While Antoni Porowski’s short shorts and Joel Kim Booster’s full-frontal scene took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players were busy doing all sorts of things you may have missed. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it…
FLORIDA DISASTER: Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis’ anti-woke agenda just got smacked with another scandal. [Read more]
UNITED: Gay Gov. Jared Polis defended Kamala Harris’ evolving & more moderate policy positions. [Read more]
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IT GETS WORSE: Now there’s leaked audio of JD Vance trashing childless public school teachers & lesbian stepmoms.
ALL EARS: Rosie O’Donnell had a serious question about Trump’s “regrowing” ear comment amid the lack of clarity in the aftermath of his injury during the assassination attempt in July. [Read more]
THE WORD SLAYER: Out Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg smartly explained why he appears on Fox News so often. [Read more]
FLIP FLOP: After previously bragging about getting Roe V. Wade overturned, the disgraced ex-president now seemingly came out with a more pro-choice message saying Florida’s six-week abortion ban (which DeSantis signed into law in the middle of the night) is too short. Gurl! Evangelicals are going through some things right about now…
FRIENDS NO MORE: Once upon a time, Tim Walz & puppy-killing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem were friends… then she falsely accused him of “mutilating children.” [Read more]
MAKE AMERICA CRUDE AGAIN: CNN host Anderson Cooper expressed extreme disgust by the disgraced ex-president’s latest oral sex joke about Kamala Harris. [Read more]
YOU’RE DISMISSED: Kamala Harris expertly brushed off the disgraced ex-president’s racist BS about her identity during a sit-down with CNN’s Dana Bash.
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Kari Lake’s political career has become a slow motion car wreck on a crash course to defeat
The MAGA anti-drag queen is losing her Senate race by (checks notes)… 15 points!
Kangol2
Kamala Harris handled her “interview” with aplomb. She took on or brushed off each one of the right-leaning, non-newsworthy questions from Dana Bash. Now, let’s talk about the GOP presidential & VP candidates. DJT is flipflopping and lying so much it’s like he’s trying out for the Olympic breakdancing team and the other, JD, can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth about women.
abfab
When Kamala puts her office in place, you’ll hear more about her policies. Some people are super impatient and need to chill. The right will disagree either way.
BLAKENOW
amen, when it comes to politics everybody (mostly on the right) always has to complain about something
War On Free Speech
The interview was an absolute trainwreck. Disaster. It was so bad there are now talks that Kammie is trying to get out of the one (not three per usual) debate. She declined the FOX News debate because it was too, too scary.
From the first question, what she would do on Day One of presidency, was so bad Dana Bash had to ask it again.
Her chaperone, Tim Walz, did no better. The one question he knew he would get was his lie about Stolen Valor. His answer was so bad Dana had to ask it again. Absolute trainwreck
We’ll see if she even shows up for her ONE debate.
abfab
Stale.
Eternal.Cowboy
That was a lot of words to simply say “I didn’t actually watch the interview.”
In other news Harris has now pulled ahead in Georgia polling.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Things have to be going pretty bad when your lord and master, Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, couldn’t even get former vice president Dan Quayle to appear at the RNC convention to support him. Rather in politics or entertainment no one of importance showed up to support this loud mouthed loser. The best he could come up with were two long forgotten washed up 1990’s has beens (Hulk Hogan and Kidd Rock) to appear at the convention. Hulk was so pathetic he had to do a second take on ripping off his extra thin t-shirt. As we all know country music has become the theme music for the RNC yet not ONE major country star will allow Trump to play their music at any of his rallies nor at the convention.
Now, I’m going to name just a few but not all former white house officials and prominent republicans who still identify as republican who appeared at the DNC knowing that Kamala Harris was going to be the nomineee.
1. Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan
2. Former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham
3. Olivia Troye, a former homeland security aide to Vice President Mike Pence
4. Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles even began his DNC speech by saying, “I have a confession to make: I’m a lifelong Republican.”
There were several former republican congressmen and two senators that also spoke out against him during prime time appearances who lost their seats because they spoke out and joined former Senator Liz Cheney in her prosecution of Trump. Right now numerous former staffers of Mitt Romney have formed at Stop Trump committee with the blessing of Romney. Its really a shame Cheney, who lost her seat because she stood up for the constitution, didnt take the opportunity to get even by endorsing Harris publicly but it surprises me not at all that she is still partially brainwashed by ideology. They should have made the offer to her vindictive father who I’ll bet would have leapt at the opportunity.
