Mr.WeRP
Mr.WeRP's JournalProPublica HAS THE RECEIPTS: Trump Plans To Use Military Against Americans To Squash Political Opposition
https://www.propublica.org/article/video-donald-trump-russ-vought-center-renewing-america-magaIn private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump’s executive actions.
He said the plans are a response to a “Marxist takeover” of the country; likened the moment to 1776 and 1860, when the country was at war or on the brink of it; and said the timing of Trump’s candidacy was a “gift of God.”
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Vought’s plans track closely with Trump’s campaign rhetoric about using the military against domestic protesters or what Trump has called the “enemy within.” Trump’s desire to use the military on U.S. soil recently prompted his longest-serving chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, to speak out, saying Trump “certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”
Also, here is a video link of a Vought speech excerpt from the article:
And FUCK this guy for using a Tolkien reference.
Elon Musk Is Committing a Crime--but It Doesn't Matter Because He's Rich
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-is-committing-a-crime/…
The problem with Musk’s scheme is that, in order to get the money, you have to be registered to vote. By making voter registration key to getting the money, Musk is trying to induce people who are not registered to register to vote. That is illegal. As the elections law expert Rick Hasen points out, paying people, bribing people, or giving people pretty much anything of monetary value to induce them to register to vote is a violation of federal law.
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I know there are still people who would like to defend Garland’s historic inability to enforce any laws against Republican political actors, but, honestly, Garland’s response is beyond pathetic. It takes a Google search and half an hour of Westlaw access to “investigate” whether “Hoo boy, register to vote and have a chance to win a million dollars” violates applicable federal standards. The Department of Justice’s own “Election Crimes Manual” explains that what Musk is doing is illegal. Garland need only “investigate” the rules written down by his own institution to figure out that Musk is in violation of the law.
America Is Run By Oligarchs
If you have any doubt, just look at the owners of the WaPo and LATimes.
They have broken tradition since their founding: Presidential Endorsements?
Why? Because their billionaire owners are cowards and do not want to offend Trump. Both papers were set to endorse Kamala. If Trump wins, they expect retribution from Trump when he's President and want to avoid that, or worse, they want Trump to be President and so are withholding their editors' endorsements.
If you need more proof, just look at all the people who have been convicted so far of Jan 6. It's all the peons. Not one person who funded and/or orchestrated the failed coup has been convicted yet, including the head.
We didn't need Jan 6 to know this though. Just ask the uncountable number of people who have been wrongly convicted as part of the Prison Industrial Complex in this country. If you've got wealth, you have a get out of jail free card in your back pocket. These fuckers could shoot someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight and get away with it.
Dear Garland: Why is the Media doing your Job? Can we have an indictment now?
https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1844762232900477412"The relationship has proved significant in other ways. After a reporter’s publication of hacked Trump campaign information last month, the campaign connected with X to prevent the circulation of links to the material on the platform, according to two people with knowledge of the events. X eventually blocked links to the material and suspended the reporter’s account."
If we had a real AG, Musk would be indicted by now.
Oh yeah, there’s also this:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-vladimir-putin-conversations-threats-1235142693/
Musk Has Regularly Talked to Putin, Faced ‘Implicit Threats’: Report
The billionaire and Russian president have discussed personal issues, business, and geopolitics, according to the Wall Street Journal
The topics of discussion have included personal matters, business, and geopolitical issues, according to current and former United States, European, and Russian officials.
Among many of the deeply concerning revelations in WSJ‘s report include a request from Putin made last year asking Musk to not activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. Russia heavily relies on China for trade, including industrial equipment and consumer goods, and to weather Western sanctions.
ON EDIT: For those who complain Indictments and Prosecutions take time, Reality Winner was Indicted LESS THAN A MONTH after she leaked a classified document that showed Trump colluded with Russia.
Here's all the tea leaves I need: McConnell openly attacking Trump
Calling him a sleaze-ball, narcissist and a danger to our country.
Internal polling for Trump must be so bad that McTurtle has no fear in openly going after him. If McConnell thought Trump was going to win, you know he would be balled up in his turtle shell and saying he backs the nominee for the party.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/mcconnell-trump-gop-new-book/index.html
Swing State Early Voting Update
This is an update of where the election is on early voting and as it is compared to the vote totals from 2020. Data is sourced from https://election.lab.ufl.edu.
