Late last week several hard-right websites were promising that a WHISTLEBLOWER was about to come forward and explain how ABC rigged the debate for Harris, allegedly by giving her the questions in advance. But then yesterday Marjorie Taylor Greene x’ed that this whistleblower was killed in a car crash. So disappointing. Never fear, though; Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit is calling the car crash report a HOAX. This whistleblower will appear! Any minute now! Just you wait! And you can read more about it at the Gateway Pundit site, to which I do not link, if you want to.
And if he doesn’t appear, I’m willing to bet the car crash will be blamed on a Haitian migrant.
In other news — you probably heard about the guy who appears to have planned to shoot Trump while the former president was playing golf at his West Palm Beach golf club. By all reports so far this guy was a “lone wolf” gunman, not part of any organization. He just doesn’t like Trump. Trump, of course, is blaming Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Elon Musk also showed the world who he is:
Following a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump Sunday, Musk issued an alarming tweet questioning why the MAGA conservative had been targeted several times while there had been no such attempt to attack Vice President Kamala Harris.
“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” Musk wrote.
Musk deleted the tweet after it received widespread backlash, with X users torching him for “inciting violence.”
By Monday, Musk had issued a couple of new tweets to explain away the atrocious comment. Apparently, he considered the violent invitation just a bad retelling of a “hilarious” joke.
I would think he has lawyers on retainer who would have told him to take the tweet down. The word “moron” does come to mind.
An hour after trying to brush off his own poor remarks, Musk shared a video that claimed to depict Democrats “calling for” political violence, including snippets of Nancy Pelosi referring to the 2020 fake electors as “enemies of the state” for undermining the last presidential election, as well as a clip of actor Robert de Niro sharing that he’d like to punch Trump “in the face.”
On a serious note, ProPublica is reporting that at least two women in Georgia have died because they were unable to get abortions that could have saved them.
I’m learning from TPM that two hospitals in Springfield, Ohio, were locked down after receiving bomb threats. We’ll be very if lucky nobody is killed because of this nativist nonsense. Trump, of course, is refusing to denounce the bomb threats.
Here’s a recent story from the New York Times that should have gotten more attention. See How Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak (no paywall). The Times obtained a leaked memo by Roberts in which he insisted the Court rule on the presidential immunity case and suggested strongly that the lower courts were all wrong in their understanding of separation of powers. Robert also was much much behind the Court’s opinions related to J6 insurrectionists and whether states can unilaterally drop a federal candidate from the ballot.
Gateway Pundit is the Weekly World News of political influence, where batboy mates with bigfoot to create an army of Marxists. Musk is the guy who continuously reminds us that wealth is all about power, and not necessarily competency.
But IMHO, the excess nativism thing does have a bit more reason for cause than those two. Now don’t get me wrong, I was as pleased as anybody when working, shopping and living back in the days when peaceful rainbow societies started becoming a thing. Immigration with reason has always been a good for America.
But today, when I go into my local suburban Costco and I’m in the minority of colloquial English speakers, while I have white collar friends who can’t find a job in fields they say are now dominated by non-natives, I begin to suspect that wealthy elites in power have been up to something. Like publicly bitching about immigrants, while secretly hiring them for the cheap labor costs. I was raised not far from Springfield. I can understand why the natives are getting uppity, enough to go along with ridiculously obvious lies which are nonetheless, aligned with their realities.
I’m fully aware of the Trumpian diktat which shut down the bipartisan border security bill, for the sole purpose of inflaming that angst for personal gain. I saw that as yet another episode in our elites saying and doing whatever to divide and conquer us for the sole purpose of lowering their labor costs.
"No one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala" – and he knows this how?
Just as I expected,
https://digbysblog.net/2024/09/17/no-trump-isnt-the-only-one-threatened-with-assassination/
"Leon" might be able to read a thing or two if he'd pull his head out of his backside. He now wants to claim it was a joke; he is the second least-funny person on the planet.
I tried to make sense of the NYT scoop on the inner workings of the Roberts court but concluded that someone who could make sense of it strategically to the layman is what's needed.
I watched a video from Harry Litman months ago, probably in the wake of SCOTUS's grant of presidential immunity. Litman knew Roberts over the course of several decades, and wasn't at all surprised by the ruling, adding that Roberts has always been an extreme champion for the supposed rights of the executive. Never mind that it's totally outside the Constitution.
There was a James Coburn movie from the late 60s, "The President's Analyst", where the phone company had a plan to implant a telephone like chip into everyone's brain (if I recall the plot correctly). The guy who played the CEO of the phone company talked and acted like a smooth sounding robot, and looked and sounded exactly like Justice Roberts. The real live Roberts, with his extra-Constituional obsession with executive power is just as nuts.
"…the supposed rights of the executive."
Of course, governments don't have rights. They have powers and prerogatives. People have rights.
This is important. These are different things. And people are clueless about rights in general, either believing they have rights that they don't have, or that the government has rights when it doesn't.
Understanding the difference is a step toward understanding how our government properly interacts with its citizens.
What a day. I was confronted with two names, Grover Norquist and Milton Freidman either one of which is a health hazard for me. Norquist's name came up in a book review of Stench subtitled The Making of the Thomas Court and the Unmaking of America. Jennifer Szalai did the review. Norquist's name came up in association with the author David Brock as one of his last supporters with Conservatives as he broke with them.
This review also appeared in the NYT. I skimmed over the Robert's Court article, and this is an easier read. Both are distressing.
Years After He Smeared Anita Hill, David Brock Has a New Book, ‘Stench,’ Denouncing Clarence Thomas – The New York Times (nytimes.com)