The Trump Memory Hole has opened up and swallowed Brad Pascale.

By tomorrow he'll just be another fellow who fetched coffee that no one really remembers ever having done anything important regarding the campaign.

(Except run its entire cyber effort in 2016 and the entire 2020 campaign up until a few months ago....)

Inside Trumpworld there's a view that the past week is an inflection point in the campaign. It started on Sunday night with the bombshell New York Times report that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. "For Trump the Times story was worse than losing reelection," said the second Republican. "If you had told Donald back in 2015 that his tax returns would be exposed and he'd have all these investigations, I guarantee you he wouldn't have run."

The recession's inequality is a reflection of the coronavirus itself, which has caused more deaths in low-income communities and severely affected jobs in restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues as Americans try to avoid crowded places to protect their own health and slow the spread of the virus. Jobs in these places typically pay, on average, $17 an hour and were overwhelmingly held by women and people of color.

No other recession in modern history has so pummeled society's most vulnerable. The Great Recession of 2008 and 2009 caused similar job losses across the income spectrum, as Wall Street bankers and other white-collar workers were handed pink slips alongside factory and restaurant workers.

The 2001 recession was more unequal than the Great Recession: After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, travel and tourism jobs vanished and low-wage employment fell 7 percent below the previous year's level, while high earners remained largely unscathed. Yet, even that inequality is a blip compared with what the coronavirus inflicted on low-wage workers this year.

Biden's team is showing no signs of pulling out of the next two debates. But nothing is stopping them from making such an announcement if/when the debate commission is unable to codify better rules and then waiting until after the VP debate next week.

America doesn't deserve another crap show like last night's. It plays right into Russia's narrative about American democracy being dysfunctional and an obsolete dinosaur, unworkable in today's realpolitik world.

Um, Hamburglar, a straw man argument exists when there is exaggeration. There is no exaggeration here. Harris factually paid a little less than 15% in taxes.

Humtake, you are consistently one of the most ignorant posters on this blog. Now you've shown us that you have no idea how to read a tax form.

Harris and her husband paid $1,187,014 (Lines 19+23) in taxes on $3,018,127 (Line 11b) of taxable income. Even Vernon's calculator will tell you that they paid far more than 15%.

Trump runs roughshod over everyone and everything, and on Tuesday night in Cleveland he ran roughshod over the idea that two presidential candidates presenting rival visions for America should do so with at least a small measure of dignity and an iota of decorum.

Almost from the start, he talked over Biden, taunting him, demeaning him, trying to provoke him. He interrupted him and interrupted him and then interrupted him some more, all the while complaining that he, Trump, ever the martyr, was being persecuted once again.

He plumbed uncharted presidential-debate depths of nastiness. When Biden, objecting to Trump's reported dismissal of people who serve in the military as "losers," brought up his son Beau's tour of duty in Iraq, Trump brought up the past cocaine use of Biden's other son, Hunter. And looked impressed and delighted with himself for doing so.

It isn't a win for Trump because he's behind. Making millions of people turn off the debate and not watch the next two gives Trump no chance to change the race.

The win is if those million people don't vote at all because they wrongly think that both Biden and Trump are just two sides of the same coin. (I did say low information voters)

If the people actually got to see and hear a normal issue-dominated debate the vast majority of them would vote for Biden because he has actual sane, rational plans and goals, not just word salads and self-serving platitudes about the past and smears about his opponent's child who has no role in the government at all.

I also said that it would end up hurting Trump, not helping him. But if tonight turned off voters from voting, that is a net win for Trump - of those potential voters, not of the election itself. He still thinks that he's close enough to pull another inside straight with only his base like in 2016, and he couldn't be more wrong if he tried.

The really sad thing is, if you were tuning into as a voter undecided, how the --- do you parse thru that. I mean, Trump was an obvious idiot but it was hard at times to hear Biden.

Unfortunately, that is a win for Trump. Any voter who isn't locked in for Trump wasn't going to be persuaded by anything that he had to say tonight, but for the untold thousands of low-information voters looking to hear real policies and ideas only to change the channel in disgust - that is exactly what Trump was trying to do - toxicify the election and hope to dissuade likely Biden voters from showing up or at minimum from giving him a full chance to win their support tonight.

I don't think this will prove as successful for him as it will be detrimental and seal his electoral fate, but I have no doubt turning off voters not predisposed to voting for Trump was the main goal of his Earth 1 deranged performance. On Earth 2 it was probably seen as brilliant.

"Read Christopher Wylie's "Mindf*ck" about Cambridge Analytica.

Isn't that book actually Humtake's biography?

Mr. Glogower said the juror came to him last week in a state of turmoil after Mr. Cameron repeatedly said at a news conference that the law did not permit him to charge Sgt. Jon Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, the two white officers who shot Ms. Taylor, a Black woman, after one officer was shot by her boyfriend " and that the jury had agreed with him.

