Young said he was surprised to hear #ElonMusk describe the giveaway as random at the #Trump rally. He also acknowledged that the winners signed NDAs preventing them from speaking about the terms of the contracts.

Musk's giveaway falls in a gray area of #ElectionLaw, & legal experts are divided on whether #Musk could be violating federal laws against paying people to register to #vote.

#law

Summers showed a clip of #ElonMusk at an Oct 19 #Trump rally saying #AmericaPAC would “randomly" award $1M to people who sign the petition. In the video, #Musk said "all we ask" is that the winners serve as PAC spokespeople.

Summers called Gober's comments a "complete admission of #liability."

"We just heard this guy say, my boss, my client, call this random. We promised people that they were going to participate in a random process, but it's a process where we preselect people,” Summers said.

#ElonMusk's pro-#Trump group hand-picks $1M voter giveaway winners, aide testifies

Musk's pro-Trump super #PAC has hand-picked the winners of its $1M-a-day giveaway to registered voters, a lawyer & an adviser for the group said in #court on Monday, despite the #billionaire's assertion the winners would be chosen “randomly."

#law #ElectionLaw
reuters.com/legal/judge-weighs…

"The Secret White Nationalist Working for the Trump Campaign in Pennsylvania"

politico.com/news/magazine/202…

"Luke Meyer was Trump’s regional field director for western Pennsylvania. Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto Barbarossa."

#GOP #Trump #MAGA #LukeMeyer #PA #press

#Elections2024 #USpol

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...The Economist explained in his recent podcast endorsing #Harris, this time, there will not his staffers and the beaucrats reigning in his excesses. Through #Project2025 (e.g. replacing many important beaurocrats with loyalists) and the #SupremeCourt, #Trump will have quasi unfettered powers.

We've all been looking at the wrong #Apprentice:

"Sir, my need is sore.
Spirits that I've cited
My commands ignore."

The Sorcerer's Apprentice/ #Goethe

//

(#Trump ended up winning #Iowa by >9 points.) In 2020, her poll again showed Trump ahead by 7pts, which was both close to the final tally &, in retrospect, a sign that #Biden’s margins in neighboring states like #Wisconsin would be much thinner than other polls were indicating.

So many of us were anxious to see how big Trump’s lead would be this time, & the fact that #Selzer instead found him #losing came as a shock.

#women #BodilyAutonomy #ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth
#HarrisWalz2024

All day, #political nerds had been waiting for the results of #AnnSelzer’s famously accurate poll of #Iowa. The state hasn’t been swingy in a long time, but the #Selzer poll, conducted for The #DesMoinesRegister, can offer clues about broader trends in the electorate. In 2016, when many #Democrats were feeling complacent about a #HillaryClinton victory, her survey showing #Trump leading by 7pts in Iowa was an early indication of his underestimated strength in the Midwest.

#Women
#HarrisWalz2024

#Trump wants to put ąHershelWalker in charge of some aspirational, #IronDome-like #missileDefense project. I shit you not. Please take a moment to reflect on just how dumb and insane this idea is.

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsAFascist #RepublicansAreTheProblem #Kamala2024 #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

newrepublic.com/post/187873/tr…

Trump Announces Dumbest Person You Know Will Lead Missile Defense

Guess who’s baaaaack.

^{The New Republic}

I agree with #BernieSanders on most things, especially on #Gaza and ending the #genocide there. Our first step to succeeding in that is to #electKamalaHarris.

As this presidential campaign comes to an end, let [Bernie] say a few words
youtube.com/watch?v=i8N4Sgk5HT…

Not voting is a vote for #Trump
Voting #3rdParty is a vote for Trump

#vote #Harris2024 #MastodonForHarris @KamalaHarrisWin

I hope we see not only the end of #Trump but also a rebirth of #America.

A new start.

#Trump #Harris #Biden #Election #USA #Politics #Oligarchy

I want #Kamala #Harris to #Win, but she will have a massive amount of work to do. More than anyone before her.

medium.com/@colingajewski/how-…

How Democracies Quietly Transform into Oligarchies Without Anyone Noticing

The transformation of democracies into oligarchies is not marked by sudden coups or dramatic revolutions. Instead, it’s a gradual, almost invisible process. Democracies, at their core, are designed…

^{Colin Gajewski (Medium)}

Howard Dean's political career was destroyed because he yelled slightly too loud while giving a speech motivating those working on his campaign. The media obsessively reported on his speech until he permanently resigned from politics.

