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Finally, I am beginning to see some coverage about the abject failure of journalists to cover “the most dangerous man in the country” to quote General Mark Milley. I don’t know whether it is because journalist just don’t comprehend what traitor Trump is doing and represents, or whether the billionaires who own much of the corporate media won’t run the truth about him. But we are three weeks out from deciding the fate of America and unbelievably we are seeing near tie election polls. The piece I ran yesterday about The Mass Psychology of Trumpism, I think explains the voters, but the media should be ashamed of themselves. I am not sure the United States as we have known it is going to exist in a month.
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Donald Trump keeps getting worse and worse. Last Friday in Aurora, Colorado, he gave a speech that was both bonkers and fascist, asserting that the city—where crime is down 17 percent—had been “conquered” by Venezuelan gangs and announcing that he’d use a 1798 law to deport them. Sunday morning, he said on Fox that “the enemy within” who might be planning any Election Day chaos—“sick people, radical left lunatics,” but presumably for the most part citizens of the United States—should be handled by the National Guard or even the military.
Of course, these things received coverage. The New York Times’ account of the Aurora speech was really quite good. The first paragraph said outright that in the speech, Trump “repeated false and grossly exaggerated claims about undocumented immigrants that local Republican officials have refuted.” It went on to explain that the demagogic claim about the gangs started as a housing dispute, was quite isolated, and was taken care of by local law enforcement.
It quoted the city’s Republican mayor as saying: “The city […]
Can you image how sick we are as a country when armed White men are threatening the FEMA workers trying to help desperate families whose homes have been destroyed? Why are they doing this? Because of the lies being spread by traitor Trump, his frankenstein Vance, and other MAGAt Republicans.
FEMA Workers trying to help while being threatened by crazed Trumpers Credit: CNN
A North Carolina man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly threatening harm against FEMA employees responding to Hurricane Helene, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.
William Jacob Parsons, 44, was arrested and charged with Going Armed to the Terror of the Public, a misdemeanor, Capt. Jamie Keever said in a news release issued Monday.
“Parsons was armed with a handgun and a rifle,” Keever said.
The sheriff’s office began investigating Saturday after receiving a call that a man “made the comment about possibly harming FEMA employees working after the disaster of Hurricane Helene in the Lake Lure and Chimney Rock area.”
Parsons was found later that dayafter investigators received information about the color and license plate of his vehicle, according to the sheriff’s office.
Parsons was arrested in his car outside a grocery store that is functioning as a storm relief site, Keever said.
Parsons is now free on a $10,000 secured bond, the sheriff’s office said.
It was not immediately clear if Parsons had an attorney. CNN was […]
Mary Jo Pitzl, Reporter - Arizona Republic | USA Today
Stephan:
Here is a another report of what White MAGAt Republican men are doing to turn America into a fascist state with dictator Trump in control. And look where I had to go to get the story. Why aren’t these stories the leads headlines on every media. This is another example of the failure of the media to tell Americans the truth about what the Republican Party has become, and what its supporters are doing.
One of the bullet holes that struck the Democratic National Committee campaign office in Tempe, Arizona earlier this month.
On Friday, the Arizona Democratic Party closed a campaign office in Tempe, Arizona after it had been targeted by gunfire on three separate occasions in the last month.
Arizona is one of the seven states that will likely decide the US election, and Maricopa County may decide the outcome in Arizona. Trump lost the state in 2020 by less than 11,000 votes.
In the lead-up to the January 6, 2021 coup, Trump and his Republican allies targeted election officials and politicians, including Republicans, who refused to overturn the vote and award the state’s electors to Trump.
As of this writing, police have yet to identify a suspect or motive in the shootings. It appears no one was injured in any of the incidents. In an October 9 X post, the Tempe Police Department claimed the last shooting occurred on October 6 at about 12:30 a.m.
In the same post, the police shared a flyer from “Silent Witness,” a “non-profit” that […]
Traitor Trump is becoming more deranged, and his public statements are nothing but lies designed to tear America apart. This man should be in prison, should have been put in prison months ago. Instead, he may become the next president, in which case it will be the end of the constitutional republic the Founders created.
Traitor Trump trying to become a dictator. Credit: Win McNamee / Getty
Donald Trump is ramping up his rhetoric depicting his political rivals and critics as criminals, while dropping a long trail of suggestions that he favors outlawing political speech that he deems misleading or challenges his claims to power.
In a speech Friday in Aurora, Colorado, the Republican presidential nominee blasted the immigration system and lobbed a rhetorical grenade at his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“She’s a criminal. She’s a criminal,” said Trump, who was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush money trial. “She really is, if you think about it.”
