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Theformerpersonrapist up to no good in Florida
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/diaper-battery-bust-089647
All Signs Point to a Trump Debate Meltdown
THE END OF TEFLON DON?
Biden is eager for the chance to stand toe-to-toe with his predecessor because it will be incredibly hard to look worse in comparison.
David Rothkopf Updated May 16, 2024 9:11AM EDT Published May 15, 2024 10:20PM EDT
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty
https://www.thedailybeast.com/all-signs-point-to-a-trump-debate-meltdown?ref=home?ref=home
The news that President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to two debates—one in just a few weeks’ time, in late June, and another in September—has naturally got the punditverse buzzing.
Some commentators have focused on Biden’s sharp early morning announcement that he would welcome a debate with Trump. It was just the Egg McBiden the president’s fans—like the folks on Morning Joe—needed to start their day, served as it was with a side order of feistiness. Between the “Make my day, pal” opening and the “Let’s pick a date, Donald, I hear you’re free on Wednesdays” (a reference to his current court schedule) it got sharply to the point, did so with a humorous edge, and obligated Trump to respond.
Trump replied in character with his own statement, using his day off from his criminal election interference trial to offer an irony-deaf reference to Biden being “crooked” and to criticize the president’s debating skills. And of course there were some strangely capitalized words for emphasis.
There were, of course, commentators who offered instant speculation about Biden’s motives—like Chris Cillizza, who concluded Biden was doing this because “he knows he’s behind” and because “he knows age/competence issues aren’t going away.”
Of course, Biden actually isn’t behind Trump in the polls, with most showing the race essentially tied—and several including the most recent NYT Ipsos poll showing Biden up by 3. Further, the idea that “age” is an issue for two guys who are essentially the same age, is one that does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny. But never mind all that.
No, after talking to a number of Biden administration officials, it is clear that the primary reason Joe Biden chose to debate Donald Trump is… because he can win.
The contest is so lopsided that even Trump’s pals at the WWE could not sell a ticket to it. (I know, I know. We’ve got to manage expectations. But, do we? Really? Each time Trump debated Biden in 2020 he lost.) And ever since then, as Biden pointed out in his debate announcement, Trump has avoided debating opponents.
So, he’s bad at it and out of practice. Not a good combination.
The Biden team calculus has to be based in part on the fact that it’s Trump who is actually losing his marbles. How else do you explain his recent praise for Hannibal Lecter and his noticeably slurred words during speeches?
Furthermore, in the view of those close to Biden, Trump’s got a serious problem on the issues. He’s on the wrong side of the American public on many of the policy questions most important to them. For example, Trump keeps proclaiming he is the one responsible for the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Almost two-thirds of all women and over six out of ten men support legal abortion according to a recent Pew report. That translates into 63 percent of all Americans. That’s not a winning issue for Trump and the GOP, and recent special election results even in red states like Kansas and Ohio have shown that.
Trump does badly on other signature issues. He loves Vladimir Putin, for example. In a Pew poll last year 91 percent of Americans indicated they have an unfavorable view of Russia, with 62 percent having views that are very unfavorable. Trump’s one big legislative accomplishment was a tax cut that helped balloon the federal deficit and that tax cuts for those in the top 5 percent of earners were triple those received by the bottom 60 percent of us. Extending the cuts, as Trump has promised he would do, would add, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, almost $5 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years.
Take Trump’s stance on another signature issue, immigration. Even though many Americans say they share his views, the reality is that when polled on his specific policies, according to a recent Washington Post study, they actually oppose them.
But set aside for a moment the fact that Trump is a lousy debater who is clearly addled and losing his ability to speak in public. And the fact that his policy positions are broadly unpopular.
And that historians consider him the worst president ever. And that Biden has a great record and has a demonstrated mastery over its details. There are other compelling issues for Biden’s team to be enthusiastic about the prospect of debating Trump.
In all likelihood, the first debate will follow by just a few weeks the conclusion of Trump’s New York election interference trial. There’s a pretty good chance Trump could emerge from the trial a convicted felon. That’s probably not a debate plus.
Even if Trump escapes a conviction, the trial has shown him in a very unflattering light and reminded the world of the sleaziest aspects of his past.
