“Rambling?!” Trump rally crowd listens quietly as Trump explains at length how he doesn’t ramble Excerpt:
“I heard the other day – And this isn’t anything, I’m just saying.
They’ll say ‘he was rambling.’ I don’t ramble. I’m a really smart guy.
You know, I’m really smart. I don’t ramble. But the other day – any time
I hit too hard, they say he was rambling. Rambling?
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“You
know, I get up, and I make a speech, I go for sometimes two hours, two
and half hours because, you know, people are waiting outside for three
days, four days. You guys were waiting out there for a long time! Front
Row Joes are waiting, I don’t know how you guys do it.
“And
I feel I have an obligation to speak, and speak in a certain way, and
speak a little bit longer. You know, how would you like it, a guy’s
waiting with his family for three and a half, four days. They have a
tent and the tent is set up. They have hundreds of them, and they wait.
And then I walk in, speak for 15 minutes and leave. I don’t know
somehow, would that be okay, North Carolina? I don’t think so. Right.”They
want me to speak all day. You know, when I leave – I did one, two hours
and 15 minutes and I’m leaving and they’re screaming, no, sir. More. We
want to hear more. I can’t, I can’t speak more. What the hell else am I
going to say? Our country is going to hell. That’s all I can say. We’re
a nation in decline.”You
know, we were talking about that before. My phrases are copied so much,
right? I use I use the term, often times in closing, we are a nation in
decline. We are a failed nation. And I think it’s a beautiful phrase.
Although I don’t like the topic very much, I don’t like what it
represents. But there’s a certain beauty. All of a sudden all of these
candidates, including Republicans, are saying we are a nation in
decline. We are a failing nation. And I say, you know, what the hell do
they have to copy me for? Right?”But
they have a lot of words that they copy. Many of our words. We were in
the plane before coming in, and our people said we went through a list. I
think we’re going to release a list, let’s release it. But so many of
our phrases they copy. I should be really, that should be a nice thing,
not an insult. But crazy Bernie Sanders has said a lot of things…”
The Onion resumes publishing on paper And I’ve instantly subscribed. What The Onion does they do well, and it’s funnier on paper.
Less than three weeks after using Twitter to incite violence, UK ‘keyboard warrior’ is jailed Justice never moves that fast in America, even on those rare occasions when America has justice.
Riots in the UK were spurred by racist posts on Twitter. Experts warn of a repeat in the US. Yeah, November is going to be mighty interesting, don’t ya think?
Meet the Ballers: a team “by Oakland, for Oakland, and that will never leave Oakland” At that click there’s a long article about minor league baseball, but wow it’s worth the time to read it.
Biden designates 1908 Springfield race riot site as national monument The Springfield atrocity is what led to the founding of the NAACP, but you know that, right?
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have
Vance says “suburban women” don’t care about abortion because they care about “normal things”
The Republican road to fascism:• Deploying on U.S. soil: how Trump would use soldiers against riots, crime and migrants • Secret tape: Project 2025 co-author says it’s time to “rehabilitate” Christian Nationalism • Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November• Republican state Attorneys General push for grocery mega-merger between Kroger and Albertsons
• Ohio Republicans approve misleading ballot language to favor gerrymandering Excerpt:
The language approved on Friday, reportedly drafted by Ohio’s secretary
of state, Frank LaRose, also says the measure would “repeal
constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly
three quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections
of 2015 and 2018”. While Ohio voters did approve anti-gerrymandering
reforms in those years, Republicans ignored them when they redrew
districts after the 2020 census.• Texas sues Biden administration to prevent rights for transgender workers • Far-right takeover of Georgia’s election board could swing the election
Climate emergency: • Climate change made last year’s wildfire season so much worse • Last month marked the hottest July on record, US scientists say • How methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe … but there’s money to be made, so la di da, la di da.
The Lord works in mysterious ways:• Report blames church officials for ignoring complaints about priest who preyed on young boys • She accused a New Orleans priest of sexual assault. The church quietly moved him out of state. • St. Vincent de Paul of Bend in “complete shock” after leader arrested, accused of selling meth from Redmond home • Missouri lawsuits allege abuse by Catholic priests, nuns, and Archbishop • Survivors of doomsday Christian cult testify against pastor and 93 associates
All cops are bastards: • With 21 deaths so far in 2024, Los Angeles jails continue deadly trend • Tennessee family’s lawsuit says video, never released by police but obtained by press, shows cops, not drugs, killed their son • Police believe strip-searching children can be effective, but suspicions of misuse remain • Bakersfield cops used a cat as target practice and killed it, but it’s okay, they’ve been disciplined • Body camera shows how a 9-1-1 call for medical help led to the killing of Victoria Lee • L.A. sheriff’s deputy sentenced to probation for assault on woman with mental disability
⚡ LINKS FOR THINKS ⚡• Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race. • The press should explain its stunning double standard on leaks
⚰️ DEAD PEOPLE ⚰️John Aprea
actor, The Godfather Part II Eddie Canales
activist Ruth Colvin
Literacy Volunteers of America Alain Delon
actor, Rocco and His Brothers Phil Donohue
talk show host Mike Mageek
The Register, The Inquirer Perez Denis Martinez
in county jail Patt Shea
writer, All in the Family Ebony Tyner
in county jail
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