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Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw just loves, loves, loves making an ass out of himself. Recently, McCraw proved this to be true by spewing some inciteful, racist, anti-migrant rhetoric, much like the Orange Felon and his sidekick, the Sofa Seducer:

I mean, some of them find it harsh using the term, you know, infestation and cockroaches and things like that. All you have to do is interview or spend some time with some victims, some migrant victims that are here in this country. You’ll understand that the governor has not overstated the issue, in fact, he has well stated the issue, and Texas is not going to allow any part of this state to be infested that type of disease.

McCraw might ring a bell. He’s the asshat who completely mishandled the Uvalde school shooting. Ironically, he had said he would step down if he was found to be responsible for his screw up. That happened in January. Not only is he still in office, despite his word, but he recently said that he will stay until at least the end of the year.

In a normal, functional state, McCraw would have been celebrating Groundhog Day by browsing online for oversized cowboy hats. But this isn’t a normal, functional state, it’s Texas, where all the officials are all hat, no cattle.

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Disgraced Trump former trade advisor and jailbird Peter Navarro verbally attacked strong opinionated women on-air because he was told to go back to prison when he was exiting a plane.

These snowflake MAGAts are so sensitive.

He can’t take a little ribbing so get the f**k out of the kitchen, coward.

Navarro made a statement which I agree with 100%

“The other thing I want to say about this is that the depths to which our society now in the age of Trump have fallen is unprecedented in our history,” Navarro said.

I concur. Trump is the most craven unethical narcissistic and vile person to ever hold public office. The MAGAts assume his persona so yes, it is an unprecedented time in our history.

Navarro then set the stage for his tale of woe flying on Southwest Airlines.

Nice people all around, whatever, there’s a couple few, few peoples down from us. They look like every other couple that you’d see in America, right?

Just, you know, she’s middle age, middle class, little chubby. She’s a little curly haired, smile on their face, whatever.

OK, we get on the plane, easy flight, get down. So. As she’s getting off the plane in front of us. We’re blocked from getting out because there’s people ahead of us. And so so when she thinks that there’s enough people between us that she can somehow get away out the door.

She screams at me, go back to prison.

It’s like, huh?

What’s my point?

If a middle age, middle class housewife thinks that she has the right or the license to speak that way to other people in public. And wants to take my freedom away from me. Anybody in this country now thinks they can say anything the hell they want to anybody anywhere. I don’t know if the social media has an unchained inner beast and people can’t tell the friggin difference. Between being anonymous on Twitter, a.k.a X, or being in an airport and screaming shit at people. But at the root of that kind of mentality, that kind of hatred.

Navarro certainly has a big problem with middle-age housewives. I wonder why he hates them so? But how is your freedom taken away because someone heckles you? You are a public servant. You just loveed yourself when you were a face of trade and China for the Trump administration. you were all over the airwaves. You conspired to overthrow a free and fair election then refused to give testimony. You then went on TV and cried and begged for money. Who do you think you are that that you’re free from criticism?

Navarro continued his pathetic rant somehow segueing into the other mean ladies he hates.

Are the guns that have been pointed at Donald John Trump and the indictments in the prosecutions. And these juries in Manhattan who are scumbag Democrats who don’t look at the law, who don’t look at the evidence and just out of hate issue guilty verdicts.

You’re sick of it. I’m sick of it. But let’s not lose sight of the friggin hypocrisy of these people.

OK, they hate us. And that hatred translates to violence. So Kamala Harris, do not apologize or say there’s no place for any violence when you are the perpetrator. When Merrick Garland’s a perpetrator, when Jack Smith’s the perpetrator, when Fonny Willis is the perpetrator.

When one Marshawn is the perpetrator, these people are scum. You are scum. You are violent scum. It’s time to put that to rest.

You don’t have the right to put people like me and Steve and Donald Trump in prison for partisan reasons.

You don’t have the right to come up to people like me in public and talk smack, particularly if you’re a middle aged chubby housewife with a smile on your face.

These ladies are not only scum, they are violent scum to Navarro. Telling you to go back to prison is a new form of violence. Any US voter has every right to come up to a former public official and talk smack. you aren’t from a royal family or from the palace. It’s called the First Amendment, something so-called conservatives claim to hold dear. Unless someone else exercises their rights.

