Miles Archer
Miles Archer's JournalSO SAD, SO UNFAIR that Melania's plagiarism of Michelle Obama is a buzzkill for her...ahem..."memoir."
The former first lady received an awkward flashback to her husband Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
By Lee Moran
Jul 26, 2024, 02:36 AM EDT
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/melania-trump-memoir-reminder_n_66a33cc2e4b04c3a3024b92f
Former first lady Melania Trump announced her upcoming memoir on Thursday and was immediately mocked on social media with an awkward blast from the past.
“Melania” is “a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence,” according to the promotional blurb for the book that’s due out this fall.
But many critics just wanted to know if it would bear any resemblance to fellow former FLOTUS Michelle Obama’s bestselling 2018 book “Becoming.”
It’s because Melania Trump’s 2016 Republican National Convention address in support of her husband, the current GOP nominee Donald Trump, contained several lines that had been ripped from Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Trump's "cringe" debate moment, invading Hillary's personal space, versus debating Kamala Harris in 2024
In the YouTube clip, Hillary says "my skin crawled" as Trump "loomed behind her."
Now, other than the fact that it was common knowledge that Trump was a bully and a creep, she really had no reason to expect that he's do that. The moment was SO BAD that when Alec Baldwin did a "parody" of it on SNL, his goofy, over-the-top representation of what happened wasn't as creepy as what DID happen.
She has no way of knowing this was going to happen and I'm not saying Kamala is "tougher." Not at all.
I'm saying Kamala saw that moment, as did the rest of America, and while Hillary didn't know the depths Trump would sink to until he went there, NOW WE ALL KNOW, and NONE of that nonsense will fly IF Trump actually agrees to a debate.
IF IT HAPPENS in September, Kamala will have tenderized that fucking beef over the course of a month or longer. She will have gone on the campaign trail, in front of the media, informing (or perhaps reminding) America that Trump is a 78 year old criminal, a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and someone accused of sexual abuse by an additional 25+ women.
I'm pretty confident that if Hillary had seen that moment coming, she would have been forceful in her push-back. Kamala Harris sees it coming. There will be no "stalking" or "looming" this time around, and if he TRIES that crap, he will destroy himself in fronto of a national TV audience.
That's what the tea leaves are telling me. I could be wrong. i don't think I am. He's probably going to hate her more than he hates Obama by the time the debates happen. Factor that in with a guy who has no sense of self-restraint and a woman who is neither afraid of nor intimidated by him and anything could happen.
I'd like to see Sarah Palin help JD Vance with "debate practice."
Poor JD. Like Ron DeSantis, he is another Icarus, bound for the sun, unaware that his wings are not up to the task.
And, so far, he's about as eccentric and unfocused as Palin, so she really should coach him on how to go out there and Make Debates Great Again, oh, you betcha.
The thing I'm loving most about this is Trump's "my pick won't matter, so let's really own those libs" attitude, throwing away the potential to have someone on the ticket who ISN'T the LEAST POPULAR PERSON in the last 50 years (or whatever the hell it is).
PALIN: You need to use that Diet Mountain Dew line. Oh, it's a real hum-dinger.
VANCE: OK. So, Diet Mountain Dew is really good. I think I'll have one, if Democrats will let me.
PALIN: (SNORTS) Oh, you got me with that one. (SNORTS AGAIN). That's a keeper, by golly.
So far, every GOP "legal challenge" against Biden and / or Harris is without merit and will cost a fortune
They DO meet the Trump standard of "delay, delay, delay" and gumming up the works, even if they end up not making it into a courtroom.
Every headline I have seen in the last week comes to the same conclusion...whether it's Joe leaving the ticket or the money being raised, there is no merit in the accusation, no illegalities, very unlikely that any court will rule against them, but it will fuck them over just enough to tickle Republicans.
Time for Democrats to trot out THEIR legal vipers and meet this bullshit head-on.
Salon: "Trump is terrified of Kamala Harris because she will put his violent misogyny in the spotlight"
Trump is terrified of Kamala Harris because she will put his violent misogyny in the spotlight
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/23/the-simple-reason-why-kamala-harris-has-donald-running-scared/
It was mere moments after President Joe Biden announced he would not run for re-election when the new narrative of the 2024 election snapped into place: The prosecutor vs. the criminal. Vice President Kamala Harris got Biden's endorsement immediately and, despite all the wishcasting articles from political journalists longing for a dramatic Democratic convention fight, it appears the party is swiftly lining up behind the former senator from California. Her jobs before getting to Washington D.C., as a prosecutor, San Francisco district attorney and California state attorney general, drew the most attention. The hope is that Harris will dust off those prosecutorial skills to make the case that Donald Trump, with his 34 felony convictions and endless other court cases involving criminal behavior, is not fit to be president again.
