Monday, August 19, 2024

The Latest

One more post before a week's vacation and the Democratic National Convention. I'm just throwing a bunch of stuff up!

This Week in Bonkersville
Donnie had a conversation with Elon Musk on Twitter. There was a bit of kerfuffle in that it started 45 minutes late due to technical difficulties. Muskie made all kind of excuses for a technical glitch at his technical company. It finally got underway, but I don't think Elmo was subject to the same ranting about making him wait that the National Association of Black Journalists were. 


It was a love-fest, not an interview. Musk is not a journalist; he is just another billionaire advocate for the kind of doo-doo that Boo-boo do so well. 

It was the same old tired song. All the lies laid out yet again.  But there were a couple tidbits that came out of it.

The main takeaway was that Li'l Donnie was slurring badly during the 90 minute conversation. It sounded mostly like a lateral lisp on all his sibilant sounds, just overall super mushy dysarthric speech. Here are a lot of clips from David Packman, who not only talks about the speech but also the content of the bizarre event. See below.


And our wonderful Stephen Colbert adds his skewer during his monologue. The Musk bit starts at about 3:08, but I'm giving you the whole monologue from the beginning. 



I am a speech-language pathologist, and I've talked about IckyBod Crane's speech and language disorders many times in the past. I've speculated that he may be experiencing transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), or "mini strokes," which can acutely affect speech and language, and when there are a lot of them, can be the underpinnings of multi-infant dementia. 

So, my wild speculation about this event: it wasn't technical difficulties but maybe a TIA-ish event that occurred just before the conversation was to begin. Maybe he decided to forge ahead with the the event without being fully out of the TIA.

Or maybe he had a TIA during the conversation. Or maybe something else is going on.

What ever is happening, it is concerning. Something is wrong. 

When S.V. Daté of Huffpost asked the campaign about his slurred speech, they responded with, "Must be your shitty hearing. Get your ears checked out." Charming. 

Speaking of Speech
The Rabid Yam and Vance hate that Harris sometimes does a bit of code-switching, accusing her of being an "chameleon" and using a "fake Southern accent." Fun fact: we all do it, Black people do it a lot, and it isn't a bad thing. It's just a thing. Linguist John McWhorter tells you more. 

Second fun fact: JD, you do it too, with ya talkin' all Appalachian-like sometimes! Here's just one recent example. Get over it, weirdo.

Just for fun, here's my favorite code-switching example from Key and Peele:


Campaigning to Friends
While Harris and Walz have been traversing the country all over the dang place, Cheeto Mussolini has scaled back his appearances. He made one campaign stop during the week of August 5: to deep red Montana, which he won in 2020 by 16 points. No need to campaign there, dumb-head. In the same span, Harris and Walz had planned to visit seven states (they had to postpone North Carolina and Georgia due to weather). 

In fact, in the period of July 18 when the RNC convention concluded until August 9, when he went to Montana, he had made five campaign stops, while Harris and Walz made that many stops in one week.

So, what is it, Donold? Your mental endurance? Physical endurance? Feelin' poorly? You afraid? Giving up? Donold, why you so skittish?

Project 2025 Stuff
A couple weeks ago, Paul Dans, the director of The Heritage Foundation resigned. Some thought it would mean the end of Project 2025, but we must not buy into that. TЯUMP is embracing its tenets as his own, including recently slurring about doing away with the Department of Education:


It's clear that T****, despite trying to distance himself from P25, fully embraces the plan. Secret recordings were made of Russell Vought, the co-author of P25. A pair of British journalists went undercover and secretly recorded him. See video here:



ProPublica got hold of some of Project 2025's training videos. Part of P25's plan is to have political operatives trained and ready to hit the ground running when the next Republican president gets sworn in. This entails training in advance.

We have been wrapped up in the wonderland of the Harris/Walz ticket. We must not lose sight of the consequences of a loss in November. Project 2025 is still out there. It's a blueprint ready to implement, and it is scary shit. 

