Originally published at: The More Desperate Trump Gets, The More Toxic His Rhetoric Becomes
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Of Course It Came To This We’ve moved into the endgame stage of the 2024 campaign, and it’s now obvious that the pivot Donald Trump made when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden was away from…
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Maybe he will just spontaneously combust.
Oh! F11!!r$$t!!
Shamelessy stolen and recycled cat .gif:
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Which one? The Orange Monster, his running mate, or Tom Cotton?
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Many people are saying he smells like one.
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My hobby horse today is that “concepts of a plan” doesn’t mean there’s no plan. It means they don’t want voters to know what their plan is because it snuffs or hobbles Medicare, medicaid and coverage of preexisting conditions.
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Exactly who is this purported pundit? Ivanka?
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Por que no los tres?
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an angry JD Vance lashes out at reporters, calling them “sick,” and claims every single bomb thread made in Springfield is a hoax
Everybody’s a liar but me and tsf, says jv, although we sometimes create stories to get people to pay attention. Trust me though, the bomb threat stories are an obvious hoax.
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The EU’s top diplomat has described the pager detonations in Lebanon as “extremely worrying”, and said they had caused “heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians.”
In a statement, Josep Borrell said:
Following yesterday’s series of explosions in Lebanon, I called the Lebanese foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib. He briefed me on the explosion of a high number of electronic devices in many areas across the country. Thousands of people were injured – hundreds in critical condition – hospitals are collapsing.
Even if the attacks seem to have been targeted, they had heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians: several children are among the victims
I consider this situation extremely worrying. I can only condemn these attacks that endanger the security and stability of Lebanon, and increase the risk of escalation in the region.
The European Union calls on all stakeholders to avert an all-out war, which would have heavy consequences for the entire region and beyond.
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There’s something terribly wrong happening here. I’m reminded of Howard Hughes in his dotage, eventually wallowing in self neglect and lapsing regularly into lunacy.
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Likely Hannity.
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From the Wall Street Journal via the Bulwark. (My italics.)
Last night, JD Vance was asked by a reporter why he didn’t fact check claims from his constituents who were saying, allegedly, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating cats. Vance insisted it was the media’s responsibility to fact check the residents of Springfield, “not lie about them.” He seemed pleased with himself as the audience roared with applause. Well, this morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that Vance’s office did actually reach out to the Springfield city manager to see if there was any validity to the rumors about Haitian migrants. The staffer was told that it was all baseless. Vance, nevertheless, kept up his post on X about the rumors. And that night, Donald Trump went on the debate stage and just stated it as fact. But that only touches the surface of the Journal story. The paper was also provided, by Vance’s office, a police report from a resident who said her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors. The reporter went to that person’s house. The resident said her cat had actually returned a few days after it went missing, found safe in her own basement. She had apologized to her Haitian neighbors.
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Dana Bash’s questions for JV on the pet eating lie were great, but with 20/20 hindsight I realized that when he claimed that it’s ok to keep making the claim because people were calling his office, she should have asked if any Haitian constituents or anyone else under threat called his office. Or, for that matter, the governor of Ohio and the mayor of Springfield.
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And of course you’re probably right
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The Dotard can’t handle the truth about himself. His deeds follow him too close for comfort.
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I think we know where CF is getting the gas he is using to gaslight us.
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You would think that eventually he’s gonna run out of copium, but yet again he strokes his own ego.
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