What’s more, by the time the debate takes place it is very likely the Supreme Court will have offered what will be a net unfavorable ruling on Trump’s immunity claims, thus teeing up his next dates before the bar—in Washington, D.C., Florida and Georgia. And if the court rules on Trump’s behalf—against all precedent and the very spirit on which the country was founded—it will produce an outcry about corruption on the Supreme Court that will not redound in Trump’s favor.
Further, reflecting on the New York Trial in its aftermath can’t help Trump—from its icktastic revelations about his attempts to seduce a porn star by comparing her to his daughter, to his daily sideshow at the courthouse, complete with a sycophantic chorus of back-up singers dressed exactly like him.
Indeed, the New York trial has been a revealing episode that could not be a worse prelude for a debate. It has shown once again that although Trump has virtually no deeply held political beliefs, the core of his philosophy of life is that everything is corrupt—and that money and lies are what make the world go around.
This, in turn, reveals him to be a kind of reverse neutron bomb: designed to destroy our institutions while leaving those people within it who are loyal to him still standing, or kneeling before him.
It is that Trump the world has seen in the New York trial. It is that Trump that they saw on Jan. 6. It is that Trump revealed in each of the 91 indictments against him. It is that Trump that is the clear and present danger America faces.
Biden is eager for the chance to stand toe-to-toe with his predecessor for these exact reasons. Trump’s defective character is so clear, and the danger he presents is so great, that the current president will have a hard time looking worse in comparison.
The contrasts between the two men and their beliefs could not be starker.
Poor baby. GreenBaySweepDick gets turned down for shorter prison time
Judge rejects another Peter Navarro request to cut prison sentence short
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/judge-reject-peter-navarro-request-prison-sentence/index.html
So..... what's up with this?
Older people who aren’t picky eaters appear to have better brain health than those who prefer more limited diets, according to a large study of British adults. https://t.co/IsAIty6oI1
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 16, 2024
I'm not buying any Debate Popcorn yet.
They all know that trump's brain cells have been turned into jello
Every MAGA knows that, and whoever trump picks to be his VP, will likely end up becoming president within a few months if he happens to win the election. This VP audition is like celebrity apprentice. It's sickening, embarrassing and revolting. #VoteBlue
Jane decides to go, no matter what her sister says. Time to take action. Save the children. Trust the plan.
And does Jane get killed by a fellow winger demonstrator? One with a gun?
His handlers know if trump goes, it would just turn into a bellowing mess.
That's what happened last time. This time will be even worse, if he goes through with it.
They all know that trump's brain cells have been turned into jello and wouldn't matter what questions were asked or who asked them or where they asked them. Trump no longer has any cognitive abilities to handle any of it and it would be on full display. They're all just fighting like heck to hide it long enough in hopes that he will last to the election. It's their only play left, but their running interference is going to have to increase to higher and higher levels. You're already seeing this with the GOP all shamelessly lining up at the justice system to back a criminal and attack the justice system. All on the taxpayer's dime of course. They are going to have to get more and more extreme as trump's dementia overcomes him. There will be less and less of public trump as time moves forward and more and more of the extreme. Fun times ahead.
That is a really good article, and Gore is evidently a good person who decided to "do her own research", and had the courage to admit she'd been wrong.
Republicans are already 'laying the groundwork' for Trump to bow out of debates: analyst
Former President Donald Trump's team was reportedly taken aback when President Joe Biden agreed to a debate schedule — but quickly agreed, knowing that Trump had already demanded this in the first place.
But just hours after everything was agreed to, in various posts on X, Republican allies of the former president are already finding things to complain about with the whole arrangement — leading some to suspect they're already planting the seeds of giving Trump an excuse to bail on the whole thing.
"Call me cynical, but why is Biden suddenly so willing to debate?" wrote Vivek Ramaswamy, a businessman who ran as a far-right GOP candidate in the 2024 primary against Trump. "It could be because he’s desperate, or it could be because it’s a set-up. Keep an eye on the details of how all this comes together. You don’t often see a sudden 180 like this unless there’s more to the story."
