The Daily Jot

Monday, August 07, 2023

THIS JUST IN! CASEY'S ALMOST READY FOR REAL TV!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CREEPY DOO-DOO RON DESANTIS IS FINALLY TRYING TO BE READY FOR HIS CLOSE UP. THE FAILED GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA HAS BEEN WARY ABOUT DOING MEDIA 0THER THAN THE PROPAGANDA CHANNELS BUT HE WILL APPEAR ON NBC'S TODAY SHOW ON MONDAY MORNING AND THEN LATER THAT DAY ON NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT.

ASKED TO EXPLAIN THE LONG DELAY (HE DECLARED HIS RUN FOR THE G.O.P.'S PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION BACK IN MAY), DOO-DOO EXPLAINED THAT EVERYONE WANTED HIS SPOUSE CASEY TO APPEAR WITH HIM "AND IT'S TAKEN US THIS LONG TO MAKE CASEY LOOK LIKE A WOMAN. WELL . . . ALMOST LIKE A WOMAN. BUT I DID NOT MARRY A TRANSGENDER. I DID NOT. THEY'VE SLAPPED A TON OF MAKE UP ON HER AND, FROM CERTAIN ANGLES, YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE HER ADAM'S APPLE."

Li'l tough guy Ron DeSantis just said once he's elected "We're going to start slitting throats on Day One" and that drug cartels "will be shot stone cold dead." Then he told Casey, "Not you, honey" pic.twitter.com/ivJPjOJGEy
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) August 3, 2023

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's start with Joe Biden. US President Joe Biden has had his share of stumbles and scandals. I have an e-mail regarding the recognition of Navy Joan. Why, I'm asked, have I not called this out?

Called out the Bidens recognizing their granddaughter?

Uh, because it's good news. I know this is confusing to some people. Hate Merchant Jonathan Turley, for example, can't seem to stop Tweeting about this.

It's over. The issue has been resolved. Yes, she was not immediately welcomed. Yes, that was wrong. We actually called it out here -- more than once. We stopped because it was being addressed. I don't feel the need to do an update on this. The e-mailer says, "You are just trying to protect Biden!"

Really? Because I will offer a statement right now if it's that all important to you: Good for Joe and Jill for welcoming their granddaughter Navy Joan into the family.

Disappointed? Maybe you are. Maybe you expect me to obsess over it like Jonathan Turley who has turned himself into an even bigger joke.

Families are messy. Life is hard. I thought Navy Joan needed to be recognized. I said so. She is. That's a good thing. Again, Turley's an idiot who comes across as bitter and obsessed. It actually appears he wishes Navy Joan were being ignored. I'm happy for her and happy for the family.

On, Joe, I'm also told that I am looking the other way on the Hunter Biden scandal. Again, I'm told, this is because I'm protecting Joe. Protecting him from what?

Ruth covers Hunter at her site. I did cover it originally -- that would be going back to 2019, not waiting until the moment THE NEW YORK POST published their first story on Hunter Biden's laptop in October of 2020. I've covered it. I've done that. I'm not interested in the plea deal -- the deal that is no more. Nor is it a story that gets no attention.

When I covered it, it was being ignored but that's no longer the case.

I defended NY POST's story, defended the publishing of it, called out NYT's attack article -- I believe we're the only ones who remember that article -- where NYT attacked the POST and insisted that the POST staff was ashamed and embarrassed and opposed to the publication of the laptop story. It was filled with lies. If you want to go after the media, that's where you start. But no one wants to go there. I don't have to, I know what happened with that article.

So I haven't run from that.

The e-mailer on this says that I'm ignoring the story and ignoring it because I'm voting for Joe Biden in 2024.

I'm voting Democrat in 2024 -- regardless of who the nominee is. I made that public here and did so in order that people could factor in what goes up here with that.

If you think it's effecting coverage, there's the answer for you.

No, I don't think that. We've covered this and we covered it at length.

The e-mailer notes Tara Reade's reTweets.

