I wasn't sure if we'd actually see a politician referencing JD Vance's now infamous tryst with a sofa or not, but here we are. Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut was fired up when talking about the candidacy of Kamala Harris, all that positive energy with the Democrats, and then contrast that with the other side.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share"Polymarket has a political futures contract on whether Sen. J.D. Vance will remain as Donald Trump’s running mate." noted Political Wire this morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGov. Tim Walz showed us why he’s a serious contender to be Harris’ vice-presidential pick. On MSNBC Wednesday night, he swatted down Donald Trump and his fake populist running mate, J.D.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
If you caught even a few seconds of the RNC convention and you thought it was really monochromatic, that's because it was. According to this report, 97% of the people attending the convention were white:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareI've written many times about the great work FTC Commission Chair Lina Khan is doing in the anti-trust and ant-monopoly area.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFox News's Jesse Watters finally understood why Democratic voters are so enthusiastic about Kamala Harris keeping the keys to the White House far away from Donald Trump. We give kudos when someone is correct, and Watters finally got it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
On this day in 1933, the Dutch broadcast their first live radio concert. The musician? Duke Ellington. So today, ya lucky bastids, you get Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington performing "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me".More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Chris Wray sidesteps the question of whether the Mango Man was actually struck by a bullet -- probably because he wants to keep his job if Trump wins. Via Yahoo:
The FBI’s director has revealed that investigators still do not know whether it was a bullet or some shrapnel which grazed Donald Trump’s ear during his attempted assassination.
Simplistic idiot says what? He says he should swap out the highly-trained generals of our military for NASCAR drivers and football coaches. What a scathingly brilliant idea! Via MSN.com:
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYes, MSNBC's two remaining heavy hitters, Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachael Maddow, want to make it very clear that they lurve The New York Times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareSecretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg blasted frightened Trump and his campaign for pulling out of the agreed-upon debate in September because he's afraid of Vice President Harris.
During an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Buttigieg explained the obvious.
Donald Trump Jr. interviewed JD Vance on his "Triggered" podcast, and let's just say his performance was something to behold. There's a reason we call this guy the "human 8-ball" around here, and these outtakes from Ron Filipkowski of just Trump's questions, no answers, to Vance are enough to give you a headache just watching him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
On this day in 1986, Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” shot to the #1 spot on the US pop chart.
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From Tengrain: Cap’n Guyliner Has Some Thoughts On Voting Rights.
So sick of this dance. Why on earth would you invite chaos into public funding, especially in an election year? It's not as if Republicans have much else going for them, you'd think they'd want to look competent.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
At the beginning of Trump's North Carolina rally, RSBN co-host Nikki Stanzione attacked VP Kamala Harris for not being a real Black, Indian, and Jamaican women because she married a white man.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Marsh family from Kent, England started doing their song parodies during the COVID lockdown, giving the entire family something to do together. Fours years on, they're still doing them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Trump surrogate and Hungarian Neo-Nazi Seb Gorka, resorted to the tired racist tropes MAGA and the QAnon GOP are using to smear VP Kamala Harris in order to fire up Trump's racist base.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
For 12 years, Sen. Jeff Merkley has pushed for a ban on congressional stock trading, calling the practice “corrupt,” “unacceptable” and “wrong.” Could this be the time it finally makes it across the finish line?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Harry Enten, formerly an analyst with FiveThirtyEight and currently with CNN, explained the damning new poll numbers for JD Vance.
There's usually a bump for candidates following a convention, but JD Vance won the honor of having the worst poll numbers directly following their convention since 1980.
The Associated Press committing one of the cardinal sins of journalism here by inserting themselves into the story. At least that's my take on it so far. Snopes, which fact-checks all sorts of internet memes and foolishness that some people sometimes believe as truth (although obvious jokes to other people), has no such qualms at keeping their fact-check up.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTrump's former economic advisor claimed that the only entity that matters to the US economy is business.
Larry Kudlow considered the rise of Kamala Harris's campaign, which has MAGA in panic mode.
Not really sure what to say here, but....Thank you MAGA! Thank you Republican Party! Thank you Donald Trump! Thank you Donald Trump Jr.! Thank you Elon Musk! Thank you crazy, old cult-loving, under-educated, 4,000 sq ft basket of deplorables!More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
I love it when Democrats turn around right-wing attacks and go on offense.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBarack and Michelle Obama endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid in a video released Friday. Via CNN:
“Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the Oval Office,” the former president told Harris on a phone call joined by his wife, according to the video.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Kamala Harris's first campaign ad is thoughtful, strong, and inspiring. Donald Trump could never inspire the masses. Instead, he plays to his lint-licking fire-breathing base, while Harris is for the people.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
It's 2024 and the Associated Press has fact-checked whether JD Vance had sexual relations with his sofa while a freshman in college. Not on, with.
Source: Associated Press
CLAIM: Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance wrote in his 2016 memoir about having sex with a couch.
Trump must be the least self-aware person in the world, but his supporters lap his gibberish up. On Tuesday, Trump took to Truth Social to lash out over his gag order, which he falsely claimed, prevented him from talking shit about Kamala Harris.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
MAGA, where common sense and decency goes to die. It's not like their racism shocks us. Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Greg Abbott, racism is practically a dialect for them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTexas Sen. Ted Cruz has somehow hung onto his job despite being very bad at it. But he is good at one thing: manufacturing crises. When Donald Trump insulted Cruz's wife's appearance, the Texas Republican pounced at campaigning for the orange aberration as he phone-banked for his one-time opponent.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRepublicans insisted that the felon is a changed man ever since the rally shooting. Still, there is no evidence of that after the GOP nominee called for national unity and toning down the political rhetoric.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share