"With CNN moderating, is it even a debate?" wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) from his personal account, @BasedMikeLee. "It seems like it should be called something else. It’d be a far more accurate description of CNN’s intentions to call it something like: 'Live From CNN: Let’s Make Biden Look Presidential While Turning Trump Into A Piñata.'"
The Daily Beast's Justin Baragona has a cynical theory about why these Trump supporters are voicing these objections.
"Looks like we have some Republicans already starting to lay the groundwork for Trump to justify canceling on the June debate," he wrote.
Conservative Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein also highlighted Ramaswamy's comments, saying it looks like Trump allies are "messaging" for the ex-president to ultimately back out of the agreed-upon debates.
"Trump has repeatedly challenged Biden to a debate. Biden accepts, says he will debate. Trump also quickly accepts the terms. Vivek Ramaswamy: 'Whoa whoa whats going on here???' MAGA expects either a Trump loss or a Trump withdrawal. They are already messaging for it."
Even Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is already calling the agreed-upon debates "rigged" on Fox News.
@BDeMayo said, "Lol didn't even take a day before they started making up excuses. Sad. Low energy."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-laying-groundwork-bow-out-debates/
THAT would be worth watching. Over and over again.
The Left doesn't want to hear this, but it's extremely important. Thread of threads analyzing the psychology of why tens of millions of people support/follow/defend someone as severely disordered as Trump: Second, I'll attach a video from @NafeesHamid explaining the neuropsychology of extremism, which often starts with social division.....which is specifically referenced at 4:05 minute in the video. Brilliant thread by @Nick_Carmody on the neurological basis by which propaganda prevails: “FOX (but really, all media) has a financial interest in using emotion, fear, stress, anxiety to keep people incited, scared, and addicted through dopamine-induced…bias confirming beliefs.” https://t.co/CUEyEzUonN An interesting study finding neuro-physiological parallels between white supremacy and addiction. It's not just about empathy, it's about pragmatism......and keeping Trump out of office.https://t.co/EkdkgRdex7 I understand the emotional response, and the "unfairness", or injustice of it.
There must be a distinction between MAGA leadership....
...and MAGA voters.
I'm being interviewed by Worthy Strategy Group/@BartonGretchen for a project this week...
...and...
1/pic.twitter.com/37PGXQAsNC
This was my response to being included in their project.
It's important to remember we are all targets/victims of extremely sophisticated psychological warfare by foreign/domestic bad actors.
When we take the bait, and demonize/disparage/attack each other...
..."they" win.
2/
....3/....
Thread of threads analyzing the psychological warfare and the neuropsychological effects it has on the country.
None of us are immune to it. It's a matter of degree.
The first thread in particular addresses a lack of self-efficacy:
4/
First, a thread analyzing how victimhood erodes self-efficacy, and creates susceptibility to authoritarianism:
1/https://t.co/MmsWTheAhI pic.twitter.com/yjdPMmqmnP
6/https://t.co/ivl3jBYbe3
And, third...
....By attacking MAGA voters, rather than MAGA leadership...
...it takes the focus off pathological/corrupt leaders, and onto Americans.
We've been down this road before, and it didn't go well...as I explained on the
@ProjectLincoln podcast with @reedgalen
8/
It's much easier for Trump supporters to defend themselves, than it is to defend a sociopathic narcissistic conman.
Keep the focus on Trump, and how he contradicts their "sacred values" (as explained
@NafeesHamid
's video)......
9/
Biden/Democrats lose the moral authority on the issue when they accurately characterize Trump as the most divisive president in U.S. history......
.....but then attack/alienate all 74 million Americans who voted for Trump.
10/
@TimAlberta has described his observations in his work/books about evangelicals: the effect that politics has had on otherwise good people.
The politics of fear has poisoned the minds/corrupted value systems of tens of millions of people.
11/
We are heading into an election that will likely be very close.
The margins in several swing states will be determinative.
Those margins are not only the most "gettable" voters...
....but they are also easily "lose-able" if they are personally attacked, rather than Trump.
