So why did they vote for him?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Deplorables

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

MAGA rally-goers stranded

This is not the first time.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 08:17 pm:

UPDATE 10/14/2024:

Yes!

A prick talking to assholes

Who does he think pays into federal funds?  Which states does he think pay most?  He's talking to a crowd in California, and they're cheering?  Hope they're not in the path of a fire while he's in office. Idiots.

Also...

Jesus wept.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 10/13/2024:  Good grief.  Your crazy uncle needs treatment.

We have to reject this

This is what Trump and MAGA are doing to our country:

UPDATE 10/01/2024:

What's the deal?

In two previous rallies, he admitted he lost "by a whisker".  Well, "we" lost.  What's going on?  Surely this helps Jack Smith in Judge Chutkan's court.  What are his followers thinking, now that he caused so many of them to end up in jail for believing him when he said the election was stolen?

UPDATE 09/30/2024:

UPDATE 10/03/2024:  Now he's back to saying he won in 2020.

Unreal

Super weird.

Jesus.  

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Jim Jones would be jealous

What a sick woman.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Bingo

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Despicable MAGA

And their leader is an ignorant asshole.

Back to Venezuela, huh?

UPDATE 09/26/2024: 

Assume Higgins will be bragging about it.

More insanity from Trump's debate rants

This campaign has to be one of the most hilarious, if appalling, MAGA self-owns out there. Are they trying to get back some of the "cat ladies" Vance dissed?

BTW, Vance is at a central spot in this. He's proving to be a gift to Democrats.

Trump got in trouble with it at the debate:

[O]ne particularly bizarre whopper about Haitian immigrants in Ohio killing and eating pets dominated the headlines.

“In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating — they're eating the pets of the people that live there,” Trump babbled during the debate, thrown off by Harris’s transparent attempt to bait him with a dig at his crowd size. “And this is what's happening in our country. And it's a shame.”

[...]

[...]

The story was thoroughly debunked even before the debate. But examining how it got laundered from the fringes of the internet to Trump’s lips perfectly illustrates the hollowness at the center of the Trump movement, and indeed in modern conservatism itself.

According to the Springfield News-Sun, the racist meme started with a post to a Facebook group for residents of the Ohio town. The poster claimed that a neighbor’s daughter’s friend had discovered her cat butchered near a home lived in by Haitians, and further that the poster had “been told” that pet dogs as well as wild geese and ducks had been killed as well.

  Public Notice

And that was NOT an obvious fake to Trump people. Sheesh.

[L]ocal police never received any reports of pets being killed. The Federalist did manage to dig up a police report that accused four Haitians of illegal goose hunting, but that’s hardly the stuff that rightwing memes are made of. If you want to foment racial hatred against minorities and immigrants, you can’t just accuse them of participating in the Real American™ hobby of hunting. So instead the wingnutosphere cooked up a ridiculous lie about a plague of brown-skinned invaders devouring family pets, then went pedal to the metal with it.

Charlie Kirk, Kremlin-funded Benny Johnson, and even Elon Musk all tweeted about it on Monday. But things really got out of hand when Trump’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance, the junior senator from Ohio, joined the fray.

[...]

All day Monday and Tuesday, as Trump “prepped” for the debate, the weirdos who populate his social media feed vomited out meme after meme of Trump protecting cats and ducks — most of them clearly generated using Elon Musk’s AI, known as Grok.

[...]

This is what the former president’s media diet looks like 365 days a year. His Truth Social feed contains dozens of links a day to wildly inaccurate stories, along with slavish coverage from Fox, Newsmax, and the lesser outlets that make up the rightwing ecosystem. That’s why he claimed during the debate without a trace of irony that his “very fine people” quote about Nazis in Charlottesville had been debunked because “Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Jesse — all of these people, they covered it.” To him, that is what real news looks like.

And in this airless void of sycophants, Trump routinely reposts AI-generated images of himself as a superhero. Or of Harris cheering the Russian hammer and sickle. Or of Taylor Swift endorsing him.

[...]

Vance, who did more than anyone to make this racist hoax a thing, was unapologetic.

“It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false,” he tweeted Tuesday. “Do you know what's confirmed? That a child was murdered by a Haitian migrant who had no right to be here.”

That is false in every respect. Approximately 15,000 Haitian immigrants have moved into Springfield in the past few years, most of them legal residents under a since-halted Temporary Protected Status granted to migrants from war-torn countries. They have work permits and have been a boon to local factories, which were desperate for reliable employees.

[...]

