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Satchel

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  1. As Trump’s manic episodes become more bizarre and frequent in the run up to the election, he’s becoming less inhibited in expressing his hatred for the military and minorities. From the latest reporting in The Atlantic: Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/ In an Oval Office meeting on December 4, 2020, officials gathered to discuss a separate national-security issue. Toward the end of the discussion, Trump asked for an update on the McCarthy investigation. Christopher Miller, the acting secretary of defense (Trump had fired his predecessor, Mark Esper, three weeks earlier, writing in a tweet, “Mark Esper has been terminated”), was in attendance, along with Miller’s chief of staff, Kash Patel. At a certain point, according to two people present at the meeting, Trump asked, “Did they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?” According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000. Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
  2. His money friends are leaning on him to remain noncommittal. That’s my guess.
  3. Very much this. It’s so damn silly.
  4. Not exactly news, but it’s terrifying that this is where we are: Journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview with podcaster Tim Miller on October 17 that Dan Coats, Donald Trump's former director of national intelligence, suspects Russian President Vladimir Putin is blackmailing the Republican nominee https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-intel-chief-dan-coats-suspected-putins-blackmail-bob-woodward-1971807 On Miller's The Bulwark Podcast, Woodward discussed how he spoke with Coats while writing his latest book, War, about Trump's relationship with Putin during his presidency and after. Discussing the pair's relationship, which Coats reportedly called an "enigma," Woodward said, "Coats who, for two and a half years was Trump's director of national intelligence, all the intelligence agencies, including the CIA, sees this. They don't have all of the information, but he sees it." He continued, "This is so strange, it is so subservient on Trump's part. He actually asks when I discussed this with Coats several months ago, he said 'is this blackmail?' In other words, is Trump being blackmailed?"
  5. How do Trump supporters keep supporting him when he tells them to their faces that he doesn’t care about them, that he only wants their votes? https://climatepower.us/news/trump-to-hospitalized-rallygoers-i-dont-care-about-you-i-just-want-your-vote/
  6. Anybody waiting until Election Day to vote had better have a lot of time on their hands. My polling site, which is traditionally busy, was more so this day. My wait was just over an hour and the line was longer than I have seen it as I was leaving. Large numbers of Indian Americans, with healthy doses of blacks and whites.
  7. Alternate interior angles are a scandal.
  8. This is just really sad: https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/trump-at-mcdonalds/115644981/
  9. An word on if he ate all the fries he allegedly cooked?
  10. He doesn’t like black people.
  11. Her token Republican will be former Congressman and aggy, Will Hurd. That will piss off Maga real good.
  12. When Michael Dyson flirted with her after dragging her publicly doing a joint appearance on CNN, she went to the well of the House and had his text messages to her entered into the congressional record. He deserves every bit of the the ridicule that followed for exercising such terrible judgement and having such bad taste…and I’m a Dyson fan.
  13. Today, a white conservative voter in Georgia called in on black Sirius to say that he early voted for MVP. Explained why he remains a staunch conservative, and why he could not vote in good conscience, vote for a crazy as hell DJT…said that had Nikki Haley been on the ballot, he would have voted for her in a heartbeat.
  14. The few Trump voters I know personally are not inclined to discuss him at all anymore I think a kind of political dysphoria has set in and their reticence is proof of their intention to vote for him, come what may.
  15. Trump is getting ready to use the tried and true Mafia trick of pretending to be crazier than he really is. As it becomes clearer that he will lose the election and go to jail, he will appear increasingly unmoored to reality. Look for him to come to a rally in robe and slippers and talk even more insanely than he currently doing. He wants to be judged too mentally and physically infirmed to serve a prison term.
  16. The American economy The envy of the world special reports - oct 19th 2024 The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue, argue Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr Special report: The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust Economic output: American productivity still leads the world For richer and poorer: Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth? Energy: The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great Stocks: Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme The dollar: China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback Looking ahead: What can stop the American economy now?
  17. I wonder if going to work is at all uncomfortable for the DA.
  18. He has always exuded preacher shadiness to me.
  19. Fun fact: the former bishop of the Diocese of Dallas, who is now Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, was for a while, an “illegal alien.”
  20. A close election would make sense if the candidates shared many similarities. These two could not be more dissimilar. It’s why I believe this election will not be close at all. There’s not much to mull. The choice is clear.
  21. The world can’t keep the same supportive disposition toward Israel and expect a different result. It’s insanity operationally defined. Something has to change.
  22. Good deal. Now send his ass to the Trump victory on 11/5.
  23. Trump will be luck to match his black numbers from 2020. We ain’t buying his bullshit.
  24. DNC drags Jill Stein’s wretched ass in timely ad. https://democrats.org/news/dnc-releases-new-ad-calling-out-jill-stein-as-a-spoiler-for-trump/
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