Trump enjoys committing pretty much every type of crime, from siccing a murderous mob after his former vice president to epic levels of business fraud, so there's a cornucopia of options for Harris to choose from. But a Harris ad from the 2020 campaign went viral online for one simple reason: It forefronts his long history of sexually assaulting women.
"She prosecuted sex predators," the ad reads. "He is one."
The message is simple and has only become more inarguable in the four years since. Back then, Trump was facing accusations from over two dozen women and was caught on tape bragging about his sexual crimes. Since then, his sex crimes have been adjudicated in court. Journalist E. Jean Carroll sued Trump for rape and for lying about it after the fact and in 2023, a jury found him liable for sexual assault and defamation to the tune of $5 million. He kept lying about it, so she sued again, this time getting an additional $83 million. In the post-verdict court filings, the judge repeatedly used the word "rape" to describe the nature of the crime. In Trump's actual criminal trial, the convictions were for campaign finance fraud. That said, the trial featured testimony from adult film actor Stormy Daniels about a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. While denying it was rape, Daniels described the sex as unwanted, saying, "He was bigger and blocking the way" and suggesting she only had sex with him to escape the situation.
The stark CONTRAST in positive versus negative energy drives home what a sick pustule Trump really is.
I have the Kamala Harris press conference on right now, and yes...I could go on at length about her qualifications and experience, but what is most striking to me is the POSITIVE energy. None of that "I AM YOUR RETRIBUTION" bullshit, none of the swaggering draft-dodging rapist felon pig promising to be a "dictator on day 1." We have been SO POISONED by this SHIT...I have to believe America is going to warm up to a POSITIVE message that is NOT about what Trump can do FOR HIMSELF.
SAD! UNFAIR! Big MEANIE Kamala Harris throws cold water on Diaper Don's "LANDSLIDE" dream
"After the debate and assassination attempt, I sat in a room with Tony Fabrizio in Milwaukee, the Trump pollster. He said [they] stopped counting the paths we have to 270 electoral votes when [they] got to 25. They are thinking, convinced they'll win 330 electoral votes, a landslide."
"I'm not saying that's correct, but if you believe that, you don't care about — you're making your vice presidential pick not on the basis of a close race but on the basis of we're about to change American politics," Heilemann added.
"I'm going to put someone who I think will be the heir to MAGA. That is what the calculation was, I think, and, yes, it was the total doubling down pick, not a pick for a close race."
https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-trump-2668789714/
Reading the tea leaves in the first hours after Joe's announcement, I'd say Team Trump is wetting themselves.
1). Trump ( on "Truth Social" ) is demanding a change of venue to Fox News for the September debate
2). Trump ( "Truth Social" again ) is demanding that the Republican party be reimbursed because they spent all of that money sliming Joe and now they have to "start all over again."
3). "Team Trump" is stabbing around in the dark, having been robbed of the extra-juicy Comer Pyle / Gym Jacket Off Jordan endless Hunter Biden Laptop sprint to November, so they CHOSE TO ATTACK Kamala Harris' DISABILITY OUTREACH.
In the video, Harris is seen saying, "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
RNC Research, which is managed by the Trump campaign, posted the video on Sunday. The group only posted Harris' quote about her identity and what she's wearing.
The problem, of course, is that it appears that the Trump campaign didn't do its "research" into the context of the meeting itself. According to reports, Harris was meeting "with disability rights leaders to mark the anniversary of the ADA."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kamala-harris-blind-blue-suit/
Manchin considering re-registering as a Democrat and throwing his hat into the ring
@jaketapper
Sources close to Sen Joe Manchin, independent of WV, say he's considering re-registering as a Democrat and throwing his hat into the ring
6:48 PM · Jul 21
https://x.com/jaketapper/status/1815156959210795494
Musk, the "Free Speech Absolutist" and "Savior Of Humanity" rhetoric, and Elizabeth Warren
I can pinpoint the moment where Musk pivoted from being a generally annoying tech bro slash media figure to the pro-MAGAt conspiracy theory troll he is now.
Elizabeth Warren said "We need to tax Bezos and Musk at the same rate as working class Americans.
He didn't like that.
Elon Musk calls Elizabeth Warren ‘Senator Karen’ in fight over taxes
That article was published December 15, 2021. The Twitter purchase was initiated on April 14, 2022 and completed on October 28, 2022.
Musk basically smokes a blunt and waxes philosophic on free speech, the future of mankind, etc etc etc, but this is about two things, and two things only. He bought Twitter to poison voters against Democrats in the November election because:
1). DEMOCRATS WANT HIM TO PAY HIS TAXES
2). REPUBLICANS WANT TO GIVE HIM TAX CUTS
I know he has no shortage of adoring fanboys, just like Trump. But this is ALL ABOUT HIS MONEY and nothing else.
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