Speaking of good new ads... the Lincoln Project is killing it:

"Oct 3, 2024

If Trump wins the election, his next term begins with mass deportations, jailed protesters, and citizen censorship. And unlike last time, this term won't end."

"Harris' campaign countered in a statement:

"Donald Trump can't lead our country forward because he refuses to let go of the past. ... Instead of offering any real solutions, the closing message from Trump and his running mate to battleground voters is a lie to undermine our democracy."

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Undermining democracy is The Plan... ax' Peter Thiel:

She's obviously a Dem pretending to be a Trumper in order to dis Hair Fuhrer!

But seriously, good to see these lawbreakers get their sentences; perhaps those who think they will get away with the same thing this time will think twice... naw.

It's unlikely they'll even think once.

She's looking for a job in the Trump Admin... looking to get onto Staff, so to speak.

Or on 'Shroom, as the case may be, Jaja.

Besides, King Trump will Pardon her.

Or give her Laura Loomer's old job.

#13

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go

Little high, little low

Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me

"VoteVets, a progressive veterans advocacy group, responded to Vance's comments, posting on Threads,

"January 6th was among the darkest days in American history and JD Vance won't condemn it and say it was wrong for Donald Trump to stoke it.

Tim Walz is right"the reason signs say Trump-Vance' and not Trump-Pence' again is because Donald Trump told the mob that Pence was the 'enemy' too."

#2

Which is why Republicans are SO pro-Russia.

The last section of the article may be the most telling....

"That's the point. Thiel and Vance " along with Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, Blake Masters, tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, Sequoia Capital's Doug Leone, blogger Curtis Yarvin, and others in the anti-democracy movement "

- believe that the only way true libertarians can win in the US is for a Caesar-like figure to wrest power from the US establishment and install a monarchical regime, run like a startup.

Yarvin comes as close as anyone as being the intellectual godfather of the anti-democracy movement.

He has written that real political power in the United States is held by a liberal amalgam of universities and the mainstream press, whose commitment to equality and justice is eroding social order.

In Yarvin's view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful;

they should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose major "shareholders" select an executive with total power, who serves at their pleasure.

Yarvin refers to the city-state of Singapore as an example of a successful authoritarian regime.

How to achieve Yarvin's vision?

The first step, as Vance offered in a 2021 podcast, is to replace "every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state ... with our people.

And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say" " as did Andrew Jackson " that "the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it."

Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.

Make no mistake: the foundation for the US's first anti-democracy president is being laid right now."

Here's what the fool Robson really thinks... well, it's what he's been told to think; that to get to a libertarian utopia, one needs to get rid of democracy.

"Vance would never have become a senator from Ohio in 2022 were it not for the billionaire tech financier Peter Thiel, who staked $15m on Vance's election " a major portion of all the funds that went into Vance's race.

Thiel knew what he was buying.

Vance had worked for Thiel's California venture capital firm before running for the Senate and was part of Thiel's libertarian community of rich crypto bros, tech executives, back-to-the-landers and disaffected far-right intellectuals.

Because Thiel had been a major funder of Trump's 2016 presidential run, he had significant influence with Trump when urging him to pick Vance for his vice-president.

Why has Thiel been such a strong sponsor of Vance? Because Thiel sees in his protege a future leader of a political movement to turn the US away from democracy. "For Peter," said one of the people familiar with his thinking, "Vance is a generational bet."

Thiel is a self-styled libertarian who once wrote: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Hello? Freedom is incompatible with democracy only if you view democracy as a potential constraint on your wealth and power."

excerpts

"Trump picked Vance as his running mate because Vance publicly stated he'd do what Mike Pence refused to do " overturn democracy and place the US under Maga control."

"In 2020, Vance alleged that the 2020 election was stolen and that Biden's immigration policy meant "more Democrat voters pouring into this country".

In 2022, he suggested that Democrats were attempting to "transform the electorate" amid an immigrant "invasion".

Echoing the so-called "great replacement theory", Vance told voters,

"You're talking about a shift in the democratic makeup of this country that would mean we never win, meaning Republicans would never win a national election in this country ever again."

In contrast to Trump, who has no ideology except accumulating power and wealth for himself and taking revenge on those who would deny these to him, Vance does have an ideology.

He's the emerging leader of the anti-democracy movement in the US."

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#315

There's a new ad for that!

"Mike Pence Repeatedly Tried to Make Trump Accept Defeat " Jack Smith Filing

Special counsel Jack Smith's team listed multiple alleged discussions Trump and Pence had in the post-2020 election period, including an apparent "face-saving option" from Pence that the former president should not publicly concede but "recognize the process is over."

"The group, known as Star Blizzard to cyberespionage experts, targeted its victims with emails that appeared to come from a trusted source " a tactic known as spear phishing. In fact, the emails sought access to the victims' internal systems, as a way to steal information and disrupt their activities.

