocked itself out.
No- I am not at all surprised. FWIW I use FF only.
The simplest way to deal with their tweaking is to use Rules.
Create a folder called Food (or whatever you want to call it)
When you get a message from say Chef Pancake- create a rule which says Send All messages from Chef Pancake to Food folder.
If you do this with each one you'd like to keep- eventually they will all go there and not into your junk folder.
Yes, it's a PITA, but it does work.
I just had a fight with Microsoft. Or rather, asked the poor online chat person with whom I was connected to share with his superiors how pissed off I am.
You will not be surprised to learn that MSFT has been tinkering with Outlook again. They do that incessantly, and it is annoying. Recently, perhaps in response to complaints about how blocking spam and reporting pfishing doesn't have any effect at all, they suddenly wiped out tons of stuff in my junk mail that I actually wanted to receive. I only DON'T want to receive it if I block it. That's how it's always worked, but no more.
Okay. I can handle that. I was still getting some of my food stuff in junk mail, and some in my inbox. So now--actually a few days ago--they decided to make it impossible for me to click on any internal links in junk mail or stuff in my inbox. If I do, they say "blocked pop-up". An internal link is not a popup. Even the most moronic developer should realize that.
And so I got on the online chat feature. The guy with whom I spoke--or should I say "interacted"?--was a perfectly nice contract worker from, perhaps, Pakistan. I explained the problem. He told me everyone on Outlook who uses Safari is suffering from this problem, and assured me their developers are working hard to deal with it. I expressed my skepticism about the priority level assigned to that task.
My chat guy suggested I download Edge. I said if I download anything, it'll be Firefox, since I was already dealing with a software problem caused by MSFT. And then apologized to chat guy, saying it wasn't his fault.
He told me I was the nicest person he'd dealt with today.
From RogerDickHeadStone
Yeah , New Jersey is in play for @realDonaldTrump. Could Joe Biden draw a crowd like this? pic.twitter.com/0mYkYx6fQc
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) May 12, 2024
Someone said on MSNBC that he began by comparing undocumented immigrants to Hannibal Lecter, and then seemed to forget about the comparison, and drift into praising him for... something.
The commenter also said it was creepy that nobody in the crowd booed. I guess they no longer expect politicians to make any sense.
Donald praises fictional serial killer: "The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man"
More Trump Shtick: free-associating, and at tonight’s NJ rally, Donald slurred his words, was incoherent and not understandable. He needs a distraction from the trial.
Actual transcript from Trump's speech just now:
Silence of the Lambs. Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man. He oftentimes would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? "Excuse me. I'm about to have a friend for dinner," as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I'm about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter...
This is bizarre even by Trump standards. Now in Wildwood, Trump was lauding fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) May 11, 2024
Trump: "Silence of the Lambs. Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man."pic.twitter.com/n4pGpy32Xw
Maybe waiting for him inside? Or maybe she's busy hawking her Mother's Day necklace?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/melania-trump-selling-mothers-day-necklaces#:~:text=On%20Sunday%2C%20the%20notably%20un,can%20include%20a%20custom%20engraving.
Where is the wife?
Trump walking into Mar-a-Lago’s Mothers Day lunch. Where’s Melania? pic.twitter.com/thXRJDkJro
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2024
Springsteen Fans Roast Trump For Bizarre Boast About Size Of New Jersey Crowd
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/springsteen-fans-roast-trump-bizarre-201418976.html
Trump really said his Wildwood rally had a bigger crowd than Bruce Springsteen 🤣….someone tell this moron that The Boss sold out MetLife for 3 nights at 82,500 a night pic.twitter.com/YMb3YUTYjE https://t.co/Oub6OLvG3S
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) May 12, 2024
And there you have it, yet more false statements on the crowds by the magas
The left is a pic of 50K people to see @Pink on the beach in Atlantic City….the right a pic of what MAGAs are saying is 80-100K people in Wildwood to see Trump 🤣 pic.twitter.com/w9JAQlQMJC
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) May 12, 2024
Arguably the best linebacker ever in the history of football, this sex offender now endorses theformerpersonrapist
I didn’t have Lawrence Taylor becoming a MAGA on today’s bingo card but now it makes sense….MAGA is the party of sex offenders and they all stick together https://t.co/AIVAbw3TVQ
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) May 12, 2024
Thank you kind Sir!
