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Watch: J.D. Vance Cruelly Pushes for Domestic Abusers’ Right to Guns
J.D. Vance argued Tuesday that access to firearms should only be restricted for those convicted of a crime—meaning that those under restraining orders should still be able to purchase weapons. During a press conference in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Vance was asked what he thought about restricting firearms access for those convicted of stalking. Vance answered the question, and then some. “Well look, I think that we certainly don’t want violent criminals to have access to weapons, and that includes people, I think, who have been convicted of stalking. But I think it’s important to say convicted,” Vance replied. “And what a...
Trump and Vance, Tanking in Polls, Pick a Fight With Andy Beshear
J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are attacking Andy Beshear over comments the Kentucky governor made on MSNBC Tuesday morning.“I mean, think about what some people have had to go through because of these laws,” Beshear told Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe regarding Republican states’ laws against abortion. “J.D. Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape ‘inconvenient.’ Inconvenience is traffic. Make him go through this,” Beshear added. The Trump-Vance campaign seized on the words and took them out of context, claiming that Beshear actually called for Vance’s family members to be raped. Vance’s spokesperson William Martin called for Kamala Harris to “immediately...
Trump’s Latest Scheme to Beat Harris May Have Crossed Legal Lines
He may not be in office, but Donald Trump has been speaking with the powers that be about Israel’s war on Gaza—but it’s not in an effort to end the genocide.Instead, Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS.“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff...
RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Exposes Just How Far They’ll Go to Beat Harris
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is sinking fast. Federal Election Commission filings indicated that the fringe political candidate spent more than he brought into the campaign in July, with more than half of his donations coming out of the pocket of his running mate Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and investor.But shortly after the dire news broke, Shanahan revealed precisely why the conspiracy theorist has remained on the ballot so long, despite his abysmal polling.“I’ve got to keep focusing on what matters the most outside of party lines. I need to focus on a vision that goes beyond November,”...
Biden’s Emotional Speech Hints at a Bigger Takedown of Trump to Come
President Biden’s heartfelt speech at his party’s nominating convention on Monday was a remarkable coda to a tempestuous summer for he and his fellow Democrats, triggering surprisingly intense emotion and gratitude from those in attendance. Barely a month ago, his party was locked in searing recriminations over Biden’s then-refusal to leave the race. But last night, all that seemed very far away. Some hailed Biden’s speech for the way he demonstrated love of country. Others admired his basic decency. Still others took note of his searching reflections on his own human frailties.But not enough has been said about arguably the...
MAGA Melts Down Over Kamala Harris’s Stepdaughter at DNC
Conservatives are freaking out about Kamala Harris’s stepdaughter after she … did nothing but exist. As Harris’s husband and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff watched on at the first night of the Democratic National Convention, his children Cole and Ella Emhoff stood by his side. Ella, a 25-year-old fashion designer, rocked the Harris-Walz camo hat, campaign swag that was so popular it sold out in just 30 minutes. As the family shared a proud moment, Republicans zeroed in on Harris and Emhoff’s daughter and began critiquing her looks, her body language, and her love for her dad. “Totally not weird,” wrote...
The Terrifying Way Literal Nazis Are Using Steve Bannon’s Podcast
An online collective of neo-Nazis is using Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast as a recruitment tool, according to an exclusive report published by The Guardian Tuesday.The Terrorgram collective is a network of neo-Nazis and fascists that produces and disseminates right-wing propaganda using Telegram, encouraging acts of far-right terror and sanctifying those who commit them. The collective runs three main Telegram channels that mix mainstream news coverage with far-right content. The mainstream content gives the channels an air of legitimacy as administrators urge users to join group chats where more violent, extreme ideas are pushed, according to a report from the Institute...
RFK Jr.’s Campaign Is Suddenly Very Short on Cash
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign is in financial trouble. The campaign is spending more money than it is bringing in, according to Federal Election Commission filings. It has $3.9 million in cash on hand, but is nearly $3.5 million in debt. In July, the campaign spent over $7 million while raising only $5.6 million, almost half of which came from RFK Jr.’s running mate Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and investor. The campaign’s spending remained high despite a cutback on events, according to Politico. Kennedy has not appeared at any public events since the beginning of July, instead...
Former Trump Insider Breaks Ranks to Support Harris at DNC
Several Republicans are slated to speak at the Democratic National Convention this week, as Democrats attempt to unify forces against a potential second Trump presidency. But on Tuesday, Democrats announced that they had secured one of Donald Trump’s former communications directors, and she’s expected to make a splash with an endorsement of Trump’s political rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will join the liberal party’s long list of speakers, reported NBC News. “I never thought I’d be speaking at a Democratic convention. But, after seeing firsthand who Donald Trump really is, and the threat he...
Idiot Trump Abandoned Truth Social for Elon Musk—and It Didn’t Pay Off
In a wild right-wing technologist update of Thelma and Louise, it seems that both Donald Trump and Elon Musk have officially driven their respective social media companies off of a cliff. But hey, at least they’re going down together?Trump’s Truth Social stock appears to be in serious jeopardy, according to a new report from Forbes published Saturday. Next month, Trump—who owns well over 50 percent of the company—and other shareholders will finally be able to sell their shares of the volatile stock, but that puts the stock at risk of collapse. Earlier this month, Truth Social’s stock value plummeted following...
