Each day it becomes more clear that not only should Donald Trump not be running for president, but some loved on -- someone has to love him, right? -- should be moving towards a conservatorship because he's clearly unable to manage his own affairs.
He spent time in a speech talking about the size of a dead man's penis. Grasp that.
Arnold Palmer's been dead for eight years. Donald's talking about Arnold's cock.
Americans are worried about healthcare, housing and food -- about reproductive rights, about Civil Rights, about our nation continuing to be a democracy. And Donald's talking about how excited he got -- at least six years ago -- when he saw Arnold Palmer's penis.
Donald does know that October 11th was coming out day, right? Not October 19th.
David McAffee (RAW STORY) notes some reactions to this bizarre moment:
A popular Harris page, Kamala’s Wins, said, "In a senile moment, Donald Trump is rambling about the size of Arnold Palmer’s private parts. This is insane."
Republicans against Trump said, "Trump’s closing message to voters in PA is to talk about Arnold Palmer’s d---."
Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias echoed those sentiments, saying, "Trump’s closing argument is about the size of Arnold Palmer’s d---."
HuffPost reporter Yashar Ali chimed in:
"At his Pennsylvania rally, former President Trump talks about the late golfing legend Arnold Palmer’s d--- size."
GOP pollster and Trump critic Sarah Longwell called the comment part of the ex-president's "c----nitive decline."
He's in decline and a functioning media would note that. Sadly, the corporate media does a better job than our so-called 'independent' media does. I spent time writing eight paragraphs calling out a dumb bitch at MOTHER JONES. Then I realized it's our topic -- Ava and my topic -- at THIRD where we'll also be noting Sasha's nonsense.
I am so sick of it. I am so sick of supposed left sites working overtime to depress turnout in this election so that Trump ends up with four more years. You are all pathetic -- THE NATION, DEMOCRACY NOW!, et al -- and you will find out what it's like to exist on a real budget because funding dreams and goals are not going to be met in 2025. Not after all the crap you have pulled in 2024. No, a lot of you are going to have to get real jobs and do actual work for a change.
The typical piece of garbage they write goes like this:
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today in Georgia and explained that Americans love and need M&Ms and one of the first thing she'll be doing as president, if elected, is funding M&Ms for all Americans.
However, as everyone knows, we don't all eat M&MS and she was silent on Snickers! Junior Mints, Hershey bars were all omitted! In her four minutes on M&Ms in her speech, she never once mentioned the 150 year Chocolate War or how the British took over the chocolate industry early on in the 19th century. She seemed to think that her paltry offer of M&Ms for all wiped the slate clean.
That's the kind of garbage our 'left' and 'independent' media keeps serving up. For now. I mean they're not independent. They count on donations and it's not the five or ten dollars you give each month. They need the big money and that's going to be denied to them after their performance this year. So they'll find out what it truly is like to be "independent." They won't be able to count on big donors because we've all seen the crap they did with our money this year.
In the past, John Kerry on M&Ms would have resulted in, "John Kerry today in California spoke about the need for M&Ms for all Americans and that's long overdue. The plan includes . . . "
Instead, we're getting little bitches who are really bad online cash master that can't understand why people won't give them money after the little bitches have insulted and degraded their audience.
(Cash masters are men -- and women -- who insult followers into humiliation and make their money that way. They're all over TWITTER, INSTAGRAM and ONLY FANS. If you need more information about that, DM Glennyth Greenwald who is big time into being humiliated and degraded.)
There are very real issues at stake here. And it's appalling to watch the so-called left work so hard to elect Donald Trump. Because that is what they're doing.
Yesterday afternoon, Bart Jansen, Josh Meyer and Aysha Bagchi (USA TODAY) reported:
The newly released documents also show that an unnamed organization budgeted as much as $3 million on the Jan. 6 rally and related events, including for bringing VIP guests and protesters to Washington and ad buys for a show of force.
Several versions of the “Confidential – Not To Be Disclosed” document are included, with some redactions, and appear to have been prepared for House Jan. 6 Select Committee investigating the attacks, which disclosed some of the information.
But the documents released Friday show that $1 million was budgeted for Turning Point Action, a grassroots non-profit group founded in 2019 by Charlie Kirk to embolden young conservatives “through grassroots activism.”