You were a public servant, asshole.

Steve Bannon was federally pardoned from allegedly stealing millions of dollars from Trump voters with his Build the Wall scam. Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts along with a civil judgment against him the sexual assault

I bet you walked away quickly from the woman who told you to go to prison and you waited to get to the safety of your little studio to bitch and moan and play the victim.

You try to overthrow the free and fair 2020 election criminally, illegally, and immorally keep traitor Trump back in office.

You should thank your lucky stars that’s all that woman said.

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Former FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam was stopped in his tracks by host Stuart Varney and his interview was ended when he tried to spread the vicious conspiracy theory that Democrats want to kill Donald Trump.

Fox News and Business is the place where MAGA conspiracy theories live and thrive, but this one was too much even for the Fox Business host.

Gilliam’s diatribe begun when Varney asked Gilliam if Trump should campaign the way he has been so far and that’s when the interview began to go off the rails.

Gilliam immediately blamed the Secret Service and then he pitched Trump to hire his company for personal protection.

VARNEY: Should Trump change the way he campaigns?

GILLIAM: Well, so far, the way he campaigns has not been the problem, Stuart.

It’s been the Secret Service. It’s been how they actually do their work.

So I have to sit back and ask, is this a nefarious thing that’s going on within the side of the Secret Service that they’re just leaving these areas open?

Because if that’s the case, then I think Trump needs to take a serious step back and hire individuals like myself and other people that I can bring in to simply do perimeter checks, and then he can campaign as normal.

Gilliam had the temerity to infer the Secret Service wants Trump to be assassinated so he could pitch his services to Trump.

Then this jerk turned to a dark side I haven’t heard said before on a cable news program.

GILLIAM: But right now, I’d be sweating bullets every time I went out there, because I’m going to say this on air. I said it earlier on the radio.

The Democrat Party, regardless of the rhetoric that they want, they want Trump dead.

VARNEY: Hold on a second…I’m sorry, Jonathan. I don’t think you can say that legitimately —

GILLIAM:– I think we can say it legitimately, but I can think we can say that legitimately based on the verbiage that they use. And then they cover up. To say that they want him eliminated,

VARNEY: Okay.

GILLIAM: To say that they want him gone. Those are words that push people forward. And then you have directors of agencies like this that come on and they do not do the job, the simple job of perimeter security over and over and over again.

VARNEY: Okay, look. Jonathan, I’m sorry. I’m going to end it right there. I’m not going to take any conspiracy theories on this show.

GILLIAM: That’s not a conspiracy theory.

VARNEY: Yes, it is. It is. And I’m not having it.

GILLIAM: Listen, I’m an investigator.

VARNEY: Thank you very much for joining us.

We appreciate it, Jonathan.

Thank you very much.

Gilliam is no journalist that’s for sure. He’s a creep like so many Trump supporters looking for a handout.
Saying it is a fact that the Democratic Party wants Trump dead is beyond the pale, but this is now a talking point and article of faith on the right.

By the way, if the Secret Service wanted any sitting or potential president dead, it would be done in a heartbeat.
Gilliam should not be put on the air again by any media — print, online, radio or broadcast. Period.

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The Nation’s Elie Mystal doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and his response to Scott Jennings trying to gaslight the rest of us on Democrats being the ones that need to tone down the rhetoric was perfect.

In what was otherwise almost an unwatchable segment on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip this Tuesday on the latest assassination attempt at Trump’s West Palm Beach club in Florida, Jennings, just like JD Vance, attempted to blame Democrats, not easy access to assault rifles for what’s happened to Trump, and Mystal was having none of it.

Here’s the exchange from the clip above where Mystal takes Jennings and the GOP apart for their refusal to actually address the issue of gun control:

JENNINGS: I guess I’m going to be the only one out here that’s not going to blame Donald Trump for his two near assassinations. I mean, honestly, he’s the one being shot at. He’s a target. He’s not saying he can’t even walk outside of his own house.

PHILLIP: We started the conversation by saying that this is not about assigning political blame. Trump is the one today assigning political blame. He is assigning political blame.

