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Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

In the face of new Democratic momentum, [#crybaby] #Trump has grown increasingly upset about #KamalaHarris’s surging poll numbers & #media coverage since replacing #Biden on the ticket, complaining relentlessly & asking friends about how his campaign is performing, acc/to 5 people close to the campaign….
 “It’s unfair that I beat him & now I have to beat her, too,” Trump told an ally in a phone call last weekend. [um, you never “beat” Biden, dummy.]

#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/07/trump-election-campaign/

Trump complains about campaign as advisers try to focus on attacking Harris

The GOP nominee has grown increasingly angry about Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers and media coverage since replacing Joe Biden on the ticket.

The Washington Post

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

…He has grown annoyed w/the media focus on his campaign staff, suggesting to others that his advisers get too much credit.
 …Democrats & some in Trump’s orbit have tried to highlight social media posts from #Trump advisers & allies that they say show #fear or bad messaging, while trying to stoke division in other ways. The #Harris campaign has circulated posts & news releases about his staff, the pick of Sen #JDVance as his running mate, #CrowdSize & other topics they say will grate on Trump….

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

…#Trump has begun asking friends & allies how his campaign staff is doing — a question that some say could lead to staff changes, though Trump has not said he is planning that & has expressed support for campaign aides in recent days, a person close to him said. He has asked why #Harris is raising so much more money than him…. Trump has also repeatedly raised the large #crowds that Harris is getting compared w/ Biden….

#whiner #loser #chicken #AttentionWhore
#HarrisWalz2024

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump announced plans to hold a news conference Thurs afternoon. I expect a shock value attention grab display, after the sustained enthusiasm for #KamalaHarris & #joy surrounding the #HarrisWalz ticket. New polls showing her climbing. A new survey shows Harris w/a lead over Trump nationally.

https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2024/08/07/mlspsc21-release/

#HarrisWalz2024
#HumanRights #ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #LGBTQIA #BLM #Ally #Veterans #democracy #freedom #WeAreNotGoingBack

New Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds Harris leading Trump and outperforming Biden against Trump; enthusiasm to vote among Democrats having risen substantially – Marquette Law School Poll

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

So far #Trump’s “press event” is him using the cameras to deliver a nationally broadcast stump speech.

Unsurprisingly, he’s spouting #lies. Bunch of #isolationist, #nationalist, #racist crap.

Also completely fabricating an impending 1929 #economy.

Saying #KamalaHarris is “100% the border czar” - false.

Claiming he prefers running against #Harris to Biden.

All backwards looking “blah blah blah wouldn’t have happened” & “blah blah blah wouldn’t have happened” if he was president.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

& “blah blah blah wouldn’t have happened” if he was president.

Totally lying about agreed upon debates arranged by networks.

Now #Trump is repeatedly calling #Harris “nasty”

Now he’s actually arguing for Biden. Saying “they took away the presidency from Biden” - oh so now #Biden is #POTUS?

“for a country with a #constitution that we cherish” - um I thought you wanted to “terminate the constitution”

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Media “#news” outlets need to cut their cameras.

This isn’t news.

Now #Trump is bitching about his various #criminal cases.

BTWs, #FactCheck: #KamalaHarris did in fact pass her “law exam.” Though. I’m not even sure what he’s talking about here. There are hundreds of exams in #law school. If he means the Bar exam, he’s wrong about that too, she passed on her 2nd attempt. Tons of lawyers need to try SEVERAL times. I can’t imagine how many times it took Trump’s #lawyers.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Other than #lies, all #Trump is doing is relitigating history & his #crimes, spouting #racist nonsense & flattering other #WhiteSupremacists, accusing the media of fake-news regarding the size of his “crowds”, he’s just #insulting & name-calling various Democrats & perceived enemies.

Oh & yeah praising world #dictators & #UnitedStates adversaries.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Okay now #Trump is repeating the TOTALLY FALSE #lie that Democrats want #abortion right up until birth & “even after” — that is full on #disinformation. He is a #liar. This has been #debunked over & over. Ridiculous to allow this to be aired.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

FINALLY #MSNBC cuts away “after an hour” to #FactCheck #Trump.

