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When moderator Margaret Brennan noted during last night’s vice presidential debate that Republican nominee J.D. Vance had, once again, lied about the legal status of migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Vance retorted: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!” As scholar of propaganda Pekka Kallioniemi noted, this was “[t]he epitome of post-truth politics.” …
I’m excited that Lichtman predicted Harris will win the 2024 presidential election. Whew! I think he was actually right when calling for Al Gore in 2020. That election was stolen by hanging chads and another corrupt Republican SCOTUS. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/bush-v-gore-and-the-2000-election-never-ended.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/presidential-election-nostradamus-allan-lichtman-reveals-his-2024-prediction TRUE OR FALSE? Allan Lichtman has accurately predicted almost every presidential race since 1984—and he …
THE DEBATE RATINGS ARE IN While the ratings for Trump’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris represent a massive increase over the 51 million who tuned in for June’s Joe Biden-Trump face-off, the numbers are still much lower than some of the peak debate showdowns in recent political history. [HuffPost] TRUMP CALLS FOR PUNISHING ABC NEWS …
On the Light Side of Democracy vs. Autocracy Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosted what JD Vance would call, “A coven of semi-menstruating witches,” 8 Democratic Women Governors Panel, starts at 16:55 mins in: Bill Maher after the DNC: A month ago the Repubs thought they had it in the can. Now they’ve lost their mojo. Even JD …
I asked Chat (Minerva) about the different political systems. I’m curious to know what aliens would think about the governance systems of planet Earth. Indeed, they must consider us quite brutal, with all the wars, violence, and the fact that our civilization doesn’t even provide for its citizens. They may not think we are a …
JD Vance, now the Republican candidate for vice president, is fully supportive of every aspect of Donald Trump’s cons and nakedly anti-American and pro-dictator policies… Trump Sounds the GOP’s Death Knell: The End of the Old Republican Order JD Vance, now the Republican candidate for vice president, is fully supportive of every aspect of Donald …
WASHINGTON – The New York Times’ editorial board called on voters to reject Donald Trump’s reelection bid, alleging that the former president is “unfit to lead” a second term. “Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law …
Project 2025 was created a few years ago and is Trump’s 922-page instruction manual for drastically changing our democracy into a dictatorship in the first 180 days/6 months, which he’s now trying to deny he had anything to do with and says he only agrees with some of it – all of it is BAD). It was …