12/
(I used the video in the tweet above in a thread/article analyzing and applying an addiction model to explain white supremacy:)
13/
The study focuses on the dopamine “high”, but fails to recognize the potential neuro-physiological pain-avoidance “withdrawal” factor associated with group/tribal identity. 1/ https://t.co/Iddf1Y2GRW
But it's not about fairness. The emotion has to be removed from the equation in order to achieve the objective:
Win the election and keep a severely unfit/disordered man from returning to power.
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Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈
@jimstewartson
Jane is a Christian mom in a purple state. She goes to church every Sunday and votes Democratic, even though she has lots of conservative friends.
One day Jane’s friend sends her a text:
“Jane, you HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS”
It’s a video, ten minutes long, called “Pedogate.” Jane clicks on it.
The video is well-produced and hypnotic. Lush scenes of American life are layered with droning music and dark predictions for the future.
Then they start talking about children — 800,000 per year according to the video — taken off the streets and tortured. Scenes of child abuse are shown in graphic detail with pictures of Hillary, Soros and Obama with dire warnings that they are coming for your kids next.
Jane is traumatized by what she’s seen. The scenes of abuse cause her to dissociate — which is how the mind protects itself from information that is too painful to process. Jane’s mind “depersonalizes” to try to understand what she’s seen. She feels like she is “outside her own body” watching from a distance.
When the video is over Jane is in shock. While the claims in the video seem outlandish, she cannot stop thinking about it.
What if it’s real? Even some of it. Jane feels like she can’t just ignore it. She texts her friend back and tells her how horrified she is by what she’s seen.
“Come over. We’ll have wine. I’ll show you my research.”
That evening, Jane goes to her friend’s house and they spend hours together watching videos and surfing websites. The depravity and horror of what she sees is shattering — so many children. So many.
But at least Jane is with her friend who encourages her to keep watching.
“I know it’s hard but we have to save the children.”
Save the children. Who could argue with that?
For the next few months, Jane spends hours with her friend every Sunday “researching.” She feels like it’s her responsibility to understand what’s going on and do more.
“Come to our Telegram channel. Do you have the app?”
Now Jane can talk to people just like her all the time — people who are worried about the children. Worried about the corruption. Worried about America. They may have different politics than she does but it doesn’t matter.
This is for the children.
Jane starts to prioritize her research over other things in life. Her friends on Telegram have given her a new purpose, a new goal.
Save the children.
Her family notices the change. She seems distant. She seems different.
Jane is angry. Her family and friends just don’t understand. They think all her work and her research is a waste of time. Jane just wants to stop the children suffering. Anyone who isn’t on board with that — well, maybe they’re never going to understand. Maybe they’re the pedos.
Jane has thousands of new friends who have woken up to what’s going on. Maybe that’s her real family after all.
Jane starts sending videos to everyone she knows. She wants them to see what she’s seen. She wants them to feel what she felt. Save the children.
Jane’s mom and her brother join her on Telegram. Her sister thinks they’re all crazy and argues with her research. She says Jane’s changed. She says he doesn’t know who Jane is anymore and to stop sending her videos and memes.
Infuriated, Jane sends her sister a text before she blocks her: “I always knew you were a pedo.”
Jane sinks deeper into her new group. They encourage her to disconnect from the non-believers. They love bomb her when she shares the right memes and says the right things. Over time, they convince her that Trump is not the bad guy the libs have been portraying him as after all. Her new family loves him. She loves him too. He wants to save the children.
One day she sees on Telegram that there’s a “wild protest” coming up and everyone’s going. Jane still has some savings left — what could be more important than this?
Jane decides to go, no matter what her sister says. Time to take action. Save the children. Trust the plan.
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Natalka@NatalkaKyiv
The methods used by Russian propaganda described by a Russian journalist:
“I studied at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. We had a military department. In an atmosphere of secrecy, we were taught special combat propaganda - the art of sowing discord in the ranks of the enemy with the help of disinformation and manipulation of consciousness.
Let me tell you, it’s a scary business. I'm not kidding.
Combat, or “black,” propaganda allows any distortion of real facts to solve propaganda problems. This is an effective weapon used for the sole purpose of knocking out the enemy’s brains.
The "rotten herring" method. The "inverted pyramid" method. The "big lie" method. The “40 to 60” principle. The "absolutely obvious" method.