The DNC has not forgotten and is doing this in Chicago, where the Convention is getting underway tonight:


Whose plane?!
Hair Force One had some mechanical issues while en route to Montana for a rally, so it had to land and they had to borrow another plane. The plane they used? It belonged to Jeffrey Epstein. Ewwwww! Don't sit on those seats!

And very, very weird, from JD Vance. He said this on Fox News Sunday: "Giving Kamala Harris control over inflation policy... it's like giving Jeffrey Epstein control over human trafficking policy." 

LSR does a double take. Ummm.... come again?

Do they really think they are making political points when they remind us all of the passenger logs on that evil plane with those evil men?

Let's never forget that, when speaking about Ghislain Maxwell, King Leer said "I wish her well."

Foot in Mouth Disease
Vance put his foot in his ample mouth yet again when he agreed in a 2020 podcast that the “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to raise grandchildren. 

Meme makers have been a little slow to respond to this new-and-improved insult to American women, so I made one. Here's my attempt:



I love this one:





Read Alexandra Petri's take in WaPo. And then, make a plan to vote.

Do not piss off Swifties!
The Fanta Fascist posted a fake AI image of Taylor Swift with some stupid made-up endorsement caption and wrote "I accept!" I'm not posting the image because I don't want to give it more oxygen. It is bound to backfire badly. You can bet Tay-tay did not take kindly to it. I hope she responds ...um, swiftly. 

The helicopter crash with Willie Brown that didn't happen
The Absurd Ass asserted that he was in a helicopter with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown ("who I know very well") when it went down. "I thought maybe this was the end."

Except – surprise – it didn't happen. He may be mis-remembering an incident with former California state senator Nate Holden, who was in a helicopter in 1990 with Don the Con when it had to make an emergency landing. Holden said, "Willie is the short Black guy living in San Francisco. I'm a tall Black guy living in Los Angeles."

Trumpty Dumbty doubled down, repeating the story even after it was debunked.

Willie Brown is not happy and has threatened to sue if he keeps telling the story with Brown's name in it. 


It just won't stop. 

Yet another laughable moment
Earlier this month, the stock market had a bad day after a not-so-good jobs report; the Dow ended 1000 points lower. 🚼 jumped on the news, calling it "the Kamala crash." Trouble is, the next trading day, the market regained about 60% of its loss, and since then has been climbing. The Dow is at record levels; it's at 40,884 as of this writing.  The Daily Show looks at it:

@thedailyshow Behind the scenes of Fox News’s chyron crash #DailyShow #FoxNews #Trump ♬ original sound - The Daily Show


Found this interesting graphic:

Grasping at straws
The GOP is trying to smear Tim Walz's "ties" to China and twist it into something nefarious. What experience does he have in China? According to the AP, : "At 25, Walz taught a year of high school in China. He returned for his honeymoon and many more times with American exchange students. As a congressman, he served on a committee tracking China’s human rights and met figures like the Dalai Lama."

Oooooh! Nefarious stuff! 

They also want to make an issue of a DUI that Walz committed. I will never defend DUI, but he handled his 1995 incident the Walz Way. The 31-year-old pleaded guilty, resigned as coach and tried to resign as teacher (his principal talked him into staying). He took his punishment of 90-day suspended license and $200 fine, and he stopped drinking. Forever.  

Go ahead, MAGAts. Smear that. 

They also want to fault him for the response to the protests in the wake of George Floyd's death. He was a little delayed in calling the National Guard in, yes. Here is a fact-check on the events. 

Criticize all you want for political points, boys, but at the time even your Burrito Supreme Leader praised Walz's actions. 

Try again, Losers.

Disgusting racism. It's their brand 
Look at this post. Who buys this shit?!




Diaper Don asserts "I'm better looking than she is" 



And maybe the weirdest thing this week 
Vance Jizz Cups. No, yeah, they are real. 

*LSR checks thesaurus* How many ways can you say "What the actual fuck!"? I'm running out. 