Trump has done a large number of things far worse than that, yet the mainstream media has a VERY different response for all things Trump. Functionally, I see little difference between the mainstream media & right-wing media.

#Trump #media

salon.com/2024/11/03/my-closes…

"My closest friend for 10 years": Epstein discusses Trump friendship in newly released tapes

The notorious sex trafficker found the former president to be sleazy

^Salon.com

This is Trump’s original cabinet. Only one member supports him today.

Source: x.com/7veritas4/status/1853266…

#USPolitics #Election2024 #trump

#GiftArticle

Inside #Trump’s #TruthSocial #ConspiracyTheory Machine

An analysis of Trump’s posts reveals the #paranoid & unfounded content he creates & amplifies each day.

Trump’s penchant for amplifying easily debunked #ConspiracyTheories is well known. But an extensive analysis of his posts & reposts on #SocialMedia reveals a candidate who promotes sinister theories at a scale & frequency well beyond his already infamous playbook.

#TrumpIsUnfit #FactCheck #TrumpLies
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/1…

How Trump Is Using Truth Social to Concoct and Spread Conspiracy Theories

An analysis of thousands of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts reveals that the former president directly promoted false conspiracy theories in at least 330 instances and amplified at least 145 conspiracists.

^{Neil Bedi (The New York Times)}

"Harris goes to church while Trump muses about reporters being shot"

apnews.com/article/donald-trum…

"Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a 'failed nation.' Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a 'divine plan strong enough to heal division.'”

Comment: MAGA has failed, not the USA. He's projecting the downfall of his empire onto the whole nation.

#GOP #Trump #MAGA #Harris #God #Michigan #church #Christianity #Jesus #press

Trump says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss

Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a “failed nation." Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a “divine plan strong enough to heal division."

^{JILL COLVIN (AP News)}

#Trump says there are no empty seats then the camera person goes rogue and pans the crowd showing 100`s of empty seats
.
I hope the camera person was paid in advance!
#Rally #Uspol

SOURCE: NTD footage from Greensboro North Carolina rally on Nov 2, 2024. Time code 59:45 into the rally.
youtube.com/live/saWXQKwcYDQ?s…

In a phone call to "Fox & Friends", Trump admits he doesn't think of women as human beings.

"But he was hit by some of the strongest — not human beings, women. He was hit by strongest people. It wasn’t men, it was women. "

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tr…

#Trump #USpol #misogyny

You’re welcome.

#Doonesbury #comics #Trump

Entire strip here: gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/1…

Via Matt McDermott:

The New York Times today with a full page fold out editorial that calls on Americans to ‘Vote to End the #Trump Era.’

The historically most accurate pollster in the United States is Ann Selzer. She only does polls in one state - Iowa, typically a very Republican state. For the last two elections her polls were outliers that turned out to be correct, showing that Trump's support was far stronger than expected in 2016 and Biden wasn't going to run away with it in 2020.

She just put out her final poll of the election showing Kamala Harris up by 3 points... in Iowa.

youtube.com/watch?v=yTU0ZWFNmz…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Iowa #AnnSelzer #Polls #Poll #Selzer

file under: things that will not be reported on fox news

thedailybeast.com/listen-to-th…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to #Mexico Even as #Trump Pushes “America First”
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On the campaign trail, #DonaldTrump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

#News #TrumpMedia #Trump #Government #Business #Tariffs #Politics #Election #ELection2024 #TruthSocial

propublica.org/article/donald-…

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Despite Trump’s “America First” Push

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

^ProPublica

We need one more Biden misstep calling Republicans Drag Queens. He's so close he doesn't even realize his power.

#MAGA #MAGAGarbage #USPol #Trump #KamalaHarris #Biden #Harris

#Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans. His First Presidency Suggests He Won’t.
==

From cutting children's #disability benefits to allowing employers to pocket workers' tips, Trump tried to slash protections for the working poor in ways that have been forgotten by many.

