Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

An author writing a book about The Apprentice, who has known Trump for years, experienced this:

"After interviewing Mr. Trump in May 2021, Mr. Setoodeh returned in August. “When I said, ‘Do you remember sitting down with me?’ he said, ‘No, that was a long time ago,’” Mr. Setoodeh said. “It was like we started from square one. He started telling me the exact same stories. He didn’t remember what we had talked about. He didn’t remember me.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE4.ir3h.MC7VYvJzfpYP

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Via Andrea Junker:

If they want to bring their #Trump Bible into our schools, let’s bring the IRS into their churches.

The whole time Elon Musk was saying he was voting for Democrats and supporting Liberal causes, he was secretly paying Stephen Miller millions of dollars to make all of his fascist wet dreams come true. If this isn't sufficient reason to #DeportElonMusk, I don't know what is!

Elon Musk Secretly Paid Stephen Miller for Years.
https://frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/elon-musk-secretly-paid-stephen-miller?r=1uznkl&triedRedirect=true

#ElonPutz #EETD #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #MuskIsRacist #VoteBlueUpAndDown

“If Donald Trump was President, there would have been no stand-up strike–they would have fired us all” says UAW President Shawn Fain. “He doesn’t give a damn about working class people, never has, never will.” #Velshi
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/-a-scab-uaw-president-says-trump-doesn-t-give-a-damn-about-working-class-people-220988997686

“There is no safe haven”

Hurricane #Helene’s destructive power is directly tied to climate change. As natural disasters intensify, communities will need to adapt. “There is no escape. The impacts are pervasive,” says Michael E. Mann. #Velshi

Thought of the day:

As a teen I kidnapped a cat from a nearby street & locked it in the garage, with the intention of collecting eventual 'reward'. Pinched tins of tuna from the kitchen to feed it. Felt guilty within a few hours & let it go, only for him to return for tuna twice a week for 8 years

Republicans will believe obvious nonsense in order to demonstrate their loyalty to other members of the in-group.

As it happens, this also makes them unusually gullible to scams.

https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-scam-idiots/

Not only is this a gift of grift to Trumpf, it’s open warfare on secular public education and the Constitutional principle of separation of church and state. And even if you count yourself as a Christian, the version of the Bible Oklahoma seeks does not include the 14 books of the Apocrypha, so, sorry Catholics, your religious liberty is being negated, too.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/

Just Security has created an annotated version of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief in the election interference case against Donald Trump — identifying the names behind the redactions.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/05/un-redacting-jack-smiths-filing/

Racists be racist, gotta appeal to fellow racists.

Via Rupar:

beyond parody -- #Trump begins his event in #NorthCarolina by vowing to restore Confederate names to renamed military facilities

@AlliFlowers The ShitGibbon bible does not qualify. It must contain the Constitution: 17 Amendments which *are part of the Constitution* are omitted, so some other bible must be used.

Getting the job done.

I applaud the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance for coming together to reopen the East Coast and Gulf ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding.

Collective bargaining works.

Holy hell. Trump withheld disaster relief to California wildfire victims because California is more Democratic than Republican. He only released it when an aide was able to show him that Orange County has more GOP voters than all of Iowa.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/helene-isnt-the-first-time-trump-inserted-politics-into-a-natural-disaster/

I don’t get shocked when I see Trump do grotesque things. But when I saw Trump in Georgia pulling a PR stunt at a factory, which was pretty much destroyed by Hurricane Helene, using bricks from the rubble as props, it made me furious. Everyone should be.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-disqualifying-depravity-of-donald

#Trump & his allies tried to twist the arms of legislators to appoint #FakeElectors that could be *counted* by #Congress. (#JackSmith includes bonkers new details about this scheme, including the fact that one potential participant referred to its ringleaders as being like characters in the infamous Star Wars cantina, otherwise known as the most “wretched hive of scum & villainy” in the galaxy.)

#criminal #law #insurrection #Jan6 #democracy #HarrisWalz2024