Man - before I saw this story, I saw multiple references in pro-Trump media to the "actors" who were starring in a Kamala ad. This was the ad they're talking about. The people aren't actors! Line just totally invented by a right-wing Australian TV station.
Democrats have to start figuring out how to raise the cost of death threats and stochastic terrorism, at least the social ones, before it's impossible to do that.Democrats have to start figuring out how to raise the cost of death threats and stochastic terrorism, at least the social ones, before it's impossible to do that.
“I already knew he was mean spirited,” admits Bob. “Condemning John McCain. The way he treated Gold Star families. Just one thing after another. But then he instigated what happened on January 6th, and that was it for me.” This is a good path out of voting for Trump again, which matters in PA.
Things did not go so well for these Main Line farmers.
The default answer to everything for MAGA is violence. That's how it's going to be when Trump wins.
Things did not go so well for these Main Line farmers.
This is terrorism, and terrorism has no place in the politics of a civilized society. Donald Trump has imported, amplified, and legitimated this sort of terrorist threat and violence in our politics, and that's part of why he is barred from the office he seeks in the election
I unironically think that pollsters ask "would you still support the Republican nominee if [or when?] the violence he is fomenting ends up directed at you or people you care about?" We've seen time and again that the face-eating leopard phenomenon is pervasive and only ends with faceless regrets.
One side is very enthusiastic in its praise of Fauci. The other side wants to murder him in cold blood. BOTH SIDES! www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/o...
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the level of self-delusion is, after a year of this, just astonishing. and the ignoring of domestic political reality is depressing. [gift link]
Now it's "Harris let 13,000 murderers into the US!!!!" Once again, the right amplifies obviously incorrect information. Gift link: wapo.st/3ZKxI2b
No, the Biden administration didn’t welcome 13,000 immigrant murderers into America.
Gift link: Monday after-the-flood update. As a friend texted me yesterday: "So glad Cooper & Biden/Harris are in charge for this (and NOT the party of disaster ineptitude)."
It has been four days since Helene made landfall. At least 104 deaths have been confirmed, search-and-rescue efforts continue and people are still waiting for water.