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A Harris-Walz Administration Would Be A Nightmare for Free Speech​

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A Harris-Walz Administration Would Be A Nightmare for Free Speech

Below is my column in The Hill on why a Harris-Walz Administration would be a nightmare for free speech. A long-standing advocate for censorship and other speech controls, Vice President Kamala Har…
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Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.​

For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.​

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For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.

Former President Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned Monday night interview with Musk that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the Musk/Trump interview failed to launch, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.

Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, Trump’s reelection campaign has been flailing. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His racist comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick, JD Vance, becomes less likable every time he speaks.

So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum.

But the online interview went off (the rails) with a multitude of hitches. X users erupted with either frustration or laughter as the planned start time passed, and nothing could be accessed. It took more than 40 minutes before the interview could start and be heard by anyone. It was amateur hour, the last thing a campaign struggling to project competence needed.

In May 2023, when DeSantis' presidential campaign premiered with a glitch-tastic interview with Musk on what was then called Twitter, Trump mocked the debacle, writing on social media: “Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster. WATCH!”

On behalf of DeSantis, allow me to say this: HAH!

Forget the glitches, Trump's X interview got worse when he started talking​

Of course, things didn’t get better for Trump once the interview was able to proceed.

He was rambling, babbling on about crowd sizes and immigration and President Joe Biden and whatever else seemed to pass through his mind. He was also badly slurring his words, raising questions about his health, and doing nothing to knock down rising concerns about his age and well-being.

He sounded like a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck.

Musk, meanwhile, has the interviewing skills of a stoned introvert. He did little but cheerlead Trump and agree with every bizarro thing that fell out of his mouth, while occasionally going on the kind of odd right-wing tangents you’d expect from a man too rich to ever be told to pipe down.

I’m not going to quote anything Trump said in the interview because it was either too stupid to merit transcription or a mere repetition of the nonsense he spouts at every rally he holds.

A big part of Trump’s problem right now is he has become almost unbearably boring. Build a wall. Drill, baby, drill. Marxist, socialist something-something. Harris only recently became Black. Blah, blah, blah.

Musk gave Trump the same gift he gave Ron DeSantis. Whomp whomp.​

So for Trump, sitting down with a rich weirdo few people like and slurring his way through an interview that failed to launch was, in the words of one Donald J. Trump, “a DISASTER!”

Musk, with his social-media ineptness and unmerited sense of self-importance, made DeSantis look like a fool. And now he’s done the same to Trump.

Heck, if Musk keeps this up, I might start to like him.
 
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🇺🇸 🤡 🇮🇱 Kid-Killer Kamala Harris has her VP. It ain't Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, the IOF volunteer and anti-Palestinian hatemonger who helped many of his fellow higher-ups in World Jewry cover up the murder of Ellen Greenberg, as many were expecting. Rather... It's Minnesota Governor...
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'Republicans for Harris' want conservatives to vote Democrat in 2024 to topple Trump​

Sarah McCammon
August 13, 2024

Prominent Republicans who are supporting Vice President Harris are urging fellow members of their party to back the Democratic ticket over former President Trump.

During a meeting billed as an online rally for “Republicans for Harris,” former elected officials and party leaders made a case for supporting Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday night.

Former Rep. Denver Riggleman, once a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was an adviser to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6th insurrection. He described Trump as an “inveterate liar,” and a “conspiracy theorist.”

“When you see the data and you see the awful things I’ve seen - you see the command-and-control infrastructure of Jan. 6th, there’s no way as a Republican that I could vote for anybody who’s anti-Constitution,” Riggleman said.

Several participants in the Republicans for Harris call said that while they don’t agree with all of Harris’ policies, they believe Trump would endanger American democracy.

“When the Harris team wins and prevents the sudden death of American democracy, we can joyfully return to arguing over marginal tax rates and the role of government in healthcare, and all the other issues that defined our politics for generations,” said Craig Snyder, who leads a group called Haley Voters for Harris.

Snyder’s group recently received a cease-and-desist letter from former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination. Noting Harris’ record as a former prosecutor, Snyder said he’s trying to make the case for Harris to former Haley supporters and other center-right voters that Harris and Walz will govern from the center-left.

Speakers also sought to cast themselves - rather than Trump supporters - as the true inheritors of the GOP tradition, invoking former Republican presidents including Ronald Reagan and the Bushes.

Austin Weatherford, National Republican Engagement Director for the Harris campaign, noted that President George W. Bush had described Trump as “weird” before Walz applied the term to the Republican nominee.

Rina Shah, a political strategist and former RNC delegate, framed a key voting issue for Democrats this year, abortion rights, in language designed to appeal to small-government conservatives. Shah referred to “draconian bans” supported by Republicans in multiple states since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“When I see that happening, I think it’s antithetical to the Republican Party I came up in,” Shah said. “I don’t want the government in my backyard, my bedroom, my bank account and certainly not in the medical exam room.”

Overcoming the fear of stigma and rejection from Republican loved ones also emerged as a key theme.

Rosario Marin, who served as U.S. Treasurer under President George W. Bush, described voting for Trump as “unacceptable,” but acknowledged that voting for a Democrat may cause strained relationships for some people.

“It is not easy to vote outside your party,” she said. “You may lose friends. Your neighbors may disagree with you. Family gatherings may turn uncomfortable. But at the end of the day I can assure you that you will know in your heart that you did the right thing, and that it’s a worthwhile and noble cause.”

Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh acknowledged that it “takes a lot of courage” for many Republicans to publicly break with their party, but argued it’s necessary.

“You have to publicly out yourself: ‘I’m a Republican; I’m a conservative, and I’m supporting Kamala Harris,’” Walsh said. “It takes courage, but remember - Donald Trump is unfit to be President.”

Organizers said more than 70,000 people joined the call live, where speakers urged Republican participants to get behind Harris through volunteering and publicly supporting her campaign.
 

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Harris gains "massive advantage" among "double-haters" in new presidential poll​

Mark Frauenfelder. Aug 15, 2024

"Double-haters" are voters who dislike Biden and Trump so much that they can barely stand voting for the one they hate the least. But new polling from A+ rated Monmouth shows that with Harris taking Biden's place in the race, double-haters are suddenly feeling the love.

As seen in this CNN clip, when the election was between Biden and Trump, 28% of registered voters who disliked both candidates said they'd hold their nose and vote for Biden, while 19% would vote for Trump. But with Biden out of the picture, 53% of double-haters say they'd vote for Harris, while 11% say they'd vote for Trump.

Let's take a look at double-haters. These are folks who dislike Joe Biden as well as Donald Trump. And I want you to look at their voting patterns, who they want for President.

Let's go back to June. What we saw was 28% of those folks were going for Joe Biden compared to 19% who said they were going for Donald Trump. Now that Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee, look at her support among them. Look at this: 53% say Kamala Harris. Look at that jump. That's a jump of 25 points.

Donald Trump has gone in the other direction — down to 11 points. And now we're looking at a 42 point advantage among the folks who dislike Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Kamala Harris compared to just that nine point advantage that Joe Biden had back in June.

This, of course, is a substantial portion of electorate. Before Kamala Harris got in, this was going to be the group that was going to determine one way or another, and it may still be, and if it is, Kamala Harris has this massive advantage over this very key block in the election. Read more
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Trump reverses his position when a reporter challenges him over his false claim about Kamala's rally. Over the past few days, Trump has been making unfounded assertions that Kamala utilized artificial intelligence during last week's rally near Detroit to create the illusion of large numbers.

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