208) When Americans vote on Nov 5, they get to decide if the want to vote for #KamalaHarris who wants corporations to pay a tax rate of 28%, a 7% increase, or for #Trump who wants to reduce the rate so his billionaire buddies have more money to corrupt democracy
#USPol #USPolitics #Politics #VoteBlue #Election2024 #WealthConcentration
209) Hmmmm changing the name of #PA???
Yup, that’s high on the list of priorities for the #DemocraticParty 🙄
Really!! How freaking #Weird
File this one under stoking division and anger. That’s all #Trump has to offer to #Pennsylvania voters
#USPol #USPolitics #Politics #VoteBlue #Election2024 #WealthConcentration
210) Take 20 minutes to listen to an extraordinary speech from the wonderful #MichelleObama
#Election2024 affords the opportunity to #GoBig with #KamalaHarris or descend into the chaos and #GoSmall with #DonaldTrump
211) Pretty interesting comparison between
Team Sane vs. Team Delusional
Team Empath vs. Team Narcissist
Team Reality vs Team Delusion
212) #Trump folks are excited about endorsement from #RFKJr and his shrinking campaign. #DonaldTrump has had little to cheer about since #KamalaHarris replaced #JoeBiden
While Trump folks might be excited about this development, adding an #AntiVax conspiracy theorist imprimatur is hardly going to improve a plummeting campaign
Team #Weird just got weirder
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5086838/robert-kennedy-future-plans-trump
213) Interesting to see what #RFKJr had to say about #Trump in times past
#Forbes with the story ⬇️
Will the #DeadBear guy move the needle for #TeamWeird?
Maybe #JDVance’s tagging #DonaldTrump as #AmericasHitler is looking a little bit better now?
LOL what a mess
214) #AbortionRights are on the ballot in 10 states in this election cycle. I expect many voters will turnout specifically to affirm the #BodilyAutonomy of women
Like many, I expect that the presence of these measures should be helpful to the #KamalaHarris campaign since this important right can transcend red/blue state divides
Here’s a good breakdown of the ballot measures in each state ⬇️
https://19thnews.org/2023/12/abortion-states-election-2024-ballot-measures/
#Election2024 #USPolitics #USPol #ReproductiveRights #Abortion
215) I expect some mirrors will soon be classed as fake reflectors by the #Trump campaign
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/24/2264520/-Cartoon-Fairest-of-them-all
216) I’ve not been shy about calling #DonaldTrump a #fascist. I think that is a fair description but is labeling the man as such helpful in defeating him in #Election2024?
Mike Tomasky at the @newrepublic
Makes the case that #Trump likes being labeled a fascist. It reinforces his self image as an #authoritarian. Ridiculing him however, is far more effective in persuading swing voters
A good read ⬇️
https://newrepublic.com/article/185270/democrats-harris-trump-achilles-heel-ridicule
217) This cartoon grasps the essential truth of many #NewsMedia outlets and their willingness to give #Trump a freebie.
Many news businesses in our click-addled media sphere love the clickbaityness of #DonaldTrump. He is a gift that has given much to the bottom line of news corporations, and they would rather not give him up
#Election2024 #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/26/2265249/-Cartoon-The-fact-checkers
218) Excellent piece from @rbreich on the #oligarchs who are opting to support #Trump despite past protestations of his #autocracy
A reminder that for many of these types money and NOT #democracy is paramount .
Fortunately, the unbejeweled have a lot more votes, the job is to ignore #billionaire financed ads and get normies to the polls.
219) #Georgia is in play and every vote will count whether it comes from traditional #democraticparty urban strongholds or more rural parts of #GA
Great to see #HarrisWalz2024 campaigning outside big cities - see #WashingtonPost article ⬇️
#Election2024 #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/28/harris-bus-tour-georgia-rally-savannah
220) I'm enjoying a little #LincolnProject satire this morning
221) For over a week, stories on #DonaldTrump's visit to #Arlington have flooded the #NewsMedia.
The question we need to ask is whether rules and laws apply only to some or all?
222) #TrumpMedia is a dreadful business with an astonishingly high stock price for a company that is barely a business. #WarrenBuffet would shudder at the absence of investable fundamentals
What is interesting though are the gyrations of the price. The stock is a proxy for the probability of #Trump electoral success. It has not been performing well of late
#DonaldTrump #StockMarket #USPolitics #Politics #Election2024
223) So after four years of destabilizing democracy, election denialism and stoking the #Jan6 coup, #Trump has decided that to acknowledge he lost the 2020 election.
No apology will be given, no explanation for his shift is forthcoming, and no doubt he will say the opposite tomorrow if it fits his purpose.