The weird just keeps coming.
I'm having trouble keeping up with it. I'll be away for a while, so resisters, keep sending me the stuff. I'll do what I can to catch up next week!!


On the Normal Front
Campaign talking points
It won't matter to the cult followers who believe every lie, but the truth is more compelling. A couple of political points have been scored by Kamala and Walz. The two main points that the campaign team has encouraged – but failed – to get him to focus on are immigration and the economy.

Both are improving. 

Immigration numbers down. Beds are empty at migrant centers.

By all measures, the economy is on the upswing. Inflation has cooled, wages are up, jobs are up, the stock market is up, and the Fed is poised to lower interest rates next month.

A love letter
Here's a piece from a former student of Walz. 


Weird is working
Allan Lichtman adroitly observed recently: "Republicans have no principles; Democrats have no spine."

True no longer! We have a New Democratic Party, spine intact. We can embrace some new sayings: 


Meme Dump! Enjoy!








Nick Anderson









Matt Wuerker

Drew Sheneman


Walt Handelsman

 Truer words were never spoken




And one more for the road: a throwback Randy Rainbow, who made this in 2020.



Get ready for the homestretch, resisters!


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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

The Bizarro Club

Our remedy for the Bizarro stuff.

Last post, we basked in the joy and hope of the Harris/Walz ticket. There is much love and happiness flowing these days!

Today, we return to the bizarro behavior on the other side. 

The Weird: Can't stop. Won't stop.
JD Vance stalked Kamala Harris on the tarmac the other day. He was looking for the Vice President, who happened to land at the same airport on the same day.

JD explained it by saying, "I wanted to check out my future plane and I just wanted to go say hello." He called it, "having a little fun."

Creepy and weird. Look see:


Why was this a good idea? And what did the Secret Service think about this bearded lunatic running toward the United States Vice President's aircraft? 

More weird from Vance
A reporter asked him, "What makes you smile?" His response: "Well, I smile at a lot of things including bogus questions from the media, man," as he chuckled at his own witticism. Weird.



A few days ago, Dingus Con posted on Truth Social:
"What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!"

What. the. actual. eff. 

Words again are inadequate to describe the bizarre off-the-rails stuff that bounces around inside that man's cantaloupe. So freakin' weird!


The Amber Asshole continues to fume about Kamala's laugh.
One thing, though. Have you ever seen this guy laugh? Just once? What about smile? He does manage to paste on a glad-my-constipation-is-over "smile" once in a while for photos, but happiness? Humor? Joy? Gratitude? Awe? Love? This man has none. 



Let's talk military records. 
Vance is trying to "Swift boat" Tim Walz the way the GOP did to John Kerry back in the day. He attempted to smear his military record by implying that Walz retired from the National Guard in order to avoid being deployed to Iraq. He also took issue to the one time that Walz misspoke and talked about "the weapons of war that I carried in war." Vance called it "stolen valor."

A quick look at the facts will set ol' James Divan Vance straight.

Walz wanted to run for Congress, and so he planned to retire from his 24 years in the Army National Guard. He submitted his paperwork to retire five to seven months before he actually retired in May, 2005. He filed candidacy paperwork in February of 2005 and his unit was informed the next month of the possibility of being deployed, not immediately but within two years. His battalion was ordered to be deployed in July of 2005, two months after he retired. 

Secondly, Mr. Vance, a one-time misspeak is not "stolen valor." Walz did carry the weapons of war; he didn't carry them to war. He has never tried to mischaracterize his service. His service, and yours, Mr. Vance, speak for themselves:


Stolen valor, ha! What about disdain for valor ("losers and suckers")? What about lack of valor, Bone Spur Baby? Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are.

Matt Wuerker

More Weird.
The only way Trumpelthinskin can seem to respond to the "weird" epithet is of the "I know you are but what am I?" variety. Below is his response in a Montana rally. Not only did he say it, but he was proud enough of it that he shared his comments on his social media site. So damn weird!


Yup, The New York Times reported this.


