Teacup is a new TV series on ABC that has been praised by Stephen King and recommended for fans of Lost or FROM. IMDb classifies it as Sci-Fi/Horror/Thriller. It is premiering on October 10, 2024.
“Trapped on a farm in rural Georgia, a group of neighbors must put aside their differences and unite in the face of a mysterious and deadly threat.”
Trump clearly sides with Russia. Not like that’s any surprise, but he described Ukraine in bleak and mournful terms Wednesday, referring to its people as “dead” and the country itself as “demolished.”
“Trump laid blame for the conflict on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. He said Biden ‘egged it all on’ by pledging to help Ukraine defend itself rather than pushing it to cede territory to Russia.”
He wouldn’t question the motives or methods of Putin, he just said that if HE were president, Putin would never have invaded Ukraine. As if Trump could control Putin in ANY way. That probably means that he would have threatened Ukraine until Ukraine agreed to cede the land to Russia. Can’t have a war if it doesn’t start, right? Trump clearly, CLEARLY, doesn’t care about the Ukrainian people, but about pleasing his idol, Putin.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-0f4d539aa73a943474d779716e5fe42a
Not that it really matters, because it’s more about their policies and their protecting the rights and lives of everyday Americans.
“Few Americans see the presidential candidates as particularly Christian, according to a new survey conducted Sept. 12-16 by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs. Only 14% of U.S. adults say the word “Christian” describes Harris or Trump ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ well.”
“‘The survey results represent the shift in how white evangelicals now talk about morality and religion in politics,’ said Griffith. She pointed to a white evangelical culture that takes care of its own, but sees liberal outsiders as evil, and therefore, support for a Democrat is unimaginable to many.
“Evangelical leaders, she said, are pushing this idea that, ‘this is God’s man, and we can’t ask why. We don’t have to ask why. It doesn’t matter if he’s moral, it doesn’t matter if he’s religious. It doesn’t matter if he lies compulsively. It’s for the greater good that we get him re-elected.'”
“Neither candidate fared particularly well when Americans were asked if they’d use the words “honest” or “moral” to describe them. Around one-third say those words describe Harris extremely or very well, and about 15% say the same for Trump. Adding in those who say the words “somewhat” describe the candidates raises the levels to more than half for Harris and about one-third for Trump.”
The claims being made by Trump and Vance are not only completely bogus, they are directly hurting innocent people.
“Over the weekend, two hospitals in Springfield were locked down after bomb threats, police said. Other threats received by Springfield officials have forced government buildings to close, two elementary schools to be evacuated and the students moved to a different location, and a middle school to shut down altogether.”
“After JD Vance first began spreading baseless rumors about Haitians in Springfield, members of the neo-Nazi group “Blood Tribe” marched into the city carrying guns, wearing body armor, and carrying Neo-Nazi flags. At an August 27 town hall meeting, one claimed that the city had been taken over by “degenerate third worlders,” blamed Jews for the influx, and warned that “crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you allow in.”
“Springfield’s Haitian immigrants say they are afraid. Some have kept their children home from school, fearing violence. Others have reported harassment on the street, in their cars, and at stores. A Springfield family whose son died last year when the bus in which he was riding accidentally collided with a car driven by a Haitian immigrant has pleaded for Trump and Vance to stop using their deceased son for political purposes.”
“Trump is now talking about holding a rally in Springfield. ‘We’re going to get these people out,’ Trump said in a Friday news conference. Although Springfield’s Haitian immigrants are in the United States legally, he promised to stage ‘the largest deportation in the history of our country’ if reelected.”
“Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, told CBS News on Wednesday that “these Haitians came in here to work because there were jobs, and they filled a lot of jobs. And if you talk to employers, they’ve done a very, very good job and they work very, very hard.”
“Another of Trump’s bogus claims is now threatening legal immigrants in Aurora, Colorado, a Denver suburb that Trump has repeatedly asserted is being “taken over” by Venezuelan criminals. “Simply not true,” Aurora’s Republican mayor and city council member wrote in a joint statement.
“As in Springfield, Trump’s baseless claims are harming innocent people in Aurora. Immigrants there say they have been told their nationality makes them ineligible for jobs or housing. Trump’s claims have led to threats and drawn armed groups to the city, claiming to offer vigilante-style protection.
“Trump and Vance are using the oldest of tyrannical ploys — fueling deep-seated fears by creating an “other” — depicted as subhuman — who “take over” towns and “devour” loved ones.”
Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-hate-is-no-joke-opinion/ar-AA1qEk70
Talk about a waste of public money and rather direct voter intimidation! Voter fraud is rare, generally individual cases, and is usually caught, but DeSantis created a state police force to “investigate voter fraud.” But it ends up being used to intimidate non-Republican voters in the spurious guise of looking for fraud.
“State police are showing up at Florida voters’ homes to question them about signing a petition to get an abortion rights amendment on the ballot in November, and a state health care agency has launched a website targeting the ballot initiative with politically charged language.
“Critics say they’re the latest efforts by Florida’s Republican elected officials to leverage state resources to try to block the abortion rights measure, moves which some Democratic officials argue could violate state laws against voter intimidation.”
“Critics say the investigation is a brazen attempt to intimidate voters in the country’s third-largest state from protecting access to abortion — and the latest in a series of efforts by the governor’s administration to target Amendment 4.”
“DeSantis signed a law in 2022 creating a state police force dedicated to investigating voter fraud and elections crimes. Voter fraud is rare, typically occurs in isolated instances and is generally detected.
“He said elections police are going to the homes of people who signed the petitions that got Amendment 4 on the ballot not to intimidate them, but because questions have been raised about the legitimacy of the signatures. He said the police have found evidence that some of the supposed signatures were from dead people.”
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.
“In the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan since returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban says it is mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and faces in public.”
“The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” after seizing power in 2021.
“The ministry published its vice and virtue laws on Wednesday that cover aspects of everyday life like public transportation, music, shaving and celebrations.
“They are set out in a 114-page, 35-article document seen by The Associated Press and are the first formal declaration of vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan since the takeover.
“‘Inshallah we assure you that this Islamic law will be of great help in the promotion of virtue and the elimination of vice,’ said ministry spokesman Maulvi Abdul Ghafar Farooq on Thursday.”
“Article 13 relates to women. It says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others. Clothing should not be thin, tight or short.
“Women should veil themselves in front of all male strangers, including Muslims, and in front of all non-Muslims to avoid being corrupted. A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public. It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.
“Article 17 bans the publication of images of living beings, threatening an already fragile Afghan media landscape.
“Article 19 bans the playing of music, the transportation of solo female travelers, and the mixing of men and women who are not related to each other. The law also obliges passengers and drivers to perform prayers at designated times.”
Australia has a new “Right to Disconnect” law!
“Is your boss texting you on the weekend? Work email pinging long after you’ve left for home?
“Australian employees can now ignore those and other intrusions into home life thanks to a new “right to disconnect” law designed to curb the creep of work emails and calls into personal lives.
“The new rule, which came into force on Monday, means employees, in most cases, cannot be punished for refusing to read or respond to contacts from their employers outside work hours.”
Interesting! Here’s a website that shows you the faces of two different people. One is real and one is AI-generated. You click on the one you think is real.
“All images are either computer-generated from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com using the StyleGAN software, or real photographs from the FFHQ dataset of Creative Commons and public domain images.”
Source: https://whichfaceisreal.com/
Learn how to tell the difference: https://whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html