You also know all these methods and techniques. You just don't realize it. As intended.
We were taught to use special propaganda techniques against soldiers of the enemy army. Today they are used against the civilian population of our own country.
For two years now, reading Russian newspapers or watching television shows, I have noted with interest that people coordinating the distribution and interpretation of news in Russia clearly learned from the same textbook as I have, from the same cheerful colonel or his colleagues.
For example, the “rotten herring” method. It works like this. A false accusation is chosen. It is important that it is as dirty and scandalous as possible. For example, petty theft, child molestation, or murder, preferably out of greed work well.
The purpose of the “rotten herring” is not to prove the accusation. It’s to cause a wide, public discussion... How it’s unjust and unfair.
The human psyche is arranged in such a way that, as soon as the accusation becomes the subject of public discussion, its “supporters” and “opponents”, “experts”, rabid “prosecutors” and ardent “defenders” of the accused inevitably arise.
But regardless of their views, all participants in the discussion again and again pronounce the name of the accused in connection with a dirty and scandalous accusation, thus rubbing more and more “rotten herring” into his “clothes”, until finally the “smell” begins to follow him everywhere. The question “killed-stole-seduced or not” becomes the main one when his name is mentioned.
Or, for example, the “40 to 60” method invented by Goebbels. It consists in creating media that give 60 percent of their information in the interests of the enemy. On the other hand, having earned his trust in this way, the remaining 40 percent are used for extremely effective, thanks to this trust, disinformation.
During World War II, there was a radio station that the anti-fascist world listened to. It was thought to be British. Only after the war did it turn out that it was actually Goebbels’ radio station, which worked on the “40 to 60” principle he developed.
The “big lie” method is very effective It is a bit like the “rotten herring” method, but actually works differently. Its essence is to offer the audience such a universal and terrible lie with the highest degree of confidence that it is almost impossible to believe that it's possible to lie about such a thing.
The trick here is that a properly composed and well-invented ‘big lie’ causes such a deep emotional trauma in the listener or viewer that it then determines his views for a long time, contrary to any arguments of logic and reason.
False descriptions of cruel abuse of children or women work particularly well.
Let’s say that the message about a crucified child due to the deep emotional trauma it causes will determine the views of the person who received this information for a long time, no matter how much someone tries to convince him later, using logical arguments.
But our cheerful colonel especially revered the method of “absolute evidence”, which delivers, although not fast, but reliable results.”
Instead of proving something, you submit what you want to convince the audience of as something obvious, taken for granted, and therefore unconditionally supported by the overwhelming majority of the population.
Despite its seeming simplicity, this method is incredibly effective, since the human psyche automatically responds to the opinion of the majority, seeking to join it.
It is just important to remember that the majority must necessarily be predominant, and its support absolute and unconditional - otherwise the desire to join in won't take place.
However, if these conditions are met, the number of supporters of the “majority position” begins to gradually but surely increase, and over time increases exponentially - mainly due to representatives of low social strata, who are most susceptible to the “attachment effect”.
One of the classic ways to support the method of “absolute evidence” is, for example, the publication of the results of various sociological surveys demonstrating absolute social unity on a particular issue.
The methods of “black” propaganda, of course, do not require these reports to have anything to do with reality.
I could continue. We’ve actually been taught for a whole year, and the list of methods is quite long. That’s not important, though.
However, the following is. The methods of “black” propaganda affect the audience at the level of deep psychological mechanisms in such a way that the consequences of this impact cannot be removed by the usual logical arguments.
“Big Lie” achieves this effect through emotional trauma. The method of absolute evidence is through the “attachment effect”. “Rotten herring” - introducing into the audience’s mind a direct association between the object of the attack and the dirty, scandalous accusation.
Simply put, combat special propaganda turns a person into a zombie who not only actively supports the attitudes embedded in his mind, but also aggressively opposes those who hold other views or try to convince him of something else using logical arguments.
It can’t actually be otherwise. All methods of combat and special propaganda are united by a single goal. It is to weaken the enemy’s army by introducing internal discord, mutual hatred, and distrust of each other into its ranks.