The ick factor never dies.
Kamala Harris was featured on the Cover of Time Magazine this week. 

In his interview with Elon Musk on Twitter (I'm not going to call it "X" – "X" is just so weird) he said this: 

Keep my Vice President's name outta your fucking mouth. *shudder*

Not weird, but disturbing.
This would be a bombshell if there wasn't so many other distractions. It blipped through the news cycle. The Washington Post reported that there was some shady money-laundry-ish stuff happening between Egypt and Itty Bitty Amin's 2016 campaign. 

Apparently there was a weird cash – cash – withdrawal of $10 million in U.S. currency from an Egyptian bank. Bank employees took a huge number of $100 bills and packed them into large bags.

No one knows exactly where the money went, but within days, Don the Con made a "loan" to his campaign from his personal funds of yes, you guessed it, exactly $10 million.

The FBI wanted to investigate this shady set of circumstances, but then-Attorney General Bill Barr blocked the way. The case was closed and cannot be reopened; the statute of limitations has run out. Read the intrigue in the Post's excellent investigative piece.

Matt Wuerker

The addled-mind presser.
Baby Orangebutt hosted a "press conference" at Mar-a-Lago last week. I admit, I tried listening. Mostly to see the servings of word salad that are his specialty. But it was the same old shit sandwich. It wasn't a press conference to answer honest questions. It was just another self-serving opportunity to spurt his verbal diarrhea. Lies, mischaracterizations, exaggerations, vomitous, and yes, word salad. NPR counted 162 lies and distortions in the 62-minute event. 

I did listen long enough to hear him address the issue of a peaceful transfer of power. After some nonsense about Biden ("If you watch him, he said it two ways. No, no, no. I mean, he said it two ways because he doesn’t really know what he’s saying. Why didn’t he bring it up at the debate? He had a chance for 90 minutes to bring it up at the debate. He could have talked about that at the debate and he didn’t do it. Everyone said, 'Oh, he said this and he said that.' They give him something to read off. He read it very badly, because he actually said it the opposite, then he had to go back and correct himself. He said the opposite. He should have brought this up at the debate if he had a problem"), he finally got around to saying, it'll be just like "last time." 

He said, "Of course there’ll be a peaceful transfer and there was last time and there’ll be a peaceful transfer."

One of the most egregious lies was when he said, in speaking about his crowd size on January 6: 
"Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me. If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything, same number of people. If not, we had more, and they said he had a million people, but I had 25,000 people, but when you look at the exact same picture… And everything’s the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing, all the way back from Lincoln to Washington, and you look at it and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, we actually had more people. They said I had 25,000 and he had a million people… And I’m okay with it because I like Dr. Martin Luther King."
Guess what? Dr. King wouldn't like you. 

Speaking of lies, it's not just a symptom of a rattled brain. 
It's part of the authoritarian playbook. Not only are lies a weapon against opponents, authoritarians lie so that truth loses all meaning. You don't know what to believe because you can't believe any of it. And to repeat the lie is to be part of the club. Read more about this from the Niskanen Center or Protect Democracy.

Speaking of Authoritarians....


And speaking of crowd sizes....
Look at Kamala's crowds!
Oh Em Gee! Kamala's crowd sizes are giving him fits! Look at what she has welcomed in this video. There's more from Inside Edition, below. Watch the whole report; it goes on.

 


DonOld is in regular conniptions over it! You just don't mock a man about the size of his crowds! He is so obsessed about crowd sizes that he is starting to project his own failings – and wish list – on Kamala. 

He asserted that her crowd sizes have been enhanced with AI. They haven't. However, the AI thing may very well be in his deception plan. He has been caught several times waving at invisible crowds. Either he's extra muddled in the noggin, or he plans to manipulate these videos (or both). See below:


@meidastouch Trump arrives in WI today, and again waves to nobody.#donaldtrump #wisconsin #wtf #meidastouch ♬ original sound - MeidasTouch



He doesn't like the size of her rallies. He doesn't like the entertainment at her rallies (Megan Thee Stallion entranced a crowd in Atlanta), as if it's against the rules. He said he "doesn't need" concerts or entertainers. Honey, you can't get concerts or entertainers!