War On Free Speech
@Kangol2
“She took on or brushed off each one of the right-leaning, non-newsworthy questions from Dana Bash.”
Oh, that is rich! Examples, please. Let’s hear these “right-leaning” questions from lefty Bash.
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War On Free Speech
@ Sister Birdbrain
Why would DJT, or any Republican, want Dan Quayle at the RNC? Also, add Cheney, Romney, Bush and Ryan to the list as well.
storm45701
@war … most political, non-partisan observers gave Harris a very good grade on that interview. Harris took control of that sit-down from the start. Asking a question twice is not unheard of (please see the last three Trump interviews; see? I watch them). Harris has not tried to get out of the debate, that’s Trump. I know it gives your mind comfort to think things are going your way, but the mood and the trajectory of this election are a different reality.
daveku69
So let me get this straight. It is ok for Kamala Harris to flip flop, but not Trump? And where has he exactly flipped? If she was so into her new policies, she would enact them NOW, and show the American people she had changed… despite saying “my values have not changed”
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@daveku69
You might want to do a Bing.com search on Trump’s stance on abortion and see for yourself how many times he has flipped on it. Not ONE right-wing leaning media outlet has produced a counter argument as to whether or not he has flipped on it. If you know of one that has produced credible evidence that his STANCES have not come back to haunt him then please enlighten us on who it is. His actions are all pointing to a man who now sees just what he has created, a Supreme Court that is not exactly on his side, shall we say. There is no doubt in my mind he saw a ghost when the court banned abortion without consulting him first but as long as it was Joe Biden he was up abasing he had no problem with it. My, how times have changed (maybe not publicly but I’m sure you will agree). The strongest group he has, the evangelicals, might abandon him on this issue and he knows it. Imagine putting yourself in the position of between a rock and a hard place with no one to lift that rock off of you.
War On Free Speech
@storm45701
It looks like you need to get better news sources.
In an election year, there are usually three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate. Trump committed to three presidential debates on three different networks. So why are we only having one? Because Kammie doesn’t want to do them (or interviews, or press conferences, etc.). The one debate she agreed to, she tried to change the rules and format and ABC declined.
Vance also said he would like to do three debates. That won’t happen either.
There is a reason the most unpopular vice president in modern history, who the Democrats wanted off the Biden ticket just a few months ago is suddenly the golden girl.
abfab
MAGA panic is now off the charts. War-on=speech is worried because things aren’t going his way. His points are meaningless and reveal how naive he continues to be.
Eternal.Cowboy
“ In an election year, there are usually three presidential debates”
Remind me again of how many Trump did in 2020? Seems like someone else set the precedent of not doing three. They are also usually done by the Commission on Presidential Debate but Trump is inexplicably terrified of that idea and has opted to just toss our random dates.
“ Trump committed to three presidential debates on three different networks.”
Good for him, one candidate doesn’t get to decide the debate schedule and venue will be.
“ Because Kamala doesn’t want to do them (or interviews, or press conferences, etc.).”
Except she is doing a debate, does interview and press conferences. Video readily available. Perhaps you should follow your own advice on new sources.
“ The one debate she agreed to, she tried to change the rules and format and ABC declined.”
Rules and format are agreed upon by the campaigns not the networks. They are also negotiated up until the day of the debate. The campaigns negotiated and continue to negotiate the rules, just like every other presidential debate. ABC didn’t decline anything, the Trump campaign was afraid to have unmuted microphones. Trump said he was good with them not being muted and his campaigned backtracked. Why are they so afraid to let him speak?
“ Vance also said he would like to do three debates.”
Good for him! Why does this matter?
Have you considered getting your kickers in a twist about something the American public cares about rather than going all fan fiction on the debates?
Also, current polling shows Harris wining the popular vote and the Electoral College, I’m guessing posts are becoming more frantic because you feel the walls closing in. It’s okay buttercup, there are a little over two months left. Breath into a paper bag and go touch some grass.
abfab
Common and naive. Waron is sad and so is his party.
abfab
At a Moms for Liberty-hosted “fireside chat” in Washington, D.C., the former president said that Ivanka “hired millions” of people while serving as a senior adviser in the Trump White House.
abfab
Trump claimed that Ivanka stepped away from a successful fashion brand that was “making so much money” because of a desire to help people, but her working woman-focused clothing line was ailing and had been dropped by major retailers like Nordstrom.
