Trump continues to demonstrate that he thinks his constituents are fools and will believe anything he tells them, even without any evidence.
Now Trump is claiming that students are going to school and getting an operation to change genders without parental approval or even knowledge.
“There is not a single iota of evidence that would prove this claim. No one, literally zero people in the United States of America are going to school and coming back a different gender. But Donald Trump has so much oozing contempt for his supporters that this is the kind of lazy nonsense he doles out, believing full well that they’ll take all of it at face value. I’ve never seen anyone who had less respect for his own supporters than Donald Trump.” – Brian Tyler Cohen
“Donald Trump is pressuring Republicans to shut down the government at the end of this month if Congress doesn’t pass a GOP-backed proposal to establish new election rules nationwide.
“Trump has called on Republicans in Congress to link funding the government with the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote — in a bid to target non-citizen voting, which is already illegal. And House Republican leaders are considering adopting the strategy and picking a fight with Democrats.
“The deadline to fund the government is Sept. 30. The GOP-led House and Democratic-led Senate have to agree on how to move forward in order to prevent a shutdown, and Democrats have decried the SAVE Act as a poison pill.”
“I would shut down the government in a heartbeat if they don’t get it,” Trump said.
Georgia is actually making it HARDER to vote! They’ve spent taxpayer money to develop a website — not to register to vote or to get an absentee ballot — but to REQUEST THE CANCELLATION OF VOTER REGISTRATION OF OTHER PEOPLE!
The Georgia Secretary of State says it’s intended for people moving out of state or who have a deceased family member. But in the last few years, Georgia has had hundreds of thousands of challenges of voter registrations by right-wing groups that didn’t even know the people involved, and most of those challenges were groundless and eventually denied.
When it launched on Monday, it was “marred by a glitch that allowed people to access a voter’s date of birth, driver’s license number and last four numbers of a Social Security number. That’s the same information needed to verify a person’s identity and allow a registration to be canceled.” Apparently the glitch only lasted an our or so, but it underscores concerns that the site could allow outsiders to unjustifiably cancel voter registrations.
“If someone knows my birthdate, you could get in and pull up my information and change my registration,” state Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler, a Stone Mountain Democrat, said Tuesday. Democratic staff showed The Associated Press a copy of a document with Butler’s information that they said was produced by the system.
This kind of website isn’t actually needed and is clearly to make it even easier for extremists to challenge the voter registrations of anyone they don’t want on the rolls. The original language on the website attested to that, but was later changed.
Not only is there this context of right-wing challenges of voter registrations of so many legitimate voters, but there have been laws passed in Georgia that make it HARDER to vote. Example: requiring a “wet-ink signature” for people to be able to vote, but setting up this online portal to allow anyone to try to remove voter registrations. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Shouldn’t someone asking to remove someone have to sign a piece of paper, perhaps under the penalty of perjury? Making it easy to ask for the removal of voter registrations is simple disenfranchisement.
Apparently Donald Trump has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that the U.S. is negotiating. CBS reported that he is trying to get any deals to be DELAYED until after the U.S. election, because any deal worked out earlier might benefit Harris.
Just like Trump made the bipartisan border bill FAIL so he could use immigration as an issue in the election, he wants to do everything he can to keep the Israel-Hamas war active so it can be an issue as well.
This article discusses how this might even be a crime.
Signs at the Republican National Convention called for “Mass Deportation Now!”, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history.
“Some Republicans aren’t quite ready for that.”
“Historians go back to at least the 1850s when German and Irish immigrants were targeted as degenerate thieves. An undercurrent of popular belief that immigrants breed crime persisted through the 20th century and into the 21st.
“But no one compares to Trump, who reached the pinnacle of power by making immigration a signature issue and portraying the foreign-born as criminals. Yet the weight of evidence shows no support for claims that immigrants are more responsible for crime than native-born Americans.”
Putin has described the incursion as a “large-scale provocation.”
What? More of a large-scale provocation than INVADING ANOTHER COUNTRY and STARTING A WAR??
“The Russian Defense Ministry called it one of the largest cross-border incursions of the war as the Russian military and border guards block Ukrainian forces from pushing deeper into the region in southwestern Russia.”
Here is an excellent analysis of how the press interviews different politicians, including what types of questions they ask and whether they push for an actual answer.
This video also does a deep dive into the answers or lack of answers that these politicians give.
What Trump & Vance are saying about Walz almost sounds plausible. Until you check the actual facts.
He didn’t quit 24 years in the National Guard to avoid deployment. He retired (months before his unit was notified about deployment) so he could run for Congress. With the rank of Command Sergeant Major that the Minnesota Army National Guard says he is entitled to.
And back in 2020, Walz DID call in the National Guard and this video includes a recording of a phone call where Trump is praising Walz for handling things well. Which is NOT what Trump is saying today. All of this is included in the video linked below.
“The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths that Democratic-controlled states went to expand access.
“A major reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states enacted laws to protect doctors who use telemedicine to see patients in places that have abortion bans, according to the quarterly #WeCount report for the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion access.”
