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78-year-old, 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump was rallying some White Christian Nationalists (at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, so I think the description fits) to vote for him, and let it slip out:The former president urged attendees at the faith-themed event to vote — “Vote early. Vote absentee. Vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote,” he said — and promised that in four years, “we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”
This is not his first rodeo. He’s said this a few times now, and never explains it, and more alarmingly, the press moves on and doesn’t ask about it. Here it is in context:Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again. pic.twitter.com/DBGcBr3Wht
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 27, 2024
Draw your own conclusions of what Mr. Dictator-on-Day-One meant.
https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud-part-infinity/Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud (Part Infinity)
78-year-old, 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump was rallying some White Christian Nationalists (at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, so I think the description fits) to vo…Mock Paper Scissors
Small wooden treasure awarded to Joey Bishop by the Friars Club in 1968. The chest is painted brown with gold detailing. A plate engraved “Friar Joey Bishop” is attached to the top of the chest. The chest has a hinged lid that opens to reveal a King’s Ransom Scotch whiskey bottle and has three glasses, one tumbler, and two shot glasses.
(Image credit: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian)
…especially on the confluence of National Scotch Day and Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day (“One thing leads to another,” says I picking up Tevya the Wandering Jew plant in my north window), but we would be remiss if we did not alert you that our pal Burr Deming has posted his best-of-the-web links complete with wry commentary at the essential blog Fair and Unbalanced.
We will of course keep this post on top and fresher posts —if any!— will be below.
https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/27/we-hate-to-interrupt-your-weekend-31/
The modern Olympics started in 1896, founded by Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat. He had conflicting motives. On one hand, his idea for a global sports competition stemmed from anxieties about French masculinity following a war defeat. He saw sports as a way to masculinize French men.
Behind the history of discrimination against trans athletes.
Tesla posted its second-quarter earnings Thursday evening, revealing that its net income fell an astonishing 45 percent compared to a year ago, the second consecutive quarterly decline.
Adult authority figures reproach and correct children with ADHD more often than they do children without the condition.ADDitude
A Nova is Coming with Carlos BadenesSpace.com Staff (Space)
Bosses are using AI to cut corners and kill jobs in gaming, and gamers, workers, and fans are outraged. The reason why is simple.Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
Gatherings of tens of thousands of Vice President Harris’ supporters are raising millions of dollars for her campaign — and it’s happening on Zoom.🔎 Zoom in: On Thursday night, a “White Women: Answer the Call” Zoom event organized by activist Shannon Watts was attended by 200,000 participants and raised over $8.5 million, according to organizers.
- Why it matters: It’s a new era of virtual rallies. These online events are cheaper to organize, easier to attend, and will be powerful tools for fundraising and voter outreach this fall, Axios’ Jacob Knutson writes.
👀 What’s next: The virtual blitz continues. Harris is set to give a virtual address at a Gen Z summit hosted by Voters of Tomorrow this afternoon.
- That came after two Zoom calls — hosted by Win With Black Women and Win With Black Men — earlier in the week, which together saw well over 300,000 attendees and brought in millions.
- The group White Dudes for Harris will hold a Zoom call Monday night.
In the days since Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid, more than 170,000 volunteers have joined her cause, her campaign says.
610 likes, 26 comments - winwithblkmen on July 23, 2024: "@winwithblkmen would like to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude for your generous donations and support for Black men for Harris.Instagram
The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics is going on today. It’s an over-the-top presentation meant to draw people into sport. And for the next few weeks, we’ll be seeing people from all across …Hackaday
Kamala Harris’s Environmental and Climate Record, in Her Own Words | “I care about the environment not because…EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Olandis Hobbs, 37 was sentenced on Tuesday after being found guilty earlier this month of using false documents to take ownership of an approximately $700,000 condo in the Panama City Beach area, according to the State Attorney's Office of the 14th Judicial Circuit.
"I hope this sends a strong message," State Attorney Larry Basford said in a release. "Do not come to Northwest Florida and try to steal people's identifications and/or property by squatting because we will not tolerate this."
The property is legally owned by an 85-year-old woman and her children.
Hobbs has committed similar acts in other places, like New York, and he was sued but never arrested.
"This might be your first significant conviction, but it is a doozy," Judge Dustin Stephenson said, according to the release. "You stole rest from the sunset of someone's life and should be punished for it."
Olandis Hobbs, 37, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for using false documents to take ownership of a $700,000 condo in Panama City Beach, Florida.Nathan Cobb, USA TODAY NETWORK (Yahoo News)
Soundtracked to Beyoncé’s 2016 song “Freedom,” the campaign ad alternates between footage of Harris, her supporters, and B-roll footage, over which the vice president and 2024 candidate says, “In this election we each face a question: What kind of country do we want to live in?”
Cutting to footage of Trump and J.D. Vance, Harris’s voiceover continues, “There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate. But us, we choose something different. We choose freedom.”
It also mentions choosing “a future where … no one is above the law,” at which point the video cuts to Trump’s 2023 Fulton County Jail mug shot—an image the Trump campaign itself has used on its website and merchandise—as well as a flurry of news headlines, timed to the soundtrack’s percussion, about his recent 34 felony convictions.
The video emphasizes a number of other issues one can expect to be key points of Harris’s campaign, including reproductive freedom, gun violence, childhood poverty, and affordable health care.
The ad closes with Harris saying, “We believe in the promise of America, and we’re ready to fight for it. Because when we fight we win.”
Kamala Harris isn’t holding back as she launches her campaign against Donald Trump.Robert McCoy (Yahoo News)
In August, Grimes told Wired in an interview that she did have a "big, long conversation" with Musk about his views on transgender people because she wanted to understand where he was coming from.
"It came down to pretty much every way that your transition can cause fertility issues. I was like, 'OK, you don't hate trans people; you hate woke culture,'" she said.
whyyyyyyy are these white male supremacists so obsessed with reproduction?
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