Not satisfied with stretching the truth of things that actually happened, Donald veered into hypotheticals around Ivanka. He told Justice that she “would be a great ambassador to the United Nations, United Nations secretary.”
“There’d be nobody to compete with her,” he shared. “She may be my daughter, but nobody could have competed with her, with her rat-tat-tat, the whole deal she’s got.”
abfab
In an interview with John Berman, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was asked about his social media post reacting to Vice President Kamala Harris’ CNN interview. The post on X featured a clip of 2007 Miss Teen USA contestant Caitlin Upton that previously went viral. In a 2015 interview, Upton said the social media attention caused her to contemplate suicide.
He won’t apologize.
Dixie Rect
Kammie is a disaster and wants to tax unrealized capital gains and tax corporations into oblivion which will drive inflation even higher. You will be poor and homeless. Wait and see.
Get ready for Kammie’s wrath, but you know, vibes and joy. Although, you can’t eat vibes and joy.
War On Free Speech
@Eternal.Cowboy
My lengthy response to your post went into moderation. It has now been deleted, like several of my other posts. Thus, my moniker.
I’m old enough to remember when it wasn’t like this; when Dems actually believed in free speech. No longer.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
@War On Free Speech.
I along with a few other agree that queerty’s moderation policy is a bit heavy handed but it shocks me not at all that your blatant insult to me is still up.
abfab
KAMALA HARRIS. The next President of the USA!
abfab
Crazy and weird.
A gala event to raise money for some of the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, set to take place on Thursday at former President Donald J. Trump’s golf club in New Jersey, has been postponed, according to the event website.
While Mr. Trump had not been planning to attend the soiree — billed as the J6 Awards Gala — the event attracted attention for the way it reinforced the strong connections he has maintained with those who stormed the Capitol on his behalf at an awkward moment: just as his campaign to return to the White House enters its final stages.
abfab
DJT will continue to fail.
abfab
Corey Lewandowski, the Trump adviser, continues to repeat the false Republican claim that Democrats support abortion “after the baby has been born.”
More maga lies.
abfab
Usha Vance is choosing to remain silent about her religion in the run-up to the election and declined to speak with The Associated Press about it. She opted not to answer questions about whether she is a practicing Hindu or if she attends Mass with her Catholic husband, an adult convert to the faith, or in which faith tradition their three children are being raised.
One can only wonder why.
Eternal.Cowboy
Well, if it is like any of your other comments then I am on not missing much. You tend to be long on personal attacks and short on substance.
abfab
War On is on some kind of bad speed. Tweaking along with Eric and Don, Jr.
abfab
@ dixierect You’ll eat anything.
Eternal.Cowboy
@Dixie Rect –
I’ll approach your comment in good faith discussion, I doubt it will be reciprocated but I’ll give you the opportunity to show your actually interested in discussions issues.
“Kamala is a disaster and wants to tax unrealized capital gains and tax corporations into oblivion which will drive inflation even higher. You will be poor and homeless”
The proposal to tax unrealized capital gains only applies to people with 100 million or more in assets. That is less than 0.01% of households. So, no one will be driven into poverty or homelessness because of it. Under the Harris plan anyone making 130k or less a year would see a larger tax cut than under the Trump plan. That is 75% of the population.
For corporate taxes she wants to raise the tax rate from 21% to 28%. Of course that isn’t the effective tax rate. Of course most companies effective tax rate will be lower. For example here is the current effective tax rate for the top 5 American companies by revenue:
1 Walmart: 25%
2. Amazon 17%
3. Berkshire Hathaway 20%
4 Apple Inc 16%
5. UnitedHealthcare 21%
Given that the effective tax rate includes all taxes paid (State and Federal) we can assume that no one is paying the full corporate income tax and no one will be paying 28%. The average effective tax rate is 7%. The impact will be fairly minimal. Also, the 28% is lower than corporate tax rates from 1941-2020. Since it still be on the historical rates it is safe to say that no corporations will be taxed into oblivion.
Lastly, and any economist will tell you this, higher tax rights do not drive inflation higher. They actually do the opposite. Raising interest rates and raising taxes are two common approaches to reducing inflation. Thankfully it was resolved by just raising interest rates this time around. Lowering taxes does carry the change of increasing inflation.