Vote #KamalaHarris, #VoteBlue for a truth based presidency
224) Listen to the question posed to #DonaldTrump and then listen to the babbling answer and tell me we shouldn't be worried about #Trump's cognitive decline.
#NewsMedia organizations are failing to report on the ever increasing level of inchorence from the #GOP candidate.
225) Not much remains of #Donald'Trump's cognitive function. Buried in his decaying mind, a marketing impulse still beats and is honed to turn every problematic aspect of his candidacy into a virtue
The latest is "the weave", a supposed explanation of why #Trump rambles off on different verbal tangents. The #BigOrange think he brings all the threads back together masterfully but if you've had the misfortune of listening, you know otherwise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/07/election-trump-speeches
226) Where does #JDVance line up on the political spectrum?
Looks like #AnnTelnaes has captured it perfectly
#USPol #USPolitics #Election2024
#Misogyny #reproductiverights #cartoon
227) Does warmth count in a political candidate?
Watch this and tell me your opinion
228) Time for the #NewsMedia to report on #DonaldTrump's mental decline
#USPol #USPolitics #Election2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/politics/debate-trump-age-capacity.html
With President Biden no longer in the race, former President Donald J. Trump would be the oldest person ever to serve in the Oval Office. But his rambling, sometimes incoherent public statements have stirred concern among voters.
229) Will the #SaneWashing moniker get traction?
#USPol #USPolitics #Election2024
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_incoherent_media_sanewashing.php
There’s a hot new term doing the rounds among media critics: “sanewashing.” The term itself actually isn’t new, and it wasn’t born in media-criticism circles, per se; according to Urban Dictionary, it was coined in 2020 on a Reddit page for neoliberals (which Linda Kinstler wrote about recently for CJR), and meant “attempting to downplay […]
230) #KamlaHarris delivered a spanking of #DonaldTrump at last night’s #debate provoking her opponent to go down bizzare rabbit holes of weirdness and serving up a remainder of the chaos and undisciplined nature of his presidency
Now #Harris needs to consolidate her gains with wavering voters while encouraging the turnout of her base thoroughly heartened by her performance
231) All one needs to know about #Trump is contained in this short #debate segment
Was there a more bizzare moment than #EatingCatsAndDogs?
232) Excellent take from #DavidFrum detailing how #KamalaHarris crushed #Trump at last night’s #debate
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/how-harris-roped-a-dope/679779/
233) Monty and JoJo with a proof of life confirming that they have not been eaten despite #Trump assertions
#debate #EatingCatsAndDogs #Harris #USPol #USPolitics #Election2024
234) They don't trust him, why would you?
235) Good piece from #RonaldBrownstein in #TheAtlantic on the challenges faced by #KamlaHarris between now and Election Day
A whipped #Trump needs to avoid a second #debate humiliation and to focus stoking grievance on #immigration and the lasting impact of #Biden administration #inflation. The debate reminded swing voters of #DonaldTrump’s chaotic and unhinged leadership
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-debate-economy/679787/
236) My distaste for #JDVance’s politics is fast approaching my loathing for #DonaldTrump’s version.
What is #Trumpism other than the worst kind of fact free propaganda directed against vulnerable migrant communities.
Neither #Trump nor his minion has a plan to better the lives of the #MiddleClass, just an attempt to distract voters from an expectation of competent governance
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/us/politics/vance-haitian-immigrants-illegal.html
237 #Election2024 hinges on a small set of #battlegroundstates but also battleground constituencies
The economically disaffected are one of those important groups up for grabs and are both persuadable but ambivalent.
They lean towards #Trump believing he is better on matters economic, impervious to obvious indications that he doesn’t give a damn about them nor anybody other than himself
238) #JoshMarshall reminds us that the growth of the #Haitian community in #Spingfield, #Ohio was a product of intended and affirmed local policy, NOT an undesired, unexpected and unwelcome influx of people from #Haiti
#Trump and #Vance want only a white America and want a return to 19th century #racism and its obsession with skin color, a madness that is a product of race-based #slavery
239) So why is #Trump holding markedly fewer rallies in 2024 compared to the 2016 and 2020 campaign cycles?
#USPolitics #USPol #Election2024 #Politics
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/22/trump-2024-rallies-schedule
240) #KamalaHarris suggests scrapping the #filibuster to restore #RoeVsWade rights across the country.
The filibuster should be scrapped in its entirety. Due to the #Senate's arcane rules, passing legislation in America is too hard. It is little wonder that most Americans have lost faith in a democracy that can barely legislate.
#USPolitics #Politics #USPol #Election2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123955/kamala-harris-abortion-roe-v-wade-filibuster
241) How many different ways in #BernieMoreno clueless?
