When Kamala says in her stump speeches, "I know Donald Trump's type," she isn't kidding:

I have continually stated that Kamala Harris has the "secret" ingredient that is quintessential for this presidential race: a profound understanding of criminal psychology. As a former prosecutor, she exemplifies someone who has dealt with many psychologists and psychiatrists and has received their advice. Forensic mental health experts are constantly helping prosecutors, judges, and juries distinguish dangerous personalities, who are also the most deceptive and most likely to escape detection. These personalities are convincing communicators, because no truth or reality hinges them; their con is complete. First, one must recognize the type, which is not an easy task.

Then, one must manage them. Studies show that they are 2.5 times more likely to escape prosecution and 2.5 times more likely to get out of prison than others who commit the same crimes, even though they are more dangerous and more likely to repeat their crimes. They charm, manipulate, dominate, and mobilize their own symptoms to bulldoze their opponents. They sometimes seem formidable, but it is actually only a faade. They are in truth fragile, rigid, and predictable, and thus if one understands them, one can easily slay the paper tiger.

When you really stop to analyze his BS, it becomes clearer that it truly is BS. For example, Trump claims everyone wanted Roe to be overturned, but at the same time he claims it took a lot of courage for him to appoint the 3 SC justices who overturned it. Huh? If everyone--Republicans, Democrats and Independents--wanted it overturned, then appointing those justices took no courage at all.

To demonstrate how much Trump has declined in the last 8 years, more side by side comparisons like this please:

Phillip: We compared Trump's debate answers from 2016 to the ones he gave this week after the very first question on immigration.. He veers off topic several times.. watch

Jeffy gave him an A+!
#100 | Posted by Corky

Really?:

Karl Rove Taunts Trump for Losing Catastrophic Debate'

Republican strategist, Fox News contributor, and Wall Street Journal columnist Karl Rove kicked off his review of this week's presidential debate in the Journal with the following declaration: "Tuesday's debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was a train wreck for him, far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined."

He also submitted that there was "no contest" between how the two candidates carried themselves, writing that "Ms. Harris came across as calm, confident, strong and focused on the future. Mr. Trump came across as hot, angry, and fixated on the past, especially his own."

Although Rove posited that the debate may not sink Trump or buoy Harris as much as some have suggested it will, he concluded that "there's no putting lipstick on this pick."

"Mr. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as dumb as a rock,' he mused. "Which raises the question: What does that make him?"

Lindsey criticized Trump's debate performance, and voila!:

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Laura Loomer says Lindsey Graham should come out of the closet.

This is the 21st century version of the Southern strategy on a national scale:

The phrase "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances to gain their support.

When a Lie Becomes a Bomb Threat: The Fallout of a Racist Conspiracy in Springfield

Trump and Vance's baseless claims about pet-eating Haitian immigrants show how falsehoods spread for political gain can lead to real-world chaos.

It began with a single post in a private Facebook group. An unnamed individual claimed that Haitian immigrants were abducting pets for food. There was no evidence, no credible witnesses--just hearsay from an anonymous user in a small town. Yet, within days, right-wing influencers on platforms like X (formerly Twitter) had taken this baseless claim and run with it. They didn't just repeat it; they embellished it, framing it as a systemic issue tied directly to immigration policy under the Biden-Harris administration.

This was nothing new. We've seen this before: the "birther" movement, the constant "caravans" of immigrants supposedly invading the southern border. The formula is simple: manufacture a crisis, target a minority group, and watch as the lie spreads while benefitting politically. But the speed with which this conspiracy took off, reaching the lips of a former president and his running mate, was alarming. It wasn't just an online conspiracy anymore--it had entered the mainstream.

Trump and Vance, knowing full well that no evidence existed to support the pet-eating immigrant narrative, used the lie strategically. It wasn't about truth--it was about stoking fear, playing into racist anxieties about immigrants and rallying their base around a common enemy. This is a despicable tactic that we've seen before, but the consequences in Springfield were swift and brutal.