I'm so very happy she's found something to do in Russia. I guess she doesn't have any friends still so she needs to obsess over the country she defected from. Or maybe she and convicted pedophile Scott Ritter aren't talking these days? You do realize her online embrace of registered sex offender Ritter is what destroyed her. Most of us, actual survivors, no longer give a s**t about her. Even her online We Believe Tara group vanished over that. And should have. This was not Donald Duck has been accused of assault/rape by Daisy Duck and we used our own common sense to figure out who we believed. This was Scott Ritter got arrested three times, had to plea agreements, third time went to court and got convicted in a court of law, sent to prison and had to register as a sex offender. This is not, Do I believe Donald or Daisy? No, the court verdict ended it. (And read the testimony from the police -- especially about him peeling out of the parking lot -- if you really want to know what a liar Ritter is.)

So I don't care about Tara. I didn't care about the recent court victory either because the woman said -- on CNN -- that rape was "sexy."

Don't care. Can't help the entire world. Can't cover everything.

Due to the e-mail, I've looked at Tara's reTweets. They are garbage. "Devon Archer confirmed Joe Biden was THE BRAND, and he brought the most value to THE BRAND."

Huh?

That was confirmed by Devon Archer?

Maybe to the brain dead.

Of course Joe was "the brand." The deals with Hunter were due to the fact that Joe Biden was vice president. That's not news. Nor is it even new gossip. Hunter had no cachet on his own and no value if his father was Generic Smith.

Hunter traded on dad's name.

We covered all of this at length. Back when it mattered. We noted -- and applauded -- back when Sarah Chayes wrote "Hunter Biden’s Perfectly Legal, Socially Acceptable Corruption" (THE ATLANTIC).

Many people were not having the conversation before the election. We were and we did.

I don't do greatest hits. I've sung that song. Is there a new reason to sing it?

Tara Reade and Jonathan Turley believe so. They also believe in supporting homophobes and transphobes and racists.

At this point, there's nothing there. Could change, so far hasn't.

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"THIS JUST IN! TRUMP TALKS DOO-DOO RON RON AND ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA!"

Thursday, August 03, 2023

THIS JUST IN! TRUMP TALKS DOO-DOO RON RON AND ENTERS NOT GUILTY PLEA!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

DOO-DOO RON RON DESANTIS IS ALL ABOUT TREADING WATER AS HE TRIES DESPERATELY NOT TO SINK. THE SHORT AND TUBBY MAN IS STRUGGLING THESE DAYS EVEN IN THE SHALLOW END OF THE KIDDIE POOL. WHILE MOST WHO HAD WASTED THIS MUCH MONEY ON A CAMPAIGN TO NOWHERE WOULD BE EMBARRASSED, SHAME ISN'T IN DOO-DOO'S TOOL KIT. NOR IS COMMON SENSE. BARKING WITH ALL THE WEAKNESS ONLY A VERY SHORT MAN CAN MUSTER, DOO-DOO INSISTED TODAY THAT, IF ELECTED PRESIDENT, HE WOULD "START SLITTING THROATS" ON DAY ONE.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP REPLIED, "GOOD. HE SHOULD START WITH HIS OWN."

TRUMP SPOKE TO THESE REPORTERS FROM THE COURT ROOM MOMENTS BEFORE HE ENTERED A "NOT GUILTY" PLEA TO THE CHARGE OF TRYING TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION RESULTS.

WHILE THAT TOOK PLACE, REPUBLICANS MIKE PENCE AND MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HAD WHAT PASSED, FOR THEM, A CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTIVE DEBATE AS SHOWN IN THE PHOTO BELOW.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Alex Gangitano and Julia Mueller (THE HILL) report:

The clash between Vice President Harris and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is heating up over education standards for teaching slavery, giving the vice president a hot-button topic to take on during the campaign and an enemy No. 1 in the GOP primary.

DeSantis earlier this week suggested the two debate the topic of teaching slavery, prompting the vice president to bash the idea and attack the education standards head-on during one of her recent trips to Florida on Tuesday.

While former President Trump, the GOP front-runner, is enemy No. 1 for President Biden, Harris is making a point to keep DeSantis and his policies in the spotlight as the governor fights to close the polling gap between him and Trump.

