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applegrove's Journal
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October 4, 2024

Vance too. He may suffer from congenital heart condition as Elizabeth Taylor

did her whole life. Those people with the naturally occurring double eyelashes can suffer from it. Here is the link:

https://healthland.time.com/2011/03/26/elizabeth-taylors-killer-beauty/

October 4, 2024

As to Melania Trump's view on abortion, the wives

of the rich have not had to face the same misogyny as women who are not affluent. My grandmother loved to read history and my grandfather didn't so much. The library was mostly hers and she could afford to build a library of her favourite books. I brought a secondhand bookseller I knew over to take a look at her books when she moved out and he brought in one box. When he saw her books were great history books from the last 100 years (her father had a library too and only two daughters), he got his girlfriend to go out to the car to get 'all the boxes'. Compare that to Betty Davis whose first husband divorced her because she read. I'm assuming she, as an artist, could afford a divorce but what happens to the women who can't? It is the same with Melania. Different rules apply to her. She can fly anywhere to get a safe, legal abortion and she always could even though she lives part of the time in Florida. She still supports her husband. She is enabling him.

October 4, 2024

Kinda implies they are no longer concerned with their own

needs and fantasies. Trump love and following Trump's dreams & fantacies takes that place. Perceptive of you.

October 1, 2024

Millionaires Overwhelmingly Prefer Kamala Harris

Millionaires Overwhelmingly Prefer Kamala Harris

October 1, 2024 at 12:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 130 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/01/millionaires-overwhelmingly-prefer-kamala-harris/

"SNIP.............

Fortune: “Most investors who have at least $1 million in investable assets are planning to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, per a new report from wealth manager UBS. The actual breakdown: 57% of the 971 U.S. investors UBS surveyed last month said they’re opting for Harris; 43% are planning on Trump.”

“And yet, those same investors say former President Donald Trump would actually be better for the economy—narrowly.”

............SNIP"

Applegrove:

Why on earth would the rich want to go with autocracy where they will face corruption and have to pay to play with those wealthier than them. They have gotten so successful with Democracy.

September 30, 2024

We could apologize for half falling for trickle down economics and offshoring jobs

and not prioritizing unions. The GOP led that and Bill Clinton followed with the third way a bit. We did try to fight the NeoCons. Obama got sabotaged most of his administration.

We educated are part of the elite. We could apologize for our part in the last 40 years before Biden. Especially those of us centre left. Take ownership of our side of the street as it were. I'm talking about the MAGA voters who were so traumatized by the economy that they stopped thinking with reason and went with passion and a leader who would 1) mind meld with them through the TV via his orange glow till they vibrated together and 2) trick them to get them to scapegoat their pain onto others, immigrants and Muslims and women, as humans do unfortunately. Some of these people voted for Obama. For sure it was all the GOP's show. But let's not wait for them to apologize for their scams. Let's put it out there that we didn't oppose the GOP scam hard enough. And not expect anything in return. And then move on. It will not affect the extremist Christians, the fascists, the proud boys, the incels, the opportunistic billionaires, the misogynists, or leadership of MAGA. But we may get some workers back or at least make them less exploitable by the MAGA in the next month.

September 30, 2024

Top GOP Candidates for Senate Majority Leader Talk About How They'll Thwart a Harris Agenda

SARAH JONES TOP NEWS
Top GOP Candidates for Senate Majority Leader Talk About How They’ll Thwart a Harris Agenda

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/09/29/senate-gop-harris-agenda.html/amp

"SNIP..........

The two top Republicans up for the job of Senate Majority Leader if they take the Senate in the upcoming election talked about how they would thwart a Kamala Harris agenda including potential Supreme Court nominees.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota told CNN’s Manu Raju that if Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Republicans take the senate, there isn’t any abortion proposal that would get sixty votes in the Senate and when asked if he could see himself allowing any Harris Supreme Court nominee to be confirmed, Thune said it would depend on who it was.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas separately told Raju he wouldn’t “schedule a vote on some wild eyed radical nominee, which I know she would love to nominate.”

......

Thune answered that there isn’t *any* abortion proposal that would get 60 votes: I don’t think there’s any any abortion proposal that gets sixty votes on the floor of the United States.

.........SNIP"

Applegrove:

Get the word out so people are sure to find out the name of their Democratic Senator who is running in 2024 and vote downballot. Kamala is not the only part of the plan to keep freedoms for Americans.

September 29, 2024

Trump Allies Set the Stage for Post-Election Fight

Trump Allies Set the Stage for Post-Election Fight

September 29, 2024 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 67 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/29/trump-allies-set-the-stage-for-post-election-fight/

"SNIP..............

“Republicans have unleashed a flurry of lawsuits challenging voting rules and practices ahead of the November elections, setting the stage for what could be a far larger and more contentious legal battle over the White House after Election Day,” the New York Times reports.

“The onslaught of litigation, much of it landing in recent weeks, includes nearly 90 lawsuits filed across the country by Republican groups this year. The legal push is already more than three times the number of lawsuits filed before Election Day in 2020.”

“Voting rights experts say the legal campaign appears to be an effort to prepare to contest the results of the presidential election after Election Day should former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, lose and refuse to accept his defeat as he did four years ago.”

.............SNIP"

Applegrove:

Maybe the plan is to litigate an election Kamala Harris wins well into January where Republicans insist it has to go to the current GOP dominated Congress to vote on, resulting in the question being put to the Supreme Court. And we know how that will turn out.

September 24, 2024

Trump, With a Straight Face, Tells Women: 'I Am Your Protector'

Trump, With a Straight Face, Tells Women: ‘I Am Your Protector’

LADIES’ MAN
Dan Ladden-Hall
Breaking News Editor
Updated Sep. 24, 2024 6:24AM EDT Published Sep. 24, 2024 5:55AM EDT
Trump, With a Straight Face, Tells Women: ‘I Am Your Protector’
Newsmax

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-with-a-straight-face-tells-women-i-am-your-protector

"SNIP.............

Donald Trump on Monday night told women that he is their “protector” and that they will “no longer be thinking about abortion” if he wins in November.

Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania, the former president—who polls worse among female voters than his opponent, Kamala Harris—specifically addressed women during his remarks. “I always thought women liked me,” Trump said. “I never thought I had a problem. But the fake news keeps saying women don’t like me—I don’t believe it.”

The Republican nominee then rehashed an argument he made in an all-caps Truth Social post last week, claiming women are poorer, less healthy, and “more stressed and depressed and unhappy” than they were four years ago.

“I will fix all of that and fast, and at long last, this nation—our national nightmare will end,” Trump said. “It will end. We’ve gotta end this national nightmare. Because I am your protector, I wanna be your protector.”

............SNIP"

Applegrove;

Take away something like security from women then say you alone can give it back. That is the flip of 'loansharking' move that psychopaths do. If you get to feeling gratitude to this orange gourd, time for a shower with a wire brush a la Karen Silkwood.

September 24, 2024

Project 2025 Mastermind Said He Killed Dog with a Shovel

Project 2025 Mastermind Said He Killed Dog with a Shovel

September 24, 2024 at 6:51 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/24/project-2025-mastermind-said-he-killed-dog-with-a-shovel/

"SNIP...........

The Guardian: “Kevin Roberts, now the president of the Heritage Foundation, is alleged to have told colleagues and dinner guests that he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown history professor at New Mexico State University.”

..........SNIP"

Applegrove: he either killed the dog or pretended to. Either way he told colleagues this to establish himself as a preditor in the base of his colleagues brains and pit of their guts.

September 24, 2024

Yes. They don't want people to vote for the welfare

and success of anybody but themselves.

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