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When I began Schwartzreport my purpose was to produce an entirely fact-based daily publication in favor of the earth, the inter-connectedness and interdependence of all life, democracy, equality for all, liberty, and things that are life-affirming. Also, to warn my readers about actions, events, and trends that threaten those values. Our country now stands at a crossroads, indeed, the world stands at a crossroads where those values are very much at risk and it is up to each of us who care about wellbeing to do what we can to defend those principles. I want to thank all of you who have contributed to SR, particularly those of you who have scheduled an ongoing monthly contribution. It makes a big difference and is much appreciated. It is one thing to put in the hours each day and to do the work for free, but another to have to cover the rising out-of-pocket costs. For those of you who haven’t done so, but read SR regularly, I ask that you consider supporting it.
Nancy Pelosi, one of the most sophisticated and knowledgeable political experts in the U.S., and former Speaker of the House, confirms what I said in Friday’s SR. She blames Biden and his ego for what happened in the election, and why Trump won. She also saw this as more a cultural election than a political one. Racism and male dominance genderism have been cancers in the United States since the day it was created, and have now become enflamed.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went full scorched earth on Friday, blaming Vice President Kamala Harris’s stunning loss on Joe Biden’s late exit from the presidential race.
In an interview with The New York Times, Pelosi suggested that Biden had crippled the Democratic Party’s chances at keeping Donald Trump out of the White House.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said. “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened.”
Pelosi also blamed Biden for not making way in time for an open primary, which could have created momentum around a new candidate who would have performed better with the Democratic base.
“And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time,” Pelosi said. “If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
Pelosi’s public comments about Biden’s candidacy […]
The Democrats seem to have thought they were in a traditional election competition; they were not. This was not a political election but a cultural one, and the Harris Walz team didn’t seem to realize this, and Biden essentially sabotaged them by not realizing it either.
On paper, everything looked great. But in poll after poll ahead of the election, voters signaled concern for the economy and ranked inflation as their top issue. The rough, preliminary voting data available in exit polling showed the same trend.
At the heart of that disconnect might be elements that broad economic indicators often struggle to capture: Despite a “strong economy,” many Americans continued […]
Israel Salas-Rodriguez, Senior News Reporter - The U.S. Sun News
Stephan:
This is getting virtually no coverage in the United States. I think this is because the billionaires who own most of the national media are afraid of offending Trump. However, as you will see if you do a Google, it is front page on much of the international media. Why did this happen, why at that very moment? Think about it for a minute. As soon as it was declared Trump had won Russian state television broadcast across Russia and the world not one but a whole slew of nudes of Trump’s wife Melania. I think this is a very significant development, although must international coverage doesn’t really seem to get it. I think Putin is sending Trump a coded message: If you don’t do what I want I have currently secret extremely embarrassing images of you I can make public. Remember the never-revealed but once widely discussed “golden showers video.”
A Russia state media outlet has sparked outrage for airing Melania Trump’s nude photographs on live television as a tribute to her husband winning the 2024 election.
The disparaging display was aired on 60 Minutes on the Russia-1 network, the country’s most-watched television channel, showing pictures of Melania from a photo shoot with the British GQ in 2000.
The news clip, which was shared on X by Russian Media Monitor creator Julia Davis, begins with anchor Yevgeny Popov saying the former first lady is prepping to return to the White House after Donald Trump‘s election victory.
As Popov speaks, a large television screen behind him and his co-anchor and wife, Olga Skabeeva, shows a clip of Trump and Melania together at one of the president-elect’s rallies.
However, the clip quickly cuts to an image of Melania from her GQ shoot.
“Here’s how Melania looked like in the year 2000,” Popov said as a nude image of the former first lady appeared on the screen.
Popov goes on to describe each image of Melania in detail.
“The future first lady lies on top of furs in a negligee,” […]
I have been thinking about how we got to this point in history and the answer, I have concluded, is Mitch McConnell, and I believe that is what historians will conclude. If McConnell had been a man of integrity he would have seen that Trump was impeached and removed from office, as should have happened. If he had behaved honorably none of this would now be occurring. But he didn’t and now we have reached a place where a man Putin considers a “useful idiot” is openly saying that through his minion, former President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian Security Council Vice Chairman and former President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, Russia. He said that Donald Trump’s election night performance was “useful” for Russia.Credit: Getty
Vladimir Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev has suggested the U.S. presidential election result would serve Russia’s interests in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Medvedev served as president between 2008 and 2012 and is now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council. Over the course of the war in Ukraine, he has pushed anti-Western rhetoric, often issuing threats to Kyiv’s allies about Moscow’s nuclear capability.
Around the time of Trump’s victory speech early Tuesday morning, Medvedev posted on Telegram his response to the election night.
Without directly congratulating the Republican candidate, Medvedev referred to how there was a “furious bipartisan anti-Russian consensus on Capitol Hill.”
“But Trump has one quality that is useful for us—as a businessman to the core, he hates spending money on … idiotic allies, stupid charity projects and voracious international organizations,” he said, seemingly referring to global support for Ukraine.
Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.
In doing my daily preparation for SR I have seen over a dozen articles about Americans choosing to leave the United States, and two readers wrote me to say they were leaving, one to Canada, the other to France. I’ve never seen anything like this before.