Thankfully they started with “people DID DIE on #Jan6”

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Another #FactCheck of the #Trump “press event”

#Trump claimed that “everybody’s going to be forced to buy an electric car” if #Democrats win the 2024 election.

False. President Joe Biden has not mandated that everyone will be forced to buy an #EV, nor has he outlawed cars powered by gasoline. Biden’s admin has finalized #regulations pushing automakers & incentives for consumers to move toward #ElectricVehicles, as well as more efficient gas-powered #hybrids.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump claimed that the US wouldn’t have experienced “any #inflation” had it not been for “bad #energy problems” during the #Biden admin.

False.

He appeared to be referencing the spike in gas prices that occurred after #Russia invaded #Ukraine in Feb 2022. That contributed to inflation at the time, but it was trending higher before then as a result of pent-up #demand from the #pandemic & #labor shortages.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump claimed “migrants” are being deliberately sent “from prisons, from jails, from mental institutions, insane asylums”

False.

There is NO evidence for Trump’s claim.

Last year, Trump’s campaign was unable to provide any evidence for his even narrower claim at the time that South American countries in particular were emptying their mental health facilities to somehow dump patients upon the US.

In fact, “Representatives for 2 #AntiImmigration organizations told CNN at the time they had not heard of anything that would corroborate #Trump’s story, as did 3 experts at organizations favorable toward #immigration. CNN’s own search did not produce any evidence. The website FactCheck.org also found nothing.”

via CNN’s Daniel Dale
#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump repeated his claim that MVP #KamalaHarris acted as a #BorderCzar during the Biden admin & that “essentially, she never went to the border” during her time as VP.

2X FALSE

1. Harris did go to the border as VP, in Texas in mid-2021; many Republicans had criticized Harris prior to the visit for not having gone, & some later argued that she didn’t go frequently enough, but the recurring claim that she “never went” has not been true for >3 yrs.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

2. #Harris was never made #Biden’s #BorderCzar, a label the WH has always emphasized is inaccurate. In reality, Biden gave Harris a more limited #immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy w/ ElSalvador, Guatemala & Honduras in an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the US.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump claimed no one died #Jan6

False

Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force vet, was fatally shot by a US Capitol Police employee as #insurgents violently tried to force their way toward the House Chamber.

3 other people died of “medical emergencies” during the riot.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Capitol Police officer #BrianSicknick, who was attacked w/pepper spray & battled the #violent #Trump supporters during the #insurrection, died after suffering strokes the next day; the ME found that Sicknick died of “natural causes”, but told WaPo that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”

4 other police officers who defended the Capitol on #Jan6 subsequently died by suicide after the trauma of the attack.

https://www.newsweek.com/3-capitol-police-officers-have-died-suicide-since-january-6-insurrection-1615452

4 Capitol Police Officers Have Died by Suicide Since the January 6 Insurrection

Authorities announced that two more D.C. police officers who responded to the U.S. Capitol insurrection have died by suicide.

Newsweek

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump tried to claim he hasn’t called to “lock up” #HillaryClinton.

He claimed said that while his supporters “used to say, ‘lock her up, lock her up,’” he wouldn’t echo those calls & instead “would say just, ‘relax, please.’”

Outrageously he went further, saying, “I was very protective of (Clinton). Nobody would understand that, but I was. I think my people understand it. They used to say, ‘lock her up, lock her up,’ but I would say just, ‘relax, please.”

False.
#TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

False

Trump has used those exact words & similar language on other occasions.

“For what she’s done, they should lock her up,” Trump said after the crowd chanted “lock her up” at an Oct 2016 rally in NC.

“‘Lock her up’ is right,” he said at an Oct 2016 rally in PA.