“Right here in Florida, they plan to teach students that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” Harris said Tuesday in Orlando.

“I’m here in Florida and I will tell you, there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were no redeeming qualities of slavery,” she said.

Good. She needs to keep speaking out against Ron DeSantis' racism. I also agree with Marcia that she doesn't need to debate him. DeSantis has already attacked history. We do not need to pretend that slavery is up for debate. It is not. History has spoken. The world has spoken. We're going to listen to him mock or belittle and pretend that he has some standing or special education that justifies his speaking on this issue. He is a liar and he's trash. And we're not going to entertain the lie that there were benefits to slavery. I know Gavin Newsom and I like Gavin but I'm not even thrilled with Gavin debating DeSatan on non-slavery issues.

DeSantis is desperate for any life preserver to save his sinking campaign. No doubt, he's praying harder than anyone in the country that Donald Trump is found guilty of something.

Patrick Martin (WSWS) explains:

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday on four felony charges stemming from his illegal and corrupt efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Trump will be arraigned Thursday before Federal District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan.

The prosecution and imprisonment of Trump for his actions leading up to and during the fascistic insurrection of January 6, 2021 is entirely justified and necessary. The charges brought by a Washington D.C. grand jury convened by Special Counsel Jack Smith are presented in cautious and legalistic language, but the indictment is nonetheless damning.

However, it details only a fraction of Trump’s crimes and is silent on his greatest crime: the attempt to overthrow the government by force and maintain himself in the White House as president-dictator.

The four charges detailed in the indictment are: conspiracy to defraud the federal government (through filing false slates of electors in seven closely contested states won by Democrat Joe Biden); conspiracy to violate the rights of the American people (the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted); conspiracy to obstruct a federal proceeding, namely the certification of the Electoral College vote by Congress on January 6, 2021; and actual obstruction of the federal proceeding, since the mob which he summoned to Washington and then unleashed on the Capitol did actually delay the congressional certification by many hours.

Nearly all 123 paragraphs of the indictment are concerned with Trump’s efforts to substitute bogus Trump electors for the Biden electors chosen by the voters in seven states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. This involved various illegal backroom maneuvers devised by his lawyer co-conspirators, involving state legislators, the Department of Justice and Vice President Mike Pence.

These actions have become widely known over the past two years: setting up phony slates of Trump “electors,” who submitted false affidavits to Congress; seeking to induce state legislatures to claim the right to appoint electors to replace those elected in November; asking the Justice Department to send out letters to state legislatures saying that the DOJ was investigating credible claims of election fraud in their states; and finally, having Pence use his ceremonial position, presiding over the counting of the Electoral College votes on January 6, to block certification of Biden electors, either substituting Trump electors outright or sending the issue back to the states where Republican-controlled state legislatures would do the dirty job.

The indictment makes clear that Trump’s actions were an attack on democracy: “on the pretext of baseless fraud claims, the defendant pushed officials in certain states to ignore the popular vote; disenfranchise millions of voters; dismiss legitimate electors; and ultimately, cause the ascertainment of and voting by illegitimate electors in favor of the defendant…”

The indictment lists six unindicted co-conspirators only by number, although the description of their activities is so detailed that at least five have been identified, all lawyers: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, all working for Trump and his reelection campaign; and Jeffrey Clark, who was an assistant attorney general at the time.

They discussed this yesterday on BLACK POWER MEDIA's THE REMIX SHOW.

Again, no one wants to see Donald convicted more than the short man from Florida with the flat chested wife.

Let Ron sink. I don't think Gavin should be debating him, I don't think any Democrat should be sharing a stage with him right now. Let him sink and let him and his ugly wife go back to their hellish lives.

He's desperate to get traction and have one of his many reboots finally succeed. Let him sink. There is no debate for slavery and he doesn't need to be humored, he needs to be called out repeatedly.

At COUNTERPUNCH, David Topel offers this take:

The tide of freedom in America is receding. Reproductive rights, affirmative action, lgbtq+ rights and the accuracy and integrity of Black history have been crippled for the comfort and convenience of a radically conservative minority. A minority disproportionately represented in our highest court.