My youngest and his daughter came yesterday. Brought candy and flowers, and best of all- lunch from BurgerMaster- one of my favorite drive-ins.
Mother nature is treating us too- yesterday was 80* and today 75* and all sun. Can't ask for better!
And the first and ONLY president(ex) to be charged with election interference TWICE.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL YOU MOMS!!!
We appreciate and love you always!
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Opinion It’s Republicans who are vulnerable on crime, not Democrats
Plus: Protests over the war in Gaza cannot be compared to the political upheaval of 1968.
The Democratic Party is not the one whose presidential candidate faces 88 criminal charges (and has been held in contempt twice). Democrats didn’t mount a violent insurrection (which Republicans falsely called “legitimate political discourse”) resulting in multiple deaths, dozens of injured law enforcement officers and charges against more than 1,200 people. And Democrats did not sink a tough, bipartisan border security bill.
By Jennifer Rubin Columnist
May 10, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/10/biden-law-and-order/
President Biden and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) with police officers at Wilmington International Airport on May 2 in North Carolina. (Alex Brandon/AP)
What caught my eye
It’s not 1968: “Democrats fear chaos of 1968 convention as they prepare to renominate Joe Biden in Chicago,” warns USA Today. “Growing campus unrest sparks Democratic fears over Chicago convention,” the Hill insists. Unsurprisingly, such stories are weak on examples of actual Democratic officeholders expressing concern.
This version of “Democrats in disarray” coverage must be catnip for reporters playing amateur historian. Chicago? Check! Student demonstrations? Check! It’s 1968 all over again. Er ... not necessarily.
Unlike the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that consumed the nation in 1968, the protests over the war in Gaza have not extended much beyond college campuses, where a combination of students, anarchists and overtly pro-Hamas activists have ginned up disruptions.
The Post reported that a grand total of about 2,000 people have been arrested nationwide. Small squads of protesters can disrupt speeches, ruin a graduation or clog traffic, but the numbers — and the cause — do not by any measure compare to the antiwar protests that drew hundreds of thousands in the late 1960s. Whatever property damage protesters have caused pales in comparison with the rioting in nearly every major city after King’s murder.
Simply put, the performative displays on college campuses have not drawn mass support. Despite near-nonstop coverage, the Israel-Gaza war ranks far down on the list of voter concerns.
The Post highlighted a YouGov poll showing a plurality of respondents disapprove of the protests with one-fourth unsure how they feel. Even on college campuses, the demonstrations have not gained traction. Axios reported a recent Generation Lab poll showing “Students ranked the conflict in the Middle East as the least important issue facing them out of nine options. ... The survey found that three times as many college students blame Hamas for the current situation in Gaza than they do President Biden.”
Furthermore, “A large majority (81%) of students support holding protesters accountable, agreeing with the notion that those who destroyed property or vandalized or illegally occupied buildings should be held responsible.”
That is not to say there will be no protests at the party conventions this summer. To the contrary, they are expected. Both parties over the years have learned to make ample arrangements to confine protests to designated pens. Convention cities regularly feature a well-orchestrated and overabundant assortment of state and federal law enforcement personnel.
As in prior conventions, there could well be arrests in Chicago, but don’t expect to see wild riots, smoke-filled streets and massive property damage, as occurred in Chicago in 1968. (Moreover, there is no Mayor Richard Daley bent on unleashing abusive police on unarmed protesters.) “Prepare, but don’t panic” would be a wise approach for the Democratic National Convention.
Democrats can claim the law-and-order issue:
Beyond the convention, Democrats can go on offense when it comes to crime. The Democratic Party is not the one whose presidential candidate faces 88 criminal charges (and has been held in contempt twice). Democrats didn’t mount a violent insurrection (which Republicans falsely called “legitimate political discourse”) resulting in multiple deaths, dozens of injured law enforcement officers and charges against more than 1,200 people. And Democrats did not sink a tough, bipartisan border security bill.