DNC Responds to Gaza Protest in Worst Way Possible
Several major lawmakers, from Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to President Joe Biden, made mention of the atrocities in Gaza during the first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday. But among the crowd and behind the scenes, efforts to cover up mention of the genocide were still underway.During Biden’s speech, a Jewish delegation unfurled a large sign revealing the text “Stop Arming Israel.” The effort was quickly stopped by nearby attendees, who blocked the sign with “We [Heart] Joe” sticks while another attendee in a row above the protesters attempted to snatch the banner away.Another attendee, two rows away...
The Future of the Democratic Party Is Female
Fine, it went on a little long, especially for those of us in attendance. But night one of the Democratic convention was (almost) never boring and was often rollicking, and it established three important points. The Democrats hammered home that they’re on the side of the working and middle classes; they, or some of them, ripped Donald Trump’s character; and most of all, they showcased women, because if Kamala Harris is going to make it to the White House, it’s women who are going to drive that.That last point is key. As soon as I got the email in the afternoon giving the full list of Monday...
Pro-Trump Activists’ Attempt to Infiltrate DNC Goes Hilariously Awry
Far-right activists allied with Donald Trump attempted to attend the Democratic National Convention in an attempt to troll liberals. But instead, they found themselves brutally rebuffed at every turn, broadcasting their own humiliation. White nationalist Charlie Kirk showed up at the DNC on Monday. Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, is working in tandem with Trump’s campaign, which has outsourced some of its canvassing work to the advocacy arm of the conservative youth organization, Turning Point Action. Kirk seemed to have a tough time making friends at the event. Parker Short, president of the Young Democrats of Georgia, immediately approached Kirk, going in...
Trump’s Answer on Whether He’ll Accept Election Results Is a Warning
Donald Trump, asked for the millionth time, still won’t commit to accepting election results as legitimate if he loses. Speaking to CBS News Monday, Trump said, “If I see that we had a fair and free election, which I hope to be able to say, but if I see that, I will be.… You will never see anybody more honorable than me. I am an honorable person.” The CBS reporter pressed Trump, telling him, “But you didn’t accept the results of the last election.” “Well, that’s right, because there were many problems with the last election. You know it, so...
Jamie Raskin Issues Dire Warning to Trump Running Mate J.D. Vance
In a speech at the Democratic National Convention Monday night, Jamie Raskin addressed not only his fellow party members but also Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. Raskin, who led Donald Trump’s impeachment over the January 6 insurrection, gave Vance a warning about the former presidents violent supporters. “Remember what the mob chanted as they stormed the Capitol?” Raskin asked. “Hang Mike Pence.”“J.D. Vance, do you understand why there was a sudden job opening for running mate on the GOP ticket? They tried to kill your predecessor!” Raskin continued. “They tried to kill him because he would not follow Trump’s...
Trump Melts Down After Harris’s Debate Decision Leaves Him Rattled
While the Democratic National Convention was kicking off in Chicago, Donald Trump was posting to Truth Social, claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris had rejected a debate against him on Fox News on September 4.“Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on September 4th,” Trump wrote. “I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and...
Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention
It’s one of those moments that is tattooed on your brain forever—if your brain is the kind that is fully occupied by an encyclopedic memory of inane political moments that normal people forget: Donald Trump steps out onto the stage for the first debate of the 2016 Republican primary, fields the first question, and retorts, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” when debate moderator Megyn Kelly, then of Fox News, reminded him, “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals,’” et cetera.From the vantage of 2024, that Rosie O’Donnell jab is just one of thousands of ephemeral, pointless,...
Project 2025 Operative: GOP Environmental Policy Is “Silly,” “Selfish”
As the world experiences what could be its hottest year on record, the right-wing groups behind the Project 2025 policy road map for a second Trump administration want to supercharge oil and gas drilling, claw back regulations and research funding, and “eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” according to one training video reported last week by ProPublica.Yet a senior staffer at one of the groups that’s contributed to Project 2025, the Center for Renewing America, or CRA, seems to have some doubts. In previously unreported private remarks, Micah Meadowcroft—who served in the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration,...
The Con at the Core of the Republican Party
Pick your metaphor for the last eight years of American politics. Sewer or garbage truck? Practically every day a helpless nation watches a new scrap of official grift, crime, abuse of public trust revealed and tossed into the churning dumpster of history. Most of us identify this era with Donald Trump, who sailed down a golden escalator in the summer of 2015 and lit the dumpster fire. But in his bracing history of American conservative hustlers, The Longest Con, veteran political writer Joe Conason proposes that the American right has for more than a half century been increasingly OK with...
Suddenly, Trump’s Biggest Far-Right Allies Admit He Could Lose—Badly
Some of the biggest far-right figures on the internet are deeply worried that Donald Trump is in danger of losing the election to Kamala Harris—perhaps by a large margin. The Washington Post reports that these extremists are now turning on the Trump campaign, which could fracture the MAGA movement in the race’s final stretch. We talked to Jared Holt, a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue who closely tracks the far right, about what this moment reveals about the MAGA right when it faces extreme pressure—and what these far-right personalities really fear most about a Trump loss. Listen to this episode here.
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