diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-09-Dementia1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md b/_posts/2024-09-09-Dementia1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md index 499660b3..66edd42d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-09-Dementia1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-09-Dementia1TrumpIsDementia-ing.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-09 04:30 PM excerpt: 'The warning lights aren’t flashing because nobody covering him expects otherwise. Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing. – Mary Trump, niece of Trump' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md b/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md index c6ca7093..5ecaad2e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-10-TheDebate.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, debate] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, debate, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-11 excerpt: 'My mother taught high school English and she instilled the proper use of English and grammar. As such, I cannot listen to Donald Trump speak and mangle words and grammar. It is like listening to fingernails screech across a blackboard.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md b/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md index 7b668615..14e702d3 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-10-WatchingTheDebateFacialExpressions.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, debate] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, debate, politics] date: 2024-09-12 13:14:15 categories: [2024 presidential election] excerpt: 'January 6, 2021, is a block mark in American history. Trump glorifies violence.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md index 3cc0f0af..0e6d44d2 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump] +tags: [Donald Trump, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-12 excerpt: 'I was an independent voter. But Trump turned me into a Democrat. The Republican Party is dead.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md index d32f40ae..63459700 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, news media, free speech] +tags: [Donald Trump, news media, free speech, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-12 12:46:35 excerpt: 'One of the principles of America is freedom of speech and a free press. Trump wants to control what the media says about him.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md b/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md index 0753dcc1..44791852 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-13-DontNeedNoStinkingOligarch.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, oligarch] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, oligarch, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, Elon Musk] date: 2024-09-13 5:10 PM excerpt: "Musk is the latest example of a totally gearheaded, engineering-brained, Silicon Valley guy who looks at government and says ‘How hard can it be? Let me at it and I can solve it for you.' There’s been many of these characters before, and he’s just the latest." diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-15-CultPart1HowItEnds.md b/_posts/2024-09-15-CultPart1HowItEnds.md index 54224a23..e44f1af9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-15-CultPart1HowItEnds.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-15-CultPart1HowItEnds.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [trump cult, autocracy, president for life] +tags: [trump cult, autocracy, president for life, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-15 6:19 PM excerpt: 'I just predicted that he wouldn’t leave in a quiet manner. He’s an authoritarian, and they can’t leave office. They don’t have good endings and they don’t leave properly. – Ben-Ghiat, a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md b/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md index 5b80819d..cbb11a94 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-16-CultPart2MessianicCultTrump.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [trump cult, autocracy, president for life] +tags: [trump cult, autocracy, president for life, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-16 6:38 PM excerpt: 'First, he and his supporters believed that the Jan. 6 riots and the blocking of congressional certification would extend his presidency. When the Capitol siege turned out to be a bloody, tear-gas-stained dud, QAnon theorists asserted that Jan. 20, 2021, — Inauguration Day — would be the day of the Great Awakening following Trump’s signing of the Insurrection Act to declare martial law and conduct mass arrests of his enemies.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-19-Dementia2TrumpIsDementiaing.md b/_posts/2024-09-19-Dementia2TrumpIsDementiaing.md index 1e9bd471..0cfca40b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-19-Dementia2TrumpIsDementiaing.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-19-Dementia2TrumpIsDementiaing.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-19 15:14:45 excerpt: "They didn’t correct her once. And they corrected me, everything I said, practically. I think nine times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely — they went crazy." diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-26-Dementia3TrumpDementia.md b/_posts/2024-09-26-Dementia3TrumpDementia.md index 13fc72d5..f7bc1c49 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-26-Dementia3TrumpDementia.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-26-Dementia3TrumpDementia.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline, politics, Mary Trump] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-26 08:01 PM excerpt: "The problem is twofold. One, they’re not telling us that’s what they’re doing. They’re reporting it as if these are the things Donald is saying coherently. And secondly, they’re not really translating him at all, because his gibberish, really, is untranslatable. What they’re doing is they’re imbuing meaning upon his words that actually doesn’t exist in those words, which is much more dangerous.– Mary Trump, psychologist, and niece of Trump" diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-26-Fed1HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md b/_posts/2024-09-26-Fed1HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md index 52eb278d..653d4660 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-26-Fed1HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-26-Fed1HereComesDaJudgePart1TrumpSneakyStrategy.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, 2020 Election Overthrow Attempt, federal court, federal crimes] +tags: [Donald Trump, 2020 Election Overthrow Attempt, federal court, federal crimes, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6, 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-09-26 4:00 PM excerpt: "The rest of the nine-page opposition rehashes Defendant's position that immunity briefing should not begin until he files a motion to dismiss several months from now. The court has already addressed the scheduling objections Defendant raised when he was given an opportunity to do solemnly – Judge Chutkan" diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-27-Dementia4WTF_TrumpGibberingAbout.md b/_posts/2024-09-27-Dementia4WTF_TrumpGibberingAbout.md index e1a87f09..944e89b9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-09-27-Dementia4WTF_TrumpGibberingAbout.md +++ b/_posts/2024-09-27-Dementia4WTF_TrumpGibberingAbout.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline, politics, video] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-27 5:20 PM excerpt: 'We had a woman debating. She just talked about, like, the birds and the bees. She didn’t talk about … when you asked a question, there was never an answer. There was never any knowledge. When you saw her the other day, and by the way, when she did the interview previous with the Pennsylvania person who was a nice person, I know him very well, they were the softest questions, she was unable, literally unable to answer the questions. We can’t have that. We cannot have it. We need four strong years, we have to bring our country back.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-02-Fed2HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md b/_posts/2024-10-02-Fed2HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md index ae89e27b..8d25ad99 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-02-Fed2HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-02-Fed2HereComesDaJudgePart2CourtFilingUnsealed.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, US Government, 2021 Election Overthrow Attempt, court filing unsealed] +tags: [Donald Trump, US Government, 2021 Election Overthrow Attempt, court filing unsealed, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6 2021 Insurrection, federal crimes trial] date: 2024-10-02 3:47 PM excerpt: 'I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID!FOR 60 DAYS PRIOR TO AN ELECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE IS SUPPOSED TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WOULD TAINT OR INTERFERE WITH A CASE. THEY DISOBEYED THEIR OWN RULE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE AND TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE. I DID NOTHING WRONG, THEY DID! THE CASE IS A SCAM, JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE DOCUMENTS CASE, WHICH WAS DISMISSED! – One guess as to who used their TwitterPhone. @RalphHightower ' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md index d4e15bc5..b1956866 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMorKittens.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [legal immigrants, hoaxes, lies, JD Vance, Donald Trump] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-09-12 5:11 PM excerpt: "I’ve seen people on television. The people on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food.'" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md index 89bbb28a..046b0876 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-HarrisPlansToTrollTrumpAtAlGaGame.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, advertising, football, Alabama, Georgia] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, advertising, football, Alabama, Georgia, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-09-28 04:00 PM excerpt: 'Winners never back down from a challenge. Champions know it’s any time, any place. But losers, they whine and waffle and take their ball home' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md index 402ca6ff..ed16079c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-03-TrumpQAnonClub.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, QAnon] +tags: [Donald Trump, QAnon, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-08-29 02:55 PM excerpt: 'WWG1WGA – Where we go one, we go all.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md b/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md index e0ff4dc4..ce97efba 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, X-Twitter, Trump Media and Technology Group, social media] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, X-Twitter, Trump Media and Technology Group, social media, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-05 9:15 AM excerpt: "However, the company's future is uncertain, and a lot seems to be hinging on whether the former president gets elected this year. Is this stock too risky to own? Could it ultimately be headed to $0?" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed3HereComesDaJudge.md b/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed3HereComesDaJudge.md index 2081de86..e77d9fe4 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed3HereComesDaJudge.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed3HereComesDaJudge.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Overthrow 2020 election, federal crimes] +tags: [Donald Trump, Overthrow 2020 election, federal crimes, politics] categories: [January 6 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-10-06 4:30 PM excerpt: 'the defendant must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed4HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md b/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed4HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md index 965aeb27..cdb2ce75 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed4HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-06-Fed4HereComesDaJudgePart3TrumpCenterStage.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Overthrow 2020 election, federal crimes] +tags: [Donald Trump, Overthrow 2020 election, federal crimes, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-10-06 4:30 PM excerpt: 'the defendant must stand trial for his private crimes as would any other citizen.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-HillbillyElegy.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-HillbillyElegy.md index 3cc02978..813afc2c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-07-HillbillyElegy.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-07-HillbillyElegy.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [JD Vance, vice president, Appalachia] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-07 01:15 PM excerpt: "hashtag he ain't from here" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md index c59b3e82..08961391 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, national debt] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-07 5:09 PM excerpt: 'Neither candidate has meaningfully stressed budget deficit reduction in their pitch to voters. But multiple analyses show a clear difference of Harris being much more fiscally responsible than Trump.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md index b9d32f48..37f06c91 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [pig butchering, scams] +tags: [pig butchering, scams, politics] categories: [Truth Social, pig butchering] date: 2024-10-07 02:25 PM excerpt: 'After I pay this, they promise there will be no more fees and I will receive my assets. – one of the gullible "Truth Social" victims.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-Musk1YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md b/_posts/2024-10-08-Musk1YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md index 023eb9c5..8ff84661 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-Musk1YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-Musk1YeahYeahAndTheCheckIsInTheMail.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, social media, X/Twitter] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, social media, X/Twitter, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-08 11:45 AM excerpt: 'The man once seen as a real-life Tony Stark will now be known as the man who traded in his reputation and self-professed principles to bend the knee to Trump.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-Putin1TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutinPart1.md b/_posts/2024-10-08-Putin1TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutinPart1.md index be5af230..09919185 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-Putin1TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutinPart1.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-Putin1TrumpSendsCovid19TestToPutinPart1.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Covid-19 tests] +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Covid-19 tests, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-08 11:30 PM excerpt: 'Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-Shit1HereWeGoAgainWantsOverturn.md b/_posts/2024-10-08-Shit1HereWeGoAgainWantsOverturn.md index 00e8d571..6a583dd6 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-Shit1HereWeGoAgainWantsOverturn.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-Shit1HereWeGoAgainWantsOverturn.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [election interference, Donald Trump, federal crimes] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-08 11:00 PM excerpt: 'I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-January6Subversion.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-January6Subversion.md index fa76aa1a..9be57128 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-09-January6Subversion.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-January6Subversion.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [JD Vance, Tim Walz, vice president, debate] +tags: [JD Vance, Tim Walz, vice president, debate, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-09 05:45 PM excerpt: 'That is a damning non-answer. Walz response to [JD “John Boy” Vance (T-OH)](https://www.vance.senate.gov/) when asked the question: "Did he lose the 2020 election?"' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2991adbd --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjoieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] +categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] +date: 2024-10-09 04:15 PM +excerpt: 'Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Bless Her Heart – Part 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says "They" Can Control the Weather ' +--- + + +## [MTG doubles down on weather modification conspiracy theory despite experts rubbishing ‘hurricane control’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-weather-control-hurricane-b2626699.html) + +Story by Katie Hawkinson. October 9, 2024. + +MTG: "Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. + +- **Weather Control Claims**: Marjorie Taylor Greene reiterated her debunked claim that the government can control the weather, citing cloud seeding as evidence. +- **Debunking**: Experts and agencies, including NOAA and FEMA, have debunked these claims, stating that current technology cannot create or modify hurricanes. +- **Conspiracy Theories**: Various conspiracy theories have emerged, including claims that hurricanes are geoengineered for political or economic reasons. +- **Official Statements**: Officials, including Congressman Chuck Edwards, have issued statements to counter these false claims and reassure the public. + +Bless her heart[^11]. MTG watch overhead for black helicopters[^12] armed with "Jewish Space Lasers". + +[^11]: [Bless your heart • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_your_heart) – is a phrase common to the Southern United States. The phrase is used sometimes as an insult that conveys condescension, derision, or contempt. +[^12]: [Black helicopter • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter?wprov=sfla1) – symbol of an alleged conspiratorial military takeover of the United States in the American militia movement, and has also been associated with UFOs, diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md index 460be8e5..5aa328ba 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG1BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives] +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] date: 2024-10-09 04:15 PM excerpt: 'Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. – MTG' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG2BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG2BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7172bc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-MTG2BlessHeartMarjorieTaylorGreeneHurricanes.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] +categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] +date: 2024-10-09 04:15 PM +excerpt: 'Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Bless Her Heart – Part 2: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says "They" Can Control the Weather ' +--- + + +## [MTG doubles down on weather modification conspiracy theory despite experts rubbishing ‘hurricane control’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-weather-control-hurricane-b2626699.html) + +Story by Katie Hawkinson. October 9, 2024. + +MTG: "Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done. Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified...If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? This is a map of hurricane affected areas with an overlay of electoral map by political party shows how hurricane devastation could affect the election. + +- **Weather Control Claims**: Marjorie Taylor Greene reiterated her debunked claim that the government can control the weather, citing cloud seeding as evidence. +- **Debunking**: Experts and agencies, including NOAA and FEMA, have debunked these claims, stating that current technology cannot create or modify hurricanes. +- **Conspiracy Theories**: Various conspiracy theories have emerged, including claims that hurricanes are geoengineered for political or economic reasons. +- **Official Statements**: Officials, including Congressman Chuck Edwards, have issued statements to counter these false claims and reassure the public. + +Bless her heart[^11]. MTG watch overhead for black helicopters[^12] armed with "Jewish Space Lasers". + +[^11]: [Bless your heart • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_your_heart) – is a phrase common to the Southern United States. The phrase is used sometimes as an insult that conveys condescension, derision, or contempt. +[^12]: [Black helicopter • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter?wprov=sfla1) – symbol of an alleged conspiratorial military takeover of the United States in the American militia movement, and has also been associated with UFOs, diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-09-Putin2InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md b/_posts/2024-10-09-Putin2InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md index f42e546f..fbc9af50 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-09-Putin2InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-09-Putin2InsightIntoTrumpLastTerm.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, bromance] +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, bromance, politics] categories: [2024 presidentialelection] date: 2024-10-09 07:26 PM excerpt: 'Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane1SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md b/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane1SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md index e40d0674..7c3f788e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane1SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane1SharpiePresidentDorianConeOfUncertainty.