When states share party affiliation, that is shown by percent breakdown. When states share gender, that is shown since there is an obvious gender gap this election cycle. (EDIT: WI does not share early voting data.) I am also considering FL a swing state this election cycle. I would have included TX but they do not share early voting data.
Summary: turnout in early voting is good with 12 days to November 5th. The largest early voting turnout so far is in GA, MI, NC, PA and VA. Dems are outpacing Reps in early voting for MI and PA by large margins and close in the remaining states. However, there is a clear gender gap in early voting with Women outpacing men by 10+ points in all states that report it.
AZ
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Total: 916,688
Percent of 2020: 37
Percent Dem: 35.9
Percent Rep: 41.8
FL
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Total: 2,817,925
Percent of 2020: 31
Percent Dem: 36.3
Percent Rep: 43.5
GA
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Total: 2,159,980
Percent of 2020: 53.8
Percent Female: 55.3
Percent Male: 44.1
MI
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Total: 1,309,097
Percent of 2020: 46.1
Percent Female: 56.4
Percent Male: 43.4
NV
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Total: 332,668
Percent of 2020: 29.6
Percent Dem: 36.0
Percent Rep: 39.5
NC
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Total: 2,007,659
Percent of 2020: 43.7
Percent Dem: 34.0
Percent Rep: 34.2
Percent Female: 52.1
Percent Male: 42.2
PA
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Total: 1,120,904
Percent of 2020: 42.6
Percent Dem: 61.0 !
Percent Rep: 29.2
VA
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Total: 1,205,062
Percent of 2020: 44
Percent Female: 55.2
Percent Male: 44.8
Shit's about to get real: there is video of Trump groping a minor
There have been rumors over the last couple of days about it and the right is prepping by saying it is AI generated.
Keith Edwards, Dem strategist, appears to confirm:
UPDATE: This appears to be a story that was pitched to Halperin: https://www.newsweek.com/mark-halperin-says-hes-been-pitched-story-that-could-end-trumps-campaign-1973637
Garland's DoJ pens strongly worded letter to Musk
https://www.24sight.news/p/scoop-doj-sends-musk-pac-warning
The Justice Department's head of election crimes sent a warning letter to Elon Musk's America PAC Monday, alerting it that it was a crime to knowingly offer anything of value to register to vote or vote, a person familiar with the warning letter told 24sight News.
Robert Heberle, the head of the Justice Department's election crimes branch, wrote in the brief warning letter to America PAC lawyer Chris Gober, that offering anything of value to influence voting was in violation of U.S. law barring-payments to sway votes.
Must be nice to be an oligarch who commits crimes and is only sent a letter for it.
I think I figured out Trump's strategy for after he loses. You may want to take a seat.
Take a look at this election map for this year:
Consider these states:
AZ, GA, NC and NV
Recently, I've posted about how Trump has been paying millions for swing state polls. The main vendor is Fabrizio. If you look at the states where there are more Fabrizio polls than other swing states, it is NV, AZ, GA and NC to the tune of 1 and sometimes 2 or 3 per week (under different collabs with other pollsters). Even now, in places like PA, MI, MN, WI, Fabrizio has slowed down and many of the polls are 1-2 weeks old in these states.
Now, if you correlate that with the Early Voting data, three of the states where Democrats are NOT outpacing Republicans are:
AZ, NC, and NV. Note: GA doesn't release party affiliation with early voting data.
These are the only swing states with Rs leading Ds (or close) in early voting where party affiliation is tracked. I believe Trump has gotten the word out to his voters in these states to commit to early voting and to get the turnout he needs to win them. If he does this, then he is just one electoral vote flip away from contesting the election. Maybe Younkin in VA or he has a henchman issue threats in urban areas of PA to dissuade enough voters to flip PA or similar state or convinces the NE legislature to flip the one blue elector in that state. Roger Stone is saying they will have armed guards patrolling polling locations FFS. I put nothing past him in this regard. If this happens, it will end up in the hands of SCOTUS and unless we substantially win one or more of these four states, I fear another Gore v. Bush.
Well, it's over folks. MSNBC says Harris campaign is failing
Of course this is the noon hour.
But they had Kasich on saying the campaign has failed because Harris went into preemptive defense when they didn’t have the lead. And he said “Who is Liz Cheney? She represents no one”
I swear, MSNBC is almost as bad as the NYT.
They are attempting to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Allowing Kasich to spout off as if Harris has failed without challenging him is journalistic malpractice. Wait.. what am I thinking.. journalism is on life support in this country.
Rant off.
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