The money was earmarked for having TPA deploy social media influencers and students from around the country to Washington to attend the rally, to produce “all the video content at the event” and to run nationwide ads “educating millions about the significance of January 6th for President Trump.”
Another $500,000 was budgeted for a group founded by Donald Trump Jr., “Save the U.S. Senate,” to stop alleged voter fraud in Georgia and help re-elect Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. The document said the investment would “help support attendance" at a Jan. 4 rally with Trump in Georgia and to make additional ad buys featuring Trump’s eldest son “to encourage Senators Loeffler and Perdue to vote to stop the steal in Georgia on January 6.”
The budget documents show another $400,000 was budgeted for Tea Party Express to create a centralized website to promote the rally events on January 5th and 6th, including targeted ads and a television, radio and digital campaign to promote the January 6th rally and encourage attendance.
Don't see anything about that at MOTHER JONES. I stopped after the first 28 headlines at COMMON DREAMS -- but didn't see anything about that nor any piece encouraging people to vote for Kamala Harris.
But COMMON DREAMS and all the rest have their sordid history. Do most people realize how much time, for example, COMMON DREAMS spent building Peter Van Buren up? A borderline psychopath who had a smattering of observations that were accurate. We noted him. We noted the things he was right about. And we noted all the many more things he was wrong about. That was years ago, probably over ten years ago, maybe longer. But COMMON DREAMS continued to publish him. Even after his grift was known. In fact, they were publishing him as late as two years ago (March 18, 2022, "Iraq War Lesson: When the Media Seduces US Into War"). Long after his MAGA ways were known, they were publishing him. Long after he was the mouthpiece at conservative outlets, COMMON DREAMS was publishing him. And they never once alerted their readers about just how damaging Peter had become. COMMON DREAMS never aired those beliefs -- or let their readers know that they were promoting MAGA crazy. I can do this with all the outlets by the way. But let's note a positive. POST-LEFT WATCH is a TWITTER account you should check out. It covers the grifters who are faux left and on the MAGA gravy train -- all the anti-vaxer sickos (including an idiot who ran repeatedly for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination before getting kicked out of Congress).
They also call out the corrupt and idiotic George Galloway. Tom Hayden was right about George. Not a Tom fan, though I knew for many years, but he did make this call and he was right -- Galloway is a grifter and using his program to get people to vote for Donald Trump. And he's lying that Barack's gay. How does this creep still have a hold on anyone?
It's like Ed Snowden. Ed, you're a chicken ass piece of crap. That's all you are. Stop lying on your TWITTER feed "I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public." No, you don't. You work for the Russian government now, possibly. You don't call out Vladimir Putin because you don't want to be kicked out of Russia. And you don't work for the American people because you claim only 40% of the information got released to the American people. That was almost a decade ago. So stop pretending you work for the people. You're a candy ass coward and that's all you are.
Chelsea Manning didn't flee the country.
Ed's in Russia and silent on Putin for that reason and yet also silent on what wasn't revealed about US government spying (aka what Greenwald buried those Ed's such a little bitch he licks Glenn's toes and acts like nothing was withheld).
I'm tired of all the liars and the whores. Aren't you too?
This election matters and I've never felt that way like this before. Our very democracy is at stake and I'm not in the mood for your both sides crap.
Whatever anger, pain, fear, or strategic hope may cause you to lean toward a vote for Stein, West, or whoever else or to not vote at all in swing states, those choices will undeniably help Trump. Only Trump or Harris will win. Yes, Harris could act in ways to make it easier for Trump-haters to vote for her. And yes, she would be very, very far from a president that you or I would ideally want. But nonetheless, to defeat Harris is to help elect Trump. And to elect Trump would seriously and perhaps even irredeemably hurt every progressive program and prospect that anyone seeks, here and everywhere. When Trump says the real enemy is the enemy within, the “radical left lunatics” who may need to be dealt with by the national guard or the military, he is talking about us. Drill baby drill. Enrich the rich. Abort abortion. Crush all enemies. Get it over with, already. These are not manipulative slogans for him. They are a carefully planned program. Wake up to that on Nov 6th and declare strategic victory? Seriously?