It’s a pattern of messaging that has long been part of Trump’s stump speeches but has escalated significantly in his 2024 candidacy. In the final stretch to the Nov. 5 election, the former president has developed a tendency to claim that speech he disapproves of is illegal, even if it is protected by the First Amendment.
A questionable cut of a “60 Minutes” Harris interview? “Totally illegal,” Trump […]
Natasha Bertrand, National Security Correspondent - CNN
Stephan:
I am increasingly concerned that Joe Biden is going to do two things before he leaves office: First, sabotage Kamala Harris’ chance of winning the Presidential election; and, second, get us into a war in the Middle East, just as George Bush 43 got us into a war in Iraq, resulting the death of hundreds of thousands.
This US military file photo shows a US Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense launching station in Israel on March 4, 2019. Credit: Staff Sgt. Cory D. Payne / US Air Force
The US will send an advanced anti-missile system — and US troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on April 13 and again on October 1,” the Pentagon said Sunday.
It is not the first time the US has deployed the system, the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery, to the Middle East, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in the statement, and the system was also deployed to Israel in 2019 for an exercise. But the deployment of additional US troops to Israel is notable amid the heightened tensions between Israel and Iran, and as the region braces for a potential Israeli attack on Iran that could continue to escalate hostilities.
Approximately 100 US troops are deploying to Israel to operate the THAAD battery, according to a US defense official. It is […]
While I in no way condone or excuse the 1200 people captured by HAMAS, that does not excuse what is clearly an ongoing genocide in which over 40,000 Muslims, mostly women and children, have been murdered, mostly by the Israelis using bombs and missiles made by U.S. weapons corporations. As I said in my comment about the previous story, what I see is America being dragged into a Middle East war by Biden’s failure and Netanyahu’s facist racism, with the result our election will be profoundly impacted.
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan (left) pushes back on CNN anchor Kate Bolduan’s (center) description of the Gaza genocide as a “humanitarian crisis” during an October 7, 2024 interview. Credit: CNN screen grab
Human rights advocates on Friday highlighted a rare instance in which a U.S. corporate media outlet allowed a pro-Palestinian voice to set the record straight about Israel’s crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Earlier this week, CNN “News Central” aired a panel segment on the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and Israel’s retaliatory war. Anchor Kate Bolduan noted that around 1,200 people were killed during the Hamas attack—although she did not say that at least some of them were slain by Israeli forces in “friendly fire” incidents and under the Hannibal Directive—and that 250 others were kidnapped.
Bolduan also acknowledged that nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed and another 2 million displaced by Israeli forces, calling the situation in Gaza a “desperate humanitarian crisis.”
The anchor asked panel participant Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan—an American pediatric intensive care physician who volunteered for two weeks […]
What this article does not say is that the tanks that were used to assault the UN Forces post were tanks provided to the Israelis by the U.S.. This linkage is yet another reason that I see the United States being dragged into a Middle East war or, even without war, having our election skewed in traitor Trump’s favor.
American vehicles used by Israelis to attack UN Forces in Lebanon. Credit: BBC
The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says Israeli tanks forced their way into one of its positions early on Sunday morning.
In a statement, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tanks destroyed the main gate of a post in Ramyah, near the Israeli border, and “forcibly entered the position” to request it turn out its lights.
About two hours later, it said rounds were fired nearby that saw smoke enter the camp, causing 15 peacekeepers to suffer skin irritations and gastrointestinal reactions.
The IDF offered a different version of events, saying it had encroached on a Unifil position to evacuate soldiers who had been wounded by an anti-tank missile.
It said two soldiers had been “seriously injured” in the attack, with others suffering lesser degrees of injury.
“For the sake of evacuating the wounded, two tanks drove backwards, in a place where they could not advance otherwise in light of the threat of shooting, a few metres towards the Unifil position,” the IDF […]
Dan P. McAdams, Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy - New Lines Magazine
Stephan:
This is one of the best psychological profiles of Trump and Trumpism in the United States that I have read. I urge you to read it and think about it.
A digital billboard supporting Donald Trump in Times Square, New York City, in 2016. Credit: Drew Angerer / Getty
Americans today see two contradictory futures looming in the middle distance: In one scenario, Donald Trump is convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison. In the second, he returns to the presidency in 2025.
The urgent uncertainty of it all may be a reason why, in recent weeks, Trump has summoned forth some of the most incendiary rhetoric ever employed by an American presidential candidate. He has called for the execution of the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He now urges police to shoot shoplifters. He has begun characterizing his political adversaries as subhuman “vermin” who must be “rooted out.” Parroting the Third Reich while claiming (no doubt truthfully, in this case) that he has never read “Mein Kampf,” Trump has declared that immigrants from Latin America, Africa and Asia “poison the blood” of the United States.
And yet Trump is cruising to a third consecutive Republican presidential nomination, and many national polls show him […]