The #GOP candidate for the US #Senate hoping to replace #SherrodBrown has now pushed #abortion to the front of #Ohio voters' minds who have already voted to support #ReproductiveRights in #oh.
I'm guessing women in Ohio are not exactly enamored with #Moreno's condescension.
Foot in mouth, anyone?
242) The sad case of #DonaldTrump on #TruthSocial from Charlie Warzel on #TheAtlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/trump-truth-social-posts/680003
243) When one #cartoon perfectly epitomizes the time we find ourselves in American political history
#Election2024 #USPolitics #USPol #Politics #Trump #DonaldTrump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/28/2271498/-Cartoon-Brick
244) #KamalaHarris outreach to principled #republicans continues to bear fruit as she is joined by #LizChaney on the campaign trail in #Wisconsin
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com with important context below 👇
#Election2024 #USPolitics #USPol #Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-3-2024?r=3alg6&utm_medium=ios
Former Republican representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming joined Vice President Kamala Harris on a stage hung with red, white, and blue bunting and signs that said “Country Over Party.” As Cheney took the stage, the crowd chanted, “Thank you, Liz!” The two were on the campaign trail today in Ripon, Wisconsin, the town that claims to be the birthplace of the Republican Party.
245) A disturbing reminder of what people are willing to do for the #Trump cause.
Nine years is a long time to serve for a lie. Most of the #Jan6 types recant when confronted with judicial consequences of their actions. That is not the case for former Mesa County Clerk, #TinaPeters. She’s going down with the ship, likely betting on a reprieve from #DonaldTrump should he win in #Election2024
#USPolitics #USPol #Politics #Colorado
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/03/trump-election-conspiracist-tina-peters-sentenced.html
246) Trying to keep this in mind ⬇️ for the next 22 days.
Most important thing is to vote and to persuade others to vote #KamalaHarris and to #VoteBlue
If you’re in a #SwingState or nearby volunteer to help get out the vote. The election will be more likely won by those who get out more low propensity voters sympathetic to their cause
247) Are we just talking #CognitiveDecline here or are we fast closing in on full #CaligulaMode?
Has the last remaining elements of the tangled mess that is #Trump’s brain realized that he ought not serve up more desiccated brain droppings that will impede his attempt to regain the #WhiteHouse?
#Trump now it’s for a #Weird play list rather than talking ⬇️
248) #KamalaHarris brings her message to #FoxNews, demonstrating her willingness to answer questions at a purported #NewsMedia company hostile to her message
Why go there? Because it shines a light on #DonaldTrump's weakness as a candidate.
#Donald doesn't have the stamina to campaign or the mental fortitude to answer hostile questions.
He's weak. He canceled interviews with hosts friendly to his cause. He can't hack it anymore
249) There has been much handwringing on the left over polling, making this a good read. I've been dubious about polling as a general matter, believing that it's virtually impossible to get a representative polling sample - only weirdos answer the phone these days in an era where caller ID warns that a polling outfit is calling. All that said, it looks like the polls are being distorted even further by a GOP flood-the-zone strategy.
250) I just canceled my subscription to the #WashingtonPost following #JeffBezos's suppression of the publication's endorsement of a planned #KamalaHarris endorsement.
Another example of an #oligarch on the wrong side of history
251) Pass this article to any friends worried about the state of the polls.
There is a simple message here: polling is #bunkum. Lots of jiggery-pokery goes into the messaging of the underlying data that polls are based on, even by good-faith pollsters.
In a close election, the only thing that counts is actual ballots cast.
Encourage your friends and your friends' friends to vote #KamalaHarris. #Democracy now depends on the #GetOutTheVote efforts
https://goodauthority.org/news/election-poll-vote2024-data-pollster-choices-weighting
252) Share this video when somebody tells you #ReproductiveRights are a women’s’ issue
253) Phone banking yesterday with Limor and our friend Miguel. It’s all about #GOTV. Confirming folks have a voting plan and know where their polling place is.
254) Phone banking this afternoon. Helping with the #GOTV in #PA
If you're in NYC, this is a great opportunity to impact a swing state. Encouraging people to turnout and vote for #HarrisWalz2024 will be one of the key elements driving #Election2024 victory for #TeamBlue
255) I will be on Newstalk with my @IrishStewPodcast partner @Johnleemedia around 5:30 PM Irish Time / 12:30 EST. We'll be talking about tomorrow's #USElection
256) It is a difficult morning today and I imagine many are feeling emotionally bruised as am I
It’s time to start a new thread on how to build a new and more hopeful #politics in the face of yesterday’s disaster. The main thing is to be kind and supportive of each other and to rekindle a sense of optimism
Here’s a note I sent out to family and friends this morning for what it’s worth
Martin Nutty
Joanna Czechowska
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