According to Mr. Glogower, the juror was unsettled by the fact that the grand jury was not given an option of charging the two officers at a time when the community has been roiled by demonstrations seeking their indictment. The 12-member panel was presented only with possible charges for Detective Brett Hankison, who was fired in June.

One longtime criminal defense lawyer, Ramon McGee, said the question of which charges the attorney general presented to the panel was not problematic.

"That is an incorrect assumption on how the grand jury process works," he said. "Prosecutors make the decision on what witnesses are called, which evidence is tendered and what charges to recommend," he said.

But the transcripts should be released, Mr. McGee added, because how the attorney general portrayed the process in public was potentially an issue.

To a layperson, it seems that all of the other mitigating factors that led to the police wrongly being at Taylor's apartment in the first place have to be balanced with all the other on-site actions that transpired, but I'll leave that to our legal experts to opine upon.

But Cameron flat-out lied, which in my mind throws everything else he claims into immediate dispute until the facts and circumstances can be investigated further as this grand juror filed action in order to bring about.

You buried the lede Greeneyedguy.

Well, this cover up has come unraveled in record time.

For those who don't see the picture being made by all the individual pieces falling into place, here's a primer.

Remember Paul Manafort passing polling data to his Russian intelligence contact? This information is the very type needed for the microtargeting of specific voters in specific places which Cambridge Analytica executed through Facebook.

Remember the Trump Tower servers that only pinged with Russian banks - servers that were owned by a company of the DeVoses? This was likely the way for transferring the targeting algorithms and such back from Russian intelligence to campaign sources in the US.

Remember Trump's campaign spending the final weekend of 2016 in Michigan when no one else even thought that Michigan was in play?

While many still think that Hillary's inability to secure white swing voters in MI, WI, and PA was her downfall, the precipitous drop off of Black voter participation in those same states' major cities (Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia) more than would have made up the 78,000 votes that cost her the election.

And all of this is interconnected in the disclosures done by this British tv station's investigative journalists today.

More than a million people " parents, children, siblings, friends, neighbors, colleagues, teachers, classmates " all gone, suddenly, prematurely. Those who survive Covid-19 are laid low for weeks or even months before recovering, and many have lingering ill effects whose severity and duration remain unclear.

Yet much of the suffering could have been avoided - one of the most heartbreaking aspects of all.

COVID-19 is not your father's flu after all no matter what you may have been told. And it's nowhere close to being done with us defenseless (and often senseless) human beings.

But does it change the fact that Walker did have a 9mm gun and that he shot it at the officers?

Walker has consistently claimed that he fired a single warning shot, not that he "fired AT the officers." And with the fact that other officers were firing wildly into adjoining apartments, it doesn't take a huge leap to question who may have shot the cop. And of course, the police have the round and the guns - if it came from Walker's gun they would have rushed to the podiums saying so, at least it seems that way to me.

And no, I've truly not spent any time looking into the details of this shooting. The story jumped out at me because it placed the AG's story in complete dispute when compared to that of the Kentucky State Police.

Cameron said three plainclothes officers shot more than 30 rounds into Taylor's home while serving a no-knock warrant in March because Kenneth Walker, Taylor's boyfriend, first shot Mattingly in the thigh. But the ballistics report from Kentucky police says the bullet that hit Mattingly "was neither identified nor eliminated as having been fired" from Walker's gun.

Still, on Wednesday, Cameron claimed he was certain Hankinson didn't shoot Mattingly because all three officers were carrying .40 caliber handguns and the bullet that hit Mattingly came from a 9mm.

One of Walker's attorneys, Steve Romines, has refuted Cameron's allegation on television and online, saying Hankinson's file shows he was administered a 9mm handgun.

The local Courier-Journal reports it has not received a response to its open records request for Hankinson's file.

Before this is over, there's going to be both police and government officials heading to jail once the dam of lies and cover ups finally breaks. The visible cracks have formed already.

In 16 key battleground states, millions of Americans were separated by an algorithm into one of eight categories, also described as audiences', so they could then be targeted with tailored ads on Facebook and other platforms.

One of the categories was named Deterrence', which was later described publicly by Trump's chief data scientist as containing people that the campaign "hope don't show up to vote".

Analysis by Channel 4 News shows Black Americans " historically a community targeted with voter suppression tactics " were disproportionately marked Deterrence' by the 2016 campaign.

In total, 3.5 million Black Americans were marked Deterrence'.

The 2016 campaign preceded the first fall in Black turnout in 20 years and allowed Donald Trump to take shock victories in key states like Wisconsin and Michigan by wafer-thin margins, reaching the White House despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton.

Trump's digital campaign, called Project Alamo' and based in San Antonio, Texas, involved a team from the now defunct British company Cambridge Analytica, working with a team from the Republican National Committee. Two senior members of the Cambridge Analytica team are working on the Trump 2020 campaign.

Cambridge Analytica collapsed after investigations by Channel 4 News, The Guardian and the New York Times in 2018.