So neither her plan to tax unrealized capital gains for 0.01% of the population nor her corporate tax rates increase will spark inflation and leave people poor and homeless.
War On Free Speech
From an economic and moral perspective, taxing unrealized capital gains from property, stocks, and other assets is a bad idea. It undermines economic growth, stifles innovation, and infringes on personal liberty. Instead of resorting to the misguided policies of the Biden administration and some states, we should remove barriers created by the government. These include reducing spending, taxes, and regulations. We should also impose fiscal and monetary rules.
Achieving these goals and ending the bad idea of a new tax on unrealized capital gains will encourage investment, entrepreneurship, and economic opportunity for all. Only then can we truly unleash the potential of a free and prosperous society.
War On Free Speech
Dearest Sister Bertha,
My “blatant insult” was a knee jerk reaction to your condescending moniker. My apologies.
Eternal.Cowboy
@war –
I’ll take you responding to that as a tacit admission that Dixie Rect is also you. Which makes sense as the voicing and word choice are the same.
Moving on. The claim that was initially made was that unrealized capital gains were going to be taxed and the result was people were going to be left poor and homeless do to it. I pointed out that the claim about unrealized capital gains was misleading as it only applied to people with over 100 million in assets and therefore only applied to 0.01% of the population. Since that portion of the population that would be taxed is in no danger of being poor and homeless and the rest of the population wouldn’t be impacted the claim that taxing unrealized capital gains causing poverty and homelessness is entirely unsupported. Since you didn’t respond to that I’ll assume you agree that the initial misleading claim was inaccurate.
So, no you have moved on to new claims:
“From an economic and moral perspective, taxing unrealized capital gains from property, stocks, and other assets is a bad idea. It undermines economic growth, stifles innovation, and infringes on personal liberty.”
So you have mixed in a healthy amount of opinion in here. Morality is subjective and related to one’s personal beliefs and similar to claims of personal liberty. Arguing opinions is an exercise in futility and I am more than happy to respect that those are your opinions.
So let’s look at the other two claims. Would taxing unrealized capital gains undermine economic growth and stifle innovation? The simple answer is that there is no evidence that it would and these seems like a variation of the argument that rich people drive job growth and innovation by spending their money. This is actually knowable false. The wealthy sitting on money doesn’t drive the economy. If the money isn’t being spent or actively invested then it isn’t doing anything. So the claim that taxing money that isn’t doing anything will somehow inhibit growth is inaccurate at best. The economy is driven by the working class as they do the majority of the spending. Further, taxing the capital gains would actually take the money and put it to use in the economy as it would allow the government to fund things like building/repairing infrastructure and education. Government spending actually contributes to the economy and innovation.
A perfect example is the sometimes richest person in the world Elon Musk. He is worth several hundred billion, but most of that wealth is in Tesla stock. It doesn’t drive economic growth and it doesn’t drive innovation. It doesn’t do anything and taxing the capital gains wouldn’t inhibit those things. One can certainly argue that the companies he runs (Tesla and SpaceX) drive innovation and contribute to the economy and I’d take no issue with that but neither of those companies are funded by his wealth. Tesla is publicly traded and is largely profitable due to tax subsidies. SpaceX is funded by private equity and its customers. The largest customer of SpaceX is NASA. So, the innovation and economic impact of Tesla and SpaceX is actually driven by tax dollars not Elon Musks unrealized capital gains.
“… we should remove barriers created by the government. These include reducing spending, taxes, and regulations. We should also impose fiscal and monetary rules.”
You have provided no evidence that reducing spending, taxes and regulation negatively impact growth. And I can counter with the following. The longest period of economic growth the country has seen was June 2009 – Feb 2020. So the start and the majority of it were under President Obama. President Trump oversaw the end of that economic expansion and the country went into recession. The second longest period of economic expansion was under Bill Clinton and ended under George W. Bush. In fact over the last 100 years every Republican president has had a recession start during their administration. So 12 of the last 16 recessions were on Republican watch. Of the recessions that happened under Democratic presidents the most recent was in 1980 under Carter. The rest were In the 1940s. Since World War II GDP growth under Republican presidents have averaged 2.54% GDP growth and Democratic presidents have averaged 4.35%. In the same time frame the S&P averaged 6.9% growth under Republican presidents and averaged 11.1% under Democratic presidents. Since the end of the Cold War the U.S. has gained 51 million jobs with 49 million of those happening under Democratic presidents. That is 97% of job growth in the last 35 years. Over that last 100 years Democratic presidents oversaw 70% of job growth, so a little better than 2:1.