JENNINGS: Do you think he’s earned any right to assign or ascribe blame to the two attempts on his life?

MYSTAL: Wait, so if you get shot at, you can say that somebody should shoot my opponents, that’s the rule if somebody shoots at you? You can be like, oh, somebody should shoot at them. Because if you look at Trump’s tweet today, what he said today was that Harris was an enemy from within and that she will destroy the country if she gets elected.

Now, personally, I do not feel comfortable having yet another conversation about the horrible gun violence in this country without talking about the guns. Because I agree with Tim, I want this political violence to stop. And to me, I would propose a solution to this. I call it the protect Trump at all costs assault weapons ban. If we want to protect our political leaders, if we want to protect people who don’t have an elite fighting force protecting them 24/7, one of the best things we can do, not just for Trump, but for all potential victims of gun violence, is to ban assault weapons, to ban the AR-14, and to ban the weapons of terror that these crazy people use to menace not just our leaders, but everybody else in the country.

JENNINGS: Guns don’t have radical ideology, but human beings do.

MYSTAL: Okay, so works — ideologies kill people, not guns.

JENNINGS: And this guy setting up shop in the bushes outside of a golf course, it wasn’t the gun that made him do it.

ROSEN: Yes, but the mental instability.

JENNINGS: Something got to this guy.

ROSEN: Both of these people were mentally unstable. And nobody prevented them from buying a gun.

JENNINGS: He believed Donald Trump needed to be eliminated. And he almost did it. Thank God for the Secret Service.

Mystal wasn’t allowed to respond directly to Jennings immediately, but he was later, and once again took down Jennings’ bothsiderist nonsense on Democrats needing to be the ones to tone things down and when any of us should listen to his advice.

PHILLIP: After the first assassination attempt, you know, Trump and his adviser said that he was a changed man, he was going to bring the country together. He didn’t try to tear the country apart for about four days but there’s clear — it’s clear, he abandoned that mission. I mean, wouldn’t it be the thing to do right now to take that back up and say, starting with me?

JENNINGS: Yes, I think any politician could go on T.V. tonight and say, I am going to take personal responsibility for my own language and my own actions. But this point about de-radicalization, what I mean is, look, when you’ve had this kind of language about somebody be the underpinning of a campaign for years and intensely for the last several months, the only way to unwind it is for the people who’ve been saying it, chiefly the president and the vice president, to go on T.V. and say, you know what, we went too far. And what we said, honestly, is not true. The country will not —

MYSTAL: I think the Democrats will tamp down their language about Trump the moment Trump tamps down his language about the Democrats, about immigrants, about people of color, about women, and not a moment before.

JENNINGS: What about how many times are we going to shoot at him?

MYSTAL: Is your argument, literally, that you are not under threat unless somebody directly takes a shot at you? Is that actually what you’re saying? Do you have access to Secret Service files about how many threats Harris and Biden have received over the past year, how many threats Barack Obama, the first black president, received for eight years while he was in the White House? Do you have those Secret Service files, or are you just out here talking because somebody was caught in the bushes on Saturday?

If you want something done, if you want to get away from this violence and hatred, the clearest thing to do is to take away the weapons that these people are using to cause the violence and hatred. Rhetoric does not kill people. Guns do.

JENNINGS: So you’re okay with people being radicalized, you just want to Disarm them, but it’s okay to continue to lie to them about what will happen to the country if your political opponents win?

NAFTALI: He didn’t say that.

PHILLIP: Tim, last word, and then we got to go.

Which was sadly followed by more bothsiderism from another guest on the panel rather than Mystal being allowed to counter Jennings’ lies.

This is going to be the drumbeat from these assholes from now to the election, telling Democrats to shut up and quit telling the truth about how dangerous Trump is, and we can’t allow it to go unchallenged. We’re not going to shut up and Democrats aren’t going to quit campaigning against Trump, and Scott Jennings can stuff it.

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Donald Trump wasted no time blaming President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the latest failed possible attempt on his life.

Trump talked to Fox Digital and used Ryan Wesley Routh, who supported Trump in 2016, as a tool of the left.

“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said of the gunman in an interview with Fox News Digital. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”

Inflammatory rhetoric, much?

