Journalists!! Let's not forget what is lurking behind Door #2

 

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JOURNALISTS! DO YOUR JOBS!

I am really sick & tired of these one way reports about Biden's brain waves. It's a constant drumbeat. There are other sides to this conversation about Biden's abilities that are not being discussed nor reported in context.

Listen to Trump's meaningless confused mental meanderings when he's not on prompter and try to find ANY truth in anything he sez when he IS on prompter. BESIDES he is a fucking felon. I mean, really! Can you say the same for Biden? No!

If I was still working at CBS News or ABC News, I'd be screaming my head off about the lousy, lopsided coverage. There is absolutely NO perspective in most of the reportage. 

The MSM spent the 2016 campaign discussing//opining about tweeted words like "confefe". It took 3yrs before Trump was called out for what he was/is: a sociopathic liar. Jesus Christ! 

Act like real journalists, not wildebeest who follow the leading animal over the cliff because they can't think for themselves. 

Shame on you! "The medium is the message" Of all modern day elections, 2024 is PIVOTAL to our future. Please don't fuck it up.   

2024 or 1984?

It has come to this: Escambia County, Florida, schools have banned the dictionary.

Five dictionaries are on the district’s list of more than 1,600 books banned pending investigation in December 2023, along with eight different encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records, and Ripley’s Believe it or Not – all due to fears they violate the state’s new laws banning materials with “sexual conduct” from schools.

Biographies of Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Nicki Minaj, and Thurgood Marshall are on the list, alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Black Panther comics by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Feminism Book was banned along with The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion.

The list obtained by the Florida Freedom to Read Project also includes Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. The Princess Diaries and 14 other books by Meg Cabot have been taken from libraries, alongside books by David Baldacci, Lee Child, Michael Crichton, Carl Hiaasen, Jonathan Franzen, John Green, John Grisham, Stephen King (23 of them), Dean Koontz, Cormac McCarthy, Celeste Ng, James Patterson, Jodi Picoult, and Nicholas Sparks. Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly’s two books, Killing Jesus and Killing Reagan, were also banned pending investigation.

For a complete list, click here.

IT'S NO JOKE

HOW TO LOSE A GENERAL ELECTION

“If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” -- Donald Trump, on Truth Social.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced what it would take to win her vote to fund the government and prevent a shutdown. The demands includes passing an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, defunding his “weaponization of government,” eliminating funding for Covid-related mandates and cutting off new aid for Ukraine.

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“He’s a very, very, very intelligent person. He’s got good energy, and he could be some form of something. I tell you, I think he’d be very good.” -- Donald Trump, talking to Glenn Beck about possibly picking Vivek Ramaswamy as his running mate.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Says He Wants to Run the Government Like Elon Musk

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“I’ve probably been called the N word more times in the last two-and-a-half years than most — a hundred people combined.” — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, quoted by WSB-TV.

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Would you, co-moderator Martha MacCallum asked DeSantis, support sending American Special Forces over the southern border to take out the cartels that produce fentanyl [...]

“Yes,” he replied confidently. “And I will do it on Day One.”

“Would I use force? Would I treat them as foreign terrorist organizations? You’re damn right I would,” he continued.

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) “spent the weekend amplifying unfounded allegations by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ InfoWars that the President Joe Biden administration was preparing to impose new Covid-related lockdowns this fall,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham even wondered aloud on Tuesday whether the U.S. could still claim to be better than the Soviet Union, given the indictments against Trump. Yes, really. -- RELIABLE SOURCES

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“Just Say That the Election Was Corrupt, and Leave the Rest to Me” -- Donald Trump

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By many measures, Americans have lost their sense of community and voluntary civic engagement — what Alexis de Tocqueville called the “science of association” that was the source of the country’s strength. The combined effects of social media and the pandemic have left us isolated — and hungering for our lost civic ties. But you can’t rebuild community in a news desert. -- Dana Milbank Aug 11, 2023. WAPO

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This week, Salem Radio host Charlie Kirk called for President Joe Biden to either be "put in prison" or given "the death penalty" for supposed "crimes against America."