I don't know if everyone follows Gal Thursday's postings, but she uncovered the real reason behind the right's fixation on Springfield and Aurora. The reason they keep doubling down on these narratives is because they're trying to energize and enrage voters already susceptible and exposed to right wing media/conspiracy circles to increase the numbers of nominally college-uneducated whites and any other individuals who typically don't vote.

They're using this propaganda to enlarge their voter base with those who'd never vote for Harris but might show up to vote for the champion who'll stand up and do something about immigrant hoards. This is why Trump chose to keep focusing on the crazy because the people he's really talking at understand the code of what he's saying and they like it. . . .

This is politics on the meta-level sports fans as disgusting as it is if this indeed is correct. And to top it off, the entire line of immigrant criminals was started by Russia-backed disinformation outlets to help Trump. It never stops people and neither can we until the election is over.

Exactly so, Tony. This is a very deliberate strategy on the part of Trump, Vance, Putin and the GOP.

Trump: "Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote"

(He is in Arizona)

Trump and Vance are trying to win by signaling to the Neo-Nazis in their base and by ginning up racial fears and tensions against immigrants:

Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric

Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president's xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

After a video, amplified on major far-right Telegram channels and elsewhere, showing alleged Venezuelan gang members carrying weapons in an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex went viral, Trump repeatedly used it to denounce immigrant criminals entering the country.

On Saturday, the interim chief of the Aurora police department was forced to put out a Facebook video, clarifying the situation at the building was a much "different picture" from the frenzy and rumors surrounding it.

Yet Trump continued referencing the incident, including in a podcast interview days after Aurora police issued their statement.

Other neo-Nazi activists, not wasting the moment for inflaming tensions, shared a video on Telegram allegedly driving through the streets of Aurora with a megaphone and claiming "to take the city back".

Similarly, on Tuesday, Elon Musk, perhaps Trump's most devoted fanboy, helped spread disinformation about "32 armed Venezuelans" taking over a Chicago building, which the police promptly disproved. The disinformation emanated from the infamous X account, Libs of TikTok, a known purveyor of dangerous, rightwing propaganda and once the subject of a Twitter suspension when the company wasn't under the ownership of Musk.

. . .The Trump campaign inflaming hate crimes and far-right activism is not without precedent. A study out of the University of North Texas on the 2016 Trump campaign, one that held nativist racism at its core, statistically proved that in places where Trump held one of his over 300 rallies there was a "226% increase in hate-motivated incidents".

Is there any short explanation as to WHY many Haitians are moving to Springfield?
#11 | Posted by REDIAL

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine pushes back on fake migrant story amplified by Trump: "The internet can be quite crazy"

DeWine defended the thousands of Haitian migrants who are living in Springfield, but noted there are challenges that come with 15,000 migrants settling in city with a population of less than 60,000 in the last couple of years.

"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," he said.

Trump and Vance's promotion of the cat eating story is not accidental, emphasis mine:

Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric

Extremist groups are latching on to ex-president's xenophobic messages to recruit people and spread ideology

In tandem with the Trump campaign's sloganeering, known figures on the far right and their online denizens are seizing on the open hatred of immigrants from the top Republican and going even more public with their brand of activism.

"At this point, demonizing and lying about immigrants is part and parcel of the far-right scene and a major part of its anti-immigrant messaging," said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), an extremism watchdog organization. "Non-white immigrants and refugees are enemy number one for the far-right."

Beirich warned the current climate is even more dangerous as she's seeing ideologies, once the sole domain of fringe neo-Nazis, being "mainstreamed by political figures".

For example, two separate hate groups recently descended on Springfield, Ohio, rallying with masks and uniforms and threatening the approximately 20,000 Haitian immigrants that have arrived in the town since the pandemic. In 2023, tensions among local residents flared up after a bus crash involving a Haitian driver helped make the Rust-belt town a flashpoint in anti-immigration debates.