Brad Parscale, the campaign's 2016 digital director told PBS Frontline: "I would say I'm nearly 100 percent sure we did not run any campaigns that targeted even African Americans."

But Channel 4 News has uncovered evidence that the campaign did target Black voters with negative ads designed to crush Hillary Clinton's turnout.

The Trump campaign spent 44 million on Facebook ads alone during 2016, posting almost six million different versions of highly targeted messages that were pumped directly into the feeds of target voters across America, helped by a Facebook employee embedded within the Trump campaign.

But many of the ads were so called dark posts', which could vanish from recipients' feeds once a campaign stopped paying for them.

It means no complete public record exists of the ads posted on Facebook during the 2016 campaign or the audience lists used to target voters. The platform offered no Ad Library' at the time.

Is this related to the disclosures in Great Britain about Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2016 election disinformation campaign that was run by ......Brad Pascale?

Tony, the article addresses that question. The issue is that post election day vote counts skew strongly democratic. So by tainting the voting, ------- and the republicans can go with the election day results and throw out any and all other votes. Since the election day voting will be more republican, by throwing out ballots, he will be skewing the results republican down ticket.

Of course Trump is preparing for this because he deludedly believes that every single Republican anywhere will do anything and everything he wants them too. With all the time and money it takes to run for office, no one but Trump wants to see all of that go down the drain in service of only Trump's criminal ego. None of the other races will be decided without counting all the legal ballots regardless of how they're cast - because that's what each state's law says must happen - so Trump's scenario only works for him and the Electoral College.

Trump can claim that his race is rigged, but what about every other candidate on each ballot? NONE of them will make that claim because they know it isn't true. Everyone knows and understands that the ballot counting is going on as normal, so why would they jump on Trump's crazy train to nowhere and hurt themselves in the process?

So this leaves Trump with nothing but his own assertions that the ballots are corrupted while everyone else will claim that they are absolutely normal - BECAUSE THEY ARE! Do you really think hundreds of other races will be thrown into dispute because of only Donald Trump when each state and locality is doing exactly what their state has always done - and there is no actual internal hint of any problems?

The only other option I can think of now is that we could end up with another Bush v. Gore scenario. Maybe the SCOTUS will allow Trump to claim the presidential mail-in ballots are invalid but leave the states to decide about all the other races on each individual ballot. And the states would allow all legal ballots to be counted based on whatever standard each state's law already dictates.

The huge fly in Trump's ointment is that by claiming the presidential ballots are corrupt, he's throwing every single other race into doubt at the same time. Has anyone thought of what that means as a matter of effect? There can be no certified results for any contest or issue can there? How do you think every other candidate on all these ballots is going to feel about their own results being nullified by Trump's bogus claims of impropriety?

While Trump is planning on going to the Supreme Court for his desired outcome, what about everybody else? Do they call a new election? Does everybody go to court even for local races too? What about congressional contests or senatorial elections? Trump's claim spoils all the races, doesn't it? Mayors, sheriffs, council members, auditors, bond issues, tax levies, all of it gets tossed into dispute if Trump gets his way.

I just can't see Republicans going along with this without a single shred of evidence that votes were illegally cast other than Trump's wild assertions.

One thing just hit me like a ton of bricks. Has anyone really thought out what Trump's assertions would mean for the thousands upon thousands of other races and issue elections being conducted along with the presidential election?

If Trump says certain ballots shouldn't be counted, then those ballots cannot be counted for all the other elections they represent. There is no way in hell everyone else on all these ballots is going to let Trump's ego invalidate their own election results when there will be absolutely no evidence of anything being wrong or corrupted but for Trump's baseless assertions.

I just can't see any state legislature have their own races thrown into dispute because of Trump when everyone knows nothing was wrong with the balloting.

Trump thinks his race is the only one on the ballot. He's soon going to find out a lot of Republican candidates and Democrats too aren't going to buy his phony cries of fraudulent ballots because it undermines the results of their own races at the same time.

I reckon they call him Putin's Puppet aka P(ee) P(ee).

I see what you did there.... teeeheeeeee....

The statement released Tuesday advised Americans to get information from "trustworthy sources" like official government election websites. The warning also said that Americans, when dealing with reports of problems with voting or results, should "verify though multiple reliable sources" and think twice before sharing unverified material on social media.

The agencies specifically said foreign actors might try to confuse voters by creating and spreading disinformation about "voter suppression, cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure, voter or ballot fraud" after the polls close.

The Founders were concerned that a radicalized majority might run roughshod over a rational minority if direct democracy was instituted. But they never intended for a radicalized minority to run roughshod over a rational majority either.

On the issues of today - which have been the same issues that have been debated about for more than 4 decades - the public is on the opposite side of the GOP's minority-in-charge. So the perversion of representative democracy has become a mockery of its intended purpose.

An aggrieved minority isn't seeking protections, its codifying dominance for its own unpopular views opposed by a much larger majority of the population, now finding its own liberty restricted by the whims of an empowered illiberal minority.