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [National Hurricane Center - NOAA, 2019 Hurricane Dorian Cone of Uncertainty] +tags: [National Hurricane Center - NOAA, 2019 Hurricane Dorian Cone of Uncertainty, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-10 10:19 AM excerpt: 'In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated. Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD BLESS EVERYONE!' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane2SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md b/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane2SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md index 4e7dc9b5..1ee0ee85 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane2SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-10-Hurricane2SharpiePrezTrumpAddedDickheadConeUncertainyDorian.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [major hurricanes, falsehoods, misinformation, 2019 Hurricane Dorian] +tags: [major hurricanes, falsehoods, misinformation, 2019 Hurricane Dorian, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-10 1:16 PM excerpt: 'There are a lot of statements he makes to protect his base, but this is not him protecting his base. His base does not care about the hurricane. This is a personal thing. He just can’t be wrong. – Barbara Res, a former executive vice president of the Trump Organization.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG2_ConspiracyWacko.md b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG2_ConspiracyWacko.md index 7ec02b38..25b2f4bd 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG2_ConspiracyWacko.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG2_ConspiracyWacko.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives] +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] date: 2024-10-11 10:21 AM excerpt: 'I think enough has already been said. I ignore her. Rep. Don Bacon (T-Neb.)' @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Story by Andrew Solender. October 10, 2024. - **Internal Conflict**: House Republicans are clashing, particularly over Rep. [Marjorie Taylor Greene (T-GA)](https://greene.house.gov/)'s claims that humans can control the weather. - **Greene's Controversial Statements**: Greene's social media posts about weather control during hurricanes have sparked backlash from her colleagues. -- **Rebukes from Colleagues**: Several House Republicans, including Reps. Carlos Gimenez and Chuck Edwards, have publicly refuted [Greene (T-GA)](https://greene.house.gov/)'s claims. +- **Rebukes from Colleagues**: Several House Republicans, including Reps. Carlos Gimenez and Chuck Edwards, have publicly refuted [Greene's (T-GA)](https://greene.house.gov/) claims. - **Ongoing Tensions**: [Greene (T-GA)](https://greene.house.gov/) has a history of causing friction within the House, leading to past disciplinary actions and widespread disapproval. Said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.): "I think enough has already been said. I ignore her." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_ConspiracyWacko.md b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_ConspiracyWacko.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a83bedf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_ConspiracyWacko.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] +categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] +date: 2024-10-11 10:21 AM +excerpt: 'I think enough has already been said. I ignore her.' +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Bless Her Heart – Part 3: Marjorie Taylor Greene – Her Colleagues Opinions' +--- + + +## ["Loony tunes": House GOP infighting erupts over Marjorie Taylor Greene's hurricane comments](https://www.axios.com/2024/10/10/mtg-hurricane-milton-helene-house-republicans?) + +Story by Andrew Solender. October 10, 2024. + +- **Internal Conflict**: House Republicans are clashing, particularly over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's claims that humans can control the weather. +- **Greene's Controversial Statements**: Greene's social media posts about weather control during hurricanes have sparked backlash from her colleagues. +- **Rebukes from Colleagues**: Several House Republicans, including Reps. Carlos Gimenez and Chuck Edwards, have publicly refuted Greene's claims. +- **Ongoing Tensions**: Greene has a history of causing friction within the House, leading to past disciplinary actions and widespread disapproval. + +Said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.): "I think enough has already been said. I ignore her." +"She thinks we have no impact on the climate but somehow control the weather," +scoffed another House Republican. The lawmaker told Axios that Greene's beliefs +on the subject are "loony tunes" and said disgust with her recent comments is +widespread among House Republicans. Zoom out: Greene has long had a unique +ability to anger House colleagues on both sides of the aisle, particularly +with her social media activities. + +In 2021, 10 House Republicans – including Gimenez – +joined Democrats in voting to strip her of her committee assignments for past +posts advocating violence against prominent Democrats. + +She was also kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus +last year for criticizing some of her fellow right-wingers +over their opposition to then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). + diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_FloridaBacklash.md b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_FloridaBacklash.md index 9005589a..55d6a939 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_FloridaBacklash.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG3_FloridaBacklash.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives] +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] date: 2024-10-11 12:28 PM excerpt: "And then obviously, we have my favorite, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who runs the Mensa caucus, talking about the fact that we have a weather machine. You know, if there are aliens watching and they’re looking at all of this, they can definitely confirm there is no intelligent life in Congress with Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about a weather machine being used for politics. It’s very dangerous. – Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and former director of FL EMD" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG4_FloridaBacklash.md b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG4_FloridaBacklash.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67a7c726 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-10-11-MTG4_FloridaBacklash.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, hurricanes, US House of Representatives, politics] +categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] +date: 2024-10-11 12:28 PM +excerpt: "And then obviously, we have my favorite, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who runs the Mensa caucus, talking about the fact that we have a weather machine. You know, if there are aliens watching and they’re looking at all of this, they can definitely confirm there is no intelligent life in Congress with Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about a weather machine being used for politics. It’s very dangerous. – Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and former director of FL EMD" +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'Bless Her Heart – Part 4: Marjorie Taylor Greene — Conspiracy Machine' +--- + + +## [Florida Democrat Shuts Down Marjorie Taylor Greene And Her Hurricane Conspiracy 'Machine'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-moskowitz-marjorie-taylor-greene-hurricane-conspiracy_n_6706df96e4b0c34b3eb98ea9) + +Story by Ben Blanchet. October 10, 2024. + + + +- **Misinformation**: Rep. Jared Moskowitz criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for spreading dangerous misinformation about weather control during Hurricane Milton. +- **Political Response**: President Joe Biden condemned both Greene and former President Donald Trump for their disinformation regarding hurricane relief efforts. +- **Impact on Public**: Moskowitz highlighted the risks of misinformation, especially during emergencies, and stressed the need for accurate information to ensure public safety. +- **Disaster Politics**: The article discusses the ongoing issue of "disaster politics" and how it affects emergency management and public perception. + +Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) scorched Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) +on Wednesday as Hurricane Milton hit his home state. +“And then obviously, we have my favorite, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who + +runs the Mensa caucus, talking about the fact that we have a weather +machine. If there are aliens watching and they’re looking at all of this, +they can definitely confirm there is no intelligent life in Congress with +Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about a weather machine being used for +politics. It’s very dangerous. There’s always been “disaster politics in the +emergency management industry. We saw it in Katrina, dealt with it in +COVID, obviously, but the misinformation that we’re seeing being put out +now is very dangerous. I mean, at some point in time, we’ll see people +tell residents not to evacuate because the hurricane’s not really hitting +you, and that’s really where it’s headed.” + +On Wednesday, President Joe Biden went after both Greene and former +President Donald Trump for their part in pushing “disinformation” about +the federal government’s response to hurricanes: + +- “We’re controlling the weather! It’s beyond ridiculous. It’s got to stop." + diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-12-Hurricane3Donald.md b/_posts/2024-10-12-Hurricane3Donald.md index bf7f6ad9..b09f5d8c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-12-Hurricane3Donald.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-12-Hurricane3Donald.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [noaa, project 2025, hurricanes, fema, us versus them] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-11 5:16 PM excerpt: 'Just weeks before the November election, we are again reminded of the dangers of disinformation amplified by the ex-president. In the aftermath of Helene, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein joined MSNBC’s “The Weekend” to address how Trump’s lies about FEMA undermine the government’s response in the western part of his state. “It’s devastating psychologically to those people because they now believe, some of them, that FEMA is going to be contrary to their interests rather than trying to help them get back on their feet.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-12-Putin3TrumpPwnedByPutin.md b/_posts/2024-10-12-Putin3TrumpPwnedByPutin.md index 783750eb..da7496a9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-12-Putin3TrumpPwnedByPutin.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-12-Putin3TrumpPwnedByPutin.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, national threat, security risk, United States of America, Russia] +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, national threat, security risk, United States of America, Russia, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-12 5:33 PM excerpt: 'Trump may have had up to seven phone calls with Putin since leaving office in 2021, citing a Trump aide.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md index 355feb62..b8c23873 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-BillionaireMarkCubanQAOnPrezRace.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk] -categories: [2024 presidential race] +categories: [2024 presidential race, politics] date: 2024-10-13 3:37 PM excerpt: 'They know that Kamala is far more stable, open minded, she has done a great job communicating with business leaders, she is not an ideologue, she takes feedback from Republicans, independents and more.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md index 641713bc..496bb8d5 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-FictionalAutobiographyMelaniaByMelania.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Melania Trump, autobiography] +tags: [Melania Trump, autobiography, politics] categories: [Melania Trump] date: 2024-10-13 06:00 PM excerpt: 'The violence we witnessed was unequivocally unacceptable. However, many individuals felt the election was mishandled and that the vice president should halt the confirmation process. – Melania Trump' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-Musk2ElonMuskXTwitterHasBecomeTrumpPropagandaMachine.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-Musk2ElonMuskXTwitterHasBecomeTrumpPropagandaMachine.md index 2e70ad5f..b25d92bd 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-13-Musk2ElonMuskXTwitterHasBecomeTrumpPropagandaMachine.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-Musk2ElonMuskXTwitterHasBecomeTrumpPropagandaMachine.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, X-Twitter, not free speech, propaganda, social media] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, X-Twitter, not free speech, propaganda, social media, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-13 7:27 PM excerpt: 'According to a new report by the New York Times, Musk has allegedly used his influence at Twitter/X to block links to information that could harm the Trump campaign, and suspended the reporter who published it. It also says that Musk has set up a “war room” in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, where he and “a team of lawyers, public-relations professionals, canvassing experts and longtime friends” are plotting to install the former president in the White House once again.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-Putin4TrumpLoganAct.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-Putin4TrumpLoganAct.md index a1a4f28f..d616cfdd 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-13-Putin4TrumpLoganAct.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-Putin4TrumpLoganAct.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, federal crime, Logan Act] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-13 4:39 PM excerpt: "A violation of the Logan Act carries with it up to three years in prison. So yes, we all want to know; Did Donald Trump violate the Logan Act? And here's the answer. He might have." #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-13-Shit2HereWeGoAgainOperativesInPlace.md b/_posts/2024-10-13-Shit2HereWeGoAgainOperativesInPlace.md index c0835179..2b26e6c1 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-13-Shit2HereWeGoAgainOperativesInPlace.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-13-Shit2HereWeGoAgainOperativesInPlace.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [election integrity, planned vote counting fraud] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-13 6:34 PM excerpt: 'Pennsylvania and Georgia, two of the most hard-fought prizes for Trump and Harris, are the states that most worry election experts. MAGA loyalists are in place in Georgia at the state and county level. They control the state board and have authorized county officials to withhold vote certifications for any “reasonable inquiry” they might conjure; ordered that ballots be counted by hand, a time-consuming and mistake-prone practice; and insisted on naming vote monitors for Democratic-leaning Fulton County, home to Atlanta and a plurality of Black residents. Democrats and voting groups are suing.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-14-JohnRobertsBungledDecisionPrezImmunity.md b/_posts/2024-10-14-JohnRobertsBungledDecisionPrezImmunity.md index 297c6988..3e658d55 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-14-JohnRobertsBungledDecisionPrezImmunity.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-14-JohnRobertsBungledDecisionPrezImmunity.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Supreme Court, Attorney General, presidential immunity] +tags: [Donald Trump, Supreme Court, Attorney General, presidential immunity, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-14 2:43 AM excerpt: 'Roberts was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision affording Trump substantial immunity from criminal prosecution. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency. His protestations that the case concerned the presidency, not Trump, held little currency.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-14-Shit3HereWeGoAgainTrumpersSuingMilitaryBallots.md b/_posts/2024-10-14-Shit3HereWeGoAgainTrumpersSuingMilitaryBallots.md index 622cbc7f..5b1956ac 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-14-Shit3HereWeGoAgainTrumpersSuingMilitaryBallots.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-14-Shit3HereWeGoAgainTrumpersSuingMilitaryBallots.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, overseas vote count, frivolous lawsuits, state vote counting, cherry picking] +tags: [Donald Trump, overseas vote count, frivolous lawsuits, state vote counting, cherry picking, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-14 3:30 PM excerpt: '“This lawsuit was filed after voting had already begun in North Carolina for the general election. The time to challenge the rules for voter eligibility is well before an election, not after votes have already been cast.” – said Patrick Gannon, a spokesman for the North Carolina State Board of Elections.Gannon said in a statement.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-14-TrumpTheEnemyWithin.md b/_posts/2024-10-14-TrumpTheEnemyWithin.md index 3db21b05..51535e7e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-14-TrumpTheEnemyWithin.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-14-TrumpTheEnemyWithin.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Donald Trump, JD Vance] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, Donald Trump, JD Vance, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-14 2:44 PM excerpt: 'You heard his words, coming from him. He’s talking about the enemy within … he’s talking about that he considers anyone that doesn’t support him, or who will not bend to his will, an enemy of our country. He’s saying he would use the military to go after them … and we know who he would target, because he has attacked them before: Journalists whose stories who he doesn’t like, election officials who refuse to cheat by finding extra votes for him, judges who insist on following the law instead of bending to his will. This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-14-WikipediaEventsElectionDayToJan6.md b/_posts/2024-10-14-WikipediaEventsElectionDayToJan6.md index 87c19296..9a3c5839 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-14-WikipediaEventsElectionDayToJan6.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-14-WikipediaEventsElectionDayToJan6.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [January 6 2021 insurrection, 2020 election overthrow attempt, Donald Trump] +tags: [January 6 2021 insurrection, 2020 election overthrow attempt, Donald Trump, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-14 4:37 PM excerpt: 'Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild! – Donald Trump' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-15-FEMA_Fact_Fiction.md b/_posts/2024-10-15-FEMA_Fact_Fiction.md index 9491ad07..b59cb38c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-15-FEMA_Fact_Fiction.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-15-FEMA_Fact_Fiction.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [FEMA, hurricanes, federal government] +tags: [FEMA, hurricanes, federal government, politics] categories: [Hurricanes Relief Facts] date: 2024-10-15 8:18 PM excerpt: 'I encourage you to remember that everything you see on Facebook, X, or any other social media platform is not always fact. Please make sure you are fact checking what you read online with a reputable source,” U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards (T-NC)' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-15-Putin5TrumpBuddyCovertAttackOnNATO.md b/_posts/2024-10-15-Putin5TrumpBuddyCovertAttackOnNATO.md index 181db153..3f5dbc8b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-15-Putin5TrumpBuddyCovertAttackOnNATO.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-15-Putin5TrumpBuddyCovertAttackOnNATO.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, NATO, Europe, Russia, sabotage, assassinations, destabilization] +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, NATO, Europe, Russia, sabotage, assassinations, destabilization, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-15 2:27 PM excerpt: "What Putin is trying to do is hit us everywhere. We also have red lines and Putin is trying to feel them. Putin is testing the West’s boundaries, trying to push NATO without crossing into full-scale conflict. – Fiona Hill, who previously served on America's National Security Council" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpWeaponizeMilitaryOnUS_Soil.md b/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpWeaponizeMilitaryOnUS_Soil.md index f82ce3e0..ae082aaf 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpWeaponizeMilitaryOnUS_Soil.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpWeaponizeMilitaryOnUS_Soil.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, military, US soil, against citizens] +tags: [Donald Trump, military, US soil, against citizens, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-15 5:45 PM excerpt: 'The last thing in the world the former Joint Chiefs chair wants to be is political. For him to take this step shows the gravity of the situation that Trump should never set foot in the Oval Office again. Trump should go nowhere near the Oval Office again – former Joint Chiefs, retired General Mark Milley' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpsTrumperTantrurnAfterCourtFilingCrimes.md b/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpsTrumperTantrurnAfterCourtFilingCrimes.md index bbef7354..b5c71e5f 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpsTrumperTantrurnAfterCourtFilingCrimes.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-15-TrumpsTrumperTantrurnAfterCourtFilingCrimes.