#News #Politics #Government #Election #Election2024 #Workers #DonaldTrump

propublica.org/article/donald-…

What Trump’s Record Suggests About How He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans

From cutting children's disability benefits to allowing employers to pocket workers' tips, Trump tried to slash protections for the working poor in ways that have been forgotten by many.

^ProPublica

Via Tristan Snell:

#Trump simulated fellatio with his microphone -- and this is all the legacy media had to say about it. [the usual media malpractice]

The sanewashing and bias toward Trump as a media meal ticket is UNFORGIVABLE.

We the People will NOT forget this.

Video via Rupar:

threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/…

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

new lows

^Threads

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Trump is lagging Vice President #Harris in #Pennsylvania early voting with a critical and once-reliably Republican constituency: senior voters.

Democrats account for about 58% of the votes cast by seniors so far in Pennsylvania.

It's a warning sign for Trump ahead of Election Day. politico.com/news/2024/10/31/t…

Trump wants to put a prominent anti-vaxxer with no medical qualifications in charge of health. Please vote to stop him.

"Donald Trump said late on Thursday that he wants the vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr “to take care of health”, including “women’s health” if the former president wins back the White House in this election."

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

This goes beyond just America, it could affect American aid for vaccinations in developing countries, it could also affect funding of vaccine development.

Millions of lives depend on vaccines being widely and freely available.

#USElection #Elections #Trump

Trump says he wants vaccine skeptic RFK Jr to ‘take care of health’ if he wins

Republican adds Kennedy’s remit would include women’s health and says Liz Cheney should be placed in a war zone

^{Chris Stein (The Guardian)}

@KamalaHarrisWin
@democratsabroad
@indivisibleteam

#USpol #Elections2024

👉Awesome video clip by #NBA legend #LeBronJames, summing up #Trump's racist stance towards #BIPOC|s and his own endorsement of #Harris.👈

Via #WalterEinenkel, #TheDailyKos

"*You have to watch this LeBron James endorsement of Harris*"

dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/1…

#HateTakesUsBack

@northernlights
#Democracy #Poland

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Alas, this is only part of the story I remembered, but it holds important, excellent phrased truths:

"#Poland [alternative read: 👉"the #US under #Trump,] in short, may be poised to turn into a Potemkin democracy, an empty simulacrum of genuine self-government. And that once again reveals the alarming brittleness of democracy, with even the most vaunted democratic success stories deeply vulnerable to authoritarian capture.👈

"To...

“I’ll protect #women whether they like it or not” - #Trump

This just screams:

“Trump, found liable #SexualAbuse.”

&

“Trump, took away #WomensRights to #BodilyAutonomy.”

#ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

Lincoln Project helpfully provides us with a beaucoup of times when the Garbage Can Man Trump has called Kamala Harris' supporters — and America itself — garbage.

I'm continuing to hashtag New York Times and Washington Post as I post this item because both media outlets should be royally shamed, though they're evidently well beyond shame.

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/14

youtube.com/watch?v=ZLvr7KfJPg…

"But you want to know something that is true? Just last month, Donald Trump declared at a rally that 'the people that surround [Harris], they’re scum—they’re scum—and they want to take down our country. They’re absolute garbage.'

That really did happen.

And you know who just analogized America—the entire United States—to a 'garbage can' in his 'closing argument' to voters?

If you guessed Donald Trump, you’re right."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/13

"As ever, all the money in the situation laid on the side of the lie, not the truth. The occasional independent media publication—The Drudge Report and, if it can be said, Proof—getting to the truth of the matter notwithstanding, it really seems as though the truth of any matter is currently the least valuable currency in America."

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/12

"All this, finally, is why America may soon collapse. Because a POTUS who said a very reasonable thing had that thing transmogrified into contemptible disinformation by two unscrupulous far-right billionaires, and a bunch of corporate media outlets under the thumb of unscrupulous billionaires ran with what they saw as a very lucrative non-story-cum-story."

~ Seth Abramson

#NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost #Trump #garbage #MediaFail
/11

sethabramson.substack.com/p/fa…

FACT CHECK: No, President Biden Didn’t Call Donald Trump Supporters “Garbage”

The viral lie—spread to hundreds of millions by Trump and Elon Musk and the subject of a bizarre publicity stunt by Trump aimed at making voters forget what happened at Madison Square Garden—is silly.

^{Seth Abramson (Proof)}