USA Politics

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This story has been out there this week, and summoned to cease and desist, the CA GOP refused, in defiance of the law, figuring they can outrun the consequences.

I had heard that they had refused, but wondering if there was any further news.     Thanks though.

PD

[Karl Henning]

I had heard that they had refused, but wondering if there was any further news.     Thanks though.

PD

Yup: that's the "Law & Order" GOP for you.

[JBS]

Kyle Kulinski sums himself up in a single tweet

[Karl Henning]

Well, this must have poor Trumpty's BVDs in a twist:

Town hall ratings: More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC - CNN

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Well, this must have poor Trumpty's BVDs in a twist:

Town hall ratings: More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC - CNN

Not sure how I would interpret it though?  Lots of undecided who wanted to hear Biden?  Or maybe those who would vote for Pres. Trump already didn't bother to take the time?

I just read a news story re the GOP boxes in California:  they'll be allowed, but with strict safeguards.  https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/10/16/california-allows-republican-ballot-boxes-with-safeguards-1326076

Perhaps the Dems should try putting out there own?

PD

[Karl Henning]

"One can certainly understand why Trumpworld is furious with Savannah Guthrie, moderator of NBC's Thursday town hall forum with the president in Miami.

Imagine coming on a major TV network in the closing weeks of a presidential campaign expecting to have an opportunity to present your version of things to the American people, only to face a questioner like Guthrie, with her persistent bias toward facts and truth.

SAD! as a certain president would say. And not just that, but a thoroughly bewildering experience for a poor fellow accustomed to the cosseted confines of Fox My Pillow TV."

[Karl Henning]

"That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody. . . . I'll put it out there. People can decide for themselves," said the president, as though that somehow justified lending his office to that lunacy.

You can look at this one of two ways. Trump is either willing to indulge odious conspiratorialist nonsense for political reasons — adherents to that tinfoil-hat nuttiness see him as a hero — or he is not firmly enough moored in rationality to recognize wild-eyed idiocy.

Either way, it should trouble Americans deeply."

Well, and we see some here who find him a "hero."

[Herman]

Not sure how I would interpret it though?  Lots of undecided who wanted to hear Biden?  Or maybe those who would vote for Pres. Trump already didn't bother to take the time?

They don't like to see him anymore.

The first debate killed the idea Trump is fun to watch.

[Karl Henning]

The "Right. Russia." think tank must be shrugging off the fresh news of Rudy Giuliani muckracking.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The "Right. Russia." think tank must be shrugging off the fresh news of Rudy Giuliani muckracking.

What's going on with Rudy G.?

[Karl Henning]

Making up his "Hunter Biden laptop" story as he goes along

[Giuliani's] latest gambit was a leak to the New York Post of questionably sourced materials that purport to come from a laptop that may or may not have belonged to Biden's son. I will not link to the story here, but you can find it if you are interested. Trump and his supporters are flogging it everywhere they can, and claiming they are being censored by skeptical social media companies trying to put the brakes on their efforts to spread what could well be misinformation.

Rudy Giuliani was once compared to Churchill. Now he acts like a shady Watergate goon.

[Karl Henning]

State Department signals it will keep most details of its spending at Trump's properties hidden until after election

[Karl Henning]

The threats against Democratic governors prove Trump's rhetoric encourages violence

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Making up his "Hunter Biden laptop" story as he goes along

[Giuliani's] latest gambit was a leak to the New York Post of questionably sourced materials that purport to come from a laptop that may or may not have belonged to Biden's son. I will not link to the story here, but you can find it if you are interested. Trump and his supporters are flogging it everywhere they can, and claiming they are being censored by skeptical social media companies trying to put the brakes on their efforts to spread what could well be misinformation.

Rudy Giuliani was once compared to Churchill. Now he acts like a shady Watergate goon.

I used to admire him.   

PD

[Karl Henning]

I used to admire him.   

PD

There was a time when he was admirable.

[SimonNZ]

Other news:  President Trump nominated for Nobel prize.   

Trump's dream of a Nobel Peace Prize kept alive by far-flung foreign allies

[...]"Trump's unofficial, unorthodox quest for the prize has benefited from the help of far-flung foreign allies — including an anti-immigrant Norwegian politician and an Australian law professor best known for pro-monarchy campaigns — who ensure that he is nominated time and again.

Even prominent world leaders, including South Korea's Moon Jae-in, Britain's Boris Johnson and former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, have found themselves dragged into the effort.

This year, the White House itself released an official statement to announce that Trump had been nominated for the 2021 prize. The World Food Program was awarded the 2020 prize on Friday.

So far, Trump's campaign for recognition in Oslo has earned him plenty of headlines, but borne no other fruit.

Nobel trackers argue that the campaign of Trump and his supporters is doing him no favors. "Trump is so despised outside the U.S. that I cannot imagine the committee will spend any time on him at all," Fredrik Heffermehl, a Norwegian peace activist, wrote in an email Thursday"[...]

Kyle Kulinski sums himself up in a single tweet

Enjoy the pile-on in the comments:

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1190737140688326656

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Trump's dream of a Nobel Peace Prize kept alive by far-flung foreign allies

[...]"Trump's unofficial, unorthodox quest for the prize has benefited from the help of far-flung foreign allies — including an anti-immigrant Norwegian politician and an Australian law professor best known for pro-monarchy campaigns — who ensure that he is nominated time and again.

Even prominent world leaders, including South Korea's Moon Jae-in, Britain's Boris Johnson and former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, have found themselves dragged into the effort.

This year, the White House itself released an official statement to announce that Trump had been nominated for the 2021 prize. The World Food Program was awarded the 2020 prize on Friday.

So far, Trump's campaign for recognition in Oslo has earned him plenty of headlines, but borne no other fruit.

Nobel trackers argue that the campaign of Trump and his supporters is doing him no favors. "Trump is so despised outside the U.S. that I cannot imagine the committee will spend any time on him at all," Fredrik Heffermehl, a Norwegian peace activist, wrote in an email Thursday"[...]



Enjoy the pile-on in the comments:

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1190737140688326656

Thank you for the info.  I had read, earlier, about a 'far-right Norwegian politician" being involved.  I had seen something on the news with him talking about being nominated for three different categories.

PD

[SimonNZ]

Thank you for the info.  I had read, earlier, about a 'far-right Norwegian politician" being involved.  I had seen something on the news with him talking about being nominated for three different categories.

PD

I haven't heard that (Literature? Medicine?). He might have meant he's pushed some people to put his name forward for the Peace prize three times now.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I haven't heard that (Literature? Medicine?). He might have meant he's pushed some people to put his name forward for the Peace prize three times now.

Hi.

I found this...not certain of the accuracy.  https://nypost.com/2020/09/29/donald-trump-gets-third-nomination-for-nobel-peace-prize/

[Karl Henning]

I used to admire him.   

PD

Skip to the 37-minute mark and this "fraudulent non-event" is the topic: https://begtodiffer.thebulwark.com/home-stretch