Since the abolition of slavery the fight for racial equality has moved at a glacial pace. Despite periods of stagnation, there has been relatively consistent forward motion.

Now, three rapid-fire reversals of Supreme Court precedents based on religious dogma and bigotry have set equality back decades for people of color, women and the lgbtq community. (Since its inception the court has reversed legal precedents in less than one half of one percent of its decisions) In its wake, the stench of newly created, whitewashed standards for teaching Black History have been passed by Florida’s Board of Education. Middle school students must now be taught the “benefits” of slavery such as, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

These new standards are not just ignorant, they open generational wounds and incite rage among people of conscience. Forcing a false narrative upon a new generation undermines 250 years of hard-fought progress.

In my fifty years of social justice advocacy, from an early 1970s internship at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to serving as founding board president of Philadelphia’s 30 year old lgbtq youth center, The Attic, I’ve seen my share of social justice setbacks, but none so blatantly created by harnessing fear and hate. The atmosphere created by Ron DeSantis’ “war on wokeness” is rancid to the point of enabling the whitewashing of slavery. So let’s examine the source. Fear and hate. We know it’s learned. Can it be unlearned?

He is right. This is a dangerous time. 20 years ago, did you think we'd have to be using public square time to call out slavery? Didn't it seem like we were all agreed on this?

Yet here we are thanks to hate merchants. They've worked very hard to mislead and to lie. They've lied in court, they've lied to the court and this nonsense of a 'debate' with Ron? No, there are no two-sides to this. There is right and there is wrong and slavery is wrong.

We have some very dangerous people in Congress right now. They are Republicans but they're the kind that their own party would have rejected even a few years back. They preach hate, they lie about history and we're indulging these crazies at our expense, at risk to our own lives and liberty. For example, just last week, Eric Hanonoki (MMA) reported on Paul Gosar:

Rep. Paul Gosar yesterday used his House.gov newsletter to promote USSA News, a fringe site that has posted content calling the Holocaust “the Holohoax” and telling readers to “stand up for Hitler.” Gosar’s promotion of the antisemitic outlet comes just months after he sent followers to a different site that has also denied the Holocaust and praised Adolf Hitler.

Gosar has frequently promoted antisemitic media in recent years. He has met with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and repeatedly spoke at his conferences; and he’s promoted virulent antisemite Vincent James Foxx.

Gosar drew criticism in April after he used his newsletter to direct people to a story that praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” for their support of Ukraine. Gosar linked to Veterans Today, an antisemitic website that has called the Holocaust a “lie” and a “hoax” and praised Hitler as a “great man” and “a man of valor.” TPM reported in May that Gosar has employed an aide that's connected to Fuentes and the white nationalist movement.

In his July 23 newsletter, under the section “Gosar in the News and Other Must-Read Stories,” Gosar wrote: “USSA News: Biden White House Out To ‘Censor’ Press, ‘Silence’ Opponents, Lawmakers Charge” and sent readers to USSANews.com. Gosar was linking to the site even though the article is a repost of a piece from The Heritage Foundation publication The Daily Signal. (Elsewhere in the newsletter, Gosar writes that “there is zero room in our society for these vile, hateful and bigoted comments in the Halls of Congress” and “anti-Jewish and anti-Israel statements by members of Congress must be condemned.”) Gosar previously linked to USSA News on April 2 and August 7, 2022.

How does garbage like that get into Congress?

He needs to be called out and publicly rebuked. There is no excuse for what he's done. It goes against everything this country is supposed to stand for. He's insulting survivors, he's insulting veterans, he's just a hate merchant.

We do not elevate his hate by treating it as something worthy of a debate. There is nothing to debate.

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"THIS JUST IN! IT'S GOT TO BE IN THE WATER -- OR THE GERITOL!"

Monday, July 31, 2023

THIS JUST IN! IT'S GOT TO BE IN THE WATER -- OR THE GERITOL!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CROOKED JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAS DECLARED CONGRESS HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE CROOKED SUPREME COURT.