Side note: Celine Dion's record company fittingly disallowed him from using her sinking-ship song, "My Heart Will Go On" after he used it at a rally recently. They ended the statement by saying, “…And really, THAT song?” 💀

Da Baby doesn't like that Kamala Harris is doing better by every measure.

Let's look at some of those other measures, shall we? 

The Polls.
I have to say I hate polls. Polls lie. Polls don't vote. You can't believe polls. We learned that the hard way in 2016. But... but... they are looking reeeeeally good for Harris right now. 

She has been improving in overall polls but more importantly in the "Blue Wall" states -- important swing states that are must-wins. Polls have swung from the negative territory when Biden held the reins to now about 4 points ahead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This, just three weeks after being handed the baton. 

She is even making gains in Florida.

Nationally, which I know doesn't really matter, but it feels so good, there has been a five point swing. At the end of Joe Biden's candidacy, the Fanta Menace was up by 3.2 points. Now, Kamala is ahead by 2.7%.

Favorability polls are trending better for Harris and Walz while the Saffron Psycho and Vance are tanking. 

Among likely voters nationally, the numbers are amazing!



Andy Marlette 

Fundraising is also off the charts. 
Harris raised more than twice as much as King Minus in July – $310 million vs. $138.7 million – and I wouldn't be surprised if it holds true for August. She had a fundraiser in California where she raised $12 million in one night. 

We've got to keep the momentum going! Just 84 days to go! Donate if you can, or volunteer! If you gave just one penny per day for the eight years of hell we've been living through with that man, it would be $29.20. Give it to Kamala; end the pain!

All of this is leaving Baby Hands reeling. 
He has to win to make his court cases disappear. He is running for his life. He doesn't give a flying eff about the country; he cares about staying out of prison. By all reports, Kamala's incredible showing is panicking him. The doors of the Graybar Hotel are opening wider.

Evidence of panic: He's been calling Kamala a b*tch in private; his interview with Elon Musk is illustrative of his agitation at not being able to find a way to campaign against Harris – he still wants Biden as an opponent; he has hired a troubling Taylor Budowich to help find purchase against Harris's formidable cliff-face of support; and one analysis indicates that T**** is in a "mental-health death spiral." 

So, let's pack a bag and get ready to go!
Someone observed that having Kamala and Tim on our side, it feels as if we are collectively leaving an abusive relationship. 

Ain't it the truth?!

I couched Don the Con's relationship with his minions and with the rest of us as abusive in a couple posts. Let's look at the way back machine.

In June, 2019's "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions," I looked at the way that Diaper Don as a cult leader and the religious Right were made for each other. He hones in on their vulnerabilities, and they are ripe for abuse. 

In "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow" from September, 2019, I looked at the We the People as a collective abuse survivor and outlined strategies to remove ourselves from the relationship in a healthy way. 

We have Kamala and Tim to thank for showing us there is joy and hope outside this toxic stew. It's refreshing, it's happy, it's hopeful, it's a relief. 



The pair are genuine. They are authentic. They are joyful, happy, and they will save us from the orange menace. 

Ways to twist IQ45's puny brain.
  • Keep up with the "weird."
  • Show up for Mamala and Palz. Donate, volunteer, go to a rally! Buy the merch. Post the signs. Wear the buttons, slap on the stickers.
  • Usurp the other side's rhetoric.

Because I can't help it...
More couch memes.






And memes n 'toons of all kinds.








Nick Anderson


Joe Was




Lady Liberty taking out the trash edition:
Michael de Adder









Matt Wuerker








Scumbag Vance Edition




Mike Smith


And lastly! It's Randy time! 
How we have been waiting for Randy Rainbow to make a return! Here is his latest!





Thanks as always to all my fellow resisters for many of the memes and 'toons!


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