Star Blizzard's actions were persistent and sophisticated, according to Microsoft, and the group often did detailed research on its targets before launching an attack.

Star Blizzard also went after civil society groups, U.S. companies, American military contractors and the Department of Energy, which oversees many nuclear programs, the company said.

On Thursday, a U.S. court unsealed documents authorizing Microsoft and the Department of Justice to seize more than 100 website domain names associated with Star Blizzard.

That action came after a lawsuit was filed against the network by Microsoft and the NGO-Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit tech organization that investigated Star Blizzard."

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"The Russian government ran this scheme to steal Americans' sensitive information, using seemingly legitimate email accounts to trick victims into revealing account credentials," Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in announcing the U.S. actions against Star Blizzard.

"With the continued support of our private sector partners, we will be relentless in exposing Russian actors and cybercriminals and depriving them of the tools of their illicit trade."

"As MAGA rioters swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, chanting their demand to "Hang Mike Pence!" a Trump aide received word that his running mate had been moved to a secure location for his safety, according to the filing.

The aide "rushed into the dining room to inform [Trump] in hopes that [Trump] would take action to ensure Pence's safety."

Instead, after the aide delivered the news, Trump allegedly replied, "So what?"

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"There are lots of jaw-dropping things; you've named some of them. You know: So what' if this vice president is hung? It doesn't matter' whether we've won or lost. That's just a sampling; it's the tip of a horribly large and scary iceberg," Tribe explained.

In the filing, Trump allegedly made a comment to his family members that "it doesn't matter if you won or lost the election, you still have to fight like hell."

I go by 'Garfield' here in the Alley.

"Immigration

Vance: "There's a Federal Reserve study ... that really drills down on the connection between increased levels of migration, especially illegal immigration, and higher housing prices."

Mostly False

Vance: In Springfield, Ohio, hospitals are "overwhelmed" because of illegal immigration.

False.

Vance: "We have 320,000 children that the Department of Homeland Security has effectively lost. Some of them have been sex trafficked."

Mostly False.

This is not what a federal oversight report said.

Vance: "So there's an application called the CBP One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status."

Mostly False.

Vance: "As I read the Minnesota law that (Walz) signed into law ... it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide lifesaving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion."

False.

Experts said cases in which a baby is born following an attempted abortion are rare. Less than 1% of abortions nationwide occur in the third trimester.

And infanticide, the crime of killing a child within a year of its birth, is illegal in all U.S. states.

Iran
Vance: "Iran, which launched this attack (on Israel), has received over $100 billion and unfrozen assets, thanks to the Kamala Harris administration."

False.

Fentanyl and opioids
Vance: "Kamala Harris let in fentanyl into our communities at record levels."

Mostly False.

Health care
Vance: "Donald Trump could have destroyed the (Affordable Care Act). Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans had access to affordable care."

False.

January 6, 2021
Vance: Donald Trump "peacefully gave over power on January the 20th as we have done for 250 years in this country."

Mostly False."

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They go on to give full explanations at the thread link article.

TO almost no one's surprise, Vance LIED his ass off throughout the entire Debate, while most of Walz's statements were True or Mostly True, with a couple of exceptions.

"The filing detailed Trump's "desperate conduct" in an exchange he had over the physical peril that Pence faced when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, injuring dozens of police officers.

After hearing that Pence had been taken to a secure location in the Capitol, an aide rushed to the White House dining room where Trump sat, hoping he would "take action to ensure Pence's safety."

So What?'

Instead, according to the filing, Trump "looked at him and said only, So what?"'

#302

Trusts a criminal traitor who's own aides and lawyers testified under Oath to his crimes.

But Robby Bobby Baby apparently believes they were all Dem Crisis Actors, rofl.

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What are you bitching about now?

The ad is in #1... just the ad.

Or maybe just FF the thread link vid to the ad, eh?

Or read the article under Maddow's video if you feel your time, limited as it admittedly must be, is being wasted by someone other than yourself.

Here's another pretty good ad from Evangelicals for Harris

a yt short

"Cycle after cycle, their relentless maneuvering has pushed the statehouse so far to the right that consultants like to joke that Karl Rove couldn't win a local race these days.

Brandon Darby, the editor of Breitbart Texas, is one of several conservatives who has compared Dunn and Wilks to Russian oligarchs.

"They go into other communities and unseat people unwilling to do their bidding," he says.

"You kiss the ring or you're out."

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Wait... Russian oligarchs are mentor/heroes/financiers/role models/ and propaganda mills for Trumpers.

I guess Darby may be one of those Patriot over Party GOPhers. Good for him.

All true.... and yet Ted Cruz isn't cruisin' in his race:

Wow... that imbed werked great! ha! So, Rogers, sweetie, pls fix, m'K?

"Why Supporters Don't Care if Trump Is a Crook"