In August, Blood Tribe, a neo-Nazi group led by ex-US marine Christopher Pohlhaus, marched in Springfield waving swastika flags (with at least two members carrying rifles) and yelling anti-Black and racist epithets at a jazz festival.

Then, in early September, one of its leaders was granted time to speak at a town forum with local politicians.

"I've come to bring a word of warning," said the leader, speaking under a racist pseudonym. He is believed to be the second-in-command of Blood Tribe, after Pohlhaus, and also a former marine. "Stop what you're doing before it's too late. Crime and savagery will only increase with every Haitian you bring in."

The leader then continued, directly threatening local Haitian residents. He was booted from the meeting.

Though he doesn't seem to have appeared in Springfield this summer, Pohlhaus was part of a 2022 protest in Maine harassing Somali refugees and used his Telegram account to call on "ALL GROUPS AND ORGS" to "HIT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO."

Nazis in the heartland:

Tensions over Haitian immigration continue to be an overriding issue at City Hall meetings
Updated Aug 28, 2024

[O]ne of the speakers addressing city leaders introduced himself as a member of the Blood Tribe group that marched in Springfield on Aug. 10. The name he gave appears to be an anti-Black pseudonym used by some hate groups.

"I was head of the anti-Haitian immigration march earlier this month," the man told city commissioners, referring to a dozen people who marched through the city during the Jazz & Blues Fest with Nazi flags and ski-mask covered faces.

". . .I've come to bring a word of warning," the man affiliated with the Nazi group said. "Stop what you're doing before it's too late. Crime and savagery only increase with every Haitian you bring in ... "

Time for someone to organize a Haitian Americans for Harris zoom call.

Haitian families in Ohio under attack as racist claims spread

As false claims spread, the more unsafe Haitian immigrants are feeling

Trump Posts New Round of AI Haitian Cat Eating Hoax Memes

Trump continues to push this racist conspiracy theory

Trump has posted a new round of MAGA Republican AI memes to push the migrant pet eating hoax he claimed at the debate. Trump falsely claimed Haitian migrants are eating pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio.

On Thursday, Trump posted a new round of AI pet eating hoax posts to Truth Social, 5 posts in all.

GOP Pollster on Fox basically says it's smart for Trump to not do another debate because ... if he has another disastrous performance, it may not be possible to recover so close to the election

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Here are the fact-checks that Trumpers are mad about today:

" Moms are not murdering their babies
" Migrants aren't eating your pets
" Biden won the 2020 election

Tom Bonier
@tbonier

According to CNN fact checker, Daniel Dale, Trump told at least 33 distinct lies during the debate last night. He was fact checked by the moderators on 3 lies. 91% of his lies went unchecked, but to his enablers that amounted to biased, unfair moderation.

Abby D. Phillip
@abbydphillip

Just fyi: when there is asymmetrical lying, there will be asymmetrical fact checking.

Gollum J. Trump (Parroty)
@realGollumTrump

WE WONS RIDDLEBATES PRECIOUS!!! WONS IT BY BIGLY MUDSLIDES!!! SO NICE!! SO FREEEEEEEE!! DIDNT EVEN SEEMS GRUMPY AND MADS WHOLE ENTIRE TIMES!! DIDNT EVEN!!! But weren't we grumpsy Precious eh? With scowls and frowns? EH?! Always on the fensive! Always losing topicses! NO!! QUIET!!

Taylor Swift doesn't need the extra money she'd get from conservatives who boycott her work. The opportunity to keep living in a democracy, however, is priceless.

Trump told 33 falsehoods and they only corrected 5:

CNN Fact Check of the debate: This was a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former President Trump. Just lie after lie on subject after subject by my preliminary count, he made at least 33 false claims.

Fox is reporting that the moderators fact-checked Trump 5 times and Harris 0 times. Since they gave him 5 extra minutes of speaking time and 6 more opportunities to speak--as well as the fact that he told many more lies than she did--it seems like a pretty fair trade off and ultimately a pretty even debate playing field to me.