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Federal Court, Federal Crime, 2020 Election Overthrow Attempts, January 6, 2021 Insurrection] +tags: [Donald Trump, Federal Court, Federal Crime, 2020 Election Overthrow Attempts, January 6, 2021 Insurrection, politics] categories: [2020 Election Overthrow Attempt] date: 2024-10-15 8:52 PM excerpt: "WHETHER NOW THE FULLY DEBUNKED RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, IRAN, IRAN, IRAN, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, 51 INTELLIGENCE AGENTS, SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN, IMPEACHMENT HOAX NUMBER ONE, IMPEACHMENT HOAX NUMBER TWO, OR ANY OF THE OTHER SCAMS, THIS ILLEGAL ACTION TAKEN BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING THEIR RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO FOR A CASE THAT WAS DISMISSED, WILL END JUST LIKE ALL OF THE OTHERS – WITH COMPLETE VICTORY FOR ‘PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.’ MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-15-WeWontBackDown.md b/_posts/2024-10-15-WeWontBackDown.md index c56bf6d5..8eeb17e5 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-15-WeWontBackDown.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-15-WeWontBackDown.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, strong arm overthrow attempt, states vote certifications] +tags: [Donald Trump, strong arm overthrow attempt, states vote certifications, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-15 3:56 PM excerpt: "No one I’ve ever encountered who’s involved with election administration like this would give in to threats or intimidation. Anyone involved in elections is pursuing their responsibilities professionally, and no amount of pressure or coercion would interfere in that in any way. – Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt, a Republican" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-16-Dementia6RamblingSpeechDEC.md b/_posts/2024-10-16-Dementia6RamblingSpeechDEC.md index 7dc9adcd..75e16412 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-16-Dementia6RamblingSpeechDEC.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-16-Dementia6RamblingSpeechDEC.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Detroit Economic Club, dementia, cognitive decline, rambling speech, tossed salad of words] +tags: [Donald Trump, Detroit Economic Club, dementia, cognitive decline, rambling speech, tossed salad of words, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-16 12:58 PM excerpt: "For generations this city and state were the world capital of automotive production and American automakers rolled one iconic model off the line after the next, the Mustang, the Corvette, the Pontiac GTO. I had two of them actually. I had that GTO. Oh, I thought I was the hottest guy around. It was crazy. We didn’t have all of the foreign competition then. You were so proud to have a Corvette. Oh, if you had a Corvette. I never got a Corvette. I tell you, I feel I was left behind, but I had my GTO. I was something, man. I’d put that top down. See, in those days I didn’t mind when the hair waved. I’d go fast and that hair would be waving, that blonde hair and I’d say, who the hell can take me? Nobody. Today, I’m a little more careful I want cover up that little area up there. It’s a little bit soft up there. These things were coming cylinders, no wings, no nothing, and they’re coming down very slowly, landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean someplace with a circle. Boom. Reminded me of the Biden circles that he used to have, right? He’d have eight circles and he couldn’t fill them up. But then I heard he beat us with the popular vote. I don’t know. I don’t know. Couldn’t fill up the eight circles. I always loved those circles. They were so beautiful. They were so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person that did them, that was the best thing about his… the level of that circle was great, but they couldn’t get people. So they used to have the press stand in those circles because they couldn’t get the people. Then I heard we lost. Oh, we lost. No, we’re never going to let that happen again. But we’ve been abused by other countries. We’ve been abused by our own politicians, really more than other countries. I can’t blame them. We’ve been abused by people that represent us in this country." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-16-VoterFraudWhyItWontAffectOutcome.md b/_posts/2024-10-16-VoterFraudWhyItWontAffectOutcome.md index 403b5c62..5dccaa44 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-16-VoterFraudWhyItWontAffectOutcome.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-16-VoterFraudWhyItWontAffectOutcome.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, false claims of voter fraud, voter fraud penalties] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, false claims of voter fraud, voter fraud penalties, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-16 10:54 AM excerpt: 'You’re probably not going to have a perfect election system. But if you’re looking for one that you should have confidence in, you should feel good about that here in America. – Republican Trey Grayson, a former Kentucky secretary of state and the advisory board chair of the Secure Elections Project.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-17-CrybabyTrumpHasDamagedPeacefulTransferOfPower.md b/_posts/2024-10-17-CrybabyTrumpHasDamagedPeacefulTransferOfPower.md index d691492b..c4266e00 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-17-CrybabyTrumpHasDamagedPeacefulTransferOfPower.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-17-CrybabyTrumpHasDamagedPeacefulTransferOfPower.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, United States Constitution, Peaceful Transfer of Power, irreparable damage, senator, Tom Cotton, Arkansas] +tags: [Donald Trump, United States Constitution, Peaceful Transfer of Power, irreparable damage, senator, Tom Cotton, Arkansas, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-10-17 2:33 PM excerpt: "“This is unverified, un-cross-examined hearsay from grand jury testimony, which usually isn’t revealed publicly for that reason. He went to court. He asked for special permission to file a brief that’s four times as long as a normal brief and to have it disclosed less than 30 days before the election. This is professional misconduct in all likelihood by Jack Smith and it should be investigated. This is a perfect example of actual election interference, Jack Smith violating Department of Justice regulations to try to get out as much unverified so-called evidence as he has because he’s angry that he lost and the Democrats don’t think they can beat Donald Trump on issues like inflation and immigration.” Rep. Tom Cotton (T-AR) told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-17-DonaldTrumpIsAPerv.md b/_posts/2024-10-17-DonaldTrumpIsAPerv.md index 7c2569db..1b1a6103 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-17-DonaldTrumpIsAPerv.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-17-DonaldTrumpIsAPerv.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, beauty pageants pervert, voyeur, ogling vulnerable women and teens in various states of undress] +tags: [Donald Trump, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, beauty pageants pervert, voyeur, ogling vulnerable women and teens in various states of undress, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-17 12:24 PM excerpt: 'Several former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants accused Trump of entering the dressing rooms of beauty pageant contestants while contestants were in various stages of undress. Trump had already referred to this practice during a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show, saying he could "get away with things like that" because he owned the Miss Universe franchise.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-17-MAGA_MakeAmericaGolfAgain.md b/_posts/2024-10-17-MAGA_MakeAmericaGolfAgain.md index 353049ca..5b612320 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-17-MAGA_MakeAmericaGolfAgain.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-17-MAGA_MakeAmericaGolfAgain.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, golf, kleptocracy] +tags: [Donald Trump, golf, kleptocracy, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-17 11:34 AM excerpt: '' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-17-TrumpsWivesMistressesOneNightStands.md b/_posts/2024-10-17-TrumpsWivesMistressesOneNightStands.md index 7754ff85..e19f6d8e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-17-TrumpsWivesMistressesOneNightStands.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-17-TrumpsWivesMistressesOneNightStands.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Ivana Marie Zelníčková, Marla Maples. Melania (Melanija) Knavs, porn star, Stormy Daniels, Playboy© Playmate Karen McDougal, marital infidelity, extramarital affairs] +tags: [Donald Trump, Ivana Marie Zelníčková, Marla Maples. Melania (Melanija) Knavs, porn star, Stormy Daniels, Playboy© Playmate Karen McDougal, marital infidelity, extramarital affairs, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-17 11:57 AM excerpt: 'In 2018, Knavs and her husband, Viktor, obtained green cards and then became naturalized U.S. citizens using the U.S. family-based immigration program, which Trump had denounced as "chain migration"' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-18-ItsTheFirstAmendmentStupid2GovFL.md b/_posts/2024-10-18-ItsTheFirstAmendmentStupid2GovFL.md index e0291de2..cffff5ba 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-18-ItsTheFirstAmendmentStupid2GovFL.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-18-ItsTheFirstAmendmentStupid2GovFL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Freedom of Speech, abortion rights, medically necessary abortions] +tags: [Freedom of Speech, abortion rights, medically necessary abortions, politics] categories: [Florida Governor DeSantis] date: 2024-10-18 9:37 AM excerpt: "To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid. – Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker of the Northern District of Florida to Florida Governor DeSantis." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-18-TrumpThePersonNotPrezOnTrial.md b/_posts/2024-10-18-TrumpThePersonNotPrezOnTrial.md index f4ffe1af..bab9a6ca 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-18-TrumpThePersonNotPrezOnTrial.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-18-TrumpThePersonNotPrezOnTrial.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, federal crimes, Supreme Court, federal court] +tags: [Donald Trump, federal crimes, Supreme Court, federal court, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, January 6 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-10-18 10:40 AM excerpt: "Smith's filing tries to slice through the [Supreme] Court's security shield regarding the insurrection. Skillfully quoting from or alluding to language in the Court majority's own opinion, the filing demolishes the notion that Trump's activities, culminating on January 6, deserve immunity. Consider, for example, Smith's telling of Trump's reaction to the news from one of his staff, at the height of the violence on January 6, that his tweets attacking Pence had placed Pence's life in extreme danger. 'So what?' Trump reportedly replied. He had clearly intended for his tweets to reach the mob at the Capitol. His nonchalance about the vice president's life epitomizes the lengths to which he would go to complete his coup d'état." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-19-Law1NoRespectForRuleOfLaw.md b/_posts/2024-10-19-Law1NoRespectForRuleOfLaw.md index c2ee620b..13a29cc8 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-19-Law1NoRespectForRuleOfLaw.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-19-Law1NoRespectForRuleOfLaw.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Economic Club of Chicago, January 6 2021 Insurrection, Law and Order, peaceful transfer of power] +tags: [Donald Trump, Economic Club of Chicago, January 6 2021 Insurrection, Law and Order, peaceful transfer of power, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-19 6:55 PM excerpt: 'You had a peaceful transfer of power? Come on President Trump, you had had a peaceful transfer of power compared to Venezuela. But it was by far the most, the worst transfer of power for a long time. – John Micklethwait, Editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-19-MTG4ClashMachinesConspiracyVsVotingMachine.md b/_posts/2024-10-19-MTG4ClashMachinesConspiracyVsVotingMachine.md index a4f1ecf2..9a15fef0 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-19-MTG4ClashMachinesConspiracyVsVotingMachine.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-19-MTG4ClashMachinesConspiracyVsVotingMachine.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, voting systems, Dominion Voting, US House of Representatives] +tags: [MTG, conspiracy theories, voting systems, Dominion Voting, US House of Representatives, politics] categories: [Marjorie Taylor Greene] date: 2024-10-19 2:24 PM excerpt: "They marked Donald Trump and they marked who they were voting for the rest of the way down their ballot on the machine. When this voter printed their ballot and they looked, it had changed. It was not Donald Trump, it was not me and it was not the other ones they had voted for. It had switched. So they had to start over, and they went through it several times and it kept on making the same error. It kept on switching the votes.... It sounds similar to what we heard in 2020. This happened in Whitfield County in my district - GA-14. We vote on Dominion voting machines then it prints a paper ballot with our selections made on the machines. This voter's printed ballot had been changed from their selections made on the machine. Good thing they checked their paper ballot before turning it in! After several attempts of trying to change it to reflect their correct choices, they had to void the ballot and use a different machine. Please double check your printed ballot before you turn it in to make sure it has marked the candidates you voted for!!! – US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (T-GA)" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-20-2025PeacefulTransferOfPower.md b/_posts/2024-10-20-2025PeacefulTransferOfPower.md index af9d7c60..5b06b487 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-20-2025PeacefulTransferOfPower.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-20-2025PeacefulTransferOfPower.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Liz Cheney, Meet The Press, Kristen Welker, election security, peaceful transfer of power] +tags: [Donald Trump, Liz Cheney, Meet The Press, Kristen Welker, election security, peaceful transfer of power, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-20 4:37 PM excerpt: "I do not have faith that Mike Johnson will fulfill his constitutional obligations and if you look at what he did in 2020. He knew and he knew with specificity that claims of fraud that Donald Trump was making and that he was repeating, he knew those to be false...I think it's very concerning and I do think that Donald Trump has consistently said in the last few months that this election is going to be rigged and if he loses that's why. So, I think it's very important the Republicans not be a majority in the House come January 2025. Liz Cheney, former Representative(R-WI) to Meet The Press host, Kristen Welker if she had faith that this election will be free and fair and that there will be peaceful transfer of power." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-20-AnswerToTrumpersSupportingHarris.md b/_posts/2024-10-20-AnswerToTrumpersSupportingHarris.md index b6b92568..a219c99e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-20-AnswerToTrumpersSupportingHarris.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-20-AnswerToTrumpersSupportingHarris.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, Meet The Press, Kristen Welker, peaceful transfer of power, election security] +tags: [Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, Meet The Press, Kristen Welker, peaceful transfer of power, election security, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-20 4:44 PM excerpt: To every Republican supporting her, what the hell are you doing? You’re supporting the most radical nominee in the history of American politics. What are you doing? You’re trying to convince me that Donald Trump’s rhetoric is the danger to this country? The danger to this country is the policies of Biden and Harris. Her fingerprints are all over this disaster. And I can’t take four more years of this crap. When you support her, you’re supporting four more years of garbage policy. So what the hell are you doing as a Republican, blessing this stuff? – Senator Lindsey (T-SC) on Meet The Press 10/20/2024. Maybe they want to return to normalcy – @RalphHightower' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-20-Dementia7TrumpMarvelsTheSizeOfPalmersBall.md b/_posts/2024-10-20-Dementia7TrumpMarvelsTheSizeOfPalmersBall.md index edbee8a4..20766b0f 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-20-Dementia7TrumpMarvelsTheSizeOfPalmersBall.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-20-Dementia7TrumpMarvelsTheSizeOfPalmersBall.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, Arnold Palmer, sex organs, Latrobe Pennsylvania] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, Arnold Palmer, sex organs, Latrobe Pennsylvania, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-20 12:39 PM excerpt: "“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women. This is a guy that was all man. When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’ I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-20-MakeTrumpGreatAgain.md b/_posts/2024-10-20-MakeTrumpGreatAgain.md index 8dcfdb8a..d85bb7fe 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-20-MakeTrumpGreatAgain.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-20-MakeTrumpGreatAgain.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, emoluments clause, GSA per diem] +tags: [Donald Trump, emoluments clause, GSA per diem, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-20 3:38 PM excerpt: 'Not only did former President Trump’s D.C. hotel routinely charge the Secret Service more than the government rate, it frequently charged the Secret Service more than it did other patrons, including members of a foreign royal family and a Chinese business interest.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-20-ThereIFixedItSenateOathOfOffice.md b/_posts/2024-10-20-ThereIFixedItSenateOathOfOffice.md index feee1fd6..fe77353e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-20-ThereIFixedItSenateOathOfOffice.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-20-ThereIFixedItSenateOathOfOffice.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [oath of office, allegiance to Trump, Lindsey Graham, John McCain] +tags: [oath of office, allegiance to Trump, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, politics] categories: [MAGA Trump Party House Senate Oath of Office] date: 2024-10-20 3:17 PM excerpt: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend Trump, his businesses, his sons, diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-21-CruzLosesEditorials.md b/_posts/2024-10-21-CruzLosesEditorials.md index d1158f0e..25365a75 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-21-CruzLosesEditorials.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-21-CruzLosesEditorials.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Colin Allred, Ted Cruz, Texas] +tags: [Colin Allred, Ted Cruz, Texas, politics] categories: [2024 US Senate Race Texas] date: 2024-10-21 9:14 AM excerpt: "Cruz could have supported the peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 presidential election. He instead was the first senator to rise in objection to certifying the electoral vote and one of just six to do so. His actions were a catalyst for what became one of the worst days in our nation's history." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-21-Shit4TrumpTaughtRepugsHowToSteal.md b/_posts/2024-10-21-Shit4TrumpTaughtRepugsHowToSteal.md index 7dbc3478..21c12562 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-21-Shit4TrumpTaughtRepugsHowToSteal.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-21-Shit4TrumpTaughtRepugsHowToSteal.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [social media, misinformation, disinformation] +tags: [social media, misinformation, disinformation, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-21 2:28 PM excerpt: 'The last few years have been challenging for the knowledge community working with platforms. The impact of layoffs, budget cuts in journalism programs, and the crackdown on trust and safety teams at X (formerly Twitter) and other major platforms have set troubling precedents as we approach the upcoming elections. – Baybars Orsek, managing director at the fact-checking organization Logically Facts.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-22-Jan6InternmentCampsNot.md b/_posts/2024-10-22-Jan6InternmentCampsNot.md index 518e87a7..fbd35f1f 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-22-Jan6InternmentCampsNot.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-22-Jan6InternmentCampsNot.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [January 6 2021 Insurrection, Donald Trump, World War II, WWII, Japanese internment] +tags: [January 6 2021 Insurrection, Donald Trump, World War II, WWII, Japanese internment, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-22 3:21 PM excerpt: 'Japanese Americans are not and should not be compared to insurrectionists who committed major crimes and in which people were hurt and killed. And I think that that is just so horrible to try to even make that comparison or allege that there’s any similarities between the two. – Sharon Yamato, the daughter of former Japanese Americans who were incarcerated.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-23-Dementia7aArniesBalls.md b/_posts/2024-10-23-Dementia7aArniesBalls.md index c2642e90..a86580b2 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-23-Dementia7aArniesBalls.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-23-Dementia7aArniesBalls.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Arnold Palmer, La Trobe Pennsylvania, golf, sex organs, dementia] +tags: [Donald Trump, Arnold Palmer, La Trobe Pennsylvania, golf, sex organs, dementia, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-23 4:51 PM excerpt: 'But Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women, but this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out there, they said, “Oh my God, that’s unbelievable.” I had to say it. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold, this is bad, but he was really something special. Arnold was something special. So I just want to tell you, you’re very lucky, the people that live in La Trobe, and it’s an honor for me to be here because of him. Actually, he was a great man. And I don’t think there would be golf… To the extent that you have it today, it probably wouldn’t be that way without the great Arnold Palmer. So enjoy it, everybody. And I had to tell you the shower part of it, because it’s true. What can I tell you? We want to be honest. We want to be upfront. It’s true.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-23-WoreOut1TrumpCantKeepPace.md b/_posts/2024-10-23-WoreOut1TrumpCantKeepPace.md index 5c177c02..8ed49dcc 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-23-WoreOut1TrumpCantKeepPace.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-23-WoreOut1TrumpCantKeepPace.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, exhaustion, decrepit, Kamala Harris] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, exhaustion, decrepit, Kamala Harris, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-23 8:24 PM excerpt: "Being president of the United States is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world. And so, we really do need to ask if he’s exhausted being on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job? – Vice President Kamala Harris" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-24-Conspiracy1TrumpsList.md b/_posts/2024-10-24-Conspiracy1TrumpsList.md index cba2ced7..850151ec 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-24-Conspiracy1TrumpsList.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-24-Conspiracy1TrumpsList.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, gaslighting, pathological lies] +tags: [Donald Trump, gaslighting, pathological lies, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-24 1:19 PM excerpt: 'To sow election doubt, Trump escalated use of “rigged election” and “election interference” statements in advance of the 2024 election compared to the previous two elections—the statements described as part of a “heads I win; tails you cheated” rhetorical strategy.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-24-Steal5PlansToSteal.md b/_posts/2024-10-24-Steal5PlansToSteal.md index cb4b526e..77a7f8a7 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-24-Steal5PlansToSteal.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-24-Steal5PlansToSteal.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Donald Trump, Kamala Harris. election integrity] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-10-24 9:48 AM excerpt: "My main concern is voter intimidation by poll watchers, as well as intimidating election workers and getting into their faces, generally slowing them down and creating disruptions. – Andrew Garber, a lawyer and elections expert with New York University's non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice." #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-24-TrumpChaos.md b/_posts/2024-10-24-TrumpChaos.md index d6594b82..dadfd357 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-24-TrumpChaos.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-24-TrumpChaos.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Peaceful Transfer of Power] +tags: [Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Peaceful Transfer of Power, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-24 12:42 PM excerpt: 'Receiving transition money and resources comes with a significant string attached: To receive it, each transition team must agree to disclose its private donors and impose a $5,000 limit on contributions from individuals or organizations. Campaigns are also required to submit an ethics plan to the White House and promise not to hire lobbyists or other people with conflicts of interests for the transition. Finally, the candidates are supposed to submit an initial list of people who will need security clearances to receive the sort of classified briefings that will help get the incoming administration up to speed on national security issues.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-25-Steal6LundseyGrahamLobbiesNebraska.md b/_posts/2024-10-25-Steal6LundseyGrahamLobbiesNebraska.md index 676f43b9..91ed9a62 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-25-Steal6LundseyGrahamLobbiesNebraska.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-25-Steal6LundseyGrahamLobbiesNebraska.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, Nebraska, Electoral College Vote Distribution, malignant narcissist] +tags: [Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, Nebraska, Electoral College Vote Distribution, malignant narcissist, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-25 1:34 PM excerpt: "Graham, keep your God-damned fucking business out of Nebraska. Trump is in cognitive decline. He doesn't have the stamina to campaign. Several psychiatrists through examining videos, have said that he meets the criteria of malignant narcissism. He's a loose cannon. @RalphHightower" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-26-DeportElonMusk.md b/_posts/2024-10-26-DeportElonMusk.md index d2c6fbf4..da14d9fb 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-26-DeportElonMusk.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-26-DeportElonMusk.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Elon Musk, illegal immigrants, student visa, work visa, Security and Exchange Commission, Zip2] -categories: [illegal aliens] +tags: [illegal aliens, illegal immigrants, student visa, work visa, Security and Exchange Commission, Zip2, politics] +categories: [Elon Musk] date: 2024-10-26 7:39 PM excerpt: "“Their immigration status was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S. We don’t want our founder being deported. We want to take care of this long before there’s anything that could screw up the company’s path to an initial public offering.” – Derek Proudian, a Zip2 board member." #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-26-IAmTheEnemyWithin.md b/_posts/2024-10-26-IAmTheEnemyWithin.md index 64ea5739..891ff27c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-26-IAmTheEnemyWithin.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-26-IAmTheEnemyWithin.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, enemy within, natural American citizens, hateful rhetoric, dangerous rhetoric, Pride Boys, Zero Percenters, Oath Losers, insurrection act, military deployment against Amercans citizens] +tags: [Donald Trump, enemy within, natural American citizens, hateful rhetoric, dangerous rhetoric, Pride Boys, Zero Percenters, Oath Losers, insurrection act, military deployment against Amercans citizens, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-26 5:45 PM excerpt: '“The crazy lunatics that we have — the fascists, the Marxists, the communists, the people that we have that are actually running the country, Those people are more dangerous — the enemy from within — than Russia and China and other people. – Donald Trump, former president. And let us keep his title as former. @RalphHightower' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-27-Putin6RussianTrifecta.md b/_posts/2024-10-27-Putin6RussianTrifecta.md index 24f44eeb..5a6956a4 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-27-Putin6RussianTrifecta.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-27-Putin6RussianTrifecta.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk, United States, Russia, SpaceX, national security risk] +tags: [Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk, United States, Russia, SpaceX, national security risk, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election, national security] date: 2024-10-27 2:20 PM excerpt: "“He’s a war criminal who is slaughtering civilians. That makes this wrong in my view. You have to decide what team you are on. Are you on the American team or are you on the Russian team?” – Michael McFaul, former US Ambassador to Russia" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-27-Steal7GeorgiaCountyEmployeeWontDoHerJob.md b/_posts/2024-10-27-Steal7GeorgiaCountyEmployeeWontDoHerJob.md index 6a2298c4..e2b69453 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-27-Steal7GeorgiaCountyEmployeeWontDoHerJob.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-27-Steal7GeorgiaCountyEmployeeWontDoHerJob.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Georgia, Fulton County, election board, election integrity, refusal to perform job] +tags: [Georgia, Fulton County, election board, election integrity, refusal to perform job, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-27 12:06 AM excerpt: 'no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-27-TrumpKleptocracyContines.md b/_posts/2024-10-27-TrumpKleptocracyContines.md index 9b6dbea1..85d733d3 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-27-TrumpKleptocracyContines.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-27-TrumpKleptocracyContines.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, kleptocracy, son-in-law, daughter, sons, profiting from daddy] +tags: [Donald Trump, kleptocracy, son-in-law, daughter, sons, profiting from daddy, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-27 9:47 AM excerpt: '“The scale of these undisclosed foreign payments to Mr. Kushner coupled with the national security implications of his apparent ongoing efforts to sell political influence to the highest foreign bidder are unprecedented and demand action from DOJ. We therefore urge you to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate whether Mr. Kushner is influencing U.S. domestic and foreign policy on behalf of foreign government clients without making the appropriate mandatory disclosures.” – letter to DOJ requesting an investigation.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-28-Graham1FullOfShit.md b/_posts/2024-10-28-Graham1FullOfShit.md index ba337b07..80a359ca 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-28-Graham1FullOfShit.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-28-Graham1FullOfShit.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, fascist, Lindsey Graham] +tags: [Donald Trump, fascist, Lindsey Graham, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-28 9:30 AM excerpt: "Kelly’s undermining a concept that's been good for America. I think our generals have sort of been apolitical. He's entitled to his opinion. I just categorically reject it. Three weeks before the election, you're calling basically Trump Hitler, a fascist, is not going to resonate. What happened to joy on the Democratic side? They went from joy to now Trump is Hitler. Well, that's desperation. I think General Kelly's criticisms are not based on facts. I think it's emotional, it's sad, and it's not going to matter. – Sen. Lindsey [Lindsey Graham (T-SC)](https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/) (T-SC). [Lindsey Graham (T-SC)](https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/) just wants to keep his golf Privileges, @RalphHightower" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-28-GrifterGetsGrifted.md b/_posts/2024-10-28-GrifterGetsGrifted.md index c5c86137..cbd5e2ac 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-28-GrifterGetsGrifted.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-28-GrifterGetsGrifted.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, grifter] +tags: [Donald Trump, grifter, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-28 6:58 PM excerpt: "“The grift and greed I‘ve witnessed makes me sick and I think leadership has been bad stewards of generous donors money. I‘m 100 % on Team Trump—I want the very best for this campaign, but what I’ve witnessed is greedy and wrong.” – anonymous campaign whistleblower" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-29-PartyOverCountry.md b/_posts/2024-10-29-PartyOverCountry.md index 78a009dd..940a3378 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-29-PartyOverCountry.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-29-PartyOverCountry.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, impeachment, party loyalty] +tags: [Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, impeachment, party loyalty, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-29 2:00 PM excerpt: '“Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham and others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.” – Senator Mitch McConnell (T-KY)' diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-30-HasAmericaLearnedItsLesson.md b/_posts/2024-10-30-HasAmericaLearnedItsLesson.md index a3804a7f..5fe1992f 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-30-HasAmericaLearnedItsLesson.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-30-HasAmericaLearnedItsLesson.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Jim Mattis, Mark Esper, Mark Milley, John Bolton, William Barr, Tom Bossert, Ty Cobb] +tags: [Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Jim Mattis, Mark Esper, Mark Milley, John Bolton, William Barr, Tom Bossert, Ty Cobb, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-30 1:38 PM excerpt: "When a former Trump official comes out with a story demonstrating Trump’s unfitness for office, nihilistic Trump defenders leap into action, questioning the motives, context, or credibility of the individual making the claim. They want you to forget the cumulative weight of the accusations against Trump coming from a raft of his own former employees. ‐ The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-30-TrumpSoWhat.md b/_posts/2024-10-30-TrumpSoWhat.md index 77067058..5f65bb86 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-30-TrumpSoWhat.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-30-TrumpSoWhat.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, JD Vance, indifference] +tags: [Donald Trump, JD Vance, indifference, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-30 11:33 AM excerpt: "It’s really rich for Democratic leaders to say that Donald Trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully gave over power on Jan. 20. – lied JD Vance during VP debate, ignoring January 6th" diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-31-ElectionSecurityInfrastructureIsSecure.md b/_posts/2024-10-31-ElectionSecurityInfrastructureIsSecure.md index bf266dee..10208436 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-31-ElectionSecurityInfrastructureIsSecure.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-31-ElectionSecurityInfrastructureIsSecure.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, gaslighting election fears fraud, election security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jan Easterly] +tags: [Donald Trump, gaslighting election fears fraud, election security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jan Easterly, politics, video] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-10-31 3:06 PM excerpt: "Yeah, well, great to be with you. So it is a very complex threat environment and it's our foreign adversaries but it's also cybersecurity threats, it's physical security threats. The thing that I would want the american people to know is that based on extesive work by state and local election officials over the past several years, the reality is our election infrastructure has never been more secure. Whoever you vote for, you can have confidence that your vote. Will be counted as cast." diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-31-MikaBrzezinskiInterviewsStevieNicks.md b/_posts/2024-10-31-MikaBrzezinskiInterviewsStevieNicks.md index efc3dc45..fb948941 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-31-MikaBrzezinskiInterviewsStevieNicks.md +++ b/_posts/2024-10-31-MikaBrzezinskiInterviewsStevieNicks.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Stevie Nicks, The Lighthouse, Fleetwood Mac, Sheryl Crow -MSNBC Morning Joe, Women's Healthcare, Donald Trump] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +MSNBC Morning Joe, Women's Healthcare, Donald Trump, politics] +categories: [2024 presidential election, video] date: 2024-10-31 2:53 PM excerpt: "“Really, if you think about it, no matter who wins — God help us — no matter who wins, it’s not over, right? I mean, the government, whatever, we have to figure out a way to bring back Roe v. Wade. We all had to pick causes. This was the cause I chose. So you know what, at the end of the ’50s and ’60s and going into the ’70s, everybody was writing protest songs: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, it was like lots and lots and lots” – Stevie Nicks" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrumo.md b/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrumo.md index 6db050a4..facc3890 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrumo.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrumo.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, republican women endorse Harris] +tags: [Donald Trump, republican women endorse Harris, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-01 12:52 PM excerpt: "“I’m speaking to the woman who feels that tug in their spirit. It’s okay to follow your conscience. And it’s okay to use your voice at the polls this November.”I have not spoken to my uncle, but his voice was a large reason for my speaking out. The world is watching. When church leaders hold Trump up as a representative of our faith, the damage to the Gospel is immense. The world sees the hypocrisy, and the result is [they want] nothing to do with it.” – Jerushah Duford, granddaughter of the late televangelist Billy Graham" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrump.md b/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrump.md index 56544003..f83fc903 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrump.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGrandDaughterAgainstTrump.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, republican women endorse Harris] +tags: [Donald Trump, republican women endorse Harris, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-01 12:52 PM excerpt: "“I’m speaking to the woman who feels that tug in their spirit. It’s okay to follow your conscience. And it’s okay to use your voice at the polls this November.”I have not spoken to my uncle, but his voice was a large reason for my speaking out. The world is watching. When church leaders hold Trump up as a representative of our faith, the damage to the Gospel is immense. The world sees the hypocrisy, and the result is [they want] nothing to do with it.” – Jerushah Duford, granddaughter of the late televangelist Billy Graham" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGranddaughterOpinion.md b/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGranddaughterOpinion.md index e122fbec..106f9ebe 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGranddaughterOpinion.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-01-BillyGrahamGranddaughterOpinion.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Jerusah Duford, evangelical Christians, Franklin Graham, Billy Graham] +tags: [Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Jerusah Duford, evangelical Christians, Franklin Graham, Billy Graham, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-01 12:33 PM excerpt: "For example, one of my grandfather's favorite Bible verses was Micah 6:8, which requires us to love kindness and mercy and to walk humbly. For Trump, however, his notoriety and wealth fuels his ego. While he puts on a façade of religion, he rejects the fundamentals of Christianity. We have seen the ways he treats those who are marginalized, women, and anyone who disagrees with him. Yet, Jesus has told us that “...people will know we are disciples by your love.” (John 13:35). Furthermore he, himself, has admitted that he does not ask for forgiveness from anyone." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-01-ManchurianCandidateMusk.md b/_posts/2024-11-01-ManchurianCandidateMusk.md index 08bf7d73..86119bfa 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-01-ManchurianCandidateMusk.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-01-ManchurianCandidateMusk.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, national security ridk] +tags: [Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, national security risk, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-01 9:44 AM excerpt: '“The policy of the U.S. government is to try to isolate Vladimir Putin, and Elon Musk is directly undercutting that. What is Putin doing with Musk? Putin is trying to reduce his international isolation and impact American foreign policy.” – Bradley Bowman, a former West Point assistant professor who is now senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-01-TrumpHasntPaidBills2019.md b/_posts/2024-11-01-TrumpHasntPaidBills2019.md index 80f70b5d..9f2c2370 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-01-TrumpHasntPaidBills2019.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-01-TrumpHasntPaidBills2019.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, deadbeat, campaign debt, unpaid bills due cities] +tags: [Donald Trump, deadbeat, campaign debt, unpaid bills due cities, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-01 10:22 AM excerpt: "“If you’re not going to pay your bills, we’re just not going to entertain you using city facilities, and that’s the way it should be. With anyone who wants to use any [city-owned] facility … you can’t have money owed to the city. For us to consider the fact that we’re half a million dollars short is something we would do for any candidate or anyone who wants to rent the convention center in general. – Albuquerque mayor Tim Keller" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-01-Twit1MuskTwitLosesAccountsTraffic.md b/_posts/2024-11-01-Twit1MuskTwitLosesAccountsTraffic.md index da822da9..645eaa43 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-01-Twit1MuskTwitLosesAccountsTraffic.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-01-Twit1MuskTwitLosesAccountsTraffic.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [x, Twitter, social media] +tags: [x, Twitter, social media, politics] categories: [Elon Musk] date: 2024-11-01 9:37 AM excerpt: '“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose. Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech.” – wrote Charles Breyer, the US district judge, in the ruling dismissing X/Twitter lawsuit against Center for Countering Digital Hate.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-02-DeathThreat1TrumpTargetsCheney.md b/_posts/2024-11-02-DeathThreat1TrumpTargetsCheney.md index 80fb8080..7c9b6339 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-02-DeathThreat1TrumpTargetsCheney.