[Vance] tweeted that his office had received calls from Ohio residents complaining about Haitian immigrants eating pets and wild animals. He failed to explain why these residents would report their supposedly missing pets to a US senator and not local law enforcement.

[...]

In a post-debate interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins [Vance had this to say...]

 [...] 

As Reuters reports, the influx of new residents has indeed stressed social services. But there has been no concomitant uptick in crime rates, and the child who died was not “murdered,” but was accidentally killed when his school bus was struck by a car driven by a Haitian migrant.

And we have seen videos from a company manager raving about the work ethics of his Haitian employees and wishing he had more, and the father of the child decrying GOP use of his son as a political prop, begging them to stop, and setting the story straight.

“I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” the boy’s father Nathan Clark said tearfully at a recent county meeting. “They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed nor have they ever been allowed, to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio.”

[...]

It doesn’t matter if they conscript dead children as unwilling pawns in a meme war, or if they incite pogroms against ethnic minorities — unlike, say, puerile jokes about the vice presidential candidate’s amorous activities with furniture or even the “Tampon Tim” smear of Governor Walz.

[...]

“Don't let the crybabies in the media dissuade you, fellow patriots,” Vance tweeted Tuesday. “Keep the cat memes flowing.”

And if it makes them seem deranged and out of touch, or even gets some people killed, they do not care. All they care about is winning. But fortunately, America is not an incel chatroom, so these filthy lies are hurting Trump more than they’re helping. Normies are laughing at him, not with him.

I just hope there are enough normies out there.

These are some of the ridiculously hilarious graphics they are choosing to try to make Trump look like a hero...

Hilarious. 

Pathetic.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 09:41 am:  JD Vance, the MAGA gift to Democrats that keeps on giving.

UPDATE 12:20 pm:

A bomb threat has prompted a major police response in Springfield, Ohio, on Thursday morning, according to the city commission office.

[...]

Though it is not yet known if they are connected, the threat comes after baseless rumors spread online in the wake of viral social media posts claiming Haitian migrants were abducting people's pets in Springfield order to eat them. The rumors were amplified by right-wing politicians, including former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance.

  ABC

Perhaps not yet connected, but I think it's pretty clear they are connected. JFC.

Springfield estimates there are around 12,000 to 15,000 immigrants living in the county; migrants have been drawn to the region because of low cost of living and work opportunities, according to the city. The rapid rise in population has strained housing, health care and school resources, according to the city. But city officials also said the migrants are in the country legally and that many are recipients of Temporary Protected Status.

[...]

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who dispelled the rumors this week, said the state would send more resources to Springfield.

This is what Trump foments

Fierce criticism of the media is a standard part of Trump’s rally speeches, prompting his supporters to turn toward the press section and boo, often while using a middle finger to demonstrate their distaste for journalists.

[...]

A man at Donald Trump’s rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, stormed into the press area as the former president spoke Friday but was surrounded by police and sheriff’s deputies and was eventually subdued with a Taser.

The altercation came moments after Trump criticized major media outlets for what he said was unfavorable coverage and dismissed CNN as fawning for its interview Thursday with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz.

[...]

The crowd cheered as a pack of police led the man away, prompting Trump to declare, “Is there anywhere that’s more fun to be than a Trump rally?”

  Politico

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 02:49 pm:

Despicable.  The world under Trump:

Donation black hole

Anyone who has spent time reviewing Donald Trump’s campaign spending reports would quickly conclude they’re a governance nightmare. There is so little disclosure about what happened to the billions raised in 2020 and 2024 that donors (and maybe even the former president himself) can’t possibly know how it was spent.

Federal Election Commission campaign disclosure reports from 2020 show that much of the money donated to the Trump campaign went into a legal and financial black hole reportedly controlled by Trump family members and close associates.

[...]

During the 2020 election, almost $516 million of the over $780 million spent by the Trump campaign was directed to American Made Media Consultants, a Delaware-based private company created in 2018 that masked the identities of who ultimately received donor dollars [...] How A.M.M.C. spent the money was a mystery even to Mr. Trump’s campaign team.

[...]

None of the expenses were itemized or otherwise explained aside from anodyne descriptions including “placed media,” “SMS advertising” and “online advertising.” F.E.C. rules require candidates to fully and accurately disclose the final recipients of their campaign disbursements, which is usually understood to include when payments are made through a vendor such as A.M.M.C.

[...]

