Kamala Harris Ratchets Up Her Attacks On Donald Trump's Fascism

Originally published at: Kamala Harris Ratchets Up Her Attacks On Donald Trump’s Fascism

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. An All Of The Above Campaign Seeming to ditch the long-held Democratic tendency to fight on only one front at a time, Vice President Kamala Harris is mixing in more attacks on Donald Trump’s authoritarianism…

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I hope everyone has had their dose of Colin Allred indulging Ted Cruz’s humiliation kink last night. It prompted me to donate to Allred again. I really hope he can send Ted to Cancun for good!

Also, meet Julie Newmar!

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YEa FaceISM!

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Using the Corpulent Coprophagic Cockholster’s words against him is the best strategy.

That, and highlighting the idiocy of his ‘beautiful’ tariffs.

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Trump’s team called his interview with Bloomberg yesterday in Chicago a ‘master class’. From what I’ve seen a better description might be ‘massive gas’ because he really stank it up.

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Someone needs to tell Mark Robinson that truth is a defense to libel. His raging will not stop discovery.

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Fascist is such a tinny word.

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Man, those cats are wack. My Facebook post, quoting from Heather Cox Richardson (the line from Andersen is my addition):

“‘But the Emperor has nothing at all on!’ said a little child.”
H. C. Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes
"After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen. The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck.
"Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast. Micklethwait asked real questions about Trump’s approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.
"When Micklethwait corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: “It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong.” Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal—hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out—Trump replied: ‘What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way…… You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.’
"The economy is supposed to be Trump’s strong suit.
"The former president seemed unable to stay on any topic, jumping from one idea to another randomly, or to answer anything, instead making statements that play well at his rallies—referring to people with insulting names, for example—or by rehashing old grievances and threatening to end traditional U.S. freedoms. He made it clear he intends to ‘straighten out our press,’ for example. ‘Because,’ he said, ‘we have a corrupt press.’
"As Micklethwait tried to keep him on task, Trump asserted stories that were more and more outlandish. He claimed that children could do the work of U.S. autoworkers in South Carolina, for example, and that he would be a better chair of the Federal Reserve than Jerome Powell.
"Micklethwait did not fight with Trump, but he didn’t indulge him either. When Trump explained that ‘you don’t put old in’ the federal judiciary because 'they’re there for two years, or three years,'Micklethwait replied: ‘You’re a 78-year-old man running for president.’
"And therein lies the rub.
"Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called the appearance ‘bonkers.’ Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: ‘The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign…and in Trump. He went from being periodically adrift and sporadically demented to being 24/7 unfit and in need of permanent medical attention. He’s one cloudless night away from baying at the moon.’”
October 15, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

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I guarantee Fox News hasn’t mentioned his sundowning dance party even once.

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My very best favorite part. In addition to TPM and other blogs, thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for the great work she does informing us all.

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Great news for Jill Stein!

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Will lead to some nose-holding, but people will still vote for her.

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FTW!

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Maybe I’m just in an Eeyore phase, but I wake up every day now and ask myself how, with Republicans and military guys saying “Yes, he’s a fascist,” my fellow Americans can seriously vote for this horrifying orange excrescence. They are voting for their own oppression.

And then I look out my front window, see my neighbor’s massive pro-felon sign that ruins my otherwise nice view because it’s facing only my house, and I figure the best plan is to keep my head down and prepare for the coming orange apocalypse, because we as a nation really are this stupid.

After a couple of coffees, I can manage to envision the possibility of a Harris administration after a violent post-election season, so I return to the stuff I’m supposed to be doing, exhausted already, with a tiny little spark of hope that we will not author our own demise.

Morning, all!

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It’s going to get worse. He is an extremely fatigued old man whose decline is accelerating.

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I have a feeling that lawsuit will be quietly dropped the day after Election Day.

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They’ll need a vise grip.

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First question to Kamala in FOX interview
“Why do you hate America?”

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Elon Musk contributed nearly $75 million to his own pro-Trump PAC in the third quarter.
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Certainly wasteful spending, and to think how that $75 million could be used to feed the starving in Gaza or other places in the world. Yet Elmo blows it on a loser.

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I watched the Texas debate last night. Cruz was DISGUSTING!
Endlessly smirking and laughing when Allred told the truth about that liar.

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