Today these methods are used against us. The result to which they lead is exactly the one for which they were created. However mutual hatred and internal discord arise not in the enemy’s army, but in our homes and families.
Just go outside and see how the country has changed over the past three years. It seems to me that combat special propaganda works even more effectively against its own population than against enemy soldiers.
Probably because, unlike enemy soldiers, civilians cannot protect themselves.”
How do you incubate a mind virus? How do you cause a culture to self-destruct? In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the 4-stages identified by Soviet intelligence as the necessary steps to cause the psychological implosion of American society.
— Benjamin Carlson (@bfcarlson) March 12, 2024
Stage 1: Demoralization (15–20 yrs) pic.twitter.com/YNVLqZLl56
Raskin giving free history lessons again.
Don’t come for Jamie Raskin part 92,982,768 pic.twitter.com/3VAZFP6DNL
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 15, 2024
Won't happen. The criminal trump (or his handlers) will weasel out and project blame to President Biden or anybody or anything for it . Guaranteed. Trump doesn't have the facilities left to debate intelligibly. All he can do is ramble now if his speaking lasts any length of time no matter how much medication they give him. Never really had the qualities it takes to do an honest debate, but he's so far gone now and quickly going more it's just out of his realm of reality. His handlers know if trump goes, it would just turn into a bellowing mess. I guess they would just deny, deny, deny, lie and say he won. But it wouldn't be any resemblance of any debate.
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Republicans and the extreme right's Project 2025.
Crockett details the horrors of Project 2025, which one of the Republican witnesses is involved with pic.twitter.com/GNwXYjjixl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2024
Democrats Call out Speaker Johnson’s ‘Pathetic’ Appearance at Trump Trial
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) didn’t hold back on his criticisms of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as he called him out on the House floor over his appearance at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
McGovern: And all I can say is the American people deserve better. And they certainly deserve better than the Speaker spending his time trying to influence our justice system at a courthouse in New York City. How pathetic. pic.twitter.com/anrsGf5lVz
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 15, 2024
Speaker Johnson attacking the judge, prosecutors, and the current witness Michael Cohen who is currently testifying pic.twitter.com/ftgOhBreBD
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 14, 2024
Speaker Johnson talking about the judge’s daughter pic.twitter.com/LrzKzddUPE
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 14, 2024
“When he became Speaker.. he said… go read the bible, that's what I stand for. Today he's at the courthouse defending the guy who's on trial for allegedly paying off a porn star for the alleged affair he had while his wife was home with his infant son” pic.twitter.com/uBYAuH968x
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 14, 2024
Have to admit I’m surprised that @SpeakerJohnson wants to be in the “I cheated on my wife with a porn star” club. I guess he’s not that concerned with teaching morality to our young people after all. https://t.co/wTHWvA1m85
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 14, 2024
Consumer Bankruptcies - Historic Lows. Consumers facing 3rd Party Collections. Record lows. Credit Card Balances down 1.2% despite population growth. Household Debt as % of income, historic non Covid Lows. Used car pricing down 59%
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) May 15, 2024
It's not political. It's data…
Probably completely true. But there's nothing for his dementia. That'll just show up on it's own.
It is my great honor to be pumped with enough Adderall, blow, and Imodium so that I can stay awake and not crap my diaper during my debate fiascos with President Biden, a man who I know is my superior. DJT! pic.twitter.com/U073d02ChK
— 💥Arbiter of Cool💥😎✌🏻👊🏻 (@ArbiterofCool) May 15, 2024
For an actual- scheduled debate......
05/15/2024 04:28 PM EDT
CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump next month, the network announced Wednesday.
Fully agree here
Any news network that had to pay over $700 million for lying about the election shouldn't be participating in any debates.
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) May 15, 2024
Openly admitting our USSC is Leo's supreme court which is the same thing as admitting the court is corrupt.
They scammed the country. Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch says that abortion isn’t a “states rights” issue after all. Nope. They plan to use the 14th Amendment to overturn state constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights. He also calls SCOTUS the “Leo court.” 1/ pic.twitter.com/3nlOm7Uhbu
— jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) April 28, 2024
She gets excited when discussing a coup against America.