Republicans, having fanned violence, demonized the FBI, insulted prosecutors and impugned judges, have the law-and-order problem. (Some of them also opposed awarding gold medals to officers who protected them on Jan. 6, 2021.)
Former president Donald Trump wants to pardon the violent felons implicated in Jan. 6. Trump also openly contemplates military action against civilians, mass roundups of immigrants and weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies. They’ve become the anti-rule of law party.
Meanwhile, Biden has reminded voters that on his watch there has been a massive decline in crime, especially violent crime. Biden consistently denounced violence — at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, on Jan. 6 and on campuses. At a recent White House press briefing, he said:
Violent protest is not protected; peaceful protest is. It’s against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It’s against the law.
Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations — none of this is a peaceful protest.
Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest. It’s against the law.
Dissent is essential to democracy. But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education.
By contrast, the Biden Justice Department dutifully has prosecuted Biden’s son Hunter Biden, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.). You cannot conceive of a Trump Justice Department enforcing the law against its own people.
In short, Democrats should embrace the “law and order” label, especially if Trump gets convicted of multiple felonies.
My GOD these people are impaired.
This is how stupid Trumpty's cult is. Speechless.........
MeidasTouch
@MeidasTouch
This is real: Snopes has determined that Trump supporters are actually wearing diapers in solidarity with Trump following recent revelations and his 'Von Schitzenpants' nickname. We report on the disturbing new trend taking place at Trump rallies:
Donald Trump was the first president in 129 years to lose the popular vote twice.
He was the first president in 89 years to lose the presidency, the House and the Senate in a single term.
He was the first president in 28 years to lose re-election.
He lost the most jobs of any president since Herbert Hoover.
He lost the Trump University case, the fake charity case, the NY business fraud case, the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault and defamation case, he lost a lawsuit against The NY Times, lost countless appeals, lost 61 lawsuits related to the 2020 election, lost the state of Georgia three times, lost Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas & Wisconsin twice, and he even managed to lose 8 times at the friggin Emmy Awards.
He’s under 4 indictments, facing 91 felony charges and to date, he’s been ordered to pay more than a hundred million dollars in penalties with a potential $370 million more in the week ahead where he may also lose his right to engage in the state's real estate industry for life and be barred entirely from doing business in New York.
All of this, while he’s been saying that windmills kill whales, that magnets stop working when wet, that he ran against Obama, that E. Jean Carroll is a political rival and that Nikki Haley was in charge of security on January 6th, for which one could ostensibly make the case that in addition to everything else he’s been losing — he is also losing his damn mind.
He once said there would be so much winning people would get sick of it. When in reality, when it comes to Donald Trump in the last several years, there’s been nothing but losing.
He was right about one thing however — we are sick of it.
And by it, I mean him.
We like former presidents who aren’t losers and at the end of the day, Donald Trump is a loser, maybe the biggest loser in history. Many people say so. The best people.
Believe me.
Speaking of Putin. This is one major world event. 15 % of the entire country and growing all saying a big no to Putin. Now that's a crowd size.
This anti-Russian protest in Tbilisi is huge.
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) May 11, 2024
Estomated 500,000 people in a country of 3.7 million.
pic.twitter.com/PHHSmSiVjT
Absolutely massive anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi right now.
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) May 11, 2024
In size, reminiscent of Kyiv 2014. No coincidence that it's for the same reason. pic.twitter.com/ygAVC4NYJG
Nikki has been speaking to donors. It sounds like they came up with a plan.
Haley will meet with donors to her shuttered presidential campaign. No Trump endorsement is expected
https://apnews.com/article/haley-trump-republican-presidential-campaign-donors-endorsement-583b8067b4fe2c534e1c04b772a09f5a
Nikki Haley on Trump: “It's amazing to me how weak in the knees he is when it comes to Putin…if Donald Trump is the nominee, he can't win. He won't win a general election."
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 11, 2024
(February 2024)pic.twitter.com/9CyPLdtBPM
"There are 40 of us"
BREAKING: Former White House Communications Director under Donald Trump, Anthony Scaramucci, explains why he and so many others that worked in the Trump White House refuse to vote for Trump again. Retweet so all Americans see this. pic.twitter.com/tPIs3dEGxK
— Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) May 10, 2024
Such a stud! I ♥️ her!