Trump has also explicitly called for Clinton’s imprisonment using different phrasing.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

“#HillaryClinton has to go to jail, OK? She has to go to jail,” #Trump said in a June 2016 speech in CA. “She has to go to jail,” he repeated in an Oct 2016 speech in FL. At a presidential debate in Oct 2016, after Clinton said, “It’s just awfully good that someone w/the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Trump responded, “Because you’d be in jail.”

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

In his 2020 campaign for reelection, though, #Trump again made calls to “lock her up.”

“You should lock her up, I’ll tell you,” he said at a January 2020 rally in Ohio. At an October 2020 rally in Georgia, after the crowd chanted “lock them up” in relation to the #Biden family, Trump said, “You should lock them up. Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary.”

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump once again claimed that he signed the largest tax cut in history during his presidency.

“Our tax cuts, which are the biggest in history, our tax cuts are coming due as you know very soon.”

False.

Trump’s 2017 #TaxCuts & Jobs Act was not the largest in history, either in percentage of #GDP or #inflation-adjusted dollars.

Moreover, his “tax cuts” reduced #CORPORATE & only the individual income tax rates for the #wealthy.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

If you want to discuss “size” irregardless of who benefited from the tax cuts, he is still lying.

2 other tax cut bills have been “bigger” – former President Ronald #Reagan’s 1981 package & legislation signed by former President Barack #Obama that extended earlier tax cuts enacted during former President #GeorgeWBush’s admin.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump, talking about #Jan6 - bc the most important thing about that day was crowd size:

“If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech & you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more,” referencing the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1963 March on Washington “I Have a Dream” speech.

False.

MLK’s speech drew an estimated 250k people.
Jan 6 investigators estimated that Trump’s speech drew 53k.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump: “She wants to take away your guns.”

False.

MVP #KamalaHarris, in 2019, said she supports a gun buyback program for #AssaultWeapons, not all #guns. Her campaign recently said that she no longer supports a buyback program.

Her running mate, Gov #TimWalz, is a gun owner & a hunter.

When #Walz signed 2023 MN gun law he said, "This is NOT about the #SecondAmendment, This is about the #safety & #security of our communities. That's what's happening here today."

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump: “They take the strategic national reserves. They’re virtually empty now. We have never had it this low.”

This is half exaggeration, half lie.

Pres Biden has tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try to lower gasoline prices, drawing it down by about 40% from when he took office, & it is currently at the lowest level since the 1980s. But it still has 375M barrels in it now, which is not at all “virtually empty” & is DEFINITELY NOT at the lowest level ever.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump: “The vast majority of the country does support me.”

False.

Trump NEVER won a majority of the popular vote in either of the elections he ran in & NEVER had the approval of a majority of Americans in a single day of Gallup polling during his presidency.

An average of polls by FiveThirtyEight.com shows that currently he is viewed favorably by just 43% of American respondents today & has about the same level of support in a matchup against MVP #KamalaHarris.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump: “We should have paper ballots, we should have voter ID & we should have proof of citizenship.”

He is again implying that #undocumented #immigrants are #voting.

FALSE

Every single federal election voter, in every state, in every district is required to be a #citizen of the #UnitedStates.

It is the #law

The Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, explicitly prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections

#TrumpLies
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ208/pdf/PLAW-104publ208.pdf

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

#Trump: “They’re going to destroy Social Security.”

False.

Pres #Biden & MVP #KamalaHarris have pledged not to make ANY cuts to America’s #social safety net programs.

Trump on the other hand suggested this year that he was open to scaling back the programs. He said, “there’s a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of cutting”
He later tried to walk back those comments.

It has LONG been a goal of the GOP to get rid of social security.

#TrumpLies
https://time.com/6254832/republicans-sunset-social-security-medicare/

How Biden Got Republicans To Run Away From Their History of Pushing Social Security and Medicare Cuts

The GOP has bristled at Biden's attacks, but leading conservatives have pushed such cuts for decades, including Paul Ryan and Ron DeSantis.

Time

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Trump claimed (again) that his #criminal trial in NY was controlled by the #DOJ.