Compagno: The first thing that I thought of when this entire performance occurred this morning was oh it’s a coup and I sort of got excited pic.twitter.com/RhkF1R5sBj
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 15, 2024
Homicides are plummeting in American cities under President Biden’s watch
🚨 Homicides are plummeting in American cities under President Biden’s watch pic.twitter.com/qUSIHOMzdt
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) May 15, 2024
And here we go. Now theformerpersonrapist making things up on the Debates.
That was quick. Trump start setting up his excuses for not debating by making deals with himself. pic.twitter.com/yCsxNbuWuF
— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) May 15, 2024
Might have a decent republican. Policy debate vs culture wars, what a concept. Not what the majority of republicans want, they know they can't win unless they lie and stoke the war and suppress the vote. Sad.
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum.
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
BY JEREMY SCHWARTZ, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE AND PROPUBLICA
MAY 15, 2024 7 HOURS AGO
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https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/?
Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for evidence of the sweeping national movement she had warned on the campaign trail was indoctrinating schoolchildren.
Gore, the co-host of a far-right online talk show, had promised that she would be a strong Republican voice on the nonpartisan school board. Citing “small town, conservative Christian values,” she pledged to inspect educational materials for inappropriate messages about sexuality and race and remove them from every campus in the 7,700-student Granbury Independent School District, an hour southwest of Fort Worth. “Over the years our American Education System has been hijacked by Leftists looking to indoctrinate our kids into the ‘progressive’ way of thinking, and yes, they’ve tried to do this in Granbury ISD,” she wrote in a September 2021 Facebook post, two months before the election. “I cannot sit by and watch their twisted worldview infiltrate Granbury ISD.”
But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized, and she could find no examples of critical race theory, an advanced academic concept that examines systemic racism. She’d examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.”
Gore rushed to share the news with the hard-liners who had encouraged her to run for the seat. She expected them to be as relieved and excited as she had been. But she said they were indifferent, even dismissive, because “it didn’t fit the narrative that they were trying to push.”
So, in the spring of 2022, Gore went public with a series of Facebook posts. She told residents that her backers were using divisive rhetoric to manipulate the community’s emotions. They were interested not in improving public education but rather in sowing distrust, Gore said.
“I’m over the political agenda, hypocrisy bs,” Gore wrote. “I took part in it myself. I refuse to participate in it any longer. It’s not serving our party. We have to do better.”
Gore’s open defiance of far-right GOP orthodoxy represents an unusual sign of independence in a state and in a party that experts say increasingly punish those deemed disloyal. It particularly stands out at a time when Republican leaders are publicly attacking elected officials who do not support direct funding to private schools.
“It’s a rare event to see this kind of political leap, especially in a world that’s so polarized,” said University of Houston political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus. “You rarely see these kinds of changes because the people who are vetted to run tend to be true believers. They tend not to be people who are necessarily thinking about the holistic problem.”
“With the presence of Donald Trump, fealty to cause has amplified, so this kind of action is much more meaningful and much more visible than it was a decade ago,” Rottinghaus said about Gore.
In March, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, was victorious in unseating five lawmakers in his own party and forcing another three into runoff elections after they voted against voucher legislation that would allow the use of public dollars for students to attend private and religious schools. His efforts sent a message that those who did not unflinchingly support his priorities would face grave political repercussions.
Gore was part of a similar movement of hard-liners who pushed out the Republican Hood County elections administrator in 2021 after determining that she was not conservative enough for the nonpartisan position. Now Gore and other disillusioned local Republicans have formed a group pushing against an “ultra-right” faction of the party that it says has become obsessed with “administering purity tests” and stoking divisive politics.
The former teacher and mother of four was influenced by such politics when she decided to run for office. She was motivated to seek a school board seat after a steady stream of reports from the right-wing media she consumed and her social media feeds pointed to what she saw as inappropriate teachings in public schools. She, too, had been outraged by school mask mandates and vaccine requirements during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But Gore said she feels that she was unwittingly part of a statewide effort to weaken local support of public schools and lay the groundwork for a voucher system.
And she said that unless she and others sound the alarm, residents won’t realize what is happening until it is too late.
