Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
So today we learn that Trump's Health Care Czar had his 1,374th extramarital affair and his pick for Governor of NC is a Black Nazi with a trans porn fetish.

Trump and Russia, Russia, Russia:

FTA:

Working alongside contributors for Kremlin state media, the former Donald Trump policy aide George Papadopoulos, his wife, Simona Mangiante, and others have become editorial board members of the website Intelligencer, which is increasingly becoming a source of news for those in the rightwing ecosystem.

Intelligencer appears to be gaining in popularity. It recently had its best month for internet traffic, with an increase of nearly 300% during August, according to data from Similarweb, and its articles have been shared on social media by the conspiracist Alex Jones, former Trump White House staffer Garrett Ziegler and former Trump aide Roger Stone.

I think he actually is getting more senile:

Mark Robinson says all the allegations in the CNN story are false, he is the victim of a high-tech lynching like Clarence Thomas, and he is not dropping out.

An email address belonging to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was registered on Ashley Madison, a website designed for married people seeking affairs.

An adviser to Robinson, granted anonymity to speak freely, confirmed to POLITICO that the email address in question belongs to Robinson.

I'm still waiting for the MSM to start writing articles tying all these incorrect things Trump says togther and identifying them for what they are: signs of dementia.

The Biden administration inserted 20,000 migrants into a town of 60,000. Car accidents are up, an uptick in disease, schools overloaded, etc. and the left will not acknowledge the problems this has created.
Posted by BellRinger

The uptick in disease claim is false:

What's more, Vance's dishonesty about Springfield goes well beyond the pet-eating scam and strays into other really dangerous territory. Vance has repeatedly cited a need to draw attention to other problems supposedly inflicted by Haitians, again and again claiming that "communicable diseases" are "on the rise" and have "skyrocketed."

. . . But it's very hard to square Vance's claims of "skyrocketing" diseases with official health data from Clark County, home to Springfield. That data shows that reportable communicable diseases in the county"excluding Covid-19, which dwarfs all others and surged during the pandemic for many other reasons"actually have declined in a broad sense. Despite a rise in 2022 that was the exception, they were actually lower in 2023 than they were in 2021 (when the Haitian influx gained steam), which in turn was lower than 2020 (before their arrivals really got going). The overall trend from 2020 through the end of 2023 is downward, not upward.

"If you look at all reportable diseases as a whole, they're actually going down," Chris Cook, the health commissioner of Clark County, told me.

Vance has also specifically suggested that cases of tuberculosis and HIV are rising or even soaring. But according to the county's data, there was one case of T.B. in 2021, three cases in 2022, and four cases in 2023. OK, that sort of constitutes "rising." But it's a tiny handful of cases out of a county population of 135,000.

What about HIV? Well, in 2022"the latest year of finalized data"there were around nine cases of new HIV diagnoses per 100,000 people in Clark County. That is up from five cases in 2020, but that nine cases is barely higher than the current rate across all of Ohio, which had seven new cases per 100,000 people in 2022. And if you look at the numbers of people living with HIV as a condition"as opposed to new cases of it"there are fewer per 100,000 in Clark County than there are statewide, Cook points out.

Every case of T.B. and HIV is serious. But there is no plausible way to describe any of that in Vance's hyperbolic terms. Indeed, Cook describes those diseases as getting only a "slight bump" and suggests that singling out individual diseases is not particularly illuminating to begin with.

"As a measure of total health of a population," Cook told me, "individual diseases" are less informative than "trends of groups of diseases." And those trends are down. It's hard to see how anyone could seriously cast all this as a severe blight caused by Haitians.

"in June 2019, the then-president spoke to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, who asked an important hypothetical: If foreigners offered Trump campaign officials information ahead of the 2020 election, should they accept the dirt or should they call the FBI?"

Since Russia helped Trump/GOP in 2016, Republicans wanted to keep their options open:

Asha Rangappa
@AshaRangappa_
There's no evidence that the Biden administration did anything with these emails, but it's a good time to remind everyone that in 2019, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have required campaigns to report foreign election assistance to the FBI

" It's about the fact that SOME of the bomb threats came from inside this nation, and there wouldn't have been any threats at all if not for Trump and Vance throwing this city into their campaign."
It's impossible to prove this.