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-02-DeathThreat1TrumpTargetsCheney.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Liz Cheney, Death Threat, Arizona Attorney General] +tags: [Donald Trump, Liz Cheney, Death Threat, Arizona Attorney General, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-02 8:59 AM excerpt: 'This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-02-TheSilenceOfTheCowards.md b/_posts/2024-11-02-TheSilenceOfTheCowards.md index 0a0641f2..087abc34 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-02-TheSilenceOfTheCowards.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-02-TheSilenceOfTheCowards.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [billionaires, campaign contributions, Elon Musk, Bill Ackermann, Warren Buffet, Robert Johnson, Winklevoss (Cameron & Tyler), Miriam Adelson, Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz, Ike Perlmutter, Richard Uihlein, Jamie Dimon, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Jeff Bezos] +tags: [billionaires, campaign contributions, Elon Musk, Bill Ackermann, Warren Buffet, Robert Johnson, Winklevoss (Cameron & Tyler), Miriam Adelson, Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreesen, Ben Horowitz, Ike Perlmutter, Richard Uihlein, Jamie Dimon, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Jeff Bezos, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-02 4:50 PM excerpt: "With Trump, there is no such thing as an ironclad deal that doesn’t benefit him personally. His appetite for retribution is well-established, and any slight or perceived disloyalty is enough to curry his disfavor." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-02-TrumpNotWorkingManAdvocate.md b/_posts/2024-11-02-TrumpNotWorkingManAdvocate.md index ad5a9ba0..259d82d9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-02-TrumpNotWorkingManAdvocate.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-02-TrumpNotWorkingManAdvocate.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, economics, working-class] +tags: [Donald Trump, economics, working-class, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-02 9:06 AM excerpt: '' diff --git "a/_posts/2024-11-02-ViktorOrb\303\241nTrumpPrivateCitizem.md" "b/_posts/2024-11-02-ViktorOrb\303\241nTrumpPrivateCitizem.md" index f14ecb4b..e5335343 100644 --- "a/_posts/2024-11-02-ViktorOrb\303\241nTrumpPrivateCitizem.md" +++ "b/_posts/2024-11-02-ViktorOrb\303\241nTrumpPrivateCitizem.md" @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, non-sanctioned foreign leaders contact] +tags: [Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, non-sanctioned foreign leaders contact, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-02 5:38 PM excerpt: "It was an honour to visit President [Trump] at Mar-a-Lago today. We discussed ways to make #peace. The good news of the day: he’s going to solve it! – Viktor Orbán, Hungary's dictator" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpAttorneyWantAd.md b/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpAttorneyWantAd.md index 8e8a362f..ffc63e5b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpAttorneyWantAd.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpAttorneyWantAd.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Attorney General, Jeffrey Clark, Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, John Ratcliffe, Jeffrey Jensen, Will Levi, Mike Davis, Kash Patel, Aileen Cannon] +tags: [Donald Trump, Attorney General, Jeffrey Clark, Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, John Ratcliffe, Jeffrey Jensen, Will Levi, Mike Davis, Kash Patel, Aileen Cannon, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-03 12:15 AM excerpt: "“From their perspective, they didn’t do things right the first time. They didn’t clear house enough. There were insiders thwarting their objectives.” – former Trump Justice Department official who requested anonymity to speak candidly about inner workings." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDeclaringVictoryEarlyIsllegal.md b/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDeclaringVictoryEarlyIsllegal.md index 2f882119..c86cac4b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDeclaringVictoryEarlyIsllegal.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDeclaringVictoryEarlyIsllegal.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Trump election theft tactics, Trump election fraud] +tags: [Donald Trump, Trump election theft tactics, Trump election fraud, politics, video] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-03 5:36 PM excerpt: 'What Donald Trump has previously done, which is sort of the account, because he thinks that he may be ahead because of the so-called red mirage. There may be less of a red mirage this time. If there is, what he previously did, they stop the account. Just to be clear, that is illegal to say that. That is a violation of the civil rights statute federally. You will hear exactly that thinking, if you can stop the incoming vote, it will cost the democrats to win. That is illegal. You have to count all votes. I fully expect that if Donald Trump thinks he is ahead at the start, and there are more mail-in ballots and absentee ballots coming in that will favor the democrats. He will be doing exactly what he has already done, which is to say, stop the count, and it is actually voter fraud. In fact, the voter fraud is saying, Don’t count the votes. You say, it is illegal to get up and declare-- stop the accounting, I won.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDumpsterFire.md b/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDumpsterFire.md index a120f02f..f63ac7df 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDumpsterFire.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-03-TrumpDumpsterFire.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Donald Trump, garbage truck publicity stunt, Kamala Harris, George Takei, Star Trek, Mary Trump] -categories: [2024 presidential election] +categories: [2024 presidential election, politics] date: 2024-11-03 2:46 PM excerpt: "“Hm, interesting choice to place the garbage in the front of the truck.” – Mary Trump, psychologist, Donald's niece" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-03-WeekendUpdate.md b/_posts/2024-11-03-WeekendUpdate.md index 65359cbd..fbd708f9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-03-WeekendUpdate.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-03-WeekendUpdate.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, garbage truck, sanitation worker, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update] +tags: [Donald Trump, garbage truck, sanitation worker, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update, politics, video] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-03 5:16 PM excerpt: "Well, next week the American people will decide if the next president will be Kamala Harris or if everyone at SNL will get audited. diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-04-January6CaseloadContinues.md b/_posts/2024-11-04-January6CaseloadContinues.md index ca94eb1f..c8c5009a 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-04-January6CaseloadContinues.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-04-January6CaseloadContinues.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, January 6 2021 Insurrection] +tags: [Donald Trump, January 6 2021 Insurrection, politics] categories: [January 6 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-11-04 1:03 PM excerpt: "[Weeks] assaulted us simply because we were doing our job, tried to steal our equipment and disarmed us to prolong the chaos and incapacitate the officers to hinder our response. My family — my wife and son — nearly got to bury me because I was honoring my oath and being crushed by people like him, by the mob he joined. He knew what he was doing and didn’t care who he was hurting or if the officers had a family or if they were bleeding — as I was, from both my hands. His actions as a member of the mob contributed to the pain that my family and I have suffered, physically, mentally, morally and financially since Jan. 6. – former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, a military veteran who was repeatedly assaulted while protecting the Capito" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-04-MikeLeeFullOfShit.md b/_posts/2024-11-04-MikeLeeFullOfShit.md index a800756e..b4ae401b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-04-MikeLeeFullOfShit.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-04-MikeLeeFullOfShit.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Democrats, Donald Trump, election fraud, election lies] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Democrats, Donald Trump, election fraud, election lies, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-04 12:19 PM excerpt: 'In the global struggle between tyranny and democracy, the President of the United States must always be on the side of freedom. – Kamala Harris' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-04-TimScottIsTrumpsLawnJockey.md b/_posts/2024-11-04-TimScottIsTrumpsLawnJockey.md index 40eee7e8..8e164e09 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-04-TimScottIsTrumpsLawnJockey.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-04-TimScottIsTrumpsLawnJockey.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Tim Scott, Dana Bush, election fraud, Donald Trump, CNN] +tags: [Tim Scott, Dana Bush, election fraud, Donald Trump, CNN, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-04 9:47 AM excerpt: "I appreciate your optimism, that‘s your job on the eve of the election, but what I’m asking about is what if he doesn’t win? And the fact of the matter is that Trump is already spreading false claims about cheating in Pennsylvania. He has repeatedly predicted a massive victory even though polls show that the race is very close. He’s setting the stage for his supporters not to believe the results if he loses. Do you want him stop doing that?" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-04-TrumpNotGoodAtMath.md b/_posts/2024-11-04-TrumpNotGoodAtMath.md index 47decf1b..b8305d4c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-04-TrumpNotGoodAtMath.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-04-TrumpNotGoodAtMath.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline] +tags: [Donald Trump, dementia, cognitive decline, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-04 1:40 PM excerpt: "I'm not 80, and I'm not that close to 80. – the 78-year-old former president" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-05-AntiPsychopathPAC.md b/_posts/2024-11-05-AntiPsychopathPAC.md index 39395c85..0418fb19 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-05-AntiPsychopathPAC.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-05-AntiPsychopathPAC.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, mental instability, cognitive decline, dementia] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, mental instability, cognitive decline, dementia, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-05 2:10 PM excerpt: "Many Americans do not understand that we are on the verge of a type of apocalypse in this country if Trump and his MAGA Republicans and the larger fascist movement win this week’s election. This lack of engagement may be from a lack of information or a failure of imagination. The future of the country is literally at stake. If we go over this cliff there’s no way back. The people who don’t understand the extreme dangers of Trump and MAGA are living in a fool’s paradise. The people who understand how dire this situation is are terrified right now. That is a rational response given the reality of the dangers." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-05-MuskMillionDollarSweepsFraud.md b/_posts/2024-11-05-MuskMillionDollarSweepsFraud.md index a426122b..f567dc6d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-05-MuskMillionDollarSweepsFraud.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-05-MuskMillionDollarSweepsFraud.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, million dollars sweepstakes] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, million dollars sweepstakes, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-05 2:40 PM excerpt: "“This was all a political marketing masquerading as a lottery,” Krasner testified Monday morning. “That’s what it is. A grift. They were scammed for their information,” Krasner said. “It has almost unlimited use.” – Philadelphia District Attorney" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-05-POTUS45Ranking.md b/_posts/2024-11-05-POTUS45Ranking.md index 94aad392..c92f7805 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-05-POTUS45Ranking.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-05-POTUS45Ranking.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, president ranking, history] +tags: [Donald Trump, president ranking, history, politics] categories: [presidential ranking] date: 2024-11-05 8:57 AM excerpt: '' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-05-VOTE.md b/_posts/2024-11-05-VOTE.md index 4299c734..1d6a2010 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-05-VOTE.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-05-VOTE.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Kamala Harris, Democracy] +tags: [Kamala Harris, Democracy, New York Times, editorial, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-05 12:53 PM excerpt: "He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences.” Mr Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-06-FirstStepsToDictatorShip.md b/_posts/2024-11-06-FirstStepsToDictatorShip.md index cf55bbd6..240ffa14 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-06-FirstStepsToDictatorShip.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-06-FirstStepsToDictatorShip.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [president-elect, Donald Trump, constitutional amendments] +tags: [president-elect, Donald Trump, constitutional amendments, politics] categories: [dictatorship] date: 2024-11-06 1:43 PM excerpt: “I know I told you that I would be covering the Trump election night party from Palm Beach but turns out I have pissed off Trump’s campaign manager with my reporting and they decided to deny my credentials. I have been honest and fair this entire time covering this election and I will be now broadcasting in studio with Brian Williams from LA.” Tara Palmeri – Puck" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-06-TrumpsHitList.md b/_posts/2024-11-06-TrumpsHitList.md index 46c2bbfb..c306ea5f 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-06-TrumpsHitList.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-06-TrumpsHitList.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, revenge, retribution, political enemies] +tags: [Donald Trump, revenge, retribution, political enemies, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election results] date: 2024-11-06 10:53 AM excerpt: "Many Trump supporters dismissed the threats as campaign rhetoric aimed at whipping up his base. They noted that his exhortations against his enemies only rarely led to action during his first four years in office. But others — including some of Trump’s closest advisers — have warned ominously that he’s far more likely to follow through in a second term. He won’t be inhibited by the need to run for reelection. He will be emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling that grants presidents broad immunity from criminal accountability after they leave office. And he is expected to be surrounded by aides more willing to dispense with norms to carry out his wishes. @RalphHightower: Trump does not like being told that his idea is wrong, or worse, stupid. His advisers will be staffed with sycophants, brown nosers, ass kissers, boot lickers, and acolytes, yes men." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-07-QuidProQuoTrumpMusk.md b/_posts/2024-11-07-QuidProQuoTrumpMusk.md index 1b65625f..757aa95c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-07-QuidProQuoTrumpMusk.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-07-QuidProQuoTrumpMusk.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla, NRLB, NHTSA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Labor Relations Board] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla, NRLB, NHTSA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Labor Relations Board, politics] categories: [federal government graft] date: 2024-11-07 1:31 PM excerpt: '"The relationship that Elon Musk has with the federal government is unprecedented." – Stephen Diamond, a professor at Santa Clara University Law School' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-08-GoodbyeDemocracy.md b/_posts/2024-11-08-GoodbyeDemocracy.md index 6d366cef..6689c06d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-08-GoodbyeDemocracy.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-08-GoodbyeDemocracy.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, autocracy, kleptocracy, united states] +tags: [Donald Trump, autocracy, kleptocracy, united states, politics] categories: [2025 president-elect] date: 2024-11-08 3:47 PM excerpt: "In 2016, we could all pretend that Trump was an aberration. Not this time. People knew exactly what they were voting for. Democracy just isn’t that high on the list of priorities. The likely chaos of the last two years of Trump’s upcoming term may become fertile ground for a populist demagogue. A billionaire who flouts the laws that apply to everyone else and hands out pardons and special deals to his cronies while ordinary people suffer is a tempting foil if you want to whip up popular anger. For 250 years we have had this quaint notion that democracy was an end in itself. But all good autocrats know that democracy is just a tool to be discarded when it’s no longer useful." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-08-Jan6DefendentThreatensJudge.md b/_posts/2024-11-08-Jan6DefendentThreatensJudge.md index e284c15c..2869a06f 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-08-Jan6DefendentThreatensJudge.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-08-Jan6DefendentThreatensJudge.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, election fraud, election theft, election certification] +tags: [Donald Trump, election fraud, election theft, election certification, politics] categories: [January 6, 2021 Insurrection] date: 2024-11-08 8:55 PM excerpt: 'As I look at this from a thousand foot perspective, I find it important to renew my warning from ECF No. 329, that, wielding extreme government force can lead to a dangerous cycle of escalating retribution as control of the government continues changing hands. – William Pope, Topeka, KS' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-08-TrumpPlansToPitMilitaryAgainstAmericans.md b/_posts/2024-11-08-TrumpPlansToPitMilitaryAgainstAmericans.md index 4d3909b0..5f81af5e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-08-TrumpPlansToPitMilitaryAgainstAmericans.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-08-TrumpPlansToPitMilitaryAgainstAmericans.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, deploy military US soil, enemy within] +tags: [Donald Trump, deploy military US soil, enemy within, politics] categories: [Trump politicizing American military on US soil against citizens] date: 2024-11-08 excerpt: 'The thought of Trump exacting retribution by politicizing the American military should terrify us all.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-08-VanceFictionalMemoir.md b/_posts/2024-11-08-VanceFictionalMemoir.md index 14ea514c..a1da8bd7 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-08-VanceFictionalMemoir.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-08-VanceFictionalMemoir.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Donald Trump, Melania Trump, JD Vance, Usha Vance Appalachia] -categories: [president-elect, vp-elect, wives] +categories: [president-elect, vp-elect, wives, politics] date: 2024-11-08 4:56 PM excerpt: 'Vance is not Appalachian. He was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, well outside any maps of the distinct geographical and cultural region. Trump picking this Rust Belt charlatan as his running mate Monday sparked a resounding and unifying rant among conservative and liberal hillbillies alike in my social media feed: We do not acknowledge him. – Willie Carver' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-08-WivesOfTrumpVance.md b/_posts/2024-11-08-WivesOfTrumpVance.md index 957568c7..7e0de4b0 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-08-WivesOfTrumpVance.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-08-WivesOfTrumpVance.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [personalities, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, JD Vance, Usha Vance] +tags: [personalities, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, JD Vance, Usha Vance, politics] categories: [2025 President-Elect, 2025 VP-elect] date: 2024-11-08 1:41 PM excerpt: 'Trump is angry and vitriolic, while Melania is purse-lipped and stoic; he is emotionally incontinent, while she often appears to be in emotional rigor mortis; he is behaviorally uninhibited and says whatever he wants, while she is studiously reserved, perhaps because she has very little to say.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpBankruptEthicallyMorally.md b/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpBankruptEthicallyMorally.md index 8520eea1..c1676bb8 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpBankruptEthicallyMorally.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpBankruptEthicallyMorally.md @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [corruption, kleptocracy] +tags: [corruption, kleptocracy, politics] categories: [Donald Trump] date: 2024-11-09 1:24 PM excerpt: 'Until the Trump transition signs that document, the Biden administration is legally barred from providing it with the security clearances needed to share classified intelligence and national defense briefings. It also cannot give transition employees physical access to the 438 different federal agencies that they will soon control, and it cannot allow them to review their files. But by law, that agreement cannot be signed until an ethics plan that conforms to federal statute is submitted to the White House and posted online, creating something of a game of chicken between the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump transition.' #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: -title: 'Trump Is Bankrupt, Morally and Ethically. Refuses to Sign Ethics Statement Legislated Prompted By His Lifetime of Lies' +title: 'Trump Is Bankrupt, Morally and Ethically. Refuses to Sign Ethics Statement Legislated Prompted By His --- diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpCivilCasesCouldContinue.md b/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpCivilCasesCouldContinue.md index 371926ce..4b859af1 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpCivilCasesCouldContinue.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-09-TrumpCivilCasesCouldContinue.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [civil court, judgements] +tags: [civil court, judgements, politics] categories: [president-elect Donald Trump] date: 2024-11-09 4:25 PM excerpt: "“No matter what the next administration throws at us, we’re ready. We’re ready to respond to their attacks. So despite what has happened on the national stage, we will continue to stand tall in the face of injustice, revenge, retribution.” – Letitia James, New York Attorney General" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-09-TwitMuskWorseBusinessDeal.md b/_posts/2024-11-09-TwitMuskWorseBusinessDeal.md index 73b83aae..2cdf80a5 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-09-TwitMuskWorseBusinessDeal.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-09-TwitMuskWorseBusinessDeal.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [X, Twitter, worse business deal, social media] +tags: [X, Twitter, worse business deal, social media, politics] categories: [Elon Musk] date: 2024-11-09 12:56 PM excerpt: 'The company under his tenure has had a fraught relationship with advertisers—which provide the majority of its revenue—with Musk telling some to “go fuck yourself” after they abandoned the site. X also sued an advertising coalition and some of its members earlier this month alleging it conspired a boycott of the platform that cost the company billions of dollars.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-10-ArizonaAGContinuesAheadWithFalseElectorsSceme.md b/_posts/2024-11-10-ArizonaAGContinuesAheadWithFalseElectorsSceme.md index b536bc1f..8c8f4eac 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-10-ArizonaAGContinuesAheadWithFalseElectorsSceme.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-10-ArizonaAGContinuesAheadWithFalseElectorsSceme.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Arizona Attorney General, Kris Mayes, false Electoral College scam, Rudy Giuliani, Kelli Ward, Michael Ward, Anthony Kern, Jake Hoffman, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle, Loraine Pellegrino, Greg Safsten, Christina Bobb, Tyler Bowyer, Jim Lamon, Mike Roman, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, John Eastman] +tags: [Arizona Attorney General, Kris Mayes, false Electoral College scam, Rudy Giuliani, Kelli Ward, Michael Ward, Anthony Kern, Jake Hoffman, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle, Loraine Pellegrino, Greg Safsten, Christina Bobb, Tyler Bowyer, Jim Lamon, Mike Roman, Jenna Ellis, Christina Bobb, John Eastman, politics] categories: [2020 presidential election fraud] date: 2024-11-10 6:12 PM excerpt: "“I have no intention of breaking that case up. I have no intention of dropping that case. A grand jury in the state of Arizona decided that these individuals who engaged in an attempt to overthrow our democracy in 2020 should be held accountable, so we won’t be cowed, we won’t be intimidated.” – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-10-ItsOnlyElectionFraudWhenTrumpLoses.md b/_posts/2024-11-10-ItsOnlyElectionFraudWhenTrumpLoses.md index 88f33dd0..920be817 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-10-ItsOnlyElectionFraudWhenTrumpLoses.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-10-ItsOnlyElectionFraudWhenTrumpLoses.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, election fraud, Kamala Harris, election integrity] +tags: [Donald Trump, election fraud, Kamala Harris, election integrity, politics] categories: [2024 presidential election] date: 2024-11-10 8:41 PM excerpt: '"There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinformation. Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure." – Seth Bluestein, the Republican City Commissioner in Philadelphia, posted on X.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-10-WhatFanBoiMuskWantsFromTrump.md b/_posts/2024-11-10-WhatFanBoiMuskWantsFromTrump.md index eadcfcaf..2535db9b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-10-WhatFanBoiMuskWantsFromTrump.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-10-WhatFanBoiMuskWantsFromTrump.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, kickbacks, political favors, AI, Tesla, H1B Visa, skilled immigrants, electric vehicles, autonomous driving, China, Starlink] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, kickbacks, political favors, AI, Tesla, H1B Visa, skilled immigrants, electric vehicles, autonomous driving, China, Starlink, politics] categories: [2025 president-elect Donald Trump] date: 2024-11-10 4:56 PM excerpt: "The Tesla CEO played a pivotal role in securing a second Trump presidency. Here’s where he stands on the issues." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-11-ArizonaAttorneyGeneralStandsHerGround.md b/_posts/2024-11-11-ArizonaAttorneyGeneralStandsHerGround.md index eba06b87..e2ea629c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-11-ArizonaAttorneyGeneralStandsHerGround.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-11-ArizonaAttorneyGeneralStandsHerGround.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Arizona Attorney General, Kris Mayes, Donald Trump] +tags: [Arizona Attorney General, Kris Mayes, Donald Trump, politics] categories: [2020 presidential election fraud] date: 2024-11-11 5:20 PM excerpt: "This is a time for patriots to stand up for our Constitution, for us to remember that millions of Americans fought and sacrificed and died for our Constitution. And just because, you know, I don't even know how to describe the individual, would say those disgusting things about the top law enforcement officer of the state of New York, just because they say those things doesn't mean we are going to stand down. – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-11-FuckConstitutionTrumpWantsHitlersGenerals.md b/_posts/2024-11-11-FuckConstitutionTrumpWantsHitlersGenerals.md index 0be249df..cf14515c 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-11-FuckConstitutionTrumpWantsHitlersGenerals.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-11-FuckConstitutionTrumpWantsHitlersGenerals.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [president-elect Donald Trump, Department of Defense] +tags: [president-elect Donald Trump, Department of Defense, politics] categories: [2025 American Apocalypse] date: 2024-11-11 5:10 PM excerpt: '"He will destroy the Department of Defense, frankly. He will go in and he will dismiss generals who stand up for the Constitution." – Jack Reed, Democrat who leads the Senate Armed Services Committee' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-11-TheApprenticeWhiteHouse2025Unhenged.md b/_posts/2024-11-11-TheApprenticeWhiteHouse2025Unhenged.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b439db70 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-11-11-TheApprenticeWhiteHouse2025Unhenged.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [wacky ideas, conspiracy theories, politics] +categories: [2025 presidential turnover] +date: 2024-11-11 8:27 PM +excerpt: "He has suggested potential prosecutions of many dozens of political foes. He tried to target his political foes plenty in his first term — often privately and without the investigations leading to charges. He might be less burdened by the propriety of that this time around. Trump has regularly claimed that the Biden administration is behind his own criminal prosecutions, even as there’s no evidence of political influence. He says he has “every right” to seek prosecutions himself." +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'The Apprentice: White House 2025 Unhenged' +--- + + +## [Americans elected Trump. They might not like what comes next.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/11/americans-elected-trump-they-might-not-like-what-comes-next/) + +Story by Aaron Blake. November 11, 2024. + +With the recent Supreme Court ruling that provides presidents with broad immunity from criminal acts as long as it is official acts, presidents can command actions irregardless of whether it is constitutional or even violates federal laws. + +- **Mass Deportations** Polls showed Americans were about evenly split: 56 percent to 43 percent. A recent CNN poll asked people to choose between the two, and registered voters chose a path to legal status over deporting all undocumented immigrants by a 2-to-1 margin. There’s also the matter of people potentially liking this better in theory than in practice. Deporting millions of people would be an arduous and expensive enterprise that could involve separating families, expelling friends and neighbors of many Americans, and raising prices by cutting off a huge segment of the labor force. And then there are the costs. Another recent poll showed just 31 percent of people thought mass deportation would increase prices. But it would come with a hefty price tag for the government and the economy, potentially in the trillions. +- **January 6, 2021 Pardons[^21]** Trump has pledged to pardon at least some Jan. 6, 2021, defendants. It’s not clear how many, and Trump’s campaign has said it would be handled on a “case by case” basis. + - 69-31% A CNN poll early this year showed Americans opposed pardons for “most” Jan. 6 defendants. + - 62-38% A CBS News-YouGov poll around the same time showed Americans broadly opposed such pardons on a smaller scale + - 70-30% Americans, excluding a noisy segment of Trumpers (formerly known as Republicans), thought their sentences were about right or not harsh enough. +- **Firing Civil Servants** Government services would be severely impacted. Social Security. Medicare. Medicaid. FEMA. NASA. Courts. Prisons. Swapping out federal employees when there is a presidential turnover is not just dumb. It's fucking dumb. Gone would be the knowledge base with each mass purge/hiring. Unemployment would spike +Government employees may not be the most sympathetic characters. And much depends on the scale. But these are overwhelming margins that suggest anything amounting to a wide-scale purge would be met with strong opposition. Trump has spoken about wanting to be able to fire nonpartisan civil servants who aren’t loyal to him — what he refers to as “rogue bureaucrats” — possibly en masse. Just so %rump can hire sycophants, ass-kissers, brown-nosers, and boot-lickers. + - 49-28% Just 9 percent strongly supported the idea. A May poll from Ipsos showed Americans opposed allowing a president to fire civil servants at will + - 67-11% firing civil servants for expressing disagreement with administration policy + - 63-15% doing their job in a way the president doesn’t like +- **Tariffs** Trump has proposed a 10 to 20 percent across-the-board tariff on imports and a 60 to 100 percent tariff on Chinese imports. A February poll from YouGov showed just 61 percent of people who said they wanted increased tariffs stood by that support when tariffs were attached to higher prices for American consumers. Tariffs can protect American industry, but they generally do lead to inflation — possibly high inflation, depending on the scale of what Trump does. +- **Reducing Ukraine Aid[^51]** Trump’s posture toward Ukraine’s war effort is more nebulous than a lot of people appreciate. But he has suggested he will scale back support and has declined to even take Ukraine’s side over Russia in the conflict. + - Those positions are out of step with the American public. While many on the right and some in the middle — around 3 in 10 Americans — want to cut funding, significantly more Americans say our current level of support is “not enough” or “about right,” generally around half. The American people also overwhelmingly say they want Ukraine to win. And a strong majority of Americans are broadly fearful of the threat Russia poses to the United States. + - The downside here for Trump would seem to be that a lack of support eventually makes Russia loom larger in Americans’ minds and creates a more tense situation in Eastern Europe. +- **Prosecuting Polical Rivals/Enemies[^61]** Trump has sent mixed signals on this, too. But he has suggested potential prosecutions of many dozens of political foes. He tried to target his political foes plenty in his first term — often privately and without the investigations leading to charges. He might be less burdened by the propriety of that this time around. Trump has regularly claimed that the Biden administration is behind his own criminal prosecutions, even as there’s no evidence of political influence. He says he has “every right” to seek prosecutions himself. + - Opposed + - 68-31% Americans opposed him directing the Justice Department to investigate his political rivals. + - 73-26% Independents opposed it even more. +- **Targeting Vaccines** Trump has long espoused vaccine skepticism, and now he’s talking about giving significant power to one of the country’s foremost vaccine critics, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Like Trump, Kennedy suggests a link between vaccines and autism, a link scientists have not found in study after study. Exactly what Trump and Kennedy might do isn’t clear. But Trump’s transition co-chairman Howard Lutnick recently suggested Kennedy could use whatever position he gets to demonstrate that vaccines aren’t safe and get them pulled from the market. RFK-Jr is an antu-vaxxer crackpot who believes the widely debunked conspiracy that vaccines cause autism. Vaccine skepticism took off on the right when the coronavirus vaccines hit the market. But that anti-vaccine fervor has increasingly ensnared other vaccines and led to more opposition to vaccine mandates. A recent Gallup survey showed that only half of Americans think the government should mandate vaccinations for conditions like measles — down sharply from the 1990s. And the problem with getting rid of vaccines or even just mandates is that diseases tend to reemerge. When Republicans in some states in recent years flirted with revisiting their mandates for non-covid vaccines, they quickly backed off. People might like the idea of choice, but they also tend to line up behind mandates when there is a clear and present danger to the public health. A good example of that: When covid was raging, Americans strongly supported such mandates. + - Americans also overwhelmingly believe that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, for one, is safe and valuable, with 9 in 10 saying the benefits outweigh the risks. + - There's also vaccines for polio, smallpox, flu. Those that were born before the chickenpox vaccine face a threat in their later years: shingles. + +[^21]: @RalphHightower: The January 6, 2021 Insurrection was not a *"love fest"* as Trump called it. It was a God-damned fucking riot/mayhem. It wasn't Woodstock! 140 Capitol Police Officers were attacked; a few lost their life. + +[^51]: @RalphHightower: Ukraine is a democracy. Sure, Trump idolizes dictators like Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and pen-pals with Kim Jung-un. Europe are our allies. We joined with them in World War I and II. + +[^61]: @RalphHightower: Damn it! This is **America. Land of the Free, and Brave!** This ain't Russia or North Korea, where one can jail or kill dissenters just because you perceive them ax political enemies. We are a nation of laws! diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-11-TrumpKleptocracy2025BiggerNoGuardrails.md b/_posts/2024-11-11-TrumpKleptocracy2025BiggerNoGuardrails.md index 468734e8..b229a12e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-11-TrumpKleptocracy2025BiggerNoGuardrails.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-11-TrumpKleptocracy2025BiggerNoGuardrails.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, government corruption, government fraud] +tags: [Donald Trump, government corruption, government fraud, politics] categories: [2025 presidential transition] date: 2024-11-11 3:28 PM excerpt: "Mr. Trump’s transition team was required to submit the ethics plan by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act. While the transition team’s leadership has privately drafted an ethics code and a conflict-of-interest statement governing its staff, those documents do not include language, required under the law, that explains how Mr. Trump himself will address conflicts of interest during his presidency." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-12-DeployMilitaryOnEnemyWithinUSSoil.md b/_posts/2024-11-12-DeployMilitaryOnEnemyWithinUSSoil.md index 0000dec0..c007aa79 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-12-DeployMilitaryOnEnemyWithinUSSoil.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-12-DeployMilitaryOnEnemyWithinUSSoil.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [enemy within, deploy military on US citizens] +tags: [enemy within, deploy military on US citizens, video, politics] categories: [2025 president-elect Donald Trump] date: 2024-11-12 2:35 PM excerpt: 'The Associated Press had a related report on this, taking stock of the bigger picture: “During his first term as president, Donald Trump tested the limits of how he could use the military to achieve policy goals. If given a second term, the Republican and his allies are preparing to go much further, reimagining the military as an all-powerful tool to deploy on U.S. soil.”' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-12-MuskStiflesHisCriticsNotFreeSpeech.md b/_posts/2024-11-12-MuskStiflesHisCriticsNotFreeSpeech.md index 069512c2..5a3fd58d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-12-MuskStiflesHisCriticsNotFreeSpeech.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-12-MuskStiflesHisCriticsNotFreeSpeech.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [X-Twitter, Elon Musk, social media] -categories: [First Amendment, Free Speech, Elon Musk] +tags: [First Amendment, Free Speech, X-Twitter, Elon Musk, social media, politics] +categories: [Elon Musk] date: 2024-11-12 5:08 PM excerpt: "“Elon Musk is an incredibly thin-skinned man who’s incapable of taking honest criticism, even when based on verifiable facts, and has already weaponized courts to try and punish his perceived enemies. We live in a country of checks and balances, and we have faith in our judicial system and in the freedoms afforded to us by the Constitution,” Ahmed said." #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-12-TheDevilSentThisCaseToGeorgia.md b/_posts/2024-11-12-TheDevilSentThisCaseToGeorgia.md index b0ea4350..086d9708 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-12-TheDevilSentThisCaseToGeorgia.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-12-TheDevilSentThisCaseToGeorgia.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Georgia, Mark Meadows, state crimes] +tags: [Georgia, Mark Meadows, state crimes, politics] categories: [2020 presidential election fraud] date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15 excerpt: 'A U.S. district judge and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals both ruled that the case against Meadows and some of his co-defendants should remain in state court. A federal judge has also refused to move an Arizona fake elector case against him there to federal court.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-13-BoltonAssessesTrumpNominations.md b/_posts/2024-11-13-BoltonAssessesTrumpNominations.md index e4542644..1644a198 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-13-BoltonAssessesTrumpNominations.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-13-BoltonAssessesTrumpNominations.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, 2025 president, fealty, sycophants, John Bolton] +tags: [Donald Trump, 2025 president, fealty, sycophants, John Bolton, politics] categories: [2025 Trump Cabinet Picks] date: 2024-11-13 3:11 PM excerpt: "“I do think there’s a group of people who think that they are going to be able to screen out people, not on the basis of philosophy so much as on their attitude toward the president. And the word loyalty is often used. I think that’s the wrong word. Actually, I think what [Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) wants from his advisors is fealty, really a futile sense of subservience. And you know, he may get that, but I will tell you that that will not serve him well over the course of his next term, and it certainly won’t serve the country well.” – John Bolton, diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-13-TrumpPlanJan6Pardons.md b/_posts/2024-11-13-TrumpPlanJan6Pardons.md index 335a4390..3a80aa1e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-13-TrumpPlanJan6Pardons.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-13-TrumpPlanJan6Pardons.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: post tags: [Donald Trump, pardons, Ty Cobb] -categories: [January 6 2021 Insurrection] +categories: [January 6 2021 Insurrection, politics] date: 2024-11-13 10:24 AM excerpt: "“It is highly possible that Trump will go forward with these pardons. But the move would further demean the rule of law to those of us in this country, and it’s not going to go unseen around the world. I mean, this is the type of conduct that, when viewed internationally, makes it impossible to distinguish the United States from a third-world country or, you know, a South American dictatorship. This is really lawlessness of the highest order, and there’s no principal basis for it. I think it’d be a very sad event.” – Ty Cobb, former White House Trump attorney. " #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-13-TwitterTooToxic.md b/_posts/2024-11-13-TwitterTooToxic.md index 3c433a77..72411885 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-13-TwitterTooToxic.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-13-TwitterTooToxic.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Elon Musk, X, Twitter, The Guardian, social media] +tags: [Elon Musk, X, Twitter, The Guardian, social media, politics] categories: [Elon Musk] date: 2024-11-13 11:39 AM excerpt: '"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere. This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse. Social media can be an important tool for news organisations and help us to reach new audiences but, at this point, X now plays a diminished role in promoting our work." – The Guardian.