“I feel like if I don’t speak out, then I’m complicit,” Gore said. “I refuse to be complicit in something that’s going to hurt children.”
Because of that outspokenness, Gore is facing backlash from the same people who supported her race. She has been threatened at raucous school board meetings and shunned by people she once considered friends.
School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.
When things get particularly heated, a fellow trustee follows her in his car to make sure she gets home safely....................................(more)
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McGovern: The gentleman keeps talking about crime in DC, crime on the rise. I can tell you one thing, crime is definitely down in The White House right now pic.twitter.com/nnHZ2GGjeH
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 15, 2024
Crockett: I’m assuming you all have never been Trump lawyers
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 15, 2024
Trusty: I was for a year
Crockett: And you still have your bar card? pic.twitter.com/iEsevMZBfO
" I’ll bring my plane, too. I plan on keeping it for another four years."
I've also received and accepted an invitation to a debate hosted by ABC on Tuesday, September 10th.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 15, 2024
Trump says he’ll arrange his own transportation. I’ll bring my plane, too. I plan on keeping it for another four years.
2 debates now booked
Wow. Two Biden-Trump debates now booked: CNN on June 27, ABC on Sept. 10 https://t.co/zNYTORcEHq
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 15, 2024
Ha! Cool dude Jeff at it again:
Joe Biden bicycles into the debate hall, dismounts, runs up a ramp to his podium, one-handedly chugs a bottle of water, slams the empty bottle down onto the lectern and turns to Trump and says "sup, fuckface"
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 15, 2024
Ranking Member @StaceyPlaskett delivers her opening statement during today's hearing on the weaponization of the federal government pic.twitter.com/RQd76YU28l
— House Judiciary Dems (@HouseJudiciary) May 15, 2024
Apparently Jimmy Carter is dying... I'd sort of hoped he'd make it to 100, but it's probably better this way:
Jimmy Carter's grandson has shared that his grandfather is nearing the end of his days. President Carter made sure that we can rest in the shade of the trees he planted, and may he have rest eternal when it is his time. God bless this good man. pic.twitter.com/F0OLI6fYys
— Joe Newberry (@JoeNewberry) May 15, 2024
Run RudyDick, run run run
Arizona officials say they can’t find Rudy Giuliani to serve him with indictment notice
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/arizona-officials-giuliani-indictment-2020
That is hilarious!!
Yes, I like that one.
Not often is he speechless.
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
@SecretaryPete
We just issued a rule requiring airlines to inform you, before you buy a ticket, of fees they will charge you.
Now, the airline lobby is suing us, saying that if you have the right to that information it will "confuse" you.
For once, I am speechless.
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: A New York appeals court upholds the gag order barring Trump from making statements against witnesses and others in the hush money trial.
Trumps surrogate sycophants are outside the courthouse doing their best to violate the gag order without getting themselves in trouble.
"He approved it."
Good morning from New York.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 14, 2024
"He approved it."
In three words, Michael Cohen tied Trump to this system of reimbursements—in a blink-and-you-might-miss-it line dropped just before trial adjourned.
Follow Trump's team likely attempting to undermine it on cross today. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/gOYiPJPjDn
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— David Pepper (@DavidPepper) May 14, 2024
Cartoon Tuesday: “The Veepprentice”
By @knecessary
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Clarence Thomas claims he can’t stand Washington, but he has the capital city to thank for all of those wealthy friends who have treated him to lavish trips and luxury goods.https://t.co/UFYZGzCZ9p
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) May 14, 2024
He's a nice straight-shooting guy. He'll make a good Governor. As good as Inslee? Probably not- he's a tough act to follow. However- he absolutely puts people first. Whatever WA votes for he has totally enforced. And when Trump went off the rails, he was the first to file a suit and he was 21-1 against him.
Governor Noem's sister located
Come here, kitty kitty kit- WTF?? pic.twitter.com/cHDyA9fcrh
— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctvidiots) May 14, 2024
“I do not want these fraudulent candidates to be prosecuted, provided they do the right thing. I hold no ill will towards these individuals. I assume they received phenomenally bad advice. However, now that they know that what they have done is a crime, it is my sincere hope that… https://t.co/9Bfw3A07HW
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