Headline as the story develops: JD Vance Targets Own Constituents for Pogrom.

One, two, many threats of pogroms. Party of Lincoln, folks.

Of the four people shown im that photo at #17 three became convicted felons. One of them died in jail. Another is stuck in prison until at least 2037. The third is the Republican Party's choice for President of the United States.

"A different and better sort of man would understand that bearing false witness against 15,000 poor and vulnerable people in the pursuit of political power is the same as bearing false witness against anybody else," writes Kevin Williamson in the conservative journal. "But I'll give Vance the last word. Here he is on Twitter, back when Twitter was Twitter and J.D. Vance was J.D. Vance: Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this, I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.'"

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe

With the nepo babies Eric and Don Jr as WLF's resident "Web3 Ambassadors" and Barron Trump as its "DeFi visionary" (he played hooky for the launch) investors can surely rest easy.

Self-awareness is not in this admitted liar's box of tricks.

Two more injections of whatever it is Bobby Baffert pumps into his primo nags and Old Orange Julius will issue his own Nero Decree, thus further emulating the person he most admires aside from himself.

Roberts and the Roberts Court, with its majority of howling legal mediocrities, doing what the bought-and-paid-for are supposed to do: watch out for Trump's interests at their investor-masters' behest.

Rich Lowry, professional rightwing preening and pontificating punk, uses a racial slur? What. A. Sooprise.

What awful people.

"Stand back and stand by."

They're starting to panic in MAGAland, some of the criminally-inclined (like this goon) even coming out of the woodwork.

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Bet the down-deep polling that the campaigns have in constant motion shows serious fracturing/weakening in Trump's support in critical states. Just watch the places where Harris, Walz, Trump, and Vance go to and keep going to.

Her response to getting caught fanning the flames of a lie is right in-step with the Trump-Vance line: whatever gets attention, lies included, is "alternate fact"for the mob to which they make their pitch.

"The former president has been a prolific conspiracy theorist for decades," observes Stein. "Let's take a tour through what Trump was thinking even before Loomer joined his entourage":

Trump was the de facto leader of the Obama birther movement, even casually suggesting that the director of the Hawaii Department of Health, who died in a plane crash, was murdered as part of a coverup.
He openly mused that former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers wrote Obama's memoir and that Obama never actually went to Columbia University.
He floated the idea that Ted Cruz's father had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald. He raised doubts about Vince Foster's suicide.
He wondered aloud if Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was suffocated to death.
He pushed the story that Muslims in New Jersey were cheering after 9/11.
He raised the idea that Marco Rubio was ineligible to be president because his parents weren't yet U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. He did the same about Ted Cruz. And Nikki Haley. And Kamala Harris, too.
He questioned the authenticity of the Access Hollywood tape (this was after he apologized for it).
He claimed Obama had him wiretapped at Trump Tower.
He claimed the death toll from Hurricane Maria was inflated to make him look bad.
He said the noise from windmills causes cancer.
He pushed a video saying that the Clintons killed Jeffrey Epstein.
He said Ukraine could be hiding Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
He said that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
He said that fears about asbestos were a conspiracy designed to line the pockets of asbestos-cleanup companies run by the mob.
He retweeted several conspiracy theories around the death of Osama bin Laden (that it could have been a body double).
He has said jobs numbers are manipulated, the unemployment figure was made up, the COVID death numbers were inflated, the Obamacare enrollment numbers were exaggerated, and the border crossing numbers "manipulated" to make the Obama administration look better.
And, of course, he's spread a steady stream of lies about election numbers. The 2012 one: dead people voted for Obama. The 2016 one: cheating in blue states like California and New York deprived him of a popular vote win. The 2020 one . . . where do we even start? Sharpies did not invalidate Trump votes; Dominion did not either. People weren't throwing away bags filled with Trump ballots or randomly finding suitcases filled with Biden ones. Thousands of dead people didn't vote multiple times. And, no, Italians did not use military technology to tamper with U.S. voting machines.

As Sam Stein observes:

> Loomer isn't the disease, she's the product of a MAGA movement that both attracts and produces attention-hungry fantasists"a movement that routinely whips up threats against minority communities and - not so long ago - attempted an insurrection.

Crypto was practically made for megagrifters like Trump and his crew.

" But I lost interest when most of the episodes always seemed to wind up based in London."

True. Cheaper to shoot at Canary Wharf than the Giza Plateau.

Some years back a fight erupted in a Belfast pub. Police reported something like seventy people were on hand when a guy was killed with a broken bottle. And they all told police they hadn't seen a thing , having been in the bar's one-person toilet at the time. Which the coppers immediately christened "the Tardis."

Trump's hatefest rally playlist looks like it's gonna be whittled down to "Yankee Doodle," "Row, Row, Row Your Boat,," and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."

B-b-b-but JayDee says making up ----- lies to get attention is what it's about.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. You'd think someone as familiar with the Bible as Trump would know that.

It's being said by someone, somewhere, maybe, perhaps that it's been reported a blinding blast from a Neuralyzer put on the market by you know who entered the old boy's noggin at his right ear, passed through his head, and exited his left ear with no damage done. So it's said. Yes, Sirrrrrrrr!

Where are you?