Trump appears to think Hannibal Lecter was a real person.
Victoria Brownworth
@VABVOX
This is bizarre even by Trump standards. Now in Wildwood, Trump was lauding fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter.
Trump: "Silence of the Lambs. Has anyone ever seen The Silence of the Lambs? The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man."
Ha! 1/2 of the Beavis and Butthead duo chimes in on daddy's criminal trial
This is the kind of shit that cracks me up with these people. pic.twitter.com/mM2lVhGxPL
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 12, 2024
Same Person!
Wow! Same person. pic.twitter.com/LThYTQ7h6z
— We HearVoicesOutThere #voteBlue2024 (@WeHearPodcast) May 11, 2024
Probably. Our Governor does not do weird stuff so you just see him walking around with no obvious security detail.
lol, yes, that too...
I think it's rather certain that the South Dakota State Police have a detail that protects her 24x7. I can't imagine any Governor not having that kind of protection.
THE STENCH OF POLITICAL DEATH IS GROWING AROUND TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN😮😁
The candidate spends most of his time ranting about his criminal trials. The campaign is struggling to raise money from voters, and there is no swing state operation, as the Trump campaign reeks of political death. The Washington Post reported on the alarm bells being rung by swing state Republicans:
“In order to win close elections in Georgia, you have to have a ground game that emphasizes turning out early votes and absentee votes,” said Cody Hall, a senior adviser to Gov. Brian Kemp (R). “I have seen no evidence of them having any of that.
The Trump campaign has a consultant in Georgia, but there is nothing else that I can see. … Everyone is generally concerned. “There is no sign of life,” said Kim Owens, a Republican operative and public relations professional in Arizona. “Especially in a state that Trump lost so closely last time, you’d expect to have more of a presence. I would think, ‘Let’s step it up.’ I think it’s a terrible mistake.”
In Michigan, some of the state’s operatives and Republican lawmakers have grown concerned about a lack of an operation there, according to four people familiar with the matter, even as they feel generally bullish about the state.
Trump’s big problem is that much of the money that he is raising is going to pay legal bills. The Trump campaign has tried to spin the situation as the ex-president running a leaner and meaner operation, but since he wasted $1 billion in campaign funds in 2020, Donald Trump has struggled to raise cash.
Trump is increasingly trying to cut deals with potentially wealthy donors like Big Oil, but this is a very different operation from 2016. There is no campaign arm mobilizing potential voters, and since took over the RNC and turned it into his personal operation, there is no party-wide effort in the swing states. It sounds like swing state Republican parties are out there on their own while Biden and the Democrats are building a massive get-out-the-vote operation.
Campaigns that have money troubles and no get-out-the-vote operation tend to underperform the polling and lose.
Trump’s campaign reeks of electoral death, and if the situation continues for much longer, the GOP could be looking at another Trump-led loss in 2024.
https://www.politicususa.com/2024/05/10/the-stench-of-political-death-is-growing-around-trumps-candidate.html
Apparently she also tried to dump the blame on her ghost Writer which did not go over well in the Literary circles
I really don't see how people like Noem can write those kinds of blatant lies and expect people to believe them. She must be very dumb. Most of us know that kind of thing can be easily checked.
Andy Borowitz :
Barron Trump Out as Republican Delegate Due to Bone Spurs “I’ve never been prouder of him than when he got that podiatrist’s note,” his father said.
“Soon he’ll be evading taxes,” Trump added. “They grow up so fast.”
Further notes from the disappointed worm. Since my host's ass is always on fire, over a smorgasbord of misinformation, I had a reasonable expectation of a hot meal that, sadly, was not met.😕
New lawsuit accuses Trump campaign of illegally attempting to hide payments to women
Donald Trump's election campaign has been hit with a sex discrimination lawsuit involving fresh accusations that his lawyers violated federal law by attempting to hide settlement payments to women accusers.
