Trump always lies about the size of something.

Video and Stormy Daniels beg to differ ...

Across the nation, Republican-controlled state legislatures and conservative activists have passed bills and embraced legal strategies that encourage Americans to monitor one another's behavior and report their friends, family members, and neighbors to the authorities.

Just like North Korea

21st Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett preceded his sentence with a blistering critique of her actions and attitude, calling Peters an attention-seeking former official who only thinks about herself.

"You are no hero," Barrett told Peters. "You're a charlatan who used, and is still using, your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that's been proven to be junk time and time again."

And THE most important question/non-answer of the entire VP debate.

It's not what anyone's talking about. It's what interested party partisans are talking about. Viewership down, victory polling strictly on partisan lines, and most people don't watch to the end.

#311 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Have you been reading/watching news?

Vance's non-answer about the 2020 election is THE topic every non-right wing news org has been talking about from the debate.

Trump's mentally unfit. We're supposed to let him have the nuclear launch codes?! Other highlights:

PS - I don't think the VP debate is going to move the needle one way or the other.

JD Vance is a jerk on the campaign trail, and people have seen months of his nonsensical, arrogant act.

The last exchange (does Vance think Trump lost 2020) is what anyone's talking about. Between that and today's release of Jack Smith's revised indictment, the Trump team didn't have a good 24 hours at all.

#308 | Posted by Augustine

Same thoughts here.

I think most voters know a VP doesn't control policy.

Except for Dick Cheney, VPs are behind the scenes doing whatever a particular president wants them to. Some more, some less.

Publicly, it's nodding in agreement and attending funerals.

After snorkeling I'd climb a fire escape and do a 3 story belly-smacker dive.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger

Let us know how it works out swimming/snorkling in water moving so fast and so powerfully it tears houses off their foundations.

Good luck with that, you Putin-loving egomaniac.

BTW, here's a new poll from Cook Political report of over 2900 likely voters in swing states. Harris is leading in all but one, and has increased her leads since last month (Apple key + or Ctrl + to make it bigger):

Trump's speech last night to supporters at an arena in Milwaukee. Wow!

(his comment "no one did anything" before him about pandemics?" HE closed the office for pandemic response Obama set up!)

But he'll be hard pressed to find another time in history when republicans were so willing to publicly state their support for the democratic presidential nominee.

#287 | Posted by ClownShack

Pigs fly!

Trump told his campaign staffers hes was going to declare victory regardless of the vote count BEFORE the ballots were counted, according to Jack Smith

#295 | Posted by Alexandrite

Roy Cohn taught him that.

Check out the trailer for, The Apprentice, coming October 9th. Looks like it'll be great:

Cause let me tell you. Should he win.

He's not going anywhere. Ever.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack

Except for down where it's hot as Hell, then reincarnated as a poor Haitian for many lifetimes.

"Polacks" were the butt of most jokes among kids where I grew up.

Then, I met my friend's immigrant professor dad with multiple PhDs who spent a few years in a NAZI prison in a cell full of fellow physicists and scientists who refused to work with the NAZIs on rockets and later Hitler's nuclear project. A cell so full they had to sleep on the floor in shifts.

His wife, from a prominent family in Poland, spied on higher echelon NAZIs who commandeered homes on their family estates. Goes without saying, at great peril to herself and her family.

When I think about it, IMO a lot of prejudice (pre-judge) is a result of language barriers that causes new immigrant groups with limited or no English to stick to their own expat circles. Every group (including the Irish) work the most menial jobs. So, between the language barrier and condescension from bigots towards them because of the work they do to feed their families, some white people will never see them as equal human beings. Usually takes a generation or two for full assimilation.

It should be noted that the largest group of "illegal aliens" in America are Europeans/Brits who overstayed their tourist visas.

#28 | Posted by LampLighter

Sadly, we've see that same playbook used by the same percentage of Americans on immigrant group after immigrant group.

Only the names have changed ...

"I'm an Open Boarders Liberal!"
-1DumbSimp

#24 | Posted by ClownShack

That dude could use a dictionary.

Or was he referring to people who rent a room and don't hesitate to share about themselves?

And Emma Lazarus wept.

#21 | Posted by Danforth

He wouldn't know who Emma Lazarus was, or why you're referring to her.

That inscription is one of my favorites.

Makes me feel the same way reading Lincoln's words carved into the inner walls of the Lincoln Memorial does.

Jack Smith has the goods on Trump. New details:

I was half tempted to sign up for Truth Social and leave a comment about how much better Vance did than Trump, and how Vance hasn't been indicted and impeached multiple times like Trump.

Betcha if someone did, and Trump saw it, condiment companies would be lined up with trucks full of catsup.

Good discussion. I have to jump off.

But I sincerely appreciate the thoughtful posts.

#291 | Posted by eberly

You got it.

But not when they were running. They were described precisely as you describe Trump. racist, dirtbag, anti-choice, pro-war, anti-poor/middle class, only care about the rich.

Posted by eberly

I, for one, never accused either of being racist dirtbags.

15 years from now, he'll (Vance) move over the line to being a traditional conservative....assuming he's no longer a threat to be a president. which is possible for quite a while unless Trump destroys him and his entire career...which is also possible.

#275 | Posted by eberly

If billionaire Peter Thiel funds his reelection campaign with another $15,000,000 like he did in 2022.

#282 | Posted by sitzkrieg

Vance was actually wearing Sarah Huckabee Sanders' "Ashy Burnt Documents" from her Smokey Eye collection.