A.M.M.C.’s first president was reported to be Lara Trump, the wife of Mr. Trump’s son Eric. The New York Times reported that A.M.M.C. had a treasurer who was also the chief financial officer of Mr. Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, signed off on the plan to set up A.M.M.C., and one of Eric Trump’s deputies from the Trump Organization was involved in running it.

Ms. Trump is now co-chair of the Republican National Committee, which, soon after her arrival, announced it would link up with the Trump campaign for joint fund-raising. The joint entity prioritizes a PAC that pays Mr. Trump’s legal fees over the R.N.C.

[...]

This election, the Trump campaign and four of its PACs have paid Red Curve Solutions, another private company, at least $18 million. The Campaign Legal Center says Red Curve appears to pay Mr. Trump’s legal bills and then gets reimbursed by the PACs. (The law is murky on what types of legal bills can be paid by campaigns, but some are allowed.)

[...]

What percentage of donor contributions go to lawyers defending Mr. Trump? It’s impossible to know.

In June, NBC revealed the existence of a new mystery company, called Launchpad Strategies. Launchpad took in almost $15 million in Trump political cash via the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee and the Trump National Committee. Little is known about this new group. It was created in 2023 and the Trump campaign says it is related to fund-raising. We don’t know who owns it, who runs it or where the $15 million went.

  NYT

We have a good guess.

Biden’s campaign also spent donor cash on legal bills, though apparently in far smaller quantities. It paid over $1 million for attorneys during a special counsel probe of the president’s handling of classified documents.

[...]

[F]rom early March through July of this year, the Biden and now Harris campaign outspent the Trump campaign three to one on advertising. By late May, the Democratic campaign had opened 200 field offices and hired 1,000 staff members in key states. The Trump campaign didn’t open its first office in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania until June. The Biden campaign had 24 there in April.

That's normally how campaign contributions would be spent.

Donors should demand more information about how their money is spent. But that would most likely offend the Trump family and confidants running the campaign. And the whole point of donating to Mr. Trump is to get on his good side.

[...]

The Federal Election Commission should demand that all campaigns disclose recipients of more than $200 in campaign cash. At least that’s what the law says. Campaign Legal Center tried to get the F.E.C. to enforce disclosure rules on the Trump campaign. The commissioners voted 3 to 3 to dismiss the matter, and federal courts have declined to step in. The legal center has appealed the case to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

All Trump has to do with lawsuits is appeal them to the Supreme Court, where he owns several judges.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Trump Train trial

Unfortunately, this probably won't make a lot of headlines, and future MAGA intimidators will not be warned off this kind of behavior.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Weird

The anti-Trumpers are using "weird" to describe MAGA/Trump shit.  I don't think that's really the appropriate word, but in this case, yes...

The diapers have a picture of Trump and say "Real men wear diapers".  WTF?  

Weird.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 09:04 am:  Explained

Still weird.

It's Sunday

Grifting on his supporters.  They'll never not go for it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Bring the full weight of the law down on these people

Is there even any law that would apply?   I know there is a gag order on Trump and his people.  Apparently they're providing info on people they THINK MIGHT BE jurors.Will those people and jurors get police protection?

MAGA

link

MAGA wow

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

A contract of mutual deceit

This is from a 1992 novel by James Lee Burke titled "A Stained White Radiance"...

"I was guilty of that age old presumption that the origins of social evil can be traced to villainous individuals. That we just need to identify them, lock them in cages, or even march them to the executioner's wall and this time, yes, this time, we'll catch a fresh breeze in our sails and set ourselves on a true course.

But [politician] Bobby Earl is out there by consent. He has his thumb on a dark pulse, and like all confidence men, he knows that his audience wishes to be conned. He learned long ago to listen. He knows that if he listens carefully, they'll tell him what they need to hear. It's a contract of mutual deceit by which they open up their flack vests and take it right through the breastbone. If it weren't he, it would be someone like him. Misanthropic, beguiling, educated. Someone who, as an ex-president's wife once said, allows the rest of us to feel comfortable with our prejudices.

I think the end for Bobby Earl will come in the fashion that it does for all his kind. [His kind] wants power so badly, that at some point in their lives, they make a conscious choice to embrace evil. It's not a gradual seduction. They do it without reservation, and that's when they leave the rest of us. You know it when it happens, too. No amount of cosmetic surgery can mask the psychological deformity in their eye. Then, unbeknownst to themselves, they set about erecting their own scaffold. Their most loyal adherents become their executioners, just as Mussolini's people hanged him upside down in a filling station, and Robespierre's followers trundled him over their heads to the guillotine. Then the audience moves on and seeks a new magician."