So, you can repeat the same refrain about Democrats having misguided policy all you want but the facts show that Democratic presidents produce far better outcomes for the economy.
War On Free Speech
What a lovely dissertation, but all one has to do is look at the economies of the last two presidents.
Is there ANYTHING that is cheaper now than under the previous administration? Americans are suffering. ‘Good vibes’ and ‘joy’ is not paying my grocery bill. Inflation hit a 40 year high with Biden. For those of us old enough, it was all too familiar of the Carter years – another Democrat.
Also, Dixie Rect is not me. As a diversity lover, I’m sure you love having another non-leftist voice here.
abfab
Kamala/Walz 2024
Diversity, we love.
It’s YOU, War, we have the problem with.
abfab
Dtrump said he had “every right” to try to overturn the 2020 election.
Eternal.Cowboy
Funny how quickly you break with civil discussion when the preponderance of evidence is in direct contraction with your world view. Anyway, point taken, you no response based on substance. So the entirety of your argument is that the only economic number that matters is inflation. You are absolutely entitled to your opinion on that.
You are correct ‘Good vibes’ can’t pay for groceries. And you know what has the biggest impact on being able to pay for groceries? Like a bigger impact than inflation? Being employed. By the end of President Trump’s first team the U.S. had a net loss of three million jobs. As it stands Biden had a net gain of 15.7 million jobs.
Yes inflation has been terrible and thankfully we are coming out of the woods on that. But the reality is that holistically speaking the economy under President Biden has been stronger than it was under President Trump. It is something that is measurable and objectively true. Further looking at the last 50 or 100 years Democratic Administrations have had better economic performance than their Republican counterparts. Again, measurable and objectively true. Are the number perfect? No. Can we point to any administration and find an issue? Yes, but that applies to Republican administrations as well.
You have clocked me, I embrace diversity. I think diversity of thought is critical for us as a society to move forward. I also am consistently disappointed that we simplify thought in this country to just right/left. I also wish we had more options when it came to political parties. Anyway, I have no issue with “non-left” voices here and welcome them. It would be nice of those voices would engage in civil, substantive and constructive conversations rather than personal attacks, name calling and hyperbolic rants. Honest discourse between people with differing views is how we ensure the best ideas win. Any time you want to participate in that let me know.
You also keep leaning really hard into this “for those of old enough” thing. I get that you are playing the odds on that one but in this instance it was a bad bet. I am old enough to remember President Carter. So I remember the inflation and I remember the recession under Regan that resulted from mishandling inflation reduction. While inflation under Biden has been bad, the administration appears to have landed the inflation reduction plane without out tanking the overall economy. That is something that the majority didn’t think was possible and it is an incredibly hard needle to thread. They deserve credit for getting doing it.
abfab
Former President Donald J. Trump, in a Fox News interview last night, described his political opponents as “the enemy from within.” He has used that and similar descriptions before, comparing people who oppose him to foreign enemies in ways that his critics and some historians say echo the language of dictators. “We have the enemy outside, which would be the very standard countries,” he said. “And we have the enemy from within. We have some very sick people from within.”
abfab
Deranged ^^
War On Free Speech
My last two comments are awaiting moderation. Will they be deleted?
abfab
We can only hope they do. Boring and common fox drivel.
War On Free Speech
My two comments are still awaiting moderation. Haven’t been deleted – yet.
Isn’t free speech great (for those of you that have it)!
abfab
Tell your MAGA reps all about your sorrow.
Kangol2
Eternal.Cowboy, in Waron’s earlier posts he was touting polls. Now that they’re unfavorable to DJT he’s changed his tune. You broke the capital gains plans down beautifully and he switched up because his argument is incoherent. His attack on Sister Bertha should be removed. It is telling that no major former Republicans (the last GOP president, VPs, speakers, etc.) want to have anything to do with DJT. And don’t forget DJT’s poor GOP VP Mike Pence, who the loony goons wanted to hang. Did Waron support that? DJT cheered them on. That should disqualify him from public life for the rest of his life.
abfab
Dangerous.
Years before he became the Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance endorsed a little-noticed 2017 report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families.
VOTE BLUE!!!