Of all the small cities in the USA, foreign actors just happened to pick Springfield, OH to start sending dozens of bomb threats to after Donald Trump mentioned them on a national stage, and that's what in your book--just a weird coincidence?

In addition to the vandalism, there has also been harrassment:

Springfield's Haitian community impacted by rumors

Haitians in Springfield are feeling the effects of the false claims made against them. Some have been the target of verbal racist attacks hurled against them, being called "dirty Haitian" and an "illegal," The Columbus Dispatch reports.

In addition to the bomb threats, there have been instances of vandalism, which are obviously not being done by foreign actors:

Be nice if you had the transcript. The contextomy the only thing we know from that statement is the person said "the vast majority" at some point and time during the interview. Why wouldn't they use the whole quote?

"The vast majority of the bomb threats came from foreign countries. Not 100%, but it's the vast majority," Dan Tierney, DeWine's spokesperson, said Tuesday.

Tierney said a criminal investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies yielded information on the origin of the bomb threats. He was not more specific on how investigators determined they came from a foreign country, nor would he reveal the name of the country, saying that could encourage additional threats.

"These are largely foreign actors, not folks in the community or another part of the United States," he said. "We think it's useful in part because it shows that it's, you know, false, that it's safe to send your kids to school. And we're providing extra patrol support to make sure people feel safe at school."

Already posted:

FTA:

In November, Ohio residents will have an opportunity to vote on Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would finally abolish the state's extreme partisan gerrymandering. Voters will not, however, be informed of this fact on the ballot. Instead, the Ohio Supreme Court's Republican majority ruled Monday that the amendment will be described in egregiously misleading terms on the ballot itself, with ultra-biased language designed to turn citizens against it. Incredibly, a proposal that would end gerrymandering will be framed as a proposal to require gerrymandering, a patently false representation of its intent and effect. The court's 4-3 decision marks yet another effort to subvert democracy in Ohio by Republicans who fear that the citizenry"when given a voice on the matter"might dare to loosen their stranglehold on power.

A number of these wanna be assassins are against politicians in both parties. The PA shooter just wanted to make a name for himself. He would have tried to kill Biden if he had shown up at the Butler, PA farm show instead of Trump. I just researched a bunch of men who threatened Biden and/or Harris. Some of them threatened other politicians too. One of them included Mitch McConnell on his list with several Democrats. Did he wanna kill Mitch because he hates all pols or because Trump dislikes Mitch? Unclear.

The second "assassin" had no clue Trump was there.
#193 | Posted by ClownShack

He took an educated guess. It was a sunny Sunday morning/afternoon and Trump wasn't on the campaign trail, so where would he be? At church? Nah. At his golf course? Yeah, that would be a good bet.

Musk: why is no one trying to assassinate Biden/Harris?
Posted by ClownShack

There were more stories but I stopped at these:

FTA: "Remember when Trump defended his followers for shouting, "hang Mike Pence"? Vance apparently doesn't."

Apparently Vance also doesn't remember this Trump supporter either:

Jan. 6 defendant arrested near Obama's home had guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van
June 30, 2023

A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol wearing a "Make Space Great Again" hat had two guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested Thursday near former President Barack Obama's home, federal authorities said Friday.

Taranto showed up at Obama's residence on Thursday after former President Donald Trump posted screenshots on his Truth Social platform that featured a purported address for Obama's home in Washington. Taranto's account reposted Trump's post.

"We got these losers surrounded!" Taranto wrote on Telegram yesterday. "See you in hell, Podesta's and Obama's!"

*but he's rich and white and pretending to be a conservative and a Christian so that makes it okay.

"They're sending rapists and criminals spread amongst the party like wildfire and secured Trumps victory in 2016."

And it turns out that Trump himself is both a rapist and a criminal, but he's rich and white and pretending to be a conservative so that makes it okay.

As you may know by now I take an interest in PA politics, especially stories from Pittsburgh and the surrounding area, and because of that interest I dug into this story a little more:

Maybe the American people are ready for some No Drama Kamala. I sure hope so.

#1 LOL A swing and a miss. Have you had your morning coffee yet? Or maybe you better eat your Wheaties.