Trump pointed to Biden and Harris’ past comments casting Trump as a “threat to democracy,” while telling Americans they are “unity” leaders.

“They are the opposite,” Trump said. “These are people that want to destroy our country.”

He added: “It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat.”

In the same article, Trump said Biden and Harris are destroying America which is typical of his campaigning.

Trump just can’t stop lying, or using inflammatory rhetoric.

“They use highly inflammatory language,” he said. “I can use it too — far better than they can — but I don’t.”

“Inflammatory language” is 95% of Trump’s campaign strategy. Saying he “hates Taylor Swift” or that the New York Times is a “threat to democracy” is mild coming from him, but other posts like this one from Truth Social where he writes:

The Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris during the rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate, and all of the ridiculous lawsuits specifically designed to inflict damage on Joe’s, then Kamala’s, Political Opponent, ME, has taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust. Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse! Allowing millions of people, from places unknown, to INVADE and take over our Country, is an unpardonable sin. OUR BORDERS MUST BE CLOSED, AND THE TERRORISTS, CRIMINALS, AND MENTALLY INSANE, IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM AMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS, DEPORTED BACK TO THEIR COUNTIES OF ORIGIN. WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME INTO OUR COUNTRY, BUT THEY MUST LOVE OUR NATION, AND COME IN LEGALLY AND THROUGH A SYSTEM OF MERIT. THE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT US AS FOOLS, THEY ARE STEALING OUR JOBS AND OUR WEALTH. WE CANNOT LET THEM LAUGH ANY LONGER. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Projection is his first line of defense. Everything he shoots at Harris and Biden is something he says and does all the time.

Maybe he should look in the mirror and tone it down.

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Don Jr. decided to weigh in on the apparent assassination attempt on his felonious father, even though he mocked the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, with a hammer by a Trump-supporting maniac. Fox News has made jokes about it, too, even in 2024. Right-wingers think it’s hilarious.

This month, the former President still mockingly brought up the attack on Mr. Pelosi, and just after the violent incident, he cast doubt on the authenticity of the story.

Coke Jr. took to Xitter to call the would-be assassin a “radical leftist,” even though Ryan Routh voted for his father in 2016, then later shifted his support behind Nikki Haley, then appeared to want a Haley-Ramaswamy ticket. Little Don said he shouldn’t have to tell his children repeatedly that someone wanted Grandpa dead.

Children in the United States live in fear in their classrooms every single day over the possibility of a gun nut charging them with an AK while murdering their classmates. At any rate, Xitter users piled in with a reality check for the human 8-ball.

Just after Trump got into office, he quietly signed a bill into law rolling back an Obama-era regulation that made it harder for people with mental illnesses to purchase a gun. During his four years in office, Trump performed public fellatio on the NRA to get their support. To win an election. All for political power. Trump has blood all over his hands.

Earlier this year, the former President gave remarks after an Iowa school shooting, saying, “It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But have to get over it, we have to move forward.”

And sure, we don’t want any more Republicans shooting at the former President. Instead, we want him to suffer in prison for the rest of his miserable life. I wonder how Junior has explained to his five children that Grandpa is a rapist and a convicted felon.

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So Trump has known all along that his golf courses were a security risk. (So is Mar-A-Lago!) But knowing Trump, he probably waited for something to happen so that he could force the taxpayers could pick up the tab for increased security. Figures! Via the Washington Post:

Soon after Donald Trump became president, authorities tried to warn him about the risks posed by golfing at his own courses because of their proximity to public roads. Secret Service agents came armed with unusual evidence: not suspect profiles or spent bullet casings, but simple photographs taken by news crews of him golfing at his private club in Sterling, Va.

They reasoned that if photographers with long-range lenses could get the president in their sights while he golfed, so too could potential gunmen, according to former U.S. officials involved in the discussions who, like most others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

But Trump insisted that his clubs were safe and that he wanted to keep golfing, the former officials said. These preferences posed problems for his protection that former Trump aides, Secret Service officials and security experts said have only intensified in the years since he left the White House, as his security detail shrank and agents no longer maintained as extensive a perimeter guarding his movements. A Trump spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

It’s not his job to cooperate with the Secret Service. They’re supposed to take care of him, let them figure it out!