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Florida’s Department of Education has approved classroom use of videos that spout climate disinformation and distort climate science, Scientific American reports.

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“Donald Trump is a long, long way from winning the GOP primary, let alone retaking the White House. But he always has revenge on his mind, and his allies are preparing to use a future administration to not only undo all of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work — but to take vengeance on Smith, and on virtually everyone else, who dared investigate Trump during his time out of power,”  -- Rolling Stone 

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Nearly a year after Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, about $9 million in aid raised by Casey DeSantis for her relief campaign still hasn’t been spent, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.

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“Trump’s political action committee, which began last year with $105 million, now has less than $4 million left in its account after paying tens of millions of dollars in legal fees for Mr. Trump and his associates.” -- NYT

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Supreme Court Approval at Record Low 

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Justice Samuel Alito told the Wall Street Journal that Congress has no authority to regulate the Supreme Court. 

Said Alito: “I know this is a con­tro­ver­sial view, but I’m will­ing to say it… No pro­vi­sion in the Con­sti­tu­tion gives them the au­thor­ity to reg­u­late the Supreme Court — pe­riod.”

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“There was a time when even a fraction of Donald Trump’s record of lawlessness and depravity would have shattered a person’s political career, rendered his party ashamed of its association with him, and left him humiliated and seeking forgiveness. But that day is long gone, at least if you’re a Republican.” -- Peter Wehner

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Polling released by The New York Times and Siena College on Monday found that only 5% of respondents who get their news from Fox News believe that Trump has "committed serious federal crimes," with an overwhelming 91% saying he has not done so. Meanwhile, 83% of Fox News-watching respondents believe that after the 2020 election, Trump "was just exercising his right to contest the" results. And, perhaps most importantly, 85% of Republican-leaning poll participants who primarily watch Fox News say the GOP needs to "stand behind" Trump.  ....Of course, Fox settle[d] Dominion lawsuit for $787.5 million over US election lies 

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The leadership political action committee founded by Donald Trump paid $108,000 to Melania Trump’s stylist in the first six months of 2023 for “strategy consulting,” the Daily Beast reports.

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Mike Pence told Fox News that Donald Trump personally asked him to “literally reject votes” on January 6. Mike Pence told Fox News that Donald Trump personally asked him to “literally reject votes” on January 6. 

Said Pence: “Let’s be clear on this point. It wasn’t that they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes which would have resulted in the issue of being turned over to the house of representatives.”

He added: “They asked me to reject votes, return votes, essentially to overturn the election.”

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“A man is running to run the government he tried to overthrow while he was running it, even as he is running to stay ahead of the law. That sounds loony, except in the topsy-turvy world of Donald Trump, where it has a grotesque logic.” --Maureen Dowd

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A new CNN poll finds that 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Joe Biden’s win in 2020 was not legitimate, up from 63% earlier this year and through last fall, even as there is no evidence of election fraud that would have altered the outcome of the contest.

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“Fitch downgraded the U.S. credit rating due to fiscal concerns, a deterioration in U.S governance, as well as political polarization reflected partly by the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Reuters reports. This will cost taxpayers millions & millions more in interest payments

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“During [ the ] Republican primary debate, Ron DeSantis [ ... ] promised that, under his presidency, Mexican drug cartels would be “shot stone cold dead,” and vowed that when it comes to federal bureaucrats, “we are going to start slitting throats on Day One.”

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GIDDIUP JACK & FANI

 

'NUF SAID

 

SIGN OF THE TIMES

First, the background.

.....so the former POTUS, who served the Nation from 2016-2020, had a wonderful Mar-a-Lago lunch with  white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West (aka Ye). 

Part of the conversation centered around Ye's intention to make another run for POTUS in 2024. He asked the former POTUS, who served the Nation from 2016-2020, if he would serve as his VP.  

The former POTUS, who served the Nation from 2016-2020, became irate & according to Ye:

"When Trump started basically screaming at me at the table telling me I was going to lose — I mean has that ever worked for anyone in history,”West said in the video. I'm like hold on, hold on, hold on, Trump, you're talking to Ye.”

SOURCE: Vanity Fair