I wonder, do Stein and other third candidates not understand such a trivially simple observation? Are they so ignorant, so unable to reason, that that observation eludes them? I do not think so. But if not that, then do Stein and other candidates and their advocates instead think that getting people to vote for them and not for Harris in swing states is some kind of radical blow for a better future, thereby offsetting the fact that it undeniably helps Trump? Or perhaps they think the act of voting for Harris to stop Trump will inexorably cause such voters to become politically passive and it would be better to have Trump in full power violently working overtime to compel their passivity. I have not been able to personally chat with any of them to ask. I have also not been able to convey nearly as effectively or as widely as I would like the obvious truth that to oppose genocide, to be caring, to be radical, to be revolutionary, and to vote your conscience (where your conscience is cognizant), all entail voting to stop Trump. And I have not been able to ask Stein, West, or other third candidates how and why they disagree with those efforts. How come?
Stein has said, we are in “a very dire situation that will be continued under both Democrats and Republicans. So we say there is no lesser evil in this race.” So I suppose that is her answer. How comes it that she so outrageously denies reality. Is she blinded by the light of her 1 percent campaign? Is she blinded by the lure of the press coverage she gets when she says such things? I don’t know. But now we have another, and I think a more honest, albeit no less disturbing answer to why from an exemplary activist who is arguably Stein’s most savvy and accomplished supporter.
You may remember Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s socialist city council member from 2010 to 2024. I won’t review her history. It suffices to say she has been a singularly successful left candidate and has been on the progressive, radical, and revolutionary side of issue after issue. She has been courageous, brilliant, and committed. One need not have liked her every move or her every allegiance to feel that she has been exemplary in numerous ways.
But according to news reports Sawant recently went from Seattle to Michigan to campaign for and with Jill Stein at a Stein Rally in Dearborn. Sawant is highly knowledgeable. She is no one’s fool. She did not say vote for Stein to express your conscience. She did not say vote for Stein to show you are radical. She did not say vote for Stein to build the Green Party. No. Sawant said, “We need to be clear about what our goals are… We are not in a position to win the White House. But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.” And in case that didn’t express her intent clearly enough, she added we are “fighting to defeat Harris, not just symbolically but in reality.” Michigan “is ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her…. We need to break the two-party system, and we need to begin that by breaking this election for the Democrats in Michigan.” Back in June, Trump made his oddly similar feelings about Stein known. “I like her also, Jill Stein, I like her very much.,,, You know why? She takes 100% from them.” I guess Trump could now say the same about Sawant.
Okay, I admit that I can’t imagine that Sawant will read this essay, or that Stein will, but maybe some people will who are understandably feeling that if they vote for Harris in Michigan, or in any swing state, it would seem to say genocide is okay. The system is okay. The Democrats are my champions. Or it would deny their own personal past. Or it would seem to accept a supine future. And so, they understandably hesitate.
I have been trying to hear, empathize with, and take those types of fears and concerns to heart, not least because I share many of them. And I of course know that Arab Americans and Palestinian Americas have tragically lost family members. I likewise know that American progressives and radicals are rightly and righteously furious at American complicity. But Sawant is being honest. Can you hear her? Is her intent your intent too? If so, then I guess yes, you should vote for Stein and on election night if Harris wins and you are happy about it, or if Trump wins and you are despondent or worse about it, I guess then, perhaps you might want to reconsider the path you chose.
I love these White people like John Cusack (who can't act and has always been fat, ugly and smelly -- oh, and box office poison, don't forget that, John in the lead means the film's a flop) who tokenize Arab Americans. They're the little pin he puts on his shirt collar this year. Who will it be next year?
The Dreamers are to be abandoned as are Latinos across the country (Donald's immigration plans will target all Latinos -- not just Latino immigrants -- grasp that you F**KING idiot -- they will all be detained and they will all be processed because they will be suspect just because they're Latinos), as are African-Americans, as are all women, as is education -- now Donald wants to destroy the Dept of Education.
He is a threat to our very way of life and I don't have time for fake asses who pretend otherwise. Ed Snowden, shut your damn mouth. No one needs to hear from you. You failed to reveal even half of what you claim you knew and had proof of. So just shut up. Continue being an apologist for Putin and stay the f**k out of US business because your the coward who ran. Have an ugly baby with Tara Reade -- if she can still get pregnant at her current weight. You both defected to Russia so leave us alone. We're tired of your grifting and your lying and everything else.
Again, Chelsea didn't run. Maybe that accounts for Ed's recent bitchy comment about transgender people?
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