Michelle Garabito and Paul Nelson are cofounders of The Lux Nomads, which advises Americans on how to move out of the US. Here, they are pictured in Spain—one of the best places for Americans to move to. Credit: Lux Nomads
Interest in how to move out of the U.S. has been growing in recent years—but following the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, it has reached a fever pitch. With news that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, searches for popular moving abroad terms—“the best countries for Americans to move to,” “best country to move to from USA,” “leaving America,” “where to move out of the US,” “where to move abroad”—have spiked dramatically. According to Google Trends, queries for “how to move to Canada” increased by 400% by 8 p.m. on election night.
Marco Permunian, a founder of the Italy-based Italian Real Estate Lawyers—an agency with offices in New York, Houston, Memphis and Los Angeles that specializes in Italian citizenship law and immigration matters—says he has been inundated with requests. “As […]
As I said yesterday, the big take away for me was that this was a cultural election not a political one. What is happening and that is going to happen is the choice of a majority of American voters. They don’t seem to understand the damage that is going to be done to their lives. Their resentment, rage, racism, male-dominant genderism was more emotionally powerful than their capacity to think through what Trump and the MAGAts really represent. For instance, Robert Kennedy is talking about taking fluoride out of the water. I am old enough to remember the crisis of childhood dental cavities that was why fluoride was introduced. Elon Musk is now acting like a co-President and I think is setting a reality for the oligarchs who bought the election for Trump. I think the Hispanic community whose men particularly voted for Trump are about to experience a racial rape, unlike anything ever seen since the Japanese were rounded up and put in internment camps. But this will be worse. My only hope is that these people who voted for Trump will experience such pain that they will wake up in time for the mid-term election; if there is a genuine mid-term election.
Republican Donald Trump walks off the stage after speaking during a campaign rally on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael M. Santiago / Getty
This is some bullshit — but not surprising in the least.
America shows us time and time again who and what it is. Sometimes it subtly whispers what it thinks of people like me (and probably you). But the 290-plus electoral votes and more than 70,000,000 popular votes that have secured Republican Donald Trump’s presidential victory over his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, are loud and clear.
Trump’s win — the first time he’s ever won the popular vote, mind you — is a “fuck you, we don’t care about your rights as people of color, women, immigrants, the working class, etc.” It’s a reminder that sometimes, even when you’re twice as good, you get a fraction as much. It’s a message about whose livelihoods matter and whose don’t. It’s not just a look into what we’re anticipating for the next four years, but a reminder of the haunting past this country […]
As I told you, I canceled my subscription to The Washington Post, as Thom Hartmann did when Bezos would not let the post editorial team come out in support of Harris. But that is just a little piece of what is going on. Local newspapers are withering and dying all over the country because advertising has shifted to electronic media. At the same time Big Media has been bought and is now controlled by oligarchs. Elon Musk owns the largest social media platform. Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. Patrick Soon-Shiong owns The Los Angeles Times. Sinclair Broadcast Group owns or operates 185 Stations in 86 Markets. The oligarchs realize that feeding fascist supportive information to the peasants will help them take control of the United States, and shape the government.
Amazon chief executive and new Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos Credit: AFP
I cancelled my Washington Post subscription Friday evening. Jeff Bezos, Mister “Democracy Dies In Darkness” (the Post’s slogan on their masthead), by blocking his editorial staff from endorsing Harris chose darkness over his nation’s future, and I can’t support that.
The big mistake John D. Rockefeller made back in the day — that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk appear committed to not repeating — was not buying a media outlet like a newspaper. Had John D. had that sort of a vehicle to mold public opinion, American history may be very different.
By 1880, Rockefeller’s Ohio-based company controlled over 90 percent of the nation’s oil, owned 4000 miles of pipelines, and employed over 100,000 people. As Rockefeller’s oil empire got larger and larger, eating alive hundreds of smaller operations, ruthlessly driving up prices, destroying his competitors, and throwing workers out of a job, public outrage grew.
In 1887, Ohio sued him, arguing that he was operating in ways that were detrimental to the state and its citizens and businesses; […]
It is my view that we are on a track to become another Hungary and I think when historian look back and write about what has happened they will blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, the Supreme Court, and Biden. Recognizing his growing mental failure Biden should have announced a year ago that he would not run again so that roper primaries were conducted to allow a new Democratic leader to emerge and a proper conference to be held. Instead, he unilaterally put forward his decent and honorable but virtually unknown Vice President — how many ranchers in Idaho, or farmers in Mississippi do you think could have even named her? She in turn did not pick a well-known VP like Gavin Newsom, but another virtually unknown politician Tim Walz — did you know his name before it was announced for VP? But before that, Mitch McConnell blocked Trump’s impeachment, and for the past three years Merrick Garland, whom Biden should have been replaced, has let all the legal actions against Trump to just wind their sleepy way through various courts and leaving Jack Smith un-supported.
Merrick Garland’s legacy will be the he was the worst Attorney General in U.S. history. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein / AP
We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.
The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.
At the root of it all are the considerable and truly historic legal missteps by the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as a series of decisions by Republicans throughout the political and legal systems in recent years that effectively bailed Trump out when the risks for him were greatest.
The two federal criminal cases against him are now dead as a practical matter. Already there is reporting suggesting that special counsel Jack Smith will leave his post and dismiss the pending cases, […]