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-15-DOGEIsDEAD.md b/_posts/2024-11-15-DOGEIsDEAD.md index 2e28bc80..18ece66b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-15-DOGEIsDEAD.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-15-DOGEIsDEAD.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, sycophants] +tags: [Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, sycophants, politics] categories: [2025 Trump Administration, Department Of Government Efficiency] date: 2024-11-15 11:06 AM excerpt: '' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-15-DoctorRobertFKJrDeathsHHS.md b/_posts/2024-11-15-DoctorRobertFKJrDeathsHHS.md index 8e2a647f..8b2f9a06 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-15-DoctorRobertFKJrDeathsHHS.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-15-DoctorRobertFKJrDeathsHHS.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump, Health Human Services] +tags: [Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump, Health Human Services, politics] categories: [2025 Trump Administration] date: 2024-11-15 10:27 AM excerpt: "RFK Jr. is one of the most dangerous, misguided, and hypocritical figures in the global 'wellness' movement. He has said that there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective. He has no idea how science or chemistry work. This is a disaster waiting to happen.– Mike Rothschild, journalist" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-15-HowToHandleChildMeltdowns.md b/_posts/2024-11-15-HowToHandleChildMeltdowns.md index 455e4378..473e2f79 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-15-HowToHandleChildMeltdowns.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-15-HowToHandleChildMeltdowns.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, immature, spoiled brat] +tags: [Donald Trump, immature, spoiled brat, politics] categories: [Trumper Tantrums] date: 2024-11-15 9:52 AM excerpt: 'When Trump doesn’t get his way, it can lead to dramatic scenes: rolling on the floor, screaming, crying, or even throwing objects in frustration. As adults, knowing how to handle these moments with care is essential. Trumper Tantrums are common during development, typically occurring between ages 18 months and 84 years. These emotional outbursts arise when Trump feels frustrated by external limits that hinder his desires. During a Trumper Tantrum, Trump might roll on the floor, scream, throw, or kick in a burst of emotion. The length of these episodes can vary based on the Trump’s personality and the situation, with severe cases sometimes leading to breath-holding.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-16-MattGaetzPettingZooDOJ.md b/_posts/2024-11-16-MattGaetzPettingZooDOJ.md index eae45fc4..394891a6 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-16-MattGaetzPettingZooDOJ.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-16-MattGaetzPettingZooDOJ.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Department of Justice, Attorney General, Matt Gaetz] +tags: [Department of Justice, Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, politics, video] categories: [2025 Trump Cabinet] date: 2024-11-16 10:17 AM excerpt: "‘He will turn DOJ into a petting zoo for Trump’: Fmr. DOJ official sounds off on Gaetz's nomination." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-16-MuskDeepfakes.md b/_posts/2024-11-16-MuskDeepfakes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a0a60ab --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-11-16-MuskDeepfakes.md @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [deepfakes, California, legislation intelligence, election fraud, politics] +categories: [Elon Musk] +date: 2024-11-16 10:59 AM +excerpt: "The focus on election deepfakes came after Newsom sparred online with Musk, who shared a viral video of Vice President Kamala Harris that used AI to alter what the Democrat said in one of her campaign ads. Republican Donald Trump, who had Musk's strong backing in his successful run to reclaim the presidency, also posted deepfake images of Taylor Swift that falsely suggested the megastar had endorsed him." +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "Elon Musk Doesn’t Want to be Criminally Liable For Election Fraud Using AI Deepfakes" +--- + + +## [Elon Musk's X sues to block California law that aims to combat election deepfakes](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-11-15/elon-musks-x-sues-to-block-california-law-that-aims-to-combat-election-deepfakes) + +Story by Queenie Wong. November 15, 2024. + +X, the social media app owned by [Elon Musk](https://x com/elonmusk), has sued California in an attempt to block a new law requiring large online platforms to remove or label deceptive election content. + +The lawsuit, filed in federal court this week, targets a law that aims to combat harmful videos, images and audio that have been altered or created with artificial intelligence. Known as deepfakes, this type of content can make it appear as if a person said or did something they didn't. The law is scheduled to take effect Jan.1. + +Assembly Bill 2655 was one of three bills California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law this year to address growing concerns about deepfakes ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. California lawmakers have been trying to mitigate technology's potential risks but also face backlash from powerful tech executives wary of efforts they see as possibly restricting users' online speech. + +The focus on election deepfakes came after Newsom sparred online with [Musk](https://x com/elonmusk), who shared a viral video of Vice President Kamala Harris that used AI to alter what the Democrat said in one of her campaign ads. Republican Donald Trump, who had [Musk](https://x com/elonmusk)'s strong backing in his successful run to reclaim the presidency, also posted deepfake images of Taylor Swift that falsely suggested the megastar had endorsed him. + +X alleges the new law would prompt social media sites to lean toward labeling or removing legitimate election content out of caution. + +"This system will inevitably result in the censorship of wide swaths of valuable political speech and commentary," the lawsuit states. + +According to the lawsuit, the law runs afoul of free speech protections in the U.S. Constitution and a federal law known as Section 230, which shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content. X, which moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas this year, is suing California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber to block the law. + +"The California Department of Justice has been and will continue to vigorously defend AB 2655 in court," a spokesperson for Bonta said in a statement. + +X didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, and the secretary of state's office said the agency doesn't comment on pending litigation. + +Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park), who introduced AB 2655, said in a statement that he had reached out to X representatives to gather feedback about the legislation before lawmakers voted on it. + +“I had hoped they would engage constructively with me during the legislative process. I was not surprised when they did not. I defer to the DOJ on any lawsuits,” Berman said in a statement. + +Newsom's office noted that AB 2655, known as the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, exempts parody and satire content. The governor's office said it's confident the state will prevail in court. + +“Deepfakes threaten the integrity of our elections, and these new laws protect our democracy while preserving free speech — in a manner no more stringent than those in other states, including deep-red Alabama and Mississippi," Tara Gallegos, a spokesperson for the governor, said in a statement. + +X, though, alleges it would be difficult for social media companies to determine whether a user's post was meant in jest, noting that opinions on the AI-altered video of Harris differed. + +X along with social media giants such as Facebook's parent company Meta, TikTok and Google-owned YouTube have policies about manipulated media. X's rules bar users from sharing deceptive manipulated media that could lead to harm and says that in some cases this content may be labeled. + +Although [Musk](https://x com/elonmusk) has declared himself a "free speech absolutist," the company's approach to enforcing the platform’s rules is to restrict the reach of potentially offensive posts rather than pull them down. However, regulators, civil rights groups and users have criticized social media platforms, including X, for not doing enough to enforce their own rules. + +With an increase in AI-generated election misinformation appearing on social media, the laws passed in the run-up to this month's election were meant to bolster one California already had on the books, which bars people from distributing deceptive audio or visual media intended to harm a candidate’s reputation or deceive a voter within several weeks of an election. + +In October, a federal judge blocked another of those laws, Assembly Bill 2839, while a legal challenge to it plays out. That law would prohibit the distribution of deceptive campaign ads or “election communication” within 120 days of an election. + +And X has tried to block new California laws that target social media platforms before. Last year, [Musk](https://x com/elonmusk) sued over another state law that requires platforms to disclose how they moderate content. X failed to block AB 587 but then won an appeal in September. diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpAdminAxeVeteranHealth.md b/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpAdminAxeVeteranHealth.md index e40cd767..f31c839d 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpAdminAxeVeteranHealth.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpAdminAxeVeteranHealth.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [privatize, VeteransAffairs, Pete Hegseth] +tags: [privatize, VeteransAffairs, Pete Hegseth, politics, video] categories: [2025 Trump Administration] date: 2024-11-16 11:25 AM excerpt: '' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpRetributionPresident.md b/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpRetributionPresident.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce19a3c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-11-16-TrumpRetributionPresident.md @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Trump Cabinet, loyalists, acolytes, sycophants, misfits, unqualified, politics] +categories: [47 president-elect Donald Trump] +date: 2024-11-16 10:48 AM +excerpt: "''Trump’s first wave of cabinet nominations and White House appointments, within the week after he won the 2024 presidential election, have stunned members of Congress, veterans and active-duty service members, public health advocates and democratic advocates, who have warned for years that he is building a government of loyalists to fulfill his campaign-trail promises to deliver “retribution” by destroying the “deep state.”" +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: 'The Apprentice: White House – The Wrsth of Trump' +--- + + +## [Trump warned his second term would mean ‘retribution’. His alarming cabinet picks show he means it](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-cabinet-picks-gaetz-kennedy-gabbard-b2647524.html) +Story by Alex Woodward. November 15, 2024. + +- **Controversial Appointments**: Donald Trump's initial cabinet nominations after winning the 2024 presidential election include individuals with controversial backgrounds and views, such as Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Matt Gaetz. +- **Public and Expert Reactions**: These appointments have sparked significant concern and criticism from various sectors, including Congress, veterans, public health advocates, and democratic advocates. +- **Potential Impacts**: Critics warn that these appointments could undermine national security, public health, and the integrity of federal law enforcement. +- **Trump's Agenda**: The appointments align with Trump's campaign promises to challenge the "deep state" and fulfill his pledge of "retribution" against his perceived enemies. + +A Fox News host who lobbied Donald Trump to pardon troops accused of war crimes and doesn’t want women serving in combat could be leading the nation’s military. An accused sexual predator who has taken up Trump’s promise to destroy his political rivals could be the nation’s top law enforcement officer. A prolific conspiracy theorist who doesn’t hold a single medical or public health degree but plans to immediately halt vaccine development could be in charge of the nation’s health agencies. + +An Evangelical preacher who espouses end-times theology and has said “there’s no such thing as a Palestinian” could be the nation’s ambassador to Israel. A former congresswoman who secretly met with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and has blamed US and NATO for Russia’s assault in Ukraine could direct the nation’s intelligence. The world’s wealthiest man will recommend drastic cuts to the government’s budget in a made-up “efficiency” agency. + +Two of his attorneys who are actively overseeing his hush money case, which led to Trump’s 34 criminal convictions, have been nominated for top roles at the Department of Justice. The lawyer who got him “immunity” at the Supreme Court will be solicitor general. + +Trump’s first wave of cabinet nominations and White House appointments, within the week after he won the 2024 presidential election, have stunned members of Congress, veterans and active-duty service members, public health advocates and democratic advocates, who have warned for years that he is building a government of loyalists to fulfill his campaign-trail promises to deliver “retribution” by destroying the “deep state.” + +They’re shocking choices, but they shouldn’t be surprising. When Trump formally launched his 2024 campaign from Waco, Texas, he declared himself a “warrior” and the election a “final battle.” + +“To those who have been wronged and betrayed, of which there are many people out there, I will be your retribution,” he said. + +There is no secret plan or conspiracy theory at work; putting an enemy of the “deep state” in charge of it, creating an agency named after a meme, naming widely loathed congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general — it’s the trolling as politics that Trump’s movement inspired. It’s an absurd attack on the institutions that Trump despises, and they’re laughing all the way to the White House. It’s what he campaigned on, and he’s fulfilling his campaign promises. + +He has repeatedly pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, and he’s filling it with an army of loyalists left in its wake. But the punchlines will have consequences. + +Tulsi Gabbard, who is nominated as director of national intelligence, said Trump’s election was a “mandate for change.” + +“Of course there’s going to be resistance from the swamp in Washington — I think that’s kind of the point,” he told Fox News on November 14. “The American people are saying, Hey, stop looking at yourselves, stop focusing on your own power, your own positions, your own bank accounts. How about we have leaders in Washington who are actually looking out for the American people?” + +Olivia Troye, a former homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, said Gabbard’s nomination is a “slap in the face to intel officers, but that’s the point given Trump’s disdain for our national security community.” + +“Having a Russian propagandist who spreads fringe conspiracies at the helm will likely lead to our allies refraining from sharing intel with us,” she said. “It will weaken our security posture [and] make us more susceptible to terrorist attacks on our homeland.” + +If she is confirmed by the Senate, Gabbard will “demoralize the hell out of everyone” in national intelligence and the active duty service members and federal law enforcement officers relying on her leadership, according to Kris Goldsmith, CEO of veterans’ anti-extremism group Task Force Butler and its Vets Fighting Fascism project. + +“They’re not going to be able to trust their own boss,” he told The Independent. “She is a danger, and she’s more likely to side with Assad and Putin than she is with the people of the United States.” + +Trump nominated anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting a conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation’s public health agencies, with the potential to upend vital research and derail life-saving vaccine development and distribution. + +Kennedy has previously declared that “there’s no vaccine that is safe and effective” and chaired the group Children’s Health Defense, which claimed that there is a “parallel between rising disease rates and the increasing number of childhood vaccines is hard to ignore.” + +He also supports removing fluoride from water supplies, based on Cold War-era conspiracy theories, which health professionals say if put into practice would rot the nation’s teeth. + +The department oversees critical public health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Food and Drug Administration. + +When he was running for president, Kennedy said he would immediately tell NIH to stop drug development and infectious disease research for eight years, and instead study chronic disease. + +Kennedy has also speculated that exposure to chemicals in tap water or the environment could be making children question their sexuality or gender identity — amplifying a conspiracy theory infamously raised by Alex Jones, who said tap water is “turning the friggin’ frogs gay.” + +His nomination is “disastrous for public health,” according to Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for public health at Georgia University Law Center. + +Doctors and public health advocates have been sounding the alarm for months over their grave concerns that Kennedy — as president or the nation’s top health officials — could be in a powerful position to cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of life-saving medicine, and potentially accelerate a trend of parents rejecting vaccinations for their children. + +Gaetz is widely expected to deliver the “vengeance” Trump has vowed against those he believes have wronged him and his supporters, including the end of criminal cases against the former president and potential prosecutions for the people who were leading them. + +“I don’t care if it takes every second of our time and every ounce of our energy,” Gaetz told the Conservative Political Action Conference last year. “We either get this government back on our side or we defund and … abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF, DOJ, every last one of ’em if they do not come to heel.” + +He resigned from the House of Represenatives moments after Trump announced him for attorney general, while a looming House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that he raped a teenager – something he has repeatedly denied – was set to be released. + +Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and current district attorney for New York’s Westchester County, anticipates “mass resignations” across the nation’s law enforcement agencies if Gaetz is confirmed, emptying out the offices that prosecute corruption, civil rights abuses and national security threats. + +“Which is maybe exactly what they want,” she said. “But Republican Senators need to really understand the chaos that will ensue.” + +Pete Hegseth, one of the hosts of Fox & Friends on Fox News, was selected by the president-elect to run the Department of Defense, which oversees 3 million service members and civilian employees across all branches of the nation’s military. + +Active duty troops “are extremely concerned about being given illegal orders and being deployed within the United States, or for a war just kicking off because Trump tweets,” Goldsmith told The Independent. “There are a lot of active service members who are rightfully terrified that they are going to have a completely unhinged and even less stable time than the last time he was commander in chief.” + +The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking news brand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. We have grown a huge, global readership of independently minded individuals, who value our trusted voice and commitment to positive change. Our mission, making change happen, has never been as important as it is today. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-16-TwitMuskSupportsFalseFlags.md b/_posts/2024-11-16-TwitMuskSupportsFalseFlags.md index cc5e6693..f9f13381 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-16-TwitMuskSupportsFalseFlags.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-16-TwitMuskSupportsFalseFlags.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [X/Twitter, false flag, conspiracy theories, social media] +tags: [X/Twitter, false flag, conspiracy theories, social media, politics] categories: [Elon Musk] #date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15 #excerpt: '' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-17-DefenseSecretaryFarRight.md b/_posts/2024-11-17-DefenseSecretaryFarRight.md index 9e799c96..d4cbb570 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-17-DefenseSecretaryFarRight.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-17-DefenseSecretaryFarRight.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Pete Hegseth, Departmentof Defense, white supremacist, white nationalist] +tags: [Pete Hegseth, Departmentof Defense, white supremacist, white nationalist, politics] categories: [president-elect Trump] date: 2024-11-17 2:10 PM. excerpt: "“Pete Hegseth's tattoos are the ones that white nationalists get. Federal law enforcement knows these symbols well. Pete Hegseth was banned[^41] from national guard duty at Biden’s inauguration for those tattoos. The Senate should consider this disqualifying for a nominee for Secretary of Defense…” – Olivia Troye, former White House Homeland Security and counter-terrorism adviser." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-17-RFKJrBringBackSmallpox.md b/_posts/2024-11-17-RFKJrBringBackSmallpox.md index 144e4f5f..786c441e 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-17-RFKJrBringBackSmallpox.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-17-RFKJrBringBackSmallpox.