The Federal Election Commission must investigate whether the campaign illegally attempted to hide settlement payments by routing them through third parties, according to a complaint filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
The allegations of wrongdoing, first reported by The Daily Beast, stem from former Trump campaign employee AJ Delgado who gave a sworn declaration in her pending lawsuit against Trump that she was cut loose based on pregnancy discrimination.
Delgado, a former Trump 2016 campaign aide, had grabbed widespread attention by accusing longtime Trump aide Jason Miller of engaging in "a cycle of sexual coercion, rape, sexual assault, abuse, battery, sexual harassment, and sex trafficking."
Delgado and Miller had an affair and has since long accused Miller of stiffing her on child support payments. She has also claimed discrimination because she lost her job during pregnancy.
According to Delgado's filing, she also accuses Trump attorney Mark Kasowitz of admitting the campaign selected to move settlements through a law firm to keep a payout back in 2017 in an effort to dodge federal disclosure laws that mandate campaigns identify payments to recipients publicly.
“In other words, the payment would be routed through a middleman, to hide the fact that the Campaign had settled from the public and the FEC,” Delgado stated in the filing. “I thus have direct, personal experience with the Defendant-Campaign hiding settlement payments to women, routing them through a ‘middleman law firm,’ which to the public would only appear as payments 'for legal services.'"
She also suspects there is enough “information and reason to believe” that Trump's campaign made payments — specifically $4.1 million that she claims flowed to Kasowitz’s law firm over a two-month period immediately following the November 2020 election.
All of these efforts were intended to keep secret from the public and the FEC more settlements with women “who raised complaints of gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment,” The Beast reported.
Trump is currently standing trial based on business fraud charges that involve payments allegedly made to an adult movie actress in an attempt to silence her story about a sexual relationship.
CREW president Noah Bookbinder published a statement about the lawsuit claiming Delgado’s allegations raise serious concerns about Trump potentially manifesting a scandalous cover-up.
“The allegations made in AJ Delgado’s declaration paint a deeply troubling picture of potentially illegal activity carried out by Donald Trump’s campaign. The FEC must conduct an investigation to determine the validity of these claims and establish the degree to which any wrongdoing occurred,” Bookbinder said. “No candidate or campaign is above the law, not even Trump.”
https://www.rawstory.com/aj-delgado/
Lordy Lordy, there is more..............
France's government is disputing a portion of Kristi Noem's book that describes a canceled meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 11, 2024
A representative from the Élysée Palace disputed Noem's account, saying there’s no record of a scheduled meeting, nor was there an invitation…
sorry, but nope
If Trump doesn't win the election, he will eventually lose in several of the criminal trials and sentenced to prison.
period
I wonder if she has SS protection.
No, she doesn't. If she wants security, she can hire it. And she's not a national office holder. She's a governor.
Damn, she's just so comically loony. (Though if you're an animal, it's not so funny.) And she just can't seem to shut up. I wonder if she'll be on any of the Sunday shows tomorrow, even though her 15 minutes should be over by now.
Me too. Always have.
I don’t believe what Trump posted. I think he will end up picking Haley because of how she has been doing in the primaries even though she dropped out.
I'm not sure. I think, among other things, that a lot of those people who voted for Haley might be pissed off if she suddenly shifted her position and agreed to be his running mate. It's hard--at least for me--to guess how many would feel that way. Another question: something people don't discuss in polls or on cable news: how many Trump voters will be counting on him dying before his term is up, if elected? How soon do they think he'll be pushing up daisies? How much damage could he do in the time he had? And would a VP Haley, once she took over, be well-received if she tried to undo that damage?
Another question we should be thinking about: does Trumpty really want to win? On a personal level, yes, because he's very angry at the people, including Biden, who want to send him to prison. But if he's capable of thinking rationally, he knows he probably won't spend any time in the slammer. Too complicated and too dangerous. If he died of ANYTHING while in custody, his fans would say he'd been murdered.
He could handle house arrest. He spends most of his time at one of his clubs, by himself except for meals or when golfing. It wouldn't make a big difference. So if he DOES lose, he can spend another four years egging his fans on to dispute the results of the election. No effort on his part. All he'd need to do would be to run his giant mouth.
If that's the result he wants, maybe he should choose poor Tim Scott.
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