IT'S AS CRAZY AS OLIVER STONE CHATTING WITH CRACKPOT RUSSELL BRAND AND SAYING HE REGRETTED VOTING FOR JOE BIDEN NOW BECAUSE A NUCLEAR WAR MAY HIT AT ANY MOMENT.

WHAT IS IT WITH SOME ELDERLY WHITE MEN? THEY HIT A CERTAIN AGE AND, LIKE DIANNE FEINSTEIN, THEY NEED TO BE LED AWAY.

WHEN ASKED FOR COMMENT, SENATOR FEINSTEIN DECLARED, "I HAVEN'T CHANGED AT ALL. I'M THE SAME DIANNE FEINSTEIN I WAS YEARS AGO. IN 1977, I VOWED TO BOOGIE-OOGIE-OOGIE TILL I JUST CAN'T BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE. AND I HAVE HELD TO THAT PROMISE ALL THE YEARS. BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's turn to the US and let's zoom in on the pathetic. A friend of several decades is someone I often rag on and I'm not going to name him today but I've probably done so before, so if you figure it out, good for you. But when he reads this, I didn't name you in this. So my issue with him for years has been that he's the male Joan Crawford onscreen. I find his films formulaic but, most of all, I don't like them because he's Joan Crawford. Now I like THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, for example, it's a great film noir. But all the suffering and all the melodrama needed to elevate Joan above everyone else in the cast is present in his films and so is the victimization that is the hallmark of the average Joan Crawford character.

I bring that up because I finally get why the right-wing is so obsessed with masculinity.

I get it.

It's because they have none.

They have no strong men. They only have strong shoulders -- shoulder pads -- because they're an army of Joan Crawfords. They can't stop playing the victim.

It's there in Ronald DeSantis crazed attack on the world, it's there in pathetic Jason Aldean who secretly edited the video recently to take out some of the more objectionable parts and wants to pretend like it's the same video that's been airing this whole time and that he's the victim.

It's so bad even Mona Charen is calling him out in her syndicated column (briefest up to speed for those who don't know Charen, no one would ever call her "left" or even "center"):

And it’s notable that some awfully famous images of rioters attacking an iconic American landmark, desecrating the American flag and spitting on cops — those from Jan. 6 — didn’t make the cut.

Asked if he would play the song even after the controversy, Aldean took refuge in the familiar pose of victimhood. Because he’s being criticized, he thinks he’s being “canceled.” Gushing about his “bada—” fans, he whined that “Cancel culture is a thing ... which means try and ruin your life, ruin everything.” Of course he would perform the song, he declared, because “the people have spoken and you guys spoke very very loudly.” So matters of decency get decided by plebiscite?

Look, Aldean imagines that he is merely standing up for the “feeling of a community that I had growing up.” But if he really was raised with good values, where is the fellow feeling? Where is the sense of community with other Americans who may not be from the same town but are just as worthy of respect and consideration as his high school buddies? If this were really a call to community, he would have included at least one or two images of Americans who weren’t white or rural. Don’t we expect all Americans to honor their neighbors and compatriots? Isn’t that part of what being “raised up right” includes? Don’t rural people reach into their wallets when hurricanes or tornadoes hit cities and vice versa?

Aldean’s defense is fatuous. The music video is belligerent and divisive. In this age of ugly partisanship, the cheapest clicks can be purchased with us-vs.them incitement. It’s unworthy. Don’t try that in a good country.

When I read her column and thought of how pathetic Aldean is, I thought of how pathetic Jonathan Turley is who uses social media to divide the country constantly and can always be found inciting attacks on DISNEY, Bud Light, Target and anyone objecting to Aldean's racist video.

They play the victim because that's how they see themselves. It's why they're so enraged. It's why they attack everything. They're not men, if they're lucky they're boys. But they're not men. A Joan Crawford character was many things but it was never a man -- not even in JOHNNY GUITAR.

If you're not getting it, go to YOUTUBE, search "REASON" and pull up that nonsense outlet's interview with victim Matt Taibbi.