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Trump is now blaming Democratic ‘rhetoric’ for the latest assassination attempt and his libertarian lapdog running mate JD Vance is also calling for the left to ‘tone down the rhetoric’.

Imagine that. Cognitive dissonance is a fascinating thing.

“Former president Trump is blaming Democrats after the second apparent assassination attempt against him,” Mika Brzezinski said on Morning Joe.

“In an interview with Fox News Digital yesterday,Trump pointed the finger at President Biden and Vice President Harris, claiming their rhetoric is causing him to be shot at. He claimed Biden and Harris are, quote, destroying the country, both from the inside and out. He later warned on social media, quote, because of this communist left rhetoric — “

“That’s not inflammatory, is it?” Joe Scarborough interjected.

“And it’ll only get worse. JD Vance echoed those remarks while speaking in Atlanta last night.”

You know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. I’d say that’s pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. Somebody is going to get hurt by it, and it is going to destroy this country, all of us. I promise, I will do my part to tone down the rhetoric, but, in particular, the people telling you that Donald Trump needs to be eliminated, you guys need to cut it out or you’re going to get somebody hurt.

“Well, this is what you would call gaslighting of the first order,” Scarborough said.

“I’m not even going to respond to the hypocrisy. I’ll just read from the New York Times this morning,” he said.

“Peter Baker writes this in part, ‘At the heart of today’s eruption of political violence is Mr. Trump. A figure who seems to inspire people to make threats or take actions, both for him and against him. He has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants. mocking a near fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House Speaker, and suggesting that a general he deems disloyal be executed.

“Mr. Trump insists his fiery speech to supporters on January 6th, 2021, was not responsible for the subsequent ransacking of the Capitol, he resisted pleas from advisors and his own daughter, other family members, as well, that day to do more to stop the assault. He even suggested that the mob might be right to want to hang his vice president and has since embraced the attackers as patriots whom he may pardon if elected again.”

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The gubernatorial race here in North Carolina is bonkers. On the one hand, we have NC Attorney General Josh Stein, a scandal-free Democrat with a lengthy list of endorsements, including from Reproductive Freedom for All, a group for women’s reproductive rights. And then there is Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Trump-endorsed candidate plagued with scandals. Even Republicans are distancing themselves from him.

Robinson and his wife, who has scandals of her own, including ripping off the Girl Scouts, recently revealed the “no compromise on abortion” candidate, who allegedly frequented 24-hour porn shops, had an abortion procedure.

A new video has surfaced, and it’s incredibly creepy as he tells Hilltop Baptist Church members in Thomasville, North Carolina:

“All this giving out of birth control and advising people how. Here’s how you don’t have a baby: You don’t have what you do to make a baby until you’re ready to have that baby.”

Sure, tell that to Trump, an adjudicated rapist, who believes that when you’re powerful, you can grab women by the “pussy” without consent.

Via HuffPost:

“Particularly we love to tell our young women that. We want to empower you,” he said mockingly in his 2022 remarks. “We want to help you to build up your mind so you can be empowered.”

Robinson proposed what he called “a novel idea” to the audience.

“Why don’t you use some of that building up of your mind and building up of empowerment to move down here, to this region down here,” he said, moving his hand in circles around his stomach and crotch. “Get this under control.”

“See, because this region right here, that’s the only region on your body that can make life and take life,” he continued. “If there’s anything we need to be telling our young people, it’s they need to be responsible with their reproductive systems. That means you don’t lay down and act like you’re making a baby til you’re ready to have a baby.”

And that’s when he got into birth control. He’s not a fan.

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“All this giving out of birth control and advising people how,” he said. “Here’s how you don’t have a baby: You don’t have what you do to make a baby until you’re ready to have that baby.”

The video doesn’t show the faces of attendees at this church event, but a handful of them can be heard agreeing with Robinson on that last point.

“You be responsible with your body. That’s a novel idea,” he said. “Has not reached our school system, sadly.”

Teaching about birth control is responsible. Stein holds a commanding lead over Robinson. A new WRAL News Poll shows Stein making gains with women, conservatives, and rural voters. Like Kamala Harris, Stein is garnering Republican support, not just Democratic. People are exhausted by the shitshow in politics.

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