False.

One prosecutor who worked on the case, in which Trump was #convicted by a #JURY of 34 #felonies, used to be a #Justice Dept official, but the case itself was brought by the local DA in #Manhattan, #AlvinBragg.

Period.

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Earlier in the thread, I addressed the disgusting #Trump lie that #Democrats want #abortion legal up to & after birth (idiotic) →

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112928122522972436

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112927879979976646

But it’s also worth noting that #abortions later in pregnancy are VERY RARE:

acc/to a #CDC report based on data from state & other #health agencies.

In 2021, less than 1% of abortions happened after 21 weeks’ gestation

+

More than 90% of abortions happened within 13 weeks of gestation.

Nonilex (@[email protected])

@[email protected] The closest thing to this BS is NY law. NY's “Reproductive Health Act” allows practitioners to perform an abortion on a patient who is 24+wks IF the fetus is NOT VIABLE or the abortion is necessary "to protect the patient's life or health." The law doesn’t define "health" or “viability”. Under the law, that determination must be made by a "health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized" under state law, "acting within his or her lawful scope of practice."

Mastodon

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/ss/ss7209a1.htm#T10_down

Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2021

This report summarizes data on legal induced abortions in the United States for 2021.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Nonilex Aug 8, 2024

Okay, so I’ve been debunking #Trump’s BS “press event” claims — that the majority of US news networks broadcast — for over 4½ hours & I doubt I’ve addressed half of his lies.

(Thankfully I did most of this while out in the garden with my rescue dog.)

Anyway, I now have a headache & am taking a break.

I may or may not continue my #FactCheck / #TrumpLies thread later.

Nazani Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex A man who advised a disabled boy's father to let him die doesn't get to have an opinion on a family's decision not to torture an severely compromised newborn with "heroic" medical intervention.

Pusher of Pixels Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex just play Pete Buttigieg on repeat against this fear mongering and lies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQAuuVBFi6I&t=140s

Buttigieg Gets Standing Ovation on Fox News, Angers Trump | NowThis

YouTube

Court Cantrell does not comply Aug 8, 2024

@pixelpusher220 @Nonilex Okay, but I love his final line in that vid. Concerning Trump's tweets, "Mayor Pete" says, "The tweets are. . . I don't *care*." 🤣

lolonurse Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex
That assertion is so astonishingly bizarre, I can't even understand how a person capable of driving a car, reading a menu or opening a water bottle could possibly think it could be true. It's mind- boggling. I'd be surprised if third-term abortions were even as high as 1%. Doctors really would have to have very sound reasons for them. Liability, conscience, et al...

isotope239 🥸💻🇺🇦😣Aug 8, 2024

@lolonurse @Nonilex I would guess if you were able to examine the data closely, you'd discover that the very late term abortions were entirely medically necessary to save the life of the mother in some way.

But, the pro-birthers are just fine with women dying. After all, they're only women.

mmalc Aug 8, 2024

“In 2021, less than 1% of abortions happened after 21 weeks’ gestation”

I wish I could find the incredibly powerful article I read so I could credit it properly that noted:

- No-one *wants* an abortion after 21 weeks
- By the time you get to 21 weeks, you're preparing for a baby — you may have even chosen a name and room colour
- At this point you're having an abortion because of some devastating medical revelation

[email protected]❌👑Aug 8, 2024

@mmalc @Nonilex And there is no time in pregnancy when it is better for a politician or a Judge to make a decision about continuing that pregnancy.

So arbitrary abortion time limits are wrong.

Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex To be very clear:

Today's commitment to scrap Americans' Social Security will also rob "Republican" voters of their own Social Security safety net.

In pictures: "Republican" congressional members kick "Republican" voters' asses - for personal gain.
Because: What they can take from you, they can keep for themselves.

GVF 🇨🇦Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex Remember, the MAGA thinking is that area should control things.

The vast majority of counties do support Trump.

Wiley Miller Aug 8, 2024

I think he's misquoted here. Pretty sure he said, "The vast majority of people at my country clubs support me".