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Robert F Kennedy Jr, public health, vaccines, herd immunity] +tags: [Donald Trump, Robert F Kennedy Jr, public health, vaccines, herd immunity, politics] categories: [Trump 47 cabinet, department of health and human services] date: 2024-11-17 8:04 PM excerpt: "“RFK says he won't take away vaccines if they are working. The problem with this statement is that vaccines do work or they would never have been approved in the first place. My biggest fear is that RFK will discount evidence and decades of research to revoke approval of vaccines. Then no one will be able to get those vaccines. While changes in policy could be reversed with a change of administration in 4 years, the impacts on children who miss vaccines during that time will be lifelong or even deadly.” – Cynthia Leifer" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-17-Trump47CabinetPicks.md b/_posts/2024-11-17-Trump47CabinetPicks.md index 76c084f3..2921ef2b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-17-Trump47CabinetPicks.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-17-Trump47CabinetPicks.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Lee Zeldin, Elise Stefanik, Matt Gaetz, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Weekend Update, Saturday Night Live] +tags: [Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Lee Zeldin, Elise Stefanik, Matt Gaetz, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Weekend Update, Saturday Night Live, politics, video] categories: [Trump Cabinet Choices] date: 2024-11-17 1:49 PM -excerpt: "“Trump nominated Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Lee Zeldin to head the EPA and Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the U.N. and then someone yelled, ‘Now do a silly one. And Gaetz said the same thing he does when he sees a teenage girl, ‘I’ll do it,’”" +excerpt: ''“Trump nominated Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Lee Zeldin to head the EPA and Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the U.N. and then someone yelled, ‘Now do a silly one. And Gaetz said the same thing he does when he sees a teenage girl, ‘I’ll do it,’”" #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' #description: #permalink: diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-17-TrumpTransitionTeamPosesNationalSecurityRisk.md b/_posts/2024-11-17-TrumpTransitionTeamPosesNationalSecurityRisk.md index 8167166e..b94e0b43 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-17-TrumpTransitionTeamPosesNationalSecurityRisk.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-17-TrumpTransitionTeamPosesNationalSecurityRisk.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, 9/11 security threat] +tags: [Donald Trump, 9/11 security threat, politics] categories: [Trump 47 Transition Team] date: 2024-11-17 7:51 PM excerpt: "The 9/11 Commission determined that the delayed transition hampered the Bush administration's ability to get key appointees in place and up to speed, recommending a number of reforms so ‟transitions can work more effectively.”" diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-18-RecessionIsComing.md b/_posts/2024-11-18-RecessionIsComing.md index 32ad5a51..80a44690 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-18-RecessionIsComing.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-18-RecessionIsComing.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [recession, economy] +tags: [recession, economy, politics, video] categories: [Trump 47 President-elect] date: 2024-11-18 4:37 PM excerpt: '"My view is that the economy is going to continue to slow down and probably will experience a recession next year," Hanke said.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-18-ThisIsHowItStartsMilitaryBoots.md b/_posts/2024-11-18-ThisIsHowItStartsMilitaryBoots.md index 144ad4ed..42ef9fc9 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-18-ThisIsHowItStartsMilitaryBoots.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-18-ThisIsHowItStartsMilitaryBoots.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, military deployment US soil] +tags: [Donald Trump, military deployment US soil, politics] categories: [president-elect Trump] date: 2024-11-18 5:16 PM excerpt: 'There will certainly be a price tag, however, and it will be high given the logistical implications of removing millions of people from the nation.' @@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ title: 'This Is How It Starts. First: National Emergency. Next: Martial Law. Arm Story by Ryan Bort. November 18, 2024. -- **Mass Deportations**: [Donald Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) plans to declare a national emergency to use the military for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. +- **Mass Deportations**: Donald [Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) plans to declare a national emergency to use the military for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. - **Immediate Action**: Deportations are expected to start within [Trump's](,https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) first 100 days in office. - **High Costs**: The logistical implications of removing millions of people will be expensive. - **Aggressive Approach**: [Trump's](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) administration, led by Tom Homan, aims to deport criminals first with a "shock and awe" strategy. -### I am the *“enemy within”* – @RalphHightower +### {% avatar [USERNAME] %} the Am “enemy within” @RalphHightower: To **[Team Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump)**, I say “That’s FUCKING BULLSHIT! A National Emergency is to be used only when America is attacked!” @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Story by Ryan Bort. November 18, 2024. He's been insistent since winning the election that immigration is his top priority, telling >NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/) that his administration will spare no expense when it comes to deportation. "It's not a question of a price tag," he said. "It's not - really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they're going to go back to those countries because they're not staying here. There is no price tag." -There will certainly be a price tag, however, and it will be high given the logistical implications of removing millions of people from the nation. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement](https://www.ice.gov/) is not currently equipped to carry out [Trump's](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) deportation agenda, which calls for quadrupling the number of deportations the agency carries out every year. +There will certainly be a price tag, however, and it will be high given the logistical implications of removing millions of people from the nation. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]*https://www.ice.gov/) is not currently equipped to carry out [Trump's](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) deportation agenda, which calls for quadrupling the number of deportations the agency carries out every year. Politico reported Monday on some of the tactics the administration plans to start cracking down, noting that deportations will commence within [Trump's](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) first 100 days in office, and that his team is looking for ways to expedite the process that will withstand any legal challenges from rights groups. [Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) is also expected to quickly do away with a Biden administration policy that prioritized deporting migrants who threatened public safety and national security, and directed ICE officers to take "the totality of the facts and circumstances" into consideration before deporting migrants with criminal convictions. diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-18-TrumpTeamLies60Minutes.md b/_posts/2024-11-18-TrumpTeamLies60Minutes.md index 70ab064b..c69ffb5b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-18-TrumpTeamLies60Minutes.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-18-TrumpTeamLies60Minutes.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, CBS, 60 Minutes, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F Kennedy Jr] +tags: [Donald Trump, CBS, 60 Minutes, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F Kennedy Jr, politics] categories: [Trump 47 Cabinet] date: 2024-11-18 4:11 PM excerpt: Some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump." – Scott Pelly, CBS News 60 Minutes Host' @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ Story by Flynn Nicholls. November 18, 2024. - **Nominee Controversies**: Specific nominees like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were highlighted for various controversies and lack of experience. - **Public Reaction**: The [60 Minutes](https://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/) segment received significant attention online, with over 557,800 views by Monday morning. - Host Scott Pelley began the show by dissecting Trump's picks for his next administration, saying: "Some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump." Among the nominees referenced in the broadcast were Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense; Matt Gaetz for Attorney General; Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services. diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-18-XTwitterCompetor.md b/_posts/2024-11-18-XTwitterCompetor.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fa540214 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2024-11-18-XTwitterCompetor.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +layout: post +tags: [Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, Xodus, X/Twitter, Bluesky] +categories: [Bluesky] +date: 2024-11-18 6:34 PM +excerpt: "[X] Changes to the algorithms and default user feed means I am constantly wading through a nauseating torrent of misinformation, rage bait, demagogic pundits, product placement for Musk’s other companies and imbecilic short videos that skew violent and prurient. – Zeeshan Aleem" +#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png' +#description: +#permalink: +title: "A Journalist Reviews X/Twitter Replacement: “It's Pretty Great!”" +--- + + +## [Elon Musk’s X finally has a true competitor — and it’s actually pretty great](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/blue-sky-leaving-x-social-twitter-musk-rcna180359) + +Story by Zeeshan Aleem. November 17, 2024. + +- **Mass Migration to [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/)**: Many users, including journalists, celebrities, and politicians, are leaving [X (formerly Twitter)](https://x.com/) for [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/), a platform developed by Jack Dorsey that resembles early [Twitter.](https://x.com/) +- **Discontent with [X](https://x.com/)**: Users are frustrated with [X](https://x.com/) due to algorithm changes, excessive ads, bot problems, and a rise in abusive content. +- **[Bluesky](https://bsky.app/)'s Appeal**: [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) offers a simpler, more user-friendly experience with better tools for reducing harassment and a chronological feed. +- **Political and Social Dynamics**: The shift is partly driven by dissatisfaction with [Elon Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk)'s management and perceived political biases on [X.](https://x.com/) + +Journalists are migrating there en masse. Celebrity actors and musicians are flooding in. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has joined the party, and the New York City mayor’s office is ordering agencies to set up camp. They’re calling it the #Xodus, and it’s happening fast. + +Millions of social media junkies and power users are pivoting from using [X](https://x.com/), [Elon Musk's](https://x.com/elonmusk) social media platform, to setting up accounts on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/), a buzzy platform that resembles the earlier days of [Twitter](https://x.com//) before [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) rendered it a far-right hotbed and a technically unusable mess. + +[Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) was developed in recent years by Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of [Twitter](https://x.com/), as a kind of open and decentralized alternative to [Twitter](https://x.com/). (Dorsey has since left the board of [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/).) In terms of the basic user experience and design of the site, it looks a lot like [Twitter](https://x.com/) used to in the [pre-Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) era. [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) had an invite-only beta launch in 2023, and in February, it became available to the general public. While it has grown throughout the year, it has seen a meteoric explosion in sign-ups after the election. And with media organizations and politicians now setting up accounts on the site, it looks like [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) is exuding “official new alternative to [Twitter](https://x.com/) ” vibes. + +There are a lot of reasons that people are fleeing [X](https://x.com/), and I don’t agree with all of them. But I can say my personal experience on the site since [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) bought [Twitter](https://x.com/) in 2022 (after which he renamed it [X](https://x.com)) has been deeply disheartening, and at times enraging. + +Changes to the algorithms and default user feed means I am constantly wading through a nauseating torrent of misinformation, rage bait, demagogic pundits, product placement for [Musk's](https://x.com/elonmusk) other companies and imbecilic short videos that skew violent and prurient. The default feed is labeled “for you,” but compared to most social media I’ve used, the algorithm has no understanding of my interests. Instead, it's just the most vulgar bid for generic user attention imaginable. + +Beyond the disastrous “for you” feed, [X](https://x.com/) has become insufferable to read. The company's decision to shove as many ads as possible into the interface frequently makes it impossible to tell if I’m reading a post or an advertisement. (There is no evidence that the visual assault of ads has helped [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) recover the gigantic share of ad revenue he has lost as he has ruined the platform.) Despite the fact that one of [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk)’s premises for buying [Twitter](https://x.com/) was to improve the platform’s bot problem, bots now dominate the user experience on a level I’ve never experienced before on the site — or anywhere else I frequent on the internet. And [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk)’s decision to gut [Twitter’s](https://x.com/) verified badge policy has made it far harder for me to use the site to track reliable real-time reporting and separate rumor from fact. [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) has also said he downgrades the visibility of posts with links — because he doesn’t want people to leave the site — so posts linking to legitimate news articles get buried under clickbait posts. Meanwhile, [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) has tweaked the site’s algorithm to prioritize his own posts, amplifying his power as a colossal purveyor of misinformation and far-right propaganda. + +As of late, it feels like posting is pointless. Despite having thousands of followers, the engagement on my posts has plunged, and my average post seems to disappear into the ether unnoticed. When I do get engagement, a good portion of the time it’s a bot. + +That is, if it’s not a bigoted, disparaging remark. Due to a combination of [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) reinstating verified pro-Nazi accounts, the growing popularity of [X](https://x.com/) as a platform for extremist and antisocial right-wingers, and his paring back of features and resources designed to reduce abuse, [X](https://x.com/) has become a miserable place brimming with venomous racists, misogynists, transphobes and trolls of every stripe. While receiving profane insults and racism is something I’ve always experienced as a journalist, I’ve noticed a big uptick of it in my daily experience on [X](https://x.com/). This isn't political dialogue, it's just being on the receiving end of misanthropy and hatred. + +This is not simply the cost of "free speech." [X](https://x.com/) does have anti-harassment policies and does suspend accounts for violating rules, it's just that these rules are enforced poorly and unpredictably and are limited in their ability to mitigate a platform-wide culture of trolling. Moreover, [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk)'s free speech narrative is a facade. [Musk](https://x.com/elonmusk) has shown a pattern of suspending accounts in a manner that appears to align with a right-wing political agenda. He also selectively upholds free-speech principles in different countries in a manner that reflects what could be his perceived political and business interests. And [Musk's](https://x.com/elonmusk) decision to become an all-out [Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) activist and to work with the [Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) administration underscores that he is compromised as a independent arbiter of speech. + +As [X](https://x.com/) has slid into dysfunctionality and extreme unpleasantness, [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) has emerged as an attractive alternative. It represents a return to basic, commonsense principles of text-based social media. It’s easy to use and navigate, it has good tools for reducing harassment, the default feed is a simple chronological set of posts. Posts are not swarmed by porn bots, bigoted trolls, and strange native advertising. Even though I have a fraction of my old following on my new account at [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/), my engagement is already much higher. + +Some people have tried criticizing the exodus from [X](https://x.com/) as a desire for people on the left to retreat to “safe spaces” and ideological echo chambers. (Not everyone heading to [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) is on the left, but it’s a crowd that leans to the left overall.) I can say unequivocally that is not the case for me. I enjoy reading and talking with people across the political spectrum, and I would prefer to spend most my time on a platform with maximum ideological diversity. I’m not sick of [X](https://x.com/) because it has people I disagree with on it. I’m sick of [X](https://x.com/) because it sucks. A [reactionary billionaire](https://x.com/elonmusk) with no commitment to free speech or user experience has taken a wrecking ball[^111] to a once flawed but invaluable digital commons. + +[^111]: @RalphHightower: Much like [Trump](https://x.com/realdonaldtrump) is taking a wrecking ball to America. + +I haven’t sworn off using [X](https://x.com/) entirely, but it won’t be a place I will invest as much time as I once did. Nor do I assume [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/) will be a perfect haven — it is run by a corporation after all. But for now I’ll mostly read people across the political spectrum outside of [X](https://x.com/) , and lean into having conversations online in a place that functions closer to the way a public square ought to. +- diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-19-BeautyContest4TrumpAppointment.md b/_posts/2024-11-19-BeautyContest4TrumpAppointment.md index dcf4ebca..0eda24b7 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-19-BeautyContest4TrumpAppointment.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-19-BeautyContest4TrumpAppointment.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [nass deportations, military boots on US soil, politics, Mar-a-Lago, Treasury] +tags: [nass deportations, military boots on US soil, politics, Mar-a-Lago, Treasury, video] categories: [Trump 47 president] date: 2024-11-19 8:59 AM lexcerpt: "Donald Trump confirmed he's considering using the U.S. military to carry out mass deportations when he takes office — so how much will it cost? Plus, it's a battle royale at Mar-a-Lago to figure out who will be Trump's Treasury Secretary. Carol Leonnig, Leigh Ann Caldwell, and Mark Leibovich join Stephanie Ruhle on The 11th Hour." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-19-MSNBCMorningJoeTrump2ndTerm.md b/_posts/2024-11-19-MSNBCMorningJoeTrump2ndTerm.md index 1de1d2d4..62c80afa 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-19-MSNBCMorningJoeTrump2ndTerm.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-19-MSNBCMorningJoeTrump2ndTerm.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, MSNBC, Morning Joe, politics, Mar-a-Lago] +tags: [Donald Trump, MSNBC, Morning Joe, politics, Mar-a-Lago, video] categories: [Trump 47 president] date: 2024-11-19 8:53 AM excerpt: 'Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discuss a weekend meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and how Morning Joe plans to cover a second Trump term.' diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMiddleFinger2America.md b/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMiddleFinger2America.md index cfc23417..f48048a7 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMiddleFinger2America.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMiddleFinger2America.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Bob Woodward, Cabinet picks, politics] +tags: [Donald Trump, Bob Woodward, Cabinet picks, politics, video] categories: [Trump 47 president-elect] date: 2024-11-19 9:08 AM excerpt: "Legendary journalist Bob Woodward reacts to Trump's Cabinet picks." diff --git a/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMuskBromance.md b/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMuskBromance.md index 45cbe90e..36cb0b7a 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMuskBromance.md +++ b/_posts/2024-11-19-TrumpMuskBromance.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mary Trump, politics] +tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mary Trump, politics, video] categories: [Donald Trump 47 president-elect] date: 2024-11-19 9:25 AM excerpt: "Mary Trump reveals how Donald's alliance with Elon Musk is already falling apart, as the billionaire's ego clashes with Trump's transition team. Watch as world leaders tell Musk to “fuck off,” while Trump's cabinet picks face serious allegations and ethics investigations. The honeymoon phase didn't last long."