July 18, 2024

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE Until Morale Improves!

Right??

I've had just about as much as I can take of this July news cycle...

... and more than enough of "weak hands with watery bowels" trying to take down our President
over a couple percentage points in some polls, because they are scared,
who think our primary votes can be set aside in favor of.... something something something
fantasy-land unicorn candidate or maybe a winged Pegasus spreading magic campaign dust everywhere
which will guarantee they don't lose their offices--- oops, no it won't because it doesn't exist...

and now Joe has covid again.

End of rant, but really, it does feel like the beatings will continue
and I'm getting a little tired of it is a profane understatement


(And NO, it appears that Trump does NOT actually also have covid--
I misread someone's joke it seems. Sorry for spreading false good news!)

July 13, 2024

President Biden's Michigan rally: C-SPAN/video WATCH IT!!!!!

Wish I could have been there.... just watching it now here

https://www.c-span.org/video/?536973-1/president-biden-campaigns-detroit-michigan

President Biden speaks at about 6:55

Later Edit: If you haven't already seen it, you should watch--
it will do wonders for your morale!! It certainly has for mine!

This is the President "Fighting Joe" Biden from the State of the Union address!
He may fumble a few words, but he is ON FIRE!!!

July 6, 2024

SAY HER NAME: 'Katie Johnson'--- Trump's alleged 13 yr old RAPE victim

Aviral post on social media is circulating a court document with allegations of sexual assault against former president Donald Trump made in a legal filing that was dismissed almost a decade ago.

The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts." It has amassed more than 17 millions views on X, formerly Twitter, since Monday, and has been shared more than 34,000 times.

Some X users appeared to believe that the document is a recent filing. The post was shared after about 150 pages of transcripts related to a 2006 grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's rape and sex trafficking of teenagers was released to the public on Monday.

However, the document included in the X post isn't connected to those papers, but actually comes from a lawsuit filed in the months leading up to the 2016 election by an anonymous plaintiff using the name "Katie Johnson."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-katie-johnson-allegations-sexual-assault-case-dismissed-1921051


I think Trump should be harassed outside any of his future campaign events
with signs which scream "RAPIST" and invoke the name of 'Katie Johnson'--

the woman who filed a lawsuit against Trump in 2016, which accused him of raping her at the age of 13---
(the same age as his daughter Ivanka at the time the rape was alleged to occur... The lawsuit was dropped because the plaintiff feared for the lives of herself and her family, due to death threats at the time--- go figure...)


I read a particularly sordid long account of the story behind this allegation on my phone newsapp today,
but now I can't find it, even with Google...

I invite DUers to help me out, and re-post all the links that some of them have already posted on this story!
and "the pdf file" !
all I can now find that is current is the Newsweek link below

and I don't think we should allow the MSM to ignore it at this time...
although this is a good start:

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-katie-johnson-allegations-sexual-assault-case-dismissed-1921051


THANKS to 'WarGamer'--- This is a more in-depth story on the allegations-- although not the exact story I read today, it seems to cover the main points
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/3/13501364/trump-rape-13-year-old-lawsuit-katie-johnson-allegation


One point about this dropped lawsuit--- it was filed years before all the public accusations about Jeffrey Epstein became common knowledge-- so anyone who sought to file any lawsuit based upon publicity, would have had no idea what to say if they were trying to 'manufacture' something---

but it all rings very true NOW that we know more than we ever wanted to know about Epstein, and about Donald Trump--- it is all so typically 'Trumpian': Refuses to wear a condom, and when the victim voices her fears about becoming pregnant, he throws some money at her and shouts "get a fucking abortion!"

July 6, 2024

President Biden agreed to be interviewed by ABC News. Donald Trump refused.

Trump refused because he has more cognitive problems than President Biden,
which might be exposed in an interview conducted by anyone
who doesn't intend to promote his candidacy.... (Faux News et al)

President Biden is old, yes. That's not news...
However, he did well enough tonight---
but we need to change the narrative,
and take the damned gloves OFF!

Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon,
pathological liar and Adolf Hitler wannabe,
who has also been accused of raping a 13 year old girl
(who was the exact age of his own daughter at the time the rape was alleged to have occurred)...
in a lawsuit which was dropped because of death threats against her and her family...


President Biden is NOT the only candidate who deserves to be confronted with 'hard questions'!


I think we Democrats should take a lesson from the media about 'debate-gate'---

We can make America hear this accusation
(which is CLASSIC Donald Trump behavior and quite believable with all we know about him, Stormy Daniels, Carrol, "no condoms" etc.),

by sinking our teeth into it like a terrier who refuses to let go,
and maybe following him around with signs including the former plaintiff's pseudonym,
we can force the media to cover this story!

(It has already begun just a little bit from minor outlets, judging by my newsapp feed today...)

July 5, 2024

Donald Trump will stop posting on his fake social media after midnight...

Ok, just wishful thinking. I made that up....

June 30, 2024

The media, and too many others, are doing the classic "abuse excuse" dance. (Daily Kos)

This is roughly the same dynamic that happens when there’s, say, a family abuser, and the spouse of the abuser gets much more vitriol for not protecting the kids than the actual, you know, abuser.

Why?

Because the spouse, unlike the abuser, knows better, and CAN change, whereas the abuser won’t respond to calls for empathy or reason; and therefore, there’s no use addressing the abuser at all anymore. Right?

Also see: tell women how to protect themselves from rape, don’t bother with campaigns against the rapists, because, like inclement weather, rapists are impervious to change or even influence. And are inevitable.

So. Over 9000 calls for Biden to drop out of the race. Very few mentions on a front page of *oh yeah and also the other guy is a malevolent fuckface who has springs coming out his head and is going to get us all fucking killed.*

Oh, why, because that part’s a given and therefore not worth mentioning again? Because we have to be more ruthlessly honest and soul searching about our own failings or whatever the fuck?

I’m calling bullshit.

Read more:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/29/2249859/-The-media-and-too-many-others-in-power-are-doing-the-classic-abuser-enabler-dance?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web


Sounds pretty 'on target' to me!

June 29, 2024

Hannibal Lecter would like to have Trump over for dinner....

possibly due to the high fat content, I don't know...

Wouldn't be due to his conversational skills I presume,
since Trump lies all the time-- how do you converse with that???


As I recall, Lecter was not portrayed as a big liar,
if anything he was 'too honest'---

so Trump is a bigger liar than a fictional serial killer
(and possibly some of the REAL ones...)

What a recommendation!

Trump talking about H.L again in Virginia today:

Nothing nice in there-- Trump calls Senator Schumer "a Palestinian" as a form of insult...

June 29, 2024

'Nothing to see here': Internet explodes after Trump jet parks next to Russian aircraft

Freelance reporter Andrew Leyden posted a peculiar image to X on Friday: former President Donald Trump's private Boeing 757, sometimes referred to as "Trump Force One," parked next to a diplomatic aircraft for the Russian government at Washington Dulles International Airport.

It's unclear exactly how this happened and it could easily have been a coincidence — this Russian aircraft, an exception to the general ban on Russian planes in U.S. airspace, visits Washington, D.C. every few months to exchange embassy staff — but the sight of these two aircraft parked together triggered a flurry of speculation and jokes, given that the former president famously received support from the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election, and was always close with Russia's strongman leader Vladimir Putin.

Commenters on social media, in particular, offered their own theories about what was going on, with varying degrees of humor.

"Documents exchange," wrote former GOP strategist Ron Filipkowski on X.
"Last weekday in June. Time for the mid-year performance review," wrote Columbia University academic affairs dean Bill Grueskin.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-russia-jet/


File this under "things that make you go Hmmmmmmm"

June 28, 2024

President Biden in North Carolina today-- looking good! with video

From a campaign event-- President Biden starts at about 35:40

"I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easy as I used to, I don't debate as easily as I used to...but I know how TO TELL THE TRUTH!"

"When you get knocked down, you get back up!"

~President Joe Biden