Did you know that poor Matt is so troubled and so hurt and it's all because, grasp the tissue, he refused to support Hillary Clinton in 2016 and, sob, sob, he didn't get on board with Russia-gate. The left turned on him! The left turned on him!!!!

Grow the hell up, you fat f**k. You're the most spoiled brat in the world -- and it shows in that creepy baby face. Have you been out in the sun ever? To be fat and have that skin? We're talking THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS grotesque.

And most of the left does not care one way or another who you voted for in 2016.

Hillary Clinton, in 2016, wanted to be Barack Obama in 2008 which is why she ran such an awful campaign. It was inauthentic and it relied on celebrities. Not only did she not photograph with them as well as Barack had -- it's an issue of body types and an issue of crips lines in the clothing -- Hillary didn't have it -- but it just never rang real and only reminded people of other times when she'd come across fake thereby daily playing to her weaknesses and elevating her negatives.

But here's the thing, Matty, speaking out against Hillary didn't cost you a damn thing.

I was opposed to Barack. I knew, from Elaine and my meeting him before he was in the US Senate, that he had no plan to end the Iraq War. He made that clear which is why closed our check books and left the fundraiser. We had planned to max out because we were -- and remain -- against the war. But when we got our face time and raised Iraq to this 'anti-war' person and he told us it didn't matter anymore because "we" were in Iraq now, we left.

Barack didn't end the war. He didn't even ever pull out all US troops. There was a drawdown -- as the Pentagon rightly termed it -- not a withdrawal. And we had noted that Barack would send troops back into Iraq -- if elected president -- and we'd done that by looking at the raw interview NYT did with candidate Barack as opposed to the garbage filth they published. He said very clearly -- but they didn't put it in the article -- that he was fine with pulling troops out and with putting them back in.

ISIS was his excuse for that in 2014.

That's probably not going to cause anyone to spew their coffee today. But the media was for Barack at the time.

And he was a very popular president.

We went campus to campus speaking out against the war before he was president and we did it after. And telling the truth, especially in the weeks and months right after the election? People didn't want to hear that. They wanted to believe that the war was over, all the US troops were coming home, blah blah blah -- Hillary had a funny on that in 2008 ("the heavens will open . . .").

Point being, you tell the truth. If you have any integrity, you tell the truth.

I did. I was booed. Didn't bother me, didn't make me cry. It wasn't the first time I'd ever been booed. I know how to work a crowd and, each time, was able to turn it (the booing) into a joke so we could laugh together and them move back to the topics and reality at hand.

I think if that had happened to Matt, 15 years later, we'd find him still seated on that stage in a pool of his own urine as he sobbed.

Grow the hell up.

You chose a position. Are you happy with what you chose to fight for? Then you won. Stop the whining. Stop pretending you're a victim.

And stop pretending that you're transphobia isn't the reason most people hate you today.

You actively courted the right-wing and you served them. You betrayed yourself as a journalist -- hell, even Glenn Greenwald told THE VANGUARD that he wouldn't have agreed to the terms you did to get access to The Twitter Files. You are an embarrassment. You are a goober. You are this fat, ghostly white sloth that is physically repugnant.

You're a grifter and people caught on.

No, there was no excuse for you to be attacked in a Congressional committee and we defended you on that. But you're not eleven years old, grow the hell up.

If these pathetic right-wing males could, we'd have a better world. But too many of them are nursing perceived hurts and feeling victimized. How pathetic.

Did someone say RFK Jr?

He's begging money again. He's trying to sell the latest Harvard-Harris poll as a win. He's moved nothing and he thinks that's a victory. "I'm the same as I was last month," he brags.

The numbers aren't increasing, are they? Not the numbers of people who support you. You had name recognition and you've failed to build on it.

And the poll doesn't say what he wants it to. In the campaign e-mail, the campaign's insisting that it means he would be president if the election were held today. That's not what it means at all. This was not an issue of who would you vote for? That question was not asked -- which is why various people listed -- such as Hillary -- are people who aren't even running for office. He's such a liar.

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