Just Tired Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex
He didn't say what country. Mother Russia?

mmalc Aug 8, 2024

Oh, even better:

"The 3 million barrels are being purchased for an average price of $77.69, well below the average of about $95 per barrel that SPR crude was sold for in 2022, securing a good deal for taxpayers.”

https://www.energy.gov/ceser/articles/biden-harris-administration-continues-secure-good-deal-taxpayers-replenishment-7

And paywalled, but just the title and introductory paragraph are really sufficient:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/05/16/joe-biden-master-oil-trader

Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.Aug 9, 2024

@Nonilex
I'll never forget how TRAUMATIZED some Scottish friends of my sister were after visiting the U.S. more than a decade ago.

"Multiple gun shootings/deaths every night on the Evening News. Disabled children begging for money for their medical care on late night TV." 😵

They left early & never returned.

Ehay2k Aug 8, 2024

I hate to say it, but T***p may have a point about his crowd size here. People these days are much bigger than they were 60 years ago. So the sizes IN his crowds are bigger.

😂😂

Nonilex Aug 9, 2024

@Ehay2k ahh just got it. American obesity reference.

Ehay2k Aug 9, 2024

@Nonilex
Not just obesity, it's also straight up size. We're bigger now.

And, there are definitely a lot of professional beer bellies at his rallies.

David Penington Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex Plus the US population in 2020 was 75% higher than it was in 1963, and interstate travel is far easier, so 1/4 million people in 2020 is far less impressive than 1/4 million people in 1963.

Pete Aug 9, 2024

I have a dream that one day all politicians will be judged, not by the size of their crowds, but by the content of their and their crowd's characters.

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Aug 9, 2024

#TFG's lies #statistics
(1/2)

True, however, even this comparison is only half of the total picture.

In 2021, the US had a total population of 336,997,624.1)

In 1963, by contrast, the population was roughly just more than half of the 2021 figure, namely 184,649,873.2)

Since there are no aerial images, the crowd size on Jan. 6 can only be roughly estimated, 10-80k 3).
Let's take the...

1)
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2021/

2)
https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/1963/

3)
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-01-05/by-the-numbers-jan-6-anniversary

Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100

United States of America - 2021

PopulationPyramid.net

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Aug 9, 2024

#TFG's lies #statistics
(2/3)

...highest figure, 80k.

The crowd at "I have a dream" was "over 250k" 4).

If you adjust the 1963 figure for population size, IMO the only correct way to see "who draw the larger crowd, you get (divide the two population figures:)

250k * 1.82... = 456,265.

In other words, lying TFG would have needed a crowd size of at least 456,266.

As expected, population adjusted (and we should consider making an adjustment for...

4)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream

I Have a Dream - Wikipedia

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Aug 9, 2024

#TFG's lies #statistics
(3/3)

...media and its networking function, too), MLK's crowd was 👉 at least 5.7 times bigger than TFG's on Jan. 6.👈

//

Ross of Ottawa Aug 9, 2024

@Nonilex kudos to the reporter who asked the crowd size question. Such an easy manipulation to set him off.

A good demonstration of how he's easily-played "useful idiot" material for any foreign adversary.

The important part is to ensure voters don't let the "useful" part of that moniker return.

GVF 🇨🇦Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex Absolutely everything about him is "the biggest ever"

JonChevreau 🇨🇦Aug 8, 2024

@i_gvf @Nonilex Well, #TheDonOLD can lay claim to being the biggest buffoon ever

xs4me2 Aug 8, 2024

He needs a scapegoat, it is needed in his politics of the gut. Creating resentment. It's a trick, an evil fascist trick...

sandywb14 Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex 💔💔💔💔

Jean Poole 🌈🌵🐶Aug 8, 2024

@Nonilex Trump must be getting his information from the Preserve America PAC that is running Harris attack ads with the Border Czar claim on Peacock during the Olympics. They’re disgusting ads full of racist dog whistles that keep running over and over all day and night.